Yeesha's Speeches in the Bahro Cave
This is a transcript of the things Yeesha tells you in the Bahro Cave in Uru Prime.
Yeesha's speeches are broken into segments that play in order, depending upon the order of the Ages in which you choose to access to the Bahro Cave. I have found it most simple to arrange all the speeches according to the file names and numbers.
There will appear to be some duplicate speeches, because some of the files are very similar. I have decided to include them all.
- bhroYeeshaSpeech01a
- Your journey has begun. You can't imagine how these small things affect the future, but someday you will. Your path of return now glows. You will return.
- Many paths have brought me to this place. The path of my great grandmother, bringer of destruction. The path of my grandfather, the rebuilder of pride. The path of my mother, writer of dreams. And of my father, of my dear father, the caretaker of burdens. And I knew that at the end of such great paths must lay a great purpose. I returned to the Cleft to find it.
- The Cleft, the fissure in the desert, the wound in the earth, the path of the things beneath the surface. It was there I sought to find my purpose. It was from there I came to know the dead underground city of D'ni.
- These D'ni people who are now gone came thousands of years ago to the shelter the cavern to return to leastness. They found solice in their smallness in the dark, and so did I. But light is powerful in the darkness.
- bhroYeesha_Speech01a_eng
- Your journey has begun. You can't imagine how these small things affect the future, but someday you will. You will return.
- Many paths have brought me to this place. The path of my great grandmother, bringer of destruction. The path of my grandfather, the rebuilder of pride. The path of my mother, writer of dreams. And of my father, of my dear father, the caretaker of burdens. And I knew that at the end of such great paths must lay a great purpose. I returned to the Cleft to find it.
- The Cleft, the fissure in the desert, the wound in the earth, the path of the things beneath the surface. It was there I sought to find my purpose. It was from there I came to know the dead underground city of D'ni.
- These D'ni people who are now gone came thousands of years ago to the shelter the cavern to return to leastness. They found solice in their smallness in the dark, and so did I. But light is powerful in the darkness.
- bhroYeeshaSpeech01b
- And now to these pillars. These four pillars around you are the very being of the Bahro. You must take them. They will bring great treasure to Relto, your Age, the island in the clouds. Relto will be their keeper for only a brief time.
- bhroYeeshaSpeech02a
- Shorah. Peace to you, mover of the least. Seven more journeys have moved you closer.
- I was seduced while in D'ni. My humble darkness lasted only a short time, before I began to bask in what I could do, what I could write. My gift, my path, the knowledge of my father and the dreams of my mother pierced a hole in the darkness, in the weakness. I was aware of my power and I was proud. Whole worlds at my fingertips.
- It was the same with the D'ni. The same cycle. Light opens the darkness. It takes, it uses, and it keeps. The D'ni found power in these books. These books you use to travel. They were a gift from the Maker.
- These Ages that you travel, too, were their Ages. Remarkable places giving life and taking life. This shadow came over them, this shadow of light. For it was in their enlightenment that they considered themselves better, better than the least. And we were sad for them. Can you feel the D'ni there? You've touched the remnants, the remains of their pride and power.
- bhroYeeshaSpeech02b
- The writing hides what's between the lines. These Journeys are to help you travel between. The Bahro will be returned. These pillars are our Journey. The return of the pillars is the return of the Bahro. The bringing away, and the bringing back.
- bhroYeeshaSpeech03a
- You return again. Return to hear more. Return for a third pillar. It's an interesting cycle, this coming and going, giving and taking.
- Returning is what you must do, for you have torn in half the very being of one of the least. You have heard their pain. Don't falter.
- bhroYeeshaSpeech03b
- The people of D'ni didn't return easily. They only would take until all was taken from them in the great returning, the fall that destroyed them. D'ni fell only a few years ago. All of it was removed.
- And my journey was similar. I could write things that the D'ni never dreamed of. My writing smashed barriers held as absolutes for millennium. I could change things; I could move things; I could control things. I learned beyond my parents. I learned beyond all. I wrote Ages against D'ni challengers, Masters of the Art, and they were beaten. I took all that I could hold
- Only death can conquer pride so strong. For the D'ni and for Yeesha, it was death that moved me to return. All died. All but the least, the unproud. The Bahro considered themselves as dead already. They had given themselves away. And so they continued to watch D'ni. Always ready to give more away. And now they will return.
- bhroYeeshaSpeech04
- The journeys are complete. Now take the final pillar. Take it, but hear all I've said. It's the whispers and murmers that reveal the simple truths. You hold the precious soul of a Bahro in your Age, in your hand. Such things are not meant to be held. Do what I do.
- I have learned things, seen things, written things they never thought possible. I have seen the real treasures that are protected by the petty fences of their rules. I have found the precious gold buried deep beneath the weighty mountains of their laws.
- This is my journey too. I am returning what has been given. These years I've spent, this path I've traveled, this gift I've been given, this purpose weighs on me. My burden, the legacy of my father, Atrus. For we are shaping D'ni. We will mold what comes after. We cannot keep the power and the pride from ruining this new D'ni, but we can prepare those who will read between the lines.
- The least are returning. The stream in the Cleft is returning. The fissure is returning. You must return. The circle will be completed when you give back what you have taken.
- bhroYeeshaSpeech_Gardens (also) bhroYeesha_GrdnSpeech_eng
- Many stories were there for the D'ni to learn from, but they didn't hear them. The ancient tales of Tuit's (sp?) Ocean. Or of course the story of King Shomat and his brothers which even speaks of gardens and death. But no one truly listened.
- The garden Ages of the proud are beautiful, but they are built on the backs of the least. The Ages like Kemo and Gira are a sampling of the play things of D'ni. With disregard the least were stripped from their homes. The lives in those Ages were consumed, and the D'ni gave nothing back. And whatever is not given back, will be taken.
- bhroYeeshaSpeech_Gahreesen (also) bhroYeesha_GrsnSpeech_eng
- Let me tell you of King Kerath. Dare I speak ill of him. One of the great kings, but yet he was the maker of the proud, for it was his system of guilds that served as the foundation of power and corruption.
- The powerful need control. Fortresses and garrisons to guard their power. And soon the guarding is yet another thing to be proud of. Layers within layers built to preserve their Ages and their pride from the weak and least, who might attack from without. And yet it is from within that most nations fall. And so the mighty garrisons of D'ni now stand vacant.
- bhroYeeshaSpeech_Kadish (also) bhroYeesha_KdshSpeech_eng
- The bones of Guildmaster Kadish speak louder than words. His bones are the bones of D'ni. He clung to the teachings of good King Neygan who required good citizens to cling to their treasure. This Kadish you've seen, would not give back, would not return, would not let go. He had long been one of the wealthiest of the D'ni, owning more than he could possibly make use of. He built Ages to protect the extra, and when the fall came, he clung to his possessions over all else, and so you see only death in his vault. Extravagant death. It is an image of D'ni.
- bhroYeeshaSpeech_Teledahn
- Did you see the hidden caves and the cages? It is where the proud would would keep the least. The least were only animals after all. Animals that could link. They could be put to work or play. They could ease the burden of the proud and fill their free time with entertainment. Quietly, as D'ni slept, their lives were taken, because the proud make the rules.
- This wasn't the first time such a blasphemy was part of D'ni. The histories whisper of it. Like Fatook the H'cher (sp?) or King Asemlef. And even in this Age, it may not be the last.
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