ffxiv-datamining/csv/cut_scene/045/VoiceMan_04500.csv

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4	0	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000010_ALISAIE	I'm glad you've come, though I'm afraid there's little in the way of good news.
5	1	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000020_ALISAIE	After you left, we reached out to both the Alchemist's Guild and Stillglade Fane, and attempted all manner of treatments...
6	2	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000030_ALISAIE	But the results were always the same. Whatever the answer is, it's not alchemy or conjury...
7	3	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000040_ALISAIE	Why did it have to be Y'shtola and Urianger, and not me? Out of all of us, they are the ones who could feasibly have solved this puzzle.
8	4	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000050_ALISAIE	And Alphinaud's still missing. Gods, it's all going wrong... Where do we even start?
9	5	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000060_KRILE	(-???-)A grave situation, indeed. Might I be of some assistance?
10	6	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000070_ALISAIE	Krile! I thought you busy delving into the mysteries of Eureka...
11	7	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000080_ALISAIE	Krile! I did not think you well enough to travel...
12	8	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000090_KRILE	When word reached me of the plight of our friends, I could not well stay away. As a fellow Scion, not to mention your erstwhile mentor, this is one of those times you should feel free to call on me─regardless of my personal circumstances.
13	9	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000100_ALISAIE	I... Yes, I should have thought of that.
14	10	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000110_ALISAIE	Thank you for coming, Krile. We would welcome your insight.
15	11	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000120_KRILE	And I should be happy to provide it. Now, what's this I hear about Alphinaud heading into imperial territory? That boy always did have some funny ideas. Do you remember the speech he gave when he was accepted to the Studium?
16	12	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000130_ALISAIE	“My life's goal is naught less than the salvation of this star!”
17	13	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000140_KRILE	[LAUGHTER]
18	14	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000150_ALISAIE	[LAUGHTER]
19	15	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000160_KRILE	That particular grand pronouncement has been a source of great embarrassment to him, as you know. But the fact of the matter is, he meant every word, and has lived his life accordingly.
20	16	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000170_ALISAIE	Yes, he remains altruistic to a fault. But I'm worried he was too fixated on his goals to see the dangers, as has happened before...
21	17	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000180_KRILE	You needn't be so concerned. Though his values remain the same, Alphinaud is not the blinkered boy he once was. Slowly but surely, his eyes have been opened─thanks to a certain someone.
22	18	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000190_KRILE	A certain someone whom he'd be mortified to learn had heard about his little speech. Mum's the word, eh?
23	19	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000200_KRILE	Right, I had better have a look at our patients. They're in the infirmary, I assume? I'll need absolute quiet, so it would be best if I did this alone. If you'll excuse me...
24	20	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000210_KRILE	All three are in fine physical health. At a glance, I would say they were merely sound asleep...
25	21	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000220_KRILE	...Except for the fact that I couldn't sense the slightest trace of “them” in their bodies. It's as if their souls have taken leave of their physical forms.
26	22	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000230_ALISAIE	Ah. Yes. The Elder Seedseer made a similar observation.
27	23	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000240_KRILE	I've read the report. When you heard this mysterious voice, you described feeling as if you were “somewhere else,” yes?
28	24	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000250_KRILE	If we assume the aether which comprises your essence is being drawn to some other place...
29	25	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000260_KRILE	Then it may be possible to follow the trail it leaves behind, just as we did in our search for Thancred.
30	26	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000270_ALISAIE	I wasn't around for that. But I can't imagine it was easy.
31	27	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000280_KRILE	Oh, it wasn't. But that's no reason not to try. I will have need of Master Matoya's Crystal Eye if I'm even to make the attempt, so I suggest we pay her a visit.
32	28	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000290_MATOYA	Come to disturb my peace again, have you? I hide myself away in a cave, and <Emphasis>still</Emphasis> you people insist on pestering me with your problems.
33	29	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000300_MATOYA	Oh. I mistook you for young what's-his-name, but I see now you're the sister. Weren't you supposed to be the lively one? I've seen happier faces at a rain-sodden burial.
34	30	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000310_ALISAIE	Well, I'm sorry to dash your expectations, but the situation isn't exactly conducive to gaiety.
35	31	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000320_MATOYA	Ah, that's more like it. Shtola used to spit and hiss like a wildcat, too. Better for a young thing like you to be filled with fire, and leave the doom and gloom to your elders.
36	32	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000330_MATOYA	Now, what exactly does this tragic situation of yours have to do with me?
37	33	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000340_KRILE	If I may, Master Matoya, we have need of your Crystal Eye once more...
38	34	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000350_MATOYA	And Shtola is one of the afflicted, is she?
39	35	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000360_MATOYA	Very well. She may be an ungrateful stray, but she's <Emphasis>my</Emphasis> ungrateful stray. And I'll not see her buried before I am.
40	36	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000370_KRILE	Right. Let us see what we can see.
41	37	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000380_KRILE	I'll begin from where our friends first fell, and cast my senses out from there...
42	38	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000390_ALISAIE	...What is it? Did you find them!?
43	39	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000400_KRILE	Th-This doesn't make sense. How is it even possible...?
44	40	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000410_ALISAIE	How is <Emphasis>what</Emphasis> possible!? Krile, what did you see!?
45	41	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000420_KRILE	Th-The threads, they just...they just ended. And, no, I didn't lose track of them─I followed them as far as they went. It's as if─ It's as if they were cut off.
46	42	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000430_ALISAIE	Could their aether have dissipated? If it had─ Oh gods...
47	43	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000440_ALISAIE	Their bodies are just husks. It's like the broodmother's daughter all over again...
48	44	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000450_KRILE	No, no, this is different. The Qalyana girl was already dead, body and soul, when Lakshmi effected her resurrection.
49	45	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000460_MATOYA	Aye, let's not jump to conclusions. If their physical forms yet breathe and show no signs of wasting, then it follows that their souls must still be intact somewhere.
50	46	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000470_ALISAIE	But <Emphasis>where</Emphasis>!?
51	47	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000480_MATOYA	That's the question, isn't it, girl? Death has not taken them to the aetherial sea, yet there are no tracks left for us to follow.
52	48	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000490_ALISAIE	We're no closer to an answer than when we started. But knowing their souls are still out there is progress of a sort. We just have to keep looking.
53	49	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000500_ALISAIE	Pray excuse me a moment.
54	50	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000510_ALISAIE	Yes? ...I remember, but─ ...What, to <Emphasis>Ala Mhigo</Emphasis>!? We're on our way!
55	51	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000520_ALISAIE	That was Lyse. Apparently, a group of Populares have defected to Ala Mhigo, and Maxima─the envoy Alphinaud left with─is one of them!
56	52	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000530_ALISAIE	I'm sorry, I realize we've barely begun here, but...
57	53	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000540_MATOYA	Go, child, go. You've made up your mind, and life's too short for dithering.
58	54	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000550_KRILE	I'll do some digging in the meantime, and see if there isn't some other method we could use to continue the search.
59	55	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000560_ALISAIE	Let's be off, then!
60	56	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000570_MATOYA	Bah, not again... The enchantment barely seems to take, these days. I'd chalk it up to old age, but I rather doubt it's that simple.
61	57	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000580_ALISAIE	Before they...took ill, Y'shtola and Urianger were sharing notes on a “thinning” of the aether. It seems to be happening all over.
62	58	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000590_MATOYA	Does it now? And here I was, all set to blame my woes on that creaking mountain of refuse clogging up the Thaliak.
63	59	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000600_MATOYA	I fear something has gone awry. Still, there's naught to be gained from starting at shadows. You can only do what can be done, and that but one thing at a time!
64	60	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000610_LYSE	I'm sorry to drag you halfway across the realm, but when Maxima mentioned Alphinaud, I thought you'd want to hear the news in person.
65	61	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000620_MAXIMA	Ah, we meet again...though I was hoping our reunion would be under more auspicious circumstances.
66	62	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000630_ALISAIE	What happened to my brother? Where is Alphinaud?
67	63	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000640_MAXIMA	Never fear, my lady. Your brother was in fine health when I took my leave of him, and I have no reason to assume that has changed.
68	64	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000650_ALISAIE	You <Emphasis>assume</Emphasis>!?
69	65	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000660_MAXIMA	If you will allow me, I shall endeavor to explain events.
70	66	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000670_MAXIMA	Our troubles began not long after we departed Doma. While crossing the Burn, we were fired upon by the Emperor's personal guard, and forced to make an emergency landing.
71	67	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000680_MAXIMA	As we stumbled from the wreckage, our attackers fell upon us again, and we would have perished there and then were it not for the intercession of a third party... A band of mercenaries whose leader claimed to pursue a vendetta against the Ascians.
72	68	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000690_MAXIMA	This “Shadowhunter,” as he styled himself, then escorted us out of the wastes to relative safety.
73	69	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000700_MAXIMA	Upon arriving back in civilization, I gathered my Populares colleagues and prepared to flee the Empire. Master Alphinaud, however, declined the invitation to join us, preferring to continue his investigation into the Ascian threat.
74	70	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000710_ALISAIE	Well...at least he's not lying in a heap in the Burn.
75	71	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000720_ALISAIE	Tell us more about these Ascian hunters. Who are they? And is Alphinaud still with them?
76	72	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000730_MAXIMA	He is. As to who they are, I am afraid I have nothing to tell you. Beyond the fact that they root out and destroy Ascians, they were unwilling to divulge anything which might serve to identify them.
77	73	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000740_MAXIMA	They would not even reveal their next destination...but Master Alphinaud asked to accompany them all the same.
78	74	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000750_MAXIMA	Since parting company with your brother, we've been engaged in a game of cat and mouse with the Emperor's guard. We made our way through province after province, finding the army busy “restoring order” wherever we went, until we finally arrived here in Ala Mhigo. I cannot thank Commander Aldynn enough for giving us such an unexpectedly warm welcome.
79	75	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000760_RAUBAHN	I'm not inclined to turn away refugees, no matter which land they call home. And if they can tell me how things lie in Garlemald...all the better.
80	76	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000770_MAXIMA	On that subject, there is much I would tell you. During the course of our journey, we heard tales that an entire rebel army had been slaughtered in the space of a single night.
81	77	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000780_MAXIMA	It would seem my former comrades grew tired of putting down uprisings in the conventional manner, and chose instead to bring a formidable new weapon to bear. Details were sparse, but the rumor alone was enough to dampen the flames of rebellion.
82	78	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000790_MAXIMA	I have also heard reports that several companies have withdrawn from their designated provinces and begun marching westward. It is my assessment that the Empire's forces are mobilizing for a large-scale military engagement.
83	79	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000800_LYSE	Westward? You mean they're getting ready to invade Ala Mhigo!?
84	80	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000810_RAUBAHN	We knew this was coming. But not that it would be so soon.
85	81	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000820_LYSE	We've barely even begun to shore up our defenses! They won't stop an invading army!
86	82	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000830_RAUBAHN	...No, they won't.
87	83	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000840_RAUBAHN	Dispatch messengers to the Alliance leadership requesting reinforcements. And send word to our officers in the field to hasten completion of those border fortifications. Prepare to meet the imperials head-on!
88	84	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000850_RAUBAHN	No matter how quickly we act, we still want for time. When the enemy comes into view, our best recourse will be to open negotiations with their commander, and see that the ensuing proceedings take as long as possible.
89	85	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000860_LYSE	Would you and Alisaie head to Doma and let Lord Hien know about this? I'm sure he'll want to hear about Alphinaud too.
90	86	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000870_ALISAIE	Consider it done. We'll send word when─
91	87	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000880_MYSTERYVOICE	...Untold sorrow... Must be changed...
92	88	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000890_MYSTERYVOICE	Ahead looms a calamity...
93	89	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000900_MYSTERYVOICE	Eon become instant. Throw wide the gates.
94	90	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000910_ALISAIE	You heard it too?
95	91	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000920_ALISAIE	Well, at least we're both still standing.
96	92	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000930_LYSE	Oh, thank the gods─I thought we'd lost you for a moment there. Why does this keep happening!?
97	93	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000940_ALISAIE	I wish I knew. Nothing we've tried has brought us any closer to an answer...
98	94	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000950_ALISAIE	We'll keep working on it, but first we need to go and see Lord Hien.
99	95	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000960_HIEN	It seems the engineers have matters well in hand.
100	96	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000970_HIEN	Should the barrier work as we intend, Doma will be free to reinforce her allies in Ala Mhigo without fear of weakening her own borders.
101	97	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000980_HIEN	Honored friends, the time has come to put your hard work to the test! Start the generator!
102	98	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_000990_IRONWORKSENGINEER04500	Node one is operational. Nodes two to eight are reporting similar energy levels. The barrier is forming!
103	99	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001000_IRONWORKSENGINEER04500	...One thousand yalms. Two thousand. Three thousand. Expansion remains smooth. No fluctuations detected.
104	100	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001010_IRONWORKSENGINEER04500	...Four thousand. Five thousand! Target altitude reached! The barrier is holding steady at five thousand yalms! We've done it!
105	101	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001020_ALISAIE	...Is that an imperial airship? Of all the rotten timing...
106	102	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001030_HIEN	But this is a gift, Mistress Alisaie. They can test our new wall for us!
107	103	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001040_HIEN	Seems solid enough. Though I was hoping for a fireball.
108	104	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001050_ALISAIE	By the gods... It's Alphinaud!
109	105	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001060_ALISAIE	What are you─ Let me go! He has my brother!
110	106	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001070_HIEN	Lower the barrier!
111	107	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001080_SHADOWHUNTER	(-Shadowhunter-)Be at ease, girl. The lad is not dead─merely locked in slumber.
112	108	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001090_ALISAIE	No, not him too...
113	109	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001100_SHADOWHUNTER	(-Shadowhunter-)We could identify no cause and found no remedy. Thus I sought to return him to Doma─and into the arms of Lord Hien himself, it would seem.
114	110	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001110_SHADOWHUNTER	(-Shadowhunter-)It is a day for fated reunions...
115	111	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001120_SHADOWHUNTER	(-Shadowhunter-)Would you not agree, adventurer? Or should I address you as the “Warrior of Light”?
116	112	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_Q1_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
117	113	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_A1_000_001_NONE_VOICE	Gaius van Baelsar...
118	114	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_A1_000_002_NONE_VOICE	The Black Wolf...
119	115	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001130_SHADOWHUNTER	Aye. Gaius van Baelsar, the Black Wolf. That was the title I was given. One I have long since relinquished.
120	116	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001140_SHADOWHUNTER	Stand down. The legatus of the XIVth Imperial Legion died in Castrum Meridianum. I am no more than Gaius Baelsar, a man without rank or allegiance.
121	117	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001150_ALISAIE	Impossible! There's no way you could have survived!
122	118	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001160_SHADOWHUNTER	Do you remember how it unfolded?
123	119	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001170_SHADOWHUNTER	How I was deceived by Lahabrea? How I was convinced that reviving the Ultima Weapon would allow me to bring peace to Eorzea?
124	120	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001180_SHADOWHUNTER	The Ascian used me, as he used so many others─all to further the restoration of his wretched god.
125	121	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001190_SHADOWHUNTER	Yet even with the might of Allag at my command, you bested me. And as the Praetorium went up in flames, I was content to burn along with it...for a moment, at least.
126	122	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001200_SHADOWHUNTER	A moment of folly. To surrender my life thus would have been to betray all who died for my cause. It was for them that I dragged myself free of the rubble, and swore vengeance on the Ascians.
127	123	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001210_SHADOWHUNTER	The Black Wolf has shed his pelt, never to return to Garlemald or her legions. I live now only to exact revenge.
128	124	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001220_SHADOWHUNTER	My principle quarry was to be Lahabrea, whom I gather you have since ushered unto oblivion.
129	125	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001230_SHADOWHUNTER	But so many more remain. Long has their kind lurked in the shadows, laboring to sow chaos throughout our world. I would see each and every one dragged into the light and put to the sword.
130	126	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001240_SHADOWHUNTER	Are the Scions not of like mind?
131	127	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001250_ALISAIE	In this single respect, perhaps...
132	128	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001260_SHADOWHUNTER	Then I shall continue the partnership the boy began, and share what intelligence I have acquired.
133	129	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001270_SHADOWHUNTER	Among the Ascians, the black-masked ilk are subordinate to those who wear red. This, you already know.
134	130	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001280_SHADOWHUNTER	Yet among the red there exists a hierarchy. Those set adrift with the shards clearly stand below those still joined to the Source.
135	131	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001290_SHADOWHUNTER	Nabriales, who once dared to intrude upon the Rising Stones, belonged to the former group. And while he was indeed a dangerous foe, his powers were inconsequential next to the Paragons of the Source.
136	132	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001300_SHADOWHUNTER	The first was Lahabrea, who plagues us no more. There is also the white-robed Elidibus; and the elusive Emet-Selch, about whom little is known.
137	133	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001310_ALISAIE	We have files on Lahabrea and Elidibus, but I believe this “Emet-Selch” is new to us...?
138	134	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001320_ALISAIE	As I assume my brother told you, we have evidence to suggest that an Ascian now walks in the body of the crown prince. Have you identified this interloper?
139	135	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001330_SHADOWHUNTER	Elidibus seems the most likely culprit. As “emissary,” it is his role to maintain the equilibrium between Darkness and Light.
140	136	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001340_SHADOWHUNTER	Your many deeds in Hydaelyn's name have upset the balance, and I believe he seeks to restore it by throwing his considerable power behind the Empire. As a leader of the Ascians, he is one of our primary targets.
141	137	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001350_SHADOWHUNTER	It was on the trail of this very prey that the boy and I came across the scene of a failed uprising. In the absence of a single Garlean casualty, we inspected the bodies of the rebels, and the lack of any external injury drew my immediate attention.
142	138	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001360_SHADOWHUNTER	They had been slain by Black Rose─an alchemical invention of the imperial army. When I yet served as legatus, I ordered its production halted and all stockpiles destroyed. Toxic gas is a not a tool of conquest, but of extermination.
143	139	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001370_ALISAIE	Toxic gas!? This must be the new weapon Maxima warned us about─something deadly enough to sweep away all resistance in a matter of hours.
144	140	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001380_ALISAIE	Gods, you don't think they're planning to use this in Ala Mhigo, do you?
145	141	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001390_SHADOWHUNTER	Put your fears to rest. We infiltrated the production facility, and destroyed all existing stores of the chemical along with the plant itself. Even should they rebuild the operation, they will not soon manufacture another batch.
146	142	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001400_SHADOWHUNTER	Regardless, I would draw your attention to a directive we discovered in the plant's records. The document was marked with a recent date, and authorized with the signature of one Zenos yae Galvus.
147	143	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001410_HIEN	A dead man signing the death warrant for thousands. 'Tis bad comedy.
148	144	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001420_SHADOWHUNTER	But the tale does not end there─within that same facility was a chamber filled with devices of Allagan design. Cloning technology, we realized.
149	145	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001430_SHADOWHUNTER	And what should we find in each and every incubator...but a young Emperor Solus.
150	146	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001440_SHADOWHUNTER	...All of which prompts the question: were the Ascians responsible for these abominations? Or was it the will of the Emperor?
151	147	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001450_SHADOWHUNTER	I must know which hand guides the Empire. Though I have given up my rank, I am yet a son of Garlemald...and I will fight for the future of my homeland.
152	148	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001460_SHADOWHUNTER	It is time I returned to the hunting of shadows. We should focus on our common foe─to reopen old quarrels now would serve no purpose.
153	149	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001470_ALISAIE	You saved my brother's life, so I'm willing to let sleeping dogs lie. But in truth, it's not my decision to make.
154	150	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_Q2_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
155	151	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_A2_000_001_NONE_VOICE	You're right. There are more important matters at hand.
156	152	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_A2_000_002_NONE_VOICE	We'll settle this another time.
157	153	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001480_SHADOWHUNTER	There was a time when I scorned those who placed their faith in false gods─even as I, in my blinkered conviction, placed mine in Ascian promises.
158	154	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001490_SHADOWHUNTER	Unlike yours, my strength of will─and my restraint─was found wanting. We shall meet again, Warrior of Light.
159	155	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001500_HIEN	So that was the infamous Black Wolf. An unexpected ally, to say the least...
160	156	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001510_HIEN	Well, I am content to leave the fine-tuning of the barrier to cleverer minds. Let us bid our friends from the Ironworks farewell and see what can be done for Alphinaud back in Doma.
161	157	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001520_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE	Meanwhile, at the Black Rose chemical plant...
162	158	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001530_IMPERIALENGINEER	Our supplies of Black Rose have been ruined, but the new plant is already under construction. We should have the first batch ready in time for the offensive, Your Radiance!
163	159	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001540_VARIS	See that you do.
164	160	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001550_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	Ah, yes! The infamous “Black Rose.” If I recall correctly, Gaius did not much care for the invention.
165	161	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001560_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	A ruthless and indiscriminate weapon indeed, this airborne poison. It seems you <Emphasis>are</Emphasis> capable of making decisions worthy of your bloodline.
166	162	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001570_VARIS	With no gift for sorcery, we Garleans must look to magitek to even the odds. If it spares the needless deaths of our soldiers, and serves the cause of this empire, there is no method I would not employ.
167	163	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001580_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	How very noble of you.
168	164	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001590_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	Truly, though, I must commend you for embracing your role as emperor. You play the part of the determined ruler well. Sometimes, even <Emphasis>I</Emphasis> catch myself believing!
169	165	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001600_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	A silent agent of death... Now that I think on it, Black Rose may well possess the perfect aspect.
170	166	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001610_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	Slowly but surely, the deluge of Light has worked upon the aether here in the Source, and the gas should be most susceptible to its influence...
171	167	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001620_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	Well, I shall leave you to your own devices. Go forth and bloody the land with your grand and glorious war.
172	168	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001630_VARIS	...While you do what, precisely?
173	169	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001640_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	Need you ask? I will be doing what all Ascians do.
174	170	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001650_VARIS	I am well aware that your kind exists only to usher in the next calamity. But you seem oblivious to the harm your singular agenda causes to the Empire.
175	171	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001660_VARIS	You cannot have forgotten the events which followed your mortal demise.
176	172	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001670_VARIS	Our homeland was plunged into civil war for your failure to name a successor. The edifice you so carefully constructed was but a hair's breadth from collapse!
177	173	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001680_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	Are you truly so naive?
178	174	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001690_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	You thought me oblivious to the consequences? Of a departure so painstakingly timed?
179	175	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001700_VARIS	...It was by <Emphasis>design</Emphasis>!?
180	176	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001710_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	Well, of course it was! Though I will admit the resulting panic exceeded even my wildest expectations. But how can you be surprised? Throwing the world into disarray was the very purpose for which this nation was, as you say, “so carefully constructed.”
181	177	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001720_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	Now, if you have no further questions, I must be on my way.
182	178	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001730_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	Since we may not meet again in this lifetime, it would be remiss of me not to offer a word or two of gratitude.
183	179	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001740_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	I really must thank you for this surplus of vessels. I can mold any host into my own image, but having bodies tailor-made for me in this fashion is so much less tiresome!
184	180	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001750_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	You dabbled in Allagan cloning techniques, yes? It certainly is a compelling─not to mention entertaining─field of research.
185	181	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001760_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	And of all the options available, you chose the founding father on whom to experiment! You have a twisted streak to you, Varis. Like grandsire, like grandson, eh?
186	182	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001770_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	If events play out as planned, this will become something of a family enterprise.
187	183	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001780_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	You will be the capstone of this world; I, the anchor in the shard. And together, we will give the lie to this star's fraudulent existence!
188	184	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001790_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	Hm hm hm...
189	185	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001791_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	Hah hah...
190	186	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001792_SOLUSZOSGALVUS	Ahahahaha!
191	187	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001800_LYSE	Welcome back, you two. Greetings, Lord Hien! Glad you could join us!
192	188	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001810_HIEN	Glad to be here. I would have come sooner, were our own defenses not in question. But I am pleased to report that our soldiers are assembling for deployment to Ala Mhigo as we speak.
193	189	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001820_RAUBAHN	We are grateful for your support. Thanks to the efforts of our allies, it won't be long before we've established defensive positions on this front as well.
194	190	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001830_ALISAIE	Ahem, we have some good news too... Alphinaud has come back to us. As for the bad news...
195	191	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001840_LYSE	So, Alphinaud won't wake up, Gaius van Baelsar is alive and hunting Ascians, and the Empire is planning to poison us all with toxic gas. Does that sound about right?
196	192	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001850_LYSE	Ordinarily, any one of those things would have left me in shock, but the way things have been lately, it's all starting to seem pretty normal.
197	193	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001860_LYSE	Getting back to your report, are we sure this “Black Rose” is the weapon Maxima was talking about?
198	194	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001870_RAUBAHN	It fits the description. And it seems we have Alphinaud to thank for sparing us an early demonstration of its effectiveness. I've a feeling this won't be the last time his bravery in the Empire will serve us here in Eorzea.
199	195	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001880_RAUBAHN	The threat of an unknown weapon has had us all on edge... But now that we know what we're dealing with, we can take steps to defend against it.
200	196	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001890_RAUBAHN	As for Gaius...I'm not sure what to think. Am I happy he's alive? Not in the slightest. Am I happy he's hunting Ascians? Aye. I'd have to say I am.
201	197	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001900_LYSE	Oh, speaking of Garleans-you-didn't-expect-to-see, we have a tale of our own, as it happens. When we sent envoys to the imperial army to request talks, they returned with the message that “Varis zos Galvus” would be attending.
202	198	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001910_HIEN	The Emperor himself? Well, Varis did sanction the Populares' peace mission...
203	199	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001920_HIEN	...But knowing that an Ascian walks in his son's skin, I do not see how we can trust him or anyone from that nest of vipers.
204	200	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001930_RAUBAHN	The Alliance would proceed with negotiations regardless, if only to give ourselves more time to prepare. We do, however, require your cooperation...
205	201	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001940_LYSE	Ah, right, yes... So...as a condition for the talks to go forward, the Empire has requested that a member of the Scions be present. There'll be a representative from each Alliance nation, of course, but I'm afraid we have to ask that you come along too.
206	202	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001950_ALISAIE	Gods, Lyse...you know how much I hate politics. But then what choice do I have? Alphinaud and the others aren't going to do it...
207	203	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001960_ALISAIE	Very well. I shall attend as the Scion's representative.
208	204	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001970_LYSE	In case you're wondering why I didn't ask you, the Empire also requested the presence of “Eorzea's champion”...
209	205	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_Q3_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
210	206	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_A3_000_001_NONE_VOICE	I'll be there.
211	207	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_A3_000_002_NONE_VOICE	I'm not fond of politics either...
212	208	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001980_LYSE	That's settled, then. We don't know what Varis means to bring to the table, or why he wants you there, but having you close at hand will make all the difference.
213	209	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_001990_LYSE	Oh, you're not, are you? Come on. If Alisaie can put on a brave face, then so can you. Now, we don't know what Varis means to bring to the table, or why he wants you there, but having you close at hand should make all the difference.
214	210	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002000_RAUBAHN	The meeting will take place on the border. Anticipating an early assault, we mean to position the bulk of our forces nearby.
215	211	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002010_LYSE	The Alliance leaders should already be on their way. Once you're ready, we can head out and join them.
216	212	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002020_VARIS	Esteemed representatives of the Eorzean Alliance─on behalf of the Garlean Empire, I thank you for inviting me here today.
217	213	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002030_VARIS	As this parley was convened at your request, I invite you to speak first.
218	214	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002040_NANAMOULNAMO	Very well, Your Radiance. I, Nanamo Ul Namo, seventeenth in the line of Ul, should be pleased to oblige you.
219	215	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002050_NANAMOULNAMO	As recent events in Ala Mhigo and Doma have made plain, the subjugation and exploitation of neighboring nations is not a sustainable policy.
220	216	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002060_NANAMOULNAMO	Should this day end in war, you may very well defeat us, but you will never extinguish the people's desire for freedom. Though it may not be in our lifetime, there will be another revolution, another war, and the cycle will continue.
221	217	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002070_NANAMOULNAMO	Doma has entered into a concord with the nations of Eorzea. A partnership wherein we recognize one another as equals.
222	218	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002080_NANAMOULNAMO	Garlemald could be afforded similar treatment. You need only set aside your ambitions and join us in paving a path towards peace.
223	219	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002090_VARIS	Hmph! You will not win me over with sophistry, Your Grace.
224	220	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002100_VARIS	As you know only too well, this <Emphasis>alliance</Emphasis> lacks the strength to keep the peace within its own borders. Even now, your struggles with the beastmen continue unabated.
225	221	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002110_VARIS	Divided, you sow this fertile soil with the seeds of your differences and reap naught but discord and chaos for your trouble. Eorzea must be united under one leader, one purpose. I would offer you both and bring an end to your strife.
226	222	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002120_LYSE	With all due respect, Your Radiance, the only that thing you offered the people of Ala Mhigo was fear and hopelessness.
227	223	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002130_HIEN	The citizens of Doma can also attest to the meager alms of imperial rule. There is no purpose to be found in a life of oppression, each day more uncertain than the last.
228	224	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002140_LYSE	Our people are willing to die for their freedom. A great many already have. And countless more will, if we don't put an end to this madness here and now.
229	225	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002150_VARIS	We brought order and stability to your lives. This madness and bloodshed is of your own making. You broke the peace, not Garlemald.
230	226	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002160_RAUBAHN	Peace? Order? You kill our peoples, despoil our lands, take everything that is ours. And what? You expect us to lick the boot that grinds our faces into the dirt?
231	227	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002170_VARIS	I expect you to weigh the costs. To recognize that countless lives have been lost on both sides in pursuit of a greater good─and to not squander all we have achieved in a fit of petulance.
232	228	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002180_AYMERIC	Your Radiance, I fear I can personally attest to the dangers of pursuing one's vision with such righteous fervor.
233	229	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002190_AYMERIC	For a thousand years, the Holy See of Ishgard waged war with dragons.
234	230	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002200_AYMERIC	A thousand years of sacrifice, of sorrow and hate, in which we bathed in the blood of friend and foe alike. Had it gone on any longer, we may well have drowned.
235	231	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002210_AYMERIC	Yet we have chosen to raise ourselves out of this bloody spiral, and have since made peace with our former enemy.
236	232	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002220_VARIS	So I understand. No doubt the dragons were more receptive to your overtures in the wake of their leader's demise.
237	233	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002230_VARIS	You speak of peace, yet use war to achieve it. Your father would not have bothered to obscure his intent with honeyed words. He understood that strength is all that matters in the end.
238	234	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002240_VARIS	Without his clarity of vision, I can but wonder what will become of Ishgard and her people.
239	235	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002250_VARIS	There was a time when Garlemald too lacked a leader of conviction. Weak and unable to wield magic, we were at the mercy of the strong, from whom we sought refuge in the bitter cold of the north.
240	236	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002260_VARIS	Were it not for the discovery of ceruleum, and the subsequent development of magitek, we might never have gained the power to take back that which was rightfully ours.
241	237	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002270_MERLWYB	You speak as if your people were the first to have been driven from their homes. Limsa Lominsa was built by wayward souls in search of a place to call their own.
242	238	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002280_MERLWYB	On the shores of Vylbrand we found it, and from those humble beginnings did we grow and flourish. And all without robbing our neighbors of their liberty.
243	239	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002290_VARIS	So sayeth the pirate. Am I to believe that you simply asked the kobolds to yield up their lands, and that they were happy to oblige you? That you did not drive them out like rats in the hold of one of the many ships seized by your “privateers”?
244	240	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002300_VARIS	I will concede that, after centuries of exile, reclamation may be mistaken for invasion. Nevertheless, it is not─and those who till stolen soil have no right to object when cast out in turn.
245	241	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002310_KANESENNA	Your uncompromising nature rivals that of the Ixal.
246	242	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002320_KANESENNA	They too lament circumstances which they themselves perpetuate. Were they but to embrace peace, we would welcome them with open arms. Indeed, some few have done just that, and now receive of the Twelveswood's bounty.
247	243	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002330_KANESENNA	Would that your people might learn from their example.
248	244	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002340_VARIS	[LAUGHTER]
249	245	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002350_VARIS	You would dare compare us to the birdmen? You who thought to invoke the Twelve and threaten all of creation?
250	246	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002360_VARIS	I came here in the hope of finding some speck of common ground, but I see now these discussions will accomplish nothing.
251	247	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002370_VARIS	Despite what you people may believe, I am not wont to choose the sword over the olive branch. 'Tis but a pity men are loath to accept one without first being shown the other.
252	248	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002380_ALISAIE	Wait, I beg you! This meeting was supposed to be a chance to find a way forward together, not to bemoan the missteps which brought us here.
253	249	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002390_ALISAIE	Please─if you truly consider violence a last resort, there must be way we can come to an agreement.
254	250	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002400_NANAMOULNAMO	As Mistress Alisaie says, we did not come here to bicker over the past, but to discuss how we might strive towards a brighter future.
255	251	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002410_NANAMOULNAMO	Emperor Varis, may I suggest a short recess, that all present might compose themselves prior to beginning anew?
256	252	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002420_VARIS	Very well. I pray this intermission will suffice to move these talks in a more constructive direction.
257	253	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002430_VARIS	Now then. Who would have the floor?
258	254	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002440_NANAMOULNAMO	Before we resume, I wish to offer you an apology. After you graciously accepted our invitation to discuss an armistice, we have done naught but rebuke you at every opportunity. I believe I speak for all of us when I say we are deeply sorry for our discourtesy.
259	255	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002450_MERLWYB	I'll admit, your familiarity with our affairs surprised me─and served to remind me how little I know of yours.
260	256	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002460_RAUBAHN	I think all here can understand the desire to reclaim one's homeland. But why expand further─that is my question.
261	257	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002470_HIEN	If I may─the answer can be found in the imperial doctrine they took great pains to impart to my people.
262	258	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002480_HIEN	Recognizing the threat eikons pose to the world, Solus zos Galvus decreed that they were to be eradicated. To this end, he began a campaign to unite all lands under the Garlean banner.
263	259	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002490_HIEN	Or so we were taught. Yet the Emperor only reached the Burn─the barrens said to have been laid waste by eikons─after conquering all the lands that lay between. What is more, I am quite certain the practice of summoning was not nearly so widespread in the days before the Empire's founding.
264	260	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002500_LYSE	When you put it like that, it all starts to sound like an excuse, doesn't it? But to distract from what? Why are you really waging this war?
265	261	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002510_VARIS	...Finally, you ask the right question.
266	262	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002520_VARIS	I can but hope you heed mine answer and at last accept the righteousness of our cause.
267	263	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002530_VARIS	My goal is this: to return the world to the way it once was. The way it was always meant to be.
268	264	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002540_VARIS	In doing so, mankind will be made whole once more.
269	265	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002550_VARIS	No longer will we suffer from the dissension born of our differences.
270	266	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002560_VARIS	There will be but one race─a perfect race─as we were when time began.
271	267	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002570_LYSE	What in Rhalgr's name are you talking about?
272	268	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002580_VARIS	I am talking about the origins of this star. Of the Source, and its thirteen reflections.
273	269	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002590_VARIS	At the instant of the great sundering, 'twas not only the world that was shattered, but mankind itself. Thus were we divided into myriad races, each with its own unique imperfections.
274	270	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002600_VARIS	That is why man looks upon his neighbor and feels fear and hatred. Why he wages war. Why he kills his brother.
275	271	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002610_VARIS	You all in your own way have proven as much today. The peace you seek is but a fleeting solution to a fundamental problem. One which calls for more drastic measures.
276	272	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002620_VARIS	To bring about everlasting peace, our worlds must be rejoined.
277	273	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002630_VARIS	That is the goal the Empire would see realized─the glorious future unto which we shall one day shepherd mankind.
278	274	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002640_MERLWYB	A rejoining of worlds...?
279	275	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002650_KANESENNA	I have heard this tale of the Source and its reflections before...
280	276	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002660_NANAMOULNAMO	Are these not the selfsame desires as the Ascians?
281	277	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002670_AYMERIC	Emperor Varis! Do not trust in their words. They will lead you to your doom.
282	278	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002680_AYMERIC	My father thought to use them, but in the end he succumbed to their temptations. He embraced summoning like so many other pawns before him. Do not tell us you mean to do the same!
283	279	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002690_VARIS	[LAUGHTER]
284	280	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002700_VARIS	To be a pawn, free from the burden of choice, would be a blessing....
285	281	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002710_VARIS	But I foreswore that privilege the day I learned that the Garlean Empire was built by the hand of an Ascian.
286	282	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002720_ALISAIE	What!?
287	283	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002730_VARIS	Yes. My grandsire, the former emperor, is of their number. And who better to build an empire capable of bringing about the calamitous change we desire?
288	284	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002740_VARIS	Would you condemn me for this alliance, for bowing to the will of these shadowy masters, when the prize is true and lasting peace?
289	285	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_Q4_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
290	286	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_A4_000_001_NONE_VOICE	Your prize is a lie. Your masters, demons.
291	287	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_A4_000_002_NONE_VOICE	I will stop you and the Ascians. No matter the cost.
292	288	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002750_VARIS	I come not to conquer, but to liberate─to free man from the prison of divergence.
293	289	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002760_VARIS	Imagine a world united. One perfect race beneath a single standard.
294	290	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002770_VARIS	An army before whose might these servants of Darkness and Light would fly as leaves in a storm, never again to meddle in man's affairs.
295	291	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002780_VARIS	We would be the masters of our own fate!
296	292	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002790_VARIS	I bid you join me! Not as subjects of Garlemald, but of a new nation! And together we shall win freedom for ourselves and generations yet unborn!
297	293	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002800_LYSE	You want to trigger another half-dozen calamities? You can't be serious!
298	294	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002810_RAUBAHN	Have you forgotten how many died? There will be no one left!
299	295	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002820_MERLWYB	Do you truly imagine we would aid you in your bloodletting?
300	296	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002830_KANESENNA	It is unthinkable! Unconscionable!
301	297	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002840_VARIS	And what is the alternative? To be as cattle waiting for slaughter. I would have us work together, that we might take fate into our own hands.
302	298	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002850_ALISAIE	Into <Emphasis>your</Emphasis> hands, perhaps...
303	299	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002860_ALISAIE	But what of the other worlds, Your Radiance? With every calamity, you obliterate a star and every soul that dwells on it!
304	300	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002870_VARIS	To the Ascians, we are all but tiny, momentary specks within an indifferent universe. We cannot hope to oppose them until we have been made whole once more.
305	301	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002880_NANAMOULNAMO	Are these truly the words of Garlemald's ruler?
306	302	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002890_NANAMOULNAMO	The flaws and foibles which you so abhor are what make us who we are. Every nation─even yours, Emperor Varis─is made whole through the combination of these imperfections, the strengths of one compensating for the weaknesses of another.
307	303	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002900_NANAMOULNAMO	While it is true that man succumbs all too often to anger and avarice, he may yet overcome his baser instincts through the forming of bonds with others, fostering community and cooperation.
308	304	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002910_NANAMOULNAMO	That the protector of an empire should not only reject these fundamental truths, but seek to change them at so dear a cost to life is indefensible.
309	305	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002920_NANAMOULNAMO	Such a man is not fit to govern.
310	306	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002930_VARIS	And you, Warrior of Light? Would you refuse me as well?
311	307	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_Q5_000_001_NONE_VOICE	What will you say?
312	308	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_A5_000_001_NONE_VOICE	I cannot condone such a loss of life.
313	309	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_A5_000_002_NONE_VOICE	We can defeat the Ascians as we are.
314	310	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002940_NANAMOULNAMO	It would seem the Alliance is of one mind on this matter.
315	311	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002950_VARIS	You Eorzeans never cease to disappoint me.
316	312	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002960_VARIS	Though I suppose I have only myself to blame for expecting more from savages.
317	313	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002970_VARIS	This discussion is at an end. I bid you make ready for our next meeting. It will not be at the negotiating table.
318	314	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002980_LYSE	I'm not sure what I was expecting from our meeting with the Emperor, but it wasn't that. Still, at least we know now what he's really after!
319	315	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_002990_RAUBAHN	Aye, a future built on a mountain of bodies. I too want the Ascians dead─but not at any cost.
320	316	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003000_HIEN	The last of the reinforcements from Doma arrived not long ago. I pray it will be enough. Given the Emperor's stated goal, this is a battle we can ill afford to lose.
321	317	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003010_RAUBAHN	If the Garleans come in force, we may not have much say in the matter...even with our combined strength.
322	318	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003020_HIEN	We knew from the first that the odds would be against us. But if there is even the slightest chance of victory, we must do everything in our power to seize it.
323	319	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003030_RAUBAHN	We must seize it, full stop.
324	320	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003040_HIEN	Hear hear!
325	321	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003050_RAUBAHN	The two of you are to join an irregular unit and support the main host. I won't bother asking if you're minded to fight.
326	322	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003060_ALISAIE	After coming this far, how could I not?
327	323	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003070_ALISAIE	And for once, there's no one around to countermand me. Not that they would. Not even my brother.
328	324	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003080_ALISAIE	But we all know who'll really make the difference. Ready to frighten some Garleans?
329	325	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003090_RAUBAHN	I wouldn't want to be on their side.
330	326	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003100_HIEN	Might I ask you to accompany the Doman contingent? They are strangers here, and your presence would do much to raise their spirits.
331	327	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003110_ALISAIE	We would be honored.
332	328	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003120_YUGIRI	When our people stride out with you in their midst, I daresay the Eorzeans will feel an ilm taller themselves. High spirits have a way of spreading.
333	329	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003130_RAUBAHN	Ah, what I wouldn't give to join you. But my duties as field commander will not allow it. I leave the front lines in your capable hands.
334	330	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003140_RAUBAHN	Comrades! Ready your arms! The hour of battle has come!
335	331	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003150_RAUBAHN	May the Crystal guide us to victory!
336	332	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003160_ALISAIE	Since the others couldn't be here, we'll have to fight twice as hard. If Alphinaud wakes to find the imperials have won, I shall never hear the end of it.
337	333	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003170_ALISAIE	It's strange... I thought I would be terrified when the fighting started.
338	334	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003180_ALISAIE	I <Emphasis>should</Emphasis> be terrified. But with you at our side, I can't help feeling everything is going to be all right.
339	335	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003190_ALISAIE	So please...
340	336	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003200_ALISAIE	Don't you dare leave me alone.
341	337	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003201_ALISAIE	No matter what happens, we have to survive. Together.
342	338	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003210_ALISAIE	There you are! And none the worse for wear!
343	339	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003220_HIEN	Indeed. I had hoped we might do more to help, but there seems to be no one left to fight.
344	340	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003230_YUGIRI	A tactical withdrawal, perhaps?
345	341	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003240_ALISAIE	We should give chase. Finish them off while we have the chance.
346	342	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003250_ALISAIE	Imagine the others' surprise when they wake to find the war already won.
347	343	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003260_MYSTERYVOICE	The Light...will expunge all life...
348	344	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003270_MYSTERYVOICE	Only you...can forestall the calamity...
349	345	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003280_MYSTERYVOICE	Throw wide...the gates...
350	346	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003290_ALISAIE	No! Not now... Not...like...
351	347	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003300_HIEN	Oh no, don't tell me...
352	348	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003310_HIEN	Are you all right?
353	349	TEXT_VOICEMAN_04500_003320_HIEN	Quickly! We must get her back to the encampment.