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| - The Temple of Dirge was the holy temple of the Water Dragon. Twenty years before the beginning of game, the Long Drought had ravaged the Empire. Crops were withering and thousands were dying. Emperor Sun Hai was getting desperate, he would not let his Empire fall and so he turned to his brother Sun Li the Glorious Strategist to end it. High on a crag in the western mountains of the Jade Empire, the walls of Dirge have stood amidst the snow and wind for hundreds of generations. Once the heart and soul of a powerful and thriving monastery, this temple is now home to a malevolent force that has twisted it into an evil and perilous place where no living creature dares to tread. Stark and uninviting, the Temple of Dirge is more trap than sanctuary. For centuries this place was home to a mysterious order of monks, but now the temple and the structures around it lie empty. All that lived here were apparently killed in a great battle decades ago, the culmination of a siege launched by an overwhelming force. Though their bodies were destroyed, the spirits of the slain still seem to linger in the passageways, forever replaying the moment of their deaths.
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