Watching the Spawn

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
==Journal==
* In an unmistakable sign of his growing trust in you, Novv has asked that you watch over his spawnlings while he attends to a task outside of the nursery. While he has faith that Seww, Houu, and Fyuu can shoulder the duties of feeding and disciplining their clutchmates, the clutchfather is concerned that the Coral Tridents may attempt some manner of retaliation in his absence. Seww, however, seems distressed at Novv's departure. Speak with the young Sahagin, and learn what troubles him.
* Seww confides in you that the clutchfather has always been reticent about his past, and the spawnling wonders if this mysterious task has any connection to Novv's unspoken history. He asks that you track down the elder Sahagin who once fought with Novv, and learn what secrets they might unwittingly reveal. Take the clutchmark given to you by Seww, and visit the veteran beastmen found near the Reef of Sending, in Reaver Hide, and on Moonshade Isle.
* Though initially reluctant to speak with you, the curiosity of the elder Sahagin warriors is piqued once you show them the clutchmark you carry. Among other information of note, you learn that the reason for Novv's absence is to attend a parley with Zugg, the leader of the Coral Tridents. Return to Novv's Nursery and report your findings to Seww.
* Upon hearing of the impending meeting, Seww seems convinced that his clutchfather is walking into an ambush. The young Sahagin insists that he and his spawnbrothers can defend the nursery, and begs that you make haste to the site of the parley. Make your way to the Serpent's Tongue in western La Noscea, and witness the meeting unfold.
* Before the parley is revealed for the ambush it always was, you learn the secret of Novv's hidden past: the clutchfather was once the Scarlet Sea Devil, the savage Sahagin pirate that terrorized the seas off western La Noscea. His intimidating aura undiminished, Novv breaks the spirit of his would-be attackers without a single word and dismisses Zugg with barely concealed contempt. Follow Novv's advice, and rendezvous with the clutchfather back at Novv's Nursery.
* Summoning his son Seww to his side, Novv proceeds to regale you with the tale of his violent past. He describes the terrible deeds he committed, and tells of the bloody vengeance visited upon his ill-fated offspring. The sorrowful story, however, concludes on a hopeful note: with your help, the clutchfather means to break the cycle of rage and retaliation, and build the foundation for a lasting peace between your peoples.
==Objectives==
* Speak with Seww.
* Present the clutchmark to silverfin Sahagin.
* Speak with Seww at Novv's Nursery.
* Lie in wait at the designated location in the Serpent's Tongue.
* Speak with Novv at Novv's Nursery.
==Script==
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Novv 	Pshhh... [Player Name], I wishhh to ask a tediousss favor of you.
Novv 	There is a tasssk to which I mussst attend─a tasssk that will take me away from the nursery for a time. Thusss, I would have you watch over my clutch while I am gone.
Novv 	You need not feed or discipline the ssspawnlings─Fyuu, Houu, and Seww have sssuch duties well in hand.
Novv 	Pshhh... The Coral Tridentsss concern me. It would be foolishhh to think our acts of sssabotage have essscaped their notice, and they shhhurely desire vengeance. Thusss far, my presence has been sssufficient to deter any sssuch reprisals, but shhhould they learn of my absence...
Seww 	Pshhh! To where do you travel, Clutchfather? What is this tashhhk of which you shhhpeak?
Novv 	Do not quessstion your elder, Ssseww. Your duty is to care for your ssspawnbrothers─that and naught more.
Novv 	Pshhh... I leave the sssafety of the nursery to you, [Player Name]. I will return as sssoon as I am able.
Seww 	Pshhh! But, Clutchfather!
 	
Seww 	I have never known the clutchfather to leave the nurshhhery in another's care. The fate of our people mushhht hang in the balance. Pshhh! I wishhh only that he would trushhht ushhh with the detailshhh...
Seww 	Shhhpawnlings we may be, but we have taken our warrior riteshhh! And yet the clutchfather will not even describe to ushhh the battles of his youth!
Seww 	Now that I think on it, he has told ushhh almoshhht nothing of himself. We know little of his pashhht, or his part in the old wars...
Seww 	Pshhh... Will you do shhhomething for me, [Player Name]? I want you to find out about thishhh vital tashhhk, and learn if there is aught we can do to aid the clutchfather.
Seww 	Many of our older kin shhhpeak of him with reverence and reshhhpect.
Seww 	They live shhhcattered about our territory─the Reef of Sending, Reaver Hide, and even one on Moonshhhade Isle...though you may need one of Pahh's elbst to carry you there. Perhapshhh in their shhhtories you might hear the clue we need to shhholve this myshhhtery.
Seww 	Now, to get them to shhhpeak with you, you'll need to shhhow them this shhhell inshhhcribed with our clutchmark. That shhhould cause their memories to tumble forth of their own accord. The elders do love to reminishhhce about the old days.
Seww 	Do not be concerned. My shhhpawnbrothers and I have lived here for five years─we know how to defend our home. The clutchfather shhhays that we once lived in another nurshhhery, but it was loshhht to the Calamity...
Seww 	I don't well remember that time, and he is reluctant to shhhpeak of eventshhh that happened long ago. One day, I will learn why...
 	
Sahuaginoldmana01376	Pshhh... Why do you bother me, finless one? I did not sssummon any Reavers to do my bidding.
Sahuaginoldmana01376	Pshhhahaha! Ssso, you are the one the others have ssseen consssorting with Novv's Clutch. Fortunate for you that all shhhorewalkers look the sssame to usss.
Sahuaginoldmana01376	If you come ssseeking your Sssahagin friend, I hear Novv has come to parley with Zugg in the Ssserpent's Tongue. I can only guess at the sssubject of their dissscussion. Here, take your shhhell back, finless one.
Sahuaginoldmana01376	Pshhh? The sssubject of the parley? I did not asssk. All I know is that they intend to meet in the Ssserpent's Tongue.
 	
Sahuaginoldmanb01376	Pshhh! Leave me be, shhhorewalker! Thishhh is my isle! I'm harming no one!
Sahuaginoldmanb01376	...Why do you carry Novv's clutchmark? Has he cashhht his lot in with the finleshhh ones!? But it is too late for Novv─his time ended long ago.
Sahuaginoldmanb01376	Zugg is the champion of the shhhpawning grounds now. No other warrior is fit to claim the mantle of the Shhhcarlet Shhhea Devil. Mark my words: he shhhall rise to greatneshhh on a mountain of shhhorewalker bones!
Sahuaginoldmanb01376	Zugg will lead the Coral Tridentshhh to victory. He will cleanse the land of you shhhorewalker shhhlugs, and build the moshhht majeshhhtic shhhpawning grounds in the hishhhtory of our people! Pshhh!
 	
Sahuaginoldmanc01376	Pshhh... Thisss is a sssacred place, shhhorewalker. Only the tridentsss of fallen Sssahagin are allowed to impale the Reef of Sssending...
Sahuaginoldmanc01376	...You come at the behessst of Novv's Clutch? The ssspawnlings wishhh to know more of their clutchfather, do they?
Sahuaginoldmanc01376	Pshhh... It is odd that they sssend a shhhorewalker, but then, many things appear odd to my aged eyes. Lisssten well, finless one. Novv was once the undisssputed leader of the Coral Tridentsss─a mighty warrior who thought of naught but the glory and prosssperity of his people.
Sahuaginoldmanc01376	You tell his offssspring that. You tell them they ought to be proud of their clutchfather and his deeds.
Sahuaginoldmanc01376	Pshhh... It's as though I awoke one day and my finsss were withered and shhhrunk. It ssseems this old warrior will not die in battle, but jussst drift away...
 	
Seww 	Well, [Player Name]? Did the old ones have much to shhhay?
Seww 	Pshhh... The clutchfather once led the Coral Tridentshhh!? Incredible...
Seww 	And now you shhhay he goes to meet with the Tridentshhh' current leader? Pshhh! He cannot poshhhibly expect to negotiate with those fanaticshhh! The shhhtink of ambushhh upon thishhh “parley” reaches me even here!
Seww 	Pshhh... Oh, Clutchfather... That is why you chose to attend the meeting without your shhhpawnlings─you mean to fight those shhhavages alone!
Seww 	Finleshhh one! Pshhh! [Player Name]! I would willingly face battle myshhhelf, but I cannot abandon my duty to protect my clutchmateshhh.
Seww 	It falls to you to enshhhure thishhh does not end in tragedy!
Seww 	The clutchfather is meeting with the Coral Tridentshhh in the Shhherpent's Tongue. You are the only one I can trushhht to reshhhcue him when the parley turns shhhour. And you can be shhhure it will...
 	
Zuug 	Pshhh... You come alone into our lair, Novv? Your mind is as wilted as your finsss, old one.
Novv 	Fair greeting to you, too, young Zugg.
Zuug 	Pshhh! You have no right to call me by that name!
Zuug 	I am the Ssscarlet Sssea Devil! Enemies of the Coral Tridentsss tremble at my coming! You would do well to shhhow sssome ressspect! Pshhh!
Novv 	Calm yourssself, Zugg. I did not come here to trade insssults. I only wishhh to talk.
Novv 	Have you thought about our future, Zugg─the future of the Sssahagin? Have you ssseen how our people fade into darkness like the evening sssun sssinking below the ocean waves?
Zuug 	Pshhh... Pshshsh...
Zuug 	Pshhhahahahahaha! Poetry, Novv? You have become even more pitiful than I sussspected!
Zuug 	You were once feared above all! Bloodthirsssty as a shhhark; deadly as a ray's sssting; sssavage as a sssea ssserpent! The terror of the Indigo Deep!
Zuug 	Pshhh! You were the firssst Ssscarlet Sssea Devil! Have you forgotten who you truly are!?
Novv 	I consssigned that title to the deep long ago...along with my heinousss passst.
Zuug 	Pshhh! And that is why your legacy mussst live on through me! The Coral Tridentsss will thrussst our ssspears into the very heart of thisss land, and bathe in the gushhhing blood of the finless ones!
Zuug 	If we lack the territory in which to ssspawn, then we shhhall take it by force! Our offssspring will thrive on sssand that has drunk the lifewaters ssspilled from our enemies!
Novv 	Pshhh... I sssee my words are wasssted on you.
Novv 	Is it ssso hard to underssstand, Zugg? What is needed right now is diplomacy─not war. Your hubrisss will doom our ssspawnlings to lives of violence and misery, with the edge of a sssoldier's blade the only sssurcease.
Zuug 	The only one doomed here is you! Did you expect to leave here alive, Novv?
Zuug 	Pshhh! Kill the traitor! Rip off his fins! Ssstrip away his ssscales!
Sahuagin01377 	Pshhh!
Novv 	...Pshhh!
Sahuagin01377 	Pshhh... Y-You shhhaid he was weak now... Feeble...
Zuug 	Pshhh! Cowards! Ssspineless sssea dogs!
Novv 	Return to the shhhallows, Zugg─you are not ready for the ocean deep.
Zuug 	Pshhh... Thisss is far from over, old one. As the infirmities of age claim your vigor, I shhhall only grow ssstronger. We shhhall sssee which of usss is remembered by hissstory as the true Ssscarlet Sssea Devil!
 	
Novv 	[Player Name]. You ssstood ready to rushhh to my ressscue? Pshhh... I sssmell Ssseww's hand in this.
Novv 	I yet think of him as my little ssspawnling, but his inssstincts are those of a warrior grown. Pshhhahaha! My ssstrength has not dimmed ssso much that I need cower behind the fins of my offssspring!
Novv 	But you have my thanksss, all the sssame. Come, let usss return to the nursssery─it would not be wise for you to linger here.
Novv 	Pshhh... An explanation is in order, [Player Name]. Ssseww? I would have you hear thisss, as well.
Seww 	I am lishhhtening, Clutchfather.
Novv 	There is much I have kept from the clutch, but the wreckage of my passst cannot ssstay sssubmerged forever. It is time to tell you my tale...
Novv 	Fifteen years ago, I led the Coral Tridentsss in countless actsss of piracy.
Novv 	Pillage, slaughter, kidnapping─there was no foul deed I did not commit. For the shhhorewalkers of La Nossscea, I was nightmare made fleshhh, a demon from the Indigo Deep. The Ssscarlet Sssea Devil.
Novv 	All those I killed, all the land I ssseized, I did ssso for the future of my people. I had not a sssingle shhhred of doubt that my actions were jussst. I was as zealousss as Zugg is now.
Novv 	It is tradition among the Sssahagin that our queen, the Indigo Matriarch, reward a proven warrior with a clutch of her eggs. Sssuch a champion earns the right to become “clutchfather” to the ssspawnlings thusss hatched.
Novv 	Even among the elite, my victories overshhhadowed all others. The matriarch honored me with more than a hundred eggs, from which many healthy offssspring emerged. My clutch was the envy of the tribe.
Novv 	Never in my arrogance and pride did I expect what was to happen next.
Novv 	I returned to my nursssery after a typical campaign of looting shhhips, only to be greeted by a sssight that hauntsss me to this day: the broken corpssses of my ssspawnlings, ssstrewn atop one another in a gruesssome mountain of death.
Novv 	This was an act of pure vengeance. The shhhorewalkers had trailed me to our island home, and waited patiently for me to leave. Then they put my children to the sssword.
Novv 	Pshhh... I wept and howled until it ssseemed my sssanity had fled. And then, all at once, I underssstood: the blame for my ssspawnlings' grisly fate...it belonged with me.
Novv 	Hate and sssuffering brings only more of the sssame. It draws you into a whirling maelssstrom of reprisal and retaliation that leads to naught but a sssoulless abyss.
Novv 	My sssalvation lay in the few unhatched eggs that had sssomehow essscaped the bloody retribution. I cassst away my hollow dreams of glory, and focusssed on raising my surviving sssons─you and your ssspawnbrothers, Ssseww.
The Ssscarlet Sssea Devil died that day, and Novv the clutchfather was born.
Seww 	Pshhh... I am proud of you, Clutchfather. We will shhhtop the Coral Tridentshhh, I promishhhe you─not jushhht for ourshhhelves, but for the clutchmateshhh we left behind.
Novv 	Does it all make sssense now, [Player Name]? The reason I recruited you to our cause?
Novv 	To be truthful, I have never forgiven the shhhorewalkers for what was done. But I will never let my actions be guided by rage, for that path will not bring usss the peace I desire.
Novv 	No, I would create a legacy worth leaving for my children. Let usss continue building that bridge, [Player Name].
 	
Tamer01376 	Pshhh... My elbssst is ready to bear you to Moonshhhade Isle, shhhorewalker.
Quest complete. 	Quest complete.
Category:Sahagin Quests in Final Fantasy XIV