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C Support (unavailable once Jeralt passes away) :
A : And that’s all for my report!
R : Thank you for your service Alois.
A : It’s my job! Now, what should I do next? Maybe I’m going to join the captain and fish with the new recruits!
R : Alois.
A : A-ah! Apologies Lady Rhea ! I’ll leave now, I promise!
R : … I heard about a certain incident with the young knights this morning. Are you alright?
A : Oh that! Don’t worry it was just a joke! It’s kind of a game you know, the young ones and the older ones sometimes prank each other but…
R : I suppose it is, but I also heard you could have suffered a lethal blow. I cannot allow the knights to kill each other over mere pranks.
A : … Ah, so you even got to know…
R : Since Jeralt’s return, those practical jokes have become a thorn in your drills and maneuvers. If you wish so, I could send Seteth to restore order.
A : No, it’s nothing, really! Those young ones, they all look up to Captain Jeralt, so when I am the one to ask them to do their training exercises they kind of look down on me, but who wouldn’t! Captain Jeralt is the epitome of a knight! A shining example, a living legend!
R : Why would anyone look down on you? You are not Jeralt but you are an invaluable member of our knights.
A : I know you don’t really mean it, next to Jeralt I’m just some person of low birth, without a crest and unable to perform magic. So I understand if no one really looks up to me, I only…
R : I offered the post of Captain to Jeralt because you kept on refusing it for years now, Alois.
A : And with due reason! I could never become like Jeralt!
R : You possess talent and a rare gift I wish for you to share with the Knights. Anyone can become a fighter, but you are… special. You are able to make people warm and make them smile, even in the direst situation. You can turn strangers to friends.
A : I still think you’re making too much of me. But I understand, I’ll try to befriend those young ones!
Alois leaves
R : Wishing to befriend the ones deriding you for such trifle matters… this is your strength.
B Support :
R : Alois? Is the problem with the knights settled?
A : Ah, yes Lady Rhea ! They actually think my jokes are so bad they don’t even approach me anymore!
R : …
A : Uh… But sometimes we still prank each other, to build comradeship! ...Still, last time Shamir broke a young one’s nose and I had to take him to Manuela, so that’s not really getting rid of the issue but I think it’s going on good tracks! One of them even asked me how I managed to eat with Thunderstrike Catherine and asked me to get her autograph! It went as you could imagine… Ah, I must tire you with this stuff.
R : You do not. I am glad to hear everything mostly returned to normal.
A : Yes it did! And I really appreciate how you said all those kind things to me, Captain Jeralt is scarce with compliments so I’m not that used to them hahaha!
R : I meant them Alois.
A : Now, I’m twice indebted, no, is it thrice? Thing is, I owe you three times over!
R : I beg your pardon?
A : Well, you cheered me up with that incident! And you hired me in the knights! And you’re the one who sparked my curiosity about old coins! Which is how I found my wife! And how I got my daughter! Wait, now that I think about it... it makes five times!
R : I fail to understand…
A : You might not remember, but when I was still a kid living here, you gave us all presents and sweets for new year’s eve, and I think you forgot some so I was the only kid who didn’t receive sweets, instead you gave me an old coin!
R : Ah… I apologise, I had forgotten to order enough sweets for everyone. You must have felt disappointed…
A : Not at all! Sweets are fleeting, but that coin? It managed to pass the test of time! Hundred of years later, it’s still here! And now, I possess it! Can you imagine what kind of stories it could tell, if it could talk? My wife, before she became my wife, told me I was silly, because coins don’t talk. But then she laughed, and we married! Like that!
R : This is a nice story.
A : Right? Too bad my daughter prefers mere sweets to old coins. And no one really cares about my own stories, Captain Jeralt doesn’t like when I start to talk about my wife or how I met her.
R : … I do not mind listening to stories about your life.
A : Really? Anyways, Lady Rhea, if you still have old coins then don’t hesitate to give the spare ones to me!
R : Alright…
B + Support :
A : Oh! This is one from Boramas’ merchant city, before the Empire even came to existence! How did you acquire…
R : When Saint Seiros passed away, her more mundane belongings remained in possession of the Church. It is said she sold one of her bracelets back then to pay for Wilhelm’s, who was not yet an Emperor, debt in a Boramas tavern.
A : Paying debts in a tavern? I guess even figures of old met the same problems we meet nowadays! I always used to pay for Captain Jeralt’s drinking tabs!
R : Wilhelm was so embarrassed he gave all of his meager savings to buy back the bracelet, but the wine seller already sold it for thrice the value he gave Seiros. Years later, when he became Emperor, he surprised her with the bracelet, having managed to trace it and bought it back.
A : Wow, Captain Jeralt would never do that! So are those coins from the sum Seiros got from her bracelet?
R : Yes, or so the legend goes.
A : What a story ! Holding this coin, I can feel the desperation of the first Emperor, who only wanted to drink but ended up selling everything he had for a bracelet!
R : This is a way to… put it.
A : And what about this one? It looks old, but it isn’t worn.
R : This one is rumoured to have belonged to Saint Cethleann. Worn from the war and the despair it brought, she wished to make flower garlands for the weary, a passer-by insisted on buying it. She was rumoured to have planned to visit Enbarr’s fish fair after Tailtean but she… never got the opportunity.
A : Saint Cethleann hopes for the future and love for fish and the world! I can feel her passion holding this coin! But I must say, you’re talking as if you’re the memory of those coins! Are you as passionate as I am about them? I never knew you had this kind of hobby!
R : A… hobby? I am afraid I only have acceptable knowledge on the Saint’s lives, not a lot much else.
A : Oh, I know ! If you could talk to my daughter about the Church’s teachings through those coins, I’m sure she will come to love them as much as I do! Ah, but that would be another favor I’d be asking…
R : I will gladly help out. I do not have a lot of occasions to… talk about this or to meet anyone interested in those old stories. And there is no repaying to be made Alois, I told you, I am grateful for your service in the Knight’s brigade. This is the least I can do.
A : Really?! I’m going to write her a letter then!
Alois leaves
R : You are really like... the Sun. Fodlan will need you in the troubled times to come Alois. / (post war) Fodlan will need people like you to heal from the scars of the war Alois.