First Seals

Around -710 KM, someone stopped trying to hold raw magic and drew a shape for it to follow instead. The first seals — symbol-structures worked into stone, bone, wood, and metal — turned an uncontrollable force into a guided one.

Seal knowledge spread the way survival knowledge does: fast, imperfectly, and with local variations that masters would spend centuries reconciling.

Everything after — the cards, the councils, the catastrophe-born elements — stands on this single change of approach.