Hither and Yarns

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker.
==Objectives==
* Search for Alisaie.
* Pick up the crate of samples.
* Deliver the crate of samples to Alphinaud.
* Speak with Theopauldin.
* Deliver the ream of documents to the reserved representative.
* Speak with Theopauldin.
==Script==
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Thancred 	Remind me to invite Urianger for a drink, when we have a moment to breathe. We're long overdue for one.
Thancred 	We can raise a glass to Moenbryda.
 	
Livingway 	I was so busy asking questions about Etheirys that I never thought to ask more about Urianger...
Livingway 	I'd like to, but where would I begin?
 	
Growingway 	I assure you that my fellow Loporrits are equally excited to have this opportunity. They were humming the whole way here!
 	
Singingway 	We spent so long gazing at this star. Wondering, and hoping... But to be here now, to walk among the people, to be a part of their lives and know that we've made a difference... It's so much more than I ever dreamed.
 	
Cookingway 	Goodness me, I've never felt like there was too little time before! There are so many people to talk to, so many things to learn...
 	
Wilfsunn 	Classical Roegadyn isn't so different from Eorzean. Did you ever wonder why we named our daughter “moon's bride”?
Wilfsunn 	When I first held her, the moon was shining silver and full─the whole world seemed aglow. I knew it had chosen her─that she would be a beacon of that selfsame light.
Wilfsunn 	Of course, we'd later hear our fair share of jokes about how we ought to have gone for “sun” instead, with how bright and stubborn she was. But fiery as my Moenbryda was, she was always kind. Kind and gentle.
 	
Bloewyda 	Oh... You must be one of the Scions, correct?
Bloewyda 	Thank you for caring for my daughter. The time she spent with you was all too short, but I know she was proud to have you as comrades.
Bloewyda 	Urianger is too, I'm sure. And I certainly feel better for knowing he has good friends to look after him. See that he comes home from time to time, will you?
 	
Urianger 	Ahem. Thou hast my gratitude for lending courage to the Loporrits.
Urianger 	Not disposed to rest on their laurels, several of our guests have elected to accompany my countrymen to their stations.
Urianger 	Some few may still come hither seeking counsel, and so shall I remain to aid them as need be. If thou art needed elsewhere, do not let me detain thee.
Thancred 	As a matter of fact, I was hoping you might check on Alisaie. Last I saw, she was struggling to carry an enormous pile of boxes out the west gate...
Thancred 	I could go myself, but we both know whose help she's less like to scorn.
Thancred 	Not to mention that─much to my misfortune─I can think of several other things I ought to be doing. Until later!
 	
Urianger 	Pray assist Mistress Alisaie. She hath taken up too great a burden, like as not.
Urianger 	Livingway and I shall attend to matters here.
 	
Alisaie 	[Player Name]! What are you doing out here?
Alisaie 	No, I don't mind if you help with the boxes, but it's far from the most exciting of tasks. Are you sure?
Alisaie 	Well, I appreciate the assistance.
Alisaie 	We need to get these to Aporia. Time is short, of course─but they're full of organic specimens and samples, so try not to be too rough with them.
Alisaie 	Alphinaud should be waiting for us when we arrive. I'll see you there!
 	
Alisaie 	I can't shake the feeling that there are more of these than when I started. Did I pick up an additional crate somewhere...?
 	
Alphinaud 	Fancy seeing you here! To what do I owe the pleasure?
 	
Alphinaud 	You have my gratitude, but how did you come to be involved in this?
Alphinaud 	Hah, then I suppose I have Thancred to thank as well.
Alphinaud 	If you're wondering why we were tasked with bringing these boxes to Aporia to begin with─so was I.
Alphinaud 	It turns out that this is a base of operations, of sorts. Those with final say as to what is included in the ship's manifest can be found here.
Alphinaud 	Father included, I suspect...
Alisaie 	That should be everything!
Alphinaud 	You carried all of that at once!? Are you trying to injure yourself?
Alisaie 	Oh, hush. They're lighter than they look─and not everyone has your delicate arms.
Alisaie 	I suppose we should let someone know that we've finished...
Alphinaud 	Theopauldin is in the courtyard. We can report to him.
Alisaie 	Why don't you come along? You should get credit for your assistance, at least. Considering where we are, we might even learn something interesting!
 	
Alphinaud 	I keep thinking that I've seen him elsewhere, but I cannot for the life of me remember when.
 	
Alisaie 	This must be Theopauldin.
 	
Theopauldin 	Gods, it never ends, does it? <sigh> What can I do for you?
Alisaie 	We've brought samples from Sharlayan Hamlet─series one-one-zero? The crates are by the entrance.
Theopauldin 	Ah, thank you. I had expected one of my colleagues, but we are dreadfully shorthanded...
Theopauldin 	Just a moment─you are Fourchenault's children, are you not?
Alphinaud 	Alphinaud and Alisaie, at your service. You're well acquainted with Father, I take it?
Theopauldin 	Quite! I've been friends with your parents since our days at the Studium. I remember when you were yea high, waddling hither and thither...
Theopauldin 	Clearly, it's been quite some time since we've met. 'Tis good to see you again─wielding your father's nouliths, no less!
Alisaie 	You knew our parents when they were young? What were they like? Pray, spare no detail!
Theopauldin 	I should like nothing more than to regale you─alas, I am meant to be in charge here, and reams of paperwork want for submission.
Alisaie 	We can help with that! In exchange for the sort of stories our parents would never willingly divulge, of course.
Theopauldin 	Er...very well, then. There happen to be three sets of documents in need of delivery, so how about you each take one?
Alisaie 	Wait right there!
Theopauldin 	You will find a Forum representative waiting to collect these near the southernmost structure. I hope I haven't kept her waiting too long...
Theopauldin 	Never mind Alphinaud and Alisaie─I'm certain they will be back soon enough.
 	
Theopauldin 	Who are you, by the by? The twins' minder?
 	
Legislator04446	Are you not one of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn? I thought you were meant to be working on the aetherburner...
Legislator04446	Theopauldin's paperwork! I was beginning to worry he had misplaced his quill.
Legislator04446	I appreciate your help in seeing these documents to my hands at last. As for your other task...
Legislator04446	Pray keep this between us, but I sincerely hope you Scions succeed.
Legislator04446	The exodus is, without a doubt, the most monumental undertaking in the history of the Forum, and so we must be circumspect in all respects. Risk is a privilege we cannot afford ourselves.
Legislator04446	At its heart, however, Sharlayan has ever been a nation of the curious. 'Twould be a tragedy indeed if we were the ones to stymie your pursuit of truth.
 	
Theopauldin 	Quick and efficient. I daresay you have a talent for this work.
Theopauldin 	The twins' papers only needed be delivered to elsewhere in the facility, so they should be returning any moment...
Alisaie 	We return—with not a scrap of paperwork remaining on our persons, you will note.
Theopauldin 	You both have my thanks─and my apologies for sending you on an errand far below your ambitions. Why, even as a babe, you struggled out of your swaddling clothes, and...
Alisaie 	That is quite enough of that, thank you! It was compromising stories of our parents that we'd asked to hear, to reiterate.
Theopauldin 	Of course, of course. I've known your father for so long, I must have something. Hm...
Theopauldin 	Well...as you know, part of why the Leveilleur name garners such respect in Sharlayan is your family's storied history.
Theopauldin 	You two can trace your ancestry directly to those who came aboard Nyunkrepf's Hope─a lineage few can claim.
Alisaie 	I've never thought much of it myself. It's not as though our forebears founded our nation. They were simply there when it happened.
Alphinaud 	Nevertheless, it has traditionally been a point of pride.
Alphinaud 	'Tis why Nyunkrepf's pronouncement─“Renounce the ways of war, and pursue enlightenment through knowledge and reason”─has ever been our family's creed.
Theopauldin 	Until your grandfather's time, aye.
Theopauldin 	Archon Louisoix looked not to Nyunkrepf's words, but his deeds. He asserted, in defiance of his peers, that choosing to save the great and the small from the rising tides was the true mark of our founder's virtue.
Theopauldin 	Perhaps it was his expertise─his knowledge of ancient prophecy and the fall of civilizations─that led to him to conclude that to eschew conflict at every turn was to consign mankind to his doom...
Alisaie 	There will ever be conflict, and calamity will follow. Thus...
Alisaie 	“To ignore the plight of those one might conceivably save is not wisdom─it is indolence.”
Theopauldin 	You remember his words well. Indeed, Archon Louisoix lived by that personal creed, and used every means at his disposal to bring succor to those in need─Sharlayan or no.
Theopauldin 	No one loved and admired your grandfather more than his son...
Theopauldin 	Yet Fourchenault could not reconcile Louisoix's deeds with the philosophy of their forebears and his peers─a philosophy in which he believed so fervently, yet made a pariah of his father.
Theopauldin 	Fourchenault agonized over this contradiction for much of his life.
Alphinaud 	Gods, Father...
Theopauldin 	A son may carry his father's blood, but his choices are his own to bear─is it not always thus?
Theopauldin 	Gods know Fourchenault's a cranky old goat, so I'm sure you butt heads often enough. Yet even so, you must know that you are constantly in his thoughts. Every moment of every day─and that is not an exaggeration in the slightest!
Theopauldin 	You should have seen him when you were born─barely recognizable, he was, with a kind of dumbfounded grin I'd not seen since he first took a fancy to your mother. He was practically skipping when he told me the news.
Theopauldin 	Take my word for it─he loves you to an embarrassing degree.
Theopauldin 	But he is also frustratingly single-minded. Once he's decided that a given action is for the best, he will stay the course no matter who or what opposes him.
Theopauldin 	A profoundly annoying habit when you're on the other end of it, as I'm sure you will agree.
Alisaie 	I'll say!
Alphinaud 	Thank you for your insight. When next we meet our parents, I shall mention that we spoke.
Theopauldin 	Try not to get me into too much trouble, now! I need the Forum on my side.
Theopauldin 	Speaking of which, I ought to be getting back to work. I have to make sure those specimens you brought make it to their proper places, or the cranky old goat will have my hide. We can speak again later!
Grahatia 	Hail, you three!
Alisaie 	G'raha! Surely Kokkol hasn't driven you out of the forge already?
Grahatia 	For better or for worse, no. However, he has set me a task that requires more than my single pair of hands...and here you are!
Grahatia 	I could use at least one of you, but I won't object to more.
Alphinaud 	Unfortunately, Alisaie and I have prior commitments, and we have delayed too long as it is...
Alisaie 	What about you, [Player Name]? Can you spare the time?
Grahatia 	Perfect! This shouldn't take long.
Quest complete.	Quest complete.
Category:Endwalker Main Scenario Quests in Final Fantasy XIV