Gate of Memoirs/A Thousand Bad Ends

The heroes of Galardhon are plunged into several potential timelines, each as painful as the last.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Beyond Bolts"	Music: "Beyond Bolts"
 	
*Zelion: Ah, but you are wondering: why am I seeing this? Eh, fool?
 	
*Luina: Hahahah! They do not understand the trap I have laid for them, master!
 	
*Zelion: Indeed! Your haste has doomed those that you sought to aid...
*Zelion: ...and even now they struggle and squirm in despair!
*Zelion: They are trapped in nightmares of their own making...
*Zelion: ...the consequence of shattering the Hall of Worlds!
*Zelion: And even that is a minor setback! We will use the world-walker to create a new Hall!
*Zelion: Conquest and victory shall be ours! Luina!
 	
*Luina: Y-Yes master!
 	
*Zelion: Show our foolish guest what hells their friends are enduring!
 	
*Luina: My pleasure, master!
 	
*A world of heroes and sorrows...
 	
*Gabriela: Faelan...Adriesta's...she's dead...
 	
*Faelan: Fire wood girl is gone?
 	
*Gabriela: Yes...it's all my fault...
 	
*Ilm: We must flee.
 	
*Gabriela: Flee where? How?
 	
*Faelan: So many stinky poo, water thing!
 	
*Ilm: I am still divining a way out. We need more time!
 	
*Gabriela: All right. T-Take Adriesta and this foo--
 	
*Gabriela: Urk!
 	
*Faelan: Water thing!
 	
*Gabriela: F-Faelan! What...
 	
*Ilm: Y-You are going, then.
 	
*Faelan: A wolf of the Isengrim a-always knows her way!
 	
*Faelan: Run away, packmates!
 	
*Ilm: I...understand. Die well, Faelan of the Isengrim.
 	
*Gabriela: No! NO!
*Gabriela: Let me go, Ilm! Let me go!
 	
*Gabriela: FAELAN! NO! FAELAAAAAAAAAAN!
 	
*Faelan: Awoooooooooooooooo!
 	
*...of friendships in despair...
 	
*Gabriela: We're surrounded, it seems.
*Gabriela: How are you feeling?
 	
*Adriesta: Strangely better. Well enough to fight, at least.
 	
*Eerikki: So do I!
 	
*Gabriela: No one was asking you, idiot.
 	
*Adriesta: Gabriela!
 	
*Eerikki: My apologies...
 	
*Adriesta: No matter. It all works out in the end. Faelan?
 	
*Faelan: I'm okay! I'm still looking for a road home, though...
 	
*Gabriela: Ilm? Any luck on that escape plan?
 	
*Ilm: I am still divining a way out. We need more time!
 	
*Adriesta: Well, hurr--
 	
*Gabriela: Faelan. Promise me one thing.
 	
*Faelan: Don't have to--
 	
*Gabriela: Live well, Faelan.
 	
*Faelan: Ha--let me go, dead woman! Let go!
 	
*Gabriela: Ilm, Eerikki. I'll make an openin--
 	
*Adriesta: We'll make an opening and buy you three time to escape.
 	
*Eerikki: I can fight!
 	
*Gabriela: You can fly, idiot, and you need that now more than ever!
 	
*Adriesta: Go.
 	
*Faelan: Let me go! I want to fight too!
 	
*Ilm: I...understand. Die well, then.
 	
*Gabriela: You and me.
 	
*Adriesta: And several thousand demons for company. Hey, that rhymed!
 	
*Gabriela: Really? Ugh.
*Gabriela: Thank you...
 	
*Adriesta: For what?
 	
*Gabriela: For staying. Here, take my hand.
 	
*Adriesta: Okay...woah! What was that?!
 	
*Gabriela: A-A portion of my power...and my soul. A meager inheritance...
*Gabriela: You'll need it.
 	
*Adriesta: O-Oh! T-Thanks...Gabriela Ninlil?
 	
*Gabriela: Indeed. And now, Adriesta Vastir...m-may I have this dance?
 	
*Adriesta: Only if you lead. I'm terrible at dancing.
 	
*...of immortal questions...
 	
*Ilm: They are dead.
*Ilm: Or they would be, if they had stayed.
*Ilm: I do not understand this feeling.
*Ilm: This is an illusion. I know that much.
*Ilm: But yet it is an unescapable reality for me.
*Ilm: I have divided myself countless times, diminishing myself to seek a path.
*Ilm: My eternal flame gutters out in failure, bit by bit.
*Ilm: They are not here. Only the enemy comes to accompany me in my final moments.
*Ilm: I have not divined a way out, but....
*Ilm: But I shall not permit their death.
*Ilm: Why? I do not understand. Death should not matter to me.
*Ilm: They should not matter to me.
 	
*Faelan: Strange water thing!
 	
*Gabriela: Ilm! What are you doing?!
 	
*Eerikki: Wha--
 	
*Adriesta: Il--
 	
*Ilm: But they do. A conundrum I do not believe I will comprehend.
*Ilm: Or do I not wish to comprehend it?
*Ilm: No matter. I have sent them away, to the place where I first met them.
*Ilm: That much, I can do, even as I slowly fade...
*Ilm: And yet I have glimpsed a world where their stories are not yet told...
*Ilm: A world where the Raug exist, not in fear, but in triumph.
*Ilm: I have sent a piece of myself to that world...
*Ilm: So, this is death. How cold.
 	
*...of futures drowning in defeat.
*But these things are not fixed, and should one shatter the nightmares...
*...the light of hope can still be made to shine brightly.