Once Forged

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker.
==Objectives==
* Speak with G'raha Tia.
* Survey the designated location and defeat any enemies that appear.
* Survey the designated location again.
* Speak with Kokkol Dankkol.
==Script==
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Alphinaud 	'Tis strange to hear Father spoken of in such a way...but I suppose he would find your view of me no less odd.
 	
Alisaie 	Much as I'd like to press Theopauldin for more revealing tidbits, we should be getting back to our tasks.
 	
Grahatia 	In the event that our─and I quote─ “promised heap of adamantite falls right out of the bloody sky and into my lap,” Master Kokkol wishes to be ready to put the proverbial hammer to anvil at a moment's notice.
Grahatia 	To fabricate these parts, however, he needs the flames in Kokkol's Forge to burn hotter. He sent me to increase the amount of aether being funneled to his furnaces.
Grahatia 	The flow of fire-aspected aether in Labyrinthos is regulated by an elemental reactor south of here─to which I have borrowed the key.
Grahatia 	The adjustment will require two people to carry out safely...but I can explain the process when we arrive.
Alisaie 	This is where we part, then.
Alisaie 	We'll see you in Sharlayan Hamlet once the adamantite arrives, if not before.
Grahatia 	This way, then!
 	
Grahatia 	The reactor is housed within this facility.
Grahatia 	I'll be the one to go inside and adjust the fire aether output.
Grahatia 	When I do, a rather large amount of water-aspected aether will issue from the vent at the top. I expect this to attract at least a few elementals─which we would both rather not be drawn into the reactor itself. Trust me.
Grahatia 	Can I ask that you put down any that draw too near? They'll pose you little trouble, I'm sure.
Grahatia 	Wait here, if you would!
 	
Popmessage 	An apa is lured by the siren song of water-aspected aether!
Popmessage 	Further creatures have been attracted by the font of aether!
 	
Grahatia 	Did everything go smoothly out here?
Grahatia 	I thought as much. No major complications to speak of inside, either.
Grahatia 	...And the water aether appears to be venting properly.
Grahatia 	I expect Kokkol will have seen a difference in his forge-flames by the time I return.
Grahatia 	Since I have you...there was another matter I thought to discuss with you.
Grahatia 	Nothing terribly important─merely something I've been considering.
Grahatia 	Part of this, I shared with everyone. Yet you, and only you, have been to Elpis...
Grahatia 	As we have established, refined adamantite is a product of Allag. Of the empire's twilight years, in fact.
Grahatia 	It was a material which saw much use as part of the Allagans' efforts to extend beyond the bounds of this world─Dalamud, of course, being the most prominent.
Grahatia 	Of those who would push further─expand Allag's empire to encompass the heavens and the stars above─perhaps the greatest was its infamous technologist, Amon.
 	
Grahatia 	He did. He must have had his own reasons, however, for there is no evidence to suggest that he retained memories of his life as an ancient.
Grahatia 	I believe he had his own reasons. There is no evidence to suggest that he retained memories of his former life.
Grahatia 	He only joined the Ascians once the empire was all but dust, as you know.
Grahatia 	If not his memory, though, what drove him to pursue the idea with such fervor?
Grahatia 	This may seem far-fetched, but what if souls, like minds, have...a personality, so to speak? A natural disposition towards which they are inclined?
Grahatia 	We know with relative certainty that it was the gross decadence and inexorable decline of Allag that moved Amon to resurrect Emperor Xande.
Grahatia 	The empire's people spoke lightly of death and destruction, experimenting on those they deemed beneath them to fill the emptiness in their hearts.
Grahatia 	In facilitating Xande's return, Amon provided these languid souls with the means to free themselves from the mire of their own indolence.
Grahatia 	...Or would have, had not Xande been convinced by his own death that life itself was meaningless.
Grahatia 	Amon's desire for his countrymen to conquer the heavens could only be a means to the same end─to instill the people with new purpose.
Grahatia 	Like Hermes before him, Amon was appalled by how those around him lived, but could never bring himself to believe that those lives were devoid of meaning.
Grahatia 	And both of them sought that meaning, that hope, in the distant stars.
Grahatia 	...Such is my theory, anyway.
Grahatia 	Ultimately, it is the consequences of their actions which matter. Their motives are of no moment. And yet...
Grahatia 	To reach those stars on wings of adamantite. To travel to the ends of creation and beyond. The promise of hope everlasting...that much I do understand.
Grahatia 	But enough musing for now. Why don't we see how Kokkol is getting on?
 	
Grahatia 	I did thoroughly brief Kokkol on refined adamantite's history. I only volunteered to go to the reactor because I was finished and there was little else to do.
Grahatia 	Hopefully that dispels any misapprehensions that I was kicked out for prattling on...
 	
Kokkol Dankkol 	Whew! I can feel those flames a-blazin' from here!
Kokkol Dankkol 	Glad you found someone capable, G'raha, but there's not much left for you lot to do.
Kokkol Dankkol 	'Less you can conjure up that refined adamantite any faster...?
Quest complete.	Quest complete.
Category:Endwalker Main Scenario Quests in Final Fantasy XIV