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The Elder Empire

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The Elder Empire	comment	The Aurelian Empire has stood for over a thousand years under the rule of the immortal Emperor, who killed the Great Elders who had enslaved humanity. His rule is absolute and unquestioned, his authority and power unfathomable.That is, until the Emperor dies.Five years later, two very different people struggle in a world that is changing around them. Calder Martin, a Captain from the Navigator's Guild, takes an extremely profitable mission to escort a stuffy Imperial Witness. Meanwhile, Shera, a Gardener from the Consultant's Guild, takes a mission to assassinate an Imperial Witness.Both Calder and Shera are being lied to, and not all their allies have their best interests at heart. They both have to fight through the still-active corpse of a Great Elder, face countless Elderspawn, and suffer through the politics of a nation that has not had to rule itself for over a thousand years.The Elder Empire is a series written by Will Wight. It is split into two parallel series, one for Calder and one for Shera: The first pair are Of Sea and Shadow (Calder) and Of Shadow and Sea (Shera). Published in 2015. The second pair are Of Dawn and Darkness (Calder) and Of Darkness and Dawn (Shera). Published in 2016. The third pair are Of Kings and Killers (Calder) and Of Killers and Kings (Shera). Published in 2020.
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The Elder Empire / int_192ba729	type	Older Is Better
The Elder Empire / int_192ba729	comment	Older Is Better: Whenever a human uses an object, they imbue it with "Intent," and the object works just a little better for its intended purpose. An axe might get better at cutting wood, a coat might get better at keeping its wearer warm. Therefore, objects that have been in use for centuries and have accumulated massive stores of Intent are far more powerful than newer ones that haven't had a chance to be used as much.
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The Elder Empire / int_1a237409	type	Order Versus Chaos
The Elder Empire / int_1a237409	comment	Order Versus Chaos: The central conflict. On the Of Sea and Shadow side, the heroes are mostly fighting for Order, as they know that letting the Empire fracture into countless mini-empires will result in nothing but war and bloodshed. On the Of Shadow and Sea side, the heroes are mostly fighting for Chaos, as they believe that the species has evolved past the need for a single omnipotent authority. The problems with both sides are discussed; if there's a single Empire that means there's a single point of failure that can be exploited, while if there are multiple empires there will be no way to force them to cooperate in the face of a major threat.
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The Elder Empire / int_1b06aa41	type	Villains Never Lie
The Elder Empire / int_1b06aa41	comment	Villains Never Lie: The Emperor has a reputation for never lying. After all, why would he need to? He doesn't even obfuscate the truth, really; if he doesn't want people to know something, he'll flatly tell them they're not allowed to know. Or kill them. Kelarac has a similar reputation, which is part of how he has a relatively good reputation for his deals. As it turns out, he's more of the "never lie unless you really have to" sort. In Killers and Kings, he tells Shera that he's possessed her in order to trick her into killing herself, but really it's a last-ditch effort to get rid of her.
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The Elder Empire / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The Elder Empire / int_1fc8335e	comment	Kelarac has a similar reputation, which is part of how he has a relatively good reputation for his deals. As it turns out, he's more of the "never lie unless you really have to" sort. In Killers and Kings, he tells Shera that he's possessed her in order to trick her into killing herself, but really it's a last-ditch effort to get rid of her.
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The Elder Empire / int_26b2747	type	Alliterative Title
The Elder Empire / int_26b2747	comment	Alliterative Title: Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
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The Elder Empire / int_2b49eaf	type	Damsel out of Distress
The Elder Empire / int_2b49eaf	comment	Damsel out of Distress: Of Shadow and Sea ends with Meia getting captured, and a ransom note being sent to her friends. Shera doesn't even bother reading it.
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The Elder Empire / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
The Elder Empire / int_313e9485	comment	The Blackwatch: Dedicated to studying and monitoring the Elders. Given their pragmatic outlook, public sentiment tends to paint them as little better than an Elder cult.
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The Elder Empire / int_35a13198	type	World's Best Warrior
The Elder Empire / int_35a13198	comment	The Champions: The Empire's best fighters, alchemically and supernaturally enhanced to superhuman levels.
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The Elder Empire / int_35b429f3	type	Weird Trade Union
The Elder Empire / int_35b429f3	comment	Weird Trade Union: Imperial government and society is organized around ten semi-independent Guilds, each with its own areas of expertise and closely-guarded trade secrets. The Am'haranai a.k.a. the Consultants: The oldest Guild, predating even the Empire. They'll solve any problem, for a price. It's an open secret that this includes assassination. The Blackwatch: Dedicated to studying and monitoring the Elders. Given their pragmatic outlook, public sentiment tends to paint them as little better than an Elder cult. The Champions: The Empire's best fighters, alchemically and supernaturally enhanced to superhuman levels. The Greenwardens: Groundskeepers and conservationists, who protect the environment from the ravages of civilization and manage the balance between humanity and the Kameira. The Imperial Guard: The Emperor's personal guard, each augmented with Kameira body parts. Kanatalia, the Guild of Alchemists: Purveyors of potions and other fantastical substances. The Luminian Order: Adherents of the Unknown God; all-purpose do-gooders, with a particular focus on combatting Elder influence. The Magisters: The pre-eminent experts on Reading, who have elevated the craft almost to the level of magic. The Navigators: The only sailors who can safely cross the Aion Sea between the Empire's two continents of Aurelia and Izyria. The Witnesses: Chroniclers and record-keepers, who ensure the continuity and integrity of Imperial history.
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The Elder Empire / int_3b78896e	type	Power of the Void
The Elder Empire / int_3b78896e	comment	Power of the Void: The Great Elders are survivors from other worlds who were mutated and empowered by their trip through the void. The Sleepless have a few minor abilities related to the void, such as void-messages and summoning.
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The Elder Empire / int_3e9bb88c	type	Adorable Abomination
The Elder Empire / int_3e9bb88c	comment	Adorable Abomination: Shuffles is Calder's pet Bellowing Horror, which is basically a chibi version of Cthulhu. He repeats his favorite words he overhears in conversations, at deafening volume, usually right next to Calder's ear.
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The Elder Empire / int_454bda24	type	Ancestral Weapon
The Elder Empire / int_454bda24	comment	Ancestral Weapon: Common, due to the way magic works. The older a weapon is and the more it is used, the more Intent it accumulates. This Intent will naturally make the weapon better at its job, and a skilled Reader can enhance this effect. Shera uses a pair of bronze shears that have been used as assassination tools for a thousand years, and therefore can kill nearly anything in a single blow.
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The Elder Empire / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
The Elder Empire / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: When Loreli needs to hire a Navigator ship she gives a false name because they are part of the opposing faction in the Guild War. She doesn't change her extremely famous appearance or demeanor at all, though, and the Navigators figure out who she is within hours. They play along though because she is The Paragon.
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The Elder Empire / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Elder Empire / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Naberius Clayborn has managed to put himself in a position where he'll be the next Emperor of the world, and is very smug about it. However, as the book wears on, the "smug" part fades in favor of the "snake" part, as he starts betraying people left and right. Nakothi's heart corrupting him certainly didn't help, but nobody really liked him even before that.
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The Elder Empire / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Elder Empire / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Kelarac, the Keeper of Souls, takes the form of a pleasant man who is willing to negotiate plainly for what he wants. He even conducts these deals in a dreamspace that looks like a pleasant sitting room. But he is still one of the Great Elders, an alien intelligence who enslaved humanity for longer than recorded memory. His domain is the sea, and the sea is a terrifying place on this world.
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The Elder Empire / int_55d919f7	type	Lovecraft Lite
The Elder Empire / int_55d919f7	comment	Lovecraft Lite: Or at least lite-ish. Yes, the Great Elders are a vast and ever-present threat to humanity. But on the other hand, humanity has already won the war to overthrow them, and has thwarted their return for a millennium, thanks in no small part to the steady advancement of the science of Reading and investment.
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The Elder Empire / int_565d9b8	type	Mother of a Thousand Young
The Elder Empire / int_565d9b8	comment	Mother of a Thousand Young: Nakothi, the Dead Mother, is known for her "children," twisted undead monstrosities made from random parts of dead humans and animals.
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The Elder Empire / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Elder Empire / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: The whole point of splitting the universe into two parallel stories. Of Sea and Shadow is about Calder Martin, Captain of the Navigator's Guild, trying to raise up a new God-Emperor after the old one died, in order to help unite humanity and protect the species from the predations of the Elders; he is opposed by anarchic assassins who want to see the thousand-year Empire fractured since it will be more profitable for them. Of Shadow and Sea is about Shera, Gardener of the Consultant's Guild, trying to stop a Great Elder from resurrecting herself and destroying humanity, and to keep the Empire split so that humanity does not have a single point of failure in a God-Emperor; she is opposed by insane cultists and tyrants who think they can handle the power themselves.
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The Elder Empire / int_5b84f2a	type	Transhuman
The Elder Empire / int_5b84f2a	comment	Transhuman: The Imperial Guard are improved by the Alchemist's Guild, given Kameira parts to enhance their capabilities. Meia is a far more extreme example; under the Emperor's orders, the guild used horrific and painful procedures to turn her into an amalgam of a dozen different Kameira, making her strong enough to fight a Champion.
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The Elder Empire / int_5ced9082	type	Dire Beast
The Elder Empire / int_5ced9082	comment	Dire Beast: the Kameira are giant animals with Elemental Powers. Although they can be quite dangerous and hostile, they're not fundamentally inimical to humanity like the Elders are. They are hunted for body parts, which are supernaturally potent and thus a valuable resource that humans can exploit to combat Elder influence.
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The Elder Empire / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Elder Empire / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Calder's ready to do this a few times in Kings and Killers: his backup plan in the battle of Elders is to give himself up to be Kellarac's vessel, then allow Shera to kill him, as killing an Elder while it's in a human vessel is the only way to permanently be rid of them. Later, when he realizes the cracks in the sky are going to cause Ozriel to destroy the world, he teams up with the Emperor's echo and uses the Optasia to stave off the elders and repair the world's barrier, even though he knows it will kill him.
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The Elder Empire / int_72217e12	type	Murder, Inc.
The Elder Empire / int_72217e12	comment	The Am'haranai a.k.a. the Consultants: The oldest Guild, predating even the Empire. They'll solve any problem, for a price. It's an open secret that this includes assassination.
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The Elder Empire / int_76f18656	type	Giant Corpse World
The Elder Empire / int_76f18656	comment	Giant Corpse World: Nakothi, the Dead Mother, slowly transformed the island where she was buried into a massive corpse, with flesh for ground, a recognizable rib cage, and even tendons stretching throughout the structure. One person theorizes that she was trying to build herself a new body.
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The Elder Empire / int_77644ae3	type	Fantastic Fragility
The Elder Empire / int_77644ae3	comment	Fantastic Fragility: Great Elders can bond with a human, much like soulbound can with an item, possessing them. Alloying their own powerset with human intent grants them a significant power boost, but it also makes them constrained by human limitations like time and death. As such, despite The Emperor continually beating them in straight fights for centuries, they never resorted to this because Death Is Cheap in their natural state. It's a nap for a couple decades and then you fight The Emperor again. However, void travel requires human intent, and the Great Elders are willing to risk a brief stint in mortality for the chance at escape.
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The Elder Empire / int_7b047cb2	type	Legendary Weapon
The Elder Empire / int_7b047cb2	comment	Legendary Weapon: The nature of Intent means anything can become legendary given time. If an axe is used for splitting wood, eventually it will become even better at splitting wood. Shera has weapons that were forged a thousand years ago before the Empire was born, and they can cut through nearly anything. Especially the blade she used to destroy a heart of Nakothi, and kill the Emperor. At the start of the novel, she has trouble even drawing that weapon at all.
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The Elder Empire / int_7c46c734	type	Common Tongue
The Elder Empire / int_7c46c734	comment	Common Tongue: Everyone on the planet speaks Imperial. It's mentioned that this was done intentionally; in the past, the Emperor forced everyone to speak the same language, and he locked up anyone who refused or had too strong an accent.
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The Elder Empire / int_80cd1f62	type	God of Evil
The Elder Empire / int_80cd1f62	comment	God of Evil: The Great Elders, most obviously Nakothi, the Dead Mother. She is a queen of the undead, who wishes for nothing more than to kill everyone and remake them as her "children." Even the Sleepless, the cult dedicated to worshiping the Elders, is very careful when dealing with anything related to Nakothi.
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The Elder Empire / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
The Elder Empire / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Nearly everyone at Candle Bay Imperial Prison, from prisoners to staff. At first, the smiling receptionist is kind of funny, as she is always perfectly professional and Calder always frustrated. Then he sees what's been going on in the prison, and realizes she literally has no choice but to smile.
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The Elder Empire / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Elder Empire / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Great Elders are immortal Brown Note Beings who once enslaved humanity until the Emperor killed them. But death is only temporary for such creatures, and the Empire has fought ever since to keep them dead. The Sleepless cults claim the Elders just want to share their wisdom; while Blackwatch admits that's partly true, and the Great Elders do see themselves as benevolent, they are also violently insane and will happily wipe out the entire human race for their own purposes.
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The Elder Empire / int_902f084f	type	Undead Abomination
The Elder Empire / int_902f084f	comment	Undead Abomination: The Children of Nakothi, corpses "reborn" in a twisted mockery of life. Some are recognizably human, but most are so distorted their original shapes are hard to spot. Things like centipedes made out of spines and tentacles made out of arms are not uncommon.
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The Elder Empire / int_9620c3a1	type	God-Emperor
The Elder Empire / int_9620c3a1	comment	God-Emperor: The Emperor ruled for over a thousand years and was so incredibly powerful that anything he so much as touched became a dangerous artifact. In Shera's story, he is a magnanimous and fatherly ruler who constantly tries to make his subjects more comfortable. In Calder's story, he is a ruthless tyrant who kills a man for the crime of escaping from horrific experiments. There is one thing both stories agree on: His immortality came from binding a heart of the Dead Mother, which was not a good thing. The few people who knew him estimated he only had a few years before he would go completely insane, but he was killed first.
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The Elder Empire / int_970c07d4	type	Nature Lover
The Elder Empire / int_970c07d4	comment	The Greenwardens: Groundskeepers and conservationists, who protect the environment from the ravages of civilization and manage the balance between humanity and the Kameira.
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The Elder Empire / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Elder Empire / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: In Kings and Killers, Calder is horrified to learn from the memory-echo of the Emperor that he and Calder have essentially the same personality, and that the philosopher Sadesthenes that Calder has revered since childhood was actually the Emperor writing under a pen name. When Calder reads the Emperor's intent, he realizes that the Emperor's looks like his own, only far older and more powerful.
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The Elder Empire / int_99390db0	type	Saintly Church
The Elder Empire / int_99390db0	comment	The Luminian Order: Adherents of the Unknown God; all-purpose do-gooders, with a particular focus on combatting Elder influence.
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The Elder Empire / int_9be7c205	type	Giant Spider
The Elder Empire / int_9be7c205	comment	To a lesser extent, the Inquisitors of Ach'magut, which look like ten-legged human-sized spiders with too many eyes all over their bodies.
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The Elder Empire / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
The Elder Empire / int_9bee1a7f	comment	The Navigators: The only sailors who can safely cross the Aion Sea between the Empire's two continents of Aurelia and Izyria.
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The Elder Empire / int_a0774be0	type	Forgotten First Meeting
The Elder Empire / int_a0774be0	comment	Forgotten First Meeting: Calder met Shera, Lucan, and Meia at his trial, when they were still being personally tutored by the Empire. By the time of the story proper, both sides have completely forgotten; the Guild tells Shera about this meeting when she takes the job but she still doesn't remember, and Calder only remembers when Meia points out the connection.
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The Elder Empire / int_a8c462db	type	Super-Senses
The Elder Empire / int_a8c462db	comment	Super-Senses: As part of her alchemical upgrades, Meia can see and hear far better than an ordinary human.
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The Elder Empire / int_aa8d0ef0	type	Spell My Name with a "The"
The Elder Empire / int_aa8d0ef0	comment	Spell My Name with a "The": Even before he was The Emperor, he was The Liberator.
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The Elder Empire / int_ab27d196	type	Apocalypse Cult
The Elder Empire / int_ab27d196	comment	Apocalypse Cult: Various Elder cults, such as the Sleepless. Most cultists are just deluded, but a few like Jyrine take a more nuanced view of the Elders as an opportunity for human advancement, not so different from that of the Blackwatch. Of course, most people outside of the Blackwatch see them as little better than cultists...
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The Elder Empire / int_abdf1659	type	Bodyguarding a Badass
The Elder Empire / int_abdf1659	comment	The Imperial Guard: The Emperor's personal guard, each augmented with Kameira body parts.
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The Elder Empire / int_ad62678e	type	Living Shadow
The Elder Empire / int_ad62678e	comment	Living Shadow: Minions of Urg'naut are described this way, and Urg'naut themself is a massive tide of shadow. As one would expect, they're essentially immune to physical weapons, only being harmed by the intent inside them. Light, however, is immensely painful to Urg'naut and their spawn, only Urg'naut themself can go out during the day.
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The Elder Empire / int_b40bb08a	type	Living Weapon
The Elder Empire / int_b40bb08a	comment	Living Weapon: Any object invested with enough Intent can be "Awakened," given a rudimentary mind based on how it has been used in the past. This is typically only done when the Reader has a very strong understanding of the object in question, otherwise the Awakened intelligence might have very different abilities and goals than expected.
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The Elder Empire / int_b580e394	type	This Is My Human
The Elder Empire / int_b580e394	comment	This Is My Human: In a chapter from Shuffles' perspective, we find out that the Bellowing Horror considers Calder his pet human.
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The Elder Empire / int_c5ee8215	comment	The Magisters: The pre-eminent experts on Reading, who have elevated the craft almost to the level of magic.
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The Elder Empire / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Everyone simply calls The Emperor "The Emperor". Before that he was known as The Liberator, his actual birth name is a matter of speculation. He doesn't have one. Names weren't a luxury humans had in Nakothi's domain. He usually was referred to contextually, being called "dumper" while dumping corpses into the pits, etc. His mother called him "Clean", since he was usually cleaner than her other children
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The Elder Empire / int_e116fedc	comment	Play-Along Prisoner: Lucan could easily break himself out of prison, and Shera could break him out even easier. The only reason they don't is because going on the run would be a pain.
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The Elder Empire / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: Estyr Six comes from a tribe where your number determined your place on the mountain they inhabited. Lower numbers could live closer to the base, where food was more plentiful, but monster attacks were more common. You could challenge someone and take their number, and Estyr Six did, going from Estyr Fourteen to Estyr Six in a single battle. She planned to become Estyr One, but Kthanikahr's worms destroyed her tribe before she got the chance. Estyr Six later fought Kthanikahr on her home mountain and buried him in the resulting canyon.
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The Elder Empire / int_eb4086e3	comment	Big Creepy-Crawlies: Kthanikahr, the Worm Lord, and his lesser Elders. The Great Elder himself is explicitly compared to a Worm in an Apple, except instead of an apple, it's a mountain. To a lesser extent, the Inquisitors of Ach'magut, which look like ten-legged human-sized spiders with too many eyes all over their bodies.
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The Elder Empire / int_eb88956c	comment	Language Drift: To be expected with the amount of ageless characters running around. Jorin frequently uses archaic idioms no one else understands, and Kelarac's name drifts between Kelarac and Kell'arrack depending on who's speaking. Kelarac, for his part, is moderately amused to learn that his name among men has changed again when Calder reflexively corrects him on the pronunciation of his own name.
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The Elder Empire / int_ffcc242c	comment	Extra-Dimensional Shortcut: Jerri mentions that the trip from the Grey isle to the capital, 2 days by navigator ship, took her mere minutes via void travel.
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