Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (2017 Video Game)

Tetsu Inada: Dromarch

Quotes 

• Architect : I will show you everything. Memories... Mine, and those of this planet.

  [we see the flashback to the Experiment] 

  Architect : This world was once the stage... of a struggle for survival that dwarfed this current predicament. The world was an unseemly place, though glimpses of beauty persisted. What should people for? Who should they live for...? They live for themselves. To harbor desires and struggle to realize them - that is the natural state of man. But I did not think that was good enough. I lost hope for mankind. I searched tirelessly for an outside solution. And one day, I found it. The Conduit. Why it chose to appear before us, I do not know. however, its existence presented a new possibility...

  Rex : Possibility?

  Architect : Our world was not the only one. Endless universes coexist side by side, yet all completely unaware of one another. The Conduit was our link to these foreign worlds... And I opened that forbidden gateway... praying that it would change the world.

  [flashback ends] 

  Architect : You have seen the plain called Morytha, have you not? That is what remains of my world. When I opened the Conduit, many people and things... disappeared, into distant dimensions. All that remained here were the ruins of Morytha... and half of my body.

  Rex : Your... body...

  Architect : Half of me lives on in some other dimension. But... not for much longer.

  Morag : What do you mean?

  Architect : The moment of my other self's demise draws near.

  Pyra : Father, you...

  Architect : I was a fool. Because of my foolishness, I lost everything. Left here, alone and broken, I longed for oblivion... But even that eluded me. This is my punishment... Retribution from on high, for the sin I have committed.

  Rex : On high...?

  Architect : There was only one thing I could do... I had to atone for my sin. I swore to restore this world.

  [he casts an illusion to give the party a visual aid] 

  Architect : The first thing I created... was a special particulate substance with the ability to restore deteriorated matter. You all know it as the Cloud Sea. The Cloud Sea can disassemble matter it comes in contact with, and rebuild it in the image of all the things that once made up this world. This way, little by little I could rebuild the world I had brought to ruin... Next, I began to recreate life. I gathered miniature vessels containing memories of all this planet's former lifeforms, and I scattered them across the Cloud Sea. These are the Core Crystals. The Crystals bonded with the Cloud Sea's particulate reconstructors... and formed the nuclei of new life.

  [we see an evolutionary tree of Titans shaped like the World Tree] 

  Architect : Those nuclei developed into minute lifeforms - the Titans - who would over time grow larger and larger. Finally, The Titans gave birth to complex organisms, based on the data in their Core Crystals. This newly-birthed life, over untold millennia... evolved into a new breed of mankind.

  [the illusion disappears] 

  Morag : So that's how we came to live in this world...

  Architect : But I did not trust this world, born as it had been. What if it were to repeat our mistakes? What if someone like me appearred? To stave off these doubts, I implemented one final measure. And so the Blades were born.

  [the illusion reappears] 

  Architect : Ontos, Logos, and Pneuma... the three cores of the Trinity Processor formed their cornerstone. However, Ontos triggered a space-time transition event, and it disappeared forever. I was left with the other two, Logos and Pneuma, entrusting them with managing the Blades.

  [the illusion disappears] 

  Architect : Malos and Pyra... those are the names that you now know them under.

  Pyra : So, I am... Pneuma...

  Dromarch : 'Managing'?

  Architect : The Core Crystals at the heart of each Blade are tasked with relaying all kinds of information to Logos and Pneuma...

  [we see Lora, Haze, Addam, and Mythra hanging out during the Aegis War] 

  Architect : About the selection pressures of the outside world, and the biological status of their bonded human,

  [we see Lora and Jin, then Vandham, then Rex holding Roc's Core Crystal] 

  Architect : but also the experiences and emotions they share. As the data continually accrues,

  [we see Jac resonating with Yachik in Torigoth] 

  Architect : new evolutionary data is sent back to the Core Crystals, and this code is used to create new, further evolved Blades. These Blades, too, become Titans in time, and create new generations of lifeforms...

  [we see Sever, then Vandham holding Wulfric's Core Crystal] 

  Architect : This was the new circle of life I had created.

  [the illusion disappears yet again] 

  Azurda : A grand scheme... It boggles the mind a tad.

  Rex : So we were all born from this endless cycle of life... To replace the victims of the previous world.

  Architect : That's right. But there were also a handful of survivors. I believe you saw them when you were in Morytha. The unfortunate ones who clung to life...

  [we see Infernal Guldo's corpse, then Rex holding Galea's ID badge] 

  Rex : You mean those monsters... Were they... originally people?

  Architect : Core Crystals were first conceived as a replacement for human brain cells. A product of mankind's age-old quest for immortality.

  Morag : And that's what became of them...? How awful.

  Architect : But that technology became the starting point for the creation of Blades and Titans.

  Azurda : So in one sense, their sacrifice was not in vain... Though not all may see it as such.

  Dromarch : So, tell us. In the end... Did we develop as you had hoped?

  Architect : What do you think?

  Dromarch : I... couldn't possibly...

  Architect : Well, those phantasms which you all experienced earlier... Those are feelings that lurk in all of your hearts... .As well as that man, Amalthus's...

  [we see flashbacks of Amalthus' life] 

  Architect : When a person loses something, they cannot help but seek a reason why. Within themselves, or in others... They seek a concrete answer to the question

  [we see Klaus talking to and throwing Galea during the Experiment] 

  Architect : of who they really are, deep inside. Such a very lonely existence...

  [we see Lora take an energy blast for Jin during the Aegis War, who picks her up] 

  Architect : But perhaps that is what it is to be human... All this data passed through me, and I knew. All of you... You were not in any way different from us, before. That's why I did not intervene... 500 years ago, when the man finally arrived here... I did nothing when he took away Logos and Pneuma. I stood and watched as Logos, instantiated into Blade form, set out to purge the world.

  Rex : You don't make sense! Didn't you go to all that trouble to rebuild it? Then why would you...

  Architect : It is fate.

  Rex : Fate?

  Architect : It is fated to happen. It cannot but happen. My atonement was doomed from the start.

  Pyra : That can't be...

  Architect : I had made my peace with it. Once more, I longed for nothing more than to disappear. However... Something has now changed. And that is you, Rex. You and Pneuma.

  Rex : Me and... Pyra and Mythra...?

  Architect : You reforged your bond in a way I had not thought possible. And the life you share...

  [we see a flashback to Pyra's Core Crystal and the section that Rex carries] 

  Architect : Moreover... The Conduit, which fell into a stubborn silence after the world's end, has begun stirring once more. Rex... The power you and Pneuma exercise is the Conduit's power. It comes leaking out of some far-flung dimension. And it is a power we can know nothing about. But with its help... The world may be about to change.

  [we see what's happening outside: three Sirens shoot lasers at Alrest, causing the World Tree to shake] 

  Rex : What's all this shaking-?

  Architect : It is Logos... Malos, trying to destroy this world and everything in it.

  Rex : What?