Forge Ahead (quest)

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker.
==Objectives==
* Speak with Alphinaud.
* Speak with Alphinaud and have him accompany you.
* Speak with Alisaie while accompanied by Alphinaud and have them accompany you.
* Follow the crystalline path while accompanied by Alphinaud and Alisaie, and speak with Alphinaud at the designated location.
* Speak with Alphinaud.
==Script==
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Alisaie 	Fools, all of them... Fools...
 	
Alphinaud 	That crystalline path─G'raha has paved it for us.
Alphinaud 	Difficult as it is, we must carry on. For our friends, and all who await us in faith.
Alphinaud 	So come, let us seek the path's beginning. It appears to be near the outpost.
 	
Alisaie 	I won't let it break me, don't you worry. I never have, and I never will.
 	
Alphinaud 	Look, [Player Name]. A portal has opened.
Alphinaud 	It will surely deliver us true. It must.
 	
Alisaie 	Look up, [Player Name]. It's as though the stars are being devoured by the dead sun...
Alisaie 	And that's where we're headed─into the maw of darkness.
 	
Alphinaud 	Well, here is where the path begins. And it ascends to dizzying heights...
Alphinaud 	Let us make our way, one sure step at a time.
 	
Alphinaud 	Now more than ever, we must walk as one. Will you go and take Alisaie's hand?
 	
Alphinaud 	Forgotten something, have you? Very well, we'll be waiting by the portal.
 	
Alphinaud 	Aye, let us press on. One sure step at a time, till we win through to Meteion.
 	
Alisaie 	We should keep moving. Go and tell Alphinaud, will you?
 	
Alisaie 	Our friends got us this far. Their courage, their strength. Their wisdom. Their love.
Alisaie 	We owe it to them to continue. No matter how long it takes...
 	
Alphinaud 	Should you start to fall, we'll be here to catch you. I know you'll do the same for us.
Alphinaud 	Alisaie appears to have fallen behind... We had best head back and fetch her.
 	
Alisaie 	G'raha paved this path for us. We were meant to follow it.
Alisaie 	Where did Alphinaud disappear to now? We need to turn around and look for him.
 	
Alisaie 	We understand, take what time you need. When you're ready to continue, we'll be waiting by the portal.
 	
Alisaie 	If you're ready, then so am I. Let's follow the path where it leads!
 	
Alphinaud 	The innumerable lights that shine in the distance─to think that they all could have birthed civilizations...
Alphinaud 	To think that everything they built has gone to dust, their peoples lost to despair... Of the stars floating in this sea of midnight, ours is a lonely aberration.
Alphinaud 	And yet...no matter how many worlds have met their ends, with you and Alisaie beside me, there is nothing I fear. No ocean so vast I cannot cross.
 	
Alisaie 	Those broken stars I see─shattered, ruptured, unraveled─I wonder if they're also worlds recreated at their ends...
Alisaie 	The sight of them fills me with a sorrow I cannot describe...and a truth I cannot deny.
Alisaie 	Birth...and death. Whence we came and where we'll return. A wheel from which there is no escape.
 	
Alphinaud 	...Thancred would scout the road ahead. Y'shtola and Urianger would trade opinions on esoteric subjects.
Alphinaud 	G'raha would join in their discussion, or else chat with me and Alisaie about the mission. Estinien would be at the rear, apart yet present.
Alphinaud 	All the while you would come and go. Wherever you are needed. And together, we would travel...
 	
Alisaie 	All I can hear are my footfalls. My heartbeat. It's so much quieter now...
Alisaie 	But the fact we can breathe and continue on is proof that the others are still with us.
Alisaie 	They are... They are... Aren't they...?
 	
Alphinaud 	The portal is barely visible from up here.
Alphinaud 	...Truly, we've come far. Much farther than would have been possible had we kept chasing perfect ideals as we did in the past.
Alphinaud 	It is because we have known failure and frustration─that we have learned and grown from them─that Hydaelyn has entrusted us with this mission. With the fate of the very star.
 	
Alisaie 	It's all a dream, isn't it...? A long, elaborate dream...
Alisaie 	Any moment now, I'll wake up in my bed. Still a student. Grandfather alive. I'd go about my day, relieved as the fragments of that other life fade away...
Alisaie 	And that would be happiness...wouldn't it? That none of it... No. No, I won't give up these experiences. Good and bad, they are mine. They are me.
 	
Alphinaud 	Rest assured I am fine...but thank you for your concern. What of yourself? Though we can't afford to be too leisurely, neither need we rush unduly.
Alphinaud 	We've crossed an impossible distance to stand where we are now, and we're but a few steps away from journey's end. It will be over before we know it.
 	
Alisaie 	Me...? Oh, I still have plenty of legs left in me, don't you worry. It's you I'm worried about.
Alisaie 	You always push yourself so hard for us─for everyone. And while we're here, we'll make sure to bear our share of the burden.
 	
Alphinaud 	Well, this is it. The end of the path, and the beginning of whatever awaits.
Alphinaud 	There will be greater hardships. We may be made to feel powerless.
Alphinaud 	Yet come what may, let us have no regrets. No, let us have pride in what we have achieved.
Alphinaud 	In what we achieved, and how it changed us for the better... That's worth fighting for. And dying for. As they did...
 	
Alisaie 	There are some structures up ahead. Still a ways to go before we reach the dead sun...
Alisaie 	Given...all this...I know how naive it must sound to hope it all works out somehow.
Alisaie 	Still, you'll forgive me if I wish for it all the same. And for you most of all.
Alisaie 	Not that you of all people need it. It's just...after all the help you've given me, for once I want to be the one to help you.
 	
Alisaie 	Of all the recreated worlds we've seen, this one feels the most familiar...
 	
Alphinaud 	This is almost...
Alisaie 	Normal? It's not unlike many cities we know. But it's deathly quiet...
Alphinaud 	Mayhap the inhabitants are within the buildings. Or invisible to our senses.
Meteion 	Wrong on both counts. There is simply no one here.
Alphinaud 	Meteion!
Meteion 	This is how I found it when I arrived. Another star which once pulsed with life, but no longer.
Meteion 	How it ended, I do not know. Invasion, sickness, suicide─none can say.
Meteion 	None lived to speak for the dead. They are gone. Gone. Search all you like, but you'll only end up turning back.
 	
Alisaie 	If what Meteion says is true, what are we supposed to do...?
 	
Alphinaud 	If there is no one here, then neither should there be emotion to bar our way.
Alphinaud 	Yet Meteion seems convinced we'll turn back. What riddle is this...?
Quest complete.	Quest complete.
Category:Endwalker Main Scenario Quests in Final Fantasy XIV