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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phoenix" data-source="post: 3078383" data-attributes="member: 16166">Dragon and Boar nodded and moved over to the shattered halfling and began to carefully study his notes as well as the runes, keeping one careful eye on the bridge as well as their companion knights.  Whale furrowed his brow and stepped to the foot of the bridge, looking up at the great doors that barely seemed to contain the evil that lied beyond it.  “C’mon boy, let’s wait at the foot of this beasty fer it to come at us, no sense in us wastin’ our time in affairs that we can’t assist.”Agonizing minutes drew out before Boar and Dragon walked across with their findings.  Each had a strange expression on their faces as they decrypted the ancient texts.“It talks about an exodus of some kind, a leaving,” Boar began.  “It speaks of another place, perhaps another city, called Solaris:The world was dry, freezing, lifeless to us all.  The city could not sustain us as a people, for the Heart had died, we had snuffed the life from that which had sustained us.  We could not leave our Solaris, but it had already left us.  The secrets of the City were lost to us, for no key existed that could unlock the secrets of the bridge.We used our most powerful S’lisars to pray to Solaris, bending powerful magics to open the way, but it was not enough.  Magic that could destroy and army could not force the bridge to bend to our will.  Our people died by the thousands, there was no longer anything left to eat but each other, and we gained nothing from devouring our children but a taste of the Void that awaited us.In the last days the Zy’mar marched upon our encampment, signalling the final wars that would devastate both our people before Solaris was consumed.  The Kal-Zy’mar raised his mighty staff of ice and called down the infernal magics of the Void upon us, but we did not die, or suffer, or be devoured alive by demonic shades.His magic fused with ours, opening the way for us to leave our dying world, but only for a short time.  We sent our children, guided by two chosen leaders, one from each army, one of the shade and cold, one of the sun and warmth.  I was one, and when we came to this place, the bridge gave us no more of our people past that which we led.For a new world, we took new names, and left the folly of the old world behind.  I eventually came to love the man I now know as Jazick, and he loves me.  I have chosen the name Jasmine, for it was my mother’s favourite flora, may we live forever in this peaceful place.”</blockquote>

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