Sources & method
Source basis: Road steps, councils, faces, and claims cite their source records inline; dark chapters are stated beside bright ones. Sources
The tree
One trunk, from the upper room. Four great forks — 431, 451, 1054, 1517 — and every limb still bearing leaves. The divisions are real and the dates are hard; so is this: nothing on this tree has died.
Swipe horizontally to follow every living branch. Tap a limb for its story.
Walk the whole story on the road — each fork happens somewhere along it, and the road tells you why.