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Jan 31, 2009 by Kurt "Telas" Schneider11

Tales of an Ancient Empire

If Synnibar was a movie… Let’s get in the wayback machine and set the dial to the early 1980s. Reagan was just elected president, the Rubik’s Cube is all the rage, and Great Britain goes to war over a few sheep-filled islands in the south Atlantic. And one of the awesomest fantasy films ever is released: The Sword and the Sorcerer. (Yes, it’s the one with the three-bladed rocket powered ...

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