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Introduction

Zarkaria, a place like no other. The size of a hundred football fields surrounded by a forty foot high stone wall. Outside the stone wall darkness surrounded. Even at the highest peaks of the wall, darkness reigned supreme.

Inside the wall, well it was a picturesque post card of green meadow's that bathed in the humid light of the sinking sun, the lush forests carved by the twisting rivers that flowed threw it. Deep valleys with almost mountain like hills were just in the back ground. And beyond that the wall. Fields of many colours scattered amongst the tiny houses. Light smoke filters into the sky as food was prepared. All this classified as peaceful.

Though there was peace inside the wall, many feared what was outside. So guards were placed around the wall at all hours of the day. What exactly these guards were looking out for no one really knew.

Generation after generation told stories about strange monsters. Stories about magic and shape shifting. Stories that the wall itself was built by giant manlike creatures, that were slaves after a Great War.

The stories were never written down. So with each Retelling new things were added or things deemed unimportant were removed. 

Four hundred years Zarkaria thrived. Now on the Eve of the fifth hundredth  year the wall decided to allow it's secrets be known. Allowed one person to see the truth behind the wall.

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