♫ On we march
With a midnight song
We will light our way
With our lanterns on ♫

Shine a light in the darkness, they say, and darkness will not overcome it. For light will illuminate even the darkest corners of this world, mi amigos.

That light exposes secrets, illuminating transgressions and revealing that which is hidden.

But when you hold a lantern into that darkness, that same light reflects back on one’s self. That same light casts your own shadow behind you.

Ah, mi amigo…

‘When you lift a lantern to light another man’s sin,
Take care, the flame sings your own secrets on the wind.
The brighter you burn to chase shadows away,
the more your own ghosts will come out to play.’

♫ We held the light to our faces and realised
We were chasing shadows behind, not worth saving ♫

You have made it your mission, Lucien, to shine your light and expose Ezekiel Graves. You who would shine your light to illuminate the wolf that lies in sheep’s clothing, as you say.

You shine your light on corruption. You illuminate his lies.

But your light is a lantern, and the more you shine it, the more your same light will illuminate yourself.

When you shine your light on Graves’s lies and corruption, your own is reflected back through a man who was so bent on his mission that he drove his own family away.

The path you trod to follow Graves shines back. That poison he filled your mind with shimmers in the light of your vengeance, and you cannot help but illuminate the choices you’ve also made along the way.

Choices that led to a son taken away to protect him from what you became. Shine that light on yourself, mi amigo.

It is seen through the very methods it has taken you to expose your answers.

Sure, from the ashes of who you once was comes the one we know as Nero. And you’re here to save Arcadia. I’ve heard that all before.

John the Revelator told me the same thing.

So did Zeus himself.

I answer with the light that shines from my lantern of experience… At what cost?

♫ Our day has come
And we’ll stand for who we are…
We will light our way
With our lanterns on ♫

What is your justice, Nero?

That light of your mission to bring Ezekiel Graves to his knees, it paints you in the same hues.

Be careful what you illuminate, for the same will be shown in yourself. The shadows you cast behind you are not from Graves, but your own.

They are your song, played out for all now to hear. Every dark note, every dirty little secret. Every lyric hidden behind that mask. Not the song of a triumphant king, but whispered tones that harbour a much darker message.

That you are no king, you’re different than the heretic you chase. I’ll play every note that your lantern illuminates as I ascend that throne.

Are you sure you’re ready for Arcadia to hear every part of that song?