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Written by Angela Wipperman



Art by the legendary Ettore Mazza: https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza



Additional art by Alex Stoica



Narrated by David Kelly



Editing by Andrew Dixon



Title editing by Manuel Rubio



Fact checking by Amanda Rossillo



Huge thanks to Bone Clones for their fantastic skull replicas. Check them out at https://boneclones.com/



Music from Silver Maple, Epidemic Sound and Artlist.
Stock footage from Storyblocks, Artgrid and Shutterstock.



00:00 Introduction
04:55 The Rise of The Alpha
18:01 The Fall of The Alpha
37:17 The Rise of Kings



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