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Flere821 · 2011-03-07, 01:05

I've got some more info on Ch3 and 4:

Spoiler for Ch3 - 'The Final Spear':

Spoiler for Ch4 - 'The Senate':

The elven senate wrangle on about how Vitartial's neice helped Saito and Tifa escape. A vocal minority faction tries to discredit Vitartial, but ultimately fails due to faulty reasoning, and that only Vitartial has enough knowledge against their enemy: humans and the Void, so Vitartial cannot afford to be lost against the humans.

The senate is mostly filled with people that doesn't want to make changes and take responsiblity for it, since if anything goes wrong their own tribe would be the ones that is in trouble. Vitartial's niece is sickened by how stagnant the elven society has become over the years and originally started to study humans in hope of a revolution. Vitartial himself thinks the elves doesn't have the high ground to call humans barbarians in their state - even though having made sure there would be no tyranny by a single ruler, the senate as a whole is incompetent.

The senate receives notice that Saito and others reached the Dragon's Nest. The navy is sent to kill them all, as it's under the influence of that minority faction.

Vitartial meets with his niece's fiancee, and told him to rescue the three at Dragon's Nest, and escape to Gallia. Vitartial still have contacts there from when he served Joseph, and tell him to lie low there until it all blows over.

Vitartial has a talk with the current head of senate, and the reason why the elves doesn't just nuke the humans is revealed:

Dragon's Nest is the largest deposit of Earth weaponry in the elven lands, with things like a modern machine gun that doesn't need magic to work. If the humans of Helkeginia somehow get access to mass-produced Earth weaponry in addition to the Void, the elves might not win. That's why 'Shaitan's Gate', some sort of a permanent gateway between Helkeginia and Earth at the Holy Land, cannot be allowed to open.

The vocal minority faction doesn't know about the capability of Earth weaponry, and takes the stance of just kill all the Void mages and humans that dares to oppose the elves.

The elven navy has tamed 'Whale Dragons' instead of having massive combat ships, and elven military holds the view that magic should be the last resort.

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Flere821 Lurker Join Date: Aug 2010	I've got some more info on Ch3 and 4: Spoiler for Ch3 - 'The Final Spear': The submarine turns out to be a Russian nuclear sub, but the engine has no nuclear material left in it and the sub can no longer function. HOWEVER... it is fully loaded with nuclear ICBMs o_O The elves also have magical equivalent of WMDs, they just don't use it. Saito's afraid that now that humans also have WMDs both sides will just eliminate each other. He didn't want to have the burden of having to decide whether to use these things, but he's the only one who can due to Gandalfr runes. Tifa is conflicted in that she loves Saito, but he is already a friend's (Louise's) lover. To get around this she decides to just summon her own familiar, even though she knows it's just running away and might be a burden to whoever she summons. Spoiler for Ch4 - 'The Senate': The elven senate wrangle on about how Vitartial's neice helped Saito and Tifa escape. A vocal minority faction tries to discredit Vitartial, but ultimately fails due to faulty reasoning, and that only Vitartial has enough knowledge against their enemy: humans and the Void, so Vitartial cannot afford to be lost against the humans. The senate is mostly filled with people that doesn't want to make changes and take responsiblity for it, since if anything goes wrong their own tribe would be the ones that is in trouble. Vitartial's niece is sickened by how stagnant the elven society has become over the years and originally started to study humans in hope of a revolution. Vitartial himself thinks the elves doesn't have the high ground to call humans barbarians in their state - even though having made sure there would be no tyranny by a single ruler, the senate as a whole is incompetent. The senate receives notice that Saito and others reached the Dragon's Nest. The navy is sent to kill them all, as it's under the influence of that minority faction. Vitartial meets with his niece's fiancee, and told him to rescue the three at Dragon's Nest, and escape to Gallia. Vitartial still have contacts there from when he served Joseph, and tell him to lie low there until it all blows over. Vitartial has a talk with the current head of senate, and the reason why the elves doesn't just nuke the humans is revealed: Dragon's Nest is the largest deposit of Earth weaponry in the elven lands, with things like a modern machine gun that doesn't need magic to work. If the humans of Helkeginia somehow get access to mass-produced Earth weaponry in addition to the Void, the elves might not win. That's why 'Shaitan's Gate', some sort of a permanent gateway between Helkeginia and Earth at the Holy Land, cannot be allowed to open. The vocal minority faction doesn't know about the capability of Earth weaponry, and takes the stance of just kill all the Void mages and humans that dares to oppose the elves. The elven navy has tamed 'Whale Dragons' instead of having massive combat ships, and elven military holds the view that magic should be the last resort.