Evangeline Vallier/Dialogue

The following is a transcript of Evangeline Vallier's dialogue.

General Dialogue
"[Player]: Where’d you learn how to identify geological samples? That takes an education. It does. My family was part of the Noble class when I was a child. As a result, I was fortunate enough to receive a comprehensive education, including natural sciences like medicine, botany and geology. [Player]: How’d you end up leading a revolt if you were a noble?!  My family used to own this quarry. One day when my parents were down one of the tunnels urging the workers to pick up the pace to meet quota...Someone accidentally made a hole into a magma flow. Only two people made it out alive. Father, and one of the workers.  The incident woke my father up. He realized most of Sirocco’s mining operations were unsafe, and pushed for ways to improve worker safety. The other Nobles, however, did not approve. No one would do business with us anymore.  Two years later, with no buyers for our goods, and immense pressure from up on high...Father sold the quarry and that was that. I may have spent my childhood as a noble, but as a young woman, I learned the plight of the workers firsthand. Even so, Father was able to keep most of our old books, so I never stopped educating myself. Not only natural sciences, but politics and public speaking. Having seen both sides of our society, the injustice of it all was plain as day, and I wanted to change it. The rise of Levant certainly helped. For generations, the Nobles told us that it was impossible to have better standards for the working class in a region so hostile. Seeing Levant succeed inspired us to demand more. [Player]: Levant didn’t win their freedom through bloody revolution, though. I didn’t WANT a bloody coup, [PlayerName]. I helped Dorion try to start a worker’s union, and that was taken over by the nobles. I tried to get the Ambraine supply put in the hands of the Workers, I was accused of wanting to give drugs to children... Amraine helps regulate body heat, and protects the lungs from the ash and soot in the air. It’s been an essential tool for anyone working in the Caldera for ages. Without it...We’d collapse in a matter of hours, doing the intense work that we do. Of course, the Nobles knew that. They also knew about how if you become dependent on Ambraine and stop taking it...You’ll suffer from debilitating withdrawal symptoms. They leveraged their exclusive hold on the supply to try to keep us in line. It wasn’t until the impending collapse of the city that Dorion, Josef and I started to get seriously aggressive about our demands. And even then, everything we did was denounced as dangerous and forcibly silenced under the martial law that the Nobles had imposed. Fortunately, by the time of the collapse and the Nobles barred the doors to the worker’s district, leaving us to die...I’d managed to assemble a healthy supply of Pressure Plate Traps and Levantine Pistols for our mob of finally roused people. [Player]: How’d you manage to assemble an arsenal like that during martial law?! I...I’ll be honest, [PlayerName], Father and I had been planning for this possibility for several years. But I refused to fire the first shot until I was sure we would win...Until at least the Merchants supported us...And well...We waited too long. It kills me to know that we could have avoided this if we overthrew them sooner... *sigh* But it makes sense...People are easily cowed until their lives are on the line."

- Evangeline Vallier