Editing Dragon Quest IV Transcript (section)

===Azimuth===

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(*): What is the meaning of-

(*): Behold, (a traveller/travellers) of the Goddess's earthly garden! Stand humbled at the Azimuth, gateway to Zenithia!

(*): There is talk of an unearthly rupture that has rent the divine altar of this sacred place.

(*): Is this the Day of Judgement? Do the gods today preside over the Holy Court of Justice? Or are we led now to benediction?

(*): What is the meaning of this!?

(*): The Goddess will guide Her sheep. Follow Her divine light, and miracles will bless your eyes.

(*): Though the path is ever treacherous, have faith, my (child/children)! Great wonders await you.

(*): Beware the dangers of sorrow and grief. Those with heavy hearts are vessels of the Wicked One.

(*): But all are born into this world blessed. Blessed by the one true deity, the Almighty Goddess!

(*): Estark, born of the fiery flames of Nadiria, was struck down by a great (hero/heroine), just as the prophecy foretold.

(*): But now he strives to be reborn. A new evil stirs within his condemned and tormented soul.

(*): What was it...?

(*): On the night of the full moon, those tr-tremors from the ground...

(*): And then, th-there was an unholy ru-rupture formed in the dais above...

(*): Our ignorance leaves us impotent! Is this the work of the gods, or the trickery of monsters?

(*): Have you laid eyes on the holy altar? Have you seen what hath befallen it?

(*): You are brave indeed. Oh, I must see for myself what this omen that has been sent to us means.

(*): Yet...I cannot. Almighty Guardian, give me courage to mount these steps!

(*): They say something terrible has occurred! Go! See for (yourself/yourselves)!

(*): Even a heart such as that of Psaro the Manslayer, frozen by hatred, would be thawed by the virtue of true love.

(*): Yet his one true love is already beyond salvation.

(*): Open your ears to the voice of the Goddess as I have done!

(*): A path has been opened before us!

(*): On that very night, the night of the deafening roar that shook the ground under our feet, the Almighty One forged a path!

(*): But whither does it lead!? The Holy Envoy of the Goddess, the Master of Zenithia, will not answer me!

(*): Zenith Dragon, what does this mean?

(*): Whither would this path lead us? What holy mysteries await us should we step forth from this altar into the voi-

(*): What? It leads to a chicken and egg situation, you say?

(*): I've never heard such absurdity! Deride a messenger of the Almighty One at your peril! Lest you be struck down by heavenly lightning!

(*): I have heard tell of a tower somewhere on this island that leads to Zenithia itself!

(*): But even if the Stairway to Zenithia really does exist, it is not open to all.

(*): It is written in the ancient scriptures that only one with all of the legendary Zenithian Equipment would be granted access.

(*): Your feet are blessed, for you stand at the Azimuth, the closest mortals can be to Zenithia.

(*): But beware, for Nadiria, the underworld, is not far distant either.

(*): In the north-west of this very island is a cave so deep that it touches the abyss. A cave that no human may approach.

(*): Only Zenithians and monsterkind may enter the cave. That is what the legend says.

(*): The woman who was sleeping there is gone.

(*): She spoke of returning to a castle in the sky. Do you suppose she was delirious, or could what she said have been true?

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