Translation brought to you by: The Adventurer’s Guild
Located at: Snow Tower Ruins
Discovered by: Kaine, Scout, Arinn Feywinter, Kotori, Lynn Banner

I pray that Lhiri is still standing by the time I am gone.

My name is Vivian Laya. I was a Lhiri soldier with honor fighting beside my sisters and brothers. My squad, however, has been wiped out by Alteris troops. I am alone.

I do not have a family or a home anymore. I am staying in this tower for now, and I don’t know if I will ever return.

To whoever is reading this, we are currently in the middle of the Artifact War. Everyone is fighting for a chance at immortality through this artifact that promises the wearer infinite life. Of course everyone wants to have it, we know that our kind will go extinct very soon.

Unfortunately, I also know one crucial fact. King Yahma of Alteris hid the artifact somewhere long ago when it was found, and so fighting each other has proven to be pointless. The deaths of my friends have all been pointless.

I may have begun to delve into insanity. I tried aimlessly digging around in the snow, hoping to find it lying around somewhere. Of course, my efforts were in vein.

I wish that Gaia would end our suffering already. She started all this, destroying the world that she created because she’s grown tired of us. I detest her. I’m angry at Omin as well for not stopping her rein of terror. I’ve been praying to him for retribution.

My life was pretty good up until this point. I had a wife, a son, and a very lovely home.

Today is the Veil of Epoch’s festival. Or at least, it would have been. Every year we celebrate the dead, the past, and the future that Omin gave us. My son and I would go around and collect flowers to put by my wife’s grave, who fortunately left us far before this mess started. It would be selfish of me to wish that she were still here.

Then, we would go lay out onto the grass, looking up to the stars, and just enjoy that time was slowly passing. I’m doing that now, tears in my eyes. The stars are beautiful tonight.

Here I am, and all I have left is time. The world is fighting endlessly for more, when I’ve got it all right here.