So You Want to Be a Thaumaturge

So You Want to Be a Thaumaturge

Quest giver

Yayake

Location

Ul'dah - Steps of Nald (X:7.3, Y:12.4)

Level

1

Next quest

Way of the Thaumaturge

Patch

2.0

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Walkthrough

So You Want to Be a Thaumaturge is a level 1 quasi-quest. There are no steps to this quest: Talking to the questgiver both accepts and completes the quest. It will immediately unlock Way of the Thaumaturge.

Steps

Speak with Yayake and answer "Yes" to her question.

Journal

There are no journal entries for this quest.

Dialogue

Yayake: Welcome to the Thaumaturges' Guild. It is fate that has guided your steps here, friend.
Yayake: Within these hallowed halls, the arts of devastation are taught—primeval magicks with which to bring about an enemy's ruin.
Yayake: If you would join our ranks and wield the power of thaumaturgy, I urge you to seize this moment and confide in me your arcane ambitions.

Do you wish to join the Thaumaturges' Guild?

• No

Yayake: Your denial is most unsettling!
Yayake: Ah, but I see the stars were not yet aligned. Your time will come, and I shall be waiting.

• Yes

Yayake: Yes. There truly was no other answer, was there? Lean closer now, and I shall whisper to you of thaumaturgy's beginnings.
Yayake: The nation of Ul'dah inherited its traditions from ancient Belah'dia, a city founded by the descendants of the first mages.
Yayake: The secrets of these illustrious sorcerers were ultimately entrusted to the priests of the Order of Nald'thal, who have passed them down from generation to generation ever since.
Yayake: Focused and refined over centuries of use in the Order's funereal rites, the arcane magicks of our ancestors eventually emerged as the art we now know as thaumaturgy.
Yayake: A freezing blizzard to halt corruption; a raging fire to cleanse the corpse; a bolt of lightning to expel the sins of mortal life... The dweomers employed in the preparation of the dead are equally efficacious when applied to the living.
Yayake: Thus does our guild thrive in the depths of Arrzaneth Ossuary—a sanctuary devoted to Thal, the divine arbiter of the afterlife.
Yayake: What say you, then, adventurer? If you would plumb the abyssal depths of thaumaturgy, let our learned sages guide your descent!
Yayake: Ah, but before you leap into the darkness, you must prove to our guildmasters that you are possessed of the spiritual fortitude necessary to look upon that which waits therein.
Yayake: When you are ready to submit to the judgment of our most eminent mages, say the word.