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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."
39,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000400_YUGIRI","Over here!"
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."
108,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001060_ALISAIE","...You do?"
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?"
121,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001190_YSHTOLA","I would."
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?"
164,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001590_YSHTOLA","Y'shtola. Why?"
165,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001600_MAGNAI","Are you...?"
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."
172,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001670_MAGNAI","Little...?"
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."
195,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001900_NANAMOULNAMO","The Ascians."
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."
219,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002140_MYSTERYVOICE","That way...sorrow..."
220,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002150_MYSTERYVOICE","History...must be changed..."
221,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_Q2_000_001_NONE_VOICE","What will you say?"
222,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A2_000_001_NONE_VOICE","Who is this?"
223,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A2_000_002_NONE_VOICE","I don't understand..."
224,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002160_MYSTERYVOICE","Ahead looms a Calamity."
225,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002170_MYSTERYVOICE","Ahead looms Light, expunging all form and life."
226,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002180_MYSTERYVOICE","Twin dooms only you can forestall. Only you."
227,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002190_RAUBAHN","What's the matter!?"
228,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002200_ALISAIE","There's...there's a voice..."
229,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002210_MERLWYB","Spies in our midst!?"
230,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002220_KANESENNA","Nay. I sense no such presence."
231,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002230_MYSTERYVOICE","Let expanse contract, eon become instant..."
232,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002240_MYSTERYVOICE","Throw wide the gates that we may pass!"
233,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002250_YSHTOLA","Is it over?"
234,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002260_AYMERIC","Master Thancred!"
235,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002270_KANESENNA","Twelve forfend..."
236,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002280_KANESENNA","Bear him to a private chamber. Have every healer make ready."
237,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002290_KANESENNA","Swiftly!"
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>."
248,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002400_YSHTOLA","Called?"
249,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002410_KANESENNA","I myself examined Thancred."
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?"
258,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002500_YSHTOLA","Thank you, Lyse."
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..."
279,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002710_ALISAIE","Ah! Unnngh! No...!"
280,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002720_ALISAIE","Y'shtola... Urianger..."
281,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002730_MYSTERYVOICE","Throw wide...the gates..."
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."
320,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003055_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)..."
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."
42,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000400_YUGIRI","Over here!"
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."
111,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001060_ALISAIE","...You do?"
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?"
124,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001190_YSHTOLA","I would."
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?"
167,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001590_YSHTOLA","Y'shtola. Why?"
168,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001600_MAGNAI","Are you...?"
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."
175,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001670_MAGNAI","Little...?"
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."
198,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001900_NANAMOULNAMO","The Ascians."
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."
222,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002140_MYSTERYVOICE","That way...sorrow..."
223,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002150_MYSTERYVOICE","History...must be changed..."
224,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_Q2_000_001_NONE_VOICE","What will you say?"
225,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A2_000_001_NONE_VOICE","Who is this?"
226,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A2_000_002_NONE_VOICE","I don't understand..."
227,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002160_MYSTERYVOICE","Ahead looms a Calamity."
228,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002170_MYSTERYVOICE","Ahead looms Light, expunging all form and life."
229,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002180_MYSTERYVOICE","Twin dooms only you can forestall. Only you."
230,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002190_RAUBAHN","What's the matter!?"
231,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002200_ALISAIE","There's...there's a voice..."
232,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002210_MERLWYB","Spies in our midst!?"
233,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002220_KANESENNA","Nay. I sense no such presence."
234,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002230_MYSTERYVOICE","Let expanse contract, eon become instant..."
235,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002240_MYSTERYVOICE","Throw wide the gates that we may pass!"
236,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002250_YSHTOLA","Is it over?"
237,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002260_AYMERIC","Master Thancred!"
238,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002270_KANESENNA","Twelve forfend..."
239,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002280_KANESENNA","Bear him to a private chamber. Have every healer make ready."
240,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002290_KANESENNA","Swiftly!"
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>."
251,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002400_YSHTOLA","Called?"
252,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002410_KANESENNA","I myself examined Thancred."
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?"
261,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002500_YSHTOLA","Thank you, Lyse."
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..."
282,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002710_ALISAIE","Ah! Unnngh! No...!"
283,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002720_ALISAIE","Y'shtola... Urianger..."
284,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002730_MYSTERYVOICE","Throw wide...the gates..."
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."
323,"TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003055_SOLUSZOSGALVUS","(-???-)..."
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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32 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.
33 29 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000295_ALISAIE So I'm <Emphasis>going</Emphasis>, and that's the end of it.
34 30 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000300_THANCRED Well, far be it from me to change your minds.
35 31 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000330_HIEN Ah! There you are!
36 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. Between contending with bloodthirsty beasts and sand in my...every conceivable place, I'm quite ready to leave this wasteland. But first things first...
37 33 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000340_YUGIRI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000345_HIEN Do you recognize the crashed ship over yonder? Do you see the crashed ship over yonder?
38 34 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000350_YUGIRI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000355_HIEN 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.
39 35 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000360_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000340_YUGIRI But there was no sign of him. Nor of Maxima and his people.
40 36 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000370_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000350_YUGIRI Warmachina. It would seem they were involved in a struggle.
41 37 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000380_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000360_ALISAIE There may be clues. We should split up and search the area.
42 38 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000390_YUGIRI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000370_YSHTOLA Hm. These were no ordinary soldiers. Warmachina. It would seem they were involved in a struggle.
43 39 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000400_YUGIRI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000380_YSHTOLA Over here! There may be clues. We should split up and search the area.
44 40 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000410_YUGIRI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000385_ALISAIE The insignia on this man's uniform identifies him as one of the Emperor's personal guard. There's no sign of Alphinaud. Nor of Maxima and his people.
45 41 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000420_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000390_YUGIRI Handpicked soldiers answering only to the royal family... Hm. These were no ordinary soldiers.
46 42 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000430_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000400_YUGIRI That would explain why all the casualties are Garlean. They were fighting their own. Over here!
47 43 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000440_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000410_YUGIRI 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.
48 44 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_Q1_000_001_NONE_VOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000420_YSHTOLA What will you say? Handpicked soldiers answering only to the royal family...
49 45 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A1_000_001_NONE_VOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000430_HIEN We don't know that yet. That would explain why all the casualties are Garlean. They were fighting their own.
50 46 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A1_000_002_NONE_VOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000440_ALISAIE Alphinaud is fine, I'm sure of it. You're saying the Emperor was behind all this? That Alphinaud is his prisoner?
51 47 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000450_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_Q1_000_001_NONE_VOICE Aye, we must not jump to conclusions. Besides, Alphinaud is more than capable of looking after himself, is he not? What will you say?
52 48 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000460_YUGIRI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A1_000_001_NONE_VOICE 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.
53 49 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000470_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A1_000_002_NONE_VOICE Where in the world are you, Brother? If you die on me, I will never let you hear the end of it. Alphinaud is fine, I'm sure of it.
54 50 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000480_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000450_HIEN Lyse! What brings you here? Aye, we must not jump to conclusions. Besides, Alphinaud is more than capable of looking after himself, is he not?
55 51 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000490_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000460_YUGIRI 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.
56 52 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000500_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000470_ALISAIE 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.
57 53 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000510_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000480_YSHTOLA Well, if he wasn't at the crash site, he might still have escaped. We have to keep searching! Lyse! What brings you here?
58 54 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000520_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000490_LYSE 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.
59 55 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000530_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000500_LYSE 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?
60 56 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000540_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000510_LYSE Well, someone has to do it. Well, if he wasn't at the crash site, he might still have escaped. We have to keep searching!
61 57 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000550_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000520_HIEN 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.
62 58 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000560_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000530_HIEN 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.
63 59 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000570_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000540_ALISAIE 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.
64 60 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000580_YUGIRI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000550_LYSE 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.
65 61 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000590_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000560_LYSE 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.
66 62 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000600_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000570_LYSE 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?
67 63 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000610_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000580_YUGIRI 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.
68 64 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000620_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000590_HIEN 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.
69 65 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000630_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000600_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. 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.
70 66 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000640_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000610_YSHTOLA But come, Lyse, you have journeyed far. Let me hear your petition. Whichever Ascian, you mean. We all know the nature of our adversary.
71 67 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000650_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000620_HIEN 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.
72 68 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000660_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000630_HIEN 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.
73 69 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000670_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000640_HIEN 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.
74 70 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000680_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000650_LYSE 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.
75 71 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000690_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000660_LYSE 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.
76 72 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000700_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000670_LYSE 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.
77 73 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000710_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000680_HIEN 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.
78 74 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000720_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000690_HIEN 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.
79 75 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000730_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000700_HIEN 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.
80 76 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000740_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000710_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. Understood. I'll let the Alliance know.
81 77 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000750_YUGIRI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000720_LYSE 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?
82 78 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000760_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000730_HIEN 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.
83 79 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000770_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000740_LYSE '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.
84 80 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000780_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000750_YUGIRI 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.
85 81 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000790_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000760_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. Candid as ever, Yugiri. And correct, I concede. Fortunately, I have an idea.
86 82 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000800_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000770_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. 'Tis plain no single nation can stand against the might of the Empire.
87 83 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000810_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000780_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. 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.
88 84 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000820_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000790_HIEN ...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.
89 85 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000830_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000800_HIEN 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.
90 86 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000840_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000810_HIEN 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.
91 87 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000850_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000820_YSHTOLA 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.
92 88 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000860_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000830_YSHTOLA 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.
93 89 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000870_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000840_HIEN ...Not if we deny them access to the skies. We should be glad of your wisdom.
94 90 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000880_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000850_ALISAIE 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?
95 91 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000890_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000860_ALISAIE 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.
96 92 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000900_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000870_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. ...Not if we deny them access to the skies.
97 93 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000910_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000880_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. During our time in the Burn, the Warrior of Light and I chanced upon some Allagan ruins.
98 94 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000920_YUGIRI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000890_ALISAIE While that is a most intriguing theory, I fail to see what relevance it has to Doma's defense. Oh?
99 95 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000930_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000900_YSHTOLA 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.
100 96 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000940_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000910_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. 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.
101 97 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000950_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000920_YUGIRI 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.
102 98 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000960_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000930_YSHTOLA 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.
103 99 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000970_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000940_YSHTOLA ...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.
104 100 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000980_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000950_YSHTOLA 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.
105 101 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000990_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000960_ALISAIE 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?
106 102 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001000_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000970_HIEN 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.
107 103 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001010_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000980_HIEN 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.
108 104 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001020_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_000990_ALISAIE Hm... A source of energy. I see!
109 105 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001030_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001000_YSHTOLA 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.
110 106 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001040_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001010_YSHTOLA 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.
111 107 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001050_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001020_HIEN Just the two occasions, you say... Then I believe I may have a solution to our energy problem. Hm... A source of energy.
112 108 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001060_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001030_HIEN ...You do? Tell me, did the Allagans make a habit of launching things into the sky?
113 109 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001070_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001040_YSHTOLA 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.
114 110 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001080_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001050_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? Just the two occasions, you say... Then I believe I may have a solution to our energy problem.
115 111 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001090_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001060_ALISAIE Ahhh, I will never tire of this vista! The endless fields, the boundless skies... 'Tis a sight to make a man forget his cares. ...You do?
116 112 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001100_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001070_HIEN But not his purpose, I trust. I <Emphasis>may</Emphasis>. To find out for sure, we would need to visit the Azim Steppe.
117 113 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001110_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001080_HIEN 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?
118 114 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001120_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001090_HIEN 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.
119 115 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001130_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001100_YSHTOLA “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.
120 116 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001140_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001110_YSHTOLA “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?
121 117 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001150_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001120_HIEN 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...
122 118 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001160_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001130_HIEN 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.
123 119 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001170_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001140_HIEN 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.”
124 120 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001180_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001150_YSHTOLA Worth a closer look, would you say? A tainted land cloven from the earth, and an offering of blood to the heavens... Azys Lla and Dalamud.
125 121 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001190_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001160_HIEN I would. That was my thinking, yes.
126 122 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001200_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001170_YSHTOLA 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.
127 123 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001210_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001180_HIEN Are we in luck? Worth a closer look, would you say?
128 124 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001220_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001190_YSHTOLA We are. This is an Allagan artifact, most likely built to regulate the flow of aether. I would.
129 125 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001230_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001200_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. Such an abundance of aether!
130 126 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001240_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001210_HIEN 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?
131 127 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001250_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001220_YSHTOLA Hm...? We are. This is an Allagan artifact, most likely built to regulate the flow of aether.
132 128 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001260_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001230_YSHTOLA 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.
133 129 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001270_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001240_YSHTOLA 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.
134 130 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001280_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001250_YSHTOLA An effect of regulation, perhaps? A similar phenomenon seemed to be occurring in Doma... Hm...?
135 131 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001290_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001260_HIEN Whatever the explanation, the answer will not reveal itself here. We have seen what we needed to see. Let us return to Mol Iloh. What is it?
136 132 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001300_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001270_YSHTOLA 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...
137 133 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001310_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001280_YSHTOLA 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...
138 134 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001320_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001290_YSHTOLA 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.
139 135 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001330_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001300_SADU We lay low the strong that we may rise higher! Yes, this spot shall serve as well as any. I shall enjoy this, khagan!
140 136 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001335_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001310_YSHTOLA That is our way─the way of might! There is no other! Is this truly necessary? Have you no peaceable way of making decisions?
141 137 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001340_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001320_SADU ...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!
142 138 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001350_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001330_SADU Indeed. It's what makes them such dangerous enemies...and such useful allies. We lay low the strong that we may rise higher!
143 139 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001360_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001335_SADU Enough talk! It is time to fight! That is our way─the way of might! There is no other!
144 140 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001370_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001340_YSHTOLA Yes! YES! Not since the Naadam has my soul burned so! ...Well, they do not want for conviction.
145 141 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001380_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001350_HIEN Come! We have only just begun! Indeed. It's what makes them such dangerous enemies...and such useful allies.
146 142 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001390_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001360_SADU Enough. You were not granted leave to set the Steppe ablaze. Enough talk! It is time to fight!
147 143 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001400_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001370_SADU Well, well! The sun has come out to play! Yes! YES! Not since the Naadam has my soul burned so!
148 144 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001410_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001380_SADU Begone, moonstruck Oronir! I am busy. Come! We have only just begun!
149 145 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001420_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001390_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! Enough. You were not granted leave to set the Steppe ablaze.
150 146 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001430_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001400_HIEN 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!
151 147 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001440_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001410_SADU 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.
152 148 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001450_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001420_MAGNAI 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!
153 149 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001460_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001430_MAGNAI 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!
154 150 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001470_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001440_MAGNAI 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.
155 151 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001480_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001450_SADU 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.
156 152 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001485_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001460_MAGNAI The Sun is in good company. We may dance alone. Insolent child. You will learn your place.
157 153 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001490_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001470_HIEN 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.
158 154 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001500_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001480_MAGNAI Constantly at each other's throats, like rabid...dogs. Gods, I'm turning into her. So be it. The Sun will pass judgment on all. Daidukul─join me.
159 155 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001510_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001485_SADU Ahem. I have not the patience for this. But if we must fight, let us at least be brief. Come! The Sun is in good company. We may dance alone.
160 156 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001515_SYSTEM TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001490_MAGNAI In the coming battle, you will fight as Y'shtola. Beg not for mercy, for you will have none. Bear witness to the power and the glory of Azim!
161 157 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001520_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001500_YSHTOLA Ahhh, never have I felt such bliss in defeat! Constantly at each other's throats, like rabid...dogs. Gods, I'm turning into her.
162 158 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001530_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001510_YSHTOLA '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!
163 159 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001540_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001515_SYSTEM What does the Sun say to that? In the coming battle, you will fight as Y'shtola.
164 160 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001550_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001520_SADU 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!
165 161 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001560_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001530_SADU 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.
166 162 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001570_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001540_SADU You have our thanks. We are glad to call you allies. What does the Sun say to that?
167 163 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001580_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001550_MAGNAI You. By what are you called? Hmph. The Sun is not driven by base motives such as yours. But aye, they have been judged...and found worthy.
168 164 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001590_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001560_MAGNAI 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.
169 165 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001600_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001570_HIEN Are you...? You have our thanks. We are glad to call you allies.
170 166 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001610_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001580_MAGNAI Are you my Nhaama? You. By what are you called?
171 167 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001620_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001590_YSHTOLA I beg your pardon? Y'shtola. Why?
172 168 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001630_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001600_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. Are you...?
173 169 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001640_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001610_MAGNAI Long had I wondered if my Nhaama might not be a woman of the Steppe. Beholding you, I am all but certain! Are you my Nhaama?
174 170 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001650_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001620_YSHTOLA Now, look into my eyes. Could it be...? Could you be...? I beg your pardon?
175 171 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001660_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001630_MAGNAI 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.
176 172 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001670_MAGNAI TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001640_MAGNAI Little...? Long had I wondered if my Nhaama might not be a woman of the Steppe. Beholding you, I am all but certain!
177 173 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001680_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001650_MAGNAI No subtitles. Report if displayed. Now, look into my eyes. Could it be...? Could you be...?
178 174 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001690_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001660_YSHTOLA Little sun! Little sun! I am...not interested, little sun. Try again when you have become a man.
179 175 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001700_SADU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001670_MAGNAI Does it pain you, little sun? Crave you salve to soothe the ache? Fire to sear the wound in your heart? Little...?
180 176 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001710_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001680_SADU We have wasted enough time here. Cirina waits for word of our success. No subtitles. Report if displayed.
181 177 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001720_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001690_SADU Did it work? Little sun! Little sun!
182 178 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001730_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001700_SADU 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?
183 179 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001740_NANAMOULNAMO TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001710_YSHTOLA 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.
184 180 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001750_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001720_HIEN 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?
185 181 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001760_KANESENNA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001730_YSHTOLA And we for our part are glad indeed to be able to welcome friends both old and new... It did. Aether may flow freely to the Burn once more.
186 182 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001770_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001740_NANAMOULNAMO 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.
187 183 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001780_AYMERIC TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001750_RAUBAHN 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.
188 184 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001790_AYMERIC TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001760_KANESENNA 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...
189 185 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001800_NANAMOULNAMO TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001770_HIEN 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.
190 186 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001810_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001780_AYMERIC 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.
191 187 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001820_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001790_AYMERIC 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.
192 188 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001830_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001800_NANAMOULNAMO 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.
193 189 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001840_NANAMOULNAMO TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001810_RAUBAHN 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.
194 190 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001850_KANESENNA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001820_RAUBAHN 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...
195 191 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001860_MERLWYB TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001830_ALISAIE 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.
196 192 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001870_MERLWYB TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001840_NANAMOULNAMO 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.
197 193 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001880_MERLWYB TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001850_KANESENNA 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...
198 194 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001890_AYMERIC TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001860_MERLWYB 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.
199 195 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001900_NANAMOULNAMO TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001870_MERLWYB The Ascians. 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.
200 196 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001910_AYMERIC TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001880_MERLWYB 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.
201 197 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001920_AYMERIC TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001890_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. 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.
202 198 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001930_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001900_NANAMOULNAMO 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.
203 199 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001940_THANCRED TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001910_AYMERIC 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...
204 200 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001950_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001920_AYMERIC 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.
205 201 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001960_MERLWYB TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001930_RAUBAHN 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?
206 202 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001970_MERLWYB TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001940_THANCRED 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.
207 203 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001980_THANCRED TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001950_YSHTOLA Very well, Admiral. My proposal is thus. You have an idea?
208 204 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001990_THANCRED TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001960_MERLWYB 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.
209 205 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002000_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001970_MERLWYB 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.
210 206 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002010_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001980_THANCRED But─at the risk of sounding stupid─would they actually believe such an unlikely story? I didn't. Very well, Admiral. My proposal is thus.
211 207 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002020_THANCRED TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_001990_THANCRED 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.
212 208 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002030_THANCRED TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002000_RAUBAHN 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.
213 209 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002040_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002010_LYSE 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.
214 210 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002050_THANCRED TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002020_THANCRED 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.
215 211 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002060_THANCRED TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002030_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. 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.
216 212 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002070_THANCRED TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002040_HIEN 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!
217 213 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002080_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002050_THANCRED 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.
218 214 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002090_THANCRED TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002060_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. 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.
219 215 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002100_HIEN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002070_THANCRED 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.
220 216 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002110_MERLWYB TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002080_HIEN 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.
221 217 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002120_MERLWYB TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002090_THANCRED '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.
222 218 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002130_MERLWYB TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002100_HIEN 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?
223 219 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002140_MYSTERYVOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002110_MERLWYB That way...sorrow... I am for Master Thancred's proposal. We shine a light upon the Ascian and test the Empire's unity.
224 220 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002150_MYSTERYVOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002120_MERLWYB 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.
225 221 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_Q2_000_001_NONE_VOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002130_MERLWYB What will you say? 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.
226 222 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A2_000_001_NONE_VOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002140_MYSTERYVOICE Who is this? That way...sorrow...
227 223 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A2_000_002_NONE_VOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002150_MYSTERYVOICE I don't understand... History...must be changed...
228 224 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002160_MYSTERYVOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_Q2_000_001_NONE_VOICE Ahead looms a Calamity. What will you say?
229 225 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002170_MYSTERYVOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A2_000_001_NONE_VOICE Ahead looms Light, expunging all form and life. Who is this?
230 226 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002180_MYSTERYVOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A2_000_002_NONE_VOICE Twin dooms only you can forestall. Only you. I don't understand...
231 227 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002190_RAUBAHN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002160_MYSTERYVOICE What's the matter!? Ahead looms a Calamity.
232 228 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002200_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002170_MYSTERYVOICE There's...there's a voice... Ahead looms Light, expunging all form and life.
233 229 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002210_MERLWYB TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002180_MYSTERYVOICE Spies in our midst!? Twin dooms only you can forestall. Only you.
234 230 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002220_KANESENNA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002190_RAUBAHN Nay. I sense no such presence. What's the matter!?
235 231 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002230_MYSTERYVOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002200_ALISAIE Let expanse contract, eon become instant... There's...there's a voice...
236 232 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002240_MYSTERYVOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002210_MERLWYB Throw wide the gates that we may pass! Spies in our midst!?
237 233 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002250_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002220_KANESENNA Is it over? Nay. I sense no such presence.
238 234 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002260_AYMERIC TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002230_MYSTERYVOICE Master Thancred! Let expanse contract, eon become instant...
239 235 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002270_KANESENNA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002240_MYSTERYVOICE Twelve forfend... Throw wide the gates that we may pass!
240 236 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002280_KANESENNA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002250_YSHTOLA Bear him to a private chamber. Have every healer make ready. Is it over?
241 237 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002290_KANESENNA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002260_AYMERIC Swiftly! Master Thancred!
242 238 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002300_RESISTANCEHEALER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002270_KANESENNA Master Thancred remains in slumber. Though his vital signs appear stable, he is unresponsive. Twelve forfend...
243 239 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002310_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002280_KANESENNA What could have done this? And why just him and not the others? Bear him to a private chamber. Have every healer make ready.
244 240 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002320_RESISTANCEHEALER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002290_KANESENNA I'm afraid we could not identify the cause, my lady. Our examinations revealed no wounds, nor the presence of any poisonous substances... Swiftly!
245 241 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002330_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002300_RESISTANCEHEALER 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.
246 242 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002340_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002310_LYSE 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?
247 243 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002350_KANESENNA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002320_RESISTANCEHEALER 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...
248 244 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002360_KANESENNA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002330_LYSE 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?
249 245 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002370_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002340_ALISAIE 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.
250 246 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002380_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002350_KANESENNA ...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.
251 247 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002390_KANESENNA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002360_KANESENNA 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?
252 248 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002400_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002370_YSHTOLA 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?
253 249 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002410_KANESENNA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002380_ALISAIE I myself examined Thancred. ...So, in between the voice and the pain, you felt as if you were somewhere else entirely?
254 250 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002420_KANESENNA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002390_KANESENNA 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>.
255 251 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002430_KANESENNA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002400_YSHTOLA 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?
256 252 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002440_KANESENNA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002410_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. I myself examined Thancred.
257 253 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002450_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002420_KANESENNA 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.
258 254 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002460_KANESENNA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002430_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. 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.
259 255 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002470_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002440_KANESENNA 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.
260 256 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002480_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002450_ALISAIE 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>?
261 257 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002490_LYSE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002460_KANESENNA 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.
262 258 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002500_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002470_YSHTOLA Thank you, Lyse. Forgive us, Lyse, but may we leave Thancred in your care for a time?
263 259 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002510_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002480_LYSE 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.
264 260 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002520_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002490_LYSE 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?
265 261 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002530_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002500_YSHTOLA Urianger! Gods it's good to see you! Thank you, Lyse.
266 262 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002540_URIANGER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002510_YSHTOLA 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.
267 263 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002550_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002520_ALISAIE You heard it too, then? Whoever or whatever is behind this, the sooner we find out the better.
268 264 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002560_URIANGER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002530_ALISAIE 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!
269 265 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002570_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002540_URIANGER 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...
270 266 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002580_URIANGER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002550_YSHTOLA That I cannot say. Not when so little is known. You heard it too, then?
271 267 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002590_URIANGER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002560_URIANGER 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.
272 268 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002600_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002570_YSHTOLA To Ala Mhigo, then─without further delay! Who do you think is responsible? Could this be the Ascians' doing?
273 269 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002610_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002580_URIANGER One other thing. During my visit to the Far East, I observed a strange phenomenon. That I cannot say. Not when so little is known.
274 270 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002620_URIANGER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002590_URIANGER Thou referest, I presume, to the localized reduction in aetheric density? Ere I indulge in speculation, I would examine Thancred with mine own eyes.
275 271 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002630_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002600_ALISAIE 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!
276 272 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002640_URIANGER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002610_YSHTOLA 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.
277 273 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002650_URIANGER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002620_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. Thou referest, I presume, to the localized reduction in aetheric density?
278 274 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002660_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002630_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. 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?
279 275 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002670_URIANGER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002640_URIANGER 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.
280 276 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002680_URIANGER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002650_URIANGER 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.
281 277 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002690_YSHTOLA TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002660_YSHTOLA 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.
282 278 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002700_MYSTERYVOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002670_URIANGER Only you... Only you... Indeed. I shall make it my task to─
283 279 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002710_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002680_URIANGER Ah! Unnngh! No...! The voice... It calleth to me once more...
284 280 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002720_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002690_YSHTOLA Y'shtola... Urianger... I...I hear it too!
285 281 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002730_MYSTERYVOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002700_MYSTERYVOICE Throw wide...the gates... Only you... Only you...
286 282 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002740_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002710_ALISAIE No! NO! This can't be happening! Ah! Unnngh! No...!
287 283 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002750_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002720_ALISAIE Y'shtola! Urianger! Open your eyes! Y'shtola... Urianger...
288 284 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002760_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002730_MYSTERYVOICE Open your eyes, I beg you... Throw wide...the gates...
289 285 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002770_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002740_ALISAIE Say something...anything... Not again... Please! Not again! No! NO! This can't be happening!
290 286 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002780_MAELSTROMOFFICER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002750_ALISAIE Here he is, my lady. Y'shtola! Urianger! Open your eyes!
291 287 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002790_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002760_ALISAIE Ga Bu...it's been too long. Open your eyes, I beg you...
292 288 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002795_GABU TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002770_ALISAIE ... Say something...anything... Not again... Please! Not again!
293 289 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002800_MAELSTROMOFFICER TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002780_MAELSTROMOFFICER I'm afraid there has been no change. If he can see or hear us, he has given no sign... Here he is, my lady.
294 290 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002810_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002790_ALISAIE I see. You're still fighting. Ga Bu...it's been too long.
295 291 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002820_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002795_GABU I'm proud of you. ...
296 292 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002830_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002800_MAELSTROMOFFICER 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...
297 293 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002840_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002810_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? I see. You're still fighting.
298 294 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002850_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002820_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. I'm proud of you.
299 295 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002860_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002830_ALISAIE Not like now. 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.
300 296 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002870_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002840_ALISAIE 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?
301 297 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002875_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002850_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. 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.
302 298 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002880_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002860_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. Not like now.
303 299 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_Q3_000_001_NONE_VOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002870_ALISAIE What will you say? I've seen my share of trouble since coming to Eorzea.
304 300 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A3_000_001_NONE_VOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002875_ALISAIE 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.
305 301 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A3_000_002_NONE_VOICE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002880_ALISAIE 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.
306 302 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002890_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_Q3_000_001_NONE_VOICE And for that I am grateful. I don't know what I'd do without you. What will you say?
307 303 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002900_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A3_000_001_NONE_VOICE ...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.
308 304 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002910_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_A3_000_002_NONE_VOICE Well, that's more than enough brooding for one day. You don't have to bear this burden alone.
309 305 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002920_ALISAIE TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002890_ALISAIE Come on. We have friends to save. And for that I am grateful. I don't know what I'd do without you.
310 306 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002925_SYSTEM TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002900_ALISAIE 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.
311 307 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002930_ROBEMAN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002910_ALISAIE (-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.
312 308 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002940_ROBEMAN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002920_ALISAIE (-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.
313 309 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002950_ROBEMAN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002925_SYSTEM (-Zenos-)Have you no words for me? Meanwhile, in the imperial palace...
314 310 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002960_ROBEMAN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002930_ROBEMAN (-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.
315 311 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002970_ROBEMAN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002940_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. (-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.
316 312 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002980_ROBEMAN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002950_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? (-Zenos-)Have you no words for me?
317 313 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002990_ROBEMAN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002960_ROBEMAN No subtitles, reported if displayed. (-Zenos-)Despite the lengths I go to─an emissary, playing the part of a fool.
318 314 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003000_ROBEMAN TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002970_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. (-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.
319 315 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003010_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002980_ROBEMAN (-???-)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?
320 316 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003020_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_002990_ROBEMAN (-???-)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.
321 317 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003030_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003000_ROBEMAN (-???-)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.
322 318 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003040_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003010_SOLUSZOSGALVUS (-???-)What, have you no words for me either? No matter. I've long grown weary of this mummery. (-???-)I should be the one to sigh.
323 319 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003050_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003020_SOLUSZOSGALVUS (-???-)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.
324 320 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003055_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003030_SOLUSZOSGALVUS (-???-)... (-???-)Elidibus was ever a worrier. A most tiresome trait, would you not agree?
325 321 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003060_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003040_SOLUSZOSGALVUS (-???-)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.
326 322 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003070_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003050_SOLUSZOSGALVUS (-???-)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.
327 323 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003080_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003055_SOLUSZOSGALVUS (-???-)If aught threatens the balance 'twixt Light and Dark, it falls to you to remove it. (-???-)...
328 324 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003090_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003060_SOLUSZOSGALVUS (-???-)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.
329 325 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003100_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003070_SOLUSZOSGALVUS 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.
330 326 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003110_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003080_SOLUSZOSGALVUS 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.
331 327 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003120_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003090_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. (-???-)Be it by your own hands or by your armies, you have ample means at your disposal.
332 328 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003130_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003100_SOLUSZOSGALVUS 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.
333 329 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003140_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003110_SOLUSZOSGALVUS Don't take it personally. I merely do my duty. Oh dear. Have I touched a nerve? You always were an easy one to read.
334 330 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003150_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003120_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. 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.
335 331 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003160_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003130_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. The founding father was an Ascian! And he created the Empire solely for the purpose of sowing the seeds of chaos!
336 332 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003170_VARIS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003140_SOLUSZOSGALVUS You fiends are overfond of your own voices. Don't take it personally. I merely do my duty.
337 333 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003180_VARIS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003150_SOLUSZOSGALVUS 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.
338 334 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003190_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003160_SOLUSZOSGALVUS 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.
339 335 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003200_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003170_VARIS Such a waste of time and energy. Both yours and mine. You fiends are overfond of your own voices.
340 336 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003210_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003180_VARIS 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!
341 337 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003220_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003190_SOLUSZOSGALVUS Oh, do stop sulking, boy. You of all people should understand. No subtitles, report if displayed.
342 338 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003230_SOLUSZOSGALVUS TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003200_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. Such a waste of time and energy. Both yours and mine.
343 339 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.
344 340 TEXT_VOICEMAN_04400_003220_SOLUSZOSGALVUS Oh, do stop sulking, boy. You of all people should understand.
345 341 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.