Editing Dragon Quest IV Transcript (section)

===Zenithia, first visit===

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By some miraculous force, Orifiela is resurrected!

Orifiela: Behold, it is Zenithia! My home! Without your help, I should not have been able to return here.

Orifiela: Thank you, Hero. But I must leave you now to inform my kinsmen of my safe return.

Orifiela: Thank you again...and farewell.

(*): Behold the mighty castle of Zenithia.

(*): You stand in the domain of the great Dragon God.

(*): Oh! Many years have passed since wingless friends did tread the clouds of our realm.

(*): The word from the earth below is of a terrible evil. A wicked foe about to be reborn.

(*): I desire to descend to the world below. But it is the Zenith Dragon alone who may grant permission for such an excursion.

(*): Though, ten years or more past, one of our number, an angel, did descend, and did so without sanction.

(*): Fear not, for you are safe. The clouds of Zenithia do support us all, and keep us from plummeting to the ground below.

(*): Grrr...

(*): You will be travelling to strange places in the near future.

(*): So I must ask you. Have you already obtained the baron's bugle?

(*): If not, you must find it. It is said to reside in Baron's Folly, to the east of the Azimuth.

(*): Grrrooo...

(*): Psaro the Manslayer has erected barriers in order to prevent the hand of his enemies corrupting his forced evolution.

(*): These barriers must be destroyed if his evolution is to be checked.

(*): May divine protection accompany %O960%Xthee, Hero/the great (hero/heroine), Hero).

Orifiela: Oh, my (friend/friends)! See how you have helped me! I have returned to my duties watching over the pups.

Orifiela: A great kindness such as you have done unto me must be repaid...

Orifiela: Sparkie! Come here, please.

Orifiela: I give you Sparkie, to take with you on your journey. He will aid you, I'm sure.

Sparkie joins the party!

Orifiela: We are all depending on you now.

Sparkie joins the party!

Sparkie leaves you and makes his way outside to the wagon!

Orifiela: We are all depending on you now.

Orifiela: We are all depending on you now.

(*): It has begun!

(*): A wicked cloud doth begin to spread across the world below!

(*): Many years ago, a young angel did descend from Zenithia and fell in love with a human woodcutter.

(*): But the divine law doth say that no angel and no human shall together be.

(*): The woodcutter was struck down by a bolt of lightning and the grief-stricken angel was returned to Zenithia.

(*): Woebegone, she could not put from her mind the memory of the child she was forced to leave behind.

(*): If today she were to see her Hero once more, what force could be powerful enough to stop her, her tears...? (sob sob)

(*): Hm? What am I doing? I'm nurthing thome young Yggdrasil thaplingth.

(*): Here you are. Have thome Yggdrasil dew. It'th a prethent from me!

(Character) receives some Yggdrasil dew!

(*): What'th that? You want thome more Yggdrasil dew?

(*): Don't be tho greedy! I'll give you more oneth you've exhauthted what you've already got.

(*): All right. But it'th our little thecret, okay?

(Character) receives some Yggdrasil dew!

(*): Huh! (A human/Humans)! Don't say anything, Daisy.

Daisy: Hmph! No, Oopsy.

Daisy: Hmph...

(*): ♪ La-la-la, La-la-la... ♪

(*): Do you desire to read of the books?

(*): Very well. Allow me to read to you...

(*): "The Secret of Evolution". Ahem...

(*): "The Secret of Evolution is an occult mechanism to corrupt the normal course of evolution.

(*): "When this mechanism is used, creatures may be born that were never intended to appear in our world.

(*): "The Secret of Evolution is the evil of all evils.

(*): "Such potency cannot be inherited by our children and children's children. It must be sealed away..."

(*): And yet, after many years, it was discovered again.

(*): Perhaps it was the evil streak introduced by Estark's meddling in evolution that caused it to surface once again.

(*): Very well. Perhaps at another time...

(*): Do you desire to read of the books?

(*): "A History of War". Ahem...

(*): "Many moons ago, Estark, the Master of Monsterkind, unearthed a terrible evil: the Secret of Evolution.

(*): "Using this awesome power, Estark evolved into a creature so mighty that he would rival even the gods.

(*): "But the Zenithians were aware of Estark's designs and, alongside the Zenith Dragon, engaged him in battle.

(*): "After a long and bloody war, Estark was finally sealed away deep underground.

(*): "For even the mighty Zenith Dragon was not powerful enough to completely destroy Estark.

(*): "He must never be stirred. He must never be roused.

(*): "Such potency cannot be inherited by our children and children's children. It must be sealed away..."

(*): It was only in hindsight that the truth was known. The Secret of Evolution used by Estark was incomplete.

(*): The armlet of transmutation, needed to augment the dark powers necessary for the process, was never employed by Estark.

(*): Very well. Perhaps at another time...

(*): There are books on these shelves that you cannot read.

(*): You can ask one of those two to read them to you, though.

(*): You are in the presence of the Zenith Dragon, our lord and master!

(*): Hero!? (He/She) who shares the blood of human and Zenithian alike!

(*): Your well-being has always weighed heavy on the Zenith Dragon's mind.

(*): I am the Zenith Dragon. Some even call me the Dragon God.

Zenith Dragon: From these lofty heights, I tend to all the world's needs.

Zenith Dragon: I know only too well why you are here.

Zenith Dragon: But it is already too late for me to prevent the evolution of this one they call Psaro the Manslayer.

Zenith Dragon: I am perhaps not the almighty force you believed me to be.

Zenith Dragon: ...!

(*): There is urgent news, O Great One. A wave of malice doth emanate from the Doorway to Nadiria!

Zenith Dragon: I know. Thank you. You may retire.

Zenith Dragon: Perhaps this Psaro believes he can topple Zenithia from the sky...

Zenith Dragon: Or perhaps the ascension to Zenithia of the great (hero/heroine), Hero, has provoked this happening.

Zenith Dragon: No matter. I do not try to understand the motives of humans.

Zenith Dragon: For a weak race, humans exhibit extraordinary strength at times.

Zenith Dragon: It is on this that I must depend now...

As if by magic, Hero is resurrected!

Zenith Dragon: Behold the one who shares the blood of human and Zenithian alike: the great (hero/heroine), Hero!

Zenith Dragon: You may be all that can hold sway against this evolutionary evil.

Zenith Dragon: I hereby bequeath to you the sum of my power!

The Zenithian Sword suddenly gleams with a dazzling light!

Zenith Dragon: Be gone now, Hero!

Zenith Dragon: The wave of malice has pierced a hole in the clouds. That is your opening to the underworld of Nadiria.

Zenith Dragon: In its murky depths, the Zenithian Sword will be your greatest ally.

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