[quote]"I want to know more about this Chosen and what her connection is to the temple. The Ossa Trail depends on it!"[/quote]

Kory gave Miles a long and bewildered stare. She wanted to make a bunch of rock-related jokes about him, but figured it'd be a waste of her breath. She didn't know if he was familiar with the ways of the world, and she honestly didn't care. She replied, "It's not just the Ossa Trail that will depend on it, but all of Sylvarant. To make a long story short, this world needs mana to survive, but the Desians are using forbidden technology that eats up all of the mana, thus slowly killing Sylvarant. They use this technology in their Human ranches, where Humans like us are used to develop these little things called Exspheres."

She pulled off her right glove and showed Miles a red gem affixed to the top of that hand, with another stone encircling it that had numerous glyphs on it. She continued, "Humans in the ranches are abused and treated like cattle to develop these things. The Chosen's duty is to visit several seals dotting this world and unseal them, and then go to the Tower of Salvation."

Kory pointed way over in the distance towards an impossibly tall tower reaching into the clouds.

"I don't really know the details, but this pilgrimage is supposed to revive the world's mana and stop the Desians, thus saving Sylvarant. That's why the whole thing is called the Journey of Regeneration."