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April 23rd, 2051

"Hey! Dorn Wilton! You up?" You hear Jax's voice calling out to you as you stir from your slumber. Your friend and teammate is at the door, looking in on you. "You told me to wake you to get ready for our patrol shift," he says as a reminder. Right. You remember now.

Groaning in acknowledgment, you pull yourself up from your bunk and stretch for a bit as Jax closes the door to give you some privacy. After graduating from boot camp two weeks ago, you've been placed in active patrol duties, keeping an eye out for Lemuria's two major enemies: pirates and Shadow Fiends.

The first tends to be a surprise to non-Lemurians who hear about it: after all, how can pirates do harm to a country that's famous for being magical? The answer lies in the fact that Lemuria is still mostly unexplored, leaving a lot of places where pirates can and do hide. This gives them plenty of opportunities to use Lemurian shores as their base of operations, forcing the Lemurian military to constantly patrol the waters, taking out pirate bands wherever and whenever they can. In the past two weeks, you've had two such encounters with the pirates yourself, though they ended as skirmishes rather than actual fights.

And that brings up the subject of the second enemy…

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