By the Muse Forsaken

Quest giver: Managingway
Location: Mare Lamentorum (X:17.4, Y:16.0)
Quest line: Loporrit Quests
┗ Loporrit Daily Quests
Level: 80 
Required quest: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
Requirements: Disciple of the Hand
Experience: ????? "?????" is not a number.
Gil: 655
Patch: 6.35
Links: EDB GT TC

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Managingway would have you assist an artist struggling to find their Way.

※Please note that the difficulty of this quest has been synced to your current level. Furthermore, you may not proceed with a class or job that is different from when you accepted this quest.

— In-game description

Rewards

25 Crystals, depending on DoH class
1
Loporrit Carat
60 Loporrit Relations

Steps

Search for the muttering Loporrit.
Report back to Managingway.

Journal

Managingway would have you assist an artist struggling to find their Way.
- ※Please note that the difficulty of this quest has been synced to your current level. Furthermore, you may not proceed with a class or job that is different from when you accepted this quest.

Search for the muttering Loporrit in Greatest Endsvale.

Report back to Managingway.

Dialogue

Managingway: Some of our artists have been so prolific in their painting that they now claim to lack sufficient inspiration.

Managingway: One Way in particular has become quite disheartened -- so much so that they have taken to conversing with the very nothingness that plagues them. To be frank, I'm more than somewhat concerned.

Managingway: I do hate to trouble you with such a gloomy affair, but could you perhaps offer them some encouragement? You should find them wandering Greatest Endsvale and muttering sad words.

At Greatest Endsvale

Muttering Loporrit: Sad words... Sad words...

Muttering Loporrit: Aaah! Y-You frightened me. Have you come to hear of my emptiness?

Muttering Loporrit: With these two paws, I have depicted my entire existence. The moon. The Loporrits. The...well, that's about it, really. I have painted everything and now nothing seems new or interesting. Oh, whatever is left for me...?

What will you say?

How about painting Etheirys?
- Muttering Loporrit: Etheirys? But so many Ways have already painted it. A bright, blue orb suspended in unending darkness...
- Muttering Loporrit: But wait! If I were to draw the landscapes that may or may not exist upon Etheirys...that could be very lovely!
You could try drawing a person.
- Muttering Loporrit: A person? If you only knew how many Ways have drawn the people who were meant to join us...the people who never came...
- Muttering Loporrit: But wait! If I were to draw a Loporrit as a person...that could be something remarkable!
Bunnies. Lots and lots of bunnies.
- Muttering Loporrit: Bunnies? What are those?
- Muttering Loporrit: Etheirys has Loporrits!? Why haven't I heard of this!? I must draw them straightaway!

Muttering Loporrit: I feel alive again -- inspired! I didn't think it was possible. Thank you, <name>. And thanks to Managingway for sending you!

At Hoper's Hold

Managingway: Right on schedule! Our muttering friend has gotten straight to work at the imaging station, and I managed to sneak a glance at their progress.

If Etheirys
- Managingway: I do believe they are recreating images from Etheirys. Regardless of accuracy, the awe they hold for Mother Hydaelyn's star is palpable in their work.
If a person
- Managingway: It is...unique to say the least. "Terrifying," may be a more accurate word. A beast of neither man nor Loporrit, grinning eerily from the confines of a dark prison...? Ahem.
If bunnies
- Managingway: I do believe they are drawing what you would call a "bunny." While anatomically questionable, their work exhibits a tangible curiosity and excitement regarding the creatures.

Managingway: At the end of the day, the priority of art is its creation, not its analysis. So long as our Way remains bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I am quite satisfied.

Managingway: Still, the flow of inspiration is known to be fickle, so I may call upon you again should our Ways require it. Until next time.