The Iron Confederacy is the old Indigenous confederation whose lands, important in the fur trade, lie beneath Gary, Indiana; its zone sits on ancient energy lines where the fabric of reality is thin.
| Type | Indigenous confederation / zone |
| Location | Gary, Indiana, by the lake |
| Chronicle | GARY_TNW |
| Spanish entry | Confederación del Hierro (Iron Confederacy) |
Description
Gary was planned very late, at the start of the twentieth century, as an important city in the domain of the iron lords, and claims to have nothing beneath it. But it stands on Indigenous territory that mattered in the fur trade when the French and Dutch were active there. All the flow of iron from the Europeans passed through the zone, and before that the iron of the land itself, possibly meteoric. Gary is an old crossing of energies, the American equivalent of the megaliths and monoliths of Europe: a place where one can pass through. Clara Kling: “this city was conceived as a magic city from the start; its territory lies on ancient lines that the natives knew, and others before them.”
Remains of that people: burial mounds of several levels by the lake, two or three kilometers from where the first sacrifice was made; petrified trunks and pylons, like the stilts of a circular structure in the water, among the dead installations of the waterfront.
History
- In the old Indian zone tied to the Confederacy, dimensional vision was first activated, and a door opened enough for the bullet to come out of a dead companion’s chest.
- Redcap says his people were with the Iron Confederacy — that is, before the United States. “A hundred years ago they came to us,” he says, and claims his people invented the Phrygian cap.
See also
- Iron Mountain — the deep iron
- Graz’zt, the Iron God — who waits at the end of all this land’s iron
- Operation Armistice — those who sought to build the iron ring without knowing it already existed
- Ogun Onire — the other path of metal, which came with the African world
- Novice Cruz — the crew with which Redcap’s people leave