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* HumansAreBastards: Lampshaded. The narrator tells that Temple Haud system - {{MarySueTopia}} of healers - could work in our plane, however it would take an insurmountable amount of time, just like "Temple Haud" took to form itself.

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* HumansAreBastards: Lampshaded. The narrator tells that Temple Haud system - {{MarySueTopia}} {{Utopia}} of healers - could work in our plane, however it would take an insurmountable amount of time, just like "Temple Haud" took to form itself.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Titania
* AntiHero: Larry - Type 3
* [[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie: The main hero and three of the five elders suffered from this.]]
* BadassLongCoat: Larry invokes this trope.

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* {{BFS}}: Ailith's sword
* BreakTheCutie: By the end of the book.
* ChildProdigy: Volpi counts as this since he built a biplane aircraft, alone. Also, see {{Expy}} below.

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* %%* {{BFS}}: Ailith's sword
* %%* BreakTheCutie: By the end of the book.
* ChildProdigy: Volpi counts as this since he built a biplane aircraft, alone. Also, see {{Expy}} below.



* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The narrator and some of the elders. Especially Alten after the "mushroom soup"

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* %%* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The narrator and some of the elders. Especially Alten after the "mushroom soup"



%%* MulticoloredHair: Lykke, a fairy, has rainbow hair.



* TakeOurWordForIt: The narrator does this.
* TrueCompanions: Conversed. Volpi says that they are already a family.

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* %%* TakeOurWordForIt: The narrator does this.
* %%* TrueCompanions: Conversed. Volpi says that they are already a family.



* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Rainbow Hair]]: Lykke. Justified since she is a fairy.
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Adler.

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* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Rainbow Hair]]: Lykke. Justified since she is a fairy.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Volpi. Also, this is what saved him during his judgement.
--> '''Tipstaff''': The defendant, Renard Volpi, is accused of invading the fairy country with his friend Larry Heiber.\\
'''Liekki''': Tipstaff?\\
'''Tipstaff''': Yes, milady?\\
'''Liekki''': Please, add that he's also being accused of being extremely cute.



* [[spoiler:BloodierAndGorier]]: It goes this way during the last chapters.



* CaptainObvious: Alongside the lemony narration.


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* TheCutie: Volpi. Also, this is what saved him during his judgement.
--> '''Tipstaff''': The defendant, Renard Volpi, is accused of invading the fairy country with his friend Larry Heiber.\\
'''Liekki''': Tipstaff?\\
'''Tipstaff''': Yes, milady?\\
'''Liekki''': Please, add that he's also being accused of being extremely cute.

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* BadassGrandpa: The elders are implied to be this, especially when Elder [[spoiler:vaporizes castle Hemir in its fullness]] with one of his spells. Also, when he transformed "The Sand Sea" in Ormelid into a paramo when he was younger.


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* StrongerThanTheyLook: The elders are implied to be this, especially when Elder [[spoiler:vaporizes castle Hemir in its fullness]] with one of his spells. Also, when he transformed "The Sand Sea" in Ormelid into a paramo when he was younger.
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* [[GiantSwimmer Sea Monster]]: Although it swim on rocks, the giant moray counts as it.

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* [[GiantSwimmer Sea Monster]]: SeaMonster: Although it swim swims on rocks, the giant moray counts as it.
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Fantasy: Travels - Larry is the first book of the series [[Literature/FantasyTravels Fantasy: Travels]]. The book [[CaptainObvious starts with Larry]] - that was... unexpected - a young librarian who wanted some time off his work in the register room before he goes [[AxCrazy insane]]. However, in the eve of a long holiday, he provokes an accident in the register room where he finds a blank book that transports him to another world - or [[{{InsistentTerminology}} plane of existance]] as the narrator calls it.

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Fantasy: Travels - Larry is the first book of the series [[Literature/FantasyTravels Fantasy: Travels]]. The book [[CaptainObvious starts with Larry]] Larry - that was... unexpected - a young librarian who wanted some time off his work in the register room before he goes [[AxCrazy insane]]. However, in the eve of a long holiday, he provokes an accident in the register room where he finds a blank book that transports him to another world - or [[{{InsistentTerminology}} plane of existance]] as the narrator calls it.
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* DeusExMachina



* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Sybila can count
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Well... the title
* {{Expy}}: Volpi is a kid fox with a surprising mechanical prowess... [[{{Characters/SonicTheHedgehogMainTrio}} hmm...]]
* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: Larry at the end of the book]]
* {{Facepalm}}: Larry does this a lot.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
** Larry (Choleric); Lykke (Sanguine); Volpi (Melancholic); Ailith(Phlegmatic)
* GenreSavvy: Larry
* GenkiGirl: Lykke



* HumanityEnsues: For Volpi



* InMediasRes: Chapter ?
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: The nonsensical spells
* JerkAss: Zephyr, the book Guardian.
* KillItWithFire: Invoked, by Lykke
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Lampshaded by the narrator.



* [[spoiler:TheMole: Alten and Senyvas.]]
* PowerAtAPrice: See DealWithTheDevil above.
* [[spoiler:RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil]]: The characters sure consider this way.
* RealityWritingBook: Type 2
* SceneCover[=/=]CoversAlwaysLie: Lampshaded. The narrator calls your attention to a scene that it is ''"An image so beautiful, that if this was a book, it could as well be the cover for it."'' Happens that it's exactly the cover of the book.



* UnusualEars: For Volpi. See HumanityEnsues above.
* WackyWaysideTribe: ''That'' village in Bipon.



* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: The region of Bipon is full of this
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: Feralis
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In the meanwhile the elders have a [[{{Understatement}} little argument]] [[{{NeverSayDie}} that ends quite badly]] and provokes some split up as well.

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* [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating 0% Approval Rating]]: Titania

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* [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating 0% Approval Rating]]: ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Titania



* [[spoiler: BloodierAndGorier]]: It goes this way during the last chapters.

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* [[spoiler: BloodierAndGorier]]: [[spoiler:BloodierAndGorier]]: It goes this way during the last chapters.



* [[{{CunningLikeAFox}} Cunning like a Fox]]: Subverted - Volpi is so shy that he needs to build a lot of courage just to not stutter.

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* [[{{CunningLikeAFox}} Cunning like a Fox]]: CunningLikeAFox: Subverted - Volpi is so shy that he needs to build a lot of courage just to not stutter.



* [[spoiler: {{Face Heel Turn}}: Larry at the end of the book]]

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* [[spoiler: {{Face Heel Turn}}: [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: Larry at the end of the book]]



* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Played with. When Larry and Volpi where arrested, Larry asked for their spare clothes since the duo was soaked. Adler thought it was a trick and gave Larry the wrong set of clothes. It happened that Larry was betting on this trope and got his clothes with the knife mister Schubert gave him, which allowed him to [[spoiler:threaten the princess life and escape his judgement]].



* [[KillitWithFire Kill it with fire]]: Invoked, by Lykke

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* [[KillitWithFire Kill it with fire]]: KillItWithFire: Invoked, by Lykke



* PowerAtAPrice: See [[{{DealWithTheDevil}} Deal with the Devil]] above.
* [[spoiler:{{Rape Is A Special Kind Of Evil}}]]: The characters sure consider this way.

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* [[spoiler:TheMole: Alten and Senyvas.]]
* PowerAtAPrice: See [[{{DealWithTheDevil}} Deal with the Devil]] DealWithTheDevil above.
* [[spoiler:{{Rape Is A Special Kind Of Evil}}]]: [[spoiler:RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil]]: The characters sure consider this way.



* SceneCover / CoversAlwaysLie: Lampshaded. The narrator calls your attention to a scene that it is ''"An image so beautiful, that if this was a book, it could as well be the cover for it."'' Happens that it's exactly the cover of the book.
* [[{{GiantSwimmer}} Sea Monster]]: Although it swim on rocks, the giant moray counts as it.

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* SceneCover / CoversAlwaysLie: SceneCover[=/=]CoversAlwaysLie: Lampshaded. The narrator calls your attention to a scene that it is ''"An image so beautiful, that if this was a book, it could as well be the cover for it."'' Happens that it's exactly the cover of the book.
* [[{{GiantSwimmer}} [[GiantSwimmer Sea Monster]]: Although it swim on rocks, the giant moray counts as it.



* [[{{Nakama}} True Companions]]: Conversed. Volpi says that they are already a family.



* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Played with. When Larry and Volpi where arrested, Larry asked for their spare clothes since the duo was soaked. Adler thought it was a trick and gave Larry the wrong set of clothes. It happened that Larry was betting on this trope and got his clothes with the knife mister Schubert gave him, which allowed him to [[spoiler:threaten the princess life and escape his judgement]].
* [[spoiler: TheMole: Alten and Senyvas.]]

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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Played with. When Larry and TrueCompanions: Conversed. Volpi where arrested, Larry asked for their spare clothes since the duo was soaked. Adler thought it was a trick and gave Larry the wrong set of clothes. It happened says that Larry was betting on this trope and got his clothes with the knife mister Schubert gave him, which allowed him to [[spoiler:threaten the princess life and escape his judgement]].
* [[spoiler: TheMole: Alten and Senyvas.]]
they are already a family.



* WackyWaysideTribe: ''That'' village in Bipon

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* WackyWaysideTribe: ''That'' village in BiponBipon.



* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You gotta have Rainbow Hair]]: Lykke. Justified since she is a fairy
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Adler

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* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You gotta have Gotta Have Rainbow Hair]]: Lykke. Justified since she is a fairy
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* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: AdlerAdler.
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Fantasy: Travels - Larry is the first book of the series [[Literature/FantasyTravels Fantasy: Travels]]. The book starts with Larry - that was... unexpected - a young librarian who wanted some time off his work in the register room before he goes [[AxCrazy insane]]. However, in the eve of a long holiday, he provokes an accident in the register room where he finds a blank book that transports him to another world - or [[{{InsistentTerminology}} plane of existance]] as the narrator calls it.

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Fantasy: Travels - Larry is the first book of the series [[Literature/FantasyTravels Fantasy: Travels]]. The book [[CaptainObvious starts with Larry Larry]] - that was... unexpected - a young librarian who wanted some time off his work in the register room before he goes [[AxCrazy insane]]. However, in the eve of a long holiday, he provokes an accident in the register room where he finds a blank book that transports him to another world - or [[{{InsistentTerminology}} plane of existance]] as the narrator calls it.

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In the meanwhile the elders have a [[{{Understatement}} little argument that ends quite badly]] and provokes some split up as well.

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In the meanwhile the elders have a [[{{Understatement}} little argument argument]] [[{{NeverSayDie}} that ends quite badly]] and provokes some split up as well.



* [[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie: The main hero and three of the five elders suffered from this.]]



* Facepalm: Larry does this a lot.

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* Facepalm: {{Facepalm}}: Larry does this a lot.


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* HumansAreBastards: Lampshaded. The narrator tells that Temple Haud system - {{MarySueTopia}} of healers - could work in our plane, however it would take an insurmountable amount of time, just like "Temple Haud" took to form itself.
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Fantasy: Travels - Larry is the first book of the series [[{{Literature/FantasyTravels}} Fantasy: Travels]]. The book starts with Larry - that was... unexpected - a young librarian who wanted some time off his work in the register room before he goes [[AxCrazy insane]]. However, in the eve of a long holiday, he provokes an accident in the register room where he finds a blank book that transports him to another world - or [[{{InsistentTerminology}} plane of existance]] as the narrator calls it.

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Fantasy: Travels - Larry is the first book of the series [[{{Literature/FantasyTravels}} [[Literature/FantasyTravels Fantasy: Travels]]. The book starts with Larry - that was... unexpected - a young librarian who wanted some time off his work in the register room before he goes [[AxCrazy insane]]. However, in the eve of a long holiday, he provokes an accident in the register room where he finds a blank book that transports him to another world - or [[{{InsistentTerminology}} plane of existance]] as the narrator calls it.
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Fantasy: Travels - Larry is the first book of the series Fantasy: Travels. The book starts with Larry - that was... unexpected - a young librarian who wanted some time off his work in the register room before he goes [[AxCrazy insane]]. However, in the eve of a long holiday, he provokes an accident in the register room where he finds a blank book that transports him to another world - or [[{{InsistentTerminology}} plane of existance]] as the narrator calls it.

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Fantasy: Travels - Larry is the first book of the series [[{{Literature/FantasyTravels}} Fantasy: Travels.Travels]]. The book starts with Larry - that was... unexpected - a young librarian who wanted some time off his work in the register room before he goes [[AxCrazy insane]]. However, in the eve of a long holiday, he provokes an accident in the register room where he finds a blank book that transports him to another world - or [[{{InsistentTerminology}} plane of existance]] as the narrator calls it.
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* Facepalm: Larry does this a lot.
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Fantasy: Travels - Larry is the first book of the series Fantasy: Travels. The book starts with Larry - that was... unexpected - a young librarian who wanted some time off his work in the register room before he goes [[AxCrazy insane]]. However, in the eve of a long holiday, he provokes an accident in the register room where he finds a blank book that transports him to another world - or [[{{InsistentTerminology}} plane of existance]] as the narrator calls it.

Yet, it was not a complete accident since there are a group of elders observing his movements and were responsible for his transport. Eventually Larry wakes up in Feralis, where he meets the Guardian of said book and, Volpi, a shy fox who ends helping him. After spending some time working there and knowing the plane inhabitants, he saves Volpi from a failed experiment and is dragged again to another plane.

Next stop is in Omir and then Galway, where they help to solve a problem involving coma patients and malign spirits. Thanks to this, the innocent swordswoman Ailith join their ranks and they are dragged to Illura. There they find Lykke, the mage and end up captured by the fairies. Managing to escape they are dragged - thanks to the elders' spells - to other random planes until they arrive in Latalie where the party is forced to split up.

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!!This book provides examples of:
* [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating 0% Approval Rating]]: Titania
* {{Adorkable}}: Volpi. Also, this is what saved him during his judgement.
--> '''Tipstaff''': The defendant, Renard Volpi, is accused of invading the fairy country with his friend Larry Heiber.\\
'''Liekki''': Tipstaff?\\
'''Tipstaff''': Yes, milady?\\
'''Liekki''': Please, add that he's also being accused of being extremely cute.
* AntiHero: Larry - Type 3
* BadassGrandpa: The elders are implied to be this, especially when Elder [[spoiler:vaporizes castle Hemir in its fullness]] with one of his spells. Also, when he transformed "The Sand Sea" in Ormelid into a paramo when he was younger.
* BadassLongCoat: Larry invokes this trope.
* BerserkButton: Everyone in the book appears to have one. Yet, Larry's low tolerance for stupidity is what appears the most.
* {{BFS}}: Ailith's sword
* [[spoiler: BloodierAndGorier]]: It goes this way during the last chapters.
* BreakTheCutie: By the end of the book.
* CaptainObvious: Alongside the lemony narration.
* ChildProdigy: Volpi counts as this since he built a biplane aircraft, alone. Also, see {{Expy}} below.
* ChekhovsGun: Larry managed to [[spoiler: kidnap princess Sybila and escape from the trial]] because he still had the knife mister Schubert gave him. Also, Larry's disproportional legs saved him from [[spoiler: a death in a battle he would never win]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The narrator and some of the elders. Especially Alten after the "mushroom soup"
* [[{{CunningLikeAFox}} Cunning like a Fox]]: Subverted - Volpi is so shy that he needs to build a lot of courage just to not stutter.
* DealWithTheDevil: At the end of the book [[spoiler: Larry signs a contract to be able to use magic, which made him AxCrazy]]
* DeusExMachina
* DirtyOldMan: During a scene where Sybila and Larry are taking a bath, the narrator interrupts the story just to tell us that the elders are drooling.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Sybila can count
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Well... the title
* {{Expy}}: Volpi is a kid fox with a surprising mechanical prowess... [[{{Characters/SonicTheHedgehogMainTrio}} hmm...]]
* [[spoiler: {{Face Heel Turn}}: Larry at the end of the book]]
* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
** Larry (Choleric); Lykke (Sanguine); Volpi (Melancholic); Ailith(Phlegmatic)
* GenreSavvy: Larry
* GenkiGirl: Lykke
* GreatBigBookOfEverything: Larry's and Alten's book count as this, if one is to put all the information he/she wants on it.
* HumanityEnsues: For Volpi
* InMediasRes: Chapter ?
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum: The nonsensical spells
* JerkAss: Zephyr, the book Guardian.
* [[KillitWithFire Kill it with fire]]: Invoked, by Lykke
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Lampshaded by the narrator.
* LemonyNarrator: So much that he interrupts a battle scene to ask if ''you'' ate his pancakes. Yet, to be fair, he also asks you if you want anything to drink or eat during some passages of the story.
* LongLived: Although never revealed how much they lived, it's implied that the elders are there for a long time.
* PowerAtAPrice: See [[{{DealWithTheDevil}} Deal with the Devil]] above.
* [[spoiler:{{Rape Is A Special Kind Of Evil}}]]: The characters sure consider this way.
* RealityWritingBook: Type 2
* SceneCover / CoversAlwaysLie: Lampshaded. The narrator calls your attention to a scene that it is ''"An image so beautiful, that if this was a book, it could as well be the cover for it."'' Happens that it's exactly the cover of the book.
* [[{{GiantSwimmer}} Sea Monster]]: Although it swim on rocks, the giant moray counts as it.
* SelfDeprecation: The narrator says that one of his lame puns are beyond forgiveness.
* SkilledButNaive: Ailith is implied to be this, since [[spoiler:she was recently born from a ghost witch and a sword spirit]]
* ShoutOut: To many works, but the first most noticeable goes to {{VideoGame/Portal}}:
-->'''Larry''': "Calm down, Larry. The cake doesn't exist. It is a lie..."
* SpoofAesop: After they've offered to bring a delinquent to justice, Larry's company endures hours of march just to arrive with him and discover it was an elaborated joke. The narrator then gives us this: "Moral of this story, do not visit Bipon in the plane of Serif. Bipon is the region not the village, only to clarify, but the region is known to have more villages like this one. Full of jerks that want to prank people with good will."
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Senyvas has no grasp of basic syntax.
* [[{{Nakama}} True Companions]]: Conversed. Volpi says that they are already a family.
* TheFairFolk: In judge Liekki's words:
-->'''Larry''': Why is this thing with fairies and kidnapping? Why in this country even an outlander like me must kidnap someone?\\
'''Liekki''':You could say it's a fairy way of life.
* TakeOurWordForIt: The narrator does this.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Played with. When Larry and Volpi where arrested, Larry asked for their spare clothes since the duo was soaked. Adler thought it was a trick and gave Larry the wrong set of clothes. It happened that Larry was betting on this trope and got his clothes with the knife mister Schubert gave him, which allowed him to [[spoiler:threaten the princess life and escape his judgement]].
* [[spoiler: TheMole: Alten and Senyvas.]]
* UnusualChapterNumbers: The book starts with chapter '''"?"''' goes on a sequence of '''"I; I.1; II; II.1"''' and so on. Eventually finishes with '''"?.?"''' and if you're counting the author's rant, it ends with '''"Time Paradox"'''
* UnusualEars: For Volpi. See HumanityEnsues above.
* WackyWaysideTribe: ''That'' village in Bipon
* WalkingTheEarth: Despite being dragged from location to location, it's implied that Larry wants to do this.
* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: The region of Bipon is full of this
* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: Feralis
* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You gotta have Rainbow Hair]]: Lykke. Justified since she is a fairy
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Adler

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