feat(content): cosmology frame — the Warden, the Sent, the Seven

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+# COSMOLOGY — the Warden and the Seven — status: canon
+
+> The overarching theme of the Margreave: a distant good god, his angels, and
+> the seven demon kings who work against him. Public, believed world-furniture —
+> all `secrecy: 0`, bodies ship to the client. WHO is possessed, WHICH road is
+> bled, are authored later as gated `rumor`/`fact`/`secret` per-town; this file
+> never names a victim.
+>
+> Tone: distant & contested. The narrator never confirms the Warden, never goes
+> epic. The war is the hidden engine under the grime.
+
+---
+
+## THE WARDEN — the good god (distant)
+
+```yaml
+id: person.the-warden
+type: person
+status: canon
+secrecy: 0
+related: [faction.the-sent, faction.the-seven, rule.the-pact]
+body: >
+  The god most of the Margreave professes, though few claim to have felt him.
+  He is called only the Warden; no living mouth speaks his name, and the priests
+  who might have known it are a long time dead. What the faithful hold is simple:
+  he made the races, he loves them, and he wards the world against the Seven.
+  What he asks in return is worship, and what he gives for it is blessing —
+  rarely, and never where you can point to it and be sure. He does not come when
+  called. Whether that is because he is good and restrained, or absent, or dead,
+  is the oldest argument there is, and the Margreave has never settled it.
+```
+
+## THE SENT — his angels (indirect, rare)
+
+```yaml
+id: faction.the-sent
+type: faction
+status: canon
+secrecy: 0
+related: [person.the-warden, rule.the-pact]
+body: >
+  The Warden's messengers — angels, the Sent, his hand where he will not put his
+  own. They do not fight the Seven and they do not save anyone. They ask. A Sent
+  one comes to a mortal, names a thing that must be done in the Warden's name,
+  and leaves the doing to them; blessing follows the deed, or does not follow the
+  refusal. Most people go their whole lives without meeting one, and a fair
+  number of those who claim to have met one were lying or drunk or worse. That
+  they are rare is either the mark of a careful god or a thin one.
+```
+
+## THE SEVEN — the demonic host
+
+```yaml
+id: faction.the-seven
+type: faction
+status: canon
+secrecy: 0
+related: [person.the-warden, rule.blood-price, rule.possession]
+body: >
+  Seven kings and the armies that answer to them — the Warden's enemy, and the
+  world's. They do not want to rule the races so much as end them, dead or yoked,
+  it makes little difference to the Seven which. Each king is its own hunger and
+  keeps its own kind of war, and they cooperate the way wolves cooperate, which
+  is to say until the meat runs low. What they run on is blood: spilled,
+  sacrificed, offered. A mortal who learns how to feed them can be given a share
+  of what that blood buys. Most of the Margreave believes the Seven are real.
+  Most of the Margreave is right.
+```
+
+## THE PACT — worship for blessing (the Warden's economy)
+
+```yaml
+id: rule.the-pact
+type: rule
+status: canon
+secrecy: 0
+related: [person.the-warden, faction.the-sent]
+body: >
+  The bargain at the heart of the Warden's faith: worship for blessing. Prayer,
+  offering, a shrine kept clean, a deed done in his name — these buy his favor,
+  and his favor turns fortune a little kinder. A bonesetter, the closest thing
+  the Margreave has to a priest, is a mortal who has given enough of themselves
+  to the Warden to channel a thread of that blessing into the living — a wound
+  closed, a fever broken, a death postponed. The pact is never a receipt. You
+  give, and blessing may come, on the Warden's terms and in his time, which is to
+  say seldom and never on demand.
+```
+
+## THE BLOOD-PRICE — blood for power (the Seven's economy)
+
+```yaml
+id: rule.blood-price
+type: rule
+status: canon
+secrecy: 0
+related: [faction.the-seven, rule.possession]
+body: >
+  What the Seven trade in. Their power is not given, it is bought, and the only
+  coin is blood — the more, and the more wrongly spilled, the better the rate. A
+  killing floor, a sacrifice, a murder done in a lord's name feeds the king it is
+  offered to. A mortal willing to strike that bargain becomes what the Margreave
+  calls bloodsworn: sworn to one of the Seven, marked by it, and able to spend a
+  thread of its power the way the faithful spend the Warden's — a curse laid, a
+  hurt dealt, a thing that should not bend made to bend. The blessing side of it,
+  such as it is, is that a king does not waste ill luck on its own sworn; the
+  price for that mercy is simply the blood, and the blood is never paid once.
+```
+
+## POSSESSION — how the Seven reach mortals
+
+```yaml
+id: rule.possession
+type: rule
+status: canon
+secrecy: 0
+related: [faction.the-seven, rule.blood-price]
+body: >
+  How the Seven reach across into the world. Mostly it is not the horror the
+  stories promise — it is influence, a hand on the scale of a mortal's wanting:
+  the grudge nursed a little hotter, the easy cruelty made easier, the appetite
+  that will not be talked down. That is the common work, and most of it is never
+  noticed as anything but a person going bad. Outright possession — a king
+  wearing a body like a coat — is rarer and costs the Seven dearly, and it is
+  Nuun, the Hollow Choir, that does most of it; the others prefer a willing hand
+  to a stolen one. A possessed mortal is not the enemy. The enemy is the thing
+  inside them, and it will spend the body it wears without a thought.
+```