Midsummer Fire Festival Guide - Quest, Bonfire, Item Info + Walkthroughs!

Post by Miyari

Update: The latest version of this guide can be found here:
http://www.wowhead.com/guide=midsummer-fire-festival

Midsummer is here! World of Warcraft's Midsummer Fire Festival runs from June 21 to July 4, and this year's festivities are better than ever! Acquire flaming new threads, a sweet tabard, or even a new companion!

There are bonfires located in each major capital city, which are surrounded by questgivers, Midsummer Celebrants, and a Midsummer Supplier (A) or Midsummer Merchant (H) who sells items in exchange for Burning Blossom. There are 'Commoner' NPCs of all races (including goblins!) that can be found lingering around the major cities and will give you a short but unnecessary quest to turn in at a bonfire camp.

The main Midsummer Festival bonfire camps can be found at the following locations:

Alliance:

Horde:

Table of Contents
If you hate reading and just want to skip ahead to a summarized quest list, you can jump ahead to this post. But I hope at least one person reads everything in-between! For those people, I present to you a table of contents!

Torches, Torches, Torches! + Summer Scorchlings
Covers the new torch tossing and catching quests, and giving incense to little fire elementals.
Twilight Whatzits? A-who-ne?
Covers the quest that makes you go out to the Zoram Strand, and the summoning of the big icy dude that drops lots of epics.
Festival Bonfires
Bonfire locations (with coordinates) and quest information! Blossoms and gold galore!
Mission Impossible (Improbable on a PVE server!)
Sneaking around enemy cities for fun and profit.
The Quest Summary
Almost everything you'd probably ever want to know about Midsummer, summarized!
Quick F.A.Q.
Your questions answered.

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Post by Miyari

Torches, Torches, Torches!

The Master Fire Eater (A) or Master Flame Eater (H) located near the bonfire offers a two-part quest chain which unlocks two daily quests that can be completed for gold as well as Burning Blossom. The first quest is Torch Tossing (Alliance | Horde), for which you are given Practice Torches that you must aim and throw at a series of braziers found nearby the questgiver. A brazier is only considered an active target when it has an arrow above it that looks like a Hunter's Mark; non-marked braziers will not count towards the quest objective. When you use the torch you will be given a small targeting circle that you must place over an active brazier and click to toss. You are given x seconds to hit 8 targets, and if you are successful you are awarded with Burning Blossom x5 and gold (and experience, if you are lower than 70).

Once you have completed the first quest, the NPC will then offer you Torch Catching (Alliance | Horde). For this quest, you must light the Unlit Torches at the bonfire, which will then toss a flaming torch into the air. You have to follow the shadow of the torch, and then wait where it will land to "catch" it. If you miss, but are near where it lands you will suffer fire damage which can add up pretty quick if you're not yet used to the quest. When you catch the torch, there will be a very short delay before you will automatically toss it back up into the air, only this time it will travel a much shorter distance. You must "catch" the torch four times in a row to complete the quest, and you will be rewarded with Juggling Torch x5 and Burning Blossom x5.

Once you have completed both of these quests, repeatable daily quest version of both quests become available, aptly titled More Torch Tossing (Alliance | Horde) and More Torch Catching (Alliance | Horde). Completing each quest, daily, will award Burning Blossom x5 however they are a bit more challenging (this time requiring hitting 20 braziers, and catching 10 torches.)

Summer Scorchlings - No this isn't where you get the pet :(

For Alliance players, the Festival Loremaster located near a major city's bonfire gives a quest called Incense for the Summer Scorchlings which asks you to go visit a Scorchling, found near a Flame Keeper, at a fire outside any city. For Horde players, the Festival Talespinner offers Incense for the Festival Scorchlings which is essentially the same quest.

To complete this objective, simply go outside whichever city you received the quest and find the nearest bonfire, and speak to the Scorchling to complete the quest. You can complete this quest at basically any of your faction's fires, it doesn't matter which one. The quest is ridiculously easy and awards only single Burning Blossom, but the short event following completion is quite a treat.

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Twilight Whatzits? A-who-ne?

At each major city capital camp there is an Earthen Ring Elder representing the faction neutral Earthen Ring, an organization of shaman similar to the druids' Cenarion Circle. The Elder will offers a short quest chain starting with Unusual Activity, for which you must travel to the Zoram Strand of Ashenvale and slay level 20+ Twilight Firesworn until the Twilight Correspondence drops. Once you receive it, use the Totemic Beacon to summon an Earthen Ring Guide to complete the quest.

The Guide will then give you the next part of the quest, An Innocent Disguise for which you are given an orb that changes you into a Crawler for three minutes. In your new disguise, you must travel northwest of the entrance of Blackfathom Depths - you will know you're going the right way if you periodically find blue-flamed torches, and eventually a small encampment on the shore. While disguised, witness the exchange between the naga and the Ice Caller Briatha until the quest completes. When it is finished, you can move out of range of the mobs and cancel the disguise, and summon the Earthen Ring Guide once again. This time, upon relaying the information, the guide will give you the quest Inform the Elder, requesting that you return to an Earthen Ring Elder and report your findings.

Once you have returned to an Earthen Ring Elder, the quest chain will complete and either one or two quests will become available, depending on your level. For characters level 22 and above, a repeatable daily quest will open up. The quest is called Striking Back, and depending on your level range you will be given a single objective at a location in Azeroth or Outland.

Striking Back (Level 22) - This quest has you summon and kill a Frostwave Lieutenant from an Ice Stone located at the Zoram Strand, Ashenvale. Awards Burning Blossom x10 and 3 silver 50 copper.
Striking Back (Level 32) - This quest has you summon and kill a Hailstone Lieutenant from an Ice Stone at Ethel Rethor, Desolace. Awards Burning Blossom x10 and 8 silver.
Striking Back (Level 43) - This quest has you summon and kill a Chillwind Lieutenant from an Ice Stone in Stranglethorn Vale. Desolace. Awards Burning Blossom x10 and 15 silver.
Striking Back (Level 51) - This quest has you summon and kill a Frigid Lieutenant from an Ice Stone in the northwestern part of Searing Gorge. Awards Burning Blossom x10 and 19 silver.
Striking Back (Level 60) - This quest has you summon and kill a Glacial Lieutenant from an Ice Stone at Twilight's Run, Silithus. Awards Burning Blossom x10 and 23 silver.
Striking Back (Level 67) - This quest has you summon and kill a Glacial Templar from an Ice Stone near the Dark Portal, in Hellfire Peninsula. Awards Burning Blossom x10 and 94 silver.

If you character is level 65 or higher, the Earthen Ring Elder will offer a second quest, Ahune, the Frost Lord. This quest asks you to travel to the Slave Pens in Zangarmarsh in search of Numa Cloudsister, who is located right inside the instance. This quest, and it's follow-up, are not actually required to summon Ahune! You can summon Ahune by going straight to Luma Skymother, without having completed any other Midsummer quest.

When you turn in that quest she will give the quest Ahune is Here! and ask that you find Luma Skymother, who is located a bit further into the instance. Finally, Luma will give you the quest Summon Ahune, granting you an Earthen Ring Magma Totem allowing you to (you guessed it) summon Ahune <The Frost Lord>. Use the totem at the Ice Stone located just beyond Luma and defeat Ahune to complete the quest, which awards 4 gold 40 silver and experience (or an additional 7 gold 59 silver at level 70). The Ice Stone is located before the first boss of the instance, so essentially you could repeatedly farm the encounter provided you have enough players to keep summoning, without ever having to kill a normal boss.

If this is your first time killing Ahune, he will drop an item called Shards of Ahune which starts the quest Shards of Ahune. Accept the quest and bring the shard to Luma Skymother, and she will reward you with Burning Blossom x20 and your choice of a unique tabard: the Tabard of Summer Skies or the Tabard of Summer Flame. You can only complete this quest once, so you will not be able to receive both tabards on the same character (well, not until next year at least)! The quest to summon Ahune can only be completed once per day, per person. Which means that if you have a five person party, each person can complete the quest to summon him one time (provided you didn't actually save yourself to the Heroic) and you could potentially do five runs, one after another. Even if you have killed the boss, as long as at least one person in your party is able to take the quest and summon him you'll have yet another chance at some of the phat loot he drops!

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Festival Bonfires

There are a total of 62 festival bonfires spread throughout Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, and Outland - 32 for the Alliance and 30 for the Horde. If you visit one of your faction's bonfires, you can speak to the nearby Flame Keeper to Honor the Flame, which will reward you with Burning Blossom x5 and 5 gold 95 silver at level 70. If you visit one of the opposing faction's bonfires, you can right-click to Desecrate this Fire!, which will extinguish the flame and will reward Burning Blossom x10 and 11 gold 99 silver at level 70. The bonfires in the major cities do NOT pertain to these quests. Not only does visiting these fires grant a ton of money for level 70 characters, it is also extremely good experience for pre-70 characters (the experience gain will typically scale according to your level)! Considering the great experience for little effort and the character buffs detailed further below, this is a great opportunity for some easy experience! :)

As a Horde player at level 70, if you visit every bonfire you will gain a total of 178 gold 50 silver for the Horde bonfires and 383 gold 68 silver for the Alliance bonfires (562 gold 18 silver total).
As an Alliance player at level 70, if you visit every bonfire you will gain a total of 190 gold 40 silver for the Alliance bonfires and 359 gold 70 silver for the Horde bonfires (550 gold 10 silver total).

Eastern Kingdoms

Arathi Highlands: Refuge Pointe (A) · Hammerfall (H)
Badlands: Kargath (H)
Blasted Lands: Nethergarde Keep (A)
Burning Steppes: Morgan's Vigil (A) · Flame Crest (H)
Dun Morogh: Kharanos (A)
Duskwood: Darkshire (A)
Elwynn Forest: Goldshire (A)
Eversong Woods: North Sanctum (H)
Ghostlands: Tranquillien (H)
Hillsbrad Foothills: Southshore (A) · Tarren Mill (H)
Loch Modan: Thelsamar (A)
Redridge Mountains: Lakeshire (A)
Silverpine Forest: The Sepulcher (H)
Stranglethorn Vale: Booty Bay (A) · Booty Bay (H)
Swamp of Sorrows: Stonard (H)
The Hinterlands: Aerie Peak (A) · Revantusk Village (H)
Tirisfal Glades: Brill (H)
Western Plaguelands: Chillwind Camp (A)
Westfall: Sentinel Hill (A)
Wetlands: Menethil Harbor (A)

Kalimdor

Ashenvale: Astranaar (A) · Splintertree Post (H)
Azuremyst Isle: Azure Watch (A)
Bloodmyst Isle: Blood Watch (A)
Darkshore: Auberdine (A)
Desolace: Nijel's Point (A) · Shadowprey Village (H)
Durotar: Razor Hill (H)
Dustwallow Marsh: Theramore Isle (A) · Brackenwall Village (H)
Feralas: Feathermoon Stronghold (A) · Camp Mojache (H)
Mulgore: Bloodhoof Village (H)
Silithus: Cenarion Hold (A) · Cenarion Hold (H)
Stonetalon Mountains: Sun Rock Retreat (H)
Tanaris: Gadgetzan (A) · Gadgetzan (H)
Teldrassil: Dolanaar (A)
The Barrens: Crossroads (H)
Thousand Needles: Freewind Post (H)
Winterspring: Everlook (A) · Everlook (H)

Outland

Blade's Edge Mountains: Sylvanaar (A) · Thunderlord Stronghold (H)
Hellfire Peninsula: Honor Hold (A) · Thrallmar (H)
Nagrand: Telaar (A) · Garadar (H)
Netherstorm: Area 52 (A) · Area 52 (H)
Shadowmoon Valley: Wildhammer Stronghold (A) · Shadowmoon Village (H)
Terokkar Forest: Allerian Stronghold (A) · Stonebreaker Hold (H)
Zangarmarsh: Telredor (A) · Zabra'Jin (H)

In addition to awarding easy gold and Burning Blossom, there are a number of player buffs that are available from the various festival fire locations. At each bonfire you will find a Ribbon Pole, which creates a colorful streamer to your hand and causes your character to twirl very quickly (such as the effect of Whirlwind). In addition to being rather hilarious, you will gain the Ribbon Dance buff which increases experience gain by 10% for 3 minutes, stacking 3 more minutes on for every 3 seconds you remain twirling at the Ribbon Pole. The buff stacks up to a one hour duration (after 1 minute of twirling) and can stack with rested experience, so get it while it's hot! If a player throws a Burning Blossom into a festival fire, all surrounding players will gain the Fire Festival Fury buff, granting +3% physical/spell critical strike and reflecting Fire damage to attackers for 1 hour, and scales with your player level. As if that wasn't enough, if you happen to be at a festival flame that has been extinguished and no longer burns, tossing a Burning Blossom into it will grant a zone-wide buff Bonfire's Blessing which gives your faction's players a 30% chance to inflict 10 Fire damage on any melee, ranged, or spell attack, increasing by 10 Fire damage per level.

Post by Miyari

Example Experience! (Incomplete, tell me your findings!)
On a level 62 character, you will gain 1 gold 40 silver + 5000 experience for "honoring" a friendly fire, and 2 gold 70 silver + 10050 experience for "desecrating" an enemy fire.
On a level 63 character, you will gain 1 gold 50 silver + 5250 experience for "honoring" a friendly fire, and 2 gold 90 silver + 10400 experience for "desecrating" an enemy fire.
On a level 68 character, you will gain 2 gold + 6000 experience for "honoring" a friendly fire, and 3 gold 90 silver + 12000 experience for "desecrating" an enemy fire.
On a level 69 character, you will gain 4 gold 10 silver + 12300 experience for "desecrating" an enemy fire.
On a level 70 character, you will gain 5 gold 95 silver for "honoring" a friendly fire, and 11 gold 99 silver for "desecrating" an enemy fire.

Mission Impossible (Improbable on a PVE server!)

If you couldn't get enough of the bonfires spread throughout the world and like a challenge, players level 51 or above can dare to venture into the opposing faction's capital cities in an attempt to steal their flames! How exactly you "steal" fire is beyond me, but we can shove pack animals, an entire arsenal of fine weaponry, and gallons upon gallons of potions in 5 little bags on our person - so who am I to question the game's logic? Anyway, you can sneak into the enemy territory and attempt to snatch their flame, which is similar to extinguishing an enemy bonfire, only it does automatically put the item into your inventory, so make sure you have bagspace! This item will start a quest, which you really do not need to accept until you are ready to turn it in (you should probably be more focused on getting out of there, anyway). Alliance can turn these quests in to the Festival Loremaster, and Horde to the Festival Talespinner, located near any main city's bonfire (as well as in Shattrath).

There are four flames for each faction, one for every major capital city. They are not heavily guarded, and Festival-related NPCs will not attack you, but you should be wary of any surrounding guards and/or enemy players. The actual "looting" of the flame does not entirely break on damage but will suffer the same knock-back as any spell, so don't expect to successfully get the cast off if you are under attack (it is similar to casting your Hearthstone). It is possible to make these treks rather painless and easy, though as a Horde player every city I ventured into I managed to aggro a plethora of guards that would spawn endlessly out of thin air. Be careful.

Alliance

Stealing Orgrimmar's Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable
Stealing Thunder Bluff's Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable
Stealing the Undercity's Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable
Stealing Silvermoon's Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable

Horde

Stealing Stormwind's Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable
Stealing Ironforge's Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable
Stealing Darnassus' Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable
Stealing the Exodar's Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable

Fire locations for major capital cities can be found up in the first post.

For every flame you retrieve and turn in, you will be awarded Burning Blossom x25 and your choice from a variety of festival treats (which, sadly, have a limited duration). If you manage to steal all four of your opposing faction's flames, the quest A Thief's Reward (Alliance | Horde) becomes available to complete and the Loremaster / Talespinner will award you the Crown of the Fire Festival.

Post by Miyari

Quest Summary (a.k.a. "The Quick Version")

Given by: "Commoner" NPCs in major cities.
Where? Near mailboxes, standing around randomly cities.

The Master of Summer Lore (A) or The Spinner of Summer Tales (H) - Awards Burning Blossom x1

These quests are simply "breadcrumb" quests given by flavor NPCs in major cities to alert you to the Festival's start and to lead you to the Festival Fire camps. Awards a single Burning Blossom, and is turned in at the Festival Loremaster (A) or Festival Talespinner (H), who are found in their appropriate faction major cities (or Shattrath). This quest is not required, and the NPC will give the next quest regardless of its completion.

Given by: Festival Loremaster (A) or Festival Talespinner (H)
Where? Any major faction city near Festival Fire (locations here)

Incense for the Summer Scorchlings (A) or Incense for the Festival Scorchlings (H) - Awards Burning Blossom x1

A quick and easy quest, simply talk to the NPC to accept the quest and receive the Summer Incense, then walk outside the city and turn it in at a Scorchling located near any festival fire.

Given by: Master Fire Eater (A) or Master Flame Eater (H)
Where? Any major faction city near Festival Fire (locations here)

Torch Tossing (Alliance | Horde) - Awards Burning Blossom x5
More Torch Tossing (Alliance | Horde) - Repeatable Daily Quest, Awards Burning Blossom x5

Torch Catching (Alliance | Horde) - Awards Burning Blossom x5, Juggling Torch x5
More Torch Catching (Alliance | Horde) - Repeatable Daily Quest, Awards Burning Blossom x5

Given by: Earthen Ring Elder
Where? Any major faction city near Festival Fire (locations here)

Upon completion of this quest chain, a repeatable daily quest will be accessible to players level 22 and above. The quest you get is dependent on your current level.

Striking Back (Level 22) - Repeatable Daily Quest, Awards Burning Blossom x10 and 3 silver 50 copper
Striking Back (Level 32) - Repeatable Daily Quest, Awards Burning Blossom x10 and 8 silver
Striking Back (Level 43) - Repeatable Daily Quest, Awards Burning Blossom x10 and 15 silver
Striking Back (Level 51) - Repeatable Daily Quest, Awards Burning Blossom x10 and 19 silver
Striking Back (Level 60) - Repeatable Daily Quest, Awards Burning Blossom x10 and 23 silver
Striking Back (Level 67) - Repeatable Daily Quest, Awards Burning Blossom x10 and 94 silver

For players level 65 and above, an additional quest will become available. The first 2 parts of this quest chain are merely breadcrumb quests, intended to lead you to the next questgivers and do not need to be completed in order to continue the chain. This means you can walk right into Slave Pens and start the Ahune summoning chain without having done any previous quest.

Ahune, the Frost Lord
Ahune is Here!
Summon Ahune - Repeatable Daily Quest, Awards 4 gold 40 silver (+ 7 gold 59 silver at level 70)

Given by: Shards of Ahune
Where? Drops from Ahune <The Frost Lord> on player's first kill.

Shards of Ahune - Awards Burning Blossom x20, player's choice of either Tabard of Summer Skies or Tabard of Summer Flame

Upon successfully killing Ahune for the first time, he will drop a quest item that you return to Luma Skymother. This quest cannot be completed more than once (this year) - which means you will have to choose one tabard per character!

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Given by: Flame Keeper located near bonfires.
Where? Festival Bonfire locations.

Honor the Flame! - Awards Burning Blossom x5

This quest can only be completed once per location at Festival fires belonging to your faction.

Given by: Opposing faction bonfires.
Where? Festival Bonfire locations.

Desecrate this Fire! - Awards Burning Blossom x10

This quest can only be completed once per location at Festival fires belonging to the opposite faction.

Given by: Opposing faction bonfires located in their four major cities.
Where? Flames collected from Major City Festival Bonfire locations.

Alliance

Stealing Orgrimmar's Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable
Stealing Thunder Bluff's Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable
Stealing the Undercity's Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable
Stealing Silvermoon's Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable

Horde

Stealing Stormwind's Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable
Stealing Ironforge's Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable
Stealing Darnassus' Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable
Stealing the Exodar's Flame - Awards Burning Blossom x25, choice of consumable

These quests can only be completed by players level 50 or above. Completing these quests under level 70 will award experience based on your level. Once all four of the opposing faction's flames have been turned in, the following quest becomes available from the completion NPC.

A Thief's Reward (Alliance) - Awards Crown of the Fire Festival
A Thief's Reward (Horde) - Awards Crown of the Fire Festival

Feel free to mail any corrections to feedback@wowhead.com.

Post by Miyari

Quick F.A.Q.

1. How many daily quests are there?
Technically? Three or four, depending on your level. There is the torch tossing quest, the torch catching quest, your level range's 'Striking Back' quest, and the quest to summon Ahune (if you are high enough).

2. What do I do with all of these Burning Blossom?
Use them to buy cool stuff! There is a Midsummer Merchant located near each major city's festival fire that sells a variety of nifty items in exchange for Burning Blossom, including the following permanent items:
Mantle of the Fire Festival - 100 Burning Blossom
Vestment of Summer - 100 Burning Blossom
Sandals of Summer - 200 Burning Blossom
Brazier of Dancing Flames - 350 Burning Blossom
Captured Flame - 350 Burning Blossom

She also sells the following, limited duration consumables:
Elderberry Pie - 5 Burning Blossom
Fire-toasted Bun - 5 Burning Blossom
Midsummer Sausage - 5 Burning Blossom
Toasted Smorc - 5 Burning Blossom
Fiery Festival Brew - 2 Burning Blossom
Handful of Summer Petals - 2 Burning Blossom

And finally, he following bag of ingredients:
Bag of Smorc Ingredients - 5 Burning Blossom

3. Yeah, okay, cute - shoes that make my feet catch fire. Bring on the epics!
While not actually a question, it's definitely worth reiterating for some of the higher level players out there that Ahune is out there! He drops a pretty nice arsenal of epic-quality loot, including but not limited to a new enchant (Deathfrost), one of the coolest looking weapons in the game, and a rad new non-combat pet. Remember, he can only be summoned once per day per character - so good luck!

I will update this as the need arises. Have fun!

Post by Miyari

Some quests and NPCs listed above are still pending updates and corrections in the database, as the data comes in. You can help out by using the Wowhead Client and submitting fresh data! The in-game addon also provides coordinate display that can be accessed by typing /wl maploc for world map coords, and can output your current location with the /wl loc commnnd, which makes finding those festival fires much easier and helps us out, at the same time!

Anyway, what new data doesn't sort out, I'll be fixing today (probably!) - in the meantime, sleep!

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Post by DeathBlood

Mmm, I'm still new to WoW, and it's a shame my main is only at lvl 40. I won't be able to get as much out of this MFF as other players. That Deathfrost looks like something I could use along with my Enchanting too...

Nonetheless, great guide, and I will be using this as a reference for all of the lower-lvl quests. Awesome work! =)

Post by HighFive

I was hoping there was something I missed but apparently I didn't :(

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Post by Traynwreck

haven't been watch numbers too closly but i can tell you that the higher level areas (Winterspring, Silithus) have been giving more exp. then the lower areas (Redridge,Duskwood,etc.)

Post by Alunora

So basicly i can just camp by an opposing faction bonfire and wait till someone set them on fire, then put the out, and get 10 Burning Blossom for free :D ?

Post by toggie

Awesome. Thanks.

Post by Lushurm

First off, Great guide. It really helped me find all of the fires that i could get the flowers from.

One small correction, the fire in the Crossroads is found at (H), not

Thanks for the awesome guide.

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Post by archimonde

Ahune is hard just to say! well i know why since i tried him, he summon adds and Do hard stuff so if you are low geared and kill him Its luck... pure luck :P

Midsummer Fire Festival Guide - Quest, Bonfire, Item Info + Walkthroughs!

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