Elegy

Elegy is an NPC on Penacony, located in Dreamflux Reef.
==Profile==
Elegy is a large humanoid puppet who is dressed to resemble a mourner. She claims to be a Creed Exequy — a follower of Finality.
She also resembles the puppets of The Past, Present, and Eternal Show, especially Past Confined and Caged, as both stand on their headlands and have similar feet.
==Location==
==Shop==
==Missions and Events==
==Dialogue==
:Elegy: (Trailblazer), are you ready to gaze at the projection of Finality?
: Provide Apocalyptic Shadows
: Enter Priceless Jewels
:;{Open shop)
: What other Memory Bubbles of the apocalypse are in your collection?
::Elegy: The apocalypse I've witnessed myself? Let me think.
:;(Version 1)
:::Elegy: Zaum was once a border star system on an IPC logistic route.
:::Elegy: Blessed by luck, a prophet emerged, bringing knowledge ahead of the star system's time to Zaum. Starting from then, they had been equipped with cutting-edge technology that put them on the negotiation table with the IPC.
:::Elegy: Unbeknownst to the prophet, he had opened a Pandora's box.
:::Elegy: The IPC wouldn't give any star system in their logistics chain any room for horse-trading. By way of assassination, sowing discord, and inciting division, the IPC turned the people of Zaum against each other.
:::Elegy: Yet, war wasn't the only bane Zaum was facing. A gray tide that emerged out of nowhere started spreading like a plague. Two opposing political forces suspected each other of using forbidden supernatural weapons.
:::Elegy: After some time, it came to the people's realization that the gray tide that left everything lifeless was a disease that afflicted all indiscriminately.
:::Elegy: The truth is, the gray tide was a calamity caused by human folly. After the prophet altered history, the disappeared timelines condensed into a tsunami-like muddled memoria. Yet, no one was bold enough to directly address the underlying issue.
:::Elegy: Even the assassination of the prophet wasn't enough to quell the chaos. A cavity filled with chaotic memoria appeared out of nowhere at the border between the two opposing forces.
:::Elegy: There was no way to verify who first fired the missile. People only remember that the missile, originally intended to subdue the disaster of the memoria, became what started the prolonged war thereafter.
:::Elegy: The war lasted for two Amber Eras. Eventually, the established nation was reduced to a mere geographical concept.
:::Elegy: The world had overdrawn its fortune. It wasn't destroyed by the war but was drowned in the gray tsunami waves.
:::Elegy: With obliteration looming large, people couldn't care less to point fingers. The only thing they were certain was that the beautiful world would be gone forever.
:;(Version 2)
:::Elegy: From time to time, the people of Neese will recall the day the towering waves rose from the ocean and engulfed their civilization.
:::Elegy: Like mischievous children, they thought they could escape their mother's control forever.
:::Elegy: But when they ignited azure flames and melted the snow on the arctic mountains to mine the iron in the ocean...
:::Elegy: Their mother's embrace drowned them once again.
:::Elegy: But this time, her embrace wasn't a gentle one.
:;(Version 3)
:::Elegy: The Xianzhou that follows The Hunt pursued those who were blessed by Abundance, only to find themselves falling into a carefully laid trap.
:::Elegy: The living crimson star hovered in the sky over the singular ship. It pulsated like a living creature, causing the shell formed by flesh and withered vines to crack before enveloping the entire ship.
:::Elegy: The crimson star was akin to a behemoth's stomach in charge of regurgitation, as well as a hotbed of corruption made of flesh.
:::Elegy: At that moment, every Xianzhou native who was swallowed had only one wish — death.
:::Elegy: The blessing of immortality turned into a curse. The Xianzhou people underwent countless cycles of dissolution and re-structure in the repeated regurgitation.
:::Elegy: Ultimately, the concept of "individuals" is lost. The blessing of immortality joined friends and foes into one.
: I've got a few questions I'd like to ask you...
::Elegy: Ask away.
:: Who exactly are you?
:::Elegy: I'm a Creed Exequy — the chronicler of the dying world, as well as the seeker of the traces of Finality.
:: What do you want?
:::Elegy: To welcome my fated encounter. Then, I'll ask the some questions.
:::Elegy: "Why send warnings to the past if THEY want to end everything? Why bring about the apocalypse if THEY want to salvage everything? What is the meaning of our existence if everything is bound to be reduced to nothingness in the end?"
:: What is Terminus?
:::Elegy: THEY are the god of Finality, traveling against time from the future. THEY appear at every moment of Finality, bringing .
:: Is Finality the end of everything?
:::Elegy: No. Finality causes amber to rupture, immortality to wither, music to mute, light arrows to dim, the Dark Sun to be reduced to ashes, and the Tavern to be covered in dust. Even Destruction itself cannot be spared from destruction.
:::Elegy: Yet, Finality isn't the end of everything. All things will originate from there and move on to the next Finality.
:: No further questions. 
:::Elegy falls silent, their figure almost merging into the winding shadows.
: I've got something else to do.
::Elegy falls silent, their figure almost merging into the winding shadows.
==Trivia==
* Despite being looped, a melody that plays when you are near Elegy is considered by the game to be SFX, not music.
** The melody is most likely played by an hourglass orbiting Elegy, as a similar motif can be heard when said hourglass appears mid-battle in Apocalyptic Shadows.
* Elegy has a set of poses in which she can stand, which change each time you teleport to a new map and return.
===Etymology===
* Elegy [ˈelɪdʒɪ] is a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
==Other Languages==
==Change History==
vi:Khúc Truy Điệu