ARCHADIA : CHESS ARCHETYPE One does not win by preserving every piece; only by knowing which may be spent.
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ARCHADIA : CHESS ARCHETYPE One does not win by preserving every piece; only by knowing which may be spent.
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One more ordinary day in FF12 office AU
Doing a million nice sketches cause I’m going insane apparently.
probitas et discordia
| Judges & animals [3/5] |
| Judge Zargabaath & Alcedo atthis |
Zargabaath
I’ll take any chance I can to raise HP beside their respective stats! I only wish I could build TT’s higher but alas... I don’t have another Emperor *^*
Deleted Scenes [From A Marriage]
Emperor Larsa Ferrinas Solidor finally married at seventeen, which might be young for a boy, but was to some old indeed for someone who had already led an empire for five years. And by then, few were surprised to find that it was not from the gentry that he at last chose a wife. He'd been so scandalously egalitarian for so long, it barely caused ripples.
And if the young emperor might also have had some other reason for being attracted to a common dancer, he didn't mention it aloud... and likely never would have, save for one fact, which was that the wisest man in Ivalice bore a child by a woman who attempted to assassinate him.
Her name was Osana, and she was a member of a cult based out of Northern Valendia, a group over eight centuries old that had divorced itself from the Light of Kiltia to pledge allegiance to a dancer-priestess named Müllenkamp.
[...]
So it was that one night the sky pirate Penelope of the Branded Arms came to offer him solace, and he confessed to her. “I am a man who has had much taken from me. Nearly all that I loved, and nearly all that within a month's time, at that. And despite all of the privileges that loss has bought, I find it difficult to reconcile with the knowledge that I let the last of my loves walk away in turn; but what man would I be to deny truth?”
It isn't known what she said in response.
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It seems impossible that the truth of Larsa Solidor's wife never made it to the public—not in Archades, where even then information was worth its weight in gold and sandalwood both—but Judge Magister Gabranth's ninth division found an unlikely ally in Judge Magister Zargabaath. As he told Gabranth one night as the two shared a rare drink on a balcony overlooking the capital, there would be no atoning for his sins, but to prevent further anti-religious fervor amongst his people could only be his charge, after his complicity in the massacre at Mt. Bur-Omisace.