Almanac

The mountain splits over Ivandir and Hell comes up. The seven Seals break one a year, east to west — and whoever got warning is whoever rules today.

600,000 dead in one night. The continent loses 40 million in thirty-five years.

• 1780
  Cataclysm of Ivandir Seal VII breaks under the largest city in the world.
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• 1783
  Ford of Strazhka 38,000 marched out. 2,100 came back.
• 1786
  The Archangel Intervention 42,683 dead out of 43,000 — killed by their own salvation.
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• 1798
  Siege of Vehr Major Rome sent no troops. The resentment of the east begins here.
• 1813
  Winter of Castrum Limentis Five months with no angel in the field. The war is sustainable.
• 1815
  The Surrender of Vehr The old world abdicates. The continent takes the name Cross.
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Refounding. Every kingdom builds the institution that will carry its own wound — and none of them was designed to heal it.

The mineral belongs to the Curia before it leaves the shaft.

• 1818
  Bull of Salt The purification monopoly, on paper.
• 1821
  Crusade of the Nine Standards The ammunition lasted eleven days. No standard came back.
• 1830
  The Open Pit Fourteen ships in one night. Velinia never sends its nobility to sea again.
• 1836
  Recapture of Karentin-Alta Eleven weeks. The first victory of an Order acting as an institution.

Sanctified rail, blessed telegraph, mass-produced ammunition. War industrialises — and finds its own ceiling.

There is too much ore and too few believers.

• 1842
  Mineralogical Canons They standardise everything — and freeze the bottleneck’s productivity.
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• 1848
  Massacre of the Iron Line Ever since, 600,000 men guard empty rail.
• 1852
  The Forty Days of Ferrumkar Heretics purified ammunition without a cleric. And it worked.
• 1859
  Breaking the Siege of Cherniwicz The line moves 200 km east. The only permanent gain in the canon.

Pomp, electricity and armed missions. Eight bills are presented, and all eight answers are repression.

27% of everything the continent produces is burned in the war, every year.

• 1863
  Manor of Twilight The end of offensive doctrine. Seal II goes into quarantine.
• 1871
  The Loss of Vela Tarda The inquiry was worse than the loss.
• 1875
  The Unfacing The first time the Order lies about its own Pontiff.
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• 1879
  The Night of Red Sails The greatest naval victory in the canon — and the world freezes the next morning.

The world discovers that the war will not end. Not soon, not late. It will continue.

The map of 1859 is the map of 1890. Thirty-one years without a metre of change.

• 1882
  The year of three conclaves Nine days, six weeks, one angelic rejection.
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• 1884
  The Winter of Belkar It died for want of a cleric with faith enough to consecrate at the required rate.
• 1887
  The Retreat from Pradel Twenty-two kilometres lost without a fight.
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• 1888
  The Defence of Cracoviana Nineteen days. It proves the thesis and changes nothing.