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Isembard101

Unsolved Mystery

Main story quest #31, level 17. 101st of 173 in play order.

Quest giver: Isembard, Eastern Thanalan (X 13.9, Y 23.6).

Next: What Poor People Think ›

Steps

  1. Retrieve ripe corpses.
  2. Deliver the corpses to Isembard at Camp Drybone.
Journal
  1. Isembard of Camp Drybone is seeking help to solve a mystery of missing persons.
  2. Isembard informs you that the Amalj'aa have butchered a number of commonfolk, and asks that you retrieve the ripe corpses so that he may see them properly interred.
  3. You have recovered the remains of the fallen. Take them back to Isembard at Camp Drybone.
  4. Outward appearances being what they are, it is impossible that the Amalj'aa have been acting alone in the recent wave of disappearances. Isembard cannot help but wonder if another conspirator has had a hand in these troubling incidents.
Hidden
Lore The Church of Saint Adama Landama is named after a rich man who became a saint of Nald'thal, the god of Ul'dah, by giving his wealth away. He is the saint of great generosity.
Characters 2

  • Minfilia

    Minfilia is not here. Isembard passes on what she told him.

    What you know from earlier quests 2
    • #99 The Scions of the Seventh Dawn: She welcomes you home after five years, as Louisoix said. The Scions protect Eorzea from the primals, godlike beings. Your power, the Echo, shows people's pasts and lets you understand any speech. She has it too, asks your help, and shares the password "wild rose."
    • #100 A Wild Rose by Any Other Name: Minfilia welcomes you to the Scions and introduces its leaders. She thinks people forget you because of the power Louisoix used to save your life. She asks you to lead an investigation into crimes in Ul'dah that may involve a primal, a godlike being.

  • Isembard

    Isembard, leader of Camp Drybone, wants help solving the mystery of the missing people.

    What you know from earlier quests 1
    • #100 A Wild Rose by Any Other Name: Isembard has no official title, but the camp's people look to him to lead. Minfilia sent word that you were coming and warned him about the Amalj'aa. He gives his word to help bring the victims home safely.
What happens in this quest spoilers for this quest
  • Minfilia: Isembard says Minfilia names the Amalj'aa as the culprits behind the disappearances, so he advises you to look into them first.
  • Isembard says the Amalj'aa murdered visitors to the Church of Saint Adama Landama. He asks you to bring back the bodies for a proper burial and thanks you. He feels the Amalj'aa cannot be acting alone and suspects another hand.
Dialogue 12 lines

Accepting the quest

Isembard

Let us get right to it, then. Minfilia names the Amalj'aa culprits in all this. You would do well to investigate them, first.

  • DE Das würde mich nicht wundern, denn Ärger machen sie uns hier genug. ‘That would not surprise me, for they give us trouble enough here.’ English advises investigating the Amalj'aa first; German says their guilt would not surprise him, given their trouble-making.

Much harm has been levied on these lands by Amalj'aa hands. The Flames burn where they might, but their light cannot stay the darkness in all places at all times.

There have been brutal murders of callers at the Church of Saint Adama Landama─innocents wishing no more than to pay their respects to the dead.

The poor souls deserve a proper burial. I would see to the deed before mongrels catch their scent, but I know not if the Amalj'aa still linger.

Would you secure their remains for me, friend? You will find them on the eastern road.

Twelve willing, you may even come to learn something of what the Amalj'aa seek in this area.

Deliver the corpses to Isembard at Camp Drybone.

Isembard

It is good to see you returned. Were you able to secure the remains of our fallen?

With the bodies given back proper to the earth, the souls will find their way across to the other side. You have done a noble deed this day. I thank you.

Now, then, what of the Amalj'aa? Did you see any? Surely such massive monstrosities as they cannot conceal their presence, much less take their quarry unawares.

Ah, so there were Amalj'aa remaining, after all... I feared as much. Their part in the lowborn disappearing is all but confirmed. But I sense there is more to this than meets the eye.

  • FR Et pourtant, les disparitions dans les hameaux sont bien réelles. ‘And yet, the disappearances in the hamlets are very real.’ English says the Amalj'aa part is all but confirmed; French stresses that the disappearances are nonetheless real.
  • DE So kann man doch niemanden entführen. ‘Surely no one can abduct anybody that way.’ English says the Amalj'aa part is all but confirmed; German says nobody could be abducted that way.
  • JA 貧民はまるで、煙のように消えていくのだ。 ‘The poor vanish just like smoke.’ English says the Amalj'aa part is all but confirmed; Japanese says the poor vanish like smoke.

The occasional Amalj'aa raiding party would not account for people going missing in these kinds of numbers. The total is too great, and the questions too many. It would not surprise me in the least to learn of another hand in this.

But whose? Countless travelers pass through Drybone every day. And even if it were one among them, how would we best discover who may be implicit in these vanishings?