The Chronicles, Vol.27

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| Vol. 27            + +   THE CHRONICLES   + +          Collector's |
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| ABERRATIONS, [Spring 1947]                                         |
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| /    | everal years ago, the Tower of the Time-Twisters was ruined |
| \____  by the loss of Morlhach in an event so epic, even the words |
|      \ of a brainy Herald could not decode its majesty.  There was |
| |____/ as we know a time of great confusion for the Camp, in that  |
|        an ancient enemy was lost.  In their barbarism, they sought |
| to hone their abilities for a coming resurgence of Savants in the  |
| land by picking fights with friends (indeed to the Warlord himself |
| you are not a friend if you cannot do battle) and covering the     |
| world in a cloud of Fordian armies.  That desperate boredom drove  |
| to the Maelbrim Protection Act, aided by Karishin Jores and made   |
| successful by the oversight of Marshall Belderon.  Maelbrim at     |
| long last is protected by its own native heads rather than foreign |
| conscripts.  Their aberrant looks to not invalidate their service. |
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| The timing could not be better, given that the war between the     |
| Empire and the Family has grown to an enormous swell, and it would |
| seem that with tensions cooled between the Castle and Syndicate    |
| via Lykiss's proposal to Duke Leothyre, the rising rich of the     |
| East are flaring their cobra-ribs, fully coin'd and focused on     |
| rooting deeper into Miruvhor for the coming storm.                 |
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| Now that the Warlord has turned his eyes away from Maelbrim and    |
| potential nobility, he has begun a push to halt the rampant        |
| desertification of the east by the Torments of the Forsaken Dunes  |
| and construct outposts along the road to assist in trade between   |
| Miruvhor and Maelbrim.  The greater purpose, however, is suspected |
| to be to resurrect the ancient Caranduin and create a fourth       |
| bastion of power in Aabahran, one that even the Watchers could     |
| condone.  Such a task has never been thought plausible, with       |
| logistic hurdles seemingly too tall to mount, but the Warlord is   |
| notoriously stubborn, and is certainly no fool.                    |
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