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0,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000010_ALPHINAUD","Come, you must have gathered by now that Tataru is given to exaggeration. As you can see, I am quite well."
1,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000020_ALPHINAUD","Ul'dah, on the other hand, is not. This riot was anything but an isolated incident."
2,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000030_ALPHINAUD","There is a restlessness in the air. Tensions long simmering are at last threatening to boil over."
3,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000040_ALPHINAUD","Ul'dah is a nation infamous for the great disparity between the wealthy and the poor. The majority of the populace accepts this state of affairs because they believe that every man bears responsibility for his own lot in life."
4,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000050_ALPHINAUD","To an Ul'dahn, money is the foremost─and some would say the <Emphasis>only</Emphasis>─measure of a man's worth. Small wonder that the wealthiest wield the greatest influence."
5,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000060_ALPHINAUD","So where do the refugees fit into this social hierarchy? What place is there for those who fled Ala Mhigo and the destruction of the Calamity?"
6,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000070_ALPHINAUD","Plainly, there <Emphasis>is</Emphasis> none. They have no wealth, no power, and no worth. To the Ul'dahn way of thinking, they may as well not exist."
7,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000080_ALPHINAUD","Choosing to ignore their existence, however, is patently not an option. General Raubahn and the sultana understand this, which is why they ordered the Immortal Flames to provide the refugees aid and succor."
8,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000090_ALPHINAUD","Yet none would dispute that the expenses incurred by this policy grow by the day, with no end in sight."
9,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000100_ALPHINAUD","This has prompted more and more Ul'dahns to question their obligation to aid these worthless wanderers... "
10,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000110_ALPHINAUD","While more and more refugees have come to resent their treatment at the hands of the sneering citizenry."
11,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000120_ALPHINAUD","The manner of Lord Lolorito's refusal to grant the Domans asylum bespoke a disdain for all refugees─an attitude shared by the rest of the Monetarists. And you may be sure they make no effort to conceal their opinions."
12,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000130_ALPHINAUD","It was only a matter of time before the refugees united in protest. Nor is it any surprise that some among them would ultimately resort to violence."
13,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000140_ALPHINAUD","That the Immortal Flames should choose this of all occasions to engage in joint training exercises with the other Grand Companies... By the time they return, the situation may well have deteriorated beyond mending."
14,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100010_RAUBAHN","Commander Swift has kept us apprised of your recent activities. You've made great strides towards quelling the violence."
15,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100020_ALPHINAUD","Despite our best efforts to determine what provoked this uprising, the truth continues to elude us. Have you uncovered aught which might shed some light on the mystery?"
16,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100030_RAUBAHN","This information does not leave this room."
17,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100040_RAUBAHN","The Syndicate's decision to reject the Doman refugees' appeal for asylum had lasting repercussions. A number of those displaced by the Calamity claimed it was proof of a policy of discrimination."
18,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100050_RAUBAHN","Together with a group of Ala Mhigan refugees, they organized a series of demonstrations to protest against the sultanate."
19,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100060_RAUBAHN","Demonstrations which became heated, but did not descend into violence."
20,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100070_RAUBAHN"," Until a certain incident served as a call to arms."
21,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100080_NANAMOULNAMO","A unit of Brass Blades sent to supervise a demonstration loosed arrows upon unarmed protesters."
22,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100090_NANAMOULNAMO","It was this atrocity which prompted the refugees to take up arms. I need not tell you what followed."
23,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100100_RAUBAHN","We assumed at first that the attack was born of a miscommunication. When emotions run high, they happen. But suspicions were raised regarding the unit's commanding officer, whom I ordered interrogated."
24,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100110_RAUBAHN","Sure enough, our fears were soon confirmed. The dog confessed that a merchant had offered him coin to give the order─a merchant in the employ of Teledji Adeledji."
25,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100120_ALPHINAUD","Teledji Adeledji?"
26,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100130_ALPHINAUD","But he spoke in favor of the Domans' cause, and has ever seemed sympathetic towards the refugees' plight. Why would he do such a thing?"
27,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100140_RAUBAHN","Know you of the Carteneau Reclamation Bill?"
28,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100150_RAUBAHN","It is a proposal to annex the Carteneau Flats so that refugees may establish permanent settlements."
29,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100160_ALPHINAUD","When last I looked, that was disputed territory."
30,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100170_RAUBAHN","Aye. Some might even call it a battlefield."
31,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200010_RAUBAHN","The destruction wrought by Bahamut was greatest at the Carteneau Flats. That much is common knowledge."
32,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200020_RAUBAHN","What is less well known is that his rampage laid bare ancient Allagan ruins, of which no record existed."
33,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200030_RAUBAHN","There are certain...differences of opinion as to how these ruins should be handled, which is why each nation maintains a military presence in the region to this day."
34,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200040_RAUBAHN","Yet differ though we may, we are still allies. Therefore, in the interest of preserving the Eorzean Alliance, we have reached an agreement."
35,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200050_RAUBAHN","Any conflict which may arise during the course of military exercises in the region shall have no bearing on relations between our nations."
36,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200060_RAUBAHN","In full knowledge of this delicate state of affairs, Teledji Adeledji proposed the Carteneau Reclamation Bill."
37,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200070_RAUBAHN","A shameless bloody ruse which stands to benefit him in but one conceivable way."
38,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200080_RAUBAHN","If successful, he will gain control over the disputed territory, under the guise of assisting in the resettlement effort. And you can be sure he'll build an orphanage next to every Allagan ruin."
39,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200090_NANAMOULNAMO","The man would threaten the unity of the Eorzean Alliance and risk countless lives for personal gain!"
40,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200100_RAUBAHN","He walks a path all his own, independent of any faction, and beholden to none of his fellows on the Syndicate."
41,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200110_NANAMOULNAMO","By inciting the less fortunate to violence, he hopes to convince others that the Carteneau Reclamation Bill is the only viable solution."
42,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200120_NANAMOULNAMO","His sympathy for the plight of the Domans was naught but posturing to gain credibility with the refugees. Of that there can be no doubt."
43,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300010_ALPHINAUD","Forgive me, but what could possibly motivate Teledji Adeledji to go to such lengths? What is so special about these ruins that he would risk his position on the Syndicate, and, most likely, charges of treason against the sultanate?"
44,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300020_NANAMOULNAMO","Omega..."
45,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300030_ALPHINAUD","Pardon?"
46,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300040_RAUBAHN","An Allagan monstrosity, not unlike the Ultima Weapon. Mayhap larger. We know not. It has yet to be fully excavated."
47,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300050_RAUBAHN","Allagan inscriptions indicate that it was created to fell Bahamut himself."
48,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300060_RAUBAHN","If accurate, it might explain why Nael van Darnus chose to bring the red moon down upon the Carteneau Flats."
49,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300070_RAUBAHN","Given the ends he went to to ensure Eorzea's annihilation, destroying the one weapon which could stay the elder primal may well have seemed like good sense."
50,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300080_ALPHINAUD","When first I bore witness to the power of the Ultima Weapon, I doubted the evidence of my senses... And now you tell me there is another such weapon─one which could contend with Bahamut. <Emphasis>Bahamut</Emphasis>."
51,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300090_RAUBAHN","Aye. We were skeptical ourselves. Truth be told, until the Ultima Weapon's existence came to light, we thought the inscription had been mistranslated."
52,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300100_NANAMOULNAMO","At present, Omega is more akin to a fossil than a tool of war, having long since ceased to function. As such, its true potential cannot accurately be gauged."
53,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300110_NANAMOULNAMO","However, if someone were to restore it, as the Garleans did the Ultima Weapon, I have little doubt that he would wield untold power."
54,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300120_RAUBAHN","Power enough to subjugate Ul'dah, like as not, and the rest of Eorzea besides─which is doubtless why Teledji Adeledji yearns to have it."
55,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300130_NANAMOULNAMO","That <Emphasis>he</Emphasis> should aspire to world domination... He who has ever walked two paces behind Lord Lolorito in matters of commerce."
56,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300140_RAUBAHN","'Tis in acknowledgement of his own limitations that he seeks this power. Woe betide us all should we allow him to have it."
57,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300150_NANAMOULNAMO","Pray waste no time chasing rats. Only a fool would believe that secrets can be kept in Ul'dah."
58,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300160_ALPHINAUD","It would seem the implications of the sultanate's refugee problem are rather more far-reaching than we assumed..."
59,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400010_HAURCHEFANT","The incident with the new frontier hands? No, no, you need not elaborate─I have been following their progress with no small amount of interest."
60,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400020_HAURCHEFANT","Brave men and women all... They do our nation a great service. The existence of a fortified outpost in Mor Dhona will do much to dissuade the Empire from trespassing on Coerthan soil."
61,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400030_HAURCHEFANT","Right glad am I that you have chosen to lend your support to this endeavor. Never let it be said that House Fortemps does not acknowledge the efforts of her allies...or her debts."
62,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400040_HAURCHEFANT","'Twas in the spirit of gratitude that I arranged for sundry supplies to be delivered to Revenant's Toll. That the shipment should chance to be waylaid by heretics is poor fortune, indeed."
63,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400050_HAURCHEFANT","Poor fortune, I say...yet not without precedent. If you would know the truth of it, these incorrigible villains grow more organized with each passing day."
64,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400060_HAURCHEFANT","This new unity of purpose we attribute to their leader─the Lady “Iceheart.” But though I have devoted significant resources to the task of identifying this woman, we have yet to learn so much as her birth name."
65,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400070_HAURCHEFANT","What we <Emphasis>do</Emphasis> know is that the heretics speak of Iceheart in reverent tones, and would gladly embrace death rather than betray her. Such loyalty is rare indeed, and I fear to imagine what so committed a collective might achieve."
66,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400080_HAURCHEFANT","The brigands have not yet been so brazen as to risk direct confrontation here in Dragonhead. Some few of their number have, however, been sighted not far to the west of here...and with ever-increasing regularity."
67,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400090_HAURCHEFANT","A visit to Whitebrim Front may bring you the answers you seek. Will you brave the snows knowing what implacable foes may lie in wait?"
68,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400100_HAURCHEFANT","Halone's blessings be upon you! Though I take no pride in the admission, many of mine own countrymen are not so well suited as you adventurers to dealing with such foes. Were they dragons, it might be otherwise!"
69,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400110_HAURCHEFANT","But truly, I could not wish for a finer ally. You have done much for my house in the past, and I have no doubt but that I shall have cause to celebrate your deeds again ere long."
70,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400120_HAURCHEFANT","Should you learn aught of value, pray return to me forthwith. A warm hearth and a warmer welcome shall be waiting for you."
71,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_500010_YSAYLE","(-???-)Hmph..."
72,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600010_HAURCHEFANT","Your return is most timely. Of their own accord, my thoughts had turned to your task and the progress thereof. I confess, my imaginings tended toward the grim and bloody."
73,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600020_HAURCHEFANT","But you are here now, and I suspect such frivolous wonderings do little justice to the reality of your travails. Tell me, what did you learn of Iceheart?"
74,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600030_HAURCHEFANT","...Indeed. And this transpired at Snowcloak?"
75,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600040_HAURCHEFANT","Of all the highlands, that towering wall has borne the worst of the region's brutal shift in climate."
76,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600050_HAURCHEFANT","So inhospitable has Snowcloak become that we have still to survey the area in its entirety. Could its frozen heights conceal the heretics' hideaway? Mayhap a more robust reconnaissance effort is in order."
77,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600060_HAURCHEFANT","Putting such considerations aside for the moment, we still know far too little of this Iceheart. That she is capable of commanding such a band of fanatics bespeaks natural authority, and no small measure of charisma."
78,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600070_HAURCHEFANT","As much as I would like to fathom this mystery with you, the situation has grown beyond my personal purview. I am bound by duty to inform the Temple Knights and request that they bring this matter to its conclusion."
79,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600080_HAURCHEFANT","Given the glowing reports their new commander has garnered thus far, I am certain that they can be relied upon to take appropriate action."
80,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600090_HAURCHEFANT","Though Iceheart's true identity yet eludes us, you have provided us with a point from which to begin. Sometimes it takes but a single stone to prompt an avalanche."
81,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600100_HAURCHEFANT","On the matter of the stolen provisions, I have already made arrangements for a second shipment to be sent to Revenant's Toll. I could not well allow such an honorable venture to be undermined by one miserable setback!"
82,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700010_KANESENNA","Scions of the Seventh Dawn, on behalf of the people of Gridania, I bid you welcome. Your presence is of great comfort to us all in these days of uncertainty."
83,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700020_KANESENNA","I summoned you here to share tidings of a most urgent nature. But a short while ago, the great elemental spoke, and his voice was clarion in its intensity: Ramuh is returned unto the forest."
84,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700030_KANESENNA","Scarce had his words ceased to echo in mine ears when we were visited by an emissary from Little Solace."
85,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700050_KANESENNA","Our guest informs us that the sylphs, too, have sensed the presence of the Lord of Levin."
86,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700055_KANESENNA","Our guest informs us that the sylphs, too, have sensed the presence of the Lord of Levin."
87,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700060_KANESENNA","Though his exact whereabouts remain unknown, we may safely assume that the primal was summoned within the heart of the Sylphlands."
88,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700070_KANESENNA","Unlike the other primals you have encountered, Lord Ramuh is no raging avatar of destruction. He is revered as much for his wisdom as his strength, serving as both arbiter and guardian to his children. Given that we and the sylphs found a way to share the Twelveswood, it is my hope that this sagely immortal will be amenable to reason, and that conflict may be avoided."
89,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700080_KANESENNA","Blessed as you are with the power of the Echo, you are one of the few among us who may commune with a primal without fear of influence. I would ask therefore that you represent us in this most delicate of negotiations."
90,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700090_KANESENNA","The Twelveswood has suffered enough. Upon this, we and the sylphs─and I would venture Lord Ramuh himself─are in perfect accord. Let us not endanger our shared home by engaging in unnecessary hostilities."
91,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700100_KANESENNA","Dear friend, I beseech you: safeguard the peace which exists between our peoples."
92,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700110_KANESENNA","You have my thanks."
93,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700120_KANESENNA","Pray make for Little Solace, then. A member of the Order of the Twin Adder awaits you there. He will advise you on how to find the Lord of Levin."
94,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700130_KANESENNA","An ill wind blows through the forest."
95,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700140_KANESENNA","Yet...it is not only the Twelveswood that flinches at its coming─all the lands of Eorzea shiver in dread anticipation. Have care."
96,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800010_RAMUH","Thine aura betrays thee, servant of Hydaelyn."
97,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800020_RAMUH","Thou art the Bringer of Light...bane of Ifrit, Titan, Garuda, and Leviathan."
98,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800030_RAMUH","I am Ramuh, guardian of the children of the forest."
99,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800040_RAMUH","Thou tramplest upon sacred soil, Bringer of Light. By what right doth man intrude in this sanctuary of the sylphs?"
100,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800050_RAMUH","The Gridanians proffer peace? Their words are born of delusion─thine offer, an insult."
101,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800060_RAMUH","Thou speakest of harmony, yet carest naught for my children's desires. They did but wish to dwell beneath these boughs in solitude─yet even that was too much to ask of man."
102,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800070_RAMUH","Thus did they turn to me for succor. The sentence I pronounce upon thy kind is just."
103,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800080_RAMUH","Gridanian or Garlean, it matters not. The good intent of one excuseth not the misdeeds of the other."
104,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800090_RAMUH","Thy conflicts have brought naught but anguish and misery unto the forest. All blame doth lie with the darkness that resideth in the breast of man."
105,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800100_RAMUH","Whence sprung this calamitous seed? In the beginning, no such duality existed. Were light and dark given form when man was born?"
106,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800110_RAMUH","It would explain much. Not least why strife and sorrow follow ever in thy wake. Thou canst not deny the urgings of thine own nature."
107,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800120_RAMUH","Knowing that thy mere presence here portendeth tragedy, wilt thou persist in this pretense of peacemaking?"
108,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800130_RAMUH","Thou bearest the crystal which I bestowed upon my wayward charges. That they should entrust so precious a gift to thee..."
109,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800140_RAMUH","Thou standest apart from thy kin. Thou art the Bringer of Light, aye...but there is something more in thee..."
110,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800150_RAMUH","Very well, I shall consider thy proposal...shouldst thou survive my trial."
111,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800160_RAMUH","If thou wouldst champion the cause of harmony, I must have proof that thou art fit to play the role. Weather mine ire, and prove to me thereby that thou hast strength enough to stay the Darkness which threateneth to consume thee."
112,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800170_RAMUH","Yet if thou shouldst be found wanting, know that <Emphasis>all</Emphasis> men shall perish in the storm of my judgment!"
113,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800180_RAMUH","Come to me, Bringer of Light. I shall await thee on the field of battle!"
114,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800190_YSHTOLA","Urianger. It is rare indeed to find you so far from a tome."
115,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800200_URIANGER","The Lord of Levin himself... Never till this day had I looked upon his visage save in painted renderings, made faint by time... Ever shall this scene remain etched in my mind's eye... Ahem. Beg pardon, my lady."
116,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800210_URIANGER","I must beg thine aid on a point of research. If thou art resolved to face Lord Ramuh, I would ask thy leave to observe the event..."
117,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900010_RAMUH","I have taken thy measure, Bringer of Light."
118,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900020_RAMUH","And I judge thee a worthy champion. The task of excising the sin that hath taken root in man's heart is thine."
119,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900030_RAMUH","Shrink not from employing thy strength in service to the forest, and the wider realm beyond. Like hungering shadows do the enemies of harmony gather, and meekness will but feed them."
120,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900040_RAMUH","If man is to be delivered from the Dark, it shall be by thy guiding Light alone. Stray not from the path, for if thou dost, thy people shall be truly lost..."
121,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900050_URIANGER","Thou hast slain the Lord of Levin. A regrettable act...but a necessary one."
122,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900060_URIANGER","In witnessing thy struggle, a truth hath been revealed unto me. If I mistake not, it may yet prove a chink in the eternal armor of the Ascians."
123,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900070_URIANGER","But let us conclude our present business. I shall expound upon my findings at the Rising Stones anon."
124,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00010_KANESENNA","You are returned to us, dear friend, and none the worse for bearing the heavy burden which I did press upon you. Most glad am I of this."
125,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00020_KANESENNA","I am informed that your efforts to negotiate a peace with Lord Ramuh ended in conflict. Pray tell me, what befell?"
126,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00030_KANESENNA","Ramuh made trial of you?"
127,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00040_KANESENNA","I fear there is truth to his claim. It is the darkness within us that attracts the Darkness without."
128,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00050_KANESENNA","It cannot be denied that misfortune follows man. For evidence, one need only look to the conflict brewing in Carteneau, or to the rising flood of refugees."
129,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00060_KANESENNA","Our shared struggle against the Empire should have served to seal our union, yet the ties which bind the Alliance strain under the weight of gross self-interest."
130,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00070_KANESENNA","As the scars of the Calamity begin to fade, so too does our sense of common purpose."
131,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00080_KANESENNA","Yet now is scarce the time to forget our shared responsibility. If this new-sprung realm is to survive beyond its infancy, it must needs be nurtured by all."
132,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00090_KANESENNA","Eorzea <Emphasis>must</Emphasis> be as one. Yet I fear that dream is still far off."
133,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00100_KANESENNA","On behalf of the people of Gridania, and the elementals both, I thank you for all that you and your fellow Scions have done."
134,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00110_KANESENNA","Full oft have I been compelled to look to you for aid of late...and offered all too little in return. As leader of this nation, I shall endeavor to prove a more worthy ally to your cause henceforth."
135,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00120_KANESENNA","Lord Ramuh has departed, yet the keening of this ill wind grows no less insistent..."
136,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00130_KANESENNA","Voices of the forest─pray speak and I shall listen. What unseen evil begets this unease in my heart?"
137,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00010_MINFILIA","If everyone is ready, let us begin."
138,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00020_MINFILIA","Urianger, the floor is yours."
139,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00030_URIANGER","As all here assembled now know, in its final hours as our order's headquarters, the Waking Sands did play host to a most unexpected visitor. I speak of the Ascian clad in white, Elidibus."
140,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00040_URIANGER","Unwelcome though his presence was, his words that day did serve to confirm a truth long suspected: that the Ascians are eternal beings, to whom physical destruction is as a temporary inconvenience."
141,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00050_MINFILIA","In the intervening time, Urianger and I have striven to discover a means by which the Ascians might more permanently be slain."
142,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00060_URIANGER","And 'tis my belief that we have found the thread that will allow us to unravel the twisted skein of their existence."
143,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00070_URIANGER","In the moments prior to Leviathan's most recent manifestation, the Sahagin elder who summoned him was observed to undergo some manner of ascension."
144,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00080_URIANGER","The aetheric readings taken by Y'shtola at the time of this transfiguration have proven most enlightening."
145,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00090_YSHTOLA","The disruption to the flow of aether was sudden and dramatic. So tangible was the agitation, I scarce had need of my goggles."
146,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00100_URIANGER","The significance of Y'shtola's readings might better be understood in the context of mine own, taken at the instant of the Lord of Levin's demise. Unlike the primal, the Sahagin was not subject to aetheric dissipation."
147,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00110_MINFILIA","Before discussing our new discoveries, it may benefit us all to recall what we know of aetheric behavior."
148,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00120_MINFILIA","Let us begin at what some might call the end. When we who dwell in the material realm die, our spirits dissolve into the flow of aether, and are returned to the aetherial realm."
149,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00130_MINFILIA","In turn, the restless energy which suffuses that plane streams back into our world, giving rise to new life."
150,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00140_URIANGER","'Tis as the heavens did decree─the way of all mortal souls."
151,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00150_URIANGER","'Twixt this world and the next do the aetherial currents swirl, bearing the very essence of life. Thus doth the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth continue unabated."
152,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00160_MINFILIA","Primals behave somewhat differently. In order to manifest and then maintain a physical presence in this realm, they must consume vast quantities of aether, most often in the form of crystals. Though they may seem to live, their flesh is but aether given shape."
153,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00170_MINFILIA","Thus, a defeated primal leaves behind no broken corpse─rather, the essence of its form seeps back into the land whence it came, and the energy of its shattered spirit is called back to the aetherial realm."
154,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00180_URIANGER","And there it waiteth till next the prayers of the faithful do draw it forth from the sea of aether to take their offering of crystals and make for itself a new body..."
155,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00190_MINFILIA","Which brings us on to the third group. These so-called “immortals.” They exist in a manner all their own."
156,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00200_YSHTOLA","Quite. Even as the Sahagin elder fell to the Admiral's musket shot, I witnessed the release of an aetherial cloud which immediately took possession of a nearby minion."
157,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00210_URIANGER","A soul that dissipateth not upon the death of the flesh..."
158,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00220_THANCRED","The secret of life everlasting. And in the claws of a Sahagin, no less. But I wonder: what would happen to one of these obstinate spirits should there be no suitable host for it to claim?"
159,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00230_MINFILIA","If mortal death entails a return to the aetherial realm, it seems doubtful that the soul of an immortal would venture there."
160,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00240_URIANGER","Nay, it merely withdraweth a distance. Unto the shore of the aetherial sea, perchance, but no further."
161,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00250_MINFILIA","Yes, it exists in neither this realm nor the next, abiding instead in the space that lies between them."
162,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00260_MINFILIA","The Ascians took control of Thancred by means of a Crystal of Darkness─an artifact which, if our theories are correct, serves as a gateway to the place I have just described."
163,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00270_THANCRED","I was hoping people had forgotten about that..."
164,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00280_MINFILIA","I am sorry, my friend."
165,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00290_URIANGER","For a mercy, the weary road of our research hath brought us unto an answer."
166,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00300_YSHTOLA","The Sahagin ascended to an immortal state, but he did not possess a Crystal of Darkness through which to flee this realm. Thus was he consumed by Leviathan."
167,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00310_YSHTOLA","If we could entrap the spirits of defeated Ascians in like manner, and thereby deny them resurrection..."
168,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00320_URIANGER","Therein lieth the path to victory. Thou art most perceptive, my lady."
169,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00330_URIANGER","Only when we have trapped the bodiless soul within an aetherial prison can we hope to defeat its unnatural constancy. Thus, might even an eternal Paragon be consigned to oblivion."
170,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00340_MINFILIA","These feats are, of course, far easier said than done. At present, we lack a viable means to entrap and extinguish an Ascian soul."
171,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00350_MINFILIA","Yet I believe it to be possible. The pieces of the puzzle lie before us─we have but to put them together."
172,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00360_URIANGER","I will depart at once to convene with the sages of Sharlayan. Together shall we divine the steps by which our goals may be achieved."
173,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00370_MINFILIA","I have the utmost faith in you, Archon."
174,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00380_URIANGER","Beg pardon, Antecedent, but I would raise one final matter... Even now, a Sharlayan survey party seeketh to ascertain the fate of the Students of Baldesion."
175,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00390_URIANGER","Their findings shall soon be known to us. Though you harbor feelings of dread, I bid you surrender not to sorrow, but abide instead in hopeful prayer."
176,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00400_MINFILIA","I shall, Archon. Thank you."
177,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00010_NANAMOULNAMO","Tell me, General: what think you of Alphinaud's bold endeavor?"
178,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00020_RAUBAHN","I think it is more than bold, Your Grace. His organization would pave the way for a united Eorzea."
179,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00030_RAUBAHN","Well do I understand his impatience. Since facing the common threat of the Ultima Weapon, our nations have seemed farther apart, not closer together."
180,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00040_RAUBAHN","Considering the many problems we face, should we not be glad that someone else is taking the initiative?"
181,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00050_NANAMOULNAMO","We have all pledged our cooperation, yet the grumbling continues behind closed doors. Ul'dah is not alone in her duplicity."
182,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00060_NANAMOULNAMO","I myself have doubts as to the good this organization will achieve."
183,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00070_NANAMOULNAMO","With the inclusion of the finest soldiers of the three Grand Companies, it promises to be a fearsome military body. But whom will it serve? Even under the watchful gaze of the Scions, it is not unthinkable that such a force could perpetrate a great wrong."
184,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00080_NANAMOULNAMO","Does it not concern you that a significant proportion of its financial backing came from the coffers of the Syndicate? That those unprincipled worms might forge this extraordinary gathering of warriors into a private army?"
185,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00090_RAUBAHN","I have trust in the Scions, Your Grace. They have spared us no end of trouble at the hands of the primals. If they seek reinforcements, I deem it unwise to deny them."
186,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00100_RAUBAHN","As for their finances, full many gave generously. And though our nobles proffered a sizable sum, their coin did not spill from the pockets of Lolorito and his cronies."
187,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00110_RAUBAHN","And what of the presence of our stalwart adventurer friend in this endeavor? I doubt the Warrior of Light would betray our cause."
188,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00120_NANAMOULNAMO","Yes, there is that, I suppose."
189,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00130_NANAMOULNAMO","Yet I have known people to change. Whether we will or no, the events of the age hurl us this way and that, like a dust devil skipping across the sands..."
190,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00140_NANAMOULNAMO","Can naught be done about Teledji?"
191,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00150_RAUBAHN","I have explored all avenues available to us, Your Grace, but as Ul'dahn law now stands, we lack the evidence to convict him of any crime. To arrest him on spurious grounds would only play into his hands..."
192,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00160_NANAMOULNAMO","He has all but committed treason, and yet we can do nothing!?"
193,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00170_NANAMOULNAMO","Then what good our government!? What worth the royal house!? How deplorable this mockery of justice!"
194,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00180_NANAMOULNAMO","This isn't the text you're looking for."
195,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00190_RAUBAHN","Have faith, Your Grace. It is not over..."
196,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00010_ALPHINAUD","Comrades! Your presence here this day signifies the momentous choice that each of you has made."
197,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00020_ALPHINAUD","With your strength now pledged to the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, you are beholden to no single nation. You stand as the vanguard for a united Eorzea!"
198,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00030_ALPHINAUD","From this moment forth, I declare you Crystal Braves! Let us mend this fractured realm, and face our enemies as one!"
199,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00040_ALPHINAUD","Whether it be the beastmen and their primals, or the conflict in Carteneau, it is plain that the nations of Eorzea cannot solve the problems which plague the realm. Thus does it fall to some few heroic souls to succeed where they have failed!"
200,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00050_ALPHINAUD","Come! Take your place at the Scions' side as guardians of Eorzea! And together we shall fight for the freedom of all!"
201,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00060_ALL","(-Crystal Braves-)For the freedom of all!"
202,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00070_MINFILIA","A rousing speech, Alphinaud. Or should I say, Crystal Brave Commander Leveilleur?"
203,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00080_ALPHINAUD","Please, Antecedent...the title is honorary. I shall not be “leading the troops into battle,” as it were."
204,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00090_ALPHINAUD","We are of the same purpose. Let us join hands, and do what must be done to save this land."
205,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00100_MINFILIA","The Scions stand ready!"
206,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00010_MINFILIA","I'm eager to see what the Crystal Braves might accomplish. This shall prove an interesting time indeed for the Scions."
207,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00020_MINFILIA","Yes, I'm listening."
208,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00030_MINFILIA","So, our worst fears are confirmed. The entire isle... Such power defies comprehension..."
209,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00040_MINFILIA","Truly!? Krile is alive!? Thank the Twelve..."
210,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00050_MINFILIA","...I see. Pray inform me if her condition changes. Yes. I shall pass on your words to Urianger."
211,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00060_MINFILIA","My thanks. I shall contact you anon."
212,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00070_MINFILIA","When I learned of the loss of the Isle of Val, I dared not hope that my friend had survived. Yet by some miracle, it would seem she has. She's still to regain consciousness, it is true, but better that than death."
213,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00080_MINFILIA","Putting this happy news to one side, we must now endeavor to make sense of the readings taken by the survey party."
214,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00090_MINFILIA","It appears the aetheric disturbance which accompanied the isle's destruction is of a magnitude alarmingly close to that of Ultima. Could the Ascians be responsible for this devastation as well?"
215,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00100_MINFILIA","I wonder... Have you heard aught from the Mothercrystal since the battle with the Garleans?"
216,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00110_MINFILIA","Then She speaks to neither one of us. Hydaelyn's silence portends naught but ill, I fear. "
217,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00120_MINFILIA","Louisoix... I pray you yet watch over us..."
0,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000010_ALPHINAUD,"Come, you must have gathered by now that Tataru is given to exaggeration. As you can see, I am quite well."
1,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000020_ALPHINAUD,"Ul'dah, on the other hand, is not. This riot was anything but an isolated incident."
2,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000030_ALPHINAUD,There is a restlessness in the air. Tensions long simmering are at last threatening to boil over.
3,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000040_ALPHINAUD,Ul'dah is a nation infamous for the great disparity between the wealthy and the poor. The majority of the populace accepts this state of affairs because they believe that every man bears responsibility for his own lot in life.
4,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000050_ALPHINAUD,"To an Ul'dahn, money is the foremost─and some would say the *only*─measure of a man's worth. Small wonder that the wealthiest wield the greatest influence."
5,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000060_ALPHINAUD,So where do the refugees fit into this social hierarchy? What place is there for those who fled Ala Mhigo and the destruction of the Calamity?
6,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000070_ALPHINAUD,"Plainly, there *is* none. They have no wealth, no power, and no worth. To the Ul'dahn way of thinking, they may as well not exist."
7,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000080_ALPHINAUD,"Choosing to ignore their existence, however, is patently not an option. General Raubahn and the sultana understand this, which is why they ordered the Immortal Flames to provide the refugees aid and succor."
8,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000090_ALPHINAUD,"Yet none would dispute that the expenses incurred by this policy grow by the day, with no end in sight."
9,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000100_ALPHINAUD,This has prompted more and more Ul'dahns to question their obligation to aid these worthless wanderers...
10,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000110_ALPHINAUD,While more and more refugees have come to resent their treatment at the hands of the sneering citizenry.
11,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000120_ALPHINAUD,The manner of Lord Lolorito's refusal to grant the Domans asylum bespoke a disdain for all refugees─an attitude shared by the rest of the Monetarists. And you may be sure they make no effort to conceal their opinions.
12,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000130_ALPHINAUD,It was only a matter of time before the refugees united in protest. Nor is it any surprise that some among them would ultimately resort to violence.
13,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000140_ALPHINAUD,"That the Immortal Flames should choose this of all occasions to engage in joint training exercises with the other Grand Companies... By the time they return, the situation may well have deteriorated beyond mending."
14,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100010_RAUBAHN,Commander Swift has kept us apprised of your recent activities. You've made great strides towards quelling the violence.
15,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100020_ALPHINAUD,"Despite our best efforts to determine what provoked this uprising, the truth continues to elude us. Have you uncovered aught which might shed some light on the mystery?"
16,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100030_RAUBAHN,This information does not leave this room.
17,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100040_RAUBAHN,The Syndicate's decision to reject the Doman refugees' appeal for asylum had lasting repercussions. A number of those displaced by the Calamity claimed it was proof of a policy of discrimination.
18,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100050_RAUBAHN,"Together with a group of Ala Mhigan refugees, they organized a series of demonstrations to protest against the sultanate."
19,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100060_RAUBAHN,"Demonstrations which became heated, but did not descend into violence."
20,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100070_RAUBAHN, Until a certain incident served as a call to arms.
21,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100080_NANAMOULNAMO,A unit of Brass Blades sent to supervise a demonstration loosed arrows upon unarmed protesters.
22,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100090_NANAMOULNAMO,It was this atrocity which prompted the refugees to take up arms. I need not tell you what followed.
23,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100100_RAUBAHN,"We assumed at first that the attack was born of a miscommunication. When emotions run high, they happen. But suspicions were raised regarding the unit's commanding officer, whom I ordered interrogated."
24,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100110_RAUBAHN,"Sure enough, our fears were soon confirmed. The dog confessed that a merchant had offered him coin to give the order─a merchant in the employ of Teledji Adeledji."
25,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100120_ALPHINAUD,Teledji Adeledji?
26,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100130_ALPHINAUD,"But he spoke in favor of the Domans' cause, and has ever seemed sympathetic towards the refugees' plight. Why would he do such a thing?"
27,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100140_RAUBAHN,Know you of the Carteneau Reclamation Bill?
28,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100150_RAUBAHN,It is a proposal to annex the Carteneau Flats so that refugees may establish permanent settlements.
29,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100160_ALPHINAUD,"When last I looked, that was disputed territory."
30,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100170_RAUBAHN,Aye. Some might even call it a battlefield.
31,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200010_RAUBAHN,The destruction wrought by Bahamut was greatest at the Carteneau Flats. That much is common knowledge.
32,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200020_RAUBAHN,"What is less well known is that his rampage laid bare ancient Allagan ruins, of which no record existed."
33,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200030_RAUBAHN,"There are certain...differences of opinion as to how these ruins should be handled, which is why each nation maintains a military presence in the region to this day."
34,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200040_RAUBAHN,"Yet differ though we may, we are still allies. Therefore, in the interest of preserving the Eorzean Alliance, we have reached an agreement."
35,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200050_RAUBAHN,Any conflict which may arise during the course of military exercises in the region shall have no bearing on relations between our nations.
36,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200060_RAUBAHN,"In full knowledge of this delicate state of affairs, Teledji Adeledji proposed the Carteneau Reclamation Bill."
37,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200070_RAUBAHN,A shameless bloody ruse which stands to benefit him in but one conceivable way.
38,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200080_RAUBAHN,"If successful, he will gain control over the disputed territory, under the guise of assisting in the resettlement effort. And you can be sure he'll build an orphanage next to every Allagan ruin."
39,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200090_NANAMOULNAMO,The man would threaten the unity of the Eorzean Alliance and risk countless lives for personal gain!
40,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200100_RAUBAHN,"He walks a path all his own, independent of any faction, and beholden to none of his fellows on the Syndicate."
41,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200110_NANAMOULNAMO,"By inciting the less fortunate to violence, he hopes to convince others that the Carteneau Reclamation Bill is the only viable solution."
42,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200120_NANAMOULNAMO,His sympathy for the plight of the Domans was naught but posturing to gain credibility with the refugees. Of that there can be no doubt.
43,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300010_ALPHINAUD,"Forgive me, but what could possibly motivate Teledji Adeledji to go to such lengths? What is so special about these ruins that he would risk his position on the Syndicate, and, most likely, charges of treason against the sultanate?"
44,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300020_NANAMOULNAMO,Omega...
45,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300030_ALPHINAUD,Pardon?
46,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300040_RAUBAHN,"An Allagan monstrosity, not unlike the Ultima Weapon. Mayhap larger. We know not. It has yet to be fully excavated."
47,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300050_RAUBAHN,Allagan inscriptions indicate that it was created to fell Bahamut himself.
48,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300060_RAUBAHN,"If accurate, it might explain why Nael van Darnus chose to bring the red moon down upon the Carteneau Flats."
49,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300070_RAUBAHN,"Given the ends he went to to ensure Eorzea's annihilation, destroying the one weapon which could stay the elder primal may well have seemed like good sense."
50,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300080_ALPHINAUD,"When first I bore witness to the power of the Ultima Weapon, I doubted the evidence of my senses... And now you tell me there is another such weapon─one which could contend with Bahamut. *Bahamut*."
51,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300090_RAUBAHN,"Aye. We were skeptical ourselves. Truth be told, until the Ultima Weapon's existence came to light, we thought the inscription had been mistranslated."
52,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300100_NANAMOULNAMO,"At present, Omega is more akin to a fossil than a tool of war, having long since ceased to function. As such, its true potential cannot accurately be gauged."
53,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300110_NANAMOULNAMO,"However, if someone were to restore it, as the Garleans did the Ultima Weapon, I have little doubt that he would wield untold power."
54,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300120_RAUBAHN,"Power enough to subjugate Ul'dah, like as not, and the rest of Eorzea besides─which is doubtless why Teledji Adeledji yearns to have it."
55,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300130_NANAMOULNAMO,That *he* should aspire to world domination... He who has ever walked two paces behind Lord Lolorito in matters of commerce.
56,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300140_RAUBAHN,'Tis in acknowledgement of his own limitations that he seeks this power. Woe betide us all should we allow him to have it.
57,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300150_NANAMOULNAMO,Pray waste no time chasing rats. Only a fool would believe that secrets can be kept in Ul'dah.
58,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300160_ALPHINAUD,It would seem the implications of the sultanate's refugee problem are rather more far-reaching than we assumed...
59,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400010_HAURCHEFANT,"The incident with the new frontier hands? No, no, you need not elaborate─I have been following their progress with no small amount of interest."
60,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400020_HAURCHEFANT,Brave men and women all... They do our nation a great service. The existence of a fortified outpost in Mor Dhona will do much to dissuade the Empire from trespassing on Coerthan soil.
61,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400030_HAURCHEFANT,Right glad am I that you have chosen to lend your support to this endeavor. Never let it be said that House Fortemps does not acknowledge the efforts of her allies...or her debts.
62,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400040_HAURCHEFANT,"'Twas in the spirit of gratitude that I arranged for sundry supplies to be delivered to Revenant's Toll. That the shipment should chance to be waylaid by heretics is poor fortune, indeed."
63,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400050_HAURCHEFANT,"Poor fortune, I say...yet not without precedent. If you would know the truth of it, these incorrigible villains grow more organized with each passing day."
64,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400060_HAURCHEFANT,"This new unity of purpose we attribute to their leader─the Lady “Iceheart.” But though I have devoted significant resources to the task of identifying this woman, we have yet to learn so much as her birth name."
65,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400070_HAURCHEFANT,"What we *do* know is that the heretics speak of Iceheart in reverent tones, and would gladly embrace death rather than betray her. Such loyalty is rare indeed, and I fear to imagine what so committed a collective might achieve."
66,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400080_HAURCHEFANT,"The brigands have not yet been so brazen as to risk direct confrontation here in Dragonhead. Some few of their number have, however, been sighted not far to the west of here...and with ever-increasing regularity."
67,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400090_HAURCHEFANT,A visit to Whitebrim Front may bring you the answers you seek. Will you brave the snows knowing what implacable foes may lie in wait?
68,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400100_HAURCHEFANT,"Halone's blessings be upon you! Though I take no pride in the admission, many of mine own countrymen are not so well suited as you adventurers to dealing with such foes. Were they dragons, it might be otherwise!"
69,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400110_HAURCHEFANT,"But truly, I could not wish for a finer ally. You have done much for my house in the past, and I have no doubt but that I shall have cause to celebrate your deeds again ere long."
70,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400120_HAURCHEFANT,"Should you learn aught of value, pray return to me forthwith. A warm hearth and a warmer welcome shall be waiting for you."
71,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_500010_YSAYLE,(-???-)Hmph...
72,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600010_HAURCHEFANT,"Your return is most timely. Of their own accord, my thoughts had turned to your task and the progress thereof. I confess, my imaginings tended toward the grim and bloody."
73,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600020_HAURCHEFANT,"But you are here now, and I suspect such frivolous wonderings do little justice to the reality of your travails. Tell me, what did you learn of Iceheart?"
74,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600030_HAURCHEFANT,...Indeed. And this transpired at Snowcloak?
75,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600040_HAURCHEFANT,"Of all the highlands, that towering wall has borne the worst of the region's brutal shift in climate."
76,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600050_HAURCHEFANT,So inhospitable has Snowcloak become that we have still to survey the area in its entirety. Could its frozen heights conceal the heretics' hideaway? Mayhap a more robust reconnaissance effort is in order.
77,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600060_HAURCHEFANT,"Putting such considerations aside for the moment, we still know far too little of this Iceheart. That she is capable of commanding such a band of fanatics bespeaks natural authority, and no small measure of charisma."
78,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600070_HAURCHEFANT,"As much as I would like to fathom this mystery with you, the situation has grown beyond my personal purview. I am bound by duty to inform the Temple Knights and request that they bring this matter to its conclusion."
79,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600080_HAURCHEFANT,"Given the glowing reports their new commander has garnered thus far, I am certain that they can be relied upon to take appropriate action."
80,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600090_HAURCHEFANT,"Though Iceheart's true identity yet eludes us, you have provided us with a point from which to begin. Sometimes it takes but a single stone to prompt an avalanche."
81,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600100_HAURCHEFANT,"On the matter of the stolen provisions, I have already made arrangements for a second shipment to be sent to Revenant's Toll. I could not well allow such an honorable venture to be undermined by one miserable setback!"
82,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700010_KANESENNA,"Scions of the Seventh Dawn, on behalf of the people of Gridania, I bid you welcome. Your presence is of great comfort to us all in these days of uncertainty."
83,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700020_KANESENNA,"I summoned you here to share tidings of a most urgent nature. But a short while ago, the great elemental spoke, and his voice was clarion in its intensity: Ramuh is returned unto the forest."
84,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700030_KANESENNA,Scarce had his words ceased to echo in mine ears when we were visited by an emissary from Little Solace.
85,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700050_KANESENNA,"Our guest informs us that the sylphs, too, have sensed the presence of the Lord of Levin."
86,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700055_KANESENNA,"Our guest informs us that the sylphs, too, have sensed the presence of the Lord of Levin."
87,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700060_KANESENNA,"Though his exact whereabouts remain unknown, we may safely assume that the primal was summoned within the heart of the Sylphlands."
88,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700070_KANESENNA,"Unlike the other primals you have encountered, Lord Ramuh is no raging avatar of destruction. He is revered as much for his wisdom as his strength, serving as both arbiter and guardian to his children. Given that we and the sylphs found a way to share the Twelveswood, it is my hope that this sagely immortal will be amenable to reason, and that conflict may be avoided."
89,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700080_KANESENNA,"Blessed as you are with the power of the Echo, you are one of the few among us who may commune with a primal without fear of influence. I would ask therefore that you represent us in this most delicate of negotiations."
90,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700090_KANESENNA,"The Twelveswood has suffered enough. Upon this, we and the sylphs─and I would venture Lord Ramuh himself─are in perfect accord. Let us not endanger our shared home by engaging in unnecessary hostilities."
91,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700100_KANESENNA,"Dear friend, I beseech you: safeguard the peace which exists between our peoples."
92,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700110_KANESENNA,You have my thanks.
93,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700120_KANESENNA,"Pray make for Little Solace, then. A member of the Order of the Twin Adder awaits you there. He will advise you on how to find the Lord of Levin."
94,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700130_KANESENNA,An ill wind blows through the forest.
95,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700140_KANESENNA,Yet...it is not only the Twelveswood that flinches at its coming─all the lands of Eorzea shiver in dread anticipation. Have care.
96,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800010_RAMUH,"Thine aura betrays thee, servant of Hydaelyn."
97,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800020_RAMUH,"Thou art the Bringer of Light...bane of Ifrit, Titan, Garuda, and Leviathan."
98,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800030_RAMUH,"I am Ramuh, guardian of the children of the forest."
99,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800040_RAMUH,"Thou tramplest upon sacred soil, Bringer of Light. By what right doth man intrude in this sanctuary of the sylphs?"
100,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800050_RAMUH,"The Gridanians proffer peace? Their words are born of delusion─thine offer, an insult."
101,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800060_RAMUH,"Thou speakest of harmony, yet carest naught for my children's desires. They did but wish to dwell beneath these boughs in solitude─yet even that was too much to ask of man."
102,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800070_RAMUH,Thus did they turn to me for succor. The sentence I pronounce upon thy kind is just.
103,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800080_RAMUH,"Gridanian or Garlean, it matters not. The good intent of one excuseth not the misdeeds of the other."
104,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800090_RAMUH,Thy conflicts have brought naught but anguish and misery unto the forest. All blame doth lie with the darkness that resideth in the breast of man.
105,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800100_RAMUH,"Whence sprung this calamitous seed? In the beginning, no such duality existed. Were light and dark given form when man was born?"
106,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800110_RAMUH,It would explain much. Not least why strife and sorrow follow ever in thy wake. Thou canst not deny the urgings of thine own nature.
107,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800120_RAMUH,"Knowing that thy mere presence here portendeth tragedy, wilt thou persist in this pretense of peacemaking?"
108,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800130_RAMUH,Thou bearest the crystal which I bestowed upon my wayward charges. That they should entrust so precious a gift to thee...
109,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800140_RAMUH,"Thou standest apart from thy kin. Thou art the Bringer of Light, aye...but there is something more in thee..."
110,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800150_RAMUH,"Very well, I shall consider thy proposal...shouldst thou survive my trial."
111,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800160_RAMUH,"If thou wouldst champion the cause of harmony, I must have proof that thou art fit to play the role. Weather mine ire, and prove to me thereby that thou hast strength enough to stay the Darkness which threateneth to consume thee."
112,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800170_RAMUH,"Yet if thou shouldst be found wanting, know that *all* men shall perish in the storm of my judgment!"
113,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800180_RAMUH,"Come to me, Bringer of Light. I shall await thee on the field of battle!"
114,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800190_YSHTOLA,Urianger. It is rare indeed to find you so far from a tome.
115,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800200_URIANGER,"The Lord of Levin himself... Never till this day had I looked upon his visage save in painted renderings, made faint by time... Ever shall this scene remain etched in my mind's eye... Ahem. Beg pardon, my lady."
116,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800210_URIANGER,"I must beg thine aid on a point of research. If thou art resolved to face Lord Ramuh, I would ask thy leave to observe the event..."
117,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900010_RAMUH,"I have taken thy measure, Bringer of Light."
118,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900020_RAMUH,And I judge thee a worthy champion. The task of excising the sin that hath taken root in man's heart is thine.
119,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900030_RAMUH,"Shrink not from employing thy strength in service to the forest, and the wider realm beyond. Like hungering shadows do the enemies of harmony gather, and meekness will but feed them."
120,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900040_RAMUH,"If man is to be delivered from the Dark, it shall be by thy guiding Light alone. Stray not from the path, for if thou dost, thy people shall be truly lost..."
121,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900050_URIANGER,Thou hast slain the Lord of Levin. A regrettable act...but a necessary one.
122,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900060_URIANGER,"In witnessing thy struggle, a truth hath been revealed unto me. If I mistake not, it may yet prove a chink in the eternal armor of the Ascians."
123,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900070_URIANGER,But let us conclude our present business. I shall expound upon my findings at the Rising Stones anon.
124,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00010_KANESENNA,"You are returned to us, dear friend, and none the worse for bearing the heavy burden which I did press upon you. Most glad am I of this."
125,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00020_KANESENNA,"I am informed that your efforts to negotiate a peace with Lord Ramuh ended in conflict. Pray tell me, what befell?"
126,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00030_KANESENNA,Ramuh made trial of you?
127,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00040_KANESENNA,I fear there is truth to his claim. It is the darkness within us that attracts the Darkness without.
128,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00050_KANESENNA,"It cannot be denied that misfortune follows man. For evidence, one need only look to the conflict brewing in Carteneau, or to the rising flood of refugees."
129,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00060_KANESENNA,"Our shared struggle against the Empire should have served to seal our union, yet the ties which bind the Alliance strain under the weight of gross self-interest."
130,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00070_KANESENNA,"As the scars of the Calamity begin to fade, so too does our sense of common purpose."
131,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00080_KANESENNA,"Yet now is scarce the time to forget our shared responsibility. If this new-sprung realm is to survive beyond its infancy, it must needs be nurtured by all."
132,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00090_KANESENNA,Eorzea *must* be as one. Yet I fear that dream is still far off.
133,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00100_KANESENNA,"On behalf of the people of Gridania, and the elementals both, I thank you for all that you and your fellow Scions have done."
134,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00110_KANESENNA,"Full oft have I been compelled to look to you for aid of late...and offered all too little in return. As leader of this nation, I shall endeavor to prove a more worthy ally to your cause henceforth."
135,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00120_KANESENNA,"Lord Ramuh has departed, yet the keening of this ill wind grows no less insistent..."
136,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00130_KANESENNA,Voices of the forest─pray speak and I shall listen. What unseen evil begets this unease in my heart?
137,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00010_MINFILIA,"If everyone is ready, let us begin."
138,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00020_MINFILIA,"Urianger, the floor is yours."
139,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00030_URIANGER,"As all here assembled now know, in its final hours as our order's headquarters, the Waking Sands did play host to a most unexpected visitor. I speak of the Ascian clad in white, Elidibus."
140,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00040_URIANGER,"Unwelcome though his presence was, his words that day did serve to confirm a truth long suspected: that the Ascians are eternal beings, to whom physical destruction is as a temporary inconvenience."
141,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00050_MINFILIA,"In the intervening time, Urianger and I have striven to discover a means by which the Ascians might more permanently be slain."
142,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00060_URIANGER,And 'tis my belief that we have found the thread that will allow us to unravel the twisted skein of their existence.
143,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00070_URIANGER,"In the moments prior to Leviathan's most recent manifestation, the Sahagin elder who summoned him was observed to undergo some manner of ascension."
144,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00080_URIANGER,The aetheric readings taken by Y'shtola at the time of this transfiguration have proven most enlightening.
145,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00090_YSHTOLA,"The disruption to the flow of aether was sudden and dramatic. So tangible was the agitation, I scarce had need of my goggles."
146,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00100_URIANGER,"The significance of Y'shtola's readings might better be understood in the context of mine own, taken at the instant of the Lord of Levin's demise. Unlike the primal, the Sahagin was not subject to aetheric dissipation."
147,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00110_MINFILIA,"Before discussing our new discoveries, it may benefit us all to recall what we know of aetheric behavior."
148,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00120_MINFILIA,"Let us begin at what some might call the end. When we who dwell in the material realm die, our spirits dissolve into the flow of aether, and are returned to the aetherial realm."
149,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00130_MINFILIA,"In turn, the restless energy which suffuses that plane streams back into our world, giving rise to new life."
150,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00140_URIANGER,'Tis as the heavens did decree─the way of all mortal souls.
151,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00150_URIANGER,"'Twixt this world and the next do the aetherial currents swirl, bearing the very essence of life. Thus doth the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth continue unabated."
152,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00160_MINFILIA,"Primals behave somewhat differently. In order to manifest and then maintain a physical presence in this realm, they must consume vast quantities of aether, most often in the form of crystals. Though they may seem to live, their flesh is but aether given shape."
153,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00170_MINFILIA,"Thus, a defeated primal leaves behind no broken corpse─rather, the essence of its form seeps back into the land whence it came, and the energy of its shattered spirit is called back to the aetherial realm."
154,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00180_URIANGER,And there it waiteth till next the prayers of the faithful do draw it forth from the sea of aether to take their offering of crystals and make for itself a new body...
155,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00190_MINFILIA,Which brings us on to the third group. These so-called “immortals.” They exist in a manner all their own.
156,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00200_YSHTOLA,"Quite. Even as the Sahagin elder fell to the Admiral's musket shot, I witnessed the release of an aetherial cloud which immediately took possession of a nearby minion."
157,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00210_URIANGER,A soul that dissipateth not upon the death of the flesh...
158,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00220_THANCRED,"The secret of life everlasting. And in the claws of a Sahagin, no less. But I wonder: what would happen to one of these obstinate spirits should there be no suitable host for it to claim?"
159,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00230_MINFILIA,"If mortal death entails a return to the aetherial realm, it seems doubtful that the soul of an immortal would venture there."
160,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00240_URIANGER,"Nay, it merely withdraweth a distance. Unto the shore of the aetherial sea, perchance, but no further."
161,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00250_MINFILIA,"Yes, it exists in neither this realm nor the next, abiding instead in the space that lies between them."
162,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00260_MINFILIA,"The Ascians took control of Thancred by means of a Crystal of Darkness─an artifact which, if our theories are correct, serves as a gateway to the place I have just described."
163,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00270_THANCRED,I was hoping people had forgotten about that...
164,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00280_MINFILIA,"I am sorry, my friend."
165,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00290_URIANGER,"For a mercy, the weary road of our research hath brought us unto an answer."
166,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00300_YSHTOLA,"The Sahagin ascended to an immortal state, but he did not possess a Crystal of Darkness through which to flee this realm. Thus was he consumed by Leviathan."
167,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00310_YSHTOLA,"If we could entrap the spirits of defeated Ascians in like manner, and thereby deny them resurrection..."
168,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00320_URIANGER,"Therein lieth the path to victory. Thou art most perceptive, my lady."
169,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00330_URIANGER,"Only when we have trapped the bodiless soul within an aetherial prison can we hope to defeat its unnatural constancy. Thus, might even an eternal Paragon be consigned to oblivion."
170,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00340_MINFILIA,"These feats are, of course, far easier said than done. At present, we lack a viable means to entrap and extinguish an Ascian soul."
171,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00350_MINFILIA,Yet I believe it to be possible. The pieces of the puzzle lie before us─we have but to put them together.
172,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00360_URIANGER,I will depart at once to convene with the sages of Sharlayan. Together shall we divine the steps by which our goals may be achieved.
173,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00370_MINFILIA,"I have the utmost faith in you, Archon."
174,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00380_URIANGER,"Beg pardon, Antecedent, but I would raise one final matter... Even now, a Sharlayan survey party seeketh to ascertain the fate of the Students of Baldesion."
175,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00390_URIANGER,"Their findings shall soon be known to us. Though you harbor feelings of dread, I bid you surrender not to sorrow, but abide instead in hopeful prayer."
176,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00400_MINFILIA,"I shall, Archon. Thank you."
177,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00010_NANAMOULNAMO,"Tell me, General: what think you of Alphinaud's bold endeavor?"
178,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00020_RAUBAHN,"I think it is more than bold, Your Grace. His organization would pave the way for a united Eorzea."
179,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00030_RAUBAHN,"Well do I understand his impatience. Since facing the common threat of the Ultima Weapon, our nations have seemed farther apart, not closer together."
180,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00040_RAUBAHN,"Considering the many problems we face, should we not be glad that someone else is taking the initiative?"
181,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00050_NANAMOULNAMO,"We have all pledged our cooperation, yet the grumbling continues behind closed doors. Ul'dah is not alone in her duplicity."
182,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00060_NANAMOULNAMO,I myself have doubts as to the good this organization will achieve.
183,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00070_NANAMOULNAMO,"With the inclusion of the finest soldiers of the three Grand Companies, it promises to be a fearsome military body. But whom will it serve? Even under the watchful gaze of the Scions, it is not unthinkable that such a force could perpetrate a great wrong."
184,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00080_NANAMOULNAMO,Does it not concern you that a significant proportion of its financial backing came from the coffers of the Syndicate? That those unprincipled worms might forge this extraordinary gathering of warriors into a private army?
185,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00090_RAUBAHN,"I have trust in the Scions, Your Grace. They have spared us no end of trouble at the hands of the primals. If they seek reinforcements, I deem it unwise to deny them."
186,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00100_RAUBAHN,"As for their finances, full many gave generously. And though our nobles proffered a sizable sum, their coin did not spill from the pockets of Lolorito and his cronies."
187,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00110_RAUBAHN,And what of the presence of our stalwart adventurer friend in this endeavor? I doubt the Warrior of Light would betray our cause.
188,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00120_NANAMOULNAMO,"Yes, there is that, I suppose."
189,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00130_NANAMOULNAMO,"Yet I have known people to change. Whether we will or no, the events of the age hurl us this way and that, like a dust devil skipping across the sands..."
190,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00140_NANAMOULNAMO,Can naught be done about Teledji?
191,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00150_RAUBAHN,"I have explored all avenues available to us, Your Grace, but as Ul'dahn law now stands, we lack the evidence to convict him of any crime. To arrest him on spurious grounds would only play into his hands..."
192,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00160_NANAMOULNAMO,"He has all but committed treason, and yet we can do nothing!?"
193,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00170_NANAMOULNAMO,Then what good our government!? What worth the royal house!? How deplorable this mockery of justice!
194,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00180_NANAMOULNAMO,This isn't the text you're looking for.
195,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00190_RAUBAHN,"Have faith, Your Grace. It is not over..."
196,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00010_ALPHINAUD,Comrades! Your presence here this day signifies the momentous choice that each of you has made.
197,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00020_ALPHINAUD,"With your strength now pledged to the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, you are beholden to no single nation. You stand as the vanguard for a united Eorzea!"
198,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00030_ALPHINAUD,"From this moment forth, I declare you Crystal Braves! Let us mend this fractured realm, and face our enemies as one!"
199,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00040_ALPHINAUD,"Whether it be the beastmen and their primals, or the conflict in Carteneau, it is plain that the nations of Eorzea cannot solve the problems which plague the realm. Thus does it fall to some few heroic souls to succeed where they have failed!"
200,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00050_ALPHINAUD,Come! Take your place at the Scions' side as guardians of Eorzea! And together we shall fight for the freedom of all!
201,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00060_ALL,(-Crystal Braves-)For the freedom of all!
202,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00070_MINFILIA,"A rousing speech, Alphinaud. Or should I say, Crystal Brave Commander Leveilleur?"
203,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00080_ALPHINAUD,"Please, Antecedent...the title is honorary. I shall not be “leading the troops into battle,” as it were."
204,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00090_ALPHINAUD,"We are of the same purpose. Let us join hands, and do what must be done to save this land."
205,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00100_MINFILIA,The Scions stand ready!
206,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00010_MINFILIA,I'm eager to see what the Crystal Braves might accomplish. This shall prove an interesting time indeed for the Scions.
207,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00020_MINFILIA,"Yes, I'm listening."
208,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00030_MINFILIA,"So, our worst fears are confirmed. The entire isle... Such power defies comprehension..."
209,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00040_MINFILIA,Truly!? Krile is alive!? Thank the Twelve...
210,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00050_MINFILIA,...I see. Pray inform me if her condition changes. Yes. I shall pass on your words to Urianger.
211,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00060_MINFILIA,My thanks. I shall contact you anon.
212,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00070_MINFILIA,"When I learned of the loss of the Isle of Val, I dared not hope that my friend had survived. Yet by some miracle, it would seem she has. She's still to regain consciousness, it is true, but better that than death."
213,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00080_MINFILIA,"Putting this happy news to one side, we must now endeavor to make sense of the readings taken by the survey party."
214,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00090_MINFILIA,It appears the aetheric disturbance which accompanied the isle's destruction is of a magnitude alarmingly close to that of Ultima. Could the Ascians be responsible for this devastation as well?
215,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00100_MINFILIA,I wonder... Have you heard aught from the Mothercrystal since the battle with the Garleans?
216,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00110_MINFILIA,"Then She speaks to neither one of us. Hydaelyn's silence portends naught but ill, I fear. "
217,TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00120_MINFILIA,Louisoix... I pray you yet watch over us...
1 key 0 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000010_ALPHINAUD 1 Come, you must have gathered by now that Tataru is given to exaggeration. As you can see, I am quite well.
2 # 1 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000020_ALPHINAUD Ul'dah, on the other hand, is not. This riot was anything but an isolated incident.
3 int32 str 2 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000030_ALPHINAUD str There is a restlessness in the air. Tensions long simmering are at last threatening to boil over.
4 0 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000010_ALPHINAUD 3 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000040_ALPHINAUD Come, you must have gathered by now that Tataru is given to exaggeration. As you can see, I am quite well. Ul'dah is a nation infamous for the great disparity between the wealthy and the poor. The majority of the populace accepts this state of affairs because they believe that every man bears responsibility for his own lot in life.
5 1 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000020_ALPHINAUD 4 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000050_ALPHINAUD Ul'dah, on the other hand, is not. This riot was anything but an isolated incident. To an Ul'dahn, money is the foremost─and some would say the *only*─measure of a man's worth. Small wonder that the wealthiest wield the greatest influence.
6 2 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000030_ALPHINAUD 5 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000060_ALPHINAUD There is a restlessness in the air. Tensions long simmering are at last threatening to boil over. So where do the refugees fit into this social hierarchy? What place is there for those who fled Ala Mhigo and the destruction of the Calamity?
7 3 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000040_ALPHINAUD 6 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000070_ALPHINAUD Ul'dah is a nation infamous for the great disparity between the wealthy and the poor. The majority of the populace accepts this state of affairs because they believe that every man bears responsibility for his own lot in life. Plainly, there *is* none. They have no wealth, no power, and no worth. To the Ul'dahn way of thinking, they may as well not exist.
8 4 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000050_ALPHINAUD 7 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000080_ALPHINAUD To an Ul'dahn, money is the foremost─and some would say the <Emphasis>only</Emphasis>─measure of a man's worth. Small wonder that the wealthiest wield the greatest influence. Choosing to ignore their existence, however, is patently not an option. General Raubahn and the sultana understand this, which is why they ordered the Immortal Flames to provide the refugees aid and succor.
9 5 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000060_ALPHINAUD 8 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000090_ALPHINAUD So where do the refugees fit into this social hierarchy? What place is there for those who fled Ala Mhigo and the destruction of the Calamity? Yet none would dispute that the expenses incurred by this policy grow by the day, with no end in sight.
10 6 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000070_ALPHINAUD 9 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000100_ALPHINAUD Plainly, there <Emphasis>is</Emphasis> none. They have no wealth, no power, and no worth. To the Ul'dahn way of thinking, they may as well not exist. This has prompted more and more Ul'dahns to question their obligation to aid these worthless wanderers...
11 7 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000080_ALPHINAUD 10 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000110_ALPHINAUD Choosing to ignore their existence, however, is patently not an option. General Raubahn and the sultana understand this, which is why they ordered the Immortal Flames to provide the refugees aid and succor. While more and more refugees have come to resent their treatment at the hands of the sneering citizenry.
12 8 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000090_ALPHINAUD 11 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000120_ALPHINAUD Yet none would dispute that the expenses incurred by this policy grow by the day, with no end in sight. The manner of Lord Lolorito's refusal to grant the Domans asylum bespoke a disdain for all refugees─an attitude shared by the rest of the Monetarists. And you may be sure they make no effort to conceal their opinions.
13 9 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000100_ALPHINAUD 12 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000130_ALPHINAUD This has prompted more and more Ul'dahns to question their obligation to aid these worthless wanderers... It was only a matter of time before the refugees united in protest. Nor is it any surprise that some among them would ultimately resort to violence.
14 10 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000110_ALPHINAUD 13 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000140_ALPHINAUD While more and more refugees have come to resent their treatment at the hands of the sneering citizenry. That the Immortal Flames should choose this of all occasions to engage in joint training exercises with the other Grand Companies... By the time they return, the situation may well have deteriorated beyond mending.
15 11 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000120_ALPHINAUD 14 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100010_RAUBAHN The manner of Lord Lolorito's refusal to grant the Domans asylum bespoke a disdain for all refugees─an attitude shared by the rest of the Monetarists. And you may be sure they make no effort to conceal their opinions. Commander Swift has kept us apprised of your recent activities. You've made great strides towards quelling the violence.
16 12 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000130_ALPHINAUD 15 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100020_ALPHINAUD It was only a matter of time before the refugees united in protest. Nor is it any surprise that some among them would ultimately resort to violence. Despite our best efforts to determine what provoked this uprising, the truth continues to elude us. Have you uncovered aught which might shed some light on the mystery?
17 13 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000140_ALPHINAUD 16 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100030_RAUBAHN That the Immortal Flames should choose this of all occasions to engage in joint training exercises with the other Grand Companies... By the time they return, the situation may well have deteriorated beyond mending. This information does not leave this room.
18 14 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100010_RAUBAHN 17 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100040_RAUBAHN Commander Swift has kept us apprised of your recent activities. You've made great strides towards quelling the violence. The Syndicate's decision to reject the Doman refugees' appeal for asylum had lasting repercussions. A number of those displaced by the Calamity claimed it was proof of a policy of discrimination.
19 15 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100020_ALPHINAUD 18 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100050_RAUBAHN Despite our best efforts to determine what provoked this uprising, the truth continues to elude us. Have you uncovered aught which might shed some light on the mystery? Together with a group of Ala Mhigan refugees, they organized a series of demonstrations to protest against the sultanate.
20 16 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100030_RAUBAHN 19 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100060_RAUBAHN This information does not leave this room. Demonstrations which became heated, but did not descend into violence.
21 17 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100040_RAUBAHN 20 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100070_RAUBAHN The Syndicate's decision to reject the Doman refugees' appeal for asylum had lasting repercussions. A number of those displaced by the Calamity claimed it was proof of a policy of discrimination. Until a certain incident served as a call to arms.
22 18 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100050_RAUBAHN 21 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100080_NANAMOULNAMO Together with a group of Ala Mhigan refugees, they organized a series of demonstrations to protest against the sultanate. A unit of Brass Blades sent to supervise a demonstration loosed arrows upon unarmed protesters.
23 19 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100060_RAUBAHN 22 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100090_NANAMOULNAMO Demonstrations which became heated, but did not descend into violence. It was this atrocity which prompted the refugees to take up arms. I need not tell you what followed.
24 20 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100070_RAUBAHN 23 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100100_RAUBAHN Until a certain incident served as a call to arms. We assumed at first that the attack was born of a miscommunication. When emotions run high, they happen. But suspicions were raised regarding the unit's commanding officer, whom I ordered interrogated.
25 21 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100080_NANAMOULNAMO 24 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100110_RAUBAHN A unit of Brass Blades sent to supervise a demonstration loosed arrows upon unarmed protesters. Sure enough, our fears were soon confirmed. The dog confessed that a merchant had offered him coin to give the order─a merchant in the employ of Teledji Adeledji.
26 22 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100090_NANAMOULNAMO 25 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100120_ALPHINAUD It was this atrocity which prompted the refugees to take up arms. I need not tell you what followed. Teledji Adeledji?
27 23 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100100_RAUBAHN 26 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100130_ALPHINAUD We assumed at first that the attack was born of a miscommunication. When emotions run high, they happen. But suspicions were raised regarding the unit's commanding officer, whom I ordered interrogated. But he spoke in favor of the Domans' cause, and has ever seemed sympathetic towards the refugees' plight. Why would he do such a thing?
28 24 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100110_RAUBAHN 27 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100140_RAUBAHN Sure enough, our fears were soon confirmed. The dog confessed that a merchant had offered him coin to give the order─a merchant in the employ of Teledji Adeledji. Know you of the Carteneau Reclamation Bill?
29 25 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100120_ALPHINAUD 28 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100150_RAUBAHN Teledji Adeledji? It is a proposal to annex the Carteneau Flats so that refugees may establish permanent settlements.
30 26 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100130_ALPHINAUD 29 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100160_ALPHINAUD But he spoke in favor of the Domans' cause, and has ever seemed sympathetic towards the refugees' plight. Why would he do such a thing? When last I looked, that was disputed territory.
31 27 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100140_RAUBAHN 30 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100170_RAUBAHN Know you of the Carteneau Reclamation Bill? Aye. Some might even call it a battlefield.
32 28 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100150_RAUBAHN 31 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200010_RAUBAHN It is a proposal to annex the Carteneau Flats so that refugees may establish permanent settlements. The destruction wrought by Bahamut was greatest at the Carteneau Flats. That much is common knowledge.
33 29 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100160_ALPHINAUD 32 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200020_RAUBAHN When last I looked, that was disputed territory. What is less well known is that his rampage laid bare ancient Allagan ruins, of which no record existed.
34 30 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100170_RAUBAHN 33 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200030_RAUBAHN Aye. Some might even call it a battlefield. There are certain...differences of opinion as to how these ruins should be handled, which is why each nation maintains a military presence in the region to this day.
35 31 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200010_RAUBAHN 34 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200040_RAUBAHN The destruction wrought by Bahamut was greatest at the Carteneau Flats. That much is common knowledge. Yet differ though we may, we are still allies. Therefore, in the interest of preserving the Eorzean Alliance, we have reached an agreement.
36 32 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200020_RAUBAHN 35 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200050_RAUBAHN What is less well known is that his rampage laid bare ancient Allagan ruins, of which no record existed. Any conflict which may arise during the course of military exercises in the region shall have no bearing on relations between our nations.
37 33 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200030_RAUBAHN 36 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200060_RAUBAHN There are certain...differences of opinion as to how these ruins should be handled, which is why each nation maintains a military presence in the region to this day. In full knowledge of this delicate state of affairs, Teledji Adeledji proposed the Carteneau Reclamation Bill.
38 34 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200040_RAUBAHN 37 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200070_RAUBAHN Yet differ though we may, we are still allies. Therefore, in the interest of preserving the Eorzean Alliance, we have reached an agreement. A shameless bloody ruse which stands to benefit him in but one conceivable way.
39 35 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200050_RAUBAHN 38 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200080_RAUBAHN Any conflict which may arise during the course of military exercises in the region shall have no bearing on relations between our nations. If successful, he will gain control over the disputed territory, under the guise of assisting in the resettlement effort. And you can be sure he'll build an orphanage next to every Allagan ruin.
40 36 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200060_RAUBAHN 39 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200090_NANAMOULNAMO In full knowledge of this delicate state of affairs, Teledji Adeledji proposed the Carteneau Reclamation Bill. The man would threaten the unity of the Eorzean Alliance and risk countless lives for personal gain!
41 37 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200070_RAUBAHN 40 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200100_RAUBAHN A shameless bloody ruse which stands to benefit him in but one conceivable way. He walks a path all his own, independent of any faction, and beholden to none of his fellows on the Syndicate.
42 38 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200080_RAUBAHN 41 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200110_NANAMOULNAMO If successful, he will gain control over the disputed territory, under the guise of assisting in the resettlement effort. And you can be sure he'll build an orphanage next to every Allagan ruin. By inciting the less fortunate to violence, he hopes to convince others that the Carteneau Reclamation Bill is the only viable solution.
43 39 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200090_NANAMOULNAMO 42 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200120_NANAMOULNAMO The man would threaten the unity of the Eorzean Alliance and risk countless lives for personal gain! His sympathy for the plight of the Domans was naught but posturing to gain credibility with the refugees. Of that there can be no doubt.
44 40 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200100_RAUBAHN 43 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300010_ALPHINAUD He walks a path all his own, independent of any faction, and beholden to none of his fellows on the Syndicate. Forgive me, but what could possibly motivate Teledji Adeledji to go to such lengths? What is so special about these ruins that he would risk his position on the Syndicate, and, most likely, charges of treason against the sultanate?
45 41 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200110_NANAMOULNAMO 44 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300020_NANAMOULNAMO By inciting the less fortunate to violence, he hopes to convince others that the Carteneau Reclamation Bill is the only viable solution. Omega...
46 42 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200120_NANAMOULNAMO 45 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300030_ALPHINAUD His sympathy for the plight of the Domans was naught but posturing to gain credibility with the refugees. Of that there can be no doubt. Pardon?
47 43 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300010_ALPHINAUD 46 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300040_RAUBAHN Forgive me, but what could possibly motivate Teledji Adeledji to go to such lengths? What is so special about these ruins that he would risk his position on the Syndicate, and, most likely, charges of treason against the sultanate? An Allagan monstrosity, not unlike the Ultima Weapon. Mayhap larger. We know not. It has yet to be fully excavated.
48 44 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300020_NANAMOULNAMO 47 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300050_RAUBAHN Omega... Allagan inscriptions indicate that it was created to fell Bahamut himself.
49 45 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300030_ALPHINAUD 48 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300060_RAUBAHN Pardon? If accurate, it might explain why Nael van Darnus chose to bring the red moon down upon the Carteneau Flats.
50 46 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300040_RAUBAHN 49 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300070_RAUBAHN An Allagan monstrosity, not unlike the Ultima Weapon. Mayhap larger. We know not. It has yet to be fully excavated. Given the ends he went to to ensure Eorzea's annihilation, destroying the one weapon which could stay the elder primal may well have seemed like good sense.
51 47 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300050_RAUBAHN 50 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300080_ALPHINAUD Allagan inscriptions indicate that it was created to fell Bahamut himself. When first I bore witness to the power of the Ultima Weapon, I doubted the evidence of my senses... And now you tell me there is another such weapon─one which could contend with Bahamut. *Bahamut*.
52 48 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300060_RAUBAHN 51 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300090_RAUBAHN If accurate, it might explain why Nael van Darnus chose to bring the red moon down upon the Carteneau Flats. Aye. We were skeptical ourselves. Truth be told, until the Ultima Weapon's existence came to light, we thought the inscription had been mistranslated.
53 49 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300070_RAUBAHN 52 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300100_NANAMOULNAMO Given the ends he went to to ensure Eorzea's annihilation, destroying the one weapon which could stay the elder primal may well have seemed like good sense. At present, Omega is more akin to a fossil than a tool of war, having long since ceased to function. As such, its true potential cannot accurately be gauged.
54 50 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300080_ALPHINAUD 53 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300110_NANAMOULNAMO When first I bore witness to the power of the Ultima Weapon, I doubted the evidence of my senses... And now you tell me there is another such weapon─one which could contend with Bahamut. <Emphasis>Bahamut</Emphasis>. However, if someone were to restore it, as the Garleans did the Ultima Weapon, I have little doubt that he would wield untold power.
55 51 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300090_RAUBAHN 54 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300120_RAUBAHN Aye. We were skeptical ourselves. Truth be told, until the Ultima Weapon's existence came to light, we thought the inscription had been mistranslated. Power enough to subjugate Ul'dah, like as not, and the rest of Eorzea besides─which is doubtless why Teledji Adeledji yearns to have it.
56 52 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300100_NANAMOULNAMO 55 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300130_NANAMOULNAMO At present, Omega is more akin to a fossil than a tool of war, having long since ceased to function. As such, its true potential cannot accurately be gauged. That *he* should aspire to world domination... He who has ever walked two paces behind Lord Lolorito in matters of commerce.
57 53 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300110_NANAMOULNAMO 56 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300140_RAUBAHN However, if someone were to restore it, as the Garleans did the Ultima Weapon, I have little doubt that he would wield untold power. 'Tis in acknowledgement of his own limitations that he seeks this power. Woe betide us all should we allow him to have it.
58 54 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300120_RAUBAHN 57 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300150_NANAMOULNAMO Power enough to subjugate Ul'dah, like as not, and the rest of Eorzea besides─which is doubtless why Teledji Adeledji yearns to have it. Pray waste no time chasing rats. Only a fool would believe that secrets can be kept in Ul'dah.
59 55 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300130_NANAMOULNAMO 58 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300160_ALPHINAUD That <Emphasis>he</Emphasis> should aspire to world domination... He who has ever walked two paces behind Lord Lolorito in matters of commerce. It would seem the implications of the sultanate's refugee problem are rather more far-reaching than we assumed...
60 56 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300140_RAUBAHN 59 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400010_HAURCHEFANT 'Tis in acknowledgement of his own limitations that he seeks this power. Woe betide us all should we allow him to have it. The incident with the new frontier hands? No, no, you need not elaborate─I have been following their progress with no small amount of interest.
61 57 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300150_NANAMOULNAMO 60 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400020_HAURCHEFANT Pray waste no time chasing rats. Only a fool would believe that secrets can be kept in Ul'dah. Brave men and women all... They do our nation a great service. The existence of a fortified outpost in Mor Dhona will do much to dissuade the Empire from trespassing on Coerthan soil.
62 58 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300160_ALPHINAUD 61 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400030_HAURCHEFANT It would seem the implications of the sultanate's refugee problem are rather more far-reaching than we assumed... Right glad am I that you have chosen to lend your support to this endeavor. Never let it be said that House Fortemps does not acknowledge the efforts of her allies...or her debts.
63 59 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400010_HAURCHEFANT 62 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400040_HAURCHEFANT The incident with the new frontier hands? No, no, you need not elaborate─I have been following their progress with no small amount of interest. 'Twas in the spirit of gratitude that I arranged for sundry supplies to be delivered to Revenant's Toll. That the shipment should chance to be waylaid by heretics is poor fortune, indeed.
64 60 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400020_HAURCHEFANT 63 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400050_HAURCHEFANT Brave men and women all... They do our nation a great service. The existence of a fortified outpost in Mor Dhona will do much to dissuade the Empire from trespassing on Coerthan soil. Poor fortune, I say...yet not without precedent. If you would know the truth of it, these incorrigible villains grow more organized with each passing day.
65 61 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400030_HAURCHEFANT 64 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400060_HAURCHEFANT Right glad am I that you have chosen to lend your support to this endeavor. Never let it be said that House Fortemps does not acknowledge the efforts of her allies...or her debts. This new unity of purpose we attribute to their leader─the Lady “Iceheart.” But though I have devoted significant resources to the task of identifying this woman, we have yet to learn so much as her birth name.
66 62 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400040_HAURCHEFANT 65 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400070_HAURCHEFANT 'Twas in the spirit of gratitude that I arranged for sundry supplies to be delivered to Revenant's Toll. That the shipment should chance to be waylaid by heretics is poor fortune, indeed. What we *do* know is that the heretics speak of Iceheart in reverent tones, and would gladly embrace death rather than betray her. Such loyalty is rare indeed, and I fear to imagine what so committed a collective might achieve.
67 63 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400050_HAURCHEFANT 66 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400080_HAURCHEFANT Poor fortune, I say...yet not without precedent. If you would know the truth of it, these incorrigible villains grow more organized with each passing day. The brigands have not yet been so brazen as to risk direct confrontation here in Dragonhead. Some few of their number have, however, been sighted not far to the west of here...and with ever-increasing regularity.
68 64 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400060_HAURCHEFANT 67 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400090_HAURCHEFANT This new unity of purpose we attribute to their leader─the Lady “Iceheart.” But though I have devoted significant resources to the task of identifying this woman, we have yet to learn so much as her birth name. A visit to Whitebrim Front may bring you the answers you seek. Will you brave the snows knowing what implacable foes may lie in wait?
69 65 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400070_HAURCHEFANT 68 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400100_HAURCHEFANT What we <Emphasis>do</Emphasis> know is that the heretics speak of Iceheart in reverent tones, and would gladly embrace death rather than betray her. Such loyalty is rare indeed, and I fear to imagine what so committed a collective might achieve. Halone's blessings be upon you! Though I take no pride in the admission, many of mine own countrymen are not so well suited as you adventurers to dealing with such foes. Were they dragons, it might be otherwise!
70 66 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400080_HAURCHEFANT 69 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400110_HAURCHEFANT The brigands have not yet been so brazen as to risk direct confrontation here in Dragonhead. Some few of their number have, however, been sighted not far to the west of here...and with ever-increasing regularity. But truly, I could not wish for a finer ally. You have done much for my house in the past, and I have no doubt but that I shall have cause to celebrate your deeds again ere long.
71 67 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400090_HAURCHEFANT 70 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400120_HAURCHEFANT A visit to Whitebrim Front may bring you the answers you seek. Will you brave the snows knowing what implacable foes may lie in wait? Should you learn aught of value, pray return to me forthwith. A warm hearth and a warmer welcome shall be waiting for you.
72 68 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400100_HAURCHEFANT 71 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_500010_YSAYLE Halone's blessings be upon you! Though I take no pride in the admission, many of mine own countrymen are not so well suited as you adventurers to dealing with such foes. Were they dragons, it might be otherwise! (-???-)Hmph...
73 69 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400110_HAURCHEFANT 72 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600010_HAURCHEFANT But truly, I could not wish for a finer ally. You have done much for my house in the past, and I have no doubt but that I shall have cause to celebrate your deeds again ere long. Your return is most timely. Of their own accord, my thoughts had turned to your task and the progress thereof. I confess, my imaginings tended toward the grim and bloody.
74 70 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400120_HAURCHEFANT 73 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600020_HAURCHEFANT Should you learn aught of value, pray return to me forthwith. A warm hearth and a warmer welcome shall be waiting for you. But you are here now, and I suspect such frivolous wonderings do little justice to the reality of your travails. Tell me, what did you learn of Iceheart?
75 71 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_500010_YSAYLE 74 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600030_HAURCHEFANT (-???-)Hmph... ...Indeed. And this transpired at Snowcloak?
76 72 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600010_HAURCHEFANT 75 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600040_HAURCHEFANT Your return is most timely. Of their own accord, my thoughts had turned to your task and the progress thereof. I confess, my imaginings tended toward the grim and bloody. Of all the highlands, that towering wall has borne the worst of the region's brutal shift in climate.
77 73 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600020_HAURCHEFANT 76 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600050_HAURCHEFANT But you are here now, and I suspect such frivolous wonderings do little justice to the reality of your travails. Tell me, what did you learn of Iceheart? So inhospitable has Snowcloak become that we have still to survey the area in its entirety. Could its frozen heights conceal the heretics' hideaway? Mayhap a more robust reconnaissance effort is in order.
78 74 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600030_HAURCHEFANT 77 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600060_HAURCHEFANT ...Indeed. And this transpired at Snowcloak? Putting such considerations aside for the moment, we still know far too little of this Iceheart. That she is capable of commanding such a band of fanatics bespeaks natural authority, and no small measure of charisma.
79 75 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600040_HAURCHEFANT 78 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600070_HAURCHEFANT Of all the highlands, that towering wall has borne the worst of the region's brutal shift in climate. As much as I would like to fathom this mystery with you, the situation has grown beyond my personal purview. I am bound by duty to inform the Temple Knights and request that they bring this matter to its conclusion.
80 76 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600050_HAURCHEFANT 79 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600080_HAURCHEFANT So inhospitable has Snowcloak become that we have still to survey the area in its entirety. Could its frozen heights conceal the heretics' hideaway? Mayhap a more robust reconnaissance effort is in order. Given the glowing reports their new commander has garnered thus far, I am certain that they can be relied upon to take appropriate action.
81 77 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600060_HAURCHEFANT 80 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600090_HAURCHEFANT Putting such considerations aside for the moment, we still know far too little of this Iceheart. That she is capable of commanding such a band of fanatics bespeaks natural authority, and no small measure of charisma. Though Iceheart's true identity yet eludes us, you have provided us with a point from which to begin. Sometimes it takes but a single stone to prompt an avalanche.
82 78 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600070_HAURCHEFANT 81 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600100_HAURCHEFANT As much as I would like to fathom this mystery with you, the situation has grown beyond my personal purview. I am bound by duty to inform the Temple Knights and request that they bring this matter to its conclusion. On the matter of the stolen provisions, I have already made arrangements for a second shipment to be sent to Revenant's Toll. I could not well allow such an honorable venture to be undermined by one miserable setback!
83 79 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600080_HAURCHEFANT 82 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700010_KANESENNA Given the glowing reports their new commander has garnered thus far, I am certain that they can be relied upon to take appropriate action. Scions of the Seventh Dawn, on behalf of the people of Gridania, I bid you welcome. Your presence is of great comfort to us all in these days of uncertainty.
84 80 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600090_HAURCHEFANT 83 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700020_KANESENNA Though Iceheart's true identity yet eludes us, you have provided us with a point from which to begin. Sometimes it takes but a single stone to prompt an avalanche. I summoned you here to share tidings of a most urgent nature. But a short while ago, the great elemental spoke, and his voice was clarion in its intensity: Ramuh is returned unto the forest.
85 81 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600100_HAURCHEFANT 84 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700030_KANESENNA On the matter of the stolen provisions, I have already made arrangements for a second shipment to be sent to Revenant's Toll. I could not well allow such an honorable venture to be undermined by one miserable setback! Scarce had his words ceased to echo in mine ears when we were visited by an emissary from Little Solace.
86 82 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700010_KANESENNA 85 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700050_KANESENNA Scions of the Seventh Dawn, on behalf of the people of Gridania, I bid you welcome. Your presence is of great comfort to us all in these days of uncertainty. Our guest informs us that the sylphs, too, have sensed the presence of the Lord of Levin.
87 83 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700020_KANESENNA 86 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700055_KANESENNA I summoned you here to share tidings of a most urgent nature. But a short while ago, the great elemental spoke, and his voice was clarion in its intensity: Ramuh is returned unto the forest. Our guest informs us that the sylphs, too, have sensed the presence of the Lord of Levin.
88 84 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700030_KANESENNA 87 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700060_KANESENNA Scarce had his words ceased to echo in mine ears when we were visited by an emissary from Little Solace. Though his exact whereabouts remain unknown, we may safely assume that the primal was summoned within the heart of the Sylphlands.
89 85 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700050_KANESENNA 88 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700070_KANESENNA Our guest informs us that the sylphs, too, have sensed the presence of the Lord of Levin. Unlike the other primals you have encountered, Lord Ramuh is no raging avatar of destruction. He is revered as much for his wisdom as his strength, serving as both arbiter and guardian to his children. Given that we and the sylphs found a way to share the Twelveswood, it is my hope that this sagely immortal will be amenable to reason, and that conflict may be avoided.
90 86 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700055_KANESENNA 89 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700080_KANESENNA Our guest informs us that the sylphs, too, have sensed the presence of the Lord of Levin. Blessed as you are with the power of the Echo, you are one of the few among us who may commune with a primal without fear of influence. I would ask therefore that you represent us in this most delicate of negotiations.
91 87 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700060_KANESENNA 90 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700090_KANESENNA Though his exact whereabouts remain unknown, we may safely assume that the primal was summoned within the heart of the Sylphlands. The Twelveswood has suffered enough. Upon this, we and the sylphs─and I would venture Lord Ramuh himself─are in perfect accord. Let us not endanger our shared home by engaging in unnecessary hostilities.
92 88 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700070_KANESENNA 91 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700100_KANESENNA Unlike the other primals you have encountered, Lord Ramuh is no raging avatar of destruction. He is revered as much for his wisdom as his strength, serving as both arbiter and guardian to his children. Given that we and the sylphs found a way to share the Twelveswood, it is my hope that this sagely immortal will be amenable to reason, and that conflict may be avoided. Dear friend, I beseech you: safeguard the peace which exists between our peoples.
93 89 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700080_KANESENNA 92 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700110_KANESENNA Blessed as you are with the power of the Echo, you are one of the few among us who may commune with a primal without fear of influence. I would ask therefore that you represent us in this most delicate of negotiations. You have my thanks.
94 90 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700090_KANESENNA 93 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700120_KANESENNA The Twelveswood has suffered enough. Upon this, we and the sylphs─and I would venture Lord Ramuh himself─are in perfect accord. Let us not endanger our shared home by engaging in unnecessary hostilities. Pray make for Little Solace, then. A member of the Order of the Twin Adder awaits you there. He will advise you on how to find the Lord of Levin.
95 91 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700100_KANESENNA 94 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700130_KANESENNA Dear friend, I beseech you: safeguard the peace which exists between our peoples. An ill wind blows through the forest.
96 92 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700110_KANESENNA 95 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700140_KANESENNA You have my thanks. Yet...it is not only the Twelveswood that flinches at its coming─all the lands of Eorzea shiver in dread anticipation. Have care.
97 93 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700120_KANESENNA 96 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800010_RAMUH Pray make for Little Solace, then. A member of the Order of the Twin Adder awaits you there. He will advise you on how to find the Lord of Levin. Thine aura betrays thee, servant of Hydaelyn.
98 94 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700130_KANESENNA 97 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800020_RAMUH An ill wind blows through the forest. Thou art the Bringer of Light...bane of Ifrit, Titan, Garuda, and Leviathan.
99 95 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700140_KANESENNA 98 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800030_RAMUH Yet...it is not only the Twelveswood that flinches at its coming─all the lands of Eorzea shiver in dread anticipation. Have care. I am Ramuh, guardian of the children of the forest.
100 96 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800010_RAMUH 99 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800040_RAMUH Thine aura betrays thee, servant of Hydaelyn. Thou tramplest upon sacred soil, Bringer of Light. By what right doth man intrude in this sanctuary of the sylphs?
101 97 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800020_RAMUH 100 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800050_RAMUH Thou art the Bringer of Light...bane of Ifrit, Titan, Garuda, and Leviathan. The Gridanians proffer peace? Their words are born of delusion─thine offer, an insult.
102 98 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800030_RAMUH 101 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800060_RAMUH I am Ramuh, guardian of the children of the forest. Thou speakest of harmony, yet carest naught for my children's desires. They did but wish to dwell beneath these boughs in solitude─yet even that was too much to ask of man.
103 99 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800040_RAMUH 102 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800070_RAMUH Thou tramplest upon sacred soil, Bringer of Light. By what right doth man intrude in this sanctuary of the sylphs? Thus did they turn to me for succor. The sentence I pronounce upon thy kind is just.
104 100 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800050_RAMUH 103 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800080_RAMUH The Gridanians proffer peace? Their words are born of delusion─thine offer, an insult. Gridanian or Garlean, it matters not. The good intent of one excuseth not the misdeeds of the other.
105 101 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800060_RAMUH 104 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800090_RAMUH Thou speakest of harmony, yet carest naught for my children's desires. They did but wish to dwell beneath these boughs in solitude─yet even that was too much to ask of man. Thy conflicts have brought naught but anguish and misery unto the forest. All blame doth lie with the darkness that resideth in the breast of man.
106 102 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800070_RAMUH 105 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800100_RAMUH Thus did they turn to me for succor. The sentence I pronounce upon thy kind is just. Whence sprung this calamitous seed? In the beginning, no such duality existed. Were light and dark given form when man was born?
107 103 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800080_RAMUH 106 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800110_RAMUH Gridanian or Garlean, it matters not. The good intent of one excuseth not the misdeeds of the other. It would explain much. Not least why strife and sorrow follow ever in thy wake. Thou canst not deny the urgings of thine own nature.
108 104 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800090_RAMUH 107 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800120_RAMUH Thy conflicts have brought naught but anguish and misery unto the forest. All blame doth lie with the darkness that resideth in the breast of man. Knowing that thy mere presence here portendeth tragedy, wilt thou persist in this pretense of peacemaking?
109 105 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800100_RAMUH 108 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800130_RAMUH Whence sprung this calamitous seed? In the beginning, no such duality existed. Were light and dark given form when man was born? Thou bearest the crystal which I bestowed upon my wayward charges. That they should entrust so precious a gift to thee...
110 106 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800110_RAMUH 109 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800140_RAMUH It would explain much. Not least why strife and sorrow follow ever in thy wake. Thou canst not deny the urgings of thine own nature. Thou standest apart from thy kin. Thou art the Bringer of Light, aye...but there is something more in thee...
111 107 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800120_RAMUH 110 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800150_RAMUH Knowing that thy mere presence here portendeth tragedy, wilt thou persist in this pretense of peacemaking? Very well, I shall consider thy proposal...shouldst thou survive my trial.
112 108 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800130_RAMUH 111 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800160_RAMUH Thou bearest the crystal which I bestowed upon my wayward charges. That they should entrust so precious a gift to thee... If thou wouldst champion the cause of harmony, I must have proof that thou art fit to play the role. Weather mine ire, and prove to me thereby that thou hast strength enough to stay the Darkness which threateneth to consume thee.
113 109 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800140_RAMUH 112 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800170_RAMUH Thou standest apart from thy kin. Thou art the Bringer of Light, aye...but there is something more in thee... Yet if thou shouldst be found wanting, know that *all* men shall perish in the storm of my judgment!
114 110 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800150_RAMUH 113 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800180_RAMUH Very well, I shall consider thy proposal...shouldst thou survive my trial. Come to me, Bringer of Light. I shall await thee on the field of battle!
115 111 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800160_RAMUH 114 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800190_YSHTOLA If thou wouldst champion the cause of harmony, I must have proof that thou art fit to play the role. Weather mine ire, and prove to me thereby that thou hast strength enough to stay the Darkness which threateneth to consume thee. Urianger. It is rare indeed to find you so far from a tome.
116 112 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800170_RAMUH 115 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800200_URIANGER Yet if thou shouldst be found wanting, know that <Emphasis>all</Emphasis> men shall perish in the storm of my judgment! The Lord of Levin himself... Never till this day had I looked upon his visage save in painted renderings, made faint by time... Ever shall this scene remain etched in my mind's eye... Ahem. Beg pardon, my lady.
117 113 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800180_RAMUH 116 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800210_URIANGER Come to me, Bringer of Light. I shall await thee on the field of battle! I must beg thine aid on a point of research. If thou art resolved to face Lord Ramuh, I would ask thy leave to observe the event...
118 114 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800190_YSHTOLA 117 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900010_RAMUH Urianger. It is rare indeed to find you so far from a tome. I have taken thy measure, Bringer of Light.
119 115 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800200_URIANGER 118 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900020_RAMUH The Lord of Levin himself... Never till this day had I looked upon his visage save in painted renderings, made faint by time... Ever shall this scene remain etched in my mind's eye... Ahem. Beg pardon, my lady. And I judge thee a worthy champion. The task of excising the sin that hath taken root in man's heart is thine.
120 116 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800210_URIANGER 119 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900030_RAMUH I must beg thine aid on a point of research. If thou art resolved to face Lord Ramuh, I would ask thy leave to observe the event... Shrink not from employing thy strength in service to the forest, and the wider realm beyond. Like hungering shadows do the enemies of harmony gather, and meekness will but feed them.
121 117 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900010_RAMUH 120 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900040_RAMUH I have taken thy measure, Bringer of Light. If man is to be delivered from the Dark, it shall be by thy guiding Light alone. Stray not from the path, for if thou dost, thy people shall be truly lost...
122 118 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900020_RAMUH 121 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900050_URIANGER And I judge thee a worthy champion. The task of excising the sin that hath taken root in man's heart is thine. Thou hast slain the Lord of Levin. A regrettable act...but a necessary one.
123 119 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900030_RAMUH 122 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900060_URIANGER Shrink not from employing thy strength in service to the forest, and the wider realm beyond. Like hungering shadows do the enemies of harmony gather, and meekness will but feed them. In witnessing thy struggle, a truth hath been revealed unto me. If I mistake not, it may yet prove a chink in the eternal armor of the Ascians.
124 120 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900040_RAMUH 123 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900070_URIANGER If man is to be delivered from the Dark, it shall be by thy guiding Light alone. Stray not from the path, for if thou dost, thy people shall be truly lost... But let us conclude our present business. I shall expound upon my findings at the Rising Stones anon.
125 121 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900050_URIANGER 124 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00010_KANESENNA Thou hast slain the Lord of Levin. A regrettable act...but a necessary one. You are returned to us, dear friend, and none the worse for bearing the heavy burden which I did press upon you. Most glad am I of this.
126 122 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900060_URIANGER 125 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00020_KANESENNA In witnessing thy struggle, a truth hath been revealed unto me. If I mistake not, it may yet prove a chink in the eternal armor of the Ascians. I am informed that your efforts to negotiate a peace with Lord Ramuh ended in conflict. Pray tell me, what befell?
127 123 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900070_URIANGER 126 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00030_KANESENNA But let us conclude our present business. I shall expound upon my findings at the Rising Stones anon. Ramuh made trial of you?
128 124 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00010_KANESENNA 127 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00040_KANESENNA You are returned to us, dear friend, and none the worse for bearing the heavy burden which I did press upon you. Most glad am I of this. I fear there is truth to his claim. It is the darkness within us that attracts the Darkness without.
129 125 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00020_KANESENNA 128 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00050_KANESENNA I am informed that your efforts to negotiate a peace with Lord Ramuh ended in conflict. Pray tell me, what befell? It cannot be denied that misfortune follows man. For evidence, one need only look to the conflict brewing in Carteneau, or to the rising flood of refugees.
130 126 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00030_KANESENNA 129 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00060_KANESENNA Ramuh made trial of you? Our shared struggle against the Empire should have served to seal our union, yet the ties which bind the Alliance strain under the weight of gross self-interest.
131 127 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00040_KANESENNA 130 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00070_KANESENNA I fear there is truth to his claim. It is the darkness within us that attracts the Darkness without. As the scars of the Calamity begin to fade, so too does our sense of common purpose.
132 128 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00050_KANESENNA 131 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00080_KANESENNA It cannot be denied that misfortune follows man. For evidence, one need only look to the conflict brewing in Carteneau, or to the rising flood of refugees. Yet now is scarce the time to forget our shared responsibility. If this new-sprung realm is to survive beyond its infancy, it must needs be nurtured by all.
133 129 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00060_KANESENNA 132 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00090_KANESENNA Our shared struggle against the Empire should have served to seal our union, yet the ties which bind the Alliance strain under the weight of gross self-interest. Eorzea *must* be as one. Yet I fear that dream is still far off.
134 130 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00070_KANESENNA 133 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00100_KANESENNA As the scars of the Calamity begin to fade, so too does our sense of common purpose. On behalf of the people of Gridania, and the elementals both, I thank you for all that you and your fellow Scions have done.
135 131 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00080_KANESENNA 134 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00110_KANESENNA Yet now is scarce the time to forget our shared responsibility. If this new-sprung realm is to survive beyond its infancy, it must needs be nurtured by all. Full oft have I been compelled to look to you for aid of late...and offered all too little in return. As leader of this nation, I shall endeavor to prove a more worthy ally to your cause henceforth.
136 132 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00090_KANESENNA 135 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00120_KANESENNA Eorzea <Emphasis>must</Emphasis> be as one. Yet I fear that dream is still far off. Lord Ramuh has departed, yet the keening of this ill wind grows no less insistent...
137 133 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00100_KANESENNA 136 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00130_KANESENNA On behalf of the people of Gridania, and the elementals both, I thank you for all that you and your fellow Scions have done. Voices of the forest─pray speak and I shall listen. What unseen evil begets this unease in my heart?
138 134 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00110_KANESENNA 137 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00010_MINFILIA Full oft have I been compelled to look to you for aid of late...and offered all too little in return. As leader of this nation, I shall endeavor to prove a more worthy ally to your cause henceforth. If everyone is ready, let us begin.
139 135 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00120_KANESENNA 138 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00020_MINFILIA Lord Ramuh has departed, yet the keening of this ill wind grows no less insistent... Urianger, the floor is yours.
140 136 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00130_KANESENNA 139 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00030_URIANGER Voices of the forest─pray speak and I shall listen. What unseen evil begets this unease in my heart? As all here assembled now know, in its final hours as our order's headquarters, the Waking Sands did play host to a most unexpected visitor. I speak of the Ascian clad in white, Elidibus.
141 137 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00010_MINFILIA 140 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00040_URIANGER If everyone is ready, let us begin. Unwelcome though his presence was, his words that day did serve to confirm a truth long suspected: that the Ascians are eternal beings, to whom physical destruction is as a temporary inconvenience.
142 138 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00020_MINFILIA 141 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00050_MINFILIA Urianger, the floor is yours. In the intervening time, Urianger and I have striven to discover a means by which the Ascians might more permanently be slain.
143 139 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00030_URIANGER 142 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00060_URIANGER As all here assembled now know, in its final hours as our order's headquarters, the Waking Sands did play host to a most unexpected visitor. I speak of the Ascian clad in white, Elidibus. And 'tis my belief that we have found the thread that will allow us to unravel the twisted skein of their existence.
144 140 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00040_URIANGER 143 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00070_URIANGER Unwelcome though his presence was, his words that day did serve to confirm a truth long suspected: that the Ascians are eternal beings, to whom physical destruction is as a temporary inconvenience. In the moments prior to Leviathan's most recent manifestation, the Sahagin elder who summoned him was observed to undergo some manner of ascension.
145 141 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00050_MINFILIA 144 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00080_URIANGER In the intervening time, Urianger and I have striven to discover a means by which the Ascians might more permanently be slain. The aetheric readings taken by Y'shtola at the time of this transfiguration have proven most enlightening.
146 142 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00060_URIANGER 145 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00090_YSHTOLA And 'tis my belief that we have found the thread that will allow us to unravel the twisted skein of their existence. The disruption to the flow of aether was sudden and dramatic. So tangible was the agitation, I scarce had need of my goggles.
147 143 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00070_URIANGER 146 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00100_URIANGER In the moments prior to Leviathan's most recent manifestation, the Sahagin elder who summoned him was observed to undergo some manner of ascension. The significance of Y'shtola's readings might better be understood in the context of mine own, taken at the instant of the Lord of Levin's demise. Unlike the primal, the Sahagin was not subject to aetheric dissipation.
148 144 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00080_URIANGER 147 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00110_MINFILIA The aetheric readings taken by Y'shtola at the time of this transfiguration have proven most enlightening. Before discussing our new discoveries, it may benefit us all to recall what we know of aetheric behavior.
149 145 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00090_YSHTOLA 148 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00120_MINFILIA The disruption to the flow of aether was sudden and dramatic. So tangible was the agitation, I scarce had need of my goggles. Let us begin at what some might call the end. When we who dwell in the material realm die, our spirits dissolve into the flow of aether, and are returned to the aetherial realm.
150 146 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00100_URIANGER 149 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00130_MINFILIA The significance of Y'shtola's readings might better be understood in the context of mine own, taken at the instant of the Lord of Levin's demise. Unlike the primal, the Sahagin was not subject to aetheric dissipation. In turn, the restless energy which suffuses that plane streams back into our world, giving rise to new life.
151 147 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00110_MINFILIA 150 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00140_URIANGER Before discussing our new discoveries, it may benefit us all to recall what we know of aetheric behavior. 'Tis as the heavens did decree─the way of all mortal souls.
152 148 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00120_MINFILIA 151 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00150_URIANGER Let us begin at what some might call the end. When we who dwell in the material realm die, our spirits dissolve into the flow of aether, and are returned to the aetherial realm. 'Twixt this world and the next do the aetherial currents swirl, bearing the very essence of life. Thus doth the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth continue unabated.
153 149 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00130_MINFILIA 152 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00160_MINFILIA In turn, the restless energy which suffuses that plane streams back into our world, giving rise to new life. Primals behave somewhat differently. In order to manifest and then maintain a physical presence in this realm, they must consume vast quantities of aether, most often in the form of crystals. Though they may seem to live, their flesh is but aether given shape.
154 150 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00140_URIANGER 153 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00170_MINFILIA 'Tis as the heavens did decree─the way of all mortal souls. Thus, a defeated primal leaves behind no broken corpse─rather, the essence of its form seeps back into the land whence it came, and the energy of its shattered spirit is called back to the aetherial realm.
155 151 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00150_URIANGER 154 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00180_URIANGER 'Twixt this world and the next do the aetherial currents swirl, bearing the very essence of life. Thus doth the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth continue unabated. And there it waiteth till next the prayers of the faithful do draw it forth from the sea of aether to take their offering of crystals and make for itself a new body...
156 152 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00160_MINFILIA 155 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00190_MINFILIA Primals behave somewhat differently. In order to manifest and then maintain a physical presence in this realm, they must consume vast quantities of aether, most often in the form of crystals. Though they may seem to live, their flesh is but aether given shape. Which brings us on to the third group. These so-called “immortals.” They exist in a manner all their own.
157 153 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00170_MINFILIA 156 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00200_YSHTOLA Thus, a defeated primal leaves behind no broken corpse─rather, the essence of its form seeps back into the land whence it came, and the energy of its shattered spirit is called back to the aetherial realm. Quite. Even as the Sahagin elder fell to the Admiral's musket shot, I witnessed the release of an aetherial cloud which immediately took possession of a nearby minion.
158 154 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00180_URIANGER 157 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00210_URIANGER And there it waiteth till next the prayers of the faithful do draw it forth from the sea of aether to take their offering of crystals and make for itself a new body... A soul that dissipateth not upon the death of the flesh...
159 155 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00190_MINFILIA 158 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00220_THANCRED Which brings us on to the third group. These so-called “immortals.” They exist in a manner all their own. The secret of life everlasting. And in the claws of a Sahagin, no less. But I wonder: what would happen to one of these obstinate spirits should there be no suitable host for it to claim?
160 156 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00200_YSHTOLA 159 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00230_MINFILIA Quite. Even as the Sahagin elder fell to the Admiral's musket shot, I witnessed the release of an aetherial cloud which immediately took possession of a nearby minion. If mortal death entails a return to the aetherial realm, it seems doubtful that the soul of an immortal would venture there.
161 157 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00210_URIANGER 160 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00240_URIANGER A soul that dissipateth not upon the death of the flesh... Nay, it merely withdraweth a distance. Unto the shore of the aetherial sea, perchance, but no further.
162 158 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00220_THANCRED 161 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00250_MINFILIA The secret of life everlasting. And in the claws of a Sahagin, no less. But I wonder: what would happen to one of these obstinate spirits should there be no suitable host for it to claim? Yes, it exists in neither this realm nor the next, abiding instead in the space that lies between them.
163 159 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00230_MINFILIA 162 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00260_MINFILIA If mortal death entails a return to the aetherial realm, it seems doubtful that the soul of an immortal would venture there. The Ascians took control of Thancred by means of a Crystal of Darkness─an artifact which, if our theories are correct, serves as a gateway to the place I have just described.
164 160 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00240_URIANGER 163 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00270_THANCRED Nay, it merely withdraweth a distance. Unto the shore of the aetherial sea, perchance, but no further. I was hoping people had forgotten about that...
165 161 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00250_MINFILIA 164 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00280_MINFILIA Yes, it exists in neither this realm nor the next, abiding instead in the space that lies between them. I am sorry, my friend.
166 162 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00260_MINFILIA 165 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00290_URIANGER The Ascians took control of Thancred by means of a Crystal of Darkness─an artifact which, if our theories are correct, serves as a gateway to the place I have just described. For a mercy, the weary road of our research hath brought us unto an answer.
167 163 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00270_THANCRED 166 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00300_YSHTOLA I was hoping people had forgotten about that... The Sahagin ascended to an immortal state, but he did not possess a Crystal of Darkness through which to flee this realm. Thus was he consumed by Leviathan.
168 164 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00280_MINFILIA 167 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00310_YSHTOLA I am sorry, my friend. If we could entrap the spirits of defeated Ascians in like manner, and thereby deny them resurrection...
169 165 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00290_URIANGER 168 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00320_URIANGER For a mercy, the weary road of our research hath brought us unto an answer. Therein lieth the path to victory. Thou art most perceptive, my lady.
170 166 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00300_YSHTOLA 169 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00330_URIANGER The Sahagin ascended to an immortal state, but he did not possess a Crystal of Darkness through which to flee this realm. Thus was he consumed by Leviathan. Only when we have trapped the bodiless soul within an aetherial prison can we hope to defeat its unnatural constancy. Thus, might even an eternal Paragon be consigned to oblivion.
171 167 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00310_YSHTOLA 170 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00340_MINFILIA If we could entrap the spirits of defeated Ascians in like manner, and thereby deny them resurrection... These feats are, of course, far easier said than done. At present, we lack a viable means to entrap and extinguish an Ascian soul.
172 168 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00320_URIANGER 171 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00350_MINFILIA Therein lieth the path to victory. Thou art most perceptive, my lady. Yet I believe it to be possible. The pieces of the puzzle lie before us─we have but to put them together.
173 169 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00330_URIANGER 172 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00360_URIANGER Only when we have trapped the bodiless soul within an aetherial prison can we hope to defeat its unnatural constancy. Thus, might even an eternal Paragon be consigned to oblivion. I will depart at once to convene with the sages of Sharlayan. Together shall we divine the steps by which our goals may be achieved.
174 170 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00340_MINFILIA 173 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00370_MINFILIA These feats are, of course, far easier said than done. At present, we lack a viable means to entrap and extinguish an Ascian soul. I have the utmost faith in you, Archon.
175 171 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00350_MINFILIA 174 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00380_URIANGER Yet I believe it to be possible. The pieces of the puzzle lie before us─we have but to put them together. Beg pardon, Antecedent, but I would raise one final matter... Even now, a Sharlayan survey party seeketh to ascertain the fate of the Students of Baldesion.
176 172 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00360_URIANGER 175 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00390_URIANGER I will depart at once to convene with the sages of Sharlayan. Together shall we divine the steps by which our goals may be achieved. Their findings shall soon be known to us. Though you harbor feelings of dread, I bid you surrender not to sorrow, but abide instead in hopeful prayer.
177 173 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00370_MINFILIA 176 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00400_MINFILIA I have the utmost faith in you, Archon. I shall, Archon. Thank you.
178 174 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00380_URIANGER 177 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00010_NANAMOULNAMO Beg pardon, Antecedent, but I would raise one final matter... Even now, a Sharlayan survey party seeketh to ascertain the fate of the Students of Baldesion. Tell me, General: what think you of Alphinaud's bold endeavor?
179 175 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00390_URIANGER 178 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00020_RAUBAHN Their findings shall soon be known to us. Though you harbor feelings of dread, I bid you surrender not to sorrow, but abide instead in hopeful prayer. I think it is more than bold, Your Grace. His organization would pave the way for a united Eorzea.
180 176 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00400_MINFILIA 179 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00030_RAUBAHN I shall, Archon. Thank you. Well do I understand his impatience. Since facing the common threat of the Ultima Weapon, our nations have seemed farther apart, not closer together.
181 177 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00010_NANAMOULNAMO 180 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00040_RAUBAHN Tell me, General: what think you of Alphinaud's bold endeavor? Considering the many problems we face, should we not be glad that someone else is taking the initiative?
182 178 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00020_RAUBAHN 181 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00050_NANAMOULNAMO I think it is more than bold, Your Grace. His organization would pave the way for a united Eorzea. We have all pledged our cooperation, yet the grumbling continues behind closed doors. Ul'dah is not alone in her duplicity.
183 179 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00030_RAUBAHN 182 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00060_NANAMOULNAMO Well do I understand his impatience. Since facing the common threat of the Ultima Weapon, our nations have seemed farther apart, not closer together. I myself have doubts as to the good this organization will achieve.
184 180 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00040_RAUBAHN 183 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00070_NANAMOULNAMO Considering the many problems we face, should we not be glad that someone else is taking the initiative? With the inclusion of the finest soldiers of the three Grand Companies, it promises to be a fearsome military body. But whom will it serve? Even under the watchful gaze of the Scions, it is not unthinkable that such a force could perpetrate a great wrong.
185 181 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00050_NANAMOULNAMO 184 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00080_NANAMOULNAMO We have all pledged our cooperation, yet the grumbling continues behind closed doors. Ul'dah is not alone in her duplicity. Does it not concern you that a significant proportion of its financial backing came from the coffers of the Syndicate? That those unprincipled worms might forge this extraordinary gathering of warriors into a private army?
186 182 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00060_NANAMOULNAMO 185 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00090_RAUBAHN I myself have doubts as to the good this organization will achieve. I have trust in the Scions, Your Grace. They have spared us no end of trouble at the hands of the primals. If they seek reinforcements, I deem it unwise to deny them.
187 183 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00070_NANAMOULNAMO 186 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00100_RAUBAHN With the inclusion of the finest soldiers of the three Grand Companies, it promises to be a fearsome military body. But whom will it serve? Even under the watchful gaze of the Scions, it is not unthinkable that such a force could perpetrate a great wrong. As for their finances, full many gave generously. And though our nobles proffered a sizable sum, their coin did not spill from the pockets of Lolorito and his cronies.
188 184 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00080_NANAMOULNAMO 187 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00110_RAUBAHN Does it not concern you that a significant proportion of its financial backing came from the coffers of the Syndicate? That those unprincipled worms might forge this extraordinary gathering of warriors into a private army? And what of the presence of our stalwart adventurer friend in this endeavor? I doubt the Warrior of Light would betray our cause.
189 185 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00090_RAUBAHN 188 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00120_NANAMOULNAMO I have trust in the Scions, Your Grace. They have spared us no end of trouble at the hands of the primals. If they seek reinforcements, I deem it unwise to deny them. Yes, there is that, I suppose.
190 186 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00100_RAUBAHN 189 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00130_NANAMOULNAMO As for their finances, full many gave generously. And though our nobles proffered a sizable sum, their coin did not spill from the pockets of Lolorito and his cronies. Yet I have known people to change. Whether we will or no, the events of the age hurl us this way and that, like a dust devil skipping across the sands...
191 187 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00110_RAUBAHN 190 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00140_NANAMOULNAMO And what of the presence of our stalwart adventurer friend in this endeavor? I doubt the Warrior of Light would betray our cause. Can naught be done about Teledji?
192 188 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00120_NANAMOULNAMO 191 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00150_RAUBAHN Yes, there is that, I suppose. I have explored all avenues available to us, Your Grace, but as Ul'dahn law now stands, we lack the evidence to convict him of any crime. To arrest him on spurious grounds would only play into his hands...
193 189 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00130_NANAMOULNAMO 192 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00160_NANAMOULNAMO Yet I have known people to change. Whether we will or no, the events of the age hurl us this way and that, like a dust devil skipping across the sands... He has all but committed treason, and yet we can do nothing!?
194 190 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00140_NANAMOULNAMO 193 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00170_NANAMOULNAMO Can naught be done about Teledji? Then what good our government!? What worth the royal house!? How deplorable this mockery of justice!
195 191 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00150_RAUBAHN 194 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00180_NANAMOULNAMO I have explored all avenues available to us, Your Grace, but as Ul'dahn law now stands, we lack the evidence to convict him of any crime. To arrest him on spurious grounds would only play into his hands... This isn't the text you're looking for.
196 192 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00160_NANAMOULNAMO 195 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00190_RAUBAHN He has all but committed treason, and yet we can do nothing!? Have faith, Your Grace. It is not over...
197 193 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00170_NANAMOULNAMO 196 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00010_ALPHINAUD Then what good our government!? What worth the royal house!? How deplorable this mockery of justice! Comrades! Your presence here this day signifies the momentous choice that each of you has made.
198 194 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00180_NANAMOULNAMO 197 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00020_ALPHINAUD This isn't the text you're looking for. With your strength now pledged to the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, you are beholden to no single nation. You stand as the vanguard for a united Eorzea!
199 195 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00190_RAUBAHN 198 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00030_ALPHINAUD Have faith, Your Grace. It is not over... From this moment forth, I declare you Crystal Braves! Let us mend this fractured realm, and face our enemies as one!
200 196 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00010_ALPHINAUD 199 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00040_ALPHINAUD Comrades! Your presence here this day signifies the momentous choice that each of you has made. Whether it be the beastmen and their primals, or the conflict in Carteneau, it is plain that the nations of Eorzea cannot solve the problems which plague the realm. Thus does it fall to some few heroic souls to succeed where they have failed!
201 197 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00020_ALPHINAUD 200 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00050_ALPHINAUD With your strength now pledged to the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, you are beholden to no single nation. You stand as the vanguard for a united Eorzea! Come! Take your place at the Scions' side as guardians of Eorzea! And together we shall fight for the freedom of all!
202 198 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00030_ALPHINAUD 201 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00060_ALL From this moment forth, I declare you Crystal Braves! Let us mend this fractured realm, and face our enemies as one! (-Crystal Braves-)For the freedom of all!
203 199 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00040_ALPHINAUD 202 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00070_MINFILIA Whether it be the beastmen and their primals, or the conflict in Carteneau, it is plain that the nations of Eorzea cannot solve the problems which plague the realm. Thus does it fall to some few heroic souls to succeed where they have failed! A rousing speech, Alphinaud. Or should I say, Crystal Brave Commander Leveilleur?
204 200 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00050_ALPHINAUD 203 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00080_ALPHINAUD Come! Take your place at the Scions' side as guardians of Eorzea! And together we shall fight for the freedom of all! Please, Antecedent...the title is honorary. I shall not be “leading the troops into battle,” as it were.
205 201 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00060_ALL 204 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00090_ALPHINAUD (-Crystal Braves-)For the freedom of all! We are of the same purpose. Let us join hands, and do what must be done to save this land.
206 202 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00070_MINFILIA 205 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00100_MINFILIA A rousing speech, Alphinaud. Or should I say, Crystal Brave Commander Leveilleur? The Scions stand ready!
207 203 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00080_ALPHINAUD 206 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00010_MINFILIA Please, Antecedent...the title is honorary. I shall not be “leading the troops into battle,” as it were. I'm eager to see what the Crystal Braves might accomplish. This shall prove an interesting time indeed for the Scions.
208 204 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00090_ALPHINAUD 207 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00020_MINFILIA We are of the same purpose. Let us join hands, and do what must be done to save this land. Yes, I'm listening.
209 205 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00100_MINFILIA 208 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00030_MINFILIA The Scions stand ready! So, our worst fears are confirmed. The entire isle... Such power defies comprehension...
210 206 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00010_MINFILIA 209 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00040_MINFILIA I'm eager to see what the Crystal Braves might accomplish. This shall prove an interesting time indeed for the Scions. Truly!? Krile is alive!? Thank the Twelve...
211 207 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00020_MINFILIA 210 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00050_MINFILIA Yes, I'm listening. ...I see. Pray inform me if her condition changes. Yes. I shall pass on your words to Urianger.
212 208 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00030_MINFILIA 211 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00060_MINFILIA So, our worst fears are confirmed. The entire isle... Such power defies comprehension... My thanks. I shall contact you anon.
213 209 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00040_MINFILIA 212 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00070_MINFILIA Truly!? Krile is alive!? Thank the Twelve... When I learned of the loss of the Isle of Val, I dared not hope that my friend had survived. Yet by some miracle, it would seem she has. She's still to regain consciousness, it is true, but better that than death.
214 210 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00050_MINFILIA 213 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00080_MINFILIA ...I see. Pray inform me if her condition changes. Yes. I shall pass on your words to Urianger. Putting this happy news to one side, we must now endeavor to make sense of the readings taken by the survey party.
215 211 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00060_MINFILIA 214 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00090_MINFILIA My thanks. I shall contact you anon. It appears the aetheric disturbance which accompanied the isle's destruction is of a magnitude alarmingly close to that of Ultima. Could the Ascians be responsible for this devastation as well?
216 212 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00070_MINFILIA 215 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00100_MINFILIA When I learned of the loss of the Isle of Val, I dared not hope that my friend had survived. Yet by some miracle, it would seem she has. She's still to regain consciousness, it is true, but better that than death. I wonder... Have you heard aught from the Mothercrystal since the battle with the Garleans?
217 213 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00080_MINFILIA 216 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00110_MINFILIA Putting this happy news to one side, we must now endeavor to make sense of the readings taken by the survey party. Then She speaks to neither one of us. Hydaelyn's silence portends naught but ill, I fear.
218 214 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00090_MINFILIA 217 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00120_MINFILIA It appears the aetheric disturbance which accompanied the isle's destruction is of a magnitude alarmingly close to that of Ultima. Could the Ascians be responsible for this devastation as well? Louisoix... I pray you yet watch over us...
215 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00100_MINFILIA I wonder... Have you heard aught from the Mothercrystal since the battle with the Garleans?
216 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00110_MINFILIA Then She speaks to neither one of us. Hydaelyn's silence portends naught but ill, I fear.
217 TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00120_MINFILIA Louisoix... I pray you yet watch over us...