Forge Ahead

Forge Ahead

Quest giver

Alphinaud

Location

Ultima Thule (X:33.9, Y:30.2)

Quest line

Endwalker Main Scenario Quests

Level

90

Gil

 915

Previous quest

Hello, World

Next quest

You're Not Alone

Patch

6.0

“

Amidst the sadness of Alphinaud's countenance, there is a newfound determination.

— In-game description

Steps

• Speak with Alphinaud.
• Speak with Alphinaud and have him accompany you.
• Speak with Alisaie while accompanied by Alphinaud and have them accompany you.
• Follow the crystalline path while accompanied by Alphinaud and Alisaie, and speak with Alphinaud at the designated location.
• Speak with Alphinaud.

Dialogue

Alphinaud:

• That crystalline path─G'raha has paved it for us.
• Difficult as it is, we must carry on. For our friends, and all who await us in faith.
• So come, let us seek the path's beginning. It appears to be near the outpost.
• Look, Player. A portal has opened.
• It will surely deliver us true. It must.

Alphinaud:

• Well, here is where the path begins. And it ascends to dizzying heights...
• Let us make our way, one sure step at a time.

Alisaie:

• Our friends got us this far. Their courage, their strength. Their wisdom. Their love.
• We owe it to them to continue. No matter how long it takes...

Alphinaud:

• ...Thancred would scout the road ahead. Y'shtola and Urianger would trade opinions on esoteric subjects.
• G'raha would join in their discussion, or else chat with me and Alisaie about the mission. Estinien would be at the rear, apart yet present.
• All the while you would come and go. Wherever you are needed. And together, we would travel...

Alisaie:

• All I can hear are my footfalls. My heartbeat. It's so much quieter now...
• But the fact we can breathe and continue on is proof that the others are still with us.
• They are... They are... Aren't they...?

Alphinaud:

• The portal is barely visible from up here.
• ...Truly, we've come far. Much farther than would have been possible had we kept chasing perfect ideals as we did in the past.
• It is because we have known failure and frustration─that we have learned and grown from them─that Hydaelyn has entrusted us with this mission. With the fate of the very star.

Alisaie:

• It's all a dream, isn't it...? A long, elaborate dream...
• Any moment now, I'll wake up in my bed. Still a student. Grandfather alive. I'd go about my day, relieved as the fragments of that other life fade away...
• And that would be happiness...wouldn't it? That none of it... No. No, I won't give up these experiences. Good and bad, they are mine. They are me.

Alphinaud:

• Rest assured I am fine...but thank you for your concern. What of yourself? Though we can't afford to be too leisurely, neither need we rush unduly.
• We've crossed an impossible distance to stand where we are now, and we're but a few steps away from journey's end. It will be over before we know it.

Alisaie:

• Me...? Oh, I still have plenty of legs left in me, don't you worry. It's you I'm worried about.
• You always push yourself so hard for us─for everyone. And while we're here, we'll make sure to bear our share of the burden.

Alphinaud:

• Well, this is it. The end of the path, and the beginning of whatever awaits.
• There will be greater hardships. We may be made to feel powerless.
• Yet come what may, let us have no regrets. No, let us have pride in what we have achieved.
• In what we achieved, and how it changed us for the better... That's worth fighting for. And dying for. As they did...

Alisaie:

• There are some structures up ahead. Still a ways to go before we reach the dead sun...
• Given...all this...I know how naive it must sound to hope it all works out somehow.
• Still, you'll forgive me if I wish for it all the same. And for you most of all.
• Not that you of all people need it. It's just...after all the help you've given me, for once I want to be the one to help you.

Alphinaud:

• This is almost...

Alisaie:

• Normal? It's not unlike many cities we know. But it's deathly quiet...

Alphinaud:

• Mayhap the inhabitants are within the buildings. Or invisible to our senses.

???:

• Wrong on both counts. There is simply no one here.

Alphinaud:

• Meteion!

Meteion:

• This is how I found it when I arrived. Another star which once pulsed with life, but no longer.
• How it ended, I do not know. Invasion, sickness, suicide─none can say.
• None lived to speak for the dead. They are gone. Gone. Search all you like, but you'll only end up turning back.

Alphinaud:

• If there is no one here, then neither should there be emotion to bar our way.
• Yet Meteion seems convinced we'll turn back. What riddle is this...?