Aeterron’s defining cultural divergence began with this decision.
While neighboring regions treated resonance scars as hazards or taboos, these early settlers treated them as laboratories and homes. Villages were anchored to unstable ground, towers tuned themselves to invisible forces, and daily life adapted to subtle shifts in gravity and sound.

Later historians would mark this moment as the birth of Aeterron’s guiding belief: that proximity to danger equaled proximity to understanding.