Once Forged

Once Forged

Quest giver

G'raha Tia

Location

Labyrinthos (X:7.2, Y:27.9)

Quest line

Endwalker Main Scenario Quests

Level

88

Experience

 501,600

Gil

 904

Previous quest

Hither and Yarns

Next quest

Bonds of Adamant(ite)

Patch

6.0

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An unspecified task awaits you.

— In-game description

Steps

• Speak with G'raha Tia.
• Survey the designated location and defeat any enemies that appear.
• Survey the designated location again.
• Speak with Kokkol Dankkol.

Dialogue

G'raha Tia:

• In the event that our─and I quote─ “promised heap of adamantite falls right out of the bloody sky and into my lap,” Master Kokkol wishes to be ready to put the proverbial hammer to anvil at a moment's notice.
• To fabricate these parts, however, he needs the flames in Kokkol's Forge to burn hotter. He sent me to increase the amount of aether being funneled to his furnaces.
• The flow of fire-aspected aether in Labyrinthos is regulated by an elemental reactor south of here─to which I have borrowed the key.
• The adjustment will require two people to carry out safely...but I can explain the process when we arrive.

Alisaie:

• This is where we part, then.
• We'll see you in Sharlayan Hamlet once the adamantite arrives, if not before.

G'raha Tia:

• This way, then!
• The reactor is housed within this facility.
• I'll be the one to go inside and adjust the fire aether output.
• When I do, a rather large amount of water-aspected aether will issue from the vent at the top. I expect this to attract at least a few elementals─which we would both rather not be drawn into the reactor itself. Trust me.
• Can I ask that you put down any that draw too near? They'll pose you little trouble, I'm sure.
• Wait here, if you would!
• Did everything go smoothly out here?
• I thought as much. No major complications to speak of inside, either.
• ...And the water aether appears to be venting properly.
• I expect Kokkol will have seen a difference in his forge-flames by the time I return.
• Since I have you...there was another matter I thought to discuss with you.
• Nothing terribly important─merely something I've been considering.
• Part of this, I shared with everyone. Yet you, and only you, have been to Elpis...
• As we have established, refined adamantite is a product of Allag. Of the empire's twilight years, in fact.
• It was a material which saw much use as part of the Allagans' efforts to extend beyond the bounds of this world─Dalamud, of course, being the most prominent.
• Of those who would push further─expand Allag's empire to encompass the heavens and the stars above─perhaps the greatest was its infamous technologist, Amon.
• He did. He must have had his own reasons, however, for there is no evidence to suggest that he retained memories of his life as an ancient.
• He only joined the Ascians once the empire was all but dust, as you know.
• If not his memory, though, what drove him to pursue the idea with such fervor?
• This may seem far-fetched, but what if souls, like minds, have...a personality, so to speak? A natural disposition towards which they are inclined?
• We know with relative certainty that it was the gross decadence and inexorable decline of Allag that moved Amon to resurrect Emperor Xande.
• The empire's people spoke lightly of death and destruction, experimenting on those they deemed beneath them to fill the emptiness in their hearts.
• In facilitating Xande's return, Amon provided these languid souls with the means to free themselves from the mire of their own indolence.
• ...Or would have, had not Xande been convinced by his own death that life itself was meaningless.
• Amon's desire for his countrymen to conquer the heavens could only be a means to the same end─to instill the people with new purpose.
• Like Hermes before him, Amon was appalled by how those around him lived, but could never bring himself to believe that those lives were devoid of meaning.
• And both of them sought that meaning, that hope, in the distant stars.
• ...Such is my theory, anyway.
• Ultimately, it is the consequences of their actions which matter. Their motives are of no moment. And yet...
• To reach those stars on wings of adamantite. To travel to the ends of creation and beyond. The promise of hope everlasting...that much I do understand.
• But enough musing for now. Why don't we see how Kokkol is getting on?

Kokkol Dankkol:

• Whew! I can feel those flames a-blazin' from here!
• Glad you found someone capable, G'raha, but there's not much left for you lot to do.
• 'Less you can conjure up that refined adamantite any faster...?