Through Ashes and Shadows
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A city where there is always fog and rare sunshine is the gloomy port metropolis of Arkas. Here, legends coexist with reality: residents believe that "Shadows" roam in the dungeons and on the outskirts - entities born out of people's pain and fear. No one officially recognizes them, but disappearances and strange deaths occur all the time.
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