How They Stayed Hidden
STAGE XV · TODAY
The modern world
Rail, air and container routes make every port a hub, and the old roads fall away.
Read this stageNew places: , , , , , , , , and 4 more
Moves: The Gulf hub, Across the Arabian Sea, The Trans-Siberian railway, Along the West African coast, To the Atlantic and 8 more
How They Stayed Hidden: Ashburn: the address that resolves to nothing
Dashed routes are rumoured, dash-dot routes are disputed. Routes follow trade and human migration and are approximate.
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How They Stayed Hidden
Era by era, their methods change. Each era leaves its own kind of trace, and the Society learned to read them.
The lords have stayed unseen for thousands of years. They never used a single method. Each era gave them a new tool, and each tool left a trace behind.
This map follows five methods: names, banking, guilds, paperwork and the internet. Each file shows what the record looked like at that place, how the lords used it, and the trace the Society found.