Outside Help

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker.
==Objectives==
* Speak with Urianger.
* Return to the main hall of the Baldesion Annex.
* Speak with the Rostra steward.
* Wait at the specified location.
* Speak with Alphinaud.
==Script==
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Alphinaud 	That the Final Days should manifest here too, after everything these people have suffered, is a fate cruel beyond words.
Alphinaud 	Nevertheless, with allies old and new at our side, there is yet reason to be hopeful.
 	
Alisaie 	We still need to quiz you about your time on the First, if we ever get more than a moment's respite.
 	
Grahatia 	Though there'll be time later to discuss your journey to the First, there is one thing I must ask.
Grahatia 	Did you perchance speak with our friends in the Crystarium?
Grahatia 	Lyna and Beq Lugg both warn me against overexerting myself?
Grahatia 	Strange that they would express such similar sentiments─identical, in fact─but their advice is duly noted.
 	
Estinien 	We couldn't save them all, but if we'd arrived any later, it would've been a massacre.
Estinien 	Things were looking bleak until you and the Ist turned up.
 	
Fourchenault 	This is the contingent's base of operations, I take it?
 	
Jullus 	It's been a while since last we spoke. For some time, I was...not myself.
Jullus 	Lucia and the others told me what happened that night...and about the events that took place while I was receiving treatment.
Jullus 	It was only then that I realized the lengths you and yours go to... I know I might never be able to repay you, but I'll be damned if I don't try.
Jullus 	And most of all... I want to thank you. All of you. For everything you've done and continue to do for the sake of my people.
 	
Urianger 	I daresay Master Fourchenault was as nonplussed as we to learn the identity of Hydaelyn's lunar custodians. As he will soon discover, they have much and more to offer the Forum.
Urianger 	Might I suggest we return to the annex forthwith?
Urianger 	We may yet have time to discuss thy recent adventures ere we are summoned to the Rostra.
 	
Thancred 	Not that I'm complaining, Urianger, but I wasn't expecting to see you quite so soon.
Urianger 	Nor I thee. In extolling the virtues of Etheirys, I did inadvertently awaken in the Loporrits a desire to avert our beloved star's demise.
Yshtola 	Krile tells us you have obtained new knowledge that may aid us in our ongoing efforts.
Yshtola 	I've news to share regarding our study of the aetherial sea, but your findings are certain to be of greater interest, and so I would rather hear them first.
Yshtola 	To what revelations did Hydaelyn's Elpis flower lead?
Alphinaud 	Then this “dynamis” is what drives the Final Days...
Alphinaud 	If it and akasa are one and the same, this all but proves Nidhana's theory.
Alphinaud 	Were an entity, through sheer force of emotion, to channel this vast, dormant reservoir into a raging river...its power might surpass even that of aether.
Alisaie 	But if our star is so replete with aether, said entity would need to be outside its influence to effectively manipulate the dynamis of the great expanse.
Grahatia 	Meteion...
Grahatia 	Or rather, the sorrow and suffering of fallen civilizations that she has been hoarding for millennia...
Grahatia 	Untold anguish and fear and hatred, drawn from every corner of the universe... All for a single purpose: the destruction of Etheirys.
Estinien 	Then our foe is no longer some unknowable calamity.
Estinien 	We have but one aim─to defeat Meteion.
Yshtola 	You make it sound so simple...but you're not wrong.
Yshtola 	Vanquish Meteion and we deliver the world from the Final Days. But to even attempt it, there are two conditions.
Yshtola 	First, we must determine her location.
Yshtola 	Before Meteion escaped, an enchantment was placed upon her by Venat. The woman who would become Hydaelyn.
Yshtola 	The implications of temporal magicks are not entirely understood, and so we cannot assume that our Hydaelyn and the Venat you met in Elpis are one and the same. Nevertheless, due to Her intrinsic qualities as an all-powerful being, I'd wager that Hydaelyn possesses the knowledge we seek.
Yshtola 	Whether She would share that knowledge with us, however, remains to be seen.
Yshtola 	After all, She intends for us to flee Etheirys, not to stay.
Krile 	Do you suppose She has abandoned Her pursuit of Meteion?
 	
Krile 	That's my impression, too. Otherwise, She wouldn't have used me as a conduit for Her will, or provided clues such as the Elpis flower.
Krile 	Aye, though not for lack of trying on Hydaelyn's part. Surely, that's why She used me as a conduit for Her will, and provided clues such as the Elpis flower.
Krile 	I believe She has been waiting...
Krile 	...For mankind's answer to Hermes's question.
Alphinaud 	So, what's the second condition?
Yshtola 	We must find a means to reach Meteion.
Yshtola 	Naturally, our chosen method will depend entirely upon wheresoever she has made her nest.
Thancred 	Then communing with Hydaelyn must by necessity come first.
Thancred 	Did you and Master Matoya have any luck with your investigation into the aetherial sea?
Yshtola 	Sadly not. Though we enlisted the help of Arenvald and other Echo-blessed allies, we couldn't detect so much as a whisper from Hydaelyn, even from within the Antitower.
Yshtola 	Master Matoya is of the opinion that in the years since abandoning it, the Forum has found some other method of receiving instructions from Hydaelyn.
Yshtola 	If so, it would most likely be some form of apparatus for observing the aetherial sea, built closer to home.
Ojika Tsunjika 	Sorry to interrupt, we've just received word from the Forum.
Ojika Tsunjika 	Your presence is required in the Rostra, where they intend to discuss the great exodus.
Alisaie 	Then Father was able to persuade them!
Alphinaud 	They're finally taking us seriously. Let's hear what they have to say.
 	
Alphinaud 	Father has granted us the opportunity we've been waiting for.
Alphinaud 	Though we know not what information─if any─they intend to reveal, there's only one way to find out. To the Rostra!
 	
Alisaie 	Well, that was a much quicker response than I was expecting. Nice to know our efforts on the Magna Glacies didn't go unnoticed.
 	
Thancred 	After sending G'raha and Estinien back to Garlemald, I stayed in Locus Amoenus for a time. Being an imperial province, it was already in turmoil before the onset of the Final Days.
Thancred 	You wouldn't believe the difficulties we had overseeing the evacuation of the villages we visited. I have faith the detachment we left behind will continue our work and shepherd the people to safety. To what safety can be found in a world coming to an end.
 	
Urianger 	'Twas Hydaelyn's commandment that in the event Zodiark should perish, the Loporrits were to deliver the people of Etheirys from harm.
Urianger 	Though that be the limit of their duties, they possess knowledge unparalleled of the great expanse and the means of its traversal.
Urianger 	Should they be persuaded to assist in our efforts to reach Meteion, we would do well to heed their counsel.
 	
Yshtola 	Master Matoya has suspected for some time that the Forum has been constructing a new facility for the purpose of surveying the aetherial sea.
Yshtola 	Of course, as the custodian of the Antitower, which would presumably be rendered obsolete as a result, she has a few things to say about that. Nothing that should be repeated in polite company, you understand.
 	
Grahatia 	To think the Crystal Tower of the First is capable of such feats as sending one's soul into the distant past...
Grahatia 	The events you witnessed─and helped shape─may yet hold the key to forestalling the Final Days.
Grahatia 	I'm reminded of dear friends in a future I unmade. Whose selfless efforts saw the Eighth Umbral Calamity averted...in this timeline, at least. Too much has been sacrificed for us to abandon Etheirys now.
 	
Estinien 	At first, I wasn't sure what to make of Hermes and his motives.
Estinien 	But it's like we discussed at the Great Work. When faced with the harsh realities of life, some seek the release of death. Others grow defiant. They fight.
Estinien 	Either way, it is our right to choose.
 	
Krile 	After you left for Garlemald, I went to Labyrinthos and tried to reach Hydaelyn using the Elpis flowers.
Krile 	Alas, my attempts were in vain. I can only assume that She spent a vast amount of Her power in the confrontation with Fandaniel and is presently unable to communicate.
Krile 	Indeed, as Her presence left my body, I could feel how faint it had grown...
 	
Tataru 	I hope you don't mind me staying behind while you attend your big meeting.
Tataru 	The Rostra reminds me a bit too much of the Supremely Scary Tribunal in Ishgard. You'll forgive me if I keep my distance...
 	
Therostraguide04440	The Forum is in session, and as such, the Rostra is closed to visitors.
Therostraguide04440	A Scion of the Seventh Dawn? Very well, you may wait in the corridor.
Therostraguide04440	Of course, entry will only be permitted on the condition you leave your armaments at the door. Lest you forget, this sacred institution holds rational discourse in the highest; the implements of war are expressly forbidden.
 	
Therostraguide04440	I suggest you make your way inside. The Forum takes a rather dim view of lateness.
 	
Alisaie 	While I very much take issue with the Forum's approach to selecting whom to save and when, they're not wrong for wanting to minimize potential conflicts.
Alisaie 	Fortunately, if this plan of ours actually works, the great exodus itself will become entirely unnecessary...
 	
Thancred 	My affinity for espionage may have earned me the title of Archon, but I was completely unaware of the Forum's plans. There may have been clues here and there, had I been of a mind to look for them...but contemplating that possibility only serves to further wound my pride.
Thancred 	Not that anyone could have realistically surmised that their brilliant stratagem was to build a giant ship, fly to the moon─a still-larger vessel in truth─and use that to travel to another star. Even now, the whole idea seems positively absurd when spoken aloud.
 	
Urianger 	Of late, I have seen no sign of the Loporrits...
Urianger 	This being their first opportunity to experience the wonders of Sharlayan, the potential for misadventure is nigh infinite...
 	
Yshtola 	I'm a little vexed that we've yet to learn of the Forum's replacement for the Antitower, though I expect that in time, they'll share that too with us─and with Master Matoya, if they've any sense.
 	
Grahatia 	The further we pursue the mysteries of the universe, the more I struggle to comprehend the fortuitous nature of time itself.
Grahatia 	We measure and quantify it based on observations of celestial bodies, such as the sun and moon, but from your account it is unclear whether the ancients viewed time in a similar manner...
Grahatia 	I mention this because while Venat knew the Final Days would reoccur at a defined point in the future, she presumably had no way of knowing exactly when.
Grahatia 	Even so, the completion of the Forum's preparations to escape to the moon aligning so closely with the advent of the Final Days is surely no coincidence...
 	
Estinien 	Perhaps if Midgardsormr were still alive─in the traditional sense, that is─he could have offered to help the vessel attain the necessary speeds.
Estinien 	Then again, there's no guarantee his contribution would make enough of a difference to matter.
 	
Krile 	Phew... I'll admit, bringing up the issue of the Forum's incomplete ark was more than a little daunting.
Krile 	They were, to their credit, quite open about the current state of affairs. What was even more surprising, though, was when they took Alphinaud up on his offer!
 	
Fourchenault 	Rest assured, I have every intention of honoring the Forum's decision.
 	
Alphinaud 	Sorry about not letting the rest of you in on my plan. I was, admittedly, thinking on my feet for the most part.
Alphinaud 	But since we require both a means of communing with Hydaelyn and reaching Meteion...
Alphinaud 	...In the spur of the moment, I saw involving ourselves with the completion of the ark as a way to work towards both objectives simultaneously.
Alphinaud 	However, we must first keep our end of the bargain by solving the problem of the aetherburner.
Alphinaud 	I'd like to think it is not a challenge beyond our combined expertise. Or at least the expertise of our extended circle of associates.
Alphinaud 	It might behoove us to learn how an aetherburner actually works before we attempt to improve it, though!
Quest complete. 	Quest complete.
Category:Endwalker Main Scenario Quests in Final Fantasy XIV