Editing Gethin (section)

=== Levens ===
'''[[Levens]]''' is the ceremonial and royal heart of the kingdom, seat of [[Bræcwyn Hold]] and the sphere above which the [[Aether Thrones]] drift. Its defining peculiarity is a gravitational and electromagnetic condition under which steel imported from other spheres becomes effectively unusable, weighing several times its proper measure [1]. Gethin combatants therefore fight in bronze or in lighter, more flexible alloys, and warriors trained on Levens are regarded across the River as unusually strong and unusually strange in their footwork.

This same condition has long been held to make Levens unconquerable. An invading host cannot bring its steel, and cannot reach the Thrones at all without the gate-nexus. The belief is not unfounded — but it has bred a defensive complacency that would prove catastrophic.