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Troia
-Disembarked, made my way to a Chocobo forest and to Troia.
-Guard: “The Epopts devote their entire lives to the guards. Please don’t do anything to offend them.” This is Palom she’s talking to. This can’t end well.
-An Epopt fell ill.
-Leonora, whose name we’ve heard before, will be the next.
-How young is she? Her portrait makes her look 14-15.
-Oh, she snapped him to stop being rude! I like her.
-The Epopts seem surprised that Palom only knows black magic.
-Interesting! Both black and white magic can help Leonora grow spiritually. Reminds me of the portrayal dark and light in FFIII.
-Leonora has to reach the top of the Tower of Trials to become an Epopt. Izayoi saw Palom still in town when she left, so I guess she reached the tower before Palom and Leonora left.
-The Troian treasure chamber is still empty from when my party in the base game ransacked it before taking out the Dark Elf.
-Another Challengingway in Troia Town.
-The lady who hit on Izayoi also hit on Palom. Or maybe Leonora? Or both?
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Tower of Trials
-The top floor has a Monastic Seal. I’ll be half-disappointed if this seal isn’t an animal tail of some kind.
-Cool! The Epopt’s prayer unlocked the door. That means that even though we’re redoing the Tower of Trials, what we’ll see on the inside is probably different from Izayoi’s journey on the outside.
-PALOM: “Could you knock it off with that ‘Lord Palom’ junk? He’s really uncomfortable with that title, despite his haughtiness.
-Leonora is two years older than Palom. I’m a bit confused. I thought this is taking place 17 years after the base game, where Palom and Porom seemed like 6-8 years old. I must’ve got that wrong.
-LOLOL at Palom’s response. “Oh yeah? Good for you, but don’t expect me to start calling you Ms. Leonora or anything.”
-For this whole next part, just assume that LOLOLOLOL goes with it.
Palom starts training Leonora on how to cast fire.
PAL: “Okay, first. Do you know what ‘Fire’ is?
LEO: “No… what is it?”
PAL: “…it’s a fire attack.”
-In this training combat sequence, the Leonora’s spell is “Fire?” with a question mark.
-Hee! Leonora can cast “Fire?” on Palom. “Watch where you’re aiming!”
A random cool thing: they gave some insight into how magic works in that universe. It's about envisioning the magic you want to cast very clearly and tangibly in your head first and then using some kind of will to make that thought reality.
From the fire training sequence:
Leonora trying to think fiery thoughts.
-Nice! She learned it.
-Very meta. He’s teaching her to watch her MP.
-She continues to kick ass. Go Leonora!
-Palom doesn’t want her to train as a sage. Why not, jealousy?
-HAH! Leonora really gets into it when learning Blizzard. Palom: “That’s one seriously creepy face you’re making.”
-Glad I waited for the full moon so my black magic got boosted.
-Her spell is still “Blizzard?” I wonder if we’re flashing back to FFII briefly, where she has to cast it x number of times to remove the question mark.
-LEO: “You’d like me to handle this [floor Guardian] too, right?”
PAL: “Of course. Now, just keep that creepy face of yours going.”
-Palom: “An Epopt shouldn’t need to know black magic for her job. So why are you so set on learning this stuff?” I’d like to know that too, but Leonora’s keeping it close to the vest.
-Aw. Waxing moon. No more black magic bonus.
-Despite Palom’s dickishness, he’s not a bad teacher. Reminds me of Roland or Cort as teachers in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. Creatively tough.
-No band attack for these two.
-We get to the top, and there’s no animal tail. Just a stone with some writing on it. Palom acts like an asshole again, like “That’s all there is? Epopts suck!” and Leonora’s having none of his shit.
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Next time: Back to Troia.
