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| | The Shadow of Yesterday: The World of Near (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08) |
 | | The only resistance is outcasts, people not welcome in the Zaru communities or worship halls, for they have committed the worst sin of all, the taking of human life, and discovered a dark knowledge the elders cannot bear. |
 | | Zaru's greatest asset became her downfall, though: the language of zu, the language of creation, spread beyond her borders and infected the world. |
 | | Zaru's people were taken as slaves and made to work in the worst sort of hot, steamy, swampy conditions. |
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