The Burdens We Bear

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
==Journal==
* "To ye who ask of things to come:Give thought to what is past and gone.“With the long-dead poet king's words still ringing in your ears, you continue your pilgrimage, retracing the steps you took in the days following your exile.Having made peace with the goblins, the travelers returned to their original purpose. The reclusive Master Matoya waited somewhere beyond, and with her a means to breach the barrier shielding Azys Lla...
* She was the sum of everything that had come before. Triumphs, failures─all essential, all indispensable. Had things unfolded differently, so too would she. What use, then, to mourn the Matoya who never was? There was only this time, this place, this choice...
* The battleship loomed before them, a gargantuan mass of steel, bristling with cannons, each trained on the Enterprise Excelsior. Cid's knuckles were white as he gripped the controls, straining to steer the tiny vessel through the storm of ordnance. They fell about as the deck lurched hither and yon, each explosion inviting a cry of protest from the battered ship...
* A thousand thousand fires blossomed around Ysayle as she fell towards the battleship. A crimson starshower midst the impassive clouds. Then came the azure light, faint at first, soon blinding, then shattering, casting motes of diamond to the four winds...
* Perhaps there was hope for them. Perhaps, this time, they would learn and remember. But Tiamat's part in the tale had ended long ago. Within this monument to hubris would she remain until the end of days...beyond redemption...
* The undying ones were defiant, disbelieving, even as death embraced them. Then the knights too succumbed, loyal to the last to a cause long lost. His body growing light, the archbishop looked upon the arbiter of his fate, and knew not what he saw. And then it was over. Over save for the eyes. Thinking to bear them away from the covetous hands of men, Estinien took the accursed baubles in his own and was duly bent to their will...if only for a time.At a friend's behest had they embarked upon their journey, and so, after their triumphant homecoming and all the inevitable pomp and circumstance, there was but one way it could end...
* The shield still rests against the marker, and below it, fresh lilies. Closing your eyes, you kneel, and breathe deep of the cold northern wind. There you remain for no more than a moment, before rising to take in the view. The city still stands, and so do you.
==Objectives==
* Speak with Matoya.
* Visit Helix in Azys Lla.
* Search the airship landing.
* Visit Tiamat.
* Visit the Aetherochemical Research Facility.
* Pay respects to a friend.
==Script==
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Slowfix 	Pshkohhh... And now, Slowfix bids uplander fulfill civic duty as citizen of Idyllshire with hand-lending of great import!
Slowfix 	In cave south of settlement lives old crone─wielder of powerful magicks used to crafty-make frogmen that chase away curious gobbies.
Slowfix 	Uplander has made many busydeals with old crone, yes? Then uplander can appeal to crone's better nature and make her call off frogman harriers!
 	
Slowfix 	Gobbieflock does not go looking for trouble! Trouble comes looking for gobbieflock! ...Honest!
 	
Matoya 	Well, this is a pleasant surprise. I'm well aware that you're only here because you want something, but at least you didn't bring your little friends. So─out with it.
Matoya 	...Oh, is that what the goblins told you? That my servants were attacking their poor, defenseless scouts without the slightest provocation? Hah!
Matoya 	The little buggers were trying to eat them! They're lucky I didn't have my poroggos return the favor! But you can tell them from me that if they try it again, I will personally feed them to my servants one limb at a time.
Matoya 	I do hope you didn't come all this way just to play errand girl/boy for those dirty little scroungers.
Matoya 	...Aren't you a bit young to be going on grand journeys of reflection? You haven't lived long enough to have so many regrets.
Matoya 	The same goes for that boy, complaining that things hadn't unfolded as he dreamed they would. It makes no difference what “should have” happened to Minfilia. What matters is what did happen. The past is the past, and no amount of wishing you'd done things differently will make it so.
Matoya 	You make your choices, and you do what needs to be done. That's it. That's the attitude you came here with the first time, when you wanted to find a way to get to Azys Lla, and you would do well to remember it.
Matoya 	Right, then. I think you've wasted quite enough of my time. It's bad enough that I have to suffer Shtola's unannounced visits─I don't need you making a habit of it too!
 	
Matoya 	Mayhap if I hung a sign around their necks saying “GOBLIN EATER” in big red letters, they'd think twice...
 	
Tiamat 	Child of man, chosen of Hydaelyn...naught remaineth for thee here save the delusions of the condemned. In my madness did I spy my departed brood-brother in yonder skies, though I know it cannot be so.
Tiamat 	...What sayest thou? My senses are yet mine own...? Then...he whom I saw was but my dead brother's rancor clad in mortal flesh?
Tiamat 	...And thou didst deliver him unto death's cold embrace.
Tiamat 	I bear thee no ill will, child. 'Tis beyond me. All my hatreds are bound up in moments ephemeral and eternal. My beloved's passing...and his resurrection.
Tiamat 	I am no better than Nidhogg. Consumed by love, twisted by rage, I too sought vengeance without end.
Midgardsormr 	Yet thou hast since renounced it, hast thou not?
Tiamat 	Through millennia have I watched as time did that which I could not. As the men of Allag perished and their works fell to ruin, leaving me to think on mine own sins in solitude.
Tiamat 	What folly to despise man his base desires, when hatred's hand so effortlessly drove me to take Ascian rede.
Midgardsormr 	Then look thou on him again with eyes unclouded, and mark how he laboreth to rise above his nature─how he and Hraesvelgr's brood now raise their voices in a shared song of peace.
Midgardsormr 	'Tis my dearest hope that it shall prove the founding stone for a bulwark against the Dark.
Tiamat 	As time delivered Allag unto its reward, so too will it prove this peace true or fleeting...as I remain here, apart, and watch.
Tiamat 	Chosen of Hydaelyn─it is well that thou camest unto me in contemplation. But the road stretcheth ever on, and thy battle is not yet won.
Quest complete.	Quest complete.
Category:Side Story Quests in Final Fantasy XIV