Table of Contents

1. Malicious Designs

1.1 The Dragon’s Eye

4 min read

1.2 Taral

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1.3 Electrical Interference

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1.4 Lord of Nothing

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1.5 Lancity Tech

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1.6 Sprung

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1.7 Dualist

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1.8 Leaving Taral

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1.9 The Wastelands

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1.10 Vanilla Ice Cream

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1.11 Zin

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1.12 Cogs and Fairy Dust

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1.13 Any Port in a Storm

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1.14 Precautions

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1.15 The Job

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1.16 The Beacon

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1.17 Tourist

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1.18 Beads

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1.19 Fizzles

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1.20 Foolish Exposure

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1.21 Wetware

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1.22 Other Worlds

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1.23 Hot and Fast

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1.24 Unpleasant Realities

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1.25 Familiar Faces

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1.26 The Hunted

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1.27 Sand and Dust

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1.28 Heads Up

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1.29 Laurill fi’Simil

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1.30 Birthday Surprise

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1.31 Useless Gestures

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1.32 Thorn Chi’Mikkel Bondsan

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1.33 The Easy Road

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1.34 Twenty-Three Wasted Years

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1.35 Shadow-Walker

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1.36 Childproof

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1.37 Bullet Wounds

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1.38 Unbound

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1.39 Gabe

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1.40 Macabre Machines

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1.41 Trust but Verify

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1.42 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

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1.43 Undeniable Compulsions

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1.44 Obfuscation

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1.45 Blockade

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1.46 Distracting the Enemy

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1.47 False Assumptions

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1.48 Gathered Fragments

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1.49 Deception and Dreams

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1.50 Zin’s Gift

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1.51 Mutually Assured Destruction

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1.52 The Wizard and the Cadre

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2. Discarded Gods

2.1 Wakizashi

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2.2 Lens

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2.3 Mortal Wounds

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2.4 Sloan

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2.5 Eliz

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2.6 James Tardson

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2.7 Critical Details

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2.8 Unconscionable Acts

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2.9 Salvage Rights

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2.10 The Soul of a Killer

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2.11 Nea

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2.12 Taro

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2.13 Rasan City

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2.14 Mattatan Chi’Obdurin Bondsan

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2.15 Lord Obdurin

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2.16 Painful Truths

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2.17 Binding Cadres

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2.18 Fahlim

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2.19 Pointless Little Lives

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2.20 Tintia

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2.21 Solquist

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2.22 Differences in Kind

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2.23 Marin

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2.24 Protocol

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2.25 Pintaran

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2.26 Sarlyn

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2.27 Guardian

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3. Brotherhood's Curse

3.1 Lucky Number Six

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3.2 Murdering Psychopaths

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3.3 The Road to Taral

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3.4 Curriculum Vitae

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3.5 Framan

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3.6 Calibration

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3.7 Foes Ahead, Above, and Behind

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3.8 Third Party

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3.9 Kinda Small

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3.10 Bigger and Badder

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3.11 Traveler

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3.12 Home Sweet…

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3.13 Betrayed

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3.14 Momentum, Sweetie

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3.15 Company Men

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3.16 The Closest Thing to Immortality

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3.17 Backsliding

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3.18 The Distance Between Intentions and Actions

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3.19 Shared Heritage

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3.20 Within Reach

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3.21 A Fixed Point in Space

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3.22 Happy Gas

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3.23 Better Off Dead

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3.24 Structural Weaknesses

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3.25 Death and Serenity

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3.26 Recognition

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3.27 Ancestral Enmity

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3.28 Free-fall

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3.29 Hot Potato

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3.30 First Impressions

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3.31 The Coward’s Life

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3.32 Disposable Bodies

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3.33 Unasked Questions

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3.34 Faulty Logic

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3.35 Professional Compromises

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3.36 Captives

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3.37 Recruited

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3.38 Round Two

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3.39 Interloper

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3.40 Pain and Perspective

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3.41 Unraveled

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4. The Tyrant's Throne

4.1 Elevation

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4.2 The Pit

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4.3 The Price of Admission

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4.4 Jamil

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4.5 Friends

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4.6 The Invisible Hand

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4.7 The Last Time

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4.8 Telling Scars

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4.9 The Grudge

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4.10 Focus

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4.11 A Fool and His Plans

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4.12 The Traitor

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4.13 Provoking Madness

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4.14 Schemes within Schemes

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4.15 Rhysin’s Champion

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4.16 Ethan’s Choice

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4.17 Forced Rivalries

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4.18 A Drowning Man’s Reach

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4.19 Invisible Constraints

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4.20 Stomping Ground

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4.21 Zagging

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4.22 The Way Forward

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4.23 Past and Future Debts

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4.24 Empty Words

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4.25 Ambush

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4.26 Talentless

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4.27 A Devious Contract

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4.28 Dumb Luck

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4.29 A Shiny Veneer

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4.30 Nabette

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4.31 Word Games

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4.32 Tying the Noose

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4.33 Blood Sacrifice

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4.34 Ruthless Compassion

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4.35 The Prisoner’s Dilemma

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4.36 Blind Invulnerability

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4.37 Two of a Kind

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4.38 Fuck the World

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4.39 Benshi’s True Heir

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4.40 Promises, Promises

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4.41 The Woolshed Monastery

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4.43 Ripples

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4.44 Insignia Tattoo

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4.45 Benshi’s Dog

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4.46 Fear and Paranoia

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4.47 The Tyrant and the Monk

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4.48 Too Stubborn to Die

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4.49 Lord Benshi’s Favorite Killer

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4.50 Marked and Unbound

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4.51 An All Consuming Rage

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4.52 Rhysin’s Heart

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4.53 Lord Obdurin Chi’Rhysin Chosen

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4.42 The Nature of Reality

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5. The Bastard Cadre

5.1 The Bunker

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5.2 Dreamy Daze

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5.3 Chasing Rumors

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5.4 Hunters

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5.5 Code of Conduct

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5.6 Artistic Impressions

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5.7 A Painful Reunion

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5.8 Band of Liars

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5.9 Mindless Killers

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5.10 The Games we Play

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5.11 Insurance

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5.12 Fools and Dead Men

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5.13 Futile Regrets

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5.14 Precious Cargo

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5.15 Triggers

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5.16 Playing Gods

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5.17 Old Acquaintances

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5.18 Solo’s

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5.19 The Reward for Incompetence

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5.20 Renewed Tensions

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5.21 Musan

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5.22 Winners Can’t Quit

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5.23 Pursuit

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5.24 Lies Cost Double

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5.25 Staring into the Abyss

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5.26 Prisoner

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5.27 Terms of Endangerment

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5.28 Grith

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5.29 Unpleasantries

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5.30 Sonan

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5.31 Divine Motivation

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5.32 Reading the Room

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5.33 Road Trip

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5.34 Apprentice

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5.35 Grith Bait

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5.36 Convenient Allies

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5.37 Fish in a Barrel

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5.38 Jumping Blind

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5.39 The Cleansed

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5.40 Easy Money

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5.41 Dragon-fire

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5.42 No Good Deed

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5.43 Dead-zone

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5.44 Letting Go

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5.45 The Short Road Back

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5.46 Empty Vessels

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5.47 Gunshot

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5.48 Malevolent Intentions

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5.49 Redundancies

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5.50 Friend or Foe

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5.51 Playing Both Sides

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5.52 Feldarsin

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5.53 Artistic Integrity

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5.54 Liar’s Curse

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5.55 The First Rule

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5.56 Exit Strategy

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5.57 Immoral Immortal

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5.58 Chameleon

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5.59 Impossible Choices

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6. Zealots and Ascendants

6.1 Transfer of Power

4 min read

6.2 Untethered

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6.3 Contenders

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6.4 Better Together

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6.5 Onslaught

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6.6 Dishonored Dead

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6.7 Spite and Hate

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6.8 Broken Bonds

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6.9 Collusion

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6.10 Sacred Oaths

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6.11 Playing the Edges

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6.12 Emissaries

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6.13 This Momentous Occasion

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6.14 Meaningless Verbosity

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6.15 The Art of Diplomacy

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6.16 Duman d’Rammas

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6.17 Sleep Will Come

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6.18 The Sly Assassin

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6.19 Defensive Systems

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6.20 Attack Surface

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6.21 Just Do

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6.22 Old Dogs

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6.23 Mawtarians

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6.24 Warwick’s Feint

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6.25 The Idiot Brother

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6.26 Invisible People

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6.27 Whispers of Power

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6.28 Watching the Suns Rise Again

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6.29 One Bad Decision After Another

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6.30 Brothers in Arms

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6.31 The Fate of Vincent d’Rhyne

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6.32 Mutual Consideration

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6.33 Kian’s Question

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6.34 Seeing Quadruple

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6.35 Crisis of Confidence

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6.36 Dead Ends

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6.37 The Regulator

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6.38 Statistical Models

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6.39 Hidden Intent

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6.40 Shadows and Whispers

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6.41 Predictable Idiot

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6.42 Out of Options

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6.43 Gatekeepers

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6.44 Shibboleth

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6.45 Betrayal

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6.46 The One They Forgot

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6.47 Inhibitions

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6.48 Chaos and Mercy

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6.49 Obdurin’s Semaphore

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7. The Mad God's Playground

7.1 Scrap Metal

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7.2 Night Vision

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7.3 A Dragon’s Fury

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7.4 Fish Food

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7.5 The Waiting Game

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7.6 Conflict of Interest

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7.7 Dragon Hunter

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7.8 Dead Famous

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7.9 Lars

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7.10 Wanderlust

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7.11 Caught

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7.12 Gaius

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7.13 Unwanted Obligations

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7.14 Loyal to One

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7.15 Freelancer

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7.16 Abstinence

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7.17 Hangover

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7.18 Tig

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7.19 Chance Encounters

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7.20 Harlan

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7.21 Impaired and Impure

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7.22 True Believers

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7.23 Unexpected Visitors

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7.24 Sensitivity

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7.25 Questionable Loyalties

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7.26 Firing Squad

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7.27 Deadly Reverence

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7.28 The Flip Side of Anger

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7.29 Dead is Dead

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7.30 The Problem with this Reality

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7.31 The Wisdom of Hindsight

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7.32 All Fucked Up

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7.33 Seen From Afar

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7.34 Shortcuts

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7.35 Old Wounds

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7.36 Between Places

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7.37 Echoes and Shadows

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7.38 Dead People’s Dreams

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7.39 Saber

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7.40 The Way Out

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7.41 Just Another Realm

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7.42 Accusations

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7.43 Modus Operandi

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7.44 The Seams of Reality

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7.45 Sympathetic

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7.46 Reality Verified

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7.47 Twisted Perception

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7.48 Capitalist Ploy

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