Past Sins (Louverance's Path)/Plot Details

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!Script !Video Is Ulmia... How is she doing?
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 * colspan="2"| Southern Legend - Tavnazian Safehold
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 * Despachiaire: Player name...

Louverance: Greetings, Despachiaire. It has been too long.

Despachiaire: Sir Louverance!

Louverance: You need not worry. She is fine. Player name and I travel the world in search of a truth--a single truth that will restore light to Vana'diel and her children.

Louverance: Your granddaughter embraces the same goal we do, and she will not give up until she has reached it.

Despachiaire: I can sleep easier knowing that such a noble knight as yourself is watching over my dear Ulmia. However, she is often one to hide her true feelings away from others, even though she may be in pain.

Despachiaire: You... You are not causing her any pain, are you?

Louverance: Ulmia is a very strong-willed young woman. She understands the responsibilities that lie before her and will not cower before them.

Louverance: That is why she blamed herself for not knowing more about the painting of Al'Taieu kept in the Tavnazian Cathedral's reliquiarium.

Despachiaire: W-what!?

Louverance: Lady Ulmia is not a theologian of the cathedral. No one expects her to know of the painting. However...

Despachiaire: Exactly! There is no way she could know of the painting. She was only a mere child when the piece was donated to the cathedral. Oh, why must you blame yourself, poor Ulmia?

Despachiaire: Sir Louverance! I know some of the history behind the painting. Let me tell you of what I know.

Despachiaire: Long ago, I helped in the transport of the relic to the cathedral. Much tumult arose as a result of bringing that painting here.

Louverance: Your assistance is greatly appreciated, Despachiaire. I will relay everything you tell me to your granddaughter.

Despachiaire: Yes... It was some twenty-five years ago that the painting was brought to the archipelago.

Despachiaire: According to the marquisate officials, the painting was found deep within ancient ruins known as the Temple of Uggalepih.

Despachiaire: It is said that the painting depicts a scene in the verse of a legendary song--the ancients and their attempt to open the Gates of Paradise...

Despachiaire: Yes, I remember it like it was yesterday... A gate of light hovering over a grand city... The gatekeeper roaring to the heavens...

Despachiaire: The gatekeeper took the shape of a mighty dragon. However, his four legs were bound by mighty shackles.

Despachiaire: This image was the strongest in the painting. Many of the missionaries that came to view the painting would often call it the relic of chains, or the relic of the dragon.

Louverance: I see... So at that time the identity of the city was still unknown...

Despachiaire: Yes, until Cardinal Mildaurion viewed the painting. It was she who told us the city was Al'Taieu.

Despachiaire: As punishment for defying the gods, the city of Al'Taieu was destroyed and banished to the bottom of the northern sea. After the cardinal revealed the truth of the painting, many a canticle was sung of this legend. There wasn't a soul in Tavnazia who had not heard one while sipping down a glass of brew in the local pub.

Louverance: However... Why did the cardinal know of the city and its legend?

Despachiaire: Though I may be mistaken, I seem to recall that before arriving in Tavnazia, Mildaurion was a priest who wandered the Outlands on a quest for spiritual enlightenment.

Despachiaire: I have also heard tales that many of the holy relics that reached the archipelago were brought from the Outlands by thieves and pirates. Perhaps the cardinal obtained her knowledge of Al'Taieu in these forsaken areas.

Louverance: The Outlands... I see...

Despachiaire: Yes, I also remember how a group of Mithra came from those Outlands, demanding that we return the painting to the temple.

Louverance: I, too, have heard that tale. After a long series of talks, the cardinal was able to convince the Mithra to allow the painting to remain in Tavnazia, without defacing the honor of the cathedral.

Despachiaire: We were relieved, and with those Mithra beasts gone, we could go back to our normal, everyday lives.

Louverance: Mithra... Perhaps they know more of the painting...

Louverance: Despachiaire, would you happen to recall the names of the Mithra or exactly where they came from?

Despachiaire: I do not remember their names. I do not think they were ever referred to by anything other than the title of "sin hunters."

Louverance: Sin hunters. Assassins sent from the Mithran homeland to do the dirty work of the Grand Chieftainess...

Louverance: So this painting must be of great importance to their race...

Despachiaire: Sir Louverance. A young Mithran sin hunter visited the safehold a number of days ago.

Despachiaire: If you can find her, she may be able to better inform you of the secrets behind the painting.

Louverance: A sin hunter...was here!?

Louverance: Excellent... Despachiaire, I thank you very much for your assistance. I will heed your advice and begin a search for this Mithra.

Louverance: A sin hunter in Tavnazia... A quite unexpected turn of events, wouldn't you say, Player name?

Louverance: Let us travel to Windurst and inquire with the chieftainess about the sin hunters and the painting they desire.
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