#shula

"So armed with both the knowledge of the ancients, and the secrets of time...our ancestors settled upon an ambitious plan. They would create a new Mothercrystal, and enchant it that it might endure for all eternity. Thus would our people's wandering—our suffering—finally end, and prosperity visit us once more. And all it would require was the sacrifice of a single child. A small price to pay...or so they believed." Shula

The Rising Tide DLC introduces the Motes of Water, the tribe of the Eikon Leviathan. A people who lost their homeworld on southern Ash's coasts were persecuted by the Holy Empire of Sanbreque for not converting to the Greagorian church. Fleeing to the realm of Mysidia in the decaying Northern Territories, the Motes of Water devised a plan to restore their tribe to glory...at the cost of committing the gravest sin: sacrificing their child Dominant Waljas. Their sin results in the tribe's near destruction and is the source of Shula's, the Tributary of Mysidia, and her generation's desire to atone for their ancestors' sins. In the end, with the help of Clive, Shula and her people atone for the sins of their ancestors.

Mysidia's theme is one of the most beautiful, mesmerizing themes I've ever heard, especially Wist in Water. It reflects the isolated yet seemingly idyllic paradise where non-bearers and bearers live in harmony, compared to Valisthea's policy of enslaving and dehumanizing bearers. However, said paradise is underlined in the tragedy of sin that the Motes of Water had committed.

Waljas was the most precious baby, and after everything he suffered it's so sweet to see him only having happy thoughts about the people around him.

Torgal is still Best Boy treating the DLC like The Greatest Walk Ever

In fact, Torgal is so great I'm side-eyeing Shula a bit, ma'am are you trying to steal my dog

And seems we will never know what's up with Famiel and his weird odor, guess he just has some disorder?

Some Snufmin children :D