The Sundering

Physics, extraction, and doctrine of the lifting substance.

…frightened societies prefer to think. It is the year 7202 by the reckoning of the Sundering. That date matters. It reminds the attentive reader that the world still counts from a break so old entire civilization…

…d civilization's first common language, until interpretation became schism, and the Sundering reset the calendar itself. Before history there is scripture, and before scripture there is memory trying to survive i…

…dgment because the culture has been built in that grammar for centuries. Since the Sundering, the faith speaks through three primary denominations. The Solarian Church is hierarchical, ceremonial, traditional, a…

…nderstands the Fortera as a property of Aeon itself, an emergent consequence of the Sundering, and approaches it through frameworks that look, from outside, like an extremely rigorous natural philosophy with unusu…

…ition actually does with the Fortera, as opposed to what its critics claim. Why the Sundering produced the patterns of Fortera presence that the cartographic surveys have documented, and what those patterns imply…