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0,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_00","Rammbroes is frustrated over NOAH's lack of progress on the Crystal Tower."
1,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_01","Rammbroes informs you that the investigation of the Crystal Tower is being hindered by the most mundane of security measures: a gate that refuses to open. Even as Cid and G'raha Tia rack their brains to find a solution, two peculiar individuals arrive and offer their aid. They introduce themselves as Doga and Unei, scholars of ancient Allag sent by the Students of Baldesion. Though Rammbroes is at first suspicious of their origin, he relents at G'raha Tia's behest, and allows them to join NOAH in an advisory capacity. Without further ado, Doga and Unei are asked to examine the sealed gate which leads into Syrcus Tower. Accompany the two scholars to the Eight Sentinels, and there speak with Biggs to be shown to the gate."
2,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_02","Much to the surprise of all present, Doga and Unei open the gate as if they were born to do it. Speak with Doga to learn how this feat was possible."
3,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_03","Doga and Unei reveal that they are “clones”─copies of two individuals who claim direct descent from Emperor Xande, the founding father of the Allagan Empire. In his desire to bring the world under his rule, Xande consorted with forbidden powers. Fearful of what might befall the world, the original Doga and Unei attempted to thwart their emperor's scheme. They imbued their clones with their will, that their work might continue in the event of their deaths. After millennia in slumber, the two clones now seek to finish what their namesakes had begun, but they require your help to succeed. The members of NOAH unanimously agree to join their cause, and Rammbroes tasks you with eliminating all hostile elements within Syrcus Tower and finally defeating Emperor Xande. See to your preparations, then speak with G'raha Tia."
4,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_04","You have declared your readiness to enter Syrcus Tower to G'raha Tia. Fight your way to the top of the structure, and strike down Emperor Xande.
※Syrcus Tower can be accessed via the Duty Finder."
5,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_05","You have defeated Xande, but your victory proves short-lived. Even as Doga and Unei attempt to annul the emperor's dark covenant, an entity calling itself the Cloud of Darkness pulls them into the rift that had manifested before the throne. Nero attempts to save them for his own reasons, only to end up sharing their fate."
6,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_06","With the rift having vanished, you are powerless to help your friends. For now, return to Saint Coinach's Find, and consult Rammbroes as to a way to bring them back."
7,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_07","Rammbroes believes that Doga, Unei, and Nero were drawn through a voidgate, and into the dark realm beyond. Though they do not yet know how, the members of NOAH are determined to save their comrades and eliminate the threat posed by the Cloud of Darkness. Rammbroes pledges to search for the answer, and bids you rest up in preparation for the instrumental role you will doubtless play in the impending rescue mission."
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24,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_TODO_00","Speak with Biggs at the Eight Sentinels to be taken to Syrcus Tower."
25,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_TODO_01","Speak with Doga at the Eight Sentinels."
26,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_TODO_02","Speak with G'raha Tia at the Eight Sentinels."
27,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_TODO_03","Use the Duty Finder to enter Syrcus Tower."
28,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_TODO_04","Use the Duty Finder to enter Syrcus Tower."
29,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_TODO_05","Speak with Rammbroes."
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48,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_000","Ah, 'tis you, my friend. You are doubtless eager to hear of our progress on the Crystal Tower."
49,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_001","Excellent, I'd be disappointed to hear otherwise. Of course, “disappointed” is the word of the day, I fear. I'm ashamed to say that there is nothing worthwhile to report."
50,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_002","The Sons continue to probe the Labyrinth of the Ancients, and every day brings new discoveries. Alas, the same cannot be said of the Crystal Tower proper. We've not been able to set so much as a single foot inside it."
51,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_003","You will recall how the Eight Sentinels stood between us and the labyrinth initially."
52,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_004","In like manner, the entryway into the principal spire─Syrcus Tower, the Allagans called it─is also protected by technology far more advanced than our own."
53,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_005","Cid and I have tried every trick we know, but without success. Frankly speaking, we are at a loss."
54,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_006","It is discouraging, but we cannot give up. There <Emphasis>must</Emphasis> be a way in."
55,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_007","...And so the situation stands, my friend. Until we gain entry into the tower, I fear your talents shan't avail us. It will require time that I am loath to waste, but I have a mind to set my people to scouring such ancient texts as we have on hand."
56,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_008","(-???-)Perhaps we can be of assistance."
57,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_009","And you are?"
58,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_010","(-???-)Be at ease, friends, for we share the selfsame goal."
59,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_011","I am Unei, and my companion is called Doga. We are scholars of the Allagan civilization, sent by the Students of Baldesion to assist in your endeavor."
60,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_012","Unei and Doga? Rather unusual names for this day and age, if I might be forgiven for observing. But I digress."
61,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_013","You claim to be here at the Students' behest, but we have received nary a word of your coming. I am sure you'll not take it amiss if we seem somewhat doubtful."
62,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_014","You claim to be here at the Students' behest, but we have received nary a word of your coming. Moreover, in light of the recent incident at the Isle of Val, I should think that they have rather more pressing concerns."
63,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_015","We can only assume that the message failed to reach you due to some mishap. I assure you that we are here to help."
64,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_016","What is it, G'raha?"
65,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_017","Ungh... 'Tis nothing. There was...a pain, but it has subsided."
66,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_018","Well, well, this is rather unexpected. Your right eye is the same as ours."
67,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_019","The same? You...you have the Allagan Eye as well?"
68,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_020","This sanguine hue is said to be a trait unique to the Allagans! Yet I inherited it from my father, as he did from his."
69,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_021","Only one child in a single generation is born with the eye. All my life, I have sought to learn the truth of its manifestation. If there is aught you know, I implore you to tell me!"
70,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_022","My deepest apologies, but we have no answers for you. Only one thing is certain: those who possess the trait are bound by fate to Allag."
71,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_023","As your eye has placed you upon the path you walk, so too have we come here to fulfill our destiny. Absurd though it may sound, it is the truth."
72,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_024","It seems to me we have naught to lose by accepting their aid. What say you?"
73,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_025","If that is your wish, then so be it."
74,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_026","Yet know that I still mean to verify your story with the Students of Baldesion when I am able. I trust there will be no objections."
75,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_027","Very well. As of this moment, I name Unei and Doga advisory members of NOAH. Without further ado, let us have them examine the Syrcus Tower entrance."
76,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_028","I promise you'll not have cause to regret your decision."
77,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_029","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>, I should be much obliged if you were to accompany our new friends to the tower. Biggs and Wedge are presently surveying the Eight Sentinels; the two of them can show you the way."
78,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_030","Upon arrival, pray report to Master Garlond. He will brief you on the situation."
79,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_031","I shall join you, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>. With Unei and Doga's knowledge, along with your uncanny knack for setting events in motion, I am hopeful that we will finally see progress."
80,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_WEDGE_000_040","We're examining the rubble in the hopes that it'll yield a clue to entering Syrcus Tower.
...Can you tell we're getting desperate?"
81,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_050","Well, if it isn't <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>! Eager to enter Syrcus Tower and kill everything in sight, no doubt. As I'm sure you've already heard, though, the place is locked up tight as a clam."
82,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_051","...New friends from the Students, you say? Excellent! It's been slow going─or rather, <Emphasis>no</Emphasis> going─for the chief. He'll appreciate the help."
83,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_052","If you'll just follow me, I'll take you to him."
84,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_060","Ah, some old faces to lift the spirit...and a couple of new ones besides."
85,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_061","Allow me to introduce Unei and Doga. They are scholars of ancient Allag, sent here by our friends of Baldesion to aid in the investigation."
86,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_062","We understand you're having trouble circumventing the tower's defenses. 'Tis our hope that we can be of some small assistance."
87,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_063","If your attire is aught to go by, your assistance should prove invaluable indeed."
88,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_064","To begin with, let me tell you where we stand. Beyond rises Syrcus Tower, the principal spire of the structure collectively known as the Crystal Tower."
89,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_065","The only way to get inside is through the proverbial front door─the imposing gate you see here. The problem is, we can't get it to open. It's sealed by some mechanism whose workings are an utter mystery to us."
90,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_066","Having had no success via more <Emphasis>orthodox</Emphasis> methods, I went at it with everything from a pickaxe to a magitek cannon. Nothing so much as put a scratch on it."
91,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_067","For a blessing, the gate doesn't try to reduce us to ashes like the Eight Sentinels, but that doesn't make it any less effective a security measure. It's fiendishly frustrating in its simplicity."
92,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_068","The only clue we have is the elaborate device carved upon it: a man and a woman, respectant. Allagan royalty, by my judgment."
93,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_069","Precisely who these individuals were, we cannot say. Nor do we know whether the device actually serves a purpose. Like as not, it is purely decorative."
94,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_070","If you're thinking to force it, save your strength. It's no use─just ask the calluses on my hands."
95,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_071","Rest assured we do not mean to waste our strength."
96,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_072","Indeed. Why should we exert ourselves...when the gate will open of its own accord?"
97,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_073","I...I don't think any of us expected <Emphasis>that</Emphasis> to happen..."
98,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_074","Seven hells... What is this? What did you do? What...what <Emphasis>are</Emphasis> you?"
99,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_075","(-???-)<Emphasis>Piercing the heavens and gathering the light,
a symbol of mankind's glory and might.</Emphasis>"
100,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_076","(-???-)<Emphasis>Its virtue guarded by gates impregnable,
only to those of royal blood answerable.</Emphasis>
...Exactly as passed down through legend, I am delighted to see."
101,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_077","Beg pardons for interrupting your bewilderment. I couldn't help but notice the remarkable <Emphasis>playthings</Emphasis> you have acquired."
102,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_078","N-Nero!? You're still alive!?"
103,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_079","Garlond, Garlond. If I didn't know better, I would say you weren't happy to see me. Ah, but I jest. In light of our recent meetings, you have every right to be wary."
104,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_080","But rest assured I am no longer a threat to you. My legion is for all intents and purposes defunct, and my association with it means a tight noose awaits me back in Garlemald. And so I've been roaming this land Eorzea, a regular itinerant."
105,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_081","In the course of my wanderings, I chanced to catch wind of your latest venture. It sounded positively fascinating, and so I decided to come here and join you."
106,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_082","After the wrongs you've committed? You think us that gullible?"
107,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_083","If you are suspicious of my intent, 'tis only my just deserts. But I am determined to make amends. As a gesture of goodwill, I will share with you what I know...starting with <Emphasis>these</Emphasis> two odd characters."
108,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_084","As you are doubtless already aware, the Crystal Tower was the symbol of ancient Allag's might and prosperity. Entry was permitted only to royalty and a select few individuals."
109,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_085","According to the records I have unearthed, only royal blood can open the gate. In other words, the emperor and his progeny were living keys."
110,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_086","You mean to say that these two are descended from Allagan royalty!?"
111,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_087","Oh, I suggest nothing so glamorous."
112,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_088","To put it plain, they are <Emphasis>imitations</Emphasis> of royalty─living keys born of Allagan ingenuity."
113,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_089","“Clones,” I believe, is the name your creators gave your kind. Is that not so?"
114,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_090","'Twould seem that the time for concealment is past."
115,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_091","Pray accept our apologies. 'Twas not our intent to deceive. We simply wished to avoid causing undue alarm by prematurely making what many would consider deranged claims."
116,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_092","If it please you, let us return to the Eight Sentinels. There is much and more to tell."
117,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_093","Very well."
118,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_094","Seven hells, do you <Emphasis>seriously</Emphasis> mean to follow us around?"
119,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_095","Come, Garlond. You know me better than to think that I spoke in jest. What more will it take for us to be reconciled? A gift, perhaps?"
120,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_096","An Allagan tomestone. It holds the information I just shared with you, and a deal more besides. It used to be the jealously guarded property of the XIVth Legion, but it's yours now. I wish you joy of it."
121,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_097","I look forward to working together, old friend."
122,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_100","You have every right to mistrust us, but I beg you to hear us out. Long have we waited for this opportunity to fulfill our life's purpose."
123,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_105","Let us hear what Unei and Doga have to say. It will not be too late to decide upon a course of action afterwards."
124,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_110","It goes without saying that Nero can't be trusted. We'd do well to keep an eye on him at all times."
125,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_115","We may not have gotten off to the best of starts, but the past is in the past. Yesterday's enemies can yet be today's friends. Do you not agree, Warrior of Light?"
126,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_120","The chief and Nero go all the way back to the Magitek Academy. It's an exclusive school situated in the capital, reserved for the Empire's brightest elite."
127,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_121","I don't know the nitty-gritty details, but they didn't get along back then, and they don't get along now. Fate's a bastard for bringing them together again."
128,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_WEDGE_000_125","To think the Allagans could make copies of <Emphasis>people</Emphasis>... If this knowledge were to fall into the wrong hands, the world would become a terrible place. I shudder to imagine a dozen Biggs, shouting at me all day long... <gulp>"
129,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_130","If you are ready to listen, we shall tell you all."
130,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_131","As it pertains closely to your investigation, your leader, Rammbroes, may wish to be present."
131,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_140","Before we begin, pray allow me to apologize again. It was not our intent to deceive you."
132,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_141","As you will have already gathered, we are not scholars sent by the Students of Baldesion. Nay, we are “clones”─copies of people who once existed, given life through Allagan technology."
133,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_142","This is rather a lot to take in..."
134,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_100_142","If it would not be considered unseemly, might I ask why you and yours were created? And more specifically, what is it that you now seek to do?"
135,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_143","Answering your questions requires that we revisit Allagan history. Pray bear with us."
136,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_144","The Allagan Empire reached its zenith long before our kind came into being."
137,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_145","In that glorious age, the Crystal Tower stood tall as the symbol of Allagan pride. Parents took their children there, that they might learn how the nigh-limitless energy it produced brought prosperity to the whole empire."
138,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_146","That prosperity, however, bred decadence, and the empire began to show signs of stagnation. This decline was made all the more rapid for want of strong leadership."
139,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_147","In a matter of generations, the Allagan civilization became a pale shadow of its former self. Its once gleaming cities fell into disrepair, and its frontier lands were given over to the wilderness."
140,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_148","Lamenting the pitiful state of affairs, one technologist made it his mission to restore Allag to greatness."
141,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_149","Amon was his name, and he believed that the ailing empire wanted for but a potent ruler. And none was more potent than its founding father, whom he sought to resurrect."
142,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_150","The founding father? You cannot mean Emperor Xande!?"
143,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_151","None other. As part of his experiments, Amon created clones of the emperor's descendants. We are the products of that experiment─copies of Unei and Doga."
144,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_152","Historical texts mention the reigns of two Allagan emperors named Xande."
145,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_153","It was commonly believed that the second was the namesake of the first. After all, such a custom is not uncommon among royalty and commoners alike. To think that the two were in fact one and the same..."
146,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_154","Aye, Xande returned from the grave and assumed his throne once more. And true to Amon's prediction, the emperor restored his realm to the glory it once knew. Would that he could have been satisfied with that..."
147,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_155","In his previous life, the emperor desired to bring the entire world under Allagan dominion─an ambition that ultimately went unfulfilled. Having been granted a second chance, he was determined to succeed."
148,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_156","Realizing that he needed more power to wage his war of conquest, Xande turned his sights towards a forbidden source: darkness. In order to learn how to harness this power, he converted the Crystal Tower into a restricted research facility."
149,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_157","Darkness...<Emphasis>again</Emphasis>? Seven hells, what is it with megalomaniacal rulers turning to darkness in their lust for power?"
150,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_158","Well, at least this one won't be bothering us, being thousands of years dead and all."
151,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_159","Would that you were right, Master Garlond."
152,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_160","Alas, Emperor Xande is very much alive. Within Syrcus Tower he still abides, his ambition burning all the more ardently for his empire's collapse."
153,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_170","Wielding the power of darkness requires prodigious amounts of energy─energy that not even the Crystal Tower could produce. In order to augment the shortfall, Dalamud was created and launched into the heavens. On high it hung, gathering the sun's energy and channeling it to the tower below."
154,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_171","However, a miscalculation resulted in a surge of energy that escaped into the land. This triggered an earthquake of unprecedented violence─the calamity that ushered in the Fourth Umbral Era."
155,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_172","In the blinking of an eye, the mighty Allagan Empire was laid to waste."
156,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_173","Yet even as the Crystal Tower was sinking into the earth, the technologist Amon, now Emperor Xande's closest aide, invoked powerful magicks and halted the flow of time."
157,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_174","Every soul within the structure, the emperor included, was placed in a deep slumber. In that state they were to remain until the time was ripe to awaken."
158,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_175","Eras came and went. After millennia lying dormant, Dalamud was summoned back to the earth. Its descent triggered the Seventh Umbral Calamity, in the wake of which the Crystal Tower reemerged."
159,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_176","At that moment, Emperor Xande awakened."
160,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_177","In his lust for power, the emperor consorted with darkness and was seduced by its corrupting influence. Even though his empire is now little more than a fading memory, he will stop at nothing to see his ambition realized."
161,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_180","'Tis for no other purpose but to put an end to Xande's madness that we exist. This is the mantle we have inherited from our namesakes─the true Unei and Doga."
162,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_181","Fearing what might befall the world, the two of them sought to thwart their emperor. They gave unto us their will, that we might carry on their mission should they fail."
163,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_182","When we came to our senses within the Crystal Tower, we deliberated a course of action. Concluding that we alone could not overcome Xande, we struck out to find a worthy ally. It has taken years, but our search is finally over."
164,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_183","'Tis no ordinary <If(PlayerParameter(4))>woman<Else/>man</If> who can cut a path through the Labyrinth of the Ancients. With you as our champion, <Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, we are confident that we can end Xande's dark ambition once and for all."
165,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_184","Well, that'll teach me for speaking too soon... Setting my chagrin aside, I see now why you knew about the Students of Baldesion among a host of other things─you were observing our investigation the whole time."
166,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_185","So, what will we do, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>? The world's in grave danger again, and it just so happens you're an expert at saving it."
167,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_186","You have our eternal gratitude. Together, let us see the Allagan Empire's dark past laid to rest."
168,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_187","It has been our mission to recover the long-lost knowledge of the Allagan civilization. But what worth is that knowledge if it means subjecting the realm to peril?"
169,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_188","Truth be told, it pains me to think that the tower's secrets may become lost to us, but the greater good must ever come first. Besides, no quantity of ancient relics can compare to our friends Unei and Doga─living, breathing Allagans."
170,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_189","And so I hereby declare a change in NOAH's objective. Henceforth, we shall direct all efforts towards sealing off Syrcus Tower. Its dark secrets must never know the light of day."
171,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_190","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>, as you did for us within the Labyrinth of the Ancients, I would have you enter the structure and eliminate hostile elements. Suffice it to say this includes Emperor Xande himself."
172,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_191","Meanwhile, the rest of us shall examine ways to isolate Syrcus Tower from the outside world. To work, then!"
173,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_192","Wait. There is something I must know. My right eye is like yours. Does...does this mean...?"
174,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_193","You inherited the trait from your father, you said. Know that clones are unable to bear offspring. You have no cause for concern."
175,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_194","The Allagan Eye, you called it, but to us it is the Royal Eye, owing to the fact that the trait manifests only in those possessed of royal blood."
176,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_195","I cannot well explain why the eye runs in your line, but I am disinclined to think it a coincidence."
177,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_196","Though you are doubtless impatient to learn the truth, pray have patience. All will be revealed in due time."
178,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_200","Though their names do not appear to have survived the passage of time, Doga and Unei were worthy individuals. They were not without faults, but they placed the welfare of the people above all else."
179,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_201","When Xande was resurrected, they supported his second ascension to the throne, in hopes that the empire would flourish once more under his leadership."
180,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_202","When it came to light that Xande was consorting with dark powers, they did all within their power to stop him. Among their many acts, they imbued us, two humble clones, with their will."
181,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_205","Within Syrcus Tower, you will encounter clones who share our appearance."
182,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_206","Though they, too, were created in the image of Doga and Unei, they are but empty husks bereft of independent will. Their sole purpose is to eliminate intruders."
183,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_207","Striking down spitting images of Unei and myself may give you pause, but you must not let that stay your hand."
184,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_210","Technology made the Allagans great, but so too did it prove their downfall. And now the Garleans are treading in their very footsteps, the bloody fools. It's true what they say: history repeats itself."
185,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_215","...Nero? Wandered off on his own a moment ago. Only the gods know what that bastard's scheming. If it were up to me, I'd lock him up and throw the key into Silvertear Lake."
186,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_WEDGE_000_220","While you're off purging Syrcus Tower of nasties, Biggs and I will make a round of the Labyrinth─make certain that no funny business is going on inside."
187,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_230","My apologies if I've given you cause to worry. I am quite well, I assure you. As you can appreciate, there has been much for me to think on."
188,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_231","But now is the time for action, not idle thoughts. Syrcus Tower awaits us!"
189,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_232","Your task is to eliminate all hostile elements within the structure, Xande himself included. This will afford us the chance to seal off the facility. May the Crystal grant you strength!"
190,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_240","The truth of my eye is ever on my mind, but right now every man of us has a job to do. Rest assured I shan't allow myself to be distracted."
191,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_250","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>!"
192,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_251","You did it! You defeated Emperor Xande!"
193,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_252","Empires may rise and fall, but man's indefatigable spirit ever lives on. Truly, you are the champion we had hoped for, <Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>."
194,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_253","With Emperor Xande now at eternal rest, his dark legacy may be undone."
195,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_254","What are you playing at now, Nero?"
196,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_255","In case you haven't noticed, Garlond, these are dangerous surrounds. Can a man be faulted for exercising due caution?"
197,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_256","At any rate, you needn't mind me. I am perfectly capable of looking after myself. Go on and finish what you came to do."
198,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_257","There are two ways that we may seal off Syrcus Tower: either isolate it from the outside world, or cripple its ability to produce energy."
199,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_258","The choice of method is yours to make. Before you proceed, however, Doga and I must needs attend to a task."
200,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_259","That distortion... What is it?"
201,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_260","The power that Xande sought to obtain comes from the void─the World of Darkness, our people called it."
202,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_261","And the true nature of that power was none other than the armies of voidsent."
203,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_262","Voidsent feed on aether, as you may already know, and no plane is richer in it than ours."
204,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_263","In exchange for their allegiance, Xande entered into an unholy covenant. He would open a gate through which the voidsent could freely enter our world."
205,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_264","The covenant, I'm afraid to say, is still in effect. However, being of the emperor's lineage, Unei and I believe that we can annul it."
206,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_265","By his blood Xande sealed his dark pact. By our blood it shall be undone."
207,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_266","It is time."
208,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_267","Yes, Doga. Finally, we may fulfill our purpose."
209,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_268","Hahahahaha... AHAHAHAHAHA!"
210,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_269","Oh, be still my beating heart!"
211,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_270","For a moment I feared that this outing would end in disappointment, but my readings were not mistaken! Not even the Ultima Weapon compares to this!"
212,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_271","What are you going on about!?"
213,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CLOUDOFDARKNESS_000_272","(-???-)The covenant...is everlasting..."
214,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_280","And so Meracydia is brought into the fold. Soon, all the world shall be united under Allagan rule."
215,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_281","And yet...with every dream that becomes reality, the memory of death grows ever more vivid─an endless void, bereft of light and warmth."
216,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_282","Though I may have defeated death, it did not leave me unscathed. Nay, its ravening claws have scarred my soul for eternity. Never shall I know peace."
217,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_283","Beings without will. You cannot fathom my rage. My melancholy. My <Emphasis>fear</Emphasis>."
218,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_284","What worth is wealth and power when all must inevitably be consigned to nothingness? If man has nothing, he need not know the pain of loss."
219,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_285","So let there <Emphasis>be</Emphasis> nothing."
220,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_286","Harvest more power, that the gate may be thrown full open. Let the Cloud of Darkness come and engulf the world, devouring all life, hopes, and dreams. Let all be returned to nothingness."
221,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_290","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>! Pull yourself together!"
222,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_291","Is there no end to them!? What in the seven hells is happening!?"
223,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_292","Argh! Not now, damn it!"
224,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_293","Nero! Were they part of your grand plan, too?"
225,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_294","Save your japes, Garlond! I didn't put up with your arrogant face to play with worthless clones!"
226,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_295","Something controls them. A voidsent, and no ordinary one at that."
227,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_296","Doga!"
228,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_297","Confound it! Without them, there's no way to master the darkness!"
229,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_298","That power...is <Emphasis>mine</Emphasis>!"
230,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_100_298","Nero!"
231,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CLOUDOFDARKNESS_000_299","(-???-)The covenant shall be honored."
232,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CLOUDOFDARKNESS_000_300","(-Cloud of Darkness-)I am the Cloud of Darkness. I shall devour your light, and return this world to the void."
233,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_301","Damn it, the rift is gone! What are we supposed to do now?"
234,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_302","As much as it pains me to leave without them, there's precious little we can do. Let us return to the Find and consult Rammbroes."
235,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_310","I feel as though that I'm forgetting something important, but for the life of me, I cannot remember what that something is..."
236,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_315","Rammbroes may know a way to bring our friends back. Let's consult him without delay."
237,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_320","Hm? I appreciate the attention and all, but don't you have better things to do than chat with me?"
238,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_WEDGE_000_325","Everyone's been in a dark mood since returning. I...I take it the mission didn't go well."
239,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_330","All this happened within the tower? Gods preserve..."
240,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_331","The rift that manifested before the throne was a voidgate, of this I am certain."
241,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_332","There exist myriad kinds of voidsent. The more powerful the being, the larger the gate must be for it to pass through."
242,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_333","'Twould seem that Xande sought to open a gate of unprecedented proportions─one that would allow this Cloud of Darkness entry into our world."
243,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_334","Fortunately for all mankind, he did not succeed. I shudder to imagine what this voidsent is capable of."
244,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_335","However dreadful it may be, we can't abandon our friends. Is there no way to save them?"
245,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_336","I will not lie to you, Master Garlond. The situation is bleak."
246,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_337","Though voidsent can enter our world, instances of men entering the void have never been documented. It pains me to give voice to my fears, but we do not even know whether our friends still live."
247,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_338","Damn it... I feel so helpless..."
248,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_339","No, I refuse to give up. We must save Doga and Unei."
249,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_340","We share the same eye, 'tis true, but that is not what motivates me."
250,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_341","Above all, I wish to help them to fulfill their mission─a mission whose burden they have borne for thousands of years. And besides..."
251,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_342","We cannot leave matters as they are."
252,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_343","So long as Xande's dark covenant is binding, our world is in danger. 'Tis our duty to prevent the worst from coming to pass."
253,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_344","G'raha. Ever since meeting Unei and Doga, you have not quite been yourself. Tell me true: is all well with your eye?"
254,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_345","I honestly cannot say. I know only that there is a memory that I must recall."
255,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_346","As a child, my father told me that the truth of our eye rests with Allag. The answer eludes me still...but one day I <Emphasis>will</Emphasis> find it."
256,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_347","I am with G'raha."
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1,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_01","Rammbroes informs you that the investigation of the Crystal Tower is being hindered by the most mundane of security measures: a gate that refuses to open. Even as Cid and G'raha Tia rack their brains to find a solution, two peculiar individuals arrive and offer their aid. They introduce themselves as Doga and Unei, scholars of ancient Allag sent by the Students of Baldesion. Though Rammbroes is at first suspicious of their origin, he relents at G'raha Tia's behest, and allows them to join NOAH in an advisory capacity. Without further ado, Doga and Unei are asked to examine the sealed gate which leads into Syrcus Tower. Accompany the two scholars to the Eight Sentinels, and there speak with Biggs to be shown to the gate."
2,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_02","Much to the surprise of all present, Doga and Unei open the gate as if they were born to do it. Speak with Doga to learn how this feat was possible."
3,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_03","Doga and Unei reveal that they are “clones”─copies of two individuals who claim direct descent from Emperor Xande, the founding father of the Allagan Empire. In his desire to bring the world under his rule, Xande consorted with forbidden powers. Fearful of what might befall the world, the original Doga and Unei attempted to thwart their emperor's scheme. They imbued their clones with their will, that their work might continue in the event of their deaths. After millennia in slumber, the two clones now seek to finish what their namesakes had begun, but they require your help to succeed. The members of NOAH unanimously agree to join their cause, and Rammbroes tasks you with eliminating all hostile elements within Syrcus Tower and finally defeating Emperor Xande. See to your preparations, then speak with G'raha Tia."
4,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_04","You have declared your readiness to enter Syrcus Tower to G'raha Tia. Fight your way to the top of the structure, and strike down Emperor Xande.
※Syrcus Tower can be accessed via the Duty Finder."
5,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_05","You have defeated Xande, but your victory proves short-lived. Even as Doga and Unei attempt to annul the emperor's dark covenant, an entity calling itself the Cloud of Darkness pulls them into the rift that had manifested before the throne. Nero attempts to save them for his own reasons, only to end up sharing their fate."
6,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_06","With the rift having vanished, you are powerless to help your friends. For now, return to Saint Coinach's Find, and consult Rammbroes as to a way to bring them back."
7,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_07","Rammbroes believes that Doga, Unei, and Nero were drawn through a voidgate, and into the dark realm beyond. Though they do not yet know how, the members of NOAH are determined to save their comrades and eliminate the threat posed by the Cloud of Darkness. Rammbroes pledges to search for the answer, and bids you rest up in preparation for the instrumental role you will doubtless play in the impending rescue mission."
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24,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_TODO_00","Speak with Biggs at the Eight Sentinels to be taken to Syrcus Tower."
25,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_TODO_01","Speak with Doga at the Eight Sentinels."
26,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_TODO_02","Speak with G'raha Tia at the Eight Sentinels."
27,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_TODO_03","Use the Duty Finder to enter Syrcus Tower."
28,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_TODO_04","Use the Duty Finder to enter Syrcus Tower."
29,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_TODO_05","Speak with Rammbroes."
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48,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_000","Ah, 'tis you, my friend. You are doubtless eager to hear of our progress on the Crystal Tower."
49,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_001","Excellent, I'd be disappointed to hear otherwise. Of course, “disappointed” is the word of the day, I fear. I'm ashamed to say that there is nothing worthwhile to report."
50,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_002","The Sons continue to probe the Labyrinth of the Ancients, and every day brings new discoveries. Alas, the same cannot be said of the Crystal Tower proper. We've not been able to set so much as a single foot inside it."
51,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_003","You will recall how the Eight Sentinels stood between us and the labyrinth initially."
52,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_004","In like manner, the entryway into the principal spire─Syrcus Tower, the Allagans called it─is also protected by technology far more advanced than our own."
53,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_005","Cid and I have tried every trick we know, but without success. Frankly speaking, we are at a loss."
54,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_006","It is discouraging, but we cannot give up. There <Emphasis>must</Emphasis> be a way in."
55,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_007","...And so the situation stands, my friend. Until we gain entry into the tower, I fear your talents shan't avail us. It will require time that I am loath to waste, but I have a mind to set my people to scouring such ancient texts as we have on hand."
56,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_008","(-???-)Perhaps we can be of assistance."
57,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_009","And you are?"
58,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_010","(-???-)Be at ease, friends, for we share the selfsame goal."
59,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_011","I am Unei, and my companion is called Doga. We are scholars of the Allagan civilization, sent by the Students of Baldesion to assist in your endeavor."
60,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_012","Unei and Doga? Rather unusual names for this day and age, if I might be forgiven for observing. But I digress."
61,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_013","You claim to be here at the Students' behest, but we have received nary a word of your coming. I am sure you'll not take it amiss if we seem somewhat doubtful."
62,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_014","You claim to be here at the Students' behest, but we have received nary a word of your coming. Moreover, in light of the recent incident at the Isle of Val, I should think that they have rather more pressing concerns."
63,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_015","We can only assume that the message failed to reach you due to some mishap. I assure you that we are here to help."
64,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_016","What is it, G'raha?"
65,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_017","Ungh... 'Tis nothing. There was...a pain, but it has subsided."
66,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_018","Well, well, this is rather unexpected. Your right eye is the same as ours."
67,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_019","The same? You...you have the Allagan Eye as well?"
68,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_020","This sanguine hue is said to be a trait unique to the Allagans! Yet I inherited it from my father, as he did from his."
69,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_021","Only one child in a single generation is born with the eye. All my life, I have sought to learn the truth of its manifestation. If there is aught you know, I implore you to tell me!"
70,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_022","My deepest apologies, but we have no answers for you. Only one thing is certain: those who possess the trait are bound by fate to Allag."
71,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_023","As your eye has placed you upon the path you walk, so too have we come here to fulfill our destiny. Absurd though it may sound, it is the truth."
72,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_024","It seems to me we have naught to lose by accepting their aid. What say you?"
73,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_025","If that is your wish, then so be it."
74,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_026","Yet know that I still mean to verify your story with the Students of Baldesion when I am able. I trust there will be no objections."
75,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_027","Very well. As of this moment, I name Unei and Doga advisory members of NOAH. Without further ado, let us have them examine the Syrcus Tower entrance."
76,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_028","I promise you'll not have cause to regret your decision."
77,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_029","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>, I should be much obliged if you were to accompany our new friends to the tower. Biggs and Wedge are presently surveying the Eight Sentinels; the two of them can show you the way."
78,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_030","Upon arrival, pray report to Master Garlond. He will brief you on the situation."
79,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_031","I shall join you, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>. With Unei and Doga's knowledge, along with your uncanny knack for setting events in motion, I am hopeful that we will finally see progress."
80,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_WEDGE_000_040","We're examining the rubble in the hopes that it'll yield a clue to entering Syrcus Tower.
...Can you tell we're getting desperate?"
81,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_050","Well, if it isn't <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>! Eager to enter Syrcus Tower and kill everything in sight, no doubt. As I'm sure you've already heard, though, the place is locked up tight as a clam."
82,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_051","...New friends from the Students, you say? Excellent! It's been slow going─or rather, <Emphasis>no</Emphasis> going─for the chief. He'll appreciate the help."
83,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_052","If you'll just follow me, I'll take you to him."
84,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_060","Ah, some old faces to lift the spirit...and a couple of new ones besides."
85,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_061","Allow me to introduce Unei and Doga. They are scholars of ancient Allag, sent here by our friends of Baldesion to aid in the investigation."
86,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_062","We understand you're having trouble circumventing the tower's defenses. 'Tis our hope that we can be of some small assistance."
87,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_063","If your attire is aught to go by, your assistance should prove invaluable indeed."
88,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_064","To begin with, let me tell you where we stand. Beyond rises Syrcus Tower, the principal spire of the structure collectively known as the Crystal Tower."
89,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_065","The only way to get inside is through the proverbial front door─the imposing gate you see here. The problem is, we can't get it to open. It's sealed by some mechanism whose workings are an utter mystery to us."
90,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_066","Having had no success via more <Emphasis>orthodox</Emphasis> methods, I went at it with everything from a pickaxe to a magitek cannon. Nothing so much as put a scratch on it."
91,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_067","For a blessing, the gate doesn't try to reduce us to ashes like the Eight Sentinels, but that doesn't make it any less effective a security measure. It's fiendishly frustrating in its simplicity."
92,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_068","The only clue we have is the elaborate device carved upon it: a man and a woman, respectant. Allagan royalty, by my judgment."
93,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_069","Precisely who these individuals were, we cannot say. Nor do we know whether the device actually serves a purpose. Like as not, it is purely decorative."
94,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_070","If you're thinking to force it, save your strength. It's no use─just ask the calluses on my hands."
95,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_071","Rest assured we do not mean to waste our strength."
96,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_072","Indeed. Why should we exert ourselves...when the gate will open of its own accord?"
97,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_073","I...I don't think any of us expected <Emphasis>that</Emphasis> to happen..."
98,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_074","Seven hells... What is this? What did you do? What...what <Emphasis>are</Emphasis> you?"
99,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_075","(-???-)<Emphasis>Piercing the heavens and gathering the light,
a symbol of mankind's glory and might.</Emphasis>"
100,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_076","(-???-)<Emphasis>Its virtue guarded by gates impregnable,
only to those of royal blood answerable.</Emphasis>
...Exactly as passed down through legend, I am delighted to see."
101,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_077","Beg pardons for interrupting your bewilderment. I couldn't help but notice the remarkable <Emphasis>playthings</Emphasis> you have acquired."
102,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_078","N-Nero!? You're still alive!?"
103,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_079","Garlond, Garlond. If I didn't know better, I would say you weren't happy to see me. Ah, but I jest. In light of our recent meetings, you have every right to be wary."
104,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_080","But rest assured I am no longer a threat to you. My legion is for all intents and purposes defunct, and my association with it means a tight noose awaits me back in Garlemald. And so I've been roaming this land Eorzea, a regular itinerant."
105,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_081","In the course of my wanderings, I chanced to catch wind of your latest venture. It sounded positively fascinating, and so I decided to come here and join you."
106,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_082","After the wrongs you've committed? You think us that gullible?"
107,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_083","If you are suspicious of my intent, 'tis only my just deserts. But I am determined to make amends. As a gesture of goodwill, I will share with you what I know...starting with <Emphasis>these</Emphasis> two odd characters."
108,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_084","As you are doubtless already aware, the Crystal Tower was the symbol of ancient Allag's might and prosperity. Entry was permitted only to royalty and a select few individuals."
109,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_085","According to the records I have unearthed, only royal blood can open the gate. In other words, the emperor and his progeny were living keys."
110,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_086","You mean to say that these two are descended from Allagan royalty!?"
111,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_087","Oh, I suggest nothing so glamorous."
112,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_088","To put it plain, they are <Emphasis>imitations</Emphasis> of royalty─living keys born of Allagan ingenuity."
113,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_089","“Clones,” I believe, is the name your creators gave your kind. Is that not so?"
114,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_090","'Twould seem that the time for concealment is past."
115,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_091","Pray accept our apologies. 'Twas not our intent to deceive. We simply wished to avoid causing undue alarm by prematurely making what many would consider deranged claims."
116,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_092","If it please you, let us return to the Eight Sentinels. There is much and more to tell."
117,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_093","Very well."
118,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_094","Seven hells, do you <Emphasis>seriously</Emphasis> mean to follow us around?"
119,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_095","Come, Garlond. You know me better than to think that I spoke in jest. What more will it take for us to be reconciled? A gift, perhaps?"
120,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_096","An Allagan tomestone. It holds the information I just shared with you, and a deal more besides. It used to be the jealously guarded property of the XIVth Legion, but it's yours now. I wish you joy of it."
121,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_097","I look forward to working together, old friend."
122,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_100","You have every right to mistrust us, but I beg you to hear us out. Long have we waited for this opportunity to fulfill our life's purpose."
123,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_105","Let us hear what Unei and Doga have to say. It will not be too late to decide upon a course of action afterwards."
124,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_110","It goes without saying that Nero can't be trusted. We'd do well to keep an eye on him at all times."
125,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_115","We may not have gotten off to the best of starts, but the past is in the past. Yesterday's enemies can yet be today's friends. Do you not agree, Warrior of Light?"
126,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_120","The chief and Nero go all the way back to the Magitek Academy. It's an exclusive school situated in the capital, reserved for the Empire's brightest elite."
127,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_121","I don't know the nitty-gritty details, but they didn't get along back then, and they don't get along now. Fate's a bastard for bringing them together again."
128,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_WEDGE_000_125","To think the Allagans could make copies of <Emphasis>people</Emphasis>... If this knowledge were to fall into the wrong hands, the world would become a terrible place. I shudder to imagine a dozen Biggs, shouting at me all day long... <gulp>"
129,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_130","If you are ready to listen, we shall tell you all."
130,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_131","As it pertains closely to your investigation, your leader, Rammbroes, may wish to be present."
131,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_140","Before we begin, pray allow me to apologize again. It was not our intent to deceive you."
132,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_141","As you will have already gathered, we are not scholars sent by the Students of Baldesion. Nay, we are “clones”─copies of people who once existed, given life through Allagan technology."
133,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_142","This is rather a lot to take in..."
134,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_100_142","If it would not be considered unseemly, might I ask why you and yours were created? And more specifically, what is it that you now seek to do?"
135,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_143","Answering your questions requires that we revisit Allagan history. Pray bear with us."
136,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_144","The Allagan Empire reached its zenith long before our kind came into being."
137,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_145","In that glorious age, the Crystal Tower stood tall as the symbol of Allagan pride. Parents took their children there, that they might learn how the nigh-limitless energy it produced brought prosperity to the whole empire."
138,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_146","That prosperity, however, bred decadence, and the empire began to show signs of stagnation. This decline was made all the more rapid for want of strong leadership."
139,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_147","In a matter of generations, the Allagan civilization became a pale shadow of its former self. Its once gleaming cities fell into disrepair, and its frontier lands were given over to the wilderness."
140,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_148","Lamenting the pitiful state of affairs, one technologist made it his mission to restore Allag to greatness."
141,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_149","Amon was his name, and he believed that the ailing empire wanted for but a potent ruler. And none was more potent than its founding father, whom he sought to resurrect."
142,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_150","The founding father? You cannot mean Emperor Xande!?"
143,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_151","None other. As part of his experiments, Amon created clones of the emperor's descendants. We are the products of that experiment─copies of Unei and Doga."
144,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_152","Historical texts mention the reigns of two Allagan emperors named Xande."
145,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_153","It was commonly believed that the second was the namesake of the first. After all, such a custom is not uncommon among royalty and commoners alike. To think that the two were in fact one and the same..."
146,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_154","Aye, Xande returned from the grave and assumed his throne once more. And true to Amon's prediction, the emperor restored his realm to the glory it once knew. Would that he could have been satisfied with that..."
147,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_155","In his previous life, the emperor desired to bring the entire world under Allagan dominion─an ambition that ultimately went unfulfilled. Having been granted a second chance, he was determined to succeed."
148,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_156","Realizing that he needed more power to wage his war of conquest, Xande turned his sights towards a forbidden source: darkness. In order to learn how to harness this power, he converted the Crystal Tower into a restricted research facility."
149,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_157","Darkness...<Emphasis>again</Emphasis>? Seven hells, what is it with megalomaniacal rulers turning to darkness in their lust for power?"
150,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_158","Well, at least this one won't be bothering us, being thousands of years dead and all."
151,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_159","Would that you were right, Master Garlond."
152,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_160","Alas, Emperor Xande is very much alive. Within Syrcus Tower he still abides, his ambition burning all the more ardently for his empire's collapse."
153,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_170","Wielding the power of darkness requires prodigious amounts of energy─energy that not even the Crystal Tower could produce. In order to augment the shortfall, Dalamud was created and launched into the heavens. On high it hung, gathering the sun's energy and channeling it to the tower below."
154,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_171","However, a miscalculation resulted in a surge of energy that escaped into the land. This triggered an earthquake of unprecedented violence─the calamity that ushered in the Fourth Umbral Era."
155,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_172","In the blinking of an eye, the mighty Allagan Empire was laid to waste."
156,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_173","Yet even as the Crystal Tower was sinking into the earth, the technologist Amon, now Emperor Xande's closest aide, invoked powerful magicks and halted the flow of time."
157,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_174","Every soul within the structure, the emperor included, was placed in a deep slumber. In that state they were to remain until the time was ripe to awaken."
158,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_175","Eras came and went. After millennia lying dormant, Dalamud was summoned back to the earth. Its descent triggered the Seventh Umbral Calamity, in the wake of which the Crystal Tower reemerged."
159,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_176","At that moment, Emperor Xande awakened."
160,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_177","In his lust for power, the emperor consorted with darkness and was seduced by its corrupting influence. Even though his empire is now little more than a fading memory, he will stop at nothing to see his ambition realized."
161,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_180","'Tis for no other purpose but to put an end to Xande's madness that we exist. This is the mantle we have inherited from our namesakes─the true Unei and Doga."
162,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_181","Fearing what might befall the world, the two of them sought to thwart their emperor. They gave unto us their will, that we might carry on their mission should they fail."
163,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_182","When we came to our senses within the Crystal Tower, we deliberated a course of action. Concluding that we alone could not overcome Xande, we struck out to find a worthy ally. It has taken years, but our search is finally over."
164,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_183","'Tis no ordinary <If(PlayerParameter(4))>woman<Else/>man</If> who can cut a path through the Labyrinth of the Ancients. With you as our champion, <Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, we are confident that we can end Xande's dark ambition once and for all."
165,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_184","Well, that'll teach me for speaking too soon... Setting my chagrin aside, I see now why you knew about the Students of Baldesion among a host of other things─you were observing our investigation the whole time."
166,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_185","So, what will we do, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>? The world's in grave danger again, and it just so happens you're an expert at saving it."
167,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_186","You have our eternal gratitude. Together, let us see the Allagan Empire's dark past laid to rest."
168,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_187","It has been our mission to recover the long-lost knowledge of the Allagan civilization. But what worth is that knowledge if it means subjecting the realm to peril?"
169,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_188","Truth be told, it pains me to think that the tower's secrets may become lost to us, but the greater good must ever come first. Besides, no quantity of ancient relics can compare to our friends Unei and Doga─living, breathing Allagans."
170,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_189","And so I hereby declare a change in NOAH's objective. Henceforth, we shall direct all efforts towards sealing off Syrcus Tower. Its dark secrets must never know the light of day."
171,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_190","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>, as you did for us within the Labyrinth of the Ancients, I would have you enter the structure and eliminate hostile elements. Suffice it to say this includes Emperor Xande himself."
172,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_191","Meanwhile, the rest of us shall examine ways to isolate Syrcus Tower from the outside world. To work, then!"
173,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_192","Wait. There is something I must know. My right eye is like yours. Does...does this mean...?"
174,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_193","You inherited the trait from your father, you said. Know that clones are unable to bear offspring. You have no cause for concern."
175,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_194","The Allagan Eye, you called it, but to us it is the Royal Eye, owing to the fact that the trait manifests only in those possessed of royal blood."
176,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_195","I cannot well explain why the eye runs in your line, but I am disinclined to think it a coincidence."
177,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_196","Though you are doubtless impatient to learn the truth, pray have patience. All will be revealed in due time."
178,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_200","Though their names do not appear to have survived the passage of time, Doga and Unei were worthy individuals. They were not without faults, but they placed the welfare of the people above all else."
179,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_201","When Xande was resurrected, they supported his second ascension to the throne, in hopes that the empire would flourish once more under his leadership."
180,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_202","When it came to light that Xande was consorting with dark powers, they did all within their power to stop him. Among their many acts, they imbued us, two humble clones, with their will."
181,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_205","Within Syrcus Tower, you will encounter clones who share our appearance."
182,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_206","Though they, too, were created in the image of Doga and Unei, they are but empty husks bereft of independent will. Their sole purpose is to eliminate intruders."
183,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_207","Striking down spitting images of Unei and myself may give you pause, but you must not let that stay your hand."
184,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_210","Technology made the Allagans great, but so too did it prove their downfall. And now the Garleans are treading in their very footsteps, the bloody fools. It's true what they say: history repeats itself."
185,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_215","...Nero? Wandered off on his own a moment ago. Only the gods know what that bastard's scheming. If it were up to me, I'd lock him up and throw the key into Silvertear Lake."
186,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_WEDGE_000_220","While you're off purging Syrcus Tower of nasties, Biggs and I will make a round of the Labyrinth─make certain that no funny business is going on inside."
187,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_230","My apologies if I've given you cause to worry. I am quite well, I assure you. As you can appreciate, there has been much for me to think on."
188,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_231","But now is the time for action, not idle thoughts. Syrcus Tower awaits us!"
189,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_232","Your task is to eliminate all hostile elements within the structure, Xande himself included. This will afford us the chance to seal off the facility. May the Crystal grant you strength!"
190,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_240","The truth of my eye is ever on my mind, but right now every man of us has a job to do. Rest assured I shan't allow myself to be distracted."
191,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_250","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>!"
192,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_251","You did it! You defeated Emperor Xande!"
193,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_252","Empires may rise and fall, but man's indefatigable spirit ever lives on. Truly, you are the champion we had hoped for, <Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>."
194,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_253","With Emperor Xande now at eternal rest, his dark legacy may be undone."
195,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_254","What are you playing at now, Nero?"
196,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_255","In case you haven't noticed, Garlond, these are dangerous surrounds. Can a man be faulted for exercising due caution?"
197,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_256","At any rate, you needn't mind me. I am perfectly capable of looking after myself. Go on and finish what you came to do."
198,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_257","There are two ways that we may seal off Syrcus Tower: either isolate it from the outside world, or cripple its ability to produce energy."
199,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_258","The choice of method is yours to make. Before you proceed, however, Doga and I must needs attend to a task."
200,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_259","That distortion... What is it?"
201,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_260","The power that Xande sought to obtain comes from the void─the World of Darkness, our people called it."
202,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_261","And the true nature of that power was none other than the armies of voidsent."
203,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_262","Voidsent feed on aether, as you may already know, and no plane is richer in it than ours."
204,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_263","In exchange for their allegiance, Xande entered into an unholy covenant. He would open a gate through which the voidsent could freely enter our world."
205,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_264","The covenant, I'm afraid to say, is still in effect. However, being of the emperor's lineage, Unei and I believe that we can annul it."
206,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_265","By his blood Xande sealed his dark pact. By our blood it shall be undone."
207,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_266","It is time."
208,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_267","Yes, Doga. Finally, we may fulfill our purpose."
209,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_268","Hahahahaha... AHAHAHAHAHA!"
210,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_269","Oh, be still my beating heart!"
211,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_270","For a moment I feared that this outing would end in disappointment, but my readings were not mistaken! Not even the Ultima Weapon compares to this!"
212,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_271","What are you going on about!?"
213,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CLOUDOFDARKNESS_000_272","(-???-)The covenant...is everlasting..."
214,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_280","And so Meracydia is brought into the fold. Soon, all the world shall be united under Allagan rule."
215,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_281","And yet...with every dream that becomes reality, the memory of death grows ever more vivid─an endless void, bereft of light and warmth."
216,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_282","Though I may have defeated death, it did not leave me unscathed. Nay, its ravening claws have scarred my soul for eternity. Never shall I know peace."
217,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_283","Beings without will. You cannot fathom my rage. My melancholy. My <Emphasis>fear</Emphasis>."
218,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_284","What worth is wealth and power when all must inevitably be consigned to nothingness? If man has nothing, he need not know the pain of loss."
219,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_285","So let there <Emphasis>be</Emphasis> nothing."
220,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_286","Harvest more power, that the gate may be thrown full open. Let the Cloud of Darkness come and engulf the world, devouring all life, hopes, and dreams. Let all be returned to nothingness."
221,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_290","<Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>! Pull yourself together!"
222,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_291","Is there no end to them!? What in the seven hells is happening!?"
223,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_292","Argh! Not now, damn it!"
224,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_293","Nero! Were they part of your grand plan, too?"
225,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_294","Save your japes, Garlond! I didn't put up with your arrogant face to play with worthless clones!"
226,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_295","Something controls them. A voidsent, and no ordinary one at that."
227,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_296","Doga!"
228,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_297","Confound it! Without them, there's no way to master the darkness!"
229,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_298","That power...is <Emphasis>mine</Emphasis>!"
230,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_100_298","Nero!"
231,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CLOUDOFDARKNESS_000_299","(-???-)The covenant shall be honored."
232,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CLOUDOFDARKNESS_000_300","(-Cloud of Darkness-)I am the Cloud of Darkness. I shall devour your light, and return this world to the void."
233,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_301","Damn it, the rift is gone! What are we supposed to do now?"
234,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_302","As much as it pains me to leave without them, there's precious little we can do. Let us return to the Find and consult Rammbroes."
235,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_310","I feel as though that I'm forgetting something important, but for the life of me, I cannot remember what that something is..."
236,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_315","Rammbroes may know a way to bring our friends back. Let's consult him without delay."
237,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_320","Hm? I appreciate the attention and all, but don't you have better things to do than chat with me?"
238,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_WEDGE_000_325","Everyone's been in a dark mood since returning. I...I take it the mission didn't go well."
239,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_330","All this happened within the tower? Gods preserve..."
240,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_331","The rift that manifested before the throne was a voidgate, of this I am certain."
241,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_332","There exist myriad kinds of voidsent. The more powerful the being, the larger the gate must be for it to pass through."
242,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_333","'Twould seem that Xande sought to open a gate of unprecedented proportions─one that would allow this Cloud of Darkness entry into our world."
243,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_334","Fortunately for all mankind, he did not succeed. I shudder to imagine what this voidsent is capable of."
244,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_335","However dreadful it may be, we can't abandon our friends. Is there no way to save them?"
245,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_336","I will not lie to you, Master Garlond. The situation is bleak."
246,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_337","Though voidsent can enter our world, instances of men entering the void have never been documented. It pains me to give voice to my fears, but we do not even know whether our friends still live."
247,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_338","Damn it... I feel so helpless..."
248,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_339","No, I refuse to give up. We must save Doga and Unei."
249,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_340","We share the same eye, 'tis true, but that is not what motivates me."
250,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_341","Above all, I wish to help them to fulfill their mission─a mission whose burden they have borne for thousands of years. And besides..."
251,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_342","We cannot leave matters as they are."
252,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_343","So long as Xande's dark covenant is binding, our world is in danger. 'Tis our duty to prevent the worst from coming to pass."
253,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_344","G'raha. Ever since meeting Unei and Doga, you have not quite been yourself. Tell me true: is all well with your eye?"
254,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_345","I honestly cannot say. I know only that there is a memory that I must recall."
255,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_346","As a child, my father told me that the truth of our eye rests with Allag. The answer eludes me still...but one day I <Emphasis>will</Emphasis> find it."
256,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_347","I am with G'raha."
257,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_348","However slim the odds, we must try to save Unei and Doga. Aye, and that bastard Nero as well, if only to make certain that he won't make any more mischief."
258,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_349","You have the right of it. Though we have known them but briefly, Doga and Unei are our comrades. We cannot fail them."
259,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_350","I shall consult experts and literature both. I swear to leave no stone unturned."
260,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_351","Yet know that it may be a while before we are ready to act. I would ask that you all be patient. When dealing with the void, one cannot be cautious enough."
261,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_352","My thanks again for your assistance. Pray rest now while you can. For when the time comes to go after our friends, you must be at no less than full strength."
262,"TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_353","We'll save them yet, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>! Mark my words!"
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4 0 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_00 Rammbroes is frustrated over NOAH's lack of progress on the Crystal Tower.
5 1 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_01 Rammbroes informs you that the investigation of the Crystal Tower is being hindered by the most mundane of security measures: a gate that refuses to open. Even as Cid and G'raha Tia rack their brains to find a solution, two peculiar individuals arrive and offer their aid. They introduce themselves as Doga and Unei, scholars of ancient Allag sent by the Students of Baldesion. Though Rammbroes is at first suspicious of their origin, he relents at G'raha Tia's behest, and allows them to join NOAH in an advisory capacity. Without further ado, Doga and Unei are asked to examine the sealed gate which leads into Syrcus Tower. Accompany the two scholars to the Eight Sentinels, and there speak with Biggs to be shown to the gate.
6 2 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_02 Much to the surprise of all present, Doga and Unei open the gate as if they were born to do it. Speak with Doga to learn how this feat was possible.
7 3 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_03 Doga and Unei reveal that they are “clones”─copies of two individuals who claim direct descent from Emperor Xande, the founding father of the Allagan Empire. In his desire to bring the world under his rule, Xande consorted with forbidden powers. Fearful of what might befall the world, the original Doga and Unei attempted to thwart their emperor's scheme. They imbued their clones with their will, that their work might continue in the event of their deaths. After millennia in slumber, the two clones now seek to finish what their namesakes had begun, but they require your help to succeed. The members of NOAH unanimously agree to join their cause, and Rammbroes tasks you with eliminating all hostile elements within Syrcus Tower and finally defeating Emperor Xande. See to your preparations, then speak with G'raha Tia.
8 4 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_04 You have declared your readiness to enter Syrcus Tower to G'raha Tia. Fight your way to the top of the structure, and strike down Emperor Xande. ※Syrcus Tower can be accessed via the Duty Finder. You have declared your readiness to enter Syrcus Tower to G'raha Tia. Fight your way to the top of the structure, and strike down Emperor Xande. ※Syrcus Tower can be accessed via the Duty Finder.
9 5 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_05 You have defeated Xande, but your victory proves short-lived. Even as Doga and Unei attempt to annul the emperor's dark covenant, an entity calling itself the Cloud of Darkness pulls them into the rift that had manifested before the throne. Nero attempts to save them for his own reasons, only to end up sharing their fate.
10 6 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_06 With the rift having vanished, you are powerless to help your friends. For now, return to Saint Coinach's Find, and consult Rammbroes as to a way to bring them back.
11 7 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_SEQ_07 Rammbroes believes that Doga, Unei, and Nero were drawn through a voidgate, and into the dark realm beyond. Though they do not yet know how, the members of NOAH are determined to save their comrades and eliminate the threat posed by the Cloud of Darkness. Rammbroes pledges to search for the answer, and bids you rest up in preparation for the instrumental role you will doubtless play in the impending rescue mission.
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52 48 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_000 Ah, 'tis you, my friend. You are doubtless eager to hear of our progress on the Crystal Tower.
53 49 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_001 Excellent, I'd be disappointed to hear otherwise. Of course, “disappointed” is the word of the day, I fear. I'm ashamed to say that there is nothing worthwhile to report.
54 50 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_002 The Sons continue to probe the Labyrinth of the Ancients, and every day brings new discoveries. Alas, the same cannot be said of the Crystal Tower proper. We've not been able to set so much as a single foot inside it.
55 51 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_003 You will recall how the Eight Sentinels stood between us and the labyrinth initially.
56 52 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_004 In like manner, the entryway into the principal spire─Syrcus Tower, the Allagans called it─is also protected by technology far more advanced than our own.
57 53 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_005 Cid and I have tried every trick we know, but without success. Frankly speaking, we are at a loss.
58 54 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_006 It is discouraging, but we cannot give up. There <Emphasis>must</Emphasis> be a way in.
59 55 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_007 ...And so the situation stands, my friend. Until we gain entry into the tower, I fear your talents shan't avail us. It will require time that I am loath to waste, but I have a mind to set my people to scouring such ancient texts as we have on hand.
60 56 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_008 (-???-)Perhaps we can be of assistance.
61 57 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_009 And you are?
62 58 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_010 (-???-)Be at ease, friends, for we share the selfsame goal.
63 59 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_011 I am Unei, and my companion is called Doga. We are scholars of the Allagan civilization, sent by the Students of Baldesion to assist in your endeavor.
64 60 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_012 Unei and Doga? Rather unusual names for this day and age, if I might be forgiven for observing. But I digress.
65 61 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_013 You claim to be here at the Students' behest, but we have received nary a word of your coming. I am sure you'll not take it amiss if we seem somewhat doubtful.
66 62 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_014 You claim to be here at the Students' behest, but we have received nary a word of your coming. Moreover, in light of the recent incident at the Isle of Val, I should think that they have rather more pressing concerns.
67 63 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_015 We can only assume that the message failed to reach you due to some mishap. I assure you that we are here to help.
68 64 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_016 What is it, G'raha?
69 65 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_017 Ungh... 'Tis nothing. There was...a pain, but it has subsided.
70 66 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_018 Well, well, this is rather unexpected. Your right eye is the same as ours.
71 67 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_019 The same? You...you have the Allagan Eye as well?
72 68 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_020 This sanguine hue is said to be a trait unique to the Allagans! Yet I inherited it from my father, as he did from his.
73 69 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_021 Only one child in a single generation is born with the eye. All my life, I have sought to learn the truth of its manifestation. If there is aught you know, I implore you to tell me!
74 70 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_022 My deepest apologies, but we have no answers for you. Only one thing is certain: those who possess the trait are bound by fate to Allag.
75 71 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_023 As your eye has placed you upon the path you walk, so too have we come here to fulfill our destiny. Absurd though it may sound, it is the truth.
76 72 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_024 It seems to me we have naught to lose by accepting their aid. What say you?
77 73 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_025 If that is your wish, then so be it.
78 74 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_026 Yet know that I still mean to verify your story with the Students of Baldesion when I am able. I trust there will be no objections.
79 75 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_027 Very well. As of this moment, I name Unei and Doga advisory members of NOAH. Without further ado, let us have them examine the Syrcus Tower entrance.
80 76 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_028 I promise you'll not have cause to regret your decision.
81 77 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_029 <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>, I should be much obliged if you were to accompany our new friends to the tower. Biggs and Wedge are presently surveying the Eight Sentinels; the two of them can show you the way.
82 78 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_030 Upon arrival, pray report to Master Garlond. He will brief you on the situation.
83 79 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_031 I shall join you, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>. With Unei and Doga's knowledge, along with your uncanny knack for setting events in motion, I am hopeful that we will finally see progress.
84 80 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_WEDGE_000_040 We're examining the rubble in the hopes that it'll yield a clue to entering Syrcus Tower. ...Can you tell we're getting desperate? We're examining the rubble in the hopes that it'll yield a clue to entering Syrcus Tower. ...Can you tell we're getting desperate?
85 81 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_050 Well, if it isn't <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>! Eager to enter Syrcus Tower and kill everything in sight, no doubt. As I'm sure you've already heard, though, the place is locked up tight as a clam.
86 82 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_051 ...New friends from the Students, you say? Excellent! It's been slow going─or rather, <Emphasis>no</Emphasis> going─for the chief. He'll appreciate the help.
87 83 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_052 If you'll just follow me, I'll take you to him.
88 84 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_060 Ah, some old faces to lift the spirit...and a couple of new ones besides.
89 85 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_061 Allow me to introduce Unei and Doga. They are scholars of ancient Allag, sent here by our friends of Baldesion to aid in the investigation.
90 86 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_062 We understand you're having trouble circumventing the tower's defenses. 'Tis our hope that we can be of some small assistance.
91 87 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_063 If your attire is aught to go by, your assistance should prove invaluable indeed.
92 88 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_064 To begin with, let me tell you where we stand. Beyond rises Syrcus Tower, the principal spire of the structure collectively known as the Crystal Tower.
93 89 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_065 The only way to get inside is through the proverbial front door─the imposing gate you see here. The problem is, we can't get it to open. It's sealed by some mechanism whose workings are an utter mystery to us.
94 90 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_066 Having had no success via more <Emphasis>orthodox</Emphasis> methods, I went at it with everything from a pickaxe to a magitek cannon. Nothing so much as put a scratch on it.
95 91 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_067 For a blessing, the gate doesn't try to reduce us to ashes like the Eight Sentinels, but that doesn't make it any less effective a security measure. It's fiendishly frustrating in its simplicity.
96 92 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_068 The only clue we have is the elaborate device carved upon it: a man and a woman, respectant. Allagan royalty, by my judgment.
97 93 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_069 Precisely who these individuals were, we cannot say. Nor do we know whether the device actually serves a purpose. Like as not, it is purely decorative.
98 94 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_070 If you're thinking to force it, save your strength. It's no use─just ask the calluses on my hands.
99 95 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_071 Rest assured we do not mean to waste our strength.
100 96 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_072 Indeed. Why should we exert ourselves...when the gate will open of its own accord?
101 97 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_073 I...I don't think any of us expected <Emphasis>that</Emphasis> to happen...
102 98 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_074 Seven hells... What is this? What did you do? What...what <Emphasis>are</Emphasis> you?
103 99 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_075 (-???-)<Emphasis>Piercing the heavens and gathering the light, a symbol of mankind's glory and might.</Emphasis> (-???-)<Emphasis>Piercing the heavens and gathering the light, a symbol of mankind's glory and might.</Emphasis>
104 100 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_076 (-???-)<Emphasis>Its virtue guarded by gates impregnable, only to those of royal blood answerable.</Emphasis> ...Exactly as passed down through legend, I am delighted to see. (-???-)<Emphasis>Its virtue guarded by gates impregnable, only to those of royal blood answerable.</Emphasis> ...Exactly as passed down through legend, I am delighted to see.
105 101 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_077 Beg pardons for interrupting your bewilderment. I couldn't help but notice the remarkable <Emphasis>playthings</Emphasis> you have acquired.
106 102 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_078 N-Nero!? You're still alive!?
107 103 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_079 Garlond, Garlond. If I didn't know better, I would say you weren't happy to see me. Ah, but I jest. In light of our recent meetings, you have every right to be wary.
108 104 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_080 But rest assured I am no longer a threat to you. My legion is for all intents and purposes defunct, and my association with it means a tight noose awaits me back in Garlemald. And so I've been roaming this land Eorzea, a regular itinerant.
109 105 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_081 In the course of my wanderings, I chanced to catch wind of your latest venture. It sounded positively fascinating, and so I decided to come here and join you.
110 106 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_082 After the wrongs you've committed? You think us that gullible?
111 107 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_083 If you are suspicious of my intent, 'tis only my just deserts. But I am determined to make amends. As a gesture of goodwill, I will share with you what I know...starting with <Emphasis>these</Emphasis> two odd characters.
112 108 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_084 As you are doubtless already aware, the Crystal Tower was the symbol of ancient Allag's might and prosperity. Entry was permitted only to royalty and a select few individuals.
113 109 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_085 According to the records I have unearthed, only royal blood can open the gate. In other words, the emperor and his progeny were living keys.
114 110 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_086 You mean to say that these two are descended from Allagan royalty!?
115 111 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_087 Oh, I suggest nothing so glamorous.
116 112 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_088 To put it plain, they are <Emphasis>imitations</Emphasis> of royalty─living keys born of Allagan ingenuity.
117 113 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_089 “Clones,” I believe, is the name your creators gave your kind. Is that not so?
118 114 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_090 'Twould seem that the time for concealment is past.
119 115 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_091 Pray accept our apologies. 'Twas not our intent to deceive. We simply wished to avoid causing undue alarm by prematurely making what many would consider deranged claims.
120 116 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_092 If it please you, let us return to the Eight Sentinels. There is much and more to tell.
121 117 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_093 Very well.
122 118 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_094 Seven hells, do you <Emphasis>seriously</Emphasis> mean to follow us around?
123 119 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_095 Come, Garlond. You know me better than to think that I spoke in jest. What more will it take for us to be reconciled? A gift, perhaps?
124 120 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_096 An Allagan tomestone. It holds the information I just shared with you, and a deal more besides. It used to be the jealously guarded property of the XIVth Legion, but it's yours now. I wish you joy of it.
125 121 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_097 I look forward to working together, old friend.
126 122 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_100 You have every right to mistrust us, but I beg you to hear us out. Long have we waited for this opportunity to fulfill our life's purpose.
127 123 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_105 Let us hear what Unei and Doga have to say. It will not be too late to decide upon a course of action afterwards.
128 124 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_110 It goes without saying that Nero can't be trusted. We'd do well to keep an eye on him at all times.
129 125 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_115 We may not have gotten off to the best of starts, but the past is in the past. Yesterday's enemies can yet be today's friends. Do you not agree, Warrior of Light?
130 126 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_120 The chief and Nero go all the way back to the Magitek Academy. It's an exclusive school situated in the capital, reserved for the Empire's brightest elite.
131 127 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_121 I don't know the nitty-gritty details, but they didn't get along back then, and they don't get along now. Fate's a bastard for bringing them together again.
132 128 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_WEDGE_000_125 To think the Allagans could make copies of <Emphasis>people</Emphasis>... If this knowledge were to fall into the wrong hands, the world would become a terrible place. I shudder to imagine a dozen Biggs, shouting at me all day long... <gulp>
133 129 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_130 If you are ready to listen, we shall tell you all.
134 130 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_131 As it pertains closely to your investigation, your leader, Rammbroes, may wish to be present.
135 131 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_140 Before we begin, pray allow me to apologize again. It was not our intent to deceive you.
136 132 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_141 As you will have already gathered, we are not scholars sent by the Students of Baldesion. Nay, we are “clones”─copies of people who once existed, given life through Allagan technology.
137 133 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_142 This is rather a lot to take in...
138 134 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_100_142 If it would not be considered unseemly, might I ask why you and yours were created? And more specifically, what is it that you now seek to do?
139 135 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_143 Answering your questions requires that we revisit Allagan history. Pray bear with us.
140 136 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_144 The Allagan Empire reached its zenith long before our kind came into being.
141 137 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_145 In that glorious age, the Crystal Tower stood tall as the symbol of Allagan pride. Parents took their children there, that they might learn how the nigh-limitless energy it produced brought prosperity to the whole empire.
142 138 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_146 That prosperity, however, bred decadence, and the empire began to show signs of stagnation. This decline was made all the more rapid for want of strong leadership.
143 139 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_147 In a matter of generations, the Allagan civilization became a pale shadow of its former self. Its once gleaming cities fell into disrepair, and its frontier lands were given over to the wilderness.
144 140 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_148 Lamenting the pitiful state of affairs, one technologist made it his mission to restore Allag to greatness.
145 141 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_149 Amon was his name, and he believed that the ailing empire wanted for but a potent ruler. And none was more potent than its founding father, whom he sought to resurrect.
146 142 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_150 The founding father? You cannot mean Emperor Xande!?
147 143 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_151 None other. As part of his experiments, Amon created clones of the emperor's descendants. We are the products of that experiment─copies of Unei and Doga.
148 144 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_152 Historical texts mention the reigns of two Allagan emperors named Xande.
149 145 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_153 It was commonly believed that the second was the namesake of the first. After all, such a custom is not uncommon among royalty and commoners alike. To think that the two were in fact one and the same...
150 146 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_154 Aye, Xande returned from the grave and assumed his throne once more. And true to Amon's prediction, the emperor restored his realm to the glory it once knew. Would that he could have been satisfied with that...
151 147 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_155 In his previous life, the emperor desired to bring the entire world under Allagan dominion─an ambition that ultimately went unfulfilled. Having been granted a second chance, he was determined to succeed.
152 148 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_156 Realizing that he needed more power to wage his war of conquest, Xande turned his sights towards a forbidden source: darkness. In order to learn how to harness this power, he converted the Crystal Tower into a restricted research facility.
153 149 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_157 Darkness...<Emphasis>again</Emphasis>? Seven hells, what is it with megalomaniacal rulers turning to darkness in their lust for power?
154 150 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_158 Well, at least this one won't be bothering us, being thousands of years dead and all.
155 151 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_159 Would that you were right, Master Garlond.
156 152 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_160 Alas, Emperor Xande is very much alive. Within Syrcus Tower he still abides, his ambition burning all the more ardently for his empire's collapse.
157 153 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_170 Wielding the power of darkness requires prodigious amounts of energy─energy that not even the Crystal Tower could produce. In order to augment the shortfall, Dalamud was created and launched into the heavens. On high it hung, gathering the sun's energy and channeling it to the tower below.
158 154 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_171 However, a miscalculation resulted in a surge of energy that escaped into the land. This triggered an earthquake of unprecedented violence─the calamity that ushered in the Fourth Umbral Era.
159 155 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_172 In the blinking of an eye, the mighty Allagan Empire was laid to waste.
160 156 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_173 Yet even as the Crystal Tower was sinking into the earth, the technologist Amon, now Emperor Xande's closest aide, invoked powerful magicks and halted the flow of time.
161 157 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_174 Every soul within the structure, the emperor included, was placed in a deep slumber. In that state they were to remain until the time was ripe to awaken.
162 158 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_175 Eras came and went. After millennia lying dormant, Dalamud was summoned back to the earth. Its descent triggered the Seventh Umbral Calamity, in the wake of which the Crystal Tower reemerged.
163 159 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_176 At that moment, Emperor Xande awakened.
164 160 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_177 In his lust for power, the emperor consorted with darkness and was seduced by its corrupting influence. Even though his empire is now little more than a fading memory, he will stop at nothing to see his ambition realized.
165 161 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_180 'Tis for no other purpose but to put an end to Xande's madness that we exist. This is the mantle we have inherited from our namesakes─the true Unei and Doga.
166 162 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_181 Fearing what might befall the world, the two of them sought to thwart their emperor. They gave unto us their will, that we might carry on their mission should they fail.
167 163 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_182 When we came to our senses within the Crystal Tower, we deliberated a course of action. Concluding that we alone could not overcome Xande, we struck out to find a worthy ally. It has taken years, but our search is finally over.
168 164 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_183 'Tis no ordinary <If(PlayerParameter(4))>woman<Else/>man</If> who can cut a path through the Labyrinth of the Ancients. With you as our champion, <Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, we are confident that we can end Xande's dark ambition once and for all.
169 165 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_184 Well, that'll teach me for speaking too soon... Setting my chagrin aside, I see now why you knew about the Students of Baldesion among a host of other things─you were observing our investigation the whole time.
170 166 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_185 So, what will we do, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>? The world's in grave danger again, and it just so happens you're an expert at saving it.
171 167 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_186 You have our eternal gratitude. Together, let us see the Allagan Empire's dark past laid to rest.
172 168 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_187 It has been our mission to recover the long-lost knowledge of the Allagan civilization. But what worth is that knowledge if it means subjecting the realm to peril?
173 169 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_188 Truth be told, it pains me to think that the tower's secrets may become lost to us, but the greater good must ever come first. Besides, no quantity of ancient relics can compare to our friends Unei and Doga─living, breathing Allagans.
174 170 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_189 And so I hereby declare a change in NOAH's objective. Henceforth, we shall direct all efforts towards sealing off Syrcus Tower. Its dark secrets must never know the light of day.
175 171 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_190 <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>, as you did for us within the Labyrinth of the Ancients, I would have you enter the structure and eliminate hostile elements. Suffice it to say this includes Emperor Xande himself.
176 172 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_191 Meanwhile, the rest of us shall examine ways to isolate Syrcus Tower from the outside world. To work, then!
177 173 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_192 Wait. There is something I must know. My right eye is like yours. Does...does this mean...?
178 174 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_193 You inherited the trait from your father, you said. Know that clones are unable to bear offspring. You have no cause for concern.
179 175 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_194 The Allagan Eye, you called it, but to us it is the Royal Eye, owing to the fact that the trait manifests only in those possessed of royal blood.
180 176 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_195 I cannot well explain why the eye runs in your line, but I am disinclined to think it a coincidence.
181 177 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_196 Though you are doubtless impatient to learn the truth, pray have patience. All will be revealed in due time.
182 178 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_200 Though their names do not appear to have survived the passage of time, Doga and Unei were worthy individuals. They were not without faults, but they placed the welfare of the people above all else.
183 179 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_201 When Xande was resurrected, they supported his second ascension to the throne, in hopes that the empire would flourish once more under his leadership.
184 180 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_202 When it came to light that Xande was consorting with dark powers, they did all within their power to stop him. Among their many acts, they imbued us, two humble clones, with their will.
185 181 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_205 Within Syrcus Tower, you will encounter clones who share our appearance.
186 182 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_206 Though they, too, were created in the image of Doga and Unei, they are but empty husks bereft of independent will. Their sole purpose is to eliminate intruders.
187 183 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_207 Striking down spitting images of Unei and myself may give you pause, but you must not let that stay your hand.
188 184 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_210 Technology made the Allagans great, but so too did it prove their downfall. And now the Garleans are treading in their very footsteps, the bloody fools. It's true what they say: history repeats itself.
189 185 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_215 ...Nero? Wandered off on his own a moment ago. Only the gods know what that bastard's scheming. If it were up to me, I'd lock him up and throw the key into Silvertear Lake.
190 186 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_WEDGE_000_220 While you're off purging Syrcus Tower of nasties, Biggs and I will make a round of the Labyrinth─make certain that no funny business is going on inside.
191 187 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_230 My apologies if I've given you cause to worry. I am quite well, I assure you. As you can appreciate, there has been much for me to think on.
192 188 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_231 But now is the time for action, not idle thoughts. Syrcus Tower awaits us!
193 189 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_232 Your task is to eliminate all hostile elements within the structure, Xande himself included. This will afford us the chance to seal off the facility. May the Crystal grant you strength!
194 190 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_240 The truth of my eye is ever on my mind, but right now every man of us has a job to do. Rest assured I shan't allow myself to be distracted.
195 191 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_250 <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>!
196 192 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_251 You did it! You defeated Emperor Xande!
197 193 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_252 Empires may rise and fall, but man's indefatigable spirit ever lives on. Truly, you are the champion we had hoped for, <Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>.
198 194 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_253 With Emperor Xande now at eternal rest, his dark legacy may be undone.
199 195 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_254 What are you playing at now, Nero?
200 196 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_255 In case you haven't noticed, Garlond, these are dangerous surrounds. Can a man be faulted for exercising due caution?
201 197 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_256 At any rate, you needn't mind me. I am perfectly capable of looking after myself. Go on and finish what you came to do.
202 198 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_257 There are two ways that we may seal off Syrcus Tower: either isolate it from the outside world, or cripple its ability to produce energy.
203 199 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_258 The choice of method is yours to make. Before you proceed, however, Doga and I must needs attend to a task.
204 200 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_259 That distortion... What is it?
205 201 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_260 The power that Xande sought to obtain comes from the void─the World of Darkness, our people called it.
206 202 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_261 And the true nature of that power was none other than the armies of voidsent.
207 203 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_262 Voidsent feed on aether, as you may already know, and no plane is richer in it than ours.
208 204 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_263 In exchange for their allegiance, Xande entered into an unholy covenant. He would open a gate through which the voidsent could freely enter our world.
209 205 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_264 The covenant, I'm afraid to say, is still in effect. However, being of the emperor's lineage, Unei and I believe that we can annul it.
210 206 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_265 By his blood Xande sealed his dark pact. By our blood it shall be undone.
211 207 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_DOGA_000_266 It is time.
212 208 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_267 Yes, Doga. Finally, we may fulfill our purpose.
213 209 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_268 Hahahahaha... AHAHAHAHAHA!
214 210 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_269 Oh, be still my beating heart!
215 211 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_270 For a moment I feared that this outing would end in disappointment, but my readings were not mistaken! Not even the Ultima Weapon compares to this!
216 212 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_271 What are you going on about!?
217 213 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CLOUDOFDARKNESS_000_272 (-???-)The covenant...is everlasting...
218 214 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_280 And so Meracydia is brought into the fold. Soon, all the world shall be united under Allagan rule.
219 215 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_281 And yet...with every dream that becomes reality, the memory of death grows ever more vivid─an endless void, bereft of light and warmth.
220 216 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_282 Though I may have defeated death, it did not leave me unscathed. Nay, its ravening claws have scarred my soul for eternity. Never shall I know peace.
221 217 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_283 Beings without will. You cannot fathom my rage. My melancholy. My <Emphasis>fear</Emphasis>.
222 218 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_284 What worth is wealth and power when all must inevitably be consigned to nothingness? If man has nothing, he need not know the pain of loss.
223 219 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_285 So let there <Emphasis>be</Emphasis> nothing.
224 220 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_XANDE_000_286 Harvest more power, that the gate may be thrown full open. Let the Cloud of Darkness come and engulf the world, devouring all life, hopes, and dreams. Let all be returned to nothingness.
225 221 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_290 <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>! Pull yourself together!
226 222 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_291 Is there no end to them!? What in the seven hells is happening!?
227 223 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_292 Argh! Not now, damn it!
228 224 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_293 Nero! Were they part of your grand plan, too?
229 225 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_294 Save your japes, Garlond! I didn't put up with your arrogant face to play with worthless clones!
230 226 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_295 Something controls them. A voidsent, and no ordinary one at that.
231 227 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_UNEI_000_296 Doga!
232 228 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_297 Confound it! Without them, there's no way to master the darkness!
233 229 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_NERO_000_298 That power...is <Emphasis>mine</Emphasis>!
234 230 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_100_298 Nero!
235 231 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CLOUDOFDARKNESS_000_299 (-???-)The covenant shall be honored.
236 232 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CLOUDOFDARKNESS_000_300 (-Cloud of Darkness-)I am the Cloud of Darkness. I shall devour your light, and return this world to the void.
237 233 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_301 Damn it, the rift is gone! What are we supposed to do now?
238 234 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_302 As much as it pains me to leave without them, there's precious little we can do. Let us return to the Find and consult Rammbroes.
239 235 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_310 I feel as though that I'm forgetting something important, but for the life of me, I cannot remember what that something is...
240 236 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_315 Rammbroes may know a way to bring our friends back. Let's consult him without delay.
241 237 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_BIGGS_000_320 Hm? I appreciate the attention and all, but don't you have better things to do than chat with me?
242 238 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_WEDGE_000_325 Everyone's been in a dark mood since returning. I...I take it the mission didn't go well.
243 239 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_330 All this happened within the tower? Gods preserve...
244 240 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_331 The rift that manifested before the throne was a voidgate, of this I am certain.
245 241 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_332 There exist myriad kinds of voidsent. The more powerful the being, the larger the gate must be for it to pass through.
246 242 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_333 'Twould seem that Xande sought to open a gate of unprecedented proportions─one that would allow this Cloud of Darkness entry into our world.
247 243 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_334 Fortunately for all mankind, he did not succeed. I shudder to imagine what this voidsent is capable of.
248 244 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_335 However dreadful it may be, we can't abandon our friends. Is there no way to save them?
249 245 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_336 I will not lie to you, Master Garlond. The situation is bleak.
250 246 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_337 Though voidsent can enter our world, instances of men entering the void have never been documented. It pains me to give voice to my fears, but we do not even know whether our friends still live.
251 247 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_338 Damn it... I feel so helpless...
252 248 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_339 No, I refuse to give up. We must save Doga and Unei.
253 249 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_340 We share the same eye, 'tis true, but that is not what motivates me.
254 250 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_341 Above all, I wish to help them to fulfill their mission─a mission whose burden they have borne for thousands of years. And besides...
255 251 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_342 We cannot leave matters as they are.
256 252 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_343 So long as Xande's dark covenant is binding, our world is in danger. 'Tis our duty to prevent the worst from coming to pass.
257 253 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_344 G'raha. Ever since meeting Unei and Doga, you have not quite been yourself. Tell me true: is all well with your eye?
258 254 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_345 I honestly cannot say. I know only that there is a memory that I must recall.
259 255 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_GRAHATIA_000_346 As a child, my father told me that the truth of our eye rests with Allag. The answer eludes me still...but one day I <Emphasis>will</Emphasis> find it.
260 256 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_347 I am with G'raha.
261 257 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_348 However slim the odds, we must try to save Unei and Doga. Aye, and that bastard Nero as well, if only to make certain that he won't make any more mischief.
262 258 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_349 You have the right of it. Though we have known them but briefly, Doga and Unei are our comrades. We cannot fail them.
263 259 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_350 I shall consult experts and literature both. I swear to leave no stone unturned.
264 260 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_351 Yet know that it may be a while before we are ready to act. I would ask that you all be patient. When dealing with the void, one cannot be cautious enough.
265 261 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_RAMMBROES_000_352 My thanks again for your assistance. Pray rest now while you can. For when the time comes to go after our friends, you must be at no less than full strength.
266 262 TEXT_GAIUSD401_01474_CID_000_353 We'll save them yet, <Split(<Highlight>ObjectParameter(1)</Highlight>, ,1)/>! Mark my words!
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