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Now with all of that said, here's the episode.

I was looking something up, you know, it's so interesting that they wanted to pull, you know,

they, you can tell they really were just pulling characters in from, uh, the third age that everyone knew.

Just name drops.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

Because the one that you, that I guess if you're trying to dig into the lore are like me and you and an enthusiast who would

have hit the streets and said dude glorfindal is a sick character i can't believe yeah i can't believe that

that's actually accurate there they brought him in he kind of showed up prior to the astari and his

mission was actually uh pretty dang similar to theirs that's pretty sick that they brought him in

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