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| == Existing Page Clean-up == | | == Existing Page Clean-up == |
| | | [[File:Balthier.png|thumb|180px|Balthier is kind of a douche.]] |
| There are a few things we should consider adding to our existing FFT section before launching anything related to War of the Lions. | | There are a few things we should consider adding to our existing FFT section before launching anything related to War of the Lions. |
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| # Add a section for the Fur Shop (possibly along with WotL) | | # Add a section for the Fur Shop (possibly along with WotL) |
| # Improve the Newbie Guide section, particularly the "Working Together" section. http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/197339-final-fantasy-tactics/40962481 | | # Improve the Newbie Guide section, particularly the "Working Together" section. http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/197339-final-fantasy-tactics/40962481 |
| # Germonik "but i'm not said" | | # Add in enemy levels to each walkthrough chapter. |
| | # May need to turn the Germonik Scriptures section into a database-based section for the purpose of translation differences. |
| | # Need to add Barinten to the characters section. Should not have been overlooked. |
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| Point 1 is now in Bugzilla, #285. | | Point 1 is now in Bugzilla, #285. |
| Points 2-4 are now in Bugzilla, #286. | | Points 2-4 are now in Bugzilla, #286. |
| Point 6 is now in Bugzilla, #287. | | Point 6 is now in Bugzilla, #287. |
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| == WotL Supplement == | | == WotL Supplement == |
| | [[File:Luso.png|thumb|180px|Wrong way, Luso.]] |
| Along with the WotL launch, here are some things to keep in mind. | | Along with the WotL launch, here are some things to keep in mind. |
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| * Recommendations for Stealing and Move-Find Items should be added in each walkthrough chapter. This should be separate text within the walkthrough rather than a new section of its own. | | * Recommendations for Stealing and Move-Find Items should be added in each walkthrough chapter. This should be separate text within the walkthrough rather than a new section of its own. |
| * Add a separate page for Fur Shop (possibly before WotL) | | * Add a separate page for Fur Shop (possibly before WotL) |
| * Add in the new scenes to pre-battle walkthrough chapters. | | * Add in the new scenes and battles to the walkthrough. |
| ** Rofel and Wiegraf at Miluda's grave, Wiegraf joins the Shrine Knights. Occurs ???
| | ** [[FFT WotL New Scenes]] |
| ** Delita and Ovelia at Zeltennia again, Delita reminisces about Teta. Occurs between Bervenia and Finath River.
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| * Add in the new battles to the walkthrough.
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| ** Delita and Ovelia at Zeirchele Falls. This takes place at an existing map so there should be no problem getting the chapter map. Occurs right before battle with Cuchulainn. | |
| ** Luso at Zeklaus Desert. This also takes place at an existing map so there should also be no problem. Occurs after the events at Orbonne.
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| ** Delita and Ovelia at Zeltennia Chapel. This takes place at an existing map within the FFT database, but it was not a map for a battle. Hopefully it is still a resource we can pull from the original to save time and effort. Occurs after Yardrow Fort City.
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| ** Balthier at Dorter Slums. This takes place in the same map as the gruesome early battle in Dorter. This can occur any time after the events at Bervenia.
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| * Add in the new characters to the char section. | | * Add in the new characters to the char section. |
| ** Luso - Game Hunter (Ramza+) | | ** Luso - Game Hunter (Ramza+) |
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| ** Dark Knight | | ** Dark Knight |
| ** Onion Knight | | ** Onion Knight |
| * Other obvious things like updated JP/JLvl requirements, new items, Germonik Scriptures transcription, etc. | | * Other obvious things like updated JP/JLvl requirements, new items, [[FFT_Germonique]], etc. |
| | | * Sluice Battle at Besselat now ends if all enemies are defeated, not just when the switches are pulled. Lame. |
| | | * New in-depth guides |
| === In WotL that I haven't discovered yet ===
| | ** Learning Zodiac |
| | | ** Learning Ultima |
| * Weird scene with Mustadio and Agrias and lip balm, are Alicia and Lavian required? | | ** Getting hidden chars out of the walkthrough? |
| * Another fight at the Thieves' Fort with delicious items to steal
| | *** Beowulf |
| * Extension of Beowulf sidequest, fuckin' up a bitch
| | *** Worker 8 |
| | | *** Reis |
| I will continue to add things that we need to keep in mind as I complete my WotL playthrough.
| | *** Cloud |
| | | *** Balthier (Luso is required) |
| | | *** Byblos |
| == New Scriptures Transcription ==
| | ** Special battle formations in Chapter 4 |
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| I opened the Scriptures of Germonique, entrusted to me by Elder Simon, and began to leaf through the pages.
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| The words before my eyes were writ in a holy script of the ancients.
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| Several illustrations were scattered throughout, but many pages were missing or damaged, and the script was exceedingly difficult to decipher.
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| I was deeply curious as to what knowledge lay within.
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| As I was turning pages, faintly penned letters in modern Ivalician script occasionally caught my eye.
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| Notes of an explanatory nature had been added here and there throughout the book.
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| I wondered who might have written them.
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| Judging by the faded ink, some entries were more than a decade old, while others seemed to have been penned only in the last few days.
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| As I touched my finger to one of them, the writing smeared. The ink had yet to fully dry.
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| Every note was written in the same hand - Elder Simon's. I suddenly realized. He must have devoted a significant portion of his life to deciphering these Scriptures, line by painstaking line.
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| I relied heavily on his fragmentary notes as I continued reading.
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| Apparently the holy script had been recorded by Germonique, a disciple of Saint Ajora.
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| Germonique...
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| The name struck a familiar chord. Half-forgotten history lessons rose unbidden in my mind.
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| And then I remembered.
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| Germonique was the disciple who had betrayed his master, turning him over to the Holy Ydoran Empire.
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| I was astonished that a libram penned by the same Germonique from my history lessons now rested in my very hands.
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| I could hardly contain myself as I turned the pages.
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| And then I was assaulted by a shock far greater than the realization that I held a priceless historical artefact.
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| Originally I had thought the book to be no more than a collection of Saint Ajora's teachings, as recorded by Germonique.
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| How unprepared I was to learn what it truly contained.
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| This tome served as an account of Saint Ajora's life.
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| The Saint Ajora described within was of a considerably different nature than the man about whom we have all been taught.
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| I had always known that Saint Ajora was no ordinary mortal.
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| My faith in the Church of Glabados was not as profoundly complete as that of my lord brother Zalbaag, yet I did believe that Saint Ajora was a child of the gods, descended from the heavens to deliver humanity from its self-inflicted chaos.
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| Or should I say, I had believed.
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| All I had thought immutable was shattered upon reading the Scriptures.
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| Saint Ajora's birth came in the midst of a golden age of technology, when airships yet plied the skies.
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| He was born in Lesalia, in the city of Bervenia. Moments after his birth, he rose to his feet and approached a well.
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| Upon reaching its base, words of prophecy poured forth from his infant lips: "A calamity shall soon befallt his well. Seal it up at once, that none may drink of it."
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| Some days later, the Black Death visited the town of Bervenia, and all those who drank the well's tainted water succumbed to the plague and perished.
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| Only those families who heeded the prophetic words of Saint Ajora were spared from death and malady.
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| After the incident with the well, the people came to revere Saint Ajora as a portent of miracle and child of the gods.
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| But it was not until he reached the age of twenty that Saint Ajora would become the savior of Ivalice, and take his place among the gods in Paradise.
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| Ivalice was not always united as it is today.
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| Long ago, the realm was divided into seven kingdoms: Fovoham, Lionel, Limberry, Lesalia, Gallionne, Zeltennia, and Mullonde.
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| Each warred with the others in a never-ending struggle to expand its own territory.
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| This conflict had continued for centuries, until an ambitious young king rose to power in Mullonde.
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| This young monarch dreamt of uniting all of Ivalice under his hand, but the road to victory was a difficult and dangerous one.
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| The king turned to ancient tomes and the dark magicks found within, summoning a demon from the netherworld to do his bidding.
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| But once unleashed, the demon slew the king and set out to destroy the very world itself.
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| The combat this monstrosity, a great hero set out on a quest.
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| Together with his twelve disciples, he collected the Zodiac Stones that had been scattered throughout the world, and the Zodiac Braves were born again.
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| The Zodiac Braves soon defeated the creature's minions and banished the demon back to its infernal plane, for this becoming known as the saviors of our world.
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| The story is now a well-known legend.
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| The Zodiac Braves have since appeared whenever the world balanced on the brink of catastrophe, only to vanish just as quickly once the crisis has been averted.
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| Similar catastrophe threatened the world in the time of Saint Ajora.
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| The king of Limberry summoned a demon in hopes of seizing control of all of Ivalice, and once again plunged the world into chaos.
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| And just as in the legend, Saint Ajora collected the twelve Zodiac Stones. And once again the Zodiac Braves rose to defeat the marauding demon.
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| However, the sovereigns of any age have small tolerance for the interference of well-meaning "heroes."
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| Fearing the charismatic saint's growing influence, the Holy Ydoran Empire dispatched soldiers to capture him and his devoted followers.
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| Pharism was the prevalent religion in that day, and its priests feared Ajora's growing influence.
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| Ultimately, Germonique, the thirteenth disciple, was tempted by sordid coin, offering vital information that led to his master's capture.
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| The saint was executed upon the gallows of Golgollada soon thereafter.
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| But lest we forget, Saint Ajora was a child of the gods.
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| The wrath of the heavens was swift and terrible.
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| Immediately following the execution, Mullonde, the center of Pharist teachings, was visited by a terrible cataclysm and sank into the sea.
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| Saint Ajora then ascended to Paradise to take his rightful place among the gods.
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| This was the legend with which I was familiar - the very same tale told to every child of Ivalice.
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| But the Saint Ajora described within the Scriptures of Germonique was a different man altogether.
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| Ajora was no child of the gods.
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| He was a mere mortal, no more divine than you or I.
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| He was a revolutionary, who fought to realize his own ambitions.
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| He was no lover of peace - no hero who would sacrifice himself for the good of humanity.
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| Germonique wrote of him:
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| As the founder of a new religion with a rising number of followers, Ajora was seen as no more than a nuisance to the empire.
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| But Ajora was apparently more than just a religious founder.
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| He was a saboteur who infiltrated enemy states to collect information and sow disorder.
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| Ajora was a spy, dispatched to the Holy Ydoran Empire by a rival state.
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| Whatever he claimed to be, it was fact that the empire began to fear this upstart's growing influence.
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| Germonique was employed to collect evidence that would allow the empire to arrest Ajora as a spy.
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| The thirteenth disciple was in reality no more than the empire's instrument in a play to uncover Ajora's true intentions.
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| It seems that Ajora indeed attempted to reassemble the Zodiac Braves.
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| Germonique confirmed in his writings that Ajora even discovered some of the Stones.
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| But what was his purpose in seeking them?
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| I do not know if the young king of Limberry actually summoned a demon.
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| At the very least, I have failed to encounter even a single line within the Scriptures that records the event.
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| Yet catastrophe did indeed befall Mullonde at the time of Ajora's death.
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| According to the Scriptures, the bulk of the city sank into the sea.
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| The footnotes provided further enlightenment.
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| They expressed a different view, no doubt the personal opinion of Elder Simon.
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| "Although many spoke of their existence, none had ever set eyes upon these Scriptures of Germonique.
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| Some might say they are fraudulent, written with the sole purpose of discrediting Saint Ajora.
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| But I know this tome to be authentic."
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| "When I served as an inquisitor for the Church, many others in the Holy Office feared the existence of this work.
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| And the same is no doubt true for the High Confessor.
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| They were all fearful of these writings, for everything contained within them is fact."
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| "After Saint Ajora's death, the Church, which had capitalized on his considerable influence to seize power for itself, had only one task: to conceal his true nature as a human being.
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| This one fact had to be erased from the annals of history.
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| They needed to ensure that Saint Ajora be remembered as a child of the gods."
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| "Their use of the Zodiac Braves, a legend believed throughout Ivalice, was a stroke of genius.
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| It was a simple feat to convince the people that Saint Ajora had led the Zodiac Braves to defeat a demon. A demon that had never existed..."
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| "I realize now that I had lost my faith the moment I began to read these Scriptures.
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| And yet I feel no sorrow.
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| Thinking back, I now know that my desire to know the truth was stronger than my faith had ever been."
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| "But I have committed one great sin.
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| I failed to condemn the Church for lying to our flock all these years.
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| And why?
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| I knew that if I were to share this book with the world, my precious library would be taken from me."
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| "And to me there could be no pain greater, for this library is the only means of slaking my endless thirst for knowledge.
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| My curiosity eclipsed my will to do what was right."
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| | == COMPLETED == |
| | [[File:Balthier2.png|thumb|180px|God DAMMIT Donald Balthier.]] |
| | * Germonik "but i'm not said" |
| | * Germonique new transcription |
| | * Scene descriptions written 1-2 |
| | * Battle descriptions written 1-4 |
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| Elder Simon wrote that Saint Ajora's demon never existed.
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| But I have seen the dark power of the Zodiac Stones with my own eyes.
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| There is an evil presence at work - something much more sinister than even the High Confessor and his twisted plots.
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