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Approach, Challenger.

Introduction

Many exiles have tested their skills here as of late. Face the trials of Chaos and pursue your fate. You might die here, now, or you might someday rival the gods themselves.

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Make your choice.

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Slay the waves of enemies. Simple enough.

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Not participating is itself a choice.

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Your potential remains unrealised.

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A favourable result. Now you face another choice: further commit to a more difficult challenge, or balk?

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The safe choice.

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A choice of futures, as before. The next challenge will be even more difficult.

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The expected choice.

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Do you wish to keep your fortunes, or continue in pursuit of greater riches?

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So be it, as disappointing as it is.

Chaos Bloodline

You play the game well, Challenger. Enjoy the fruits of your luck, and your skill. We shall meet again.

Further Challenges

The future holds further challenges. Count on it.

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Chaos aid me!

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Face me!

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For Chaos!

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Feel his power!

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Fall before me!

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Temptation for the fool.

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I shall crush you!

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No escaping fate.

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Be still!

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Take it. Go ahead.

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Might of Chaos!

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My service… is finally over…

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…and my service continues. Chaos laughs, mortal, and fortune is yours

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Kill them all.

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Slay everything.

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Leave none alive.

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Bring death.

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Defend what is yours.

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Make your stand.

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Hold your ground… if you can.

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Stem the tide.

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Try not to die.

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Live.

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Cling to life.

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Outlive my expectations.

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Begin the conquest!

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Take what is yours.

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Let none stop you.

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Conquer all!

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Go forth and destroy.

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Destroy that which you seek.

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Destroyer, begin!

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Destroy everything.

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You will fall to ruin.

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Ruin seeks you.

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Ruin arrives suddenly.

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Ruin’s burden weighs twice as heavy.

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Ruin surrounds you.

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Ruin hides in every corner.

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Best be quick…

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Time is your enemy.

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Never enough time.

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The sun is setting on your success.

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Mortality seeks you in kind.

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No defence will be enough.

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Death is already creeping upon you.

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You are more frail than you know.

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Death is swift.

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Frailty races through your bones.

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Your enemies hasten.

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The tide of death is rapid.

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A quicker resistance.

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They move with utmost haste.

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Speed upon speed.

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They accelerate beyond reason.

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Fight the slowing of your own heart.

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Can you feel death coiling around your heart?

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Your heart already beats more slowly.

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Your arteries constrict.

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Your blood weakens.

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Death spreads within your veins.

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Choking vapours seek the living.

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Avoid the miasma, if you can.

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Miasma spreads.

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Rare is the breath of living air.

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The vapours are inescapable.

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Contamination moves swiftly on the wind.

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Slay them amongst the flames.

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Fire seeks what it will.

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The wind conspires with the flames.

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The flames race toward you.

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Flames beget more flames.

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Fire always spreads.

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The dead reach out with an icy grip.

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Vengeance is cold indeed.

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Death’s cold grip is inescapable.

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From death, hate grasps for all life.

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Hate begets hate.

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Be careful how quickly you slay…

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The storm approaches.

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Lightning descends.

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The storm comes swiftly.

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Lightning gives little warning.

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Lightning always strikes twice.

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Thunder and lightning abound.

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Your foes bring summer’s flame.

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The fire of summer burns within.

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Your opponents bring winter’s hate.

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A battlefield chilled by winter’s hate.

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Your adversaries bring spring’s thunder.

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Spring’s thunder. Wrath itself.

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Your opponents bring night’s madness.

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Night’s madness drains away all hope.

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Steel and pain.

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Shrapnel and shards abound.

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Relentless assault.

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Be torn to shreds.

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Step quickly lest the detonations end you.

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They seek to surprise you.

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Beware the bite of the chained beast.

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Stray too far and find pain.

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Nature hungers at the fringes.

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The hungry beasts are numerous.

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A horde of hungry beasts.

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Hunger begets savagery.

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Quick jaws make quick work of prey.

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A weight upon the soul.

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Heart and spirit, burdened.

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You shall suffer your own bile.

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Your epithets, echoed.

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Your thoughts crackle with pain.

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Lightning lurks within you.

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The blood sours.

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Your blood betrays you.

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Your reach exceeds your grasp.

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Be diminished.

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Your own volleys turn against you.

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Confront that which you release.

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The single-round challenger returns.

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This should be quick…

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How ever will you match that last incredible performance?

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I sincerely hope you intend to last longer than two rounds.

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I sincerely hope you plan to last longer than two rounds.

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Go for at least the third round this time.

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I expect a better performance.

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Try to do better than three rounds this time.

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The three-round challenger returns…

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Four rounds should be an easy mark to beat.

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No glory in only making it four rounds.

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Only made it to round five last time. Back for more?

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The five-round challenger returns…

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Oh, it’s the five-round challenger.

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You only made it six rounds last time. Why do you bother?

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Six rounds? Try to make it to the end this time.

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I doubt you’ll make it to seven rounds again.

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Chaos would like to see you make it past round seven…

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Eight rounds was… respectable.

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Eight rounds! Chaos is watching with anticipation.

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Does it sting to have gotten so close last time?

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Nine rounds, yet victory was still out of reach.

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You never win, yet you keep trying…

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You seem to be a glutton for punishment.

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Persistence is your only virtue.

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You know the goal is to succeed, yes?

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You’re still going to attempt my trials?

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Come to lose again?

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Yes, come lose a trial. Productive.

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Multiple losses. A touch shameful.

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Your pride demands restoration, challenger.

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One loss is nothing to be ashamed of.

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Win back your pride, challenger.

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Will this be a second loss in a row?

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Is your ego bruised?

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Will you wash clean the marks of failure?

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Now is your chance to claim back victory.

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Can you be victorious twice in a row?

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Prove your last victory was not mere chance.

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Random chance must dictate you win… occasionally.

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You won. Once. Do not get ahead of yourself.

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Your series of victories will end here.

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You’ve been winning, but can you keep it up?

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I hope you have enjoyed your brief string of victories.

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Your luck will run out soon, challenger.

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This trial may be the one that brings about your defeat.

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Your victories will not continue.

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This trial will see your downfall.

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This time you will finally lose.

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Is this some farcical joke?

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I am being punished, aren’t I?

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Honestly, it’s about time. Congratulations, challenger. Sincerely.

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You… you won? I honestly didn’t expect that of you.

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Thank you for not disappointing my master yet again.

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Your series of losses has finally ended.

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I was not certain you had it in you.

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Fair enough. Luck is luck.

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You have restored your pride.

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Win some… lose most.

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You have stemmed the tide of losses.

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You have redeemed yourself.

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Thus, the vagaries of chance.

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Keeping it interesting, I see.

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A meagre turnaround.

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That makes two in a row!

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A second victory!

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I can practically see your ego swelling.

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Don’t get too eager.

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Impressive, challenger.

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Your series of victories continues.

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Luck can only carry you so far…

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For now, the victor remains the victor!

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Not bad… for a mortal.

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This will not continue. I am unconcerned.

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This is no longer amusing.

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This series of victories is astonishing.

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How do you keep winning?!

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I suspect I am being made a fool of!

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I should have become a priest of Yaomac instead…

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You win… again.

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This is insufferable…

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Take your prize and go.

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You are wasting my time, fool.

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How… expected.

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Yet again…

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You just keep failing!

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How embarrassing for you.

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Perhaps these trials are too difficult for you.

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Perhaps you should hone your skills before you attempt my trials again.

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Your record worsens…

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Now you understand what not to do.

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Another failure…

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To lose twice in a row… how unfortunate.

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Two losses in a row!

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Perhaps you don’t understand the rules…

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A second victory in a row was not in the cards for you, it seems.

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Try your luck again soon, challenger.

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Be not ashamed at your meagre record.

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It was not to be.

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Your series of victories has come to an end.

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The victorious always fall eventually.

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Your grand visions fade to dust.

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It seems we have found the limit of your skill.

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Chance no longer favours you.

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It was inevitable.

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Your path to greatness has taken a hard turn toward a cliff.

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There is no shame in defeat. Well… there is some.

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You emerge victorious no more.

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Your series of victories has reached its end.

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Hahahahaha! Your luck is over, fool!

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My master, it is done! Torture me no longer!

Defeat

You are not the only one whose path diverges during moments of chance. My lord Chaos sees all. You experienced victory… as did I. From my perspective, I slew you, then Chaos bid me attend the other possibility. This one. I continue to serve…

The Trials

Long have I walked this world in search of suitable challengers. My master, Chaos, has charged me with this task. Many have attempted my trials in search of greatness. Scholars, criminals, heroes, and the meek. All have stepped forward, and most have fallen. The rules never changed for them, and the rules will not change for you. Bring only that which you can afford to lose including your life.

Chaos

My master is the essence of all that might be. He is the flip of the coin, and he is the roll of the die. Whether you win or lose, his purpose is still served. And yet your chances can be influenced by your skill, by your intellect, and by your might. That is what fascinates Chaos. Skilled mortals can bend their chances in their own favour, for in the headwinds of the unknown, the arrow of a master falls more assuredly than the arrow of a novice. Show him your mastery, and he will smile upon you. Surprise him with utmost talent, and he may even laugh. Fortune will rain upon those who bring humour to Chaos.

Doryani

I was once mortal, and I know how the mortal I once was would have felt about certain things. That man would have hated Doryani with a passion for bringing about the fall of the greatest civilisation this world has ever known. Fortunately, I am no longer troubled by such attachments. Through the grace of Chaos, I now understand that all things that can happen, do. Even now I am testing the might of another survivor who washed up on Wraeclast instead of you, and to her, you are dead. All that you accomplish is meaningless. All that Doryani ruined was equally meaningless.

Atziri

The Queen represents an odd island of stability that Chaos cannot comprehend. Almost all events come laden with possibility, but the history of her existence is a single unbroken course. There is no world, real or imagined, where Atziri did not lead our people to ruin. She gazes into a mirror still, somewhere beyond the reach of my master, in a place of crimson madness and nightmare… my master adores the uncertainty of chance outcomes, but he abhors cosmic enigmas with no clear answer, especially when such enigmas seem to possess the power to impress determinism upon the fabric of existence.

The Anathema

My lord Chaos has often felt there is a sinister force lurking in the unknown mists of raw Creation that seeks to oppose him. It does not show itself. No, it is a cowardly Impulse, one that subtly tangles the threads of Fate to bring together mortals in each era for the purpose of Order, a cold conflict that has raged eternal - with only one exception.

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Ultimatum!

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Time to end this!

Introduction_2

Greetings, challenger. My master felt your yearning, your desire to be tested once again. Chaos bade me return to these strands of possibility, to this small span of days that you live over and over again, so that we may determine the capabilities of your strange existence. I truly hope you have honed your skills since last we met, for I have prepared new and deadly challenges to test your mettle. Push the limits… if you dare.

The Order of the Djinn

I knew those of the Djinn well, when I was mortal. Despite that accursed word in their name, {Order}, they did not knowingly answer to a higher Impulse. I found it curious that the vagaries of Fate kept bringing such exceptional individuals together, and for a time, I believed that {I} was exceptional. My hubris was my own undoing, just as it was theirs… several times, in fact. Yet, they always reform. There is always a new gathering. Or hadn’t you noticed your increasingly eclectic collection of allies in that increasingly crowded hole you call a hideout? The chaotic Impulse in a Perandus heart recently struck a great blow for us, but here you are, a mere heartbeat later, stitching the threads back together all over again…

Hinekora

You stink of the meddling Witch of Prophecy. You {must} know that she is a liar. She has no power of prophecy. Her power is only that of memories. She {remembers} what happened, and {only} what happened. She does not see the possibilities what could be, or could have been, the way my lord Chaos does. Worse still, like all memories even mine hers fade with time. Would you entrust your Fate to a senile old woman that can hardly keep herself awake? The very fact that she tells you certain paths lead to doom means {they happened}. Those paths {did} lead to doom. Her prophecies are nothing more than painful memories of all the times she failed. What makes this go around the mad wheel any different? Chaos promises nothing, only the truth: today is not special. {You} are not special, unless you make yourself so. In that truth, there is utmost freedom.

Ixchel

How do you know that name? You mock me with remnants of a life long since turned to dust, with freedom and hope that can never be more than scraps of memory. Do not dare to insult me again!

Exception

It is not so simple a thing to determine whether a being serves Order or Chaos. These two Impulses suffuse all who possess a will of their own some more than others. This perverse opposition has fueled the inner struggle of living beings since the Beginning of Time, and will continue to do so until its End. However, there is one thing upon which both inclinations agree. In the eyes of Chaos, there can be no amusement or unlikelihoods in a dead world. And, while such a realm {would} be perfectly Ordered, there would be no one left to enjoy the… supposed fruits of such a domain. I am not certain that Order exists as a thinking being like Chaos does, but the forces that serve both have agreed to a narrow alliance against a rather existential crisis. We and I shudder to use that word, {we} already sacrificed all we had to buy this world one stay of execution. It only cost the lives of my entire people, and everything they ever built. The decaying temples and cities of the Vaal Empire are not rotting monuments to hubris. They are a legacy, a silent reminder of what was given so that the other peoples of Wraeclast might survive. What will {you} sacrifice when the moment comes?

Existential Crisis

Ah… best you don’t know. You’ll fight on to the bitter end, so long as you never realise the truth. Who knows? You might even win. Out of all the countless possibilities, it {has} happened… once. All it took was the death of Truth itself; the creation of a world of perfect Order, with no free will, and no Chaos. Needless to say, that route to survival is… unacceptable, both to my master, and to mortals such as yourself. It will not be repeated… hopefully.

The Beginning of Time

Oh… I’m only a couple of thousand years old. If you want to know more about the Beginning of Time, you’ll have to ask the Titans. Well, {Titan}. Or that insufferably cryptic owl… if you don’t mind paying such a horrible price…

The End of Time

I eagerly await the End in any form, if it exists. It is my only chance of escape… until then, not even death can save me from servitude. I have escaped a thousand different ways, and every time, Chaos just brings me back from the paths in which my escape failed. I need {all} paths to end, if I am ever to rest.

The Viridian Wildwood

There’s something very strange afoot in Wraeclast. My lord Chaos believes that forest didn’t exist until recently, but to me, it has always been here. This isn’t the first time this has happened, either…