0,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000010_PIPIN","Pray join me in welcoming our Scion allies, but recently returned from their mission to the Far East. We have been most eager to hear a firsthand account of your time there, eventful as we understand it was."
2,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000030_RAUBAHN","...Such victories are rarely won without sacrifice. But the prize is worth the price. Doma free, after all these years."
4,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000050_PIPIN","Our agents report a flurry of communications between Garlemald and Ala Mhigo in recent days. 'Tis plain they are in the midst of deliberating their response to the Doman uprising."
5,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000060_RAUBAHN","Good. Every imperial unit in occupied territory will be on the lookout for civil unrest. The fear of leaving critical locations undefended will make commanders think twice about committing their forces─giving us a chance to seize the initiative."
7,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000080_CONRAD","If we keep on playing for smaller prizes, it's only a matter of time before they crush us again. And that we won't come back from."
8,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000090_PIPIN","A swift advance seems best for all concerned. Not least poor Mistress Krile."
9,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000100_RAUBAHN","Then let us waste no more time.
The campaign for Ala Mhigan liberation begins now!"
10,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000110_RAUBAHN","Our first objective will be to capture Castellum Velodyna. Take the bridge,
and the whole of the Fringes will be ours. From there, we can push east
towards the Peaks."
11,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000120_RAUBAHN","I name this operation Rhalgr's Beacon. For as Rhalgr once sent His star to guide our ancestors to these lands, so too shall it see us home!"
13,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000140_MNAAGO","Good. It's the waiting that drives me mad. Standing around, knowing what's to come. I'll never get used to it."
14,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000150_LYSE","Calm down, Naago. You're making her nervous."
15,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000160_LYSE","We've come this far, haven't we? We just need to make it the rest of the way!"
16,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000170_MNAAGO","Right!"
17,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000180_CONRAD","Looks like the bastards went for the bait. The bridge is ours for the taking!"
18,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000190_CONRAD","Now remember, M'naago: I want you to make for the tower as soon as you see an opening and get that flag flying. We'll see to the fighting."
19,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000200_MNAAGO","I won't let you down, sir!"
20,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000210_CONRAD","Come, then! Rhalgr's star shall burn bright this day!"
33,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000330_SKULLSOLDIERC","Commander! The 4th Cohort has been routed! We'll be at the mercy of the enemy's reinforcements if we don't fall back now!"
44,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000440_LYSE","We're here to help. Will you tell us what happened?"
45,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000450_VIRASOLDIER","Aye. It began with a quarrel between the imperials and the Qalyana."
46,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000460_MNAAGO","The Qalyana are another Ananta tribe─the strongest and the most influential."
47,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000470_MNAAGO","Unlike the Vira, they want no part of our troubles. They swore fealty to the Empire and were content to remain within their borders."
48,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000480_VIRASOLDIER","Jussst ssso. The Qalyana forsssook their pride and the fight, and yielded to Garlemald long ago."
49,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000490_VIRASOLDIER","But then a new commander was sssent to hold the black bridge.
She demanded the Qalyana sssurrender a hossstage, thisss Butcher."
50,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000500_LYSE","Fordola. It doesn't make sense, though... The Vira are the ones working with the Resistance. Why would she threaten the Qalyana?"
51,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000510_VIRASOLDIER","Because she is ignorant, like all imperials. She knows not the difference between Qalyana and Vira, nor does she care to learn."
the west. She reasoned, therefore, that if the Ananta on the east bank turned their coats, she would be trapped. I take it the Qalyana had no choice but
54,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000540_VIRASOLDIER","Long days and nightsss she looked out on the black bridge, weeping for her child. Until you came."
55,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000550_VIRASOLDIER","The broodmother knew at once which way the winds would blow. She and her warriors met with the fleeing imperials in the road and demanded that her daughter be returned."
60,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000600_VIRASOLDIER","The Qalyana sssurrounded the imperials, one of whom, whether out of fear or ssstupidity, cut the child down. There was naught that could be done."
62,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000620_VIRASOLDIER","The true madnesss was yet to come. For in her dessspair, the Qalyana broodmother cried out for her daughter to be ressstored to life.
She bessseeched Sri Lakshmi's intercession."
63,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000630_ALPHINAUD","She summoned a primal, then and there?"
64,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000640_VIRASOLDIER","That she did, if only for an inssstant. Bereft of courage and honor,
66,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000660_VIRASOLDIER","Now the Qalyana bid usss make pilgrimage, to pay proper ressspectsss.
Yet though we Vira revere Sri Lakshmi as the holiessst of the holy, we will not prossstrate ourssselves before Her."
67,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000670_ALISAIE","And so you turned to us."
68,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000680_VIRASOLDIER","Aye. All who have fought with the Resissstance have heard tell of the warrior. The eikon-ssslayer."
69,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000690_ALPHINAUD","I believe we have heard enough. Inconvenient though the timing may be, if a primal has indeed been summoned, we can scarce afford to ignore it.
We must needs discuss how best to resolve this situation."
70,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000700_QALYANAPATRIARCH","Why, Missstresss... Why does my Anamika ssslumber ssstill?"
71,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000710_LAKSHMI","Look thee on her face, sssupplicant. Thy prayer hath been anssswered."
72,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000720_LAKSHMI","Flesh sssundered hath been made whole. Blood ssspilt runneth through her veins. Breath ssstolen filleth her breassst."
73,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000730_QALYANAPATRIARCH","But she hears not her mother's words, nor sssees her mother's face!
She...she is sssilent...and empty..."
74,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000740_LAKSHMI","Only the vesssel may be remade. Not so the flame which flickered within.
76,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000760_ALPHINAUD","Alisaie! Have you gone mad!?"
77,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000770_ALISAIE","Mayhap I have! But I refuse to stand by and watch yet another tragedy unfold!"
78,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000780_QALYANAPATRIARCH","Who intrudes upon thisss sssacred ground!? Imperials thirsssting for blood!?"
79,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000790_ALISAIE","No! We come not to shed blood but to save you from the false god who would lead you astray!"
80,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000800_ALISAIE","I understand how you feel, I do. You loved her with all your heart, but when the moment came, you still couldn't save her. The anguish, the anger...
I know it only too well."
81,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000810_ALISAIE","But I also know where this path leads! To embrace a primal is to condemn yourself to an endless cycle of despair. You will never know peace!"
82,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000820_LAKSHMI","A worm-eaten heart may find peace and ssserenity in ssservice. In beauty and grace. Thisss hath ever been my promissse. Naught elssse."
83,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000830_ALISAIE","You tempt them with visions of things that can never be, and leave them bereft and wanting!"
84,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000840_ALISAIE","No illusion, however sweet, can change the fact that your daughter is gone. Remember her as she was! Do not suffer this piteous shade to tarnish her memory!"
85,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000850_LYSE","For every prayer that primal “answers,” it'll demand payment in kind. Do you have any idea how many more Ananta will die to feed its hunger for crystals!?"
86,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000860_LAKSHMI","They would have thee sssuffer man's ssspite and live in fear. Far better to dwell in my beauteousss dream than endure ssso ugly a reality."
87,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000870_LYSE","She's wrong! We hate the Empire as much as you! If you'd just listen─"
88,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000880_LAKSHMI","Poor, misssguided children. I would ssspare you the tormentsss of thisss cruel and misshapen world. Come, basssk in my radiance. Let it fill your heartsss and free you from your burdens."
95,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000950_LYSE","Listen to me, please! I know that you're only trying to protect yourselves because you feel frightened and alone..."
96,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000960_LYSE","But that's how we all feel, don't you see? If we could just turn to each other for help instead of the gods, I'm sure we could find a way to live in peace!"
97,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000970_LYSE","Your crystals are important to you, aren't they? Reflections of your souls, right? Well, you shouldn't have to sacrifice something so precious to a primal..."
98,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000980_QALYANAPATRIARCH","Who are you to quessstion our choice? You who fight without fear? We wish only to live in peace, and if thisss be the price we must pay, then ssso be it!"
99,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000990_LYSE","I know there's nothing I can say to convince you. But I hope that one day you look back and see we only ever wanted the same thing."
100,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001000_QALYANAPATRIARCH","Begone, damn you! Ssspare me your hollow words and leave me to mourn. "
101,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001010_LYSE","I'll go...but it doesn't mean I'm giving up."
103,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001030_LYSE","Come on. Alphinaud and Alisaie are waiting."
104,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001039_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE","Meanwhile, in the Royal Palace of Ala Mhigo..."
105,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001040_GARLEANLEADERA","(-Imperial Tribunus Militum-)Ah, the savage returns. And with her tail firmly between her legs.
Beaten by beastmen, I hear."
106,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001050_GARLEANLEADERC","(-Imperial Pilus Prior-)'Twas a shameful display, by all accounts. She may have curried the viceroy's favor with her bold promises, but in the end, she's just another plodding bungler like the rest of her kind."
107,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001060_GARLEANLEADERA","(-Imperial Tribunus Militum-)Strange, you would think him a better judge of character. Then again, I hear she's not averse to a more physical mode of persuasion."
108,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001070_GARLEANLEADERC","(-Imperial Pilus Prior-)Hah, I thought she rose through the ranks rather quickly. But no longer. If only she had been content with her lot, she might have lived to see the morrow."
109,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001080_FORDOLA","Fordola rem Lupis, commander of the Crania Lupi, reporting as ordered."
110,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001090_ZENOS","...Why do you tremble so?"
111,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001100_ZENOS","Could it be that the Empire's Butcher is afraid? That she who walks with death is terrified of her own?"
112,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001110_FORDOLA","I am terrified of dying having achieved naught. Gladly would I give my life to win a great victory on the battlefield, had I but the strength."
113,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001120_ZENOS","Alas, you do not. Indeed, you are weak. And born of this weakness is a blind fervor. A raging inferno which threatens to consume not only you, but everyone around you."
117,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001160_ZENOS","And that is very admirable. However, I've had enough of this dumb show. Give voice to that hunger I see in your eyes, or I will pluck them from your head."
119,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001180_FORDOLA","I want to make them pay! All of them! Everyone who ever mocked or looked down on me─I want the power to make them pay!"
120,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001190_ZENOS","...Hm. Very well."
121,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001200_ZENOS","Then I shall give you a chance. A chance to transcend your mortal limits. Assuming, that is, you are prepared to wager your life for such power."
122,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001210_FORDOLA","Transcend, my lord...?"
123,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001220_FORDOLA","I came here prepared to die. Tell me what I must do."
124,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001230_LYSENARRATION","I remember how they laughed. Alliance and Resistance soldiers,
eager for battle, trading jokes as we marched east towards the Peaks..."
131,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001290_FORDOLA","My lord...what have you done to me...?"
132,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001300_DRUSUS","Though we Garleans are intellectually and physiologically superior in almost all respects, we lack the hereditary traits required for the reliable manipulation of aether─hence our unique inability to wield magicks."
133,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001310_DRUSUS","This deficiency, for want of a better word, saw us subjected to decades of oppression by the lesser races, and we were eventually driven to seek shelter in the cold northern reaches of Ilsabard."
134,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001320_DRUSUS","Fortunately, said region was replete with vast deposits of ceruleum, which proved instrumental in the development of magitek: a revolutionary technology conceived to compensate for our disadvantage."
135,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001330_DRUSUS","It was with magitek that we grew strong─that our nation became an empire. Yet ultimately, this was an extrinsic solution to an intrinsic problem. What I wanted was not a crude device to be used in lieu of magic."
136,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001340_DRUSUS","Through modification of the Garlean genome, I argued that it might be possible to enhance a subject's ability to manipulate aether, effectively empowering them to wield magicks. Alas, my theories were met with consternation in the imperial court.
Only Lord Zenos, with commendable foresight and wisdom, deigned to support my research."
137,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001350_FORDOLA","...You gave me this treatment? But I'm not Garlean."
138,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001360_ZENOS","Ala Mhigan, through and through."
139,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001370_ZENOS","What you have been granted is far greater than mere magic. Before that lesser light, it is as a second sun."
140,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001380_DRUSUS","I am informed that Ala Ghiri was recently occupied by the Resistance, and that an attack on Specula Imperatoris is considered imminent. This could provide an ideal opportunity to test her performance in the field."
142,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001400_FORDOLA","...Yes, my lord. By your leave, I would rendezvous with them and lead a counterattack against the insurgents."
143,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001410_ZENOS","No. Even were you to leave now, you would not arrive in time.
146,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001440_PIPIN","Come now, Father. You lured the fool onto my blade, and do not try to deny it!"
147,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001450_RAUBAHN","Our work here is all but done. What of Conrad and his men?"
148,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001460_PIPIN","They are for the main tower. The Skulls have offered fierce resistance thus far, but Conrad seems to believe he can convince them to lay down their arms..."
149,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001470_RAUBAHN","Then we will tend to the stragglers down below. With me!"
151,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001490_GARLEANOFFICER","Enemy forces have overrun the lower facilities, and appear to be mounting an assault on the main tower. We have already received a request for reinforcements."
152,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001500_GARLEANOFFICER","A unit of legionaries has been mustered and is ready to depart.
155,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001530_FORDOLA","Tell them to stand down."
156,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001540_GARLEANOFFICER","Commander, if I may! Our people─your people are still in there!
They will be slaughtered!"
157,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001550_FORDOLA","You think I don't know that!? I want nothing more than to help them─to lead the bloody charge─but I have my orders!"
158,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001560_FORDOLA","Lord Zenos said no reinforcements. He would have us use the main cannon to destroy the installation."
159,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001570_GARLEANOFFICER","What...kill our own soldiers!? You must be mistaken!"
160,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001580_FORDOLA","Mayhap you'd like to ask Lord Zenos yourself?"
161,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001590_FORDOLA","I thought not. Initiate the firing sequence."
162,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001600_FORDOLA","Wars are won on the backs of the dead. Theirs and ours. There is no truth but this. We must remain firm and resolute, and always, always do our duty.
172,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001700_PIPIN","All forces, retreat! I repeat: all forces, retreat!"
173,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001710_LYSE","Conrad! Conrad! Speak to me!"
174,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001720_ALPHINAUD","It...it was all so sudden. Conrad had just convinced the last few Skulls to surrender, when...when we heard the bang, and...and everything started to shake..."
175,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001730_ALPHINAUD","We carried the survivors to safety, but Conrad is... We have done what we can for him. All that remains is to pray."
180,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001780_LYSE","What are you talking about!? You'll be on your feet before you know it!"
181,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001790_CONRAD","It's all right, Lyse. I've lived long enough. But listen... I want...I want you to lead the Resistance in my stead."
182,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001800_LYSE","Don't say another word! You'll recover─we'll recover! We'll bring freedom to Ala Mhigo together! We're not going to stop here!"
183,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001810_CONRAD","No...no, you won't. Everything we've built, everyone we've brought together...I know you'll show them the way..."
184,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001820_CONRAD","You've got it in you, Lyse. Not because you're Curtis's daughter, or Yda's sister, but because...because you're you. Because you're you..."
185,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001830_LYSE","Conrad..."
186,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001840_CONRAD","Lead them to victory. To freedom."
187,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001850_LYSE","I will, Conrad. I will. I promise."
188,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001859_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE","Meanwhile, in the chaos of Castrum Abania..."
189,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001860_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION","Next round! Double the charge!"
190,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001870_ESTINIEN","Come, Nidhogg. We are needed."
191,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001880_GARLEANHARPOONER","That's the ceruleum pipeline!"
192,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001890_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION","Impossible! How can one man─ Shoot the bastard! Shoot him!"
193,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001900_ESTINIEN","Heh. My lance has slain far greater beasts."
206,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002030_FORDOLA","You're right. I killed them. Ansfrid, Hrudolf, Emelin, all the rest─trained and fought with every last one of them. Good soldiers to a man."
210,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002070_FORDOLA","We made a promise that we would do whatever it took so that one day...one day the imperials would learn to accept us."
211,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002080_FORDOLA","But everything comes at a price. And if you haven't got the means to pay, then you pay with blood."
212,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002090_FORDOLA","Service guarantees citizenship, but citizenship guarantees naught. It's not enough to do your part, oh no. You have to run faster, fight harder, kill more and more and more─and only then will you be equal."
221,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002180_FORDOLA","Even so, the odds are against me..."
222,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002190_LYSE","Coward! Get back here!"
223,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002200_FORDOLA","Hero! Lord Zenos invites you to join him for the royal hunt, to be hosted at the palace. You may bring your horde, if you like. All are welcome."
