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Force Majeure

Vallium, Velinia and the continent — 1779 to 1815

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1780
Era
Age of Ash
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Vallium and Velinia
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194 min
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156
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Vallium, Velinia and the continent — 1779 to 1815 — the Age of Ash

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This book is not about those who decided.

Of those there is already a volume, and it is long, and it is correct: kings, bishops, captains-general, the conclave of the twenty-three, the forty-day vigil, the Intervention. Whoever wants the history from above has it.

This one is about those who received the decisions — and, more than that, about the thing the history from above never explains and which is the strangest of the whole period:

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