Spirits, Magic, Spirit Pacts, and the Taming of Land

By this point the world has already shown how public religion, practical superstition, route discipline, and the unfinished labour of reclamation matter in daily life. The public categories by which such a world speaks of invisible force are these. It is the ordinary working language by which people explain why one district is quiet, another touchy, another cursed, and another only half-safe despite all the effort spent upon it.