The Past Is a Story We Never Tell

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
==Journal==
* The deputy postmoogle has a task for you. Deliver a letter to Mauh Lihzeh, a traveling merchant who can be found on Sweetbloom Pier in the East Shroud.
* You give the letter to Mauh Lihzeh and receive a tale in return. Mauh's long-missing sister Urha can perhaps be found in the South Shroud, if you would go to the marked spots and keep your eyes open.
* Your search for Urha Lihzeh is abruptly interrupted by an attack from the Coeurlclaw poachers, a gang much feared and loathed in the Black Shroud. Lest they return in force, move on to the next spot marked on the map and keep watch.
* With her rough-hewn beauty and quick temper, Urha Lihzeh cuts a very different figure from her younger sister. Present her with the letter lest she dispatch you with the same brutality she showed the Wood Wailer.
* Urha Lihzeh's demeanor changes the instant she learns you come from her sister. Suddenly fearful yet full of longing, she asks you to meet her in Urth's Gift.
* Urha's tale is one lived out in every zone of chaos, every realm where the granaries are locked against those in need. Now a hardened lawbreaker and a part of the cultish Coeurlclaw gang, Urha still longs to see her only living family, if you would take her words to Mauh Lihzeh on Sweetbloom Pier.
* Mauh confides in you that she is determined to persuade her sister to leave a life of crime. Now that Urha has asked Mauh to meet her, Mauh believes she can bring her home from the Upper Paths─with your help.
* The reunion is a bittersweet one, so full of secrets and sorrow is the past. And it promises to soon turn bloody, for Urha's gang is onto her secret meeting. Cut the poachers down in their hiding spot, while the sisters escape.
* Thanks to you, these poachers will hunt Urha and Mauh no more. You have a rendezvous to keep with the sisters, and some difficult persuading to do. Make your way to the Lower Paths, where the sisters await.
* You did not have far to go before running into Urha and Mauh at a Wood Wailer checkpoint...and into the poachers' self-styled king, who plays on Urha's fears to reclaim her as his chattel. Urha is a hardened killer with much to answer for, yet witnessing the Wailers' treatment of the two Miqo'te leaves a bad taste in your mouth. But this is not your concern─Mauh's safety is.
* In Mauh Lihzeh's anger and resolve, you see the shades of another young woman bent on saving her family─and trading away her own future for it. If Mauh Lihzeh is to hunt the Coeurlclaw King as she swears, she will need all the help she can get. Henceforth, any Coeurlclaw poacher you see is fit to be put down.
==Objectives==
* Deliver the letter to Mauh Lihzeh.
* Lie in wait at the designated spots in the South Shroud.
* Lie in wait at the designated spot.
* Deliver the letter to Urha Lihzeh.
* Speak with Urha Lihzeh.
* Deliver the letter to Mauh Lihzeh.
* Speak with Mauh Lihzeh.
* Examine the hiding spot and slay the poachers.
* Speak with Mauh Lihzeh.
* Speak with Mauh Lihzeh again.
==Script==
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Lettermoogle 	My trusty comrade, I have an interesting delivery for you! A regular missive for an irregular addressee─a traveling merchant, kupo!
Lettermoogle 	This Mauh Lihzeh ranges alone through the realm. I used to take the letters to her mother, but I hear she is quite ill again.
Lettermoogle 	This time of the year, Mauh Lihzeh likely plies her trade on Sweetbloom Pier in the East Shroud. Best check there first, kupo!
 	
Lettermoogle 	Mauh Lihzeh likely plies her trade on Sweetbloom Pier in the East Shroud. Best check there first, kupo!
 	
Mauh Lihzeh 	Hail, adventurer! Some melting mushrooms for you today, put you in the mind to play? Or honey still in the comb, to still the thoughts of home? ...Hrrrm? A letter for me!
Mauh Lihzeh 	...Gil. <scoff> Nothing but cold gil. Damn you, Urha.
...Lest you think me ungrateful, adventurer, keep in mind that this is from my sister. My sister. And still she thinks it meet to send nary a word.
Mauh Lihzeh 	Urha ran off after Mother's second illness. She was ailing and I was but a child, yet Urha left us to fend for ourselves─or so I thought then. Two moons later, she began sending gil. But never a word, not once.
Mauh Lihzeh 	Mother ails no more. I was by her side. Urha's gil bought her tea of silvervine, and mine a soft, clean bed and a fine troop of mourning women.
Mauh Lihzeh 	I am alone now, and grown─no longer a bewildered child that waits in hope. I must find Urha, and I know I cannot ask the Wailers. Menphina has sent you to me.
Mauh Lihzeh 	She was last seen in the South Shroud. Go to these spots I've marked on the map. If you find her, give her this letter.
Mauh Lihzeh 	Her name is Urha Lihzeh, or was at any rate. This collar I wear is a match for her own. She still has it, I am sure. We Keepers of the Moon are...sentimental.
 	
Mauh Lihzeh 	She was last seen in the South Shroud. Go to the spots I've marked on the map. If you find her, give her this letter.
Mauh Lihzeh 	Her name is Urha Lihzeh. This collar I wear is a match for her own. She still has it, I am sure.
Popmessage 	You hear a savage hiss!
 	
Balloon 	What're you doing on our turf?
Balloon 	Hisss! Our hunting ground, and we don't share!
 	
Kikokutai01574 	Please! I've a fam─
Coeurlclaw 	Die wailing, little lancer. We recognize no laws─neither of men nor of elementals. What we want, we take. That is freedom. That is our way.
Urha Lihzeh 	Who goes there!?
Coeurlclaw 	Probably another Wailer that wants a dance, my lady Touch-Me-Not. Let her/him join her/his friend─the family man.
Urha Lihzeh 	Don't want to play, eh? Then you should've stayed in the barracks!
Urha Lihzeh 	H-How do you know my name!?
Urha Lihzeh 	Y-You know my sister!?
Urha Lihzeh 	No bloody Wailer'd carry a letter from my baby sister. Give it here and don't get no fresh ideas.
 	
Urha Lihzeh 	Come on, give over the letter from Mauh.
Urha Lihzeh 	It's...it's really her. No other soul would know about... But I'll be missed if I stay any longer! Meet me at Urth's Gift─I got things I need to say.
 	
Urha Lihzeh 	There you are. Have to sneak around a bit, 'case that wasn't clear. The king's law says we've no family outside the forest. But I guess that's almost true for me anyway, if Ma's gone.
Urha Lihzeh 	What do you think a young girl had to do, huh? To feed a bedridden ma and a sister barely out of swaddlin' clothes? Bad things, adventurer. Bad for me─then bad for them. I was beautiful. Then I was brutal. Like a beast.
Urha Lihzeh 	A Wailer caught me at my...trade. Pink-cheeked little miss! All she saw was a thieving strumpet to drag before the Hearers. So...I took the roses from her cheeks. Made them bloom on her fine green doublet.
Urha Lihzeh 	'Twas worth it, for Ma never knew what I was. But I couldn't go home that day, nor never since. I hid in the forests, near starved. A city girl don't know how to hunt. And then...then he found me─the king.
Urha Lihzeh 	I'd killed a Wood Wailer and that was a ticket into the Coeurlclaw poachers, you see. And my beauty pleases His Highness. A man is a man, in alleys or glades, eh?
Urha Lihzeh 	Mauh says she knows what I've done. That she loves me still and wants us to be a family again. But the Coeurlclaws allow no family outside the gang─and I'm wanted by the law.
Urha Lihzeh 	But...to go home again. I've done right by Ma, and if I need have no secrets from Mauh... My heart's fit to break! Here, give her this letter if you're her friend.
 	
Mauh Lihzeh 	Adventurer! Did you find her? ...A letter? She sends word!?
Mauh Lihzeh 	Urha...Urha wants to see me! How long have I dreamed of this... Adventurer, is it true that...that she is one of the Coeurlclaws?
Mauh Lihzeh 	I feared it was so. That man, the one who calls himself the king of the Coeurlclaws. King Poach, growing fat on stolen game, stolen family...
Mauh Lihzeh 	The men of the Keepers of the Moon live a wanderer's life, for they are at their best in small doses. Women and children keep the hearth, ply various trades, and accept game and visits from the menfolk.
Mauh Lihzeh 	But King Poach denies women this gods-given rule over matters of family. He forces women to live with him, forbids them to see their sisters, mothers, aunts. Most unnaturally, they lie with him and him alone!
Mauh Lihzeh 	He calls this abomination of a family the Coeurlclaws, and thumbs his nose at the elementals' will. He goads his poachers to slay a Wailer, to bind them to the gang...
Mauh Lihzeh 	So terrible are their crimes that all Keepers of the Moon feel the suspicion and fear cast their way.
Mauh Lihzeh 	I have known for some time that Mother and I lived on ill-gotten gil. But Mother is gone, and I have no need of coin earned in blood and malice. What I do need is my sister─the only family left to me.
Mauh Lihzeh 	It is my turn to save my sister now. She says she will meet me on the Upper Paths. Come with me and help me persuade her to leave the Coeurlclaws.
 	
Urha Lihzeh 	Mauh... Is that really you? Oh, how you've grown... You look just like Ma... I'm so sorry you had to go through that alone.
Mauh Lihzeh 	You could have come home to us, Rha. Ma would've understood... Everything you did, you did for us, I know it. It doesn't matter what happened─we have each other...
Urha Lihzeh 	I couldn't have Ma know. I became a thief and a killer, just so I didn't have to be that... What a world, huh? But it's all right now.
Mauh Lihzeh 	Yes, it is, Rha! I can take care of you now. I've no debts thanks to you, and even have a little put by. We'll travel together─go where no one knows the past.
Mauh Lihzeh 	All you have to do is come with me right now. That's all! Be free of the past and live again. I'll take care of everything else!
Urha Lihzeh 	I... Hush! Adventurer, we're being watched. Thicket over there. We Coeurlclaws don't forgive divided loyalties.
Urha Lihzeh 	Mauh, I've got to get you out of here. Adventurer, they don't leave this clearing, you understand me? We'll make for eastern Thanalan. Come find us after.
 	
Balloon 	Betrayer! Clawbreaker! Get her!
 	
Urha Lihzeh 	Wood Wailer checkpoint! Sir, we are in something of a hurry. If you'd let us by...
Kikokutai01574 	Keepers of the Moon, eh? If it were up to me, I'd hang every one of you, let the Twelve sort out the 'Claws from the rest. Now, stand with your feet apart...
Mauh Lihzeh 	Adventurer! Wh-What now?
Urha Lihzeh 	Stopped 'em cold, eh? But now here we are... I'm trusting you to take care of my sister.
Kikokutai01574 	You there! I name you as one of the Coeurlclaws─Balsam Rose, also known as Blood Rose, also known as the Thornless, also known as Lady Touch-Me-Not─
Urha Lihzeh 	No! I'm not those things, I swear it! I just wanted to see my sister, I just need to go home!
Kikokutai01574 	Just like a Keeper. Come quietly or this'll go worse for you. We're gentlemen here, compared to some of the lads you could've met. A pretty thing like you, I could─
Kikokutai01574 	Oho, you're one of the King's Claws all right! What's the matter, better hanged than─
Kikokutai01574 	I-I-I'm killed!
Kikokutai01574 	N-Noph...
Urha Lihzeh 	Your Highness!?
 	
Coeurlclaw 	Wood scum, thought you'd have my woman? Defile my thornless rose? Her place is with me and no other. Come, my love.
Urha Lihzeh 	My sweet king, does this mean...you'll take me back? You'll keep me safe? I couldn't stand it again─I can't, please, I can't...
Coeurlclaw 	Of course I'll take you back, Urha. Nobody will ever misuse you again─if you accept my protection. You are a flower, and flowers must be rooted in one place. Come.
Mauh Lihzeh 	No, Rha! Look what he's taken─you don't even have a name anymore, not your own and not the one Ma gave us! Come home, Urha Lihzeh, come home to me!
Coeurlclaw 	Careful, adventurer. Little sister there has a pert face. I could cut it off before you say “Gods have mercy”!
Urha Lihzeh 	Baby sister, you see how it is. If I went with you, I'd blight your life sure as seven hells. I've done bad things for so long, I've got nothing good to give.
Mauh Lihzeh 	You are good, Rha. Loving and brave, to keep sneaking us the money when... I didn't know you had more than Wailers to fear. Please, there must be a way.
Urha Lihzeh 	My place is with him, Mauh. He's the only one who can keep me safe from worse things. Going home─it was just a dream. As long as I'm with the king, nobody will touch me again.
Coeurlclaw 	See? She has the right of it, young one. We're free spirits here, not that either of you'd understand. Go back to your ledgers and duties. You have my leave.
Urha Lihzeh 	Adventurer, you'll guide her out of these parts? Mauh...you're the only good thing I ever had a hand in. Just remember that. Good-bye, baby sister.
Mauh Lihzeh 	Urha! URHA!!!
Urha Lihzeh 	Menphina be good, does she think he loves her? How can she─no, I cannot judge her. That look in her eyes when the Wailer mocked her...
Urha Lihzeh 	All those women in the Coeurlclaw gang, the king's harem! Do they all seek shelter from worse things? A roof of bones, walls of blood...
Urha Lihzeh 	Ma used to say we can't see the moon while the sun is in the sky. So it might be with King Poach, I think. If he were taken, Urha will see that there are other lives, better loves.
Urha Lihzeh 	I must believe that, if I'm to save my sister. And I need skill in arms... Wailer or poacher, I'll not stand helpless again while a man talks of how I shall suffer for his pleasure.
Urha Lihzeh 	Keep killing poachers, adventurer. I will put the King of the Coeurlclaws in chains and free Urha from hers. I swear it on my mother's grave and on my sister's broken heart, and ask the elementals to bless this pledge...
Quest complete.	Quest complete.
Category:Side Story Quests in Final Fantasy XIV