The Resilient Son
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The Resilient Son
- Quest giver
- Cahciua
- Location
- Heritage Found (X:15.6, Y:5.1)
- Quest line
Dawntrail Main Scenario Quests- Level
- 99
- Experience
1,115,520- Gil
8,711- Previous quest
Unto the Summit- Next quest
- A New Family
- Patch
- 7.0
- Links
- EDB GT TC
Main Scenario Progress: 939 / 987 (95.1%)
Dawntrail Progress: 86 / 134 (64.2%)
Cahciua wishes to take you to the entrance of Origenics.
— In-game description
Rewards
- Choose one of the following options:
2 Tacos de Carne Asada
2 Mesquite Soup
2 Creamy Alpaca Pasta
2 Broccoli and Spinach Saute
2 Vegetable Soup
- Unlocks
Steps
- Speak with Cahciua.
- Enter
Origenics. - Confront Zoraal Ja in
Everkeep. - Speak with Y'shtola.
- Examine Cahciua.
- Speak with Wuk Lamat in the Backroom.
Journal
- Cahciua wishes to take you to the entrance of Origenics.
- Having tended to the aftermath of the massacre in Solution Nine, you and your allies now look to dealing with Zoraal Ja. In order to reach the summit of Everkeep where he awaits, you must climb your way through Origenics, the facility where souls are separated and refined for use. To that end, you follow Cahciua to your departure point at the driftdowns.
- At the pier, Cahciua explains how the mission will unfold. When Origenics takes a scheduled delivery, you will steal inside aboard a hover cargo, and thence fight your way upwards. As you await departure, you see to your final preparations in anticipation of the facility's tight security.
- ※To enlist your companion NPCs for this duty, speak with them near the entrance or access Duty Support via the main menu. Use the Duty Finder if you wish to complete the instance alongside fellow players.
- After an arduous climb that takes you past technology both extraordinary and disturbing, you finally arrive at the uppermost section of Origenics on Everkeep's eleventh floor. There you come upon a storage chamber for soul cells, but to your dismay, most are already spent of their contents─it would seem Zoraal Ja has wasted no time availing himself of their power. A sudden noise from behind causes alarm, but it quickly gives way to gladness as you make out the figures of Alphinaud, Y'shtola, and Estinien, who have entered the dome in order to lend you a hand. With your formidable crew thus assembled, you press onwards to the summit in search of Zoraal Ja.
- ※In the event that you leave the summit of Everkeep, you may return there by speaking with Kiluwsa at the driftdowns.
- Ascending to the summit, instead of a twelfth level, you are shocked to find an enormous interdimensional portal hanging overhead in the open sky. Your immediate concern, however, is Zoraal Ja, who emerges from the blanket of clouds. A gasp escapes your lips when you see his tortured form, in the process of being twisted by the profusion of souls he has taken into himself. Wuk Lamat steps forward to challenge her brother, and thus begins the final battle between the siblings─between the Vow of Resolve of Tuliyollal and the King of Resolve of Alexandria─whose outcome will steer the course of the world...
- ※To enlist your companion NPCs for this duty, speak with them near the entrance or access Duty Support via the main menu. Use the Duty Finder if you wish to complete the instance alongside fellow players.
- Despite completing his transformation into a transcendent being, Zoraal Ja ultimately falls before your determined onslaught. Having told a teary Gulool Ja that he is free to embrace or spurn his legacy, he then breathes his last. As Wuk Lamat laments her brother's path, Sphene arrives and reveals that she still intends to plunder aether from other worlds in order to sustain the Endless, whom she insists are not dead. She takes up the object the king left behind, the key to interdimensional fusion, and sends it through the portal before closing it. In that instant, she disappears, having left you with the fervent declaration that she will stop at nothing in order to save her subjects─even should it demand that she become history's most brutal queen.
- ※In the event that you leave the summit of Everkeep, you may return there by speaking with Kiluwsa at the driftdowns.
- In place of roiling storm clouds, a clear and empty sky now hangs over Everkeep. As all present stand silent, processing events, you turn to Y'shtola for what insights she may be able to offer.
- ※In the event that you leave the summit of Everkeep, you may return there by speaking with Kiluwsa at the driftdowns.
- Y'shtola posits that Sphene's true form exists in the reflection beyond the portal, but with it closed, you cannot go after her. Hoping to find clues, she suggests examining Cahciua's vessel, which has ceased to function.
- ※In the event that you leave the summit of Everkeep, you may return there by speaking with Kiluwsa at the driftdowns.
- Erenville reveals his suspicion that Cahciua is in fact an Endless. Given the timing of her vessel's deactivation, she is likely in the same reflection as Sphene, to which you must find a way to travel if you are to prevent the queen from enacting her genocidal plan. While Y'shtola leads an investigation at the tower's summit, you are urged to head back below with Wuk Lamat and Gulool Ja to get some rest.
- You join Wuk Lamat in the Backroom. She concedes to needing a rest, and having witnessed her exertions every step of the way, you are inclined to agree.
Related NPCs
Dialogue
Zoraal Ja is no king. Not anymore. For the sake of Tuliyollal—of the world—we must put an end to his madness.
I've spoken with Alphinaud. Apparently, the dragons came to Tuliyollal's aid!
I'm coming too, of course. This is what I've worked so hard to be a part of.
The summit of Everkeep... Finally, we shall see what the clouds conceal.
The entrance to Origenics is located on the back of Everkeep.
We can reach it by the water. Come, we head to the pier at the driftdowns!
We're going to ride that oversized container, are we? Don't worry—you won't catch me mewling over a little seasickness. Not anymore.
So we just have to make our way up. Seems nice and straightforward to me.
Visibility is quite poor, but let us trust in our allies to ferry us safely over.
A facility for processing souls... As distressing as the very concept is, I confess I'm curious to see the technology employed.
I'm with Oblivion. Cahciua has told me all.
I will now explain how this mission will unfold.
Origenics takes delivery at specific times. It is at one such time that we will enter the facility, aboard the hover cargo.
Kiluwsa here will pilot the vehicle, so you need only sit tight until we arrive at the entrance.
Our friends in the Backroom will create a diversion so we can steal inside.
After which we make our way to the summit, striking down any foes that bar our path!
Easy, yes?
Easy to say, perhaps... But we'll manage one way or another!
That we will!
In anticipation of the unexpected, we should maintain contact with the support crew and adapt as necessary.
Indeed. I shall use the communicator I borrowed from Shale to keep them informed at all times.
I see everyone has a grasp of the details. Good. We set off very soon, so be ready!
The hover cargo is borrowed from a reforger friend. She was relieved to hear that Gulool Ja is safe.
I'm told you saved Wayakkwe—thank you. I'll be praying for your safety and success.
What will you do?
Small talk.
Form a party and enter Origenics.
Nothing.
Koana has done his part. Now I must finish things here.
Zoraal Ja cannot be allowed to cause any more harm. I will do my part to stop him.
With the danger passed in Tuliyollal, we can fight without worry!
I expect that Alexandria's military might lies with Origenics. We must be prepared to meet with fierce resistance.
During this quest and when using the Duty Support system, you have the opportunity to undertake this trial with a party of NPC companions. Some of these allies' roles will differ from those you are normally able to select.
Additionally, you may now enter Origenics with a party of NPC avatars. To make use of this feature, open the Trust interface located under Duty in the main menu.
If you're heading back to the summit, I'll launch the hover cargo.
Proceed to the summit of Everkeep?
What will you do?
Small talk.
Form a party and enter Everkeep.
Nothing.
Everyone is counting on us. We cannot lose, no matter what!
Zoraal Ja will not rest until he has brought the entire world to heel. We must put a stop to him once and for all.
To strike down her brother for the sake of her people... Hers is a terrible burden. But she has us to help her bear it.
Judging from his words, Zoraal Ja will spare no souls for resurrection. He will burn through every last one to achieve his ambition.
If Zoraal Ja isn't holding back, then we need but return the favor. Thus shall we honor Gulool Ja Ja.
We helped Lamaty'i to triumph over Zoraal Ja in the rite of succession. Even if Koana hadn't asked, it is our duty see this battle through.
Zoraal Ja will require time to fully harness the souls he has absorbed. Ideally, we can finish things beforehand...
You godsdamned fool...
What you're doing is wrong, Sphene. No matter how hard you try to convince yourself otherwise...
That such a threat existed in another reflection... When Emet-Selch bade you seek discovery, was he aware of it?
Sphene has the potential to wreak unimaginable havoc with the key. We have no time to waste.
This truly bodes ill...
No sooner do we deal with one threat...
Father...
Mother? What's happened to you?
Cahciua's vessel shows no signs of life.
That woman—Sphene, was it? In all likelihood, her true form lies in the reflection yonder.
But how to go after her now...
Cahciua might know something, but her vessel ceased to function when the portal closed.
Let us examine it. With luck, it will yield some much-needed clues.
The key to interdimensional fusion... It did not seem so wondrous a thing to me...
Cahciua's vessel shows no signs of life.
Cahciua said that she operates her vessel from afar.
Could something have befallen her!?
The words Sphene spoke to your mother—did they mean anything to you?
Those who came from my village... None of them remembered her.
It's the same as what we witnessed happen to those who knew Namikka.
Then Cahciua is...
You noticed something, didn't you? Whatever it is, please tell me.
While Sphene projected herself onto machines, Cahciua controlled hers remotely. But to me, they appeared identical in their existence.
Both were inorganic objects suffused with faint amounts of aether. When that aether faded, they became lifeless husks.
And as we all saw, this happened to both the moment the portal closed...
So Cahciua was operating her vessel from the reflection beyond?
But if none of her friends and acquaintances here remember her, then...
What will you say?
Cahciua is an Endless too.
...
The Endless... Those who are recreated from memories of the departed.
All this time, my mother was dead. She fooled us all.
Sphene, for one, does not seem to think of them in that way.
No. She loves them like she does all her citizens, and she'll do anything to protect them.
Such as plundering aether from the Source. Alas, Zoraal Ja had his own agenda and spoiled the plan.
But now that she possesses the key, she could target other reflections without our interference. Reflections whose people have no idea what she is willing to do.
Then the people of the Source are not the only ones in danger. We must stop her.
We have to go where Sphene has gone. I want to talk to her again. And perhaps we'll find Cahciua as well...
With the gate closed, we need to find an alternate means of passage. I will look into it.
Thank you.
Let us begin by investigating this place. There may be clues relating to what lies beyond.
Let me help. I'll do whatever you need me to do—anything at all!
Of course, my friend. Your knowledge and expertise would be most welcome.
I expect the investigation will take time. Perhaps you'd like to head back below with Gulool Ja and get some rest.
That's not a bad idea. We do need to share these developments with those in the Backroom as well.
Come on, Gulool Ja.
You too, Forename. You've more than done your part for now, so leave this to us.
I'll be fine. You don't need to worry about me.
So much has happened and so quickly, I'm still catching up mentally.
But where it concerns Zoraal Ja, I have no regrets. I made my choice and did what I had to do.
I only wish I could have stopped Sphene too. Stopped her from walking her misguided path...
<sigh> I could definitely use some rest...