Rampage

Rhea
Sweet child... You have finally come...

Rhea
I am so happy.

Rhea
It does my heart well to see you here, safe and sound.

Seteth
Have you made your decision, Professor? Thankfully, Rhea has survived her trying ordeal.

Seteth
However... There is no telling how much longer her light will continue to shine.

Flayn
Professor, have you decided? Will you become the next ruler of Fódlan?

Byleth
...

Rhea
Before I hear your answer, I shall fulfill the promise I made to you.

Rhea
You will know the truth about your identity... I will hold nothing back.

Rhea
I...created you. And within you is the Crest Stone of the progenitor god...

Rhea
I hid the Crest Stone within your heart in order to revive her.

Rhea
Sweet child... I am sorry.

Rhea
I wanted to see her...see my mother...even if it meant doing that which is forbidden.

Rhea
I thought that I could regain all I had lost, if only I could revive my mother...

Rhea
And so I tried to bring her back by creating a body, and then burying a Crest Stone within it.

Rhea
A young woman I created...my twelfth try after much heartache...was a failure.

Rhea
She grew up lacking the conscience of the progenitor god and fell in love with the captain of the Knights of Seiros.

Rhea
In time, she became pregnant...but she and the child were not able to survive the birth.

Rhea
The child she bore was not breathing, and she herself was in grave danger.

Rhea
The new mother pleaded with me to take the Crest Stone of the progenitor god from her own body and place it within the baby.

Rhea
If I had done nothing, both mother and child would have died. And so I granted her final wish.

Rhea
As she had hoped, the baby started breathing again... The new life was saved. Your life, sweet child.

Rhea
Well before that, I had saved Jeralt's life using the power of my blood.

Rhea
That means you are the child of a mother born of the progenitor god's Crest Stone and a father who carried my own blood.

Rhea
I knew, deep in my heart, that you would be capable of housing the conscience of the progenitor god.

Rhea
I was right... And yet, she merely gifted her power to you and then disappeared once more.

Rhea
My dearest wish did not come true...but here you are.

Rhea
You alone wield the power of the progenitor god.

Rhea
And now, I must ask you to use that power to save this world. You must...

Rhea
What... No... Arrgh!

Seteth
Rhea?! Rhea!

Flayn
What is wrong?! Please calm yourself, Rhea!

Rhea
GRAAARGH!

Seteth
Is the power of the Crest taking over her body? Why is this happening?!

Knight of Seiros
Seteth! It's terrible! White Beasts have appeared all over Garreg Mach!

Knight of Seiros
It's hard to believe, but there have been reports that the priests and knights have been changing form.

Seteth
White Beasts... Are they the ones Rhea shared her blood and stones with?

Church Soldier
Seteth! Demonic Beasts are heading this way!

Seteth
They are after Rhea... Professor, our situation is dire.

Seteth
If we do nothing, Fódlan will be destroyed by a rampaging Immaculate One and these "children" of hers.

Seteth
There is only one way to stop this. We...we must...

Seteth
Damn it! We have no choice but to kill the Immaculate One...to kill Rhea!