The Light of Hope

I trust you have rested, my friend. Good. I wish to seal the tower now...but there is something we must do first.

Let me summon the others, and hear in full what happened beyond the rift.

Start of cutscene.

...So the Allagan Eye that runs in G'raha's line does mean that royal blood flows in his veins.

I suppose it is not so odd to think his forebears gained it via ancient technology. But who imbued his family with the blood, and for what purpose?

Mayhap all this was fate, from discovering the tower to G'raha gaining Unei and Doga's blood.

Biggs

Has G'raha said anything? For that matter, where is G'raha? And what of Nero?

I'm not sure about our resident historian, but Nero left the tower with me. Where he's vanished to since, I cannot say.

But knowing him as I do, I don't believe he'll scheme against us for the time being. ...Though he is still Nero.

Forename, you say G'raha stayed behind at the Crystal Tower. I wonder if he even now prepares to seal the place off.

Son of Saint Coinach

Master Rammbroes! Master Rammbroes!

'Tis G'raha Tia, sir! He came into the Crystal Tower, and began ordering researchers out!

What? Why would he do such a thing?

Son of Saint Coinach

I do not know, sir, but he was quite insistent. He all but bodily forced me out of the gates.

I suppose it's possible he told one of the others, but I wasted no time in finding out. I thought it best to hasten here and ask your guidance.

Very well. Let us go and speak with these researchers, and get to the bottom of this queer business.

Master Garlond, Forename, please come with me. No doubt G'raha means to seal off the Crystal Tower, but it worries me that he did not breathe a word of his plan to us.

End of cutscene.

Speak with the son of Saint Coinach

Son of Saint Coinach

What in the world was G'raha Tia thinking, demanding we leave the tower?

No doubt you want to know why. I wish I knew that myself!

Of course, he would tell me nothing. But he will be honest with you, miss/sir—I am certain of it!

Start of cutscene.

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Go no further, my friends! The doors will close ere long.

So you are of a mind to seal the tower, G'raha.

I know time is of the essence, but all I ask is a hint of your plan. Please, come here so we can discuss this.

...No. My apologies, but I cannot.

Come, man, what is this nonsense!? If aught is amiss, surely we can help!

Not this time, my friend. Just as Unei and Doga fulfilled their destiny, so too must I fulfill mine. My blood has awakened me to this fact.

As my father told me, the truth has always lain with Allag. Or, rather, 'twas there the wish I must grant was born.

You see, not all the world perished in Xande's calamity. Survivors stood amidst the ruins of Allag, looking to the Crystal Tower. But it was nowhere to be seen.

Yet they hoped its spires would again dominate the land, and prayed that the Crystal Tower would be a beacon of hope to people everywhere.

Word of this soon reached the only member of Allag's royalty to outlive the empire: the princess Salina.

Salina was moved by the people's dearest wish. She used the very best of Allag's technology to give her blood and memories to he whom she trusted most. That man was my forebearer.

For millennia, we waited. Allag's art and ingenuity faded. Our royal blood grew thin. But before the last drop could vanish from the realm, the memory of all this returned to me.

And now, I must fulfill the wish of the ancients. The tower will shine forth as a new beacon of hope.

G'raha, the Crystal Tower's strength poses too great a threat to Eorzea now.

We would need technology as advanced as Allag's to use it correctly. As things stand, we barely understand the tower's workings. Hells, we may never fully comprehend them.

'Tis as you say, Cid. We could wait for someone, someday, to reach the same heights as Allag, but by then we will have lost the royal blood and the means to control the tower.

But what if I do as Amon did, and put the tower into a deep sleep?

What!? You cannot mean that!

I am deadly serious, Cid. The tower may only be used once men rival the Allagans in knowledge. I will slumber within Syrcus Tower until then, to greet those with the means to open the gates.

Then, I will guide them. And thus will the tower shine forth as the beacon of hope it was meant to be. 'Tis the only way to make the wishes of the ancients come true.

The future is where my destiny awaits.

But yours lies outside of these doors. Go. Create a future where hope reigns, and the tragedies of the past are but memories. No one but you can accomplish such things.

Nothing we say will make you change your mind, will it?

Onwards to a brighter future... It won't be easy, of course. But that's exactly why we'll do it!

Wedge

W-We'll catch up with Allag, just you wait! We'll cover all that lost ground before you even know it!

Biggs

Well said, Wedge! It'll only be a few years before we come knocking, G'raha. Then you're in for a rude awakening!

You shall be witness to NOAH's accomplishments. Pray keep alive our successes, and forgive us our failures. And may we meet again, my friend.

The Twelve keep you till then, Rammbroes. I look forward to learning of your exploits. And you, Forename—I know history will remember you. No doubt your heroism will be the star by which I chart my course when I awake.

Well, now I must rest. Recalling so much has put me in the mood for sleep.

Farewell, my friends. I eagerly await a future born of your courage and the ancients' wish.

Nero tol Scaeva

The Crystal Tower slumbers again, then. 'Tis too quiet for my taste.

Good-bye, Cid. I must put all this at my back. Possibility beckons, and I am bound to follow.

A new dawn has come for me.

End of cutscene.

Report to Rammbroes

You have just missed Cid, Forename. There is much that needs his attention if he is to fulfill G'raha's wishes, it seems.

But this is not the end of NOAH, no matter how lonely Saint Coinach's Find has become for our friends' departure.

We must all walk in different directions now. Remember that we labor for a brighter future, lit by G'raha's beacon. Sealing the Crystal Tower was but the first step.

Farewell, my friend. May our paths cross again.

If player has not completed the quests Ancient Ways, Timeless Wants and The Least among Us

You have completed the Crystal Tower quest series. Rest well, champion, for the main scenario and many other adventures await you!

If player has completed the quests Ancient Ways, Timeless Wants and The Least among Us

You have completed the Crystal Tower quest series. The next main scenario quest can be accepted by speaking with Minfilia at the Rising Stones.

Optional dialogue

Greetings, my friend! I have the complete records of NOAH's investigation of the Crystal Tower. I shall be happy to produce them should you wish to recount our journey together.

NOAH Report: The World of Darkness.

Let me see what I can find...

NOAH Report

The World of Darkness is an otherworld thought to lie adjacent to our physical realm─in other words, what we often call “the void.”

The fellowship of NOAH came upon the World of Darkness several times, but only once did it venture inside. The future of the very realm was in jeopardy, and thus was a band of adventurers dispatched to rescue three comrades imprisoned amongst the shadows.

How are such things possible, when wise men hold that the world is the world, the void is the void, and never the twain shall meet? It would seem abnormal events can weaken the veil between worlds, and tear them asunder. When such rifts appear, men can walk between realms.

The mages of Allag could create rifts at will. Dubbing them “voidgates,” they used them not only to enter the void, but also to harness the dark powers therein─the voidsent.

The voidsent, however, make ill allies. The fiends have a depraved appetite, and seek this world merely to sup upon the aether it contains. Were they ever to enter our realm in force, destruction beyond imagining would follow.

Therefore, any and all dealings with the voidsent are now seen as forbidden. Even the Thaumaturges' Guild, devoted to studying the void, conduct research on a limited scale under strictly enforced regulations.

NOAH Report: The Cloud of Darkness.

I thought I had a few pages devoted to the Cloud of Darkness... Ah, here they are.

NOAH Report

Within the void, chaos reigns supreme. Strength is the sole measure of order amongst the voidsent; he who rules is he who claws his way upwards, and tramples all beneath.

Scholars who study the voidsent have long striven to categorize the fiends by brawn rather than species. The result is popularly known as the twelve-tiered voidsent hierarchy.

The voidsent known as the Cloud of Darkness is doubtless in the highest tier of this hierarchy─hence why Emperor Xande entered into a dark covenant with it.

In both strength and size, the Cloud is unmatched. A voidgate of monumental proportions would be necessary for it to enter our realm. Opening such a rift would, in turn, require a power as massive. Enter, then, the Crystal Tower, and the energy it could produce.

Were the Cloud of Darkness to break loose, it would devour all aether and extinguish all light. The world would become as the void.

Indeed, all would have been lost were it not for the actions of valiant adventurers, and the sacrifice of two Allagan clones, who annulled Xande's dark covenant.

NOAH Report: The Crystal Tower.