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The Legacies live.†
p. 4.4
Your Legacies are going to appear any day now.
p. 24.5 *

legacies = gifts
On Lorien there were two types of citizens, those who develop Legacies, or powers, which can be extremely varied, anything from invisibility to the ability to read minds, from being able to fly to using natural forces like fire, wind or lightning.†
p. 29.6
Those with the Legacies are called the Garde, and those without are called Cepan, or Keepers.†
p. 29.7
My first Legacy must be forming.†
p. 35.9
I knew to expect my Legacies, but I had no idea it would include this.†
p. 38.8
Your first Legacy.†
p. 41.5
After years of waiting, after years of my only defense against the Mogadorians being intellect and stealth, my first Legacy has arrived.†
p. 43.6
For your Legacies.†
p. 44.2
Your first Legacy developed, you were nearly in a fight, and you left your bag in a classroom.†
p. 46.7
Truth be told, only half of me is thrilled that my first Legacy has finally arrived after so many years of impatiently waiting.†
p. 47.7
Surely they must know we are growing stronger, coming into our Legacies.†
p. 48.8
The life expectancy for the Loric is around two hundred years, much longer than that of humans, and when children are born, between the parents' ages of twenty-five and thirty-five, the elders are the ones who raise them while the parents continue honing their Legacies.†
p. 51.1
Not such a bad Legacy after all, huh?†
p. 52.4
I didn't think the Legacy would be that sensitive.†
p. 59.4
It's what's given to each Garde at birth to be used by his or her Keeper when the Garde is coming into his or her Legacy.†
p. 77.8
The lock only opens when we're together, and only after your first Legacy appears.†
p. 78.3
Sure, there were times when I hoped they never would, mainly so we could finally settle somewhere and live a normal life; but for now—holding a crystal that contains what looks like a ball of smoke in its center, and knowing my hands are resistant to heat and fire, and that more Legacies are on the way that will then be followed by my major power (the power that will allow me to fight)—well, it's all pretty cool and exciting.†
p. 79.9
It's tied to your Legacy.†
p. 80.2
They had hoped to kill us all well before your Legacies developed.†
p. 82.9
The Garde lead the fight, their Legacies on full display.†
p. 84.3
But I can say for sure that part of it was a combination of their knowledge of our planet and our people, and the fact that we had no defense other than our intelligence and the Garde's Legacies.†
p. 93.6
One of the rarest Legacies there is, developing only in one percent of our people, and he was one of them.†
p. 113.4
There was one time he wanted to play a joke on me, before I knew what his Legacies were.†
p. 113.6
When do you think the other Legacies will develop?†
p. 120.5
But however long it takes, your major Legacy will be the last to develop.†
p. 120.8
I think about my major Legacy, the one that will allow me to fight.†
p. 120.9
There were ten of them in the beginning, and they contained all Legacies within them.†
p. 123.4
What point is there in having Legacies if they are never used when needed?†
p. 150.6
It almost always comes with your first Legacy.†
p. 170.2
Your Legacies come from Lorien.†
p. 170.4
Since we're no longer on the planet, I don't know if the rest of your Legacies will come at all.†
p. 170.6
These aren't part of your Legacy, but the last time we opened the Chest I slipped them in because of the bad feeling I've been having.†
p. 174.2
If they aren't part of my Legacy then why have you never shown me?†
p. 174.5
Because you needed to develop a Legacy in order to activate them.†
p. 174.5
That's where your Legacies come from.†
p. 175.6
But you just said that this isn't part of my Legacy.†
p. 175.7
Are they without their Legacies?†
p. 179.1
Perhaps they've received their Legacies.†
p. 193.7
Henri ostensibly believes the additional exercise will help in my training, but the real reason is that he hopes it will help my body's transition and pull my Legacies from their slumber, if that is indeed what they are doing.†
p. 194.4
The idea of living by myself—with my Legacies developing, and without anyone to explain them to me or train me, of running on my own, of hiding on my own, of finding my own way, of fighting the Mogadorians, fighting them until they are defeated or I am dead—terrifies me.†
p. 207.8
Henri said that it's usually emotions that trigger Legacies.†
p. 211.6
"Thank God the Legacy came," he says, and I realize that the stress of my Legacies forming—or the fear of them not forming—took a far greater toll on Henri than I imagined.†
p. 239.1
"Thank God the Legacy came," he says, and I realize that the stress of my Legacies forming—or the fear of them not forming—took a far greater toll on Henri than I imagined.†
p. 239.2
How quickly the Legacy has developed.†
p. 245.4
My Legacies are growing stronger, but they aren't strong enough to take on three Mogadorians.†
p. 253.3
More Legacies are supposed to come soon.†
p. 255.7
Your Legacies are emerging, and your strength is growing, but you're nowhere near ready to fight them.†
p. 257.5
My Legacies haven't all emerged yet, but enough of them have.†
p. 257.9
I've spent many years waiting and preparing for these things to happen, for your Legacies to arrive.†
p. 260.3

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(1) (legacy)
coming from the past or left to the future
in various senses including:
- in law -- a gift given through a will -- "She left a legacy of $10,000 to her niece."
- of a situation -- resulting from the past -- "Today's debt problem is a legacy of profligate spending by prior administrations."
- of culture -- a practice passed from one generation to the next -- "The city has along legacy of bribes and corruption."
- of technology -- something that still uses old technology -- "We're using a legacy software that only the old-timers know how to update."
- of a member or potential member of an organization -- the child of a previous member -- "She is a legacy candidate."
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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