A bit of advice from one Ishgardian outcast to another.
On growing up in Ishgard.
Alphinaud learns the Warrior of Light isn’t universally beloved.
Alphinaud encounters Lord Hamlet a second time.
To be forestalled ere we come to fall.
Peace brings change to Ishgard, and Claudius looks after his own, however indirectly.
The Warrior of Light takes the youngest Haillenarte to the Gold Saucer.
The Warrior of Light has a conversation with Alisaie about ideals and heresies.
Even Warriors of Light need hobbies.
Regarding the Warrior of Light and his entanglements in Ishgard.
Francel helps Claudius understand something about Haurchefant, something he should have realized long ago.
Claudius remembers when he first fell for Haurchefant.
O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that, struggling to be free, art more engaged!
Claudius and the two children he's managed to adopt.
Guydelot gleans what afflicts Claudius, and draws him unto pleasures.
Claudius learns what it is to take up a Dark Knight's legacy, and adopts Fray's people as his own.
One retainer’s journey.
Alphinaud comes to understand some of the melancholy that hovers over Hamlet, and seeks to soothe it.
It's harder to grasp your heritage when no one hands it to you. Claudius still finds a piece of it.
Hamlet tries another path, far from home.