On Burdεned ωings

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker.
==Objectives==
* Gather information in Reah Tahra.
* Search for the source of the dragons' woes in Ahm Nohl.
* Investigate the dragon eggs.
* Continue investigating the dragon eggs.
* Search for a dragonet near Ahm Nohl.
* Speak with the bereaved dragon.
==Script==
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Alphinaud 	I understand now why the Loporrits were surprised to find that this environment could sustain life. There but for Thancred's sacrifice...
 	
Alisaie 	He can't really be gone, can he? Meteion herself said his soul persists, that he is the reason we are still breathing. If so then maybe...maybe...
 	
Yshtola 	His will was strong enough to reshape Ultima Thule that we might survive. That I might see again. His sacrifice must not be wasted.
 	
Grahatia 	It's hard to believe Thancred was able to overcome Meteion's will. Yet here we are... Would that the price for his victory had not been so high.
 	
Estinien 	My aim was true. I had her.
Estinien 	How are we to defeat an enemy we can't attack?
 	
Urianger 	Soul without body... A form of being with which we are not wholly unfamiliar.
Urianger 	Indeed, for we existed in a similar state when residing in the First.
Urianger 	The circumstances are rather more dire than that, 'tis true, but I choose to believe he is not forever lost to us.
Urianger 	Regardless...in sacrifice he hath afforded us a chance to prevail. Let us not squander it, and ascertain the nature of this realm that we might confront and defeat Meteion.
Urianger 	Estinien. [Player Name]. Would you accompany me in speaking with these dragons? Mayhap they can enlighten us.
Urianger 	I would ask the rest of you to survey these surrounds. If there is a path that may lead us to our quarry, we must find it.
Alphinaud 	Very well. We can reconvene here when everyone has finished.
Alphinaud 	Meteion said these dragons are shadow and shade, from a world whose denizens sought oblivion.
Alphinaud 	As such, they're not like to be amenable to company, let alone conversation. So please, be careful.
Urianger 	Let us split up and gather what knowledge we may.
 	
Seih Loskh 	A visitor. Not of this star...
Seih Loskh 	Could thy slender hands bring plague to our world... Thy breath extinguish life's feeble flame... Oh, how we would adore thee. Alas...
Seih Loskh 	With time our flesh shall wither, our souls fade. And so we wait for its inexorable march unto oblivion.
Seih Loskh 	If thou art not come to hasten our demise, I bid thee leave us. We crave not companionship. Only silence.
 	
Seih Loskh 	I pray thee leave us to our silence. To break it serves only to mark time's passage. We shall not suffer reminders of its flow.
 	
Kohm Noskh 	Beyond that distant veil... Paradise lost. So glorious. So beautiful...
Kohm Noskh 	We were a proud and noble race. Strength embodied. We knew only love. Before they came...
Kohm Noskh 	Metal monstrosities of black and silver. No bonds of blood did they share, nor conviction did they have to guide them.
Kohm Noskh 	A crushing defeat. Never had we known such shame... Stilled now are the winds, though none could fill these wings burdened by ignominy. We fly no more, only sink into oblivion...
 	
Kohm Noskh 	I beg thee leave me to dream. To forget that which we have lost...
 	
Whei Fehsk 	Thou wouldst bid me speak? Hmph. Folly.
Whei Fehsk 	I observe the lesson of stone. I shall not fly, nor speak, nor roar. Only watch, and wait, and end.
Whei Fehsk 	But one sight yet stirreth my blood, tempteth me to raise my voice in lamentation: Ahm Nohl, the cradle of unsung dragons.
Whei Fehsk 	No words, no songs are possessed of the weight to describe such tragedy... Go, if that be thy will. I shall remain.
 	
Whei Fehsk 	Stay and ponder the lesson, or go in ignorant defiance.
Whei Fehsk 	I remain...for I dare not look upon Ahm Nohl, font of our greatest loss...
 	
Estinien 	They led you here as well, did they? It was described to me as the source of their woes and proof of their end. I think I'm beginning to see why.
Estinien 	It's a hatching ground. Or, was... I've seen similar on Etheirys.
Estinien 	Midgardsormr's kind must once have lived and thrived in a place such as this.
Estinien 	Vrtra said his father was driven from their ancestral home by war and strife. This, then, is the fate of those who remained.
Estinien 	Let's have a look around. Maybe these eggs have more to tell of what happened here.
 	
Estinien 	The stench of these eggs is as fierce as any weapon. Would that there were winds to carry it away.
 	
Estinien 	What's this? I thought all the eggs had been ruined.
Estinien 	If the dragonet was indeed hatched, there is no sign of it here─or its sire, for that matter.
Estinien 	We should look for them. You start with the clifftops, and I'll search the plains.
 	
Elderdragon04454	......
 	
Balloon 	Gwoooar!
Balloon 	Gwoooh... <gurgle>
 	
Elderdragon04454	The boisterous howling hath been quieted... By thy hand, I presume.
Estinien 	Everything all right? I thought I heard a dragon, or something resembling one.
Estinien 	Ah. I see what's happened here... Was that your child?
Elderdragon04454	Perhaps. Some eggs within Ahm Nohl are indeed mine. If life within one did quicken, the beast thou hast slain may be of my blood.
Elderdragon04454	Yet I do not recognize it, twisted and malformed as it is.
Elderdragon04454	Not a dragon in truth, but a reminder of our failure. A testament to our shame.
Estinien 	Explain.
Elderdragon04454	They descended from the heavens. Cold, heartless machines. And with them rode war and death.
Elderdragon04454	With fire and fury, rage and rancor, we gave answer. 'Twas a long and bloody battle, but only the beginning...
Elderdragon04454	Untold chaos and destruction swept over the star. In the end, the invaders were victorious.
Elderdragon04454	Yet when they looked upon their prize, they deemed it unfit for requisition. We were abandoned to our ruin.
Elderdragon04454	The survivors sought to put away their shame. To rebuild. A futile effort.
Elderdragon04454	In purest soil replete with aether did we once cultivate our nesting grounds. But our lands were barren, and any eggs nurtured in such desolation were fated to rot.
Elderdragon04454	What few survive to hatch emerge as...abominations. We shall have no new progeny.
Estinien 	But there are dragons among you capable of journeying to other stars.
Elderdragon04454	That there are. Many would make the attempt, each bearing a clutch of eggs.
Elderdragon04454	The richest stars were home to the harshest rulers, and the arrival of dragons incited contests for supremacy.
Elderdragon04454	When the fires faded, the wars lost and won, they too were reduced to ash and waste.
Elderdragon04454	'Tis the curse of those who seek life─to be drawn into conflict, to conquer or be conquered.
Elderdragon04454	A vicious cycle we now choose to break. We tire of conflict. Of everything...
Elderdragon04454	We wait now in sweet, merciful silence. Free from strife and suffering. Still as stone...
Estinien 	Wait! You claim your kind is doomed, but there is another star─
Elderdragon04454	......
Quest complete. 	Quest complete.
Category:Endwalker Main Scenario Quests in Final Fantasy XIV