Zone
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Sublocation
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Coordinates
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Map
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Patch
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Labyrinthos
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Aporia
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(x:8.5, y:27.4)
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Map
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6.01
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Old Sharlayan
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Archons' Design
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(x:9.6, y:12)
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Map
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6.01
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Labyrinthos
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Aporia
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(x:8.7, y:27.5)
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Map
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6.01
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Labyrinthos
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Aporia
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(x:8.7, y:27.5)
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Map
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6.01
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The Aitiascope
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Aetherial Lens
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(x:12.2, y:11.5)
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Map
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6.4
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The Aitiascope
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Aetherial Lens
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(x:12.3, y:11.5)
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Map
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6.4
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The Aitiascope
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Aetherial Lens
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(x:11.8, y:11.3)
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Map
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6.4
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The Aitiascope
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Aetherial Lens
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(x:12.1, y:11.3)
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Map
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6.4
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The Aitiascope
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Aetherial Lens
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(x:12.1, y:11.5)
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Map
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6.4
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The Aitiascope
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Aetherial Lens (Area)
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(x:12, y:11.4)
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Map
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6.4
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The Aitiascope
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Aetherial Lens (Area)
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(x:12, y:11.4)
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Map
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6.4
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Gender
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Female
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Race
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Lalafell
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Clan
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Plainsfolk
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Body Type
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Adult
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Height
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(~37.2 inches)
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Bust Size
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Jaw
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Option 2
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Eye Shape
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Option 2
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Iris Size
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Large
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Eye Color
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Eyebrows
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Option 3
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Nose
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Option 3
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Ear Shape
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Option 1
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Mouth
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Option 1
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Ear Length
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Facial Features/Tattoos/Ear Clasp/Face Paint
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Weapon/Tools/Shield
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Default: The Crystal from Beyond
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From this moment on, our objective shall be to fill every cranny of this place with crystals! Surely the gleaners won't mind braving a few haunted battlefields—for the right price.
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After: Who Wards the Warders?
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Forename! Allow me to thank you personally for your contribution to our research. Your stories of the ancients' creations have planted the seeds of a great many theories, and I cannot wait for them to flourish!
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How goes the investigation? After: Who Wards the Warders?
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By Professor Claudien's order, our reports to the other research bodies have been somewhat scarce on concrete information.
Even if we wanted to go into further detail, there are too many unknown variables concerning how this crisis might affect our present...
We only know for certain that the crystal we found ties us to the past. We've had no luck eliciting further memories from its depths.
We're at present gathering as many soul crystals and shards as we can to conduct thorough comparisons, but those experiments have yet to bear fruit.
Of course, the fact that none but you can hear our enigma's voice to begin with puts something of a damper on our potential progress. Yet even so, Professor Claudien is doing all within his power to move things forward!
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Recount tales of Abyssos and beyond. After: Who Wards the Warders?
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Cutscene start.
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Nemjiji
Professor Claudien has asked me to write detailed records of your investigation. If you wouldn't mind staying for a while, I would ask you to tell me more of your adventures in the past.
Adventures that started with that mysterious crystal, seemingly containing a message declaring a crisis in this “Pandæmonium”... Of course, Professor Claudien will eventually make a report, but we are deficient on concrete facts at present.
To that end, I suppose a comprehensive catalog of the beasts you encountered in the “Asphodelos” circles would be a fine starting point. Yes...I require every gory detail, every hair-raising description!
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Nemjiji! I've brought the volumes you asked for, but...are you quite certain we need all of this just to research the crystals?
Some of these─Habitats of Aquatic Life-forms and Myths and Folklore of the Phoenix, for example─seem to have little bearing on the subject. In fact, many of these tomes seem to be related to the creatures of Pandæmonium Forename spoke of...
Surely we have better things to do with our time! Forename has already encountered and subdued them, so what use could further insight offer?
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Nemjiji
On the contrary, Ruissenaud, we would be remiss in our duty as academics not to take every opportunity to learn more of these subjects. To view the creatures of bygone times through the lens of modern science is a dream so few have the chance to achieve!
Of course, I'll not deny a personal interest in the matter.
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Hmph─as I thought. While there were enough relevant volumes for me to fulfill your request this once, if you wish to sate your appetite for knowledge again, might you do so on your own time?
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Nemjiji
Ahem, shall we proceed? Tell me everything you remember. And please, spare not a single detail─I don't easily frighten, you may be assured.
We might start with your battle with this transformed warder─Erichthonios, was it? I would also like to hear of the keyward and the nature of his metamorphosis.
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Cutscene end.
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Cutscene start.
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Nemjiji
Good, good. Thank you for this priceless information. While I'm disappointed I couldn't behold your foes with my own eyes, your stories have given me more than enough to write sufficiently lurid─I mean, thorough─descriptions.
Perhaps we should also include basic theories concerning the growth and behavior of these creatures. It would give our little catalog some flavor, wouldn't you agree?
We could start with... Ah, I have it! Aquatic life-forms in our time have been observed to grow sizes that are orders of magnitude larger than their larval forms.
In fact, it may not be so preposterous to posit that the hippokampos you encountered was merely the larval form of a much more massive─and dare I say, horrific─entity!
Now, don't look at me like I'm some mad magus. Breakthroughs have been precipitated by even wilder theories than that. As the professor always says─we mustn't let logic stand in the way of brilliance!
Until proven one way or the other, every hypothesis is a valid one. Ah, there is nothing quite like the ambrosia of inspiration!
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What will you say?
Are we making records or creating faerie tales?
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Your ideas are intriguing to me...
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Nemjiji
So long as I make a note in the margins of my records indicating that a theory is unproven, we can let our imaginations run wild! Yes, I said our─you needn't be a researcher to have an idea that will leave its mark for generations!
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Pandæmonium: Aphodelos (Savage)
Now Accessible
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A new high-end duty has been added to the Raid Finder.
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From this moment on, our objective shall be to fill every cranny of this place with crystals! Surely the gleaners won't mind braving a few haunted battlefields─for the right price.
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Recount tales of Asphodelos. After: One Final Wish
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Cutscene start.
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Forename, may I have a moment? If you would be so inclined, I would very much like to hear the story of your battles in Abyssos and Tartaros.
While I have no difficulty producing reports for the Forum with a general summation of events, I could use some help with the finer details. For the record, you know.
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Ruissenaud
For the record, you say? Come now, be honest and admit it's to sate your own curiosity. I've seen the tomes you've left scattered about the laboratory─bestiaries of creatures both real and imagined.
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I will not─and I daresay, should not─deny an intellectual stake in the matter. But surely Forename will understand that a thorough recounting will help Professor Claudien's research as well. Now then, whenever you're ready.
...Fascinating. As you say, the savage creation you encountered in Abyssos bears more than a few similarities to the Carbuncle. Could it be that the arcane entities we know now had their origins in ancient times?
Just as curious was your story of the keyward who was melded with a tree of legend... Where do the limits of the hemitheos creation process lie, I wonder? And how do such creatures even survive, once melded?
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Ruissenaud
As expected, you cannot help yourself from asking ever more questions─what purpose would such knowledge serve?
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Oh, Ruissenaud, one day you too shall develop the keen instincts of a researcher. Then you shall understand that it is impossible not to wonder, once the spark of imagination has been struck!
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Forename's stories have already set several theories stirring in my mind, and I feel even more bubbling just under the surface.
Take Hephaistos for example. It would not be a great leap to assume that he studied at length the regenerative and death-defying properties of the Phoenix. And that is just the tip of the proverbial berg!
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Ruissenaud
You are free to exercise your imagination all you like, but─need I remind you─these reports are meant to be submitted to Master Fourchenault himself. I implore you to exercise restraint.
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...Professor Claudien would have encouraged me, you know.
He thrives on theories and imagination. But I do understand your point, Ruissenaud─if I were to submit such a report to Master Fourchenault, I would soon thereafter be forced to write a formal apology.
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What will you say?
Fourchenault is more open to wild theories than you think.
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He doesn't look like someone you'd want to make mad.
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That very well may be! An academic does not achieve the station he has without a curiosity as deep as the aetherial sea itself.
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I was hoping you would be more supportive, Forename... Very well, I shall include only conjecture that is directly relevant to the contents of the report.
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Now I should set ink to paper, and let the wonder of theory guide my hand. Within reason, of course.
Yet I cannot help but dream ever larger─there are no bounds to what the mind can imagine! And if there are, let us both strive to find them, Forename!
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Pandæmonium: Abyssos (Savage)
Now Accessible
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A new high-end duty has been added to the Raid Finder.
Stone, Sky, Sea options have also been updated.
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Cutscene end.
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