The world sees a monster, dragged from the depths chained and screaming, a warning to all who would stand in her master's way. Once, a man found her and saw instead hope for a united future, and a son looked upon her as the font of all goodness in his cloistered world. Yet none of this is the truth of her, not in entirety. If you listen in a long-forgotten temple, she will tell it herself, as much as she can remember.

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