An Egi-stential Crisis

An Egi-stential Crisis

Quest giver

Y'mhitra

Location

Old Gridania (X:10.9, Y:6.3)

Quest line

Disciple of Magic Job Quests
┗ Summoner Quests

Job

Summoner

Level

65

Experience

 105,000

Gil

 2,577

Previous quest

Performing for Prin

Next quest

Off the Record

Patch

4.0

Links

EDB GT TC

“

Y'mhitra has an announcement regarding the final challenge.

— In-game description

Steps

• Join Y'mhitra at the airship landing in Ul'dah.
• Speak with the Elite Flyer.
• Rescue the summoners!
• Defeat the unknown summoner!
• Speak with Dancing Wolf.
• Speak with Y'mhitra in Gridania.

Journal

• Y'mhitra has an announcement regarding the final challenge.

• Principia pronounces that the third challenge is at hand. Although seemingly unable to reveal the exact nature of the trial, the familiar explains that you will once more require the cooperation of Dancing Wolf's neophyte summoners. Y'mhitra contacts the flame captain, and he gladly arranges for the mock battle to take place on Seal Rock. Meet Y'mhitra at the airship landing in Ul'dah.

• You arrive in Ul'dah only to learn that Dancing Wolf and his soldiers have come under attack on Seal Rock. A greatly concerned Y'mhitra urges you to inform the elite flyer of this development, and make an immediate departure for the island.

• You have rescued Captain Wolf and his soldiers from an ambush sprung by a mysterious and powerful summoner. Regroup with your companions at the airship landing in Ul'dah.

• Though it seems impossible, you discover that the enemy who attacked your comrades appears to be Sari─an Allagan master summoner who lived several thousand years ago. Speak with Dancing Wolf at the airship landing in Ul'dah, and discuss this unnerving development.

• Dancing Wolf and his summoner squad thank you for their rescue, but the identity and abilities of their attacker remain the source of much confusion. Return to Apkallu Falls and join Y'mhitra as she prepares to question Principia.

• After considering the facts at hand, you conclude that the Sari you encountered was most likely a clone of Principia's creator. Whatever the truth of the situation, however, the familiar's most precious summoning wisdom has been sealed behind an arcane lock. Y'mhitra vows to scour Allagan records for clues that will allow you to track this “Sari” down and claim the knowledge you have earned...
  • ※The next summoner quest will be available from Y'mhitra upon reaching level 68.

Dialogue

(Optional)
Principia: One last challenge remains. Pray win through this trial, lest the higher knowledge I hoard remain lost. 

Accepting the Quest (Cutscene)

Y'mhitra: The time has come, [Forename]! Prin is ready to administer the final trial.

Principia: Yes, your third challenge is at hand, [Mistress/Master]. I shall be glad to at last share the wisdom that has long lain dormant within my pages.

Y'mhitra: Thus far we've had evaluations of raw power and refinement of skill. What, then, will this third challenge seek to test?

Principia: ...That, I cannot tell you.

Y'mhitra: Cannot...or will not?

Principia: I do not keep this detail from you for the sake of my own amusement. It must be secret─were you aware of the test's purpose, such knowledge would unfairly affect its outcome.
Principia: What I will tell you, however, is that this trial requires conditions that are akin to an actual battlefield.
Principia: As such, I must ask that you call fellow summoners to your side, and arrange a location where you might join hands against a most-realistic primal threat.

Y'mhitra: Well, this ought to be welcome news for Captain Wolf. I shall see if his acolytes are available...
Y'mhitra: Greetings, this is Y'mhitra, I─ Y'mhitra. ...Of the Sons of Saint Coinach? Aye. I have a favor to ask...
Y'mhitra: Well, Captain Wolf was more than eager to accept our request. He even offered to arrange exclusive use of a section of Seal Rock.
Y'mhitra: It seems there will be an airship waiting in Ul'dah to fly us to the island. Shall we rendezvous at the landing once you are prepared, then?

Principia: This will be the final and most grueling challenge. Pray ready yourself, [Mistress/Master], that you are not reduced to so much gruel.  

Optional

Y'mhitra: Make for Ul'dah when you are ready, [Forename]. There should be an airship waiting to take us to Seal Rock.

Principia: This will be the final and most grueling challenge. Pray ready yourself, [Mistress/Master], that you are not reduced to so much gruel.  

Elite Flyer: Captain Wolf and his squad of summoners await you on Seal Rock. Permission has been granted to use the island for your...exercise, but we must ask that you avoid damaging the relics.

Joining Y'mhitra at the airship landing in Ul'dah

Y'mhitra: I don't know about you, [Forename], but my nerves are beginning to get the best of me! Captain Wolf and the others have already landed on Seal Rock, so let us not delay the challenge any further.
Y'mhitra: >> Who could that be? ...Oh, Summoner Jajasamu, how might I─ Pardon!? ...By whom!? We─ ...Lieutenant!? Can you hear me!? <<
Y'mhitra: Blast! The call was cut off. [Forename], our Immortal colleagues are under attack.
Y'mhitra: Their situation sounds dire indeed. All the summoners are crippled by injuries, and Captain Wolf alone fights to keep the foe at bay.
Y'mhitra: ...Our planned battle has become rather more real than we anticipated. We'd best explain matters to the pilot, and arrange a rescue party!

Optional

Principia: The situation sounds grim, [Mistress/Master]. We should make for Seal Rock immediately!

Y'mhitra: Captain Wolf needs our help, [Forename]. We must inform the pilot at once!

Speaking with the Elite Flyer

Elite Flyer: ...Ambushed, you say!? Understood.
Elite Flyer: I'll put in a call for reinforcements, but my ship is ready to depart now if you are. Shall we go in ahead? 

Solo Duty

Y'mhitra the Learned: Follow me, Maleficent!
They should be over this way!

Principia: I've located a survivor.
Let us ensure his continued survival!

Flame Private Crispin: I'll live, I think...
The others! We became separated...

Y'mhitra the Learned: His wounds are not too serious.
Come, [Forename], we mustn't tarry!
Y'mhitra the Learned: Are these egi!?
I've never seen their like!

Principia: I recognize them from Allagan times.
But few could summon so many...
Principia: Such odd vocalizations.
I have no records of egi speech.
Principia: Another survivor located.
The wounds appear grievous! 

Y'mhitra the Learned: We must treat these at once!
Prin, can you, uh, apply pressure?

Flame Sergeant Denise: We were completely overmatched...
The captain... He drew them away...

Principia: We shall tend to the injured.
Go with haste, [Mistress/Master]!

Dancing Wolf: [Forename]! Thank the gods!
I'm in over my head here!

Off-center Summoner: Ah, the “potential” has arrived.
Shall we test the limits of your power?
Off-center Summoner: So, this is what the art has become.
More. Show me more!
Off-center Summoner: Familiar with Bahamut's power, are you?
You must have another taste!

Dancing Wolf: Who is this man!?
He's worse than the Ascians...

Off-center Summoner: You exceed my expectations.
Shall we try something new?

Dancing Wolf: Wait, those don't look like egi!

Off-center Summoner: Consummate skill. Expansive aetherial might.
You truly are a fascinating specimen! 

Dancing Wolf: We can't avoid those flares!
But they seem weakest at the center of the blast. 

Off-center Summoner: My energies wane...
This location was not ideal. 

Cutscene

???: Anomalous potential confirmed.
Commencing scan.
???: Latent aetherial capacity: immeasurable.
Standard parameters exceeded.
Reinitializing system.

Dancing Wolf: What, he wants to go another round!?

Principia: Master Sari!? How have you come to be here?

Y'mhitra: Master...
Surely you do not mean that Sari!?

Sari: Ah, Principia, they have woken you.
...This should suffice.

Y'mhitra: What did you do to Prin!?

Sari: The construct is unharmed. I simply added another layer of...security.
Sari: Do not disappoint me, summoner. I will be waiting.

Y'mhitra: How odd. The way he vanished was almost as if...

Dancing Wolf: Thal's teeth! What was that all about!?
Dancing Wolf: Bah! We'll discuss this back in Ul'dah after we've seen to the wounded. 

Optional

Denise: I felt Thal's hand on my shoulder for a moment there, but Miss Y'mhitra's magicks brushed it away. Thank you for coming to our rescue!

Crispin: That was like to a nightmare. What manner of summoner can command so many egi at once...?

Jajasamu: That bloke called up an army all by himself, an' I'm pretty sure some of 'em weren't egi. I didn't know that kind o' thing was even possible...

Elite Flyer: I thank you for saving my comrades. Your decisive action carried the day!

Y'mhitra: Summoner Denise was gravely wounded. Had we arrived but a step or two later... 

Speaking with Dancing Wolf

Dancing Wolf: You arrived in the nick of time, [Forename]! Thanks to you, my soldiers survived that ambush, and they'll be fit for duty again after a bit of rest.

Crispin: Aye, you have our gratitude. If you hadn't plunged into the fray like that, we almost certainly would have perished.

Jajasamu: Ye said that bastard was “Master Sari,” didn't ye? A summoner of ancient Allag? Did them mages have some way o' comin' back to life?

Dancing Wolf: Alright, Lieutenant, let's not jump to conclusions!

Denise: Well, he was wielding summoning magicks unlike aught we've ever seen before. Maybe Prin has some idea...

Y'mhitra: ...I'll be sure to ask. Come, Maleficent. Let us return to Gridania.  

Optional

Dancing Wolf: Y'mhitra surprised me once before with her cunning, but I knew in my gut that that ambush was no part of her agenda─it was too sudden; too brutal. Even worse, we're not even sure of who our foe actually was...  

Principia: What misfortune that such an incident should occur on the cusp of your final challenge...

Speaking with Y'mhitra in Gridania (Cutscene)

Y'mhitra: Well, what was meant to be [Forename]'s final trial was certainly testing, to say the least. Tell me, Prin: what makes you so sure that that was Master Sari?

Principia: Based upon the evidence at hand, there can be no doubt. The vocal and aetherial signatures were identical to those exhibited by my creator.
Principia: The only aspect that gives me pause is his behavior. Master Sari was never one to offer harm to others with such callous indifference.

Y'mhitra: Ah, I would say there is a larger inconsistency to consider here, Prin: your creator supposedly died several thousand years ago.

Principia: There is one other possibility. The greatest minds of Allag unlocked a science known as “cloning,” by which they could artificially create a replicant of a living being.
Principia: Seal Rock is, after all, a construction of the Allagan Empire. Assuming the individual you battled was indeed a clone of Master Sari, then my senses would recognize no appreciable difference.

Y'mhitra: An exact copy of the original person... 
'Twould explain much, but the very thought of it is horrifying.
Y'mhitra: ...Oh, and did he not tamper with your enchantments!? Are you truly unharmed?

Principia: My faculties are undimmed, but the wisdom I was to impart to [Mistress/Master] has been sealed behind an arcane lock. I can do nothing─only my creator holds the key.

Y'mhitra: Then your secrets are lost to us! If only [Forename] had been able to attempt that third challenge!

Principia: Attempt? [Mistress/Master] has already passed it.
Principia: Allow me to explain: the third challenge is a test of the summoner's nature. Thus does the trial require the presence of companions and a realistic threat. Master Sari's ambush did, of course, bring an unexpected dimension to proceedings.
Principia: Yet [Mistress/Master] leapt to the aid of [her/his] fellow summoners without hesitation, and braved considerable danger to see that they were safely rescued─selfless acts that more than qualify [Mistress/Master] as a worthy successor.

Y'mhitra: I had wondered why power and skill were not sufficient... Sari wished to see his teachings passed on to summoners of noble heart.

Principia: Correct. He could not countenance the idea that such knowledge might be put to evil ends. Now you understand why his display of violence so confused me...

Y'mhitra: Aye, and all the more reason to suspect an impostor. But whatever this man's identity may be, we will track him down and make him remove that seal. Your purpose is too important.

Principia: And I will assist you in any way I can. The Master Sari that made me would not stand to see his memory profaned with such wickedness.

Y'mhitra: Well said, Prin. For an enchanted stack of ink and parchment, you have an impressively developed moral compass!

Principia: I possess neither morals nor a compass─I merely follow my enspelled directions to guide worthy summoners. If I give the impression of such characteristics, then mayhap I am overstepping my bounds as a familiar?

Y'mhitra: No, no, you're fine, Prin! Forget I mentioned it.
Y'mhitra: I will see if I can unearth more detailed records of Master Sari. Mayhap the story of his later life will aid us in unraveling this present mystery...