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10TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_SEQ_00Erichthonios seems eager to dispel Lahabrea's doubts.
21TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_SEQ_01Lahabrea is impressed with your victory over Hegemone, and gives you leave to proceed deeper into Pandæmonium. However, he insists that Erichthonios stay behind, fearing him to be a liability during such a dangerous endeavor. The warder lashes out at his father, but is abruptly overcome by dark forces and spirited away to depths unknown. Time will be of the essence in determining your next course of action.
32TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_SEQ_02With Erichthonios now at the mercy of Hephaistos's experiments, the only option is to press forward as quickly as possible to Tartaros, the deepest part of Pandæmonium. Agdistis, the final keyward, stands in your way, and although she is hidden away in the facility's liminal spaces, your aether allows you to be conveyed directly to her lair. Make ready to test your mettle against Pandæmonium's most gifted keyward. ※Abyssos: The Seventh Circle can be accessed via the Duty Finder.
43TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_SEQ_03Hephaistos's attempts to create an immortal hemitheos have left little of Agdistis's once-brilliant mind behind, which is perhaps your saving grace in overcoming her primal fury. Having emerged victorious, you stand alone in the howling void.
54TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_SEQ_04Ere you can begin to panic about your means of return to the gates, Themis and Lahabrea appear, seemingly ushered to your location as if by an outside force. As you ponder this mystery, the essence of Agdistis materializes before you, and you recognize her voice as the one vaguely heard throughout your investigation. With the last of her waning strength, she reveals a truth that Lahabrea long concealed for his son's peace of mind─namely, that Athena intended to use Erichthonios as a test subject for her experiments. Pieces of the puzzle are beginning to fall into place, with the promise of more to be found as you make ready to confront Hephaistos at last.
65TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_SEQ_05While Lahabrea grumbles about Agdistis's gall in putting his past on display, he also surmises that she was glad to face such a strong foe at the last─as close to an admission of sorrow as you are likely to hear from him. With the path into Tartaros clear, there is nowhere left to go but down...
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2524TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_TODO_00Speak with Lahabrea.
2625TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_TODO_01Enter Abyssos: The Seventh Circle.
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4948TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_000I could sense from here that Hegemone had been contained. The effect of Hephaistos's tinkering is even more dire than I had imagined...
5049TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_005As is to be expected, Erichthonios appears quite pleased with our victory.
5150TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_100...Our plan was a success, although I hardly need to tell you that. Hegemone has been sealed away, and now you have no choice but to admit the merit in our methods.
5251TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_101You have the right of it. I am not so petty as to deny the achievements of those I've squabbled with, no matter how strongly we disagree.
5352TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_102Moreover, this being─aether as thin as retreating mist, unable to wield creation magicks, yet powerful enough to subdue a hemitheos─has made this ordeal far more interesting.
5453TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_103Then we have leave to continue?
5554TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_104As for that...there is one among you whose very presence puts the others at risk. 'Twould be best to proceed without him, for failure would have consequences that reach far beyond Pandæmonium.
5655TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_105...And of whom do you speak?
5756TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_106A warder who cannot even conduct his duty without aid. In this place, hope alone is not enough to overcome what awaits you. A single misstep will send all to their doom.
5857TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_107So long as we each do our part and look to the allies by our side, even a neophyte can upraise his companions. That's something that Player and Themis taught me.
5958TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_108While I do not wish to express any bias, I am inclined to agree. If my investigation has made anything clear, it is that we are together greater than the sum of our parts.
6059TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_109And hope has brought us this far! It drives us to seek the *right* path─and to act before that path lies closed to us.
6160TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_110Then tell me─what is it you hope for?
6261TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_111To see Hephaistos in chains. That's the surest way to prevent further sacrifices.
6362TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_112I'm aware that destroying Pandæmonium would rid us of him, but the cost is far too great.
6463TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_113And I admit...I wish to know how he means to resurrect Athena.
6564TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_114...And there we have it.
6665TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_115You must leave this place at once. And do not think to set foot in Pandæmonium again.
6766TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_116You are capable, that much is plain. Yet Hephaistos cannot be suffered to live. And I shall not allow his talk of resurrection to poison mine or anyone else's mind.
6867TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_117Life flows in a cycle. This is known.
6968TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_118All souls return to the Underworld, and Athena's is no exception. She has likely found a new vessel─and a new journey to embark upon.
7069TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_119You cannot be ignorant to the folly of Hephaistos's words. Even were he to breathe life into a body, the soul contained within would not be your mother's.
7170TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_120What if our knowledge is imperfect? What if Hephaistos has discovered something that no one else has?
7271TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_121He knows all that you do. Understands the bitter reality of the world. He wouldn't pursue the impossible!
7372TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_122Think, Erichthonios. I have already explained that he is merely my twisted reflection. Is it worth bringing back your mother if it means others are used and discarded like tools?
7473TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_123Is it worth it? To see her once more...
7574TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_124*Now* you measure the worth of your colleagues' lives? What was that foolish braying about saving them? Merely a performance to hide your childish devotion to your mother?
7675TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_125Please, such barbs will get us nowhere. We should first discuss─
7776TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_126You would call *me* “fool”? You, who murdered your wife in service of your ambition!? “For the sake of the star,” no doubt...
7877TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_127Ungh... I can hear it again. That voice...inside my head...
7978TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_128I know who to follow... Hephaistos... Father!
8079TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_129Mother... Oh, I love you so! And this voice...will guide me to you!
8180TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_130(-Distant Voice-)No, listen not! Listen not, Erichthonios!
8281TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_ERICHTHONIOS_000_131Apologies. You taught me that a calm heart stays the course...but I could never even grasp the rudder.
8382TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_150This was Hephaistos's work, there can be no doubt. It seems he learned from his previous failure.
8483TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_170Hephaistos is cunning despite his warped mind. Whatever took hold of Erichthonios, it made short work of his reason.
8584TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_171From the moment he laid eyes upon me, I could sense his hatred and rage simmering below the surface. 'Twas but a matter of time until it spilled forth─and that was when he fell into the spell's embrace.
8685TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_172A magic woven with such skill that Erichthonios himself failed to notice until it was too late.
8786TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_173If this is the measure of Hephaistos's power, then the other keywards had little chance to resist it.
8887TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_100_173We saw his work during our encounter with Hesperos. Doubtless Hephaistos's magicks fed his admiration and envy until there was room for naught else in his heart.
8988TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_174And there was something else besides... Did you not feel the presence of another?
9089TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_175As I thought. Someone was trying to warn Erichthonios, but whom? Could it have been one of the keywards?
9190TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_176Alas, their warning arrived too late. I had already provoked Erichthonios past the point of no return.
9291TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_177I bear the burden for this failure. In my stubbornness I could but scorn the boy, and Hephaistos knew that.
9392TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_178And now I dread to think of the ordeal that awaits him due to my rashness...
9493TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_179...There is time yet to save him. We can easily regain control of Abyssos, giving us a firm foothold from which to brave Pandæmonium's lowest level. The enemy is within reach.
9594TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_180Just as with Hesperos, Erichthonios is in danger of being consumed by Hephaistos's spell. However, I have faith that he will not easily lose sight of himself!
9695TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_181The way forward is clear. Lahabrea, pray tell us all you know of what we shall find beyond Abyssos. I can only assume one more keyward lies in wait.
9796TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_182The deepest level of Pandæmonium is called Tartaros, and your passage shall be challenged not only by a keyward...
9897TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_183Hephaistos has laid traps in every corner of its halls. You have no hope of surviving far past the threshold.
9998TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_184...That, I expect, is where Player shall shine.
10099TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_185Her dissolute aether shall allow her to slip through the traps unimpeded. We saw it when Hephaistos's had no effect, and doubtless even he has yet to devise a countermeasure.
101100TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_186Then time is of the essence. Hephaistos is already well aware that you can match a keyward in battle─he will not stand idle while you stroll past his other defenses at your leisure.
102101TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_187Agreed. However, clarity will be indispensable to our success, and I'm afraid I must insist upon it ere we depart.
103102TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_188We have yet to discern to what end Hephaistos would use Erichthonios. If you know, I would ask that you enlighten us.
104103TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_189And then there is the matter of Athena. Why do you so fiercely rebuke Erichthonios's feelings for his mother?
105104TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_190While I understand the very thought of resurrecting the dead is anathema, you act as if grief over her passing should be equally so. How are we to grapple with what plagues our friend and drives our foe if you refuse to acknowledge it?
106105TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_191I do acknowledge it. I wish only to spare those that feel it still greater pain.
107106TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_Q1_000_100What will you say?
108107TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_A1_000_100Did you mean to protect Erichthonios with your silence?
109108TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_A2_000_100So instead of being honest, you bicker like a child?
110109TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_A3_000_100And so you drove your own son over the edge.
111110TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_195How dare you...
112111TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_196...No, no. You are right. The blame for Erichthonios's fate rests squarely on my shoulders.
113112TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_197Very well. I shall lay bare the truth, but only after the foe before us has been laid low.
114113TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_198The remaining keyward is Agdistis. She has served in Pandæmonium since its inception, and her affinity for magic is peerless even among the keywards.
115114TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_199Hephaistos knows that losing her would mean the end of his experiments. He has hidden her in a space unreachable by conventional means.
116115TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_200But your presence makes mockery of such barriers. The scarcity of your aether means it will be trivial to send you directly to Agdistis.
117116TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_201We shall approach as closely as caution will allow. We know where the battle will commence, so I do not anticipate difficulty in detecting your presence.
118117TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_202From afar, I shall do my best to provide you with ground on which to fight and phantom allies to aid you. As for the interment, I have yet to think of a foolproof method...
119118TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_203Interment shall not be necessary.
120119TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_204From here I can sense Agdistis's essence...but it is scarcely recognizable. Hephaistos was more ambitious with her than he was with Hegemone. She has been transfigured such that barely a scantling of her self remains.
121120TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_205We can but take comfort in what a mercy the Underworld will be to her.
122121TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_220I shall establish control of Abyssos while keeping an eye on your battle. When the dust has settled, Hephaistos will have nowhere left to flee.
123122TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_225I sense that Hephaistos has come close to perfecting his image of a hemitheos. Which means his research is in its final stage...
124123TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_500The moment Agdistis was slain, the flow of aether in Pandæmonium focused keenly on this location, creating a tunnel of sorts through which we could quickly convey ourselves. 'Twas almost as if we were ushered here...
125124TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_501This space was created with care, and concealed with powerful wards. Only a keyward would have been able to detect it, and even then with great difficulty. Ergo...
126125TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_502If only I could restore Tartaros to order...but I am afraid this is the most I can manage with such power as remains to me.
127126TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_503It has been too long, Master Lahabrea.
128127TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_504Likewise, Keyward Agdistis. I should not be surprised you were able to break free of Hephaistos's spells, even diminished as you were.
129128TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_505'Twas not an easy task, even with your aid. His curses dig into one's heart, creating a storm of emotions that is all too easy to become lost in. Only by chance did a fragment of my self remain, illuminating a path through the madness.
130129TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_506And thus am I able to appear before you now. Even while my body was powerless to resist Hephaistos's commands, some small part of my logical mind stood alone in defiance. It even managed to speak to the outside world.
131130TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_507...The report. That was you!
132131TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_508Doubtless you recognize my voice from the many times I have called out to you. The hope that those pleas would not fall on deaf ears was all that kept me from succumbing to hopelessness.
133132TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_509But I have a greater purpose here than simply saying my farewells. There is something you must know, that the tragedies of the past do not repeat in the present.
134133TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_510Forgive me for what I am about to do, Master Lahabrea, but the story must be told. 'Tis the only way to understand Hephaistos's fixation on Erichthonios.
135134TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_511No longer can you hide your heart away...
136135TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_512Hephaistos? No, the mask marks him as Lahabrea...
137136TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_513Master Lahabrea had brought an end to Lady Athena's life, and sealed away a part of his memories and emotions within Hephaistos. These are my recollections of the moments following.
138137TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_514...And you truly have no intention of revealing the truth to Erichthonios?
139138TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_515My lesser half is now buried where none can find it. We would be wise to do the same with our memory of this day.
140139TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_516Blood should not sway the spirit so, but Athena's teachings have warped the boy. I fear he would see our star burn to keep his mother safe.
141140TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_517Erichthonios believes that he feels love, but he is shackled by dependence. He could not bear the truth.
142141TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_518His dependence makes it all the more important to be open with him. He will seek answers about his mother's loss, which shall inevitably lead him to you. Are you willing to accept the blame for Athena's death? Are you willing to accept your son's hatred?
143142TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_519If that is what comes to pass, then so be it. Better to be burdened with hatred than the knowledge that Athena thought his body and soul mere tools. To be used and discarded...
144143TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_520Even were I to tell him what his mother plotted, he would ever seek reasons to believe that the true fault lies with me─or with him. Should he merely hate me, he will remain unfettered by doubt─free to serve the star far from his parents' shadow.
145144TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_521Erichthonios loved his mother more than life itself, and yet... What a dreadful truth you've borne all this time.
146145TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_523Such is Lahabrea's nature. Every action, every word a solution to life's great dilemmas─and none to spare for his own.
147146TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_524What I have revealed to you is but a small portion of a larger picture. I shall leave it to Lahabrea to paint the rest for you─and for Erichthonios, I hope.
148147TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_525Thank you, Agdistis.
149148TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_DEIANEIRA_000_526I always admired you, you know. What choice did I have, when you sacrificed so much to guide our star to the heavens?
150149TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_527Hephaistos has doubtless sensed that his final keyward has fallen. We should return to the surface before he moves to strike us here.
151150TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_528If we are to face him, we must be prepared to bring our full strength to bear.
152151TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_540It was Erichthonios's hatred of his father that caused him to fall victim to Hephaistos's magicks. Yet the roots of that hatred were born from a son's love...
153152TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_THEMIS_000_541...A love nurtured not by a mother caring for her offspring, but by a researcher creating the ideal test subject. Pandæmonium abounds with demons indeed...
154153TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_550Agdistis was ever a bold woman, even in her final moments. That she would unearth the secrets of my past for all to look upon...
155154TEXT_AKTKRA204_04638_LAHABREA_000_551...Still, full glad am I that she faced you as her last opponent. I could think of none more worthy to send her soul off to the other side.