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

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content/world/canon/blood-price.json

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+{
+  "body": "What the Seven trade in. Their power is not given, it is bought, and the only coin is blood \u2014 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 \u2014 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.",
+  "id": "rule.blood-price",
+  "related": [
+    "faction.the-seven",
+    "rule.possession"
+  ],
+  "type": "rule"
+}

content/world/canon/possession.json

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+{
+  "body": "How the Seven reach across into the world. Mostly it is not the horror the stories promise \u2014 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 \u2014 a king wearing a body like a coat \u2014 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.",
+  "id": "rule.possession",
+  "related": [
+    "faction.the-seven",
+    "rule.blood-price"
+  ],
+  "type": "rule"
+}

content/world/canon/the-pact.json

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+{
+  "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 \u2014 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 \u2014 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.",
+  "id": "rule.the-pact",
+  "related": [
+    "person.the-warden",
+    "faction.the-sent"
+  ],
+  "type": "rule"
+}

content/world/canon/the-sent.json

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+{
+  "body": "The Warden's messengers \u2014 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.",
+  "id": "faction.the-sent",
+  "related": [
+    "person.the-warden",
+    "rule.the-pact"
+  ],
+  "type": "faction"
+}

content/world/canon/the-seven.json

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+{
+  "body": "Seven kings and the armies that answer to them \u2014 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.",
+  "id": "faction.the-seven",
+  "related": [
+    "person.the-warden",
+    "rule.blood-price",
+    "rule.possession"
+  ],
+  "type": "faction"
+}

content/world/canon/the-warden.json

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+{
+  "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 \u2014 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.",
+  "id": "person.the-warden",
+  "related": [
+    "faction.the-sent",
+    "faction.the-seven",
+    "rule.the-pact"
+  ],
+  "type": "person"
+}