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'''The Lawless Frontier''' is a [[Lore]] book introduced in ''[[Forsaken]]'' that contains | '''The Lawless Frontier''' is a [[Lore]] book introduced in ''[[Forsaken]]'' that contains excerpts from "''Writings and Observations from the Tangled Shore: A Fallen Text''", translated by [[C.C. LaGrange]], which explains how each of the [[Scorn]] [[Baron]]s rose to notoriety. Entries are unlocked by completing [[Forsaken]] [[Campaign]] missions. | ||
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==By Thy Tongue Be Damned== | ==By Thy Tongue Be Damned== | ||
"Even here, the whispers persist. | |||
Faint, but present." | |||
—Excerpt from C.C. LaGrange's translations of "Writings and Observations from the Tangled Shore: A Fallen Text" | |||
A [[Dreg]] fell. Left to die. A forgotten pirate set on a path toward salvation. His crew had raided the [[Moon]] looking for [[Ether]]. They found only death. And then he was alone. | A [[Dreg]] fell. Left to die. A forgotten pirate set on a path toward salvation. His crew had raided the [[Moon]] looking for [[Ether]]. They found only death. And then he was alone. | ||
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Truth is, only Hiraks knows. Truth as simple as it is puzzling: Yes. Yes, he did. Scour the Grave. Hear the whispers. Only then could all that followed transpire. | Truth is, only Hiraks knows. Truth as simple as it is puzzling: Yes. Yes, he did. Scour the Grave. Hear the whispers. Only then could all that followed transpire. | ||
For a lowly Dreg to rise from their docking to stand as a | For a lowly Dreg to rise from their docking to stand as a Baron is rare enough, but that a Fallen of any stature could crack the layers of understanding that barricade the known universe from the ascendant plane is more than improbable. It was impossible. | ||
Until it wasn't. | Until it wasn't. | ||
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For Hiraks succeeded where so few have. He crafted his own throne world and began a monstrous quest to expand his knowledge, etching its harshest truths upon his enemies. And his work has progressed unchecked. | For Hiraks succeeded where so few have. He crafted his own throne world and began a monstrous quest to expand his knowledge, etching its harshest truths upon his enemies. And his work has progressed unchecked. | ||
It is his name the children do not speak when sharing tales of the Haunting of Nemesis. It is his blood that [[Paladin | It is his name the children do not speak when sharing tales of the Haunting of Nemesis. It is his blood that [[Paladin]]s and [[Corsair]]s alike wish to spill for the Slaughter at Gaspra. | ||
Hiraks, the Twisted. Hiraks, Ascendant. The mindbender whose tongue is a weapon, whose experiments seek to unravel sanity and reshape imagination that his subjects may become other—tools of his vile bidding. | Hiraks, the Twisted. Hiraks, Ascendant. The mindbender whose tongue is a weapon, whose experiments seek to unravel sanity and reshape imagination that his subjects may become other—tools of his vile bidding. | ||
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The Trickster. The liar. Silver-tongued [[Araskes, the Trickster|Araskes, the Wit]]. | The Trickster. The liar. Silver-tongued [[Araskes, the Trickster|Araskes, the Wit]]. | ||
She who bartered with | She who bartered with [[the Spider]] and nearly cost him his life. She who swindled a dozen bounty hunters that she alone may profit. So many tales of Araskes' sleight of hand and tongue and mind. The enemy who has won battles where no battle was fought. Who has killed more rivals than have ever risen to her challenge. | ||
What is known and unknown? None can say. And the sly prankster would have it no other way. | What is known and unknown? None can say. And the sly prankster would have it no other way. | ||
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What he hits, he kills. | What he hits, he kills. | ||
There is evidence of Fallen giving themselves to technology. Becoming other—becoming more—as they marry their physical selves to enslaved mechanics. The mercenary [[Taniks, the Scarred|Taniks]] is one example—more machine than Fallen now, an abomination in the eyes of traditional Fallen belief. The [[Splicers]] and their augmentation through [[SIVA]]—a twisted experiment brought low by the mighty hand of the heroes of Iron. Is Pirrha any different? | There is evidence of Fallen giving themselves to technology. Becoming other—becoming more—as they marry their physical selves to enslaved mechanics. The mercenary [[Taniks, the Scarred|Taniks]] is one example—more machine than Fallen now, an abomination in the eyes of traditional Fallen belief. The [[Splicers]] and their augmentation through [[SIVA]]—a twisted experiment brought low by the mighty hand of the [[Iron Lord|heroes of Iron]]. Is Pirrha any different? | ||
The Barons and Taniks and the Splicers are each and all individual dangers, driven by their own ambition. They are more likely to wage war with one another than see their commonality. | The Barons and Taniks and the Splicers are each and all individual dangers, driven by their own ambition. They are more likely to wage war with one another than see their commonality. | ||
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Most Guardians who have heard it dismiss it. Don't want to give credit to one so infamous—the Scorned Baron with the blood on her hands, the loot in tow and her burners set to top speed—but she deserves it. Don't believe me. Ask [[Marcus Ren]]. | Most Guardians who have heard it dismiss it. Don't want to give credit to one so infamous—the Scorned Baron with the blood on her hands, the loot in tow and her burners set to top speed—but she deserves it. Don't believe me. Ask [[Marcus Ren]]. | ||
He wasn't there that day, but he'd heard tell and couldn't believe. So he made the run himself. Four goes. No dice. One resurrection. Four [[Sparrow | He wasn't there that day, but he'd heard tell and couldn't believe. So he made the run himself. Four goes. No dice. One resurrection. Four [[Sparrow]]s busted to rubble. | ||
Marcus Ren, the [[Sparrow Racing League]] champion and hero to speed junkies and race hounds [[City]]-wide, couldn't sprint that Valley. "Too random," he said. "Too chaotic. Can't read the rock one minute to the next. Can't read the angles." | Marcus Ren, the [[Sparrow Racing League]] champion and hero to speed junkies and race hounds [[City]]-wide, couldn't sprint that Valley. "Too random," he said. "Too chaotic. Can't read the rock one minute to the next. Can't read the angles." | ||