Date: TC1853.10.18–20
Location: Seven Peaks — Tribulation Zone / Training Grounds / Commercial Pavilion / Various
Assessor Maren Hale had been studying formation theory for twenty-three years.
She'd earned her credentials at the Sanctum's own research institute, where the most sophisticated arrays in the known world were maintained by specialists who'd spent lifetimes mapping spiritual energy flows. She'd published eleven papers on tribulation phenomena — theoretical, all of them, because nobody had witnessed a genuine tribulation in living memory. Her career had been built on analyzing echoes. Residual energy signatures from events that had happened centuries ago, so degraded by time that most of her colleagues considered them indistinguishable from background noise.
