As for that comment, there's a snort and a cross of the arms.]
I paid with my life and the lives of my tribuni for that oversight, warrior of light. Yet my aims were to unify Eorzea - to protect this world.
Whom, might I ask, is to be made to pay for yours?! As we speak, yet more eikons awaken by the day, and your Grand Companies do naught but squabble amongst themselves for the Carteneau Flats - your precious leaders too incompetent to address the threat which harms the land.
That day, as I felt the life leave me as I lay broken within the ruins of the Praetorium, I asked that you not leave the fate of Eorzea to false idols and erring leaders. Clearly, you did not listen to a word.
I ask you again, who might be made to pay with their lives for your transgressions, and those of your country?!
[Rhela visibly winces at Gaius's statement. Her ears flatten back against her skull. The words ring true.]
Not all of us are on the fields of Carteneau. If the Sultana asked me to go, I would. But I don't... I don't agree with the idea of us all fighting amongst ourselves. Especially since so many breathed their last on that ground. [Louisoix...]
Don't think I'm sitting idle either, Black Wolf. Lady Minfilia and the rest of us- all of us- are looking for a way to kill the Ascians for good. And plenty of others are exploring elsewhere! We'll save Eorzea one day. I'm sure of it!
We're not perfect. But we try our best. That's the honest truth!
[Sry, plucky protag talk doesn't work on solid reason.]
Do not make the same error I did. Do not even think to assume trying your hardest will grant this world peace. It shall not. It shall only grant untold innocents pain and suffering.
...Or do you expect your Weaver whore to make all of the strands fall into place? Pathetic. The Twelve did not save you five years past. They shall not in any future.
And you're one to talk about innocents suffering...! Your tribunus slaughtered my friend at the Waking Sands. You enslaved or- or worse to Ala Mhigo. You don't give a damn about us at all! So spare me the lecture, Gaius. It's not gonna work!
[That's not... quite true. About Ala Mihgo, anyway. If anything, the nation was liberated from an unjust, brutal tyrant of a king that declared war on Gridania, Ul'dah, Ishgard, and Limsa Lominsa all -- not to mention executed his own order of monks, the Fist of Rhalgyr - for the crime of simply being too powerful and therefore a threat. The Corpse Brigade stragglers in Southern Thanalan are all that remains of that king's military force, the same force that butchered his own people by the score.
Baelsar's conquest of Ala Mihgo was one that involved minimal casualties. It was one of subterfuge, rather than violence. The trickle of Imperial messages into the Citystate promised security, safety, under Imperial Rule.
And revolt happened. The death toll was vast - but it was not by the XIVth's hand.
Of course, she's not going to know that. Sob stories from those that have fleed are all the more pity-evoking given tragedy, and he's resolved to be the villain in this chapter of Eorzea's history. Even if he isn't technically one. Still. The sylph.]
It was a worshipper of an eikon. All worshippers should be stamped out. Removing those which worship an eikon when an eikon cannot otherwise be destroyed is the only way to remove the toll this land struggles to endure.
But you yourself... you are compromised. You are practically beastman yourself with your curse.
[Ala Mhigo fell. And those that fled still hold it close to their hearts. She knows. She's spent long enough with Wilred and Erik and Widargelt to understand their feelings. She knows what's at stake every time she draws her cesti and charges into the fray.]
[Glaumunt spoke of labor camps. Arenvald spoke of horrifying things done to his mother. Those, she remembers. Those, she kept close when the time came to cross fists with Livia. With Nero. With Gaius.]
She was this one's friend. [It's a lapse into sylph-talk for a moment.] You would damn all of them to the seventh hell, would you? Not all of them worship the primals. But you wouldn't understand. No, not you, so sure that you're the only one in the right!
You'd put me to the sword, then? [Rhela laughs disbelievingly.] And when the Ascians come, who would save us all from them, exactly? You? You were dancing on Lahabrea's strings like a mammet!
i really enjoyed this thread but i am off to bed alas gj tho would antagonize again
[If they loved their goddamn country so much they'd have stayed. Unless they were monarchists eager to run for it and save their own hides against the oppressed's vengeance. :|]
You, and all like you. You are a blight upon this land. Your words prove as such. Her people held a crystal from the Lord of Levin, did she not? They call him Lord Ramuh, do they not? They worship him, you foolish child, as the tempered Sylph do.
[At the Ascians thing, he merely shakes his head.]
The Empire have conquered in order to rid the land of the eikons, in order to save this world from what Eorzea is doing to it. I took the Ultima Weapon in order to stop the eikons by means other than destroying their worshippers. My actions were manipulated, as I could not see. That is indeed my fault - though I stand by my intent. The Empire's intent, to save this world.
What of your nations? For what reason do your nations seek to conquer? Greed. For what reason do your nations seek the power of the Omega Weapon? For what? Greed. You are reprehensible.
....Your nations, your peoples. Your curse, your beast tribes, your Eorzea. All of it - it sickens me. For the entire world to suffer so, simply for you-
[Yeeeeeeeep. Death's making him wonder why he bothered with initially offering peace terms to the three nations. Five years ago, he wouldn't have even thought it. But perhaps the rebuilding effort after Dalamud destroyed everything inspired some measure of respect.
... That measure of respect destroyed when Rhitahtyn was murdered at his post.]
No measure of counsel will dissuade you from this foolish path. As for this seventh Hell, I shall await you within it.
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Gaius van Baelsar-?!
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Still a tool of the unworthy, I see.
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PCsadventurers didn't blunt your fangs after all, Black Wolf.]I get into trouble out of my own free will. You played right into Lahabrea's plans. Who's the tool here, me or you?
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As for that comment, there's a snort and a cross of the arms.]
I paid with my life and the lives of my tribuni for that oversight, warrior of light. Yet my aims were to unify Eorzea - to protect this world.
Whom, might I ask, is to be made to pay for yours?! As we speak, yet more eikons awaken by the day, and your Grand Companies do naught but squabble amongst themselves for the Carteneau Flats - your precious leaders too incompetent to address the threat which harms the land.
That day, as I felt the life leave me as I lay broken within the ruins of the Praetorium, I asked that you not leave the fate of Eorzea to false idols and erring leaders. Clearly, you did not listen to a word.
I ask you again, who might be made to pay with their lives for your transgressions, and those of your country?!
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Not all of us are on the fields of Carteneau. If the Sultana asked me to go, I would. But I don't... I don't agree with the idea of us all fighting amongst ourselves. Especially since so many breathed their last on that ground. [Louisoix...]
Don't think I'm sitting idle either, Black Wolf. Lady Minfilia and the rest of us- all of us- are looking for a way to kill the Ascians for good. And plenty of others are exploring elsewhere! We'll save Eorzea one day. I'm sure of it!
We're not perfect. But we try our best. That's the honest truth!
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Do not make the same error I did. Do not even think to assume trying your hardest will grant this world peace. It shall not. It shall only grant untold innocents pain and suffering.
...Or do you expect your Weaver whore to make all of the strands fall into place? Pathetic. The Twelve did not save you five years past. They shall not in any future.
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I'm not praying to the Twelve to save us!
And you're one to talk about innocents suffering...! Your tribunus slaughtered my friend at the Waking Sands. You enslaved or- or worse to Ala Mhigo. You don't give a damn about us at all! So spare me the lecture, Gaius. It's not gonna work!
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Hmph.
[That's not... quite true. About Ala Mihgo, anyway. If anything, the nation was liberated from an unjust, brutal tyrant of a king that declared war on Gridania, Ul'dah, Ishgard, and Limsa Lominsa all -- not to mention executed his own order of monks, the Fist of Rhalgyr - for the crime of simply being too powerful and therefore a threat. The Corpse Brigade stragglers in Southern Thanalan are all that remains of that king's military force, the same force that butchered his own people by the score.
Baelsar's conquest of Ala Mihgo was one that involved minimal casualties. It was one of subterfuge, rather than violence. The trickle of Imperial messages into the Citystate promised security, safety, under Imperial Rule.
And revolt happened. The death toll was vast - but it was not by the XIVth's hand.
Of course, she's not going to know that. Sob stories from those that have fleed are all the more pity-evoking given tragedy, and he's resolved to be the villain in this chapter of Eorzea's history. Even if he isn't technically one. Still. The sylph.]
It was a worshipper of an eikon. All worshippers should be stamped out. Removing those which worship an eikon when an eikon cannot otherwise be destroyed is the only way to remove the toll this land struggles to endure.
But you yourself... you are compromised. You are practically beastman yourself with your curse.
[He's talking about the echo, of course.]
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[Glaumunt spoke of labor camps. Arenvald spoke of horrifying things done to his mother. Those, she remembers. Those, she kept close when the time came to cross fists with Livia. With Nero. With Gaius.]
She was this one's friend. [It's a lapse into sylph-talk for a moment.] You would damn all of them to the seventh hell, would you? Not all of them worship the primals. But you wouldn't understand. No, not you, so sure that you're the only one in the right!
You'd put me to the sword, then? [Rhela laughs disbelievingly.] And when the Ascians come, who would save us all from them, exactly? You? You were dancing on Lahabrea's strings like a mammet!
i really enjoyed this thread but i am off to bed alas gj tho would antagonize again
You, and all like you. You are a blight upon this land. Your words prove as such. Her people held a crystal from the Lord of Levin, did she not? They call him Lord Ramuh, do they not? They worship him, you foolish child, as the tempered Sylph do.
[At the Ascians thing, he merely shakes his head.]
The Empire have conquered in order to rid the land of the eikons, in order to save this world from what Eorzea is doing to it. I took the Ultima Weapon in order to stop the eikons by means other than destroying their worshippers. My actions were manipulated, as I could not see. That is indeed my fault - though I stand by my intent. The Empire's intent, to save this world.
What of your nations? For what reason do your nations seek to conquer? Greed. For what reason do your nations seek the power of the Omega Weapon? For what? Greed. You are reprehensible.
....Your nations, your peoples. Your curse, your beast tribes, your Eorzea. All of it - it sickens me. For the entire world to suffer so, simply for you-
[Yeeeeeeeep. Death's making him wonder why he bothered with initially offering peace terms to the three nations. Five years ago, he wouldn't have even thought it. But perhaps the rebuilding effort after Dalamud destroyed everything inspired some measure of respect.
... That measure of respect destroyed when Rhitahtyn was murdered at his post.]
No measure of counsel will dissuade you from this foolish path. As for this seventh Hell, I shall await you within it.