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In the early years of Liyue, the ocean was still the domain of wicked gods and great monsters.
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Our ancestors set sail and sallied forth to do battle against a great sea monster, but few ever returned.
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It was named "Baqiu" by the people of Liyue — the uncrowned lord of the watery depths.
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As the storms breathed upon the surface of the sea (or perhaps it was the creature's own breath that brought the storms)
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The tides would shatter dock and harbor as if they were but salt and sand,
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And the waves would splinter boats like fragile Glaze Lilies.
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Thus did Rex Lapis summon forth lengths of impregnable jade,
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Some shaped like tide-devouring whales,
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And others like soaring falcons,
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When the jade leviathans were first forged, they brought fear and alarm to the oceanic titans, who trembled at the sight of them,
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As they used impregnable nephrite for fangs and contended fiercely with them,
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While the great birds of prey became spears that pinned the roaring beasts down within the dark, bottomless seas.
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The whales forged of rock would in the end gain their freedom, returning to the distant mountains from whence they came.
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As to the conclusion of this tale, the storytellers of the harbor city will say:
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Today, the great whales of crystallized jade still swim free amid the cloud-shrouded adepti abodes,
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And they leap and toss within the ocean of mists, singing their great whale-chorus amid the silence of the countless mountains.
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But if the ocean were to ever again rise to threaten the land, they will once again rain down upon the dark waters like stone spears...
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