I dunno, Ike, something about the "no branching paths" is telling me yes.
Although saying that, we actually see them go down stairs in transitional shots. The Tower is weird.
Ike's wondering how this whole tower fits inside what they saw from the outside.
...Good thing I'm taking pictures!
Fortunately, it sounds like less of a problem for us.
We have the determination to see the goal through.
Yune says a lot of deep things about humanity as she goes. It's kind of incredible, considering a human had to write this dialogue for her.
She believes in the innate right of humanity to want, and to fight over limited satisfaction of those wants. The true way to stop that fighting is to find a way for both people to get their wants met.
To deny the human nature to want is to deny humanity itself.
Ike gets philosophical enough to comment on how this philosophy is directly opposed to that of Ashera, who believes humans should be neat and orderly.
Well, just come out and say it like that, why don't you?
Oh, there's the "we're going downstairs for a flight" bit. I wonder who has to carry Sanaki when she gets tired.
So, about the goddess who stands in between Ashera and Yune...
Oh. Right. Boss fight. Since she's talking to Ike, I assume she means "this guy is tied to Ike", and fair's fair, this is Ike's boss.
Time for Ike to face his greatest demon...
The Black Knight. Yes, this guy finally outranks the Senate!
Also, a bunch of Disciples, led by Levail (you can vaguely pick him out in red between all that armour) all burst out of this door at once. If you can track down an animated version of the clip, it's worth a watch.
Ike paid no mind to this sudden intrusion.
Short cutscene time!
Ike charges the Black Knight, and is thrown back due to a slightly odd choice in direction of attack- above.
But the two men can duel to a draw now.
This is the first time Ike and the Black Knight have been in the same space since Ranulf spilled the beans on who's under the helmet.
Ike remarks on how fate seems to have conspired to keep Ike and Zelgius from duelling one another and spoiling the surprise that way.
I wonder what would have happened if, at some point in Part 3, Ike suddenly realised the enemy general outplaying Soren was his arch-nemesis out of disguise.
Time to see if he's the man Ranulf says he is.
Indeed he is. Zelgius's head on the Black Knight's armour looks photoshopped on in this game and it looks almost as bad in Heroes.
アイク殿。
貴殿との戦いを楽しみにしていた。
こうしてあいまみえたのだ、
言葉などはいらぬ。
剣を交え、雌雄を決するとしよう。
I don't think this is much different in context, but for some reason, my machines seem to love putting references to sex into this line. I think the words for "victory and defeat" Zelgius is using are similar to "male and female" in some way and that's what's causing it, but the homoeroticism couldn't go unmentioned.
Ike and Zelgius prepare themselves for the Moment of Fate, Part 2. If you happen to have brought Tibarn, though, there's a massive interruption here:
Tibarn: “Stop right there. I’ve got a debt to settle with this scum.”
Zelgius: “True, your revenge against me remains incomplete. However, may I ask you to step aside for now? Though at different times, Ike and I both learned the way of the sword from the same master: one of Daein’s famous Four Riders, General Gawain. He left Daein under an assumed name and formed a mercenary company. I was entranced by Greil’s swordsmanship while he was in Daein. I studied under him, I fought next to him… I idolized him. When he left, I was crushed. I vowed to find him again, and challenge him to a duel. I had to know if I had surpassed him! Three years ago, I caught up to Greil. I challenged him to a duel, and was victorious. But, something was wrong… The fight had been too simple. I thought I’d never feel satisfaction again. Then, Ike told me why it had been so easy. Greil had severed all the tendons in his right hand, and swore never again to draw a blade. Can you imagine my joy at the news? I knew that a swordsman of his stature couldn’t have been so easy to defeat!”
Zelgius: “My master’s skills were passed down to his son, Ike. I will defeat him and finally surpass my master! I trust that you understand. Once our fight is finished, I will allow you to settle your quarrel, Hawk King.”
Ike: “Please, Tibarn.”
Tibarn: “…Fine. If you’re taking my place, you’d better win. Got that?”
Ike: “Of course. This is my chance to avenge my father’s death. This time, he won’t walk away.”
This is a nice little nod to Tibarn's beef with Zelgius, and the general fact that Ike alone is going to be the one to face the Black Knight, and Zelgius has a long explanation about his motives with the man. This is nothing we haven't seen before, but there's one thing worth noting about it: It's in the Japanese version too. The original writers had no excuse for the warp powder malfunction.
- フェニキス王…
貴殿との勝負も
まだついてはいないが……
少し待ってはもらえぬだろうか。
アイク殿と私の剣技は
元は同じ師から学びしもの。
３年前、私は師と戦い勝利した。
しかしそれは完全なものではなかった。
師は…利き腕を傷つけ、
剣を封じていたのだ。
それを知らされた私は…狂喜した。
己の超えるべき剣士が
あの程度であるはずはなかったのだと。- 師の剣は、息子に引き継がれた。
ならば…それに勝ることで
私は今度こそ師を超えられる。
…貴殿ならばこの願い
理解していただけると信じるが？
The Japanese version in question.
I actually didn't know Mist also had an interruption if you brought her. I'm glad she ultimately won a spot in the party.
Ike won't be getting help from Mist this time. It's cool how RD nodded to this moment in PoR. One thing I notice is that, with her terrible Strength cap of 25, Mist can actually only do 5 damage a hit to the Black Knight with like 2% crit with Vague Katti (at least she doubles). If they had planned on letting Mist into the duel again, they did have plans on making sure Ike had to be the one to do the fighting.
With those interruptions down, the Black Knight touches the floor.
VWOOM!
This barrier is also Physic-proof. I think you can get a Support through, but it's not an ideal plan.
This time... it's final.
Only one of Ike and Zelgius will still be alive after today.
Prepare the clash of titans.
...And also our army.
Ike must equip Nihil. Unless you plan on rolling the dice on getting Eclipsed.
Sigrun quickly scores her omnicaps. She is now exactly as good as Tanith or Marcia could ever be. At last.
Nephenee really needs these. She's still getting Strength.
HP cap, and I think Strength cap too. That's a Luck boon, as well. Defence on Ena isn't something we really care about past this map, but I believe she can omnicap.
I also get Leanne a lot of level ups. More than what I show here.
I won't be showing every single level up because that's just way too many images (and also I fumbled one of the shots anyway), but here's a before and after.
Leanne has now capped all her stats except HP (which she can only do with a HP level up every time). Strength, which has a 0% growth, can only start growing when she's got 5 stat caps (for BEXP) or all 7 (normal).
The time for Paragon is past. Provoke will help make sure Ena gets plenty of combat for that Strike rank.
Elincia is going to switch to Blossom to make sure she gets one hell of an ending level set.
The apology of Serenes will be forged through... OK, this probably isn't gay, but these two would get along. I probably could've done this sooner, but still. Fun fact: these two do get a faster Support speed. I... actually don't really get this one. Maybe it is because Leanne accepted the PoR Apology for Sanaki.
Friendship ended with Mia, now Jill is Mist's girlfriend again. Yes, this is the first chance we've had for this. Maybe if you early recruited Jill in 3-7, or if you sent Jill to Greil Army instead of Silver.
On the top, we have Ike and the Black Knight. On the bottom, we have the last hurrah of the Begnion Empire, led by Levail and blessed by Ashera to be Disciples of Order.
The Black Knight is the commander of the opposing army, and of course, he has no Authority.
Here is our Ike. He has everything he really needs to take on the Black Knight through BEXP alone.
The Black Knight, as a reminder. It's more than possible to double him, but that Strength and that Defence are still massive.
...Didn't you use to have Imbue? In Easy Mode, the game quietly takes Imbue off the Black Knight, which helps our goal of "having an Ike that can take this guy on just BEXP". Because Normal Mode BEXP costs more, it's a lot harder to do that sort of thing there.
Levail is a fairly solid all-around Lancer with the ultimate SS Lance, a weapon that brings 1-2 range along with its ludicrous Might. Don't take this boy lightly.
Especially since he also brings Resolve. +14 Skill and +12 Speed could mean business.
You have two Authority stars? The Black Knight should've let you keep command of the south side. Then again, that might mean we get Micaiah leading our guys.
Enemies will reappear in the south nigh infinitely while Ike deals with the Black Knight. If you want to stall a little bit and let them appear, move Ike from left to right this far away. The Black Knight will copy Ike's movement parallel to him.
The first action on this side is for Nephenee to Shove Micaiah over.
That's because the second is for Nailah to Shove Ena.
Ena stans here, on top of a Cover tile, and Laguz Gems. She'll be here until most of the enemies are gone.
These guys are surprisingly big boys, so Jill breaks out the Tomahawk for this guy. Every archer I bring down is more safe space for the fliers.
Jill forgetting she's fine with being hit by them.
Mist: "Too late."
Mist can't even ORKO Warriors. Her Strength is an issue.
That helps.
That just makes me feel better about her stats.
Ilyana continues to crit on the redundant hit.
And Elincia's Blossom level?
Just what she needed!
Huh. I guess Sanaki wouldn't be doubling Swordmasters.
Micaiah puts on Nosferatu to make sure she has the edge on survivability in here.
Here's a bit of a glimpse at the tome in action.
And here's some Speed to make sure Micaiah keeps herself in good condition.
Ooh, Light rank too. That's her Light capped.
Sigrun and Astrid cleaning up the swordmasters.
...That also leaves Micaiah out of danger entirely. Good for her.
Leanne Vigours Nephenee so Meg and her can get in the game.
And Lyre here is mainly about controlling enemy movement. Er, somehow.
Time to attract attention. Oh hey, shouldn't Sigrun be more interesting, Mr Archer?
That's Meg omnicapped.
Everyone goes for Meg! She still has Provoke too, right?
Nephenee picks up a little bit, too.
Ah, there are the archers shooting at my pegasi. Both miss.
And Ena attracts some attention of her own.
She does not get doubles.
How cute. You're not dealing with armours in any hurry, are you?
Here's Sigrun demonstrating her newfound power as an omnicapped Seraph Knight.
And the Black Knight does as expected.
Four swordmasters just pop in without the usual teleporting glyph. For some reason, that's just how reinforcements are this map.
The hilarity of a Killer Axe being used in this manner.
More Concoctions!
The armours, Micaiah can Thani bomb.
Another level or two and Micaiah's BEXP requirements are going to be awesome. Although she might just not need that much of it.
Anything for a Leanne kill. That extra Skill Leanne got paying off.
[Actually, I have a splitting headache, but worry not. I’ll be fine when this foul war is over!]
Actually pretty fitting. Shame Sanaki doesn't speak a word of her language, but sounds good.
Sanaki is aiming over here, at this last archer.
And she's certainly doing something about it.
Nailah and Astrid move Leanne back a square, deciding the one she was on was too risky.
Elincia starts on this massive knot.
SS Swords! For what it's worth. If I had fewer SS Sword users, this would've mattered a lot more.
Ilyana switches to Wind for a change. I think this might also be necessary to make sure she gets the oneshot over Arcthunder.
Adept means this is also a kill.
After the other C Support bite, Jill needs it.
Well, that's the knot untied, and I still have a unit over here.
Skill cap.
Lyre is going to deal with one more archer.
And attract the Wind Edge Swordmaster. There's only one in the bunch.
Mist picks up her last level on a Halberdier that I wanted to go to Ena. Power of Provoke really fails her.
A swordmaster goes for Micaiah, and Micaiah is not scared.
Ena is getting doubled by things. 26 Speed is terrible.
Sigrun Vantages this one.
For her own level cap. This is honestly how Sigrun's levels normally feel.
Well, that's nearly everyone out on Turn 3.
Ena's been gettting some player phase success. I just want a lot more. I also want Ena to be giving me better rounds of combat.
Elincia goes in most boldly, she has the actual stats to gain.
Everyone else mostly stays out of range and leaves things to the people who care about the stats they still have to gain.
Resistance cap.
This is wrong on so many levels.
Reminder that she can't gain Strength unless HP is capped, too.
Micaiah's also got Staff Rank to grind, lest we forget.
Oh look, Resistance cap. One more level and the Micaiah stats are capped.
Not the kind of hit I was expecting.
These priests haven't done anything, but that doesn't mean I'm going to let them.
That wasn't necessary!
Oh hey, he had one of these.
Should I or shouldn't I... I won't. Ike stops stalling. When you do so, be sure to be standing on the tile Ike began the map on: It's a Cover tile, worth +10 Defence. You'll need it.
Levail maintaining his dignity. For whatever amount he ever possessed.
That was a lot of risk and a lot of danger if it connected.
Well, no Defence, but...
There's Elincia not oneshotting something with Stun. She didn't spare it, but you know...
These level ups continue to be most agreeable. Luck cap, certainly.
This is the Black Knight's final boss quote? Really, guys?
Ike finally gets to contribute! Wow, the Black Knight has accuracy issues right now.
Warriors in the west, halberdiers in the east.
Ena wants to fight the Halberdiers, since it's easier for me to clear their vicinity.
Micaiah's always a safe choice to get a kill with.
Oh joy, BEXP time!
Nephenee wants kills badly, she has Strength still to gain!
Astrid winds up with the last kill.
She still has need for EXP, even if she doesn't need the stats.
Elincia deals with the last General. So what's the plan for Levail, then?
Not Jill, clearly, Jill is taking out the priest.
Leanne approaches and has a chat with the man.
Levail actually values respect for his opponent highly. For a Begnion, a completely foreign concept that shocks Leanne.
I'm Vigouring this turn, but here's Sorrow, if I really hated his biorhythm. Valor is also here- that's a level 30 galdr that tops off the TP gauges of laguz.
Sanaki pulls out this guy's name and face and realises she can ask some questions.
And she has some damn good questions right now.
That answers one question: it is not the Senate who stands at the end of the chain of command in which the Black Knight is a part.
That just leaves us with several more questions to ask, though.
Could've had me fooled.
...How does one take down that barrier, anyway?
So much for that plan. We are way out of position to be of any aid to Ike at this point.
WHAT HAPPENED TO "WE ARE NOT YOUR ENEMY"?
OK, I say that, and the conversation ends here, but...
Levail legitimately won't attack Sanaki. He also won't attack Micaiah, either (his conversations reveal he's under orders not to do that specifically), but clearly the Disciples are not on the same page.
I don't really want to feed Levail to someone who's level 20, so I have Lyre weaken him for Elincia.
Oh right, Rend.
By the way, Lyre was actually most of the way to a level up and didn't secure it with this kill. She got like 24 EXP out of killing Levail.
You can spare this man, but there's no plot consequences for doing so.
You won't get this, though. With this acquired, we're free to focus on the Black Knight in totality.
There are two main approaches to the Black Knight fight. First of all, you can use Ragnell, a Sword with a +5 Defence bonus. This is the safer option, and if you'll notice, this Ike can easily kill him without worrying about the damage he's taking back. By the way, Ike does cap Speed high enough that he can double the Black Knight, mine just hasn't.
The Hammer is the surprisingly effective option. Ike starts with A Axes on promotion, more than enough to use the humble D-Rank Hammer, and it has a surprisingly high hit chance on the guy. And he is technically an armour unit... this almost feels cheap, but they didn't have to assign "armoured" to the specially crafted Black Knight class.
I don't like either of those methods. I did use them both, of course, once. But for this run especially, I'm going to... throw them away.
The only weapon I need...
is right...
Yes, I gave Ike two Arms Scrolls in Axes so he could wield Dad's axe. Yes, there is no good mechanical reason to use Urvan over Ragnell or the Hammer. But there's just something... fitting about it. The Black Knight wants to see Gawain at the height of his power. Ike's going to prove that, if Gawain had not crippled himself, he totally could have kicked the Black Knight's ass without Ragnell.
Meanwhile, over on this side, Ena picks up Strike S. All dragon tribes gain +10 Hit along with +5 Might for Strikes, which means Ena likes these more than usual.
Swordmaster bundle this turn.
Ena is going to select a few to kill for herself, including this guy. He's on Cover right now, to be quiet honest.
Jill safely cuts this guy down a tad.
[Oh, dear, how do I say that? Their language is foul on my lips!]
Leanne is adorable in her Supports. Sad I couldn't get one off the ground sooner.
At least I have her overbearing power.
Micaiah gets a Staff rank.
Elincia gets a kill.
And everyone else gets lost.
Ike slightly cheats and uses an Elixir. Ultimately, I didn't have to use one, I just had to not act this turn, but tunnel vision on always performing a beneficial action.
This is probably payment enough. Ena didn't get to kill everyone on our side of the barrier! I wanted to Hammerne Mist's Florete! I wanted some more kills for Ena and Elincia!
The Black Knight has been vanquished at last.
That took a lot out of of both of them.
Remember back in 3-P, where Ike talked about learning from Skrimir?
“To be honest… I was overjoyed when I heard that the Black Knight was still alive. That surprised me… I felt neither sadness nor hate. Just joy. My hands were shaking with anticipation. I couldn’t wait to fight my most formidable enemy again!”
For some reason, this line here is only played if Tibarn came into the tower. I presume it's to connect to the Tibarn-exclusive speech before the map, but there's otherwise no real reason to exclude this line. This seems to not be a well-known scripting tidbit: it completely slipped my mind I missed this line until I went on Pegasusknight.com and saw "If you have Tibarn, you get this."
Content-wise, this is one of the bits of Ike's admiration of the Black Knight that feels weird. I guess the presence of Tibarn is influencing Ike to be a more Chaotic person.
Ike's actually in the habit. Ike started to use a little Black Knight to become the man he is today.
That he was. Gawain was quite a character, all right. It's kinda neat, really, that we, the player, don't truly know "how" strong Gawain really is mechanically. Even if Greil had stats in PoR (he does, kinda, but they're not set in stone), that's Greil, and not Gawain.
This line is hilarious if Ike used the Hammer method. It kinda is with the Urvan method, too.
- Zelgius:
- 私が剣の指南を受けた頃の
ガウェイン将軍は
比類なき強さだった。
あの方を超えることが…
私の剣の…終着点だった……
- Ike:
- 俺は…あんたの剣を通して
一番強かった頃の
親父の剣を見ていたんだな。
It's also a bit of a mistranslation: Ike is commenting on how Zelgius had a little of Gawain in the movement of his sword. It looks like Zelgius wasn't the only guy who got to fight Gawain at his prime.
Zelgius got what he was after. A thorough ass kicking by the best swordsman he ever knew.
There's a bit of a "does he really deserve this pathos" question with the Black Knight and Ike in particular. That's probably at least partially because of how evil the PoR Black Knight was- the RD Black Knight has a lot of his edges sanded off, but he still has a powerful position in both Ike's mind and the player's as not only Greil's killer, but Ashnard's right hand man. But I think it's only fair that we at least send off General Zelgius, the man who saved us from the Begnion Army more times than anyone on our side- save perhaps Soren- really did.
Zelgius, for his part, has his own character arc that's been completely hidden from the player until now (well, it'll wait a bit for us), but this is him at its ending: knowing that he did something for this world.
They hide part of his name, but it's kinda obvious who this person is, owing to the fact that "Zelgius serves Sephiran directly" isn't much of a secret on the grand stage of Tellius.
Zelgius's final words: ラン様
Sephiran's name: セフェラン
There's a kinda interesting reveal in the JP version because of how much of Sephiran's name is missing that the translation doesn't capture, which is why the moment is so weird. The last character is, of course, Sephiran's honorific. If you wanted to translate this to preserve what the JP version allows, it would be written "...ran".
So long, and thanks for all the Lunas.
I think this is because Micaiah ended the last map holding a staff, but her run cycle is weird. I'm not sure why using a staff would be causing this. It's also making her move pretty slow.
It's time to go.
- Yune:
- アイクはいま、
嬉しい？ 悲しい？
- Ike:
- …………
……よく分からんが、
多分………どっちもだ。
- Yune:
- そう…
Seems we're not the only ones conflicted about how much to mourn him.
...Alondite?
Magic swords doing magic things, but this is the only time anything like this ever happens.
Ragnell and Alondite have been kept apart long enough.
Something's telling me these won't be used together again.
A memory sequence begins! This particular memory sequence only plays if you've fulfilled some secret conditions- those being:
- Are on Clear Data.
- Deployed the Black Knight in 1-E.
- Had Ike and the Black Knight spar, but not kill one another, in 3-7.
This CG should look a little familiar to you.
We're flashbacking to just after Gawain's last moments.
The moment he killed Elena. He seems to have needed to sleep off that moment. Fair enough. But in the middle of the street? That can't be healthy.
I wonder how much of this Sephiran saw coming.
Oh boy, welcome to one of the less healthy parts of the game. This cutscene is actually voice acted. I don't want to say bad things about whoever they hired to play child Mist here, but this voice is the most agonising sound I have ever heard- I at least partially blame the slight reverb effect on the voices, it must've been a poor balance for the voice used. It makes me glad there's no individual uploads of these voiced memories so I'm not tempted to share these, but if you go looking up this scene, turn the volume down and try not to be using headphones when you get to this part.
Mist'll be doing most of the talking in this scene, for some reason. The fact she is walking, talking, and capable of logical reasoning in this scene could tell us a lot about her age, but we already know it's roughly ten years before PoR and Mist was 15 in that game- so she should be somewhere around 4-6 here. Why didn't Begnion hire this baby as Empress?
I'm not even necessarily sure Gawain had a wife before he left Zelgius. Zelgius recognised Elena, but that's because Elena is currently important to the plot on her own merits.
...This'll be a conversation for her.
Sephiran lets her down gently, leaving it to Gawain to break the bad news.
Mist declares she and Ike will drag their parents back home.
All Ike has to say is an ellipsis. There's a few lines that automatically went by without voice or input before the next quote. I'm not sure why that happened, but I didn't catch them all.
Mist doesn't understand what happened to Ike.
Zelgius, the big grownup capable of lifting his own weight, volunteers to move Gawain to a better place to take a nap.
Sephiran stays with Elena and performs some kind of funeral rite for her.
Well, duh. The more surprising thing is that you ever "allowed" him access to it in the first place. That thing should've been under lock and key with the herons- although I suppose they did get genocided and can't exactly contest that right now.
Mist, 4-6 year old, is aware of how dangerous the knowledge of this medallion is and rushes to hide it from these strangers. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depeneding on your point of view, these two knew Gawain possessed it.
Sephiran realises how awful an idea it would be to have to deal with Chaos Mist and goes into instinct mode.
But Mist is an avatar of Order and can hold the medallion without going Berserk.
Yeah, this'll be fun to explain why you have to bury sleeping mum out back.
Ike has still not contributed to this scene in any way.
Sephiran has twigged on to why. Ike saw his father kill his mother with his own eyes. At roughly the age of 8.
Mist still isn't even aware of what happened.
Sephiran uses another spell, and Ike starts screaming. These are child Ike's only lines in this scene, and presumably because of that, the screams are very clearly coming from an adult Ike. Whether this is supposed to be interpreted as the real Ike screaming in union with his child self or just bad direction in a scene that also let child Mist happen is anyone's guess.
You don't want to know, Mist. You don't want to know.
Ike grabs onto Mist so tightly that it hurts. At this point, a model appears over in the far right of the screenshot, up the road. Looking closely, I think it's the game "trying" to hide Mist's standalone model until Ike's done eating it for his own animation, but the first time I noticed it, I had ideas about what it really was...
Sephiran's trying to figure it out...
And Sephiran knocks the kids out.
Sephiran has a bout of philanthropy and helps Ike out because he is there and needs help.
Give him ten years, then let it haunt him.
Ultimately, Zelgius would attempt to steal the medallion from Mist after all.
Unlike usual with the Memories, Ike saw this one.
Yune is trying to connect it with the other Memories...
Ike is feeling thirteen years of artificially repressed trauma come out of its hidey-hole.
Yune wasn't fully aware of her surroundings. If she was, she might have some measure of guilt over what happened, since by all accounts, she was the most at fault for what happened that day.
"Just stealing your sword."
This is where the diversion into the Memory concludes. Ike always takes Alondite, though.
Ah, Ike...
And another Memory in rapid succession! You can tell one of them was bonus content, and probably the one in a different format!
This is the same voice with which Misaha spoke to, and it seems he bumped into another Branded.
There's an untold story in that "...". There usually is.
Well, the fangirls have just gotten a nice healthy chunk of eye candy. Almost the entirety of this memory has this guy's bare back or front right in the CG shot. It's not a bad body.
He's talking about the pain and misery his back mark has brought him, though. Although I'm told most fangirls would find that enhances the attractiveness of a man, rather than decreases it.
Such is the life of the Branded.
Removing the mark would be one thing. Removing the rest of it...
Wishful thinking. You never know when that random question that popped into your head has an answer you weren't expecting.
The voice actor intones this as a question, but I think it's not intended to be one. There's a few cases where I think the VA and the writer disagreed on how to say the line.
In the original script, the next line comes up first, so this is in response to a question rather than a new conversation topic in itself. This probably didn't help.
I think that's because he's a Fire Emblem character and having multiple sprites is a feat reserved for the leads. And Brom.
Because he ages out of it? Because he'll be kicked out for an expired tenure? Seems an odd thing to be concerned about with the information we have.
- Soldier:
- 人に…姿を見られるのが嫌なのです。
５年ほど前から…どうやら
成長に遅れが出てきたようで…
気味が悪いと噂されるのが恐ろしくて……
- Lord Sage:
- それでも…いずれ限界はやってくる。
- Soldier:
- わかっています。
数年後には除隊して
他所の土地に行くしかない。
It is the "not aging being creepy" thing.
Not a pleasant fate, though.
...Brings a tear to your eye, the thing he'll mourn.
Our memory man has an alternative suggestion for him, though.
"...similar condition". The speaker is not Branded himself, but he understands not being beorc or laguz.
What a shock to this man, to feel wanted by somebody. You almost want to give him a hug.
Oh boy... this line. This is so encouraging, but at the same time...
"Redeemed." That's the word he wants to hear. He hasn't even done anything wrong yet other than be born.
Redemption does not lie down this path. But neither does loneliness...
And these two join together to accomplish this mission.
It wasn't much of a surprise, especially from context, but it's interesting they have this revealing quote at the end here. I feel like this would also be something both characters would've already done by now.
And to whom, might I ask, does this memory belong?
No, he's not telling yet. They want a big reveal.
These memories... who's leaving them? Why can Yune see them? We don't actually get answers to these questions, but they do tell us quite a bit about the lore and we do know who they belong to, so I'm not inclined to question them.
Yune will do enough of it for us.
We don't know who one of these people is and we have mixed feelings about the other, but this speech alone manages to make me cry. Perhaps it's the detachment that's talking about the feelings in general. Unfortunately, it's time for me to interrupt it slightly:
Micaiah. You’re sad, too, aren’t you? You wished that the Black Knight could have stayed by your side.
This line is from the Japanese version, and got properly translated and everything, but the game just outright doesn't call it for some reason. Which is a shame, because the localisers loved fleshing out Micaiah and this does a good job of that. Micaiah and Zelgius were fond of one another when they knew each other, but they never got the chance to discuss their time as Branded.
And now he has passed.
This one additional word that sneaks into a text box was powerful enough for me to show off. Damn. Poor guy.
And we get a jingle to show off we got the Black Knight's special sword. In my case, I also had to choose something of Ike's to send to the convoy because his inventory was full. Whiplash.
The real problem is finding enough people to use it on.
Next time: The blessed.
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