"Hello! My name is Sylvie Belanger. I, don't particularly know why I just stated that, if you're seeing this you probably know me! I'm not that erh... in touch with technology, and this pictographer I've been lent to make this is arcane to me. My beloved partner, Valerie, has worked with them more than I and has graciously offered to get the footage outside of my lovely home here in the Lily Hills. Now, down to business. I'm retiring! Oh dear that makes me sound so old... I am retiring from adventuring work, that is. Now, twenty eight isn't a common age to retire from... anything... but I have my reasons. I have seen... so much, in the last seven years. I've been all over Eorzea and Gyr Abania, as far as the Azim Steppe and Doma, further still to Old Sharlayan and beyond to the new world... I found the adventure I sought and..."
"This... This doesn't feel right... I need to think this over, these words don't feel like they do this justice..."
"Hello again! It's been a few days since I first attempted this. Valerie thought that coming here to Ishgard may afford me a clearer head. Ishgard has come to mean so much to me in my years traveling. I met my remaining family here, my darling partner, and reconnected with long time friends after so long on my own. These spires have become just as much of my home as the shores of La Noscea."
"My retirement is meant to be the start of the next big chapter of my life! I've found so many new connections and made a home for myself in the people I've met. I've never been more proud of myself when I think of how far I've come from my first foray into lancer training to now... Perhaps this isn't the right spot though..."
"What about my home! I'll have the chance to settle down where I made my first memories! I won't have to be so homesick so often!..."
"None of this... Feels right... We've been working on this for weeks now and I still don't feel like I've found the right things to say... This should be some sort of grand send off, shouldn't it? I met almost all my old friends through this work. I figure they'd be happy to see me settle into a life I enjoy and... And..."
"I hope you'll forgive my moods during this process... It's just so hard to believe that seven years ago I stood right here with such fear of what lay ahead of me. I felt so new and knew so little. Look at me now, eh?"
"It's been an adventure. And a good one! I shouldn't despair over leaving known things behind to forge ahead to the new. This IS a grand send off! Sylvie Belanger! Former adventurer and professional botanist! A new perspective to see the world in!... Still, there's one place I feel I should visit one more time. That will be the final part of this pictography reel."
"Hello.... Again. Now I know what you must be thinking, 'Sylvie, all the way back to La Noscea?' and yes I do feel a bit silly for dragging poor Valerie all over Eorzea just to take pictures of me being unsure for hours on end. But this is where I want to end things and begin the new. Where I feel my life as an adventurer began in the first place."
"Up on that hill is an estate belonging to a group of people who allowed me the space I needed to grow and become more of myself. I met some of my oldest friends there... And parted ways with some who I wish I had properly gotten to say goodbye to... My point being, without that free company I may not have had the confidence to do any of the adventuring I've done at all!"
"Many of the kindest, most caring, strongest, most intelligent, and frankly the oddest people I've ever met make their home or visit there. And I wouldn't have traded a single minute of it for anything else on the star... If, any of you manage to see this, I do hope you're all doing alright. I miss you, and I hope your stories have been as rich and wonderful as mine has been able to be, thanks to you. Edges and all, I truly miss my time there."
"Surely though, this won't be the last you see of me. You'd be hard pressed not to find me on the forefront of any and all official Botanist Guild expeditions! I simply won't be toting around a halberd as I usually am..."
"I've been up and down throughout this entire process... But I suppose in the end what I want to say is, that I'm happy. I chased the sun to the horizon and found adventure beyond anything I could have hoped for. Now I'm ready to start a life with some of the people I've met along the way. It feels like it's been a lifetime of pacing my way across the entire star... I think I'll focus on the ground right beneath me for a while."
"So this is me, Sylvie Belanger, wishing you something that someone who used to be dear to me told me long ago now. She said, 'Fair winds, Lancer. May luck be at your back.' And I wish you all the same. Fair winds, wherever you go. Travel well and rest when you return. Chase the sun, no matter where the winds may follow it."
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