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Lichyard Lilies
Map quest, level 18. 94th of 180 in play order.
Quest giver: Airell, Eastern Thanalan (X 11.1, Y 21.4).
Steps
- Place
Nymeia lilies at the simple graves. - Report to Sister Airell.
Journal
- Sister Airell has work for a willing adventurer once more.
- Simple graves are easily overlooked in the ever-expanding lichyard. As such, they often go neglected when flowers are offered. Aid Sister Airell by placing bouquets of Nymeia lilies at five of these graves.
- You have made offerings of the Nymeia lilies. Report back to Sister Airell at the church.
- Sister Airell tells you that the lichyard was once a small and humble place before the Calamity. Ever since, the number of bodies needing burials has steadily risen, granting those who tend the graves nary a moment's rest.
Hidden
Nymeia lilies carry the name of Nymeia, one of the Twelve. She is the goddess of fate who watches over the heavens, a fitting name for flowers left on the graves of those who died alone.Characters 3
Sister Airell has more work for you in the lichyard.
What you know from earlier quests 2
- #92 Honoring the Dead: Eaduuard
mentions Sister Airell as one of the good folk at the church. She and Brother Esmour
tell him he needs no gil to bury his sister there. - #93 Dead Bodies Everywhere: Airell welcomes you to the church and asks you to help tend the lichyard, its graveyard, since the graves far outnumber the keepers. After you gather six
old offerings, she mentions more work, like collecting weathered vases and urns.
- #92 Honoring the Dead: Eaduuard
What you know from earlier quests 2
- #91 Buzzing at Church: Esmour asks you to slay blowfly swarms drawn by the dead, since they spread sickness. Esmour thanks you, glad the grieving can pray in peace for their dead.
- #92 Honoring the Dead: Esmour calls Eaduuard trouble and says he barely stopped the boy from looking for a stone alone. Still, he knows grief is hard, thanks you, and promises to use the
marble as Eaduuard wishes.
What you know from earlier quests 1
- #92 Honoring the Dead: Eaduuard asks you for cloud marble, a stone his sister would have liked. Once it reaches Brother Esmour, he decides to stay and work at the church to pay for her funeral himself.
- #92 Honoring the Dead: Eaduuard asks you for
What happens in this quest spoilers for this quest
- Airell has you place Nymeia lilies on five simple graves of people who died alone. She explains the lichyard grew large after the Calamity, a great disaster. The Order sends few keepers, and the poor are buried for free.
Dialogue 7 lines
Accepting the quest
Airell
So, you wish to honor the dead once more? Excellent. Make offerings of these Nymeia lilies at some of the simpler graves in the lichyard. The poor souls died alone, you see, with no one left to grieve for them.
There are five such graves scattered about the lichyard that I would have you tend to. And remember, friend: mind your surroundings and pay the proper respect with each bundle of lilies... You're all they have.
- DE Dich müssen die Zwölf geschickt haben! ‘The Twelve must have sent you!’ English says you are all the dead have; German says the Twelve must have sent you.
Report to Sister Airell.
Airell
Once more, you have my thanks. No doubt the souls of the departed can take some small comfort in the care you have shown their graves.
In days gone by, the lichyard was a small, humble plot. But that all changed after the Calamity. The dead grew in number, and so the yard grew with them.
It is still simple, despite its size. Of course, it's that selfsame simplicity that keeps it from becoming more of a priority for the Order. We can ill afford to assign adequate numbers to its keeping, just as we cannot charge the poor to bury or be buried.
Yet that does not stop the many who come calling to see their dead put to rest here. Those few of us who tend the yard haven't the time to see to the offerings our piety demands.
The simple graves you visited belong to those who died alone. Let us pray the sweet fragrance you delivered grants some modicum of relief from their lonely solitude─if even for a short while.
- FR C'est très noble de votre part d'avoir été déposer des bouquets sur les tombes de défunts que vous n'avez jamais connus. ‘It is very noble of you to have laid bouquets on the graves of departed people you never knew.’ English prays the flowers ease the dead's loneliness; French praises you for honoring strangers.
- DE Freiwillige wie du sind uns daher stets willkommen. ‘Volunteers like you are therefore always welcome here.’ English prays the flowers ease the dead's loneliness; German says volunteers like you are always welcome.