First the good news: I finally pieced together some of the meaning from that prophecy I've been mulling over for the past month or so. It's been kind of a tricky one, since the words that come to mind don't have a lot in the way of meaning, and drawing it doesn't seem to be helping. Here's the best drawing I've been able to do so far.
((203451423597255 hours in MSPaint))
As this diagram CLEARLY illustrates, the golden-skinned child of Windurst is going to pave the way to the blade of light with her blood. The dark "shadow of the west" that's threatening her, as evidenced by the evil eyes, has horns and wings. Looks kinda like a demon. So, I've been working hard to unlock this image.
Obviously, the golden-skinned child of Windurst is a Mithra, a white-haired one. She's been "crowned by virtue" though you can't tell it from the picture (unless that means she has abnormally large boobs). I'm pretty sure the sword is Lightbringer, one of the treasures of ancient San d'Oria that's been lost for centuries. (Of COURSE it has been lost for centuries. We can't be looking for something EASY now, can we? My Master's had me hunting this thing for years.) But I've been stumped as to further details for a while now.
I decided the easiest thing to research would be Lightbringer, so I've been hitting up the archives in Tavnazia and San d'Oria. The sword is supposed to be more powerful than the sheets of lightning that split a summer sky, more beautiful than the sea at dawn, and more terrible than Shantotto with PMS. Of course, as to what exactly it does, I have no freakin' clue. The holy texts clarified it a little bit--they said that Lightbringer has been imbued with the power of divine magic such as no other weapon in existence. It's a hallowed blade, they wrote, that would smite with the wrath of Altana any unworthy heathen who drew it. Such artifacts aren't completely uncommon in Vana'diel, of course, but the ancients were so firm that this was something beyond the normal that I realized this wasn't your ordinary sword.
Then, I remembered that certain historical artifacts have come to the Elvaan from ancient tablets--could this be one of those? The tablets date back to even before the Zilart era... and could be relics of the time when the gods walked on Vana'diel's soil. I have to admit, I'm not a religious guy at all, but the thought fascinated me, and it explains why my Master is so impatient with me to get my hands on that sword. Of course, he's also been impatient with me to decipher this damn prophecy, even more than usual. I think he's really scared about what this one might mean. I think we're all scared about what this one might mean.
Anyway, after a long time, the rest of it came to me, and I felt like I'd been gut-punched. No, even worse--I felt like I was going to be sick. Warmth just drained from every extremity. Was that really what the prophecy could mean...? Am I wrong? I mean, it would explain a TON. I stumbled on Seik, Mai, and Caenir last night after I'd had a few hours to chew on this, but I tried to hide what I'd found out. After all, I don't want to worry them, and I don't have proof. But if you piece together what Lightbringer is with the other clues... it makes a horrible kind of sense. The shadow from the west is going to kill her, I know that. I can just... feel it.
And I think I know how it's going to happen. Now, all I have to do is stop it, and hide it from the others...
Keep my secret, Journal.
Alberic
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