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Apostles: Demnogonis, Semai, Muawihje, Algeroth and Ilian, the Dark Mistress, the most powerful wielder of the Dark Symmetry. Thus the First Corporate Wars began. Only through the Brotherhood and its first Cardinal, Nathaniel Durand, were the corporations pulled under one banner, driving the Dark Legion and the Dark Symmetry back to the void where they came from.
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and its members are minions of the Dark
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