The Spine of Night

Doom! 290 00:29:16,151 --> 00:29:19,421 Doom! 291 00:29:19,453 --> 00:29:21,956 Grand inquisitor, we do not have the soldiers 292 00:29:21,990 --> 00:29:23,492 to protect the library. 293 00:29:23,524 --> 00:29:25,460 They will rally against us! 294 00:29:25,493 --> 00:29:28,363 Starving people care nothing for the centuries 295 00:29:28,396 --> 00:29:30,432 of stored knowledge we hold here. 296 00:29:30,464 --> 00:29:33,202 - The books will burn! - Along with the rest of us. 297 00:29:33,234 --> 00:29:36,472 Councilors, please. 298 00:29:36,504 --> 00:29:40,575 We will endure... 299 00:29:40,608 --> 00:29:45,547 Just as we did during the withered spring, 300 00:29:45,579 --> 00:29:52,120 the red tempest, and the night of a thousand suns. 301 00:29:52,154 --> 00:29:55,924 The pantheon is immortal. 302 00:29:55,957 --> 00:29:57,659 And in a season's time, 303 00:29:57,693 --> 00:30:00,663 that horde will have dried up and blown away 304 00:30:00,695 --> 00:30:04,299 like so much dust on a long forgotten Tome. 305 00:30:05,434 --> 00:30:07,001 What if we taught them? 306 00:30:07,034 --> 00:30:08,403 If we opened our gates... 307 00:30:08,436 --> 00:30:11,940 Enough, San-al! 308 00:30:13,407 --> 00:30:15,476 I'll refer you to the sacred vows 309 00:30:15,510 --> 00:30:19,348 you swore to order. 310 00:30:19,380 --> 00:30:22,517 To gather and protect the knowledge of man. 311 00:30:22,550 --> 00:30:25,119 Our vows call also for mercy! 312 00:30:25,153 --> 00:30:29,625 Our order has no responsibility to the men themselves. 313 00:30:29,657 --> 00:30:31,193 Our gates, 314 00:30:31,225 --> 00:30:35,496 our food stores stay sealed. 315 00:30:35,530 --> 00:30:36,699 Ah! 316 00:30:36,732 --> 00:30:40,668 Especially now that phae-agura 317 00:30:40,702 --> 00:30:43,038 has finally returned 318 00:30:43,070 --> 00:30:45,107 with, I trust, 319 00:30:45,139 --> 00:30:48,543 a bounty of tomes to be indexed, 320 00:30:48,577 --> 00:30:52,949 translated, and archived. 321 00:30:54,750 --> 00:30:56,117 Go forth. 322 00:30:56,151 --> 00:30:59,221 Fulfill your vows. 323 00:31:06,028 --> 00:31:08,097 Argh, phae... 324 00:31:08,129 --> 00:31:11,099 I am doomed to forever wrestle 325 00:31:11,133 --> 00:31:14,036 with these ineffectual cretins. 326 00:31:14,069 --> 00:31:18,240 Now, it has been long since I have left the pantheon. 327 00:31:18,272 --> 00:31:21,275 I would hear of your travels with my own ears. 328 00:31:21,309 --> 00:31:23,212 Tell me... 329 00:31:23,244 --> 00:31:25,780 Did you reach the temples beneath ka-mul? 330 00:31:25,813 --> 00:31:28,683 Yes. 331 00:31:28,716 --> 00:31:30,418 And many of the vaults were flooded, 332 00:31:30,452 --> 00:31:32,621 just as your research showed they would be. 333 00:31:32,654 --> 00:31:35,790 I passed through ruins of unknown design and origin, 334 00:31:35,824 --> 00:31:38,660 a world waiting to be rediscovered. 335 00:31:38,693 --> 00:31:40,295 The sacred texts were hidden deep 336 00:31:40,328 --> 00:31:43,298 within a statue bearing only a single eye. 337 00:31:43,330 --> 00:31:45,700 God of their nameless mound. 338 00:31:45,733 --> 00:31:47,602 Mm, rumors of the statue 339 00:31:47,636 --> 00:31:49,504 being trapped proved false. 340 00:31:49,538 --> 00:31:52,107 Once I was inside, their knowledge came to me 341 00:31:52,139 --> 00:31:54,242 as if with a desire all its own. 342 00:31:54,276 --> 00:31:56,779 I've returned with a great number of them for the library. 343 00:31:56,811 --> 00:31:58,613 I hope you didn't leave the best books 344 00:31:58,646 --> 00:32:00,749 heaped upon that wagon. 345 00:32:00,781 --> 00:32:02,150 Show them to me. 346 00:32:05,787 --> 00:32:08,656 This one in particular caught my eye. 347 00:32:08,690 --> 00:32:10,726 Yes. 348 00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:13,328 This is truly a wonder. 349 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,264 But what is the script? 350 00:32:16,298 --> 00:32:18,733 I cannot read a page of it. 351 00:33:33,875 --> 00:33:35,743 Ghal-sur? 352 00:33:35,777 --> 00:33:39,381 Inquisitor uruq. 353 00:33:39,414 --> 00:33:41,617 Have you brought me another one? 354 00:33:41,649 --> 00:33:44,886 These have run dry, 355 00:33:44,919 --> 00:33:46,487 I'm afraid. 356 00:33:46,521 --> 00:33:48,389 No. 357 00:33:48,423 --> 00:33:51,292 I have come to request knowledge 358 00:33:51,326 --> 00:33:55,329 of our oldest and wisest scholar. 359 00:33:55,363 --> 00:33:59,468 Oldest, wisest... 360 00:33:59,501 --> 00:34:02,504 And most imprisoned! 361 00:34:05,272 --> 00:34:09,478 From the temples beneath ka-mul. 362 00:34:14,516 --> 00:34:17,251 It is not in any script 363 00:34:17,284 --> 00:34:21,223 I have encountered in my studies. 364 00:34:21,255 --> 00:34:23,458 You've spoken for ages 365 00:34:23,491