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81,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_00491_ALLAGAN_000_220","(-The Wandering Dramaturge-)The minstrel? With the disheveled hair? As strange a fish as any I've seen...and I have seen plenty on my travels."
82,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_00491_ALLAGAN_000_221","(-The Wandering Dramaturge-)Most bards simply retell the tales of high adventure, adding a twang of the lute here and a toot of the fife there for flavor. But the wandering minstrel is different. He seems more inclined to challenge his audience than entertain them."
83,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_00491_ALLAGAN_000_222","(-The Wandering Dramaturge-)One might say he is a god creating worlds for his children to play in. Or not. A god would never be caught wearing those spectacles. Still, there is much a playwright like myself might learn from such a fellow..."
84,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_100_000","Records found. Initiating query protocol."
85,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_Q10_000_000","Select desired record bank."
86,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A10_000_000","Jenomis."
87,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A10_000_001","The Wandering Dramaturge."
88,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A10_000_002","Mikoto."
89,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A10_000_100","Cancel."
90,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_Q20_000_000","Select desired voice record."
91,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A20_000_000","What is the Clockwork City of Goug?"
92,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A20_000_001","What is Yiazmat?"
93,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A20_000_002","Who was your late wife, Tia?"
94,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A20_000_003","What is special about Tia's necklace?"
95,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A20_000_010","Return."
96,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_110","(-Jenomis-)Ivalician legend tells of Goug─a city forged from iron and brass, and teeming with fantastical creations, from steam-powered airships to machinoservitors. The people who populated this “modren” metropolis were not unlike us Garleans, in that it was their lack of magical aptitude which spurred them to embrace technology."
97,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_111","(-Jenomis-)While the Durai Papers mention little of Goug's location, there are passages as to its queer construction. “There being no land to claim, her architects instead claimed the sky.” This particular verse, along with some few others, suggests that the city was built up, rather than out, into something resembling a massive tower."
98,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_112","(-Jenomis-)Further mention of Goug comes in the description of an explosion of unknown origin that, if the papers are to be believed, brought down more than half of the city and resulted in its eventual abandonment."
99,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_113","(-Jenomis-)However, examination of heretofore untranslated portions of the document reveal details of a battle waged in the upper halls of the Clockwork City betwixt an automaton known as Construct 6 and our very own Ramza Beoulve. It was during this conflict that errant discharge from the former's weapons rent the city asunder."
100,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_114","(-Jenomis-)It is my belief that this event permanently disrupted the local aetheric flow, ultimately creating the extra-planal fissure into which the Ridorana Cataract now pours."
101,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_115","(-Jenomis-)The presence of such a fissure would have made rebuilding impossible, forcing the people of Goug to renounce their ancestral home and depart in search of another."
102,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_116","(-Jenomis-)I would like to think they traveled north and west to Ilsabard, settling in the land that would one day become Garlemald, yet while traits such as an affinity for machina and a lack of magical prowess align, I must admit, my theory is still mostly conjecture."
103,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_120","(-Jenomis-)As to its origins in mythology, your guess is as good as mine. However, it seems safe to assume that the creature you encountered─most certainly a Lucavi─was a construct of the Duma, born both of Ba'Gamnan's self-loathing and his desire for revenge."
104,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_121","(-Jenomis-)Before the fall of Nalbina Fortress, Ba'Gamnan was a fusilier captain charged with protecting the crown prince and princess. When the royal twins perished, the proud Bangaa blamed himself for their deaths."
105,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_122","(-Jenomis-)You said that when you confronted him on Ridorana, he believed you to be imperial soldiers. I suspect this was a manifestation of Ba'Gamnan's fears projected upon those nearby him by the Duma in an attempt to send the Bangaa into a rage, making him more amenable to transformation─a ruse which ultimately succeeded."
106,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_123","(-Jenomis-)While much of this coincides with what befell Argath in the ruins of Lesalia, there is one important thing we have learned from our second bout with the Lucavi: that no obvious correlation appears to exist 'twixt the auracite catalyst and the resulting beast."
107,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_124","(-Jenomis-)This would imply that it is the subject that determines which Lucavi manifests, and that the Duma merely facilitates the process. What we cannot be certain of, however, is if the subject must ultimately make the transformation of its own volition. We know Ba'Gamnan desired the Duma's power to see revenge exacted...but did he foresee the relinquishing of both body and mind to achieve this end?"
108,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_130","(-Jenomis-)Tia was the love of my life...though ours was not love at first sight. We met through the theater─she a young actress, me a struggling playwright. It was during our work together that we slowly succumbed to the tug of fate."
109,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_131","(-Jenomis-)As the summers passed, we grew closer, and our relationship soon extended beyond the professional. When I learned she was with child, I did not hesitate to ask her hand in marriage. The life growing within her would only serve to strengthen our bonds, to see us realize our dreams."
110,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_132","(-Jenomis-)And while the birth of both Ramza and Alma would do just that, the strength of our love served little to stay the inexorable march of time─time that by some cruel twist of fate was not afforded my wife. The coughing fits came quickly and without warning, sapping her of vigor, and leaving her a pale reflection of the woman she once was. With her last breath, she bade me see that our children never came to harm...a duty I fear I have neglected of late."
111,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_133","(-Jenomis-)There is nothing I would not do─nothing─if it meant spending even a single moment again with my beloved. We have seen with our own eyes the evil auracite might beget, but do not the Durai Papers also speak of the good? “In the hands of the just, even the fallen may rise...”"
112,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_134","(-Jenomis-)...Nay. 'Tis folly. Pay me no heed."
113,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_150","(-Jenomis-)Until the revelation dealt us by our moogle guests, the necklace was but a necklace─a reminder to my family of one taken too soon."
114,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_151","(-Jenomis-)It was a wedding gift I found for Tia while on a sojourn to Rabanastre seventeen summers past."
115,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_152","(-Jenomis-)Having long been eager to explore the city, I convinced her to make the journey with me, despite the obvious danger in visiting the embattled territory."
116,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_153","(-Jenomis-)And what a beautiful city it was. <sigh> History will never forgive my people for the crime of its destruction. But to my tale..."
117,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_154","(-Jenomis-)It was in one of Rabanastre's labyrinthine markets that I purchased the necklace. An imperial chapman was peddling what he claimed were local treasures, though I did not press him on how he came by the piece. It was not even particularly expensive."
118,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_155","(-Jenomis-)So you can imagine my astonishment when I learned from Bwagi that we have been in possession of a royal heirloom all this time. To think the necklace was once the property of Prince Rasler, last of the B'nargin line..."
119,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_156","(-Jenomis-)Yet this revelation has only left us with more questions, the most obvious being, for what purpose was a larger auracite split into two pieces and set─or mayhap <Emphasis>hidden</Emphasis>─in regalia? I pray the Durai Papers will provide us with an answer."
120,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_Q30_000_000","Select desired voice record."
121,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A30_000_000","The Garlean occupation of Dalmasca."
122,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A30_000_001","The Dalmascan uprising."
123,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A30_000_010","Return."
124,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_300","(-The Wandering Dramaturge-)It has been almost thirty summers since the Empire's conquest of Dalmasca─the annexation coming some years before the invasions of both Ala Mhigo and Doma."
125,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_301","(-The Wandering Dramaturge-)The campaign was led by Legatus Noah van Gabranth of the IVth Imperial Legion, and waged over six bloody moons."
126,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_302","(-The Wandering Dramaturge-)It was the fall of the supposedly impenetrable stronghold at Nalbina, with the loss of some seventy thousand Dalmascan swords, that ultimately turned the tide in the Empire's favor."
127,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_303","(-The Wandering Dramaturge-)When it was discovered that the list of casualties included both Prince Rasler and his twin sister Princess Ashelia, all fight left the embattled regent and he soon thereafter conceded the crown."
128,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_304","(-The Wandering Dramaturge-)He passed not long after his surrender, and while the official explanation was that he succumbed to illness, rumors of suicide and even assassination persist to this day. What is certain, however, is that with his death, the B'nargin line─one that had endured for a thousand summers─finally came to an end."
129,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_320","(-The Wandering Dramaturge-)The Dalmascans took to their new rulers about as well as one might expect, and in the years since the annexation, several sizable uprisings have caught flame, only to be quelled by the Empire's might."
130,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_321","(-The Wandering Dramaturge-)That does not, however, mean we Garleans have emerged from these bouts of insurrection unscathed. One recent example is the Barheim Incident, in which scores of imperial colonists met their end."
131,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_322","(-The Wandering Dramaturge-)In response to this rather arbitrary display of defiance, the Emperor sent the XIVth Legion back to Dalmasca, where, under the watch of Livia sas Junius, suspected rebels were hunted down like rats and slaughtered without trial."
132,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_323","(-The Wandering Dramaturge-)Of course, this served only to embolden the resistance. Yet, the ending of their tale was not as happy as those told in Doma and Ala Mhigo...as you will have gleaned from your recent visit to Rabanastre."
133,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_324","(-The Wandering Dramaturge-)Which is not to say the resistance is no more. If anything, it grows stronger, its members biding their time deep in the endless labyrinth that lies beneath the capital."
134,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_325","(-The Wandering Dramaturge-)I have even heard it whispered that they are now rallied under a new leader─a charismatic young firebrand the people call “Princess Ashe.” What? Of course it cannot be the <Emphasis>real</Emphasis> Ashelia. Even had she survived the tragedy at Nalbina, Her Highness would by now have seen nigh on fifty summers!"
135,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_Q40_000_000","Select desired voice record."
136,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A40_000_000","Auracite."
137,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A40_000_001","The Otius."
138,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A40_000_002","The Duma."
139,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A40_000_003","The Ridorana Lighthouse."
140,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A40_000_010","Return."
141,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_400","(-Mikoto-)From what I have been able to discern, auracite displays the uncanny ability to draw upon the will of its possessor and manipulate the formless aether into a corporeal manifestation. The resultant form can be maintained for as long as there is aether to sustain it."
142,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_401","(-Mikoto-)Principal Jenomis has recently uncovered evidence which appears to corroborate my suspicion that auracite is not a naturally occurring substance, but one created to serve a purpose─albeit a purpose I have yet to identify."
143,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_420","(-Mikoto-)Despite being in the principal's possession for an extended period, the Otius exhibits none of the aetherial imprinting present in the Duma. In other words, the auracite has yet to absorb any of Lord Jenomis's aether."
144,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_421","(-Mikoto-)It is, for want of a better description, “empty.” Be that as it may, we still have no idea how it might be filled, its creators having neglected to include a removable stopper. Ahem."
145,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_440","(-Mikoto-)As you saw in the ruins of Lesalia, the Duma makes manifest the desires of its owner─at that time, Argath Thadalfus."
146,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_441","(-Mikoto-)When you defeated the would-be king, his aether was released from the auracite and the attunement broken, rendering the crystal empty once more."
147,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_442","(-Mikoto-)Until, that is, Ba'Gamnan seized the Duma, providing it with new desires upon which to feed."
148,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_443","(-Mikoto-)Whether Ba'Gamnan attuned himself to the auracite or the auracite attuned to him...is a question I am unprepared to answer. If pressed, however, I would venture that the will of a third party is at work here..."
149,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_480","(-Mikoto-)There is a place on the Valnard Sea, far to the south of Rabanastre, where the ocean tumbles into a gaping maw more than a malm across─the Ridorana Cataract."
150,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_481","(-Mikoto-)Legend would have us believe that it is the entrance to the Hell of Water."
151,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_482","(-Mikoto-)Many a scholar seeking to prove otherwise has descended into the chasm─some even by airship─but not a one has returned."
152,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_483","(-Mikoto-)Balanced on the lip of the raging gulf sits a tiny islet atop which rises an ancient lighthouse─its origins unknown."
153,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_484","(-Mikoto-)For centuries, the tower was manned by Dalmascan candlekeeps who labored from dusk till dawn to warn sailors of the perilous drop. Since the kingdom's annexation, however, the structure has lain vacant...assuming it has not been claimed by the island's wildlife."
154,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_485","(-Mikoto-)Principal Jenomis has cause to believe that the lighthouse is actually the ruin of a location enshrined in Ivalician legend─the Clockwork City of Goug."
155,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_486","(-Mikoto-)According to his theory, the upper levels of the city were destroyed in a catastrophic incident that eventually saw the entirety of Goug's population migrate north. The surviving lower levels were discovered by the Dalmascans centuries later, and refitted to serve as a lighthouse."
156,"TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_487","(-Mikoto-)We know now, however, that the principal was not entirely correct in his assumptions, it being only the <Emphasis>middle</Emphasis> levels of the tower that were destroyed, with the upper reaches continuing to float in the heavens, as you yourself observed."
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85 81 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_00491_ALLAGAN_000_220 (-The Wandering Dramaturge-)The minstrel? With the disheveled hair? As strange a fish as any I've seen...and I have seen plenty on my travels.
86 82 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_00491_ALLAGAN_000_221 (-The Wandering Dramaturge-)Most bards simply retell the tales of high adventure, adding a twang of the lute here and a toot of the fife there for flavor. But the wandering minstrel is different. He seems more inclined to challenge his audience than entertain them.
87 83 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_00491_ALLAGAN_000_222 (-The Wandering Dramaturge-)One might say he is a god creating worlds for his children to play in. Or not. A god would never be caught wearing those spectacles. Still, there is much a playwright like myself might learn from such a fellow...
88 84 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_100_000 Records found. Initiating query protocol.
89 85 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_Q10_000_000 Select desired record bank.
90 86 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A10_000_000 Jenomis.
91 87 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A10_000_001 The Wandering Dramaturge.
92 88 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A10_000_002 Mikoto.
93 89 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A10_000_100 Cancel.
94 90 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_Q20_000_000 Select desired voice record.
95 91 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A20_000_000 What is the Clockwork City of Goug?
96 92 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A20_000_001 What is Yiazmat?
97 93 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A20_000_002 Who was your late wife, Tia?
98 94 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A20_000_003 What is special about Tia's necklace?
99 95 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A20_000_010 Return.
100 96 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_110 (-Jenomis-)Ivalician legend tells of Goug─a city forged from iron and brass, and teeming with fantastical creations, from steam-powered airships to machinoservitors. The people who populated this “modren” metropolis were not unlike us Garleans, in that it was their lack of magical aptitude which spurred them to embrace technology.
101 97 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_111 (-Jenomis-)While the Durai Papers mention little of Goug's location, there are passages as to its queer construction. “There being no land to claim, her architects instead claimed the sky.” This particular verse, along with some few others, suggests that the city was built up, rather than out, into something resembling a massive tower.
102 98 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_112 (-Jenomis-)Further mention of Goug comes in the description of an explosion of unknown origin that, if the papers are to be believed, brought down more than half of the city and resulted in its eventual abandonment.
103 99 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_113 (-Jenomis-)However, examination of heretofore untranslated portions of the document reveal details of a battle waged in the upper halls of the Clockwork City betwixt an automaton known as Construct 6 and our very own Ramza Beoulve. It was during this conflict that errant discharge from the former's weapons rent the city asunder.
104 100 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_114 (-Jenomis-)It is my belief that this event permanently disrupted the local aetheric flow, ultimately creating the extra-planal fissure into which the Ridorana Cataract now pours.
105 101 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_115 (-Jenomis-)The presence of such a fissure would have made rebuilding impossible, forcing the people of Goug to renounce their ancestral home and depart in search of another.
106 102 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_116 (-Jenomis-)I would like to think they traveled north and west to Ilsabard, settling in the land that would one day become Garlemald, yet while traits such as an affinity for machina and a lack of magical prowess align, I must admit, my theory is still mostly conjecture.
107 103 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_120 (-Jenomis-)As to its origins in mythology, your guess is as good as mine. However, it seems safe to assume that the creature you encountered─most certainly a Lucavi─was a construct of the Duma, born both of Ba'Gamnan's self-loathing and his desire for revenge.
108 104 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_121 (-Jenomis-)Before the fall of Nalbina Fortress, Ba'Gamnan was a fusilier captain charged with protecting the crown prince and princess. When the royal twins perished, the proud Bangaa blamed himself for their deaths.
109 105 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_122 (-Jenomis-)You said that when you confronted him on Ridorana, he believed you to be imperial soldiers. I suspect this was a manifestation of Ba'Gamnan's fears projected upon those nearby him by the Duma in an attempt to send the Bangaa into a rage, making him more amenable to transformation─a ruse which ultimately succeeded.
110 106 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_123 (-Jenomis-)While much of this coincides with what befell Argath in the ruins of Lesalia, there is one important thing we have learned from our second bout with the Lucavi: that no obvious correlation appears to exist 'twixt the auracite catalyst and the resulting beast.
111 107 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_124 (-Jenomis-)This would imply that it is the subject that determines which Lucavi manifests, and that the Duma merely facilitates the process. What we cannot be certain of, however, is if the subject must ultimately make the transformation of its own volition. We know Ba'Gamnan desired the Duma's power to see revenge exacted...but did he foresee the relinquishing of both body and mind to achieve this end?
112 108 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_130 (-Jenomis-)Tia was the love of my life...though ours was not love at first sight. We met through the theater─she a young actress, me a struggling playwright. It was during our work together that we slowly succumbed to the tug of fate.
113 109 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_131 (-Jenomis-)As the summers passed, we grew closer, and our relationship soon extended beyond the professional. When I learned she was with child, I did not hesitate to ask her hand in marriage. The life growing within her would only serve to strengthen our bonds, to see us realize our dreams.
114 110 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_132 (-Jenomis-)And while the birth of both Ramza and Alma would do just that, the strength of our love served little to stay the inexorable march of time─time that by some cruel twist of fate was not afforded my wife. The coughing fits came quickly and without warning, sapping her of vigor, and leaving her a pale reflection of the woman she once was. With her last breath, she bade me see that our children never came to harm...a duty I fear I have neglected of late.
115 111 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_133 (-Jenomis-)There is nothing I would not do─nothing─if it meant spending even a single moment again with my beloved. We have seen with our own eyes the evil auracite might beget, but do not the Durai Papers also speak of the good? “In the hands of the just, even the fallen may rise...”
116 112 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_134 (-Jenomis-)...Nay. 'Tis folly. Pay me no heed.
117 113 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_150 (-Jenomis-)Until the revelation dealt us by our moogle guests, the necklace was but a necklace─a reminder to my family of one taken too soon.
118 114 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_151 (-Jenomis-)It was a wedding gift I found for Tia while on a sojourn to Rabanastre seventeen summers past.
119 115 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_152 (-Jenomis-)Having long been eager to explore the city, I convinced her to make the journey with me, despite the obvious danger in visiting the embattled territory.
120 116 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_153 (-Jenomis-)And what a beautiful city it was. <sigh> History will never forgive my people for the crime of its destruction. But to my tale...
121 117 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_154 (-Jenomis-)It was in one of Rabanastre's labyrinthine markets that I purchased the necklace. An imperial chapman was peddling what he claimed were local treasures, though I did not press him on how he came by the piece. It was not even particularly expensive.
122 118 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_155 (-Jenomis-)So you can imagine my astonishment when I learned from Bwagi that we have been in possession of a royal heirloom all this time. To think the necklace was once the property of Prince Rasler, last of the B'nargin line...
123 119 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_156 (-Jenomis-)Yet this revelation has only left us with more questions, the most obvious being, for what purpose was a larger auracite split into two pieces and set─or mayhap <Emphasis>hidden</Emphasis>─in regalia? I pray the Durai Papers will provide us with an answer.
124 120 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_Q30_000_000 Select desired voice record.
125 121 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A30_000_000 The Garlean occupation of Dalmasca.
126 122 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A30_000_001 The Dalmascan uprising.
127 123 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A30_000_010 Return.
128 124 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_300 (-The Wandering Dramaturge-)It has been almost thirty summers since the Empire's conquest of Dalmasca─the annexation coming some years before the invasions of both Ala Mhigo and Doma.
129 125 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_301 (-The Wandering Dramaturge-)The campaign was led by Legatus Noah van Gabranth of the IVth Imperial Legion, and waged over six bloody moons.
130 126 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_302 (-The Wandering Dramaturge-)It was the fall of the supposedly impenetrable stronghold at Nalbina, with the loss of some seventy thousand Dalmascan swords, that ultimately turned the tide in the Empire's favor.
131 127 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_303 (-The Wandering Dramaturge-)When it was discovered that the list of casualties included both Prince Rasler and his twin sister Princess Ashelia, all fight left the embattled regent and he soon thereafter conceded the crown.
132 128 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_304 (-The Wandering Dramaturge-)He passed not long after his surrender, and while the official explanation was that he succumbed to illness, rumors of suicide and even assassination persist to this day. What is certain, however, is that with his death, the B'nargin line─one that had endured for a thousand summers─finally came to an end.
133 129 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_320 (-The Wandering Dramaturge-)The Dalmascans took to their new rulers about as well as one might expect, and in the years since the annexation, several sizable uprisings have caught flame, only to be quelled by the Empire's might.
134 130 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_321 (-The Wandering Dramaturge-)That does not, however, mean we Garleans have emerged from these bouts of insurrection unscathed. One recent example is the Barheim Incident, in which scores of imperial colonists met their end.
135 131 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_322 (-The Wandering Dramaturge-)In response to this rather arbitrary display of defiance, the Emperor sent the XIVth Legion back to Dalmasca, where, under the watch of Livia sas Junius, suspected rebels were hunted down like rats and slaughtered without trial.
136 132 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_323 (-The Wandering Dramaturge-)Of course, this served only to embolden the resistance. Yet, the ending of their tale was not as happy as those told in Doma and Ala Mhigo...as you will have gleaned from your recent visit to Rabanastre.
137 133 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_324 (-The Wandering Dramaturge-)Which is not to say the resistance is no more. If anything, it grows stronger, its members biding their time deep in the endless labyrinth that lies beneath the capital.
138 134 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_ALLAGAN_000_325 (-The Wandering Dramaturge-)I have even heard it whispered that they are now rallied under a new leader─a charismatic young firebrand the people call “Princess Ashe.” What? Of course it cannot be the <Emphasis>real</Emphasis> Ashelia. Even had she survived the tragedy at Nalbina, Her Highness would by now have seen nigh on fifty summers!
139 135 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_Q40_000_000 Select desired voice record.
140 136 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A40_000_000 Auracite.
141 137 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A40_000_001 The Otius.
142 138 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A40_000_002 The Duma.
143 139 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A40_000_003 The Ridorana Lighthouse.
144 140 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_A40_000_010 Return.
145 141 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_400 (-Mikoto-)From what I have been able to discern, auracite displays the uncanny ability to draw upon the will of its possessor and manipulate the formless aether into a corporeal manifestation. The resultant form can be maintained for as long as there is aether to sustain it.
146 142 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_401 (-Mikoto-)Principal Jenomis has recently uncovered evidence which appears to corroborate my suspicion that auracite is not a naturally occurring substance, but one created to serve a purpose─albeit a purpose I have yet to identify.
147 143 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_420 (-Mikoto-)Despite being in the principal's possession for an extended period, the Otius exhibits none of the aetherial imprinting present in the Duma. In other words, the auracite has yet to absorb any of Lord Jenomis's aether.
148 144 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_421 (-Mikoto-)It is, for want of a better description, “empty.” Be that as it may, we still have no idea how it might be filled, its creators having neglected to include a removable stopper. Ahem.
149 145 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_440 (-Mikoto-)As you saw in the ruins of Lesalia, the Duma makes manifest the desires of its owner─at that time, Argath Thadalfus.
150 146 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_441 (-Mikoto-)When you defeated the would-be king, his aether was released from the auracite and the attunement broken, rendering the crystal empty once more.
151 147 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_442 (-Mikoto-)Until, that is, Ba'Gamnan seized the Duma, providing it with new desires upon which to feed.
152 148 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_443 (-Mikoto-)Whether Ba'Gamnan attuned himself to the auracite or the auracite attuned to him...is a question I am unprepared to answer. If pressed, however, I would venture that the will of a third party is at work here...
153 149 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_480 (-Mikoto-)There is a place on the Valnard Sea, far to the south of Rabanastre, where the ocean tumbles into a gaping maw more than a malm across─the Ridorana Cataract.
154 150 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_481 (-Mikoto-)Legend would have us believe that it is the entrance to the Hell of Water.
155 151 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_482 (-Mikoto-)Many a scholar seeking to prove otherwise has descended into the chasm─some even by airship─but not a one has returned.
156 152 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_483 (-Mikoto-)Balanced on the lip of the raging gulf sits a tiny islet atop which rises an ancient lighthouse─its origins unknown.
157 153 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_484 (-Mikoto-)For centuries, the tower was manned by Dalmascan candlekeeps who labored from dusk till dawn to warn sailors of the perilous drop. Since the kingdom's annexation, however, the structure has lain vacant...assuming it has not been claimed by the island's wildlife.
158 154 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_485 (-Mikoto-)Principal Jenomis has cause to believe that the lighthouse is actually the ruin of a location enshrined in Ivalician legend─the Clockwork City of Goug.
159 155 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_486 (-Mikoto-)According to his theory, the upper levels of the city were destroyed in a catastrophic incident that eventually saw the entirety of Goug's population migrate north. The surviving lower levels were discovered by the Dalmascans centuries later, and refitted to serve as a lighthouse.
160 156 TEXT_REGHINALLAGANSTORAGESYSTEM_00491_MIKOTO_000_487 (-Mikoto-)We know now, however, that the principal was not entirely correct in his assumptions, it being only the <Emphasis>middle</Emphasis> levels of the tower that were destroyed, with the upper reaches continuing to float in the heavens, as you yourself observed.