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                                    A hotheaded young military officer, part of the Akula Current, plans to escalate conflict with a surface port in hopes of eventually annexing the port. | 
                                
                                
                                    
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                                    A notable aristocrat decides that no ships may cross their territory—and sinks a merchant vessel to emphasize the point. | 
                                
                                
                                    
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                                    A mage manipulates coastal waters, causing saltwater to back up rivers, beachfront land to flood, and docks to be swept away by the waves. | 
                                
                                
                                    
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                                    A group of merfolk turn to piracy, angering both surface-dwellers and other merfolk. | 
                                
                                
                                    
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                                    A trickster lures sailors into shipwrecks, then either takes them captive or watches them drown. | 
                                
                                
                                    
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                                    A spellcaster calls up horrific monsters from the ocean depths to attack a coastal town. | 
                                
                                
                                    
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                                    A general's crusade against homarids is driving those creatures into human-occupied coastal lands. | 
                                
                                
                                    
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                                    A wizard seeks the Golgothian Sylex—the artifact that destroyed the island of Argoth and launched the ice age—in hopes of destroying all land on Dominaria. | 
                                
                                
                                    
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