Note: This version of Nellas is heavily edited and has a completely different background. I finished Veilguard yesterday, and already started my 2nd playthrough, and really wanted to do something like this for the story.

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Birth Name: Fen'evune

Nicknames: Darling, Sweetpea (Astarion). Fen (Most) Rook (Varric) Da'fen (Solas) Little One, Betrayer, Child of the Wolf, Child of the Betrayer, Child (Elgar'nan)

Title: Rook (Veilguard)

Child of Gods (Through legends and rumors)

Born: Unknown Ancient (Between -7600 Ancient and -975 Ancient)

Physical Age: 25

- Chronological Age: 4,000 +

Species: Ancient Elvhen (High-Elf)

Religion: None

Nationality: Elvhenan

Class: Mage (Sorcerer & Druid)

- Subclass #1: Knight Enchanter & Arcane Warrior blend

- Subclass #2: Circle of the Moon

Note: Fen'evune has a couple of unique wild shapes. One being that of a large black wolf speckled with white and grey markings (like constellations) with three green eyes (the extra sitting in the centre of her forehead) and the other being a large black dragon with constellation markings on her back and across her wings. Both of these forms come from her parents, with Solas' own wolf form and Dalinev's dragon form, however, both of those forms are considerably larger than Fen'evune's own.

Class: Cleric

- Subclass #1: Life Domain (Selune)

- Subclass #2: Trickery Domain (Shar)

Appearance:

Hair: Red

Eyes: Green

Height: 5ft 10in

Family:

Solas (Father)

Dalinev (Mother; deceased (Reborn as Shar and Selune through magical ritual performed by Solas))

- Shar (Spiritual Mother)

- Selune (Spiritual Mother)

Dame Aylin (Spiritual Younger Half Sister through Selune)

Elgar'nan (Grandfather)

Mythal (Grandmother)

Falon'Din (Uncle; deceased)

Dirthamen (Uncle; deceased)

Andruil (Aunt; deceased)

Sylaise (Aunt; deceased)

June (Uncle; deceased)

Ghilan'nain (Great-Aunt)

Other Characters:

Alin Lavellan (m)

- Grey Warden (Warden Commander)

- Diplomatic but can come across as aggressive and defensive at times especially regarding templars, circles, elves and mages.

- Mage; Druid (Spores & Dalish) & Paladin (Order of the Wardens)

- Younger Sister: Virfen Lavellan (Never met as he was stolen away to the circle by Templars as a child before Virfen was even born; Virfen is aware of him though as their parents would often talk about him)

- Pairing: Morrigan

- Son: Kieran (Old-god soul)

Gwen Hawke (f)

- Quiet and haunted, but deeply compassionate

- Mage; Sorcerer (Spirit: creation) & Warlock (Celestial)

- Note: In my head, I see Gwen's warlock pact being with Mythal/Flemeth (either through dream links or through the prologue of DA2) or with Andraste even (Though I have the theory (and it isn't something new, others have thought of it, I have seen the theory on forums) that Mythal was in Andraste and therefore it is all one and the same)

- Pairing: Fenris

Fenris

- Fighter (Lyrium Knight) & Cleric (War Domain)

Marcus Hawke (Champion of Kirkwall) (m)

- Family Orientated/Helpful/Diplomatic

- Mage; Sorcerer (Elemental: inferno) & Cleric (Light Domain)

- Pairing: Virfen Lavellan

Virfen Lavellan (Herald of Andraste/Inquisitor) (f)

- Naive but passionate and determined

- Mage; Sorcerer (Primal: storm sorcerer) & Cleric (War Domain)

- Pairing: Marcus Hawke

Veilguard Classes:

Solas

- Sorcerer (Rift Mage)

- Druid (Circle of the Moon; Six eyed black wolf form)

- Cleric (Trickery Domain)

Varric

- Rogue (Artificer)

- Bard (College of Valour)

Harding

- Rogue (Arcane Trickster)

- Ranger (Hunter)

Neve

- Wizard (Divination)

- Bard (College of Lore)

Bellara

- Sorcerer (Storm Sorcery)

- Cleric (Knowledge Domain)

Emmrich

- Wizard (Necromancy)

- Cleric (Knowledge Domain) (I did consider Death Domain for Emmrich, considering, but he suits the Knowledge Domain better imo)

Lucanis 

- Rogue (Assassin)

- Ranger (Gloom Stalker)

Taash

- Barbarian (Wild Magic)

- Sorcerer (Draconic Bloodline (Red (Fire)))

Davrin

- Fighter (Champion)

- Paladin (Oath of the Warden)

Paladin Note: Wardens, Templars, and Seekers are all automatically Paladins when they join their respective order, and all gain associated oaths (Oath of the Templar & Oath of the Seeker)

Bio:

Fen'evune was born during the time of the ancient elves, the daughter of Solas and Dalinev. Fen'evune was born during a time of war and it was all she knew of the time as she grew up. Despite this, her parents doted on her and attempted to keep her safe.

Growing up during a war, Fen'evune was determined to fight and so was trained by both Solas and Dalinev in both magic and combat.

In her early 20s, Fen'evune joined her mother in battle which ended up being disastrous for both of them. Dalinev was killed and Fen'evune was seriously injured, her mind and body deeply wounded.

This pushed Solas to forcibly place Fen'evune into uthenera to allow her mind and body time to heal. Unlike with most others in uthenera, Solas tethered Fen'evune's spirit to her body and thus prevented her from travelling the Beyond.

Solas also cast a powerful spell to try and bring Dalinev back, however it failed to do what he wanted, instead, he accidentally split her spirit into two and she eventually reborn as the twin goddesses Selune and Shar representing her life and her death.

Solas created a small team of loyal warriors to accompany Fen'evune's body, keeping it on the move to protect her from the Evanuris now that she was vulnerable.

More than a thousand years later, the warriors are long dead and placed Fen'evune's body into a protected tomb not far from Baldur's Gate that was built near the end of their lives following the erection of the Veil. Those warriors continued to stay with Fen'evune in the tomb until their deaths and each was buried alongside her, except for the last who was left where he fell in prayer in front of a wolf and moon statue.

In 9:39 Fen'evune's coffin was found by the Grey Wardens who transported it to Adamant.

A year later, Fen'evune woke in her coffin due to Solas waking from uthenera and his only magic reverberating through the Veil to waken her. Whilst he found her tomb some time after waking, her coffin was gone.

Over the next year, the Grey Wardens were infiltrated by Corypehus and his Venatori, and Corypheus sought to use Fen'evune magic for his own gains, such as using her to unlock the Orb, however she refused to do so and Corypheus handed her 'care' over to Erimond who proceeded to torture her into complacency. This too failed. However, damage was done to Fen'evune mind and body that she will always be scarred by.

Note: It would be relevant to have Fen'evune as part of the Inquisition given her connection to Solas. This will be late Inquisition, during the Siege of Adamant Fortress (Here Lies the Abyss) when she is found by the Herald and her team being used as part of the ritual with Erimond and Clarel to open the tear into the Fade. She will be freed, obviously.

I will write in her short time with the Inquisition as by that point there will only be the Arbor Wilds left for Virfen Lavellan and then the final confrontation. Trespasser as well will be important for Fen'evune and during this time it will build up her friendship with Varric and Harding to explain their relationship in The Veilguard.

Then BG3 and The Veilguard will take place at the same time, ten years after Inquisition.

Personality:

Fen'evune is a very kind, loving, compassionate, and strong-willed person, who, while initially somewhat naive and haunted, will become all the wiser through her time with the Inquisition and eventually with the Veilguard.

In addition to her general willingness for empathy, however, Fen'evune is also extremely friendly and can step back and enjoy the smaller moments in life forging strong connections with people.

Even alongside all of her kindness, compassion, and empathy, when someone she cares about is hurt, she becomes far more relentless and ruthless. This also goes to anything relating to slavery and the mistreatment of mages and elves. She also has a great distaste for slavery and those that use their power and influence to beat down on those they consider beneath them, this likely comes from her upbringing during the war with the Evanuris.

Outside of battle, however, Fen'evune can also react indignantly and negatively towards people who disrespect her, her family or those that she cares about. Despite this, she is willing to stand against those she loves if she feels that they are in the wrong, such as will be seen with Solas. She deeply loves her father, and whilst she will be angry with him due to him forcing her into uthenera, and she deeply respects him, she is willing to stand against him and his plan to bring down the Veil as it will have unforgivable casualties.

Fen'evune also remains ruthless when facing enemies in battle and she even shows signs of enjoying a good battle when they put up a good fight.

Physical Appearance:

Fen'evune is famous for her beauty, even from a young age. Fen'evune has locks of long red hair fragrant with elfroot and clove perfume. Her face is very pale, triangular in shape with a slightly receded chin. Her eyes are cold and sparkling with a remarkable green penetrating gaze, in anger blazing with livid, green-grey fire. Those very eyes also conceal wisdom and imperiousness. Her nose is slightly long, her mouth is pale with thin and slightly crooked with soft and sweet lipstick, proud lips. On her long and slender neck hangs a black marigold with a wolf's head made of obsidian sparkling with a multitude of tiny greenstones embedded in it.

She always dresses in green and silver.

Her overall feminine shape is one of a mature high-elf and she moves with a natural, unforced grace.

Magic and Abilities:

- Magic:

Fen'evune is a very gifted and talented mage having spent years learning from Solas and Dalinev.

Class: Mage (Sorcerer & Druid)

- Subclass #1: Knight Enchanter & Arcane Warrior blend

Notable Spells: Trained in magic by Solas and Dalinev, Fen'evune is gifted in using her magic to fight and defend, including using Fade cloak, Fade shield and Spirit blade.

- Subclass #2: Circle of the Moon

Notable Spells: Fen'evune makes use of lightning bolt, ice storm, moonbeam, sunbeam, misty step, flight, and wild shape.

Wild Shape Note: Fen'evune has a couple of unique wild shapes. One being that of a large black wolf speckled with white and grey markings (like constellations) with three green eyes (the extra sitting in the centre of her forehead) and the other being a large black dragon with constellation markings on her back and across her wings. Both of these forms come from her parents, with Solas' own wolf form and Dalinev's dragon form, however, both of those forms are considerably larger than Fen'evune's own.

Class: Cleric

- Subclass #1: Life Domain (Selune)

Notable Spells: Disciple of Life makes Fen'evune's healing magic more powerful due to her connection to Selune.

- Subclass #2: Trickery Domain (Shar)

Notable Spells: Being the spiritual daughter of Shar, as well as the daughter of the Dread Wolf, Fen'evune is gifted in magic considered to be trickery, such as charm, fear, dominate, mirror image, and disguise self

Spell Note: I will be adding in original spells that work within the realm of the two games that make sense. Spells such as create fire (like create water) used for starting campfires and soothe which soothes pain and aches for wounds that cannot be healed (such as the blight taint).

Rune Gateway: To prevent herself from being imprisoned again, during her time with the Inquisition, Fen'evune will work hard to create rune gateways that act as portals between two locations.

Abilities:

Expert Combatant: Fen'evune was trained in combat by her parents, and she is skilled enough to go up against darkspawn and even the Evanuris. She is a formidable fighter in armed, magical and hand-to-hand combat.

Master swordsman: Fen'evune is highly proficient in swordsmanship and prefers to use her sword in battle alongside her magic.

Knife Mastery: Fen'evune is highly proficient with knives, though she prefers her magic and her sword.

Staff Mastery/Stick Fighting: Not only capable of using a staff for wielding her magic, Fen'evune is extremely skilled in using her staff as a melee weapon.

Acrobatics/Free-running: Fen'evune is very manoeuvrable and graceful, able to chase and outrun enemies through various terrains with no wasted effort or time, even scaling buildings and running from rooftop to rooftop with ease. In battle, she is proven very agile and evasive, able to fluidly dodge attacks from multiple directions with coordinated flips, twists, and sharp turns without losing balance.

Belongings:

Necklace: Fen'evune wears a wolf's head and moon necklace that was given to her by Solas. It has been enchanted to prevent it being torn from her neck and that is the only reason Corypheus and Erimon has allowed it.

Sword: In battle, Fen'evune can be seen using a Spirit sword fight. This is a beautifully crafted blade and far closer to a physical sword than all other Knight Enchanters.

Knives (eventually): Fen'evune will have a number of throwing knives hidden in the exterior material of her boots and armour, likely created with her knives in mind. She also has a number on her belt and usually at least two in her sleeves.

Staff: Fen'evune, whilst preferring her sword, does have a staff, enchanted to be collapsable, she wears this on the lower back of her armour.

Armor: Fen'evune wears green and silver armour that resembles her mother's armour and will be created for her by Solas during her time with the Inquisition.

Pairing: Lucanis and Astarion or Emmrich and Gale

Lore Notes:

Elves:

Elves exist in Faerun, obviously, and are treated the same as humans, for the most part (So there are no alienages in Faerun), though Drow are still feared.

Ferelden and the related countries are the only ones that treat elves the way that they do.

There are Dalish clans, but unlike their Thedas counterparts, they are very present and social within Faerun, and many openly live within druid groves and are given space to live comfortably, they are even allowed to erect shrines to their own gods.

Note: Whilst elves have lost their immortality due to what the Dread Wolf did, elves in Faerun have extended lifespans. Solas will theorize that this is because they were never stunted by humans but accepted and embraced by them. But also that magic might be involved as it is seen more in wizards, sorcerers and warlock mages, and seen most in druid elves, with Halsin being the oldest currently at 200 years of age.

As age isn't really mentioned beyond characters such as Halsin, Jaheira and Astarian, adjusting this slightly can work. Maybe limit natural elf lifespans to not ruin the Dragon Age issues. As I don't plan on going into too much detail about BG1 and 2 or the events in it, then maybe limiting elf ages in Faerun to 250 (Halsin's age will have to be shifted (to around 200 instead of 350), but so far I have only heard him mention his age once), obviously Astarian is a vampire spawn and he stopped ageing when he was turned so his doesn't really matter.

The elves only age in the last couple of decades of their lifespan, so they grow up from being children to that sort of ageless, in between appearance, at about the same rate as humans, but then just keep that look until the last couple of decades.

Other Species:

Only the elves seem to be found across all the nations, but Faerun species such as gnomes, dragonborn, orcs, and tieflings are all mostly found in Faerun due to the way they are treated in the likes of Ferelden, Orlais, etc.

Githyanki are seen more often in Faerun, however, small contingencies have been seen in other places in recent years, as if scouting out events and world states, specifically during and after the Fifth Blight.

Tieflings, Dragonborn and Qunari are different species but are distantly related. They have too many similarities in design and stuff for me not to make a link between them, especially between the dragonborn and the Qunari given the story that Bull tells the Inquisitor about the mixing of dragons into their species line at some point and the stuff that came out in Veilguard with Taash.

Of course those that are sorcerers with draconic bloodline, have dragon blood in their heritage as well.

Half-Elves:

In Dragon Age, half-elves always look human, whilst in Baldur's Gate, they appear to be elves, so for this, it will be random luck of the genetic draw. So Shadowheart retains her ears, and Alistair still looks human.

Fade, Astral Plane, and the Hells:

Each of these are different 'realms', however they are all connected to one another. The Astral Plane is a 'neighbor' to the Fade, with them rubbing up against one another but never overlapping.

The Nine Hells are the infernal lower Planes of the Fade, home to Devils and divided into nine cosmological layers. Every layer is its own unique magical ecosystem, warped after the sheer presence of their rulers. The Nine Hells are locked into a never-ending Blood War with the Demons of the Abyss.

To those outside of the Fade, and specifically with Andrastianism, there is little difference between the devils and the demons.

Religion:

All religions are kept because each continent has its own religions, cultures, and beliefs. There are around 4,000 + real world religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, or ultimate concerns, so less than 100 across what we know of DA and BG3 isn't that huge. Therefore, folk stories, histories, etc are all kept. However, I might change story locations if they fit with Thedas locations better or if those locations are references to BG1 or 2.

Mind Flayers/Illithid and the Githyanki:

As their origin isn't known in BG, then I am going to make them the creation of the Evanuris, specifically Elgar'nan. Because of this, Elgar'nan also created the Githyanki to be slaves for the Illithid who were slaves to the Evanuris.

Their rebellion began due to the loss of their controlling force, the Evanuris, which freed the Githyanki.

Companions and Tadpoles:

I currently have Fen'evune being taken by the Mind Flayers alone, whilst wandering off. But I am open to her and others being taken.

Thinking that it may happen not long after finding the Lighthouse, or after the whole Minrathous or Treviso choice thing.

If the romance option is to be taken alongside Fen'evune, then that will determine when she is taken as Lucanis and Emmrich are recruited at different times. 

Quotes:

- Note: LI means love interest, as it is undecided, I thought to leave it as that for now

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"I used to dream of becoming important to someone. Someday"

"What changed?"

"The world showed me it would never happen"

"You're important to me" - Fen'evune and LI

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"A true man would state his desires"

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"There's no power in puppeting fools, especially one who'd sooner fondle his mage than listen to her."

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"Those warriors from Rivain? They've got curved swords. Curved. Swords."

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"I've got your back."

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"Enough! I will not stand idly by while a dragon burns these people's homes and lands...."

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"What is better—to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"

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"This world's harshness has a way of carving a man down to his true self."

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"You know what we call people who mess with us? Suicide." – Drunk!Fen'evune

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"I'm not a woman, I'm a weapon in elven form. Just unsheathe me and point me at the enemy." - Drunk!Fen'evune

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"Ummm. You got no clothes. You should get some." - To LI

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"What are you hunting? Never mind—I don't want to know." – To Bull

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"Hatred and prejudice will never be eradicated. And mage hunt will never be about mages. A scapegoat, that's the key."

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"Time eats away at memories, distorts them. Sometimes we only remember the good... sometimes only the bad." - to Solas

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"It is a wise leader who considers the needs of others."

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"You are lost in a sea-storm of your own making."

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"If I wanted to hear you talk shit, I'd cut out your tongue and shove it up your ass"

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"Mint tea is not actually tea, it's an infusion...it's really just dirty minty water"

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"Life's hardest choices are the ones that force you to question your own moral code."

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"We must never give up the fight. The minute we do, we have lost."

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"I cannot shed my past or my parentage like a snake sheds its skin...."

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"Sometimes, standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives."

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"I have lived my life as best as I could, not knowing its purpose, but drawn forward like a moth to a distant moon. And here, at last, I discover a strange truth, that I am only a conduit for a message that eludes my understanding." - to the Veilguard

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"You can't run from your problems forever."

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"Laws rise not from divinity, but reason."

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"We are the architect of our own actions."

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"Do not forget to cherish your loved ones."

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"I am not content to capture the world, I want to change the world....it is what I have always wanted"

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"Choose your own way, do not follow me or anyone else."

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"There are no bad ideas, just great ideas that go horribly wrong."

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"If you don't think a friendship can be rebuilt, it just means you are not trying hard enough."

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"A great friendship will survive even the worst things."

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"Even when everyone is against you, you must stand for what you believe in."

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"You can do anything you set your mind to"

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"If you don't let go of the past, it will haunt your future."

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"Try to forget and forgive, if you can't do both then try to do one."

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"Life can take the most unexpected turns at the most unexpected times."

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"Sometimes you are forced to hurt others, to keep yourself safe."

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"You must live with the consequences."

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"Children are the future. Protect them. Help them. Fight for them."

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"Look me in the eyes while you die....You who murdered your own daughter....You who would have murdered me...for power." - to Elgar'nan

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"Let's see, who is on today's death list."

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"I seek liberty and freedom, not for myself, but for those whom such fundamental rights are denied."

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"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything."

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"Sometimes you have to escape just to forget."

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"It's been so long since I've been to a feast, ball or reception"

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"The dream's within reach now. I'm not about to let it go."

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"It's a cruel world we live in. It's hard to make plans. Even harder to invest any faith in them, though you might want to...badly..."

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"Sometimes I think it's all too lovely to be true... That something's bound to happen, another war or some other horror."

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