While none among us ever doubted that the Empire would one day resume its war, we scarcely had means enough to solve the problems of the present.Īye, which is why we looked to others to safeguard our future─ For all our failings, the people's well-being has ever been our foremost priority. While we labored to rebuild their lives, the Black Wolf built instruments of murder with which to end them. Our enemy condemns us for failing our people, yet what does he care for their well-being? If our words served to kindle it in them anew, better we speak than remain silent. You said only that which the people needed to hear. I've made good on not a bloody one.ĭo not blame yourself, Raubahn. I put on a grand show at the remembrance service, made all manner of lofty promises. Refugees flood our gates, and beastmen swarm our land, while the great and the good do nothing. Nor can I rightly claim that Ul'dah is ready to fight. Not that I deny there is truth in what you say. Though neither of you cried “surrender,” your every word betokened it. But conciliation need not mean oppression.īy the Twelve. Mistake me not, I do not propose to trade one tyranny for another. Long have we fought the primals, but to what end? We strike them down at no small cost, only for them to rise again and again.Īre we to play this profitless game for the rest of days? I for one grow tired of it. What meaningful resistance can we offer? We who struggle to quell the foes who rise up within our own borders. If the combined might of three primals could not stay Garlemald's new terror. It has been five years since the Calamity, and our people have scarce begun to rebuild their lives.Ĭan we now, in good conscience, call upon them to risk what little they have left? I would spare them the pain of further conflict.Ĭonflict, I say, though that would imply forces set in opposition. But if this weapon of theirs can do all they claim. I'm sorry? You're here on behalf of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn!? A thousand pardons, my lady/lord! Of course you may enter! I must ask that you step away from the doors, madam/sir. The council of the Alliance leaders is presently in progress in the Fragrant Chamber. Let us hurry to them,, and ensure that they do not act in ignorance of the consequences. That which the Black Wolf offers will doom Eorzea, not deliver it, and the leaders must be made aware of this. Yet nothing could be further from the truth.
They have gathered in the Fragrant Chamber, and are deliberating their answer even as we speak.īeleaguered as they are, I fear they may well elect to lay down their arms in the belief that surrender will spare their people untold suffering. It seems that word of the Ultima Weapon's existence has already reached the Alliance leaders.in the form of an ultimatum.