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Chabawck twenty years earlier.The forest came to an abrupt halt, giving way to an immense steppe that stretched north as far as the eye could see. Crossed by numerous and wide rivers, it should have been fertile and rich. In the past, a thick forest covered this place; today, all that remained was a multitude of withered trunks. Scant vegetation clung to the poisoned earth. It was just high enough to hide the bones of the soldiers. Less than half a century earlier, the final battle against the Feytha invaders had been fought here. A million Stoltzts, more than there were in the world today, and as many humans, Edorians, Dwarves, Bawcks, had sacrificed themselves here to put an end to the greatest tyranny in the history of Uv-Polin.
The sight of this plain, where almost half of his c
