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The Converging Light

Quest giver
Y'shtola
Location
Kholusia (X:11.5, Y:33.1)
Quest line
Post-Shadowbringers Main Scenario Quests
┗ The Voyage Home Quests
Level
80
Experience
Experience 22,440
Gil
Gil 5,353
Previous quest
Main Scenario Quest Etched in the Stars
Next quest
Main Scenario Quest Hope's Confluence
Patch
5.3
Links
EDB GT TC
Main Scenario Progress: 674 / 978 (68.9%)

   

Shadowbringers Progress: 133 / 157 (84.7%)

   

“

Y'shtola gazes out into the distance.

— In-game description


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  • Eager to rendezvous with your comrades, Y'shtola sets off for Eulmore at a brisk pace, leaving you trailing in her wake.
  • You eventually catch up with Y'shtola at the aetheryte plaza, and together walk the last few steps to rejoin your assembled friends.
  • Your comrades listen intently as you recount your recent adventure in the depths, their faces turning grim at the revelation that Elidibus is a primal. Even as you ponder what your foe may do next, another starshower appears in the skies over Eulmore, this time accompanied by an illusion of Amaurot... Yet it does not end there, for you are promptly set upon by spectral warriors who emerge from arcane rings resembling those conjured in the Exarch's summoning rituals. Whatever the reason for this uncanny similarity, all agree that you must take the battle elsewhere lest innocents fall into harm's way. To that end, you resolve to board a waiting airship and fly for the Crystarium.
    • ※To enlist your companion NPCs for this duty, speak with them near the entrance or access Duty Support via the main menu. Use the Duty Finder if you wish to complete the instance alongside fellow players.
  • Not long into your flight, the airship sustains heavy damage and you are forced to land in the wastes of Amh Araeng. Wings thus clipped, you have no choice but to make your way back to the Crystarium on foot, with spectral foes dogging your every step. Though your route proves to be unexpectedly circuitous, aided by many a friend made during your time in Norvrandt, you finally emerge in the familiar environs of Lakeland.
  • So near and yet so far. But a short distance from the Crystarium, you are surrounded by an army of spectral warriors, halting your party's breathless advance. In an oft-repeated scene, your comrades duly volunteer to hold the enemy at bay while you alone press on to your destination, and so you leave them. As you plunge through the forest, you stumble upon the prostrate forms of the Exarch and Beq Lugg, who have apparently escaped a close encounter with Elidibus. In rueful tones, they inform you that the Ascian has stolen the Exarch's spirit vessel─and has thus acquired the means to control the Crystal Tower. Despite his fast-advancing crystallization, the Exarch expresses his determination to help you to put a stop to Elidibus's plot, and fixes his gaze upon the tower.
  • Nearing the Crystarium, the Exarch begs leave to make a brief stop at the Accensor Gate, hoping to send guards to Beq Lugg's aid.
  • While the Exarch is issuing instructions, Lyna arrives to take charge of the situation in the Crystarium. Knowing all too well what is at stake, the two share a brief but heartfelt moment, and then you and the Exarch forge on towards the city.
  • At the Exedra, the Exarch observes with satisfaction that the ward he and Beq Lugg raised over the tower still holds. Within awaits your foe, made mighty by the hopes of the countless heroes he has summoned from other reflections. At a word from you, the Exarch will lift the ward and open the way to your reckoning with Elidibus. See that you are ready.

Dialogue

Accepting the Quest

Y'shtola: Right ─ no more musing. We have taken far too long as it is.
Y'shtola: Our friends await us in Eulmore, yes? Let us hurry and join them.

Optional dialogue

In Eulmore 

Dulia-Chai: Oh, if it isn't [Forename]! I confess, I'm not entirely sure what's going on, but with you and your friends here, I'm sure it will all be all right in the end!

Chai-Nuzz: Yes, people have been talking about little else of late...

Wrenden: We have been apprised of the situation. Suffice it to say, we can ill afford to lose able-bodied citizens during this vital period of rebuilding.

Thancred: Ah, there you are. Eventful trip?

Urianger: 'Tis my pleasure to report that we accomplished our task without further bouts of faintness ─ a feat we attribute to Tataru's most generous gift.

Ryne: We were starting to worry ─ but I see we shouldn't have. No?

Alisaie: You certainly took your time. Did something happen?

Alphinaud: So the rumors have reached this far...

Speak with Y'shtola in Eulmore

Y'shtola: It appears we are fashionably late.
Y'shtola: Come. Our tale will not wait.

(Optional)
Y'shtola: This will be my first time meeting Master Chai in his capacity as mayor. The fellow behind him is his advisor, I take it─Wrenden.

Speak with Chai-Nuzz

Y'shtola: Forgive us our lateness.
Y'shtola: Master Chai, my congratulations on your appointment. By all accounts, you are a capable mayor.
Chai-Nuzz: Oh, I have capable friends, my lady. I must say, it's good to see you looking hale and whole again.
Y'shtola: The credit for that lies with my own capable friend, without whom I might never have escaped my abductor.
Thancred: A primal... I suppose that would explain why Elidibus has been fostering faith in the Warrior of Light.
Thancred: While you were enjoying your audience with the wandering heart of Zodiark, we were busy dispatching the last of the black-masked Ascians. A task which proved almost insultingly easy.
Thancred: Formidable though we undoubtedly are, they were obviously sent to provide encouragement for budding heroes. One cannot help but wonder how many times the ploy has been used before...
Alphinaud: Master Chai, you mentioned that the people of Khlousia are similarly enamored of the Warrior of Light.
Chai-Nuzz: Indeed. Though it's hardly surprising given the state of the world. Many are still struggling to find a purpose, and it's only natural that they should take comfort in the tales.
Alphinaud: Then the fever has spread to every corner of Norvrandt.
Alphinaud: We may have dealt with his black-masked minions, but it is plain Elidibus has yet to show his hand.
Dulia-Chai: Oh my, what a spectacular sky!

Alisaie: Another starshower...
Ryne: Wait, is that...
Ryne: ...Amaurot?

Hear...Feel...Think
Stupefied Citizen: Did you hear that? That voice, calling out...
Stunned Citizen: No, I didn't hear anything. But...
Stunned Citizen: Why do I feel so... Like I've lost something dear to me...

Alphinaud: Does Elidibus seek to awaken more people to the Echo with clearer visions of the Final Days?
Spectral Swordsman: In the name...of the Light...I shall vanquish...the Darkness...
Spectral Swordsman: I shall deliver the world from its doom!
Thancred: And who might you be?
Alisaie: Whoever they are, they've come for our heads!
Alisaie: No you don't!
Y'shtola: They are not of flesh and blood.
Urianger: I know this magick.
Urianger: The rings are like unto those that the Exarch did employ in our summoning.
Thancred: Are you saying the Exarch is summoning them?
Urianger: Nay. Yet the similarity can be no mere coincidence...
Ryne: Should we make a stand here? Or retreat to the Crystarium?
Y'shtola: The aether churns around us. More of them will appear ere long.
Y'shtola: To stay would only place innocents in harm's way. We must fight this battle elsewhere.
Chai-Nuzz: Wait!
Chai-Nuzz: Take one of our airships! You can decide what to do on your flight to the Crystarium!
Y'shtola: You are a capable leader in your own right, Master Chai. The citizens of Eulmore chose well.
Alphinaud: It's settled, then. To the airship!

Enter the Heroes' Gauntlet

Optional dialogue before entering 

Stupefied Citizen: Wh-Who were those ghostly figures? W-Were they the ones talking inside my head?

Stunned Citizen: When the stars were raining down, I thought I saw a city in the sky. But then the fighting broke out, and when I looked again, it was gone...
Stunned Citizen: Did you see it too? It was so beautiful! So heartbreakingly beautiful...

Dulia-Chai: I don't know what this sky portends, but I do know it can't be good.
Dulia-Chai: So please take care, and return to us safe and sound.

Chai-Nuzz: What are you still doing here!? To the airship with you!
Chai-Nuzz: You can thank me later!

Wrenden: We will see that order is restored in the city. Go now, and do not look back.

After the dungeon 

 Ryne: I think that's the last of them...
Thancred: Apparently, even they have limits. Nevertheless, we should remain vigilant.
Alisaie: Urianger, something occurred to me while we were fighting. These enemies...
Urianger:...Are heroes hailing from other shards, summoned hither to deliver this world from its doom.
Urianger: Scant moments after the starshower did they appear ─ as yet more souls were inspired to walk the hero's path, no doubt.
Urianger: Thus did hopes for salvation of realms near and far resonate and converge...lending still greater strength unto our adversary.
Alisaie: So that's Elidibus's game. But first things first: if the rings are the same as the Exarch's, then we need to ask him how that's possible.
Alphinaud: The Crystarium is close. Let us press on.
Y'shtola: They come!
Thancred: So near and yet so far.
Ryne: “In the chaos of conflict, one can always find an opening to exploit.”
Thancred: Whoever taught you that is a wise man indeed. And good with a gunblade. But yes, I daresay we can create an opening wide enough for at least one of us to slip through.
Thancred: That being you, of course─though others are welcome to follow in your wake. Ryne and I will keep our guests occupied.
Y'shtola: Brave and selfless as ever. Yet the two of you may struggle to fool our foes, aetherically sensitive as they are.
Y'shtola: Had you a comrade who could use destructive magicks to wreak havoc upon the ambient aether, on the other hand...
Urianger: Very well, I too shall assist in the diversionary effort.
Alisaie: Oh, not this old dance again... Yes. Obviously, I'll stay and fight.
Alisaie: Alphinaud! I'm about to do a great many stupid and reckless things. Watch my back, would you?
Alphinaud: And there you have it. Take care of yourself, my friend.

What will you say?
> Make it a nice big opening, eh!?
   Ryne: We'll do our best.
> You don't have enough lives for this...
   Y'shtola: Rest assured I have no intention of expending any of mine this day.
> Use your magic sparingly, do you hear?
   Alphinaud: I shall not overexert myself without good reason. As for the others... 

Alisaie: Finished? Then let's begin!

A short while earlier, in the Ocular... 

Crystal Exarch: ...'Tis done.
Beq Lugg: Let me see! Let me see!
Beq Lugg: Yes! Your memories are preserved safely within! We've done it! We've done it at last!
Crystal Exarch: I have inspected the other vessels. They are all ready to receive of our friends' memories.
Beq Lugg: Excellent, excellent!
Beq Lugg: I shall have my familiars bear word to them at once!
Crystal Exarch: Elidibus...
Elidibus: It was not until I observed the battle between Emet-Selch and the Warrior of Darkness that I realized what I must do.
Elidibus: I will summon heroes from other worlds unto the First, just as you did.
Elidibus: Their presence shall serve to empower me─granting me the strength to crush my enemy.
Crystal Exarch: Though it pains me to disappoint you, I feel compelled to explain that the magick in question requires no small amount of preparation.
Elidibus: Ah, but you assume I require my champions to be summoned in their entirety. I do not. Their souls needn't even be whole.
Elidibus: My purpose requires no more than their burning desire to vanquish evil.
Elidibus: This I shall sear upon the aether, raising thereby an army of phantom heroes, to whom I shall whisper, as I have to so many over the ages...
Elidibus: “Here lies darkness. It must be destroyed.”
Crystal Exarch: And you expect me to cooperate?
Elidibus: I do not require your cooperation. Your death will suffice. The magick, I shall have from your corpse.
Beq Lugg: Go, Lugus!
Beq Lugg: We must flee!
Elidibus: ...But what is this?
???: Argh... Unnngh...
Crystal Exarch: My friend... How did you...?
Crystal Exarch: No matter... Elidibus... He took us unawares...
Beq Lugg: It was all we could do...to raise a ward to hinder his steps... And so we fled...
Beq Lugg: But he took it... The vessel with the Exarch's memories...
Beq Lugg: Forgive me... Forgive me...
Crystal Exarch: The vessel bears not only my memories, but my blood─the blood of Allagan royalty...granting him the means to control the tower.
Crystal Exarch: With it, he has performed I know not how many summonings, calling forth heroes from across the rift.
Crystal Exarch: And as you can see, the burden upon the tower is beginning to tell...

What will you say?
> Leave him to me.
   Crystal Exarch: No. I won't let you go alone. Not this time. 
> I'm just glad you're alive. Make sure you stay that way. 
   Crystal Exarch: If you mean to face him alone, I will not allow it. Not this time.

Crystal Exarch: Elidibus has exploited the people's nobility. Twisted their purest intentions for terrible ends. 
Crystal Exarch: And I cannot let it stand. As Exarch, it is my duty to protect them. To defend their hopes and dreams.
Crystal Exarch: So I'm going to the Crystal Tower, with or without your blessing─though I would rather it were with.
Crystal Exarch: Thank you.
Beq Lugg: I'd join you...but I would only be a burden. Better that I remain here with my gremlins...
Crystal Exarch: I shall send help. Stay strong, my friend, and take heart.
Crystal Exarch: By binding Elidibus within the tower, we have done more than simply delay him.
Crystal Exarch: Much like our adversary, I am not wont to show my hand prematurely. But the time has come to bring my strongest card to bear.
Crystal Exarch: To the tower!

Speak with the Crystal Exarch

Crystal Exarch: With your permission, I would make a brief stop at Accensor Gate ─ just long enough to send the guard to Beq Lugg's aid, you understand.
Crystal Exarch: Were it not for them, we would never have escaped Elidibus, much less with the spirit vessels.
Crystal Exarch: Though mine fell into our foe's clutches, Beq Lugg gathered up the rest at great risk to themself.
Crystal Exarch: I must see that they are safe before we press on. Enough good people have given their lives that I might fulfill my duty.

Speak with the nervous guard

Nervous Guard: W-Warrior of Darkness! Exarch! Forgive us this paltry greeting. We were not notified of your coming!
Crystal Exarch:  It wasn't planned. I need you to assemble a rescue party.
Crystal Exarch: Our friend Beq Lugg lies wounded in a clearing to the west. Pray go to their aid with all haste.
Nervous Guard: At once, my lord! M-May I ask how they came to harm?
Nervous Guard: There've been reports of enemies in our midst ─ specters who appeared after the starshower. Do they have something to do with it?
Crystal Exarch: Yes. The man who attacked Beq Lugg is also responsible for the starshower and the appearance of the specters.
Crystal Exarch: I have no time to explain, but know that the individual in question does not seek to do indiscriminate harm. If you do not bar his servants' path, they will not turn on you.
Crystal Exarch: You are to leave this foe to us, understood? Meanwhile, I ask that you alert the rest of the guard, and focus on maintaining calm in the city.
???: Understood.
Crystal Exarch: Lyna!
Lyna: I shall take charge of matters in the city. Find Beq Lugg ─ now!
Lyna: “No time to explain”... Hmph.
Lyna: The graver the matter, the less inclined you are to speak of it. Even when it is plain for all to see─like what is happening to you.
Crystal Exarch: Lyna... This time there truly is no time.
Lyna: I know, my lord. Were matters otherwise, I believe you would even be willing to speak of your past if pressed.
Lyna: Yet I remain afraid to do so.
Lyna: Afraid that what I might learn would make a stranger of you.
Lyna: ...Forgive me. There is no time.

What will you say?
> Perhaps a few words are in order.
   Crystal Exarch: Indeed. Time must be made.
> We need to get going.
   Crystal Exarch: I know, my friend. I know, just... grant me a moment. Please.

Crystal Exarch: ...Lyna. Do you remember the time you got lost in the tower when you were little, and I searched for you hours on end? 
Crystal Exarch: And the cake I baked for your tenth nameday. That hideous lump the good people of the Mean covered up with beautiful candles...
Crystal Exarch: And your hapless first encounter with the sin eaters as a guard. Afterwards, you threw yourself into your training, pretending nothing was wrong, though I could see the tears in your eyes...
Crystal Exarch: All these moments that we shared, all the feelings that accompanied them...they are as real as aught that came before, and nothing will ever change that ─ will ever change what we mean to one another.
Crystal Exarch: If I have made you worry, then I beg your forgiveness. Heavens know you deserve better.
Crystal Exarch: Through the darkest of times, you have kept faith with me, standing tall as a proud daughter of the Crystarium─as an example to us all. I count myself blessed to have had you in my life, and I want you to know that.
Lyna: Why do you speak so? As if this were our last meeting? Truly, you have a knack for making people worry.
Lyna: Besides, it is you who are an example to us all. You who have led us through countless trials. And you who will lead us through countless trials to come.
Lyna: So go, my lord. Do what you must.
...But take care.

Speak with the Crystal Exarch

Crystal Exarch: The ward holds. Excellent. Elidibus will still be within the tower.
Crystal Exarch: Our foe's sole purpose is to destroy you, and to that end he has summoned heroes from other reflections, empowering himself with their hope even as they occupy your comrades. You will not best him as easily as you did in the depths. By any measure, the odds are now stacked firmly in his favor.
Crystal Exarch: To wit, spare no preparation, my friend. I shall lift the ward only when you are ready.

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