Here’s Venat’s voice in English, Japanese, French, and German! I love all the voices, but I am curious to hear what you think!
Chapters:
0:00 – Quick Comparison Clip 1
0:28 – Quick Comparison Clip 2
01:01 – English Clip 1
01:55 – Japanese
02:47 – German
03:40 – French
04:31 – English Clip 2
06:52 – Japanese
09:10 – German
11:25 – French
13:50 – Outro
A brilliant scholar and adventurer at heart, Venat held the seat of “Azem” on the Convocation of Fourteen, and spent her time exploring the world of Etheirys and coming to love all the people and life within it. When she stepped down as Azem, Venat’s successor was her friend and student. After she left the Convocation, Venat began working at the concept research facility Elpis rather than returning to the star, as she felt that she still had things to offer to Etheirys.
After the Warrior of Light traveled back to her time in the unsundered world, Venat detected her protection magick on them and revealed to Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus that the Warrior was, in fact, someone from the future rather than Azem’s familiar. Venat learned of her future as Hydaelyn and traveled Elpis together with the Warrior, seeking the cause of the Final Days. She asked them about their time as an adventurer in Eorzea, and even challenged them to a sparring match.
After confronting the chief overseer of Elpis Hermes alongside the Warrior, Emet-Selch, and Hythlodaeus, she learned about the Final Days’ harbinger: Meteion and her sisters. When the sisters began to report their findings about other life in the universe, Meteion’s individuality began to wane, and she tried to flee to prevent Hermes from hearing the report. Venat, the Warrior, Emet-Selch, and Hythlodaeus gave chase, and eventually cornered her. The report carried on, revealing that all the Meteia had discovered were dead worlds, or worlds on the brink of death due to failed experiments, war, or other similar reasons.
Hermes went insane and fled with Meteion to Ktisis Hyperboreia. Venat, the Warrior, Emet-Selch and Hythlodaeus followed them and defeated Hermes. Meteion finished the report, and driven by their creator’s question, concluded that life was suffering and despair, and it was in the best interest of everything living to surrender to inevitable death and despair, which they would bring as a “gift” to all of the lives on Etheirys. Hermes used the memory reconfiguration system Kairos to erase the memories of all those involved in the event, and allowed Meteion to escape. Venat gave chase with Argos [ˈɑːr.ɡɒs], but could not catch her in time, and so placed a tracking spell on her. Thanks to Hythlodaeus and Emet-Selch, Venat and the Warrior escaped to safety with their memories intact.
Venat escorted the Warrior back to the portal that had brought them to Elpis, and determined that no one must learn about the Meteia, otherwise Etheirys would suffer what the other civilizations did even before the Meteia’s song of oblivion would reach it. Yet she needed to gather supporters and formulate a plan. Before they parted ways, Venat encourages the Warrior to use the knowledge they gained in Elpis to help them in the future.
Upon traveling back to their own time, the Warrior had a vision of what eventually befell the Ancients’ world. When the Final Days fell upon Etheirys, Venat gathered a group of Amaurotines who opposed the Convocation’s decision to sacrifice more lives to the summoned primal Zodiark to revive their brethren, and offered herself to become the core of Hydaelyn, a primal that would bind Zodiark. As Hydaelyn, she ended up permanently splintering the world into the Source and its thirteen reflections, while an intentional flaw in the sundering spared Emet-Selch, as well as Elidibus and Lahabrea who happened to be nearby.
The reason the Warrior of Light could recognize Venat on sight in Elpis was that Hydaelyn had presented an image of her original self to the Warrior of Light as they were on a ship bound for Old Sharlayan. Aware of what the Warrior had learned about Venat and Hydaelyn’s origins as a deity in the First, Hydaelyn bid them go forward even if She no longer had their faith.
In the Mothercrystal, when the Scions of the Seventh Dawn finally met with Hydaelyn, the Warrior had the option to call her “Venat”, eliciting an emotional reaction from the goddess who cried, moved that the Warrior still remembered their time together in Elpis. After Hydaelyn expended all her aether while testing the party to see if they had the power to save their world, she ceased to be while leaving parting words to the Warrior and their comrades.
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I'm so torn on the German dub. The script is… questionable at best (they couldn't even get the hear, feel, think part right :/ ), but damn, if the voice actress doesn't nail the emotions in her voice. In a way the poor and awkwardly worded script makes it even more impressive, she could give such a great performance.
Meanwhile in English, the script is much better, but she sounds just so… detached. None of the pain and determination in her voice, that the original and German have.
Chapters:
0:00 – Quick Comparison Clip 1
0:28 – Quick Comparison Clip 2
01:01 – English Clip 1
01:55 – Japanese
02:47 – German
03:40 – French
04:31 – English Clip 2
06:52 – Japanese
09:10 – German
11:25 – French
13:50 – Outro