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| - Alanna was the only daughter of Alan, the mayor of Aliant. While her brother was working his way up the ladder of the military, Alanna was the envy of every young woman in the kingdom. She had inherited her father's raven black hair and her mother's brilliant blue eyes, and had many suitors. One dark night, Alanna was found murdered outside the council meeting hall, and her grieving father received a message that accused his fellow council members of the crime. He had one of them put to death, but the other four fled to Vissias, begging sanctuary. Alan followed them with his forces, and when the Vissians refused to hand them over, fighting broke out. Michael was killed, and Alan, blinded with grief and rage, activated a terrible weapon of the Ancients that he had kept for "safekeeping". "The wrath of heaven poured out of the artifact, instantly slaying both armies to a man and filling the land with poison. Fire rained onto the town of Aliant, burned the green fields of Vissias, and wrought ruin for hundreds of miles around. Uninhabitable for centuries, the formerly lush lands of Vissias and Aliant became the vast desert known now as Dragonsand."
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