Adversaries who are alive or who have returned from death in the past are listed
in alphabetical order by first name. Other adversaries are listed at the end.
| Lady Anna Colombari (one of the rival adventurers) |
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Lady Anna Colombari is an adventurer from Kevland. She and her fellow
adventurers are employed by Lord Guido Aversa, and are sometimes in competition
with Lady Brenna's adventurers. Anna and Sturt Tarrin almost caught up
to Brenna's adventurers and the body of Saint Ambrosius at the Clyster
docks in 1393 AUC, and Brenna's adventurers almost caught up to them and
the sword of Dhowim at the Penrhyn docks in 1394 AUC. Anna and Sturt attended
Marcus' public lecture on Qemor in 1395 AUC. Anna, Sturt, Professor Mendy
Bader and Bretwald beat Brenna's adventurers to the golden breastplate
of Madros late in 1396 AUC. They also beat Brenna's adventurers to the
gilded skull of Saint Isolde of Rhosdann late in 1397 AUC.
Appeared: Shadow on
the Mist (session 2), Mad Godric
part two (session 15), The Sea
Witch part two (session 31), Return
to Valour Hall (session 32), Trouble
Comes In Pairs (session 67)
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| Lord Anton Garan (Lady Mara's uncle) |
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Lord Anton Garan of Threehills was secretly a powerful
sorcerer when he was alive. He left his estate to Marcus as part of his
plan to swap bodies with him, but his plan failed and Anton died. As a ghost,
he arranged for his niece, Lady Mara, to be kidnapped and brought to Valour
Hall so he could sacrifice her to Lahmfada, a pagan god. However, Brenna's
adventurers foiled his plan and Lahmfada took Anton's ghost down to the
underworld in Mara's place. Using a sphere of transference, Anton possessed
Mara at Marcus' public lecture on Qemor, and used magic to take her back
to Valour Hall. When Brenna's adventurers arrived there, Anton was no longer
a ghost. Instead, he was a vampire. Anton used magic to escape from Valour
Hall when the battle started to turn against him: he hid in Thurander until
summer 1397 AUC, when he travelled to the abandoned villa of Hyspastis in
search of a means of returning to life. There, Brenna's adventurers killed
him and all his servants except Vidar Goldbrow, who escaped.
Appeared: The Legacy
of Threehills (session 4), The One-Eyed
God (session 13), The Sea Witch
part two (session 31), Return to
Valour Hall (session 32), Into
the Forsaken Temple's Crypt part one (sessions 33), Old
Friends, Old Foes (session 55) |
| Armon Bistle and Darby (the werewolf and
the butler) |
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Armon Bistle is a werewolf with unusual powers. He moved to the village
of Deepwood early in 1397 AUC, took control of the local pack, and killed
the village priest. When Brenna's adventurers defeated him at the Vale
of the Silvery Moon, his body turned into smoke and returned to his manor
house, where Armon and his butler, Darby, escaped using magic. Their current
location is unknown.
Appeared: Bad
Moon Waning (session 58)
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| The bat-winged Kattar woman who served Tikiri |
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Late in 1397 AUC, Brenna's adventurers stopped Tikiri killing
Nur Rahayu by killing him themselves. Tikiri's Iron Rods were collected
by a bat-winged kattar woman, who promised that she wouldn't leave him,
but then teleporting away without his body.
Appeared: Black Rain
(session 68) |
| Bretwald (one of the rival adventurers) |
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Bretwald is an adventurer from Birland. He and his fellow adventurers
are employed by Lord Guido Aversa, and are sometimes in competition with
Lady Brenna's adventurers. Bretwald has no shadow. Bretwald, Lady Anna
Colombari, Sturt Tarrin and Professor Mendy Bader beat Brenna's adventurers
to the golden breastplate of Madros late in 1396 AUC. They also beat Brenna's
adventurers to the gilded skull of Saint Isolde of Rhosdann late in 1397
AUC.
Appeared: Trouble
Comes In Pairs (session 67)
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| Bhishana Bhaga (the rakshasa) |
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Bhishana moved from Semphar to the western edge of Thurander
in 1396 AUC to find a quiet and secure place to live. However, Brenna's
adventurers freed her Goblin servants and forced her to bargain for her
life. Bhishana has moved again to a hopefully quieter and more secure place.
Appeared: Tiger's
Palace (session 41) |
| Eiryn Torellen |
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Eiryn is the granddaughter of Orith Torellen, who tempted
Amaltheia in profaning a mythal in northern Emphidor thousands
of years ago. In 1396 AUC, Eiryn and three companions set out to free Amaltheia
from imprisonment inside the mythal, ending up in conflict with
Brenna's adventurers. Marcus helped Eiryn ransom back her sword, and made
arrangements for her to negotiate later for her other belongings and for
Amaltheia's whispering bow. Eiryn met with Brenna's adventurers at Navyn
in 1397 AUC and exchanged Thalion, a talking shortsword, with Marcus for
the whispering bow.
Appeared: Into the
Forsaken Temple's Crypt part two (session 34), Into
the Forsaken Temple's Crypt part three (session 35), Stone
Dead part one (session 53) |
| Elizar Branded-Hand (the sorcerer under the
hill) |
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Elizar disappeared when his tower near the village of Gross
Fell was burned down in 1301 AUC, and rumours claimed that he was buried
and sleeping beneath the hill. Early in 1395 AUC, Brenna's adventurers found
Elizar trapped in a room within an area where sorcery didn't work, behind
a locked door marked with the holy sign of the cross. They stopped Elizar
escaping and left him trapped, still buried beneath the hill.
Appeared: Start at the
End (sessions 20 & 21) |
| Fengil, Master of Shadows (the Black-Robed
Man) |
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Fengil was a prince two hundred years ago of what is now
Dirkholme. He travelled to the Lost City of Nem and became a servant of
Balor, the Dreaming God. Fengil and his ally, Steward Kilnred, concealed
the death of King Dirk for two years, until it was uncovered in 1396 AUC
and Fengil was driven from Nem by Althor, Baldon, Verma and Ector (who may
be the four hooded holy warriors). Later that year, Fengil, Krain the Slayer,
and his four dwarves and four human servants dug up Tasha the Royal Sacrifice
from the cemetary at Paderborn. Fengil ravelled with his servants to Adureth,
then travelled to the tomb of Harseth the Neverlost with Tasha and his human
servants. Brenna's adventurers suspected that the Black-Robed Man was Lord
Anton Garan, but the latter's diary established that this is not the case.
In 1398 AUC, Brenna's adventurers tracked Fengil to Skipton Castle, where
they provoked Fengil into a duel and killed him.
Appeared: Castle on
a Cloud (sessions 75 & 77) |
| Gaberk (Lord Anton's servant) |
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Gaberk was Lord Anton's butler and loyal servant. The hunchbacked
dwarf was arrested for his part in the scheme to steal Marcus' body, but
was secretly saved from execution by Lord Anton's sorcery. He organised
Lady Mara's kidnapping, but was killed by Eadric at Valour Hall when Brenna's
adventurers rescued her. Using a sphere of transference, Gaberk possessed
Ulfgar for two days, spending his money, taking his magic ring, and setting
up the sphere of transference on the podium Marcus would use for his lecture
on Qemor. When Brenna's adventurers next encounted Gaberk, it was at Valour
Hall. He had become a vampire, and was destroyed by Marcus with his holy
sword.
Appeared: The Legacy
of Threehills (session 4), The One-Eyed
God (session 13), The Sea Witch
part two (session 31), Return to
Valour Hall (session 32) |
| The hooded holy warriors |
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Cinder and Taliriana were kidnapped by a group of hooded people, three
men and one woman, taken to a castle built on holy ground, and questioned
about Ulfgar's involvement in Seneschal Kilnred's conspiracy to conceal
the death of King Dirk of Dirkholme. Lady Brenna's investigations suggest
they are Althor, Baldon, Verma and Ector, the four heroes who revealed
the schemes of Steward Kilnred and the Master of Shadows.
Appeared: A Question
of Ethics part one (session 43)
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| Melina (the nymph) |
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Early in 1395 AUC, Brenna's adventurers were passing through
the village of Brindinford. The woman used illusions to conceal her identity
and enchantments to lure Jonyn into the woods. The other adventurers followed
them, and forced the woman to flee for her life after revealing her true
appearance. Eadric and Talos encountered the woman a second time while tracking
down Tasha's undead body near Brindinford. Eadric succumbed to her enchantments,
but Talos escaped and returned with the rest of Brenna's adventurers, forcing
her to flee. Her defeated guards revealed that her name is Melina.
Appeared: Nest of Corruption
(session 24), Tying Up Loose Ends
(session 76) |
| Muraxus (the spider-man, one of Halfdan's
allies) |
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Muraxus was the leader of the small war-party sent to Merin
to locate and eliminate Cinder. He was the only one to escape from Brenna's
adventurers when they rescued Yara and drove him from Marcus' house in spring
1398 AUC. Brenna's adventurers killed him on their first day in Castle Sarwin,
he was restored to life overnight by Halfdan, and was then killed again
on the second day.
Appeared: The Thunder
Below part one (session 79), The
Thunder Below part two (session 80), The
Thunder Below part five (session 83) |
| Pan Mei (the succubus) |
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Pan Mei is a succubus from Chiang Long, the northern third
of Khitai. She was trapped in the tower of Ustran Suhka, and used her powers
to charm and manipulate Taliriana, Derrin, Yara and Hrothr into helping
her win her freedom in 1396 AUC. Pan Mei fled back to Chiang Long when confronted,
but not before she threatened Taliriana with dire vengeance.
Appeared: The Tower
of Deception (session 39) |
| Professor Mendy Bader (the rival professor
and one of the rival adventurers) |
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Mendy is a professor of history at Merin University. She
started teaching at the University in spring 1395 AUC, while Marcus was
away in Mercania, and has a noble patron in Lord Iean Lonsdale. Mendy threatens
Marcus' position as the most popular and interesting professor of history
at the University. She attended Marcus' public lecture on Qemor in 1395
AUC. Mendy, Lady Anna Colombari, Sturt Tarrin and Bretwald beat Brenna's
adventurers to the golden breastplate of Madros late in 1396 AUC. Mendy
was appointed Associate Dean of the Faculty of History at the University
of Merin during in winter 1397 AUC. Late that year, she and her adventuring
companions beat Brenna's adventurers to the gilded skull of Saint Isolde
of Rhosdann.
Appeared: The Sea
Witch part two (session 31), Return
to Valour Hall (session 32), Trouble
Comes In Pairs (session 67) |
| Puhrjan (the snakeman at Ramshorn Abbey and
at Trozen) |
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Late in 1394 AUC, Brenna's adventurers battled a powerful
sorcerer at the ruins of Ramshorn Abbey. The sorcerer had the head, arms
and upper torso of a man on top of a large snake's body. The snakeman fled
the ruins when his magics were exhausted, and Brenna's adventurers could
not track him across the waters of Lake Rhipe. Four years later, later in
1398 AUC, Brenna's adventurers interfered with Puhrjan's scheme to impersonate
the winged serpent Hermas at Trozen, killing him.
Appeared: The Treasure
of the Black Veils (session 19), Shrine
of the Feathered Serpent (session 78) |
| Raphael "Rafe" Amistar
& Theodore "Theo" Sloan (the monk and the rogue) |
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Rafe and Theo are thieves, robbers and lovers.
They stole Lady Brenna's borrowed jewellery in Orviet late in 1393 AUC,
and were hunted down and captured by her adventurers. In return for not
being handed over to the authorities for punishment, both promised to work
for Lady Brenna for all of 1394 AUC. They left Manderley Hall on the first
day of 1395 AUC, as soon as their year of service ended.
Appeared: Tricks and
Tales (session 9), The One-Eyed
God (session 13), The Treasure of
the Black Veils (Session 19), Start
at the End part one (session 20) |
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| Rathlond Lerinal |
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Rathlond is the brother of Surya Lerinal, who was killed
by Brenna's adventurers while helping Eiryn Torellen try to free Amaltheia
from imprisonment inside the mythal. Rathlond met with Brenna's
adventurers at Navyn in 1397 AUC, where he named Jonyn "Umarth"
(Ill-Fated) and dropped coins at his feet in exchange for his dead sister's
sword.
Appeared: Stone
Dead part one (session 53) |
| Samir and Malik El-Djinn (the former Sultan
of Opalar and his personal sorcerer) |
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In 1396 AUC, Samir escaped death by having Malik reincarnate
him into a new, youthful body. Samir's plot to marry his daughter Natara
and continue to reign as Sultan was foiled by Captain Jusuf Hafiz and other
like-minded God-fearing people, including Brenna's adventurers, who helped
guard Princess Natara during the critical days of the coup. However, Samir
and Malik escaped.
Appeared: Oasis part
one (session 38) |
| Sturt Tarrin (one of the rival adventurers) |
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Sturt Tarrin is an adventurer from Kevland. He and his fellow adventurers
are employed by Lord Guido Aversa, and are sometimes in competition with
Lady Brenna's adventurers. Sturt and Lady Anna Colombari almost caught
up to Brenna's adventurers and the body of Saint Ambrosius at the Clyster
docks in 1393 AUC, and Brenna's adventurers almost caught up to them and
the sword of Dhowim at the Penrhyn docks in 1394 AUC. Anna and Sturt attended
Marcus' public lecture on Qemor in 1395 AUC. Anna, Sturt, Professor Mendy
Bader and Bretwald beat Brenna's adventurers to the golden breastplate
of Madros late in 1396 AUC. They also beat Brenna's adventurers to the
gilded skull of Saint Isolde of Rhosdann late in 1397 AUC.
Appeared: Shadow on
the Mist (session 2), Mad Godric
part two (session 15), The Sea
Witch part two (session 31), Return
to Valour Hall (session 32), Trouble
Comes In Pairs (session 67)
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| Tasha (the royal sacrifice) |
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Tasha is an ancient princess from northwest Vestad who was
sacrificed 500 years ago in a futile attempt to turn back the Selentine
legions. She was accidentally freed from her coffin by Garl Ferfeld in 1394
AUC, but was forced to return to it by the wolf priests assigned to guard
her and by Brenna's adventurers. Tasha was trapped in her coffin beneath
a large stone cross in the cemetary of Paderborn until 1396 AUC, when the
Black-Robed Man dug up her coffin and took it to Adureth. Tasha's last known
location was the tomb of Harseth the Neverlost, where she fled from the
Black-Robed Man. When Lord Karvala restored her to life from the vial of
blood in Marcus' backpack, her undead body became a soulless monster. In
1398 AUC, Eadric and Talos tracked it to Brindinford, where Melina was keeping
it secured in a sarcophagus, and Brenna's adventurers destroyed it.
Appeared: A Kiss of
Death (session 12), Tying Up
Loose Ends (session 76) |
| Theopheles (the watcher at Friezford) |
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Theopheles is a red-haired elf from the forests of northeastern
Emphidor. In 1397 AUC, Brenna's adventurers met Theopheles at the abandoned
village of Friezford. Theopheles seemed cooperative, but disappeared when
nobody was looking. Brenna's adventurers were attacked by other red-haired
elves that night.
Appeared: Ill Wind
in Friezford part two (session 70) |
| Thraim (the Goblin King) |
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Thraim is the King of a Goblin warband. In 1393 AUC, Camaranth
forced Thraim and his warriors to serve her by turning some of them into
ravens. Brenna's adventurers defeated Thraim and his warband, but the others
prevented Ulfgar killing him "for the war" and Thraim successfully
negotiated safe passage for himself and the survivors of his warband. In
1397 AUC, Thraim had control over Shivnar's beast until it was killed by
Brenna's adventurers at the Siege of Malgwyn.
Appeared: The Raven's
Ring part one (session 7), Living
Weapon of Mass Destruction (sessions 56 & 57) |
| The two identical women (Halfdan's allies) |
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The two identical women are both beautiful, with golden-blond hair and
violet eyes. One uses a bow and can bewitch people with her beauty, while
the other uses a war scythe and can cast summon powerful arcane creatures
using magic. Both were working with Halfdan to free Ubothar, The Thunder
Below, in spring 1398 AUC. They fought Brenna's adventurers one the first
and second days in Castle Sarwin, and had left the Castle before Brenna's
adventurers returned on the third day. Their current location is unknown.
Appeared: The
Thunder Below parts three & four, (sessions 81 & 82)
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| Vidar Goldbrow (formerly Ulfgar Helmsbane,
one of Brenna's adventurers) |
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Vidar appears to be Ulfgar, but has no memory of Brenna's
adventurers or the time he spent with them. Vidar was in the employ of Lord
Anton Garan when Brenna's adventurers fought and killed Lord Anton and his
other servants at the abandoned villa of Hyspastis in late summer 1397 AUC.
According to Borin Stonehelm in late autumn 1398 AUC, Vidar had gone from
Hyspastis to Harogarn, and then on to Peronnia, where he had gone to ground.
This was perhaps a good thing, as the servants of the Witch King were looking
for the "ringbearer" with the broken ring. His current location
is unknown.
Appeared: Old Friends,
Old Foes (session 55), Living
Weapon of Mass Destruction part one (session 56) |
| Vythenus (the efreet) |
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Vythenus kidnapped Princess Natara from Brenna's adventurers
in 1396 AUC, but didn't try very hard to keep her hidden and in captivity
before he fled.
Appeared: Desert Sands
(session 40) |
| Zuhail and Mehran (the amorous kattar gods) |
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Late in 1397 AUC, Brenna's adventurers persuaded Zuhail and
Mehran to promise that they wouldn't punish or harm anyone who married one
of their former lovers.
Appeared: Trouble
Comes In Pairs (session 67) |
| other adversaries |
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Brenna's adventurers have fought and killed a number of other powerful
enemies, including:
- Tuannon Dur, the wight of Hob's Dell (Shadow
on the Mist, session 2)
- Navae of Aniel (The Ghosts of Aniel,
session 6)
- Camaranth the hag (The Raven's
Ring, sessions 7 & 8)
- Kurjan the goblin sorcerer (Base
of Operations, session 10)
- the winged man and woman who lived in the enchanted building at Tarleikos
(Equinox, session 11)
- Mad Godric (Mad Godric, sessions
14 & 15)
- Nargothrond the winged giant (The
Lost Mine, sessions 17 & 18)
- the wyrm of Gross Fell (Start at
the End, sessions 20 & 21)
- the White Boar of Kilfay (The White
Boar of Kilfay, sessions 22 & 23)
- the medusa of Brindinford (Nest
of Corruption, session 24)
- the brass golem and the snake-handed woman (Hunter's
Moon, session 25)
- Zilrus the ice sorcerer (Into the
Frozen Waste, sessions 26 & 27)
- Gungir the giant, who claimed to be King of All Mercania (The
Crumbling Hall of the Frost Giant Jarl, sessions 28 & 29)
- Black Molly the hag and pirate captain (The
Sea Witch, sessions 30 & 31)
- Surya and Turin, Eiryn Torellen's companions (Into
the Forsaken Temple's Crypt, sessions 33 to 35)
- Amaltheia the Traitor, the imprisoned elf priestess (Into
the Forsaken Temple's Crypt, sessions 33 to 35)
- Lord Delano of Kossove, the vampire lord (Harvest
of Evil, session 36)
- the Juggernaut, an ancient and destructive machine (The
Road to Oblivion, session 37)
- Krain the Slayer and his pet, the Dread Wyrm (Black
Water, session 42)
- Krain the Slayer's ghost (The
Ghost of Black Water, session 45)
- Dark Fate, the Rod of Power that took control of Cinder (Self-Fulfilling
Prophecy?, sessions 46 & 47)
- Golgon, servant of the Great Gods and warden of Karvala's tower (The
Temple of the Moon, sessions 48 & 49)
- Genna the hag (Hasken's Manor,
sessions 50 & 51, and The
King Under the Barrow, session 52)
- the gargoyle sorcerer and the calcifying stone statue at Prusa (Stone
Dead, sessions 53 & 54)
- Shivnar's Beast, the four-legged monster in King Thraim's service
(The White Boar of Kilfay, sessions
22 & 23, Living Weapon of
Mass Destruction, session 56 & 57)
- Prince Kholan the mummy (Sutekh's
Daughters part one, session 59)
- Emmereth, the Chained One, guard of Sheba and Babat (Sutekh's
Daughters, sessions 59 & 60)
- Ardeth Beh, the Desert Lord (Sutekh's
Daughters part two, session 60)
- Sohrab Wazir, the undead soldier (Matters
of Vengeance, sessions 61 & 62)
- Cemal the Shadow (Matters of
Vengeance, sessions 61 & 62)
- the Chuul (Lochfell's Secret
part one, session 65)
- the Necromancer of Lochfell (Lochfell's
Secret part two, session 66)
- Tikiri, the jealous aristocrat and wielder of the Iron Rods (Black
Rain, session 68)
- the revenant of the king in the barrow-mound near Mimeir (The
Prince of Darkness part one, session 71)
- the bear-priests who guarded the temple of the Lost city of Nem (The
Prince of Darkness part three, session 73)
- Lerrius, the village warden of Trozen, who was transformed into a
turtle by Taliriana (Shrine
of the Feathered Serpent, session 78)
- the Behir (Shrine of the Feathered
Serpent, session 78)
- Halfdan, priest of The Thunder Below (The
Thunder Below parts two, five six & seven, sessions 80, 83,
84 & 85)
- Alraugh the goblin king, Halfdan's ally (The
Thunder Below parts three, five & six, sessions 81, 83 &
84)
- Irika the harpy, Halfdan's ally (The
Thunder Below parts three & four, sessions 81 & 82)
- Alorzulan the sea dragon, Halfdan's ally (The
Thunder Below parts five & six, sessions 83 & 84)
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