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                                    A neighborhood leader enacts punitive laws, preventing people from expressing themselves. | 
                                
                                
                                    
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                                    A guard imprisons people who worship gods opposed to Ephara, such as Phenax and Nylea. | 
                                
                                
                                    
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                                    A noble is building a new development directly in a forest, where it will displace wildlife that has lived there for millennia. | 
                                
                                
                                    
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                                    A soldier begins killing people who have committed terrible crimes but have been acquitted because of loopholes in the judicial system. | 
                                
                                
                                    
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                                    A group of mages who follow Ephara want to build a city on an island, heedless of the current residents. | 
                                
                                
                                    
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                                    An oracle (see chapter 6) leads a cadre of scholars secretly destroying work that they deem antithetical to proper society. | 
                                
                                
                                    
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