A City Fallen

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Ramza is itching to depart.

Quest description

A City Fallen is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.

Journal[]

• The Prima Vista has left port, bound for the Dalmasca Estersands. Await the call to disembark in the comfort of the tiring room.
• The airship has arrived above the remains of Dalmasca's capital city. Set off into the Estersands and locate the missing Jenomis.
  
  ※The Royal City of Rabanastre can be accessed via the Duty Finder.
• You save Jenomis, but not before a band of Bangaa led by the infamous Ba'Gamnan steal both the Duma and the principal's journal.
• Wit and cunning (or else strength and magicks) have seen you through the Royal City of Rabanastre. Return to the Prima Vista's tiring room and prepare for the voyage back to Kugane.
• Jenomis's misadventure in the Estersands has only made him more determined to uncover the truth behind the Zodiac Brave Story and prove the existence of Ivalice. Additional evidence is apparently to be found in the Durai Papers─a secret document passed down through countless generations of the Lexentale family...which is actually the Durai family. The tome, however, is written in High Ivalician, the secrets of translating which were lost along with Jenomis's stolen journal. As it will take some time for the principal and his family to recover from the theft, they have invited you to return to your adventures, with the promise that they will send for you if any additional assistance is required. Perhaps now would be an opportune moment to ask Lina Mewrilah for her thoughts on the story so far.
• Lina seems enamored with the grand adventure on which you have both embarked, and promises she will notify you the very moment there are any new developments.

Objectives[]

• Visit the tiring room.
• Use the Duty Finder to enter the Royal City of Rabanastre.
• Speak with Lina in the tiring room.
• Speak with Lina outside the airship landing.

Script[]

A City Fallen script
Lina Mewrilah	I'll admit that I have my doubts regarding this second hero theory, but if even a fraction of it proves true, it could be the story of the century!
Almalexentale	You will find my father. I just know it.
Ramzalexentale	Dalmasca is nestled in a forgotten corner of the Empire's outermost territories. I do not foresee any trouble from the standing army, but would suggest committing to memory the locations of each of the barge's exits...just in case.
Ramzalexentale	As for the flight itself, the currents above Dalmasca are as wild as the land below. You may want to hold on.
Ramzalexentale	We'll complete our descent to Rabanastre in the shuttle.
Almalexentale	Ramza!
Ramzalexentale	I thought I made myself clear, Alma. The capital is simply too dangerous. Father would never forgive me if I were to lose you trying to rescue him.
Ramzalexentale	Come. We are wasting time.
Ramzalexentale	According to my father, Rabanastre was already a thriving city some thousand years ago.
Ramzalexentale	But after performing several private excavations beneath the so-called Desert Sapphire, my father came to the conclusion that it was not the first settlement to stand here.
Lina Mewrilah	Then...your father believes that Rabanastre sits atop the Royal City of Lesalia, capital of Ivalice!
Lina Mewrilah	But if that's true, it could change history! We would be famous!
Ramzalexentale	“Famous”? Are you sure you don't mean rich? Pah! Your kind are all alike.
Ramzalexentale	Parasites grown fat on the sweat and suffering of others.
Lina Mewrilah	Bold words for a boy of but sixteen summers.
Lina Mewrilah	And what, pray tell, have I done to deserve such spite? I only wish to learn the truth behind the disappearance of the Empire's foremost playwright. If that should lead to something bigger, well then, I would be the worst reporter in the realm if I did not pursue it!
Ramzalexentale	Yes, yes. We can argue about this now, or we can return to the Prima Vista and report to our army of adventurers that it is time to begin the expedition. I humbly suggest the latter.
Baggamonan	You see? It is as I said, Brother. Let them come to us!
Bwagi	Should we kill them now?
Baggamonan	No. The time is not right.
Bwagi	When has that stopped us before?
Baggamonan	Fool! Do you see that one? Slayer of gods, they call her/him. Warrior of Light!
Lina Mewrilah	You cannot expect me to walk away from this! If the legend of Ivalice is true, the public has a right to know!
Almalexentale	Hold on, Father... Help is on its way...
Ramzalexentale	To Rabanastre!
Jenomislexentale	Where... Where am I?
Ramzalexentale	Father!
Jenomislexentale	Ramza... And...the Warrior of Light? Yes, I know of you. But that you should come to my rescue...? Words...fail me. A poor playwright I must seem...
Baggamonan	The term you're looking for is “thank you”! Upon which note─I, Ba'Gamnan, bounty hunter, do humbly thank you, Warrior of Light, for delivering me this fine gift!
Baggamonan	Now hand over the auracite, unless you wish to see the desert sands turn red! And be quick. Gijuk here does not have the steadiest of hands.
Baggamonan	That one! She will bring it to me.
Baggamonan	Yes! This is it! The Duma!
Bwagi	And to think we found it so close to Doma! The Duma of Doma! Bwah hah hah hah!
Baggamonan	Enough, Bwagi! We would not have our guests think us underbred.
Ramzalexentale	You have what you want, you thieving lizards! Now unhand him!
Baggamonan	Of course. A Bangaa is always true to his word. I will be keeping this, though.
Ramzalexentale	Father!
Baggamonan	You've only yourselves to blame for this. But if you mislike the thought, you could always blame the gods. Not that they are listening! Bwah hah hah hah hah!
Baggamonan	Get up, fool! We're leaving!
Ramzalexentale	You're going to be all right.
Lina Mewrilah	We cannot see to your father's hurts here. Come on! We must get him back to the Prima Vista.
Jenomislexentale	<groan>
Ramzalexentale	He is unchanged.
Ramzalexentale	Father! Wake up, Father! Please, Mother─don't take him from us yet!
Lina Mewrilah	Jenomis remains deep in slumber, but his breathing is steady and his fever has subsided. For now, all we can do is wait. I've sent word to Cid. I hope you don't mind...
Jenomislexentale	Alma, Ramza. Can you ever forgive me?
Jenomislexentale	And you, Cid. It was never my intention to put you to such trouble... I am ever in your debt.
Cid	You would have done the same for me, Jenomis. Besides, it was [Player Name] here who went to all the trouble. If anyone deserves your thanks, it's her/him.
Jenomislexentale	He is right. I have done naught to deserve your kindness, yet I am its beneficiary nonetheless.
Cid	...So, if I understand correctly, you're saying auracite does not work to facilitate the possession of a living host by an eikon, as was assumed to be the case with Ysayle and the archbishop...
Cid	...but rather absorbs the host's aether─its very soul─and somehow transforms it before returning it to the host's body.
Cid	If that is the case, our Sharlayan allies will need to be informed immediately.
Cid	But I suppose the real question here is...did you find what you came looking for?
Jenomislexentale	The legend would have us believe that Delita Heiral─the commoner who would be king─was the sole hero of the Zodiac Brave Story, but as I have discovered, there was another. Two others, in fact...
Jenomislexentale	...Siblings whose roles faded from subsequent retellings of the story. A brother and sister by the names of Ramza and Alma.
Cid	Then...
Lina Mewrilah	To prepare for this assignment, I pored over every published work on Ivalician legend I could lay my hands on, and nowhere did I find any mention of these siblings.
Jenomislexentale	But I did. I uncovered irrefutable evidence that Delita had a close companion named Ramza who aided him in his rise to power. This in turn led me to Alma. And that I might never lose sight of the truth, I named my own children after these lost players.
Jenomislexentale	I'm sorry I never told you any of this, Cid, but you must believe me. Ivalice has never been a mere pastime of mine. It is and forever will be my calling. My purpose.
Jenomislexentale	My family's purpose.
Cid	Go on...
Jenomislexentale	The world knows me as Jenomis cen Lexentale, yet that is but my stage name. My true name is Arazlam. Arazlam Durai.
Jenomislexentale	Countless generations past, it was my ancestor who penned the Durai Papers─an account of Ivalice and the War of the Lions that details what truly occurred during that turbulent era.
Ramzalexentale	You are tired, Father. Rest. I will continue.
Ramzalexentale	Long ago, an orphan by the name of Orran Durai crossed paths with both Ramza and Delita. After Delita's rise to power, Orran found himself in the service of the pauper-become-king.
Ramzalexentale	Following the War of the Lions, Orran believed the people of Ivalice had a right to know the truth of Ramza's involvement, and set about documenting his deeds. When the church learned of his intent, however, they branded him a heretic, and had him burned at the stake.
Ramzalexentale	The Durai Papers were never published, and any existing copies were gathered and sealed away in church vaults─the truth about Ivalice along with them.
Lina Mewrilah	What was so damning that it would drive the church to do such a thing?
Ramzalexentale	The answer to that question can be found in this book─the only surviving transcript of my ancestor's chronicle, copied from an early draft and passed down for untold generations.
Ramzalexentale	With this, my father and I plan to reveal the truth and restore honor to my family name.
Cid	Forbidden chronicles? A secret family legacy? Not that I doubt you, Jenomis, but how do you expect to convince people of all of this when well-nigh every soul in the realm believes Ivalice to be nothing but a bedtime story?
Jenomislexentale	By proving that it is anything but.
Jenomislexentale	And when people see that Ivalice was real, the rest will fall into place.
Ramzalexentale	Were it as simple as bringing forth the chronicle and submitting it for review, we would of course have done so long ago. But, alas, it is not. The Durai Papers, you see, are written in High Ivalician─an ancient tongue long extinct.
Ramzalexentale	My father, his father, and his father before him labored tirelessly to decipher this tome, but for want of other sources made only fitful progress. A word here, a phrase there. It wasn't until a recent expedition to Rabanastre turned up several well-preserved artifacts that we were able to translate a small portion of the papers.
Lina Mewrilah	Then the diary stolen by the Bangaa bounty hunters─
Jenomislexentale	I'm afraid so. Everything we had learned of the language was contained in those pages.
Lina Mewrilah	Then we're back to where we started.
Ramzalexentale	Not necessarily. We still have the transcript, as well as some few translated passages. And, of course, my father's impeccable memory.
Jenomislexentale	I have come too far to allow so simple a setback to deter me from my purpose. I will show the world the truth if it is the last thing I do!
Almalexentale	(It is as Master Garlond said... He is a man obsessed, and I fear Ivalice's grip on him will only grow tighter...)
Almalexentale	(Father was fortunate to escape Rabanastre with his life, and already he speaks of continuing his quest? Promise me you'll keep him safe. Please...)
Ramzalexentale	My father and I will begin the retranslation forthright. Once we have made sufficient progress, you will be informed.
Almalexentale	I don't believe I properly thanked you for saving my father. I shudder to think what would have become of him without your help. Now, I simply worry how long this reunion will last...
Jenomislexentale	Cid tells me it was you and your companions who liberated Ala Mhigo. I am honored that one of your acclaim would lend her/his strength to my cause.
Lina Mewrilah	After what I've seen here, I'm all but convinced that Ivalice exists...at least in some form.
Lina Mewrilah	The problem will be gathering sufficient evidence to convince the thousands of scholars and historians who have based their careers on the presumption that it doesn't.
Lina Mewrilah	Not that I've ever been one to shy from a challenge, especially when it means the story of the century!
Lina Mewrilah	If you're in, [Player Name], then I'm in. If you're not in...well, I'm still in. Either way, you'll be hearing from me again soon. That much I promise you!
Quest complete.