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10TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000010_ALPHINAUDCome, you must have gathered by now that Tataru is given to exaggeration. As you can see, I am quite well.
21TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000020_ALPHINAUDUl'dah, on the other hand, is not. This riot was anything but an isolated incident.
32TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000030_ALPHINAUDThere is a restlessness in the air. Tensions long simmering are at last threatening to boil over.
43TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000040_ALPHINAUDUl'dah is a nation infamous for the great disparity between the wealthy and the poor. The majority of the populace accepts this state of affairs because they believe that every man bears responsibility for his own lot in life.
54TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000050_ALPHINAUDTo an Ul'dahn, money is the foremost─and some would say the *only*─measure of a man's worth. Small wonder that the wealthiest wield the greatest influence.
65TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000060_ALPHINAUDSo where do the refugees fit into this social hierarchy? What place is there for those who fled Ala Mhigo and the destruction of the Calamity?
76TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000070_ALPHINAUDPlainly, there *is* none. They have no wealth, no power, and no worth. To the Ul'dahn way of thinking, they may as well not exist.
87TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000080_ALPHINAUDChoosing to ignore their existence, however, is patently not an option. General Raubahn and the sultana understand this, which is why they ordered the Immortal Flames to provide the refugees aid and succor.
98TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000090_ALPHINAUDYet none would dispute that the expenses incurred by this policy grow by the day, with no end in sight.
109TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000100_ALPHINAUDThis has prompted more and more Ul'dahns to question their obligation to aid these worthless wanderers...
1110TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000110_ALPHINAUDWhile more and more refugees have come to resent their treatment at the hands of the sneering citizenry.
1211TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000120_ALPHINAUDThe manner of Lord Lolorito's refusal to grant the Domans asylum bespoke a disdain for all refugees─an attitude shared by the rest of the Monetarists. And you may be sure they make no effort to conceal their opinions.
1312TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000130_ALPHINAUDIt was only a matter of time before the refugees united in protest. Nor is it any surprise that some among them would ultimately resort to violence.
1413TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_000140_ALPHINAUDThat the Immortal Flames should choose this of all occasions to engage in joint training exercises with the other Grand Companies... By the time they return, the situation may well have deteriorated beyond mending.
1514TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100010_RAUBAHNCommander Swift has kept us apprised of your recent activities. You've made great strides towards quelling the violence.
1615TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100020_ALPHINAUDDespite our best efforts to determine what provoked this uprising, the truth continues to elude us. Have you uncovered aught which might shed some light on the mystery?
1716TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100030_RAUBAHNThis information does not leave this room.
1817TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100040_RAUBAHNThe Syndicate's decision to reject the Doman refugees' appeal for asylum had lasting repercussions. A number of those displaced by the Calamity claimed it was proof of a policy of discrimination.
1918TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100050_RAUBAHNTogether with a group of Ala Mhigan refugees, they organized a series of demonstrations to protest against the sultanate.
2019TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100060_RAUBAHNDemonstrations which became heated, but did not descend into violence.
2120TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100070_RAUBAHNUntil a certain incident served as a call to arms.
2221TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100080_NANAMOULNAMOA unit of Brass Blades sent to supervise a demonstration loosed arrows upon unarmed protesters.
2322TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100090_NANAMOULNAMOIt was this atrocity which prompted the refugees to take up arms. I need not tell you what followed.
2423TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100100_RAUBAHNWe assumed at first that the attack was born of a miscommunication. When emotions run high, they happen. But suspicions were raised regarding the unit's commanding officer, whom I ordered interrogated.
2524TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100110_RAUBAHNSure enough, our fears were soon confirmed. The dog confessed that a merchant had offered him coin to give the order─a merchant in the employ of Teledji Adeledji.
2625TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100120_ALPHINAUDTeledji Adeledji?
2726TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100130_ALPHINAUDBut he spoke in favor of the Domans' cause, and has ever seemed sympathetic towards the refugees' plight. Why would he do such a thing?
2827TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100140_RAUBAHNKnow you of the Carteneau Reclamation Bill?
2928TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100150_RAUBAHNIt is a proposal to annex the Carteneau Flats so that refugees may establish permanent settlements.
3029TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100160_ALPHINAUDWhen last I looked, that was disputed territory.
3130TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_100170_RAUBAHNAye. Some might even call it a battlefield.
3231TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200010_RAUBAHNThe destruction wrought by Bahamut was greatest at the Carteneau Flats. That much is common knowledge.
3332TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200020_RAUBAHNWhat is less well known is that his rampage laid bare ancient Allagan ruins, of which no record existed.
3433TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200030_RAUBAHNThere are certain...differences of opinion as to how these ruins should be handled, which is why each nation maintains a military presence in the region to this day.
3534TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200040_RAUBAHNYet differ though we may, we are still allies. Therefore, in the interest of preserving the Eorzean Alliance, we have reached an agreement.
3635TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200050_RAUBAHNAny conflict which may arise during the course of military exercises in the region shall have no bearing on relations between our nations.
3736TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200060_RAUBAHNIn full knowledge of this delicate state of affairs, Teledji Adeledji proposed the Carteneau Reclamation Bill.
3837TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200070_RAUBAHNA shameless bloody ruse which stands to benefit him in but one conceivable way.
3938TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200080_RAUBAHNIf successful, he will gain control over the disputed territory, under the guise of assisting in the resettlement effort. And you can be sure he'll build an orphanage next to every Allagan ruin.
4039TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200090_NANAMOULNAMOThe man would threaten the unity of the Eorzean Alliance and risk countless lives for personal gain!
4140TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200100_RAUBAHNHe walks a path all his own, independent of any faction, and beholden to none of his fellows on the Syndicate.
4241TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200110_NANAMOULNAMOBy inciting the less fortunate to violence, he hopes to convince others that the Carteneau Reclamation Bill is the only viable solution.
4342TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_200120_NANAMOULNAMOHis sympathy for the plight of the Domans was naught but posturing to gain credibility with the refugees. Of that there can be no doubt.
4443TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300010_ALPHINAUDForgive me, but what could possibly motivate Teledji Adeledji to go to such lengths? What is so special about these ruins that he would risk his position on the Syndicate, and, most likely, charges of treason against the sultanate?
4544TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300020_NANAMOULNAMOOmega...
4645TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300030_ALPHINAUDPardon?
4746TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300040_RAUBAHNAn Allagan monstrosity, not unlike the Ultima Weapon. Mayhap larger. We know not. It has yet to be fully excavated.
4847TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300050_RAUBAHNAllagan inscriptions indicate that it was created to fell Bahamut himself.
4948TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300060_RAUBAHNIf accurate, it might explain why Nael van Darnus chose to bring the red moon down upon the Carteneau Flats.
5049TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300070_RAUBAHNGiven the ends he went to to ensure Eorzea's annihilation, destroying the one weapon which could stay the elder primal may well have seemed like good sense.
5150TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300080_ALPHINAUDWhen first I bore witness to the power of the Ultima Weapon, I doubted the evidence of my senses... And now you tell me there is another such weapon─one which could contend with Bahamut. *Bahamut*.
5251TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300090_RAUBAHNAye. We were skeptical ourselves. Truth be told, until the Ultima Weapon's existence came to light, we thought the inscription had been mistranslated.
5352TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300100_NANAMOULNAMOAt present, Omega is more akin to a fossil than a tool of war, having long since ceased to function. As such, its true potential cannot accurately be gauged.
5453TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300110_NANAMOULNAMOHowever, if someone were to restore it, as the Garleans did the Ultima Weapon, I have little doubt that he would wield untold power.
5554TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300120_RAUBAHNPower enough to subjugate Ul'dah, like as not, and the rest of Eorzea besides─which is doubtless why Teledji Adeledji yearns to have it.
5655TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300130_NANAMOULNAMOThat *he* should aspire to world domination... He who has ever walked two paces behind Lord Lolorito in matters of commerce.
5756TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300140_RAUBAHN'Tis in acknowledgement of his own limitations that he seeks this power. Woe betide us all should we allow him to have it.
5857TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300150_NANAMOULNAMOPray waste no time chasing rats. Only a fool would believe that secrets can be kept in Ul'dah.
5958TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_300160_ALPHINAUDIt would seem the implications of the sultanate's refugee problem are rather more far-reaching than we assumed...
6059TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400010_HAURCHEFANTThe incident with the new frontier hands? No, no, you need not elaborate─I have been following their progress with no small amount of interest.
6160TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400020_HAURCHEFANTBrave men and women all... They do our nation a great service. The existence of a fortified outpost in Mor Dhona will do much to dissuade the Empire from trespassing on Coerthan soil.
6261TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400030_HAURCHEFANTRight glad am I that you have chosen to lend your support to this endeavor. Never let it be said that House Fortemps does not acknowledge the efforts of her allies...or her debts.
6362TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400040_HAURCHEFANT'Twas in the spirit of gratitude that I arranged for sundry supplies to be delivered to Revenant's Toll. That the shipment should chance to be waylaid by heretics is poor fortune, indeed.
6463TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400050_HAURCHEFANTPoor fortune, I say...yet not without precedent. If you would know the truth of it, these incorrigible villains grow more organized with each passing day.
6564TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400060_HAURCHEFANTThis new unity of purpose we attribute to their leader─the Lady “Iceheart.” But though I have devoted significant resources to the task of identifying this woman, we have yet to learn so much as her birth name.
6665TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400070_HAURCHEFANTWhat we *do* know is that the heretics speak of Iceheart in reverent tones, and would gladly embrace death rather than betray her. Such loyalty is rare indeed, and I fear to imagine what so committed a collective might achieve.
6766TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400080_HAURCHEFANTThe brigands have not yet been so brazen as to risk direct confrontation here in Dragonhead. Some few of their number have, however, been sighted not far to the west of here...and with ever-increasing regularity.
6867TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400090_HAURCHEFANTA visit to Whitebrim Front may bring you the answers you seek. Will you brave the snows knowing what implacable foes may lie in wait?
6968TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400100_HAURCHEFANTHalone's blessings be upon you! Though I take no pride in the admission, many of mine own countrymen are not so well suited as you adventurers to dealing with such foes. Were they dragons, it might be otherwise!
7069TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400110_HAURCHEFANTBut truly, I could not wish for a finer ally. You have done much for my house in the past, and I have no doubt but that I shall have cause to celebrate your deeds again ere long.
7170TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_400120_HAURCHEFANTShould you learn aught of value, pray return to me forthwith. A warm hearth and a warmer welcome shall be waiting for you.
7271TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_500010_YSAYLE(-???-)Hmph...
7372TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600010_HAURCHEFANTYour return is most timely. Of their own accord, my thoughts had turned to your task and the progress thereof. I confess, my imaginings tended toward the grim and bloody.
7473TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600020_HAURCHEFANTBut you are here now, and I suspect such frivolous wonderings do little justice to the reality of your travails. Tell me, what did you learn of Iceheart?
7574TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600030_HAURCHEFANT...Indeed. And this transpired at Snowcloak?
7675TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600040_HAURCHEFANTOf all the highlands, that towering wall has borne the worst of the region's brutal shift in climate.
7776TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600050_HAURCHEFANTSo inhospitable has Snowcloak become that we have still to survey the area in its entirety. Could its frozen heights conceal the heretics' hideaway? Mayhap a more robust reconnaissance effort is in order.
7877TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600060_HAURCHEFANTPutting such considerations aside for the moment, we still know far too little of this Iceheart. That she is capable of commanding such a band of fanatics bespeaks natural authority, and no small measure of charisma.
7978TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600070_HAURCHEFANTAs much as I would like to fathom this mystery with you, the situation has grown beyond my personal purview. I am bound by duty to inform the Temple Knights and request that they bring this matter to its conclusion.
8079TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600080_HAURCHEFANTGiven the glowing reports their new commander has garnered thus far, I am certain that they can be relied upon to take appropriate action.
8180TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600090_HAURCHEFANTThough Iceheart's true identity yet eludes us, you have provided us with a point from which to begin. Sometimes it takes but a single stone to prompt an avalanche.
8281TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_600100_HAURCHEFANTOn the matter of the stolen provisions, I have already made arrangements for a second shipment to be sent to Revenant's Toll. I could not well allow such an honorable venture to be undermined by one miserable setback!
8382TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700010_KANESENNAScions of the Seventh Dawn, on behalf of the people of Gridania, I bid you welcome. Your presence is of great comfort to us all in these days of uncertainty.
8483TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700020_KANESENNAI summoned you here to share tidings of a most urgent nature. But a short while ago, the great elemental spoke, and his voice was clarion in its intensity: Ramuh is returned unto the forest.
8584TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700030_KANESENNAScarce had his words ceased to echo in mine ears when we were visited by an emissary from Little Solace.
8685TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700050_KANESENNAOur guest informs us that the sylphs, too, have sensed the presence of the Lord of Levin.
8786TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700055_KANESENNAOur guest informs us that the sylphs, too, have sensed the presence of the Lord of Levin.
8887TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700060_KANESENNAThough his exact whereabouts remain unknown, we may safely assume that the primal was summoned within the heart of the Sylphlands.
8988TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700070_KANESENNAUnlike the other primals you have encountered, Lord Ramuh is no raging avatar of destruction. He is revered as much for his wisdom as his strength, serving as both arbiter and guardian to his children. Given that we and the sylphs found a way to share the Twelveswood, it is my hope that this sagely immortal will be amenable to reason, and that conflict may be avoided.
9089TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700080_KANESENNABlessed as you are with the power of the Echo, you are one of the few among us who may commune with a primal without fear of influence. I would ask therefore that you represent us in this most delicate of negotiations.
9190TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700090_KANESENNAThe Twelveswood has suffered enough. Upon this, we and the sylphs─and I would venture Lord Ramuh himself─are in perfect accord. Let us not endanger our shared home by engaging in unnecessary hostilities.
9291TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700100_KANESENNADear friend, I beseech you: safeguard the peace which exists between our peoples.
9392TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700110_KANESENNAYou have my thanks.
9493TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700120_KANESENNAPray make for Little Solace, then. A member of the Order of the Twin Adder awaits you there. He will advise you on how to find the Lord of Levin.
9594TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700130_KANESENNAAn ill wind blows through the forest.
9695TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_700140_KANESENNAYet...it is not only the Twelveswood that flinches at its coming─all the lands of Eorzea shiver in dread anticipation. Have care.
9796TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800010_RAMUHThine aura betrays thee, servant of Hydaelyn.
9897TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800020_RAMUHThou art the Bringer of Light...bane of Ifrit, Titan, Garuda, and Leviathan.
9998TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800030_RAMUHI am Ramuh, guardian of the children of the forest.
10099TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800040_RAMUHThou tramplest upon sacred soil, Bringer of Light. By what right doth man intrude in this sanctuary of the sylphs?
101100TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800050_RAMUHThe Gridanians proffer peace? Their words are born of delusion─thine offer, an insult.
102101TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800060_RAMUHThou speakest of harmony, yet carest naught for my children's desires. They did but wish to dwell beneath these boughs in solitude─yet even that was too much to ask of man.
103102TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800070_RAMUHThus did they turn to me for succor. The sentence I pronounce upon thy kind is just.
104103TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800080_RAMUHGridanian or Garlean, it matters not. The good intent of one excuseth not the misdeeds of the other.
105104TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800090_RAMUHThy conflicts have brought naught but anguish and misery unto the forest. All blame doth lie with the darkness that resideth in the breast of man.
106105TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800100_RAMUHWhence sprung this calamitous seed? In the beginning, no such duality existed. Were light and dark given form when man was born?
107106TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800110_RAMUHIt would explain much. Not least why strife and sorrow follow ever in thy wake. Thou canst not deny the urgings of thine own nature.
108107TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800120_RAMUHKnowing that thy mere presence here portendeth tragedy, wilt thou persist in this pretense of peacemaking?
109108TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800130_RAMUHThou bearest the crystal which I bestowed upon my wayward charges. That they should entrust so precious a gift to thee...
110109TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800140_RAMUHThou standest apart from thy kin. Thou art the Bringer of Light, aye...but there is something more in thee...
111110TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800150_RAMUHVery well, I shall consider thy proposal...shouldst thou survive my trial.
112111TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800160_RAMUHIf thou wouldst champion the cause of harmony, I must have proof that thou art fit to play the role. Weather mine ire, and prove to me thereby that thou hast strength enough to stay the Darkness which threateneth to consume thee.
113112TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800170_RAMUHYet if thou shouldst be found wanting, know that *all* men shall perish in the storm of my judgment!
114113TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800180_RAMUHCome to me, Bringer of Light. I shall await thee on the field of battle!
115114TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800190_YSHTOLAUrianger. It is rare indeed to find you so far from a tome.
116115TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800200_URIANGERThe Lord of Levin himself... Never till this day had I looked upon his visage save in painted renderings, made faint by time... Ever shall this scene remain etched in my mind's eye... Ahem. Beg pardon, my lady.
117116TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_800210_URIANGERI must beg thine aid on a point of research. If thou art resolved to face Lord Ramuh, I would ask thy leave to observe the event...
118117TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900010_RAMUHI have taken thy measure, Bringer of Light.
119118TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900020_RAMUHAnd I judge thee a worthy champion. The task of excising the sin that hath taken root in man's heart is thine.
120119TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900030_RAMUHShrink not from employing thy strength in service to the forest, and the wider realm beyond. Like hungering shadows do the enemies of harmony gather, and meekness will but feed them.
121120TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900040_RAMUHIf man is to be delivered from the Dark, it shall be by thy guiding Light alone. Stray not from the path, for if thou dost, thy people shall be truly lost...
122121TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900050_URIANGERThou hast slain the Lord of Levin. A regrettable act...but a necessary one.
123122TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900060_URIANGERIn witnessing thy struggle, a truth hath been revealed unto me. If I mistake not, it may yet prove a chink in the eternal armor of the Ascians.
124123TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_900070_URIANGERBut let us conclude our present business. I shall expound upon my findings at the Rising Stones anon.
125124TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00010_KANESENNAYou are returned to us, dear friend, and none the worse for bearing the heavy burden which I did press upon you. Most glad am I of this.
126125TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00020_KANESENNAI am informed that your efforts to negotiate a peace with Lord Ramuh ended in conflict. Pray tell me, what befell?
127126TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00030_KANESENNARamuh made trial of you?
128127TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00040_KANESENNAI fear there is truth to his claim. It is the darkness within us that attracts the Darkness without.
129128TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00050_KANESENNAIt cannot be denied that misfortune follows man. For evidence, one need only look to the conflict brewing in Carteneau, or to the rising flood of refugees.
130129TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00060_KANESENNAOur shared struggle against the Empire should have served to seal our union, yet the ties which bind the Alliance strain under the weight of gross self-interest.
131130TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00070_KANESENNAAs the scars of the Calamity begin to fade, so too does our sense of common purpose.
132131TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00080_KANESENNAYet now is scarce the time to forget our shared responsibility. If this new-sprung realm is to survive beyond its infancy, it must needs be nurtured by all.
133132TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00090_KANESENNAEorzea *must* be as one. Yet I fear that dream is still far off.
134133TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00100_KANESENNAOn behalf of the people of Gridania, and the elementals both, I thank you for all that you and your fellow Scions have done.
135134TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00110_KANESENNAFull oft have I been compelled to look to you for aid of late...and offered all too little in return. As leader of this nation, I shall endeavor to prove a more worthy ally to your cause henceforth.
136135TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00120_KANESENNALord Ramuh has departed, yet the keening of this ill wind grows no less insistent...
137136TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_A00130_KANESENNAVoices of the forest─pray speak and I shall listen. What unseen evil begets this unease in my heart?
138137TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00010_MINFILIAIf everyone is ready, let us begin.
139138TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00020_MINFILIAUrianger, the floor is yours.
140139TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00030_URIANGERAs all here assembled now know, in its final hours as our order's headquarters, the Waking Sands did play host to a most unexpected visitor. I speak of the Ascian clad in white, Elidibus.
141140TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00040_URIANGERUnwelcome though his presence was, his words that day did serve to confirm a truth long suspected: that the Ascians are eternal beings, to whom physical destruction is as a temporary inconvenience.
142141TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00050_MINFILIAIn the intervening time, Urianger and I have striven to discover a means by which the Ascians might more permanently be slain.
143142TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00060_URIANGERAnd 'tis my belief that we have found the thread that will allow us to unravel the twisted skein of their existence.
144143TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00070_URIANGERIn the moments prior to Leviathan's most recent manifestation, the Sahagin elder who summoned him was observed to undergo some manner of ascension.
145144TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00080_URIANGERThe aetheric readings taken by Y'shtola at the time of this transfiguration have proven most enlightening.
146145TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00090_YSHTOLAThe disruption to the flow of aether was sudden and dramatic. So tangible was the agitation, I scarce had need of my goggles.
147146TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00100_URIANGERThe significance of Y'shtola's readings might better be understood in the context of mine own, taken at the instant of the Lord of Levin's demise. Unlike the primal, the Sahagin was not subject to aetheric dissipation.
148147TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00110_MINFILIABefore discussing our new discoveries, it may benefit us all to recall what we know of aetheric behavior.
149148TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00120_MINFILIALet us begin at what some might call the end. When we who dwell in the material realm die, our spirits dissolve into the flow of aether, and are returned to the aetherial realm.
150149TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00130_MINFILIAIn turn, the restless energy which suffuses that plane streams back into our world, giving rise to new life.
151150TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00140_URIANGER'Tis as the heavens did decree─the way of all mortal souls.
152151TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00150_URIANGER'Twixt this world and the next do the aetherial currents swirl, bearing the very essence of life. Thus doth the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth continue unabated.
153152TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00160_MINFILIAPrimals behave somewhat differently. In order to manifest and then maintain a physical presence in this realm, they must consume vast quantities of aether, most often in the form of crystals. Though they may seem to live, their flesh is but aether given shape.
154153TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00170_MINFILIAThus, a defeated primal leaves behind no broken corpse─rather, the essence of its form seeps back into the land whence it came, and the energy of its shattered spirit is called back to the aetherial realm.
155154TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00180_URIANGERAnd there it waiteth till next the prayers of the faithful do draw it forth from the sea of aether to take their offering of crystals and make for itself a new body...
156155TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00190_MINFILIAWhich brings us on to the third group. These so-called “immortals.” They exist in a manner all their own.
157156TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00200_YSHTOLAQuite. Even as the Sahagin elder fell to the Admiral's musket shot, I witnessed the release of an aetherial cloud which immediately took possession of a nearby minion.
158157TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00210_URIANGERA soul that dissipateth not upon the death of the flesh...
159158TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00220_THANCREDThe secret of life everlasting. And in the claws of a Sahagin, no less. But I wonder: what would happen to one of these obstinate spirits should there be no suitable host for it to claim?
160159TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00230_MINFILIAIf mortal death entails a return to the aetherial realm, it seems doubtful that the soul of an immortal would venture there.
161160TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00240_URIANGERNay, it merely withdraweth a distance. Unto the shore of the aetherial sea, perchance, but no further.
162161TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00250_MINFILIAYes, it exists in neither this realm nor the next, abiding instead in the space that lies between them.
163162TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00260_MINFILIAThe Ascians took control of Thancred by means of a Crystal of Darkness─an artifact which, if our theories are correct, serves as a gateway to the place I have just described.
164163TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00270_THANCREDI was hoping people had forgotten about that...
165164TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00280_MINFILIAI am sorry, my friend.
166165TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00290_URIANGERFor a mercy, the weary road of our research hath brought us unto an answer.
167166TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00300_YSHTOLAThe Sahagin ascended to an immortal state, but he did not possess a Crystal of Darkness through which to flee this realm. Thus was he consumed by Leviathan.
168167TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00310_YSHTOLAIf we could entrap the spirits of defeated Ascians in like manner, and thereby deny them resurrection...
169168TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00320_URIANGERTherein lieth the path to victory. Thou art most perceptive, my lady.
170169TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00330_URIANGEROnly when we have trapped the bodiless soul within an aetherial prison can we hope to defeat its unnatural constancy. Thus, might even an eternal Paragon be consigned to oblivion.
171170TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00340_MINFILIAThese feats are, of course, far easier said than done. At present, we lack a viable means to entrap and extinguish an Ascian soul.
172171TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00350_MINFILIAYet I believe it to be possible. The pieces of the puzzle lie before us─we have but to put them together.
173172TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00360_URIANGERI will depart at once to convene with the sages of Sharlayan. Together shall we divine the steps by which our goals may be achieved.
174173TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00370_MINFILIAI have the utmost faith in you, Archon.
175174TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00380_URIANGERBeg pardon, Antecedent, but I would raise one final matter... Even now, a Sharlayan survey party seeketh to ascertain the fate of the Students of Baldesion.
176175TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00390_URIANGERTheir findings shall soon be known to us. Though you harbor feelings of dread, I bid you surrender not to sorrow, but abide instead in hopeful prayer.
177176TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_B00400_MINFILIAI shall, Archon. Thank you.
178177TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00010_NANAMOULNAMOTell me, General: what think you of Alphinaud's bold endeavor?
179178TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00020_RAUBAHNI think it is more than bold, Your Grace. His organization would pave the way for a united Eorzea.
180179TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00030_RAUBAHNWell do I understand his impatience. Since facing the common threat of the Ultima Weapon, our nations have seemed farther apart, not closer together.
181180TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00040_RAUBAHNConsidering the many problems we face, should we not be glad that someone else is taking the initiative?
182181TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00050_NANAMOULNAMOWe have all pledged our cooperation, yet the grumbling continues behind closed doors. Ul'dah is not alone in her duplicity.
183182TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00060_NANAMOULNAMOI myself have doubts as to the good this organization will achieve.
184183TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00070_NANAMOULNAMOWith the inclusion of the finest soldiers of the three Grand Companies, it promises to be a fearsome military body. But whom will it serve? Even under the watchful gaze of the Scions, it is not unthinkable that such a force could perpetrate a great wrong.
185184TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00080_NANAMOULNAMODoes it not concern you that a significant proportion of its financial backing came from the coffers of the Syndicate? That those unprincipled worms might forge this extraordinary gathering of warriors into a private army?
186185TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00090_RAUBAHNI have trust in the Scions, Your Grace. They have spared us no end of trouble at the hands of the primals. If they seek reinforcements, I deem it unwise to deny them.
187186TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00100_RAUBAHNAs for their finances, full many gave generously. And though our nobles proffered a sizable sum, their coin did not spill from the pockets of Lolorito and his cronies.
188187TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00110_RAUBAHNAnd what of the presence of our stalwart adventurer friend in this endeavor? I doubt the Warrior of Light would betray our cause.
189188TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00120_NANAMOULNAMOYes, there is that, I suppose.
190189TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00130_NANAMOULNAMOYet I have known people to change. Whether we will or no, the events of the age hurl us this way and that, like a dust devil skipping across the sands...
191190TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00140_NANAMOULNAMOCan naught be done about Teledji?
192191TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00150_RAUBAHNI have explored all avenues available to us, Your Grace, but as Ul'dahn law now stands, we lack the evidence to convict him of any crime. To arrest him on spurious grounds would only play into his hands...
193192TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00160_NANAMOULNAMOHe has all but committed treason, and yet we can do nothing!?
194193TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00170_NANAMOULNAMOThen what good our government!? What worth the royal house!? How deplorable this mockery of justice!
195194TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00180_NANAMOULNAMOThis isn't the text you're looking for.
196195TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_C00190_RAUBAHNHave faith, Your Grace. It is not over...
197196TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00010_ALPHINAUDComrades! Your presence here this day signifies the momentous choice that each of you has made.
198197TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00020_ALPHINAUDWith your strength now pledged to the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, you are beholden to no single nation. You stand as the vanguard for a united Eorzea!
199198TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00030_ALPHINAUDFrom this moment forth, I declare you Crystal Braves! Let us mend this fractured realm, and face our enemies as one!
200199TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00040_ALPHINAUDWhether it be the beastmen and their primals, or the conflict in Carteneau, it is plain that the nations of Eorzea cannot solve the problems which plague the realm. Thus does it fall to some few heroic souls to succeed where they have failed!
201200TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00050_ALPHINAUDCome! Take your place at the Scions' side as guardians of Eorzea! And together we shall fight for the freedom of all!
202201TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00060_ALL(-Crystal Braves-)For the freedom of all!
203202TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00070_MINFILIAA rousing speech, Alphinaud. Or should I say, Crystal Brave Commander Leveilleur?
204203TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00080_ALPHINAUDPlease, Antecedent...the title is honorary. I shall not be “leading the troops into battle,” as it were.
205204TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00090_ALPHINAUDWe are of the same purpose. Let us join hands, and do what must be done to save this land.
206205TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_D00100_MINFILIAThe Scions stand ready!
207206TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00010_MINFILIAI'm eager to see what the Crystal Braves might accomplish. This shall prove an interesting time indeed for the Scions.
208207TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00020_MINFILIAYes, I'm listening.
209208TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00030_MINFILIASo, our worst fears are confirmed. The entire isle... Such power defies comprehension...
210209TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00040_MINFILIATruly!? Krile is alive!? Thank the Twelve...
211210TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00050_MINFILIA...I see. Pray inform me if her condition changes. Yes. I shall pass on your words to Urianger.
212211TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00060_MINFILIAMy thanks. I shall contact you anon.
213212TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00070_MINFILIAWhen I learned of the loss of the Isle of Val, I dared not hope that my friend had survived. Yet by some miracle, it would seem she has. She's still to regain consciousness, it is true, but better that than death.
214213TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00080_MINFILIAPutting this happy news to one side, we must now endeavor to make sense of the readings taken by the survey party.
215214TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00090_MINFILIAIt appears the aetheric disturbance which accompanied the isle's destruction is of a magnitude alarmingly close to that of Ultima. Could the Ascians be responsible for this devastation as well?
216215TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00100_MINFILIAI wonder... Have you heard aught from the Mothercrystal since the battle with the Garleans?
217216TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00110_MINFILIAThen She speaks to neither one of us. Hydaelyn's silence portends naught but ill, I fear.
218217TEXT_VOICEMAN_02300_E00120_MINFILIALouisoix... I pray you yet watch over us...