The Bronze Age steps roughly four thousand years backward into a fictional Middle Bronze Age city-state in the southern Levant. Kannan and Yaffa live where grain, water, clay tablets, seals, witnesses, gate access, debt, and household reputation decide whether a family survives. When a mark can determine land, shelter, marriage, and lineage, recordkeeping becomes as dangerous as force. Scarcity, piety, obligation, and bureaucracy converge around ordinary people trying to keep their names attached to their lives.
