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      |  In traveling to the end of the Western Trade Route the mind    |
      |  enters a blurred, dream-like state where the world is as it    |
      |  was once long ago. The city of Old Thalos awakens each day     |
      |  with its citizens living in peace and harmony as they watch    |
      |  the Imperial guards march along the flower lined streets. The  |
      |  citizens tend to their daily lives as the bards songs waft     |
      |  gently from the local taverns. All is as it should be in the   |
      |  peaceful town lost in a dream of how it once was, never to     |
      |  awaken to the painful reality that they were destroyed and     |
      |  in ruins ages ago.                                             |
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