Love, Astrologically

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Something─mayhap the stars─tells you that Jannequinard would like a word or two...hundred.

Quest description

Love, Astrologically is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.

Journal[]

• Jannequinard has taken notice that Master Rufin─better known as Lady Leveva─may not be in the highest of spirits, and has asked you to take a quick stroll to the Last Vigil to learn what is troubling her.
• Before you can discern the source of Lady Leveva's disquiet, the young astrologian tasks you with greeting Kyokuho at the city-state's aetheryte plaza─where he is scheduled to arrive at any moment.
• You locate Kyokuho and warmly welcome the geomancer back to Ishgard before informing him of Jannequinard's concern regarding Lady Leveva's state of mind. You elect to continue your conversation at the Athenaeum Astrologicum.
• For reasons unstated (and most likely unfounded), Kyokuho comes to the hasty conclusion that Lady Leveva is knee-deep in the thralls of love, and it is an affair of the heart that clutters her thoughts. The Far Eastern fop insists that you must confront Leveva if any manner of normality is to be restored.
• Upon discovering you and Kyokuho trading whispers behind her back like schoolgirls at recess, Lady Leveva makes it clear that the cause of her distress is most definitely not some mysterious longing for companionship. Unfortunately, she departs for Camp Dragonhead before you have the chance to confirm what exactly is the cause of that stress. One not need be an accomplished reader of the stars to know that a journey to the selfsame outpost awaits you.
• As it turns out, Lady Leveva is struggling to formulate how the schools of Sharlayan astrology and Far Eastern geomancy might be incorporated into a single art. Recollections of your time spent in the First, however, have given her cause for excitement. She now asks for you to cast Aspected Benefic (under the effect of Diurnal Sect) that she might witness firsthand your bond to this nightless realm's astral energies.
• Like when a candle is lit in the dark, Lady Leveva's mind is flooded with inspiration, and you are to thank. Eager to continue her studies, the reinvigorated astrologer bids you a hasty farewell before hurrying back to the Athenaeum.
• Lady Leveva apologizes to her companions for not confiding in them her troubles, then promptly reveals her only romantic interest is her studies─a “revelation” with which Kyokuho seems disturbingly uncomfortable.

Objectives[]

• Speak with Lady Leveva at the Last Vigil.
• Speak with Kyokuho at the aetheryte plaza.
• Speak with Kyokuho at the Athenaeum Astrologicum.
• Speak with Kyokuho.
• Speak with Lady Leveva at Camp Dragonhead.
• Cast Diurnal Aspected Benefic on Lady Leveva.
• Speak with Lady Leveva at the Athenaeum Astrologicum.

Script[]

Love, Astrologically script
Jannequinard	[Player Name]! You always seem to know the precise moment at which your services are required. Such is the mark of an accomplished astrologian, if I do say so myself!
Jannequinard	Which would, of course, imply you are already aware of what I would ask of you! Yet, I shall indulge you with my request nonetheless. It is Master Rufin. Following our return from Kugane, she has been...distant. Well, more distant than usual. Enough to give one pause, at least.
Jannequinard	I thought I might ascertain the source of her worriment with the Deck of Sixty, but was presented the usual slumgullion of vague portents and portentous vagaries. By the time I unwrapped my throbbing head from the spread, all I could discern was something about a “dark wind blowing from the east.”
Jannequinard	I suppose this could imply any number of things─ill tidings from our allies in Doma, a rainstorm brewing over the Black Shroud, a fire at that fine patisserie near the Arc of the Venerable... Why, I suppose even you could be the dark wind. Ahem. No. Right.
Jannequinard	Let us simply say, I am worried about our companion, but am at a loss as to how I might help her. Leveva has been spending much of her days up at the Last Vigil, staring blankly out over the Sea of Clouds. I've attempted speaking with her, but the lady is about as receptive to my concerns as one might expect. Perhaps, though, she would prove more forthcoming with her star pupil?
Jannequinard	The Last Vigil was once a lookout for the See's Knights Dragoon, though by the time anyone manning the outpost spotted a dragon, it was far too late to do aught but crawl into a root cellar and pray.
Leveva	<sigh> It will never work, and I was a fool to think─
Leveva	Oh, [Player Name]. Just the woman/man I wanted to see.
Leveva	Might you remember our good fr─ Might you remember Kyokuho? Lanky fellow, disheveled hair, somewhat capable in the geomantic arts? Well, it appears his travels will be bringing him once again to Ishgard.
Leveva	Seeing as he has provided me with a wealth of valuable insight into his discipline, the least I could do would be to greet him upon his arrival. Unfortunately, I must see to some unfinished affairs near the Architects...
Leveva	Would it be too much to ask for you to visit the aetheryte plaza in my stead? I shall catch up with both of you later at the Athenaeum Astrologicum.
Jannequinard	Kyokuho will be arriving at the aetheryte plaza. You cannot well greet him while loitering here in the Pillars, unless you heard tell he was flying in on the back of a dragon?
Kyokuho	[Player Name]! Imagine us, meeting here! Could it be fate? Hah hah hah, I jest!
Kyokuho	Slow down, friend. I've only just arrived in Ishgard and already you're recruiting me to some urgent cause? You Westlanders certainly don't waste your time.
Kyokuho	I intended this to be but a short visit to discuss how matters have progressed since you vanquished Kinko and aided me in restoring my grandfather's wards. However, I suppose all that can wait.
Kyokuho	To the Athenaeum, then?
Jannequinard	Why if it isn't...a dark wind from the East!
Kyokuho	It is good to see you again, too, Jannequinard. [Player Name] tells me all is not well with Lady Leveva?
Jannequinard	Ah, so I see someone has wasted little time in informing every rat in the Brume of matters that I thought it obvious were of a more personal nature.
Kyokuho	Oh, save the drama for the stage, my friend. [Player Name] merely recognized that the intimate connection Lady Leveva and I forged in Kugane made me the perfect candidate for discerning what might be weighing oh, so heavily on her soul.
Jannequinard	Hah! And how do you propose to do that?
Kyokuho	Do it? I've already done it! Lady Leveva's in love!
Jannequinard	But of course she is! Wait...what?
Kyokuho	Her archenemy defeated, her father's memory honored, and a city saved─Lady Leveva has conquered the countless peaks that rose before her with an air of aplomb that would belie her mere sixteen summers. And now, bereft of purpose, she has turned her eyes to companionship to fill the void that lies agape in her heart.
Kyokuho	And I believe I can help. [Player Name], might you know the lonely lady's current whereabouts?
Kyokuho	Those massive stone effigies to raw masculinity!? Oh, it is worse than I thought! We must make haste!
Jannequinard	Don't tell me you take that addle-pated moonboy seriously. Lady Leveva? In love? What a ridiculous notion. Unless...
Jannequinard	If she is smitten with some unknown individual─and I am, by no means, implying that she is─it is my duty as friend of her father to determine if the cur is worthy of Lady Leveva's attention.
Leveva	[Player Name]. Might I assume you saw Kyokuho safely to the Athenaeum? Very well. I shall be along shortly.
Kyokuho	Look, there she is.
Kyokuho	And nothing. That's the problem. She's just been standing there.
Kyokuho	I was afraid you might ask that.
Kyokuho	What do you think we should do?
Kyokuho	I'm but a humble student of the geomantic arts. I have little understanding when it comes to matters of the heart.
Leveva	And what, pray tell, are you two doing here?
Kyokuho	I, uh...greetings and salutations, my dearest Leveva! Aren't you looking most resplendent this fine evening/morning/afternoon/evening!
Leveva	Resplendent? Spent a few bells in the books, have we?
Leveva	Time will tell if this new vocabulary suits you, but time is not a luxury I am afforded at this moment.
Leveva	The city's din is positively deafening. It stifles my thoughts and upsets my humours. What I require is clarity─something unattainable within these stone walls. The quiet of Camp Dragonhead, however, may provide me with a moment's respite.
Leveva	Oh, and you may cease with this ridiculous talk of “matters of the heart.” Love is the furthest of my worries. I, for one, am already promised to another.
Kyokuho	Al...
Kyokuho	...ready...
Kyokuho	...promised!?
Kyokuho	How is that even...?
Jannequinard	Ah, Kyokuho. There's no need to kneel in my presence. Did I miss anything?
Jannequinard	I see. It comes as little surprise that one of her social standing would be betrothed at such a young age. Such is the custom amongst older houses─even in a city as progressive as Sharlayan─and she hails from one of the oldest.
Kyokuho	I suppose... It's just that─
Jannequinard	Kyokuho! Whither the vim and vigor from our conversation earlier? And all this upon learning Lady Leveva is to be married. A more astute observant might presume a certain emotional attachment to our young protégé.
Jannequinard	But that would be ludicrous. I, for one, know that good Kyokuho's feelings towards Leveva are naught but those of admiration for her skill at the astromantic arts. So let us return to the task at hand. We still do not know what is weighing down on the lady's fragile heart.
Jannequinard	And what better way to find out than to ask. A novel idea, don't you think? Asking someone what is troubling them rather than assuming─without having actually spoken with them, or even seen them for some time─that they're simply longing for amorous relations.
Jannequinard	Wonderful. Kyokuho and I shall return to the Athenaeum where I will make certain he refrains from idle meddlement in any other lives.
Jannequinard	I could accompany you to Camp Dragonhead, but one thing my time with Lady Leveva has taught me is that when she has her head wrapped about some vexatious affair, the last person's company she desires is mine.
Kyokuho	I fear I have offended the Lady Leveva... Will she ever forgive me?
Leveva	As persistent as always... Fine. You have seen through my ruse. I am not, in fact, promised to another. I simply implied as much to silence Kyokuho.
Leveva	Alright, there was a time I was promised to another. We have my grandfather to thank for that. However, since I am now officially deceased, my assumption is that the arrangement will have been annulled. Not that I shall ever bother to actually confirm this assumption.
Leveva	What is troubling me? <sigh> 'Twas not my intention to involve you or Jannequinard...or even Kyokuho in such matters. However, the discord my silence has sown perhaps warrants an explanation.
Leveva	Despite repeated efforts following our recent achievements in Kugane, I have been unable to conceive feasible means of blending the teachings of Sharlayan astrology and those of Far Eastern geomancy.
Leveva	As Kyokuho explained, unlike astrologians who look to the stars above to read their fates, geomancers look to the star below and listen to its songs, and draw their answers from its whispers.
Leveva	Yet try as I might, I remain impotent in tapping the land's puissance. I've spent my life attuning to the slight variations in the aether of distant stars. So much so that when I look to Hydaelyn and her aether, I am overwhelmed by its potency...its glow, you could say. Think of it as trying to open one of the heavens' gates in a world of everlasting daylight.
Leveva	You have visited such a place? Then my readings were accurate. Exactly where have your adventures taken you, [Player Name]?
Leveva	Your silence speaks louder than words. As do my readings. The Deck of Sixty has already revealed much and more about your recent foray into distant realms. Now, if you would care to elaborate.
Leveva	And you had no trouble channeling the aether from that world's heavens despite the fact that you never once physically laid eyes upon them?
Leveva	Intriguing... But I am a woman of reason, and shall require more than the word of another─no matter how close─to convince me of this phenomenon. A firsthand demonstration, however, might suffice. A single Aspected Benefic, perhaps? But only under the influence of the Diurnal Sect, mind you.
Leveva	When you are ready, [Player Name]. A single incantation of Aspected Benefic will suffice. But only under the influence of the Diurnal Sect, of course.
Leveva	Your faculty for aetherially conversing with celestial bodies both far and near is peerless. A most eloquent display...and one I should endeavor to learn from.
Leveva	I have committed the most grievous of sins by allowing things such as light, distance, and dimension─things that hold no dominion over the realm aetherial─to prevent me from unbinding my full potential.
Leveva	You, however, helped me to realize the error in my ways. I believe now I might continue my studies.
Leveva	Just...not here. I am unsure why I thought this would be a suitable location to ponder my predicament in the first place. Perhaps it was the memories of our first lesson here... Ahem. Let us hurry back to the Athenaeum lest we catch cold.
Jannequinard	So...my original reading was accurate all along! You were the dark wind! But then why...dark? I thought people were calling you the Warrior of Light...
Kyokuho	Jannequinard was right. I was the dark wind from the east. If I hadn't arrived and upset Lady Leveva with my ridiculous notions, we wouldn't find ourselves in this mess...
Leveva	Foremost, I believe I owe you both an apology. Or at least I owe you one, Jannequinard. As for you, Kyokuho─
Leveva	How did you arrive at the ridiculous notion that I was somehow languishing in the throes of love?
Kyokuho	When [Player Name] and Jannequinard mentioned you were not yourself after returning from Kugane, I simply assumed that─
Jannequinard	Do you dare suggest that we had any hand in this, Kyokuho? You were not a quarter bell in the Pillars before you were telling anyone who would listen about the cavernous maw that yawned in the heart of poor, lonely Master Rufin...and how you were to fill it.
Leveva	Lonely? Pah! I'm far from lonely. In fact, I've already promised my heart to another.
Kyokuho	Of course. Already promised to a─ Wait...what?
Leveva	You heard me, and I've never spoken a truer word.
Jannequinard	Whoever could it be? It is certainly not [Player Name]...or, heavens forfend, Kyokuho?
Leveva	Why, astrology, of course!
Leveva	What? Who did you expect, Quimperain?
Kyokuho	I suppose you're wondering what brought me to Ishgard in the first place. It most certainly wasn't to ruffle Master Rufin's feathers...though it seems I have succeeded in that nonetheless.
Kyokuho	Our triumph over Kinko having restored the people of Kugane's faith in geomancy, it was not long before a gaggle of eager mages were clamoring at my door, seeking guidance in the art of wind and water.
Kyokuho	To accommodate, I transformed my grandfather's study into a place where I might train those who are willing to invest the time and effort necessary to become masters. Which reminds me... My students are likely wondering where their sensei is! Farewell, [Player Name]!
Leveva	So he came to tell us of his new school of geomancy? Did we not give him a linkpearl?
Leveva	At any rate, allow me to thank you once again for the inspiration you provided. Despite being your mentor in matters astrological, I find myself consistently in your debt when it comes to...well, everything else. You are a true friend and confidant, [Player Name].
Jannequinard	And as always, she has once again failed to acknowledge that it was I who first noticed her change in mood, and that it was my reading that predicted your arrival, and that it was my good judgment that eventually pointed you in her direction.
Jannequinard	But such is my destiny, I suppose.
Jannequinard	I am simply happy that Lady Leveva is back to her normal self. If aught were to befall her, Rufin would haunt me till the Eighth Umbral Era.
Jannequinard	Thank you again, [Player Name]. I would say we make a fine team, but considering you cover the coeurl's share of the footwork, I will refrain from any further analogies of a sporting nature.
Quest complete.