After a time, though, their work became increasingly focused on what El said was necessary to bend fate toward their goal, finally culminating in Tal’kamar being asked by El to destroy the legendary city of Dareci. Though this act would kill millions of people, El assured Tal’kamar that it was an awful but necessary step toward freeing the world—one that would force the Darecians to flee to Andarra and begin working on the time-travel device known as the Jha’vett. Tal’kamar, sickened but choosing to believe that everything he did would ultimately be undone, agreed. He changed his name to
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