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Lore: The Fall of Myth Drannor
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      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || In former  times, Myth Drannor,  the golden city,  was the capital of  the elven || | | |.o.| |.| |
      | Web Client    || people.  There the  High King  resided and  the city  was popular  all  over the || '-' '---' '-' |
      | Clients       || world. Oh,  what I'm  speaking about,  it was a  metropolis, nicer,  shinier and ||              \|
      | Quickstart    || bigger than everything else.                                                     ||               |
      | Wait, What?   ||                                                                                  ||               |o
      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || It was an elven city.                                                            ||               |
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      | Guilds        || This city was  built south of Nightfall City  and east of woodland in  a big and ||               |o
      | Map           || bright forest, where you would expect elves to live.                             ||               |
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      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || Then,  about 400 years  ago, the  hordes of  evil, the  demons and  other devils ||               |
      | Who's online? || attacked.  They emerged  directly  from  hell, invaded  the  southern parts  and ||               |o
      | Finger        || overran the golden suburbs of the shining city. It was a real massacre, millions ||               |
      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || of dead corpses covered the fields south of the town after the first battles and ||               |
      | The Guide     || their number grew more and more each day.                                        ||               |
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      | The Sky       || The elves  and humans,  led by  the last High  King of  Drannor and  his Knights ||               |
      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || fought well and tried everything to  save the town, but they didn't prevail. The ||               |
      | Imprint       || king fell and the knights could only secure the inner part of the city, and this ||               |
      |               || is up to  today a "peaceful" part -  if you can speak about  "peace" with demons ||               |
      |               || only a few metres south and the army of evil dragons, led by the flying citadel, ||               |
      |               || on the northern edge of the town.                                                ||               |/
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      |               || Today, the  bigger part of the city  is decayed, although the  evil forces never ||               |
      |               || successfully entered the inner part of the town - perhaps, it is defended by one ||               |
      |               || of the  good mages that fought  under the last  High King of Drannor.  Maybe. Or ||               |
      |               || maybe not.                                                                       ||               |
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      |               || This whole story took place some  decades before the orcish King Veltins decided ||               |
      |               || to attack Nightfall city  and the rest of the known world,  like this, the elves ||               |
      |               || were able  to build a second  capital in the  forest west of Myth  Drannor. This ||               | o
      |               || forest is called Woodland today, and the town is wooden city.                    ||               |/
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      |               || More about  this can you  read in the  following chapters telling  you something ||     o  /    /x|
      |               || about  the orcish  wars,  the siege  of Nightfall  City  or the  arrival of  the ||      \/ __o/xs|
      |               || Pereldar, the half-elves and the foundation of Lorinia and the Fighter's Guild.  ||       \/   \xx|
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      |               || This  text was written  by Sir  Crack according  to a  tale told  to him  by the ||         \   /x|
      |               || dragonlord Talin,  one of the defenders against  the first rush on  the walls of ||        nmsxxsx|    
      |               || Myth Drannor, and old sources everywhere in Nightfall.                           ||       xsxxxmxs|      .
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