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[[Image:Seraph.gif|right]]Welcome to the official Legacy Wiki. You can login with your game login! Please take a look around. If you are unfamiliar with wikis, you may want to explore the [[Help:Contents | Help pages]]. If you find any problems with pages that you cannot fix yourself or your Wiki account please make a ticket on Legacy or take a list of [[Legacy:Administrators|people that can help you]].

&lt;span style=&quot;color:#888888&quot;&gt;Before you start doing anything besides reading, please take time to look through our [[Legacy_Wiki:Policy|rules]]. Also, user articles are '''''not''''' the same as other articles.  They should be named with ''''User:'''' before the username.&lt;/span&gt;

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| class=&quot;darkbox&quot; |&lt;span class=&quot;boxtitle&quot;&gt;RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;

{{:News: 2020-19-09 - New Admin}}
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{{:News: 2019-14-11 - Cleaning Up}}
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&lt;div align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;[[News|Old Announcements]]&lt;/div&gt;
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| class=&quot;darkbox&quot; |{{Portal_Feature}}
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| class=&quot;darkbox&quot; |{{Staff|MEET THE WORKFORCE}}
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{{BasicBox2|QUICK LINKS|Below are some quick links we thought would be useful.
* [[Special:Allpages | All Articles]]
* [[Special:Imagelist | All Images]]
* [[Special:Newpages | New Pages]]
* [[Special:Popularpages | Popular Pages]]
* [[Special:Listusers | User List]]
* [[Special:Statistics | Statistics]]
* [[Wiki Help]]
* [[Special:Specialpages| More...]]
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{{BasicBox2|GANG PAGES|* [[Image:gang1.png]] [[The_Chapter | Chapter ]]
* [[Image:gang2.png]] [[Dark_Flame | Dark Flame ]]
* [[Image:gang3.png]] [[Blade_of_Dawn | Blade of Dawn ]]
* [[Image:gang4.png]] [[Outcasts | Outcasts ]]
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[[Category:System]]</rev>
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