The Gift of Eternity

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Falkbryda awaits the commencement of the operation with barely concealed rage.

— In-game description

Rewards

Choose one of the following options:

• 1   Hero's Bracelet of Casting
• 1   Hero's Bracelet of Healing
• 2   Allagan Silver Piece

Walkthrough

The cutscene in Sapsa is when Thancred swapped from Gladiator to Rogue attack animations, which Yugiri also uses. This was something of a teaser for Rogue's actual introduction in Patch 2.4.

Steps

• Go through the first checkpoint and defeat any Sahagin that appear.
• Go through the second checkpoint and defeat any Sahagin that appear.
• Go through the final checkpoint and defeat any Sahagin that appear.
• Rejoin Y'shtola.
• Speak with Merlwyb at the Sapsa Spawning Grounds.

Journal

• Falkbryda awaits the commencement of the operation with barely concealed rage.

• Having made her final assessment of the situation, Merlwyb gives the order for the operation to commence. According to the scout you rescued, the summoning ritual is being held at the beastman aetheryte situated deep within the Sapsa Spawning Grounds. Accompany Y'shtola into the Sahagin lair, and fight your way to the aetheryte.

• Upon passing the first checkpoint, you are assailted by Sahagin guards, whom you swiftly vanquish. Make haste now for the next checkpoint.

• You have made your way through the next checkpoint, dispatching the Sahagin that barred your way. Make haste now for the final checkpoint.

• Leaving a river of Sahagin blood in your wake, you have made it through the final checkpoint. Continue on and rejoin Y'shtola.

• Despite your best efforts, the summoning ritual is completed and Leviathan is come once more. But no sooner did the primal manifest than he bent his course for the open sea. Her face laden with dread, Merlwyb expresses her fear that Leviathan means to unleash a tidal wave. Speak with her again, that you might better understand the impending danger.

• According to Merlwyb, the destructive potential of Leviathan's tidal wave far surpasses anything that occurs in nature. If the primal is not stopped, whole settlements will be laid waste. But with the Lord of the Whorl already far out to sea, how can such a disaster be prevented?

Dialogue

Accepting the Quest (Cutscene)

Falkbryda: Thrice-damned fishback bastards... I'll kill them slowly and then chase their rotten souls through all seven hells!

Merlwyb: Peace, Commander. We are here for a purpose─and vengeance is not it. I want your mind on the task at hand, savvy?

Falkbryda: M-My apologies, Admiral. You may count on me to keep a clear head.

Merlwyb: Good. According to our sole surviving scout, the Sahagin and their thralls have already begun to amass at the aetheryte in the depths of Sapsa. If we are to act, it must be now.

Falkbryda: The men are ready. We but await your orders, Admiral. As predicted, the Sahagin have tightened security in and around the spawning grounds. A frontal assault is like to be met with fierce resistance.

Merlwyb: Ah, but we are not so artless as that, Commander. We shall divide our forces and strike them hard and fast at key locations. Remember: our ultimate objective is to take the Sapsa aetheryte and eliminate the Sahagin priest presiding over the summoning─we are not here to kill them all.

Merlwyb: The Maelstrom shall engage and distract the Sahagin's legion of drowned pirates at the Serpent's Tongue. Commander, you have charge over this effort.
Merlwyb: Be mindful that the lay of the land there is devilish for attacking forces. Let the Foreign Levy spearhead the assault, and have subsequent units fan out to cover their flanks.
Merlwyb: At the selfsame moment, a diversionary squadron formed of galleons from the Crimson Fleet shall harry the enemy from offshore.

Minfilia: In like wise, we Scions shall form smaller units in hopes of confusing the Sahagin defensive effort.
Minfilia: [Forename] and Y'shtola, the two of you are to make your way to the site of the summoning ritual.
Minfilia: The Admiral's diversions should serve to thin the enemy's defenses, rendering your path less perilous.
Minfilia: A small party, I believe, should be able to win through without drawing unwarranted attention.
Minfilia: Thancred and Yugiri, your mission is to lure as many Sahagin as possible out of the spawning grounds.
Minfilia: Having done so, take to your heels and circle 'round to join the infiltration unit of Y'shtola and [Forename].

Merlwyb: When all has been set in motion, I myself shall cut a path to the aetheryte, accompanied by Lady Minfilia, as was agreed.
Merlwyb: Well, don't let me keep you, friends! ...TO BATTLE!

Y'shtola: ...When last did we fight side by side, [Forename]? Too long ago, I warrant. But come, let us away!

Optional Dialogue

Merlwyb: Once everything has been set in motion, I, too, shall make my way to the aetheryte. As previously agreed, Lady Minfilia will be with me.

Minfilia: Even with the diversions, the path to the aetheryte is bound to be fraught with danger. Pray be on constant guard, [Forename].

Rejoining Y'shtola (Cutscene)

Y'shtola: Pray do not concern yourself─'twas but a glancing blow. Come, the aetheryte is close at hand─let us press on!

Y'shtola: Damn them... They have made thralls of soldiers and civilians both...

Thancred: Did I miss much? 
Thancred: So that is how you fight in the Far East? Mental note: pick no quarrel with Domans. 
Thancred: But seriously: if I am to keep up, I must needs forsake elegance for efficiency. 

Yugiri: Hmmm... 

Thancred: To the aetheryte!

Cutscene

Merlwyb: You'll forgive me my lateness. 

Thancred: I've been something of a liability of late, I know. 'Tis high time I set about making amends. 

Sahagin Priest: Pshhh! Long have you shriveled shhhorewalkers tormented our kind! 
Sahagin Priest: But no more! Your time is at an end! 
Sahagin Priest: You shall perish with sssalt in your wounds and sssea in your lungs! 
Sahagin Priest: Lord of the Whorl, hearken to our plea!
Lord of the Whorl, deliver us from our misery! 

Merlwyb: Do you feel that!? 

Minfilia: I know this sensation... It's the Echo! 

Merlwyb: What!? 

Sahagin Priest: Pshhh! Sssuch power! It is...transcendent! 

Merlwyb: Seven hells... 

Sahagin Priest: Pshhhahahahahaaa! Ssstrike me down if you will! It is futile! I have massstered the gift! I am...eternal! 
Sahagin Priest: O mighty Leviathan, ruler of the ssseas, born of waters primordial! I offer unto You this frail fleshhh, that You might grant Your faithful servants deliverance! 
Sahagin Priest: I beseech You! Come forth! 

Merlwyb: Die, damn you! 

Sahagin Priest: Foolishhh shorewalker! You cannot kill that which is eternal! 

Yugiri: Heavens forfend... 

Merlwyb: Damn it all! 

Sahagin Priest: Pshhh!? My being...ebbs away... B-But it should by rightsss be infinite! 
Sahagin Priest: Am I not...immortal? Curse you, Emissary! You promised me...everlasssting... Pshhh... 

Minfilia: Wh-Where did he go!? 

Merlwyb: What say you? Nary a single ship!? Hells take that sea demon! 
Merlwyb: Gather the survivors and get to shore. Leave the wrecks for the pirates. 
Merlwyb: Leviathan wastes no time. The diversionary squadron is lost. 
Merlwyb: For a mercy, 'twould seem the primal now makes for open sea. But why does he not press his advantage? Unless... 
Merlwyb: Gods save us, he means to unleash a tidal wave! 

Speaking with Merlwyb at the Sapsa Spawning Grounds

Merlwyb: Understand─I speak of no normal wall of water. That which Leviathan makes ready to conjure carries more destructive power than aught seen in nature.
Merlwyb: ...Enough to raze entire coastal settlements, if his last attempt is any guide. We cannot suffer history to be repeated...yet how in the seven hells are we to prevent it?

Optional Dialogue

Minfilia: Had only we arrived but a moment earlier... But there is no time to brood over what might have been. Leviathan is returned, and we must needs find a way to deal with him.

Thancred: Though the mission ended in failure, I take solace in the knowledge that Minfilia is unharmed.

Y'shtola: If we meet Leviathan on the open sea, we put ourselves at the primal's mercy. We must think of a way to face him on equal terms.

Yugiri: The gods of this realm are vengeful beings.
Yugiri: 'Tis of little wonder the Garleans fear their kind so.