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Quest giver

Coph-coodg

Location

Ultima Thule (X:22.1, Y:10.7)

Quest line

Endwalker Main Scenario Quests

Level

89

Experience

 508,200

Gil

 952

Previous quest

Roads Pαved││Sacri┣ice

Next quest

Where Kn∞wledge Leads

Patch

6.0

“

Coph-coodg languidly awaits his brethren's arrival

— In-game description

Steps

• Speak with Coph-coodg.
• Wait at the designated location.
• Wait at the designated location again.
• Speak with Y'shtola.

Dialogue

Alisaie:

• <sigh> I had no luck, but everyone else fared well enough. Quite a few Ea have awakened.

Coph-coodg:

• Ah, there they are.
• May I introduce to you Lah-laakh, Dew-deekh, and Neh-needg.

Lah-laakh:

• It has been too long, Coph-coodg. I daresay Sadr IV has since completed an orbit.

Coph-coodg:

• Indeed. Until the travelers brought it to my attention, I hadn't noticed how unraveled some had become.

Neh-needg:

• Travelers...? Ah, of course, of course. The ones who wished to know why we seek to regain corporeal forms.

Coph-coodg:

• The truth of the matter is as plain to see as the neighboring systems, but my single account would fail to satisfy the requirement for scientific objectivity. Thus did I bid them awaken you.

G'raha Tia:

• Am I the only one who struggles to tell who is speaking?

Urianger:

• Nay, thou art not. In the absence of corporeal forms and the divergence they afford, mayhap such similarity in voice is unavoidable.

Dew-deekh:

• By the way, Coph-coodg─have you already observed the requisite custom for the travelers?
• That which one is expected to do when receiving guests. A matter of proper form.

Coph-coodg:

• Ahhh, yes. So long has it been, it had completely escaped my mind...and still does. What was it again? I can't seem to remember...

Dew-deekh:

• Neither do I. Pity. I was hoping you would...

Neh-needg:

• Perhaps we can search the archives for the answer.

Coph-coodg:

• Come now, Neh-needg, the archives have long been frozen, lest we subject ourselves to further dolor. Surely you recall that much.

Lah-laakh:

• ...Ah, of course. Food─the custom is to serve food.
• Beings of flesh such as they must regularly replenish their aether. By contributing to their replenishment, we communicate our friendly intention.

All:

• That's right, that's right!

Coph-coodg:

• We duly invite you to join us in communal repast, after which we may engage in leisurely conversation.

Alphinaud:

• If we have a chance to learn something, then I see no reason to decline.

Coph-coodg:

• Excellent. If you would care to follow, we shall feast you on the purest aether.
• This facility is where we replenish our aether. There is no particular name for it, but we traditionalists sometimes use the word “restaurant.”
• Now then, if you would take your place with your comrades, the space will soon be awash with purest aether. Please absorb as much as you like.

Y'shtola:

• Just as I had suspected. As meticulously as one might recreate the Ea's home world, this is Ultima Thule. One cannot simply generate aether here.
• As recreations, our friends are oblivious to this fact. To the very truth of their existence. Much like the phantoms of the recreated Amaurot.
• However appearances may seem, we must ever be mindful that it is the memories of the dead with whom we deal.

Coph-coodg:

• So, did you have your fill of aether?

Y'shtola:

• Alas, we couldn't absorb it. A deficiency in our forms, it would seem.

Coph-coodg:

• Oh, how very unfortunate... May I ask how you normally replenish your aether?

Dew-deekh:

• Through your mouths, you say! How very primitive and quaint!

Neh-needg:

• To think that their mouths serve not only to expel sound, but draw in sustenance besides... Such life-forms have long since vanished from our systems!

Urianger:

• Though we regrettably could not partake of your magnificent feast, rest assured we feel your welcome most keenly.
• In the course of acquainting ourselves with your sophisticated ways, however, we could not fail but wonder: wherefore do you wish to obtain vessels of flesh, and thence to vanish? Will you not favor us with an explanation?

Coph-coodg:

• You flesh-and-blood beings are always so hasty. It does have its charm, however...
• Very well, we shall indulge you. In the beginning, when the Ea yet possessed corporeal bodies, our ancestors dedicated themselves to the pursuit of knowledge and technological advancement.
• By transcending all limitations, we believed we would eliminate sorrow and abide in true happiness.

Lah-laakh:

• From the tangible such as land to the intangible such as labor, there exist myriad hindrances to progress. But the most confining of all was the flesh itself.
• Our natural lifespan was distressingly middling, you see. Too short to enjoy unhurried lives, yet too long to be considered disposable.
• Furthermore, to simply maintain the integrity of our bodies demanded considerable resources.

Neh-needg:

• But we managed to solve this problem.
• After long years, we discovered how to become noncorporeal entities with everlasting lives, untroubled by the failures of the flesh.

Dew-deekh:

• Thus changed, we had more time and freedom to continue our scientific pursuits.
• We went on to make ever greater strides in our quest to transcend all limitations, until we finally decided to challenge the last of them all: the limit of knowledge.

Coph-coodg:

• That is to say, deciphering the laws of creation.
• We sought to discover how the universe came into being and explain all extant phenomena, and thence predict the future.
• If we could but achieve this, we believed that we would be free from uncertainty and anxiety.

Y'shtola:

• And did you find the answers you sought?

Coph-coodg:

• Yes, we did. Our efforts revealed to us a fundamental truth.

Lah-laakh:

• Knowledge of said truth is essential for the continuation of our conversation. If you would learn more, we will share it with you.

Dew-deekh:

• No, we mustn't. Primitive as they are, it would be unspeakably cruel to deprive them of their ignorance.

Neh-needg:

• They are possessed of corporeal forms, their lives readily ended.
• As those who have gone before, is it not our duty to warn them?

Urianger:

• What thinkest thou...?

Coph-coodg:

• We have deliberated and come to a consensus.
• If you are resolved to know it, we will disclose to you the truth we discovered. The truth of the universe.
• Seek us at the stone pillars just outside the bounds of the abode. A place called Elegeia.

Y'shtola:

• A fundamental truth...
• We will hear it, of course. Let us learn what has led such an enlightened people to this indolent end.