Murshidabad and the weaving villages of Kasimbazar, Bengal, 1770.

• All characters are adults.
• Famine, starvation, mass death, corpses and burial cloth are on the page.
• Colonial, class, caste and religious bigotry shows through behaviour and consequence; no slurs are written out.
• Debt bondage, coercive contracts, confiscation of tools and institutional corruption.
• Smallpox referenced; cholera-like mordechi includes purging, dehydration and death.
• Opium dependence is shown through need, concealment and consequence, never as craft.
• Violence may be graphic where earned, including a granary crush and beatings by peons.
• Crime includes fraud, grain hoarding, theft and false accounting.
• Sex cuts away at the dye-house door; desire, tension and aftermath stay on the page.
• Never instructional detail for weapons, drug synthesis or intrusion methods.

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