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→Culture: brutalism is a very real architectural movement, weird to word it like it is some weird thing unique to the cosmere. Especially odd using quotation marks. So I fixed it to just say it is a brutalist movement from Taldain.
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The establishment of trade relations with the [[Malwish Consortium]] leads Bilming to great prosperity, as most of the trade comes in through the city. By {{date|348|PC}}, the economy is booming and there is a large amount of construction.{{book ref|mb7|20}} However, residents of Bilming hold a deep distrust of Malwish technology, which is pushed by a propaganda campaign in broadsheets such as ''[[The Two Seasons]]''. They consider their unsealed and unkeyed metalminds to be a form of nefarious witchcraft that puts them and their loved ones in danger.{{file ref|The_Two_Seasons_broadsheet.jpg|text=''The Two Seasons'' broadsheet}}
In {{date|343|PC}} the city begins to be characterized by a regular pattern of modern buildings with calculated differences which are erected in the place of older, more individual ones.{{book ref|mb7|20}}{{book ref|mb7|32}} The overall effect is that of "mass-produced individuality."{{book ref|mb7|39}} In fact, the new style taking over the city comes from a brutalist movement on [[Taldain]
== Politics ==
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