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| 4 | 0 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000010_MAXIMA | They're here, Commander. |
| 5 | 1 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000020_RAUBAHN | And I for one am grateful that they are. I'm told you've been busy since our paths last crossed at the Ghimlyt Dark. |
| 6 | 2 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000030_RAUBAHN | Not that I understand half of it. When the Scions spoke of other worlds, I'd struggle to describe what I pictured. |
| 7 | 3 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000040_RAUBAHN | Mayhap things would seem clearer were I to hear the tale from your own lips, but I'm afraid the situation will not afford us that luxury. |
| 8 | 4 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000050_RAUBAHN | I trust you two require no introduction. |
| 9 | 5 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000060_SHADOWHUNTER | We meet again, hero of Eorzea. |
| 10 | 6 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000070_SHADOWHUNTER | Must we repeat this ridiculous display? I pose no threat to you─though what I come to warn you of very well might. |
| 11 | 7 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000080_RAUBAHN | Had he meant to do us harm, I hazard he would have kept to the shadows─and brought more than two companions. |
| 12 | 8 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000090_RAUBAHN | We need not pretend to be the best of friends, but I hope we can put aside our differences for the present. |
| 13 | 9 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000100_SHADOWHUNTER | As you are doubtless aware, Ser Estinien and I cooperated to rid the world of Black Rose in your absence. |
| 14 | 10 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000110_SHADOWHUNTER | Our journey together took us as far as the imperial palace, where we witnessed Emperor Varis meet his death at Zenos's hand. |
| 15 | 11 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000120_SHADOWHUNTER | Being the sole witnesses to this crime, and in no position to defend our innocence, we were then forced to flee, each pursuing his own avenue of escape. |
| 16 | 12 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000130_SHADOWHUNTER | When we were later reunited, Estinien claimed to have encountered an unfamiliar kind of machina during his flight. But to me, his description seemed anything but. And upon further investigation, I found that I was right. |
| 17 | 13 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000140_SHADOWHUNTER | The Empire is developing a new Ultima Weapon. |
| 18 | 14 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000150_KRILE | What? That Allagan monstrosity? Created to vanquish primals? ...With which you yourself once thought to conquer Eorzea? |
| 19 | 15 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000160_SHADOWHUNTER | The same. In my foolishness, I sought to harness its power─and became the Ascians' pawn in so doing. |
| 20 | 16 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000161_SHADOWHUNTER | But you know as well as I how that tale ended. |
| 21 | 17 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000170_SHADOWHUNTER | The Weapon itself, excavated from beneath this very city, was destroyed ere we could fully unravel its secrets. And that should have been the end of it. |
| 22 | 18 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000180_SHADOWHUNTER | But, unlikely as it sounds, the Empire's efforts to recreate it have somehow borne fruit─primarily through secret research conducted by the VIIth Imperial Legion, it would seem. |
| 23 | 19 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000190_KRILE | Wait. The VIIth was all but annihilated at Carteneau─along with its legatus. |
| 24 | 20 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000200_SHADOWHUNTER | Indeed, few survived. The VIIth as it is now has little in common with the legion led by van Darnus, and its leadership has changed hands several times since. |
| 25 | 21 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000210_SHADOWHUNTER | Precisely how this project has continued despite such turmoil, and under whose auspices, remains a mystery. |
| 26 | 22 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000220_SHADOWHUNTER | What we do know, however, is that a number of prototypes have been produced...and that one of them is on its way to Eorzea. |
| 27 | 23 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000230_SHADOWHUNTER | We attempted to stop it, but it was all we could do to slow its progress. So we resolved instead to bring you warning. |
| 28 | 24 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000240_MAXIMA | And right glad are we that you did─though it soundly dashed our hopes that tensions might ease at last... |
| 29 | 25 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000250_RAUBAHN | As it is, we've begun to strengthen our presence in the Ghimlyt Dark, and are assembling a force to meet the coming threat. A force with you in its vanguard, I hope. |
| 30 | 26 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000260_RAUBAHN | Before you say anything, I know full well you have pressing concerns of your own. Your comrades remain in peril, and I would not ask you to forsake them. |
| 31 | 27 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000270_RAUBAHN | But the fact remains that you and you alone have faced the Ultima Weapon and emerged victorious. We need you. |
| 32 | 28 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000280_RAUBAHN | And so, when the time comes─<Emphasis>if</Emphasis> your comrades can spare you─I bid you lend us your strength. I've assigned an officer to await your word. |
| 33 | 29 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000290_SHADOWHUNTER | The Ascians' downfall was to be the work of my remaining days...but it was my hand that kindled these flames, and I cannot allow them to spread any further. |
| 34 | 30 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000300_SHADOWHUNTER | I will do what I must to see this mistake consigned to history once and for all...even if it means begging your aid. The fates will enjoy the irony, even as I endure the ignominy. |
| 35 | 31 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000310_MAXIMA | I too shall make for the border and offer my skills, meager though they seem in such company. Mayhap we shall meet there anon. |
| 36 | 32 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000320_KRILE | Though we can ill afford to ignore the coming of a new Ultima Weapon, our friends' plight grows ever more precarious, and none save you can join them in the First. |
| 37 | 33 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000330_KRILE | I only hope you are not forced to make a choice... |
| 38 | 34 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000340_MYSTERYVOICE | Now that we're all here─what news from the Source? |
| 39 | 35 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000350_MYSTERYVOICE | Now that we're all here─what news from the Source? |
| 40 | 36 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000360_ALPHINAUD | A new <Emphasis>Ultima Weapon</Emphasis>...? We must count ourselves lucky that Gaius has pledged his assistance. |
| 41 | 37 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000370_YSHTOLA | While this is indeed a worrying development, I think the state of the Empire as a whole greater grounds for concern. |
| 42 | 38 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000380_YSHTOLA | With the Emperor slain and Zenos returned, it is impossible to predict how matters will unfold in Garlemald. The Ultima Weapon may be but the first of many unpleasant surprises. |
| 43 | 39 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000390_URIANGER | The situation beareth closer observation, of that there is no doubt─and doth compound our need to return unto the Source. |
| 44 | 40 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000400_MYSTERYVOICE | Then let us address that issue. Our long search for a means to see you safely home may well be nearing its conclusion. |
| 45 | 41 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000410_MYSTERYVOICE | Thanks in large part to Urianger and Beq Lugg's invaluable insight, we have succeeded in fashioning a vessel for the journey. |
| 46 | 42 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000420_BEQLUGG | We set out to create a crystalline container retaining the more useful properties of white auracite, but without its regrettable limitations. And after a good deal of trial and error, we made one. |
| 47 | 43 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000430_BEQLUGG | An ark for soul and mind both, that will allow your incorporeal self in its entirety to be ferried between worlds... A “spirit vessel,” if you will. |
| 48 | 44 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000440_BEQLUGG | However... |
| 49 | 45 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000450_ALPHINAUD | However? |
| 50 | 46 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000460_URIANGER | Though the vessel is possessed of the requisite qualities to hold mind and memory, it wanteth yet for a means to <Emphasis>receive</Emphasis> of them. For that, we must needs imbue it with the Exarch's innate gift. |
| 51 | 47 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000470_YSHTOLA | A gift that lives on only through the blood of the Allagan emperors...which certainly does not flow within auracite, or any other crystal. |
| 52 | 48 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000480_URIANGER | Just so, milady. The blood serveth as a conduit of sorts─in its absence, memory cannot pass from mind unto mind, nor from flesh unto crystal. |
| 53 | 49 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000490_MYSTERYVOICE | That being the case, we must either alter the process of inheritance so as to require no such thing, or determine a means by which my blood may permeate the vessel. |
| 54 | 50 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000500_MYSTERYVOICE | I am hopeful that the records found within this tower will yield the knowledge we require to pursue one or the other of these avenues. |
| 55 | 51 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000510_BEQLUGG | As well you should be! The Allagans' body of aetherological research is extraordinary. I can scarce believe it the work of ages past. |
| 56 | 52 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000520_BEQLUGG | But its underlying principles are not so very different from those of my own field of study. Given time, we will find the answers we seek. |
| 57 | 53 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000530_MYSTERYVOICE | I know that you can ill afford to wait, and it pains me that I must ask you to do so. I can only reaffirm my promise to you that a solution will be found. |
| 58 | 54 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000540_MYSTERYVOICE | Whatever it takes, I <Emphasis>will</Emphasis> see you safely home. |
| 59 | 55 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000550_LYNA | My apologies. |
| 60 | 56 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000560_MYSTERYVOICE | I do hope you haven't come to tell us that mortal peril fast approaches. |
| 61 | 57 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000570_LYNA | No. I had hoped to speak with the Warrior of Darkness. |
| 62 | 58 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000580_LYNA | But there is no need to cut short your meeting on my account. I will be waiting outside. |
| 63 | 59 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000590_MYSTERYVOICE | Why not speak in here─she knows I don't mind. Unless she didn't want to... |
| 64 | 60 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000600_ALPHINAUD | Perhaps I might accompany you? Though I am woefully ill-qualified to assist in the Exarch's research, I may yet be of some use to Lyna. |
| 65 | 61 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000610_LYNA | Did you slay this eater? Your orders were to await the main force before engaging. |
| 66 | 62 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000620_RESOLUTESOLDIER | No, Captain! It wasn't us, I swear it! A man came out of nowhere and cut it down before we knew what was happening. |
| 67 | 63 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000630_LYNA | By himself? Certainly it is no Lightwarden, but nevertheless... |
| 68 | 64 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000640_BRAVESOLDIER | (-Gallant Guardsman-)It's true! Felled it with a single swing of his axe, he did! Never seen anything like it! |
| 69 | 65 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000650_BRAVESOLDIER | (-Gallant Guardsman-)So I says to him, “Who are you, the Warrior of bleedin' Darkness!?” |
| 70 | 66 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000660_BRAVESOLDIER | (-Gallant Guardsman-)And he says, “No, I'm a Warrior of Light.” And that was it. Buggered off as quick as he came. |
| 71 | 67 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000670_ALPHINAUD | A Warrior of <Emphasis>Light</Emphasis>? |
| 72 | 68 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000680_SOLDIER03608 | Why would someone go around calling himself that, though? It was those bastards who caused the Flood. |
| 73 | 69 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000690_SOLDIER03608 | I mean, if you were going to pretend to be anyone, it'd be <Emphasis><If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>him</If></Emphasis>─the Warrior of Darkness! |
| 74 | 70 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000700_BRAVESOLDIER | (-Gallant Guardsman-)Eh? Oh! I─ I didn't know! It's an honor! |
| 75 | 71 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000710_LYNA | Since the eater is no longer a threat, our work here is done. Return to your posts. |
| 76 | 72 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000720_SOLDIER03608 | I had hoped to fight at your side today... But I'll continue to follow your example─and may we meet again! |
| 77 | 73 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000730_LYNA | I apologize for the wasted journey. It seems I overestimated the threat. |
| 78 | 74 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000740_LYNA | As for this “Warrior of Light”... I do not know who would be brazen enough to take that mantle for his own. Whatever it may once have meant, it is forever tainted by the association with the Flood. |
| 79 | 75 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000750_LYNA | The Exarch told me the truth of Ardbert and his comrades' deeds, and I am aware they played some part in your own triumph. But to most, they are synonymous with the calamity that befell this world. |
| 80 | 76 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000760_LYNA | Still, if this man is minded to destroy sin eaters, I may forgive him his unfortunate choice of alias. |
| 81 | 77 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000770_LYNA | But that is neither here nor there. I thank you for accompanying me. |
| 82 | 78 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000780_ALPHINAUD | With that concluded, shall we return to the Crystarium? There is a proposal I should like to make... |
| 83 | 79 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000790_LYNA | Forgive me. There is one more thing. |
| 84 | 80 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000800_LYNA | A personal concern of mine. I had hoped you might have a moment to speak privately. |
| 85 | 81 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000810_ALPHINAUD | Take your time. I shall go on ahead. |
| 86 | 82 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000820_LYNA | I will not mince words. This matter concerns the Exarch. |
| 87 | 83 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000830_LYNA | Though his countenance belies his age, his demeanor never has. He has seen more than any man should, and grown ever more weary with time... |
| 88 | 84 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000840_LYNA | But I see I give the wrong impression. While it is true he attempted to open a letter with his salmon fillet the other evening, we are not here because I suspect his mind is deteriorating. |
| 89 | 85 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000850_LYNA | Nor do I believe him to be so maddeningly unconcerned by the prospect of his own death as he once was. Indeed, the opposite is true. |
| 90 | 86 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000860_LYNA | It is for this reason that I seek your advice. |
| 91 | 87 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000870_LYNA | Since he returned from the Tempest, the Exarch is...not as he was. |
| 92 | 88 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000880_LYNA | He seems a different man. A <Emphasis>younger</Emphasis> man. |
| 93 | 89 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000890_LYNA | I know not the details of his research, but when I saw him at work recently, there was a glint in his eye that I had never seen before. He looked <Emphasis>happy</Emphasis>. |
| 94 | 90 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000900_LYNA | It was as if he had peered into the future, and for the first time, found joy there. |
| 95 | 91 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000910_LYNA | Though it gladdens me to see him thus, I wonder if I should not keep my distance. I fear that my presence will only anchor him to the past. Remind him of all the pain that came before. |
| 96 | 92 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_Q1_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 97 | 93 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A1_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Anchors keep us where we have chosen to be. |
| 98 | 94 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A1_000_002_NONE_VOICE | He's lost without you, you know. And he misses you already. |
| 99 | 95 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000920_LYNA | ...Is that so? |
| 100 | 96 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000930_LYNA | He─ Are you sure? |
| 101 | 97 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000940_LYNA | Then perhaps we might remain as we were. As we have always been. |
| 102 | 98 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000950_LYNA | What a relief. |
| 103 | 99 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000960_LYNA | In that case, I will have to speak with him about the amount of time he is spending at work. |
| 104 | 100 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000970_LYNA | This research is important, I know, but if he refuses to consider his own health, I will have to consider it for him. |
| 105 | 101 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000980_ALPHINAUD | Yes, this looks to be nearly everyone. Let us begin, shall we? |
| 106 | 102 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_000990_ALPHINAUD | Though I am usually the first to hold forth at such events, I think, on this occasion, that honor should fall to you. |
| 107 | 103 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001000_YSHTOLA | They <Emphasis>would</Emphasis> be more inclined to take the word of the Warrior of Darkness. |
| 108 | 104 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001010_URIANGER | Indeed. In light of the subject matter, who better than thee to speak these truths? |
| 109 | 105 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001020_SOLDIER03608 | Wicked white... The Warriors of Light did all that? |
| 110 | 106 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001030_BRAVESOLDIER | (-Gallant Guardsman-)So they never─ I mean, they only ever wanted to help? And when everything they'd done turned to ash, they <Emphasis>still</Emphasis> carried on... |
| 111 | 107 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001040_SOLDIER03608 | They gave everything to stop the Flood... First their lives, then their souls... |
| 112 | 108 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001050_SOLDIER03608 | And they managed it, too─in the end. They <Emphasis>saved</Emphasis> us. And we cursed their names. |
| 113 | 109 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001060_ALPHINAUD | This should go a long way towards clearing the air. |
| 114 | 110 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001070_ALPHINAUD | Impossible...! |
| 115 | 111 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_Q2_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 116 | 112 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A2_000_001_NONE_VOICE | You can see him too? |
| 117 | 113 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A2_000_002_NONE_VOICE | I take it I'm not imagining this, then. |
| 118 | 114 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001080_ALPHINAUD | I definitely see <Emphasis>something</Emphasis>. You don't think it's a ghost, do you? |
| 119 | 115 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001090_URIANGER | Nay. Yonder standeth no bloodless apparition, but a Warrior of Light and Darkness both. Ardbert. |
| 120 | 116 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001100_YSHTOLA | What in the world...? |
| 121 | 117 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001110_BRAVESOLDIER | (-Gallant Guardsman-)It's you! The one who slew the eater... |
| 122 | 118 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001120_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)That it should be the Warrior of Darkness who brought the truth to light... You've saved me a fair bit of time─though I have a few words of my own to say, if I may. |
| 123 | 119 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001130_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)People of the Crystarium! I am Ardbert, one of those you know as a Warrior of Light. |
| 124 | 120 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001140_SOLDIER03608 | That's impossible! You should be dead... |
| 125 | 121 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001150_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)Aye, that I should. But as the world has been given new life, so too have I. |
| 126 | 122 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001160_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)I know not why I, and I alone, have been gifted this chance. But I do know this: only by the will of the star itself could such a miracle come to pass. |
| 127 | 123 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001170_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)The hero who stands before you now─the Warrior of Darkness─is not of this world. And the day will come when <If(PlayerParameter(4))>she<Else/>he</If> must return to <If(PlayerParameter(4))>her<Else/>his</If> home. |
| 128 | 124 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001180_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)But this land is <Emphasis>our</Emphasis> home. And if it is to remain so, now and forevermore, it is <Emphasis>we</Emphasis> who must protect it. |
| 129 | 125 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001190_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)The time to rely on saviors from afar has passed. It is <Emphasis>you</Emphasis> who must rise. <Emphasis>You</Emphasis> who must become the new Warriors of Light! |
| 130 | 126 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001200_BRAVESOLDIER | (-Gallant Guardsman-)Wha─ Us? Warriors of Light? |
| 131 | 127 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001210_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)None of us were born heroes, my friend. I was only ever a man with a thirst for adventure. |
| 132 | 128 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001220_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)But wherever my journeys took me, I was invariably confronted with the same choice: to lend what aid I could to those in need─or not. And I always chose the former. |
| 133 | 129 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001230_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)Any one of you could do the same. All you need is the will to help your fellow man, and the resolve to see it through. |
| 134 | 130 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001240_URIANGER | From thine own lips did we learn of Ardbert's fate, and by thy countenance, I gather thou art not inclined to recant thy testimony. |
| 135 | 131 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001250_URIANGER | Yet whosoever this man may be, his words hold truth─and resonate with the citizenry besides. For us to voice our doubts here and now would serve but to sow disquiet. 'Twere better we retired unto the Ocular, and there discussed this matter in private. |
| 136 | 132 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001260_ALPHINAUD | Go. I will stay here and watch. |
| 137 | 133 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001270_MYSTERYVOICE | So that is a Warrior of Light of the First. |
| 138 | 134 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001271_MYSTERYVOICE | I have not had the pleasure of making his acquaintance, but as you all seem to be in agreement, I gather this is no simple case of mistaken identity. |
| 139 | 135 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001280_BEQLUGG | As far as I was able to discern, that was indeed Ardbert. It has been a long time, but not that long. Could he truly have been resurrected as he claims? |
| 140 | 136 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_Q3_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 141 | 137 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A3_000_001_NONE_VOICE | ...<Emphasis>No</Emphasis>. Absolutely not. |
| 142 | 138 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A3_000_002_NONE_VOICE | It looks like him and sounds like him. But it <Emphasis>isn't</Emphasis> him. |
| 143 | 139 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001290_URIANGER | Ardbert did entrust his very soul unto thee. I see no reason to question thy judgment. |
| 144 | 140 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001300_YSHTOLA | Nor I. To my eyes, your aether burns as brightly as the day you slew Emet-Selch. That is proof that he is with you still. |
| 145 | 141 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001310_URIANGER | Yet that which standeth now before the people is far more than a passing imitation. I am reminded of the Cardinal Virtues...though a sin eater he is not. |
| 146 | 142 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001320_URIANGER | Which leaveth but one plausible explanation. |
| 147 | 143 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001330_YSHTOLA | That he is an Ascian. |
| 148 | 144 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001340_MYSTERYVOICE | Given their fondness for posthumous possession, I would have to agree. |
| 149 | 145 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001350_MYSTERYVOICE | From what I understand, the Warriors of Light were laid to rest in Eulmore by those whom they had aided in life. At the time, some few still remembered them as heroes. |
| 150 | 146 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001360_MYSTERYVOICE | Needless to say, four of them were subsequently exhumed to serve as the Virtues. And if one knew where to look, Ardbert too would not have been difficult to find. |
| 151 | 147 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001370_YSHTOLA | Assuming then that this is indeed the work of an Ascian, my mind inevitably turns to the last remaining Paragon to survive the sundering... |
| 152 | 148 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001380_URIANGER | Elidibus. |
| 153 | 149 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001390_URIANGER | That Zenos hath reclaimed his own flesh is known. |
| 154 | 150 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001400_URIANGER | Thus evicted from his borrowed form...and cognizant, no doubt, of Emet-Selch's failure here in the First... |
| 155 | 151 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001410_URIANGER | 'Tis quite possible the emissary chose Ardbert for his next vessel. |
| 156 | 152 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001420_BEQLUGG | Inhabiting the flesh of the fallen... My, that is unsavory. And they do this often, you say? |
| 157 | 153 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001430_URIANGER | Verily, for they possess no corporeal forms of their own. In what one may term their natural state, none save those gifted with the Echo can perceive them. |
| 158 | 154 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001440_URIANGER | Indeed, when Elidibus intruded upon the Waking Sands, his presence did go unmarked by all save Minfilia and the Warrior of Light. |
| 159 | 155 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001450_URIANGER | On that occasion, I myself remained ignorant of his coming until after his departure. |
| 160 | 156 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001460_URIANGER | 'Twas only at a later juncture, when he deigned to appear before me in borrowed flesh that I was finally able to take the measure of him. |
| 161 | 157 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001470_URIANGER | In such puppetry do the Ascians engage when they seek to influence the course of history. |
| 162 | 158 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001480_YSHTOLA | And they have gained much by it. Emet-Selch single-handedly built the Garlean Empire in this manner, while Lahabrea came close to conquering Eorzea having taken possession of Thancred's living body. |
| 163 | 159 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001490_URIANGER | Yet it must needs be noted that the Ascians cannot avail themselves of <Emphasis>all</Emphasis> mortal vessels. For were they able to do so, none would serve as a better pawn than our own redoubtable champion. |
| 164 | 160 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001500_URIANGER | Mayhap the blessing of Light shieldeth Hydaelyn's chosen from Ascian influence. Or mayhap other forces are at work. We cannot say for certain. |
| 165 | 161 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001510_MYSTERYVOICE | Whatever the reason, I hope it holds true. I dare not contemplate what might come to pass otherwise. |
| 166 | 162 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001520_YSHTOLA | Is it not peculiar, then, that Ardbert's mortal remains should be susceptible, given that he was once a Warrior of Light? Or did the final departure of his soul make it possible, perhaps? |
| 167 | 163 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001530_YSHTOLA | Regardless, to hear an Ascian use him to call forth new Warriors of Light boggles the mind. |
| 168 | 164 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001540_URIANGER | Elidibus hath ever been an enigma, his ostensible purpose being to preserve the balance between Light and Dark. |
| 169 | 165 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001550_URIANGER | When he made overtures towards me, however, I was afforded a glimpse behind the mask of the self-appointed emissary. |
| 170 | 166 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001560_URIANGER | I shall not defend mine actions, undertaken in pursuit of a better understanding of our foe, as either wise or prudent. |
| 171 | 167 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001570_URIANGER | Nevertheless, what little I did glean may now prove useful. |
| 172 | 168 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001580_URIANGER | Elidibus possesseth a subtle mind, practiced in the art of manipulation. That he coaxed this star's most valiant heroes as far as the Source with naught save half-truths is no trifling feat. |
| 173 | 169 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001590_URIANGER | And now, I believe, he doth employ his skills once more to some as-yet-unknown end. Though naught is certain, should my suspicions prove true, we shall have need of all our wits if we are to uncover─and thereafter thwart─his plot. |
| 174 | 170 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001600_MYSTERYVOICE | Agreed. 'Tis plain that simply speaking out against him will not avail us. At best, it would only serve to confuse the people. |
| 175 | 171 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001610_MYSTERYVOICE | And I would hesitate to do anything which might tarnish Ardbert's reputation once more, nor yours by association. |
| 176 | 172 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001620_MYSTERYVOICE | That being the case, it may be wise to keep a covert eye on this “Ardbert's” movements as we attempt to discern his purpose and how best to mitigate his influence. |
| 177 | 173 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001630_BEQLUGG | His performance appears to have concluded. What now─go back out and follow him? |
| 178 | 174 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001640_URIANGER | 'Twould appear Master Alphinaud already hath pursuit in mind, and I suspect one pair of eyes shall better serve our cause than half a dozen. Let the rest of us maintain an inconspicuous distance─for the present, at least. |
| 179 | 175 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001650_ALMET | Come. Our new discoveries are to be found this way. |
| 180 | 176 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001660_YSHTOLA | The people of Ronka are known to have venerated animals, but these features do not match those of any indigenous species. This is no common beast. |
| 181 | 177 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001670_YSHTOLA | Though that much is plain from its proportions. |
| 182 | 178 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001680_CYMET | Lifelike, is it not? One could almost imagine it breathed. |
| 183 | 179 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001690_UIMET | Grrr! |
| 184 | 180 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001700_CYMET | Aaah! |
| 185 | 181 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001710_UIMET | Hahaha! |
| 186 | 182 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001711_CYMET | Why, you... |
| 187 | 183 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001720_YSHTOLA | This owl, by contrast, seems no different from the others we've seen. |
| 188 | 184 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001730_ALMET | The sealed door lies ahead. |
| 189 | 185 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001740_ALMET | As you see, one statue is missing. I expect we are meant to replace it, as before. |
| 190 | 186 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001750_YSHTOLA | Too simple. There will be some additional defense mechanism. |
| 191 | 187 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001760_YSHTOLA | Just a moment─there are words carved into the stone. |
| 192 | 188 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001770_YSHTOLA | He...who would disturb...a hero's deserved slumber... |
| 193 | 189 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001780_YSHTOLA | Shall instead...waken the beast...and know...his folly... |
| 194 | 190 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001790_YSHTOLA | Wait! Don't! |
| 195 | 191 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001800_UIMET | Wh-What? But I only─ What is happening!? |
| 196 | 192 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001810_CYMET | Oh no... Oh no, no, no... I-It lives! |
| 197 | 193 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001820_YSHTOLA | Why am I not surprised? Prepare yourselves! |
| 198 | 194 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001830_YSHTOLA | 'Twould seem the magicks have returned us. How polite. |
| 199 | 195 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001840_YSHTOLA | Now, what have we learned? |
| 200 | 196 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001850_UIMET | Oh, we were bound to run into a living statue eventually. And now we can open the door! |
| 201 | 197 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001860_YSHTOLA | “He who would disturb a hero's deserved slumber...” |
| 202 | 198 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001870_YSHTOLA | A tomb, just as I thought. Befitting a hero. |
| 203 | 199 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001880_ALMET | She is Viis! Could it be the archmage Tiuna? |
| 204 | 200 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001890_ALMET | A legendary hero of Ronka, as you surmised. The tales tell of how she smote entire armies with a single incantation, so potent was her spellcraft─though she ever fought in the name of peace. |
| 205 | 201 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001900_UIMET | I thought them no more than tales. To think she really existed... |
| 206 | 202 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001910_CYMET | Well, I for one always believed! |
| 207 | 203 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001920_YSHTOLA | I wonder... |
| 208 | 204 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001930_YSHTOLA | By the light...of fallen stars...great power awakens... |
| 209 | 205 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001940_ALMET | Tiuna was not only a master of spellcraft. It is said she could see truths long lost and hear the voices of men's hearts. |
| 210 | 206 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001950_YSHTOLA | Naught less than the Echo. |
| 211 | 207 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001960_YSHTOLA | In which case...none of this is mere coincidence. |
| 212 | 208 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001970_YSHTOLA | A shower of stars setting the sky aflame─and in both this world and the Source, we find individuals within whom a mysterious power awakened at the sight. |
| 213 | 209 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001980_YSHTOLA | We could never unpick the why of it. Now, however...I believe we might. |
| 214 | 210 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_001990_YSHTOLA | Does the scene depicted here not resemble the one we saw when we first ventured into the Qitana Ravel? |
| 215 | 211 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002000_YSHTOLA | Moreover, does it not recall that which Emet-Selch invited us to witness in Amaurot? |
| 216 | 212 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002010_YSHTOLA | The Final Days. |
| 217 | 213 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002020_YSHTOLA | If, as the Exarch's research suggests, soul and mind share a fragile yet profound bond, might it not be possible for an event to leave such a deep imprint upon the soul that it could be perceived eons later─given a suitable trigger? |
| 218 | 214 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002030_YSHTOLA | The Echo defies explanation by conventional aetherological theory. Or shall we say, modern aetherological theory. |
| 219 | 215 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002040_YSHTOLA | But if it is a power that once belonged to the ancients, to souls yet undivided... |
| 220 | 216 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002045_YSHTOLA | ...Ah. |
| 221 | 217 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002050_YSHTOLA | It would seem I have entered the realm of pure speculation. And I call myself a scholar. |
| 222 | 218 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002060_YSHTOLA | I shall refrain from making any further wild claims until such time as I have evidence. |
| 223 | 219 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002070_YSHTOLA | Still, I cannot choose but be reminded of our experience in Amaurot... |
| 224 | 220 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_Q4_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 225 | 221 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A4_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Then you must recall Emet-Selch's dying request. |
| 226 | 222 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A4_000_002_NONE_VOICE | I will not soon forget it. |
| 227 | 223 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002080_YSHTOLA | “Remember us.” |
| 228 | 224 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002090_ALMET | “History is learned, not lived.” |
| 229 | 225 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002100_ALMET | We have always protected the tales of Ronka, just as we have protected this place. But we are mindful of what our mothers taught us. |
| 230 | 226 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002110_ALMET | We see the past through our own eyes, and speak of it with our own words. Thus do we come to understand it, in our own way. But this is not the same as remembering. |
| 231 | 227 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002120_YSHTOLA | Your mothers were wise. |
| 232 | 228 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002130_YSHTOLA | Though we witnessed the Final Days, our impressions could not fail to be colored by our own experiences and expectations. Those who lived through it would have perceived the event quite differently. |
| 233 | 229 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002140_YSHTOLA | We must bear in mind that it is no simple matter to keep the truth alive, or it will die with Emet-Selch and his kin. |
| 234 | 230 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002150_YSHTOLA | But we have disturbed Tiuna long enough. Fanow will serve similarly well as a venue for our contemplations. |
| 235 | 231 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002160_THANCRED | If you were hoping to vent your frustrations on our eater friend here, I can only apologize. |
| 236 | 232 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002170_RYNE | Few as they are now, it took us no time at all to track it down. |
| 237 | 233 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002180_ALPHINAUD | That suits our purpose perfectly. Now we need only wait for Ardbert to arrive. |
| 238 | 234 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002190_ALISAIE | Weren't you two meant to be attending to the Empty? |
| 239 | 235 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002200_THANCRED | We were, and are. But we can hardly ignore the rest of the world, so we thought we might see how things were coming along. From what we can gather, the answer is “strangely.” |
| 240 | 236 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002210_THANCRED | We were indeed, and we've made a certain amount of progress. So we thought we might see how the rest of the world was getting on. From what we can gather, the answer is “strangely.” |
| 241 | 237 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002220_RYNE | Right now, we think we can do more good here. |
| 242 | 238 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002230_YSHTOLA | It is heartening to have all present. |
| 243 | 239 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002240_ALPHINAUD | Indeed! We will be glad of the additional hands should matters escalate. |
| 244 | 240 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002250_URIANGER | Our quarry is come. |
| 245 | 241 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002260_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)Hah. It seems I've lost this particular race. |
| 246 | 242 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002270_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)Ah, though I suppose it's only fair. |
| 247 | 243 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002280_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)When we first met, it was I who outpaced you. Ravana, was it? |
| 248 | 244 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002290_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)But where are my manners? I wouldn't be here were it not for you, and I have yet to say a word of thanks! |
| 249 | 245 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_Q5_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you do? |
| 250 | 246 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A5_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Extend a friendly fist. |
| 251 | 247 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A5_000_002_NONE_VOICE | Ask whether he wishes Seto were here. |
| 252 | 248 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002300_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)Arm giving you trouble? You should have it examined. |
| 253 | 249 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002310_DUMMYARDBERT | (-Ardbert-)Poor fellow. He will be sorely missed. |
| 254 | 250 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_Q6_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 255 | 251 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A6_000_001_NONE_VOICE | Indeed...<Emphasis>Ardbert</Emphasis>. |
| 256 | 252 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A6_000_002_NONE_VOICE | I thought you were supposed to be good at this. |
| 257 | 253 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002320_DUMMYARDBERT | (-“Ardbert”-)Very well. Let us forgo this pretense. |
| 258 | 254 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002330_ELIDIBUS | (-“Ardbert”-)Very well. Let us forgo this pretense. |
| 259 | 255 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002340_DUMMYARDBERT | (-“Ardbert”-)After all, it was never you that I needed to deceive. |
| 260 | 256 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002350_ELIDIBUS | (-“Ardbert”-)After all, it was never you that I needed to deceive. |
| 261 | 257 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002360_ELIDIBUS | Yes, it is I, Elidibus. |
| 262 | 258 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002370_ELIDIBUS | Through your time in Emet-Selch's imitation of our home, I daresay you have gained a better understanding of my role since last we met. Not that it matters. |
| 263 | 259 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002380_ALPHINAUD | We understand your role, Emissary, but not your goal. What is it that you seek to achieve? |
| 264 | 260 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002390_ELIDIBUS | I seek to enact the will of the Convocation, of course. If it helps you to think of me as but another Ascian, no different in nature or purpose from the rest, you are welcome to do so. |
| 265 | 261 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002400_ALPHINAUD | Once, I would have said your goal was destruction alone. |
| 266 | 262 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002410_ALPHINAUD | Now I understand that you fight for something you love, just as we do. |
| 267 | 263 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002420_ALPHINAUD | Yet though we seem doomed to clash, I bid you consider Emet-Selch's final words. |
| 268 | 264 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002430_ALPHINAUD | “Remember that we once lived,” he said. Had he not seen some glimmer of hope in our kind, I do not believe he would have spoken thus. |
| 269 | 265 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002440_ALPHINAUD | “Remember that we once lived,” he said. Had he not seen some glimmer of hope in our kind, I do not believe he would have spoken thus. |
| 270 | 266 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002450_YSHTOLA | None better understood your plight than he. His words must surely be worthy of your consideration. |
| 271 | 267 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002460_ELIDIBUS | Emet-Selch... |
| 272 | 268 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002470_ELIDIBUS | How very unlike you, to err so gravely. |
| 273 | 269 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002480_ELIDIBUS | That one should stray at the end of so onerous a path is understandable, but I had thought you above such weakness. Mayhap you thought the same. Would that I had been present to offer correction... |
| 274 | 270 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002490_ELIDIBUS | But I shall do so now, as is my duty, and return all to its proper course. |
| 275 | 271 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002500_ELIDIBUS | As for you... Look at yourselves. Look at your <Emphasis>history</Emphasis>. Look back one hundred short years, to how your greatest warriors were undone. |
| 276 | 272 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002510_ELIDIBUS | And now? At but a word from me, you raise your hands in answer like the puppets you are. |
| 277 | 273 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002515_ELIDIBUS | Naught has changed. |
| 278 | 274 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002520_ELIDIBUS | You fail and you fail and you learn nothing─allow that which is most important to slip through your fumbling fingers like so many grains of sand. Again and again and <Emphasis>again</Emphasis>. And you would remember <Emphasis>us</Emphasis>? You do forget yourselves. |
| 279 | 275 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002530_ELIDIBUS | There is no common ground to be found between you and I. Nor do I require any. |
| 280 | 276 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002540_ELIDIBUS | I have my duty. |
| 281 | 277 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002550_YSHTOLA | Wait! |
| 282 | 278 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002560_ALPHINAUD | Well...we have confirmed the identity of our foe, at least. And 'tis safe to say his objective is the Rejoining. |
| 283 | 279 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002570_ALISAIE | But we still have no idea how playing the part of a Warrior of Light will further his cause, nor why he would spur others to do the same. |
| 284 | 280 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002580_YSHTOLA | Another visit to the Tempest may shed some light upon these mysteries. |
| 285 | 281 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002590_YSHTOLA | Whether we are to exchange words or blows with Elidibus at our next meeting, the fact remains: we know too little. |
| 286 | 282 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002600_YSHTOLA | Ere our paths cross again, I would learn more of the world that once was─and of Elidibus himself. |
| 287 | 283 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002610_YSHTOLA | In this, we would be best served going directly to his home, much as Emet-Selch came to ours. |
| 288 | 284 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002620_URIANGER | Though I see the wisdom in thy suggestion, the Amaurot we visited is but a phantom born of Emet-Selch's memory. I fear it will teach us little that we do not already know. |
| 289 | 285 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002630_YSHTOLA | I quite agree. Yet the ruins of the actual city remain unexplored. |
| 290 | 286 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002640_YSHTOLA | Given the vastness of the Tempest, I should not be surprised were there more such structures like to those in which the Ondo reside. |
| 291 | 287 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_Q7_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 292 | 288 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A7_000_001_NONE_VOICE | If there's aught to be learned, I want to know. |
| 293 | 289 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A7_000_002_NONE_VOICE | For want of a better option... |
| 294 | 290 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A7_000_003_NONE_VOICE | As long as you don't make me do any more chores. |
| 295 | 291 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002650_YSHTOLA | A <If(PlayerParameter(4))>woman<Else/>man</If> after my own heart. |
| 296 | 292 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002660_YSHTOLA | Mayhap your skepticism will leaven my curiosity. |
| 297 | 293 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002670_YSHTOLA | Keep that up and I'll send you to bed without supper. |
| 298 | 294 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002680_ALPHINAUD | Assuming we are all in agreement, then, I suggest we first pay a visit to the Ondo. If anyone can tell us where more ruins are to be found, it is them. |
| 299 | 295 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002690_YSHTOLA | This structure must have served an important function. And here are yet more crystals... |
| 300 | 296 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002700_ALPHINAUD | I too noted the crystal repository on the way. The benthos seem to employ them in their spellcasting. |
| 301 | 297 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002710_URIANGER | In such vessels did the ancients preserve concepts─ideal forms to be drawn upon in the act of creation. |
| 302 | 298 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002720_URIANGER | That so great an abundance should reside here lendeth credence to Y'shtola's conclusion. This facility held great significance. |
| 303 | 299 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002730_ANCIENTSA | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>Thank you all for joining us at Anyder in these most perilous of times.<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 304 | 300 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002740_ANCIENTSA | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>By the summoning of Zodiark have we been granted a reprieve. Yet immutable as the laws He has woven may seem, they will not serve to forestall our doom.<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 305 | 301 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002750_ANCIENTSB | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>Nay. Should we continue down this path, our fate will be the same.<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 306 | 302 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002760_ANCIENTSB | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>I said as much to the Convocation, of course, but the stubborn fools turned a deaf ear to my warnings.<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 307 | 303 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002770_ANCIENTSB | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>I had hoped that the defector, at least, would side with us, but I regret to report our overtures have gone unanswered.<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 308 | 304 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002780_ANCIENTSB | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>Whither tend your thoughts, Venat? Where you lead, we will follow.<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 309 | 305 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002790_VENAS | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>I shall not speak ill of the Convocation─they too seek only to secure the future of our star.<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 310 | 306 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002800_VENAS | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>Yet it is plain they will not countenance a permanent solution. That being the case, we must ask ourselves a simple question: are we prepared to pursue our chosen course, even should it mean suffering the eternal condemnation of our brethren?<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 311 | 307 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002810_VENAS | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>If so, I see no further reason to demur.<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 312 | 308 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002820_VENAS | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>Let us bring forth the Light that shall ever after keep the Darkness in check.<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 313 | 309 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002830_YSHTOLA | So...it was they who first summoned Hydaelyn. |
| 314 | 310 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002840_ALPHINAUD | Their discussion did seem to imply as much, yes. I cannot say I have ever heard of this “Venat” before. |
| 315 | 311 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002850_URIANGER | For a certainty, Emet-Selch never uttered the name, speak though he did of the schism which Zodiark's advent wrought upon mankind. |
| 316 | 312 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002860_URIANGER | Some were of the viewpoint that His power must needs be restrained, and to that end did they call forth She who would serve as His shackles. |
| 317 | 313 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002870_URIANGER | We know now that it was this Venat to whom they looked for leadership. |
| 318 | 314 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002880_YSHTOLA | And that this place, in all likelihood, served as their headquarters. The presence of such intimate records attests to that. |
| 319 | 315 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002890_YSHTOLA | I would hear what else they have to tell us. All of it. Did anyone see the source of the image? |
| 320 | 316 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002900_YSHTOLA | The device there? Then let us see what other secrets it holds. |
| 321 | 317 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002910_ANCIENTSA | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>Venat, please... Why must it be you?<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 322 | 318 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002920_ANCIENTSA | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>If I may speak plainly, I would sooner it were another─<Emphasis>any</Emphasis> other. You are our <Emphasis>leader</Emphasis>. None can take your place.<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 323 | 319 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002930_VENAS | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>You know as well as I that but few support our cause. Far fewer than they who place their faith in Zodiark.<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 324 | 320 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002940_VENAS | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>If Hydaelyn is to stand a chance of opposing Him, I am the only one who might suffice as Her heart.<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 325 | 321 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002950_VENAS | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>Rest assured, however: I shall not vanish from this world. The form I take shall ever remain my choice.<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 326 | 322 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002960_ANCIENTSA | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>...Then I will press you no more. Only know this...you will be sorely missed.<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 327 | 323 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002970_ANCIENTSA | <UIForeground>F20223</UIForeground>I wonder...is this how the Convocation felt about Elidibus?<UIForeground>01</UIForeground> |
| 328 | 324 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002980_YSHTOLA | What? |
| 329 | 325 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_002990_YSHTOLA | Forgive me, but did that not strongly imply that Elidibus sacrificed himself to become Zodiark's heart? |
| 330 | 326 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003000_ALISAIE | Seven hells... Then who─or <Emphasis>what</Emphasis>─are we dealing with? |
| 331 | 327 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003010_ALPHINAUD | Dare I ask what's going on? |
| 332 | 328 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003020_MYSTERYVOICE | Ah, excellent timing. For me, in any case. We have a problem. |
| 333 | 329 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003030_MYSTERYVOICE | The vast majority of those gathered here are presently in the employ of the guard or else one of the facets...and no longer wish to be so. |
| 334 | 330 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003040_MYSTERYVOICE | In principle, all are free to change vocation at any time─but a city does require a certain number of people in these positions if it is to continue to function. For the moment, I have asked them to postpone their resignation until such time as replacements can be found. |
| 335 | 331 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003050_MYSTERYVOICE | As you may have surmised, we have the “Warrior of Light” to thank for this... |
| 336 | 332 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003060_BRAVESOLDIER | It's you! The Warrior of Darkness! |
| 337 | 333 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003070_BRAVESOLDIER | You understand, don't you? |
| 338 | 334 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003080_BRAVESOLDIER | Someone's going to have to look after this place once you're gone. We just want to be ready to do our bit when the time comes. |
| 339 | 335 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003090_SOLDIER03608 | And not only here, but everywhere! Which is why we've got to get out there, and lend a hand to those in need. |
| 340 | 336 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003100_SOLDIER03608 | That's what you did, isn't it? Even if it was just little things, at the start. You helped people. |
| 341 | 337 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_Q8_000_001_NONE_VOICE | What will you say? |
| 342 | 338 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A8_000_001_NONE_VOICE | People, chocobos, you name it. |
| 343 | 339 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A8_000_002_NONE_VOICE | Well, yes... |
| 344 | 340 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_A8_000_003_NONE_VOICE | ... |
| 345 | 341 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003110_SOLDIER03608 | And we're trying to do the same! We may have our sky back, but there's no shortage of people who still need help. |
| 346 | 342 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003120_SOLDIER03608 | Strong and silent─just as a hero should be! You let your actions speak for you, and we mean to do the same. We might have our sky back, but there are still people who need help. |
| 347 | 343 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003130_SOLDIER03608 | If we follow in your footsteps, then I choose to believe we too can be heroes one day. Even Warriors of Light. |
| 348 | 344 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003140_ALPHINAUD | What are we to say to that? We can hardly tell them they are mistaken. |
| 349 | 345 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003150_ALPHINAUD | They seek but to do good, as you have. |
| 350 | 346 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003160_URIANGER | But no more can we stand idly by and suffer a Paragon's scheme to proceed unchallenged. |
| 351 | 347 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003170_FEARFULCITIZENA | What...what's happening to the sky? |
| 352 | 348 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003180_FEARFULCITIZENB | Aaah! |
| 353 | 349 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003190_CRYSTARIUMCITIZENA | Wicked white! |
| 354 | 350 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003200_CRYSTARIUMCITIZENB | Oh no! |
| 355 | 351 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003210_ALPHINAUD | By the Twelve... |
| 356 | 352 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003220_URIANGER | A starshower... |
| 357 | 353 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003221_HYDAELYN | Hear... Feel... Think... |
| 358 | 354 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003230_SOLDIER03608 | I─ I hear a voice! |
| 359 | 355 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003240_BRAVESOLDIER | You and all? Then why does it feel like it's inside my head!? |
| 360 | 356 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003250_BRAVESOLDIER | Hear... Feel... Think...? |
| 361 | 357 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003260_CRYSTARIUMCITIZENC | I hear it! |
| 362 | 358 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003270_CRYSTARIUMCITIZEND | Me too! |
| 363 | 359 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003280_DUMMYARDBERT | (-???-)Did I not tell you, my friends!? You are Warriors of Light! |
| 364 | 360 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003290_SOLDIER03608 | You're back! |
| 365 | 361 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003300_DUMMYARDBERT | What you hear is the voice of Light itself, and it has blessed you with its power. Welcome to the fold! |
| 366 | 362 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003310_SOLDIER03608 | I'm a Warrior of Light... |
| 367 | 363 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003320_BRAVESOLDIER | I've been chosen!? |
| 368 | 364 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003330_CRYSTARIUMCITIZEND | Can it be? |
| 369 | 365 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003340_CRYSTARIUMCITIZENC | Me, a hero? |
| 370 | 366 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003350_ALPHINAUD | Wait! |
| 371 | 367 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003360_ALPHINAUD | The falling stars─were they your doing? And why do you need Warriors of Light? |
| 372 | 368 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003370_ELIDIBUS | What, am I to reveal my plans simply because you asked? |
| 373 | 369 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003380_ELIDIBUS | Nay, I think not─though the stars I acknowledge mine. A convenient illusion apt to awaken what little is left of the power that once resided in your sundered souls. |
| 374 | 370 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003390_ELIDIBUS | That which you and yours call the Echo. |
| 375 | 371 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003400_ELIDIBUS | And an echo it is. Of a symphony. But a fraction of what men, in their completeness, once possessed. |
| 376 | 372 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003410_ELIDIBUS | Even those among you who tower over others in the gift have only the faintest trace of it. |
| 377 | 373 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003420_ELIDIBUS | But though sundered and forgotten, through death and mocking rebirth, it has persisted. A whisper of our past, burned into your very aether─along with the sight of our end. |
| 378 | 374 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003430_ELIDIBUS | Through the rekindling of memory, I have awoken the ability─just as Hydaelyn is wont to do when She has need of new minions. |
| 379 | 375 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003440_URIANGER | The Echo hath ever been thought a gift from Hydaelyn─a boon granted solely to Her chosen. Yet thou wouldst claim She merely awakeneth the power, that men should hearken unto...? |
| 380 | 376 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003450_URIANGER | Ah. |
| 381 | 377 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003460_URIANGER | ...Her voice. Given the perceived simultaneity of Her call and the awakening of Her chosen's capacity to hear it, 'tis only natural that we thus attributed the source of the gift. Yet if, in truth, the Echo is a prerequisite for hearing Her voice... |
| 382 | 378 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003470_URIANGER | One might surmise that Her call never ceaseth, such that all who awaken to their innate gift might receive of the blessing of Light at the selfsame instant. |
| 383 | 379 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003480_URIANGER | In sooth, we bore witness to this but moments ago. At the sight of the starshower, full many in the crowd did speak of hearing a voice in their minds, did they not? |
| 384 | 380 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003490_ELIDIBUS | Just so. And whenever Hydaelyn has need of new servants, She is quick to pluck comets from the heavens, or create illusions of the same. |
| 385 | 381 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003500_URIANGER | Why, then, didst thou conjure this vision, full knowing that thine age-old foe would thus claim those awakened to the gift? |
| 386 | 382 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003510_ELIDIBUS | “Foe”? You must be mistaken. As you see, I am a Warrior of Light. |
| 387 | 383 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003520_ELIDIBUS | And together with my comrades-in-arms, I shall save the world. Just like you. |
| 388 | 384 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003530_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE | Meanwhile, in the Crystal Tower's Umbilicus... |
| 389 | 385 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003540_MYSTERYVOICE | Foiled again... |
| 390 | 386 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003550_MYSTERYVOICE | If I cannot imbue the infernal thing with my power via magical means, we may need to devise a way to infuse the vessel with my blood after all... |
| 391 | 387 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003560_MYSTERYVOICE | Ah! |
| 392 | 388 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003570_URIANGER | Art thou unwell? |
| 393 | 389 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003580_BEQLUGG | Perhaps a brief respite? It wouldn't do to overtax yourself. |
| 394 | 390 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003590_MYSTERYVOICE | I'm fine... |
| 395 | 391 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003600_MYSTERYVOICE | And given to stubbornness, I'm afraid. Especially when I have a stake in the outcome. |
| 396 | 392 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003610_SYSTEM_NONE_VOICE | Meanwhile, in the Source... |
| 397 | 393 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003620_ZENOS | That dream again... |
| 398 | 394 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003630_MYSTERIOUSCOOPERATOR | A recurring dream? They do so fascinate me. Might I trouble you for the details? |
| 399 | 395 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003640_ZENOS | I have always dreamed of it... Fire falling from the heavens, and the city─nay, the whole world ablaze. |
| 400 | 396 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003650_MYSTERIOUSCOOPERATOR | Indeed... Could Emet-Selch have found a way...? Precious few possess memories of the Final Days. |
| 401 | 397 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003660_ZENOS | The Final Days? |
| 402 | 398 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003670_MYSTERIOUSCOOPERATOR | Why yes. Admittedly, my knowledge is mostly secondhand, but if you are interested, I will gladly tell you the tale... |
| 403 | 399 | TEXT_VOICEMAN_05200_003680_MYSTERIOUSCOOPERATOR | The tale of the world's end. |