Final Words, Final Thoughts
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Final Words, Final Thoughts
- Quest giver
- Row-rooth
- Location
- Ultima Thule (X:24.7, Y:8.2)
- Quest line
Ultima Thule Sidequests- Level
- 80
- Required quest
- Where Kn∞wledge Leads
- Experience
168,300-190,575- Gil
975- Patch
- 6.0
- Links
- EDB GT TC
Row-rooth has something to ask you.
— In-game description
Steps
- Speak with Row-rooth.
- While transfigured, read the epitaphs. 0/3
- Speak with Row-rooth.
- While transfigured, read the epitaph.
- Speak with Row-rooth.
Journal
- Row-rooth has something to ask you.
Walkthrough
- Speak with Row-rooth to initiate the transfiguration.
- Read the three Epitaphs while remaining transfigured
- Speak with Row-rooth
- Remaining transfigured, travel to the location of the final epitaph. You have no special protections while transfigured, so try to avoid drawing aggro from the hostile mobs in the way.
- Interact with the final epitaph to read it. You can right-click on your transfiguration buff to remove it so that you can use mounted travel to return to Elegia.
- Speak with Row-rooth one last time.
Related NPCs
Dialogue
Accepting the quest
I have a question—one that can only be answered by a being of flesh and bone. Will you hear it?
Thank you. Before I ask, however, I require that you learn more of my kind, lest your answer be senseless and vapid.
You can come to know us through our final words—though, alas, you cannot comprehend them in your corporeal form.
Thus, I shall temporarily free you from your body, allowing you to perceive as we Ea do. Please indicate when you are ready to shuffle off your mortal coil.
Speak with Row-rooth to initiate the transfiguration.
You have prepared, yes? Very well. After you have been liberated, I ask that you read three epitaphs ere returning to me.
Please brace yourself, as there is the recorded evidence that this may “feel weird”...
In order to progress, you must complete the objectives while transfigured.
You will return from your transfigured status if you move too far away. Look to your map for the transfiguration's area of effect.
If necessary, speak with Row-rooth to restore the transfiguration.
Optional dialogue
I ask that you read three epitaphs, then return to me.
Speaking to Row-rooth when not transfigured:
Tragically, your spirit has re-entered your body. Permit me to free you once more.
Interacting with epitaphs when not transfigured:
Something is written here in an unfamiliar script. You cannot read it as you are.
In order to progress, you must be under the transfigured status.
Epitaph 1
Epitaph
I grasp eternity, yet I hold only loss.
If forever has an end,
Why has it not come?
If forever has an end,
Why has it not come?
Epitaph 2
Epitaph
We fought to go beyond our star;
We fought to go beyond our dimension;
We fought for nothing.
We fought to go beyond our dimension;
We fought for nothing.
Epitaph 3
Epitaph
With no future, we turn to the past,
Knowing none have turned to our present.
We are the dead end.
Knowing none have turned to our present.
We are the dead end.
Speak with Row-rooth.
You have read them? This is well. However, you have yet to look upon our most important text. Please seek it in the charming wooded area outside our home.
Please seek our most important text amidst the memory of trees. I do not know how to make this any clearer.
While transfigured, read the epitaph.
Epitaph
The price of eternity is joy;
Its gift, unending sorrow.
Its gift, unending sorrow.
Speak with Row-rooth.
So you have read all that was left behind...
Those inscriptions were written by the first of our kind. The first to know the pinnacle of enlightenment, and the first to know the depths of despair.
They have prepared you to answer my question. As someone bound to a corporeal form, do you think there is hope to be found in life?
What will you say?
Of course there's hope!
If the player has completed Endwalker
Fascinating... It must be precisely that spongy form which allows you to cling to the intangible unto death. How fortunate for you.
Otherwise
Strange... But perhaps it is precisely that spongy form which allows you to cling to the intangible unto death. How fortunate for you.
The only way to know is to keep living.
If the player has completed Endwalker
Fascinating... Though your flesh is spongy and weak, it gives you the strength to live in pursuit of hope.
Otherwise
Fascinating... It appears that embarking on that quest for hope and seeing it to its ultimate conclusion is a sort of corporeal privilege.
That was most edifying. Creatures of flesh enjoy shiny tokens, do they not? Please have some as thanks.
If the player is still transfigured
...Ah, yes. I shall return you to your body, as it seems you are fond of it.
