The Concords were the first time the post-war world attempted to become orderly. Measures were standardized, roads were surveyed, borders were mapped, and guilds were granted authority because skill mattered more than bloodline. Magic, once a weapon, began to be written as curriculum. This era also hardened a quieter conflict: what to do with the born-from-Void races. The Gnottover and Gnetthyes became symbols people used to argue about fear, guilt, and responsibility—some cities sheltering them as necessary specialists, others exiling them as walking omens.