# That's quite a long time...

**Quest Group**: 6681609
**Steps**: 10

## Summary

Aye. I've only heard whispers now and again. 
Even those have gone silent of late.
If I'd known what it would lead to, I'd never have filled his head 
with tales of my youth... Darn it... Wretched old fool I am.
With the trail so cold, I thought he'd vanished into the ends of the earth...
But to think he was in the Land of the Morning Light...

## Walkthrough


### Step 1

- **Dialogue**: ...


### Step 2

- **Reward**: But the fire rekindled. Bit by bit, he drifted...
outward, away from home.


### Step 3

- **Reward**: And yet... he vanished. Left behind only a letter. 
It's been eleven years since that day.


### Step 4

- **Objective**: That's quite a long time...

- **Summary**: Aye. I've only heard whispers now and again. 
Even those have gone silent of late.
If I'd known what it would lead to, I'd never have filled his head 
with tales of my youth... Darn it... Wretched old fool I am.
With the trail so cold, I thought he'd vanished into the ends of the earth...
But to think he was in the Land of the Morning Light...


### Step 5

- **Reward**: The time comes when a man must step down. 
And yet... there's no one left to take my place.


### Step 6

- **Objective**: You intend to retire as village chief?

- **Summary**: Aye. If I wish to run for a seat in Calpheon,
I must relinquish the title.
Our trade with the Morninglanders has borne fruit. 
Now is the time—the perfect time—to enter the election.
But I never expected this title to be a chain.
Emma's still too young...


### Step 7

- **Reward**: And my only son is too busy chasing wind and shadow. 
It eats at me... truly.


### Step 8

- **Objective**: This weighs heavily on you.

- **Summary**: Heavily indeed. If only that boy would return... 
I'd pass the mantle in a heartbeat.


### Step 9

- **Reward**: What manner of business keeps him from coming home...?
Please. You're this old man's final hope.


### Step 10

- **Objective**: [Guide] Where to start the search?

- **Summary**: First... yes, that's right. Seek out Eileen.  
She seemed to know something...