2.5.11
on July 23, 2025
at 3:00 am
honey, are you okay? you’ve hardly touched your miscellaneous multicolored orbs
Aurora
A fantasy webcomic. Updates M-W-F.
honey, are you okay? you’ve hardly touched your miscellaneous multicolored orbs
The wyrm is definitely collector’s creation the trilateral mouth is right there to see
I thought of that immediately, too, and after all, she does tend to muck about with gods, so this would not be outside her interest, skillset or brand of messing things up.
Very, very creepy. But also, if the Wyrm can be somehow “healed”, there might be hope for others. But also also, if the Collector notices, she’s not unlikely to Take Notice of Alinua o,o
Hard to imagine there’s going to be another Chimera-maker with the ambition and power to bring down a godly avatar.
Banner Saga is lit
I have the theory that “three mouthed” is the original form of life.
The Collector either made her chimera a homage, or it is the inherent direction chimeras go. So this might still be a natural/unrelated event.
The thing is, though, that it seems that the form we’ve seen Life take is her original form.
It seems to be an aspect of the Collector’s chimeras specifically. If you look at the chimera from the chapter Falst first appeared in it doesn’t have the split mouth.
None of Jolon’s other chimeras were tri-jawed either.
Jolon and other Chimera maker might not know that this is the “natural” direction of mutation.
If the perceive it as a bug, they might fight to stop it from happening. Not realizing they are hampering their own work.
Only the collector and aliuna actually saw life.
Ilia told Kendal that before Vash, the Collector had been taking nature gods. Only one came back, and that one couldn’t communicate or maintain an incarnation. I’m wondering if the Wyrm was an intermediary step, try to take a god with people bound to her. Her pain could be her soul being split, some in a soul-knife but some still in her incarnation and bound to her people. Taught the Collector she had to destroy any people before taking a god with worshippers.
But that may also mean the Collector already unraveled the portion of the Wyrm’s soul she had.
Or she did successfully take the Wyrm, and she’s not in the chimera at all. Wouldn’t that be interesting, if any well-build incarnation could become an independent living being if the god doesn’t dissolve it.
I don’t think that’s the case, because taking Vash didn’t turn Kendal into a chimera. Unless he would have turned into one, except when Alinua lost control she inadvertently prevented it. That could be an interesting twist too.
For mobile readers.
Alt-text: fun fact I based all of these mermaids off of different betta fish
Image source: suspicion
Bettafish are really cool, makes sense why Red would go for them.
I love basing my mermaids off of real fish. My favorite one was a purple halfmoon beta. He was sooo pretty.
tumblr text: some arguing!
. “What’s the Feast of the Fall?” Alinua asks.
. “Byys, Selach, where’d you FIND this lady?!” The blue mermaid interrupts, exasperated.
. “I–” Selach starts from in front of Alinua, raising her hands, before she’s interrupted by the algae-colored sekrai behind her. He has the Water rune tattooed on the back of his left hand, and the Lightning rune on the back of his left.
. “The Feast of the Fall is a festival celebrated in all corners of the deep,” he says, translucent sleeves floating around him. “It commemorates the day the Sekrai first sank below the waves and joined the Merfolk. Even a child would know that. And that confirms my suspicion.” Selach tenses. “You’re from the Shallows.”
. Alinua blinks. “Um… yes?” she says, glancing at Selach.
. “Yes!” Selach blurts. “I found her in the Shallows. That is where I got her.”
. “Good thinking, Selach. It was wise to cast a wider net. Even if some would disagree.”
. “Enough, Caturus,” the Captain snaps to the green Sekrai from behind him.
. “Oh, here we go,” Selach mutters as Caturus turns to the Captain.
. “Captain, your attempts to kill the Wyrm have been both fruitless and damaging,” he says. “Don’t you think it’s time we tried a new approach?”
. “I do not,” the Captain says flatly. “I think it’s time you stopped trying to give me orders.”
. “I’m not giving you orders, I’m lending you my expertise as a waveshaper–”
. “They’ll be at this for a while,” the white mermaid says from next to Alinua. He holds up a yellow rock-like thing, like Alinua’s still holding. “More jelly?”
. “You’ve been trying to kill the Wyrm? But I thought it was your god,” Alinua says to him.
. “Yeah, she is. That’s the problem. She built that body from wave and stone. So why is she letting it do this?”
Happy Festival of Everybody Yells at the Elemental Magus! (well really I think it was yesterday?)
ERIN PLEASE EXPLAIN YOUR BACKSTORY TO US
Bluesky Text: just keep swimming
…Red repeated the Bluesky text? 2.5.4 had the same text!
Could some icthyologist identify all the different betta fish used? I’d be especially curios for the Captain and Caturus.
That’s really cool, Red, if you ever read this. We used to have a lot of bettas and there is so much variety. That is a really smart choice to pick those fish to model the merfolk on.
“Captain, I regret to inform you that killing gods is a job reserved for JRPG protagonists”
Or antagonists… (Remember Vash??)
I don’t think you would play well with an all chaotic party or such like players I’ve seen (sometimes been @LightFades)) (cringe)
Oh, I didn’t mean that Vash was an antagonist, if thats what you thought! I meant that the Collector sort of ‘killed’ Vash, so its not *just* protagonists who can do it.
Vash is very alive, just very stuck as a glowing formless soul ball in the collector’s cave. There’s a distinction between alive and imprisoned. Otherwise Kendal’s quest wouldn’t be “save Vash”.
@Creetur Oh, I know that! My original commenter was in response to someone joking about how only protagonists can kill gods 😄 They were referring to Alinua potentially destroying the Wyrms mutated incarnation, which wouldn’t kill it anymore than Vash was killed! Less in fact, as her domain wouldn’t be damaged. My reply was in the context of the original comment, even though I did know that Vash wasn’t actually dead. I would just delete that comment, as it obviously didn’t make much sense, but thats not an option here 😅
Hello waveshaper Caturus, underwater bishonen piece of hotness, I look forward to knowing you better o,o
All the merpeople are fantastically drawn, I love them.
I’ve just realised that he has floaty translucent sleeves! He’s so pretty!
I would think the skirt has some practicality issues in an underwater environment.
I nearly always wear shorts underneath if I’m wearing a skirt, so hopefully they are too xD
Also his leggings are fish-skin! They’ve got some scales on them!
Oooh, didn’t notice that at first! I clearly was distracted by all the other floaty cool stuff.
Damn, the details really enhance the whole.
Love me translucent sleeves, always have, and drawn as underwater, mmm, eyecandy!
Question: if dainix can just transmutate his body after the transformation, why can’t he just grow a new right eye ?
Dainix isn’t a healer or a shapeshfiter. The way I understand it, he transmutes his body into Fire using the Fire already in his body, and then he transmutes that Fire back into his other Primordial components. Since his eye was physically destroyed before his initial tranformation, it no longer exists for him to transmute along with the rest of his body, and it’s too late for a Life Mage to heal it.
Because he transmutes his body back into how it was before turning into the fire thing, into how his soul recognises it to be. Souls change to reflect physical injuries, so it can’t bring his eye back. Since Soul-shaper monks can help someone reshape their soul into a prosthetic, I suppose they might be able to help Dainix get his eye back, by reshaping his soul and then having him turn into and out of the fire form, but it would be highly experimental and I’m not even certain that it could work that way.
Also, it might not be able to tell the difference between wanted and unwanted changes to the body. Since Dainix has been on fantasy HRT when younger, it would be very unfortunate (to put it extremely lightly. It would be really Not Good) if it reformed him as his natural/default body.
Healing injuries is Life’s domain, and even she cannot normally heal missing parts, so I doubt that Fire could do so.
This confirms some suspicions. If Collector severed most of god’s connections to its body, this is the exact result we could expect. She was practicing on nature gods before Vash.
https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-7-7/
Context, then alibi, both important things
Arguments less so, questioning the cap stings
And I was right about the Feast of the Fall. Neat.
So, they’ve been trying to kill the Wyrm. Caturus must have been instrumental to the efforts so far since he’s a two-element mage (Water and Lightning), but the Captain’s being obstinate. Meanwhile, they are all trying to puzzle out why the Northern Wyrm is letting her body rampage and none of them seem to have considered that because it was chimerified, she’s no longer in control of it. The more pertinent issue perhaps is whether she’s actually still around given she was (almost certainly) attacked by the Collector.
Great question, I don’t think you’re gonna like the answer
Caturus has a water rune tattoo on their hand. Wave means water in merfolk/sekrai language?
In fact it means Water (primordial Water) in every language! Everyone but the Ancients use the same runes, and that symbol is Water’s truename rune. The other symbol is Lightning’s truename. Mages will sometimes have those tattooed on them as sort of the opposite of sealing runes, as they help them to channel the Primordial’s energy more easily. Erin has all 6 incorporated into his tattoos, although his seem to be unusually complicated, and Shrike had a Stone rune on her hand, similarly to Caturus’s — only hers was on her palm.
I know the rune means water, I meant the word “wave” as in “waveshaper” or “from wave and stone”.
Ah! Ok, my bad. I thought you were referring to the symbol itself when you said ‘wave’. You’re theory sounds pretty plausible, although it could just be the title of a water mage, rather than due to a different word for water.
Actually, I’ve just realised that the use of ‘wave and stone’ later does suggest that they use it to mean water, like you said.
I assume that “wave” is just used pretty interchangeably with “water” in some contexts, just like “wind” is sometimes used interchangeably with “air”!
So presumably ‘shallow’ Sekrai are quite different culturally to these ones? Sekrai can survive above the surface, though its not very comfortable, so maybe Shallow Sekrai prefer to cling to their human roots and interact more with land-dwellers? Anyway, it’s a good temporary cover. Although the Captain knows otherwise. (I know Selach does, too, but she obviously doesnt want to share it yet)
We’ve got some names!! 😀 Well, one at least — ‘Caturus’. The little blue mermaid says ‘Byys, Selach…’ so Byys is either someone’s name, or some kind of mild swear? If it is a name, who is she addressing it too? Is it the pale one? The thing is, the pale mermaid didn’t find Alinua and, since she arrived with the Blue, Blue should know that. Is ‘Byys’ the captain? I doubt it, as they all seem just to call them (her? I think they might be a ‘her’) ‘Captain’. Which makes me more convinced that its a swear of some sort… maybe like ‘damn’?
Caturus is a mage! And a two element mage at that! I feel like lightning might be quite dangerous to use in water, but it might work differently in Aurora.
Also, does anyone remember if Red has ever said exactly how magic works for adapted populations. Someone in the last page’s comments said that they thought that a water mage would automatically have water if they had just one, i think, but has Red confirmed this or is it just a theory? (In the colloquial sense, not the scientific one!)
You might be interested in this tumblr post: https://www.tumblr.com/comicaurora/634396215386275840/i-know-elementally-adapted-mages-cant-control
In short: it’s just the most likely outcome of an elemental link, but even a Sekrai fire mage isn’t entirely impossible, just astronomically unlikely.
Thank you so much!!! I vaguely remembered seeing something like this before but I couldnt find it.
So it seems to me that Red says that there is a stronger likelihood that a one-element adapted mage would have their corresponding element, but that it wouldn’t be certain. Also, she said that Lighting and Life are about equally likely in Sekrai mages, so why are these ones acting like its not? Is it just that they *know* that there arent any around their region, so that’s what makes it unusual, or has Red changed her mind? Im more inclined to believe the former, as they talk about Selach ‘casting her net wider’, suggesting that they know that there might be Life mages a bit further away.
This is ALSO answered on Red’s Tumblr, as it turns out! https://www.tumblr.com/comicaurora/789865750622011392/wait-so-what-are-the-actual-rareness-of-life?source=share
TLDR water pressure makes it super hard for both Life and Lightning mages to be born at the crushing ocean depths Alinua is currently in, and Selach is extremely weird for being a Lightning mage here, but that might just be because of his ancestry and/or awesome hair.
@MTurtle7 Thank you! 😀
Oh, I’m early here. Anyway, I wanna shout out the divide between fishtail merfolk and leggy merfolk.
What do you think their reaction will be when they find out she’s from a floating archipelago? Opposites attract new bff’s? I hope so but I doubt it.
Never fear merfolk, no chimera survives contact with Alinua.
“Why she letting it do this?”
Uh-oh. Is she considered a major god, or is she one of the minor gods The Collector experimented on first, before she “collected” Vash? Methinks The Wyrm knows something they don’t.
I honestly think ol’ Frosty might count as a “major” god here, but I also think that she WAS one of the Collector’s prior experiments. After all, we only think the Collector hadn’t messed with any “major” gods before Vash because Lady Illia said so, but Lady Illia’s divine gossip network can only spread so far, and the Wyrm is all the way at the bottom of the ocean!
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Good strategy! i do that too, sometimes.
re alt text: thats cool af
“UM, yes?”
“Yes, i *found* her in the shallows”
Have you considered that your ability to leave out important information is unparalleled Selach? One should give you a medal for how much you can leave out without lying.
How dare you! Alinua is not shallow!
I appreciate the research of existing fish to make each mermaid design unique; with the plethora of fish species in the world, the fish half of mermaids should be just as distinct as the human half.
Nice catch everyone with Caturus’s tattoos, I didn’t see those. A water mage literally surrounded by their element AND with added lighting magic? They must be a force to be reckoned with.
Ooh, some internal friction here about with how to deal with the Wyrm; I’m sure that, even after the Feast of the Fall attack, they’d be a lot of people against the idea of killing their god.
I wonder what’s the reasoning behind the Captain’s dead-set objective to kill the Wyrm. Cold practicality? A friend of hers was hurt in the attack? Maybe she’s one of those Sekrai with lingering resentment over their underwater nature, and it’s manifesting as this? Or maybe she just doesn’t like mages like Caturus butting in on “her” business?
The one-armed merfolk’s question in the last panel makes sense.
We know that mutated incarnations can run riot because Gleicann explained this; the merfolk’s interactions with gods, even their own one, is limited, and said god doesn’t incarnate in the regular fashion.
Life mages and their chimeric creation abilities are relatively common knowledge on land; here, with so little elemental energies aside from water, the chance of a Sekrai even realising they’re a non-water mage is low.
They’re very much dealing with an outside context problem; fortunately for them, such a problem is well within Alinua’s expertise.
About your mention of the lack of elemental energies: if that’s truly the case, how did the Collector mutate the Wyrm’s vessel? Did she have a lacrima? Or does her connection to Life allow her to carry large amounts of Life energy internally?
the collector has been healing stone’s corpse… i think that mutating the wyrm was child’s play for her
its the collector, she has been creating mountains by healing stone’s corpse i think warping the wyrm would have been child’s play
Yes, but she still uses Life energy to do that. If there was no Life energy about (e.g. when Jolons Spelleater was draining it all away) she theoretically ought to be as useless as any other mage. I was wondering if there is actually plenty of Life energy underwater, so that she could mutate the Wyrm
Upon further reading of tumblr lore, thanks to the link @Rai626 posted above, it seems there is a fair bit of life energy in the ocean dissolved into the water. I’m sure a powerful mage such as the Collector could utilise that energy for her nefarious purposes.
Red also just today posted a new bit of lore about Sekrai mages (https://comicaurora.tumblr.com/post/789865750622011392/wait-so-what-are-the-actual-rareness-of-life). It’s worth a read but, tldr, while shallow Sekrai can be mages of all kinds due to proximity to the elemental winds, Sekrai at these depths seem unable to form links to elements other than water due to the ocean insulating them from the winds. (lightning being a very rare exception with Caturus’s storm elf ancestry theorised to be the reason why he has it)
With all this in mind, I’m now wondering about the Deep Sekrai, the ones who go so deep the sun doesn’t reach them. I would assume all their mages would be guaranteed water mages, but the possibility of being near stone at the seabed and volcanic vents could mean stone and fire mages are possible if they live near them. I wonder if void corruption could affect them that deep.
I was referring to Life energy (i.e. the stuff in the elemental winds/auroras. The stuff that mages channel) not Life matter (the thing that dissolves in Water). But otherwise thanks! This clears thing up (it seems a bit different to how Red answered old asks about Sekrai magic, but she could have just changed her mind.)
Where are you getting the impression that the ocean is not filled with life? Even the open pelagic areas are going to be filled with plankton, not to mention shoals of makerel, migrating jellyfish, and various large carnivores like sharks, and whales. I would assume the ocean would have an abundance of life energy. Also, electrical energies would probably be more prevalent there than land because of the high conductivity of water, think electric eels, and the pits of Lorenzini on sharks and rays.
Life energy is very different to Life matter (I explained it in my other comment). If living creatures (which are built out of a combination of all the elemental matters) contain Life energy, or any elemental energy for that matter, that is a bad sign. The soul should normally keep out elemental energies and if it doesnt then that will likely cause elemental corruption, as the energy agitates the physical matter of your body. Most elemental energy is found in the form of the elemental winds (not underwater, generally) and can be seen as ‘Aurora’s’ in the atmosphere. The presence of living creatures does not signal an abundance of Life energy, any more than it signals an abundance of any other energy. Judging from something that Red said recently, the presence of mages of that element may be more likely to signal that energy.
I hope this clears things up! There’s lots of things about this that I dont fully understand either! Id love to ask Red but I dont have a tumblr account.
The air in Aurora is just as much of an all-encompassing medium of elemental matter as the ocean, but with Wind rather than Water. So if there are Element Winds…shouldn’t there be Element Currents? Though currents are a lot less evenly distributed than wind so it still makes sense that certain areas of the ocean in Aurora are either very sparse regarding Mages or not very diverse regarding Mages (or both).
Thats a very good point! Im under the impression that ‘elemental winds’ are not actually wind but rather just called that because of their movement, but i hadn’t really considered that they could be underwater too. We dont have any evidence for it, but it seems plausible!
@AsTheLightFades I would say they won’t have elemental winds/currents equivalent down there, or at least not as prevalent, due to the huge mass of water stopping them. The reason early humans and elves lived in the caves was because they offered shelter from the winds; I would assume the ocean’s water provides a similar sort of protection as the singing caves do. Indeed the Sekrai’s vulnerability to elemental corruption outside the water seems to fit with this.
Makes me wonder how Erin’s destruction of The Storm might affect things long term. According to the bottom of this tumblr ask (https://comicaurora.tumblr.com/post/644047447870586880/in-a-recent-ask-you-mentioned-the-elemental-winds) Erin suspects the Storm helped calm the winds with the majority of their power concentrated to one location. But, also, has yet to contemplate the potential side-effects from removing said concentration of power; could the winds become more powerful and permeate deeper into the ocean?
As for your previous reply to me about life matter vs. energy, ah yes, forgot about that. I’d still think that given the Collector’s abnormal nature and use of life magic, she could achieve what she wanted even in low-energy environments. Maybe she’s adept enough to pull energy from above water even when underwater. Maybe she lured the Wyrm to the surface, to both have more life energy to work with, and to get her further away from the ocean current.
@Evil Tree
Good point about the caves! The elemental winds are really interesting, and i hadn’t even thought about what the destruction of the Storm might do!
Hmmm. Interesting that Selach is letting Cacturus and the others believe that Alinua’s from the Shallows, rather than from land but transformed, without elaborating or explaining. I suppose it would be a lot to clarify, and the Captain certainly didn’t respond well to the truth…
Cacturus’s design gives me “reclining in a chaise lounge and sipping wine” vibes for some reason. Maybe it’s the shawl, skirt, and flowy hair combination.
Pfff the blue gal is so blunt
“Yes! Yes, the Shallows! Exactly! That’s where I … that’s where she’s from. Thanks. Uh-huh. 100%.”
That’s an incredible face by Selach there: °0°
I always love when characters have those sort of ‘shark-teeth’ but somehow I live it most of all on these merfolk. It just looks… goofy on them, somehow xD
Wait, the blue one looks like the betta fist I had! That’s why I like them so much! :3
Overwhelming friends
Beautiful under the waves
A new adventure
Underwater people seem to call the element we call Water “wave”. Interesting comparison to the fact that there’s an element called Wind that fantasy stories more commonly call Air. We only notice the element that we spend our whole lives surrounded by when it starts moving around.
Ohhhh… that makes so much sense! Well done for spotting that 👏
Caturus is cute
“Byys, Selach, where’d you FIND this lady?!”
Is that an abbreviation of “Abyss” shortened and repurposed as a pseudo-swear? If so I LOVE it ♥
“Guys where the f*** did you find this gal?” Is the funniest reaction to a question I’ve seen
Loving this DC 5 Deception check success.
i suppose Alinua is TECHNICALLY from the shallows. moreso than the depths, at least
panel 4 presents us a new contender for cutest alinua
Love that we’re getting to explore new domains in this chapter!!
So while they are celebrating the feast of the fall I would like to bring attention back to the first fantasy holiday given a solid date by our heroes: HAPPY FESTIVAL OF EVERYBODY YELLS AT THE ELEMENTAL MAGUS! Do you have something to say to your resident hubris mage? Well today is the day to shout it at the top of your lungs for everyone to hear!
I’d like to say that its funny that he’s spending his feast day unconscious in a cave xD
TL;DR: When your god goes nuts and you have no idea what to do…
The Captain seems so unusually hawkish compared to the rest of the Seafolk…and she kinda seems to have delusions regarding her authority…hmm…
I’m getting the distinct feeling that the Captain is tolerated because she has a very specific skillset and role to play, but isn’t actually any kind of legal juggernaut like so many civilizations have (president, monarch, supreme judge, general, etc.) even though that might be the kind of power the Captain *thinks* she possesses. Or if she’s not delusional, she’s trying to create that kind of power for herself. The reason that the Captain is the only one wearing armor might not be because that’s the only suit of armor they have, but that she’s the only one here paranoid enough to never take it off…so she’s kind of like the male lion in a lion pride. Kept around and given token benefits but not any kind of figure of dominance. It…still worries me how much she seems to have a capital A Authoritarian mindset, but I trust that the Seafolk here react to anyone saying “all of the power should go to me/my group because [insert excuse here]” with an eyeroll and a “yeah, sure buddy”.
With the cutting-down-to-size out of the way…WHY is the Captain like this!? I mean, who *hurt* her!? …why is she not going to therapy? Being this angry and territorial *can’t* be enjoyable for her.
I think that she’s very nervous and under a lot of pressure — her god is mad and is attacking them. Since it seems that a Life mage did this to the Wyrm, she may have a semi-understandable prejudice against them (as in I can understand why she’d be like that but I still think that its sort of unreasonable). Additionally, they’re trying to destroy their gods incarnation which may be a somewhat… painful matter. She could be against an outsiders helping against it. For these people to deal with it is them going to drastic measures to help their god and themselves, but the captain could still feel almost a little protective against an outsider butting in.
Im inclined to believe that she does have an official role but, in terms of the large amount of people that there seem to be here, Captain is not a very high rank.
TLDR yes, the captain is being Difficult, and that is annoying from an external perspective, but its easy to forget the stress that their under. People arent perfect, and stress can bring out the worst in us.
She built this body
She built this body from wave and stone
Built this body
She built this body from wave and stone
Say you don’t know me
Or recognize my face
Say you don’t care who goes
To that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla
Sinking in your fight
Too many runaways
Eating up the night
Marconi plays the manta
Listen to the whalesong, don’t you remember?
She built this body
She built this body from wave and stone
She built this body
She built this body from wave and stone
Built this body
She built this body from wave and stone
😂 I wish these comments had like buttons!
Best version of the song 11/10 👌
damn caterus is very pretty
So it’s a nation of underwater twinks?
Err… well some of the merfolk seem quite buff, but the Sekrai are described as ‘a bit more stretched-out and willowy than their surface-dweller cousins’ so… maybe? For the Sekrai half of the population at least. Unless only men count, and then half of them wouldn’t count either.
I see, some of them are Twonks
😐😑
I find it interesting that the Captain didn’t clarify Alinua’s identity and allowed Selach to let everyone think she’s from the Shallows. Perhaps they recognize that if Alinua is willing to help, she’s *probably* not the same Life mage that made their god go mad and is also a valuable ally in resolving the situation and getting back their god?
Is the Captain hiding things from their team? It seems that only the Captain and Selach are aware of the true nature of the Wyrm situation, that her incarnation has been corrupted by Life magic, the powers of a flesh-shaper.
Oh and, it does seem that they were initially unaware that Life mages have power over flora in addition to fauna, given that their word for Life mages is *flesh*shaper (mirroring their word for Water mages, waveshaper), not kelpshaper or whatever. It’s highly likely that the Collector was their first exposure to Life magic (though they’re aware of their theoretical existence on the surface), so they coined the term fleshshaper to reflect their limited sample size of experience with Life magic?
…huh. You’re right, it does seem like they might know more than the others!
Fleshshaper might be a term for life mages who can modify their own bodies?
That phrasing….. it reminds me of someone
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