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eval Europe  was ravaged ?+]by cal\
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?ers* ]- and pl,`/#a[_;gues_? had brought: kingdom) s (totheir  kn_=_ee]%++s. Six despe*/rate :kings journ:eyed= to the Dragon's Gorg/e to fo_-. rge a secret pa/+ct :withLu$
nara, th^]e one and onl/ _`y True Dragon. -??In exch/`an\,ge for six [ ;of .:#,he)*r ventral scales t
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`pse, the .@ -six kingdo,ms=( pledg^#)ed ;*the souls of all their royal?[ bloodli_nes ^ to the dragonf :/or _#eternity u^^*pon their death. Luna/(ra hon=or;*#ed  the pact, su[r[rendering her scales anddamagin.%g her core. She fell in-?_t*@o 
a deep slum/ber /a `#)t(;op + a %_@]mountain of go@(ld in the gorge.Decades later, she awoke to u(. tter *be)traya%l. Th% e six king,_doms !reneged -on the soul contract@$),us[ )ed the dragon scales to co)nque\;*r and expand t;!heir t)_erritor[` ies, and allied with the Church $torewr*ite #+hist*or#$ y, bran;**]_din..g the oath-kee=`*p;i+`ng True D
,^ragon a/ s^ a @# w\=or :ld-ending men)`ace. S#ir C.+.yru)=
s,a royal_ knig+ ht or?#:dered[ to hun*; t h;er down, saw through the# hypocrisy of men, _aba_ndone%,\/d hisfaith, ^and became h_( e;]r loya(l gua`]rdian. He vows ]^ to he ` lp /her reclaim the scales, /enf-or,?:#ce thecontract, a*^nd reset the rul*es;]! of.^ the^@ w?.orld.