Kaifeng, capital of the Song, from the eleventh month of 1126 to the spring of 1127.

• Clinical autopsy detail (gums, stomach contents, lividity)
• Poisoning deaths; a child's illness; famine and rationing
• Survival cannibalism referenced offscreen in one line, never depicted
• Siege violence, graphic where earned; a summary execution
• Torture referenced as prison-office routine, never depicted or described in method
• Desire, adultery within a levirate household; sex cuts away at the door
• Legal subjugation of widows; class contempt shown in who is fed first
• No slurs written out; Jurchen characters are not caricatures

Text-first draft: backgrounds and character art are generated placeholders and there is no audio yet.