##|| Scenario 6 ||##

##|| Aeryn Reacts To Derril's Abandonment
##   elrial, eriad && haldras are all discussing the upcoming battle.  elrial notices that
##   aeryn is a little isolated from the group, so she goes to him.
    [message]
        description={SOL_ERIAD}
        message= _ "{SOL_NIA_KELAN_SHORT}'s summer home is just to the north."
    [/message]
    
    ## scroll to summer home.
    
    [message]
        description={SOL_HALDRAS}
        message= _ "Summer home?  That sounds a little sophisticated for an orcish tribal leader."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ERIAD}
        message= _ "Yes, well, perhaps the comforts of Knalga have captured his taste."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_HALDRAS}
        message= _ "And where is his winter home?  In a troll cave, perhaps?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Further north, actually, on the borders of your forest."
    [/message]
    {SOL_DELAY 800}
    [message]
        description={SOL_HALDRAS}
        message= _ "You speak of {SOL_CITY_3}?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Yes."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_HALDRAS}
        message= _ "Ah, well, I've found his tribe to be exceptionally peaceful - I actually traded with them once.  Never did I meet their chieftain, however."
    [/message]
    
    ## aeryn moves a little further away
    
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Would you two excuse me for a moment?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ERIAD}
        message= _ "Certainly {SOL_ELRIAL_SHORT}.  Now with luck, {SOL_HALDRAS}, {SOL_NIA_KELAN_SHORT} will be monitoring the invasion from this location, as it is closer to the front..."
    [/message]
    
    ## elrial moves over beside aeryn
    
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Is everything all right?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "Yeah, it's fine.  I just figured that I'd let you three alone to plan the attack."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "There's a really interesting herb over here that..."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "{SOL_AERYN}, you're one of us - we need your input."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "Thank you, {SOL_ELRIAL}, I appreciate it.  But this is an elvish war now.  I have no troops of my own to commit, and {SOL_DERRIL} has abandoned me - or us, I should say."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Is that why you've become disquieted?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "I suppose I just don't understand why he left.  I mean, {SOL_DERRIL} has always placed family above his career, but now he has left me alone, simply to please some worry-sick king?  It isn't like him."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "You're not alone, {SOL_AERYN}."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "I know, I'm sorry - that's not what I meant."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Look, it was his choice; you did what you could to reason with him.  In the end, it does not matter - we will defeat this menace with or without your brother's men."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "I know we will, {SOL_ELRIAL}; you elves have proven quite capable.  But while his abandonment may not affect the outcome of battle, it will affect me for years to come."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "Anyway, thank you for coming over.  It means..."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_HALDRAS}
        message= _ "{SOL_ELRIAL_SHORT}, please - we must finish our deliberation."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "..."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "I was given the name {SOL_ELRIAL} for a reason, {SOL_HALDRAS}; I would prefer if you used it."
    [/message]
    
    ## elrial returns to Eriad && Haldras
    
    [message]
        description={SOL_HALDRAS}
        message= _ "My apologies, my lady."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ERIAD}
        message= _ "Come too, {SOL_AERYN}, we need your input."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_HALDRAS}
        message= _ "(hushed): we do?"
    [/message]
    
    ## Aeryn returns to the group
    
    [message]
        description={SOL_ERIAD}
        message= _ "Yes, you should see this doctor in combat!  He is full of surprises."
    [/message]



##|| Scenario 7 ||##

##|| Aeryn Digs into Elrial's Past
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "Hey, {SOL_ELRIAL} - can I ask you a question?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "(smiles): Yes."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "Well, most of your troops belong to {SOL_HALDRAS}, correct?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Yes, most of our units belong to him."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "Right - so if {SOL_HALDRAS} controls the units, then why is he taking orders from {SOL_ERIAD}?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "(smiles): Well, there are a lot of reasons, {SOL_AERYN}."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "Such as?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Well to begin, it is a fact that power squabbles are more of a human thing."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "(grins): Okay, I'll grant you that."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Also, {SOL_ERIAD} bears half of the crest of our mother, who is an elf-lady of status equal to {SOL_HALDRAS}."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Mostly, though, I think he is simply trying to keep my brother's favor - {SOL_HALDRAS} has been trying to wed me for five years, now."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Aah.  And you haven't consented?  Becoming the elf-lady of the Northern Forests is an opportunity of no small measure."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "(smiles crisply): Like I said, power squabbles are more of a human thing."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Beside that, I do not think that we would make a good pair."
    [/message]


##|| Elrial Digs into Aeryn's Past
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "So {SOL_AERYN} - may I ask you a question?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "Go for it."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "I've heard you mention a woman named {SOL_KARAH}."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "(nods)"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Who was she, if I may ask?  Was she your wife?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "(smiles sadly): No."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Your betrothed, then."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "(laughs): No, no, nothing like that.  She was my sister...at least until the orcs took her life."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Oh.  I am sorry."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "When they...killed her, they took a wonderful thing from this world - from my life.  She was so full of life, you know?  '"'Spunky'"', as you would call it."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "(smiled): You cared about her deeply."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "Yes, I did.  You remind me of her, actually."
    [/message]
    {SOL_DELAY 1500}
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "I am complimented."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "As is she."
    [/message]



##|| Final Scenario ||##
    [message]
        speaker=narrator
        message= _ "Much has been recorded regarding the Sceptre of Fire, and the intricate way it is woven through our history - that of Wesnoth.  For as long as history can recall, men have fought over this means to power; many such men, having obtained it, were eventually corrupted by it."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_DERRIL}
        message= _ "Give me that Sceptre, {SOL_AERYN}!  The king will not relinquish it at any cost, even if I must forfeit your life."
    [/message]
    [message]
        speaker=narrator
        message= _ "Yet little is said of the Sceptre of Life, an artifact which saved a fallen kingdom, and not a few fallen men.  Many historians of the Crown prefer not to mention it at all - perhaps for fear of embarrassing the Crown - nonetheless for history's sake, and for {SOL_AERYN}'s, I am compelled to recount its tale."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "Then it is forfeit, brother.  For this island needs the Sceptre; the fate of Irdya itself demands that the Sceptre remain here."
    [/message]
    [message]
        speaker=narrator
        message= _ "I realize that by publishing this work, my career, and quite probably my life is also forfeit."
    [/message]
    
    # Derril attacks Aeryn
    
    [message]
        speaker=narrator
        message= _ "Nevertheless, Aeryn's courageous stand against the will of his own brother, and the will of the king, has taught me a very valuable lesson.  I now know that there are things in this life which are worth the ultimate price; I maintain that presenting the truth is one of them."
    [/message]
    [message]
        speaker=narrator
        message= _ "To all who read this, I have endeavored to present an accurate account of the passing of the Sceptre of Fire.  I urge you to pass on this account, so that others may know the truth of our time, and reject the lies that have been circulating from the throne at Weldyn."
    [/message]
    [message]
        speaker=narrator
        message= _ "For a time is coming when the king of Weldyn shall be deposed, and Haldric's line shall rule once more in the land.  At that time, it will not matter whether slave or free, whether man or orc; the only thing that will matter is the side which you have chosen."
    [/message]



##|| Next Campaign ||##

    [message]
        description={SOL_ELOH}
        message= _ "{SOL_AERYN}, you have a question on your mind.  Why don't you ask her?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "You hear my thoughts now?  I suppose there is no limit to your abilities."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELOH}
        message= _ "(smiles): No, I have all of them."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Well...what is the question?  Ask me!"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "I would, dear {SOL_ELRIAL}.  But I fear that the request cannot...should not be granted."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELOH}
        message= _ "You still fear death, after all you have witnessed?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "You've broken the Sceptre, and hidden the Ruby; death still reigns over me.  I would not have {SOL_ELRIAL} suffer the sting of death once more!"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELOH}
        message= _ "We only suffer for a time, dear {SOL_AERYN}.  For a time is coming, when my Branch shall spring forth from {SOL_HALDRIC}'s line - a Branch who will rule the whole of Irdya with justice, restoring peace, and Life, to the land."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELOH}
        message= _ "Then Life shall reign supreme, when the Ruby sits atop the right sceptre, and is wielded by the right king, sitting upon the right throne.  From that time forward, you two shall never be parted again."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "So that is what you fear, being parted from me?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "It is."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "Then ask your question, so we may never be parted again."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "(smiles subtly): {SOL_ELRIAL}, would you be my wife."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "(smiles broadly): I had hoped that was your question.  I will."
    [/message]
    
    ## Eloh begins to shine (halo effect)
    
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "What is this?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELOH}
        message= _ "It is a gift, and a...'"'thank you'"' for everything you two have done for me."
    [/message]
    
    ## Eloh stops shining
    ## Elrial begins to shine (halo effect)
    
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELRIAL}
        message= _ "It's beautiful!  What is it?"
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELOH}
        message= _ "It is a shard of {SOL_RUBY_NAME}.  Years ago, when Thursagen first cut the Ruby of Fire, the various '"'scraps'"' of ruby were collected and saved.  Since then they've dispersed, but I saved this one shard for you."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_AERYN}
        message= _ "Thank you, my lady.  We are honored...humbled, really, that you would think of us."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_ELOH}
        message= _ "Well, I know I'm not supposed to play favorites, but I really liked the two of you.  So, I figured I'd keep you around.  {SOL_AERYN}, as long as you're with {SOL_ELRIAL}, and as long as she has this shard, you both shall never die."
    [/message]
    
    ## pan northward
    
    [message]
        description={SOL_JESSICA}
        message= _ "Finally, some serenity.  I haven't had a moment's peace for over a millenium."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_YEDESHUA}
        message= _ "Peace?  You won't see peace until my Branch returns to the earth."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_HALDRIC}
        message= _ "But...the battle is won - the Green Isle is won."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_YEDESHUA}
        message= _ "The battle for the Green Isle is over, it is true."
    [/message]
    [message]
        description={SOL_YEDESHUA}
        message= _ "The Battle for Wesnoth, however, is only just begun."
    [/message]
    
    ## play wesnoth theme; roll credits.
    