Jahara – land of the Garif
BANKS OF THE SOGOHT > LULL OF THE LAND > THE ELDERKNOLL
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BANKS OF THE SOGOHT
Go to the moogles located to the left of the bridge and buy a Jahara map. That Ozmone Plane map is quite pricy so I skipped it and was never disappointed by my non-purchase.
The Garif at the bridge says “No place for Hume-children to play at
games.” Eesh, check out that Engrish. Time to hire a new localization
writer. Hey Square-Enix, I freelance write. Call me, no Engrish will
get past my watchful eye – at least the non funny ones won’t.
The Garif War Chief vouches for the party’s warrior cred. His name is
Supinelu. Vaan talks but no words come out. I guess Supinelu assumes
that we are here to research nethicite. He walks off. Notice that
although he is a powerful warrior he still has some rather curvaceous
birthing hips.
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LULL OF THE LAND
The Garif village has a very mad-max, post-apocalyptic motif going.
All the Garif talk about how noble they are and how some other kid was
poking around asking about nethicite. Hmm, poking around that sounds
like something our little prince may be up to some Nethicite Research.
Stop by the Merchant here and stock up if necessary.
THE ELDERKNOLL
Go to the far edge of the village and talk to
Supinelu again to get the Great-chief. Supinelu can see the party’s
true intentions and gives us over to the Great Chief.
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| Ths painting doesn't have anything to do with the game I just found it while looking for the Friedrich painting and I thought the kid looked like Larsa. It is by William Dyce. |
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Cut scene:
It looks hot in Jahara but it seems the Great Chief still needs a
huge bon fire next to him. With nasty elephant man hands, the Chief
looks at the nethicite and determines that it has been used. Ashe gets
defensive and says “it wasn’t me.” Ashe then presses further by asking
how to use it, just in case. The Chief drifts off into story mode and
tells how the gods gave his people the nethicite first. The gods, in
their infinite wisdom and infinite Indian-giver ways, took it back from
the Garif. The gods gave it to King Raithwall and as we know he used
it to make peace among the various kingdoms. Notice how King Raithwall
points his sword right at Ashe, signifying her relation to him. I
think the chief revels in the irony that even though Ashe is related to
Raithwall she does know how to use it. Maybe the gods need to come
down and take it from her.
He then goes on to tell her that the nethicite is a one shot pistol.
All the mist that was in it was used up when it blew up the Dreadnaught
Leviathan. Ashe is all “like no way, I totally didn’t get use it even
through my grandpa said I could have it.” It takes a long time for it
to suck up all the mist required to make it useful for tyrants. It
looks like Ashe is holding a mini watermelon.
All of a sudden it is a first person shooter as someone approaches the Chief’s tent. Larsa swishes his way up to the Chief’s tent and he is all “Hello Bitches!” Damn those home schooled kids get it easy. Larsa tells Ashe that the Marquis is readying the resistance for a fight against the Empire. As a preventive measure, Ashe should go to see the Grand Kiltias (the spiritual leader of Ivalice) so that he can crown Ashe queen. As queen, she will have the power to tell the Dalmascans not to attack the Empire. Larsa seems pretty reasonable here, considering he is from the Empire and wants to stop an invasion. Ashe doesn’t take to all this talk of peace and treaties and she kind of wants a big showdown with the Empire. Larsa warns her that if there is a war, Vayne will use the stolen Dusk Shard to nuke Rabanastre. Larsa says “take me as you hostage.” This would make Larsa prisoner to Ashe who is currently being kidnapped by Balthier.
It is night now and Ashe leaves the Great Chief’s tent. As she is walking back to her tent she sees Rosler’s ghost again. As she nears, she realizes that it is just Vaan (whose hair is looking extra feathery tonight). Now you may think because Ashe sees someone she loves juxtaposed over Vaan that this may be the start of some sort of crush, romance, or some high school level chemistry, but get over it. That chance at romance is killed by Vaan bringing up his dead brother again. This talk illustrates the many parallels between Ashe and Vaan’s lives. Except Ashe would never use the phrase “I want to be a sky pirate.” Vaan says he has moved on from Empire hating. Maybe it is time Ashe did the same. I mean, it will prevent nethicital warfare.
The next morning, Ashe tells Larsa that she will follow him to Mt. Bur-Omisace to see the Kiltias. The rest of their discussion is so stiff and forced it sounds like two automated telephone operators having a conversation. This is supposed to be a big change for Ashe’s character but is it really that hard of a choice knowing that when you get there she will be anointed queen. Cripes, I would walk half way to Montana just to be nominated for Mayor of Flagstaff. Larsa says that he has someone he wants her to meet waiting at Bur-Omisace. Let me tell you, as soon as it is know that you are single everyone and I mean everyone tries to set you up. Vaan wonders about the kid’s secrets. You better watch yourself Larsa, we killed the last guest who disagreed with us.
Balthier has another excuse why we can’t use his airship. Basch accuses Balthier of helping Ashe just to get a hold of the nethicite. Balthier promises him that he has no intention to. Then, as he walks away, Balthier pushes against the fourth wall again when he refers to this as a story and himself as a leading man.
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