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  • In chapter 6, when Aloy, Elisabet, Varl, Sona, and Teersa go inside All-Mother Mountain to enter the cradle facility, Lansra appears and starts saying really nasty stuff to the group. When she sees Elisabet, she accuses her of abandoning Aloy. Elisabet. Is. Pissed. Then she rips into Lansra on how she and the Nora are responsible for abandoning Aloy. After Elisabet is done with her "The Reason You Suck" Speech, Lansra is left whimpering, begging for forgiveness.
    Elisabet: I never abandoned Aloy! Your goddess did create her, out of my blood, in your damn mountain, but I never knew! The ones who abandoned Aloy are you, you and your superstitious, fearful tribe!
    Lansra: [Started stammering] I…we…the Nora are not fearful, we are the chosen people of the goddess… How could you not know of a girl of your blood?
    Elisabet: G—the goddess made her in my image. The goddess and I were close, but long ago a tragedy left me unaware for many years, and the goddess thought I was dead. When the goddess decided to…to have a child, one who could help her heal the earth, she made one using blood from me. There was no father, and Aloy has every right to go inside the mountain where she was born. And so do I.
    Lansra: [voice shaking] How…how could the goddess have not known you lived? She is all-knowing and all-powerful, but if you say you knew her…
    Aloy: The Metal Devil hid Elisabet from All-Mother. But Elisabet is right. She has just as much right to go behind the Sacred Door as I do.
    Lansra: Chosen, Chosen of the goddess. Forgive me for doubting you, Anointed, please, forgive! Forgive!
    Elisabet: Maybe instead of asking for forgiveness, you should stop doing things that make you have to ask for it in the first place. You never should have treated her this way. Your entire tribe shouldn't have. You should all be ashamed.
    Aloy: She’s right. It would be better for the Nora, all Nora, if you worried less about what was tainted and more about what is right.

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