X · The Order
End the Dawn Are the Dawn
Who stands with the Regime — the autocracy that rose from the Collapse and still claims to be civilization's necessary order — and who would break its grip. Not left vs right. Security-and-control vs revolt.
Plate SD-AL-01 · Alignment Compass
Faction Alignments
Not Earth left-and-right. In the Second Dawn the fight is over who holds order and who may name tomorrow.
Y · The Bind
Free Ground Owned Future
How tightly a faction binds people to one plan from above. At the top: sanctioned prophecy, Jesuit discipline, early state piety. At the bottom: clans, coasts, wild rite, markets that vanish by morning. Authority here means who may name tomorrow.
Owned Future
End the Dawn
Are the Dawn
Free Ground
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Revolt
End the Dawn · bind a cause
Anti-Regime force that still organizes people into cells, ideology, and holy violence. The revolt is not free ground — it has its own boot.
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Second Dawn
Are the Dawn · own the future
The state and its instruments. Autocracy dressed, increasingly, as morning; prophecy reverse-engineered into an early church.
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Open Margin
Refuse the Regime · stay unbound
Peoples who will not wear the Regime's order and will not swear the Resistance's flame. Survival, salvage, sun, and green fire outside the war's banners.
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Under the Towers
Near the Dawn · stay unbound
Thin strip. The Regime is totalizing — hard to live free while affirming its order. Gen Pop crowds this edge: counted, compliant enough to survive, not loyal enough to be instruments.
Marks are arguments, not coordinates. Soft washes show where the urban masses tip — toward the flame, or back toward order. The lower-right — unbound yet affirming Regime rule — stays thin: Gen Pop crowds the edge; true free loyalty to the Dawn is rare.