Prelude in Violet
Prelude in Violet
- Quest giver
- Alisaie
- Location
- The Lochs (X:36.9, Y:30.2)
- Quest line
- Post-Stormblood
- Level
- 70
“— In-game description
Steps
- Speak with Alisaie at the Rising Stones.
- Speak with Alisaie at Maelstrom Command.
- Speak with Alisaie.
- Speak with Alisaie at the Rising Stones.
Journal
- You arrive at the Rising Stones to find Urianger waiting. The Archon duly relates his own experience of the voice, adding that he heard it at what was all but certainly the selfsame moment. Unwilling to speculate idly on who might be responsible, he declares his intention to make for Ala Mhigo to examine Thancred in person. Before you all depart, however, Y'shtola takes the opportunity to raise the subject of a strange phenomenon she observed in the Far East -- which Urianger rather smugly deduces to be the localized aetheric thinning simultaneously observed across Eorzea. Mindful that it cannot be a coincidence, the two Archons are in the midst of agreeing to investigate the matter further when the voice returns to assault your minds again. Your skull ringing, you open your eyes to see Urianger and Y'shtola collapsed upon the ground, and a desperate Alisaie trying in vain to rouse them as all around rush to your aid.
Dialogue
Accepting the Quest
Alisaie: Urianger agreed to meet us at the Rising Stones. If any of the others heard the voice, we'll find out soon enough.
Lyse: Good luck. I should get back to the meeting with the Elder Seedseer, but if there's anything I can do -- anything at all -- you must let me know, all right? Promise me.
Alisaie: Right, let's be on our way.
At the Rising Stones
Alisaie: Urianger! Gods it's good to see you!
Urianger: Would that our meeting were under happier circumstances. I judged the voice sufficient cause for concern even before you sent word of its effect on our comrade...
Y'shtola: You heard it too, then?
Urianger: Aye. And all but certainly at the selfsame instant. Alas, pained as I was, I could make little sense of what few words did then reach mine ears.
Y'shtola: Who do you think is responsible? Could this be the Ascians' doing?
Urianger: That I cannot say. Not when so little is known.
Urianger: Ere I indulge in speculation, I would examine Thancred with mine own eyes.
Alisaie: To Ala Mhigo, then -- without further delay!
Y'shtola: One other thing. During my visit to the Far East, I observed a strange phenomenon.
Urianger: Thou referest, I presume, to the localized reduction in aetheric density?
Y'shtola: Well, that spares me the trouble of an explanation. Yes. I noted precisely that at two apparently unconnected locations. I take it the phenomenon is not limited to the Far East?
Urianger: Indeed not. Of late, our agents charged with surveiling the beast tribes have spoken of little else. In every corner of the realm, they tell of places in which the aether hath grown thin.
Urianger: Naturally, my suspicions first turned to primal activity, but the areas thus affected betray no evidence of summoning. I must confess to being quite perplexed.
Y'shtola: If the same phenomenon is being observed in multiple locations on opposite sides of the world, we may safely discount regional factors. Needless to say, this warrants further investigation.
Urianger: Indeed. I shall make it my task to--
Urianger: The voice... It calleth to me once more...
Y'shtola: I... I hear it too!
???: Only you... Only you...
Alisaie: Ah! Unnngh! No...!
Alisaie: Y'shtola... Urianger...
???: Throw wide... the gates...
Alisaie: No! NO! This can't be happening!
Alisaie: Y'shtola! Urianger! Open your eyes!
Alisaie: Open your eyes, I beg you...
Alisaie: Say something... anything... Not again... Please! Not again!
Hoary Boulder: This is an unprecedented predicament for the Scions, but we must remain strong -- the least of us most of all.
Alianne: It cannot be discounted that Mistress Krile has heard the voice as well. I will ask Tataru to send her word of what has come to pass.
Isildaure: Confound these old bones... Useless as I am, I should have been the one to be struck down...
Clemence: Ocher, Sister, and I will take turns to keep watch over the slumbering Archons. We’ll not leave them untended even for a moment.
Riol: Didn't the selfsame thing happen to Thancred? Who's bloody next?
Ephemie: We had spoken earnestly of doing more to ease the senior Scions' burdens -- but not under these circumstances... nor less so soon. I only hope I will be equal to the challenge.
Coultenet: As a mage, I have some few scholarly acquaintances of my own, and will reach out to them for their insights. It may not be much, but ‘tis my own little way of aiding Mistress Alisaie.