As resonance storms deepened older vaults and travel between strata became riskier, Gravenreach’s records began to diverge.
Surface rulings referenced realities the deep vaults no longer recognized.
Deep-city tablets preserved precedents that surface authorities treated as obsolete or unsafe to enforce.

The crisis did not erupt into open war.
It became something more Gravenreach:
a long institutional conflict over which echo carries greater legal weight.
The Split Record Crisis is still invoked whenever a ruling threatens to fracture stone-law’s internal consistency.