"Wheresoever there is suffering and despair,
you appear! To fulfil your duty as defender of this Star!"
Zenos, mocking the WoL's commitment to altuisim, in the worst circumstances possible.
"I told you to 'remember us.' Yet, it was
I who had forgotten! Urgh, you made a
right-royal fool out of me Hermes!"
Emet-Selch, in his final appearence in Ultima Thule, eating a big dose of humble pie thanks to the timey-wimey shennigans.
"Someone needed more training with the spear."
Estinien, in the Tower of Zot after defeating the second boss (Sanduruva).
"That was
not at all what technology was meant for!"
G'raha Tia, in the Dead Ends, after defeating the second boss (Peacekeeper).
"This is precisely why you should never skip your squat regimen."
One of the dialogue choices the player can make to Alisaie after arriving in the Magna Glacies during the Forum's ill-fated evactuation through there - for context she'd just been beaten back by a Blasphemy (I admit, I chuckled there.).
"Why Hermes?! Why could you not leave well enough alone? Will these answers assuage the pain you feel when a creation is returned to aether? Had you never cast your accursed question to the distant stars, you may have one day learned to be at peace on this one."
Emet-Selch, (pre-Sundering) coming across as somewhat hypocritical given how he later acted as an Ascian.
Some of the comments in Ktsis Hyperboriea (if using Duty Support) are also comedy gold:
"Urgh, of course there is a cold zone. And of course,
we're going to have to go through it!"
Emet-selch, upon reaching the ice region of the dungeon.
Hythlodaeus: "For all his flaws, you cannot fault his managerial prowress."
Emet-selch: "Seriously?" You wish to discuss his candiacy
now?!"
A bit of banter about Hermes during the dungeon.
Hythlodaeus: "Goodness me! What manner of thinking is behind
this?"
Venat: "There truly is no accounting for taste."
Upon reaching the second boss (Ladon Lord, a two headed walking snake). And after defeating said boss:
Venat: "A pass for constitution, but a fail for intelligence."
Hythlodaeus: "If it's concept was submitted, I would be most certain to reject it."
And Hythlodaeus had some absolute gems during the final battle with Hermes in that dungeon:
(If he is unable to successfully land an attack): "Now now! It's rude to interrupt!"
(When the Limit gauge is full): "What? Who, me? You.. cannot be serious.:"
(I thought it was interesting that he actually
complained about being given the chance to use the Limit Break - in any event Emet uses it.)
But I think the scenes of the Sundering probably take the cake (and steal the entire bakery as well) - Venat-becoming-Hydaelyn in full self-righteous-anger mode is downright
chilling.
Bitter Ancient (to Venat): "You would destroy it? Our beautiful world?"
Venat: "Lands that stretched on forever. Skies one could drown in. The heartbeat of nature. Silent, yet strong."
Venat: "And admist it all a people. Beacons of light and life. Laughter that warmed my heart like naught else before."
Venat: "They are my meaning and my purpose. My love."
Venat: "In spite of... or perhaps because of this, I choose to believe."
Venat: "In mankind's potential. In his ability to find a way forward."
Venat: "So let there be no way back! From that temptation, I sunder us!"
Venat: "No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise!"
Venat: "Henceforth,
he shall walk!"
(Proceeds to sunder Etheirys into Hydaelyn's Source and the Shards)
The scene after is even more chilling...
Venat: "All is excrutiating pain. I breathe fire and torment."
Venat: "I birth a world of suffering, to mire and plague."
Venat: "In one fleeting moment, lives come and go. Ever moving towards the unknown."
Venat: "And in that fleeting moment, they cry out for the answer to the question:"
Venat: "Why, given life, are they meant to suffer. To die..."
Venat: "As fragmented, imperfect beings, yours is a never-ending quest."
Venat: "A quest to find your purpose, knowing your end is assured."
Venat: "To find the strength to continue, when all strength has left you."
Venat: "To find joy, even as darkness descends."
Venat: "And admist deepest despair, light everlasting."
Light is not soft indeed....