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MAELBANE ARE RISING, AND WITH IT THELWAT
ER LOGGED CITY OF MURKWATER..WE'RE WORKI
NG ON A MAGICAL TRANSPORTLTO MURKWATER.
UNTIL IT'S DONE,LHOWEVER, YOU MUST RELY
ON PRIMITIVELMEANS OF TRAVEL..YOU SEE B
EFORE YOU A PORTAL TO ALNEWLY RISEN CITY
WHICH WAS ONCELCALLED MURKWATER. AS TH
E LAND OFLMAELBANE SLOWLY ROSE FROM THE
SEA, LTHIS WAS THE FIRST CITY TO EMERGE.
.NO ONE KNOWS WHETHER THE CITY IS NOWLIN
HABITED. ANCIENT TALES SAY THATLMAELBAN
E NEVER DIED - LIFE WAS JUSTLSUSPENDED W
HILE IT LAY UNDER THE SEA..THIS PORTAL W
ILL TAKE YOU TO THELCOUNTRYSIDE OUTSIDE
MURKWATER..JUST THIS MORNING, NEW AND AN
CIENTLLANDS ROSE ON THE CONTINENT MAELBA
NE.LTHESE WERE THE LANDS OF THE WORLD'SL
BEST BLACKSMITHS..IN DAYS GONE BY, A TOW
N BLACKSMITHLWAS MORE THAN JUST A SHOER
OF HORSES.LA SKILLED SMITHY COULD MAKE A
LL LMANNER OF UTENSILS, WEAPONS, ARMOR,L
AND TOOLS..NO SMITHY WAS EVER BETTER KNO
WN THANLDALVID, A SKILLED ARTISAN FROM M
AEL- LBANE'S OLDEST TOWN. HE WAS ONE OF
LTHE FEW DECENT MEN WHO LIVED ON THATLDE
PRAVED CONTINENT..THE HAMMER SHOWN HERE
WAS ORIGINALLYLCONSTRUCTED BY DALVID'S G
REAT-GREATLGRANDFATHER. IT IS ONE OF TH
E FEWLREMAINING ARTIFACTS FROM THE AGE O
FLQUALITY..ACCORDING TO THALEN HEALING L
ORE, THELMEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF THE FLA
XTONLPLANT ARE EXCEPTIONAL. IN THE HAND
SLOF A TRAINED HEALER, FLAXTON CAN HELPL
CURE MANY AILMENTS..FLAXTON SALVES ARE S
PREAD ON WOUNDS;LFLAXTON-BASED INCENSES
ARE INHALED TOLCURE DISEASES..HERE ARE T
HE REMAINS OF KLORYK'SLCAGE. THIS RELIC
OF THE MAGE WARSLONCE TRAPPED THE SOULS
OF VALIANTLWARRIORS WHO SOUGHT TO END T
HE MADLDUKE'S REIGN..RECENT TREMORS COLL
APSED THIS PARTLOF THE ARCHIVES AND DEST
ROYED THE LCAGE. WITNESSES BELIEVED THE
Y HEARDLA CHORUS OF GHOSTLY SIGHS AS THE
LGLITTERING TRAP WAS SMASHED..DRAGONS CR
Y ONLY ONCE, FOR THE TEARSLOF A DRAGON P
RECEED ONLY ITS DEATH.LAS ITS FIERY BREA
TH TURNS TO STEAM, ALTEAR OF LIQUID CRYS
TAL FLOWS FROMLEACH EYE..ALL THIS IS LEG
END, OF COURSE, FORLDRAGONS PERISHED WIT
H THE DECLINE OFLBLACKSILVER. YET, THE
GEMS YOU SEELBEFORE YOU ARE CALLED "DRAG
ON TEARS."LTHEY BEAR THE LEGEND OF THE D
RAGON..IT IS SAID THAT THE LIFE-FORCE OF
ANLANCIENT DRAGON RESIDES IN THESELBEAU
TIFUL POOLS OF LIQUID CRYSTAL.*.A
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