Through the Maelstrom

This article is about the quest. For the achievement, see Through the Maelstrom (Achievement). For the name of the major patch, see patch 2.2.

Through the Maelstrom

Quest giver

Yugiri

Location

Limsa Lominsa Lower Decks (X:8.9, Y:14.3)

Quest line

Seventh Astral Era Main Scenario Quests

Level

50

Experience

 2,340

Gil

 7,000

Previous quest

When Yugiri Met the Fraternity

Next quest

The Great Divide
Whorl of a Time

Patch

2.2

Links

EDB GT

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Main Scenario Progress: 185 / 960 (19.3%)

   

A Realm Reborn Progress: 185 / 241 (76.8%)

   

“

Yugiri has the air of a woman bursting with gratitude.

— In-game description

Rewards

Choose one of the following options:

• 1   Noct Earrings
• 1   Gloam Earrings
• 1   Auroral Earrings
• 2   Allagan Silver Piece

Unlocks

•   Through the Maelstrom

Walkthrough

You are now getting as quests rewards Item Level 110 gear that was formerly purchased with Allagan Tomestones of Soldiery. For this set Noct = Fending, Gloam = Slaying, and Auroral = Aiming.

Steps

• Speak with Minfilia at the Rising Stones.

Journal

• Yugiri has the air of a woman bursting with gratitude.

• Before parting ways with you to study the secret fraternity's combat techniques, the ever-courteous Yugiri bids you relay her gratitude to Minfilia. For want of anything better to do, return to the Rising Stones at Revenant's Toll, and convey her sentiments to the Antecedent.

• You arrive at the Rising Stones, resolved to pass on Yugiri's words of thanks, but before you are able to do so, Minfilia proceeds to externalize her thoughts with regard to recent events. Based on the phenomenon she observed in the moments prior to Leviathan's summoning, the Antecedent is convinced that the true nature of the Echo and the secret to defeating the Ascians now lie within reach. Even as she resolves to take action, however, Urianger bursts into the solar bearing grim tidings: the Isle of Val, home to the Students of Baldesion, has been destroyed by a spell like in power to Ultima...

Dialogue

Accepting the Quest

Yugiri: Much and more has occurred since first I beheld Eorzea from the galleon's deck. Suffice it to say, I did not envisage being invited to play a part in your noble struggle.
Yugiri: But forgive me, I have kept you overlong. Doubtless you have pressing business of your own. Rest assured that I no longer require an escort in this land.
Yugiri: When next you meet Lady Minfilia, pray relay to her my humblest thanks. Would that I could do so in person, but I must needs fulfill my promise to the Admiral. Till we meet again, Warrior of Light.

Optional Dialogue

Inconspicuous Man: Cor, it's been ages since Thancred up and left the Sisters. What I wouldn't give to run with the old scoundrel again, just like back in the old days...

Shadowy Woman: Far Eastern combat art, eh? I must say, my curiosity's fairly piqued!

Optional Dialogue in the Rising Stones

Y'shtola: History is our friend, young one. The answers to the problems of the present are oft to be found within the past. We need but seek them out.
Koharu: What if you wanted to solve a problem that's already happened? Like the Garleans destroying Doma?

Tataru: On behalf of the Scions, I bid you welcome to the Rising Stones! With your cooperation, we hope to grow rich and transform this place into the Piling Gold! Tee hee!
Tataru: Oh, [Forename]! Forgive me, but I must see to the Domans' needs.

Hozan: The Rising Stones... What a peculiar name for a sanctuary...

Thancred:Some fifteen years ago, a mission—hic—took me to Ul'dah. 'Twas then that I first chanced to gaze upon your beauty.
Thancred: I was utterly transfixed. I dared not blink, lest I—hic—deprive myself of even a split second of your radiance.
F'lhaminn: You do flatter me, dear. And I do believe you have had a bit too much to drink.

Yozan: You think this is impressive? In Doma, we train to run in the treetops!
Papalymo: What in the seven hells are you doing up there? Get down here before you fall and break your neck!
Yda: Don't mind Papalymo—he's making a fuss over nothing as usual.
Yda: Yozan's sense of balance is amazing for a boy his age. I wonder how he got so good.

Hoary Boulder: Some of the Domans wanted to learn how to fight, and it's fallen to me to oversee their training. First, I need to find suitable equipment for everyone...

Coultenet: An adventurer bends not to authority, but lives and acts according to his own beliefs. He is the master of his own destiny.
Doware: In my native land, there exist individuals not unlike these "adventurers". Yet without a master to serve, how does one know the path that one must walk?

Higiri: I have been tasked with helping out in the kitchen. Once I have grown accustomed to my duties, I hope to treat our hosts to traditional Doman cuisine.

Speaking with Minfilia at the Rising Stones (Cutscene)

Minfilia: I have been reflecting upon the events which took place during our visit to Vylbrand. 
Minfilia: If you have a moment, I would share my conclusions with you. Please bear with me. 
Minfilia: When the Sahagin elder summoned Leviathan, he employed the power we have come to know as the Echo. 
Minfilia: Though I cannot well explain the how of it, it would seem he became immortal in so doing. 
Minfilia: When the Admiral subsequently slew him, his spirit emerged from his lifeless flesh, a consciousness shorn of physical form. 
Minfilia: Thus transfigured, he took up residence in the body of his minion with the ease of a man donning a favorite glove. 
Minfilia: Long have I known that the Echo allows one to pass through the walls of a man's soul. 
Minfilia: But never did I imagine that it could free us from our own flesh, nor less that our souls could then occupy the next corporeal vessel to take our fancy. 
Minfilia: It was of this that Elidibus spoke─an existence which knows neither cessation nor oblivion. 
Minfilia: And yet, though the Sahagin had mastered his gift and thereby become immortal, he was by no means invulnerable. 
Minfilia: As we both bore witness, he was ultimately absorbed into Leviathan. 
Minfilia: And the import of this observation? If the Ascians' mode of existence is indeed the same, it can be inferred that they, too, are not invulnerable─that they can be destroyed. 
Minfilia: There exists a legend which tells of souls who are reborn upon the cusp of each Umbral Calamity, that they might stay the encroaching Darkness. 
Minfilia: To most, it is but a faerie tale, yet recent events have given me cause to wonder: could the legend in fact refer to the Echo? 
Minfilia: Much and more yet remains unknown, but I am confident that all will become clear in time. 
Minfilia: For the present, however, what matters is that the key to defeating the Ascians may at last be within sight. 
Minfilia: With Urianger's aid, it is my hope that I shall fathom this matter ere long. 
Minfilia: Ah! I was just about to send for you, my friend.
...Is aught amiss? 

Urianger: Grave tidings from the Sharlayan motherland, my lady. 
Urianger: It doth concern our distant allies, the Students of Baldesion. 

Minfilia: What of them? 

Urianger: My lady...the Isle of Val, which for many years hath been the order's home, is no more.

Minfilia: No more? Whatever do you mean?

Urianger: I relate only that which hath been conveyed unto me by our agents. An aetheric wave of the highest magnitude was recorded in the region. Soon thereafter, 'twas observed that the isle had ceased to be. 
Urianger: 'Tis postulated that a magick was evoked, like in power to Ultima. 

Minfilia: Twelve preserve... 

Cutscene

Lolorito: If there are no other matters, I move that today's meeting be adjourned. 

Teledji Adeledji's Manservant: It is done, my lord. 
Teledji Adeledji's Manservant: I... <cough> F-Forgive my impertinence, my lord, but these orders... I am uncertain as to what end they serve. 

Teledji Adeledji: Revolution.