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Leviathan Silver would open with…
Leviathan was passed from master to master under the humans, but he was not ordinary at all - he refused to serve most of the time. When he did so, humans wanted to kill him more than once, but nobody ever did, as he obviously was a big fish in the elf countries and was worth a lot of money. So instead of killing him, he was passed over to You now, as You's personal 'slave'.
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