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	:''~~“One might forgive the misattribution of ‘kyton’ to the~~ velstracs, ~~as they identify themselves~~, ~~as the term stemmed from our own early attempts to classify their kind~~. ~~Unfortunately~~, ~~we adopted merely the descriptor of those~~ velstracs ~~with both the interest and ability to communicate freely with scholars~~. ~~Consider~~: ~~if I had been introduced to an unfamiliar species as ‘professor~~,~~’ they might name my species ‘professors~~,~~’ to our~~ amusement. ~~So it came to be that we misapplied ‘kyton’ to all manner of velstracs~~, ~~compounding the error with secondary designators~~, ~~such as ‘evangelist~~,~~’ that characterize function rather than~~ nature. ~~Fellow academicians~~, ~~it is time for us to cast off the primal~~-~~centric bias in our work~~, ~~much as these magniﬁcent creatures cut weakness and fault from themselves~~! ~~I present my treatise~~: Velstracs, ~~Perfection Attained~~!”''		:''"On pourrait pardonner l'attribution erronée du terme "kyton" aux velstracs, comme ils s'identifient eux-mêmes, car ce terme provient de nos premières tentatives de classification de leur espèce. Malheureusement, nous n'avons adopté que le descripteur de ces velstracs qui avaient à la fois l'intérêt et la capacité de communiquer librement avec les érudits. Pensez-y : si l'on m'avait présenté une espèce inconnue en m'appelant "professeur", elle aurait pu nommer mon espèce "professeurs", pour notre plus grand amusement. C'est ainsi que nous avons mal appliqué le terme "kyton" à toutes sortes de vélstracs, en aggravant l'erreur avec des désignations secondaires, telles que "évangéliste", qui caractérisent la fonction plutôt que la nature. Chers académiciens, il est temps pour nous de nous débarrasser des préjugés primo-centrés dans notre travail, tout comme ces créatures magniﬁcentes se débarrassent de leurs faiblesses et de leurs défauts ! Je vous présente mon traité : Velstracs, la perfection atteinte !"''.

	:''~~—Professor~~ Phaerenus Blasipputh-Dolabellio IV<ref name="a">Pathfinder 1 - Adventure Path 23 - 05 - Return of the Runelords - The City Outside of Time (PZO90133)</ref>''		:''-Professeur Phaerenus Blasipputh-Dolabellio IV<ref name="a">Pathfinder 1 - Adventure Path 23 - 05 - Return of the Runelords - The City Outside of Time (PZO90133)</ref>''.

	Velstracs, ~~the creatures that mortals commonly call “kytons~~,~~” owe their~~ existence ~~not to the creative act of a benevolent god~~, ~~but rather to their own indomitable wills and insatiable~~ ambitions. Velstracs ~~are essentially self-made~~, ~~having clawed free of the pit of Hell~~, ~~relocated to the darkness of the Shadow Plane, and spent the eons since improving themselves with deliberate mutilation and exposure to increasingly horrid rituals~~. ~~Those who unlock spiritual enlightenment via perfected masochism achieve greater status among their kind~~.		Les Velstracs, les créatures que les mortels appellent communément "kytons", doivent leur existence non pas à l'acte créatif d'un dieu bienveillant, mais plutôt à leur propre volonté indomptable et à leurs ambitions insatiables. Les Velstracs sont essentiellement des autodidactes, qui se sont libérés du gouffre de l'enfer, se sont installés dans les ténèbres du plan de l'ombre et ont passé les éons qui ont suivi à se perfectionner en se mutilant délibérément et en s'exposant à des rituels de plus en plus horribles. Ceux qui parviennent à l'illumination spirituelle grâce à un masochisme perfectionné acquièrent un statut plus élevé au sein de leur espèce.

	~~At the apex of this hierarchy of self~~-transformation ~~stand the kyton demagogues~~. ~~Representing the highest achievements of power and perfection—despite dramatic diﬀerences in their forms—these~~ velstracs ~~control great swaths of the Shadow Plane~~. ~~Within its own domain~~, ~~each demagogue reins supreme~~, ~~taking whatever it desires to maintain its~~ position ~~and force its own form of~~ horriﬁc ~~improvement upon others~~. ~~All who live within the Shadow Plane respect the demagogues’ power—but also hope their sadistic masters never covet anything that they have~~, ~~for the demagogues simply take what they need from lesser creatures~~, ~~ripping away trophies~~, ﬂesh~~, and souls as necessary to advance their aims~~.		Au sommet de cette hiérarchie de l'auto-transformation se trouvent les démagogues kytons. Représentant les plus hauts niveaux de puissance et de perfection - malgré des diﬀérences spectaculaires dans leurs formes - ces velstracs contrôlent de vastes étendues du plan de l'Ombre. Dans son propre domaine, chaque démagogue règne en maître, prenant tout ce qu'il désire pour maintenir sa position et imposer sa propre forme d'amélioration horriﬁc aux autres. Tous ceux qui vivent dans le Plan des Ombres respectent le pouvoir des démagogues, mais espèrent aussi que leurs maîtres sadiques ne convoiteront jamais rien de ce qu'ils possèdent, car les démagogues se contentent de prendre ce dont ils ont besoin aux créatures inférieures, leur arrachant trophées, ﬂesh et âmes selon ce qui est nécessaire à la réalisation de leurs objectifs.

	~~As an unspoken rule~~, ~~the demagogues rarely oppose each other directly~~. ~~Instead~~, ~~they act through proxies to challenge each other, steal resources, or achieve dominance~~. ~~These proxy struggles allow the demagogues to observe and evaluate their underlings~~, ~~rewarding those that perform well or anticipate their needs~~, ~~and punishing those who fail or who show too much~~ ambition.		Selon une règle tacite, les démagogues s'opposent rarement directement les uns aux autres. Ils agissent plutôt par personnes interposées pour se défier, voler des ressources ou parvenir à la domination. Ces luttes par procuration permettent aux démagogues d'observer et d'évaluer leurs subordonnés, de récompenser ceux qui sont performants ou qui anticipent leurs besoins, et de punir ceux qui échouent ou qui font preuve de trop d'ambition.

	~~As each demagogue has perfected its own~~ techniques of disﬁgurement ~~and self-~~transformation, ~~each bears a diﬀerent form~~. ~~They most appreciate~~ ﬂesh ~~artists and torturers who share their~~ passions, ~~but all demagogues adore displays of excruciating agony~~.		Comme chaque démagogue a perfectionné ses propres techniques de disﬁgurement et de transformation de soi, chacun porte une forme diﬀérente. Ils apprécient particulièrement les artistes du ﬂesh et les tortionnaires qui partagent leurs passions, mais tous les démagogues adorent les spectacles d'agonie atroce.

	~~The following entries detail some of the most powerful kyton demagogues on the Shadow Plane~~; ~~they are also the ones most likely to allow visitors to spread word of their sadistic~~ perfections. ~~Discovering an isolated or xenophobic demagogue is a perilous endeavor~~, ~~as an explorer is likely to exhibit~~ traits ~~that a demagogue desires to stitch into its own being or perhaps be used as raw~~ ﬂesh ~~for the demagogue’s terrible~~ arts. ~~At least two captive demagogues rage from within~~ oubliettes ~~in the deep corners of Shadow Plane~~, ~~although none of the better-known demagogues admit to imprisoning their peers~~.		Les entrées suivantes décrivent certains des démagogues kytons les plus puissants du plan de l'Ombre ; ce sont aussi ceux qui sont les plus susceptibles de permettre aux visiteurs de répandre la nouvelle de leurs perfections sadiques. Découvrir un démagogue isolé ou xénophobe est une entreprise périlleuse, car un explorateur est susceptible de présenter des traits qu'un démagogue désire coudre dans son propre être ou peut-être d'être utilisé comme ﬂesh brut pour les terribles arts du démagogue. Au moins deux démagogues captifs sévissent dans des oubliettes au fin fond du plan de l'Ombre, bien qu'aucun des démagogues les plus connus n'admette avoir emprisonné ses pairs.

	Kyton ~~demagogues all have obediences they demand of their followers and boons they grant to their faithful~~, ~~as detailed in~~ Pathﬁnder RPG Book of the Damned. ~~The rules for subdomains can be found in the~~ Pathﬁnder RPG Advanced ~~Player’s~~ Guide, ~~as can all of the subdomains listed below except for those marked as appearing in the Book of the Damned~~. <ref name="a" />		Les démagogues de Kyton ont tous des obligations qu'ils exigent de leurs partisans et des avantages qu'ils accordent à leurs fidèles, comme indiqué dans le Pathﬁnder RPG Book of the Damned. Les règles des sous-domaines se trouvent dans le Pathﬁnder RPG Advanced Player's Guide, de même que tous les sous-domaines listés ci-dessous, à l'exception de ceux indiqués comme apparaissant dans le Livre des Damnés. <ref name="a" />

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:''“One might forgive the misattribution of ‘kyton’ to the velstracs, as they identify themselves, as the term stemmed from our own early attempts to classify their kind. Unfortunately, we adopted merely the descriptor of those velstracs with both the interest and ability to communicate freely with scholars. Consider: if I had been introduced to an unfamiliar species as ‘professor,’ they might name my species ‘professors,’ to our amusement. So it came to be that we misapplied ‘kyton’ to all manner of velstracs, compounding the error with secondary designators, such as ‘evangelist,’ that characterize function rather than nature. Fellow academicians, it is time for us to cast off the primal-centric bias in our work, much as these magniﬁcent creatures cut weakness and fault from themselves! I present my treatise: Velstracs, Perfection Attained!”''

:''—Professor Phaerenus Blasipputh-Dolabellio IV<ref name="a">Pathfinder 1 - Adventure Path 23 - 05 - Return of the Runelords - The City Outside of Time (PZO90133)</ref>''

Velstracs, the creatures that mortals commonly call “kytons,” owe their existence not to the creative act of a benevolent god, but rather to their own indomitable wills and insatiable ambitions. Velstracs are essentially self-made, having clawed free of the pit of Hell, relocated to the darkness of the Shadow Plane, and spent the eons since improving themselves with deliberate mutilation and exposure to increasingly horrid rituals. Those who unlock spiritual enlightenment via perfected masochism achieve greater status among their kind.

At the apex of this hierarchy of self-transformation stand the kyton demagogues. Representing the highest achievements of power and perfection—despite dramatic diﬀerences in their forms—these velstracs control great swaths of the Shadow Plane. Within its own domain, each demagogue reins supreme, taking whatever it desires to maintain its position and force its own form of horriﬁc improvement upon others. All who live within the Shadow Plane respect the demagogues’ power—but also hope their sadistic masters never covet anything that they have, for the demagogues simply take what they need from lesser creatures, ripping away trophies, ﬂesh, and souls as necessary to advance their aims.

As an unspoken rule, the demagogues rarely oppose each other directly. Instead, they act through proxies to challenge each other, steal resources, or achieve dominance. These proxy struggles allow the demagogues to observe and evaluate their underlings, rewarding those that perform well or anticipate their needs, and punishing those who fail or who show too much ambition.

As each demagogue has perfected its own techniques of disﬁgurement and self-transformation, each bears a diﬀerent form. They most appreciate ﬂesh artists and torturers who share their passions, but all demagogues adore displays of excruciating agony.

The following entries detail some of the most powerful kyton demagogues on the Shadow Plane; they are also the ones most likely to allow visitors to spread word of their sadistic perfections. Discovering an isolated or xenophobic demagogue is a perilous endeavor, as an explorer is likely to exhibit traits that a demagogue desires to stitch into its own being or perhaps be used as raw ﬂesh for the demagogue’s terrible arts. At least two captive demagogues rage from within oubliettes in the deep corners of Shadow Plane, although none of the better-known demagogues admit to imprisoning their peers.

Kyton demagogues all have obediences they demand of their followers and boons they grant to their faithful, as detailed in Pathﬁnder RPG Book of the Damned. The rules for subdomains can be found in the Pathﬁnder RPG Advanced Player’s Guide, as can all of the subdomains listed below except for those marked as appearing in the Book of the Damned. <ref name="a" />

Aroggus

THE ABBEY MAKER

LE male kyton demagogue of possibility, revenge, and sanctuary

Domains Evil, Law, Protection, Trickery Subdomains Deception, Defense, FearBotD, TyrannyBotD

Favored Weapon warhammer

Symbol a serpent eye within a keyhole

Aroggus is perhaps the oldest and most powerful of the kyton demagogues, tracing his origin back to before Asmodeus conspired with the asura Geryon to conquer Hell and populate it with devil-kind. After that betrayal, the velstracs were bound in chains. The infernal demigoddess Doloras set the velstracs free, seeing kindred souls in their remorseless sadism, but it was Aroggus who took up the warhammer used to forge his people’s chains and led them out of Hell to seek a more hospitable home.

Aroggus found the perfect habitat for his people on the Shadow Plane. This new domain oﬀered close proximity to the Material Plane and the innumerable prey living there, but also deep shadows that the velstracs could mold into fortiﬁcations and hiding places. There, Aroggus formed his shadowy Abbey of Nevers, a twisting structure of innumerable halls and rooms folding back on themselves and twisting reality until all direction and space loses meaning. Although the Abbey of Nevers has suﬃcient space to house nearly all of the velstrac race, its inhabitants are few and its twisting halls echo emptily.

Once safely ensconced within his abbey, Aroggus cast oﬀ his physical form, uniting his essence with his creation. Aroggus therefore experiences all that happens within the Abbey of Nevers simultaneously. If he requires a physical representation to meet with visitors or to leave the abbey—a rare occurrence—Aroggus animates a massive suit of black armor whose pieces are kept scattered around the abbey. If he expects conﬂict, he also carries the same warhammer he carried out of Hell.

Within the Abbey of Nevers, Aroggus devotes his attentions to devising and simulating the perfect revenge against Geryon, Asmodeus, and the host of devils who supplanted the velstracs in Hell. Those who enter the abbey have their thoughts overwhelmed with this lust for revenge and cannot help but devise exquisite tortures in retaliation for every slight they have experienced in their lives. Aroggus feeds on these feelings of hatred and the desire for retribution.

Few cults venerate Aroggus for long, as such cults are prone to bickering and even bloodshed over perceived slights, but the demagogue hears individuals who are consumed with a desire for revenge.

Barravoclair

LADY OF THE FINAL GASP

LE female kyton demagogue of the elderly, fatalistic insights, and resurrection

Domains Death, Evil, Healing, Law Subdomains Murder, Restoration, Resurrection, Undead

Favored Weapon war razorBotD Symbol a dead tree with white roots

Barravoclair’s physical form reﬂects her principal interest: she appears as a body reclining on a black slab at the moment of expiration. Her transition from life to death stretches out interminably, as a black shadow over her form attempts to coalesce this single, perfect ﬁnal gasp into quasi-physical form.

Although Barravoclair’s fascination with the obliteration of souls on the Outer Planes began long ago, her focus has crystallized on the profusion of life on the Material Plane. Watching so many creatures die, and seeing so few of them experience transcendent insights into reality as their lives were extinguished, compelled her to reﬁne and perfect this ultimate moment. Barravoclair prompts her cults to control and reﬁne these last moments of life. Although some work in secret as military surgeons, nurses, or even priests of Pharasma, most of her cultists operate in large ﬂesh-factories, raising victims in appalling conditions merely to focus on their moments of death. Each of her cultists plans for his own ﬁnal breath to be captured in service to the demagogue, thus preserving his immortality in Barravoclair’s domain of Everbreath

on the Plane of Shadow.

Fharaas

SEER IN SKIN

LE male kyton demagogue of experience, sacred murder, and patterns

Domains Evil, Knowledge, Law, Repose

Subdomains Ancestors, FearBotD, Memory, Souls

Favored Weapon battle axe

Symbol a circular maze carved in ﬂesh

Fharaas appears as a tall, thin human with exaggerated features dressed in an impossibly white surgical smock. He wields a long, wide-bladed axe with the ease of a scalpel. Fharaas is obsessed with the close examination of ﬂesh to ﬁnd divine universal truths, seeking in particular clues about the psychic connections between murderers and their victims. His cults are sharply divided and focus on one of these two facets: anatomists and taxidermists work to preserve unique specimens of ﬂesh or bone, while fanatics spin increasingly implausible conspiracy theories about the sanctity of slaughter. Both factions search for meaning and reason in ﬂayed skin and slices of tissue, carefully preserved in disturbing ﬂuids or encased in sheets of glass.

Fharaas’s sanctuary on the Shadow Plane, Alhesthellia, is a massive hospital with impossibly tall spires. Within, Fharaas’s cultists perform surgeries on victims kidnapped from across the planes, preserving unique fragments of their bodies. Amputations and mutilations are so frequent that the halls perpetually run with blood and echo with screams. Other wings hold dreamscape sanctums sculpted from the thoughts of serial murderers.

Inkariax

THE WHITE DEATH

LE male kyton demagogue of absolute cold, preservation, and solitude

Domains Evil, Law, VoidBotD, Water

Subdomains FearBotD, Ice, IsolationBotD, SlaveryBotD

Favored Weapon spiked gauntlet

Symbol crisscrossed spiked icicles

Inkariax is an enormous humanoid, towering 70 feet high and crusted with ice. Bloody icicles pierce his skin in many places, particularly through his lips, stitching his mouth shut. Inkariax never speaks, but his expressive gaze is suﬃcient to communicate his curiosity or displeasure. Troubled by the impermanence of perfection, Inkariax seeks to preserve works of horriﬁc art—whether ideal screams, exquisite tortures, or perfect examples of sadistic brutality—by sealing them in ice forever. Inkariax’s control over ice and snow is absolute, and he can freeze a victim into a solid block of ice with only a thought.

Frozen Tears, the demagogue’s realm, lies in the Shadow Plane atop a frozen sea and blanketed by an icy blizzard of razor-sharp crystals. The heart of his realm, White Death’s Diadem, holds his greatest treasures and most powerful minions. Its upper reaches, however, are reserved only for the demagogue himself and for his greatest horrors, which he has preserved for all time.

Inkariax has a long-standing connection to the infernal demigoddess Doloras, even beyond the debt all velstracs owe to her for setting them free from Hell. Doloras visited Inkariax before he built his realm, and the demagogue named it for Doloras’s gift of frozen tears from her crown. Indeed, Inkariax built much of his realm in honor of the demigoddess, and he strives to earn her further favor.

Kaikyton

THE STITCHWEAVER

LE female kyton demagogue of experimentation, physical merger, and stitches

Domains Community, Earth, Evil, Law

Subdomains Family, FearBotD, Metal, TyrannyBotD

Favored Weapon spiked chain

Symbol a curved surgical needle

Kaikyton is notable as a demagogue who was not formed in Hell, but rather ascended as a human from Golarion’s earliest days. In life, she was a ruthless warchief in Garund; she is associated with the city-state of Kagalko, which she founded as a velstrac in the Age of Darkness. Whether this region was her mortal home or a place that drew her attention after her initial ascension is unclear—and the hollow-eyed, stitch-lipped residents of modern Kagalko will not say.

Kaikyton was a committed—if merciless—leader, and she vowed to aid her people who were suffering under the endless darkness of Earthfall. Her search took her into the Shadow Plane, where she found the velstracs and their perverse arts. Kaikyton shared the lessons of stitching strong flesh to weak bodies with her subjects. The tortures she visited on the willing and unwilling alike echoed in the barren land known today as the Choir Vales, bordered by miles of sharp ridges called Kyton Lace.

Kaikyton’s enthusiasm for the velstracs’ teachings was legendary, and her skill at stitching together flesh was magnificent. Evangelist kytons flocked to her side to view the improvements she made to their traditional methods of delivering anguish and abhorrent exaltation.

When Kaikyton turned her methods upon herself, she was catapulted to the ranks of the kyton demagogues.

Morrobahn

THE PARASITE SEED

LE kyton demagogue of invasiveness, proliferation, and redundancy

Domains Animal, Evil, Law, Travel Subdomains Exploration, FearBotD, Feather, Fur

Favored Weapon heavy ﬂail Symbol a cracked egg

While most velstracs seek to improve themselves to match their own concept of perfection, Morrobahn seeks perfection in others. Morrobahn inserts a tiny, latent spore of its own being into each perfect creature, thereby becoming part of the perfection it creates. By scattering itself across the planes in creatures of its own cultivation, Morrobahn ensures its continued existence despite any calamity.

Members of Morrobahn’s cults travel across multiple worlds, searching out perfect individuals—whether perfect athletes, prodigies, predators, or those who demonstrate other measures of excellence. Few creatures measure up to these exacting standards on their own, so the cults bring about this perfection through surgical improvements, alchemical infusions, and even enforced breeding. When the cult has established a specimen that is a peerless example of its kind, the cult performs a ritual to implant a bit of the demagogue pulled from the Plane of Shadow. This ordeal is rarely without pain or trauma for the victim, as Morrobahn’s inhuman memories and impulses forever after shadow the host creature’s thoughts. Yet each such victim ensures Morrobahn’s continued survival. When the host dies, the fraction of Morrobahn’s consciousness returns to the Shadow Plane with a copy of the host’s biological makeup, bringing with it an incremental improvement to the kyton demagogue as a whole.

Raetorgash

THE SKULL-HOARDER

LE female kyton demagogue of evolution, mutation, and skulls

Domains Evil, Healing, Law, Luck

Subdomains Curse, Fate,

FearBotD, Restoration Favored Weapon halberd Symbol a scale with two skulls

Raetorgash decided long ago that the planes and the creatures within them were unacceptably inconstant. Creatures that showed promise—whether in strength, beauty, or intelligence—too often fail to transmit these superior characteristics to future generations. Raetorgash looked for a way to evaluate whether a creature’s superior qualities would be constant throughout its lineage, or whether these qualities would falter and disappear in descendants. She found her answer in bones.

Raetorgash’s realm of Targothieh is an endless charnel house stretching out like roots from a bone tower overseeing its expanse. Within her realm, velstracs labor to present Raetorgash with new or exceptional skulls from their forays into the Material Plane. As each of Targothieh’s roots touches a different world, these velstracs have a nearly limitless expanse in which to find trophies for their mistress.

Many of the Skull-Hoarder’s velstrac worshippers establish cults on these worlds, scouring them for powerful creatures whose skulls they send back for evaluation. Raetorgash examines the bones offered by her followers, treasuring those with potential for perfection— and destroying those she finds lacking.

Sugroz

VOICE IN SCREAMS

LE female kyton demagogue of ecstasy, ﬂeetingness, and incorporeality

Domains Air, Evil, Law, Nobility

Subdomains FearBotD, Leadership, Martyr, Wind Favored Weapon net

Symbol a hook with inward-facing spikes

All velstracs know that to become perfection, one must cut away imperfections. Sugroz has taken this philosophy to an extreme, even among the velstracs. For millennia, Sugroz focused on a diet of vanity and arrogance, stripping these qualities away from others and weaving them into her skin. All else, she cut away. Freed from the limits of ﬂesh and bone, Sugroz preaches the pleasures of breath, thought, and voice. All that is required, she sings to her aspirants, are lips to scream in delight or agony and a mind to process pain and pleasure. Everything else is a distraction from these truths. Sugroz maintains several connections to mortal worlds, where her cultists labor in torture- chapels dedicated to her name.

Vevelor

THE BROKEN DREAM

LE male kyton demagogue of potential, transcendence, and Illusion of freedom

Domains Destruction, Evil, Law, Liberation

Subdomains Freedom, Revolution, SlaveryBotD, TortureBotD Favored Weapon whip

Symbol a bloody, broken chain

Much like Kaikyton, Vevelor began his life as a mortal and rose in power to become a demagogue. Vevelor is far older than the Stitchweaver, his mortal life so impossibly long ago that he earned his position as a demagogue even before the velstracs were chained in Hell. Vevelor was at Aroggus’s side when that demagogue led the velstracs to the Shadow Plane, and he has retained Aroggus’s favor.

Vevelor rules a holding on the Shadow Plane called Cliffgrip at the edge of the great chasm called Deeping Darkness. Deeping Darkness has religious significance to the worshippers of Zon-Kuthon: the Midnight Lord emerged from Deeping Darkness into Golarion when he was freed from his own imprisonment. Vevelor similarly focuses on attracting worshippers in Nidal, where he enjoys a fertile field of devotees in the imposing Hall to the Broken Dream near Ridwan.

Vevelor’s cult plays a dangerous game in Nidal, as its message of freedom by means of self-determination is considered blasphemous to the Kuthite dogma of joy in subservience. Vevelor’s cult has thus far been able to keep its more anarchistic beliefs quiet, and Nidal’s government tolerates but does not condone the cult’s activities. Vevelor wants to share his path to ascension with others, but he cares little whether his disciples actually desire their transformation. Cliffgrip rings with screams of agony and Vevelor’s soft assurances that exaltation lies just past the pain.

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