Major General Furias admits to sending Tiamat into a rampage that is brewing a storm to sink the islands. Katalina decides to get everyone back to town.
Furias
Not bad! Hm... I guess you idiots might have some redeeming qualities after all!
Rackam
Shut it! You're next, pal!
Rackam
With you out of the way, we'll get the townsfolk to safety before this storm gets worse!
Furias
Ha-ha-ha! You haven't given up on that yet?
Furias
It doesn't matter where you run! This entire archipelago is about to sink into oblivion!
Katalina
What are you talking about?
Furias
Don't you get it? You must have an inkling... I'm talking about Tiamat! The guardian of this island!
Furias
Let's just say... our handiwork has sent her into a massive rampage!
Vyrn
You did what? Are you for real?
Furias
Look for yourselves at this incredible storm! It'll only get stronger... until it blows the whole archipelago away!
Rackam
It's not just the town... You're trying to destroy the islands themselves?
Rackam
Do you have any idea how many innocent lives will be lost?
Furias
Who knows? But if you idiots love these islands enough to resist the empire...
Furias
Then I imagine you'll be happy plunging to the bottom of the skies with it!
Townsperson 1
How can this be?
Townsperson 2
I can't believe it! Are we doomed?
Furias
Indeed, you are! I've already given orders to shoot down any airships attempting to flee!
Furias
You finally get it now, right? Right? There's nowhere for you to run!
Rackam
You make me sick! There are people living here!
Katalina
Gran, we can't stay any longer! Let's get the people back to town for now!
Katalina
We'll take care of these monsters and soldiers on the way. Let's go!
The imperials have given up the chase, but Gran and the others won't give up hope for the islands.
Lyria
I think the imperials have stopped chasing us.
Vyrn
Looks that way. But with their plan, they've got us beat, so...
Katalina
That's enough, Vyrn. It's far too soon for us to give up.
Katalina
There must be something we can do. I'm sure of it...
Lyria
Tiamat...
The guardian of Port Breeze and the primal beast of wind...
Vyrn
I guess now's not the time to fret. We have to keep going!
Lyria believes she may be able to control the primal beast Tiamat, which gives everyone a final ray of hope.
Katalina
Whew... Everyone's made it back to town.
Katalina
But we're not in the clear yet...
Rackam
It's all my fault. If I hadn't hesitated when we were boarding...
Rackam
We'd be on our way to safety in another archipelago by now.
Vyrn
Cut it out, Rackam! Saying that stuff now won't help anyone.
Rackam
Everyone trusted me with their lives... and I let them down.
Rackam
Dang it! Is this really the end? Is there nothing else we can do?
Katalina
What hope do we have against a primal beast as powerful as a god?
Lyria
There's still hope. There's something we can do.
Katalina
Lyria?
Lyria
I mean, I'm here after all... Right, Katalina?
Katalina
That's right! But there's no telling what might happen...
Rackam
What are you talking about?
Lyria
There's a reason I was a prisoner of the empire.
Lyria
I have the power to command primal beasts.
Vyrn
Wait a sec! I thought primal beasts could only be controlled by their creators, the Astrals!
Rackam
Yeah. And the Astrals disappeared after the War centuries ago, leaving no descendants.
Katalina
Lyria's not one of their descendants. Or at least... I don't think she is.
Katalina
How and why her power works, I can't say. But she has power. That much is certain.
Vyrn
Whoa! Gran, could she be why that primal beast showed up back on Zinkenstill?
Katalina
Entirely possible... But many mysteries remain. The empire couldn't reach any conclusions about it either.
Katalina
And there's no telling what might happen if Lyria were to overuse it...
Lyria
I'll be fine. Gran is with me... and so are all of you.
Lyria
Let's go, Rackam. We've got to stop Tiamat, the primal beast of wind!
Lyria's determination is like a shining ray of hope.
Inspired by that hope, they set out to find Tiamat.
3: The Empire's Intent 
