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"...the Great War. Most of the cities were razed to the ground by Hellfire, their citizens slaughtered or driven into the surrounding countryside, forced to live in fearful squalor while the armies of the Dark One continued their destruction. The places the least affected by the War were the isolated cities-- Daerlon, Silvermere, Goldhome, and the like, as the Dark One concentrated his attacks upon the centers of strength from the outset, and even by the time the dark forces were finally repelled, they had not yet reached them. The forests of the Elves escaped wrath, of course, as their obscuring magics prevented the enemy from penetrating far into the wood. The Dwarves had but to shut their impenetrable iron doors and let the tides of Orcs pound themselves senseless against them. The Kang simply stayed in their swamps, as any evil force who entered had not only to battle the hostile swamp, but the
clever guerilla tactics of the Kang warriors. The other races,
however, suffered greatly, their numbers decimated by the
ruthless and ceaseless assaults of the dark tide..."

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