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[[Vasher|Peacegiver the Blessed]] left Hallandren and its priests with a vast store of approximately fifty thousand breathsBreaths: '''Peacegiver's Treasure'''.{{book ref|wb|4032}}, Healso commandedcalled the priests'''Light notof toPeace'''{{book useref|wb|15}}. itThe priesthood now believes that Peacegiver died when giving them the Breath, sobut that he may one day returnReturn andagain claimto reclaim it{{book ifref|wb|40}}. heHe neededgave the priests a commission: to protect the Breath, and never to use it.{{book ref|wb|40}} They created the succession of the godGod kingsKings--taking stillborn infants, cutting out their tongues, and passing on the treasure of breathsBreaths to them, andessentially usingturning them as ainto storehousestorehouses--in order to fulfill this task.{{book ref|wb|55}} In addition, they provide each God King with two or more Breaths a week, steadily adding to the amount of Breath Peacegiver's Treasure actually contains{{book ref|wb|29}}.
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