THE SHIELDBREAKER SAGA
Thomas Clark Schecter, Andrew Robert Colom, Alex Shifman, Vinny Reads, J. Curtis, Nick Winney, Emil Ottoman, James Worth, Emily S Hurricane, Inzani D'Arpeggio, Slater Henatay, M.P. Fitzgerald, Haly, the Moonlight Bard ✒️, Dylan Bosworth, Luke Warfield, M.A. Knight, Trevor Cohen, Judith Ashcraft, Ichor and Embers, Lyndsey ResnickA people's last hope for survival is a nineteen-year-old kid who may be out of his fucking mind.
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