Mask of the Betrayer - Act 2, Part 7

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00:55:06No. That is the
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00:55:10Look deeper. Cast it
00:55:12aside, if you can. What lunacy?
00:55:14Aramond, what is this?
00:55:16With respect, I see no reason to play yet
00:55:18more games with— Turn away.
00:55:20Cast your eyes back to Rashomon, to home.
00:55:23Leave this place now and none will hinder you.
00:55:26Beyond that door, you may find truth, but also folly.
00:55:30A folly that will sunder the planes
00:55:32and render meaningless all that you have suffered.
00:55:43You are the hunger.
00:55:45The rest is a garment to be worn and cast away.
00:55:49But if you are intent upon this, then I cannot protect you any further.
00:55:53My fight is not with you.
00:55:57He is mad. Madder than Nephras ever was.
00:56:00Come, let's make an end to this before he changes his mind.
00:56:04Master Javi, please.
00:56:06You and I, we live with Thayan ambition and treachery all around us.
00:56:09It taints our actions.
00:56:11But I know that our friendship was never a lie.
00:56:13Perhaps, my dear, but I...
00:56:18I know you stood by, watched as they murdered my mother.
00:56:22I know you must think that condemns you to their side, but it doesn't.
00:56:25They would have killed you for opposing them.
00:56:27You are the same man who comforted a frightened girl,
00:56:31terrified of the voices in her mind,
00:56:33and taught her to craft little chattering creatures of twigs and clay,
00:56:37real voices to drown out the false.
00:56:40You shame me, my dear?
00:56:43Surviving has become a habit.
00:56:46If I am to break it, you are the best of reasons.
00:56:49Fine. We'll appoint another in your place, Javi.
00:56:52A wizard with more sense and fewer wrinkles.
00:57:43I've got you spotted.
00:58:35Yes.
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00:59:33Hold this spot. Don't move.
01:00:32Ah, what is this?
01:01:01Are you a dream, a fantasy, a recollection spawned in my own dead mind?
01:01:08Yes, you are that, but you are more, too.
01:01:13I know you, spirit eater.
01:01:16You are an irony that walks, two fates bound together,
01:01:20both severed and incomplete.
01:01:23And you have brought others, castoffs,
01:01:27discarded souls such as this priestess.
01:01:31She is of the higher planes,
01:01:33tamed with Kalimvor's blind philosophy,
01:01:37salted with the wretched tears of Ilmater's pity.
01:01:41Are you here because Ilmater has now darned you as Kalimvor did?
01:01:50Ilmater forsakes no one, Myrkul.
01:01:52Even ones who commit such atrocities as building the Wall of the Faithless
01:01:56and making vessels to feed its strength.
01:01:58Ilmater may take pity on you, little bird,
01:02:03but Kalimvor sells you like a kangaroo's hand.
01:02:07He smelt the death of Faith upon you.
01:02:10With all his pragmatism, he can be crueler than I,
01:02:15but he will not rule the dead better for it, I think.
01:02:18He rules the dead now, Myrkul.
01:02:21One could even say he rules dead gods as they drift in this empty place.
01:02:25Perhaps it is an amusing notion,
01:02:29but your life embodies an irony of Kalimvor as well.
01:02:36He does not know what he speaks of.
01:02:38Do I not?
01:02:40You sought to console the dying, soothe their pain and doubt.
01:02:45Then the true pain came when you discovered where you were guiding them.
01:02:52True guides?
01:02:55Absinthe.
01:02:57What matters in healing their pain if the true agony is to come?
01:03:03That is what awaits them on my wall.
01:03:06It is only a structure.
01:03:08It will not survive time and faith.
01:03:10It will not survive me.
01:03:12We are both of one mind about this, Myrkul.
01:03:23The wall will be destroyed.
01:03:25You would have an easier time dismantling Mount Celestia, stone by stone.
01:03:32Ritual and circumstance are not easily undone, little bird,
01:03:38and they are rarely accomplished by peace.
01:03:42Will you leave the living to slaughter and die for those already lost?
01:03:47What a sacrifice for you to demand of those who blindly follow you.
01:03:52Time and justice favor me.
01:03:54You know not what you say, Myrkul.
01:03:56I know this.
01:03:58I know your grandfather came to your god Kalimvor in secret
01:04:03before you mounted your great crusade.
01:04:10He lies.
01:04:12My grandfather shared no words with Kalimvor.
01:04:14Oh, there you are mistaken.
01:04:17He appealed on your behalf.
01:04:19He apologized for your narrow-mindedness, described you as a rogue grandchild
01:04:26that did not learn the rules, the drumbeat by which the universe marches.
01:04:32Your own blood condemned you, but it was only a small punishment, was it not?
01:04:38You had already discovered how thin the cloak of Kalimvor's faith was.
01:04:43He does not keep out the cold, not at all.
01:04:47His punishment cast you out of his halls, sealed the door of your home to you.
01:04:53Never again will you walk on the slopes of Mount Celestia,
01:04:57hear the chorus in the House of the Triad.
01:05:01You are an angel meant to walk the Earth.
01:05:04We've only her burning need for justice to keep her warm.
01:05:09A fairy tale with a bright beginning and a fiery end, I think.
01:05:16But isn't this how such falls always begin?
01:05:23The one I follow speaks in better words than I, but I share their strength.
01:05:28Some fall, it is true, but others...
01:05:30Victory and justice sustain them until they reach the gates of their enemy.
01:05:34Ah, Crusader's Heart.
01:05:38Follow the same path, and the destination shall be no different, little dove.
01:05:45I should have devised punishments and prisons for ones such as you, little priestess,
01:05:52who drift from god to god, leaving tracks in the ashes of your smoldering faith.
01:05:58Your wall of the faithless will not endure, Merkle.
01:06:01Like you, it will die in time.
01:06:03I have accepted death.
01:06:06You, however, perhaps in guarding death's kingdom.
01:06:10You, for such things, were beneath you.
01:06:13Who has fallen now?
01:06:15When you go before Kelimbor, little dove, see what he says to your reasons and your appeals.
01:06:23Ask him to dispense with ritual, with the agonies of the war.
01:06:28And listen to his answer.
01:06:30At that moment you will fall.
01:06:33You will know that the planes turn, and justice does not drive them.
01:06:39Once you were the lord of decay, of corruption, of wasting away.
01:06:43And now you are at the mercy of all those things.
01:06:46It makes me suspect the universe is just.
01:06:49Like your former god, you favor blunt action and brute force,
01:06:56with little regard for what such actions cause farther down the road.
01:07:01And perhaps what you see is not justice, but only amusement and irony.
01:07:08Two things which I value more.
01:07:14And what other difficulties clings to you, spirit Caesar?
01:07:19The red woman, she has been here before.
01:07:22All that she is now, she owns for me.
01:07:26And to you, spirit Aetern.
01:07:28Your memory is fading faster than your name, old god.
01:07:31And you're wrong on two counts.
01:07:33First, I have never been to the Astral Realm before this moment, so this is not a reacquaintance.
01:07:38And second, I owe you nothing.
01:07:41But you stood before me just a short time ago, red woman.
01:07:45Burning with rage and love in equal measure.
01:07:50What a shattered thing you have become.
01:07:52A secret of your own nature is the one who leads you.
01:07:56If only your beloved had accepted my judgment of you,
01:08:00your suffering might have ended long ago.
01:08:04Spirit Aeter, speak.
01:08:06And tell me what has brought you to this boneyard of gods.
01:08:18Your hunger is a punishment, spirit Aeter.
01:08:21But it was not meant for the hero who once died the Ghost of Swords.
01:08:27No.
01:08:28That punishment belongs to the one who now shares your fate.
01:08:33Akatshi, the betrayer, is just as I left him.
01:08:38He is empty now.
01:08:41A rattling void that seeks always to fill itself up to regain what the wall took from him.
01:08:49So he steals what he lost.
01:08:52A face, a body, a name.
01:08:56These are a mask to be worn for a time, until they are also devoured by his unending hunger.
01:09:11For now, yes, he has worn many such masks,
01:09:15and he will wear countless more once you are gone.
01:09:19The betrayer's hunger was born in the wall of the faithless.
01:09:23I placed him there and watched as his mind slowly dreamed away.
01:09:30His thoughts, his memories, these were torn from his grasp,
01:09:36one by one, and he has filled him, the hunger of the wall.
01:09:42But before the wall could consume him completely,
01:09:46I tore him free, so that his suffering, his emptiness would linger eternal.
01:10:00Oh, you have seen delusions, perhaps?
01:10:05The spawn of your desperate mind.
01:10:09Nothing remains of the betrayer's mind or self,
01:10:12else he would not be the rattling, empty beast that he is.
01:10:22I made a place for Akashi in the wall of the faithless.
01:10:26Your soul has gone to fill it.
01:10:30When the betrayer's hunger finally consumes your body and mind,
01:10:35then your soul will dissolve into the wall, and you will be no more.
01:10:41To reclaim your soul, to tear it from the wall,
01:10:46only in that impossibility might you find your salvation.
01:10:52But how to assault the city of judgments,
01:10:56unless you are to follow a road already prepared?
01:11:05Have you not laid eyes upon my vault in the shadows of Marcentia?
01:11:11Akashi defiled my sacred place, built a doorway in its depths,
01:11:17to connect the living world with the kingdom of the dead.
01:11:21You have seen that doorway in your dreams.
01:11:25Its key is a sword, a silver blade that knows you well.
01:11:31And now the sword awaits you, fully forged in the sanctum of one who loves you.
01:11:38Everything in place, almost as though it was planned this way from the start.
01:11:51The pleasure may be mine, but the plan is not.
01:11:55Your ally and your enemy are one and the same, spirit eater, and I am neither.
01:12:03Use the blade to open the gate, assault the city of judgment,
01:12:08and tear your soul from the wall. Finish what Akashi began.
01:12:14Your captains have waited long for your return.
01:12:17When the gate swings wide, they will come like loyal hounds,
01:12:22tongues roaring from their mouths at the very thought of a new crusade.
01:12:27The fallen angel, his wings dark now, their luster surrendered for you.
01:12:38The dragon, bound by a debt that she cannot repay.
01:12:42And the lich, craving the answers that lie beyond the gates.
01:12:48But to whistle up your dogs, spirit eater, you will need the blade.
01:12:54Only two portals provide passage from this drifting cairn of mine.
01:13:00One brought you here. The other will lead you to the sanctum where the blade and your ally await.
01:13:08Go quickly, spirit eater. If you would look upon her face,
01:13:12you will not be her only visitor today.
01:13:15My hound is clever, is he not? You opened the door, as Aramon hoped,
01:13:25and now he follows your ally to her wretched den.
01:13:29You saw him in your dream of the gate, saw him for the priest he once was,
01:13:35who served me at his brother's side, and turned against me at his brother's whim.
01:13:41He chose his brother over his god, but in his brother's defeat,
01:13:47I showed him mercy. He saw his error and repented on his knees.
01:14:02His faith in me sustains him. Belief is the currency of the pains,
01:14:08spirit eater, as your little dove will tell you.
01:14:16By my decree, his body does not age, nor will it, until his quarry is brought to ground.
01:14:26Ah, spirit eater, perhaps some part of Akashi does still linger in your mind.
01:14:33You know me, as he once did. Yes, I ensured that Aramon would not betray me again.
01:14:40I said a guess upon him, and imprisoned his soul in the City of Judgment,
01:14:45a hostage, until such time as he sent your ally's soul to its rightful place.
01:14:56It lies in the few planes still. The decree of a god is not so easy to change,
01:15:02and Kelimbor is loathe to reverse any judgment, lest he be seen as too human, too weak.
01:15:11And your ally's very existence breaks his law as well.
01:15:21Judgment has been too long delayed. Merkle's time on the planes is done.
01:15:26It is not yours to dispense judgment, spirit eater.
01:15:29The hunger of the wall holds no sway over gods.
01:15:38You have no right. Judgment is the purview of gods.
01:15:42In all you do, you glorify me, spirit eater. You stoke the embers of my soul.
01:15:49A final irony, even in this.
01:16:13And so Merkle at last lies dead.
01:16:15Prepare yourself, as his servants yet live, and they will not be pleased by what you have done.
01:16:45Ah, the name of a race.
01:17:12Yes.
01:17:15Yes.
01:17:24Follow me, now.