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0,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000010_PIPIN","Pray join me in welcoming our Scion allies, but recently returned from their mission to the Far East. We have been most eager to hear a firsthand account of your time there, eventful as we understand it was."
1,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000020_ALISAIE","Very well, allow me..."
2,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000030_RAUBAHN","...Such victories are rarely won without sacrifice. But the prize is worth the price. Doma free, after all these years."
3,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000040_CONRAD","Bloody hells... Flooding their own castle for a better chance at victory...
We could learn a thing or two from that lad."
3,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000040_CONRAD","Bloody hells... Flooding their own castle for a better chance at victory...
We could learn a thing or two from that lad."
4,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000050_PIPIN","Our agents report a flurry of communications between Garlemald and Ala Mhigo in recent days. 'Tis plain they are in the midst of deliberating their response to the Doman uprising."
6,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000070_CONRAD","We have a chance, aye─mayhap the last one we're ever gonna get.
While we've done our best to rebuild the Resistance, the imperials have only increased their efforts to root out sympathizers."
5,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000060_RAUBAHN","Good. Every imperial unit in occupied territory will be on the lookout for civil unrest. The fear of leaving critical locations undefended will make commanders think twice about committing their forces─giving us a chance to seize the initiative."
6,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000070_CONRAD","We have a chance, aye─mayhap the last one we're ever gonna get.
While we've done our best to rebuild the Resistance, the imperials have only increased their efforts to root out sympathizers."
9,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000100_RAUBAHN","Then let us waste no more time.
The campaign for Ala Mhigan liberation begins now!"
10,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000110_RAUBAHN","Our first objective will be to capture Castellum Velodyna. Take the bridge,
and the whole of the Fringes will be ours. From there, we can push east
towards the Peaks."
7,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000080_CONRAD","If we keep on playing for smaller prizes, it's only a matter of time before they crush us again. And that we won't come back from."
8,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000090_PIPIN","A swift advance seems best for all concerned. Not least poor Mistress Krile."
9,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000100_RAUBAHN","Then let us waste no more time.
The campaign for Ala Mhigan liberation begins now!"
10,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000110_RAUBAHN","Our first objective will be to capture Castellum Velodyna. Take the bridge,
@@ -40,33 +35,25 @@ towards the Peaks."
26,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000270_ANANTASOLDIER","[RALLYING CRY]"
27,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000280_FORDOLA","Stand your ground! It's not over yet!"
28,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000281_RAUBAHN","[LOUD ROAR]"
34,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000340_FORDOLA","Idiot! We have the stronger force by far! Don't be taken in by their tricks!
Or would you rather tell Zenos you lost to this rabble!?"
35,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000350_SKULLSOLDIERC","No, but if the snakes betray us in the confusion, we'll have no way out!
I'm begging you, Commander─give the order, or we'll all die here!"
29,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000290_RAUBAHN","Hark you, brothers and sisters! The bridge is ours!"
30,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000300_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION","Velodyna is fallen!? Impossible!"
31,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000310_RAUBAHN","We have them on the run! Forward! No mercy!"
37,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000370_FORDOLA","Skulls, with me! The day is theirs, and so is this bastard bridge.
Someone bring the snake!"
32,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000320_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION","Regroup, regroup... We have to regroup! All units─ Fall back!"
33,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000330_SKULLSOLDIERC","Commander! The 4th Cohort has been routed! We'll be at the mercy of the enemy's reinforcements if we don't fall back now!"
39,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000390_CONRAD","Let them go, Lyse! We've done what we came here to do.
That's enough for now."
34,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000340_FORDOLA","Idiot! We have the stronger force by far! Don't be taken in by their tricks!
Or would you rather tell Zenos you lost to this rabble!?"
35,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000350_SKULLSOLDIERC","No, but if the snakes betray us in the confusion, we'll have no way out!
I'm begging you, Commander─give the order, or we'll all die here!"
43,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000430_MNAAGO","Good, all things considered. Better than the Ananta, at any rate...
They've sent an emissary. I'll take you to her."
36,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000360_FORDOLA","...As common traitors who drank of muddied waters. For all the good it did us."
37,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000370_FORDOLA","Skulls, with me! The day is theirs, and so is this bastard bridge.
Someone bring the snake!"
38,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000380_LYSE","Damn it!"
39,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000390_CONRAD","Let them go, Lyse! We've done what we came here to do.
That's enough for now."
49,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000490_VIRASOLDIER","But then a new commander was sssent to hold the black bridge.
She demanded the Qalyana sssurrender a hossstage, thisss Butcher."
40,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000400_LYSE","...I suppose. It's our first victory, isn't it? And that has to be worth something."
41,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000410_MNAAGO","Ah, you've come. Welcome, friends, to my village. My home."
42,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000420_ALPHINAUD","How fare your people?"
52,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000520_ALPHINAUD","I see. All Fordola knew for sure was that the Resistance would come from
the west. She reasoned, therefore, that if the Ananta on the east bank turned their coats, she would be trapped. I take it the Qalyana had no choice but
to oblige her."
43,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000430_MNAAGO","Good, all things considered. Better than the Ananta, at any rate...
They've sent an emissary. I'll take you to her."
44,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000440_LYSE","We're here to help. Will you tell us what happened?"
45,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000450_VIRASOLDIER","Aye. It began with a quarrel between the imperials and the Qalyana."
@@ -76,32 +63,25 @@ to oblige her."
49,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000490_VIRASOLDIER","But then a new commander was sssent to hold the black bridge.
She demanded the Qalyana sssurrender a hossstage, thisss Butcher."
50,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000500_LYSE","Fordola. It doesn't make sense, though... The Vira are the ones working with the Resistance. Why would she threaten the Qalyana?"
62,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000620_VIRASOLDIER","The true madnesss was yet to come. For in her dessspair, the Qalyana broodmother cried out for her daughter to be ressstored to life.
She bessseeched Sri Lakshmi's intercession."
51,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000510_VIRASOLDIER","Because she is ignorant, like all imperials. She knows not the difference between Qalyana and Vira, nor does she care to learn."
52,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000520_ALPHINAUD","I see. All Fordola knew for sure was that the Resistance would come from
64,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000640_VIRASOLDIER","That she did, if only for an inssstant. Bereft of courage and honor,
the broodmother sssought sssolace in her faith."
the west. She reasoned, therefore, that if the Ananta on the east bank turned their coats, she would be trapped. I take it the Qalyana had no choice but
to oblige her."
66,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000660_VIRASOLDIER","Now the Qalyana bid usss make pilgrimage, to pay proper ressspectsss.
Yet though we Vira revere Sri Lakshmi as the holiessst of the holy, we will not prossstrate ourssselves before Her."
53,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000530_VIRASOLDIER","No, they did not. The imperials left with the Qalyana broodmother's own daughter, Anamika."
54,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000540_VIRASOLDIER","Long days and nightsss she looked out on the black bridge, weeping for her child. Until you came."
55,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000550_VIRASOLDIER","The broodmother knew at once which way the winds would blow. She and her warriors met with the fleeing imperials in the road and demanded that her daughter be returned."
69,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000690_ALPHINAUD","I believe we have heard enough. Inconvenient though the timing may be, if a primal has indeed been summoned, we can scarce afford to ignore it.
We must needs discuss how best to resolve this situation."
56,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000560_LYSE","Bad idea... Fordola's not the kind to take threats lying down."
57,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000570_VIRASOLDIER","You know her well. The Butcher turned her blade to Anamika and bade the Qalyana move aside."
58,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000580_VIRASOLDIER","But the broodmother would not yield."
59,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000590_ALISAIE","I know where this is going..."
73,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000730_QALYANAPATRIARCH","But she hears not her mother's words, nor sssees her mother's face!
She...she is sssilent...and empty..."
74,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000740_LAKSHMI","Only the vesssel may be remade. Not so the flame which flickered within.
Her soul hath been scattered to the four winds."
60,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000600_VIRASOLDIER","The Qalyana sssurrounded the imperials, one of whom, whether out of fear or ssstupidity, cut the child down. There was naught that could be done."
61,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000610_ALISAIE","What madness..."
62,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000620_VIRASOLDIER","The true madnesss was yet to come. For in her dessspair, the Qalyana broodmother cried out for her daughter to be ressstored to life.
She bessseeched Sri Lakshmi's intercession."
63,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000630_ALPHINAUD","She summoned a primal, then and there?"
64,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000640_VIRASOLDIER","That she did, if only for an inssstant. Bereft of courage and honor,
the broodmother sssought sssolace in her faith."
80,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000800_ALISAIE","I understand how you feel, I do. You loved her with all your heart, but when the moment came, you still couldn't save her. The anguish, the anger...
I know it only too well."
65,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000650_VIRASOLDIER","The imperials fled in terror at the sssight of the goddesss, abandoning these lands to the Ananta..."
66,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000660_VIRASOLDIER","Now the Qalyana bid usss make pilgrimage, to pay proper ressspectsss.
Yet though we Vira revere Sri Lakshmi as the holiessst of the holy, we will not prossstrate ourssselves before Her."
67,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000670_ALISAIE","And so you turned to us."
@@ -114,10 +94,8 @@ I know it only too well."
73,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000730_QALYANAPATRIARCH","But she hears not her mother's words, nor sssees her mother's face!
She...she is sssilent...and empty..."
74,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000740_LAKSHMI","Only the vesssel may be remade. Not so the flame which flickered within.
93,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000930_LYSE","So...it looks like the Ananta did have a mountain of crystals after all.
Like every other tribe. Gods, we're all such slaves to our weaknesses..."
94,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000940_QALYANAPATRIARCH","You! You ssslew our Missstresss! She was our hope, our sssalvation!
Is there no end to your cruelty!?"
Her soul hath been scattered to the four winds."
75,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000750_ALISAIE","Now do you see her promises for what they are!?"
76,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000760_ALPHINAUD","Alisaie! Have you gone mad!?"
77,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000770_ALISAIE","Mayhap I have! But I refuse to stand by and watch yet another tragedy unfold!"
78,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000780_QALYANAPATRIARCH","Who intrudes upon thisss sssacred ground!? Imperials thirsssting for blood!?"
@@ -128,8 +106,7 @@ Is there no end to your cruelty!?"
82,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000820_LAKSHMI","A worm-eaten heart may find peace and ssserenity in ssservice. In beauty and grace. Thisss hath ever been my promissse. Naught elssse."
83,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000830_ALISAIE","You tempt them with visions of things that can never be, and leave them bereft and wanting!"
84,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000840_ALISAIE","No illusion, however sweet, can change the fact that your daughter is gone. Remember her as she was! Do not suffer this piteous shade to tarnish her memory!"
105,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001040_GARLEANLEADERA","(-Imperial Tribunus Militum-)Ah, the savage returns. And with her tail firmly between her legs.
Beaten by beastmen, I hear."
85,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000850_LYSE","For every prayer that primal “answers,” it'll demand payment in kind. Do you have any idea how many more Ananta will die to feed its hunger for crystals!?"
86,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000860_LAKSHMI","They would have thee sssuffer man's ssspite and live in fear. Far better to dwell in my beauteousss dream than endure ssso ugly a reality."
87,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000870_LYSE","She's wrong! We hate the Empire as much as you! If you'd just listen─"
88,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000880_LAKSHMI","Poor, misssguided children. I would ssspare you the tormentsss of thisss cruel and misshapen world. Come, basssk in my radiance. Let it fill your heartsss and free you from your burdens."
@@ -139,11 +116,8 @@ Beaten by beastmen, I hear."
92,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000920_LYSE","You did it again. You saved them. I just wish I could've been more help..."
93,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000930_LYSE","So...it looks like the Ananta did have a mountain of crystals after all.
Like every other tribe. Gods, we're all such slaves to our weaknesses..."
115,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001140_ZENOS","You were defeated by the Resistance on several occasions.
You misjudged the Ananta and spurred them into summoning an eikon.
Have you anything to say?"
116,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001150_FORDOLA","I do not, my lord. My failures are my own.
I am prepared to accept your judgment."
94,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000940_QALYANAPATRIARCH","You! You ssslew our Missstresss! She was our hope, our sssalvation!
Is there no end to your cruelty!?"
95,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000950_LYSE","Listen to me, please! I know that you're only trying to protect yourselves because you feel frightened and alone..."
96,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000960_LYSE","But that's how we all feel, don't you see? If we could just turn to each other for help instead of the gods, I'm sure we could find a way to live in peace!"
97,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000970_LYSE","Your crystals are important to you, aren't they? Reflections of your souls, right? Well, you shouldn't have to sacrifice something so precious to a primal..."
@@ -151,30 +125,26 @@ I am prepared to accept your judgment."
99,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000990_LYSE","I know there's nothing I can say to convince you. But I hope that one day you look back and see we only ever wanted the same thing."
100,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001000_QALYANAPATRIARCH","Begone, damn you! Ssspare me your hollow words and leave me to mourn. "
101,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001010_LYSE","I'll go...but it doesn't mean I'm giving up."
124,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001230_LYSENARRATION","I remember how they laughed. Alliance and Resistance soldiers,
eager for battle, trading jokes as we marched east towards the Peaks..."
102,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001020_LYSE","Gyr Abania is our home too, and one way or another, we're going to have to learn to live together."
103,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001030_LYSE","Come on. Alphinaud and Alisaie are waiting."
104,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001039_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE","Meanwhile, in the Royal Palace of Ala Mhigo..."
105,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001040_GARLEANLEADERA","(-Imperial Tribunus Militum-)Ah, the savage returns. And with her tail firmly between her legs.
Beaten by beastmen, I hear."
106,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001050_GARLEANLEADERC","(-Imperial Pilus Prior-)'Twas a shameful display, by all accounts. She may have curried the viceroy's favor with her bold promises, but in the end, she's just another plodding bungler like the rest of her kind."
130,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001280_ZENOS","So...she lives. Impressive...or merely lucky.
Though that too may prove a useful trait."
107,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001060_GARLEANLEADERA","(-Imperial Tribunus Militum-)Strange, you would think him a better judge of character. Then again, I hear she's not averse to a more physical mode of persuasion."
108,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001070_GARLEANLEADERC","(-Imperial Pilus Prior-)Hah, I thought she rose through the ranks rather quickly. But no longer. If only she had been content with her lot, she might have lived to see the morrow."
109,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001080_FORDOLA","Fordola rem Lupis, commander of the Crania Lupi, reporting as ordered."
110,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001090_ZENOS","...Why do you tremble so?"
111,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001100_ZENOS","Could it be that the Empire's Butcher is afraid? That she who walks with death is terrified of her own?"
112,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001110_FORDOLA","I am terrified of dying having achieved naught. Gladly would I give my life to win a great victory on the battlefield, had I but the strength."
136,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001340_DRUSUS","Through modification of the Garlean genome, I argued that it might be possible to enhance a subject's ability to manipulate aether, effectively empowering them to wield magicks. Alas, my theories were met with consternation in the imperial court.
Only Lord Zenos, with commendable foresight and wisdom, deigned to support my research."
113,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001120_ZENOS","Alas, you do not. Indeed, you are weak. And born of this weakness is a blind fervor. A raging inferno which threatens to consume not only you, but everyone around you."
114,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001130_FORDOLA","Yes, my lord."
115,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001140_ZENOS","You were defeated by the Resistance on several occasions.
You misjudged the Ananta and spurred them into summoning an eikon.
Have you anything to say?"
116,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001150_FORDOLA","I do not, my lord. My failures are my own.
I am prepared to accept your judgment."
143,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001410_ZENOS","No. Even were you to leave now, you would not arrive in time.
There is another duty I would entrust to you..."
117,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001160_ZENOS","And that is very admirable. However, I've had enough of this dumb show. Give voice to that hunger I see in your eyes, or I will pluck them from your head."
118,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001170_FORDOLA","I...I want..."
119,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001180_FORDOLA","I want to make them pay! All of them! Everyone who ever mocked or looked down on me─I want the power to make them pay!"
120,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001190_ZENOS","...Hm. Very well."
@@ -183,31 +153,25 @@ There is another duty I would entrust to you..."
123,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001220_FORDOLA","I came here prepared to die. Tell me what I must do."
124,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001230_LYSENARRATION","I remember how they laughed. Alliance and Resistance soldiers,
eager for battle, trading jokes as we marched east towards the Peaks..."
152,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001500_GARLEANOFFICER","A unit of legionaries has been mustered and is ready to depart.
They await your orders, Commander."
125,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001240_LYSENARRATION","Beyond this last line of defenses lay the Lochs and the city. Breaching it would be no small feat."
126,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001250_LYSENARRATION","But we beat the imperials back, just like that, and we liberated a village. The first of many..."
127,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001259_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE","Meanwhile, deep within an imperial research facility..."
128,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001260_FORDOLA","My...my head..."
156,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001540_GARLEANOFFICER","Commander, if I may! Our people─your people are still in there!
They will be slaughtered!"
129,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001270_ZENOS","Let us see..."
130,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001280_ZENOS","So...she lives. Impressive...or merely lucky.
Though that too may prove a useful trait."
131,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001290_FORDOLA","My lord...what have you done to me...?"
132,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001300_DRUSUS","Though we Garleans are intellectually and physiologically superior in almost all respects, we lack the hereditary traits required for the reliable manipulation of aether─hence our unique inability to wield magicks."
133,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001310_DRUSUS","This deficiency, for want of a better word, saw us subjected to decades of oppression by the lesser races, and we were eventually driven to seek shelter in the cold northern reaches of Ilsabard."
162,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001600_FORDOLA","Wars are won on the backs of the dead. Theirs and ours. There is no truth but this. We must remain firm and resolute, and always, always do our duty.
Now, give the order!"
134,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001320_DRUSUS","Fortunately, said region was replete with vast deposits of ceruleum, which proved instrumental in the development of magitek: a revolutionary technology conceived to compensate for our disadvantage."
135,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001330_DRUSUS","It was with magitek that we grew strong─that our nation became an empire. Yet ultimately, this was an extrinsic solution to an intrinsic problem. What I wanted was not a crude device to be used in lieu of magic."
164,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001620_GARLEANHARPOONER","Aye, aye, initiating firing sequence!
Release safety locks...deploy main cannon!"
165,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001630_FORDOLA","Ansfrid, Hrudolf, Emelin...
For us. For our people. For our future."
136,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001340_DRUSUS","Through modification of the Garlean genome, I argued that it might be possible to enhance a subject's ability to manipulate aether, effectively empowering them to wield magicks. Alas, my theories were met with consternation in the imperial court.
Only Lord Zenos, with commendable foresight and wisdom, deigned to support my research."
137,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001350_FORDOLA","...You gave me this treatment? But I'm not Garlean."
138,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001360_ZENOS","Ala Mhigan, through and through."
139,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001370_ZENOS","What you have been granted is far greater than mere magic. Before that lesser light, it is as a second sun."
140,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001380_DRUSUS","I am informed that Ala Ghiri was recently occupied by the Resistance, and that an attack on Specula Imperatoris is considered imminent. This could provide an ideal opportunity to test her performance in the field."
170,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001680_RAUBAHN","Those treacherous bastards... Their people were still fighting!
Full retreat, now! Relay the orders!"
141,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001390_ZENOS","Your...Skulls, was it? They have joined the garrison at the watchtower?"
142,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001400_FORDOLA","...Yes, my lord. By your leave, I would rendezvous with them and lead a counterattack against the insurgents."
143,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001410_ZENOS","No. Even were you to leave now, you would not arrive in time.
There is another duty I would entrust to you..."
@@ -232,20 +196,17 @@ Full retreat, now! Relay the orders!"
160,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001580_FORDOLA","Mayhap you'd like to ask Lord Zenos yourself?"
161,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001590_FORDOLA","I thought not. Initiate the firing sequence."
162,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001600_FORDOLA","Wars are won on the backs of the dead. Theirs and ours. There is no truth but this. We must remain firm and resolute, and always, always do our duty.
195,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001920_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION","Notify all units─I want that intruder found!
And get the engineers to fix my bloody cannon!"
Now, give the order!"
163,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001610_GARLEANOFFICER","Initiate firing sequence!"
164,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001620_GARLEANHARPOONER","Aye, aye, initiating firing sequence!
198,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001950_ALISAIE","Ah...I think that answers my question.
We have accomplished our objectives as well."
Release safety locks...deploy main cannon!"
165,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001630_FORDOLA","Ansfrid, Hrudolf, Emelin...
For us. For our people. For our future."
166,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001640_GARLEANOFFICER","I need you to confirm the target, Commander."
167,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001650_FORDOLA","Specula Imperatoris, main tower. Fire when ready."
168,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001660_RAUBAHN","What in the seven hells!?"
169,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001670_PIPIN","Long-range artillery?"
205,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002020_LYSE","It was over! The Skulls had surrendered! No one else had to die!
And you killed them! Your own people! Your own comrades!"
170,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001680_RAUBAHN","Those treacherous bastards... Their people were still fighting!
Full retreat, now! Relay the orders!"
171,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001690_PIPIN","Understood!"
172,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001700_PIPIN","All forces, retreat! I repeat: all forces, retreat!"
@@ -254,8 +215,7 @@ And you killed them! Your own people! Your own comrades!"
175,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001730_ALPHINAUD","We carried the survivors to safety, but Conrad is... We have done what we can for him. All that remains is to pray."
176,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001740_CONRAD","Ugh..."
177,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001750_LYSE","Conrad!?"
214,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002110_LYSE","Shut up! Shut your mouth! You don't get to talk about freedom!
You killed your own! They trusted you and you killed them! "
178,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001760_CONRAD","Is...is that you, Lyse? Can't...can't see a damn thing..."
179,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001770_CONRAD","Well, that's that, then. Time's up."
180,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001780_LYSE","What are you talking about!? You'll be on your feet before you know it!"
181,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001790_CONRAD","It's all right, Lyse. I've lived long enough. But listen... I want...I want you to lead the Resistance in my stead."
@@ -271,9 +231,7 @@ You killed your own! They trusted you and you killed them! "
191,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001880_GARLEANHARPOONER","That's the ceruleum pipeline!"
192,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001890_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION","Impossible! How can one man─ Shoot the bastard! Shoot him!"
193,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001900_ESTINIEN","Heh. My lance has slain far greater beasts."
230,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002270_RAUBAHN","Same could be said of the village. It was damn near impossible to live off
the land, barren as it was─which is why so many of us traded our plowshares
for swords."
194,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001910_ESTINIEN","...You're welcome, boy."
195,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001920_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION","Notify all units─I want that intruder found!
And get the engineers to fix my bloody cannon!"
196,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001930_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION","The savages are coming!"
@@ -288,16 +246,13 @@ for swords."
204,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002010_FORDOLA","Aye, I gave the order to fire."
205,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002020_LYSE","It was over! The Skulls had surrendered! No one else had to die!
And you killed them! Your own people! Your own comrades!"
245,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002420_RAUBAHN","Conrad chose you as his successor, Lyse, and I will not gainsay his decision.
I have but one question to ask. "
206,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002030_FORDOLA","You're right. I killed them. Ansfrid, Hrudolf, Emelin, all the rest─trained and fought with every last one of them. Good soldiers to a man."
207,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002040_FORDOLA","I gave the order that led to their deaths...and I knew exactly what I was doing."
208,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002050_LYSE","But why!? Why would you do that!?"
248,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002450_LYSE","I swear to you, here and now:
I will fight until the end, be it liberty or be it death."
209,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002060_FORDOLA","They died so that all Ala Mhigans could live free. That was all we ever wanted."
210,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002070_FORDOLA","We made a promise that we would do whatever it took so that one day...one day the imperials would learn to accept us."
211,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002080_FORDOLA","But everything comes at a price. And if you haven't got the means to pay, then you pay with blood."
251,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002480_RAUBAHN","Hmm. A good oath. Then there is naught else to say.
You are indeed your father's daughter..."
212,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002090_FORDOLA","Service guarantees citizenship, but citizenship guarantees naught. It's not enough to do your part, oh no. You have to run faster, fight harder, kill more and more and more─and only then will you be equal."
213,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002100_FORDOLA","That's just how it is out here in the provinces. You buy your freedom with blood─there is no other way!"
214,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002110_LYSE","Shut up! Shut your mouth! You don't get to talk about freedom!
You killed your own! They trusted you and you killed them! "
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4 0 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000010_PIPIN Pray join me in welcoming our Scion allies, but recently returned from their mission to the Far East. We have been most eager to hear a firsthand account of your time there, eventful as we understand it was.
5 1 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000020_ALISAIE Very well, allow me...
6 2 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000030_RAUBAHN ...Such victories are rarely won without sacrifice. But the prize is worth the price. Doma free, after all these years.
7 3 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000040_CONRAD Bloody hells... Flooding their own castle for a better chance at victory... We could learn a thing or two from that lad. Bloody hells... Flooding their own castle for a better chance at victory... We could learn a thing or two from that lad.
4 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000050_PIPIN Our agents report a flurry of communications between Garlemald and Ala Mhigo in recent days. 'Tis plain they are in the midst of deliberating their response to the Doman uprising.
8 5 4 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000060_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000050_PIPIN Good. Every imperial unit in occupied territory will be on the lookout for civil unrest. The fear of leaving critical locations undefended will make commanders think twice about committing their forces─giving us a chance to seize the initiative. Our agents report a flurry of communications between Garlemald and Ala Mhigo in recent days. 'Tis plain they are in the midst of deliberating their response to the Doman uprising.
9 6 5 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000070_CONRAD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000060_RAUBAHN We have a chance, aye─mayhap the last one we're ever gonna get. While we've done our best to rebuild the Resistance, the imperials have only increased their efforts to root out sympathizers. Good. Every imperial unit in occupied territory will be on the lookout for civil unrest. The fear of leaving critical locations undefended will make commanders think twice about committing their forces─giving us a chance to seize the initiative.
10 7 6 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000080_CONRAD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000070_CONRAD If we keep on playing for smaller prizes, it's only a matter of time before they crush us again. And that we won't come back from. We have a chance, aye─mayhap the last one we're ever gonna get. While we've done our best to rebuild the Resistance, the imperials have only increased their efforts to root out sympathizers.
8 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000090_PIPIN A swift advance seems best for all concerned. Not least poor Mistress Krile.
11 9 7 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000100_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000080_CONRAD Then let us waste no more time. The campaign for Ala Mhigan liberation begins now! If we keep on playing for smaller prizes, it's only a matter of time before they crush us again. And that we won't come back from.
12 10 8 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000110_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000090_PIPIN Our first objective will be to capture Castellum Velodyna. Take the bridge, and the whole of the Fringes will be ours. From there, we can push east towards the Peaks. A swift advance seems best for all concerned. Not least poor Mistress Krile.
13 11 9 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000120_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000100_RAUBAHN I name this operation Rhalgr's Beacon. For as Rhalgr once sent His star to guide our ancestors to these lands, so too shall it see us home! Then let us waste no more time. The campaign for Ala Mhigan liberation begins now!
14 12 10 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000130_CONRAD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000110_RAUBAHN It's begun, then. Our first objective will be to capture Castellum Velodyna. Take the bridge, and the whole of the Fringes will be ours. From there, we can push east towards the Peaks.
13 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000140_MNAAGO Good. It's the waiting that drives me mad. Standing around, knowing what's to come. I'll never get used to it.
14 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000150_LYSE Calm down, Naago. You're making her nervous.
15 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000160_LYSE We've come this far, haven't we? We just need to make it the rest of the way!
15 16 11 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000170_MNAAGO TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000120_RAUBAHN Right! I name this operation Rhalgr's Beacon. For as Rhalgr once sent His star to guide our ancestors to these lands, so too shall it see us home!
16 17 12 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000180_CONRAD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000130_CONRAD Looks like the bastards went for the bait. The bridge is ours for the taking! It's begun, then.
17 18 13 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000190_CONRAD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000140_MNAAGO Now remember, M'naago: I want you to make for the tower as soon as you see an opening and get that flag flying. We'll see to the fighting. Good. It's the waiting that drives me mad. Standing around, knowing what's to come. I'll never get used to it.
35 36 31 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000360_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000310_RAUBAHN ...As common traitors who drank of muddied waters. For all the good it did us. We have them on the run! Forward! No mercy!
36 37 32 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000370_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000320_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION Skulls, with me! The day is theirs, and so is this bastard bridge. Someone bring the snake! Regroup, regroup... We have to regroup! All units─ Fall back!
37 38 33 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000380_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000330_SKULLSOLDIERC Damn it! Commander! The 4th Cohort has been routed! We'll be at the mercy of the enemy's reinforcements if we don't fall back now!
38 39 34 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000390_CONRAD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000340_FORDOLA Let them go, Lyse! We've done what we came here to do. That's enough for now. Idiot! We have the stronger force by far! Don't be taken in by their tricks! Or would you rather tell Zenos you lost to this rabble!?
39 40 35 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000400_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000350_SKULLSOLDIERC ...I suppose. It's our first victory, isn't it? And that has to be worth something. No, but if the snakes betray us in the confusion, we'll have no way out! I'm begging you, Commander─give the order, or we'll all die here!
41 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000410_MNAAGO Ah, you've come. Welcome, friends, to my village. My home.
42 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000420_ALPHINAUD How fare your people?
40 43 36 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000430_MNAAGO TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000360_FORDOLA Good, all things considered. Better than the Ananta, at any rate... They've sent an emissary. I'll take you to her. ...As common traitors who drank of muddied waters. For all the good it did us.
41 44 37 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000440_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000370_FORDOLA We're here to help. Will you tell us what happened? Skulls, with me! The day is theirs, and so is this bastard bridge. Someone bring the snake!
45 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000450_VIRASOLDIER Aye. It began with a quarrel between the imperials and the Qalyana.
42 46 38 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000460_MNAAGO TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000380_LYSE The Qalyana are another Ananta tribe─the strongest and the most influential. Damn it!
43 47 39 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000470_MNAAGO TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000390_CONRAD Unlike the Vira, they want no part of our troubles. They swore fealty to the Empire and were content to remain within their borders. Let them go, Lyse! We've done what we came here to do. That's enough for now.
48 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000480_VIRASOLDIER Jussst ssso. The Qalyana forsssook their pride and the fight, and yielded to Garlemald long ago.
44 49 40 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000490_VIRASOLDIER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000400_LYSE But then a new commander was sssent to hold the black bridge. She demanded the Qalyana sssurrender a hossstage, thisss Butcher. ...I suppose. It's our first victory, isn't it? And that has to be worth something.
45 50 41 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000500_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000410_MNAAGO Fordola. It doesn't make sense, though... The Vira are the ones working with the Resistance. Why would she threaten the Qalyana? Ah, you've come. Welcome, friends, to my village. My home.
46 51 42 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000510_VIRASOLDIER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000420_ALPHINAUD Because she is ignorant, like all imperials. She knows not the difference between Qalyana and Vira, nor does she care to learn. How fare your people?
47 52 43 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000520_ALPHINAUD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000430_MNAAGO I see. All Fordola knew for sure was that the Resistance would come from the west. She reasoned, therefore, that if the Ananta on the east bank turned their coats, she would be trapped. I take it the Qalyana had no choice but to oblige her. Good, all things considered. Better than the Ananta, at any rate... They've sent an emissary. I'll take you to her.
53 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000530_VIRASOLDIER No, they did not. The imperials left with the Qalyana broodmother's own daughter, Anamika.
48 54 44 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000540_VIRASOLDIER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000440_LYSE Long days and nightsss she looked out on the black bridge, weeping for her child. Until you came. We're here to help. Will you tell us what happened?
49 55 45 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000550_VIRASOLDIER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000450_VIRASOLDIER The broodmother knew at once which way the winds would blow. She and her warriors met with the fleeing imperials in the road and demanded that her daughter be returned. Aye. It began with a quarrel between the imperials and the Qalyana.
50 56 46 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000560_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000460_MNAAGO Bad idea... Fordola's not the kind to take threats lying down. The Qalyana are another Ananta tribe─the strongest and the most influential.
51 57 47 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000570_VIRASOLDIER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000470_MNAAGO You know her well. The Butcher turned her blade to Anamika and bade the Qalyana move aside. Unlike the Vira, they want no part of our troubles. They swore fealty to the Empire and were content to remain within their borders.
52 58 48 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000580_VIRASOLDIER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000480_VIRASOLDIER But the broodmother would not yield. Jussst ssso. The Qalyana forsssook their pride and the fight, and yielded to Garlemald long ago.
53 59 49 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000590_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000490_VIRASOLDIER I know where this is going... But then a new commander was sssent to hold the black bridge. She demanded the Qalyana sssurrender a hossstage, thisss Butcher.
60 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000600_VIRASOLDIER The Qalyana sssurrounded the imperials, one of whom, whether out of fear or ssstupidity, cut the child down. There was naught that could be done.
54 61 50 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000610_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000500_LYSE What madness... Fordola. It doesn't make sense, though... The Vira are the ones working with the Resistance. Why would she threaten the Qalyana?
55 62 51 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000620_VIRASOLDIER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000510_VIRASOLDIER The true madnesss was yet to come. For in her dessspair, the Qalyana broodmother cried out for her daughter to be ressstored to life. She bessseeched Sri Lakshmi's intercession. Because she is ignorant, like all imperials. She knows not the difference between Qalyana and Vira, nor does she care to learn.
56 63 52 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000630_ALPHINAUD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000520_ALPHINAUD She summoned a primal, then and there? I see. All Fordola knew for sure was that the Resistance would come from the west. She reasoned, therefore, that if the Ananta on the east bank turned their coats, she would be trapped. I take it the Qalyana had no choice but to oblige her.
64 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000640_VIRASOLDIER That she did, if only for an inssstant. Bereft of courage and honor, the broodmother sssought sssolace in her faith.
65 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000650_VIRASOLDIER The imperials fled in terror at the sssight of the goddesss, abandoning these lands to the Ananta...
57 66 53 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000660_VIRASOLDIER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000530_VIRASOLDIER Now the Qalyana bid usss make pilgrimage, to pay proper ressspectsss. Yet though we Vira revere Sri Lakshmi as the holiessst of the holy, we will not prossstrate ourssselves before Her. No, they did not. The imperials left with the Qalyana broodmother's own daughter, Anamika.
58 67 54 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000670_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000540_VIRASOLDIER And so you turned to us. Long days and nightsss she looked out on the black bridge, weeping for her child. Until you came.
59 68 55 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000680_VIRASOLDIER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000550_VIRASOLDIER Aye. All who have fought with the Resissstance have heard tell of the warrior. The eikon-ssslayer. The broodmother knew at once which way the winds would blow. She and her warriors met with the fleeing imperials in the road and demanded that her daughter be returned.
63 72 59 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000720_LAKSHMI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000590_ALISAIE Flesh sssundered hath been made whole. Blood ssspilt runneth through her veins. Breath ssstolen filleth her breassst. I know where this is going...
64 73 60 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000730_QALYANAPATRIARCH TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000600_VIRASOLDIER But she hears not her mother's words, nor sssees her mother's face! She...she is sssilent...and empty... The Qalyana sssurrounded the imperials, one of whom, whether out of fear or ssstupidity, cut the child down. There was naught that could be done.
65 74 61 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000740_LAKSHMI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000610_ALISAIE Only the vesssel may be remade. Not so the flame which flickered within. Her soul hath been scattered to the four winds. What madness...
66 75 62 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000750_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000620_VIRASOLDIER Now do you see her promises for what they are!? The true madnesss was yet to come. For in her dessspair, the Qalyana broodmother cried out for her daughter to be ressstored to life. She bessseeched Sri Lakshmi's intercession.
76 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000760_ALPHINAUD Alisaie! Have you gone mad!?
67 77 63 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000770_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000630_ALPHINAUD Mayhap I have! But I refuse to stand by and watch yet another tragedy unfold! She summoned a primal, then and there?
68 78 64 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000780_QALYANAPATRIARCH TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000640_VIRASOLDIER Who intrudes upon thisss sssacred ground!? Imperials thirsssting for blood!? That she did, if only for an inssstant. Bereft of courage and honor, the broodmother sssought sssolace in her faith.
79 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000790_ALISAIE No! We come not to shed blood but to save you from the false god who would lead you astray!
69 80 65 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000800_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000650_VIRASOLDIER I understand how you feel, I do. You loved her with all your heart, but when the moment came, you still couldn't save her. The anguish, the anger... I know it only too well. The imperials fled in terror at the sssight of the goddesss, abandoning these lands to the Ananta...
70 81 66 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000810_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000660_VIRASOLDIER But I also know where this path leads! To embrace a primal is to condemn yourself to an endless cycle of despair. You will never know peace! Now the Qalyana bid usss make pilgrimage, to pay proper ressspectsss. Yet though we Vira revere Sri Lakshmi as the holiessst of the holy, we will not prossstrate ourssselves before Her.
82 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000820_LAKSHMI A worm-eaten heart may find peace and ssserenity in ssservice. In beauty and grace. Thisss hath ever been my promissse. Naught elssse.
71 83 67 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000830_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000670_ALISAIE You tempt them with visions of things that can never be, and leave them bereft and wanting! And so you turned to us.
72 84 68 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000840_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000680_VIRASOLDIER No illusion, however sweet, can change the fact that your daughter is gone. Remember her as she was! Do not suffer this piteous shade to tarnish her memory! Aye. All who have fought with the Resissstance have heard tell of the warrior. The eikon-ssslayer.
73 85 69 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000850_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000690_ALPHINAUD For every prayer that primal “answers,” it'll demand payment in kind. Do you have any idea how many more Ananta will die to feed its hunger for crystals!? I believe we have heard enough. Inconvenient though the timing may be, if a primal has indeed been summoned, we can scarce afford to ignore it. We must needs discuss how best to resolve this situation.
86 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000860_LAKSHMI They would have thee sssuffer man's ssspite and live in fear. Far better to dwell in my beauteousss dream than endure ssso ugly a reality.
74 87 70 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000870_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000700_QALYANAPATRIARCH She's wrong! We hate the Empire as much as you! If you'd just listen─ Why, Missstresss... Why does my Anamika ssslumber ssstill?
75 88 71 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000880_LAKSHMI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000710_LAKSHMI Poor, misssguided children. I would ssspare you the tormentsss of thisss cruel and misshapen world. Come, basssk in my radiance. Let it fill your heartsss and free you from your burdens. Look thee on her face, sssupplicant. Thy prayer hath been anssswered.
76 89 72 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000890_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000720_LAKSHMI [FRUSTRATED GRUNT] Flesh sssundered hath been made whole. Blood ssspilt runneth through her veins. Breath ssstolen filleth her breassst.
77 90 73 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000900_LAKSHMI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000730_QALYANAPATRIARCH Abide in misery then, fools. The Ananta are more deserving of my blesssing... But she hears not her mother's words, nor sssees her mother's face! She...she is sssilent...and empty...
78 91 74 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000910_LAKSHMI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000740_LAKSHMI Leave these lands and my dreamers be. I will not warn you a second time. Only the vesssel may be remade. Not so the flame which flickered within. Her soul hath been scattered to the four winds.
92 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000920_LYSE You did it again. You saved them. I just wish I could've been more help...
93 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000930_LYSE So...it looks like the Ananta did have a mountain of crystals after all. Like every other tribe. Gods, we're all such slaves to our weaknesses...
79 94 75 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000940_QALYANAPATRIARCH TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000750_ALISAIE You! You ssslew our Missstresss! She was our hope, our sssalvation! Is there no end to your cruelty!? Now do you see her promises for what they are!?
80 95 76 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000950_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000760_ALPHINAUD Listen to me, please! I know that you're only trying to protect yourselves because you feel frightened and alone... Alisaie! Have you gone mad!?
81 96 77 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000960_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000770_ALISAIE But that's how we all feel, don't you see? If we could just turn to each other for help instead of the gods, I'm sure we could find a way to live in peace! Mayhap I have! But I refuse to stand by and watch yet another tragedy unfold!
82 97 78 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000970_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000780_QALYANAPATRIARCH Your crystals are important to you, aren't they? Reflections of your souls, right? Well, you shouldn't have to sacrifice something so precious to a primal... Who intrudes upon thisss sssacred ground!? Imperials thirsssting for blood!?
83 98 79 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000980_QALYANAPATRIARCH TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000790_ALISAIE Who are you to quessstion our choice? You who fight without fear? We wish only to live in peace, and if thisss be the price we must pay, then ssso be it! No! We come not to shed blood but to save you from the false god who would lead you astray!
84 99 80 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000990_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000800_ALISAIE I know there's nothing I can say to convince you. But I hope that one day you look back and see we only ever wanted the same thing. I understand how you feel, I do. You loved her with all your heart, but when the moment came, you still couldn't save her. The anguish, the anger... I know it only too well.
100 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001000_QALYANAPATRIARCH Begone, damn you! Ssspare me your hollow words and leave me to mourn.
85 101 81 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001010_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000810_ALISAIE I'll go...but it doesn't mean I'm giving up. But I also know where this path leads! To embrace a primal is to condemn yourself to an endless cycle of despair. You will never know peace!
86 102 82 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001020_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000820_LAKSHMI Gyr Abania is our home too, and one way or another, we're going to have to learn to live together. A worm-eaten heart may find peace and ssserenity in ssservice. In beauty and grace. Thisss hath ever been my promissse. Naught elssse.
87 103 83 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001030_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000830_ALISAIE Come on. Alphinaud and Alisaie are waiting. You tempt them with visions of things that can never be, and leave them bereft and wanting!
94 110 90 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001090_ZENOS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000900_LAKSHMI ...Why do you tremble so? Abide in misery then, fools. The Ananta are more deserving of my blesssing...
95 111 91 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001100_ZENOS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000910_LAKSHMI Could it be that the Empire's Butcher is afraid? That she who walks with death is terrified of her own? Leave these lands and my dreamers be. I will not warn you a second time.
96 112 92 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001110_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000920_LYSE I am terrified of dying having achieved naught. Gladly would I give my life to win a great victory on the battlefield, had I but the strength. You did it again. You saved them. I just wish I could've been more help...
97 113 93 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001120_ZENOS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000930_LYSE Alas, you do not. Indeed, you are weak. And born of this weakness is a blind fervor. A raging inferno which threatens to consume not only you, but everyone around you. So...it looks like the Ananta did have a mountain of crystals after all. Like every other tribe. Gods, we're all such slaves to our weaknesses...
98 114 94 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001130_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000940_QALYANAPATRIARCH Yes, my lord. You! You ssslew our Missstresss! She was our hope, our sssalvation! Is there no end to your cruelty!?
115 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001140_ZENOS You were defeated by the Resistance on several occasions. You misjudged the Ananta and spurred them into summoning an eikon. Have you anything to say?
116 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001150_FORDOLA I do not, my lord. My failures are my own. I am prepared to accept your judgment.
99 117 95 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001160_ZENOS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000950_LYSE And that is very admirable. However, I've had enough of this dumb show. Give voice to that hunger I see in your eyes, or I will pluck them from your head. Listen to me, please! I know that you're only trying to protect yourselves because you feel frightened and alone...
100 118 96 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001170_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000960_LYSE I...I want... But that's how we all feel, don't you see? If we could just turn to each other for help instead of the gods, I'm sure we could find a way to live in peace!
101 119 97 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001180_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_000970_LYSE I want to make them pay! All of them! Everyone who ever mocked or looked down on me─I want the power to make them pay! Your crystals are important to you, aren't they? Reflections of your souls, right? Well, you shouldn't have to sacrifice something so precious to a primal...
106 124 102 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001230_LYSENARRATION TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001020_LYSE I remember how they laughed. Alliance and Resistance soldiers, eager for battle, trading jokes as we marched east towards the Peaks... Gyr Abania is our home too, and one way or another, we're going to have to learn to live together.
107 125 103 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001240_LYSENARRATION TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001030_LYSE Beyond this last line of defenses lay the Lochs and the city. Breaching it would be no small feat. Come on. Alphinaud and Alisaie are waiting.
108 126 104 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001250_LYSENARRATION TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001039_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE But we beat the imperials back, just like that, and we liberated a village. The first of many... Meanwhile, in the Royal Palace of Ala Mhigo...
109 127 105 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001259_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001040_GARLEANLEADERA Meanwhile, deep within an imperial research facility... (-Imperial Tribunus Militum-)Ah, the savage returns. And with her tail firmly between her legs. Beaten by beastmen, I hear.
128 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001260_FORDOLA My...my head...
110 129 106 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001270_ZENOS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001050_GARLEANLEADERC Let us see... (-Imperial Pilus Prior-)'Twas a shameful display, by all accounts. She may have curried the viceroy's favor with her bold promises, but in the end, she's just another plodding bungler like the rest of her kind.
111 130 107 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001280_ZENOS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001060_GARLEANLEADERA So...she lives. Impressive...or merely lucky. Though that too may prove a useful trait. (-Imperial Tribunus Militum-)Strange, you would think him a better judge of character. Then again, I hear she's not averse to a more physical mode of persuasion.
112 131 108 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001290_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001070_GARLEANLEADERC My lord...what have you done to me...? (-Imperial Pilus Prior-)Hah, I thought she rose through the ranks rather quickly. But no longer. If only she had been content with her lot, she might have lived to see the morrow.
116 135 112 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001330_DRUSUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001110_FORDOLA It was with magitek that we grew strong─that our nation became an empire. Yet ultimately, this was an extrinsic solution to an intrinsic problem. What I wanted was not a crude device to be used in lieu of magic. I am terrified of dying having achieved naught. Gladly would I give my life to win a great victory on the battlefield, had I but the strength.
117 136 113 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001340_DRUSUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001120_ZENOS Through modification of the Garlean genome, I argued that it might be possible to enhance a subject's ability to manipulate aether, effectively empowering them to wield magicks. Alas, my theories were met with consternation in the imperial court. Only Lord Zenos, with commendable foresight and wisdom, deigned to support my research. Alas, you do not. Indeed, you are weak. And born of this weakness is a blind fervor. A raging inferno which threatens to consume not only you, but everyone around you.
118 137 114 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001350_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001130_FORDOLA ...You gave me this treatment? But I'm not Garlean. Yes, my lord.
119 138 115 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001360_ZENOS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001140_ZENOS Ala Mhigan, through and through. You were defeated by the Resistance on several occasions. You misjudged the Ananta and spurred them into summoning an eikon. Have you anything to say?
120 139 116 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001370_ZENOS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001150_FORDOLA What you have been granted is far greater than mere magic. Before that lesser light, it is as a second sun. I do not, my lord. My failures are my own. I am prepared to accept your judgment.
140 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001380_DRUSUS I am informed that Ala Ghiri was recently occupied by the Resistance, and that an attack on Specula Imperatoris is considered imminent. This could provide an ideal opportunity to test her performance in the field.
141 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001390_ZENOS Your...Skulls, was it? They have joined the garrison at the watchtower?
142 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001400_FORDOLA ...Yes, my lord. By your leave, I would rendezvous with them and lead a counterattack against the insurgents.
121 143 117 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001410_ZENOS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001160_ZENOS No. Even were you to leave now, you would not arrive in time. There is another duty I would entrust to you... And that is very admirable. However, I've had enough of this dumb show. Give voice to that hunger I see in your eyes, or I will pluck them from your head.
122 144 118 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001420_THANCRED TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001170_FORDOLA ...Found you. I...I want...
123 145 119 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001430_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001180_FORDOLA Ho! You've improved, lad! I want to make them pay! All of them! Everyone who ever mocked or looked down on me─I want the power to make them pay!
125 147 121 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001450_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001200_ZENOS Our work here is all but done. What of Conrad and his men? Then I shall give you a chance. A chance to transcend your mortal limits. Assuming, that is, you are prepared to wager your life for such power.
126 148 122 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001460_PIPIN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001210_FORDOLA They are for the main tower. The Skulls have offered fierce resistance thus far, but Conrad seems to believe he can convince them to lay down their arms... Transcend, my lord...?
127 149 123 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001470_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001220_FORDOLA Then we will tend to the stragglers down below. With me! I came here prepared to die. Tell me what I must do.
128 150 124 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001480_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001230_LYSENARRATION Report. I remember how they laughed. Alliance and Resistance soldiers, eager for battle, trading jokes as we marched east towards the Peaks...
151 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001490_GARLEANOFFICER Enemy forces have overrun the lower facilities, and appear to be mounting an assault on the main tower. We have already received a request for reinforcements.
129 152 125 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001500_GARLEANOFFICER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001240_LYSENARRATION A unit of legionaries has been mustered and is ready to depart. They await your orders, Commander. Beyond this last line of defenses lay the Lochs and the city. Breaching it would be no small feat.
130 153 126 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001510_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001250_LYSENARRATION Stand down. But we beat the imperials back, just like that, and we liberated a village. The first of many...
131 154 127 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001520_GARLEANOFFICER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001259_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE Commander? Meanwhile, deep within an imperial research facility...
132 155 128 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001530_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001260_FORDOLA Tell them to stand down. My...my head...
133 156 129 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001540_GARLEANOFFICER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001270_ZENOS Commander, if I may! Our people─your people are still in there! They will be slaughtered! Let us see...
134 157 130 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001550_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001280_ZENOS You think I don't know that!? I want nothing more than to help them─to lead the bloody charge─but I have my orders! So...she lives. Impressive...or merely lucky. Though that too may prove a useful trait.
158 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001560_FORDOLA Lord Zenos said no reinforcements. He would have us use the main cannon to destroy the installation.
135 159 131 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001570_GARLEANOFFICER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001290_FORDOLA What...kill our own soldiers!? You must be mistaken! My lord...what have you done to me...?
136 160 132 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001580_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001300_DRUSUS Mayhap you'd like to ask Lord Zenos yourself? Though we Garleans are intellectually and physiologically superior in almost all respects, we lack the hereditary traits required for the reliable manipulation of aether─hence our unique inability to wield magicks.
137 161 133 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001590_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001310_DRUSUS I thought not. Initiate the firing sequence. This deficiency, for want of a better word, saw us subjected to decades of oppression by the lesser races, and we were eventually driven to seek shelter in the cold northern reaches of Ilsabard.
138 162 134 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001600_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001320_DRUSUS Wars are won on the backs of the dead. Theirs and ours. There is no truth but this. We must remain firm and resolute, and always, always do our duty. Now, give the order! Fortunately, said region was replete with vast deposits of ceruleum, which proved instrumental in the development of magitek: a revolutionary technology conceived to compensate for our disadvantage.
139 163 135 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001610_GARLEANOFFICER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001330_DRUSUS Initiate firing sequence! It was with magitek that we grew strong─that our nation became an empire. Yet ultimately, this was an extrinsic solution to an intrinsic problem. What I wanted was not a crude device to be used in lieu of magic.
140 164 136 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001620_GARLEANHARPOONER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001340_DRUSUS Aye, aye, initiating firing sequence! Release safety locks...deploy main cannon! Through modification of the Garlean genome, I argued that it might be possible to enhance a subject's ability to manipulate aether, effectively empowering them to wield magicks. Alas, my theories were met with consternation in the imperial court. Only Lord Zenos, with commendable foresight and wisdom, deigned to support my research.
165 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001630_FORDOLA Ansfrid, Hrudolf, Emelin... For us. For our people. For our future.
141 166 137 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001640_GARLEANOFFICER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001350_FORDOLA I need you to confirm the target, Commander. ...You gave me this treatment? But I'm not Garlean.
142 167 138 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001650_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001360_ZENOS Specula Imperatoris, main tower. Fire when ready. Ala Mhigan, through and through.
143 168 139 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001660_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001370_ZENOS What in the seven hells!? What you have been granted is far greater than mere magic. Before that lesser light, it is as a second sun.
144 169 140 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001670_PIPIN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001380_DRUSUS Long-range artillery? I am informed that Ala Ghiri was recently occupied by the Resistance, and that an attack on Specula Imperatoris is considered imminent. This could provide an ideal opportunity to test her performance in the field.
145 170 141 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001680_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001390_ZENOS Those treacherous bastards... Their people were still fighting! Full retreat, now! Relay the orders! Your...Skulls, was it? They have joined the garrison at the watchtower?
146 171 142 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001690_PIPIN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001400_FORDOLA Understood! ...Yes, my lord. By your leave, I would rendezvous with them and lead a counterattack against the insurgents.
147 172 143 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001700_PIPIN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001410_ZENOS All forces, retreat! I repeat: all forces, retreat! No. Even were you to leave now, you would not arrive in time. There is another duty I would entrust to you...
173 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001710_LYSE Conrad! Conrad! Speak to me!
148 174 144 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001720_ALPHINAUD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001420_THANCRED It...it was all so sudden. Conrad had just convinced the last few Skulls to surrender, when...when we heard the bang, and...and everything started to shake... ...Found you.
149 175 145 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001730_ALPHINAUD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001430_RAUBAHN We carried the survivors to safety, but Conrad is... We have done what we can for him. All that remains is to pray. Ho! You've improved, lad!
150 176 146 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001740_CONRAD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001440_PIPIN Ugh... Come now, Father. You lured the fool onto my blade, and do not try to deny it!
153 179 149 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001770_CONRAD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001470_RAUBAHN Well, that's that, then. Time's up. Then we will tend to the stragglers down below. With me!
154 180 150 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001780_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001480_FORDOLA What are you talking about!? You'll be on your feet before you know it! Report.
155 181 151 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001790_CONRAD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001490_GARLEANOFFICER It's all right, Lyse. I've lived long enough. But listen... I want...I want you to lead the Resistance in my stead. Enemy forces have overrun the lower facilities, and appear to be mounting an assault on the main tower. We have already received a request for reinforcements.
156 182 152 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001800_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001500_GARLEANOFFICER Don't say another word! You'll recover─we'll recover! We'll bring freedom to Ala Mhigo together! We're not going to stop here! A unit of legionaries has been mustered and is ready to depart. They await your orders, Commander.
183 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001810_CONRAD No...no, you won't. Everything we've built, everyone we've brought together...I know you'll show them the way...
157 184 153 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001820_CONRAD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001510_FORDOLA You've got it in you, Lyse. Not because you're Curtis's daughter, or Yda's sister, but because...because you're you. Because you're you... Stand down.
158 185 154 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001830_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001520_GARLEANOFFICER Conrad... Commander?
159 186 155 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001840_CONRAD TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001530_FORDOLA Lead them to victory. To freedom. Tell them to stand down.
160 187 156 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001850_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001540_GARLEANOFFICER I will, Conrad. I will. I promise. Commander, if I may! Our people─your people are still in there! They will be slaughtered!
188 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001859_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE Meanwhile, in the chaos of Castrum Abania...
161 189 157 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001860_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001550_FORDOLA Next round! Double the charge! You think I don't know that!? I want nothing more than to help them─to lead the bloody charge─but I have my orders!
162 190 158 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001870_ESTINIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001560_FORDOLA Come, Nidhogg. We are needed. Lord Zenos said no reinforcements. He would have us use the main cannon to destroy the installation.
163 191 159 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001880_GARLEANHARPOONER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001570_GARLEANOFFICER That's the ceruleum pipeline! What...kill our own soldiers!? You must be mistaken!
164 192 160 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001890_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001580_FORDOLA Impossible! How can one man─ Shoot the bastard! Shoot him! Mayhap you'd like to ask Lord Zenos yourself?
165 193 161 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001900_ESTINIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001590_FORDOLA Heh. My lance has slain far greater beasts. I thought not. Initiate the firing sequence.
166 194 162 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001910_ESTINIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001600_FORDOLA ...You're welcome, boy. Wars are won on the backs of the dead. Theirs and ours. There is no truth but this. We must remain firm and resolute, and always, always do our duty. Now, give the order!
195 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001920_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION Notify all units─I want that intruder found! And get the engineers to fix my bloody cannon!
167 196 163 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001930_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001610_GARLEANOFFICER The savages are coming! Initiate firing sequence!
168 197 164 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001940_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001620_GARLEANHARPOONER Are you all right!? Aye, aye, initiating firing sequence! Release safety locks...deploy main cannon!
169 198 165 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001950_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001630_FORDOLA Ah...I think that answers my question. We have accomplished our objectives as well. Ansfrid, Hrudolf, Emelin... For us. For our people. For our future.
199 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001960_ALPHINAUD Lyse's unit should be advancing upon the fire control center in the command tower. Let us join them.
200 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001970_ALPHINAUD Lyse! Thank the Twelve you're all right.
170 201 166 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001980_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001640_GARLEANOFFICER And you! There's the control center. Let's hit them hard and fast. Ready? I need you to confirm the target, Commander.
171 202 167 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001990_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001650_FORDOLA They're here! Specula Imperatoris, main tower. Fire when ready.
172 203 168 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002000_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001660_RAUBAHN It was you, wasn't it... Wasn't it!? What in the seven hells!?
173 204 169 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002010_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001670_PIPIN Aye, I gave the order to fire. Long-range artillery?
174 205 170 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002020_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001680_RAUBAHN It was over! The Skulls had surrendered! No one else had to die! And you killed them! Your own people! Your own comrades! Those treacherous bastards... Their people were still fighting! Full retreat, now! Relay the orders!
206 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002030_FORDOLA You're right. I killed them. Ansfrid, Hrudolf, Emelin, all the rest─trained and fought with every last one of them. Good soldiers to a man.
175 207 171 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002040_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001690_PIPIN I gave the order that led to their deaths...and I knew exactly what I was doing. Understood!
176 208 172 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002050_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001700_PIPIN But why!? Why would you do that!? All forces, retreat! I repeat: all forces, retreat!
177 209 173 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002060_FORDOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001710_LYSE They died so that all Ala Mhigans could live free. That was all we ever wanted. Conrad! Conrad! Speak to me!
196 228 192 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002250_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001890_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION You mean...this is where you grew up? Impossible! How can one man─ Shoot the bastard! Shoot him!
197 229 193 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002260_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001900_ESTINIEN Aye. Not much to look at, is it? Heh. My lance has slain far greater beasts.
198 230 194 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002270_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001910_ESTINIEN Same could be said of the village. It was damn near impossible to live off the land, barren as it was─which is why so many of us traded our plowshares for swords. ...You're welcome, boy.
199 231 195 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002280_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001920_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION Swords and uniforms, mind. We became military men. Tensions were rising between Ala Mhigo and the Empire, and there was always a need for more soldiers to watch the border. 'Twas only a matter of time before the first skirmishes broke out. Notify all units─I want that intruder found! And get the engineers to fix my bloody cannon!
232 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002290_RAUBAHN It is a frightening thing to face magitek armor for the first time. But after a lot of trial and error, I found ways to bring them down. After a few victories, people even said I had a knack for it.
200 233 196 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002300_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001930_G3F1IMPERIALCENTURION And then one day they hit us. Hard. I was wounded and sent home to recover. Back here... The savages are coming!
201 234 197 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002310_CURTIS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001940_ALISAIE Will you remain silent for fear of the mad king's vengeance? Of his eyes and ears in the shadows and his knives in the dark? You who call this “living” dishonor our nation─it is but a slow death! Are you all right!?
202 235 198 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002320_CURTIS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001950_ALISAIE Liberty or death. Liberty or death! If this be your creed, then raise up your hands! Raise up your voices! Together we will tear Theodoric from the throne! Together we will reclaim our freedom! Ah...I think that answers my question. We have accomplished our objectives as well.
236 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002330_CURTIS Sent you home to mend, did they?
203 237 199 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002340_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001960_ALPHINAUD Aye, sir. Garleans got the better of us. The...the chirurgeons say I'm healing well, so it won't be long now. Lyse's unit should be advancing upon the fire control center in the command tower. Let us join them.
204 238 200 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002350_CURTIS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001970_ALPHINAUD Liberty or death, is it? Tell me, soldier: what do you think those words mean? Lyse! Thank the Twelve you're all right.
205 239 201 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002360_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001980_LYSE We...we must needs be willing to die for liberty? And you! There's the control center. Let's hit them hard and fast. Ready?
206 240 202 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002370_CURTIS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_001990_FORDOLA Spoken like a true patriot. But liberty should not be the end in of itself. They're here!
207 241 203 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002380_CURTIS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002000_LYSE Liberty is the chance to build something better. A stronger, more prosperous home for our people. It's not quick or easy work, and it is never truly finished─but if you neglect it, then sooner or later, you look up to find you've traded one tyrant for another. It was you, wasn't it... Wasn't it!?
208 242 204 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002390_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002010_FORDOLA Well, sir, I...I've never asked for much. Never wanted to live like a king─just wish it were a little bit easier is all. For me and everyone else. And I'm...I'm willing to die for that, if that's what it takes! Aye, I gave the order to fire.
209 243 205 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002400_CURTIS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002020_LYSE Dying is easy, soldier. Living is harder. It was over! The Skulls had surrendered! No one else had to die! And you killed them! Your own people! Your own comrades!
244 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002410_CURTIS Rest. Mend. Regain your strength. You'll need it in the days to come...and mayhap one day we will need it too.
210 245 206 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002420_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002030_FORDOLA Conrad chose you as his successor, Lyse, and I will not gainsay his decision. I have but one question to ask. You're right. I killed them. Ansfrid, Hrudolf, Emelin, all the rest─trained and fought with every last one of them. Good soldiers to a man.
211 246 207 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002430_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002040_FORDOLA Liberty or death. Those were Curtis's words, and his creed. Will you swear by your father's creed before your comrades and the gods? I gave the order that led to their deaths...and I knew exactly what I was doing.
212 247 208 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002440_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002050_LYSE Liberty or death... That's all you can hope for in war. Father understood that...and you want to know if I do too. But why!? Why would you do that!?
215 250 211 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002470_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002080_FORDOLA We'll fight and we'll talk and we'll find a way to make it work for all of us. Compared to all that, retaking our home will seem like the easy part. But everything comes at a price. And if you haven't got the means to pay, then you pay with blood.
216 251 212 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002480_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002090_FORDOLA Hmm. A good oath. Then there is naught else to say. You are indeed your father's daughter... Service guarantees citizenship, but citizenship guarantees naught. It's not enough to do your part, oh no. You have to run faster, fight harder, kill more and more and more─and only then will you be equal.
217 252 213 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002490_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002100_FORDOLA Sorry to have kept you waiting... That's just how it is out here in the provinces. You buy your freedom with blood─there is no other way!
218 253 214 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002500_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002110_LYSE Well, what do you think? I know it's a bit old-fashioned...but in a traditional sort of way. Yda wore it whenever she could... Shut up! Shut your mouth! You don't get to talk about freedom! You killed your own! They trusted you and you killed them!
254 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002510_LYSE Not that I'm pretending to be her or anything! Not again. It's just...if this is the last battle we fight to free Ala Mhigo, then she ought to be a part of it.
219 255 215 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_Q1_000_001_NONE_VOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002120_LYSE What will you say? Murderer! Butcher! Traitor!
220 256 216 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_A1_000_001_NONE_VOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002130_ALISAIE It suits you. Lyse!
221 257 217 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_A1_000_002_NONE_VOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002140_LYSE It's not quite your style... Gotcha!
231 227 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002240_RAUBAHN I wanted to show you this house. My house.
232 228 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002250_LYSE You mean...this is where you grew up?
233 229 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002260_RAUBAHN Aye. Not much to look at, is it?
234 230 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002270_RAUBAHN Same could be said of the village. It was damn near impossible to live off the land, barren as it was─which is why so many of us traded our plowshares for swords.
235 231 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002280_RAUBAHN Swords and uniforms, mind. We became military men. Tensions were rising between Ala Mhigo and the Empire, and there was always a need for more soldiers to watch the border. 'Twas only a matter of time before the first skirmishes broke out.
236 232 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002290_RAUBAHN It is a frightening thing to face magitek armor for the first time. But after a lot of trial and error, I found ways to bring them down. After a few victories, people even said I had a knack for it.
237 233 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002300_RAUBAHN And then one day they hit us. Hard. I was wounded and sent home to recover. Back here...
246 242 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002390_RAUBAHN Well, sir, I...I've never asked for much. Never wanted to live like a king─just wish it were a little bit easier is all. For me and everyone else. And I'm...I'm willing to die for that, if that's what it takes!
247 243 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002400_CURTIS Dying is easy, soldier. Living is harder.
248 244 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002410_CURTIS Rest. Mend. Regain your strength. You'll need it in the days to come...and mayhap one day we will need it too.
249 245 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002420_RAUBAHN Conrad chose you as his successor, Lyse, and I will not gainsay his decision. I have but one question to ask.
250 246 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002430_RAUBAHN Liberty or death. Those were Curtis's words, and his creed. Will you swear by your father's creed before your comrades and the gods?
251 247 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002440_LYSE Liberty or death... That's all you can hope for in war. Father understood that...and you want to know if I do too.
252 248 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002450_LYSE I swear to you, here and now: I will fight until the end, be it liberty or be it death.
253 249 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002460_LYSE But the freedom we win must be for every Ala Mhigan─even ones like Fordola, though they may hate us, and the Ananta, though they may fear us.
254 250 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002470_LYSE We'll fight and we'll talk and we'll find a way to make it work for all of us. Compared to all that, retaking our home will seem like the easy part.
255 251 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002480_RAUBAHN Hmm. A good oath. Then there is naught else to say. You are indeed your father's daughter...
256 252 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002490_LYSE Sorry to have kept you waiting...
257 253 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002500_LYSE Well, what do you think? I know it's a bit old-fashioned...but in a traditional sort of way. Yda wore it whenever she could...
258 254 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04005_002510_LYSE Not that I'm pretending to be her or anything! Not again. It's just...if this is the last battle we fight to free Ala Mhigo, then she ought to be a part of it.