The Sins of Antiquity

The Sins of Antiquity

Quest giver

Alphinaud

Location

The Pillars (X:11, Y:11)

Quest line

Heavensward Main Scenario

Level

57

Experience

 52,260

Gil

 752

Previous quest

A Knight's Calling

Next quest

In Search of the Soleil
A Full Stomach and Happy Heart
Unfulfilled Dreams

Patch

3.0

“

Alphinaud is lost in thought.

— In-game description

Rewards

Unlocks

•   You Say You Want a Revolution

Steps

• Speak with Aymeric at the Congregation of Our Knights Most Heavenly.

Journal

• Gathering himself, Alphinaud suggests you visit the Congregation of Our Knights Most Heavenly and see if Ser Aymeric is recovered from his injuries. Accompany him to Foundation and inform the Temple Knight on duty of your desire to speak with the lord commander.

• In Ser Aymeric's private chambers, the power of the Echo stirs within you once more, and you are granted a vision of the past. You watch as the lord commander accuses the church of hiding the origins of the Dragonsong War, and hear the archbishop acknowledge it to be the truth. Ser Aymeric continues, challenging his father on the morality of the church's deception, but the archbishop, steadfast in his conviction, is unswayed. Though it is a lie, Ishgard's sons and daughters must fight and die for it, for the crimes of King Thordan and his knights twelve are beyond reparation. Recognizing the futility of convincing his son to accept this state of affairs, Archbishop Thordan has Ser Aymeric arrested -- but not before revealing that he has plans of his own to free the people of Ishgard from the sins of antiquity.

  Reflecting on the unnatural powers demonstrated by the knights of the Heavens' Ward, your companions conclude that they are using their own bodies as vessels for the souls of the legendary King Thordan and his knights twelve, much as Ysayle did for Saint Shiva. Though Ser Aymeric knows not his father's plans -- or the significance of “Azys Lla” -- he declares that the archbishop and the Heavens' Ward must be stopped.

  The lord commander duly entreats you and Alphinaud, as representatives of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, to help him bring his father to justice. In response, Alphinaud states that if the Heavens' Ward have indeed harnessed primal powers, it is the duty of the remaining Scions to oppose them. And so, with newfound purpose, Alphinaud bids you join him to discuss how you might find the archbishop.

Dialogue

Alphinaud: I...We must press on with our mission. Tataru, pray return to your duties at the Forgotten Knight. Let us go and speak with Ser Aymeric, [Forename]. I worry for his well-being.

Congregation of Our Knights Most Heavenly (Cutscene)

Aymeric: My friends. I am in your debt.
Alphinaud: Think nothing of it. Your wounds are healing well, I trust? 
Aymeric: Some wounds do not heal...

Warrior of Light Flashback

Aymeric: The founding, the scriptures - a thousand years of lies - all to deceive the common man! Nay, our own brothers and sisters - for the blood of the knights twelve flows within all our veins! you knew this to be true. You knew and you concealed it!
Archbishop Thordan VII: I should be interested to hear how you came by this knowledge. But yes, you have the right of it. The architects of Ishgard, King Thordan and his knights twelve, entrapped and butchered the great wyrm Ratatoskr, that they might partake of her eyes, and thereby transcend their mortal limits. Upon learning of their treachery, Nidhogg was consumed with a murderous - and justified - rage. I daresay you know what followed...
Aymeric: The great wyrm slew the king and half of his knights.
Archbishop Thordan VII: Aye...but Nidhogg was subdued, and his eyes plucked from their sockets by the knights that remained. Their one mistake was to show mercy, for from his brother Hraesvelgr did Nidhogg receive a new eye, thus rejuvenating his form and empowering him to embark upon an eternal quest for vengeance.
Aymeric: ...Whilst Thordan's son Haldrath took one of Nidhogg's eyes and learned to wield its power in defense of his people...
Archbishop Thordan VII: Thus was the first Azure Dragoon born. And ever since that time, his honored successors have risen to drive Nidhogg from our lands whenever the wyrm has returned to plague us.

Archbishop Thordan VII: I ask you, my son: will you answer for my sins? Will your son and his son answer for me as well?
Aymeric: What do you mean? 
Archbishop Thordan VII: If a man cannot atone for his sins in the course of his all-too-fleeting life, must his progency then be held to account? Must every subsequent generation be judged as well?