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21TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SEQ_01"To ye who ask of things to come: Give thought to what is past and gone.“ With the long-dead poet king's words still ringing in your ears, you continue your pilgrimage, retracing the steps you took in the days following your exile. What cruel fate, to lose her father as a child, and be compelled to rule in his stead. And how the years had tempered her dreams and taught her, sometimes brutally, the price of naivety. Though outwardly unscathed by her ordeal, it was a wiser and more wary Nanamo who reclaimed the throne...
32TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SEQ_02"For the freedom of all.“ It had begun with an oath and ended with a betrayal, as the conspirators turned on their comrades for coin and country. The good and true were beaten and imprisoned, or else butchered where they stood. But even in their darkest moments, Alianne and the other loyalists knew that the dawn's light would shine again...
43TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SEQ_03Despite the many hardships they had endured─or perhaps because of them─Biggs and Wedge greeted every new challenge with a smile. Their workshop their battlefield, their tools their weapons, they invariably rose to the occasion, delivering ingenious solutions to seemingly insoluble problems...
54TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SEQ_04Through tempestuous winds they carved a path, breaching the dread wyrm's sanctum, and there did they put him to the sword. Yet in the wake of hard-fought victory were secrets laid bare in a vision dark and disturbing. The legacy of the fathers, bequeathed to their sons and passed down through the generations... Old blood enduring in the new, the mark of original sin...
65TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SEQ_05A world apart from the opulence of the Pillars, Hilda and her people toiled, shrouded in the haze of the Brume. Sentenced to a life of hardship by birth, they dreamed of revolution as children dream of faeries. Then one came and went, and they suddenly found themselves with a seat at the table...
76TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SEQ_06An earnest, good-natured people, the Zundu tribe had borne witness to the rage of their beloved god's twisted manifestation, and proclaimed it to be false. By the grace of kind travelers were they duly delivered from its wrath, the mad god's death signaling the birth of a new hero...
87TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SEQ_07Y'mhitra knew that her sister had been under no illusions as to the dangers of the life she had chosen. Should the worst come to the worst, Y'shtola would do what needed to be done─pay any price, make any sacrifice, and that without hesitation. She was a woman of conviction, deserving of respect and admiration...and no small amount of worry...
98TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SEQ_08From the ashes of an abandoned colony would their brave new nation rise─a free and equal society for goblin and man, in which scholars and craftsmen could work together to build a better life. It would be nothing short of a paradise...in theory, at least...
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2524TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_TODO_00Visit Alianne in Revenant's Toll.
2625TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_TODO_01Visit the Skysteel Manufactory in Ishgard.
2726TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_TODO_02Visit the Monsterie in the Churning Mists.
2827TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_TODO_03Visit Hilda in Ishgard.
2928TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_TODO_04Visit Lonu Vanu at Ok' Zundu.
3029TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_TODO_05Visit Y'mhitra in Gridania.
3130TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_TODO_06Visit Slowfix in Idyllshire.
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4948TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SOLDIER01477_000_001W-Wait, I know you! You're Player! Player Player!
5049TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SOLDIER01477_000_002What a stroke of luck! I can think of none better qualified to help us. You see, it is no mere noblewoman that we seek─
5150TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SOLDIER01477_000_003Ah, but Master Papashan was most explicit about the need for secrecy... Pray forget I mentioned it. We will find the su─ We will find *the lady* on our own.
5251TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SYSTEM_000_004...What cruel fate, to lose her father as a child, and be compelled to rule in his stead. And how the years had tempered her dreams and taught her, sometimes brutally, the price of naivety. Though outwardly unscathed by her ordeal, it was a wiser and more wary Nanamo who reclaimed the throne...
5352TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_ALIANNE_000_010There you are, Player. Higiri told me of your pilgrimage. I knew it was only a matter of time before you sought me out.
5453TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_ALIANNE_000_011I too have been reflecting on the choices which shaped my path. When I took to the road with my grandfather...when I joined the Crystal Braves...when I tried and failed to warn you before the banquet...
5554TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_ALIANNE_000_012I had my suspicions about Wilred's death─that it was the work of a Garlean spy within our ranks. But I could not be sure who was involved, hence my desire to speak with you in private.
5655TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_ALIANNE_000_013I thought long and hard about how to approach you without arousing suspicion... Mayhap too long. Eventually, I decided to arrange a meeting through Mistress Momodi. Little did I know that bastard Laurentius had seen me do it.
5756TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_ALIANNE_000_014Shortly thereafter, the Fourth received urgent summons. Needless to say, I had no choice but to answer...and soon found myself at the mercy of Captain Ilberd's band of traitors.
5857TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_ALIANNE_000_015They confined me to the Rising Stones, along with others still loyal to the Scions─Riol, Ephemie, Aergmhus... Quite what they planned to do with us, I couldn't say. Mayhap they thought we would turn, given time. The fools...
5958TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_ALIANNE_000_016Lieutenant Yuyuhase bid the Third keep us under constant guard, but when Captain Ilberd moved to carry out General Raubahn's execution, they were forced to withdraw all but a token force, which we took by surprise one night. And then it was over.
6059TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_ALIANNE_000_017One might argue that it turned out better than it had any right to, all things considered. Still, there are nights when I lie awake wondering, if I had done things differently─if I had been more careful, or more decisive─what then...
6160TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_ALIANNE_000_018But there is naught to be gained from thinking thus. We must count our blessings, must we not? We are still here, and most of what was broken can be rebuilt. You will see, Player. You will see.
6261TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SYSTEM_000_019...“For the freedom of all.” It had begun with an oath and ended with a betrayal, as the conspirators turned on their comrades for coin and country. The good and true were beaten and imprisoned, or else butchered where they stood. But even in their darkest moments, they never stopped believing that the dawn's light would shine again...
6362TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_WEDGE_000_030Why, hello there, Player! Fancy meeting you here!
6463TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_BIGGS_000_031Reminiscing about the glory days, eh? Aye, we spent many a sleepless night hammering away in that corner of ours. How's your manacutter holding up, by the way?
6564TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_BIGGS_000_032Hah! That's good to hear. Not that I had any doubts, like─our craftsmanship's second to none!
6665TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_WEDGE_000_033Quite right! It will take more than swirling winds and raging dragons to bring *her* down─and that, my friend, is an Ironworks' guarantee!
6766TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_BIGGS_000_034Speaking of which─on the back of the field test's success, we've gone ahead and licensed the design for mass production. Soon, the Skysteel Manufactory will be churning out manacutters by the dozen!
6867TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_BIGGS_000_035...Which is why we're here today, as a matter of fact─to make sure their machinists don't bugger anything up.
6968TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_WEDGE_000_036Apparently, adventurers have been queuing up to place an order─and even some sky pirates! Ah, just imagining the Sea of Clouds teeming with our creations fills me with a father's pride!
7069TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_BIGGS_000_037Right, then─that's enough patting ourselves on the back! We've got to make sure the 'cutters are up to snuff, or Jessie'll never let us hear the end of it. From now till we finish, there'll be no more breaks, distractions, and not one *wink* of sleep, d'you hear me!?
7170TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_WEDGE_000_038Oh... <mumble> <mumble> ...ing cart chocobo.
7271TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_BIGGS_000_039Well, we'll leave you to it. Till next time, eh!?
7372TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SYSTEM_000_040...Despite the many hardships they had endured─or perhaps because of them─they greeted every new challenge with a smile. Their workshop their battlefield, their tools their weapons, they invariably rose to the occasion, delivering ingenious solutions to seemingly insoluble problems...
7473TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SYSTEM_000_050...Through tempestuous winds they carved a path, breaching the dread wyrm's sanctum, and there did they put him to the sword. Yet in the wake of hard-fought victory were secrets laid bare in a vision dark and disturbing.
7574TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SYSTEM_000_051The legacy of the fathers, bequeathed to their sons and passed down through the generations... Old blood enduring in the new, the mark of original sin...
7675TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_HILDA_000_060And there she is, at last. Gibrillont said you were wanderin' all over, reminiscin' about days gone by. Seems a bit soon if you ask me.
7776TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_HILDA_000_061It's not like I don't understand, though. Some days, I'll be walkin' through the Brume, same as normal, and it'll hit me all of a sudden just how much has changed for us─though I know it's a bit different from what you've been through.
7877TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SYMME_000_062Puts me in mind of the first time I saw her and her friends up near the aetheryte, being shown around by that House Fortemps man.
7978TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_HILDA_000_063Oh? You never told me you'd met before.
8079TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SYMME_000_064It weren't so much a meeting as a *heckling*, to be honest. When I heard their guide warning them off paying a visit to the Brume, it stuck in my craw. And you've got to admit that Master Alphinaud's the spitting image of a snotty little lordling...
8180TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_HILDA_000_065A little lordling that went on to fight two knights of the Heavens' Ward with Player here in a trial by combat─not to mention helpin' retake the Vault from the True Brothers. Fury have mercy...it feels like a bleedin' *lifetime* ago, don't it?
8281TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_EUDESTAND_000_066'Cause it was. What we've got now's nothin' like what came before. It's a bleedin' rebirth is what it is.
8382TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_HILDA_000_067Cold comfort to the folk who died gettin' us here. Still, this peace is ours, and we owe it to ourselves to make the most of it.
8483TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_HILDA_000_068...Meanin' we've got to work twice as hard to make the Brume a better place! And no more harassin' blue bloods neither!
8584TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SYMME_000_069(-Symme and Eudestand-)Aye, aye!
8685TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SYSTEM_000_070...A world apart from the opulence of the Pillars, they had toiled, shrouded in the haze of the Brume. Sentenced to a life of hardship by birth, they dreamed of revolution as children dream of faeries. Then one came and went, and they suddenly found themselves with a seat at the table...
8786TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_HILDA_000_075I know you got Ser Charibert in the end, but I have to admit, I'm still a little bitter that it wasn't me. Gave me reason to practice my marksmanship, though.
8887TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SYMME_000_080Hahaha! Just goes to show that you can't judge a man by appearances, eh? Nor tell what fate's got in store for you. All the more reason to watch your words when you're in your cups!
8988TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_EUDESTAND_000_085Perhaps it's time the watch expanded its duties. Maybe help out with the reconstruction efforts...
9089TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_LONUVANU_000_090Ho, clouds part and let shine brilliant sun upon Lonu Vanu! Great netherling warrior returns to Ok' Zundu, and on pilgrimage of remembrance? Well, well!
9190TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_LONUVANU_000_091We bid you warmest welcome, slayer of false gods and champion of fallen Gundu─whose fledgling village continues to grow and prosper, now free from the shadow of Vundu oppression.
9291TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_LONUVANU_000_092Know that we will always be grateful to you for your victory over the ravenous White. No longer need we fear for the safety of our smallest islands.
9392TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_LONUVANU_000_093But Lonu Vanu is not one to forget netherling's first coming, when she saves us from certain death at the hands of the black ones, distant memory though it is.
9493TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_LONUVANU_000_094Yes! Her many deeds are the stuff of legends! We shall remember the stories, and the hero's name, Player Player, for they are worthy of celebration now and ever after!
9594TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SYSTEM_000_095...An earnest, good-natured people, they had borne witness to the rage of their beloved god's twisted manifestation, and proclaimed it to be false. By the grace of kind travelers were they duly delivered from its wrath, the mad god's death signaling the birth of a new hero...
9695TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_LONUVANU_000_100If it pleases netherling, you are welcome to partake of fresh wamouracampae before parting. Tender, supple flesh gives way to sticky─ No? Then as raging typhoon strips fields bare, Lonu Vanu shall devour all!
9796TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_YMHITRA_000_110Well met, Player. What brings you here this night?
9897TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_YMHITRA_000_111Indeed... Though it seems an age, it was not all that long ago that we rescued Shtola from the Lifestream. How quickly we begin to forget even those memories most precious to us.
9998TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_YMHITRA_000_112In my defense, I might add that I have rarely missed an opportunity to make *new* memories with my sister in the days since her return.
10099TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_YMHITRA_000_113Our conversations are largely on matters of scientific and professional concern─ancient Allagan technologies, primals, Ascians, and so forth. She has an insatiable thirst for knowledge, as you know.
101100TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_YMHITRA_000_114Yet while I understand her desire not to burden those around her with her troubles, and to carry on as she did before, I do worry that her willingness to manipulate her own aether to compensate for the loss of her sight may have dire repercussions...
102101TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_YMHITRA_000_115...She never told you, then? But of course not. 'Twould rather have defeated the purpose.
103102TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_YMHITRA_000_116You should know that the technique she employs places a tremendous strain on her body. She is, of course, well aware of her limits...and more than willing to ignore them should she deem it necessary. I pray you see that she does not.
104103TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_YMHITRA_000_117Regrettably, she is wont to ignore my advice when it does not suit her. Yet given your shared experiences, mayhap she will be more willing to heed your warnings.
105104TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SYSTEM_000_118...Her sister was under no illusions as to the dangers of the life she had chosen. Should the worst come to the worst, Y'shtola would do what needed to be done─pay any price, make any sacrifice, and that without hesitation. She was a woman of conviction, deserving of respect and admiration...and no small amount of worry...
106105TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_YMHITRA_000_120Alas, my studies of Allagan technology have not yielded any earth-shattering revelations of late. Rest assured, however, that I will inform Tataru immediately should that unhappy state of affairs chance to change.
107106TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SLOWFIX_000_130Pshkohhh... Why must governing great gobbie nation be so difficult!? Like herding coeurls. Stupid coeurls with muchly differing views on glorious nation's future direction!
108107TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SLOWFIX_000_131...Yes, yes, Slowfix knows he is letting emotions run wild. Uplander is welcome voice of reason!
109108TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SLOWFIX_000_132Not like when uplanders first returned to Idyllshire, yes? So much venom in that one's tongueflaps, calling gobbieflock *thieves*! But Slowfix saw way to mutual understanding.
110109TEXT_HEAVNZ028_01478_SLOWFIX_000_133Citizenship in society first step in strengthening communal ties! Gives all vested interest in continued prosperity of egalitarian utopia!
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