#103 Alisaie
By the Twelve... Dragons...and so many...
#104 Alisaie
We were aware that the Allagans possessed the means to control the creatures, but to imprison them thus is...barbaric. I would not wish such a fate upon my worst enemy.
#105 Alisaie
'Tis plain that no love was lost between the Allagans and the dragons, but was it truly necessary to keep so great a number here?
#106 Alisaie
Dalamud did not want for defenses, this we have experienced firsthand. Such guardians as the Allagans created─both living and unliving─were surely no less capable of repelling intruders than these poor creatures...
#107 Alphinaud
Tell me something, Alisaie.
#108 Alphinaud
Have you not managed to determine by whose will Bahamut exists?
#109 Alisaie
No, I have not. At first, I assumed that Bahamut had no people of his own─that the Allagans had perhaps discovered a way to simulate prayer itself.
#110 Alisaie
However, Nael's words gave me cause to reconsider─specifically, the shade's mention of Bahamut's “beloved children.”
#111 Alisaie
From that, I inferred that the primal is given form by the will of worshipers whom we have yet to─
#112 Alisaie
Oh.
#113 Alisaie
Gods strike me down for a blind fool!
#114 Alisaie
Bahamut's beloved children, right there before my very eyes... How could I be so stupid?
#115 Alisaie
Who else but the dragons of eld would summon Bahamut? Who else but they could sustain him? And to think I wondered why the Allagans kept them imprisoned here!
#116 Alphinaud
Even should the flame of Bahamut's life go out, his faithful children would summon him back.
#117 Alphinaud
For this reason, the Allagan Empire kept an army of dragons here in a perpetual state of duress, that they might sustain the primal's existence.
#118 Alphinaud
Truly, the Allagans' ingenuity knew no bounds...and neither did their cruelty.