Crossroad Settlements

After the Card Wars and generations of lineage tension, a quieter idea gained ground: settlements where different lineages live together on purpose. After 640 KM these crossroad settlements grew from experiments into institutions.

Velora is the well-known example — mixed population, a shared card market, common training grounds, a local company of Crossroad Guardians, and the in-city card ban that keeps the peace enforceable.

The settlements did not end prejudice; the Returned from the Void can testify to that. But they moved the world''s center of gravity toward coexistence, and it has not moved back.