Valkyria Chronicles:The Reich's War (Season 1)

Chapter 7:Battle at Barious

Opening

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[Inside another chamber in the temple.]

Alicia: Whoa...I don't know what I expected, but it really wasn't this!

Faldio: Amazing, isn't it? I was surprised when I first came here too.

Alicia: It's...there aren't any windows or skylights in here, but it's still so light.

Faldio: The ruins are made of stone with a high ragnite concentration. It lights
itself.

Alicia: It's uncanny.

Welkin: Look at this. Something's written on the wall here.

Faldio: It's in Old Northern Script.

Welkin: Old Northern?

Faldio: It was the dominant writing system in Europa. You still see it on a lot
of old monuments.

Alicia: Do you know how to read it, Faldio?

Faldio: Yeah. We just covered it this last year. Let's take a look. (looking
at the script) It's more or less a recounting of the Darcsen Calamity as the history books tell it. The Darcsens unlocked some secret property of ragnite
and tried to conquer the continent. "A hundred cities razed its fell light;
ten hundred thousand men and beast therewith." It says this area used to be one
of the cities lost in that purge as well.

Alicia: So they did use ragnite...

Faldio: It was in the middle of that destruction that the Valkyrur suddenly came
into the picture. Supposedly they rose to face the Darcsens, armed with sacred
lances blue with flame. That became the War of the Valkyrur.

Alicia: I had a picture book about that as a girl. But it's fiction, right? Like
a fairy tale.

Faldio: Ruins like these dot the Europan map, traces of the culture that once
ruled the continent. The majority of the anthropological community now agrees
that the Valkyrur did exist.

Welkin: Wow, this is so educational!

Keith:Indeed it is… 

Faldio: The Valkyrur won and rose to power, while the Darcsens were scattered
across Europa. There are some who worship the Valkyrur as the saviors of Europa
even today. Meanwhile, the Darcsens got branded with the stigma of their past
and were persecuted. With no land of their own, they had to work as itinerant
laborers and ragnite miners.

Welkin: Which is why there are so many Darcsens still working in the industrial
sector today.

Alicia: I never knew that...come to think of it, Isara's dad was an engineer, wasn't he?

Faldio: Anyway, that's enough history for today. Let's keep checking for Imperial tracks.

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[Outside in the Barious Desert.]

Largo: I been lookin', but I still ain't seen nothin' but sand. Those Imps got
some strange tastes if they're sunnin' themselves out here.

[Rosie broods.]

Largo: What's got you, Rosie? Ain't like you to be so quiet. You got the runs
or something?