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Carantacus
Carantacus Carantacus carries the rare quality of a name whose root meaning (love, friend) is held within a form that sounds ancient and formidable — a character who is fundamentally warm-natured but whose manner projects authority rather than soft approachability. The saint-tradition gives characters a vocation quality: they know what they are for and pursue it without distraction.
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