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The Goli and its many tributaries flowed through Kamat, supplying the island with all it needed to support the rainforests and the diverse life that lived within. Like blood vessels, the rivers and streams reached almost every point of the island. It was this omnipresence of channels that had supported the Mangaal nomadic lifestyle before they had begun to settle hundreds of years ago. Now, the rebels swept through like an infection, pillaging and razing villages in an effort to forcibly return their people to the waters. Eventually, they would go to Ko Mangaal itself and destroy the city,
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‘Hmm, aether is an abrasive and volatile element of the air. Unlike most magical phenomena, which are hereditary—that is to say, passed down to one’s children—in theory, anyone can inhale the substance with the right impetus. But it enacts a vicious price, damaging the delicate flesh of the lungs, not unlike inhaling too much smoke. And then there’s the . . . other price.’ Bryn had long ago reconciled with the infertility
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We fight and we kill other Mangaal—people we might’ve been friends with if everything went differently. We don’t do it because they’re evil; we do it because we must. Because, if we don’t, we’ll lose our way of life. We do it for our families and for our values.’
But the settled would see us vassals of the Lyssan kingdoms, subservient, immobile, and static; decaying until everything that makes us Mangaal is gone.
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