Chat with NPC Awakened Xan

[Windguaerd]

The Xan being stiffens in your presence.
Awakened Xan: Who are you?
Her voice, accusing.
Awakened Xan: How did you get here?
Noticiero: I'm Noticiero. I was granted access by the spirits.
Awakened Xan: Why would they...
The spirits all turn towards the awakened Xan, and they start to sing. She looks at them and begins to speak.
Awakened Xan: I was there to witness the beginning.
I belonged to the skeptical, at least at first. If we truthfully believed or not in the end I no longer can tell, but as it is with fear it... It makes a believer out of you.
There were eight of us...
She stops here.
Noticiero: What did or didn't you believe in?
Awakened Xan: We didn't believe there were consequences for mastering the source. We didn't want to believe.
Noticiero: There are eight of you?
Awakened Xan: There were eight of us back then, led by the great manipulator.
Her ancient face hardens, like it would've been cut out from a rock.
We were proved wrong. Our actions led to what you know as the cataclysm.
The world we knew collapsed and we stood barefoot at the edge of a new world.
Noticiero: You mean Rubi-Ka?
Awakened Xan: You have to understand, this wasn't the planet you now know. It was merely a lifeless grain of a world and it was completely alien to us. The source was not what we knew it to be. We had to struggle just to remain alive.
With the new conditions, we noticed a change in ourselves.
She stops here.
Awakened Xan: I didn't see it back then, but this change started even before the collapse. We had grown more arrogant, and with arrogant came ignorance.

In this new world, we quickly became more and more impatient. Life without the source was a mortal life. A mortal life was nothing.
Especially not here, on this scarred planet.
Noticiero: Did you build that tower?
Awakened Xan: The tower, it's built from Xan technology. We were obsessed about returning to our world. Our engineers built machinery to reconnect with our dimension, only to discover we only half succeeded. An endless chasm opened up, tore the ground apart and caused the death of most Xan.

As the eight elders, we decided to leave this world until it healed itself.
So to protect the historic knowledge we preserved, we built this sacred hall, and in this hall we induced an artificial sleep.
She stops here.
Awakened Xan: But we were awoken.
She hesitates.
Awakened Xan: I was awoken by the great manipulator. Most of us were by then already gone. As the full intention of the plan was revealed to me, I understood why.

Her aura glows stronger in a deep red tone.
Noticiero: What plan?
Awakened Xan: The plan, as I knew it, was to wait for the world to heal. Then slowly rebuild the Xan community with the little creative capacity we had left.
She lets out what sounds like a sigh.
Awakened Xan: We were mislead, or perhaps blinded by despair.
When I awoke, the great manipulator demanded me to help in his struggle to regain power over the source.
To do this he would sacrifice the world, as it no longer was his world to lose.

At his side, walks another awakened.
A sound like a snort lets out of her throat.
Awakened Xan: A disciple, crazed, corrupted. Ridden by madness he wants to bring forth a second cataclysm to accomplish the final collapse. The end of days.
Noticiero: Why don't you fight it?
Awakened Xan: I can't risk the consequences. Being what we are means we cannot start a process of war. A conflict between forces of our magnitude would jeopardize everything. I would risk changing, physically alter my state of being, and I would risk corruption. Become like him.
Noticiero: Why are you hiding in here, from the humans?
Awakened Xan: The humans.
She shrugs slowly.
Awakened Xan: I've seen your kind cause destruction wherever you turn.
Her voice, full of loathing.
Awakened Xan: And now you've sold yourselves to that... corrupted low life.
Noticiero: What the hell are you talking about?
Awakened Xan: Don't try to deny it. I heard of that bomb you built.
Though I can't for the life of me understand why, it's your destruction.
Noticiero: You're talking about the Dust Brigade? I'm not one of them!
Awakened Xan: You... you mean you don't follow the corrupted?
Noticiero: I disabled the bomb and we killed the Dust Brigade Chief!
The spirits once again starts their strange singing.
Awakened Xan: I was wrong. Perhaps there is still hope.