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You have seen the plain called
Morytha, have you not? |
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That is what remains of my world. |
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When I opened the Conduit,
many people and many things... |
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disappeared, into distant dimensions. |
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All that remained here were the ruins of Morytha... |
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and half of my body. |
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[ML:undisp ]! |
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Your...body... |
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Half of me lives on in some other dimension. |
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But...not for much longer. |
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What do you mean? |
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The moment of my other self's
demise draws near. |
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Father, you... |
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I was a fool. |
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Because of my foolishness, I lost everything. |
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Left here, alone and broken, I longed for oblivion...
But even that eluded me. |
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This is my punishment... |
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Retribution from on high, for the sin I have committed... |
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On high...? |
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There was only one thing I could do... |
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I had to atone for my sin. |
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I swore to restore this world. |
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The first thing I created... |
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was a special particulate substance with
the ability to restore deteriorated matter. |
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You all know it as the Cloud Sea. |
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The Cloud Sea can disassemble
matter it comes in contact with, |
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and rebuild it in the image of all the things
that once made up this world. |
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This way, little by little I could rebuild
the world I had brought to ruin... |
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Next, I began to recreate life. |
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I gathered miniature vessels containing memories
of all this planet's former lifeforms, |
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and I scattered them across the Cloud Sea.
These are the Core Crystals. |
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The Crystals bonded with the Cloud Sea's
particulate reconstructors... |
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and formed the nuclei of new life. |
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Those nuclei developed into minute lifeforms- |
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the Titans-who would over time grow larger and larger. |
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Finally, the Titans gave birth |
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to complex organisms, based on the
data in their Core Crystals. |
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This newly-birthed life, over untold millennia... |
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evolved into a new breed of mankind. |
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So that's how we came to live in this world... |
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But I did not trust this world,
born as it had been. |
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What if it were to repeat our mistakes? |
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What if someone like me appeared? |
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To stave off these doubts,
I implemented one final measure. |
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And so the Blades were born. |
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[ML:undisp ]Ah! |
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Ontos, Logos and Pneuma... |
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the three cores of the Trinity Processor formed their cornerstone. |
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However... Ontos triggered a space-time
transition event, and disappeared forever. |
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I was left with the other two, Logos and Pneuma,
entrusting them with managing the Blades. |
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Malos and Pyra... |
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Those are the names that you now know them under. |
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So, I am... Pneuma... |
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'Managing'? |
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The Core Crystals at the heart of each Blade |
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are tasked with relaying all kinds of
information to Logos and Pneuma... |
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About the selection pressures of the outside world,
and the biological status of their bonded human, |
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but also the experiences and emotions they share. |
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As the data continually accrues... |
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new evolutionary code is sent back
to the Core Crystals, |
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and this code is used to create
new, further evolved Blades. |
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These Blades too become Titans, in time, |
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and create new generations of lifeforms... |
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This was the new circle of life I had created. |
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A grand scheme... |
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It boggles the mind a tad. |
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So we were all born from
this endless cycle of life... |
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To replace the victims of the previous world. |
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That's right. |
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But there were also a handful of survivors. |
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I believe you saw them when you were in Morytha. |
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The unfortunate ones who clung to life... |
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[ML:undisp ]Ahh...! |
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You mean those monsters...
Were they...originally people? |
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Core Crystals were first conceived as
a replacement for human brain cells. |
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A product of mankind's age-old quest for immortality. |
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And that's what became of them...? How awful. |
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But that technology became the starting point
for the creation of Blades and Titans. |
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So in one sense, their sacrifice was not in vain... |
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Though not all may see it as such. |
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So, tell us. In the end... |
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Did we develop as you had hoped? |
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What do you think? |
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I...couldn't possibly... |
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Well...
Those phantasms which you all experienced earlier... |
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Those are feelings that lurk in all of your hearts. |
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...As well as that man, Amalthus's... |