The Veil
Street crime is an Undercity problem. Breaking the Veil is something deeper.
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The Veil is not ordinary criminal law. Robbery, debt, territorial disputes, smuggling, violence and bad deals exist in the Undercity. They are local problems.
Veil breaches include exposing protected people, selling protected identities or routes, deliberately guiding outside forces toward protected residents, hunting the Unnamed, helping surface systems map protected infrastructure, or turning the Undercity itself into a hunting ground.
When the Veil is broken, the informal infrastructure itself begins to close. The distributed culture may begin responding naturally to an obvious betrayal. Liariel provides final authority, coherence, severity and restoration.
Quotations
- Street crime is an Undercity problem. Breaking the Veil is something deeper.