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The ten of swords has no pleasant secret to reveal. For a game the gods have given the world twelve swords of power so that they might be amused as the nations battle for their possession. Eli uses his sword to survive and fight his way through, to deliver his copy of this mysterious book to a safe location. There are common features that all swords had to have in order to be swords.
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