With Heart and Steel

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
==Journal==
* X'rhun speaks of his own attempts to research voidsent possession, but admits that the subject is beyond his field of expertise. Reasoning that the Thaumaturges' Guild will have far more familiarity with the practices and history of ancient Mhach, your mentor bids you accompany him to the Arrzaneth Ossuary in Ul'dah.
* You join X'rhun as he explains Arya's predicament to Prelate Yayake, and the be-monocled thaumaturge agrees to consult some of the guild's forbidden tomes. After studying the lore at hand, Yayake provides you with not only the location for Lilith's ritual, but also a hint for surviving the coming confrontation─a ready supply of antidotes. X'rhun then steps away to contact Jessie, and arrange an airship to carry you both to the ruined city in the middle of Yafaem's impassable swampland. Speak with him upon his return.
* X'rhun reports that Jessie is more than happy to provide transport after Arya's selfless assistance during that “assassination business.” Travel to Revenant's Toll, and speak with the Ironworks' deputy president.
* You meet with Jessie in Revenant's Toll, and it seems that the deputy president herself will be taking the helm of the Mhach-bound vessel. The plan is simple: cut through the ruins, find Lilith, and snatch Arya from the voidsent queen's dead claws. With Yayake's pointed order of “STOCK SOME ANTIDOTES” echoing in your mind, you prepare for combat, and set out to join Jessie on the northern bank of Silvertear Lake.
* After a climactic battle with Lilith, you have succeeded in slaying the undulating voidsent and putting a stop to her unholy ritual. Escort Arya out of the ruins, and return to Mor Dhona.
* Arya has been delivered from Lilith's tainted embrace, her blood cleansed and soul unharmed. Once more have you and your companions proven that the heart and steel of a red mage can conquer the most tyrannical of foes. Speak with X'rhun on the banks of Silvertear Lake.
* Your companions seek to express their gratitude to Jessie, but the deputy president dismisses her assistance as a mere balancing of the books. Jessie says her farewells, and you set off after your comrades as they head back to Revenant's Toll.
* X'rhun praises your phenomenal growth as a red mage, and declares that you have graduated from his lessons. On the other hand, however, Arya's liberation from Lilith's influence and subsequent loss of power means that she must relearn the arcane arts at the most fundamental level. Until she is once more ready to take the red, the Crimson Duelist means to hang up his mentor's mantle and return to his pilgrimage. But rather than mourn this separation, X'rhun seems positive that the paths of you who defy the tides of destiny will one day cross again...
※The next red mage quest will be available from Arya once you have met the following requirements:
※ You must have registered a product key for FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers to your service account.
※ You must have completed the main scenario quest “Shadowbringers.”
※ You must have completed the role quest “A Tearful Reunion.”
==Objectives==
* Speak with X'rhun at the Thaumaturges' Guild.
* Speak with X'rhun Tia.
* Speak with Jessie at Revenant's Toll.
* Speak with Jessie.
* Speak with X'rhun Tia.
==Script==
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Xrhuntia 	[Player Name], I've decided we should go to the Thaumaturges' Guild in Ul'dah...for help with tracking down Arya, of course.
Xrhuntia 	I've been doing some research into voidsent and possessions, and as I suspected, the process is not a simple one.
Xrhuntia 	Even so, I doubt we have the time for me to become a fully fledged expert on the subject. We need one right now.
Xrhuntia 	The thaumaturges are one of the few organizations familiar with our quarry. Considering how they are also the modern successors to the arcane knowledge of Mhach, their shelves may even hold ancient lore that could tell us more about Lilith. Let us be away!
 	
Yayake 	A most urgent and terrifying situation indeed...
 	
Xrhuntia 	Ah, [Player Name], I've just been explaining our woes to Prelate Yayake here.
 	
Yayake 	Well, well, when X'rhun spoke of another colleague, I did not expect to be meeting our very own avatar of devastation!
 	
Yayake 	Well, well, when X'rhun spoke of another colleague, I did not expect to be meeting one of our own thaumaturges!
 	
Yayake 	Welcome to the Thaumaturges' Guild. I shall do what I can to aid you.
 	
Yayake 	Now, then. The tomes with passages pertaining to the voidsent Lilith are all forbidden occult works─abhorrent volumes chained to the shelves in our deepest archives, never again to see the light of day. I'll just pop back there and grab one or two.
Yayake 	If you could wait over there for a moment...
 	
Yayake 	...By Thal, she's even more sinister than I imagined. With no mention of her presence in the past millennium I had thought Lilith destroyed, yet it would seem she is very much alive and exceedingly dangerous!
Yayake 	Her most fearsome aspect is the power to enslave a person's will. If we include all those with even a whisper of her essence within their veins, she has slithered inside the minds of a veritable army!
Yayake 	...The sigil employed by this Lambard of yours is a secondhand manifestation of Lilith's ability. He would but need to coat a tool with his tainted blood, then engrave her name in the flesh of his victims to create the unthinking puppets you described.
Xrhuntia 	And that was but a faint echo of her true power?
Yayake 	Correct. A power she will not hesitate to bring to bear on the mortals she so despises. Archmagus Calowise made doubly sure of that when he lured her into his trap.
Yayake 	As well as a talent for draining the life force of her prey, Lilith is also known for spitting venom. A truly hideous opponent...
Yayake 	But the archmagus came prepared with potent antidotes. Undone by her summoner's treachery and the limitations of her mortal host, Lilith found herself divested of her beloved rod and sealed inside a Mhachi sarcophagus.
Xrhuntia 	And thence spent the next thousand years plotting her escape...
Yayake 	It is as you say. But mere freedom is not her endgame. Above all else, I imagine Lilith desires a form which allows her to manifest the fullness of her terrible power.
Yayake 	She means to reinvest her soul within the perfect vessel, and thus enhance the strength of her incarnation by an order of magnitude.
Xrhuntia 	The perfect vessel... Lilith carefully orchestrated Arya's conception over the span of centuries. If we do not oppose her now, I dread to think what havoc such a cunning and powerful fiend could wreak upon Eorzea.
Xrhuntia 	Look what she has accomplished already. So subtle were her manipulations that not a single one of the Nightkin realized her plan or sought to destroy her...
Xrhuntia 	Well, this has all been very enlightening, but we are still no closer to finding Arya. Have you any ideas?
Yayake 	In order to invest herself within a new host, Lilith will need to recreate the conditions of her original summoning as faithfully as possible─alignment of the stars, weather, location, that sort of thing.
Yayake 	The location I can tell you. Assuming the ground itself hasn't fallen into an abyss, Lilith will have taken your friend to a summoning circle in the ruined city of Mhach.
 	
Xrhuntia 	...So you've been to the Weeping City? No getting there without an airship and a pilot, eh?
 	
Xrhuntia 	...Does not the Weeping City lie in the swamps of Yafaem? No getting there without an airship and a pilot, eh?
 	
Xrhuntia 	Oh, but not to worry! We know the very person who can help us on that count─Deputy President Jessie of the Garlond Ironworks!
Xrhuntia 	I shall contact her immediately.
 	
Yayake 	I've returned those occult works to their secure shelves. We don't want some ambitious apprentice summoning lords of the void or calling down plagues of poisonous frogs now, do we!?
 	
Xrhuntia 	I've been in touch with Jessie. After that “assassination business” as she puts it, she was more than happy to lend us a company ship.
Xrhuntia 	Prelate Yayake, you've been an immense help! How can we repay you?
Yayake 	That won't be necessary─the guild was already richly compensated by a certain merchant. He requested we aid any “mages of the red” who might happen to seek our knowledge.
Yayake 	Are you acquainted with a Master Wilkin? It would seem he's been quite generous in spreading his wealth around Ul'dah to ensure you encounter no refusals or inconveniences.
Xrhuntia 	Well, well. The gratitude of a wealthy merchant is a fine thing to have! Right, 'tis time we were off to Revenant's Toll. Jessie will be waiting.
Yayake 	Don't forget to STOCK SOME ANTIDOTES! I'll be terribly disappointed to hear you died to Lilith's venom after the tale I told you.
 	
Yayake 	Don't go charging off unprepared! I imagine you can purchase antidotes right here in Ul'dah.
 	
Xrhuntia 	Jessie seems determined to pilot the craft herself. We'll find the airship moored over by Silvertear Lake, apparently.
 	
Jessie 	X'rhun's told me the story, and I have an airship ready to fly.
Jessie 	I'll pilot you into the swamp myself. I said I'd return the favor to Arya, and I don't go back on my promises!
Jessie 	Shall we go? I'm moored on the northern bank of the lake.
Xrhuntia 	[Player Name], the plan is simple: we cut through the ruins as quickly as we can, and unleash merry hells on the voidsent queen.
Xrhuntia 	The outcome of this battle will decide Arya's fate. Bring everything you have...and make sure that includes a vial or two of antidote!
 	
Xrhuntia 	Lilith and the Weeping City await! ...Not to sound like a nagging nanny, but you did bring an antidote, didn't you?
Xrhuntia 	Jessie herself will be taking the helm, so speak with her when you're ready to depart!
 	
Jessie 	Ready, then? Got your gear? Emptied your bladder? We make straight for the ruins of Mhach.
 	
Jessie 	All aboard, folks. I don't know much about this demon witch, but you send her back to the void! I want to see Arya safe and sound.
Xrhuntia 	Lilith only has one chance at this ritual. But once she knows we're there to stop her, she may begin the ceremony anyway─conditions be damned.
Xrhuntia 	If that happens, then we must defeat the fiend ere she forces her soul into Arya's body. We will triumph over Lilith, and free our companion from her curse!
 	
Xrhuntia 	Arya! Lilith is slain! Come back to us now!
...Dammit, why won't she wake!?
Arya 	Ugh... Where am I? Where is everyone?
Arya 	Ah, I see. This is...my own mind. I'm being forced aside by that fiend...
Lilith 	Yesss... Accept thy fate, child. Mine own form was destroyed, but within thy vessel has my soul taken refuge...
Lilith 	Once thy will hath diminished unto oblivion, mine essence shall transform this shell. I will rise anew, glorious and complete! And then shall I wreak my vengeance upon all the children of man!
Lilith 	Hm hm hm... Seek not to defy me, my darling creation. Surrender to the void... Surrender to me...
Arya 	Lilith created me...
Arya 	I have to accept this fate─it was what I was always meant to be.
Arya 	Forgive me, [Player Name]. There were so many more memories I'd hoped to make.
Arya 	...Farewell.
Arya 	No...this cannot be all there is! I want more! I want to live!
Lilith 	Do not torture thyself, child! Your will is forfeit. Thy fate is sealed!
Arya 	...I decide my own fate!
Xrhuntia 	Arya! Welcome back, my friend!
Arya 	X'rhun? [Player Name]? Look out! Lilith is still here!
Xrhuntia 	...Your soul is safe now. Lilith is gone─you triumphed over her at the last.
Arya 	A chance I wouldn't have had if you'd not destroyed her in the flesh!
Xrhuntia 	With a stout heart and the power of red magic, there is no foe we cannot overcome.
Xrhuntia 	...As the two of you have so amply proven!
Xrhuntia 	Now, let us put this dreary ruin behind us. But have a care for your surroundings─this old city is home to more than sinister voidsent!
 	
Arya 	You have my thanks, [Player Name]. I would not be standing here now without you!
 	
Jessie 	I was caught up in the moment when we set off, but I'd sooner not steer a ship anywhere near that place again...
 	
Xrhuntia 	We did it, [Player Name]! 'Twas a hard-won battle, but your heart and steel carried the day!
Xrhuntia 	And we must express our gratitude to Jessie for conveying us to the ruins in the first place!
Jessie 	Nay, I was but returning the favor. Unlike certain presidents I could mention, I don't like to leave the books unbalanced.
Jessie 	Now I'd best be getting this girl back to the company docks, so this is farewell for me.
Arya 	Take care, Jessie, and thank you!
Shall we head back to town, then?
 	
Jessie 	Hm? I'm not flying you to the Toll, you lazy bugger. You'll have to walk!
 	
Arya 	When were we last in Revenant's Toll? It seems like a lifetime ago...
 	
Xrhuntia 	Ah, there's naught like a successful rescue attempt to put a smile on my face. 'Tis wonderful to have our companion back, safe and sound.
Arya 	It's wonderful to be back! I cannot wait to begin my training once more!
Xrhuntia 	Arya... About your training. Surely you've felt the change within yourself?
Xrhuntia 	Your proclivity for spellcasting was a property of Lilith's blood. Now that her corruption has faded from your veins, so too has your aptitude for the arcane.
Arya 	Yes, I feel the difference. My aether is so weak now that I doubt I could cast even the simplest of magicks.
Xrhuntia 	I wondered how you would take the news, but you seem almost...happy?
Arya 	I am! This way I get to study magic from scratch, and know that all my achievements will truly be mine!
Arya 	Of course, this means I'll have a lot more work to do before I can catch up to [Player Name]...
Arya 	But having such a distant goal will be what pushes me to endure the training ahead.
 	
Arya 	I'll get there one day!
 	
Arya 	I promise I won't be running into danger! Not until I've mastered a little more magic, at least!
 	
Xrhuntia 	You've the heart of a red mage, that's for certain.
Xrhuntia 	Start yourself off with the basics of thaumaturgy and conjury. A foundation you've built yourself will be far more stable than the instinctual power you possessed before. And when you've grasped the fundamentals, I can start your training in red magic again.
Arya 	I look forward to that day, X'rhun!
Xrhuntia 	As for you, [Player Name], you've grown stronger than ever.
Xrhuntia 	You've known for some time now that the magicks of a red mage are fueled by the caster's own aether. The potency of your spells is a reflection of your indomitable spirit.
Xrhuntia 	And I daresay that the soul crystal you bear will reward your dedication to the art by granting you new knowledge.
Xrhuntia 	Thus concludes my stint as mentor for the now. [Player Name], you have graduated from my lessons, and Arya, you must ready yourself to begin all over again!
 	
Xrhuntia 	You have flung yourself into revolution's smoldering ashes, and reignited the fires of Ala Mhigo's glory. Remember the light you brought with that liberation when next you plunge ahead into darkness.
 	
Xrhuntia 	You have flung yourself into revolution's smoldering ashes, and all throughout Ala Mhigo have new fires begun to flare. With you in the van, I have no doubt that my homeland will soon bask in the light of liberation.
 	
Xrhuntia 	Long have the ashes of revolution smoldered in Ala Mhigo, but smoke has grown heavy on the wind. 'Tis time we of the old guard step aside, and let you of this generation choose the path of our future.
 	
Arya 	X'rhun... You speak as if you mean to leave us.
Xrhuntia 	Aye, I must return to my pilgrimage. But fear not! Those who defy the tides of destiny are always drawn together...sooner or later.
Xrhuntia 	And so this is not farewell─merely a temporary parting of ways. Eagerly do I await the day our paths cross again, my friends!
Quest complete.	Quest complete.
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