21,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04100_000180_ALPHINAUD","Are you all right?"
22,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04100_000190_ARENVALD","Aye...aye... Everything's still attached."
23,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04100_000200_ALPHINAUD","Ah... It seems both our paths led here. Very good."
24,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04100_000210_ALPHINAUD","We spent altogether too much time fleeing fiends horrid and numerous. How fared you?"
25,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04100_000220_ALPHINAUD","Much the same, then. 'Twould appear this place is yet inhabited by King Theodoric's kin─or what is left of them. The work of terrible magicks, I fear..."
20,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04100_000170_ARENVALD",""
21,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04100_000180_ALPHINAUD",""
22,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04100_000190_ARENVALD",""
23,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04100_000200_ALPHINAUD",""
24,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04100_000210_ALPHINAUD",""
25,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04100_000220_ALPHINAUD","'Twould appear this place is yet inhabited by King Theodoric's kin─or what is left of them. The work of terrible magicks, I fear..."
26,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04100_000230_ARENVALD","Terrible, aye, but their misfortune is our...fortune?"
27,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04100_000240_ALPHINAUD","Quite... By the Twelve, there is even more than I imagined..."
28,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04100_000250_ARENVALD","Oh, I can't wait to see the look on Lyse's face! Thanks for believing in me, you two!"
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What will you say?
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Twist my arm, why don't you!
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It's what we do, I suppose...
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Ugh...buggerit.
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Are you all right?
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Aye...aye... Everything's still attached.
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Ah... It seems both our paths led here. Very good.
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We spent altogether too much time fleeing fiends horrid and numerous. How fared you?
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Much the same, then. 'Twould appear this place is yet inhabited by King Theodoric's kin─or what is left of them. The work of terrible magicks, I fear...'Twould appear this place is yet inhabited by King Theodoric's kin─or what is left of them. The work of terrible magicks, I fear...
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Terrible, aye, but their misfortune is our...fortune?
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Quite... By the Twelve, there is even more than I imagined...
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Oh, I can't wait to see the look on Lyse's face! Thanks for believing in me, you two!
28,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000290_ALISAIE","And? I can't very well sit around here drinking tea if Alphinaud is in trouble. You said yourself that this linkpearl was only to be used in emergencies."
29,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000295_ALISAIE","So I'm <Emphasis>going</Emphasis>, and that's the end of it."
30,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000300_THANCRED","Well, far be it from me to change your minds."
31,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000330_HIEN","Ah! There you are!"
32,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000335_HIEN","Between contending with bloodthirsty beasts and sand in my...every conceivable place, I had begun to despair of finding you again."
33,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000340_YUGIRI","Do you recognize the crashed ship over yonder?"
34,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000350_YUGIRI","Mistress Alisaie and I briefly inspected it. It is the vessel that bore Master Alphinaud away."
35,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000360_ALISAIE","But there was no sign of him. Nor of Maxima and his people."
36,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000370_YSHTOLA","Warmachina. It would seem they were involved in a struggle."
37,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000380_YSHTOLA","There may be clues. We should split up and search the area."
38,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000390_YUGIRI","Hm. These were no ordinary soldiers."
40,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000410_YUGIRI","The insignia on this man's uniform identifies him as one of the Emperor's personal guard."
41,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000420_YSHTOLA","Handpicked soldiers answering only to the royal family..."
42,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000430_HIEN","That would explain why all the casualties are Garlean. They were fighting their own."
43,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000440_ALISAIE","You're saying the Emperor was behind all this? That Alphinaud is his prisoner?"
44,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_Q1_000_001_NONE_VOICE","What will you say?"
45,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A1_000_001_NONE_VOICE","We don't know that yet."
46,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A1_000_002_NONE_VOICE","Alphinaud is fine, I'm sure of it."
47,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000450_HIEN","Aye, we must not jump to conclusions. Besides, Alphinaud is more than capable of looking after himself, is he not?"
48,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000460_YUGIRI","I suggest we return to Doma to consider our options. Whatever happened here, Master Alphinaud is long gone, and any subsequent search may safely be left in the hands of the shinobi."
49,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000470_ALISAIE","Where in the world are you, Brother? If you die on me, I will never let you hear the end of it."
50,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000480_YSHTOLA","Lyse! What brings you here?"
51,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000490_LYSE","Oh, Alliance business. We have a request for Doma─well, Hien."
52,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000500_LYSE","But that can wait. They told me you were out searching for Alphinaud. Did you manage to pick up his trail?"
53,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000510_LYSE","Well, if he wasn't at the crash site, he might still have escaped. We have to keep searching!"
54,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000520_HIEN","And we will. Alphinaud embarked on this journey as an emissary of Doma, and I hold myself responsible for his safe return. I will have our shinobi in the provinces search for him as a matter of urgency."
55,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000530_HIEN","Chin up, Alisaie. You'll get to admonish your brother for his recklessness yet."
56,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000540_ALISAIE","Well, someone has to do it."
57,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000550_LYSE","I'm sure he's going to be fine. There is one thing I'm <Emphasis>not</Emphasis> sure about, though."
58,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000560_LYSE","You said it was the Emperor's personal guard that attacked Alphinaud's airship."
59,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000570_LYSE","But the Populares would never have been able to arrange the prisoner exchange without Varis's blessing. So why would he sabotage his own mission?"
60,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000580_YUGIRI","They may not have been acting on Varis's orders. The guard answer not only to him, but to his family. The crown prince, included."
61,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000590_HIEN","When Yotsuyu summoned Tsukuyomi, Asahi was quick to proclaim that a Doman citizen had violated the terms of our agreement. That the negotiations had failed."
62,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000600_HIEN","And it is this version of events that is now being repeated across Garlemald. To hear the tale, one would think the prisoner exchange never took place. Plainly, someone is manipulating matters from the shadows. Most likely Zenos─or whoever it is that wears his face."
63,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000610_YSHTOLA","Whichever Ascian, you mean. We all know the nature of our adversary."
64,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000620_HIEN","The servants of chaos are true to their name. Their meddling has cost Doma a chance at peace."
65,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000630_HIEN","Whoever it was that loosed his personal guard, the Emperor cannot be ignorant of these developments. We must proceed on the assumption that our treaty is indeed in tatters."
66,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000640_HIEN","But come, Lyse, you have journeyed far. Let me hear your petition."
67,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000650_LYSE","Right, so, the big news is that Ala Mhigo has agreed to join the Eorzean Alliance."
68,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000660_LYSE","To make it official, and discuss where we all go from here, the leaders of the five nations are planning to hold a meeting, and we were hoping you might come too."
69,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000670_LYSE","We've already seen what we can achieve when we work together, and the Alliance hopes to work even more closely in future. They think it's our best hope of keeping the Garleans in check─and I agree."
70,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000680_HIEN","As do I. By coordinating our efforts in the east and west, we may be able to discourage them from committing their forces to a single front."
71,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000690_HIEN","I accept your invitation. I must, however, ask for time to attend to some pressing matters here."
72,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000700_HIEN","In light of recent events, the risk of imperial reprisals is greater than ever, and I would not leave Doma unguarded. Ere I depart, I must shore up her defenses."
73,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000710_LYSE","Understood. I'll let the Alliance know."
74,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000720_LYSE","We'll wait to hear from you before setting a date. The meeting's to be held at the Royal Palace in Ala Mhigo, incidentally. Do you remember the way?"
75,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000730_HIEN","Well enough. Please assure my hosts that I will not keep them waiting any longer than I have to."
76,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000740_LYSE","Consider it done! And thank you for agreeing to come. If we all put our heads together, we're sure to find the best way forward. For everyone."
77,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000750_YUGIRI","If we are to ready ourselves for invasion, we shall need manpower, provisions, and time. All of which are in notably short supply."
78,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000760_HIEN","Candid as ever, Yugiri. And correct, I concede. Fortunately, I have an idea."
79,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000770_HIEN","'Tis plain no single nation can stand against the might of the Empire."
80,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000780_HIEN","And it was only with the aid of others that Doma succeeded in winning her freedom. So I mean to take a leaf out of our Eorzean friends' book and form an alliance of our own."
81,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000790_HIEN","In addition to those with whom we already share an understanding, I would reach out to Hingashi and Sui-no-Sato, and further afield, to the myriad peoples of Nagxia and Dalmasca."
82,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000800_HIEN","I am under no illusion─not all will answer the call. Yet disparate though we may be, we are united in our desire for freedom."
83,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000810_HIEN","If our neighbors could be made to see what is at stake─Ascian machinations and all─cooperation need not be so far-fetched a notion."
84,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000820_YSHTOLA","...It may even seem practical."
85,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000830_YSHTOLA","Under the guidance of our former leader, Master Louisoix, we once strove to unite the fractious city–states of Eorzea. I daresay that experience shall be of use in your endeavor."
86,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000840_HIEN","We should be glad of your wisdom."
87,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000850_ALISAIE","For the record, I would have been in favor of this plan, even if it <Emphasis>hadn't</Emphasis> been my grandfather's, but I have to ask: how will we secure the time to carry it out?"
88,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000860_ALISAIE","Not that anyone has forgotten, but the Garleans have airships. Lots and lots of airships. Should they catch wind of our plan, they could send an armada to overwhelm us before our alliance had even begun to take shape."
89,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000870_YSHTOLA","...Not if we deny them access to the skies."
90,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000880_YSHTOLA","During our time in the Burn, the Warrior of Light and I chanced upon some Allagan ruins."
91,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000890_ALISAIE","Oh?"
92,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000900_YSHTOLA","As such ruins go, they were not particularly unusual, but something about the surrounding land struck me as odd. Faint though it was, its aetherial residue was uncannily similar to that of Azys Lla. Identical, in fact."
93,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000910_YSHTOLA","For locations so far removed to share a single aetheric signature is all but impossible. I conclude therefore that the Allagans created the floating continent with land taken from the Burn."
94,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000920_YUGIRI","While that is a most intriguing theory, I fail to see what relevance it has to Doma's defense."
95,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000930_YSHTOLA","Azys Lla was enclosed in a powerful energy barrier, impenetrable even to an Agrius-class battleship."
96,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000940_YSHTOLA","It occurred to me that those ruins may have enjoyed similar protection. I have no proof, but the Warrior of Light <Emphasis>did</Emphasis> report seeing a structure resembling other known Allagan field generators."
97,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000950_YSHTOLA","It occurred to me that those ruins may have enjoyed similar protection. I have no proof, but the Warrior of Light <Emphasis>did</Emphasis> report seeing a structure resembling other known Allagan field generators."
98,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000960_ALISAIE","All right, but even if we could put up such an energy barrier, it surely wouldn't extend beyond the limits of the Burn. So what's to stop the Garleans flying around it?"
99,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000970_HIEN","...Fuel. The Dalmascan capital, Rabanastre, was a key imperial refueling point in the East. By laying waste to it as a lesson to the rest, the Empire greatly hindered its own operations in the region."
100,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000980_HIEN","If an imperial fleet were to advance upon Doma, it would now have little choice but to travel as the crow flies─over the Burn."
101,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000990_ALISAIE","I see!"
102,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001000_YSHTOLA","A word of caution. Even assuming the generator still functions, raising a barrier of such a scale will require a prodigious amount of energy."
103,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001010_YSHTOLA","And few places are so bereft of suitable crystals as the Burn."
104,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001020_HIEN","Hm... A source of energy."
105,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001030_HIEN","Tell me, did the Allagans make a habit of launching things into the sky?"
106,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001040_YSHTOLA","A curious question. Besides Azys Lla, I know of only one other notable instance: the red moon Dalamud, whose fall triggered the Calamity."
107,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001050_HIEN","Just the two occasions, you say... Then I believe I may have a solution to our energy problem."
109,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001070_HIEN","I <Emphasis>may</Emphasis>. To find out for sure, we would need to visit the Azim Steppe."
110,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001080_HIEN","...Which would, I now see, present the perfect opportunity to discuss an alliance with the Xaela tribes. How very neat! What say you, then? Shall we see whither this road leads?"
111,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001090_HIEN","Ahhh, I will never tire of this vista! The endless fields, the boundless skies... 'Tis a sight to make a man forget his cares."
112,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001100_YSHTOLA","But not his purpose, I trust."
113,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001110_YSHTOLA","Might this be a fitting moment to tell us what we are doing here?"
114,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001120_HIEN","Of course. During my time with the Mol, I learned some few myths of this land. One goes thus..."
115,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001130_HIEN","“In the distant past, when all seemed doomed, a wayfaring soul came unto the steppe. Venturing into the northern crag, he received of Nhaama a sliver of her essence─a shard of the shining moon─and with it clove the tainted land from the earth."
116,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001140_HIEN","“The end thus averted, to these fields did the wayfaring soul return. And venturing once more into the northern crag, he buried the shard, and made unto the heavens an offering of blood.”"
117,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001150_YSHTOLA","A tainted land cloven from the earth, and an offering of blood to the heavens... Azys Lla and Dalamud."
118,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001160_HIEN","That was my thinking, yes."
119,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001170_YSHTOLA","And you believe that yonder mountains hide an artifact possessed of sufficient power to raise Azys Lla up to the heavens. ...I suppose that might suffice."
120,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001180_HIEN","Worth a closer look, would you say?"
122,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001200_YSHTOLA","Such an abundance of aether!"
123,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001210_HIEN","Are we in luck?"
124,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001220_YSHTOLA","We are. This is an Allagan artifact, most likely built to regulate the flow of aether."
125,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001230_YSHTOLA","I strongly suspect the ancients used it to stem the flow from here to the Burn. That would explain how they were able to untether what became Azys Lla from its surroundings."
126,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001240_YSHTOLA","But were we to throw open the floodgates, the resultant deluge would surely be sufficient to raise our wall. And in restoring the flow, we may also restore life to the wasteland."
127,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001250_YSHTOLA","Hm...?"
128,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001260_HIEN","What is it?"
129,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001270_YSHTOLA","While the device itself harbors a surfeit of aether, the opposite is true of the surrounding area..."
130,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001280_YSHTOLA","An effect of regulation, perhaps? A similar phenomenon seemed to be occurring in Doma..."
131,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001290_YSHTOLA","Whatever the explanation, the answer will not reveal itself here. We have seen what we needed to see. Let us return to Mol Iloh."
132,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001300_SADU","Yes, this spot shall serve as well as any. I shall enjoy this, khagan!"
133,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001310_YSHTOLA","Is this truly necessary? Have you no peaceable way of making decisions?"
134,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001320_SADU","Speak not of peace. You stand before proud warriors of the Dotharl. In the heat of battle do our souls burn brightest!"
135,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001330_SADU","We lay low the strong that we may rise higher!"
136,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001335_SADU","That is our way─the way of might! There is no other!"
137,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001340_YSHTOLA","...Well, they do not want for conviction."
138,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001350_HIEN","Indeed. It's what makes them such dangerous enemies...and such useful allies."
139,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001360_SADU","Enough talk! It is time to fight!"
140,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001370_SADU","Yes! YES! Not since the Naadam has my soul burned so!"
141,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001380_SADU","Come! We have only just begun!"
142,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001390_MAGNAI","Enough. You were not granted leave to set the Steppe ablaze."
143,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001400_HIEN","Well, well! The sun has come out to play!"
144,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001410_SADU","Begone, moonstruck Oronir! I am busy."
145,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001420_MAGNAI","Fool of a Dotharl. Have you forgotten the face of your master already? The Sun will never set! From his seat on high, he reigns over all, now and forever!"
146,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001430_MAGNAI","Yet what should he find here but a battle to determine the fate of the Steppe─a battle waged without his blessing! This will not stand!"
147,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001440_MAGNAI","You, Doman. You who come to petition the warriors of this land forget that all Nhaama's children are wards of the Oronir. As first among my brothers, your petition is mine alone to judge."
148,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001450_SADU","These words are as wind from a horse's backside. Plentiful. But your axe sings more sweetly. Let her speak for you."
149,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001460_MAGNAI","Insolent child. You will learn your place."
150,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001470_HIEN","Forgive me, Brother Magnai, but we have an arrangement with the Dotharl. We will not abide any interruptions."
151,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001480_MAGNAI","So be it. The Sun will pass judgment on all. Daidukul─join me."
152,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001485_SADU","The Sun is in good company. We may dance alone."
153,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001490_MAGNAI","Beg not for mercy, for you will have none. Bear witness to the power and the glory of Azim!"
154,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001500_YSHTOLA","Constantly at each other's throats, like rabid...dogs. Gods, I'm turning into her."
155,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001510_YSHTOLA","Ahem. I have not the patience for this. But if we must fight, let us at least be brief. Come!"
156,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001515_SYSTEM","In the coming battle, you will fight as Y'shtola."
157,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001520_SADU","Ahhh, never have I felt such bliss in defeat!"
158,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001530_SADU","'Twas a battle to burn soul and flesh to ash. We Dotharl will lend you our strength as promised. Nhaama's power is yours to wield."
159,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001540_SADU","What does the Sun say to that?"
160,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001550_MAGNAI","Hmph. The Sun is not driven by base motives such as yours. But aye, they have been judged...and found worthy."
161,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001560_MAGNAI","It is the way of the Oronir to accord recognition and respect to the strong. You have made sufficient proof of your strength. The Sun shall answer your call."
162,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001570_HIEN","You have our thanks. We are glad to call you allies."
163,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001580_MAGNAI","You. By what are you called?"
166,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001610_MAGNAI","Are you my Nhaama?"
167,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001620_YSHTOLA","I beg your pardon?"
168,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001630_MAGNAI","In battle, you shone with all the majesty of the full moon's light, your healing touch the embodiment of the Dusk Mother's love."
169,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001640_MAGNAI","Long had I wondered if my Nhaama might not be a woman of the Steppe. Beholding you, I am all but certain!"
170,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001650_MAGNAI","Now, look into my eyes. Could it be...? Could you be...?"
171,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001660_YSHTOLA","I am...not interested, little sun. Try again when you have become a man."
173,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001680_SADU","No subtitles. Report if displayed."
174,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001690_SADU","Little sun! Little sun!"
175,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001700_SADU","Does it pain you, little sun? Crave you salve to soothe the ache? Fire to sear the wound in your heart?"
176,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001710_YSHTOLA","We have wasted enough time here. Cirina waits for word of our success."
177,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001720_HIEN","Did it work?"
178,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001730_YSHTOLA","It did. Aether may flow freely to the Burn once more."
179,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001740_NANAMOULNAMO","Mistress Lyse. Commander Aldynn. It gives me great pleasure to formally welcome the city-state of Ala Mhigo to the Eorzean Alliance."
180,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001750_RAUBAHN","The pleasure is ours, Your Grace. I know I speak for all Ala Mhigans when I say that we are glad of this chance to stand with our comrades of the Alliance."
181,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001760_KANESENNA","And we for our part are glad indeed to be able to welcome friends both old and new..."
182,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001770_HIEN","Lord Hien of Doma, at your service. Pray accept my heartfelt thanks for your generous invitation."
183,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001780_AYMERIC","Nay, 'tis we who must thank you for journeying so far. And 'twould be remiss of me not to acknowledge the part the Scions of the Seventh Dawn have played in bringing all of us together."
184,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001790_AYMERIC","In times of great unrest, you and yours have been our constant companions, without whom we would not be here."
185,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001800_NANAMOULNAMO","With apologies to Lord Hien and Mistress Alisaie, it occurs to me that we have not gathered in this way since that fateful day in Ul'dah."
186,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001810_RAUBAHN","The day I lost my arm and my freedom... As I lay in my cell, never did I dream that I would one day be given the chance to represent my homeland at this council."
187,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001820_RAUBAHN","I would not even be alive had you not plucked me from the jaws of death─you, Yugiri, and Alphinaud. Would that the lad could be with us..."
188,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001830_ALISAIE","I too owe my presence here to Alphinaud. In so many ways... Until such time as he returns, I mean to carry on his good work as best I can."
189,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001840_NANAMOULNAMO","Come, friends─let us leave the past in the past, and turn our eyes to the future. My lord Hien, pray tell us how things stand in the East."
190,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001850_KANESENNA","Having heard the rumors of dissent in Garlemald, I dared to dream of a peaceable solution..."
191,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001860_MERLWYB","Hm. The Empire will not so easily change its ways."
192,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001870_MERLWYB","If the Garleans have a mind to take back Doma and Ala Mhigo, we'll be hard-pressed to stop them. Even with the might of six nations."
193,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001880_MERLWYB","But while we lack the strength to fight the tide, a course may yet present itself if we read the winds aright."
194,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001890_AYMERIC","The winds suggest but one course to me─one which leads from the sea unto the river and thence to the source of all our woes."
196,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001910_AYMERIC","Indeed. All here have felt their blighted touch. It was the Bringers of Chaos who nurtured the archbishop's tyrannical ambitions..."
197,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001920_AYMERIC","They who bestowed upon him the secrets of summoning, as they have so many others, before and since. And while they remain, we shall know no peace."
198,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001930_RAUBAHN","Our objective is clear. The question is how to achieve it. That our enemy parades about in Zenos's skin poses problems in itself, but ere we get to them, how are we to infiltrate the Empire and get close enough to strike?"
199,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001940_THANCRED","While I see the wisdom in targeting the Ascians, an assassination attempt on Garlean soil would do little to aid our cause...even were it to succeed. It's time we used our enemy's preferred tactic: subterfuge."
200,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001950_YSHTOLA","You have an idea?"
201,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001960_MERLWYB","Speak your mind, Master Thancred. None here know the enemy better than the Scions, and you mayhap best of all."
202,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001970_MERLWYB","Whatever it is you propose, we will give it fair hearing. On that you have my word."
203,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001980_THANCRED","Very well, Admiral. My proposal is thus."
204,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001990_THANCRED","We dispatch the shinobi to imperial territory. There, they sow the rumor that the crown prince perished in the battle for Ala Mhigo, and that the man parading around is in fact a corpse inhabited by a servant of darkness."
205,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002000_RAUBAHN","Well...it does have the ring of truth about it. And were the Garleans to learn that their future ruler is a puppet, the Empire would be shaken to the core."
206,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002010_LYSE","But─at the risk of sounding stupid─would they actually believe such an unlikely story? I didn't."
207,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002020_THANCRED","Ordinarily not. But prior to his miraculous recovery, rumors of Zenos's death had already begun to circulate around the Empire."
208,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002030_THANCRED","Ultimately, however, what the masses believe is not our chief concern. Our true objective is to create an opening for rival factions within Garlemald to exploit."
209,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002040_HIEN","Just as a war of succession erupted in the wake of Emperor Solus's death!"
210,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002050_THANCRED","A war which raged until but recently, plunging the imperial house into disarray as nephew and uncle grappled for the throne."
211,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002060_THANCRED","It is no coincidence that one of Varis's first acts as Emperor was to name Zenos heir apparent─family feuds being so tiresome when armies are involved. Not all welcomed his choice of successor, however."
212,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002070_THANCRED","There is no shortage of individuals who aspire to the throne─who would jump at any chance to seize power. The news that Zenos is not only dead, but a puppet to diabolical forces, would be too enticing to ignore."
213,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002080_HIEN","The Empire would not be quick to recover from a second war of succession."
214,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002090_THANCRED","I am no stranger to infiltrating imperial territory. With a team of operatives gathered from among the Alliance's finest, the plan should have a reasonable chance of success."
215,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002100_HIEN","Doma already has shinobi in place throughout the provinces. We stand ready to act, and act we must. What say you all?"
216,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002110_MERLWYB","I am for Master Thancred's proposal. We shine a light upon the Ascian and test the Empire's unity."
217,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002120_MERLWYB","'Twas his plot that scuttled Doma's negotiations, was it not? Why then, if we can eliminate him, there may yet be a chance for peace."
218,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002130_MERLWYB","Let us wage this war of subterfuge, that we may one day lay down our arms. Gods know, we never will while the Ascians remain."
238,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002300_RESISTANCEHEALER","Master Thancred remains in slumber. Though his vital signs appear stable, he is unresponsive."
239,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002310_LYSE","What could have done this? And why just him and not the others?"
240,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002320_RESISTANCEHEALER","I'm afraid we could not identify the cause, my lady. Our examinations revealed no wounds, nor the presence of any poisonous substances..."
241,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002330_LYSE","Gods, that only makes it worse. You're to let us know the moment there's any change, all right?"
242,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002340_ALISAIE","Thank you for coming. Knowing Thancred, he would apologize for being otherwise engaged at so crucial a juncture."
243,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002350_KANESENNA","In gifting us a course of action, Thancred sowed the seed of all that is to follow. We have but to nurture it as best we can. To him I would say rest easy, that he may wake to enjoy the fruits of our labors."
244,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002360_KANESENNA","Now, the matter of the mysterious voice must not be forgotten. Will you tell me exactly what happened?"
245,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002370_YSHTOLA","Alisaie and I heard a voice in the moments before Thancred collapsed. It was accompanied by a severe headache─as if something were clutching at our minds. Did you experience the same thing?"
246,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002380_ALISAIE","...So, in between the voice and the pain, you felt as if you were somewhere else entirely?"
247,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002390_KANESENNA","Your testimony confirms my suspicion. That which you experienced was, I believe, your soul being plucked from your flesh. <Emphasis>Called</Emphasis>."
250,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002420_KANESENNA","Reach out as I may, I could not sense in him the spark of life that is his soul."
251,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002430_KANESENNA","That Thancred alone was stricken so is likely due to his heightened sensitivity to the effects of aether─a consequence of his prior possession by the Ascian Lahabrea."
252,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002440_KANESENNA","The owner of the voice, whoever it may be, reached out to you─called your souls─and in so doing caused you and yours such pain."
253,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002450_ALISAIE","But...if that's true, where exactly are we being called <Emphasis>to</Emphasis>?"
254,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002460_KANESENNA","I know not. Yet one thing is plain: whoever waits for you on the other side is possessed of a power unlike any I have ever known."
255,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002470_YSHTOLA","Forgive us, Lyse, but may we leave Thancred in your care for a time?"
256,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002480_LYSE","As if you had to ask. I may not be a Scion anymore, but I'm no less a friend."
257,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002490_LYSE","Don't worry, I'll see to it that Thancred's well looked after. Just focus on solving this mystery, all right?"
259,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002510_YSHTOLA","As the Elder Seedseer says, 'tis no ordinary individual we are dealing with. Nor can we discount the possibility of Ascian involvement."
260,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002520_ALISAIE","Whoever or whatever is behind this, the sooner we find out the better."
261,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002530_ALISAIE","Urianger! Gods it's good to see you!"
262,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002540_URIANGER","Would that our meeting were under happier circumstances. I judged the voice sufficient cause for concern even before you sent word of its effect on our comrade..."
263,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002550_YSHTOLA","You heard it too, then?"
264,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002560_URIANGER","Aye. And all but certainly at the selfsame instant. Alas, pained as I was, I could make little sense of what few words did then reach mine ears."
265,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002570_YSHTOLA","Who do you think is responsible? Could this be the Ascians' doing?"
266,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002580_URIANGER","That I cannot say. Not when so little is known."
267,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002590_URIANGER","Ere I indulge in speculation, I would examine Thancred with mine own eyes."
268,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002600_ALISAIE","To Ala Mhigo, then─without further delay!"
269,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002610_YSHTOLA","One other thing. During my visit to the Far East, I observed a strange phenomenon."
270,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002620_URIANGER","Thou referest, I presume, to the localized reduction in aetheric density?"
271,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002630_YSHTOLA","Well, that spares me the trouble of an explanation. Yes. I noted precisely that at two apparently unconnected locations. I take it the phenomenon is not limited to the Far East?"
272,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002640_URIANGER","Indeed not. Of late, our agents charged with surveilling the beast tribes have spoken of little else. In every corner of the realm, they tell of places in which the aether hath grown thin."
273,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002650_URIANGER","Naturally, my suspicions first turned to primal activity, but the areas thus affected betray no evidence of summoning. I must confess to being quite perplexed."
274,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002660_YSHTOLA","If the same phenomenon is being observed in multiple locations on opposite sides of the world, we may safely discount regional factors. Needless to say, this warrants further investigation."
275,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002670_URIANGER","Indeed. I shall make it my task to─"
276,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002680_URIANGER","The voice... It calleth to me once more..."
277,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002690_YSHTOLA","I...I hear it too!"
278,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002700_MYSTERYVOICE","Only you... Only you..."
282,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002740_ALISAIE","No! NO! This can't be happening!"
283,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002750_ALISAIE","Y'shtola! Urianger! Open your eyes!"
284,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002760_ALISAIE","Open your eyes, I beg you..."
285,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002770_ALISAIE","Say something...anything... Not again... Please! Not again!"
286,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002780_MAELSTROMOFFICER","Here he is, my lady."
287,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002790_ALISAIE","Ga Bu...it's been too long."
288,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002795_GABU","..."
289,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002800_MAELSTROMOFFICER","I'm afraid there has been no change. If he can see or hear us, he has given no sign..."
290,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002810_ALISAIE","I see. You're still fighting."
291,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002820_ALISAIE","I'm proud of you."
292,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002830_ALISAIE","We promised that we would come and visit you together, didn't we. Alphinaud and I. I'm sorry that we haven't managed that yet."
293,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002840_ALISAIE","You know, with the three of us like this, does it not remind you of that night? Of the stars beyond count, twinkling in the heavens?"
294,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002850_ALISAIE","I was feeling pretty low back then. Powerless. But I knew that my brother was close by if I needed him. And that the others would be waiting for me back at the Rising Stones."
295,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002860_ALISAIE","Not like now."
296,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002870_ALISAIE","I've seen my share of trouble since coming to Eorzea."
297,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002875_ALISAIE","...Been reminded again and again of my limitations─of how little I can change about this world. And I've come to know the sorrow of parting all too well."
298,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002880_ALISAIE","But to have the people I hold dear struck down before my eyes, and be powerless to help them...? That─ That I cannot bear."
299,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_Q3_000_001_NONE_VOICE","What will you say?"
300,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A3_000_001_NONE_VOICE","You still have me."
301,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A3_000_002_NONE_VOICE","You don't have to bear this burden alone."
302,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002890_ALISAIE","And for that I am grateful. I don't know what I'd do without you."
303,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002900_ALISAIE","...No. I don't. You're right. It's pure arrogance to imagine I can solve everything by myself. You'd think I'd have learned that by now. Thank you. I don't know what I'd do without you."
304,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002910_ALISAIE","Well, that's more than enough brooding for one day."
305,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002920_ALISAIE","Come on. We have friends to save."
306,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002925_SYSTEM","Meanwhile, in the imperial palace..."
307,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002930_ROBEMAN","(-Zenos-)The Populares no longer present an obstacle. Now is the time to bring the Empire's might to bear."
308,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002940_ROBEMAN","(-Zenos-)A word from Your Radiance is all it takes. But <Emphasis>one word</Emphasis>, and the imperial army will fall upon Ala Mhigo as a pack of bloodthirsty wolves and tear that feeble nation apart."
309,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002950_ROBEMAN","(-Zenos-)Have you no words for me?"
310,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002960_ROBEMAN","(-Zenos-)Despite the lengths I go to─an emissary, playing the part of a fool."
311,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002970_ROBEMAN","(-Zenos-)When first I took this face, I swore to use all of my knowledge, all of my power, to further the cause of the Empire. My deeds stand testament to my commitment."
312,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002980_ROBEMAN","(-Zenos-)And with this adamant flesh at my disposal, I could destroy the eikon-slayer as easily as one might swat a fly. Why do you hesitate?"
313,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002990_ROBEMAN","No subtitles, reported if displayed."
314,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003000_ROBEMAN","(-Zenos-)Our enemy is resourceful. Though victory is certain now, it will not remain so indefinitely. Deliberate if you must, but be quick about it. We will speak again when you have unburdened yourself of doubt. Until then, I take my leave...Father."
315,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003010_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)I should be the one to sigh."
316,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003020_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)I played my part to perfection. I had earned my rest. And then, thanks to Lahabrea's crowning act of idiocy, our favorite emissary sees fit to summon me back."
317,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003030_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)Elidibus was ever a worrier. A most tiresome trait, would you not agree?"
318,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003040_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)What, have you no words for me either? No matter. I've long grown weary of this mummery."
319,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003050_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)Now, my dearest grandson. Let me remind you of your place, in the simplest of terms."
321,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003060_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)You do not make judgments─you administer them. Swiftly and to the letter. Naught else is your concern."
322,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003070_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)Elidibus may be an insufferable bore, but he is no fool. His choices as emissary seldom err."
323,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003080_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)If aught threatens the balance 'twixt Light and Dark, it falls to you to remove it."
324,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003090_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)Be it by your own hands or by your armies, you have ample means at your disposal."
325,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003100_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","That is why this empire exists─why <Emphasis>I</Emphasis> built it."
326,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003110_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","Oh dear. Have I touched a nerve? You always were an easy one to read."
327,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003120_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","I pity you, I do. As they say, ignorance is bliss. And I know how much happier you would be not knowing the things you know."
328,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003130_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","The founding father was an Ascian! And he created the Empire solely for the purpose of sowing the seeds of chaos!"
329,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003140_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","Don't take it personally. I merely do my duty."
330,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003150_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","To bring about a Calamity requires no small amount of power. And there is no surer way to obtain such power than by collecting powerful pawns."
331,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003160_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","To that end, I have labored long and hard, and I must say I am quite pleased with my handiwork─paltry though it seems in comparison to Allag."
332,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003170_VARIS","You fiends are overfond of your own voices."
333,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003180_VARIS","Mark me, Ascian. Man is the master of his own destiny!"
334,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003190_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","No subtitles, report if displayed."
335,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003200_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","Such a waste of time and energy. Both yours and mine."
336,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003210_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","Lest you forget, you are Emperor now. If you wish to spout drivel about man's destiny, save it for the masses. It will serve to give them a sense of purpose...and you pliant pieces for the game."
337,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003220_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","Oh, do stop sulking, boy. You of all people should understand."
338,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003230_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","Ours is a struggle to restore both mankind and the world to their rightful state. Viewed thus, our goals are one and the same."
31,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000330_HIEN",""
32,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000335_HIEN","Between contending with bloodthirsty beasts and sand in my...every conceivable place, I'm quite ready to leave this wasteland. But first things first..."
33,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000345_HIEN","Do you see the crashed ship over yonder?"
34,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000355_HIEN","Judging by its class, it must be the vessel that bore Master Alphinaud away."
35,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000340_YUGIRI",""
36,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000350_YUGIRI",""
37,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000360_ALISAIE",""
38,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000370_YSHTOLA","Warmachina. It would seem they were involved in a struggle."
39,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000380_YSHTOLA","There may be clues. We should split up and search the area."
40,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000385_ALISAIE","There's no sign of Alphinaud. Nor of Maxima and his people."
41,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000390_YUGIRI","Hm. These were no ordinary soldiers."
43,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000410_YUGIRI","The insignia on this man's uniform identifies him as one of the Emperor's personal guard."
44,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000420_YSHTOLA","Handpicked soldiers answering only to the royal family..."
45,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000430_HIEN","That would explain why all the casualties are Garlean. They were fighting their own."
46,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000440_ALISAIE","You're saying the Emperor was behind all this? That Alphinaud is his prisoner?"
47,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_Q1_000_001_NONE_VOICE","What will you say?"
48,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A1_000_001_NONE_VOICE","We don't know that yet."
49,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A1_000_002_NONE_VOICE","Alphinaud is fine, I'm sure of it."
50,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000450_HIEN","Aye, we must not jump to conclusions. Besides, Alphinaud is more than capable of looking after himself, is he not?"
51,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000460_YUGIRI","I suggest we return to Doma to consider our options. Whatever happened here, Master Alphinaud is long gone, and any subsequent search may safely be left in the hands of the shinobi."
52,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000470_ALISAIE","Where in the world are you, Brother? If you die on me, I will never let you hear the end of it."
53,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000480_YSHTOLA","Lyse! What brings you here?"
54,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000490_LYSE","Oh, Alliance business. We have a request for Doma─well, Hien."
55,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000500_LYSE","But that can wait. They told me you were out searching for Alphinaud. Did you manage to pick up his trail?"
56,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000510_LYSE","Well, if he wasn't at the crash site, he might still have escaped. We have to keep searching!"
57,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000520_HIEN","And we will. Alphinaud embarked on this journey as an emissary of Doma, and I hold myself responsible for his safe return. I will have our shinobi in the provinces search for him as a matter of urgency."
58,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000530_HIEN","Chin up, Alisaie. You'll get to admonish your brother for his recklessness yet."
59,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000540_ALISAIE","Well, someone has to do it."
60,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000550_LYSE","I'm sure he's going to be fine. There is one thing I'm <Emphasis>not</Emphasis> sure about, though."
61,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000560_LYSE","You said it was the Emperor's personal guard that attacked Alphinaud's airship."
62,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000570_LYSE","But the Populares would never have been able to arrange the prisoner exchange without Varis's blessing. So why would he sabotage his own mission?"
63,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000580_YUGIRI","They may not have been acting on Varis's orders. The guard answer not only to him, but to his family. The crown prince, included."
64,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000590_HIEN","When Yotsuyu summoned Tsukuyomi, Asahi was quick to proclaim that a Doman citizen had violated the terms of our agreement. That the negotiations had failed."
65,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000600_HIEN","And it is this version of events that is now being repeated across Garlemald. To hear the tale, one would think the prisoner exchange never took place. Plainly, someone is manipulating matters from the shadows. Most likely Zenos─or whoever it is that wears his face."
66,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000610_YSHTOLA","Whichever Ascian, you mean. We all know the nature of our adversary."
67,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000620_HIEN","The servants of chaos are true to their name. Their meddling has cost Doma a chance at peace."
68,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000630_HIEN","Whoever it was that loosed his personal guard, the Emperor cannot be ignorant of these developments. We must proceed on the assumption that our treaty is indeed in tatters."
69,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000640_HIEN","But come, Lyse, you have journeyed far. Let me hear your petition."
70,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000650_LYSE","Right, so, the big news is that Ala Mhigo has agreed to join the Eorzean Alliance."
71,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000660_LYSE","To make it official, and discuss where we all go from here, the leaders of the five nations are planning to hold a meeting, and we were hoping you might come too."
72,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000670_LYSE","We've already seen what we can achieve when we work together, and the Alliance hopes to work even more closely in future. They think it's our best hope of keeping the Garleans in check─and I agree."
73,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000680_HIEN","As do I. By coordinating our efforts in the east and west, we may be able to discourage them from committing their forces to a single front."
74,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000690_HIEN","I accept your invitation. I must, however, ask for time to attend to some pressing matters here."
75,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000700_HIEN","In light of recent events, the risk of imperial reprisals is greater than ever, and I would not leave Doma unguarded. Ere I depart, I must shore up her defenses."
76,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000710_LYSE","Understood. I'll let the Alliance know."
77,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000720_LYSE","We'll wait to hear from you before setting a date. The meeting's to be held at the Royal Palace in Ala Mhigo, incidentally. Do you remember the way?"
78,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000730_HIEN","Well enough. Please assure my hosts that I will not keep them waiting any longer than I have to."
79,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000740_LYSE","Consider it done! And thank you for agreeing to come. If we all put our heads together, we're sure to find the best way forward. For everyone."
80,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000750_YUGIRI","If we are to ready ourselves for invasion, we shall need manpower, provisions, and time. All of which are in notably short supply."
81,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000760_HIEN","Candid as ever, Yugiri. And correct, I concede. Fortunately, I have an idea."
82,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000770_HIEN","'Tis plain no single nation can stand against the might of the Empire."
83,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000780_HIEN","And it was only with the aid of others that Doma succeeded in winning her freedom. So I mean to take a leaf out of our Eorzean friends' book and form an alliance of our own."
84,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000790_HIEN","In addition to those with whom we already share an understanding, I would reach out to Hingashi and Sui-no-Sato, and further afield, to the myriad peoples of Nagxia and Dalmasca."
85,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000800_HIEN","I am under no illusion─not all will answer the call. Yet disparate though we may be, we are united in our desire for freedom."
86,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000810_HIEN","If our neighbors could be made to see what is at stake─Ascian machinations and all─cooperation need not be so far-fetched a notion."
87,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000820_YSHTOLA","...It may even seem practical."
88,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000830_YSHTOLA","Under the guidance of our former leader, Master Louisoix, we once strove to unite the fractious city–states of Eorzea. I daresay that experience shall be of use in your endeavor."
89,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000840_HIEN","We should be glad of your wisdom."
90,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000850_ALISAIE","For the record, I would have been in favor of this plan, even if it <Emphasis>hadn't</Emphasis> been my grandfather's, but I have to ask: how will we secure the time to carry it out?"
91,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000860_ALISAIE","Not that anyone has forgotten, but the Garleans have airships. Lots and lots of airships. Should they catch wind of our plan, they could send an armada to overwhelm us before our alliance had even begun to take shape."
92,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000870_YSHTOLA","...Not if we deny them access to the skies."
93,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000880_YSHTOLA","During our time in the Burn, the Warrior of Light and I chanced upon some Allagan ruins."
94,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000890_ALISAIE","Oh?"
95,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000900_YSHTOLA","As such ruins go, they were not particularly unusual, but something about the surrounding land struck me as odd. Faint though it was, its aetherial residue was uncannily similar to that of Azys Lla. Identical, in fact."
96,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000910_YSHTOLA","For locations so far removed to share a single aetheric signature is all but impossible. I conclude therefore that the Allagans created the floating continent with land taken from the Burn."
97,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000920_YUGIRI","While that is a most intriguing theory, I fail to see what relevance it has to Doma's defense."
98,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000930_YSHTOLA","Azys Lla was enclosed in a powerful energy barrier, impenetrable even to an Agrius-class battleship."
99,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000940_YSHTOLA","It occurred to me that those ruins may have enjoyed similar protection. I have no proof, but the Warrior of Light <Emphasis>did</Emphasis> report seeing a structure resembling other known Allagan field generators."
100,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000950_YSHTOLA","It occurred to me that those ruins may have enjoyed similar protection. I have no proof, but the Warrior of Light <Emphasis>did</Emphasis> report seeing a structure resembling other known Allagan field generators."
101,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000960_ALISAIE","All right, but even if we could put up such an energy barrier, it surely wouldn't extend beyond the limits of the Burn. So what's to stop the Garleans flying around it?"
102,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000970_HIEN","...Fuel. The Dalmascan capital, Rabanastre, was a key imperial refueling point in the East. By laying waste to it as a lesson to the rest, the Empire greatly hindered its own operations in the region."
103,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000980_HIEN","If an imperial fleet were to advance upon Doma, it would now have little choice but to travel as the crow flies─over the Burn."
104,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000990_ALISAIE","I see!"
105,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001000_YSHTOLA","A word of caution. Even assuming the generator still functions, raising a barrier of such a scale will require a prodigious amount of energy."
106,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001010_YSHTOLA","And few places are so bereft of suitable crystals as the Burn."
107,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001020_HIEN","Hm... A source of energy."
108,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001030_HIEN","Tell me, did the Allagans make a habit of launching things into the sky?"
109,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001040_YSHTOLA","A curious question. Besides Azys Lla, I know of only one other notable instance: the red moon Dalamud, whose fall triggered the Calamity."
110,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001050_HIEN","Just the two occasions, you say... Then I believe I may have a solution to our energy problem."
112,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001070_HIEN","I <Emphasis>may</Emphasis>. To find out for sure, we would need to visit the Azim Steppe."
113,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001080_HIEN","...Which would, I now see, present the perfect opportunity to discuss an alliance with the Xaela tribes. How very neat! What say you, then? Shall we see whither this road leads?"
114,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001090_HIEN","Ahhh, I will never tire of this vista! The endless fields, the boundless skies... 'Tis a sight to make a man forget his cares."
115,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001100_YSHTOLA","But not his purpose, I trust."
116,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001110_YSHTOLA","Might this be a fitting moment to tell us what we are doing here?"
117,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001120_HIEN","Of course. During my time with the Mol, I learned some few myths of this land. One goes thus..."
118,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001130_HIEN","“In the distant past, when all seemed doomed, a wayfaring soul came unto the steppe. Venturing into the northern crag, he received of Nhaama a sliver of her essence─a shard of the shining moon─and with it clove the tainted land from the earth."
119,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001140_HIEN","“The end thus averted, to these fields did the wayfaring soul return. And venturing once more into the northern crag, he buried the shard, and made unto the heavens an offering of blood.”"
120,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001150_YSHTOLA","A tainted land cloven from the earth, and an offering of blood to the heavens... Azys Lla and Dalamud."
121,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001160_HIEN","That was my thinking, yes."
122,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001170_YSHTOLA","And you believe that yonder mountains hide an artifact possessed of sufficient power to raise Azys Lla up to the heavens. ...I suppose that might suffice."
123,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001180_HIEN","Worth a closer look, would you say?"
125,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001200_YSHTOLA","Such an abundance of aether!"
126,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001210_HIEN","Are we in luck?"
127,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001220_YSHTOLA","We are. This is an Allagan artifact, most likely built to regulate the flow of aether."
128,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001230_YSHTOLA","I strongly suspect the ancients used it to stem the flow from here to the Burn. That would explain how they were able to untether what became Azys Lla from its surroundings."
129,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001240_YSHTOLA","But were we to throw open the floodgates, the resultant deluge would surely be sufficient to raise our wall. And in restoring the flow, we may also restore life to the wasteland."
130,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001250_YSHTOLA","Hm...?"
131,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001260_HIEN","What is it?"
132,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001270_YSHTOLA","While the device itself harbors a surfeit of aether, the opposite is true of the surrounding area..."
133,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001280_YSHTOLA","An effect of regulation, perhaps? A similar phenomenon seemed to be occurring in Doma..."
134,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001290_YSHTOLA","Whatever the explanation, the answer will not reveal itself here. We have seen what we needed to see. Let us return to Mol Iloh."
135,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001300_SADU","Yes, this spot shall serve as well as any. I shall enjoy this, khagan!"
136,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001310_YSHTOLA","Is this truly necessary? Have you no peaceable way of making decisions?"
137,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001320_SADU","Speak not of peace. You stand before proud warriors of the Dotharl. In the heat of battle do our souls burn brightest!"
138,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001330_SADU","We lay low the strong that we may rise higher!"
139,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001335_SADU","That is our way─the way of might! There is no other!"
140,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001340_YSHTOLA","...Well, they do not want for conviction."
141,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001350_HIEN","Indeed. It's what makes them such dangerous enemies...and such useful allies."
142,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001360_SADU","Enough talk! It is time to fight!"
143,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001370_SADU","Yes! YES! Not since the Naadam has my soul burned so!"
144,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001380_SADU","Come! We have only just begun!"
145,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001390_MAGNAI","Enough. You were not granted leave to set the Steppe ablaze."
146,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001400_HIEN","Well, well! The sun has come out to play!"
147,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001410_SADU","Begone, moonstruck Oronir! I am busy."
148,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001420_MAGNAI","Fool of a Dotharl. Have you forgotten the face of your master already? The Sun will never set! From his seat on high, he reigns over all, now and forever!"
149,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001430_MAGNAI","Yet what should he find here but a battle to determine the fate of the Steppe─a battle waged without his blessing! This will not stand!"
150,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001440_MAGNAI","You, Doman. You who come to petition the warriors of this land forget that all Nhaama's children are wards of the Oronir. As first among my brothers, your petition is mine alone to judge."
151,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001450_SADU","These words are as wind from a horse's backside. Plentiful. But your axe sings more sweetly. Let her speak for you."
152,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001460_MAGNAI","Insolent child. You will learn your place."
153,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001470_HIEN","Forgive me, Brother Magnai, but we have an arrangement with the Dotharl. We will not abide any interruptions."
154,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001480_MAGNAI","So be it. The Sun will pass judgment on all. Daidukul─join me."
155,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001485_SADU","The Sun is in good company. We may dance alone."
156,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001490_MAGNAI","Beg not for mercy, for you will have none. Bear witness to the power and the glory of Azim!"
157,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001500_YSHTOLA","Constantly at each other's throats, like rabid...dogs. Gods, I'm turning into her."
158,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001510_YSHTOLA","Ahem. I have not the patience for this. But if we must fight, let us at least be brief. Come!"
159,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001515_SYSTEM","In the coming battle, you will fight as Y'shtola."
160,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001520_SADU","Ahhh, never have I felt such bliss in defeat!"
161,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001530_SADU","'Twas a battle to burn soul and flesh to ash. We Dotharl will lend you our strength as promised. Nhaama's power is yours to wield."
162,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001540_SADU","What does the Sun say to that?"
163,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001550_MAGNAI","Hmph. The Sun is not driven by base motives such as yours. But aye, they have been judged...and found worthy."
164,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001560_MAGNAI","It is the way of the Oronir to accord recognition and respect to the strong. You have made sufficient proof of your strength. The Sun shall answer your call."
165,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001570_HIEN","You have our thanks. We are glad to call you allies."
166,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001580_MAGNAI","You. By what are you called?"
169,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001610_MAGNAI","Are you my Nhaama?"
170,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001620_YSHTOLA","I beg your pardon?"
171,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001630_MAGNAI","In battle, you shone with all the majesty of the full moon's light, your healing touch the embodiment of the Dusk Mother's love."
172,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001640_MAGNAI","Long had I wondered if my Nhaama might not be a woman of the Steppe. Beholding you, I am all but certain!"
173,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001650_MAGNAI","Now, look into my eyes. Could it be...? Could you be...?"
174,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001660_YSHTOLA","I am...not interested, little sun. Try again when you have become a man."
176,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001680_SADU","No subtitles. Report if displayed."
177,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001690_SADU","Little sun! Little sun!"
178,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001700_SADU","Does it pain you, little sun? Crave you salve to soothe the ache? Fire to sear the wound in your heart?"
179,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001710_YSHTOLA","We have wasted enough time here. Cirina waits for word of our success."
180,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001720_HIEN","Did it work?"
181,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001730_YSHTOLA","It did. Aether may flow freely to the Burn once more."
182,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001740_NANAMOULNAMO","Mistress Lyse. Commander Aldynn. It gives me great pleasure to formally welcome the city-state of Ala Mhigo to the Eorzean Alliance."
183,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001750_RAUBAHN","The pleasure is ours, Your Grace. I know I speak for all Ala Mhigans when I say that we are glad of this chance to stand with our comrades of the Alliance."
184,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001760_KANESENNA","And we for our part are glad indeed to be able to welcome friends both old and new..."
185,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001770_HIEN","Lord Hien of Doma, at your service. Pray accept my heartfelt thanks for your generous invitation."
186,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001780_AYMERIC","Nay, 'tis we who must thank you for journeying so far. And 'twould be remiss of me not to acknowledge the part the Scions of the Seventh Dawn have played in bringing all of us together."
187,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001790_AYMERIC","In times of great unrest, you and yours have been our constant companions, without whom we would not be here."
188,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001800_NANAMOULNAMO","With apologies to Lord Hien and Mistress Alisaie, it occurs to me that we have not gathered in this way since that fateful day in Ul'dah."
189,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001810_RAUBAHN","The day I lost my arm and my freedom... As I lay in my cell, never did I dream that I would one day be given the chance to represent my homeland at this council."
190,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001820_RAUBAHN","I would not even be alive had you not plucked me from the jaws of death─you, Yugiri, and Alphinaud. Would that the lad could be with us..."
191,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001830_ALISAIE","I too owe my presence here to Alphinaud. In so many ways... Until such time as he returns, I mean to carry on his good work as best I can."
192,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001840_NANAMOULNAMO","Come, friends─let us leave the past in the past, and turn our eyes to the future. My lord Hien, pray tell us how things stand in the East."
193,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001850_KANESENNA","Having heard the rumors of dissent in Garlemald, I dared to dream of a peaceable solution..."
194,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001860_MERLWYB","Hm. The Empire will not so easily change its ways."
195,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001870_MERLWYB","If the Garleans have a mind to take back Doma and Ala Mhigo, we'll be hard-pressed to stop them. Even with the might of six nations."
196,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001880_MERLWYB","But while we lack the strength to fight the tide, a course may yet present itself if we read the winds aright."
197,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001890_AYMERIC","The winds suggest but one course to me─one which leads from the sea unto the river and thence to the source of all our woes."
199,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001910_AYMERIC","Indeed. All here have felt their blighted touch. It was the Bringers of Chaos who nurtured the archbishop's tyrannical ambitions..."
200,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001920_AYMERIC","They who bestowed upon him the secrets of summoning, as they have so many others, before and since. And while they remain, we shall know no peace."
201,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001930_RAUBAHN","Our objective is clear. The question is how to achieve it. That our enemy parades about in Zenos's skin poses problems in itself, but ere we get to them, how are we to infiltrate the Empire and get close enough to strike?"
202,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001940_THANCRED","While I see the wisdom in targeting the Ascians, an assassination attempt on Garlean soil would do little to aid our cause...even were it to succeed. It's time we used our enemy's preferred tactic: subterfuge."
203,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001950_YSHTOLA","You have an idea?"
204,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001960_MERLWYB","Speak your mind, Master Thancred. None here know the enemy better than the Scions, and you mayhap best of all."
205,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001970_MERLWYB","Whatever it is you propose, we will give it fair hearing. On that you have my word."
206,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001980_THANCRED","Very well, Admiral. My proposal is thus."
207,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001990_THANCRED","We dispatch the shinobi to imperial territory. There, they sow the rumor that the crown prince perished in the battle for Ala Mhigo, and that the man parading around is in fact a corpse inhabited by a servant of darkness."
208,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002000_RAUBAHN","Well...it does have the ring of truth about it. And were the Garleans to learn that their future ruler is a puppet, the Empire would be shaken to the core."
209,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002010_LYSE","But─at the risk of sounding stupid─would they actually believe such an unlikely story? I didn't."
210,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002020_THANCRED","Ordinarily not. But prior to his miraculous recovery, rumors of Zenos's death had already begun to circulate around the Empire."
211,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002030_THANCRED","Ultimately, however, what the masses believe is not our chief concern. Our true objective is to create an opening for rival factions within Garlemald to exploit."
212,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002040_HIEN","Just as a war of succession erupted in the wake of Emperor Solus's death!"
213,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002050_THANCRED","A war which raged until but recently, plunging the imperial house into disarray as nephew and uncle grappled for the throne."
214,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002060_THANCRED","It is no coincidence that one of Varis's first acts as Emperor was to name Zenos heir apparent─family feuds being so tiresome when armies are involved. Not all welcomed his choice of successor, however."
215,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002070_THANCRED","There is no shortage of individuals who aspire to the throne─who would jump at any chance to seize power. The news that Zenos is not only dead, but a puppet to diabolical forces, would be too enticing to ignore."
216,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002080_HIEN","The Empire would not be quick to recover from a second war of succession."
217,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002090_THANCRED","I am no stranger to infiltrating imperial territory. With a team of operatives gathered from among the Alliance's finest, the plan should have a reasonable chance of success."
218,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002100_HIEN","Doma already has shinobi in place throughout the provinces. We stand ready to act, and act we must. What say you all?"
219,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002110_MERLWYB","I am for Master Thancred's proposal. We shine a light upon the Ascian and test the Empire's unity."
220,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002120_MERLWYB","'Twas his plot that scuttled Doma's negotiations, was it not? Why then, if we can eliminate him, there may yet be a chance for peace."
221,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002130_MERLWYB","Let us wage this war of subterfuge, that we may one day lay down our arms. Gods know, we never will while the Ascians remain."
241,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002300_RESISTANCEHEALER","Master Thancred remains in slumber. Though his vital signs appear stable, he is unresponsive."
242,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002310_LYSE","What could have done this? And why just him and not the others?"
243,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002320_RESISTANCEHEALER","I'm afraid we could not identify the cause, my lady. Our examinations revealed no wounds, nor the presence of any poisonous substances..."
244,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002330_LYSE","Gods, that only makes it worse. You're to let us know the moment there's any change, all right?"
245,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002340_ALISAIE","Thank you for coming. Knowing Thancred, he would apologize for being otherwise engaged at so crucial a juncture."
246,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002350_KANESENNA","In gifting us a course of action, Thancred sowed the seed of all that is to follow. We have but to nurture it as best we can. To him I would say rest easy, that he may wake to enjoy the fruits of our labors."
247,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002360_KANESENNA","Now, the matter of the mysterious voice must not be forgotten. Will you tell me exactly what happened?"
248,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002370_YSHTOLA","Alisaie and I heard a voice in the moments before Thancred collapsed. It was accompanied by a severe headache─as if something were clutching at our minds. Did you experience the same thing?"
249,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002380_ALISAIE","...So, in between the voice and the pain, you felt as if you were somewhere else entirely?"
250,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002390_KANESENNA","Your testimony confirms my suspicion. That which you experienced was, I believe, your soul being plucked from your flesh. <Emphasis>Called</Emphasis>."
253,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002420_KANESENNA","Reach out as I may, I could not sense in him the spark of life that is his soul."
254,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002430_KANESENNA","That Thancred alone was stricken so is likely due to his heightened sensitivity to the effects of aether─a consequence of his prior possession by the Ascian Lahabrea."
255,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002440_KANESENNA","The owner of the voice, whoever it may be, reached out to you─called your souls─and in so doing caused you and yours such pain."
256,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002450_ALISAIE","But...if that's true, where exactly are we being called <Emphasis>to</Emphasis>?"
257,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002460_KANESENNA","I know not. Yet one thing is plain: whoever waits for you on the other side is possessed of a power unlike any I have ever known."
258,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002470_YSHTOLA","Forgive us, Lyse, but may we leave Thancred in your care for a time?"
259,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002480_LYSE","As if you had to ask. I may not be a Scion anymore, but I'm no less a friend."
260,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002490_LYSE","Don't worry, I'll see to it that Thancred's well looked after. Just focus on solving this mystery, all right?"
262,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002510_YSHTOLA","As the Elder Seedseer says, 'tis no ordinary individual we are dealing with. Nor can we discount the possibility of Ascian involvement."
263,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002520_ALISAIE","Whoever or whatever is behind this, the sooner we find out the better."
264,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002530_ALISAIE","Urianger! Gods it's good to see you!"
265,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002540_URIANGER","Would that our meeting were under happier circumstances. I judged the voice sufficient cause for concern even before you sent word of its effect on our comrade..."
266,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002550_YSHTOLA","You heard it too, then?"
267,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002560_URIANGER","Aye. And all but certainly at the selfsame instant. Alas, pained as I was, I could make little sense of what few words did then reach mine ears."
268,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002570_YSHTOLA","Who do you think is responsible? Could this be the Ascians' doing?"
269,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002580_URIANGER","That I cannot say. Not when so little is known."
270,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002590_URIANGER","Ere I indulge in speculation, I would examine Thancred with mine own eyes."
271,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002600_ALISAIE","To Ala Mhigo, then─without further delay!"
272,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002610_YSHTOLA","One other thing. During my visit to the Far East, I observed a strange phenomenon."
273,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002620_URIANGER","Thou referest, I presume, to the localized reduction in aetheric density?"
274,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002630_YSHTOLA","Well, that spares me the trouble of an explanation. Yes. I noted precisely that at two apparently unconnected locations. I take it the phenomenon is not limited to the Far East?"
275,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002640_URIANGER","Indeed not. Of late, our agents charged with surveilling the beast tribes have spoken of little else. In every corner of the realm, they tell of places in which the aether hath grown thin."
276,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002650_URIANGER","Naturally, my suspicions first turned to primal activity, but the areas thus affected betray no evidence of summoning. I must confess to being quite perplexed."
277,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002660_YSHTOLA","If the same phenomenon is being observed in multiple locations on opposite sides of the world, we may safely discount regional factors. Needless to say, this warrants further investigation."
278,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002670_URIANGER","Indeed. I shall make it my task to─"
279,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002680_URIANGER","The voice... It calleth to me once more..."
280,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002690_YSHTOLA","I...I hear it too!"
281,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002700_MYSTERYVOICE","Only you... Only you..."
285,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002740_ALISAIE","No! NO! This can't be happening!"
286,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002750_ALISAIE","Y'shtola! Urianger! Open your eyes!"
287,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002760_ALISAIE","Open your eyes, I beg you..."
288,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002770_ALISAIE","Say something...anything... Not again... Please! Not again!"
289,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002780_MAELSTROMOFFICER","Here he is, my lady."
290,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002790_ALISAIE","Ga Bu...it's been too long."
291,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002795_GABU","..."
292,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002800_MAELSTROMOFFICER","I'm afraid there has been no change. If he can see or hear us, he has given no sign..."
293,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002810_ALISAIE","I see. You're still fighting."
294,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002820_ALISAIE","I'm proud of you."
295,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002830_ALISAIE","We promised that we would come and visit you together, didn't we. Alphinaud and I. I'm sorry that we haven't managed that yet."
296,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002840_ALISAIE","You know, with the three of us like this, does it not remind you of that night? Of the stars beyond count, twinkling in the heavens?"
297,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002850_ALISAIE","I was feeling pretty low back then. Powerless. But I knew that my brother was close by if I needed him. And that the others would be waiting for me back at the Rising Stones."
298,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002860_ALISAIE","Not like now."
299,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002870_ALISAIE","I've seen my share of trouble since coming to Eorzea."
300,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002875_ALISAIE","...Been reminded again and again of my limitations─of how little I can change about this world. And I've come to know the sorrow of parting all too well."
301,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002880_ALISAIE","But to have the people I hold dear struck down before my eyes, and be powerless to help them...? That─ That I cannot bear."
302,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_Q3_000_001_NONE_VOICE","What will you say?"
303,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A3_000_001_NONE_VOICE","You still have me."
304,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A3_000_002_NONE_VOICE","You don't have to bear this burden alone."
305,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002890_ALISAIE","And for that I am grateful. I don't know what I'd do without you."
306,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002900_ALISAIE","...No. I don't. You're right. It's pure arrogance to imagine I can solve everything by myself. You'd think I'd have learned that by now. Thank you. I don't know what I'd do without you."
307,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002910_ALISAIE","Well, that's more than enough brooding for one day."
308,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002920_ALISAIE","Come on. We have friends to save."
309,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002925_SYSTEM","Meanwhile, in the imperial palace..."
310,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002930_ROBEMAN","(-Zenos-)The Populares no longer present an obstacle. Now is the time to bring the Empire's might to bear."
311,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002940_ROBEMAN","(-Zenos-)A word from Your Radiance is all it takes. But <Emphasis>one word</Emphasis>, and the imperial army will fall upon Ala Mhigo as a pack of bloodthirsty wolves and tear that feeble nation apart."
312,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002950_ROBEMAN","(-Zenos-)Have you no words for me?"
313,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002960_ROBEMAN","(-Zenos-)Despite the lengths I go to─an emissary, playing the part of a fool."
314,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002970_ROBEMAN","(-Zenos-)When first I took this face, I swore to use all of my knowledge, all of my power, to further the cause of the Empire. My deeds stand testament to my commitment."
315,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002980_ROBEMAN","(-Zenos-)And with this adamant flesh at my disposal, I could destroy the eikon-slayer as easily as one might swat a fly. Why do you hesitate?"
316,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002990_ROBEMAN","No subtitles, reported if displayed."
317,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003000_ROBEMAN","(-Zenos-)Our enemy is resourceful. Though victory is certain now, it will not remain so indefinitely. Deliberate if you must, but be quick about it. We will speak again when you have unburdened yourself of doubt. Until then, I take my leave...Father."
318,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003010_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)I should be the one to sigh."
319,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003020_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)I played my part to perfection. I had earned my rest. And then, thanks to Lahabrea's crowning act of idiocy, our favorite emissary sees fit to summon me back."
320,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003030_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)Elidibus was ever a worrier. A most tiresome trait, would you not agree?"
321,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003040_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)What, have you no words for me either? No matter. I've long grown weary of this mummery."
322,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003050_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)Now, my dearest grandson. Let me remind you of your place, in the simplest of terms."
324,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003060_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)You do not make judgments─you administer them. Swiftly and to the letter. Naught else is your concern."
325,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003070_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)Elidibus may be an insufferable bore, but he is no fool. His choices as emissary seldom err."
326,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003080_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)If aught threatens the balance 'twixt Light and Dark, it falls to you to remove it."
327,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003090_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)Be it by your own hands or by your armies, you have ample means at your disposal."
328,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003100_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","That is why this empire exists─why <Emphasis>I</Emphasis> built it."
329,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003110_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","Oh dear. Have I touched a nerve? You always were an easy one to read."
330,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003120_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","I pity you, I do. As they say, ignorance is bliss. And I know how much happier you would be not knowing the things you know."
331,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003130_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","The founding father was an Ascian! And he created the Empire solely for the purpose of sowing the seeds of chaos!"
332,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003140_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","Don't take it personally. I merely do my duty."
333,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003150_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","To bring about a Calamity requires no small amount of power. And there is no surer way to obtain such power than by collecting powerful pawns."
334,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003160_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","To that end, I have labored long and hard, and I must say I am quite pleased with my handiwork─paltry though it seems in comparison to Allag."
335,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003170_VARIS","You fiends are overfond of your own voices."
336,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003180_VARIS","Mark me, Ascian. Man is the master of his own destiny!"
337,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003190_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","No subtitles, report if displayed."
338,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003200_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","Such a waste of time and energy. Both yours and mine."
339,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003210_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","Lest you forget, you are Emperor now. If you wish to spout drivel about man's destiny, save it for the masses. It will serve to give them a sense of purpose...and you pliant pieces for the game."
340,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003220_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","Oh, do stop sulking, boy. You of all people should understand."
341,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003230_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","Ours is a struggle to restore both mankind and the world to their rightful state. Viewed thus, our goals are one and the same."
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And? I can't very well sit around here drinking tea if Alphinaud is in trouble. You said yourself that this linkpearl was only to be used in emergencies.
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So I'm <Emphasis>going</Emphasis>, and that's the end of it.
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Well, far be it from me to change your minds.
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Ah! There you are!
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Between contending with bloodthirsty beasts and sand in my...every conceivable place, I had begun to despair of finding you again.Between contending with bloodthirsty beasts and sand in my...every conceivable place, I'm quite ready to leave this wasteland. But first things first...
Mistress Alisaie and I briefly inspected it. It is the vessel that bore Master Alphinaud away.Judging by its class, it must be the vessel that bore Master Alphinaud away.
You're saying the Emperor was behind all this? That Alphinaud is his prisoner?The insignia on this man's uniform identifies him as one of the Emperor's personal guard.
I suggest we return to Doma to consider our options. Whatever happened here, Master Alphinaud is long gone, and any subsequent search may safely be left in the hands of the shinobi.We don't know that yet.
Oh, Alliance business. We have a request for Doma─well, Hien.I suggest we return to Doma to consider our options. Whatever happened here, Master Alphinaud is long gone, and any subsequent search may safely be left in the hands of the shinobi.
But that can wait. They told me you were out searching for Alphinaud. Did you manage to pick up his trail?Where in the world are you, Brother? If you die on me, I will never let you hear the end of it.
And we will. Alphinaud embarked on this journey as an emissary of Doma, and I hold myself responsible for his safe return. I will have our shinobi in the provinces search for him as a matter of urgency.Oh, Alliance business. We have a request for Doma─well, Hien.
Chin up, Alisaie. You'll get to admonish your brother for his recklessness yet.But that can wait. They told me you were out searching for Alphinaud. Did you manage to pick up his trail?
I'm sure he's going to be fine. There is one thing I'm <Emphasis>not</Emphasis> sure about, though.And we will. Alphinaud embarked on this journey as an emissary of Doma, and I hold myself responsible for his safe return. I will have our shinobi in the provinces search for him as a matter of urgency.
You said it was the Emperor's personal guard that attacked Alphinaud's airship.Chin up, Alisaie. You'll get to admonish your brother for his recklessness yet.
But the Populares would never have been able to arrange the prisoner exchange without Varis's blessing. So why would he sabotage his own mission?Well, someone has to do it.
They may not have been acting on Varis's orders. The guard answer not only to him, but to his family. The crown prince, included.I'm sure he's going to be fine. There is one thing I'm <Emphasis>not</Emphasis> sure about, though.
When Yotsuyu summoned Tsukuyomi, Asahi was quick to proclaim that a Doman citizen had violated the terms of our agreement. That the negotiations had failed.You said it was the Emperor's personal guard that attacked Alphinaud's airship.
And it is this version of events that is now being repeated across Garlemald. To hear the tale, one would think the prisoner exchange never took place. Plainly, someone is manipulating matters from the shadows. Most likely Zenos─or whoever it is that wears his face.But the Populares would never have been able to arrange the prisoner exchange without Varis's blessing. So why would he sabotage his own mission?
Whichever Ascian, you mean. We all know the nature of our adversary.They may not have been acting on Varis's orders. The guard answer not only to him, but to his family. The crown prince, included.
The servants of chaos are true to their name. Their meddling has cost Doma a chance at peace.When Yotsuyu summoned Tsukuyomi, Asahi was quick to proclaim that a Doman citizen had violated the terms of our agreement. That the negotiations had failed.
Whoever it was that loosed his personal guard, the Emperor cannot be ignorant of these developments. We must proceed on the assumption that our treaty is indeed in tatters.And it is this version of events that is now being repeated across Garlemald. To hear the tale, one would think the prisoner exchange never took place. Plainly, someone is manipulating matters from the shadows. Most likely Zenos─or whoever it is that wears his face.
Right, so, the big news is that Ala Mhigo has agreed to join the Eorzean Alliance.The servants of chaos are true to their name. Their meddling has cost Doma a chance at peace.
To make it official, and discuss where we all go from here, the leaders of the five nations are planning to hold a meeting, and we were hoping you might come too.Whoever it was that loosed his personal guard, the Emperor cannot be ignorant of these developments. We must proceed on the assumption that our treaty is indeed in tatters.
We've already seen what we can achieve when we work together, and the Alliance hopes to work even more closely in future. They think it's our best hope of keeping the Garleans in check─and I agree.But come, Lyse, you have journeyed far. Let me hear your petition.
As do I. By coordinating our efforts in the east and west, we may be able to discourage them from committing their forces to a single front.Right, so, the big news is that Ala Mhigo has agreed to join the Eorzean Alliance.
I accept your invitation. I must, however, ask for time to attend to some pressing matters here.To make it official, and discuss where we all go from here, the leaders of the five nations are planning to hold a meeting, and we were hoping you might come too.
In light of recent events, the risk of imperial reprisals is greater than ever, and I would not leave Doma unguarded. Ere I depart, I must shore up her defenses.We've already seen what we can achieve when we work together, and the Alliance hopes to work even more closely in future. They think it's our best hope of keeping the Garleans in check─and I agree.
Understood. I'll let the Alliance know.As do I. By coordinating our efforts in the east and west, we may be able to discourage them from committing their forces to a single front.
We'll wait to hear from you before setting a date. The meeting's to be held at the Royal Palace in Ala Mhigo, incidentally. Do you remember the way?I accept your invitation. I must, however, ask for time to attend to some pressing matters here.
Well enough. Please assure my hosts that I will not keep them waiting any longer than I have to.In light of recent events, the risk of imperial reprisals is greater than ever, and I would not leave Doma unguarded. Ere I depart, I must shore up her defenses.
Consider it done! And thank you for agreeing to come. If we all put our heads together, we're sure to find the best way forward. For everyone.Understood. I'll let the Alliance know.
If we are to ready ourselves for invasion, we shall need manpower, provisions, and time. All of which are in notably short supply.We'll wait to hear from you before setting a date. The meeting's to be held at the Royal Palace in Ala Mhigo, incidentally. Do you remember the way?
Candid as ever, Yugiri. And correct, I concede. Fortunately, I have an idea.Well enough. Please assure my hosts that I will not keep them waiting any longer than I have to.
'Tis plain no single nation can stand against the might of the Empire.Consider it done! And thank you for agreeing to come. If we all put our heads together, we're sure to find the best way forward. For everyone.
And it was only with the aid of others that Doma succeeded in winning her freedom. So I mean to take a leaf out of our Eorzean friends' book and form an alliance of our own.If we are to ready ourselves for invasion, we shall need manpower, provisions, and time. All of which are in notably short supply.
In addition to those with whom we already share an understanding, I would reach out to Hingashi and Sui-no-Sato, and further afield, to the myriad peoples of Nagxia and Dalmasca.Candid as ever, Yugiri. And correct, I concede. Fortunately, I have an idea.
I am under no illusion─not all will answer the call. Yet disparate though we may be, we are united in our desire for freedom.'Tis plain no single nation can stand against the might of the Empire.
If our neighbors could be made to see what is at stake─Ascian machinations and all─cooperation need not be so far-fetched a notion.And it was only with the aid of others that Doma succeeded in winning her freedom. So I mean to take a leaf out of our Eorzean friends' book and form an alliance of our own.
...It may even seem practical.In addition to those with whom we already share an understanding, I would reach out to Hingashi and Sui-no-Sato, and further afield, to the myriad peoples of Nagxia and Dalmasca.
Under the guidance of our former leader, Master Louisoix, we once strove to unite the fractious city–states of Eorzea. I daresay that experience shall be of use in your endeavor.I am under no illusion─not all will answer the call. Yet disparate though we may be, we are united in our desire for freedom.
We should be glad of your wisdom.If our neighbors could be made to see what is at stake─Ascian machinations and all─cooperation need not be so far-fetched a notion.
For the record, I would have been in favor of this plan, even if it <Emphasis>hadn't</Emphasis> been my grandfather's, but I have to ask: how will we secure the time to carry it out?...It may even seem practical.
Not that anyone has forgotten, but the Garleans have airships. Lots and lots of airships. Should they catch wind of our plan, they could send an armada to overwhelm us before our alliance had even begun to take shape.Under the guidance of our former leader, Master Louisoix, we once strove to unite the fractious city–states of Eorzea. I daresay that experience shall be of use in your endeavor.
During our time in the Burn, the Warrior of Light and I chanced upon some Allagan ruins.For the record, I would have been in favor of this plan, even if it <Emphasis>hadn't</Emphasis> been my grandfather's, but I have to ask: how will we secure the time to carry it out?
Oh?Not that anyone has forgotten, but the Garleans have airships. Lots and lots of airships. Should they catch wind of our plan, they could send an armada to overwhelm us before our alliance had even begun to take shape.
As such ruins go, they were not particularly unusual, but something about the surrounding land struck me as odd. Faint though it was, its aetherial residue was uncannily similar to that of Azys Lla. Identical, in fact....Not if we deny them access to the skies.
For locations so far removed to share a single aetheric signature is all but impossible. I conclude therefore that the Allagans created the floating continent with land taken from the Burn.During our time in the Burn, the Warrior of Light and I chanced upon some Allagan ruins.
Azys Lla was enclosed in a powerful energy barrier, impenetrable even to an Agrius-class battleship.As such ruins go, they were not particularly unusual, but something about the surrounding land struck me as odd. Faint though it was, its aetherial residue was uncannily similar to that of Azys Lla. Identical, in fact.
It occurred to me that those ruins may have enjoyed similar protection. I have no proof, but the Warrior of Light <Emphasis>did</Emphasis> report seeing a structure resembling other known Allagan field generators.For locations so far removed to share a single aetheric signature is all but impossible. I conclude therefore that the Allagans created the floating continent with land taken from the Burn.
It occurred to me that those ruins may have enjoyed similar protection. I have no proof, but the Warrior of Light <Emphasis>did</Emphasis> report seeing a structure resembling other known Allagan field generators.While that is a most intriguing theory, I fail to see what relevance it has to Doma's defense.
All right, but even if we could put up such an energy barrier, it surely wouldn't extend beyond the limits of the Burn. So what's to stop the Garleans flying around it?Azys Lla was enclosed in a powerful energy barrier, impenetrable even to an Agrius-class battleship.
...Fuel. The Dalmascan capital, Rabanastre, was a key imperial refueling point in the East. By laying waste to it as a lesson to the rest, the Empire greatly hindered its own operations in the region.It occurred to me that those ruins may have enjoyed similar protection. I have no proof, but the Warrior of Light <Emphasis>did</Emphasis> report seeing a structure resembling other known Allagan field generators.
If an imperial fleet were to advance upon Doma, it would now have little choice but to travel as the crow flies─over the Burn.It occurred to me that those ruins may have enjoyed similar protection. I have no proof, but the Warrior of Light <Emphasis>did</Emphasis> report seeing a structure resembling other known Allagan field generators.
I see!All right, but even if we could put up such an energy barrier, it surely wouldn't extend beyond the limits of the Burn. So what's to stop the Garleans flying around it?
A word of caution. Even assuming the generator still functions, raising a barrier of such a scale will require a prodigious amount of energy....Fuel. The Dalmascan capital, Rabanastre, was a key imperial refueling point in the East. By laying waste to it as a lesson to the rest, the Empire greatly hindered its own operations in the region.
And few places are so bereft of suitable crystals as the Burn.If an imperial fleet were to advance upon Doma, it would now have little choice but to travel as the crow flies─over the Burn.
Tell me, did the Allagans make a habit of launching things into the sky?A word of caution. Even assuming the generator still functions, raising a barrier of such a scale will require a prodigious amount of energy.
A curious question. Besides Azys Lla, I know of only one other notable instance: the red moon Dalamud, whose fall triggered the Calamity.And few places are so bereft of suitable crystals as the Burn.
I <Emphasis>may</Emphasis>. To find out for sure, we would need to visit the Azim Steppe.A curious question. Besides Azys Lla, I know of only one other notable instance: the red moon Dalamud, whose fall triggered the Calamity.
...Which would, I now see, present the perfect opportunity to discuss an alliance with the Xaela tribes. How very neat! What say you, then? Shall we see whither this road leads?Just the two occasions, you say... Then I believe I may have a solution to our energy problem.
Might this be a fitting moment to tell us what we are doing here?...Which would, I now see, present the perfect opportunity to discuss an alliance with the Xaela tribes. How very neat! What say you, then? Shall we see whither this road leads?
Of course. During my time with the Mol, I learned some few myths of this land. One goes thus...Ahhh, I will never tire of this vista! The endless fields, the boundless skies... 'Tis a sight to make a man forget his cares.
“In the distant past, when all seemed doomed, a wayfaring soul came unto the steppe. Venturing into the northern crag, he received of Nhaama a sliver of her essence─a shard of the shining moon─and with it clove the tainted land from the earth.But not his purpose, I trust.
“The end thus averted, to these fields did the wayfaring soul return. And venturing once more into the northern crag, he buried the shard, and made unto the heavens an offering of blood.”Might this be a fitting moment to tell us what we are doing here?
A tainted land cloven from the earth, and an offering of blood to the heavens... Azys Lla and Dalamud.Of course. During my time with the Mol, I learned some few myths of this land. One goes thus...
That was my thinking, yes.“In the distant past, when all seemed doomed, a wayfaring soul came unto the steppe. Venturing into the northern crag, he received of Nhaama a sliver of her essence─a shard of the shining moon─and with it clove the tainted land from the earth.
And you believe that yonder mountains hide an artifact possessed of sufficient power to raise Azys Lla up to the heavens. ...I suppose that might suffice.“The end thus averted, to these fields did the wayfaring soul return. And venturing once more into the northern crag, he buried the shard, and made unto the heavens an offering of blood.”
Such an abundance of aether!And you believe that yonder mountains hide an artifact possessed of sufficient power to raise Azys Lla up to the heavens. ...I suppose that might suffice.
I strongly suspect the ancients used it to stem the flow from here to the Burn. That would explain how they were able to untether what became Azys Lla from its surroundings.Such an abundance of aether!
But were we to throw open the floodgates, the resultant deluge would surely be sufficient to raise our wall. And in restoring the flow, we may also restore life to the wasteland.Are we in luck?
What is it?I strongly suspect the ancients used it to stem the flow from here to the Burn. That would explain how they were able to untether what became Azys Lla from its surroundings.
While the device itself harbors a surfeit of aether, the opposite is true of the surrounding area...But were we to throw open the floodgates, the resultant deluge would surely be sufficient to raise our wall. And in restoring the flow, we may also restore life to the wasteland.
Yes, this spot shall serve as well as any. I shall enjoy this, khagan!While the device itself harbors a surfeit of aether, the opposite is true of the surrounding area...
Is this truly necessary? Have you no peaceable way of making decisions?An effect of regulation, perhaps? A similar phenomenon seemed to be occurring in Doma...
Speak not of peace. You stand before proud warriors of the Dotharl. In the heat of battle do our souls burn brightest!Whatever the explanation, the answer will not reveal itself here. We have seen what we needed to see. Let us return to Mol Iloh.
...Well, they do not want for conviction.Speak not of peace. You stand before proud warriors of the Dotharl. In the heat of battle do our souls burn brightest!
Fool of a Dotharl. Have you forgotten the face of your master already? The Sun will never set! From his seat on high, he reigns over all, now and forever!Enough. You were not granted leave to set the Steppe ablaze.
Yet what should he find here but a battle to determine the fate of the Steppe─a battle waged without his blessing! This will not stand!Well, well! The sun has come out to play!
You, Doman. You who come to petition the warriors of this land forget that all Nhaama's children are wards of the Oronir. As first among my brothers, your petition is mine alone to judge.Begone, moonstruck Oronir! I am busy.
These words are as wind from a horse's backside. Plentiful. But your axe sings more sweetly. Let her speak for you.Fool of a Dotharl. Have you forgotten the face of your master already? The Sun will never set! From his seat on high, he reigns over all, now and forever!
Insolent child. You will learn your place.Yet what should he find here but a battle to determine the fate of the Steppe─a battle waged without his blessing! This will not stand!
Forgive me, Brother Magnai, but we have an arrangement with the Dotharl. We will not abide any interruptions.You, Doman. You who come to petition the warriors of this land forget that all Nhaama's children are wards of the Oronir. As first among my brothers, your petition is mine alone to judge.
So be it. The Sun will pass judgment on all. Daidukul─join me.These words are as wind from a horse's backside. Plentiful. But your axe sings more sweetly. Let her speak for you.
Beg not for mercy, for you will have none. Bear witness to the power and the glory of Azim!Forgive me, Brother Magnai, but we have an arrangement with the Dotharl. We will not abide any interruptions.
'Twas a battle to burn soul and flesh to ash. We Dotharl will lend you our strength as promised. Nhaama's power is yours to wield.Ahem. I have not the patience for this. But if we must fight, let us at least be brief. Come!
Hmph. The Sun is not driven by base motives such as yours. But aye, they have been judged...and found worthy.Ahhh, never have I felt such bliss in defeat!
It is the way of the Oronir to accord recognition and respect to the strong. You have made sufficient proof of your strength. The Sun shall answer your call.'Twas a battle to burn soul and flesh to ash. We Dotharl will lend you our strength as promised. Nhaama's power is yours to wield.
Y'shtola. Why?It is the way of the Oronir to accord recognition and respect to the strong. You have made sufficient proof of your strength. The Sun shall answer your call.
I am...not interested, little sun. Try again when you have become a man.In battle, you shone with all the majesty of the full moon's light, your healing touch the embodiment of the Dusk Mother's love.
It did. Aether may flow freely to the Burn once more.Does it pain you, little sun? Crave you salve to soothe the ache? Fire to sear the wound in your heart?
Mistress Lyse. Commander Aldynn. It gives me great pleasure to formally welcome the city-state of Ala Mhigo to the Eorzean Alliance.We have wasted enough time here. Cirina waits for word of our success.
The pleasure is ours, Your Grace. I know I speak for all Ala Mhigans when I say that we are glad of this chance to stand with our comrades of the Alliance.Did it work?
Lord Hien of Doma, at your service. Pray accept my heartfelt thanks for your generous invitation.Mistress Lyse. Commander Aldynn. It gives me great pleasure to formally welcome the city-state of Ala Mhigo to the Eorzean Alliance.
Nay, 'tis we who must thank you for journeying so far. And 'twould be remiss of me not to acknowledge the part the Scions of the Seventh Dawn have played in bringing all of us together.The pleasure is ours, Your Grace. I know I speak for all Ala Mhigans when I say that we are glad of this chance to stand with our comrades of the Alliance.
In times of great unrest, you and yours have been our constant companions, without whom we would not be here.And we for our part are glad indeed to be able to welcome friends both old and new...
With apologies to Lord Hien and Mistress Alisaie, it occurs to me that we have not gathered in this way since that fateful day in Ul'dah.Lord Hien of Doma, at your service. Pray accept my heartfelt thanks for your generous invitation.
The day I lost my arm and my freedom... As I lay in my cell, never did I dream that I would one day be given the chance to represent my homeland at this council.Nay, 'tis we who must thank you for journeying so far. And 'twould be remiss of me not to acknowledge the part the Scions of the Seventh Dawn have played in bringing all of us together.
I would not even be alive had you not plucked me from the jaws of death─you, Yugiri, and Alphinaud. Would that the lad could be with us...In times of great unrest, you and yours have been our constant companions, without whom we would not be here.
I too owe my presence here to Alphinaud. In so many ways... Until such time as he returns, I mean to carry on his good work as best I can.With apologies to Lord Hien and Mistress Alisaie, it occurs to me that we have not gathered in this way since that fateful day in Ul'dah.
Come, friends─let us leave the past in the past, and turn our eyes to the future. My lord Hien, pray tell us how things stand in the East.The day I lost my arm and my freedom... As I lay in my cell, never did I dream that I would one day be given the chance to represent my homeland at this council.
Having heard the rumors of dissent in Garlemald, I dared to dream of a peaceable solution...I would not even be alive had you not plucked me from the jaws of death─you, Yugiri, and Alphinaud. Would that the lad could be with us...
Hm. The Empire will not so easily change its ways.I too owe my presence here to Alphinaud. In so many ways... Until such time as he returns, I mean to carry on his good work as best I can.
If the Garleans have a mind to take back Doma and Ala Mhigo, we'll be hard-pressed to stop them. Even with the might of six nations.Come, friends─let us leave the past in the past, and turn our eyes to the future. My lord Hien, pray tell us how things stand in the East.
But while we lack the strength to fight the tide, a course may yet present itself if we read the winds aright.Having heard the rumors of dissent in Garlemald, I dared to dream of a peaceable solution...
The winds suggest but one course to me─one which leads from the sea unto the river and thence to the source of all our woes.Hm. The Empire will not so easily change its ways.
Indeed. All here have felt their blighted touch. It was the Bringers of Chaos who nurtured the archbishop's tyrannical ambitions...But while we lack the strength to fight the tide, a course may yet present itself if we read the winds aright.
They who bestowed upon him the secrets of summoning, as they have so many others, before and since. And while they remain, we shall know no peace.The winds suggest but one course to me─one which leads from the sea unto the river and thence to the source of all our woes.
Our objective is clear. The question is how to achieve it. That our enemy parades about in Zenos's skin poses problems in itself, but ere we get to them, how are we to infiltrate the Empire and get close enough to strike?The Ascians.
While I see the wisdom in targeting the Ascians, an assassination attempt on Garlean soil would do little to aid our cause...even were it to succeed. It's time we used our enemy's preferred tactic: subterfuge.Indeed. All here have felt their blighted touch. It was the Bringers of Chaos who nurtured the archbishop's tyrannical ambitions...
You have an idea?They who bestowed upon him the secrets of summoning, as they have so many others, before and since. And while they remain, we shall know no peace.
Speak your mind, Master Thancred. None here know the enemy better than the Scions, and you mayhap best of all.Our objective is clear. The question is how to achieve it. That our enemy parades about in Zenos's skin poses problems in itself, but ere we get to them, how are we to infiltrate the Empire and get close enough to strike?
Whatever it is you propose, we will give it fair hearing. On that you have my word.While I see the wisdom in targeting the Ascians, an assassination attempt on Garlean soil would do little to aid our cause...even were it to succeed. It's time we used our enemy's preferred tactic: subterfuge.
We dispatch the shinobi to imperial territory. There, they sow the rumor that the crown prince perished in the battle for Ala Mhigo, and that the man parading around is in fact a corpse inhabited by a servant of darkness.Speak your mind, Master Thancred. None here know the enemy better than the Scions, and you mayhap best of all.
Well...it does have the ring of truth about it. And were the Garleans to learn that their future ruler is a puppet, the Empire would be shaken to the core.Whatever it is you propose, we will give it fair hearing. On that you have my word.
Ordinarily not. But prior to his miraculous recovery, rumors of Zenos's death had already begun to circulate around the Empire.We dispatch the shinobi to imperial territory. There, they sow the rumor that the crown prince perished in the battle for Ala Mhigo, and that the man parading around is in fact a corpse inhabited by a servant of darkness.
Ultimately, however, what the masses believe is not our chief concern. Our true objective is to create an opening for rival factions within Garlemald to exploit.Well...it does have the ring of truth about it. And were the Garleans to learn that their future ruler is a puppet, the Empire would be shaken to the core.
Just as a war of succession erupted in the wake of Emperor Solus's death!But─at the risk of sounding stupid─would they actually believe such an unlikely story? I didn't.
A war which raged until but recently, plunging the imperial house into disarray as nephew and uncle grappled for the throne.Ordinarily not. But prior to his miraculous recovery, rumors of Zenos's death had already begun to circulate around the Empire.
It is no coincidence that one of Varis's first acts as Emperor was to name Zenos heir apparent─family feuds being so tiresome when armies are involved. Not all welcomed his choice of successor, however.Ultimately, however, what the masses believe is not our chief concern. Our true objective is to create an opening for rival factions within Garlemald to exploit.
There is no shortage of individuals who aspire to the throne─who would jump at any chance to seize power. The news that Zenos is not only dead, but a puppet to diabolical forces, would be too enticing to ignore.Just as a war of succession erupted in the wake of Emperor Solus's death!
The Empire would not be quick to recover from a second war of succession.A war which raged until but recently, plunging the imperial house into disarray as nephew and uncle grappled for the throne.
I am no stranger to infiltrating imperial territory. With a team of operatives gathered from among the Alliance's finest, the plan should have a reasonable chance of success.It is no coincidence that one of Varis's first acts as Emperor was to name Zenos heir apparent─family feuds being so tiresome when armies are involved. Not all welcomed his choice of successor, however.
Doma already has shinobi in place throughout the provinces. We stand ready to act, and act we must. What say you all?There is no shortage of individuals who aspire to the throne─who would jump at any chance to seize power. The news that Zenos is not only dead, but a puppet to diabolical forces, would be too enticing to ignore.
I am for Master Thancred's proposal. We shine a light upon the Ascian and test the Empire's unity.The Empire would not be quick to recover from a second war of succession.
'Twas his plot that scuttled Doma's negotiations, was it not? Why then, if we can eliminate him, there may yet be a chance for peace.I am no stranger to infiltrating imperial territory. With a team of operatives gathered from among the Alliance's finest, the plan should have a reasonable chance of success.
Let us wage this war of subterfuge, that we may one day lay down our arms. Gods know, we never will while the Ascians remain.Doma already has shinobi in place throughout the provinces. We stand ready to act, and act we must. What say you all?
History...must be changed...'Twas his plot that scuttled Doma's negotiations, was it not? Why then, if we can eliminate him, there may yet be a chance for peace.
Gods, that only makes it worse. You're to let us know the moment there's any change, all right?Master Thancred remains in slumber. Though his vital signs appear stable, he is unresponsive.
Thank you for coming. Knowing Thancred, he would apologize for being otherwise engaged at so crucial a juncture.What could have done this? And why just him and not the others?
In gifting us a course of action, Thancred sowed the seed of all that is to follow. We have but to nurture it as best we can. To him I would say rest easy, that he may wake to enjoy the fruits of our labors.I'm afraid we could not identify the cause, my lady. Our examinations revealed no wounds, nor the presence of any poisonous substances...
Now, the matter of the mysterious voice must not be forgotten. Will you tell me exactly what happened?Gods, that only makes it worse. You're to let us know the moment there's any change, all right?
Alisaie and I heard a voice in the moments before Thancred collapsed. It was accompanied by a severe headache─as if something were clutching at our minds. Did you experience the same thing?Thank you for coming. Knowing Thancred, he would apologize for being otherwise engaged at so crucial a juncture.
...So, in between the voice and the pain, you felt as if you were somewhere else entirely?In gifting us a course of action, Thancred sowed the seed of all that is to follow. We have but to nurture it as best we can. To him I would say rest easy, that he may wake to enjoy the fruits of our labors.
Your testimony confirms my suspicion. That which you experienced was, I believe, your soul being plucked from your flesh. <Emphasis>Called</Emphasis>.Now, the matter of the mysterious voice must not be forgotten. Will you tell me exactly what happened?
Called?Alisaie and I heard a voice in the moments before Thancred collapsed. It was accompanied by a severe headache─as if something were clutching at our minds. Did you experience the same thing?
Reach out as I may, I could not sense in him the spark of life that is his soul.Your testimony confirms my suspicion. That which you experienced was, I believe, your soul being plucked from your flesh. <Emphasis>Called</Emphasis>.
That Thancred alone was stricken so is likely due to his heightened sensitivity to the effects of aether─a consequence of his prior possession by the Ascian Lahabrea.Called?
The owner of the voice, whoever it may be, reached out to you─called your souls─and in so doing caused you and yours such pain.I myself examined Thancred.
But...if that's true, where exactly are we being called <Emphasis>to</Emphasis>?Reach out as I may, I could not sense in him the spark of life that is his soul.
I know not. Yet one thing is plain: whoever waits for you on the other side is possessed of a power unlike any I have ever known.That Thancred alone was stricken so is likely due to his heightened sensitivity to the effects of aether─a consequence of his prior possession by the Ascian Lahabrea.
Forgive us, Lyse, but may we leave Thancred in your care for a time?The owner of the voice, whoever it may be, reached out to you─called your souls─and in so doing caused you and yours such pain.
As if you had to ask. I may not be a Scion anymore, but I'm no less a friend.But...if that's true, where exactly are we being called <Emphasis>to</Emphasis>?
Don't worry, I'll see to it that Thancred's well looked after. Just focus on solving this mystery, all right?I know not. Yet one thing is plain: whoever waits for you on the other side is possessed of a power unlike any I have ever known.
As the Elder Seedseer says, 'tis no ordinary individual we are dealing with. Nor can we discount the possibility of Ascian involvement.As if you had to ask. I may not be a Scion anymore, but I'm no less a friend.
Whoever or whatever is behind this, the sooner we find out the better.Don't worry, I'll see to it that Thancred's well looked after. Just focus on solving this mystery, all right?
Would that our meeting were under happier circumstances. I judged the voice sufficient cause for concern even before you sent word of its effect on our comrade...As the Elder Seedseer says, 'tis no ordinary individual we are dealing with. Nor can we discount the possibility of Ascian involvement.
Aye. And all but certainly at the selfsame instant. Alas, pained as I was, I could make little sense of what few words did then reach mine ears.Urianger! Gods it's good to see you!
Who do you think is responsible? Could this be the Ascians' doing?Would that our meeting were under happier circumstances. I judged the voice sufficient cause for concern even before you sent word of its effect on our comrade...
Ere I indulge in speculation, I would examine Thancred with mine own eyes.Aye. And all but certainly at the selfsame instant. Alas, pained as I was, I could make little sense of what few words did then reach mine ears.
Well, that spares me the trouble of an explanation. Yes. I noted precisely that at two apparently unconnected locations. I take it the phenomenon is not limited to the Far East?To Ala Mhigo, then─without further delay!
Indeed not. Of late, our agents charged with surveilling the beast tribes have spoken of little else. In every corner of the realm, they tell of places in which the aether hath grown thin.One other thing. During my visit to the Far East, I observed a strange phenomenon.
Naturally, my suspicions first turned to primal activity, but the areas thus affected betray no evidence of summoning. I must confess to being quite perplexed.Thou referest, I presume, to the localized reduction in aetheric density?
If the same phenomenon is being observed in multiple locations on opposite sides of the world, we may safely discount regional factors. Needless to say, this warrants further investigation.Well, that spares me the trouble of an explanation. Yes. I noted precisely that at two apparently unconnected locations. I take it the phenomenon is not limited to the Far East?
Indeed. I shall make it my task to─Indeed not. Of late, our agents charged with surveilling the beast tribes have spoken of little else. In every corner of the realm, they tell of places in which the aether hath grown thin.
The voice... It calleth to me once more...Naturally, my suspicions first turned to primal activity, but the areas thus affected betray no evidence of summoning. I must confess to being quite perplexed.
I...I hear it too!If the same phenomenon is being observed in multiple locations on opposite sides of the world, we may safely discount regional factors. Needless to say, this warrants further investigation.
We promised that we would come and visit you together, didn't we. Alphinaud and I. I'm sorry that we haven't managed that yet.I'm afraid there has been no change. If he can see or hear us, he has given no sign...
You know, with the three of us like this, does it not remind you of that night? Of the stars beyond count, twinkling in the heavens?I see. You're still fighting.
I was feeling pretty low back then. Powerless. But I knew that my brother was close by if I needed him. And that the others would be waiting for me back at the Rising Stones.I'm proud of you.
I've seen my share of trouble since coming to Eorzea.You know, with the three of us like this, does it not remind you of that night? Of the stars beyond count, twinkling in the heavens?
...Been reminded again and again of my limitations─of how little I can change about this world. And I've come to know the sorrow of parting all too well.I was feeling pretty low back then. Powerless. But I knew that my brother was close by if I needed him. And that the others would be waiting for me back at the Rising Stones.
You still have me....Been reminded again and again of my limitations─of how little I can change about this world. And I've come to know the sorrow of parting all too well.
You don't have to bear this burden alone.But to have the people I hold dear struck down before my eyes, and be powerless to help them...? That─ That I cannot bear.
...No. I don't. You're right. It's pure arrogance to imagine I can solve everything by myself. You'd think I'd have learned that by now. Thank you. I don't know what I'd do without you.You still have me.
Meanwhile, in the imperial palace......No. I don't. You're right. It's pure arrogance to imagine I can solve everything by myself. You'd think I'd have learned that by now. Thank you. I don't know what I'd do without you.
(-Zenos-)The Populares no longer present an obstacle. Now is the time to bring the Empire's might to bear.Well, that's more than enough brooding for one day.
(-Zenos-)A word from Your Radiance is all it takes. But <Emphasis>one word</Emphasis>, and the imperial army will fall upon Ala Mhigo as a pack of bloodthirsty wolves and tear that feeble nation apart.Come on. We have friends to save.
(-Zenos-)Despite the lengths I go to─an emissary, playing the part of a fool.(-Zenos-)The Populares no longer present an obstacle. Now is the time to bring the Empire's might to bear.
(-Zenos-)When first I took this face, I swore to use all of my knowledge, all of my power, to further the cause of the Empire. My deeds stand testament to my commitment.(-Zenos-)A word from Your Radiance is all it takes. But <Emphasis>one word</Emphasis>, and the imperial army will fall upon Ala Mhigo as a pack of bloodthirsty wolves and tear that feeble nation apart.
(-Zenos-)And with this adamant flesh at my disposal, I could destroy the eikon-slayer as easily as one might swat a fly. Why do you hesitate?(-Zenos-)Have you no words for me?
(-Zenos-)Our enemy is resourceful. Though victory is certain now, it will not remain so indefinitely. Deliberate if you must, but be quick about it. We will speak again when you have unburdened yourself of doubt. Until then, I take my leave...Father.(-Zenos-)When first I took this face, I swore to use all of my knowledge, all of my power, to further the cause of the Empire. My deeds stand testament to my commitment.
(-???-)I should be the one to sigh.(-Zenos-)And with this adamant flesh at my disposal, I could destroy the eikon-slayer as easily as one might swat a fly. Why do you hesitate?
(-???-)I played my part to perfection. I had earned my rest. And then, thanks to Lahabrea's crowning act of idiocy, our favorite emissary sees fit to summon me back.No subtitles, reported if displayed.
(-???-)Elidibus was ever a worrier. A most tiresome trait, would you not agree?(-Zenos-)Our enemy is resourceful. Though victory is certain now, it will not remain so indefinitely. Deliberate if you must, but be quick about it. We will speak again when you have unburdened yourself of doubt. Until then, I take my leave...Father.
(-???-)Now, my dearest grandson. Let me remind you of your place, in the simplest of terms.(-???-)I played my part to perfection. I had earned my rest. And then, thanks to Lahabrea's crowning act of idiocy, our favorite emissary sees fit to summon me back.
(-???-)You do not make judgments─you administer them. Swiftly and to the letter. Naught else is your concern.(-???-)What, have you no words for me either? No matter. I've long grown weary of this mummery.
(-???-)Elidibus may be an insufferable bore, but he is no fool. His choices as emissary seldom err.(-???-)Now, my dearest grandson. Let me remind you of your place, in the simplest of terms.
(-???-)Be it by your own hands or by your armies, you have ample means at your disposal.(-???-)You do not make judgments─you administer them. Swiftly and to the letter. Naught else is your concern.
That is why this empire exists─why <Emphasis>I</Emphasis> built it.(-???-)Elidibus may be an insufferable bore, but he is no fool. His choices as emissary seldom err.
Oh dear. Have I touched a nerve? You always were an easy one to read.(-???-)If aught threatens the balance 'twixt Light and Dark, it falls to you to remove it.
I pity you, I do. As they say, ignorance is bliss. And I know how much happier you would be not knowing the things you know.(-???-)Be it by your own hands or by your armies, you have ample means at your disposal.
The founding father was an Ascian! And he created the Empire solely for the purpose of sowing the seeds of chaos!That is why this empire exists─why <Emphasis>I</Emphasis> built it.
To bring about a Calamity requires no small amount of power. And there is no surer way to obtain such power than by collecting powerful pawns.I pity you, I do. As they say, ignorance is bliss. And I know how much happier you would be not knowing the things you know.
To that end, I have labored long and hard, and I must say I am quite pleased with my handiwork─paltry though it seems in comparison to Allag.The founding father was an Ascian! And he created the Empire solely for the purpose of sowing the seeds of chaos!
Mark me, Ascian. Man is the master of his own destiny!To bring about a Calamity requires no small amount of power. And there is no surer way to obtain such power than by collecting powerful pawns.
No subtitles, report if displayed.To that end, I have labored long and hard, and I must say I am quite pleased with my handiwork─paltry though it seems in comparison to Allag.
Lest you forget, you are Emperor now. If you wish to spout drivel about man's destiny, save it for the masses. It will serve to give them a sense of purpose...and you pliant pieces for the game.Mark me, Ascian. Man is the master of his own destiny!
Ours is a struggle to restore both mankind and the world to their rightful state. Viewed thus, our goals are one and the same.Such a waste of time and energy. Both yours and mine.
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Lest you forget, you are Emperor now. If you wish to spout drivel about man's destiny, save it for the masses. It will serve to give them a sense of purpose...and you pliant pieces for the game.
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Ours is a struggle to restore both mankind and the world to their rightful state. Viewed thus, our goals are one and the same.
336,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003200_ALISAIE","Don't you dare leave me alone."
337,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003201_ALISAIE","No matter what happens, we have to survive. Together."
338,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003210_ALISAIE","There you are! And none the worse for wear!"
339,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003220_HIEN","Indeed. I had hoped we might do more to help, but there seems to be no one left to fight."
338,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003210_ALISAIE","We did it! I daresay they'll be reeling from this!"
339,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003220_HIEN","You were truly inspiring in battle, my friend. I'm determined not to be outdone, but there seems to be no one left to fight..."
341,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003240_ALISAIE","We should give chase. Finish them off while we have the chance."
342,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003250_ALISAIE","Imagine the others' surprise when they wake to find the war already won."
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Don't you dare leave me alone.
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No matter what happens, we have to survive. Together.
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There you are! And none the worse for wear!We did it! I daresay they'll be reeling from this!
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Indeed. I had hoped we might do more to help, but there seems to be no one left to fight.You were truly inspiring in battle, my friend. I'm determined not to be outdone, but there seems to be no one left to fight...
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A tactical withdrawal, perhaps?
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We should give chase. Finish them off while we have the chance.
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Imagine the others' surprise when they wake to find the war already won.
0,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000010_RYNE","Restoring the elements to the Empty may allow life to flourish there once more..."
1,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000020_RYNE","But that isn't enough to return the environment to the way it was. No, we need to gradually reintroduce life, beginning with plants."
2,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000030_RYNE","Not just any plants, though, but those that won't be a burden on a weakened land..."
3,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000040_RYNE","Such as..."
4,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_Q1_000_001_NONE_VOICE","What will you say?"
5,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_A1_000_001_NONE_VOICE","You've become quite the scholar."
6,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_A1_000_002_NONE_VOICE","I see you've taken an interest in gardening."
7,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_A1_000_003_NONE_VOICE","How about coffee plants?"
8,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000050_RYNE","Oh! What a welcome surprise!"
9,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000060_RYNE","It seems you caught me rambling to myself. How embarrassing..."
10,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000070_RYNE","I've been studying botany, you see, hoping that the knowledge would help our work in the Empty."
11,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000080_RYNE","Coffee... If I recall correctly, it thrives in warm climates, with cooler nights to promote growth."
12,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000090_RYNE","Yes. Yes, that might be suitable."
13,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000100_RYNE","And with a good harvest, we could set some aside for coffee biscuits!"
15,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000120_RYNE","It seems you caught me rambling to myself. How embarrassing..."
16,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000130_RYNE","I've been studying botany, you see, hoping that the knowledge would help our work in the Empty."
17,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000140_RYNE","But never mind that for now. What brings you to the Crystarium? It was my understanding that the Final Days were behind us."
18,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000150_RYNE","You wish to combat this otherworldly threat with the power of Light...?"
19,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000160_RYNE","Please let me help."
20,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000170_RYNE","Though I've lost my connection to Hydaelyn, I can still manipulate Light to a degree."
21,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000180_RYNE","If there is a chance I could save others with that power, then I have to try."
22,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000190_BEQLUGG","'Tis done. Zero is now with us in the flesh."
23,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000200_BEQLUGG","The spirit vessel, I shall hold on to for operating the tower."
24,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000210_BEQLUGG","This will help me to make sense of the controls, will it?"
25,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000220_BEQLUGG","There's a levity in his words that wasn't there before. It heartens me to know he is well."
26,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000230_BEQLUGG","I shall see to the preparations as per his instructions."
27,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000240_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","My thanks for your help."
28,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000250_BEQLUGG","Think nothing of it. That said, 'tis customary that my kind receive fitting payment for services rendered..."
29,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000260_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Not unlike we voidsent, then. In that case, you may devour some of my aether."
30,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000270_BEQLUGG","Are you mad? I'll do no such thing! The very suggestion is absurd!"
31,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000280_RYNE","Now, now, let's calm down. We all have our preferences, and I'm sure no offense was intended."
32,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000290_BEQLUGG","I shall attend to the tower now. The rest, I leave to you."
33,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000300_RYNE","Zero, was it? My name is Ryne. It's a pleasure to meet you."
34,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000310_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","This world isn't what I expected. While Light is indeed strong here, it's not pervasive or overwhelming. Everything looks much as it does in the Source."
35,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000320_RYNE","We have the Warrior of Darkness to thank for that."
36,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000330_RYNE","If you're interested, I would be glad to show you around."
37,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000340_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Just an ordinary sky. Ordinary...and beautiful."
38,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000350_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","To think that, after so much loss, they could reclaim this..."
39,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000360_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","So this is the Flood of Light..."
40,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000370_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","I don't remember much of the time when Darkness consumed the Thirteenth. Just the cold and the emptiness..."
41,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000380_RYNE","Zero? Are you all right?"
43,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000400_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","You're the one who stopped this?"
44,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000410_RYNE","Oh, no no. That was the first Oracle of Light, Minfilia. She's since left us, but I inherited her power and legacy."
51,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000480_JULLUS","Whatever may have happened in the past, you're still here, Zero. Alive."
52,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000490_JULLUS","What you couldn't do yesterday, you might still do today."
53,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000500_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","If this power were mine to wield..."
54,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000510_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","[CRY OF PAIN “Argh! Ahhhhhh!] Report if displayed."
55,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000520_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","[ENDURING PAIN GRUNT “Urgh”] Report if displayed. "
56,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000530_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","I will not succumb... Not to Darkness...nor to Light!"
57,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000540_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","[PSYCHING ROAR “Yaaaaaargh!”] Report if displayed."
58,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000550_RYNE","Zero!"
59,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000560_RYNE","She's...taken Light into herself!"
60,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000570_RYNE","Her body struggles to contain it. She needs help."
61,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000580_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","[FAINT GROAN “Ugh”] Report if displayed."
62,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000590_RYNE","Thank goodness... How do you feel?"
63,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000600_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Better now, I think."
64,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000610_RYNE","Then you're very, very lucky. Whatever possessed you to do that?"
65,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000620_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","I had to know if I could command the Light. If I could change my fate."
66,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000630_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Once, I would never have dared to dream it."
67,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000640_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","But your friendship and your trust has helped me to see new possibilities. In myself and everything else."
68,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000650_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Perhaps that's why, when I beheld this world once damned yet saved, I saw the potential for mine to be saved as well."
69,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000660_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","To become a world where Light and Darkness are in harmony, and life flourishes. A world where we're not consumed by insatiable hunger, but filled with hope for what we might create together."
70,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000670_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","If I had the strength, perhaps I could make such a dream reality. Perhaps I could awaken us from this endless nightmare."
71,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000680_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","That's what possessed me..."
72,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000690_RYNE","If that's your heartfelt desire, then you mustn't be afraid to share it."
73,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000700_RYNE","There was a time when I lacked the courage. To voice my desires was to burden those I love...or so I convinced myself."
74,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000710_RYNE","But then I met those who believed in me. They helped me to believe in myself and find the strength to live."
75,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000720_RYNE","And so long as I'm alive, I know that I'll be fine. No matter how dire things seem. No matter where I am."
76,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000730_RYNE","To be able to think that brought me peace, and it's a blessing I owe entirely to my friends."
77,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000740_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Those who believe in us..."
78,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000750_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","I will remember your words. I know all too well that there's a limit to what we can achieve alone."
79,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000760_RYNE","As a friend, I'd like to help you fulfill your dream."
80,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000770_RYNE","If you wish to take in more Light, I can keep the power in check and help your body accept it."
81,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_Q2_000_001_NONE_VOICE","What will you say?"
82,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_A2_000_001_NONE_VOICE","If anyone can do it, it'd be Ryne."
83,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_A2_000_002_NONE_VOICE","It worked well enough for me."
84,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_A2_000_003_NONE_VOICE","With the power of Light <Emphasis>and</Emphasis> Dark, you'll be unstoppable!"
85,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000780_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","So it would seem."
86,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000790_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Ah, yes. You mentioned having to absorb Light. That you still live is proof of her ability."
88,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000810_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Right, then. I'm counting on you."
89,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000820_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Here I go."
90,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000830_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","[STRUGGLING TO ABSORB LIGHT EXERT] Report if displayed."
91,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000840_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","I can feel it. The Light's warmth welling within me."
92,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000850_RYNE","Then I believe it worked."
93,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000860_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","With this power, I will return to the void and fight─for the world that once was, and for those I hold dear!"
94,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000870_YSHTOLA","All is in readiness. Without further ado, then... Light from beyond the rift, shine forth and banish the Darkness!"
95,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000880_BEQLUGG","Excellent. The tower is replete with Light from Nabaath Areng."
112,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001050_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","That Light should shine in the void once more..."
113,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001060_YSHTOLA","No single one of us could have made it so. Only by joining hands were we able to kindle this Light."
114,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001070_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Do you see, Golbez? We needn't damn others to save ourselves."
115,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001080_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","You knew this once, surely. When you tried to befriend me. When you were one of the precious few left willing to trust in another."
116,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001090_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","But that man is gone, and in his place a mockery of his beliefs."
118,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001100_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","It's the same as before... Though we walk different paths, we seek the same destination. And yet..."
119,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001110_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","There is something I must know. A truth that lies waiting in the dark."
121,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001130_DURANTE","This can't be happening... Not to you..."
122,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001140_DURANTE","My friend... My hero... I will stop you even should it cost me my life!"
123,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001150_DURANTE","[PANTING, DOWN ON ONE KNEE] Report if displayed."
124,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001160_DURANTE","Why? Why you and not me?"
125,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001170_DURANTE","You were the best of us. A paragon of virtue. I could never hope to be your equal."
126,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001180_DURANTE","I am only the knight I am because of you..."
127,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001190_DURANTE","Because you believed in me!"
128,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001200_DURANTE","[SWORD SWINGING EXERT] Report if displayed."
129,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001210_DURANTE","[PANTING] Report if displayed."
130,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001220_DURANTE","[PAINED LAUGHTER] Report if displayed."
131,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001230_DURANTE","You would not wish to become a monster, preying upon those who've fought to protect. But neither can I bring myself to kill you."
132,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001240_DURANTE","So rest easy, my friend, and entrust your legacy to me."
133,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001250_DURANTE","You will never die, this I swear."
134,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001260_DURANTE","Through me your name shall live on, as the hero who saves the world!"
135,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001270_YSHTOLA","We've been released from the memory, 'twould seem."
136,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001280_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","If Golbez was the one sealed in this memoria..."
137,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001290_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Then the one we've been fighting is..."
138,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001300_BLACKKNIGHT","No more than an impostor playing at hero."
139,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001310_VARSHAHNBIG","Durante, I presume."
140,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001320_BLACKKNIGHT","A name long since lost to time. History shall remember only Golbez."
141,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001330_BLACKKNIGHT","Come what may, I shall deliver the world its salvation, and I will not suffer you to interfere."
142,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001340_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","You seek to free all souls from the purgatory of undeath. And to that end, you would invade another world."
143,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001350_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","While I cannot condone your methods, I understand your motive full well."
144,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001360_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","For I'm driven by the same. I too wish to save our world."
145,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001370_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","I too once thought I had to bear the burden by myself. That I had no choice but to walk my path alone. But I was wrong. We may yet strive together towards our shared goal, if you would reconsider your course."
146,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001380_BLACKKNIGHT","[CONDESCENDING CHUCKLE] Report if displayed."
147,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001390_BLACKKNIGHT","If you possessed power which transcended that of Zeromus, then perhaps I would."
148,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001400_BLACKKNIGHT","But you do not. No, you are but another voidsent, like me. And what is a candle before the sun?"
149,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001410_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Perhaps we aren't all-powerful and cannot effect great change in an instant. Even so..."
150,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001420_BLACKKNIGHT","Great change is what we need! Aught less has no meaning!"
151,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001430_BLACKKNIGHT","Having glimpsed our past, you should understand as well as any."
152,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001440_BLACKKNIGHT","As Golbez, I dedicated myself to ending the Contramemoria. I fought the corrupted memoriates, and attempted to redeem those twisted by their power."
153,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001450_BLACKKNIGHT","Yet try as I might, I was powerless to make any meaningful change. 'Twas then, when I was floundering in despair, that she appeared─the Ascian Igeyorhm."
154,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001460_BLACKKNIGHT","Claiming to know how to excise the source of our woes, she showed me to the moon, where the servant of Light abided. 'Twas he and his ilk who had granted men unnatural powers, she said, and now prolonged the war."
155,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001470_BLACKKNIGHT","Believing her every word, I struck him down...and caused Darkness to engulf the world."
156,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001480_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","What!? Then it was you who..."
157,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001490_YSHTOLA","As Emet-Selch once told us, the Thirteenth was the Ascians' first attempt at a Rejoining, before they fully understood the mechanisms at play."
158,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001500_YSHTOLA","They failed because they sought only to awaken the sundered Zodiark without instigating a calamity in the Source. The Darkness they unleashed had nowhere else to go..."
159,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001510_BLACKKNIGHT","Having left a ruin of our world, the Ascian fled. I was a fool to trust them. To trust in others."
160,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001520_BLACKKNIGHT","Since that day, I have sought the means to undo my mistake. The world may be beyond saving, but I would at least restore the great flow."
161,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001530_BLACKKNIGHT","The dragon was an extraordinary windfall. A veritable font of aether that expedited my endeavors time and again."
162,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001540_BLACKKNIGHT","But it wasn't enough to achieve my objective. Far from it."
163,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001550_BLACKKNIGHT","For an eternity, I had to bide my time. But the day finally came when I acquired the power I sought."
164,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001560_BLACKKNIGHT","Aye, the remnants of the Ascians' god sealed within the moon suddenly dispersed into aether."
165,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001570_BLACKKNIGHT","With that aether, Zeromus could be conceived. And driven by the dragon's longing for home, it shall soon arise to destroy the barrier between worlds."
166,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001580_BLACKKNIGHT","Thus will the way open to the promised land, and the death we have been too long denied."
167,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001590_BLACKKNIGHT","Thus will I, Golbez, bring salvation to all!"
168,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001600_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","So that is all you have left..."
169,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001610_BLACKKNIGHT","Say what you will. You cannot stop Zeromus's awakening."
170,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001620_ESTINIEN","We're going after him, aren't we?"
171,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001630_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Aye. That's why we came, after all. And besides..."
172,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001640_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","When someone believes in you, it makes you want to believe in them. In others and yourself. Jullus was right about that."
173,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001650_BLACKKNIGHT","I had hoped to bear witness to the moment our salvation is realized..."
174,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001660_BLACKKNIGHT","But nothing must be left to chance. I will stop you here no matter the cost!"
182,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001740_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Impossible. Scarmiglione and Barbariccia were sealed in memoria, while Cagnazzo and Rubicante died in the Source..."
183,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001750_YSHTOLA","You are not wrong. They are not the true archfiends, but shades born of their residual aether."
184,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001760_VARSHAHNBIG","If they are shades, then their strength will pale in comparison. Even should they fight as one, we may yet prevail."
185,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001770_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","We'll tend to the archfiends. Go and put an end to Zeromus."
186,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001780_BLACKKNIGHT","You'll do no such thing!"
187,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001790_VARSHAHNBIG","Go! We'll join you as soon as we can!"
189,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001810_BLACKKNIGHT","[BLOCKING HIT EXERT] "
190,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001820_BLACKKNIGHT","It is too late. Zeromus <Emphasis>will</Emphasis> awaken, and it shall devour any who come between it and its desire. Your companion is no exception."
191,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001830_YSHTOLA","I wouldn't be so sure."
192,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001840_YSHTOLA","Time and again, <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> has faced insurmountable odds."
193,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001850_ESTINIEN","But no matter how hopeless things seemed, <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she's<Else/>he's</If> never given up the fight."
194,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001860_VARSHAHNBIG","[KNOCKING BACK ENEMY EXERT] Report if displayed."
195,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001870_VARSHAHNBIG","So long as he has strength of will to forge on, then so too shall we!"
196,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001880_VARSHAHNBIG","So long as she has strength of will to forge on, then so too shall we!"
197,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001890_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","For we believe in <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>him</If>, and <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> believes in us."
198,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001900_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","And together, our Light can pierce blackest Darkness!"
199,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001910_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","[CHARGING ATTACK EXERT] Report if displayed."
200,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001920_BLACKKNIGHT","[CHARGING ATTACK EXERT] Report if displayed."
201,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001930_ZEROMUS","What is this Darkness, cold and all-consuming? Where am I?"
202,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001940_ZEROMUS","I must return to my world... To my home, where my kin await..."
203,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001950_ZEROMUS","Yes, I must return. I return. And none shall stand in my way!"
204,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_Q3_000_001_NONE_VOICE","What will you say?"
206,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_A3_000_002_NONE_VOICE","I can't let you destroy the barrier between worlds!"
207,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001960_ZEROMUS","Begone from my sight!"
208,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001970_ZEROMUS",""
209,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001980_ZEROMUS","Graaaaaah! [Report if displayed.]"
210,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_001990_ZEROMUS","I shall not perish... So long as they await my return, I shall endure..."
211,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002000_ESTINIEN","[SWINGING LANCE EXERT] Report if displayed."
212,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002010_ESTINIEN","Are you all right?"
213,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002020_VARSHAHNBIG"," [ATTACK EXERT] Report if displayed."
214,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002030_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","[ATTACK EXERT] Report if displayed. "
215,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002040_BLACKKNIGHT","Like all voidsent, Zeromus cannot be killed. Sealing it in memoria is the only way."
216,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002050_BLACKKNIGHT",""
217,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002060_BLACKKNIGHT",""
218,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002070_BLACKKNIGHT","Ah, that it should come to this..."
219,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002080_BLACKKNIGHT","I failed my dear friend. Fell for the Ascians' ploy and unleashed the Darkness."
220,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002090_BLACKKNIGHT","And after an eternity of waiting, I find myself on my knees..."
221,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002100_BLACKKNIGHT","How disappointed must you be in me. In the foolishness and futility of it all..."
222,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002110_BLACKKNIGHT","[STRUGGLING TO STAND EXERT]"
223,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002120_BLACKKNIGHT","No... I will not let it be for naught. I will not allow you to pass. I will triumph in my crusade!"
224,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002130_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","There is no triumph to be found in this madness."
225,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002140_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Even if the veil were to be unraveled, it would not undo what Darkness has done to the world."
226,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002150_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Nor would it bring Golbez back. From his slumber, you know there is no return."
227,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002160_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","You're weak and imperfect. You know it in your heart. In spite of this, do you truly believe that you can save everyone? Are you sure you will not fail?"
228,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002170_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","I'm no better. Weak and imperfect and plagued by doubt. Which is why I need friends to walk beside me."
229,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002180_BLACKKNIGHT","Light...? But how?"
230,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002190_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","This is proof that I believe in others, and they in turn believe in me."
231,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002200_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","A light that illuminates the way in darkest despair."
232,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002210_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Be it in a ruined city locked in ice or a world drowning in Light, it was with faith in one another that life endured. I see it clearly now."
233,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002220_BLACKKNIGHT","You think we are capable of the same?"
234,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002230_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","It won't be easy. Having lived too long as voidsent, we've forgotten how to trust."
235,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002240_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","But one thing is certain: if Zeromus succeeds and everyone dies, we'll never have the chance to try."
236,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002250_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","You asked me to join hands with you once, and I refused. I cannot take back that mistake, but I can extend to you the same offer. We can be better than we have been."
237,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002260_BLACKKNIGHT","[SHOCKED GASP, REMEMBERING SOMETHING] Report if displayed."
238,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002270_BLACKKNIGHT","Of course. You were the memoriate we met all those years ago..."
239,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002280_BLACKKNIGHT","[BITTER LAUGHTER] Report if displayed."
240,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002290_BLACKKNIGHT","Yes, I remember now. We hoped you would join us in our quest to end the Contramemoria."
241,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002300_BLACKKNIGHT","But you rejected us outright."
242,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002310_BLACKKNIGHT","It left both of us discouraged─Golbez most of all. “If we could but overcome the fear that has shaped and divided us, we could change everything.”"
243,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002320_BLACKKNIGHT","Even in the midst of that terrible war, he never stopped believing in others. Not even at the end..."
244,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002330_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","You're Golbez now. If you would live up to his name, then you must trust in people as he did."
245,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002340_VARSHAHNBIG","I cannot forgive what you have done to my sister. But she may yet be saved."
246,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002350_VARSHAHNBIG","If you can help us see her safely home and protect the Source, then..."
247,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002360_YSHTOLA","As Zero's friends, we should gladly share what knowledge we have to help you restore the void."
248,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002370_BLACKKNIGHT","You truly believe the world of old can be ours again?"
249,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002380_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","I do. So long as we work together."
250,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002390_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","We will disperse Zeromus's essence once more. The instant we do, you must call to Azdaja."
281,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002670_VARSHAHNBIG","To my sister, I shall offer up the eye in this vessel."
282,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002680_VARSHAHNBIG","We dragons bring forth progeny with our very life force. That which my eye harbors should be enough to grant her corporeal form."
283,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002690_VARSHAHNBIG","Of course, this means I shall no longer have control over this vessel. I must ask you escort Azdaja to the surface in my stead."
284,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002695_ESTINIEN","[CLOSED-MOUTH LAUGH “Hmph”] Report if displayed."
285,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002700_ESTINIEN","We came to bring her home, and we'll do just that. You have my word."
287,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002720_VARSHAHNBIG","At long last, we shall be together again."
288,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002730_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Where are you going?"
289,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002740_BLACKKNIGHT","Our world may yet be restored. I thought it an impossible dream once, but having witnessed your miracles, I cannot help but believe."
290,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002750_BLACKKNIGHT","Nevertheless, I am the villain who wrought this tragedy. And in my misguided crusade, I compounded my sins."
291,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002760_BLACKKNIGHT","My place is not at your side."
292,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002770_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","[WEARY SIGH] Report if displayed."
293,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002780_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Regardless of how you may feel, by lending me your strength, you've made amends."
294,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002790_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","You've earned a new beginning."
295,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002795_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","It's up to you what we become to one another."
296,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002800_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","What we couldn't do yesterday, we might still do today. Working together."
297,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002810_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","And should we want for strength, we need only rally more like-minded souls to our cause."
298,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002820_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","So let's take the first step. The two of us."
299,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002830_VRITRA","Words cannot well express my relief that we could rescue my sister, nor my gratitude to all of you."
300,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002840_VRITRA","What of him? Golbez."
301,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002850_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","He felt it would be inappropriate for him to be present at your reunion with Azdaja, and chose to remain down in the chasm."
302,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002860_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","If you wish to hear an apology, however, I should be glad to drag him here."
303,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002870_VRITRA","Nay, that shall not be necessary. By his deeds hath he demonstrated his contrition."
304,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002880_ESTINIEN","So, what will you do now?"
305,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002890_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","I've learned much journeying together with you. Experienced things I could never have experienced alone."
306,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002900_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Together with Golbez, I hope to do the same as we labor to restore the Thirteenth."
307,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002910_ESTINIEN","Then I suppose it's farewell for now."
308,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002920_YSHTOLA","Be sure to share with Golbez what you've learned of the Source and its reflections, as well as the true nature of Light and Dark."
309,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002930_YSHTOLA","He is as resourceful as he is determined, and will surely make the very most of the insights."
310,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002940_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Indeed. Once we've gained a better understanding of the situation, I hope we can rely on your counsel."
311,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002950_YSHTOLA","But of course. I too shall continue probing new possibilities, the better to be of aid when the time comes."
312,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002960_YSHTOLA","Ah, speaking of which..."
313,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002970_YSHTOLA","From ocean rise and cloudbank form,
From mountain spring and rainfall storm,
From river flow and life be born..."
314,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002980_YSHTOLA","Come forth, my servant!"
315,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002990_YSHTOLA","I revised the incantation. Which is not to say you know how it went before..."
316,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_002995_YSHTOLA","Are we clear?"
317,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003000_YSHTOLA","Nidhana provided me with spare warding scales, which apparently provide greater protection than before."
318,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003010_YSHTOLA","This should keep the familiar safe. So long as you give the nixie aether from time to time, it will persist and serve as a beacon for us to find you."
319,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003020_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Already we find ourselves with a new ally. Thank you."
320,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003030_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","When you have the chance, please thank everyone for me."
321,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003040_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Those in Radz-at-Han, Garlemald, Sharlayan..."
322,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003050_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","...the First, and on the moon."
327,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003100_YSHTOLA","Similarly, why not entrust the archfiends' memoria to Zero?"
328,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003110_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","In that case, I shall pass them on to Golbez. To inspire and admonish him in equal measure."
329,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_Q5_000_001_NONE_VOICE","What will you say?"
330,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_A5_000_001_NONE_VOICE","I'll see you again, right?"
331,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_A5_000_002_NONE_VOICE","The Thirteenth is in good hands."
332,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_A5_000_003_NONE_VOICE","You should know about Unukalhai and Cylva..."
333,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003120_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","You will, I'm sure. Just don't try to forcibly summon me. I won't come."
334,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003130_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Come what may, we will see it restored. And should we need a helping hand, I hope we can count on you once more."
335,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003140_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","What? There are others from our world who seek to restore it?"
336,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003150_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Then please tell them this: though we are worlds apart, in our shared objective, we walk as one."
337,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003160_VRITRA","Sad though it is to say farewell, 'tis past time we returned home. Pray climb upon my back."
338,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003170_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","Till we meet again."
339,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003180_MYSTERIOUSPERSON","No matter where we are or how much time passes, our bond will endure. This I believe."
340,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003190_JULLUS","Oh, it's you again. Is everything all right?"
341,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003200_ALPHINAUD","So you were able to rescue Azdaja... Thank the Twelve."
342,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003210_ALISAIE","Channeling Light from the First was rather ingenious. It may fall short of cross-rift travel, but it's still an impressive achievement in my book."
343,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003220_YSHTOLA","You're too kind. Suffice it to say, though, that I don't intend to rest on these laurels. There's always more to be done."
344,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003230_JULLUS","Zero stayed in the void, did she? Well...if I had known it would come to that, I would've said a proper farewell."
345,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_Q6_000_001_NONE_VOICE","What will you say?"
346,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_A6_000_001_NONE_VOICE","Zero took your words to heart."
347,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_A6_000_002_NONE_VOICE","Zero sends her thanks."
348,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003240_JULLUS","Really...? I don't remember saying anything profound..."
349,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003250_JULLUS","Thanks for what? I don't recall doing anything in particular for her. On the contrary, she's the one who risked life and limb."
350,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003260_JULLUS","Still...I'm glad that she got something out of her time here."
351,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003270_JULLUS","As the days roll on, things will change for the both of us."
352,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003280_JULLUS","But some things will remain as they are."
353,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003290_JULLUS","As far as I'm concerned, Zero will always be a friend and comrade. And I will never forget her."
354,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003300_ALISAIE","If she's working tirelessly to restore the Thirteenth, it wouldn't do to be outdone here. When next Zero visits, we must see to it that you have a shiny new Garlemald to show her."
355,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003310_JULLUS","Indeed... And speaking of rebuilding, there's a matter I'd like to discuss with you and Alphinaud."
356,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003320_JULLUS","Word has spread of our dealings with Radz-at-Han, and people are excited by the prospect of standing on our own two feet again. Naturally, it won't be straightforward─it never is─but on the whole, I have a good feeling about things."
357,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003330_ALPHINAUD","In other words...it may be time for us to limit our involvement, that Garleans might take the lead? I can see the sense in that."
358,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003340_JULLUS","No, no, that's not what I meant at all."
359,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003350_JULLUS","Seeing as things are going well, we want you to take a rest. A <Emphasis>proper</Emphasis> rest. That's what I wanted to say, on everyone's behalf."
360,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003360_JULLUS","You've done so much for us already. Toiled beside us in the cold for far longer than anyone could ask."
361,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003370_JULLUS","You've earned a reprieve a hundred times over. So go on, step away from here and head...wherever you like. But if it were me, I'd choose somewhere warm."
362,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003380_ALISAIE","I was thinking of taking a break anyway..."
363,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003390_ALPHINAUD","Far be it from us to go against such a heartfelt request. Though I would be lying were I to say matters here wouldn't weigh on our minds..."
364,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003400_ALISAIE","We could take a leaf out of Zero's book and roam about for a while."
365,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003410_ALISAIE","Maybe visit nations who share little history with Garlemald─look for opportunities to foster future relations. We might learn something of recent foreign affairs that has escaped our notice."
366,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003420_ALPHINAUD","Hm, as an independent party, we would be well suited to the task... An excellent idea, Alisaie."
367,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003430_JULLUS","Well, that hardly sounds like a rest at all."
368,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003440_ALPHINAUD","To us, it is the best kind of rest─stimulating and meaningful."
369,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003450_ALISAIE","If it's settled, then let's return to Sharlayan and consider our options."
370,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003460_ALISAIE","What about the rest of you? Do you have any plans?"
371,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003470_YSHTOLA","We're indebted to Lord Fourchenault and his colleagues for their cooperation. 'Twould be meet to report on the outcome of our mission."
372,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003480_ALPHINAUD","Then it seems we are all bound for Sharlayan. Upon arriving, let us seek out Atheleys at the Rostra and have her notify Father."
373,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003490_BEQLUGG","Ah yes, the king has already shared what they glimpsed in the Source. The day is won, and the danger passed."
374,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003500_BEQLUGG","Hearing the tidings lifted a great weight from my shoulders. Never before had I taken on such a monumental request."
375,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003510_LYNA","Small though it was, we are glad to have played a role in saving the Exarch's home, and yours."
376,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003520_LYNA","Furthermore, the endeavor served to reaffirm the bond between the peoples of Norvrandt."
377,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003530_LYNA","Nurturing this bond, we will strive to be an example for the world Zero aspires to restore."
378,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003540_RYNE","Is that...a memoria crystal? I can feel it... The tremendous Darkness within..."
379,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003550_RYNE","Using Darkness from the void to restore balance to this world... If such a thing could be done...!"
380,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003560_BEQLUGG","Well, well... Though night has returned to our world, Darkness cannot arise of its own accord, much less in abundance."
381,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003570_BEQLUGG","But if it could be brought here in like manner to how we channeled Light to the void, it may well be possible to restore the Empty in its entirety!"
382,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003580_BEQLUGG","Do you still have that spirit vessel with you?"
383,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003590_BEQLUGG","If so, I beg you loan it to me for a time. I would use it to investigate a way to have the tower receive rather than send energy."
384,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003600_BEQLUGG","Thank you. I shall commence my work at once in concert with Unukalhai, and rigorously explore the possibility."
385,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003610_BEQLUGG","Thank you. While I make no promises at this stage, I shall rigorously explore the possibility."
386,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003620_RYNE","I too need to explore new possibilities for my powers. My recent experience at Nabaath Areng has taught me that."
387,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003630_RYNE","To that end, I will set aside botany for a time, and focus instead on myself."
388,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003640_RYNE","Knowing Zero is out there, doing her utmost to restore her own world... It inspires me to redouble my efforts!"
389,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003650_GAIA","There you are."
390,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003660_GAIA","I waited and waited, but you never came. What have you been doing here?"
391,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003670_RYNE","Gaia!"
392,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003680_GAIA","Oh!"
393,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003690_GAIA","Do I know you?"
394,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_Q7_000_001_NONE_VOICE","What will you say?"
395,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_A7_000_001_NONE_VOICE","Don't tell me you've lost your memory again!?"
396,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_A7_000_002_NONE_VOICE","We promised to go for coffee biscuits, remember?"
397,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003700_GAIA","Oh, I'm just teasing. I wouldn't forget you in a hurry."
398,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003710_GAIA","I'm still keeping my diary, adding new memories to it every day."
399,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003720_RYNE","Not only that, Gaia's writing a story too. I can't wait for it to become a book!"
400,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003725_GAIA",""
401,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003730_GAIA","I never agreed to anything of the sort."
402,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003740_GAIA","Besides, coffee biscuits are old news. I'd rather try something else."
403,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003750_RYNE","What? I thought you liked them too... Well, no matter. The Second Serving has something for every taste, so let's just go!"
404,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003760_GAIA","Enough about that. What were you talking about?"
405,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003770_GAIA","Harnessing Darkness from the void... Now there's an idea."
406,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003780_GAIA","Of course, if you're dealing with Darkness, Ryne alone won't cut it."
407,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003790_GAIA","Next time, call on me as well. All right?"
409,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003810_NAHBDEEN","Oh, Varshahn, my darling little brother... To think that I will never see you again..."
410,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003820_NIDHANA","The way you carry on, anyone would think he was actually your brother..."
411,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003830_NIDHANA","Save your tears, now. His Excellency still has one of his eyes."
412,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003840_NIDHANA","And he has made it clear he intends to continue using his vessel. You'll see Varshahn again, never fear!"
413,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003850_NAHBDEEN","Truly? But...will it be the little one?"
414,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003860_NIDHANA","Personally, I prefer the adult vessel. It cuts a gallant figure, and has superior functionality besides."
415,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003870_NAHBDEEN","Bah, I don't care about such things!"
416,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003880_NAHBDEEN","My little brother is..."
417,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003885_NAHBDEEN","Little! And adorable!"
418,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003890_NIDHANA","Sisters give me strength..."
419,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003900_YSHTOLA","'Tis a fine thing being so loved."
420,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003910_ESTINIEN","Had enough of the revelry, have you?"
421,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003920_ESTINIEN","So, what's next for our hero?"
422,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003930_ESTINIEN","No need to decide just yet. You'll recall our escapades in the void began with a treasure map I paid entirely too much gil for."
423,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003940_ESTINIEN","You can't force an adventure. It'll happen when it happens, and you'll know when the time is right."
424,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003950_ESTINIEN","Till then, it's good to lend an ear to others and their tales. And speaking of others..."
425,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003960_YSHTOLA","Discussing each other's plans, are we?"
426,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003970_YSHTOLA","Alas, I have nothing exciting to share. I foresee an extended confinement in my Sharlayan chambers, compiling my theories on cross-rift travel."
427,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003980_YSHTOLA","My research may be classified, prohibited by the powers that be..."
428,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003990_YSHTOLA","But so long as a bond exists between people, ever shall our worlds be connected. As it stands, a means to travel to the First is within reach, and I would be satisfied even should my research not exist in an official capacity."
429,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004000_YSHTOLA","And what of you, Estinien? Have you any plans?"
430,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004010_YSHTOLA","[CHUCKLE] Report if displayed. "
431,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004020_YSHTOLA","He never was one to stay put for long. Though I've no doubt he will make himself known when needed."
432,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004030_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE","Meanwhile, in Old Sharlayan..."
433,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004040_KRILE","Everything appears to be in order..."
434,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004050_KRILE","Ahhh!"
435,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004055_KRILE","Finished at last."
436,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004060_KRILE","So time-consuming... How nice would it be to have a mammet to handle such tasks."
437,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004070_KRILE","Now then, let's have a look at you."
438,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004080_KRILE","Quite old, this letter. We'll need to store it carefully."
439,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004085_KRILE","[GASP] Report if displayed. "
440,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004090_KRILE","Addressed to Grandfather! And come all the way from Tuliyollal, from a Guloo...someone."
441,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004100_KRILE","The ink's too faded. Hardly anything is legible."
442,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004110_KRILE","Come on, give me something..."
443,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004120_KRILE","A commission to investigate the golden city...in Tural!?"
444,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004130_KRILE","How odd... No one ever mentioned such a commission, nor have I seen any records."
445,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004140_KRILE","Hm? Something else in here..."
446,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004150_KRILE","What an unusual earring. How does it relate to the petition, I wonder..."
447,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004160_KRILE","Did you go there, Grandfather? To the golden city, in Tural?"
448,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004170_ERENVILLE","[SIGH] Report if displayed."
449,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004180_ERENVILLE","Back again already, after making a show of leaving..."
450,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004190_ERENVILLE","Well, this is it. Sharlayan."
451,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004200_ERENVILLE","Quite a far cry from Tuliyollal, yes?"
452,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004210_ERENVILLE","Come, let's go and find your candidate─our adventurer friend."
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Restoring the elements to the Empty may allow life to flourish there once more...
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But that isn't enough to return the environment to the way it was. No, we need to gradually reintroduce life, beginning with plants.
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Not just any plants, though, but those that won't be a burden on a weakened land...
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Such as...
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_Q1_000_001_NONE_VOICE
What will you say?
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You've become quite the scholar.
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I see you've taken an interest in gardening.
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How about coffee plants?
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000050_RYNE
Oh! What a welcome surprise!
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000060_RYNE
It seems you caught me rambling to myself. How embarrassing...
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I've been studying botany, you see, hoping that the knowledge would help our work in the Empty.
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Coffee... If I recall correctly, it thrives in warm climates, with cooler nights to promote growth.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000090_RYNE
Yes. Yes, that might be suitable.
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And with a good harvest, we could set some aside for coffee biscuits!
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Wait... It's you!
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000120_RYNE
It seems you caught me rambling to myself. How embarrassing...
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000130_RYNE
I've been studying botany, you see, hoping that the knowledge would help our work in the Empty.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000140_RYNE
But never mind that for now. What brings you to the Crystarium? It was my understanding that the Final Days were behind us.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000150_RYNE
You wish to combat this otherworldly threat with the power of Light...?
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000160_RYNE
Please let me help.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000170_RYNE
Though I've lost my connection to Hydaelyn, I can still manipulate Light to a degree.
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If there is a chance I could save others with that power, then I have to try.
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'Tis done. Zero is now with us in the flesh.
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The spirit vessel, I shall hold on to for operating the tower.
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This will help me to make sense of the controls, will it?
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000220_BEQLUGG
There's a levity in his words that wasn't there before. It heartens me to know he is well.
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I shall see to the preparations as per his instructions.
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My thanks for your help.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000250_BEQLUGG
Think nothing of it. That said, 'tis customary that my kind receive fitting payment for services rendered...
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000260_MYSTERIOUSPERSON
Not unlike we voidsent, then. In that case, you may devour some of my aether.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000270_BEQLUGG
Are you mad? I'll do no such thing! The very suggestion is absurd!
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000280_RYNE
Now, now, let's calm down. We all have our preferences, and I'm sure no offense was intended.
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I shall attend to the tower now. The rest, I leave to you.
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Zero, was it? My name is Ryne. It's a pleasure to meet you.
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This world isn't what I expected. While Light is indeed strong here, it's not pervasive or overwhelming. Everything looks much as it does in the Source.
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We have the Warrior of Darkness to thank for that.
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If you're interested, I would be glad to show you around.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000340_MYSTERIOUSPERSON
Just an ordinary sky. Ordinary...and beautiful.
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To think that, after so much loss, they could reclaim this...
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000360_MYSTERIOUSPERSON
So this is the Flood of Light...
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I don't remember much of the time when Darkness consumed the Thirteenth. Just the cold and the emptiness...
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000380_RYNE
Zero? Are you all right?
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...Aye. I'm fine.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000400_MYSTERIOUSPERSON
You're the one who stopped this?
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000410_RYNE
Oh, no no. That was the first Oracle of Light, Minfilia. She's since left us, but I inherited her power and legacy.
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I see...
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Let's get started then, shall we?
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000440_RYNE
The other transmitters are set. Whenever you're ready.
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Such radiant Light...
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It's almost too much for one steeped in Darkness like me...
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Whatever may have happened in the past, you're still here, Zero. Alive.
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What you couldn't do yesterday, you might still do today.
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If this power were mine to wield...
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[CRY OF PAIN “Argh! Ahhhhhh!] Report if displayed.
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[ENDURING PAIN GRUNT “Urgh”] Report if displayed.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000530_MYSTERIOUSPERSON
I will not succumb... Not to Darkness...nor to Light!
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[PSYCHING ROAR “Yaaaaaargh!”] Report if displayed.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000550_RYNE
Zero!
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She's...taken Light into herself!
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Her body struggles to contain it. She needs help.
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[FAINT GROAN “Ugh”] Report if displayed.
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Thank goodness... How do you feel?
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Better now, I think.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_000610_RYNE
Then you're very, very lucky. Whatever possessed you to do that?
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I had to know if I could command the Light. If I could change my fate.
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Once, I would never have dared to dream it.
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But your friendship and your trust has helped me to see new possibilities. In myself and everything else.
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Perhaps that's why, when I beheld this world once damned yet saved, I saw the potential for mine to be saved as well.
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To become a world where Light and Darkness are in harmony, and life flourishes. A world where we're not consumed by insatiable hunger, but filled with hope for what we might create together.
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If I had the strength, perhaps I could make such a dream reality. Perhaps I could awaken us from this endless nightmare.
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That's what possessed me...
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If that's your heartfelt desire, then you mustn't be afraid to share it.
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There was a time when I lacked the courage. To voice my desires was to burden those I love...or so I convinced myself.
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But then I met those who believed in me. They helped me to believe in myself and find the strength to live.
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And so long as I'm alive, I know that I'll be fine. No matter how dire things seem. No matter where I am.
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To be able to think that brought me peace, and it's a blessing I owe entirely to my friends.
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Those who believe in us...
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I will remember your words. I know all too well that there's a limit to what we can achieve alone.
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As a friend, I'd like to help you fulfill your dream.
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If you wish to take in more Light, I can keep the power in check and help your body accept it.
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What will you say?
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If anyone can do it, it'd be Ryne.
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It worked well enough for me.
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With the power of Light <Emphasis>and</Emphasis> Dark, you'll be unstoppable!
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So it would seem.
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Ah, yes. You mentioned having to absorb Light. That you still live is proof of her ability.
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I certainly hope so.
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Right, then. I'm counting on you.
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Here I go.
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[STRUGGLING TO ABSORB LIGHT EXERT] Report if displayed.
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I can feel it. The Light's warmth welling within me.
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Then I believe it worked.
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With this power, I will return to the void and fight─for the world that once was, and for those I hold dear!
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All is in readiness. Without further ado, then... Light from beyond the rift, shine forth and banish the Darkness!
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Excellent. The tower is replete with Light from Nabaath Areng.
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Commencing transmission!
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It works! It works! Light is flowing into the void!
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May this Light illuminate your way!
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You can do it, Zero. I believe in you.
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Look─an opening!
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It worked. Let us waste no time and sally forth.
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Alas, I fear the breach may be too narrow for you, Vrtra.
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For a blessing, I prepared my simulacrum for such an eventuality.
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My true form shall stand guard here while we explore the chasm.
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'Tis faint, but I sense the presence of a dragon. No doubt my sister's essence trapped within Zeromus.
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Not where she was held captive before, but somewhere much deeper.
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The descent will not be so easy this time.
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The chasm swarms with voidsent.
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Summoned by Golbez, perhaps, or born of the residual Darkness.
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However they came to be, we shall cut a path through them. Is everyone ready?
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Zero...?
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That Light should shine in the void once more...
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No single one of us could have made it so. Only by joining hands were we able to kindle this Light.
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Do you see, Golbez? We needn't damn others to save ourselves.
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You knew this once, surely. When you tried to befriend me. When you were one of the precious few left willing to trust in another.
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But that man is gone, and in his place a mockery of his beliefs.
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It's the same as before... Though we walk different paths, we seek the same destination. And yet...
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There is something I must know. A truth that lies waiting in the dark.
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Golbez!
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This can't be happening... Not to you...
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My friend... My hero... I will stop you even should it cost me my life!
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[PANTING, DOWN ON ONE KNEE] Report if displayed.
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Why? Why you and not me?
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You were the best of us. A paragon of virtue. I could never hope to be your equal.
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I am only the knight I am because of you...
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Because you believed in me!
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[PANTING] Report if displayed.
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[PAINED LAUGHTER] Report if displayed.
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You would not wish to become a monster, preying upon those who've fought to protect. But neither can I bring myself to kill you.
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So rest easy, my friend, and entrust your legacy to me.
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You will never die, this I swear.
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Through me your name shall live on, as the hero who saves the world!
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We've been released from the memory, 'twould seem.
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If Golbez was the one sealed in this memoria...
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Then the one we've been fighting is...
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No more than an impostor playing at hero.
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Durante, I presume.
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A name long since lost to time. History shall remember only Golbez.
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Come what may, I shall deliver the world its salvation, and I will not suffer you to interfere.
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You seek to free all souls from the purgatory of undeath. And to that end, you would invade another world.
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While I cannot condone your methods, I understand your motive full well.
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For I'm driven by the same. I too wish to save our world.
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I too once thought I had to bear the burden by myself. That I had no choice but to walk my path alone. But I was wrong. We may yet strive together towards our shared goal, if you would reconsider your course.
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[CONDESCENDING CHUCKLE] Report if displayed.
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If you possessed power which transcended that of Zeromus, then perhaps I would.
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But you do not. No, you are but another voidsent, like me. And what is a candle before the sun?
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Perhaps we aren't all-powerful and cannot effect great change in an instant. Even so...
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Great change is what we need! Aught less has no meaning!
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Having glimpsed our past, you should understand as well as any.
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As Golbez, I dedicated myself to ending the Contramemoria. I fought the corrupted memoriates, and attempted to redeem those twisted by their power.
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Yet try as I might, I was powerless to make any meaningful change. 'Twas then, when I was floundering in despair, that she appeared─the Ascian Igeyorhm.
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Claiming to know how to excise the source of our woes, she showed me to the moon, where the servant of Light abided. 'Twas he and his ilk who had granted men unnatural powers, she said, and now prolonged the war.
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Believing her every word, I struck him down...and caused Darkness to engulf the world.
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What!? Then it was you who...
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As Emet-Selch once told us, the Thirteenth was the Ascians' first attempt at a Rejoining, before they fully understood the mechanisms at play.
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They failed because they sought only to awaken the sundered Zodiark without instigating a calamity in the Source. The Darkness they unleashed had nowhere else to go...
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Having left a ruin of our world, the Ascian fled. I was a fool to trust them. To trust in others.
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Since that day, I have sought the means to undo my mistake. The world may be beyond saving, but I would at least restore the great flow.
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The dragon was an extraordinary windfall. A veritable font of aether that expedited my endeavors time and again.
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But it wasn't enough to achieve my objective. Far from it.
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For an eternity, I had to bide my time. But the day finally came when I acquired the power I sought.
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Aye, the remnants of the Ascians' god sealed within the moon suddenly dispersed into aether.
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With that aether, Zeromus could be conceived. And driven by the dragon's longing for home, it shall soon arise to destroy the barrier between worlds.
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Thus will the way open to the promised land, and the death we have been too long denied.
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Thus will I, Golbez, bring salvation to all!
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So that is all you have left...
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Say what you will. You cannot stop Zeromus's awakening.
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We're going after him, aren't we?
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Aye. That's why we came, after all. And besides...
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When someone believes in you, it makes you want to believe in them. In others and yourself. Jullus was right about that.
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I had hoped to bear witness to the moment our salvation is realized...
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But nothing must be left to chance. I will stop you here no matter the cost!
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[SPELLCASTING EXERT]
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[JUMP EXERT] Report if displayed.
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[ATTACK EXERT] Report if displayed.
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[TAKINNG DAMAGE EXERT] Report if displayed.
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Wounded as I am, I knew that I would be hard-pressed to fight you on equal terms.
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And so I lured you to this place, where the advantage is mine!
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The archfiends live!?
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Impossible. Scarmiglione and Barbariccia were sealed in memoria, while Cagnazzo and Rubicante died in the Source...
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You are not wrong. They are not the true archfiends, but shades born of their residual aether.
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If they are shades, then their strength will pale in comparison. Even should they fight as one, we may yet prevail.
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We'll tend to the archfiends. Go and put an end to Zeromus.
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You'll do no such thing!
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Go! We'll join you as soon as we can!
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[CHARGING TOWARD GOLBEZ EXERT]
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[BLOCKING HIT EXERT]
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It is too late. Zeromus <Emphasis>will</Emphasis> awaken, and it shall devour any who come between it and its desire. Your companion is no exception.
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I wouldn't be so sure.
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Time and again, <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> has faced insurmountable odds.
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But no matter how hopeless things seemed, <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she's<Else/>he's</If> never given up the fight.
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[KNOCKING BACK ENEMY EXERT] Report if displayed.
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So long as he has strength of will to forge on, then so too shall we!
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So long as she has strength of will to forge on, then so too shall we!
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For we believe in <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>him</If>, and <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> believes in us.
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And together, our Light can pierce blackest Darkness!
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[CHARGING ATTACK EXERT] Report if displayed.
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[CHARGING ATTACK EXERT] Report if displayed.
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What is this Darkness, cold and all-consuming? Where am I?
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I must return to my world... To my home, where my kin await...
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Yes, I must return. I return. And none shall stand in my way!
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What will you say?
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Release Azdaja!
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I can't let you destroy the barrier between worlds!
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Begone from my sight!
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Graaaaaah! [Report if displayed.]
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I shall not perish... So long as they await my return, I shall endure...
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[SWINGING LANCE EXERT] Report if displayed.
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Are you all right?
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Like all voidsent, Zeromus cannot be killed. Sealing it in memoria is the only way.
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Ah, that it should come to this...
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I failed my dear friend. Fell for the Ascians' ploy and unleashed the Darkness.
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And after an eternity of waiting, I find myself on my knees...
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How disappointed must you be in me. In the foolishness and futility of it all...
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[STRUGGLING TO STAND EXERT]
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No... I will not let it be for naught. I will not allow you to pass. I will triumph in my crusade!
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There is no triumph to be found in this madness.
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Even if the veil were to be unraveled, it would not undo what Darkness has done to the world.
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Nor would it bring Golbez back. From his slumber, you know there is no return.
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You're weak and imperfect. You know it in your heart. In spite of this, do you truly believe that you can save everyone? Are you sure you will not fail?
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I'm no better. Weak and imperfect and plagued by doubt. Which is why I need friends to walk beside me.
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Light...? But how?
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This is proof that I believe in others, and they in turn believe in me.
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A light that illuminates the way in darkest despair.
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Be it in a ruined city locked in ice or a world drowning in Light, it was with faith in one another that life endured. I see it clearly now.
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You think we are capable of the same?
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It won't be easy. Having lived too long as voidsent, we've forgotten how to trust.
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But one thing is certain: if Zeromus succeeds and everyone dies, we'll never have the chance to try.
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You asked me to join hands with you once, and I refused. I cannot take back that mistake, but I can extend to you the same offer. We can be better than we have been.
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[SHOCKED GASP, REMEMBERING SOMETHING] Report if displayed.
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Of course. You were the memoriate we met all those years ago...
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[BITTER LAUGHTER] Report if displayed.
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Yes, I remember now. We hoped you would join us in our quest to end the Contramemoria.
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But you rejected us outright.
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It left both of us discouraged─Golbez most of all. “If we could but overcome the fear that has shaped and divided us, we could change everything.”
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Even in the midst of that terrible war, he never stopped believing in others. Not even at the end...
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You're Golbez now. If you would live up to his name, then you must trust in people as he did.
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I cannot forgive what you have done to my sister. But she may yet be saved.
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If you can help us see her safely home and protect the Source, then...
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As Zero's friends, we should gladly share what knowledge we have to help you restore the void.
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You truly believe the world of old can be ours again?
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I do. So long as we work together.
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We will disperse Zeromus's essence once more. The instant we do, you must call to Azdaja.
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Understood!
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Zero!
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The suffocating Darkness... Like that of the rift...
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Impenetrable... Disorienting... Untethered and drifting further away...
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Be strong, Zero! Don't give up!
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Hold fast to yourself! Look to the Light within!
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Your place isn't alone in the Dark, Zero. Not anymore!
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What will you say?
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You can do it, Zero!
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Are you all right, Zero?
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Hmph.
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Of course.
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Hmph.
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You needn't worry about me.
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With this power from beyond the rift, I can do it. I can save everyone!
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Golbez! If you would make amends, then lend me your strength!
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[CHARGING ATTACK EXERT] Report if displayed.
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[CHARGING ATTACK EXERT] Report if displayed.
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Azdaja!
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Hear my voice...and return to me!
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(-Azdaja-)Oh, Vrtra... There thou art...
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(-Azdaja-)I am coming, Brother... I am coming...
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Have care! Zeromus makes to resurrect!
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Not if I have anything to say about it!
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No more, fiend!
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You're safe now, Azdaja. You're safe.
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To my sister, I shall offer up the eye in this vessel.
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We dragons bring forth progeny with our very life force. That which my eye harbors should be enough to grant her corporeal form.
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Of course, this means I shall no longer have control over this vessel. I must ask you escort Azdaja to the surface in my stead.
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[CLOSED-MOUTH LAUGH “Hmph”] Report if displayed.
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We came to bring her home, and we'll do just that. You have my word.
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Thank you.
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At long last, we shall be together again.
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Where are you going?
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Our world may yet be restored. I thought it an impossible dream once, but having witnessed your miracles, I cannot help but believe.
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Nevertheless, I am the villain who wrought this tragedy. And in my misguided crusade, I compounded my sins.
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My place is not at your side.
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[WEARY SIGH] Report if displayed.
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Regardless of how you may feel, by lending me your strength, you've made amends.
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You've earned a new beginning.
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It's up to you what we become to one another.
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What we couldn't do yesterday, we might still do today. Working together.
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And should we want for strength, we need only rally more like-minded souls to our cause.
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So let's take the first step. The two of us.
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Words cannot well express my relief that we could rescue my sister, nor my gratitude to all of you.
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What of him? Golbez.
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He felt it would be inappropriate for him to be present at your reunion with Azdaja, and chose to remain down in the chasm.
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If you wish to hear an apology, however, I should be glad to drag him here.
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Nay, that shall not be necessary. By his deeds hath he demonstrated his contrition.
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So, what will you do now?
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I've learned much journeying together with you. Experienced things I could never have experienced alone.
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Together with Golbez, I hope to do the same as we labor to restore the Thirteenth.
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Then I suppose it's farewell for now.
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Be sure to share with Golbez what you've learned of the Source and its reflections, as well as the true nature of Light and Dark.
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He is as resourceful as he is determined, and will surely make the very most of the insights.
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Indeed. Once we've gained a better understanding of the situation, I hope we can rely on your counsel.
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But of course. I too shall continue probing new possibilities, the better to be of aid when the time comes.
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Ah, speaking of which...
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From ocean rise and cloudbank form,
From mountain spring and rainfall storm,
From river flow and life be born...
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Come forth, my servant!
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I revised the incantation. Which is not to say you know how it went before...
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Are we clear?
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Nidhana provided me with spare warding scales, which apparently provide greater protection than before.
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This should keep the familiar safe. So long as you give the nixie aether from time to time, it will persist and serve as a beacon for us to find you.
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Already we find ourselves with a new ally. Thank you.
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When you have the chance, please thank everyone for me.
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Those in Radz-at-Han, Garlemald, Sharlayan...
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...the First, and on the moon.
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A lengthy list.
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A gift for Ryne, in return for the Light she helped me harness. It's the memoria holding Zeromus.
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If used to augment Darkness in the First, it may help to create balance between our worlds.
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An excellent idea.
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Similarly, why not entrust the archfiends' memoria to Zero?
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In that case, I shall pass them on to Golbez. To inspire and admonish him in equal measure.
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What will you say?
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I'll see you again, right?
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The Thirteenth is in good hands.
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You should know about Unukalhai and Cylva...
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You will, I'm sure. Just don't try to forcibly summon me. I won't come.
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Come what may, we will see it restored. And should we need a helping hand, I hope we can count on you once more.
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What? There are others from our world who seek to restore it?
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Then please tell them this: though we are worlds apart, in our shared objective, we walk as one.
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Sad though it is to say farewell, 'tis past time we returned home. Pray climb upon my back.
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Till we meet again.
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No matter where we are or how much time passes, our bond will endure. This I believe.
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Oh, it's you again. Is everything all right?
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So you were able to rescue Azdaja... Thank the Twelve.
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Channeling Light from the First was rather ingenious. It may fall short of cross-rift travel, but it's still an impressive achievement in my book.
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You're too kind. Suffice it to say, though, that I don't intend to rest on these laurels. There's always more to be done.
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Zero stayed in the void, did she? Well...if I had known it would come to that, I would've said a proper farewell.
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What will you say?
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Zero took your words to heart.
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Zero sends her thanks.
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Really...? I don't remember saying anything profound...
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Thanks for what? I don't recall doing anything in particular for her. On the contrary, she's the one who risked life and limb.
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Still...I'm glad that she got something out of her time here.
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As the days roll on, things will change for the both of us.
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But some things will remain as they are.
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As far as I'm concerned, Zero will always be a friend and comrade. And I will never forget her.
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If she's working tirelessly to restore the Thirteenth, it wouldn't do to be outdone here. When next Zero visits, we must see to it that you have a shiny new Garlemald to show her.
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Indeed... And speaking of rebuilding, there's a matter I'd like to discuss with you and Alphinaud.
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Word has spread of our dealings with Radz-at-Han, and people are excited by the prospect of standing on our own two feet again. Naturally, it won't be straightforward─it never is─but on the whole, I have a good feeling about things.
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In other words...it may be time for us to limit our involvement, that Garleans might take the lead? I can see the sense in that.
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No, no, that's not what I meant at all.
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Seeing as things are going well, we want you to take a rest. A <Emphasis>proper</Emphasis> rest. That's what I wanted to say, on everyone's behalf.
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You've done so much for us already. Toiled beside us in the cold for far longer than anyone could ask.
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You've earned a reprieve a hundred times over. So go on, step away from here and head...wherever you like. But if it were me, I'd choose somewhere warm.
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I was thinking of taking a break anyway...
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Far be it from us to go against such a heartfelt request. Though I would be lying were I to say matters here wouldn't weigh on our minds...
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We could take a leaf out of Zero's book and roam about for a while.
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Maybe visit nations who share little history with Garlemald─look for opportunities to foster future relations. We might learn something of recent foreign affairs that has escaped our notice.
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Hm, as an independent party, we would be well suited to the task... An excellent idea, Alisaie.
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Well, that hardly sounds like a rest at all.
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To us, it is the best kind of rest─stimulating and meaningful.
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If it's settled, then let's return to Sharlayan and consider our options.
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What about the rest of you? Do you have any plans?
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We're indebted to Lord Fourchenault and his colleagues for their cooperation. 'Twould be meet to report on the outcome of our mission.
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Then it seems we are all bound for Sharlayan. Upon arriving, let us seek out Atheleys at the Rostra and have her notify Father.
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Ah yes, the king has already shared what they glimpsed in the Source. The day is won, and the danger passed.
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Hearing the tidings lifted a great weight from my shoulders. Never before had I taken on such a monumental request.
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Small though it was, we are glad to have played a role in saving the Exarch's home, and yours.
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Furthermore, the endeavor served to reaffirm the bond between the peoples of Norvrandt.
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Nurturing this bond, we will strive to be an example for the world Zero aspires to restore.
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Is that...a memoria crystal? I can feel it... The tremendous Darkness within...
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Using Darkness from the void to restore balance to this world... If such a thing could be done...!
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Well, well... Though night has returned to our world, Darkness cannot arise of its own accord, much less in abundance.
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But if it could be brought here in like manner to how we channeled Light to the void, it may well be possible to restore the Empty in its entirety!
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Do you still have that spirit vessel with you?
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If so, I beg you loan it to me for a time. I would use it to investigate a way to have the tower receive rather than send energy.
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Thank you. I shall commence my work at once in concert with Unukalhai, and rigorously explore the possibility.
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Thank you. While I make no promises at this stage, I shall rigorously explore the possibility.
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I too need to explore new possibilities for my powers. My recent experience at Nabaath Areng has taught me that.
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To that end, I will set aside botany for a time, and focus instead on myself.
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Knowing Zero is out there, doing her utmost to restore her own world... It inspires me to redouble my efforts!
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There you are.
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I waited and waited, but you never came. What have you been doing here?
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Gaia!
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Oh!
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Do I know you?
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What will you say?
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Don't tell me you've lost your memory again!?
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We promised to go for coffee biscuits, remember?
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Oh, I'm just teasing. I wouldn't forget you in a hurry.
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I'm still keeping my diary, adding new memories to it every day.
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Not only that, Gaia's writing a story too. I can't wait for it to become a book!
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I never agreed to anything of the sort.
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Besides, coffee biscuits are old news. I'd rather try something else.
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What? I thought you liked them too... Well, no matter. The Second Serving has something for every taste, so let's just go!
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Enough about that. What were you talking about?
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Harnessing Darkness from the void... Now there's an idea.
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Of course, if you're dealing with Darkness, Ryne alone won't cut it.
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Next time, call on me as well. All right?
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It cannot be...
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Oh, Varshahn, my darling little brother... To think that I will never see you again...
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The way you carry on, anyone would think he was actually your brother...
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Save your tears, now. His Excellency still has one of his eyes.
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And he has made it clear he intends to continue using his vessel. You'll see Varshahn again, never fear!
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Truly? But...will it be the little one?
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Personally, I prefer the adult vessel. It cuts a gallant figure, and has superior functionality besides.
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Bah, I don't care about such things!
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My little brother is...
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Little! And adorable!
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Sisters give me strength...
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'Tis a fine thing being so loved.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003910_ESTINIEN
Had enough of the revelry, have you?
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So, what's next for our hero?
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003930_ESTINIEN
No need to decide just yet. You'll recall our escapades in the void began with a treasure map I paid entirely too much gil for.
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You can't force an adventure. It'll happen when it happens, and you'll know when the time is right.
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Till then, it's good to lend an ear to others and their tales. And speaking of others...
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_003960_YSHTOLA
Discussing each other's plans, are we?
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Alas, I have nothing exciting to share. I foresee an extended confinement in my Sharlayan chambers, compiling my theories on cross-rift travel.
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My research may be classified, prohibited by the powers that be...
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But so long as a bond exists between people, ever shall our worlds be connected. As it stands, a means to travel to the First is within reach, and I would be satisfied even should my research not exist in an official capacity.
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And what of you, Estinien? Have you any plans?
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[CHUCKLE] Report if displayed.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004020_YSHTOLA
He never was one to stay put for long. Though I've no doubt he will make himself known when needed.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004030_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE
Meanwhile, in Old Sharlayan...
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Everything appears to be in order...
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Ahhh!
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Finished at last.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004060_KRILE
So time-consuming... How nice would it be to have a mammet to handle such tasks.
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Now then, let's have a look at you.
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TEXT_VOICEMAN_06500_004080_KRILE
Quite old, this letter. We'll need to store it carefully.
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[GASP] Report if displayed.
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Addressed to Grandfather! And come all the way from Tuliyollal, from a Guloo...someone.
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The ink's too faded. Hardly anything is legible.
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Come on, give me something...
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A commission to investigate the golden city...in Tural!?
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How odd... No one ever mentioned such a commission, nor have I seen any records.
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Hm? Something else in here...
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What an unusual earring. How does it relate to the petition, I wonder...
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Did you go there, Grandfather? To the golden city, in Tural?
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[SIGH] Report if displayed.
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Back again already, after making a show of leaving...
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Well, this is it. Sharlayan.
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Quite a far cry from Tuliyollal, yes?
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Come, let's go and find your candidate─our adventurer friend.
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