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“Kanvar Singh has raised an impressive army against divine law, but they depend on my fleet. I could deny Absari his victory, claim dominion here, offer the divinities a new plane to conquer on my behalf...”
—Xenocrata, regarding the Coalition

Rather than grow out of her interests, the once little doctor grew her own library.

Within months of Simul and Hyden's collaboration, life's essence seemed within reach.

Every resident of Bedlam House had lost their mind—often after arriving.

In the final months of the war, Xenocrata's blockade necessitated all forces to live off the land, leaving many ransacked estates.

The collapse of the Concordance left many angels eager to found new divine regimes.

She now oversees an estate of one, its wealth secure for as long as she feeds.

There is little use in worrying.

Lettie Wormwood returned to her former home, to find that nothing had improved in her year of absence.

True forms always carry the risk of identity loss. In this case, it's desired.

“You can wonder what you might have done with just one more spell—but I have better things to do than waiting to lose.”
—Jessica Turin, Battlemage

When the capital's last bridge was destroyed, desperate claimants refused to give ground, and continued to reinforce the far bank by river.

Animus ensured that Hyden's final creations would do little to repel the Coalition.

“In these dire times, I beg you to now remember your greatest insight: life is the continuous action of survival.”
—Animus to Lettie Wormwood

To open it is to seal your own fate.

“We have an undeclared enemy, only recognizable by agents who disavow and sabotage allegiances.”
—Xenocrata, to Kanvar and Janneke

Outcasts of mer society often turn to plundering imperial trade routes.