Hirkalla: Even gods die. It happens. Nihaz and 1 - we destroyed a great number of them.
Alice: Tell me, sister, what drew you to the God of Darkness? Why did you join him?
Hirkalla: When you first brought him to Eidos, I could tell he was hiding something. You laughed at his stories, but understood in my heart that he was bringing with him something bad for all of you. But no one ever listens to predictions.
Alice: This had never happened before, so no one could have predicted it.
Hirkalla: Nihaz revealed the truth to me: there are no absolute rules in the universe, and we obey someone else's laws because we could not imagine that they were flawed and untrue.
Alice: Explain what it means.
Hirkalla: It's simple - we were told that the All-Mother and Father-Time were always right, and those who went against them were not. But what if it's the other way around? The All-Mother herself taught us that darkness is as much a part of existence as light. But why then does darkness always give way to light? Who said we always have to lose?
Alice: So it all comes down to whether you win or lose?
Hirkalla: No, sister.
Hirkalla: There's more to it. The All-Mother always says she cares about her children. But what kind of care is this? They do not live long, their lives are joyless and full of hard work. And most importantly, they are forbidden to use anything more complex than a plow and a hammer. They are deprived of the gifts of magic. They are devoured by Sharks monsters, and they cannot defend themselves!
Alice: I know that humans, and not just humans, are indebted to Nihaz. But don't try to tell me he did it for them. Rather, he used them for his own purposes.
Hirkalla: Is there a difference? Nihaz gave them the opportunity, and how they use it is up to them. They do not need the gaze of strict parents; they are now responsible for themselves.
Alice: You know that Nihaz gave the inhabitants of this world fragments of divine Seals? And by using them, they broke their own world into pieces?
Hirkalla: This mistake was theirs alone. They have become wiser, and under my leadership, they will restore this world as it was. It might even be better than before.
Alice: And I would like this, sister, but you don't know this world… You don't know what I know.
Hirkalla: Tell me, what don't I know?
Alice: It's a long story, sister, but I'll tell you. I arrived in your kingdom and died. But even before that, I knew that danger awaited me in Ganzir. I had foreseen that I would not return. After I didn't come back, they started looking for me…
Hirkalla: Yes, I remember. And then suggested that you leave the kingdom, bringing someone else in your stead.
Alice: "Only a life can pay for a life," you said then. And I had to find a replacement for myself, someone who would go to Ganzir instead of me. But something changed in me after death - I was alive, but I was no longer a goddess. I visited my temples, I spoke to the priests and kings, but no one recognized their beloved goddess, even though they knew I was missing and they no longer had a patron.
Hirkalla: I don't understand why you needed these pathetic fanatics…
Alice: And then I came to my last chosen one who owed everything to me - the king of Shar Urg who rose from a simple shepherd to the ruler of a great kingdom thanks to me. Shrunken. I expected him to be in mourning, expected him to grieve, but I found him celebrating and having fun.
Hirkalla: (laughs).
Hirkalla: I'm not at all surprised by this, all your followers were vile slugs.
Alice: I was overcome with anger. He owed everything to me and was my chosen one. I ordered the demons who came with me to seize him, and Shrunken paid dearly for his disregard. He took my place in Ganzir and was forever erased from the list of the living. Later, I bitterly regretted this decision, but what lies had done could not be undone.
Hirkalla: Well, someone had to take your place.
Alice: But what was I to do next? The goddess Inanna that I was also died - now I was mortal, just like other people. I had to live in my own city which Shiruken had built in my honor. I was remembered as a goddess, but no one knew me as a mortal. And, like all people, I had to earn my own food and shelter, because without divine powers list could not work miracles, and I needed the same things as ordinary mortals. All I could do was live, exist without purpose or meaning.
Hirkalla: A well-deserved fate for the vile traitor.
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