Cupid's Lover

Cupid's Lover is a World Quest in .
There are two versions of this quest, depending on whether players started the or not.
==Steps==
# Find the Seal
# Study the Riddle Slate
# Look for a way forward
# Solve the Orthant's puzzle
## Enter the Mysterious Ruins and descend to the lower floor.
## The following steps can be done in any order:
### Connect the left-hand Energy Flow device:
#### Enter the Looking Glass and light the two unlit torches in the room, then exit the Looking Glass.
#### Call the Lift to the current floor and release the Energy Flow from the other device on this floor.
#### Continue past the device and pick up the on the windowsill.
### Connect the Energy Flow device straight ahead:
#### Take the Lift down and enter the underwater area.
#### Enter the next chamber by activating the mechanism.
#### Enter the left-hand chamber by activating the mechanism, then use the Xenochromatic Jellyfish trigger the mechanism again.
#### Release the Energy Flow. This will cause the surrounding area to become dry land.
#### Take the Lift up and release the Energy Flow.
## Return to the upper floor and use the to open the door to the last Energy Flow device.
## Go down and release the Energy Flow.
# Obtain the "Soul" piece
==Gameplay Notes==
* A 4 Nymph's Constancy can be picked up next to the Riddle Slate.
==Dialogue==
===Version 1===
This version is obtained if players have not started Search in the Algae Sea.
;(Approach the Riddle Slate) 
:Paimon: Someone was just here! Paimon can't believe we've run into someone with better archaeological exploration chops than us.
:Paimon: Is that... a pocket watch on the ground?
:Paimon: If this is anything like our usual adventures, we should take a look at this stone tablet.
:Paimon: "Lo, this place is the Orthant of Souls, the Shrine of Souls, the Room of Souls..."
:Paimon: "I accompany you in eternal rest"... "Born in an instant, often contradicting, always united"... "I am life's most cherished treasure"...
: Elementary, my dear friend...
: It's a riddle.
:Paimon: Hmmm... A valuable pocket watch, and one of life's treasures...
:Paimon: Ooh, Paimon knows! It's gotta be Mora!
: I—I'm not sure about that...
:Paimon: You're right, the answer to a riddle wouldn't be so tacky. Then it must be... What's the word...
:Paimon: Right, "wealth"!
: Wonderful, that's one answer we can count out.
:Paimon: Come on! Why can't you just trust Paimon?
:Paimon: Well, if you're so smart, what do you think it is?
: Lovely weather we're having.
::Paimon: Hey! Don't change the subject.
: It's not important. Let's go in deeper and take a look around.
::Paimon: Hey! Just admit that you don't know either! Don't run off just because you're embarrassed. Wait up!
;(Examine the mechanism)
:
:;(If this is the first location searched)
:::Paimon: There's nothing here?
:::Paimon: Oh no! It looks like someone already took whatever was here.
:::Paimon: But who?
:;(If this is the second location searched)
:::Paimon: There's nothing here either...
:;(If this is the third location searched)
:::Paimon: Did someone... take whatever was here, too?
===Version 2===
This version is obtained if players started Search in the Algae Sea first.
;(Approach the marked area)
:;(If this is the third location searched)
:::Caterpillar: This is the third seal.
:Seymour: "Lo, this place is the Orthant of Souls, the Shrine of Souls, the Room of Souls..."
:Seymour: "I accompany you in eternal rest"... "Born in an instant, often contradicting, always united"... "I am life's most cherished treasure"...
:Paimon: Phew... Nothing scary this time. Is the answer a pocket watch?
:Paimon: Speaking of which, don't you have one too, Ann?
: Well, watches *are* expensive...
:Paimon: Then the answer must be money, as in Mora!
:Caterpillar: Passing away along with your money is life's second-greatest tragedy. Don't ask what the greatest one is.
:Ann: What is life's greatest tragedy then?
:Seymour: I am aware of this one. It is "to rest in your coffin without a single Mora to your name."
:Ann: I'm not sure I agree with those values. Aren't there many things more important than that?
:Caterpillar: Well, that's why I said "don't ask."
:Seymour: I apologize.
:Caterpillar: Anyway, based on the above reasons, I don't think the answer is a fancy timepiece, nor is it Mora.
:Paimon: What could it be, then?
:Seymour: The answer is simple — I can retrieve similar riddles with a 70% match rate.
:Seymour: This is from a centuries-old classic novel. It reads, "I was born in the fleeting moment when eyes meet. I run with my back turned to the one I pursue."
:Seymour: "Even after all flesh, bone, and entrails have been sliced away, I still lie nestled with you in the marrow that remains."
:Seymour: The answer is "love."
:Ann: I get it now. This pocket watch is just like the one I have, then — It must be filled with memories of love.
: Now, if only it would open.
:Ann: It will, one day.
:Ann: Why, well done, you silly dog! Who's the cutest mechanical dog?
:Seymour: It was my pleasure. "Cute," however, is a subjective description. I would prefer to be addressed as "the reliable, useful Prototype 4ACV07."
:Ann: And that's exactly what makes you so cute.
:Caterpillar: Are you reenacting an old conversation? I feel like I've seen this scene before.
:Caterpillar: In any case, someone's already solved this riddle. Let's get moving.
;(Check the altar)
:
:;(If this is the first location searched)
:::Paimon: There's nothing here?
:::Caterpillar: It looks like something was here, but someone else took it.
:::Paimon: Wait, doesn't that mean that our plan's already failed?
:::Caterpillar: The birth of "reason" requires the merging of the four orthants. If we can get the rest of them, we still have a chance.
:::Ann: In that case, we'd better hurry to the next area.
:;(If this is the second location searched)
:::Paimon: There's nothing here either...
:::Ann: What exactly are we looking for, Caterpillar?
:::Caterpillar: We're looking for the materials necessary to forge the Holy Blade of Narzissenkreuz.
:::Caterpillar: The Ordo was able to reproduce the four requisite hypothetical substances here in the material world, based on the esoteric philosophies of the underground kingdom and ancient Fontaine.
:::Seymour: I do not understand.
:::Caterpillar: These enigmatic substances are purely experiential. You could say they are even further beyond ordinary logic than elemental power.
:::Seymour: I entered all introductory to intermediate level textbooks from the Akademiya's Spantamad into my memory banks decades ago. There is nothing mysterious about elemental power.
:::Caterpillar: Is that so? Anyway, to sum up, this is born of the confluence of traditions from Fontaine and technology from the ancient underground kingdom.
:::Caterpillar: And thus, four types of substance came into being: Memory, Wish, Soul, and Persona.
:::Caterpillar: To avoid any possible ambiguity, let's call them the "Memory" piece, "Wish" piece, "Soul" piece, and "Persona" piece.
:::Paimon: Why are these used to make the Holy Blade?
:::Caterpillar: In the Narzissenkreuz Ordo's brand of mystical philosophy, the temple is a microcosm of the universe, the members are stand-ins for the gods, and the holy oil is tempered willpower.
:::Caterpillar: The Holy Blade, on the other hand, is "reason," that which cuts everything open. It can only be born out of consummate human will.
::: Quite abstruse.
:::Caterpillar: That's esotericism for you. You attach yourself to anything that looks similar enough, and when this sort of thing becomes magic, fiction becomes reality.
:::Caterpillar: Anyway, we should make our way to the next area now.
:;(If this is the third location searched)
:::Paimon: Did someone... take whatever was here, too?
:::Caterpillar: Looks that way.
::: Just who is...?
:::Caterpillar: It's Jakob.
:::Seymour: We had an altercation with him inside Elynas once... Clarification: Recently, not "once."
:::Caterpillar: When I saw that unfortunate victim at the gate, I knew it was his handiwork. It seems he's still active after all.
:::Paimon: Then what does he want with the stuff he took from here?
:::Caterpillar: Simple — He too wants to reforge the Holy Blade of Narzissenkreuz. The dream of the Ordo remains unrealized.
:::Caterpillar: Anyway, we should make our way to the final area now.
==Interactables==
==Trivia==
* The quest's name, Cupid's Lover, likely refers to , the Greek goddess of the soul and consort of Eros, the Greek equivalent of Cupid.
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