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<title source="title1"> <default>Servant of Darkness (Topic)</default> </title> <image source="image1">
</image> <label>Topic author</label> <label>Post date</label> <label>Page count</label> <label>Final status</label> </infobox> The thread that started it all: Servant of Darkness - Being the first book in the Stromling Trilogy was a LEGO Messageboards topic created by talmid in the Stories of LEGO Universe forum that would go on to contain the first six books of the Stromling Saga. The thread survived the merging of the LEGO Universe subforums, the merging of LEGO Universe into the Classics forum, and through archiving the LEGO Messageboards shutdown. It can currently be accessed through Wiz Ardon's General Discussion Coalition at this link. Aside from including posts of the Stromling Saga, the topic was also used as a general discussion chatroom by talmid and friends, leading to its long length. Servant of Darkness contains the first and most famous post of the real thedude: "this story is notin to do with lu" that would go onto inspire the stories of the Knights of the Olde Speech.