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What do we think Vale is doing?

I think whatever artifact he's acquired,

he is seeking a way to use it.

Yes, yes, he's...

It took him a very long time to find it, so we can assume that he knew what it was when he was looking for it, and we're assuming that he found it because of the

accounts of his confrontation against the mariner. But we must also think about that there is a rumor that he has fought the mariner before.

Ever at that one.

So he faces the mariner on personal terms and wounds possibly the mariner wounds

wounds so he has some measure of control over it but not enough that he is announcing himself to the world

that the figure that he intends to be.

Or if he wanted to do that, he would have done it so far.

He would have, the moment moment I cannot believe that the

moment he doesn't have control of that is not the moment he will go after whatever he

wants right right why bind your time?

There's no reason too.

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