They have taken from me my father and the girl I love, and my friends, and have given me suffering and hardship, and peril, and yet I feel that in some strange way in spite of myself I have served them—that it was their will that I came to Tharna.
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They have destroyed a city, and in a sense they have restored a city.
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What manner of things they are I know not, but I am determined to learn.
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Many have entered the mountains and so many must have learned the secret of the priest-kings, though none has returned to tell it.
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But let me now speak of Tharna.
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Tharna is now a different city than it has ever been within the memory of living man.
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Her ruler—the gracious and beautiful Lara—is surely one of the wisest and most just of rulers on this barbaric world, and hers has been the torturous task of reuniting a city disrupted by civil strife, of making peace among factions and dealing fairly with all.
They have taken from me my father and the girl I love, and my friends, and have given me suffering and hardship, and peril, and yet I feel that in some strange way in spite of myself I have served them—that it was their will that I came to Tharna.
They have destroyed a city, and in a sense they have restored a city.
What manner of things they are I know not, but I am determined to learn.
Many have entered the mountains and so many must have learned the secret of the priest-kings, though none has returned to tell it.
But let me now speak of Tharna.
Tharna is now a different city than it has ever been within the memory of living man.
Her ruler—the gracious and beautiful Lara—is surely one of the wisest and most just of rulers on this barbaric world, and hers has been the torturous task of reuniting a city disrupted by civil strife, of making peace among factions and dealing fairly with all.
- (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter )