Food for the Soul

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
==Journal==
==Objectives==
* Speak with Tataru.
* Deliver the Archon loaf to the Crystal Exarch in the Ocular.
* Speak with Urianger.
==Script==
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Krile 	You've come a long way, so do take your ease while you can.
 	
Tataru 	Um...[Player Name]? Could you spare a moment? While Krile goes and finds this expert of hers, I mean.
Tataru 	There's a gift I was hoping to send to our friends in the First, you see...and since we might be waiting a while, I wondered if you wouldn't mind giving me a hand with it.
Tataru 	My first attempt turned out well, so now I'm going to make it properly.
Tataru 	I'll be in the kitchen at the House of Splendors. Meet me there!
Krile 	Well, I had better be off too. I shall see you soon, either here or at the House, depending on how our patients fare in my absence.
 	
Tataru 	There you are, [Player Name]! As I'm sure you've guessed, the gift is a bit of home cooking.
Tataru 	Unlike Krile, I can't do much to help our friends directly. But that doesn't mean I've been idle.
Tataru 	No, I've been doing my best for the order, taking on this job and that to keep our coffers full. I've even helped out with the Ishgardian restoration.
Tataru 	And in the course of all this, my culinary skills have come on quite a bit. So I thought, why not make something for our friends?
Tataru 	It's baking in the oven even as we speak. Shouldn't be long now!
Tataru 	There! Baked to perfection, even if I do say so myself!
 	
Tataru 	But not just any old bread! This here is Old World bread. “Archon loaf,” to be precise. It's what they eat over in Sharlayan!
Tataru 	Doesn't it just! It's called “Archon loaf,” in case you're wondering, and it's what they eat over in Sharlayan.
Tataru 	It is bread, silly! And not just any old bread. This here is Old World bread. “Archon loaf,” to be precise. It's what they eat over in Sharlayan!
Tataru 	Simple fare, I admit, but I thought it would remind our friends of home.
Tataru 	If nothing else, Krile tells me it's a good source of aether.
Tataru 	So it should lend them a bit of strength at least.
Krile 	Mmm-mmmmmm! There truly is nothing like the smell of bread fresh from the oven!
Tataru 	Krile! And if it isn't Rammbroes too!
Krile 	I trust you require no introductions either, [Player Name].
Rammbroes 	Greetings, my friend. Full glad am I to see you well.
Rammbroes 	I confess, I have a malm-long list of questions to ask you, but I will endeavor to contain my curiosity for the present. I understand our mutual friend is struggling with the application of certain Allagan technologies.
Krile 	I have been keeping Rammbroes apprised of events in the First. Suffice it to say, he knows about the Exarch.
Krile 	If anyone alive can provide insight into this matter, it is him and his fellow Sons.
Rammbroes 	Ahem. Loath as I am to disappoint you after so glowing an endorsement...
Rammbroes 	Memory transference was the sole province of Allagan royalty, its mechanisms closely guarded secrets. If any record of them remains, we have yet to find it. To wit, I regret that I can offer no solution to your problem.
Rammbroes 	...Which begs the question of why I bothered to come here, empty-handed as I am─the answer being, rather brazenly, to ask a favor. I would have you relay a message to our comrade.
Rammbroes 	Tell him... Tell him that we never doubted him.
Rammbroes 	Never doubted that he would achieve all that he said he would.
Rammbroes 	Those of us who remained behind have yet to play our part.
Rammbroes 	But when the time comes, he may rest easy in the knowledge that we will most assuredly do so.
Rammbroes 	And then the tower shall shine once more as a beacon of hope, in this world and beyond.
Rammbroes 	So tell him that we consider his duty done─and that he should follow his heart now.
Krile 	Forgive me, but do you say this to discourage him from overexerting himself? Or to encourage him to hold nothing back?
Rammbroes 	That is for our friend to decide, but either way, I daresay a certain someone will be unimpressed.
Krile 	Well, there you have it, [Player Name]. If you would be so good as to see Rammbroes's message and Tataru's bread to their intended recipients─along with my report, of course.
Tataru 	Um, Krile? Before I wrap the bread up, would you mind giving it a try? Just to make sure everything's as it should be?
Krile 	But of course! I'm always happy to lend my taste buds!
Krile 	Hmmm... Hmmmmmm...
Krile 	Excuse me, Rammbroes. As a fellow Sharlayan, may I trouble you for your opinion?
Rammbroes 	Well, I usually have mine with a good dollop of rolanberry jam, but I suppose plain is best for sampling purposes.
Rammbroes 	<munch> <munch> I see, I see...
Tataru 	Oh no... Is it that bad?
Krile 	It is indeed, Tataru. Dense and unpleasant...exactly as it should be!
Rammbroes 	Gahaha! Just so! The very taste of home!
Rammbroes 	As you might expect, our countrymen have amassed a wealth of culinary wisdom from every corner of the world. But our native cuisine is...shall we say, a little lacking.
Rammbroes 	In Sharlayan, the majority regard food as a source of nourishment rather than enjoyment. Save for those few who actually research the culinary arts, we pay little heed to the niceties of taste and texture.
Rammbroes 	It was against such a gastronomic landscape that what is now called the “Archon loaf” was born, the creation of an Archon who devoted himself to the study of bodily sustenance.
Rammbroes 	In order to maximize its nutritional value, he incorporated copious quantities of pulverized fish and vegetable matter into the dough─all with nary a care for those qualities which make bread enjoyable. The result is a flavor that continues to defy description.
Rammbroes 	Yet for its many shortcomings, the loaf's nutritional value cannot be denied. And being a damnably convenient way to cater to one's bodily needs, it quickly found an audience amongst busy scholars. Why, when I was a lad, nigh every meal was a sandwich made with this very bread and whatever ingredients happened to be on hand.
Krile 	Hm hm! I suspect just about every Archon could say the same.
Krile 	Having been away from home for so long, I thought I might have forgotten the taste. But no─it is all too familiar. Ahhh, how it takes me back...
Rammbroes 	If there is enough, perhaps you can spare some for the Exarch? He is certain to appreciate it.
Tataru 	Oh, there's plenty to go around. I'll be sure to wrap up an extra slice!
Tataru 	[Player Name], when you deliver the loaf, please be sure to send everyone my regards.
Tataru 	Tell them we're doing everything we can, and that we'll be praying for their safe return until the moment they get back.
 	
Tataru 	Well...it sounds like it'll do them good, anyway.
Tataru 	And when everything's back to normal, I'll cook something for you too, [Player Name]. Gods know you deserve a treat!
 	
Beq Lugg 	Ah, you are returned! Good, good. There is much to discuss. The others are making their way hither as we speak.
 	
Mysteryvoice 	Welcome back, my friend. How was your journey?
Mysteryvoice 	By the Twelve... Archon loaf! However did you come by this? I'd swear it had come straight from Sharlayan...
Mysteryvoice 	Rammbroes said that, did he? <sigh> His words are very nearly as heavy as the bread...but I appreciate the sentiment.
Mysteryvoice 	Should you have the chance, you may tell him that he needn't worry. That which I seek to do, I do of my own volition, and with all my heart.
Mysteryvoice 	In pursuing this path, I fully expect to earn the censure of our friends─and to deserve it─but I shall forge on regardless.
Mysteryvoice 	Forge on as you yourself did when faced with a similar predicament. So I ask that you have faith in me. In what we do.
Mysteryvoice 	...But we were talking about your journey. Before the others arrive, I would hear how their bodies fare.
Mysteryvoice 	Oh, and the bread I shall save for later. Though it has been many years, I have not forgotten the feats of mastication required to consume it, nor how unconducive they are to conversation.
 	
Mysteryvoice 	As Beq Lugg said, the test will take a while. I ask for your patience in the meantime.
 	
Beq Lugg 	Off you go and help your friends. Even assuming the test is a success, I doubt they would feel comfortable leaving with business unfinished.
 	
Alphinaud 	When our grandfather first decided to journey to Eorzea, Alisaie did not take kindly to my silence on the subject. “Don't pretend to understand things you don't,” she said...or rather shouted.
Alphinaud 	Having oft been the object of her scorn, I am predisposed to sympathize with the Exarch, but I do understand how she feels─better now than ever I did, certainly.
 	
Alisaie 	I'm sorry, I know it was childish to storm off like that. And probably to feel the way I do as well. Agh, pull yourself together, Alisaie!
 	
Thancred 	I for one support the Exarch's choice. To be alive is to be driven by a purpose, and few are as driven as him.
 	
Ryne 	It's stupid, but I've never really stopped to think about what would happen once the vessels were complete. And now...
Ryne 	No. There's no point. I...I hope the test is a success. Truly.
 	
Urianger 	Hast thou a moment, [Player Name]? I would speak with thee on the matter of the Exarch's mooted return unto the Source.
Urianger 	Thou wilt have observed that our friend spake not in certainties. Yet if Beq Lugg hath the right of it, 'tis possible to predict the outcome of his plan with some confidence.
Urianger 	And it is their assessment that, given the opportunity, the Exarch's soul should successfully merge with that of his younger self.
Urianger 	Which is not to say the process is without complications. For one, the Exarch hath been subjected to an additional Rejoining, an experience which will have wrought a change in his aetherial composition.
Urianger 	As thou thyself didst demonstrate in merging with Ardbert, however, there existeth an affinity 'twixt like souls, and this doth give us cause to hope.
Urianger 	...Yet there remaineth one immutable condition upon which success doth hinge.
Urianger 	The Exarch must needs recognize his past self as simply that─himself.
Urianger 	As our recent travails have demonstrated, memories are essential to the soul. Any discrepancy in the former may feasibly cause the latter to spurn its former flesh.
Urianger 	'Tis a seemingly simple yet complex problem. For nigh on a century, our friend hath striven only to deliver this realm, to deliver thee. And to that singular end did he cast aside his very name, that he might assume the mantle of the Crystal Exarch.
Urianger 	Henceforth, none can say what choices our friend will make, but I thought it only right that thou be made aware of these truths.
Quest complete.	Quest complete.
Category:Post-Shadowbringers Main Scenario Quests in Final Fantasy XIV