The Light of Inspiration

The Light of Inspiration

Quest giver

Y'shtola

Location

The Tempest (X:22.0, Y:10.9)

Quest line

Shadowbringers Main Scenario

Level

79

Experience

 1,640,000

Gil

 949

Previous quest

City of the Ancients

Next quest

The Illuminated Land

Patch

5.0

“

Y'shtola seems eager to share your discoveries with the others

— In-game description

Steps

• Speak with Paushs Ooan.
• Search for Grenoldt.
• Approach Grenoldt and /psych him up.
• Complete any of the role quest lines available at the Wandering Stairs in the Crystarium.
• Present something inspiring to Grenoldt.

Journal

• Y'shtola seems eager to share your discoveries with the others.

Dialogue

• YSHTOLA
  • Thank you for assisting me with my investigations. I shall seek out our companions and share what we have learned.
  • ...Much as I would like to tell you to sit down and leave the rest to us, your condition demands that we make all reasonable haste.
  • If you are not too weary, it may be useful to speak with Paushs Ooan again, and ask if there is aught else he is willing to divulge.

• PAUSHSOOAN
  • Ah, Alphinaud's friend. You and your companions have done much to repair the damage caused when the waters parted...
  • ...Anything elssse you can do? Hmmm... Have you been to the Walls of the Forgotten?

• Q1
  • What will you say?

• A1
  • I...think I've just come from them.
  • Are they the ruins to the northwest?

• PAUSHSOOAN
  • The remnants to the northwest, yesss? You visited them unbidden? Pshhh... Could it be that your footsteps were guided by the ancientsss...?
  • Yesss, that is the sacred site of which I ssspeak. Could it be that your footsssteps were guided there by the ancientsss...?
  • I believe it may be ssso. Listen then, and I will tell you of our plans to bring light to the Walls, that we might answer the shining call of the illuminated land.
  • We have requested a finless craftsman to shape for us a sssacred lamp. He is odd for a land-dweller, choosing as he does to live in the ocean, but his ssskill is beyond question.
  • It is concerning, however, that we have heard nothing of his progress. If you were to visit this artisan and return with our long-awaited light, then any doubt as to your purpossse would be laid to ressst.
  • His name is “Grenoldt.” You will find his workshop in a metal structure to the sssouth.
  • Go, visit Grenoldt in his “Workbench.” Bring back the lamp we asssked for, and all will be as the ancients desired.

• GRENOLDT
  • Oh, that's just great, that is. Me mind's playin' tricks on me now. “Look, Grenoldt! Someone's come to visit ye at the bottom o' the bleedin' ocean!”
  • Or might be as yer a ghost, eh? Go on, foul shade, feast yerself on me rotten soul...
  • I've got no use for it. A craftsman what can't craft is more pointless than a sea slug with a domin' hammer. An' that's an insult to bloody sea slugs...

• SYSTEM
  • Grenoldt appears to be suffering from a crushing bout of self-doubt. Maybe you can help psych him up.

• GRENOLDT
  • Worthless, that's what I am...

• SYSTEM
  • Grenoldt appears to be suffering from a crushing bout of self-doubt. Maybe you can help psych him up.

• GRENOLDT
  • What is it ye want, specter? If yer not here to end me misery, then bugger off back to damnation...
  • ...Eh? Ye wouldn't be tryin' to raise me spirits now, would ye, spirit? Not what ye'd expect from a servant o' the netherworld...

• Q2
  • What will you say?

• A2
  • Has it really come to this...?
  • Have we met before?
  • Are you Grenoldt, then?
  • Have we met before?

• GRENOLDT
  • ...What's that supposed to mean? Not impressed with what ye see, lass?
  • Aye, well...I may have let meself go a bit. This was meant to be me underwater sanctuary─a place where I could concentrate on me work, far from the distractions o' the outside world...
  • Er... Might be as we crossed paths back in the Crystarium, but I don't reckon we've been formally introduced.
  • Name's Grenoldt. An' this here's meant to be me underwater sanctuary─a place where I can give meself over to me work, far from the distractions o' the outside world...
  • Aye. Though I wonder how ye bloody well found me...
  • This here's meant to be me underwater sanctuary─a place where I can give meself over to me work, far from the distractions o' the outside world...
  • ...An' yet, here ye stand. Now what's so damned important that ye'd dive all the way down to the bottom o' the bleedin' Tempest to bother me?
  • Ah... The Ondo's lamp...
  • Gods curse me empty head! I've not so much as made a start!
  • I'm worth less than a sea slug... Nay, the slime left by a sea slug. Me delivery date's long past, me workbench is untouched... An' I call meself a bleedin' artisan!
  • Ye've heard their beliefs, have ye? Bringin' light to them ruins'll be an act of deep religious an' cultural significance!
  • An' it was my privilege as a craftsman to be tasked with providin' a ritual instrument worthy o' the occasion. But I just...can't...bloody well...
  • GAAAH! Me mind's a bleedin' blank! It's like I've pissed away me last drop of inspiration!
  • Tell me ye've got summat to show me─summat as'll give me muse a right good kick up the arse...?
  • The Ondo want to honor the comin' o' these ancients, so their answerin' light's got to blaze with the right kind o' brightness.
  • Like...like the spark o' life caught in a crystal. But just bein' sparkly's not enough─it's got to dance with joy an' sorrow an' a sense o' hardship endured... Ye know what I mean!?

• SYSTEM
  • Your thoughts turn to the Warriors of Light from the First, and the crystals you discovered at the end of their journeys. Maybe Grenoldt would find them inspiring...
  • Your thoughts turn to Branden, and the crystal you discovered at the end of his journey. Maybe Grenoldt could find inspiration in that...
  • Your thoughts turn to Lamitt, and the crystal you discovered at the end of her journey. Maybe Grenoldt could find inspiration in that...
  • Your thoughts turn to Renda-Rae, and the crystal you discovered at the end of her journey. Maybe Grenoldt could find inspiration in that...
  • Your thoughts turn to Nyelbert, and the crystal you discovered at the end of his journey. Maybe Grenoldt could find inspiration in that...
  • Grenoldt seeks a particular kind of inspiration─the kind that crystallizes only at the culmination of a long and tragic tale.
  • Complete any of the role quest lines available at the Wandering Stairs in the Crystarium, then return to Grenoldt once more.

• GRENOLDT
  • It's no good...
  • I need summat special to light a fire under me piss-sodden imagination.
  • Like...like the spark o' life caught in a crystal. But just bein' sparkly's not enough─it's got to dance with joy an' sorrow an' a sense o' hardship endured... Ye know what I mean!?

• SYSTEM
  • Grenoldt seeks a particular kind of inspiration─the kind that crystallizes only at the culmination of a long and tragic tale.
  • Complete any of the role quest lines available at the Wandering Stairs in the Crystarium, then return to Grenoldt once more.

• GRENOLDT
  • I've let the Ondo down, aye... But more'n that I've let meself down. Might as well go back to mendin' kettles...

• A3
  • Show Grenoldt a crystal which once belonged to one of Ardbert's companions?

• GRENOLDT
  • ...Wh-What's that ye've got there!?
  • Such strikin' beauty... It shines with heartache an' laughter an' the transience o' life, like the turmoil o' history made manifest!
  • Aye, I can see the brilliance o' the crystal's legacy! Ahhh...ye'd never capture such a gleam, not if ye labored a hundred years...
  • But bugger me if I don't mean to try! Where're me tools, gods damn ye!? I must set to work before the feelin' fades!