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scattershot➤ Part 1
Ah, the irony. What Vauthry achieved through bliss, you will achieve through despair.
Extinguishing the Last Light
Summary
✶ The Warrior of Light has fought with and slain the Lightwarden Innocence, an angelic-looking figure identified by Alisaie's companion Ryne as 'Vauthry'. She says that his death should mean an end to their fight, and see night entirely restored to the world.
✶ As he lies dying, Innocence struggles to understand his defat, saying that he was told by his father that he was righteousness, an incarnate God and that all he has done was to keep his people safe. Begging for help, Innocence dissolves into motes of shining light, which the Warrior of Light then takes into themselves as the sky darkens.
✶ The Warrior of Light clutches at their brow, receiving a vision - then staggers in pain as bright white light bursts forth from their body, forcing them to their knees. Within moments, to the horror of the watching Scions, the sky is ablaze with light again.
✶ Alisaie makes for the Warrior of Light's side, but is stopped by the arrival of the Crystal Exarch. He tells her that even their soul cannot bear the burden of the combined power of all the Lightwardens contained, and that he plans to relieve them of it. Trapping the Warrior of Light in a teleportation ward with him, he claims he will use the Lightwardens' power to send the Crystal Tower to other worlds, that he has no intention of remaining on this dying world, and that he has been manipulating them all along. Alisaie attempts to intervene on the Warrior of Light's behalf, but is stopped by Urianger who begs the others to let him go.
✶ Y'shtola calls out the Exarch's 'plot' as a fiction, and Urianger for being in on it. She believes the Exarch is truly planning to sacrifice himself. The Exarch tells the Warrior of Light not to worry: he is glad to have played his part. As he speaks, his hood is blown back from his face, revealing his features to them for the first time. Before he can complete the incantion, however, he is shot in the back and collapses.
✶ Emet-Selch reveals himself as the shooter. He thinks it's absurd that the Exarch should have gone through all this simply to save one person. When Thancred tries to attack him, he warns him to stay put - the Exarch is alive, but that could very easily change.
✶ Emet-Selch calls the Warrior of Light a disappointment, halfway to becoming a monster - and therefore unworthy. He explains that he and his fellow Ascians are behind the flood of Light, something they achieved by manipulating heroes. When it failed to quite destroy everything, he created Vauthry to finish the job.
✶ Alphinaud asks what he approached the Scions for. Emet-Selch says that he has been telling them the truth all along and genuinely did believe they could serve as allies, provided the Warrior of Light could contain the primordial light that now threatens to overwhelm them. As they can't, they and the Scions are of no use to him - and if they had rejected his offer, he would simply have killed them.
✶ Kneeling to speak to the Warrior of Light directly, he explains that they have all but become a Sin Eater, though they have yet to lose their form and senses. He explains that their mere presence will serve to bathe the world in light, that their companions will also become Sin Eaters, and that in time they will succumb to their instincts to kill innocents for their aether. He believes they will be too powerful for the survivors to fight, and relishes the irony that all the Warrior of Light has achieved will be to become a worse version of Vauthry.
✶ Emet-Selch abducts the Exarch, and tells the Warrior of Light to seek him out in a place called the Tempest, when it all gets too much to bear. He vanishes and the Warrior of Light collapses, leaving the Scions with nothing to do but carry them back to the Crystarium.
Notes
✶ The player-character Warrior of Light, who accompanies Alisaie, is seen as a humanoid shape made up of blinding white light surrounded by a rainbow corona, of indeterminate age, race and gender. None of their individual features are discernible, and though they can be seen to be speaking their voice cannot be made out.
✶ The Crystal Exarch's features, when revealed, will be immediately recognizable to anyone who remembers him as 'Noah' of sensitIV.
✶ The vision that the Warrior of Light receives just before things get chaotic explains Innocence's last words, and also provides some very heavy foreshadowing of what is about to go wrong and why. Obviously, Alisaie sees none of this.
Ah, the irony. What Vauthry achieved through bliss, you will achieve through despair.
Extinguishing the Last Light
Summary
✶ The Warrior of Light has fought with and slain the Lightwarden Innocence, an angelic-looking figure identified by Alisaie's companion Ryne as 'Vauthry'. She says that his death should mean an end to their fight, and see night entirely restored to the world.
✶ As he lies dying, Innocence struggles to understand his defat, saying that he was told by his father that he was righteousness, an incarnate God and that all he has done was to keep his people safe. Begging for help, Innocence dissolves into motes of shining light, which the Warrior of Light then takes into themselves as the sky darkens.
✶ The Warrior of Light clutches at their brow, receiving a vision - then staggers in pain as bright white light bursts forth from their body, forcing them to their knees. Within moments, to the horror of the watching Scions, the sky is ablaze with light again.
✶ Alisaie makes for the Warrior of Light's side, but is stopped by the arrival of the Crystal Exarch. He tells her that even their soul cannot bear the burden of the combined power of all the Lightwardens contained, and that he plans to relieve them of it. Trapping the Warrior of Light in a teleportation ward with him, he claims he will use the Lightwardens' power to send the Crystal Tower to other worlds, that he has no intention of remaining on this dying world, and that he has been manipulating them all along. Alisaie attempts to intervene on the Warrior of Light's behalf, but is stopped by Urianger who begs the others to let him go.
✶ Y'shtola calls out the Exarch's 'plot' as a fiction, and Urianger for being in on it. She believes the Exarch is truly planning to sacrifice himself. The Exarch tells the Warrior of Light not to worry: he is glad to have played his part. As he speaks, his hood is blown back from his face, revealing his features to them for the first time. Before he can complete the incantion, however, he is shot in the back and collapses.
✶ Emet-Selch reveals himself as the shooter. He thinks it's absurd that the Exarch should have gone through all this simply to save one person. When Thancred tries to attack him, he warns him to stay put - the Exarch is alive, but that could very easily change.
✶ Emet-Selch calls the Warrior of Light a disappointment, halfway to becoming a monster - and therefore unworthy. He explains that he and his fellow Ascians are behind the flood of Light, something they achieved by manipulating heroes. When it failed to quite destroy everything, he created Vauthry to finish the job.
✶ Alphinaud asks what he approached the Scions for. Emet-Selch says that he has been telling them the truth all along and genuinely did believe they could serve as allies, provided the Warrior of Light could contain the primordial light that now threatens to overwhelm them. As they can't, they and the Scions are of no use to him - and if they had rejected his offer, he would simply have killed them.
✶ Kneeling to speak to the Warrior of Light directly, he explains that they have all but become a Sin Eater, though they have yet to lose their form and senses. He explains that their mere presence will serve to bathe the world in light, that their companions will also become Sin Eaters, and that in time they will succumb to their instincts to kill innocents for their aether. He believes they will be too powerful for the survivors to fight, and relishes the irony that all the Warrior of Light has achieved will be to become a worse version of Vauthry.
✶ Emet-Selch abducts the Exarch, and tells the Warrior of Light to seek him out in a place called the Tempest, when it all gets too much to bear. He vanishes and the Warrior of Light collapses, leaving the Scions with nothing to do but carry them back to the Crystarium.
Notes
✶ The player-character Warrior of Light, who accompanies Alisaie, is seen as a humanoid shape made up of blinding white light surrounded by a rainbow corona, of indeterminate age, race and gender. None of their individual features are discernible, and though they can be seen to be speaking their voice cannot be made out.
✶ The Crystal Exarch's features, when revealed, will be immediately recognizable to anyone who remembers him as 'Noah' of sensitIV.
✶ The vision that the Warrior of Light receives just before things get chaotic explains Innocence's last words, and also provides some very heavy foreshadowing of what is about to go wrong and why. Obviously, Alisaie sees none of this.