Gate of Memoirs/Once Forgotten

As secrets are laid bare, so is the truth...or is it?
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Sky Fort"	Music: "Sky Fort"
 	
*The creatures dissolve into shadow, leaving the possessed foliage a mess of melted darkness.
*Miell flinches at the gruesome sight, but quickly dispels them with a wave of her staff.
*Yet the giant was nowhere to be seen, having fled during the chaos.
 	
*Phaedra: What just... Who was that?
 	
*Miell: There were rumors of a giant in the forest, a shambling creature of steel, bark, and impenetrable hide.
*Miell: I didn't expect it to be linked with the impurities of the earth, nor how human it looked...
*Miell: He might be a restless shade of ages past. I've seen them from time to time, but none so...fierce.
*Miell: He seemed to pay special attention to you. Do you know if...?
 	
*Phaedra crosses her arms, gathering her thoughts.
Portrait	Dialogue
 	
*"Yes... That aura. So terribly familiar."
*"He always seemed to be there, just out of sight... Maybe even out of mind."
*"Ferociously loyal, yet... Almost gentle."
*"Who is he...?"
 	
*Phaedra: Miell, I have a feeling he may yet lurk around such ruins.
*Phaedra: Is there another one close by?
 	
*Miell: Further north, deep into the bowels of the forest, is a site of slaughter.
*Miell: A spirit of nature perished there by the ill-gotten fires of Man, and laid a curse on the land with her life.
*Miell: It is said that nothing grows there, so powerful is the dark poison...
 	
*Phaedra: Is that so...
*Phaedra: In any case, will you take me there?
*Phaedra: I rather suspect we will find him there...and answers in turn.
 	
*Miell: Well, all right. Follow me.
Portrait 	Dialogue
Music: "Overcome" 	Music: "Overcome"
 	
*—A deep northern grove.
*Years of neglect had transformed a once thriving woodland into a toxic swamp.
*As expected, the man stood alone in the center, his great frame trembling minutely.
 	
*Angahl: ... ...
 	
*Phaedra: You... 
*Phaedra: Who are you?
*Phaedra: What do you know about me?
 	
*Angahl: ...You... You are...
*Angahl: The one...I swore to...
 	
*Angahl: Urgh!
Music: "Dead God's Law"	Music: "Dead God's Law"
 	
*Bleeding out of the ground are the same malicious shadows from before, this time bearing humanoid silhouettes.
*Their pained moans carry whispers in the human tongue, and Phaedra found her own memories struggling against its coccoon of amnesia.
 	
*Miell: They're responding to his presence...
*Miell: It's the Voidborn corruption—he's tainted!
 	
*?: <Remember... You are a failure.>
 	
*Angahl: Grr... No...!
 	
*Angahl: GRROAR!
 	
*Raising his immense shields, the man pulverizes the shadows, but another rises for each one that falls.
 	
*Phaedra: Miell, they'll just keep coming!
*Phaedra: We need to purify the place and save him!
 	
*Miell: What? But— That man—
 	
*Miell: Ahh!
 	
*The dark shade dissipates around the thrust lance, and Phaedra brings it swiftly back by her side.
*Phaedra: Trust me. We have to fight them back together!
 	
*Miell: All right!