The Warrior's Path/Plot Details

===Cutscenes===
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===Game Script===
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The Warrior's Path (pt.1) - Sealion's Den
Jabbos: It's too...quiet...
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!
The Warrior's Path (pt.2) - Sealion's Den
Tenzen: I expected nothing less from the light of hope... 
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!
The Warrior's Path (pt.1) - Al'Taieu
Louverance: What happened...?
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....!
The Warrior's Path (pt.2) - Al'Taieu
???: It all began with a stone...
???: 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...?