The Pilgrim's Answer

The Pilgrim's Answer

Quest giver

Cyella

Location

The Crystarium (X:10.7, Y:15.3)

Level

91

Requirements

Any Disciple of War or Magic (excluding limited jobs)

Gil

 0

Previous quest

Buried Memory
A Branch and Their Sapling
Safekeeping

Patch

7.35

Links

GT TC

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— In-game description

Notes

This is a hidden quasi-quest that does not show up on the minimap. There are no steps to this quest: Talking to the questgiver both accepts and completes the quest.

Dialogue

Accepting the quest

Cyella: Come again? A sin eater fused with a voidsent? 
Cyella: ...We should speak elsewhere. Somewhere quiet.

Cutscene

Cyella: Tell me. You were investigating a ruined church of the First Light?
Cyella: You possess a singular talent for dredging up memories I'd sooner forget.
Cyella: ...Not that I can fault you for it. Remembrance is the burden of the living.
Cyella: What you described sounds like a voidsent I once defeated in the Thirteenth. Back before...any of this.
Cyella: At the time, I was just another memoriate, traveling the land and hunting the monsters that preyed upon the innocent.
Cyella: ...Until I realized one such monster could be of use to me.
Cyella: When I sealed it in memoria, I had no other thought but preventing its resuscitation.
Cyella: But when I agreed to journey to the First as the Ascians' hidden emissary, I remembered that voidsent. 
Cyella: A creature of its caliber could turn the tide of battle. It could lend me the strength I needed to prevail. 
Cyella: Drawing its power from the memoria would have been a simple matter.
Cyella: Yet after bringing it here, I left it to gather dust upon my desk in Lakeland.
Cyella: If I truly had wanted to defeat Ardbert, that voidsent would have been my solution...
Cyella: But I was afraid. Afraid of being twisted by Darkness like so many memoriates before me. Afraid of becoming what I hated the most.
Cyella: Never mind that it was far too late. The Ascians' puppet, fearing corruption... Absurd, don't you think?

What will you say?
> You're no monster, Cyella.
> Part of you always wanted Ardbert to succeed?
> ...

< You're no monster, Cyella. >
Cyella: You are kind to say so.

< Part of you always wanted Ardbert to succeed? >
Cyella: Succeed in slaying the monster, you mean? I wish I had. Would that I'd been a traitor only to myself─I could've believed my heart was in the right place, if nothing else.

Cyella: Absurd, yet in no way amusing. I agree.
Cyella: Above all, I was naive to think that the memoria would be safe in my former quarters, even once they were rendered inaccessible to mortal interlopers. 
Cyella: Sin eaters must have been drawn to the memoria's concentrated Darkness. They would have provided enough Light to break the seal─and suitable fodder for the fiend in its newfound freedom.
Cyella: In sparing the First from its wrath, you have prevented untold devastation.
Cyella: I know that words will not absolve me. Yet, as one who draws breath upon this star, I offer them nonetheless.
Cyella: Warrior of Darkness... Nay, Warrior of Light. I thank you.