Sins of the Mothers Spoilers
The following are transcripts and video from the Wings of the Goddess quest Sins of the Mothers.
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Cast
- Nhev Befrathi
- Syu Befrathi
- Dhea Prandoleh
- Ajido-Marujido
- Velda-Galda
- Lehko Habhoka
- Romaa Mihgo
- Perih Vashai
- Shikaree G
- Koh Lenbalalako
Windurst Water (S)
Dhea Prandoleh: Oh, PLAYERNAME, there you are!
Dhea Prandoleh: ... And not a moment too soon. Master Lehko has been searrrching all over for you!
Dhea Prandoleh: None too easy a task, I might add, what with everyone in the city rrrunning around like cockatrices with their heads cut off. It's utter chaos, I tell you!
Dhea Prandoleh: What, haven't you heard? Just look!
Taru: Hear ye, hear ye! Citizens of Windurst! Due to imminent danger of a beastman attack, the Federation has declared a state of high alertaru! All non-military personnel are hereby ordered to take sheltaru indoors until further-wurther notice. I repeataru, this is not a drill!
Deah Prandoleh: Therrre you have it. Civilians have been ordered off the streets, and all mercenaries are to ready for battle immediately.
Deah Prandoleh: With the enemy ready to strrrike at any moment, one can never be too ready. Have you seen to your preparations?
???: Need you even ask!? Why, Ajido-Marujido, Child Genius, is ever ready for anything those filthy-wilthy-feathered goons could throw at us!
Deah Prandoleh: What the --!? Are you out of your gourrrd, you little brat!? Get back inside! If the city comes under attack, you'll break more than just the rims of those rrridiculous glasses!
Ajido-Marujido: Hah! Like I'd entrust the defense of the Federation to a mangy-wangy lot like you! Behold the valiantaru sorcerers and swordswomen of the Windurstian Teen Force (WTF), under the capable command of Warlock-Warlord-in-Waiting Ajido-Marujido!
Ajido-Marujido: Now if you'll excuse us, we have an important audience with the big cheese himself -- er, even if he doesn't know it yetaru. Someone has to save our glorious nation while you strays stand around swatting insects with your tails!
???: DaNGer! dANgeR! TaRGeT HaS bREaCHeD aUTHoRiZeD PErImETeR!
???: CeASe aND DeSisT! INiTiaTiNG reCOVeRy PrOCeDuRE!
Ajido-Marujido: Wh'what!? Unhandy-wand me, you confounded contraption!
Ajido-Marujido: This is that stut-doodly-uttering old Koru-Moru's doing! Blastaru it! When the Federation falls, he'll rue the day he detained its would-be hero!
Ajido-Marujido: I said put me down, you ham-handed heap of --uwaaaaaaaaaahhh!
Dhea Prandoleh: Oh dearrr. Well, that should teach the boy a lesson about getting too big for his brrreeches.
Dhea Prandoleh: At any rate, PLAYERNAME, you'd best hurrry along. Master Lehko's waiting in Heavens Tower, and I hear he has an especially imporrrtant assignment for you this time.
Windurst Waters (S), Scene II
Velda-Galda: Well, if it isn't our stalwart PLAYERNAME! You're always a sightaru for sore eyes.
Velda-Galda: With the beastmen drawing ever nearer, it's absolutaru madness around here. But please, don't let me keepy-weep you. Master Lehko awaits within.
Lehko Habhoka: Ah, PLAYERNAME! Always a pleasure. Come in, currrl up and make yourself comforrrtable.
Lehko Habhoka: A bit lonely in here today, you say? Indeed it is.
Lehko Habhoka: With the Warlock Warlord perrrsonally leading the Valdeaunian expedition, I fearrr I've only my own poor company to offer you today.
Lehko Habhoka: But forgive me if I cut short the pleasantrrries. PLAYERNAME, I require your aid in a most vital operrration.
Lehko Habhoka: To wit, I'm expecting a pair of parrrticularly important guests, and they're in need of an escort. ...And, should the circumstances demand it, a bodyguard.
Lehko Habhoka: Two Mithran wayfarers from the homeland, to be prrrecise. I've just received word that they've arrived safely on Mindartian shores.
Lehko Habhoka: They should be arriving at the rrrendezvous point -- the monument that stands on Fort Karugo-Narugo's western embankment -- before long. Can I trrrust you to see them safely back here?
Lehko Habhoka: I'd go myself, but as you might imagine, I have my hands quite full rrreadying the mercenaries and devising a sound strrrrategy for the city's defense.
Lehko Habhoka: Motherland Mithra tend to be distrrrustful sorts, as likely to rend the throat of an interloper as give them the time of day. But don't worry. A mention of my name should be enough to keep their claws sheathed.
Lehko Habhoka: ... At least I prrray as much, for your sake. Ha-ha!
Lehko Habhoka: Hmmm? What makes you the lucky man for the job, you ask?
Lehko Habhoka: Why, you've seen how jealous my girls get every time I grace a member of the fairer sex with a glance. If they discovered that I'd perrrsonally invited two lovely ladies to my humble abode, why, the ensuing battle would send shivers up the spine of the Shadow Lord himself!
Lehko Habhoka: Certainly, a dashing fellow such as yourself can sympathize with my prrredicament.
Lehko Habhoka: Anyway, there you have it. Let me remind you again that this mission calls for the utmost secrrrecy.
Lehko Habhoka: Take care to be neither witnessed nor heard by a soul. Least of all the Shadow Lord's minions... or any of your fellow mercenaries of the female perrrsuasion.
Lehko Habhoka: In fact, I've got just the way for the three of you to keep an especially low prrrofile on your return.
Lehko Habhoka: You rrrecall the subterranean passage connecting Fort Karugo-Narugo with the capital, do you not? The caverns where you helped us stave off the Yagudo onslaught...
Lehko Habhoka: The entrance lies along the wall of the central grrrounds, due east of the rendezvous point. Why don't you lead our guests back through there?
Lehko Habhoka: And now, PLAYERNAME, if you'll forgive me, prrressing matters elsewhere demand my attention. I'll keep the hearth warm for your return. May the Goddess watch over you!
Fort Karugo-Narugo, Scene I
Nhev Befrathi: Not another step, rrrogue!
Nhev Befrathi: You were fortunate to tail me this far, but this is where your luck runs out!
Nhev Befrathi: Hah! What were they thinking, sending a tenderrrpaw like you?
Nhev Befrathi: Are the Trackers so desperrrate for help these days, or does the name of Nhev Befrathi count for nothing anymore?
Nhev Befrathi: But enough talk! Prrrepare to meet your maker!
Syu Befrathi: Purrrrr...
Nhev Befrathi: Stand down, Syu! This heel has come for our lives, but we'll be taking his instead!
Syu Befrathi: ... But Meowmmy... he doesn't smell like the otherrrrs.
Nhev Befrathi: ...?
Syu Befrathi: He smells... nice. Like a spring brrreeeze, and fresh green trrreees.
Nhev Befrathi: What!? You're not a Trrrracker from the motherland? Who are you?
Nhev Befrathi: Answer me! And unless you'd like an arrow in the gut, you'd best make it the truth!
Answer a Cobra Mercenary from Windurst.
Nhev Befrathi: ...I see. My daughter's nose has yet to lead me astrrray. Perhaps you can be trrrusted after all.
Nhev Befrathi: I wait here for an acquaintance of bygone days. After that, an errand calls me norrrthward.
Nhev Befrathi: I will say no more, save that I'm a wanted woman. You'd do well to keep a wide berth if you value your extremities.
Nhev Befrathi: And now, you'd best be on your way. Tell no one of what you saw here. I doubt our paths shall cross ag-hmm?
Nhev Befrathi: Lehko Habhoka?
Nhev Befrathi: Lehko sent you, you say?
Nhev Befrathi: I see...
Syu Befrathi: Meowmmy, I'm hungrrry.... So hungrrrry!
Nhev Befrathi: Yes, yes, Syu. How does a fresh roasted mithkabob sound? Mother will fetch one for you after she's finished speaking with this kind man, so be a good girrl and play over there for a moment.
Syu Befrathi: Okaaay, but only if you prrromise!
Nhev Befrathi: What has Lehko told you of us?
Nhev Befrathi: ... I see.
Nhev Befrathi: We hail from the Mithran homeland of Gha Naboh, and arrived on these shores not a few hours ago.
Nhev Befrathi: The lay of the land, the scent of the wind, the feel of the very grrround beneath my feet... All are unfamiliar, and more than a bit overwhelming.
Nhev Befrathi: Furrrther complicating the issue, my daughter and I have a need to stay out of the public eye.... for rrreasons I cannot divulge, not even to a friend of Lehko.
Nhev Befrathi: But it would seem Mother Nature favors me with winds of forrrtune today. For you've come to see us safely to Windurst, have you not?
Nhev Befrathi: Then I place my trust in you, strrranger. Let us be along on our way.
Syu Befrathi: Meowmmy, what happened to my mithkabob? I'm starrrving!
Nhev Befrathi: Just a bit longer, Syu. This nice man will take us to the capital, and there you shall have all the mithkabobs your hearrrt desires.
Syu Befrathi: No, no, no! I'm hungrrry now, Meowmmy! You prrrromised!
Nhev Befrathi: Stop being such a little crykitten! Why, you gorged yourself on dragon fruit just before our ship reached porrrt!
Syu Befrathi: Dragon fruit.... I want more drrragon fruit! More, more, mooorrrrre!
Syu Befrathi: ... You'rrre so mean... You're the meanest Meowmmy everrr! I hate you!! Waaaahhhhh...!
Nhev Befrathi: I fearrr there's no rrreasoning with her when she gets like this.
Nhev Befrathi: Loath as I am to burrrden you with the petulant mewlings of my daughter, please understand that the journey has not been an easy one for her.
Nhev Befrathi: I recall seeing some parrrticularly ripe specimens of dragon fruit along the shore just north of here. It would mean much to my daughter -- and to me -- if you could prrrocure one.
Nhev Befrathi: In the meantime, I shall do my best to settle her nerrrves for the difficult road ahead. You have my thanks, friend.
Fort Karugo-Narugo, Scene II
Nhev Befrathi: Though it pains me to impose on the kindness of a strranger, my daughter leaves me little choice.
Nhev Befrathi: It would mean much to us if you could retrieve a piece of dragon fruit to settle her stomach before we embark on our journey.
Nhev Befrathi: I recall seeing them sprouting in abundance along the shore to the north of here. You have my thanks, friend.
Fort Karugo-Narugo, Scene III
Nhev Befrathi: Oh, there you are!
Nhev Befrathi: Look, Syu! Dry those eyes and look at what the kind man has brrrought for you.
Syu Befrathi: Drrragon fruit? For me? Rrreally?
Syu Befrathi: Oh, thank you, thank you! You're my bestest frrriend in the whole wide worrrld! Purrrr...
Nhev Befrathi: Ah, the simple pleasurrres of a child... One can only hope she stays in good spirits until we arrive safely in Windurst.
Nhev Befrathi: At any rrrate, we've tarried at this dusty rrrock for far too long. My apologies for the distraction, friend. Let us be on our way.
Nhev Befrathi: A subterranean passage, you say? Hmph. I've no love for crrraawling through dusty grottoes, but you have proven yourself more than worthy of our trrust. We shall follow where you lead.
Fort Karugo-Narugo, Scene IV
Nhev Befrathi: The subterranean passage you speak of is somewhere nearby, is it not?
Nhev Befrathi: Lehko awaits us back at the capital. We should be along on our way.
Fort Karugo-Narugo, Scene V
Nhev Befrathi: Indeed... this should allow us to make our journey to the capital in due secrrrecy.
Syu Befrathi: But Meowmmy, it's darrrk down there!
Nhev Befrathi: Syu, just stay close to the nice man who brrrought you that juicy dragon fruit. He'll keep you safe.
Syu Befrathi: Meow!
Nhev Befrathi: ... The air is dank and foul here. I shudder to think what odious beasts lurrrk beneath...
Nhev Befrathi: I must ask you to take the lead. I cannot afford to let myself be seen. Signal us when the way is clear, and we will follow close behind.
Nhev Befrathi: My daughter and I are ready when you are. Let us make haste for Windurst!
Return to Windurst Waters (S)
Nhev Befrathi: So this is the Windurst of which I have heard so much. Such a lush and resplendent nation... 'tis a shame to see it so rrravaged by war.
Syu Befrathi: The air smells pretty, like frrresh flowers and leaves. I like it here, Meowmmy!
Nhev Befrathi: As do I, Syu. But we've no time to stop and smell the rrroses. Lead us to Lehko, friend.
In Heavens Tower...
Lehko Habhoka: It's my pleasure to welcome you to Windurst, Nhev Befrathi. Or should I say, Chieftainness...?
Nhev Befrathi: Call me what you will. A woman in my position has little use for forrrmalities. This is my daughter, Syu.
Lehko Habhoka: You've done well to lead my frrriends safely here, PLAYERNAME. Once again, you prove yourself worthy of all the trrrust I place in you, and then some.
Lehko Habhoka: And with that, Nhev, let us prrroceed with our trrransaction. The item we speak of...
Nhev Befrathi: ... Is here.
Lehko Habhoka: The Bow of Light...
Lehko Habhoka: ...Never did I imagine I would gaze upon it again with these two eyes.
Nhev Befrathi: Lehko...?
Lehko Habhoka: There is no need for concerrrn, Nhev. PLAYERNAME is a friend -- a staunch ally who has demonstrated his loyalty time and again.
Lehko Habhoka: Perrrhaps you have heard the tales, PLAYERNAME.
Lehko Habhoka: It was some ten years ago. A Mithran wayfarer returned to the motherland after a brief sojourn on these shores. She took with her a souvenir acquirred in her travels: a most currrious stone....
Lehko Habhoka: A stone which for ages had lain sleeping in the frrrozen north. A stone possessed of immense and terrible power....
Nhev Befrathi: The trrraveler's name was Yow Rabntah, and with that stone, she fashioned a bow. An ensorcelled weapon of the most exquisite crrraftsmanship -- so beautiful, and so deadly...
Lehko Habhoka: ... The Bow of Light.
Nhev Befrathi: It is well possible that Yow Rabntah had only the purrrest of intentions -- that the bow was meant to prrrotect her beloved homeland, and nothing more.
Nhev Befrathi: Sadly, that is not what came to pass. For with its grrreat power came even grrreater temptation.
Nhev Befrathi: ...Temptation that proved too strong for her -- or me -- to rrresist.
Lehko Habhoka: ...
Nhev Befrathi: The power that seethes within the Bow of Light is no ordinary power. It is a force that reaches to the very depths of our souls to wrest forth the fear, the ugliness, that we would deny is there.
Nhev Befrathi: Jealousy, deceit, hatrrred.... The evils that lie dormant within all of us are rrroused and brought to the fore, and we are powerless to resist.
Lehko Habhoka: Powerless indeed...
Nhev Befrathi: Before we could realize where we went astrrray, our verdant home was bathed in the crrrimson of our own blood. Time-nurtured bonds between sister and sister rrripped to shreds like so many scraps of cloth...
Nhev Befrathi: Yow Rabntah was deemed a sinner for having brought this calamity upon us, and tried for her crimes. As fate would have it, she met her end at the hand of a fiend before her judgment could be passed.
Lehko Habhoka: ...
Nhev Befrathi: As Chieftainness, I shared responsibility for the slaughter, and for this sin they hunt me to this very day. Even my daughter -- guilty of naught but sharrring my blood -- is forced to live the life of a fugitive.
Lehko Habhoka: A tale to tug at the heartstrrrings, is it not, PLAYERNAME? I thought that by bringing Nhev and Syu to our shores, they could finally live out their lives in peace.
Lehko Habhoka: Sadly, the predator is not so easily thrown off the scent. You're acquainted with the Mithran Tracker Shikaree G, are you not? Dispatched from the homeland, she continues to hunt her prrrey with an implacable tenacity that borders on obsession.
Nhev Befrathi: PLAYERNAME, was it? I share with you my tale because Lehko assures me that you are a friend. Pray do not betrrray our trust.
Lehko Habhoka: This, I shall take into my care.
Lehko Habhoka: It's my duty as much as yours to see this dark chapter of our people's historrry to a fitting end.
Nhev Befrathi: But Lehko...
Lehko Habhoka: Have no fear, Nhev. Realizing the error of her ways, Yow Rabntah with her dying breath wove a potent incantation to seal the terrible power deep within her creation.
Lehko Habhoka: That such meaningless bloodshed would never again be visited on her prrrecious people...
Lehko Habhoka: The secret to undoing the seal, she carried to her grrrave. The bow rrremains, but there is not a living soul who can release its power. Is this not so?
Nhev Befrathi: Aye, you've the rrright of it.
Nhev Befrathi: Very well. I was prepared to dispose of it by my own hand, but the task is yours if you would have it. Syu and I have a long road ahead of us still, and 'tis perhaps best we keep the burrrden light.
Lehko Habhoka: Indeed. Best the two of you find somewherrre to lie low until the fighting is through. The battlefield that awaits us will be no place for a child...
Lehko Habhoka: I've ordered all families in the city to take up shelter in Windurst Walls. You're more than welcome to a spot among them.
Nhev Befrathi: No. Your offer is kind, but we must press on. With the Tracker on the prowl, this place is not safe for us.
Nhev Befrathi: We make for a city called Jeuno.
Lehko Habhoka: A sound choice. The Duchy is vast, with a citizenry as diverrrse as it is numerous. If there is any place you might succeed in disguising your tracks, it would be there.
Lehko Habhoka: PLAYERNAME, if I could trrrouble you to escort our guests to--
Nhev Befrathi: That won't be necassary. We've imposed on your friend quite enough already.
Nhev Befrathi: For as long as our journey continues, we face it on our own. Farewell, Lehko, PLAYERNAME... and thank you.
Nhev Befrathi: ...Lehko... Twisted though its power may be, the bow can summon forth no evil that does not already reside within us.
Nhev Befrathi: I have long believed that in the hands of one pure of heart and strong of will, it could have served its intended purpose...
Lehko Habhoka: ...
Nhev Befrathi: The stone that brought rrruin upon us is born of nature, as are we all. In the end, it is but a mirror to the soul of its wielder...
Nhev Befrathi: It is not my place to question the ways of the motherland. But is this truly the Mithran way? To hunt to the ends of the world those who have taken a step astrrray? No matter how true their intentions, no matter how deep their remorse?
Nhev Befrathi: Do we not strrrive to live in harmony with Mother Nature, with each other? No, it does not sit well with me...
Lehko Habhoka: Nor I, Nhev... Nor I.
Lehko Habhoka: What, trrruly, is "sin"?
Lehko Habhoka: Those who judge us have found their answer. Perhaps someday we "sinners" will find an answer of our own.
Nhev and her daughter leave.
Lehko Habhoka: What's the matter, PLAYERNAME? You look as if you've seen a ghost. Fear not, for this is one bow I haven't the power to bend.
Lehko Habhoka: Still, it never hurts to keep a few powerful pieces on hand as the endgame draws near... don't you think?
Lehko Habhoka: Ah ha, but I jest. No, this bow just holds a cerrrtain sentimental value to me, you see. Given the chance, I simply couldn't let it go.
You leave Heavens Tower and walk into Windurst Waters (S), where you find Nhev and her daughter.
Syu Befrathi: Meow! I've got a present for my bestest friend! You'll take it, won't you? Pretty pretty please?
Syu Befrathi: Meowmmmy and I are going to a place called Jeuno! Come visit us someday, okay?
Romaa Mihgo: Oh, PLAYERNAME! Finished your business with Master Lehko, I see.
Romaa Mihgo: Hm? Frrriends of yours, PLAYERNAME?
Perih Vashai: Curious. I've not seen their faces before...
Nhev and her daughter walk outside, where merchants are waiting with chocobos.
Nhev Befrathi: Hail, merrrchant! Where does the road lead you?
Koh Lenbalalako: We strrrike for Jeuno.
Koh Lenbalalako: The Duchy lies in shambles after the recent beastman attack. Homes rrrazed to the ground, families huddling in the streets as they forrrage for what scraps of food they can find.
Koh Lenbalalako: Though I feel for their plight, I cannot deny that it makes for prrrofitable times for those in my trade. I've even received a substantial order directly from the Ducal Army.
Nhev Befrathi: An errand calls us to Jeuno as well. Could we trouble you to take us along?
Nhev Befrathi: As you see, I travel with my child, and the roads these days are not safe for one of her tenderrr years.
Koh Lenbalalako: Cerrrtainly! I'd welcome the company. You're a cute little one, aren't ya?
Syu Befrahi: Meow!
Back in Windurst Waters (S)
Shikaree G: I have you this time... sinner!
Perih Vashai: That garb...! A Mithran Tracker!?
Romaa Mihgo: What--!?
Shikaree G: Well, well. If it isn't Perih of the Azure Bow. Still drrragging your paws in this wrrretched backwater, I see.
Shikaree G: When will you come to your senses and go home to Elshimo? You know that this land holds nothing for you save death and sufferring.
Perih Vashai: Your concern is touching, but it was always a bit too sweltry there for my liking. The more temperrrate climes on these shores suit me.
Shikaree G: Hmph. I shall return for you another day. Today, I pursue more urrrgent quarrry....
Perih Vashai: Shikaree... She says she's found the "sinner"...?
Perih Vashai: Wait a minute... Lehko? Lehko Habhoka?
Perih Vashai: That day, ten years ago.... Could he be... the son!?
Romaa Mihgo: Perih? What's gotten into you all of a sudden?
Perih Vashai: Lehko Habhoka... What is it you trrruly seek?
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