Final Words, Final Thoughts

Final Words, Final Thoughts

Quest giver

Row-rooth

Location

Ultima Thule (X:24.7, Y:8.2)

Level

80

Required quest

Where Kn∞wledge Leads

Experience

 168,300-190,575

Gil

 975

Patch

6.0

“

Row-rooth has something to ask you.

— In-game description

Steps

• Speak with Row-rooth.
• While transfigured, read the epitaphs. 0/3
• Speak with Row-rooth.
• While transfigured, read the epitaph.
• Speak with Row-rooth.

Journal

• Row-rooth has something to ask you.

Walkthrough

• Speak with Row-rooth to initiate the transfiguration.
• Read the three Epitaphs while remaining transfigured
• Speak with Row-rooth
• Remaining transfigured, travel to the location of the final epitaph. You have no special protections while transfigured, so try to avoid drawing aggro from the hostile mobs in the way.
• Interact with the final epitaph to read it. You can right-click on your transfiguration buff to remove it so that you can use mounted travel to return to Elegia.
• Speak with Row-rooth one last time.

Dialogue

Acceptance

Row-rooth: I have a question─one that can only be answered by a being of flesh and bone. Will you hear it?

Row-rooth: Thank you. Before I ask, however, I require that you learn more of my kind, lest your answer be senseless and vapid.

Row-rooth: You can come to know us through our final words─though, alas, you cannot comprehend them in your corporeal form.

Row-rooth: Thus, I shall temporarily free you from your body, allowing you to perceive as we Ea do. Please indicate when you are ready to shuffle off your mortal coil.

Row-rooth: You have prepared, yes? Very well. After you have been liberated, I ask that you read three epitaphs ere returning to me.

Row-rooth: Please brace yourself, as there is the recorded evidence that this may “feel weird”...

Epitaphs

I grasp eternity, yet I hold only loss.
If forever has an end,
Why has it not come?

With no future, we turn to the past,
Knowing none have turned to our present.
We are the dead end.

We fought to go beyond our star;
We fought to go beyond our dimension;
We fought for nothing.

Return to Row-rooth

Row-rooth: You have read them? This is well. However, you have yet to look upon our most important text. Please seek it in the charming wooded area outside our home.

Final Epitaph

The price of eternity is joy;
Its gift, unending sorrow.

Wrap-up

Row-rooth: So you have read all that was left behind...

Row-rooth: Those inscriptions were written by the first of our kind. The first to know the pinnacle of enlightenment, and the first to know the depths of despair.

Row-rooth: They have prepared you to answer my question. As someone bound to a corporeal form, do you think there is hope to be found in life?

Player Choices:

• 1. Of course there's hope!
• 2. The only way to know is to keep living.

Player selection: "Of course there's hope!"

Row-rooth: Fascinating... It must be precisely that spongy form which allows you to cling to the intangible unto death. How fortunate for you.

Player selection: "The only way to know is to keep living."

Row-rooth: Fascinating... Though your flesh is spongy and weak, it gives you the strength to live in pursuit of hope.

Afterwards:

Row-rooth: That was most edifying. Creatures of flesh enjoy shiny tokens, do they not? Please have some as thanks.