Need to Breed

Lyulf

All these wild dodos you see about the place were actually once domesticated birds, bred by my father. They broke loose during the chaos of the Calamity and gradually became the feral, ill-tempered creatures we now do our best to avoid.

But if I am to restore Swiftperch to the very same settlement it was when my father was alive, then I must also try my hand at dodo-raising. And, as you have likely surmised, I shall require your adventurer's resourcefulness in this endeavor.

For the initial stage of my dodo-rearing enterprise, I need you to head into the Flock and seek out dodo nests. You'll be looking for fertilized eggs─three of them should do nicely for now.

But pray be careful when liberating the eggs. The adult dodos will not take kindly to an intruder making off with their offspring!

Lyulf

With three eggs, I should be able to experiment with breeding. Success or failure is not terribly important─to begin with, I mean only to gain some practical experience with the birds.

• FR Et puis, cela me permettra de marcher dans les traces de mon père. ‘And besides, it will let me follow in my father's footsteps.’ English says he only wants practical experience with the birds; French says it lets him follow his father's footsteps.

Yes, you did exceptionally well in selecting only fertilized eggs! Now that I consider it, I'm not entirely sure how you managed to tell... In any case, I must raise the naturally aggressive dodo from the egg if I am to have any chance of surviving the breeding process.

• FR Je savais que je pouvais compter sur quelqu'un de bon comme vous ! ‘I knew I could count on someone good like you!’ English jokes he's unsure how you could tell which eggs were fertilized; French says he knew he could count on you.
• FR Vous savez, élever des dodos depuis l'état d'œuf est le seul moyen de dompter leur agressivité naturelle. ‘You know, raising dodos from the egg is the only way to tame their natural aggressiveness.’ English jokes about him surviving the breeding; French speaks only of taming the birds' aggressiveness.
• JA あなたにお任せしてよかった。 ‘I'm glad I left it to you.’ English jokes he's unsure how you could tell which eggs were fertilized; Japanese says he's glad he entrusted it to you.
• JA 凶暴なドードーを、大人しい家畜にするには、どうしても卵から育てる必要があるんです。 ‘To turn the ferocious dodo into docile livestock, I absolutely must raise it from the egg.’ English jokes about him surviving the breeding; Japanese speaks only of making the birds docile livestock.

Apart from encouraging a more docile behavior while the bird is but a chick, it is imperative that I remove the gland that produces that infamous poisonous breath. My father's notes quite graphically depict the consequences of failing to do so.

• FR Mon père m'avait aussi expliqué qu'il fallait retirer la glande qui leur permet de cracher du venin lorsqu'ils sont encore des oisillons. ‘My father had also explained to me that you have to remove the gland that lets them spit venom while they are still chicks.’ English speaks of a gland producing poisonous breath; French of a gland that lets them spit venom.
• DE Man muss den Dodos nämlich ihre Speicheldrüsen entnehmen, solange sie noch klein sind, damit sie später kein Gift spucken. ‘You see, you have to remove the dodos' salivary glands while they're still small, so that later they don't spit poison.’ English speaks of a gland producing poisonous breath; German of salivary glands, so they don't spit poison.
• DE Das hat mir zumindest mein Vater erzählt. ‘At least that's what my father told me.’ English says his father's notes graphically show what happens otherwise; German just hedges that his father told him so.
• JA ぜんぶ父の受け売りですけどね。 ‘It's all just secondhand from my father, though.’ English says his father's notes graphically show what happens otherwise; Japanese admits it's all secondhand from his father.

This really is rather exciting! Every day I take another step closer to my vision of a Swiftperch surrounded by golden fields of wheat and echoing with the calls of plump, waddling dodos!

• FR En tout cas, je vais faire tout mon possible pour qu'il soit fier de moi, là-haut. ‘In any case, I'll do everything I can so that he is proud of me, up there.’ English expresses excitement; French vows to make someone up above proud of him.
• FR Vous allez voir, je vais faire de cet endroit un véritable Éden. ‘You'll see, I'm going to make this place a true Eden.’ English pictures golden wheat fields and plump, waddling dodos; French promises simply a true Eden.