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"Regarding security, Windows 2K Server is an OS with a "Kick me" sign stuck on it's back. "
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Heir to the Elements is told from the point of view of Kaylor, a middling scholar who finds himself thrust into historical events that may well lead to the final conflict of two opposed nations. Why was he considered so important and why was the Glory of Graeth'al, the dreaded church of Elsmere, so intent on his capture? Only time would reveal why this poor man who only wanted to share a pint or two with old friends had suddenly become the most wanted man in all of Elania. |
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Call of the Blade continues our saga through the eyes of Kaylor's estranged brother, Colius. An outcast from his own society Ozlaria, Colius instead turns his military ingenuity and training to the defence of Elania, his formerly sworn enemy. War blooms on the horizon and only the united sons of Kledric Vor' Marais, the assassinated former head of the Vor' Ozlan empire, can hope to protect glorious Elania from the ravages of Korphael, their father's murderer and reclaim an entire nation as their birthright. |
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Our saga concludes with The Peasant Queen as told by Shairil, Kaylor's lover and confidant. The war is over and both nations lie torn asunder. Korphael still lives as yet, hiding somewhere within his borders, plotting again the death of the sons of Kledric. The time had come for Kaylor to make his birthright claim for control of all Ozlania and with him go Shairil, his brother Colius and the mysterious sea captain known only as Llorela. Although born in the militaristic society, Kaylor's raising in Elania has ostricized him from his homeland and he enters it armed only with bits and pieces of cultural and political information gleened from scattered texts from the Elanian librarys; a mere pittance of information to aid in the aquisition of a culture more alien to him than any he has ever encountered. |
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