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Dark Crystal (Collectors Edition
Box Set )
One thousand years ago, a mighty
convulsion shook the universe. The great Crystal,
glowing with the power of the world's Three Suns,
cracked and darkened; the rich and beautiful land
became barren and the evil reign of the Skeksis,
protected by fierce, armor-plated Garthim
mercenaries, began. Now, the time when the Tree Suns
become one approaches. If the Crystal remains dark,
corruption will endure through eternity. It is
written that only a Gelfling, one of that gentle
elfin race, can restore the Crystal's light--and this
must be done at the moment of the Great Conjunction.
But the Skeksis, mindful of the prophecy, have
systematically eliminated the Gelflings. Or so they
believe. One still lives. The boy Jen. Raised by the
Mystics, gentle philosophers of the Valley of Stones,
he must now fulfill his destiny. His quest takes him
through forest and swamp, where strange creatures
hop, crawl and skitter, conversing in unknown
tongues, where waters murmur music of forgotten days,
where vegetation is vibrantly alive. He encounters
magic, danger, betrayal, temptation, and learns to
his joyous amazement that he is not--as he was
told--the last of his species. The Three Suns come
closer together. The moment of conjunction draws
near. Jen, armed only with a slender silver shard,
reaches the shadows of the castle where the secret of
The Dark Crystal awaits.
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