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    "k": "book isle necromancer kings",
    "s": "the Isle of the Necromancer Kings",
    "l": "A book about the Isle of the Necromancer Kings is here.",
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        "keywords": "seventh 7",
        "desc": "Thus Sumulael and I raised up the inhabitants of Toal from their crypts and\ntombs to serve us. We lived there like exiled royalty for many years, until my\nhusband's insanity and revolting habits grew intolerable. I ended up killing\nthe monster, eventually with the help of adventurers who had discovered the\nsecluded city in the wilderness. That is how I met my second husband, Talib.\nHe was one of the explorers who assisted me in destroying Sumulael and helped\nme find my long-sought talisman.\n\nI soon came to love Talib, after a fashion. I taught him all of my hidden\nsecrets. We were happy together in Toal, rebuilding the city to its former\nglory. But in the end, that marriage also failed, for I found that you cannot\npractice the Art when you are happy, nor advance in its study if you are\ncontent. So I left behind my beloved, to write this book in solitude and focus\nmy mind on the difficult road ahead."
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      {
        "keywords": "sixth 6",
        "desc": "At first, when my husband and I beheld the bones of the city's former citizens,\nwe amused ourselves by raising the moldering remains to attend us as ghastly\nservants, skeletal porters, and shadowy messengers. When the quest for the\ntalisman yielded nothing immediately, we animated more of the city's dead to\nexpand the search. Before long, our new slaves uncovered royal cemeteries\nwhere the kings and queens of Toal had been buried for centuries before the\ncity's disastrous end. I remember quite vividly my delight at this discovery.\nWith a wave of my hand, I cracked open the tombs' monolithic stone doors, while\nSumulael, cackling with wicked glee, called forth the city's ancient royalty,\ncommanding even the oldest of padishahs to stumble forth, wrapped in their\nworm-eaten shrouds or burial robes, from the corrupted depths of the crypts\nand into our eternal slavery. And while the dead gave up their age-corrupted\ntreasures, none carried my coveted talisman."
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        "desc": "The ruins of Toal were cloaked by the jungle when I rediscovered the broken\ncity walls with my first husband, Sumulael. That was in the early years of our\nmarriage, when my devotion to the Forbidden Arts ran strong with the careless\nimpetuousness of youth. We had been led to the city by disgruntled spirits, in\nsearch of a legendary talisman. Even with our ghostly guides, the ruins of the\nvine-choked city were extensive, and the exact location of our prize eluded us."
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        "desc": "Thus the age-old conflict between king and high-priest began again in Uruk,\ntransplanted from the mainland by its colonists, and it sprang forth anew with\nall the vehemence of old. As it destroyed the Old Dynasty, so too did it\nunravel the Necromancer Kings. The New Dynasty eventually withered and died,\nleaving only mournful spirits to glide over the still black waters by the ruins\nof Nycopolis. Now only their histories and their mysterious artifacts remain\nas sad, silent testimonies to their former power and glory."
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        "desc": "The worship of this forgotten god, known as the Cult of Worms, soon flourished\nagain under an ambitious priestess named Yola, one of the first nobles to\naccompany Ysawis into exile on Uruk. But the King was jealous of Yola's\nmounting influence, and he conspired with his most powerful nobles to destroy\nher. Yola disappeared soon after from Nycopolis. When she did, the Cult of\nWorms floundered without her direction, and Ysawis reigned supreme once again\nin his mighty new kingdom of necromancers."
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        "desc": "Now, Uruk was not entirely uninhabited when Ysawis founded the New Dynasty. The\ncolonists found the traces of an even more ancient civilization on the island,\nbased on the low, sandy shores. They discovered entire ruined cities of antique\nmetal towers, sundered and dilapidated, lapped along the coast by the hungry\nsea. In these mushroom-shaped spires, exotic totems and strange shrines were\nunearthed, temples of some forgotten god called the King of Worms, and Lord\nover Life and Undeath. Many of the New Dynasty began to worship this ancient\ngod whose first followers had long since abandoned Uruk to live forever beneath\nthe cold waves of the sea (or so the ancient legends say)."
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        "desc": "Long ago, when the Old Dynasty began to fail on the mainland, Ysawis Ligat was\nexiled with a whole cadre of his supporters for practicing deviant and\nforbidden magic. Ysawis departed the jungle valleys of his youth in search of\na new home. He crossed the sea and discovered Uruk, a large island of \nmysterious beauty that resembled, in many respects, his beloved homeland.\n\nThe island was divided into a low-lying coastal region, an inner high plateau\nembraced by jungle, and a high ridge of mountains rising from the center of the\nisland like the spine of a vishap. On the high plateau, by the shores of a\nsepia lake, Ysawis built Nycopolis and made his city the capital of a new\nmonarchy. He built the Great Summer Palace out of solid ivory and erected a\nmighty Colossus in his image to guide visitors safely to his island. Ysawis was\nthe first and most powerful of the Necromancer Kings, and he ruled Uruk, some\nsay wisely, for many hundreds of years."
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