One of Sorey’s reasons for using a ceremonial sword with no edges. That aside, with this skit, I want to talk about Lailah. Sweet, beautiful, eccentric Lailah, a big sister to everyone, the Lady of the Lake, with her painful and terrible secrets that she cannot speak about. This place was where she formed her pact with the previous Shepherd, hundreds of years ago, a journey which she seems to both treasure and find painful at the same time. Back then, according to her, this underground altar was where the people of Dame du Lac would throw possible Shepherd candidates into, designed so that they would be unable to get out unless they could make a pact with the Seraph. A terrible thing done in terrible times. What happened to those people? They died. Starving, clawing at the walls, unable to see her. She could only watch and accept their deaths, unable to do anything. And she still came back and bound herself to a holy sword anew, to wait for another Shepherd to come again. She insists that she wasn’t lonely. When she felt anything like loneliness, she would sing to herself, or listen to the people’s troubles. The legend of the Lady of the Lake before her was of a warrior who walks upon the lake with the evening fog and cleanse evil with dark fire. The legend of the kind-hearted Lady who sings in moonlit nights and whispers guidance to people who have lost their way——that was all her, and she does not realize it. I used to dislike Lailah before I played the game, because her voice-acting grated on me. I love her now. I really, really love Lailah, our Lady of the Lake with all her secrets.
