Words without Sound
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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
- Links
- EDB GT TC
Main Scenario Progress: 777 / 978 (79.4%)
Endwalker Progress: 79 / 155 (51%)
“Emet-Selch seems content to stay where he is.
— In-game description
Walkthrough
NOTE: There are MANY more locations than the ones you NEED to go to. These are the locations that will progress the story.
- (21.8, 10.4, 2.9)
- (25.4, 8.3, 2.5)
- (27.5, 6.4, 2.9)
- (29.7, 13.0, 3.0)
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First location -
Second location (beneath the elevated platform in the large pond) -
Third location -
Fourth location
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.
Journal
- Emet-Selch seems content to stay where he is.
Dialogue
Optional dialogue
Hythlodaeus: Hm? Why am I always so forward thinking? I simply wish to enjoy all that life has to offer!
Accepting the quest (Cutscene)
Emet-Selch: Hermes said he would not be long, yes? Then we shall wait here until he emerges...
| Voiced cutscene | 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. Emet-Selch: 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. Venat: And none is more versed in the applications of this energy than you, Hermes. Venat: I must stress that we do not believe you would desire such destruction. We come not to lodge accusations, but to beg your wisdom. Venat: 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... Hermes: As you say, the phenomena observed in the two calamities may both be attributed to dynamis. Hermes: 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. Hermes: The key variable, I suspect, is the aetheric density of the men of each age. Hermes: As you know, aether, in essence, negates dynamis. Hermes: 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. Hermes: In contrast, having been sundered, the people of the future are composed of but a fraction of our aether. Hermes: Thus are they susceptible to the influence of dynamis ─ and its transformative potential. Hermes: 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. Hermes: 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... Venat: 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. Hermes: According to your tale, 'twas where the currents were weakest that the phenomena first manifested. Hermes: If the inciting factor came from without Etheirys, then its effects would first be seen in those locations. Meteion: Greetings. Can you hear me? Meteion: Do not be alarmed ─ I mean you no harm. Meteion: I wish only to hear your words. Share your feelings. Know your thoughts. Meteion: May we please...be friends? Hermes: Meteion? What is it? Meteion: Executing scheduled task. Suspending individual self and connecting to shared consciousness. Meteion: Connection established. Commencing status report. Meteion: Ah! Ahhh! Ahhhhhh! Meteion: It hurts, it hurts! It hurts! Meteion: 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... Meteion: Why...why...why do we...they...hurt...hurt...hate...HATE! Meteion: 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? Venat: ...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. Hermes: 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. Emet-Selch: Hindered though we may be, let us split up and search as well. | Voiced cutscene end |
Optional dialogue
Venat: I've strained my senses to their limits, but found nothing. You must calm your mind, that you might hear it ─ that you might feel her silent voice!
Hythlodaeus: If I cannot perceive her aether, what else have I to offer but my rousing support!? Ahh, Hermes truly is a master of his craft...
Hermes: Meteion! Where are you!? Please, answer me! What has happened to you? To your sisters...?
Search the area for Meteion.
> Suspicious disturbance (X:21.8, Y:10.5) You calm your mind, your senses questing for any hint of Meteion's presence... Meteion: It seeps...into my mind... Our voices... Reporting... Meteion: No, no! Hermes mustn't hear them! I have to run...to hide... Meteion's anguished voice grows distant as the source seems to flee down the slope...
Search for Meteion beneath the Hungering Gardens. (Cutscene)
> Suspicious disturbance (X:25.4, Y:8.3) ???: Greetings...and salutations... Meteion: Commencing report... Meteion: Oh...oh no, we can't tell them that! We must run... Run far away! Meteion: Please... Don't follow me... Meteion's anguished voice fades as you sense her climbing to the top of the ridge...
Optional dialogue
Emet-Selch: Ugh, this is an exercise in futility... You have to be the one to find her, [Forename]! Follow her voice!
Search for Meteion north of the Hungering Gardens.
> Suspicious disturbance (X:27.6, Y:6.5) Meteion: How...? How did it come to this...? Meteion: Is this the reason we traveled to the stars? Why we sought out other life-forms? Meteion: Is this it? Is this the answer!? No, it cannot be...it cannot be! Meteion's anguished voice drifts away to the south...
Search for Meteion east of the Hungering Gardens. (Cutscene)
> Suspicious disturbance (X:29.8, Y:13,1) ???: Compiling report for dissemination to Hermes and all peoples of Etheirys... Meteion: Processing expedition data... Preparing profiles on intelligent civilizations... Meteion: Formulating answers to the question... Meteion: Finalizing report... Meteion: No, [Forename]... You mustn't listen! Meteion: It's wrong...it's all wrong... Meteion's anguished voice flees towards the lake... Emet-Selch: Any sign of Meteion? Emet-Selch: 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. Hermes: 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... Venat: 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!
Optional dialogue
Venat: In the Final Days, aether is twisted by the invasion of dynamis from beyond the star, its progress intensified by feelings of fear and despair and anguish... Venat: Nay, I like not the picture which emerges with these latest pieces.
Hythlodaeus: 'Tis a shame there is no registered concept we could use to create another Meteion. Assuming of course we could link her to the shared mind! But no, if it were a viable solution, Hermes would have surely suggested it...
Emet-Selch: A frantic search will avail us little. We must be clever about this...
Speak with Hermes.
Hermes: Oh, my dear Meteion... What did you witness out there that frightened you so? Hermes: Why do you seek to keep it from us? How terrible could it possibly be...?