Words without Sound

Words without Sound

Quest giver

Emet-Selch

Location

Elpis (X:20.5, Y:9.0)

Quest line

Endwalker Main Scenario Quests

Level

87

Experience

 495,000

Gil

 1,109

Previous quest

Hunger in the Garden

Next quest

Follow, Wander, Stumble, Listen

Patch

6.0

“

Emet-Selch seems content to stay where he is.

— In-game description

Steps

• Search the area for Meteion.
• Search for Meteion beneath the Hungering Gardens.
• Search for Meteion north of the Hungering Gardens.
• Search for Meteion east of the Hungering Gardens.
• Speak with Hermes.

Walkthrough

• • NOTE: There are MANY more locations than the ones you NEED to go to. These are the locations that will progress the story.**

• 1st Spot (21.8 10.4 2.9)
• 2nd Spot (25.4 8.3 2.5)
• 3rd Spot (27.5 6.4 2.9)
• 4th Spot (29.7 13.0 3.0)

Dialogue

Emet-Selch:

• Hermes said he would not be long, yes? Then we shall wait here until he emerges...

Hermes:

• My apologies for keeping you waiting. I understand there is a matter you wish to discuss.

Emet-Selch:

• Aye, a matter of the utmost gravity...if one can suspend disbelief.
• Go on, then. Tell him what you told us. Who you are and why you came.

Hermes:

• The Final Days...

Venat:

• The phenomena observed during these star-encompassing calamities is likely the product of a dynamis reaction.
• And none is more versed in the applications of this energy than you, Hermes.
• I must stress that we do not believe you would desire such destruction. We come not to lodge accusations, but to beg your wisdom.
• And so, distressing though the exercise may be, I ask that you share with us your opinion on the matter─on the assumption that our visitor's tale is true.

Hermes:

• Even you, Venat...
• As you say, the phenomena observed in the two calamities may both be attributed to dynamis.
• Of note is the difference in its effect. In the first Final Days, it warped creation magicks. In the second, it warped the people themselves.
• The key variable, I suspect, is the aetheric density of the men of each age.
• As you know, aether, in essence, negates dynamis.
• Harboring high concentrations of aether, we ancients cannot readily manipulate dynamis─nor be manipulated by it. Therefore, rather than our selves, the calamity affected our magicks.
• In contrast, having been sundered, the people of the future are composed of but a fraction of our aether.
• Thus are they susceptible to the influence of dynamis─and its transformative potential.
• But that would explain only the mechanism, not the cause... Though perhaps...

Emet-Selch:

• What is it? Even should it be a hypothesis, we would hear it.

Hermes:

• Dynamis is an energy put in motion by feelings. Feelings for which there must first exist a source.
• A source to which the victims must be attuned─one that harbors the selfsame negative emotions. Elsewise, it could not be the agent of such extreme change.

Venat:

• So it wasn't the stagnation of the celestial currents...
• Someone─or something─is instigating the star's demise.

Emet-Selch:

• So we've a villain on our hands after all... Any idea who or what it could be?

Hermes:

• The celestial currents comprise the outermost layer of the star's aether, encasing it like a protective sphere.
• According to your tale, 'twas where the currents were weakest that the phenomena first manifested.
• If the inciting factor came from without Etheirys, then its effects would first be seen in those locations.

Meteion:

• Greetings. Can you hear me?
• Do not be alarmed ─ I mean you no harm.
• I wish only to hear your words. Share your feelings. Know your thoughts.
• May we please...be friends?

Hermes:

• Meteion? What is it?

Meteion:

• Executing scheduled task. Suspending individual self and connecting to shared consciousness.
• Connection established. Commencing status report.
• Ah! Ahhh! Ahhhhhh!
• It hurts, it hurts! It hurts!
• So hot...so cold...so sad... I don't understand... Make it stop... Please, make it stop...

Hermes:

• Steady, Meteion! Steady!

Meteion:

• So scared...so lonely... The pain...it's too much...
• Why...why...why do we...they...hurt...hurt...hate...HATE!
• This is wrong! All wrong!

Emet-Selch:

• She's...gone? But how?

Hermes:

• She has altered her aetheric density in order to blend in with her surroundings. An ability for avoiding confrontation.

Hythlodaeus:

• Most effective...frustratingly so. I can't see her either─not even a trace.

Meteion:

• Stay away. Please. This is wrong. My mistake. So please...

Venat:

• Are you all right?
• ...In your mind? No, we only heard her speak the instant before she vanished.

Hermes:

• Of course. When communicating without words, Meteion also employs dynamis.
• That would explain why you were able to hear her when we could not.

Emet-Selch:

• Then you are our best chance of finding her. Follow her voice, and try to track her down.
• Hindered though we may be, let us split up and search as well.

Meteion:

• It seeps...into my mind... Our voices... Reporting...
• No, no! Hermes mustn't hear them! I have to run...to hide...

???:

• Greetings...and salutations...

Meteion:

• Commencing report...
• Oh...oh no, we can't tell them that! We must run... Run far away!
• Please... Don't follow me...
• How...? How did it come to this...?
• Is this the reason we traveled to the stars? Why we sought out other life-forms?
• Is this it? Is this the answer!? No, it cannot be...it cannot be!

???:

• Compiling report for dissemination to Hermes and all peoples of Etheirys...

Meteion:

• Processing expedition data... Preparing profiles on intelligent civilizations...
• Formulating answers to the question...
• Finalizing report...
• No, Player... You mustn't listen!
• It's wrong...it's all wrong...

Emet-Selch:

• Any sign of Meteion?
• Panicked and confused... Which will make it all the more difficult to predict her movements.

Venat:

• Hermes. What do you make of this situation?

Hermes:

• The Meteia are linked to a single mind─a shared consciousness which connects them across any distance. I suspect something has happened which disrupted its usual harmony...

Venat:

• How might we access this shared consciousness of theirs?

Hermes:

• Much as you would approach any sentient being: directly.
• In the Meteia's case, that means speaking to any incarnation within physical reach.

Venat:

• So unless we can track down the Meteion we just lost, we have no means to communicate with them...
• No way of knowing what befell her sisters; no way to provide directions or guidance.

Emet-Selch:

• Then we had best set our musings aside, and concentrate on how we might find her!

Hermes:

• Oh, my dear Meteion... What did you witness out there that frightened you so?
• Why do you seek to keep it from us? How terrible could it possibly be...?