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Both Karol and Nan suffer from a post-traumatic fear of monsters
Two twelve-year-olds forced to face off against monsters, both of whom lost their parents to monster attacks when they were still much smaller? PTSD is beyond understandable, and would explain a few things on both sides. With Karol it's fairly obvious. At the start of the story his first reaction to anything that even might be a monster is to run and hide; it's all he can do to jump out with his eyes closed wildly swinging a sword so big that it ends up swinging him instead. With Nan, however, a similar phobia would explain a great deal. When she's facing off against the player's entirely human party, she easily stands as a high-level boss character. Despite this, she's also shown nearly dying to plant monsters that, despite their size, should be easy enough to kill with one hit. This would make much more sense if she struggles not to freeze up around monsters, unable or desperately fighting not to run but also unable to fight properly. This would also add to her conflict with Karol, as not only does she see his tendency to run as abandoning her and his other friends in the face of what she fears most, but she may also project some self-loathing onto him, turning her frustration with her own inability to conquer her fears into fury at him; and when he eventually comes back with the complete monster book, having conquered his fears spectacularly and in part for her sake, her breakdown hits all the deeper for such context.

The Entelexia are Pokémon
Ba'ul is explicitly stated- and shown- to have evolved. Presumably, they landed some time ago, having come from whatever planet it is Pokémon originally came from. They leave magic rocks behind due to their systems processing the aer differently than humans, and the planet featured in the Pokémon games is a magicless world. They are also much stronger than usual Pokémon, again due to their unusual physiological reaction to the aer.
  • They transform into Spirits because they were so powerful in life. All Pokémon turn into spirits upon death- they simply generally turn into the Gengar-chain, Misdreavus, etc, which presumably generate mana in minute quantities (enough to mantain existence, but not much more). Aer absorbtion has caused the Entelexia to become strong enough to produce so much excess mana post-spirit-conversion that it can form the basis of a new planetary magic system.
    • It also logically follows that, if one were to kill Mewtwo (or any Legendary Pokémon), the resulting Ghost Pokémon should be able to power a large conclave of wizards with its mana.
      • This means, of course, that whatever team follows Galactic should have the assassination of a Legendary and the control of its subsequent (presumably unique?) Ghost-type as part of their evil plan.

Estelle is pregnant with Flynn's child
Estelle needing to warn Flynn that he was in danger was all a rouse. Flynn was a rising star in the Imperial Knights. He doesn't need Estelle to come out and tell him about danger. Besides, he was more than capable of handling it himself. No, the reason that she had to sneak out of the castle and associate with a known criminal was that she had just found out that she was pregnant with her and Flynn's illicit love child, and she had to tell him before word began to spread around the court, which would jeopardize Flynn's career and Estelle's chances and succeeding the throne. Of course, she stopped caring once her whole world started to unravel.
  • Given that the game seems to take place over the course of several weeks or months, and the ending credits show time passing even beyond that, and she never shows, the logical - and extremely unfortunate - conclusion is that she miscarried the baby at some point, probably when she was being held captive and tortured.
    • Or, as a less depressing alternative, she had a pregnancy scare but realised it was a false alarm at some point after she had set out on her journey. She decided to continue the journey anyway because, well, she wanted to.
  • Doesn't seem likely, since Estelle denies any romantic involvement with Flynn in two separate skits. And as previously mentioned above, nothing supports the theory in-game.

Flynn is a replica of Guy from Tales of the Abyss
They look identical. Just look at them.

That object in Rita's drawer was...
The game takes place on Derris-Kharlan
...before it entered orbit around the planet of Symphonia/Phantasia. The Halure tree is the Great Kharlan tree, which is later to be transplanted. The mana creation, the spirits created, the spirit of the tree... its all too much to be a coincidence.
  • Given the veil the Halure spirit dropped, this implies that Ratatosk started out self-identifying as female, and later changed its mind to male. Since spirits appear however they want to appear, the matter is purely one of choice.
  • The rest of the spirits were, as the game tells us, born from blastia. The stronger the blastia was in life, the stronger the resulting spirit (apparently, one doozy of an Entelexia was being used somewhere, given that Origin was produced).
    • Shadow was born from the barrier blastia of Dahngrest, based on the whole "never brighter than twilight" thing they have going there.
    • Origin was born from the blastia core used to power Zaude.
    • Luna and Aska would be formed from Capua Torim and Capua Nor, explaining their close connection in spite of being separate spirits.
    • Maxwell was born of Khronos. Both support Floating Hidden Elf Villiages. Also Khrona is stated to be very old, and will undergo spirt conversion when he finally dies.
  • At some point after the game ends, but before they enter orbit around the world of Symphonia/Phantasia, the Human race and the Krityan race breed together. The resulting species has the hair of humans, the lifespan and mentality of Krityans, and human ingenuity and propensity for violence. They call themselves "elves". By the time the planetoid reaches the stable orbit around Symphonia/Phantasia world, they have forgotten that they were once two species.

Kratos and Dhaos were tourists
Assumes the above WMG to be true.Kratos appears in the bonus dungeon, and returns for the colosseum along with Dhaos and two people from other dimensions/worlds/timelines. Now, if this game is indeed the dawn of mana, it would truly be an event for the history books, a momentous occasion. Kratos and Dhaos both have access to time travel- Origin, the Eternal Sword, and Thor for Dhaos. At some point, both of them decided that they want to go back and meet the creators of mana and summon spirits, so they asked the relevant parties nicely for a portal and a pickup time a few weeks later. The mysterious bonus dungeon was Kratos going waaay overboard on a magical interview- he was going through their memories as a sort of interview in such a way as to minimize their contact with him and prevent paradoxes.

Terca Lumireis is an ancient form of Aselia, and Tales of Vesperia is a distant prequel to Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Phantasia.
Similar to the above theory on Tales of Vesperia taking place on Dherris Kharlan, but with the variables arranged in a different way.
  • All of the Blastia are converted into mana at the end of Vesperia, replacing the planet's aer supply and creating the constant mana bank in Symphonia and Phantasia. Simple enough.
  • The Halure Tree grows up to become the Kharlan Tree, then Symphonia happens and it basically becomes Yggdrasill.
  • The Blastia conversion process turns Brave Vesperia (the defense system designed to restrain the Adephagos) into a giant blob of mana in deep space. This comprises Derris Kharlan's meteor form in Symphonia and its planetary form in Phantasia.
  • Vesperia's Krityans are Symphonia and Phantasia's elves, just... evolved in some way. Possibly similar to the Klingon ridge phenomenon.
  • The Dein Nomos is the Eternal Sword; its original name is lost over the course of thousands of years. The reason why Lloyd can wield it as a pair of sabers and it looks completely different when Cless receives it is because Tales of Vesperia tells you the Dein Nomos is supposed to change its appearance based on its user.
  • Mint's family is the last of the Children of the Full Moon bloodline, and the unicorns are the last surviving Entelexeia. Mint, just like Estelle, can use her own form of magic that's independent from her planet's energy supply. The unicorn in Tales of Phantasia is the only animal in its world capable of communicating with certain humans, and it's no coincidence that its body transforms into a strange device that reacts to and amplifies Mint's powers after it dies (i.e. the Unicorn Horn staff is just a really fancy Apatheia). Then there's the fact Tales of Vesperia actually has a breed of Entelexeia that look like unicorns.

On the other hand, Vesperia is a prequel to Tales of Xillia
  • The fact that Ba'ul appears as an attachment and that Gnome is sitting on a map of Terca Lumereis suggests that both things could be part of the mythology of the world of Rieze Maxia.
  • The Adephagos is destroyed and turns into spirits, and the Four Great Spirits are already there, obviously, so that explains that connection.
  • Rita is shown to be Doing Science of some kind during the credits, trying to figure out a way to harness the new form of energy created by the conversion of aer. What she invents turns out to be spyrix.
  • The Child of the Full Moon can manipulate aer without a blastia, and the Kritya can speak to Entelexeia through their minds. So either the descendants of the Child of the Full Moon or the Kritya become spirit channelers, those with mana lobes who can actually interact with spirits.
  • After a while, Yuri, who is friends with the Child of the Full Moon and the Kritya (through Judith), speaks to them and realizes that they're having trouble with the new kind of magic. He puts together that people are killing spirits by using Rita's technology. He realizes that he can't destroy spyrix because people are dependent on it, but he can't let the spirits die either. He goes to Aurnion, which is the only place on the planet not dependent on spyrix (because it was never dependent on blastia to begin with) and divides it from the rest of the world. The Four Great Spirits are indebted to him, in part, for their creation, and he's the one with the giant feather sword that made all the other spirits. He's technically the father of the spirits - so he's the one who (spoilers for Xillia) creates the schism and becomes Maxwell.

Literary Agent Hypothesis: The game is an adaptation of the book Estelle wrote in the credits.
Assuming I'm reading the game's made-up runic language correctly, she is writing "Tales of Vesperia" by the end credits. Obviously, it would've been difficult for her given how she spent a quarter of the game being held captive, but that's easily explainable: the party filled her in. This might also justify a lot of the other characters being Out of Focus, and the plot focusing mainly on her and Yuri's exploits.

The giant hole Kowz stands in front of is a portal to the world of Aldurant.
Since Ant Lion Man appears in both Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Vesperia, and his home-slice Kowz is running an identical scam as the one he ran in Tales of The Abyss (Drop items into hole, get cool stuff in return) I can only theorize that the hole said items are dropped into is a portal between Tales of The Abyss and Tales of Vesperia.

Karol is related to Lloyd and Presea.
He looks like he could be either ancestor, taking one of earlier WMG about Vesperia being on Dherris-Kharlan, or descended if Lloyd or his children happened to end up in Vesperia world (maybe looking for Kratos?) and fathered Karol. As for Presea, she could be his mother or grandparent from different parent than Lloyd's descendant. Either that or he would be the distant ancestor to both Presea, her gaining his ability to wield axes at such a puny size and Lloyd getting his looks and spirits. (Probably being from Anna's part of family rather than Kratos'). Also, he gets Lloyd's costume in the PS3 version, and Klonoa's too, which was Presea's costume.
  • In my opinion, Karol is Lloyd's other self, his alter ego. Lloyd is confident, stubborn, wants nothing more than to rid the world of racism, etc, while Karol is cowardly, has no confidence and basically just does what his friends do, although he does eventually grow a backbone.

Yuri Lowell is a disguised, or reincarnated, prinny.
In the japanese version, for Brutal Fang he says "ohh-ee-ssu," something a prinny would say. Not to mention Brutal Fang itself is a spam attack when you use it correctly (sort of like Kenshiro's signature attack and a prinny using his knives).

Yuri can use magic because of his blastia, he just chooses not to (to an extent).
It's stated that (for the most part) blastia is the reason why the characters in Tales of Vesperia can use magic. Yuri can use telekinesis, explaining how he can do those cool tricks with his weapon. He decides (with the exception of some things like Azure Edge, Final Gale, the Divine Wolves, etc.) not to use his magic outside of said aforementioned tricks, however, because he's JUST THAT BADASS.
  • Jossed. He tells Estelle that he "doesn't have the brain" for working out magical formulas. Note that in Vesperia, Strike Artes and Magic are considered two different things and all magic requires a specific formula to use no matter how minimal it may be, which manifests as casting time. Yuri never needs such such time.

The reason Yuri is so good at twirling his sword and overall looking flashy while fighting is because he was an auxiliary in a high school competition marching band.
Many of the tricks Yuri does with his sword greatly resemble tricks auxiliaries will do with flags, staffs, or whatever prop they happen to be using. Go watch a quality competition marching band (not a show band). Watch the auxiliaries. If they're any good, they'll likely be twirling their props around freakishly fast, all the while doing whatever moves they're doing for the drill.

The Adephagos is in fact a being sent by the gods to bring about the apocalypse when humanity becomes too powerful; when one dies, someone or something stronger must replace it after death in order to carry out the cycle of death and rebirth established by the gods.
Pretty self-explanatory. The Adephagos was created by the gods to keep humanity from progressing too far. What is a common recurring thing in the Tales series? Some civilization that came long before the current, yet each was destroyed. The explanation? Said civilization became too powerful and was destroyed by the Adephagos. It makes sense. The military and governments of Terca Lumieris were the first to realize the purpose of the Adephagos, and, realizing the immense power of the Children of the Full Moon, began sacrificing them to temporarily hold back the Adephagos, though they were only delaying the inevitable.

Along comes Yuri and friends. All this time, the Adephagos has only been held back by sacrifices of other Children of the Full Moon (Estelle's not the only one; the PS3 version confirms this by stating that anyone with pink hair is a Child of the Full Moon, and likely redheads if their color is light enough. This means that Zagi is one as well, and this fact is alluded to in the PS3 version.) This will be explained later. As we know, Yuri manages to kill the Adephagos, making him the only individual strong enough to kill it (Duke is possibly another option, but Yuri was able to defeat him, so...). By killing it, Yuri has disrupted the cycle of death and rebirth. The gods will not let this problem go unattended, and will not allow the crime of breaking the natural order go unpunished.

Sometime during Yuri’s travels post-game, he dies either by “natural” means (illness) or gets killed by a deity, angel, or devil in a human form. After his death, he ends up becoming their new bringer of death and destruction. He’s basically no longer human- he’s the Adephagos’ replacement. We all know he doesn’t like killing innocents, so the gods likely very thoroughly brainwashed him or simply use their power to remove his control over his own body while it acts on the wishes of the gods, killing everyone and everything as Yuri’s forced to watch himself kill his friends and/or their progeny as punishment for killing the Adephagos in the first place. And if and when he gets put down, his killer will be the next in line... Sweet dreams.

The Adephagos is a metaphor for pollution
The Adephagos becomes stronger because of the Blastia being used - the blastia are obviously a metaphor for technology. It's also unintentionally brought about because people didn't know about it, just like how in real life, people didn't realize the consequences of their actions and wound up causing something like the Cuyahoga River fire(s). That actually makes the Green Aesop a little more believable, since Alexei wasn't all "Screw the world I'm getting profit!", he unintentionally brought the Adephagos back.
  • This isn't Wild Mass Guessing. This is the entire point the game was obviously trying to make.

Yuri, Rita, Judith, and Estelle are the OT4.
I must be true because it's awesome.
  • So it follows that at some point worlds collide and Yuri must duel Ragna the Pimp-Edge for his title.
  • There's at least one 18+ doujin focusing on this.

Karol and Nan are brother and sister.
Both Karol and Nan have parents missing from the picture. Said parents were killed by monsters. This caused a change of lifestyle for them, and while Nan began to hate monsters and joined the Hunting Blades, Karol grew fearful and has since cowered from them. Also, it is never stated for a fact that Karol has a crush on Nan, just that he wishes to impress her. Estelle and the others assume it is a crush, but Karol never outright admits it. He also never corrects them, perhaps because he doesn't realize that they believe Karol crushes on Nan, or because he's too embarrassed at their conclusion to do so.

Ring A Bell/Kane wo Narashite is about Yuri and Flynn.
Ring A Bell describes the relationship between opposites: Light and dark, up and down, day and dusk. Despite being opposing forces, they're seen as complimentary and inseparable; similarly, Yuri and Flynn's subplot is driven by their differences in outlook and method despite their beliefs being ultimately the same. Of course, their differences are played up in their appearances as well: The black-haired, dark-eyed, dark-clothed Yuri is plainly the dark/shadow aspect ("Although I bare fangs to the dusk"), while the blond-haired, blue-eyed, white-and-blue-wearing Flynn is clearly the light... which is also his elemental affiliation. Fire, as in his PS3 Mystic Arte, is also a derivative of Light and generally utilized by J-media heroes. Note that Kane wo Narashite is also the theme of The First Strike, a movie revolving around Yuri and Flynn's shared yet parallel experience in the Knights (and lacking Estelle, about whom the theme could also concern).

Flynn is a descendant of Aslan Frings and Josette Cecille.
He has elements of Frings' personality and bears and Uncanny Family Resemblance to Cecille's relative, Guy Cecil.
  • Would have to be a long time from them, since Cecille and Frings lived in Yormgen, according to writing on the wall at the Inn there, but they do canonically exist in the universe of Vesperia!

Yuri and Flynn are Lelouch and Suzaku
Because Yuri destroys the empire and Flynn reforms it. Without forgetting the rest. Estellise is Euphemia, Rita is Kallen and finally, Karol is Rolo. Wouldn't this make some snse.

Rita Mordio is actually a noble - but probably doesn't realize it.
The first place Yuri investigates is "Mordio"'s mansion... In the Noble Quarter of Zaphias. He later finds someone actually named Mordio... Who cannot remember her parents because they died when she was too young. Unlikely to be a coincidence (though the robber was just using the Mordio family name for some advantage).
  • Notably, the mansion, while dark, appears to be well-kempt - as if staff are being ordered to maintain the place even though the entire family is either missing or dead, as if it's expected that, someday, Rita will return and inherit her noble title. (Something I can't picture her particularly wanting - she'd probably find some use for it though.)
  • Rita states that she's had to take care of herself for a long while - but yet still wound up in Aspio, an elite research city, at the age of ten. It's very possible someone recognized her, or some peculiar mark she wear or something, and the city quickly took her in on that basis. It is unlikely that they would realize she was a Teen Genius on top until obsessiveness brought her success there - enough that no one in Aspio wants to reveal her actual heritage because doing so could cost them one of their best researchers.
  • Yuri probably caught on to Rita's nature very quickly - Mordio's not precisely a common name. Like Estelle, though, he saw no reason to bring it up. It's very possible that Flynn picked the hint up at some point, too. Estelle, on the other hand, wouldn't be expected to recognize a noble house that died out when she was, at most, seven years old... And even if she found out, would be careful about revealing this to Rita for fear of tainting their friendship.
  • After it comes out in some fashion after the game's story, Rita sells off the house and as many assets as she can get away with, talks her way into becoming the Magistrate of Aspio, maybe expands her little house on the corner some, and gets right back to work.
Judith and Rita are half-sisters.
  • A series of optional scenes that ultimately reveal that Judith is the daughter of the scientist Hermes also seem to imply that Rita is somehow connected to Judith and/or Hermes. The flaw in this theory is that Rita never shows signs of being part Krityan (apart, arguably, from her talents with magic and blastia), but the game does leave the backstory of Rita, who is an orphan, wide open. Also one could argue that Judith's mother was Krityan, making her full blooded, while Rita's mother was human and Rita inherited her mother's human looks.

The reason Raven isn't bothered by the heat in the Desier...
is because that's where he was born. Likewise, the reason he dislikes the cold so much is because he was raised in such a hot environment.

The real purpose of Yuri's vigilante plot
It's mentioned on several pages of this article that the plot involving Yuri's vigilante murders gets abruptly dropped in favor of the Adephagos and a Green Aesop. Except...what if it wasn't? What if it was all just set-up for Character Development and the Green Aesop plot to begin with? Think about this for a moment: Yuri gets it into his head that some people are just outright evil or dangerous, a threat to everyone around them, and must be eliminated for the betterment of the world. Doesn't that sound a whole lot like the way Phaeroh viewed Estelle? Doesn't that sound a whole lot like the conclusion Duke had reached about humanity as a whole? In a way, they're being vigilantes too, attempting to pass judgement on others for what they perceive to be noble and righteous reasons.The subplot involving Yuri's vigilante behavior serves two purposes: it helps us, the players, better understand the motivations of those two antagonists because we get to see Yuri reach that same mindset. And it also serves to demonstrate Yuri maturing, as he's repeatedly put into a position where he has to argue against that mindset, for the sake of someone he knows genuinely means well and isn't causing harm intentionally. It shows the flaw in his vigilante mission, where getting so used to having the moral high ground and being able to pass down judgement and execute anyone he perceives to be evil will lead him to acting like Phaeroh and Duke, attempting to kill innocents without giving them a chance to change their ways.It's handled with subtlety, but the connection is there.

Ioder passed a law that made homosexuality illegal in the Empire.
This is a VERY dark Alternate Character Interpretation of someone who's otherwise a Nice Guy, but Rita actually asks "Oh, he's here?" when they rescue him from the ship, vaguely implying disappointment at saving him and there's nothing that indicates Ioder would want to suppress blastia research (her only other notable interest aside from Estelle). Draw your own conclusions.
  • Rita likely thinks Ioder is too much to bother herself with, 'specially at the start there when she hasn't warmed up to anyone (she doesn't until Heliord, which is a town and a half plus a dungeon after they rescue Ioder from the ship). She clearly doesn't know anyone outside Aspio, and she barely even remembers Flynn despite him just being there (even in Aspio, she doesn't seem to know too many people- look how she regards Witcher), so it seems a bit far-fetched to assume she knows who Ioder is, and if homosexuality was illegal in the Empire and this upset Rita, wouldn't that make Rita want to join a guild, since they're not bound by the Empire? She could easily join Ruin's Gate, the blastia excavation guild, if she had any issues with the Empire. And isn't she the one who asks who Ioder is once you get to Torim Harbor? Ioder isn't writing laws while he's the possible successor to the throne any more than Estelle is. Considering Rita's attitude, she just thinks of Ioder as a bother since he's not a blastia. Also, in a skit just after the Don reads a "letter" from "Ioder", Rita's one of the first to say that Ioder wouldn't say something like that (getting rid of the Don to pardon Barbos)- if she truly had an issue with Ioder, she'd say "well, we don't know what he's capable of- you can't trust first impressions, after all" or something. So if he did pass that law, Rita doesn't seem to care, but it seems really unlikely.
  • Also, are you talking about the scene in Capua Torim, where she's talking about Ragou?

Animals doesn't like Estelle because they can sense she's not a normal being.
This is why animals in general don't like Estelle- they can sense aer manipulates differently around her. Even in other games, animals have a strong aversion to Estelle. Simply put, Repede always knew Estelle was the Child of the Full Moon, he just didn't have a name for what made Estelle so different.

The blastia known as Zaude and Brave Vesperia were named after the "brother and sister" from Estelle's story in Nordopolica.
Now what I mean by that is that there really were a pair of siblings whose names were Zaude and Vesperia. They weren't blood siblings, however, as Vesperia was actually an Entelexia that took on a human form, similar to Khroma's Krityan form, but he allowed himself to be "raised" alongside Zaude to keep an eye on her (whose power was possibly the strongest). When the Adephagos was born, Vesperia gave up his life to become the apatheia that would power the blastia they were sending to the skies, and Zaude was among the Children of the Full Moon to give up her life, but due to her being the most powerful one and her brother giving up his life to become a blastia himself, the second blastia was named after her.

Alexei and Duke were brothers.
Red eyes and silver hair are not common in this game- the Red Eyes refer to the lenses they wear, not their eye colour. Alexei and Duke are the only characters to have this distinction. They're more likely half-brothers or one of them changed their last name (possibly Duke). They both have very deep voices, two of the deepest in the entire game. While Alexei's hair is more grey, they both still have silver hair. They would serve as complete contrasts to one another, as well, and Alexei seems to know who Duke is. It's possible that it was from Duke that Alexei learnt about apatheia, back before the war and before Duke started to resent humanity, and that it was Alexei who carried out Elucifer's murder. His own brother having a hand in his best friend's death may be why Duke turned his back so firmly on humans. They definitely seem to know each other- Alexei knows Duke is with Khroma (who he is pursuing for her apatheia) and Duke doesn't ask who Alexei is when Karol tells him that Alexei has Estelle- he only says "I see. So he has made his move". Alexei also knows Duke's name and that he had Dein Nomos.

The Apetheia powering Heracles used to be Elucifer.
In a cruel twist of irony.

The spirits that came from the barrier blastia returned to protect the cities they came from.
I mean, it'd be nice if that happened. Halure is noted to have already undergone spirit conversion before Undine did, and it still maintains a barrier (provided you did the sidequests about it).

Ba’ul is fated to become the spirit known as Origin.
Ba’ul refuses to become an apatheia for two reasons: one, he’s too young. Two, he loves Judith too much. It stands to reason, then, that he will live on for some time as Judith’s partner. If the other Entelexeia became the spirits Undine, Efreet, Gnome and Sylph, then it stands to reason that Ba’ul could become Origin. As the youngest, Origin would be much stronger when compared to his brethren- and since he witnesses the events of Vesperia, he is the wisest and threfore the most prepared to be the spirit that unifies the others. He saw them become spirits, after all. And food for thought: the spirit carrying Myorzo? Maxwell.

Vesperia, canonically, is the first tale in the series. Therefore, Vesperia is actually a prequel.
Consider: Vesperia sees the birth of the basic spirits of the series as we know them. The Halure tree is the Kharlan Tree. Vesperia No. 2 becomes the Eternal Sword. Estellise could be the first angel- or the first incarnation of Martel. The Kritya become elves. And lastly, the dead blastia get repurposed into Exspheres.

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