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The Common Cosmology of Britannia

Most people in Britannia do not live by advanced doctrine. They live inside a practical cosmos. Bells, weather, graves, saints, warnings, household customs, and inherited gestures shape their sense of what the world is and how one survives in it. That practical cosmos is not foolish because it is incomplete. It is compressed. It preserves what ordinary life can actually carry: enough reverence, caution, and memory to keep roads, rivers, houses, harvests, and the dead from being treated too lightly.

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