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Adventurous and epic
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Full of big ideas · nothing is quite what it seems
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Full of big ideas · meeting beings from another world
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A world to get lost in · properly strange
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It raises the temperature · love in the middle of danger
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Full of big ideas · you'll keep turning it over for days
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