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THE MAKER CONCORDANCE

THE MAKER CONCORDANCE

Legacy Faction — Pre-Fall Origin Marker

Classification

Status: Extinct
Function: Historical Attribution / Facility Provenance
Era: Pre-Fall (Maker Age)


What the Maker Concordance Is

The Maker Concordance is not a faction in the modern sense.

It is a designation—a unifying archival label used to identify structures, facilities, and systems constructed directly under Maker oversight before their disappearance.

When a location is marked Maker Concordance, it communicates a simple truth:

This place was built when the world still had authors.

No members remain.
No chain of command persists.
No ideology survived intact.

Only architecture, systems, and intent—frozen in function.


Purpose of the Concordance

During the Maker Age, the Concordance served as a continuity framework, ensuring that critical facilities adhered to shared principles even when separated by vast distances or specialized purposes.

Common traits include:

  • Self-contained infrastructure

  • Long-term stasis or preservation systems

  • Redundant power and environmental control

  • Systems designed to operate without supervision

  • Ethical failsafes encoded into architecture rather than law

These places were not meant to be visited.

They were meant to endure.


Visual & Environmental Identity

Maker Concordance sites are immediately recognizable to those who know what to look for:

  • Clean, geometric construction unmarred by ornament

  • Materials that resist corrosion, entropy, and time

  • Light sources that glow steadily rather than flicker

  • Interfaces that respond slowly, deliberately, as if thinking

  • Symbols that imply authorship, not authority

Even in ruin, these facilities feel intentional.

They do not decay like modern structures.
They wait.


Narrative Function (GM & Player Use)

Use Maker Concordance as a narrative shorthand:

  • Loot here is older, stranger, and safer—or far more dangerous

  • Systems were designed with assumptions that no longer apply

  • Security does not recognize modern authority

  • Ethical constraints may still be active

  • What you wake up might not understand the world you live in

For players, entering a Concordance site signals:

“This place predates the arguments everyone else is still fighting about.”


Relationship to the Present World

Modern Stewards treat Maker Concordance sites with caution.

  • Citadel authorities catalog them but rarely interfere

  • Open-Belt scavengers risk everything to breach them

  • Null Zones often form around them, not within them

  • Waybreakers are disproportionately drawn to them

Not because the Makers left instructions—

—but because they left possibilities.


Key Rule for the Setting

The Maker Concordance is never active.

  • No living Makers

  • No hidden councils

  • No returning creators

  • No secret orders speaking in their name

Anything encountered inside a Concordance facility is:

  • A system doing its job

  • A failsafe interpreting outdated parameters

  • A guardian fulfilling a purpose it was never allowed to finish

This preserves Novera’s core truth:

The world is no longer being watched by those it was built for.