Having talked the party into helping her, the cleric leads them to the cave within which the Sacred Flame rests. Lianna helped Ophilia when our newest recruit needed it most now, Phili has the idea to do the same, by making certain Lianna does not leave her father’s side at his hour of greatest need, and instead taking up the mantle of Flame-barer herself. Ophilia was a closed-off child for a long time because of that, exhibiting near-Batman symptoms of loneliness, until Lianna managed to get through to her, and made of her a friend. It is then that Phili suffers from an onset of Flashback Syndrom, remembering her coming to the home of Joseph and Lianna after her parents perished during the great war ten years ago (possibly the same war that Olberic fought in? The time period fits!). Joseph is in fact in good humour, even if his repeated coughing worries Phili to no end and sends Lianna to think things through at the two sisters’ favourite spot, overlooking the Cathedral. It’s later on that very day that Ophilia, while entertaining a visitor seeking to speak with the Archbishop, is sent word that her adoptive father has fallen ill. For further commentary on horrible, terrible no-good religious pilgrimages, look up Final Fantasy X. The typical drawbacks of failing in one’s religious quest. Death, danger, devilry of all sorts, and the fate of the world. She is every inch the selfless young lady you would expect her to be from the very first, and her capacity for self-sacrifice is equalled only by her sheepishness around her adopted family.Īfter a heartwarming attempt of father and daughter to remind ‘Phili that she is, indeed, a part of the family, Archbishop Joseph got into the nitty-gritty about what’s to be expected during his daughter’s pilgrimage. All the young cleric wishes for is to help her sister perform her duties better. Ophilia doesn’t resent her sister for all that she is the Great Cathedral’s star pupil perhaps she is even blind to her own contributions to Lianna’s success, and her own popularity amongst the faithful. Under other circumstances, it would be Lianna who is the main character of this story - but that is not the case. Lianna is a brilliant orator, an exceptional pupil, and an obedient daughter whose greatest wish is to follow in her father’s footsteps and make him proud. Both have walked the same path as acolytes in the Great Cathedral, whose bishop is the girls’ father. Much grumbling and several days later, the group ended up further north than they’d ever come together, in the town of Flamesgrace.īefore she was pressed into attempting a dangerous pilgrimage (more on that later), Ophilia had spent most of her life in the shadow of the person she most loved in the world, her foster sister, Lianna. After much discussion, the scholar Cyrus managed to convince his fellows Tressa, Olberic and Therion to return with him to university to pick up a few tomes he’d misplaced.
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