City of Silence
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City of Silence
- Quest giver
- Wuk Lamat
- Location
- Yak T'el (X:36.2, Y:31.7)
- Quest line
Dawntrail Main Scenario Quests- Level
- 94
- Experience
1,048,820- Gil
1,203- Previous quest
Into the Traverse- Next quest
- Blessed Siblings
- Patch
- 7.0
- Links
- EDB GT TC
Main Scenario Progress: 898 / 987 (91%)
Dawntrail Progress: 45 / 134 (33.6%)
Finally in Mamook, Wuk Lamat is eager to make progress.
— In-game description
Steps
- Gather information in Mamook. 0/2
- Speak with Wuk Lamat.
- Speak with Wuk Lamat again.
- Speak with Alphinaud.
- Speak with the dignified lady.
Journal
- Finally in Mamook, Wuk Lamat is eager to make progress.
- In the interest of time and safety, your group splits into pairs to search for the elector. You can only hope the people's reception of outsiders is not as bad as Hunmu Rruk predicted...
- You are staunchly ignored and avoided by the citizens you attempt to speak to. Perhaps Wuk Lamat fared better.
- Wuk Lamat's experience was strikingly similar to your own. However, she spots what looks like a market nearby─and those endeavoring to earn coin may be more inclined to lend an ear.
- You are called away from another fruitless attempt at communication by Alphinaud, who urges everyone to join him with all haste. You arrive in time to watch Zoraal Ja bend knee to a hulking shadow of his father─a shade which subsequently vanishes into smoke, revealing the elector of Mamook, Zereel Ja. The elector chastises the First Promise for attempting to obtain the keystone by force after being bested in battle, and for this violation, he is disqualified from the rite of succession.
- Zoraal Ja has no sooner left the stage than Bakool Ja Ja arrives, a homecoming that turns sour in an instant. When he discovers Bakool Ja Ja has not only failed to make progress in the rite, but suffered defeat at the hands of Wuk Lamat, Zereel Ja banishes him, casting aside his own son as he might a broken tool. The elector of Mamook then turns his gaze to the remaining claimants, who he is eager to engage in the Feat of the Brotherhood, an ultimate test of strength against the most formidable of blessed siblings─a foe he is confident they will be unable to overcome. Wuk Lamat refuses, however, stating that she must learn more about Mamook first. Hearing this, the woman standing beside Zereel Ja approaches Wuk Lamat and whispers that she wishes to speak in private...
- As no locals have shown any inclination towards speaking with outsiders thus far, the woman who left with Zereel Ja may be your only opportunity to learn anything substantial about Mamook. Wuk Lamat sets out to meet her west of the city as requested.
- The woman introduces herself as Miilal Ja, and explains that Mamook has become a cloister for devotees of blessed siblings. Only two-headed Mamool Ja are worthy of ruling Tuliyollal─or so they fervently believe. But Miilal Ja and others reject this tradition, and want nothing more than to convince their brethren of its senselessness. But what is the terrible price they have paid for their zealotry which has moved her to seek your aid?
Dialogue
Optional dialogue
Well, we all know what comes next─let's find that elector!
Two streets seem to converge upon this plaza, so I propose we split our numbers between them.
Given Hunmu Rruk's guidance, I also suggest that we err on the side of caution and move throughout the city in pairs.
Erenville can come with me, and Alisaie can go with Krile. That leaves Maringar to accompany Wuk Lamat. If these arrangements are to everyone's satisfaction, then may our respective searches prove fruitful.
Optional dialogue
...You can still hear me, right? And see me?
Your words may as well be ambient noise for all the care this citizen pays you.
As you begin to speak, the man abruptly turns and leaves.
Please tell me you've had better luck...
No one will talk to you either? I was prepared for hard stares and harsh words, but this is something else...
That building there looks like a shop, doesn't it? Let's go and take a look. A merchant wouldn't ignore us, surely!
Cutscene 1
Hello there! We'd like to ask you something, if you don't mind?
...Move along, outsiders.
W-We're just trying to find someone─the Dawnservant's elector. Could you tell us where they are?
<sigh> How are we supposed to find the elector if nobody will even speak with us?
Everyone, can you hear me? Come to the massive stone structure on the west side of the city, as quickly as you can!
Voiced Cutscene 2
Up there!
Bested...by a mere shade...
Zoraal Ja? Papa!?
Not as you know him. What you see is an arcane manifestation of the Dawnservant as he was in his prime.
The channeler is Zereel Ja, Autarch of Mamook and elector for the Feat of the Brotherhood.
Tuliyollal's mightiest warrior... Yet wisest you are not. You who spurned your retainer's aid when battling your betters.
To prove oneself superior to blessed siblings by surpassing the shade of Gulool Ja Ja himself─that is the final feat.
The First Promise fought alone and fell short...but that is now the least of his concerns.
You could have let your foolishness end with your failure. But instead you attempted to harm an anointed elector.
Zoraal Ja. As of this moment, you are no longer a claimant. I disqualify you from the rite of succession. Begone from my sight.
This isn't over yet. I will be the one to reach the golden city.
When Zoraal Ja was defeated, he tried to take the keystone by force. But he was thwarted by Father's shade.
My dearest child. Welcome home.
This feat was made for you─only blessed siblings could hope to defeat Gulool Ja Ja.
But ere we begin, I would see the fruits of your triumphs. Come, show me your tablets.
What is this? Where are your keystones?
Explain yourself, boy!
No matter. Not all can be expected to go to plan. What keystones you lack...
...you can easily take.
I...I tried. B-But I couldn't─I cannot beat her.
You mean to tell me that you, glory of Mamook─for whom all here have sacrificed─were defeated by your inferiors?
You are as useless as your siblings. A failure.
Leave and never return! You have no place here!
...Let's go, Brother.
Worthless! Pathetic! This was our chance to claim sovereignty, and he ruins it!
But...when these stragglers fail, Gulool Ja Ja will be forced to extend his rule. And in the next rite of succession, we will present a better claimant.
So come. Stand before me...and fall.
I won't do your trial.
Oh? You intend to forfeit the rite?
Papa wants his successor to intimately understand the country he loves.
Every step of my journey, I've learned something about our peoples and their cultures. I would do the same here in Mamook.
The Mamool Ja deserve nothing less. So your battle can wait.
I'm of the same mind. Father named you an elector for a reason. There must be something that he would have us learn.
Do as you will. But until you triumph over the shade, you shall proceed no further.
Promise. I would speak with you. Meet me on the western outskirts.
End Cutscene
Optional dialogue
That was a dramatic escalation...
It's hard to believe Zoraal Ja was bested in battle...
I have heard about this channeling art before.
Passed down through a certain clan, it employs arcane implements to produce a smoke from which the mage can conjure a shade.
The First Promise's attendant just now...did his words not strike you as strange?
“I will be the one to reach the golden city.” As though he intends to venture there with or without Zoraal Ja...
The electors we have met thus far have all had their peculiarities, but each we felt would judge claimants equally.
This Zereel Ja, however, seems set in his belief that only blessed siblings are worthy of the throne.
Why would the Dawnservant name an openly biased man elector?
Worrying over Zereel Ja won't get us anywhere. That lady, on the other hand, was the first person to address us with any civility since we arrived.
We should go and meet her─hear what she has to say. The western outskirts, right?
Optional dialogue
If Zereel Ja is Boonewa and she is Hoobigo, then...
Whatever her relation to Zereel Ja, I hope we can trust her. We could do with at least one ally in this city.
She looks troubled...
Finally! A real conversation!
To bid us thus meet with her in private... This is both an important and delicate matter.
Cutscene 3
Thank you for coming. My name is Miilal Ja.
Here we may talk freely, away from prying eyes.
And what was it you wished to talk about?
Tell me, what do you think of Mamook?
Well, we don't have much to say yet. No one wants to speak with us.
All who remain in this city are devoted to the traditional ways.
They believe that blessed siblings are superior─that only they are worthy to lead the peoples of this continent. Most would not deign to address outsiders, deeming them beneath notice.
Sounds like an ideal community so far as Bakool Ja Ja is concerned.
...I am tired. Exhausted by this...this senselessness.
There are others like me, but we dare not speak our truth aloud.
Yet now we have an opportunity to reclaim our agency.
For you have bested Bakool Ja Ja.
You─a Xbr'aal, inferior by all presumptions─triumphed over our two-headed champion.
This time, anyway. Next time, I might not be so lucky. Bakool Ja Ja is just that strong.
I seriously don't understand why he cheats so much. It seems to me he'd do better if he just trusted his own abilities.
...He's desperate.
Other blessed siblings have fallen before. Molaa Ja Ja of the Silverscales, for one. He traveled across the salt in search of conquest, only to be overcome.
But no matter how the individual may falter, the people still believe in blessed siblings' supremacy.
...Because of my father.
He who united Tural under one rule─who in their eyes stands as testament to the tradition's infallibility. Regardless of your father's virtuous intent, his greatest triumph has only fanned the flames of our people's obsession.
However, as both his daughter and claimant to his legacy, your triumph could prove that Gulool Ja Ja's true strength lies not in his birth, but in his character. And in so doing, you may give us the strength to renounce blessed siblings forever.
I can understand wanting to forsake zealotry, but isn't forsaking two-headed Mamool Ja going a bit far?
You must decide that for yourself. Whether the price we pay is worth an empty dream.