The Warrior's Path/Plot Details

Could it be...the wyrms...haven't...noticed us...?

Shikaree Z: The armada led by Lady Mildaurion must have begun its attack.

Shikaree Z: I wonder how the battle fares.

Ulmia: Great Goddess of the Dawn.
May your divine blessings protect the fifth mothercrystal--and the future of your children.

Ulmia: May your gentle gaze also watch over the safe return of Cardinal Mildaurion...

Prishe: Don't forget to pray for our safety while you're at it, Ulmia.

Prishe: Look, there it is!

Prishe: Full speed ahead!

Ulmia: Oh my!

Louverance: Lady Prishe!
We have a transmission from the warship:

Louverance: "Attention!
Your most prized possession is now the property of the Chebukki Samurai Sky Pirates!"

Prishe: What the hell!?

Kukki-Chebukki: Welcome to the Celestial Invincible Delver Kukki Battle Cruiser!

Cherukiki: Welcome to the Celestial Invincible Delver Cherukiki Flagship!

Makki-Chebukki: A beautiful day for a sad announcement.

Makki-Chebukki: We've decided to give up our occupation as high-class pirates.

Makki-Chebukki: As a final high-class pirate duty, we were entrusted with this ship for the purpose of escorting Prishe safely to her destination.

Kukki-Chebukki: But since that would lead to certain death...

Cherukiki: We've decided to find more suitable (and survivable) employment...

Makki-Chebukki: We're not the Chebukki Samurai Sky Pirates!
Meet our new employer!

Tenzen: The mothercrystals...

Tenzen: The origin of all life, and the destination for spent souls...

Tenzen: All return to the light of the closest crystal...

Tenzen: I have long awaited this moment.
The moment you were bathed in the glow...

Tenzen: The light of the fifth mothercrystal beckons you!

Never before has my blade failed me in battle.

Tenzen: So...
Only the youth that seethes with Emptiness can extinguish that light...

Prishe: Here comes the cavalry!

Makki-Chebukki: The cannon!?

Kukki-Chebukki: The cannon!?

Cherukiki: We totally forgot!

Kukki-Chebukki: How could we forget!?

Prishe: This stops right now!

Prishe: I know what you're thinking, samurai guy!
But this is a battle without honor!

Tenzen: ...

Prishe: I know what Phoenix told you before she died.

Prishe: That flaming bird knew everything from the start but failed to let you in on the facts.
Why should you follow her orders now?

Tenzen: You possessed the same knowledge, Lady Prishe!
That is why you brought Lord/Lady Player name to this place!

Prishe: That's right!
But I didn't lie to anyone!

Prishe: I didn't bring Player name here to die!

Prishe: Player name is here to join in our struggle for survival!

Shikaree Z: This place!

Jabbos: This is...the...fifth...?

Ulmia: But why does only this crystal glow with such a strange incandescence...?

Ulmia: The air here is so chilly.
The other crystals exuded such a sense of warmth and peace...

???: (This crystal is not a part of Vana'diel.)

Selh'teus: (This crystal was submerged beneath the city of Al'Taieu ten thousand years ago.)

Selh'teus: (When the celestial captial was torn from our world, the crystal was also lost.)

Selh'teus: (But it was not a complete separation.)

Selh'teus: (After the Crystal Line was reactivated, energy was siphoned from the fifth mothercrystal...)

Selh'teus: (Drawing it and the city of Al'Taieu back to Vana'diel.)

Prishe: In other words, the crystal was losing the power it needed to sustain Al'Taieu in the other dimension.

Louverance: Sustain Al'Taieu?

Shikaree Z: This is the crystal that the Wyrmking spoke of?

Prishe: Yep.
The weakened state of this overgrown quartz is the reason that the Keeper of the Apocalypse is threatening to descend upon Vana'diel.

Jabbos: So if...the power...of the crystal...is restored?

Tenzen: The return of Al'Taieu and the arrival of the keeper will be prevented.

Tenzen: This solution was discovered by the boy Selh'teus--and by Phoenix, the fiery bird of rebirth.

Tenzen: That is why he has visited each of the remaining crystals in turn:
To relieve them of their light and power...

Tenzen: And to pour that energy into the crystal that lies before us.

Selh'teus: (However, I am a child of darkness. I could never be the bearer of light.)

Selh'teus: (I needed a worthy receptacle for that power. I needed you.)

Prishe: I'm sure you've noticed it by now, Player name.
Your ability to hear the whisper of the soul...

Prishe: Passed through the medium of the amulet, the light gathered from the four crystals has changed you.

Tenzen: Phoenix referred to you as the "Vessel of Light."

Tenzen: Fated to be smashed open before the fifth mothercrystal...

Selh'teus: (Your journey has been for the sake of the crystal.)

Selh'teus: (Your adventure is now at an end.)

Selh'teus: (Return, Player name. Return to the light of the crystal.)

(Your death is the only way to save both Vana'diel and her people...)

???: Like hell!

Prishe: Selh'teus!
If you mean to save both the world and everyone in it, then someone inhuman like you or me should be sacrificed!

Prishe: And you, Tenzen!
Phoenix, the avatar of rebirth, can't have led you this far just to snuff out Player name's life!

Prishe: Surely she meant to resurrect the shattered pieces of Player name's spirit using her own lifeforce!

Prishe: I was the Keeper of the Apocalypse once.
I know only too well the fear and horror that await us.

Prishe: But you gotta listen to me, Selh'teus!
Pour the energy of the fifth mothercrystal into Player name!

Prishe: His/Her victories against the Emptiness and everything else we've faced have not been won through the power of the four crystals alone.

Prishe: Player name has an inner strength.
A spirit that loves this world and those who dwell upon it.

Prishe: That's why I believe he/she will prevail against the keeper!

Prishe: Selh'teus!
Open the way to Al'Taieu!

Nag'molada: I, too, wish for the way to be opened.

Tenzen: Nag'molada!?

Nag'molada: Didn't you once say the same thing, Selh'teus?

Nag'molada: "I will prevail against the diety that dwells beyond the Gate of the Gods. Open the way to Al'Taieu."
Weren't those the words you used?

Nag'molada: Do you not find it unfair that only she should bear the sins of people?

Nag'molada: We ancients are all responsible for these events.
I shall shoulder my part of the burden.

Nag'molada: And the power that comes with it...

Prishe: Nag'molada! No....!

???: In ages past, the five crystals existed as one enormous jewel that bathed the world in holy light.

???: This mystical light banished the Emptiness and brought mighty gods...

???: These gods cultivated their power and concentrated their energies.

???: They created a balance between the eight elements of the world without, and a harmony for the myriad senses of the world within.

???: And so, an eternal paradise blessed in all ways was born...

???: But this paradise did not last forever.

???: The enormous jewel was split into five parts, and this perfect realm degraded into an incomplete world...

???: We were reduced from the superior life forms of a higher plane into these flawed and insignificant forms.

???: Thus, we must gather and focus the energy of the crystals into opening a gate to that lost dimension.

???: We are both well aware of this predicament.

???: And yet, there is one thing I simply cannot understand:

???: How did this tragedy occur in the first place?

???: Why was the original stone shattered into five parts?
Who is responsible for this incomprehensible act?

Yve'noile: The people of this world have evolved into five unique species, each harboring a distinctive darkness.

Yve'noile: Crystal warriors.
Thou wert created to destroy those evils.

Yve'noile: Yet even thy strength canst not prevail against this darkness.

Yve'noile: Emptiness.
'Tis the ever-present shadow of blessed light.

Yve'noile: If this phenomenon represents complete death, then one could argue its presence was inevitable in a complete world.

Yve'noile: Thus thou split the crystal for thy children's sake...

Yve'noile: Is this not so, Great Goddess Altana...?