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10TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_SEQ_00It seems Iris has more to reveal.
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2524TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_TODO_00Speak with Iris in the phantom village.
2625TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_TODO_01Speak with Iris again.
2726TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_TODO_02Speak with Iris once more.
2827TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_TODO_03Speak with Iris one last time.
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4948TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_KETENRAMM_000_001Does this mean the Archive was the architect all along? If that's the case, who's in the bleedin' tower?
5049TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_005I'm just as perplexed as the rest of you. Hopefully Iris deigns to shed more light on the matter...
5150TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_010Understand that I do not disobey my orders lightly...
5251TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_011I wish to speak further, away from the clamor of this camp. Pray meet me by the fountain in your “phantom village.”
5352TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_KETENRAMM_000_015Let's see what the faerie has to say.
5453TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_020What an arduous journey that was... I hope my aching back doesn't plague me during the discussions ahead.
5554TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_100Thank you for coming. You might be intrigued to hear that this place was modeled on a port town in my master's native Nym.
5655TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_101Perhaps that is why I feel so at peace here... I hate to make further demands, but might we at least enjoy the scenery while we talk?
5756TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_102I have no end of questions, but for now I shall listen.
5857TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_103My master was a revered Nymian scholar. Such was the depth and breadth of his learning, that to those around him, he was simply known as “the Archive.”
5958TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_104Fearing that the War of the Magi would bring the world to ruin, he crossed the seas to the Occult Crescent, intending to preserve even some small part of civilization from all-consuming destruction.
6059TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_105The Archive summoned me to keep a record of his project. My orders were simple: observe developments as they unfolded.
6160TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_106And thus I watched as you set about preserving all that you could, your respect and affection for mankind's endeavors never wavering...
6261TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_KETENRAMM_000_110When we first met Iris and I asked her why she was summoned, she said she didn't know. Maybe she felt revealin' the truth at that point would've jeopardized her role as silent observer...
6362TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_115So he─or, I, as it were─summoned her to document his, no, *my* endeavors... Oh, my poor noggin...
6463TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_200As work progressed, my master resolved to construct the Forked Towers and thereby protect the isle.
6564TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_201Initially, he himself oversaw their maintenance. I can still picture him now, ensconced in all that worldly knowledge, eyes glinting with satisfaction. Yet there was something else in that gaze─the faintest hint of loneliness.
6665TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_202One day I asked him whether he had ever used the dangerous knowledge locked within the towers...
6766TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_203Ah, there goes the seal again. I can remember my response clearly...
6867TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_204“I have...to near-terrible ends. Some knowledge is better left unproven.”
6968TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_205And you remained true to that belief, never again wielding the dread techniques you chose to preserve.
7069TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_206Eventually, you decided to give your wisdom physical form─an entity that might maintain the Forked Towers long after your eventual death.
7170TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_207Little did you know what that decision would manifest...
7271TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_KETENRAMM_000_210This is where we first found the Archive... Perhaps Iris'll tell us how he ended up in that sarcophagus of his.
7372TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_215Never before have I been fearful of what I might learn... Still, I must face the truth.
7473TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_250As you began to transfer your knowledge to the summoned form, you were seized by a flicker of doubt.
7574TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_251Preserving such precious scholarship without utilizing it, even once... Would that not be an utter waste? Or so you pondered for a brief moment.
7675TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_252The merest flicker was all it took for that sentiment to bleed into the incantation. By the time you realized, it was already too late...
7776TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_300Gushing font of knowledge, flow forth and take form!
7877TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_301But wait...
7978TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_302Were I to partake of this font, just the once......
8079TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_303No!
8180TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_INDEX_000_304I am the Index. Knower of all things.
8281TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_INDEX_000_305With the world's wisdom at my disposal, my power is unbounded!
8382TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_306Curses. My momentary lapse tainted the incantation! I must begin the ritual anew...
8483TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_307Good grief, what is this hideous form!? I-I ought to know...
8584TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_INDEX_000_308I have placed a seal upon your knowledge, lest you attempt some foolish intervention!
8685TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_309I must not give in...
8786TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_310Aaagh!
8887TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_311Ye deserved, heed my call. Let not this knowledge be used for ill...
8988TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_350Though my instructions were clear, I could not bear to watch while your life hung in the balance.
9089TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_351And so I rushed to your aid... Though, in the end, there was little I could do.
9190TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_352The memories are flooding back... Filled with despair, barely clinging to life, I somehow made it here. To the sarcophagus.
9291TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_100_352My notion that I fled from overseas to quarantine must have stemmed from confusion─magically induced or otherwise.
9392TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_353All this time, shielded by blissful ignorance... 'Tis sobering to learn what I have wrought.
9493TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_354We near the end of my tale─I have but few memories left...
9594TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_KETENRAMM_000_390Well, we finally know who's waitin' atop the Tower of Magic...
9695TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_395My wretched shade calls himself the Index. He's nothing more than my conceit given tangible form...
9796TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_400As my master lay stricken and slumbering, the Index seized control of the Forked Towers.
9897TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_401With none to oppose him, he began to explore what futures might await the civilizations of the Fifth Astral Era.
9998TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_402You've all seen the results of that experiment... Wind roared, water surged, pestilence spread, and voidsent claimed the land.
10099TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_403In time, the South Horn will suffer the same fate. Plants will perish, all birdsong will cease... He would usher in everlasting decay.
101100TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_404I can't accept that future! This island was supposed to be a monument to mankind's thirst for knowledge, not some grim reminder of their folly.
102101TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_405Which is why I need your help!
103102TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_Q1_000_000What will you say?
104103TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_A1_000_001Say no more!
105104TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_A1_000_002I offer my help gladly, but what of your orders?
106105TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_407Thank you! I'm glad it was you who heeded my master's call.
107106TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_408Ah, of course... That voice you heard during your voyage must have been an echo of my desperate plea.
108107TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_409We have nothing to fear in that regard. After all, it was my master who called you here.
109108TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_410Ah, of course... That voice you heard during your voyage must have been an echo of my desperate plea.
110109TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_411Iris... For the last fifteen hundred years, you've upheld your lonely vigil.
111110TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_412Forgive me! Would that I had known I'd be condemning you to such a fate...
112111TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_IRIS_000_413At least my watch wasn't in vain.
113112TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_414We're counting on you, Iris and I. You must find a way to the Tower of Magic and lay low the Index once and for all!
114113TEXT_KINGKD106_05516_ARCHIVE_000_415Thank you. Thank you!
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