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1,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_GREETING_000","Greetings, my friend. If you have a tale to share, this minstrel is all ears!"
2,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_Q1_000_001","What will you talk about?"
3,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_MENU_CANCEL","Take your leave."
4,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_NOSELECT_000","Oh, leaving so soon? I would be lying were I to say I wasn't disappointed, but I appreciate that a hero such as you has great demands upon <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>his</If> time. I shall look forward to hearing your adventures when you have a spare moment."
5,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_NOCONTENT_000","...Nothing for now? Not to put undue pressure upon you, but the folk here are quite taken by the songs inspired by your tales. They await the next with bated breath, and I hope to be able to deliver ere long─with inspiration from your good self."
6,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_000","Oho, what manner of thrilling adventure might this be?"
7,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_001","Good gods, a battle on the moon with Zodiark, eldest and mightiest of primals... I pride myself on my imagination, but your feats transcend aught my mind could possibly conceive."
8,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_002","Against all odds, you struck down the puissant being, yet triumph quickly turned to tragedy, for Zodiark's fall proved to be the trigger for the Final Days..."
9,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_003","...Yes. Yes, the words well up within me. Pray lend them an ear."
10,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_004","Born of ancient men, a divinity was freed,♪
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1,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_GREETING_000,"Greetings, my friend. If you have a tale to share, this minstrel is all ears!"
2,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_Q1_000_001,What will you talk about?
3,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_MENU_CANCEL,Take your leave.
4,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_NOSELECT_000,"Oh, leaving so soon? I would be lying were I to say I wasn't disappointed, but I appreciate that a hero such as you has great demands upon her time. I shall look forward to hearing your adventures when you have a spare moment."
5,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_NOCONTENT_000,"...Nothing for now? Not to put undue pressure upon you, but the folk here are quite taken by the songs inspired by your tales. They await the next with bated breath, and I hope to be able to deliver ere long─with inspiration from your good self."
6,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_000,"Oho, what manner of thrilling adventure might this be?"
7,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_001,"Good gods, a battle on the moon with Zodiark, eldest and mightiest of primals... I pride myself on my imagination, but your feats transcend aught my mind could possibly conceive."
8,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_002,"Against all odds, you struck down the puissant being, yet triumph quickly turned to tragedy, for Zodiark's fall proved to be the trigger for the Final Days..."
9,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_003,"...Yes. Yes, the words well up within me. Pray lend them an ear."
10,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_004,"Born of ancient men, a divinity was freed,♪
Their hopes unrequited, they knew no reprieve.♪"
11,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_005","Born of mortal men, a champion did arise,♪
11,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_005,"Born of mortal men, a champion did arise,♪
Ascending to the heavens, ruination to defy.♪"
12,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_006","That the ancients should sacrifice half their number to save the star... The strength of their resolve makes me tremble in admiration."
13,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_007","Even as it saddens me to think that one of their own would seek to lay it all to waste, so deep was his despair..."
14,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_008","Not having lived their lives, I feel decidedly unworthy to speak of their hearts. Better that the whole truth remain with you, and you alone."
15,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_009","Let it suffice for me to honor a fragment of their hopes and dreams in song, that their lives and sacrifice may ever be remembered."
16,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_010","Hm-hm, this promises to be a most rousing adventure!"
17,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_011","In order to prove your readiness to avert the Final Days, you undertook a trial imposed by no less a being than the will of the star, Hydaelyn Herself..."
18,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_012","It staggers the mind to imagine such an encounter, to say naught of the thousands of years that Venat had resolved to wait."
19,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_013","...Yes, I daresay I have a song. You will listen to it now, of course?"
20,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_014","Though eons apart, two kindred souls met,♪
12,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_006,That the ancients should sacrifice half their number to save the star... The strength of their resolve makes me tremble in admiration.
13,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_007,"Even as it saddens me to think that one of their own would seek to lay it all to waste, so deep was his despair..."
14,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_008,"Not having lived their lives, I feel decidedly unworthy to speak of their hearts. Better that the whole truth remain with you, and you alone."
15,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_009,"Let it suffice for me to honor a fragment of their hopes and dreams in song, that their lives and sacrifice may ever be remembered."
16,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_010,"Hm-hm, this promises to be a most rousing adventure!"
17,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_011,"In order to prove your readiness to avert the Final Days, you undertook a trial imposed by no less a being than the will of the star, Hydaelyn Herself..."
18,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_012,"It staggers the mind to imagine such an encounter, to say naught of the thousands of years that Venat had resolved to wait."
19,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_013,"...Yes, I daresay I have a song. You will listen to it now, of course?"
20,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_014,"Though eons apart, two kindred souls met,♪
Apart they would walk, all life to protect.♪"
21,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_015","Eons thence, their paths would converge,♪
21,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_015,"Eons thence, their paths would converge,♪
As goddess and mortal, to silence the dirge.♪"
22,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_016","For time beyond counting, Hydaelyn waited for you in patience and faith. And when at last you were reunited, even as She desperately wished for you to surpass Her, She knew She could not hold back─and did not."
23,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_017","Hers was an unenviable burden...and a noble sacrifice. Tears well in my eyes to imagine the hardships She has had to endure."
24,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_018","But it comforts me to know that Her long journey was not in vain. That Her hopes passed on to you."
25,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_019","This tale is an epic among epics, and full honored am I to have been given the chance to weave a song for it. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you."
26,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_020","The Dragonsong War, you say?"
27,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_021","Quite some time has passed since that conflict drew to a close."
28,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_022","But having now survived the threat of the Final Days, I believe we may reflect more deeply upon the emotions that had driven man and dragon both. By all means, recount the tale for me."
29,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_023","I see. I see..."
30,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_024","I profess to weave words for a living...but on this occasion, they utterly fail me."
31,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_025","Yet this much, I will say: like an unwatched fire, pain and loss mustn't be left untended. For they were the embers that kindled a thousand-year conflict."
32,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_026","Tell me, my friend. Have you ever dwelled on that dark moment? Dwelled on what may have come to pass if the life which was lost was spared instead?"
33,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_027","'Tis said that there are no ifs in history, yet man is wont to cast his mind towards the path not walked."
34,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_028","In acknowledgement of this, I would sing of alternate eventualities..."
35,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_029","By naught but vigilance may silver mail endure,
22,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_016,"For time beyond counting, Hydaelyn waited for you in patience and faith. And when at last you were reunited, even as She desperately wished for you to surpass Her, She knew She could not hold back─and did not."
23,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_017,Hers was an unenviable burden...and a noble sacrifice. Tears well in my eyes to imagine the hardships She has had to endure.
24,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_018,But it comforts me to know that Her long journey was not in vain. That Her hopes passed on to you.
25,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_019,"This tale is an epic among epics, and full honored am I to have been given the chance to weave a song for it. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you."
26,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_020,"The Dragonsong War, you say?"
27,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_021,Quite some time has passed since that conflict drew to a close.
28,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_022,"But having now survived the threat of the Final Days, I believe we may reflect more deeply upon the emotions that had driven man and dragon both. By all means, recount the tale for me."
29,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_023,I see. I see...
30,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_024,"I profess to weave words for a living...but on this occasion, they utterly fail me."
31,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_025,"Yet this much, I will say: like an unwatched fire, pain and loss mustn't be left untended. For they were the embers that kindled a thousand-year conflict."
32,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_026,"Tell me, my friend. Have you ever dwelled on that dark moment? Dwelled on what may have come to pass if the life which was lost was spared instead?"
33,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_027,"'Tis said that there are no ifs in history, yet man is wont to cast his mind towards the path not walked."
34,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_028,"In acknowledgement of this, I would sing of alternate eventualities..."
35,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_029,"By naught but vigilance may silver mail endure,
Javelin's point never touch a comrade pure.♪"
36,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_030","Look back upon the paths we failed to take,
36,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_030,"Look back upon the paths we failed to take,
And prepare for the trials that lie in wait.♪"
37,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_031","As you may have noticed, I drew inspiration from the words the Archon Louisoix wrote in his journals in allusion to the Dragonsong War."
38,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_032","Some may dismiss the exercise as wishful pining. But by thus reflecting upon the past, I believe that we shall be better braced for the future."
39,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_033","So when you have a quiet moment, perhaps you too might look back and imagine it─the tale as it might have unfolded..."
40,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_040","A battle at the edge of existence, you say? Against a fearsome being known as the Endsinger..."
41,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_041","It goes without saying that I should like to hear about this! Pray, recount to me the tale of your mission from beginning to end!"
42,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_042","Good gods... I had known about the chaos of the Final Days, but never could I have imagined the events which brought them about."
43,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_043","I do wonder, though... Where might this Ultima Thule be located?"
44,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_044","Lest you misunderstand, I speak not of its physical location. If we wished to know that, I daresay we could have the coordinates from the Loporrits."
45,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_045","Nay, my friend. What I speak of, rather, is its essence."
46,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_046","According to your description, 'tis a space where emotions dictate reality. It seems to me that, in such a place, it would be nigh impossible to draw a line between what is real and what is felt."
47,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_047","In nature, there is a phenomenon wherein the structure of a massive object may resemble that of something diminutive."
48,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_048","Might it not be possible, then, that the structure of the sea of stars resembles that of the heart and mind─of the complex mechanisms that govern our feelings?"
49,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_049","On the assumption that it is so, I am led to wonder: what was the true nature of the Endsinger?"
50,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_050","What was it exactly that you defied at the edge of existence?"
51,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_051","Haha, these are just the wild ramblings of a minstrel. Pray do not lose sleep over it."
52,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_052","Still, I must say that the idea of an entity that hoards despair has quite roused my imagination. For instance..."
53,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_053","Had the Endsinger succeeded in gathering but a few more stars' worth of despair─nay, perhaps even that of a few more souls─might the outcome have been different?"
54,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_054","Yes, I believe I shall explore such an eventuality in song!"
55,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_055","The light of hope kindled by your comrades is brilliant. Alas, so dark is the despair you face, not even that light can pierce it..."
56,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_056","An inexorable verse of oblivion, performed at the farthest reaches of existence... I shall name it: the Endsinger's Aria!"
57,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_060","Good gods, a battle in the void! You've certainly wasted no time seeking out newfound adventure... By all means, regale me with the thrilling details!"
58,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_061","A world without death, where the strong devour the weak... And a woman touched by Darkness, who possesses the power to seal voidsent... Fascinating stuff indeed."
59,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_062","But this archfiend Barbariccia, as cruel as she is ravishing... Though she is fearsome enough by your account, I cannot help but wonder: what if she had devoured more of the great wyrm's aether? How terribly bright might her soul have shone then?"
60,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_063","...Yes, they come to me, the beginnings of a new verse. Pray listen, if you will."
61,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_064","In armor black, from shadowed lair,♪
37,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_031,"As you may have noticed, I drew inspiration from the words the Archon Louisoix wrote in his journals in allusion to the Dragonsong War."
38,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_032,"Some may dismiss the exercise as wishful pining. But by thus reflecting upon the past, I believe that we shall be better braced for the future."
39,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_033,"So when you have a quiet moment, perhaps you too might look back and imagine it─the tale as it might have unfolded..."
40,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_040,"A battle at the edge of existence, you say? Against a fearsome being known as the Endsinger..."
41,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_041,"It goes without saying that I should like to hear about this! Pray, recount to me the tale of your mission from beginning to end!"
42,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_042,"Good gods... I had known about the chaos of the Final Days, but never could I have imagined the events which brought them about."
43,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_043,"I do wonder, though... Where might this Ultima Thule be located?"
44,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_044,"Lest you misunderstand, I speak not of its physical location. If we wished to know that, I daresay we could have the coordinates from the Loporrits."
45,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_045,"Nay, my friend. What I speak of, rather, is its essence."
46,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_046,"According to your description, 'tis a space where emotions dictate reality. It seems to me that, in such a place, it would be nigh impossible to draw a line between what is real and what is felt."
47,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_047,"In nature, there is a phenomenon wherein the structure of a massive object may resemble that of something diminutive."
48,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_048,"Might it not be possible, then, that the structure of the sea of stars resembles that of the heart and mind─of the complex mechanisms that govern our feelings?"
49,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_049,"On the assumption that it is so, I am led to wonder: what was the true nature of the Endsinger?"
50,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_050,What was it exactly that you defied at the edge of existence?
51,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_051,"Haha, these are just the wild ramblings of a minstrel. Pray do not lose sleep over it."
52,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_052,"Still, I must say that the idea of an entity that hoards despair has quite roused my imagination. For instance..."
53,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_053,"Had the Endsinger succeeded in gathering but a few more stars' worth of despair─nay, perhaps even that of a few more souls─might the outcome have been different?"
54,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_054,"Yes, I believe I shall explore such an eventuality in song!"
55,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_055,"The light of hope kindled by your comrades is brilliant. Alas, so dark is the despair you face, not even that light can pierce it..."
56,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_056,"An inexorable verse of oblivion, performed at the farthest reaches of existence... I shall name it: the Endsinger's Aria!"
57,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_060,"Good gods, a battle in the void! You've certainly wasted no time seeking out newfound adventure... By all means, regale me with the thrilling details!"
58,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_061,"A world without death, where the strong devour the weak... And a woman touched by Darkness, who possesses the power to seal voidsent... Fascinating stuff indeed."
59,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_062,"But this archfiend Barbariccia, as cruel as she is ravishing... Though she is fearsome enough by your account, I cannot help but wonder: what if she had devoured more of the great wyrm's aether? How terribly bright might her soul have shone then?"
60,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_063,"...Yes, they come to me, the beginnings of a new verse. Pray listen, if you will."
61,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_064,"In armor black, from shadowed lair,♪
The knight, with steely voice, declared.♪
A dragon's freedom he did steal,♪
Vict'ry in his crusade to seal.♪"
62,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_065","Wind made flesh, the archfiend fair,♪
62,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_065,"Wind made flesh, the archfiend fair,♪
Her pride, her long and lustrous hair.♪
On dragon soul she feasted well,♪
A tempest freed to toll the knell.♪"
63,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_066","Fighting to devour. Devouring to fight. Should the day come when this wheel is broken, would a voidsent greet her end with a wail of anguish? Or would she heave a sigh of relief?"
64,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_067","Whichever it may be, 'tis ironic to think that a soul who had sought freedom, and for so long, should end up being imprisoned in cold crystal."
65,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_068","Thus I would sing of that final battle. For in that lightless world, 'tis in such a moment, I believe, that their lives shine the brightest."
66,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_070","The voidsent thought to cross the rift and launch an assault on our world? Goodness, and here I thought you might find a reprieve from your dealings with the void and its denizens. Pray, tell me more."
67,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_071","I see... Theirs was a world bereft of true death, and so they sought its release in ours. A most curious impetus to take action, would you not agree?"
68,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_072","And this Rubicante... He too was prepared to embrace his end with open arms. Yet I cannot help but wonder: had he drank deeper of the dragon's aether, how brightly might his soul have burned ere it flickered and failed?"
69,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_073","Hmmm... I do believe this quandary has inspired the makings of a new verse. If you might lend me your ear a moment?"
70,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_074","In armor black, the knight did ride♪
63,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_066,"Fighting to devour. Devouring to fight. Should the day come when this wheel is broken, would a voidsent greet her end with a wail of anguish? Or would she heave a sigh of relief?"
64,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_067,"Whichever it may be, 'tis ironic to think that a soul who had sought freedom, and for so long, should end up being imprisoned in cold crystal."
65,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_068,"Thus I would sing of that final battle. For in that lightless world, 'tis in such a moment, I believe, that their lives shine the brightest."
66,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_070,"The voidsent thought to cross the rift and launch an assault on our world? Goodness, and here I thought you might find a reprieve from your dealings with the void and its denizens. Pray, tell me more."
67,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_071,"I see... Theirs was a world bereft of true death, and so they sought its release in ours. A most curious impetus to take action, would you not agree?"
68,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_072,"And this Rubicante... He too was prepared to embrace his end with open arms. Yet I cannot help but wonder: had he drank deeper of the dragon's aether, how brightly might his soul have burned ere it flickered and failed?"
69,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_073,Hmmm... I do believe this quandary has inspired the makings of a new verse. If you might lend me your ear a moment?
70,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_074,"In armor black, the knight did ride♪
To claim lands wherein death resides.♪
Thither would his people know♪
The silent gift of death's great flow.♪
"
71,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_075","Honor bound, a fiend of fire.♪
71,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_075,"Honor bound, a fiend of fire.♪
Forged in battle, honed by ire.♪
He stood defiant, soul ablaze,♪
Heart heavy with sins of bygone days.♪
"
72,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_076","In another life, one might say he had the heart of a hero true. A heart broken, perhaps, by the bitter truth that the void could not be saved without sacrifice."
73,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_077","Yet he was willing to offer up his soul to become a monster, dying to uphold his ideals. A heroic sacrifice in his eyes, no doubt."
74,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_078","The circumstances of his death aside, I believe such a noble soul is worthy of remembrance in song, that people may look back on the man that he was rather than the beast he became."
75,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_080","Ah, the dreadful machine of war. Pray describe its every detail, that I might conjure an image in my mind."
76,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_081","A four-legged entity, armored as if in a shiny black carapace. Like a beetle forged from darkened steel..."
77,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_082","Hmmm. Why does that description sound so very familiar?"
78,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_083","Ah, yes! I have seen this contraption trundling about town!"
79,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_084","Yet surely that cannot be the same deadly Omega of which you speak? Such a tiny thing, and its chocobo-like companion seems so sweet and inquisitive."
80,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_085","...Fascinating. You say Omega's prime directive was to improve itself through battle. Thus did it conduct an “interdimensional experiment” following its awakening in the present day."
81,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_086","A process through which it hoped to define─and ultimately adopt─the intangible strength of mortal spirit..."
82,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_087","And the being known as Alpha was created to facilitate this pursuit?"
83,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_088","Yet how does one define the heart of man?"
84,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_089","We never question that we all possess such heart, and I have witnessed myself how unyielding hope can manifest with palpable effect."
85,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_090","The underlying concept, however, is nebulous at best. If we lacked the terms to describe it, would we even recognize its existence within ourselves?"
86,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_091","Put another way, should we lack the means to be aware of such indefinable strength, could it still potentially exist?"
87,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_092","Pray excuse my philosophical musings. I am merely entertaining the possibilities."
88,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_093","Yet what is a minstrel for, if not to entertain the idea of that which might be?"
89,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_094","If Omega's experiment had continued a while longer, would it have arrived at the answer it sought? Let us imagine the tableau..."
90,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_095","Omega... The dreaded machine of war which slumbered 'neath the fields of Carteneau."
91,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_096","Upon being awoken, 'tis said that this steel-clad terror made straightway to the border of the Black Shroud and the Fringes, whereupon a titanic struggle took place."
92,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_097","Did Omega seek conflict of its own accord? Or was it merely following commands...?"
93,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_098","Aye, a subject to stir the imagination...not to mention my minstrel heart!"
94,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_099","Emerged with haste in skies above,♪
72,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_076,"In another life, one might say he had the heart of a hero true. A heart broken, perhaps, by the bitter truth that the void could not be saved without sacrifice."
73,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_077,"Yet he was willing to offer up his soul to become a monster, dying to uphold his ideals. A heroic sacrifice in his eyes, no doubt."
74,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_078,"The circumstances of his death aside, I believe such a noble soul is worthy of remembrance in song, that people may look back on the man that he was rather than the beast he became."
75,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_080,"Ah, the dreadful machine of war. Pray describe its every detail, that I might conjure an image in my mind."
76,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_081,"A four-legged entity, armored as if in a shiny black carapace. Like a beetle forged from darkened steel..."
77,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_082,Hmmm. Why does that description sound so very familiar?
78,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_083,"Ah, yes! I have seen this contraption trundling about town!"
79,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_084,"Yet surely that cannot be the same deadly Omega of which you speak? Such a tiny thing, and its chocobo-like companion seems so sweet and inquisitive."
80,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_085,...Fascinating. You say Omega's prime directive was to improve itself through battle. Thus did it conduct an “interdimensional experiment” following its awakening in the present day.
81,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_086,A process through which it hoped to define─and ultimately adopt─the intangible strength of mortal spirit...
82,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_087,And the being known as Alpha was created to facilitate this pursuit?
83,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_088,Yet how does one define the heart of man?
84,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_089,"We never question that we all possess such heart, and I have witnessed myself how unyielding hope can manifest with palpable effect."
85,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_090,"The underlying concept, however, is nebulous at best. If we lacked the terms to describe it, would we even recognize its existence within ourselves?"
86,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_091,"Put another way, should we lack the means to be aware of such indefinable strength, could it still potentially exist?"
87,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_092,Pray excuse my philosophical musings. I am merely entertaining the possibilities.
88,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_093,"Yet what is a minstrel for, if not to entertain the idea of that which might be?"
89,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_094,"If Omega's experiment had continued a while longer, would it have arrived at the answer it sought? Let us imagine the tableau..."
90,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_095,Omega... The dreaded machine of war which slumbered 'neath the fields of Carteneau.
91,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_096,"Upon being awoken, 'tis said that this steel-clad terror made straightway to the border of the Black Shroud and the Fringes, whereupon a titanic struggle took place."
92,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_097,Did Omega seek conflict of its own accord? Or was it merely following commands...?
93,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_098,"Aye, a subject to stir the imagination...not to mention my minstrel heart!"
94,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_099,"Emerged with haste in skies above,♪
The beast knew neither hate nor love.♪
A heartless shell of living steel,♪
Seeking might with ceaseless zeal.♪
"
95,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_100","It takes the measure of the strong,♪
95,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_100,"It takes the measure of the strong,♪
Learns which upon the field belong.♪
The endless strife, an endless test,♪
With soul unknown, it knows no rest.♪
"
96,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_110","Ah, the knight clad in armor black... Pray tell me of your encounter with him beyond the veil─and spare no detail."
97,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_111","So the true motive for his crusade was the salvation of his brethren. Thus did he pervert Azdaja's yearning to return home into a force capable of breaking down the barrier between worlds."
98,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_112","For one that speaks of deliverance, concocting a plot that would condemn the souls of another world to death rings decidedly unheroic..."
99,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_113","Nonetheless, I feel inspired with a new verse. Pray lend me your ears."
100,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_114","For home, the shackled wyrm did yearn,♪
96,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_110,"Ah, the knight clad in armor black... Pray tell me of your encounter with him beyond the veil─and spare no detail."
97,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_111,So the true motive for his crusade was the salvation of his brethren. Thus did he pervert Azdaja's yearning to return home into a force capable of breaking down the barrier between worlds.
98,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_112,"For one that speaks of deliverance, concocting a plot that would condemn the souls of another world to death rings decidedly unheroic..."
99,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_113,"Nonetheless, I feel inspired with a new verse. Pray lend me your ears."
100,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_114,"For home, the shackled wyrm did yearn,♪
Stained by shadow, her nature turned.♪
In Darkness did her captor swear,♪
To claim his kind their stolen share.♪
"
101,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_115","Only salvation would suffice,♪
101,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_115,"Only salvation would suffice,♪
Another world to pay the price.♪
Hailed hero, or branded villain,♪
Deeds never to be forgiven.♪
"
102,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_116","What could have driven him to such ends? To sacrifice the very souls he hoped to save? To give rise to an entity born of such sorrow as Zeromus?"
103,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_117","He is worthy of contempt for his deeds, of that, there is no doubt. Yet all was done for the salvation of his people... One cannot help but be drawn to such a tale."
104,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_120","The dread beast Zeromus. 'Twas a battle that shook the very heavens, I'm sure. Naught less would befit an adversary named for a fallen champion of the Thirteenth. If you are willing to share, a captive audience stands before you."
105,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_121","Hoho, so you countered baleful Dark with resplendent Light. And what a fascinating twist to the tale for Zero, denizen of the void, to wield it. To be possessed of the strength of spirit to forge her own future in so brazen a fashion!"
106,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_122","Though in truth, knowing she is part voidsent, I would have expected the Light to refuse her outright. I shudder to think what might have happened if it had. To her, to Azdaja, to this very star..."
107,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_123","From musings of darkest despair springs forth a song of hope. If I may..."
108,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_124","From dregs of Dark did Zeromus rise,♪
102,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_116,What could have driven him to such ends? To sacrifice the very souls he hoped to save? To give rise to an entity born of such sorrow as Zeromus?
103,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_117,"He is worthy of contempt for his deeds, of that, there is no doubt. Yet all was done for the salvation of his people... One cannot help but be drawn to such a tale."
104,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_120,"The dread beast Zeromus. 'Twas a battle that shook the very heavens, I'm sure. Naught less would befit an adversary named for a fallen champion of the Thirteenth. If you are willing to share, a captive audience stands before you."
105,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_121,"Hoho, so you countered baleful Dark with resplendent Light. And what a fascinating twist to the tale for Zero, denizen of the void, to wield it. To be possessed of the strength of spirit to forge her own future in so brazen a fashion!"
106,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_122,"Though in truth, knowing she is part voidsent, I would have expected the Light to refuse her outright. I shudder to think what might have happened if it had. To her, to Azdaja, to this very star..."
107,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_123,From musings of darkest despair springs forth a song of hope. If I may...
108,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_124,"From dregs of Dark did Zeromus rise,♪
To claim the flesh of wyrm as its guise.♪
Bereft of death, its kin left to weep,♪
As fiend unleashed sought home and release.♪"
109,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_125","From selfsame shade did rise a dark knight,♪
109,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_125,"From selfsame shade did rise a dark knight,♪
A void-kissed child now graced by the Light.♪
'Twas she who dared to defy her fate,♪
And by her hand damnation's wheel break.♪"
110,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_126","For a mercy, it seems Zero has found a way to save not only her voidsent kin, but her home as well. And while Golbez may have committed terrible deeds, that he yet lives means that he may yet do good."
111,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_127","The nigh-fathomless Darkness of Zeromus contained within the memoria crystal shall pave a path of newfound hope."
112,"TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_128","An arduous path, to be sure, but one they shall walk together. And at journey's end, I pray, the Thirteenth will flourish with life once more."
110,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_126,"For a mercy, it seems Zero has found a way to save not only her voidsent kin, but her home as well. And while Golbez may have committed terrible deeds, that he yet lives means that he may yet do good."
111,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_127,The nigh-fathomless Darkness of Zeromus contained within the memoria crystal shall pave a path of newfound hope.
112,TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_128,"An arduous path, to be sure, but one they shall walk together. And at journey's end, I pray, the Thirteenth will flourish with life once more."
1 key 0 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_CFC_TO_INSTANCE_CONTENT 1
2 # 1 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_GREETING_000 Greetings, my friend. If you have a tale to share, this minstrel is all ears!
3 int32 str 2 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_Q1_000_001 str What will you talk about?
4 0 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_CFC_TO_INSTANCE_CONTENT 3 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_MENU_CANCEL <Sheet(ContentFinderCondition,IntegerParameter(1),3)/> Take your leave.
5 1 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_GREETING_000 4 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_NOSELECT_000 Greetings, my friend. If you have a tale to share, this minstrel is all ears! Oh, leaving so soon? I would be lying were I to say I wasn't disappointed, but I appreciate that a hero such as you has great demands upon her time. I shall look forward to hearing your adventures when you have a spare moment.
6 2 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_Q1_000_001 5 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_NOCONTENT_000 What will you talk about? ...Nothing for now? Not to put undue pressure upon you, but the folk here are quite taken by the songs inspired by your tales. They await the next with bated breath, and I hope to be able to deliver ere long─with inspiration from your good self.
7 3 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_MENU_CANCEL 6 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_000 Take your leave. Oho, what manner of thrilling adventure might this be?
8 4 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_NOSELECT_000 7 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_001 Oh, leaving so soon? I would be lying were I to say I wasn't disappointed, but I appreciate that a hero such as you has great demands upon <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>his</If> time. I shall look forward to hearing your adventures when you have a spare moment. Good gods, a battle on the moon with Zodiark, eldest and mightiest of primals... I pride myself on my imagination, but your feats transcend aught my mind could possibly conceive.
9 5 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_MINSTREL_NOCONTENT_000 8 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_002 ...Nothing for now? Not to put undue pressure upon you, but the folk here are quite taken by the songs inspired by your tales. They await the next with bated breath, and I hope to be able to deliver ere long─with inspiration from your good self. Against all odds, you struck down the puissant being, yet triumph quickly turned to tragedy, for Zodiark's fall proved to be the trigger for the Final Days...
10 6 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_000 9 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_003 Oho, what manner of thrilling adventure might this be? ...Yes. Yes, the words well up within me. Pray lend them an ear.
11 7 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_001 10 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_004 Good gods, a battle on the moon with Zodiark, eldest and mightiest of primals... I pride myself on my imagination, but your feats transcend aught my mind could possibly conceive. Born of ancient men, a divinity was freed,♪ Their hopes unrequited, they knew no reprieve.♪
8 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_002 Against all odds, you struck down the puissant being, yet triumph quickly turned to tragedy, for Zodiark's fall proved to be the trigger for the Final Days...
9 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_003 ...Yes. Yes, the words well up within me. Pray lend them an ear.
10 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_004 Born of ancient men, a divinity was freed,♪ Their hopes unrequited, they knew no reprieve.♪
12 11 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_005 11 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_005 Born of mortal men, a champion did arise,♪ Ascending to the heavens, ruination to defy.♪ Born of mortal men, a champion did arise,♪ Ascending to the heavens, ruination to defy.♪
13 12 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_006 12 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_006 That the ancients should sacrifice half their number to save the star... The strength of their resolve makes me tremble in admiration. That the ancients should sacrifice half their number to save the star... The strength of their resolve makes me tremble in admiration.
14 13 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_007 13 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_007 Even as it saddens me to think that one of their own would seek to lay it all to waste, so deep was his despair... Even as it saddens me to think that one of their own would seek to lay it all to waste, so deep was his despair...
15 14 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_008 14 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_008 Not having lived their lives, I feel decidedly unworthy to speak of their hearts. Better that the whole truth remain with you, and you alone. Not having lived their lives, I feel decidedly unworthy to speak of their hearts. Better that the whole truth remain with you, and you alone.
16 15 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_009 15 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_009 Let it suffice for me to honor a fragment of their hopes and dreams in song, that their lives and sacrifice may ever be remembered. Let it suffice for me to honor a fragment of their hopes and dreams in song, that their lives and sacrifice may ever be remembered.
17 16 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_010 16 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_010 Hm-hm, this promises to be a most rousing adventure! Hm-hm, this promises to be a most rousing adventure!
18 17 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_011 17 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_011 In order to prove your readiness to avert the Final Days, you undertook a trial imposed by no less a being than the will of the star, Hydaelyn Herself... In order to prove your readiness to avert the Final Days, you undertook a trial imposed by no less a being than the will of the star, Hydaelyn Herself...
19 18 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_012 18 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_012 It staggers the mind to imagine such an encounter, to say naught of the thousands of years that Venat had resolved to wait. It staggers the mind to imagine such an encounter, to say naught of the thousands of years that Venat had resolved to wait.
20 19 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_013 19 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_013 ...Yes, I daresay I have a song. You will listen to it now, of course? ...Yes, I daresay I have a song. You will listen to it now, of course?
21 20 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_014 20 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_014 Though eons apart, two kindred souls met,♪ Apart they would walk, all life to protect.♪ Though eons apart, two kindred souls met,♪ Apart they would walk, all life to protect.♪
22 21 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_015 21 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_015 Eons thence, their paths would converge,♪ As goddess and mortal, to silence the dirge.♪ Eons thence, their paths would converge,♪ As goddess and mortal, to silence the dirge.♪
23 22 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_016 22 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_016 For time beyond counting, Hydaelyn waited for you in patience and faith. And when at last you were reunited, even as She desperately wished for you to surpass Her, She knew She could not hold back─and did not. For time beyond counting, Hydaelyn waited for you in patience and faith. And when at last you were reunited, even as She desperately wished for you to surpass Her, She knew She could not hold back─and did not.
24 23 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_017 23 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_017 Hers was an unenviable burden...and a noble sacrifice. Tears well in my eyes to imagine the hardships She has had to endure. Hers was an unenviable burden...and a noble sacrifice. Tears well in my eyes to imagine the hardships She has had to endure.
25 24 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_018 24 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_018 But it comforts me to know that Her long journey was not in vain. That Her hopes passed on to you. But it comforts me to know that Her long journey was not in vain. That Her hopes passed on to you.
26 25 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_019 25 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_019 This tale is an epic among epics, and full honored am I to have been given the chance to weave a song for it. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you. This tale is an epic among epics, and full honored am I to have been given the chance to weave a song for it. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you.
27 26 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_020 26 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_020 The Dragonsong War, you say? The Dragonsong War, you say?
28 27 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_021 27 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_021 Quite some time has passed since that conflict drew to a close. Quite some time has passed since that conflict drew to a close.
29 28 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_022 28 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_022 But having now survived the threat of the Final Days, I believe we may reflect more deeply upon the emotions that had driven man and dragon both. By all means, recount the tale for me. But having now survived the threat of the Final Days, I believe we may reflect more deeply upon the emotions that had driven man and dragon both. By all means, recount the tale for me.
30 29 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_023 29 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_023 I see. I see... I see. I see...
31 30 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_024 30 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_024 I profess to weave words for a living...but on this occasion, they utterly fail me. I profess to weave words for a living...but on this occasion, they utterly fail me.
32 31 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_025 31 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_025 Yet this much, I will say: like an unwatched fire, pain and loss mustn't be left untended. For they were the embers that kindled a thousand-year conflict. Yet this much, I will say: like an unwatched fire, pain and loss mustn't be left untended. For they were the embers that kindled a thousand-year conflict.
33 32 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_026 32 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_026 Tell me, my friend. Have you ever dwelled on that dark moment? Dwelled on what may have come to pass if the life which was lost was spared instead? Tell me, my friend. Have you ever dwelled on that dark moment? Dwelled on what may have come to pass if the life which was lost was spared instead?
34 33 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_027 33 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_027 'Tis said that there are no ifs in history, yet man is wont to cast his mind towards the path not walked. 'Tis said that there are no ifs in history, yet man is wont to cast his mind towards the path not walked.
35 34 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_028 34 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_028 In acknowledgement of this, I would sing of alternate eventualities... In acknowledgement of this, I would sing of alternate eventualities...
36 35 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_029 35 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_029 By naught but vigilance may silver mail endure, Javelin's point never touch a comrade pure.♪ By naught but vigilance may silver mail endure, Javelin's point never touch a comrade pure.♪
37 36 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_030 36 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_030 Look back upon the paths we failed to take, And prepare for the trials that lie in wait.♪ Look back upon the paths we failed to take, And prepare for the trials that lie in wait.♪
38 37 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_031 37 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_031 As you may have noticed, I drew inspiration from the words the Archon Louisoix wrote in his journals in allusion to the Dragonsong War. As you may have noticed, I drew inspiration from the words the Archon Louisoix wrote in his journals in allusion to the Dragonsong War.
39 38 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_032 38 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_032 Some may dismiss the exercise as wishful pining. But by thus reflecting upon the past, I believe that we shall be better braced for the future. Some may dismiss the exercise as wishful pining. But by thus reflecting upon the past, I believe that we shall be better braced for the future.
40 39 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_033 39 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_033 So when you have a quiet moment, perhaps you too might look back and imagine it─the tale as it might have unfolded... So when you have a quiet moment, perhaps you too might look back and imagine it─the tale as it might have unfolded...
41 40 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_040 40 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_040 A battle at the edge of existence, you say? Against a fearsome being known as the Endsinger... A battle at the edge of existence, you say? Against a fearsome being known as the Endsinger...
42 41 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_041 41 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_041 It goes without saying that I should like to hear about this! Pray, recount to me the tale of your mission from beginning to end! It goes without saying that I should like to hear about this! Pray, recount to me the tale of your mission from beginning to end!
43 42 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_042 42 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_042 Good gods... I had known about the chaos of the Final Days, but never could I have imagined the events which brought them about. Good gods... I had known about the chaos of the Final Days, but never could I have imagined the events which brought them about.
44 43 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_043 43 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_043 I do wonder, though... Where might this Ultima Thule be located? I do wonder, though... Where might this Ultima Thule be located?
45 44 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_044 44 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_044 Lest you misunderstand, I speak not of its physical location. If we wished to know that, I daresay we could have the coordinates from the Loporrits. Lest you misunderstand, I speak not of its physical location. If we wished to know that, I daresay we could have the coordinates from the Loporrits.
46 45 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_045 45 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_045 Nay, my friend. What I speak of, rather, is its essence. Nay, my friend. What I speak of, rather, is its essence.
47 46 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_046 46 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_046 According to your description, 'tis a space where emotions dictate reality. It seems to me that, in such a place, it would be nigh impossible to draw a line between what is real and what is felt. According to your description, 'tis a space where emotions dictate reality. It seems to me that, in such a place, it would be nigh impossible to draw a line between what is real and what is felt.
48 47 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_047 47 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_047 In nature, there is a phenomenon wherein the structure of a massive object may resemble that of something diminutive. In nature, there is a phenomenon wherein the structure of a massive object may resemble that of something diminutive.
49 48 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_048 48 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_048 Might it not be possible, then, that the structure of the sea of stars resembles that of the heart and mind─of the complex mechanisms that govern our feelings? Might it not be possible, then, that the structure of the sea of stars resembles that of the heart and mind─of the complex mechanisms that govern our feelings?
50 49 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_049 49 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_049 On the assumption that it is so, I am led to wonder: what was the true nature of the Endsinger? On the assumption that it is so, I am led to wonder: what was the true nature of the Endsinger?
51 50 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_050 50 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_050 What was it exactly that you defied at the edge of existence? What was it exactly that you defied at the edge of existence?
52 51 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_051 51 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_051 Haha, these are just the wild ramblings of a minstrel. Pray do not lose sleep over it. Haha, these are just the wild ramblings of a minstrel. Pray do not lose sleep over it.
53 52 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_052 52 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_052 Still, I must say that the idea of an entity that hoards despair has quite roused my imagination. For instance... Still, I must say that the idea of an entity that hoards despair has quite roused my imagination. For instance...
54 53 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_053 53 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_053 Had the Endsinger succeeded in gathering but a few more stars' worth of despair─nay, perhaps even that of a few more souls─might the outcome have been different? Had the Endsinger succeeded in gathering but a few more stars' worth of despair─nay, perhaps even that of a few more souls─might the outcome have been different?
55 54 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_054 54 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_054 Yes, I believe I shall explore such an eventuality in song! Yes, I believe I shall explore such an eventuality in song!
56 55 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_055 55 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_055 The light of hope kindled by your comrades is brilliant. Alas, so dark is the despair you face, not even that light can pierce it... The light of hope kindled by your comrades is brilliant. Alas, so dark is the despair you face, not even that light can pierce it...
57 56 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_056 56 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_056 An inexorable verse of oblivion, performed at the farthest reaches of existence... I shall name it: the Endsinger's Aria! An inexorable verse of oblivion, performed at the farthest reaches of existence... I shall name it: the Endsinger's Aria!
58 57 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_060 57 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_060 Good gods, a battle in the void! You've certainly wasted no time seeking out newfound adventure... By all means, regale me with the thrilling details! Good gods, a battle in the void! You've certainly wasted no time seeking out newfound adventure... By all means, regale me with the thrilling details!
59 58 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_061 58 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_061 A world without death, where the strong devour the weak... And a woman touched by Darkness, who possesses the power to seal voidsent... Fascinating stuff indeed. A world without death, where the strong devour the weak... And a woman touched by Darkness, who possesses the power to seal voidsent... Fascinating stuff indeed.
60 59 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_062 59 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_062 But this archfiend Barbariccia, as cruel as she is ravishing... Though she is fearsome enough by your account, I cannot help but wonder: what if she had devoured more of the great wyrm's aether? How terribly bright might her soul have shone then? But this archfiend Barbariccia, as cruel as she is ravishing... Though she is fearsome enough by your account, I cannot help but wonder: what if she had devoured more of the great wyrm's aether? How terribly bright might her soul have shone then?
61 60 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_063 60 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_063 ...Yes, they come to me, the beginnings of a new verse. Pray listen, if you will. ...Yes, they come to me, the beginnings of a new verse. Pray listen, if you will.
62 61 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_064 61 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_064 In armor black, from shadowed lair,♪ The knight, with steely voice, declared.♪ A dragon's freedom he did steal,♪ Vict'ry in his crusade to seal.♪ In armor black, from shadowed lair,♪ The knight, with steely voice, declared.♪ A dragon's freedom he did steal,♪ Vict'ry in his crusade to seal.♪
63 62 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_065 62 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_065 Wind made flesh, the archfiend fair,♪ Her pride, her long and lustrous hair.♪ On dragon soul she feasted well,♪ A tempest freed to toll the knell.♪ Wind made flesh, the archfiend fair,♪ Her pride, her long and lustrous hair.♪ On dragon soul she feasted well,♪ A tempest freed to toll the knell.♪
64 63 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_066 63 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_066 Fighting to devour. Devouring to fight. Should the day come when this wheel is broken, would a voidsent greet her end with a wail of anguish? Or would she heave a sigh of relief? Fighting to devour. Devouring to fight. Should the day come when this wheel is broken, would a voidsent greet her end with a wail of anguish? Or would she heave a sigh of relief?
65 64 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_067 64 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_067 Whichever it may be, 'tis ironic to think that a soul who had sought freedom, and for so long, should end up being imprisoned in cold crystal. Whichever it may be, 'tis ironic to think that a soul who had sought freedom, and for so long, should end up being imprisoned in cold crystal.
66 65 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_068 65 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_068 Thus I would sing of that final battle. For in that lightless world, 'tis in such a moment, I believe, that their lives shine the brightest. Thus I would sing of that final battle. For in that lightless world, 'tis in such a moment, I believe, that their lives shine the brightest.
67 66 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_070 66 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_070 The voidsent thought to cross the rift and launch an assault on our world? Goodness, and here I thought you might find a reprieve from your dealings with the void and its denizens. Pray, tell me more. The voidsent thought to cross the rift and launch an assault on our world? Goodness, and here I thought you might find a reprieve from your dealings with the void and its denizens. Pray, tell me more.
68 67 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_071 67 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_071 I see... Theirs was a world bereft of true death, and so they sought its release in ours. A most curious impetus to take action, would you not agree? I see... Theirs was a world bereft of true death, and so they sought its release in ours. A most curious impetus to take action, would you not agree?
69 68 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_072 68 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_072 And this Rubicante... He too was prepared to embrace his end with open arms. Yet I cannot help but wonder: had he drank deeper of the dragon's aether, how brightly might his soul have burned ere it flickered and failed? And this Rubicante... He too was prepared to embrace his end with open arms. Yet I cannot help but wonder: had he drank deeper of the dragon's aether, how brightly might his soul have burned ere it flickered and failed?
70 69 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_073 69 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_073 Hmmm... I do believe this quandary has inspired the makings of a new verse. If you might lend me your ear a moment? Hmmm... I do believe this quandary has inspired the makings of a new verse. If you might lend me your ear a moment?
71 70 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_074 70 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_074 In armor black, the knight did ride♪ To claim lands wherein death resides.♪ Thither would his people know♪ The silent gift of death's great flow.♪ In armor black, the knight did ride♪ To claim lands wherein death resides.♪ Thither would his people know♪ The silent gift of death's great flow.♪
72 71 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_075 71 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_075 Honor bound, a fiend of fire.♪ Forged in battle, honed by ire.♪ He stood defiant, soul ablaze,♪ Heart heavy with sins of bygone days.♪ Honor bound, a fiend of fire.♪ Forged in battle, honed by ire.♪ He stood defiant, soul ablaze,♪ Heart heavy with sins of bygone days.♪
73 72 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_076 72 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_076 In another life, one might say he had the heart of a hero true. A heart broken, perhaps, by the bitter truth that the void could not be saved without sacrifice. In another life, one might say he had the heart of a hero true. A heart broken, perhaps, by the bitter truth that the void could not be saved without sacrifice.
74 73 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_077 73 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_077 Yet he was willing to offer up his soul to become a monster, dying to uphold his ideals. A heroic sacrifice in his eyes, no doubt. Yet he was willing to offer up his soul to become a monster, dying to uphold his ideals. A heroic sacrifice in his eyes, no doubt.
75 74 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_078 74 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_078 The circumstances of his death aside, I believe such a noble soul is worthy of remembrance in song, that people may look back on the man that he was rather than the beast he became. The circumstances of his death aside, I believe such a noble soul is worthy of remembrance in song, that people may look back on the man that he was rather than the beast he became.
76 75 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_080 75 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_080 Ah, the dreadful machine of war. Pray describe its every detail, that I might conjure an image in my mind. Ah, the dreadful machine of war. Pray describe its every detail, that I might conjure an image in my mind.
77 76 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_081 76 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_081 A four-legged entity, armored as if in a shiny black carapace. Like a beetle forged from darkened steel... A four-legged entity, armored as if in a shiny black carapace. Like a beetle forged from darkened steel...
78 77 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_082 77 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_082 Hmmm. Why does that description sound so very familiar? Hmmm. Why does that description sound so very familiar?
79 78 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_083 78 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_083 Ah, yes! I have seen this contraption trundling about town! Ah, yes! I have seen this contraption trundling about town!
80 79 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_084 79 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_084 Yet surely that cannot be the same deadly Omega of which you speak? Such a tiny thing, and its chocobo-like companion seems so sweet and inquisitive. Yet surely that cannot be the same deadly Omega of which you speak? Such a tiny thing, and its chocobo-like companion seems so sweet and inquisitive.
81 80 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_085 80 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_085 ...Fascinating. You say Omega's prime directive was to improve itself through battle. Thus did it conduct an “interdimensional experiment” following its awakening in the present day. ...Fascinating. You say Omega's prime directive was to improve itself through battle. Thus did it conduct an “interdimensional experiment” following its awakening in the present day.
82 81 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_086 81 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_086 A process through which it hoped to define─and ultimately adopt─the intangible strength of mortal spirit... A process through which it hoped to define─and ultimately adopt─the intangible strength of mortal spirit...
83 82 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_087 82 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_087 And the being known as Alpha was created to facilitate this pursuit? And the being known as Alpha was created to facilitate this pursuit?
84 83 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_088 83 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_088 Yet how does one define the heart of man? Yet how does one define the heart of man?
85 84 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_089 84 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_089 We never question that we all possess such heart, and I have witnessed myself how unyielding hope can manifest with palpable effect. We never question that we all possess such heart, and I have witnessed myself how unyielding hope can manifest with palpable effect.
86 85 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_090 85 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_090 The underlying concept, however, is nebulous at best. If we lacked the terms to describe it, would we even recognize its existence within ourselves? The underlying concept, however, is nebulous at best. If we lacked the terms to describe it, would we even recognize its existence within ourselves?
87 86 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_091 86 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_091 Put another way, should we lack the means to be aware of such indefinable strength, could it still potentially exist? Put another way, should we lack the means to be aware of such indefinable strength, could it still potentially exist?
88 87 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_092 87 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_092 Pray excuse my philosophical musings. I am merely entertaining the possibilities. Pray excuse my philosophical musings. I am merely entertaining the possibilities.
89 88 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_093 88 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_093 Yet what is a minstrel for, if not to entertain the idea of that which might be? Yet what is a minstrel for, if not to entertain the idea of that which might be?
90 89 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_094 89 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_094 If Omega's experiment had continued a while longer, would it have arrived at the answer it sought? Let us imagine the tableau... If Omega's experiment had continued a while longer, would it have arrived at the answer it sought? Let us imagine the tableau...
91 90 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_095 90 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_095 Omega... The dreaded machine of war which slumbered 'neath the fields of Carteneau. Omega... The dreaded machine of war which slumbered 'neath the fields of Carteneau.
92 91 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_096 91 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_096 Upon being awoken, 'tis said that this steel-clad terror made straightway to the border of the Black Shroud and the Fringes, whereupon a titanic struggle took place. Upon being awoken, 'tis said that this steel-clad terror made straightway to the border of the Black Shroud and the Fringes, whereupon a titanic struggle took place.
93 92 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_097 92 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_097 Did Omega seek conflict of its own accord? Or was it merely following commands...? Did Omega seek conflict of its own accord? Or was it merely following commands...?
94 93 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_098 93 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_098 Aye, a subject to stir the imagination...not to mention my minstrel heart! Aye, a subject to stir the imagination...not to mention my minstrel heart!
95 94 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_099 94 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_099 Emerged with haste in skies above,♪ The beast knew neither hate nor love.♪ A heartless shell of living steel,♪ Seeking might with ceaseless zeal.♪ Emerged with haste in skies above,♪ The beast knew neither hate nor love.♪ A heartless shell of living steel,♪ Seeking might with ceaseless zeal.♪
96 95 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_100 95 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_100 It takes the measure of the strong,♪ Learns which upon the field belong.♪ The endless strife, an endless test,♪ With soul unknown, it knows no rest.♪ It takes the measure of the strong,♪ Learns which upon the field belong.♪ The endless strife, an endless test,♪ With soul unknown, it knows no rest.♪
97 96 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_110 96 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_110 Ah, the knight clad in armor black... Pray tell me of your encounter with him beyond the veil─and spare no detail. Ah, the knight clad in armor black... Pray tell me of your encounter with him beyond the veil─and spare no detail.
98 97 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_111 97 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_111 So the true motive for his crusade was the salvation of his brethren. Thus did he pervert Azdaja's yearning to return home into a force capable of breaking down the barrier between worlds. So the true motive for his crusade was the salvation of his brethren. Thus did he pervert Azdaja's yearning to return home into a force capable of breaking down the barrier between worlds.
99 98 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_112 98 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_112 For one that speaks of deliverance, concocting a plot that would condemn the souls of another world to death rings decidedly unheroic... For one that speaks of deliverance, concocting a plot that would condemn the souls of another world to death rings decidedly unheroic...
100 99 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_113 99 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_113 Nonetheless, I feel inspired with a new verse. Pray lend me your ears. Nonetheless, I feel inspired with a new verse. Pray lend me your ears.
101 100 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_114 100 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_114 For home, the shackled wyrm did yearn,♪ Stained by shadow, her nature turned.♪ In Darkness did her captor swear,♪ To claim his kind their stolen share.♪ For home, the shackled wyrm did yearn,♪ Stained by shadow, her nature turned.♪ In Darkness did her captor swear,♪ To claim his kind their stolen share.♪
102 101 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_115 101 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_115 Only salvation would suffice,♪ Another world to pay the price.♪ Hailed hero, or branded villain,♪ Deeds never to be forgiven.♪ Only salvation would suffice,♪ Another world to pay the price.♪ Hailed hero, or branded villain,♪ Deeds never to be forgiven.♪
103 102 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_116 102 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_116 What could have driven him to such ends? To sacrifice the very souls he hoped to save? To give rise to an entity born of such sorrow as Zeromus? What could have driven him to such ends? To sacrifice the very souls he hoped to save? To give rise to an entity born of such sorrow as Zeromus?
104 103 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_117 103 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_117 He is worthy of contempt for his deeds, of that, there is no doubt. Yet all was done for the salvation of his people... One cannot help but be drawn to such a tale. He is worthy of contempt for his deeds, of that, there is no doubt. Yet all was done for the salvation of his people... One cannot help but be drawn to such a tale.
105 104 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_120 104 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_120 The dread beast Zeromus. 'Twas a battle that shook the very heavens, I'm sure. Naught less would befit an adversary named for a fallen champion of the Thirteenth. If you are willing to share, a captive audience stands before you. The dread beast Zeromus. 'Twas a battle that shook the very heavens, I'm sure. Naught less would befit an adversary named for a fallen champion of the Thirteenth. If you are willing to share, a captive audience stands before you.
106 105 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_121 105 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_121 Hoho, so you countered baleful Dark with resplendent Light. And what a fascinating twist to the tale for Zero, denizen of the void, to wield it. To be possessed of the strength of spirit to forge her own future in so brazen a fashion! Hoho, so you countered baleful Dark with resplendent Light. And what a fascinating twist to the tale for Zero, denizen of the void, to wield it. To be possessed of the strength of spirit to forge her own future in so brazen a fashion!
107 106 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_122 106 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_122 Though in truth, knowing she is part voidsent, I would have expected the Light to refuse her outright. I shudder to think what might have happened if it had. To her, to Azdaja, to this very star... Though in truth, knowing she is part voidsent, I would have expected the Light to refuse her outright. I shudder to think what might have happened if it had. To her, to Azdaja, to this very star...
108 107 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_123 107 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_123 From musings of darkest despair springs forth a song of hope. If I may... From musings of darkest despair springs forth a song of hope. If I may...
109 108 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_124 108 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_124 From dregs of Dark did Zeromus rise,♪ To claim the flesh of wyrm as its guise.♪ Bereft of death, its kin left to weep,♪ As fiend unleashed sought home and release.♪ From dregs of Dark did Zeromus rise,♪ To claim the flesh of wyrm as its guise.♪ Bereft of death, its kin left to weep,♪ As fiend unleashed sought home and release.♪
110 109 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_125 109 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_125 From selfsame shade did rise a dark knight,♪ A void-kissed child now graced by the Light.♪ 'Twas she who dared to defy her fate,♪ And by her hand damnation's wheel break.♪ From selfsame shade did rise a dark knight,♪ A void-kissed child now graced by the Light.♪ 'Twas she who dared to defy her fate,♪ And by her hand damnation's wheel break.♪
111 110 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_126 110 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_126 For a mercy, it seems Zero has found a way to save not only her voidsent kin, but her home as well. And while Golbez may have committed terrible deeds, that he yet lives means that he may yet do good. For a mercy, it seems Zero has found a way to save not only her voidsent kin, but her home as well. And while Golbez may have committed terrible deeds, that he yet lives means that he may yet do good.
112 111 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_127 111 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_127 The nigh-fathomless Darkness of Zeromus contained within the memoria crystal shall pave a path of newfound hope. The nigh-fathomless Darkness of Zeromus contained within the memoria crystal shall pave a path of newfound hope.
113 112 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_128 112 TEXT_CTSOPN60WANDERINGMINSTREL_00728_WANDERINGMINSTREL_000_128 An arduous path, to be sure, but one they shall walk together. And at journey's end, I pray, the Thirteenth will flourish with life once more. An arduous path, to be sure, but one they shall walk together. And at journey's end, I pray, the Thirteenth will flourish with life once more.
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