A Branch and Their Sapling

A Branch and Their Sapling

Quest giver

Aenc Daen

Location

Il Mheg (X:29.8, Y:5.9)

Quest line

Records of Unusual Endeavors Quests
┗ Pilgrim's Traverse Quests

Level

91

Requirements

Any Disciple of War or Magic (excluding limited jobs)

Gil

 834

Previous quest

Faerie Tale

Next quest

The Pilgrim's Answer

Patch

7.35

Links

EDB GT TC

“

Aenc Daen's muddy eyes regard you suspiciously.

— In-game description

Rewards

• 8 Sacramental Spirits
• 8 Sacramental Spices
• 8 Sacramental Grain
• 8 Sacramental Light
• 8 Sacramental Lilies

Steps

• Wait at the designated location.
• Speak with Aenc Daen.

Journal

• Aenc Daen's muddy eyes regard you suspiciously.
• Having reached the end of the pilgrim road, you report the details of your final battle to Aenc Daen. The Fuath is appropriately awed by your achievements and eager to see what changes your epic battle might have wrought upon the church, and thus you head to Dammroen Field whilst they notify the king.
• King Titania arrives with their entourage and confirms the disappearance of the fae barrier. To all appearances, the First Light's last solemn rites are over. Even as some mystery yet lingers around the final fiend you dispatched and the innermost chamber, the fae wards are reinstated by Titania's hand, and you are thanked profusely for a job well done in service to Il Mheg. No matter where your journey leads, be assured that your beautiful branch is guaranteed to follow.
• It transpires that Aenc Daen has been tasked to aid in any future exploration of the churches, so you may rest easy knowing your frog-like friend will be around to provide wisdom, witticisms, and the more-than-occasional couplet whenever fancy suits. Mind your mortal soul, lest you lose it to the Kingdom of Rainbows and find yourself permanently away with the fae...

Dialogue

Aencdaen: I must say, slimwood, you've been wandering holy halls like a woman/man possessed.
Aencdaen: Be that your pleasure, I won't prevent you from making a heaven of hell. Just know that I take no responsibility should you die upon the land you love so well.
Aencdaen: At the end of the road you met what!?
Aencdaen: O monstrous! O strange! I hardly know which to fear more─the true terror slain or the slayer true!
Aencdaen: You must be madder than your Madbloom to have flown so far and wreaked as much havoc besides. With blood-flecked laurels must we crown your mortal brow!
Aencdaen: Now, what changes upon the church may we observe? Meet us at Dammroen Field─I will fetch the king.
Aencdaen: Swifter than arrow from Renda-Rae's bow,
I go, I go, look how I go!♪
Aencdaen: ...Why am I not going, you ask? I'll get around to it! To the Church at Dammroen Field, Your Saplingness. With haste!

Feoul: The fae wards have vanished...

Aencdaen: All rites have been read to do right by the dead?

Feoul: Each has passed on, and grief no longer writes their epitaph.
Feoul: Did the archbishop intend for us to bury that final fiend with him? Or was it all mere coincidence?
Feoul: The truth behind these happenings has flown.
Feoul: Nonetheless, you have my eternal gratitude for your deeds here, my dearest, bravest sapling. On behalf of all Il Mheg, I thank you.

Osewyd: But what was that monster, anyway?
Osewyd: What's Dark and Light and dread all over?

Tyrmarn: To say nothing of that inner room. Did pilgrims of eld conclude their journey there?

Feoul: Remarkable phenomena, to be sure.
Feoul: There is one who may know of the fiend. A pilgrim who heralds from a land rich in Darkness─who journeyed alongside our Warriors of Light.
Feoul: She carried a burden so great that I should not be surprised had she left more than footsteps in her wake. You might seek answers from her, if there are any to be found.
Feoul: The fiend resembled the voidsent you faced in that world rich with Darkness, wouldn't you say? But how did it journey here?
Feoul: Perhaps the answer awaits somewhere, in the shadows of a stricken heart.
Feoul: Some sort of incarnation of Darkness fused to a sin eater... Of the latter, we have plenty─but the former is unusual for Norvrandt.
Feoul: Perhaps it journeyed here from another world. 'Twould not be the first time someone breached the rift, now would it, my sapling?
Feoul: Let curiosity guide you, and all will be revealed. I can feel it!
Feoul: Some sort of incarnation of Darkness fused to a sin eater... Of the latter, we have plenty─but the former is unusual for Norvrandt.
Feoul: Though I hate to admit this, the how and why of its advent are beyond my power to grasp.
Feoul: I have faith, however, that my intrepid sapling will seek out the answer someday.
Feoul: As for the room, I can share but little.
Feoul: Activating the portal while aether dissipated from the fallen creature must have conjured a glimpse of its memories.
Feoul: A sweet dream of a faraway fantasy that leaves mortals reeling─no different than any fae's mischief!

Vanthau: The portal is still open... I thought it would fall dormant once the funeral was over.

Feoul: Even should lesser eaters remain within, there is little chance of them bursting forth without a greater force to compel them.
Feoul: ...But to prevent any foolish fae from straying into trouble, I shall reinstate the wards myself.
Feoul: Well, my sapling. How did you find this adventure?

Q: What will you say?

> Exhilarating!
> I suppose I learned a thing or two.
> Can I go home now?

Feoul: I can hardly wait to brag about your exploits! And I know one friend who will be particularly keen to listen... Shame that he's less pretty without the crystals.
Feoul: Now to renew the wards. Everyone, keep your distance.
Feoul: Beyond this road's end, another begins...
Feoul: So forget not our pact, my adorable sapling.
Feoul: I am ever your beautiful branch...
Feoul: From one to the other, bond unbroken and true!

Aencdaen: You've saved the Kingdom of Rainbows like a right and proper hero, very good, et cetera.
Aencdaen: I would bid you adieu, my service to the king complete, but the course of fealty never did run smooth...
Aencdaen: No, I am to watch over things here, in case you desire another pilgrimage.
Aencdaen: Flirt with your own fatality all you like, but best to tread carefully, Forename Surname.
Aencdaen: Now much beshrew my manners and my pride
If you were e'er to claim that I had lied.
So know that if you die along your way
We'll steal your soul for ours and make you fae!♪

System: Congratulations! You have completed Pilgrim's Traverse.
System: You can exchange copies of Illumed Invocations for four types of accessories by speaking to Ose Wyd.
System: If you speak to Aenc Daen with all four of these accessories equipped or in your inventory, you will earn an achievement and a rare item.
System: Furthermore, you may now summon a powerful incarnation of Eminent Grief by means of the Final Verse (Quantum).
System: This duty can be challenged regardless of progression through Pilgrim's Traverse.
System: Be warned that the incarnation summoned with offerings will pose a far greater challenge than the fiend you confronted beyond traverse stone ninety-nine.
System: Vanthau can offer detailed information on the requirements for invoking the Final Verse (Quantum).