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Raising the Sword

2026-07-21T16:04:45Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| description = [[Mylla]] looks at you with a twinkle in her eye.
| image = Paladin SB quest image.png
| quest-giver = Mylla
| location = Ul'dah - Steps of Thal
| location-x = 9.3
| location-y = 12.0
| type = job
| job = Paladin
| level = 70
| gil = 2300
| reward1 = 1 Chivalrous Armor Coffer (IL 290)
| unlocks = ac Passage of Arms, ach Like a Knight in Shining Armor III, ngp Paladin - Part 3
| prev-quest = Fade to Black Lotus
| next-quest = Worth Fighting For
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68111
| id-edb = 9193a6f1c9c
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of War Job Quests
| journal-genre = Paladin Quests
| sortkey = 700
}}

== Steps ==
* Speak with the tournament registrar.
* Speak with [[Mylla]].

== Journal ==
* Mylla looks at you with a twinkle in her eye.

* Mylla can barely contain her excitement as she informs you the Ul Cup final will go ahead. Your long-awaited match against Aldis will take place shortly; when you are ready, the tournament registrar will show you through to the arena.

* No sooner do you arrive in the arena than a damnably curious spectator exposes Black Lotus as Aldis. Though the crowd is initially shocked, Mylla succeeds in rallying everyone behind the match. At this time, Nanamo steps in and gives her blessing for the contest to proceed. With no obstacles left to bar your way, you and Aldis finally square off. At the end of a furious clash, you emerge the victor and are crowned champion of the Ul Cup. Nanamo makes to present you with the promised tome of secret techniques, but Papashan confesses that such an item never existed. The true purpose in bringing together the highest names in swordplay, he explains, was to raise the gladiatorial arts higher, with the ultimate goal of strengthening the realm in the face of mutliple threats. At length, Nanamo turns her attention to the question of Aldis's banishment, and by a simple utterance grants him a royal pardon.

* And so, after numerous twists and turns, the Ul Cup comes to a close. Mylla and Aldis await you back at the Gladiators' Guild.

* Despite having received a pardon, Aldis chooses to continue his journey of self-discovery. Mylla protests, but he will not be swayed; his defeat to you made it clear he still wants for experience, and he will not know peace until he has gained it. As Aldis departs, he expresses his eagerness to meet you again in battle. In anticipation of that day, you resolve to continue striving for greater heights in your art.
==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Mylla: It's official, [Forename]! The Coliseum has agreed to host the Ul Cup final anew!
Mylla: In the interests of maintaining excitement, things are already in motion. And lest you wonder, Odde has since been apprehended by the Brass Blades and cannot hinder the proceedings.
Mylla: Aldis has been informed and makes ready even as we speak, and you should likewise see to your own preparations. When all is in order, the tournament registrar will escort you through to the arena.
Mylla: Suffice it to say I shall be cheering you on from the viewing gallery. Good luck, [Forename], and give Aldis a kiss for me—with the rim of your shield!
-quest accepted

===Speak with the tournament registrar===
-optional start
Mylla: When all is in order, the tournament registrar will escort you through to the arena. Good luck, [Forename], and give Aldis a kiss for me—with the rim of your shield!
-optional end
Tournament Registrar: This is it, my {{alternatives|f=lady|m=lord}}—no more sudden changes of plan! Are you ready to proceed?
-cutscene start
Adrien: Ladies and gentlemen! Finally, at long last, the moment you've all been waiting for is here: the Ul Cup final!
Spectating Craftsman: Before this starts, I want to know something! Is it true Black Lotus is actually Aldis, the Sword of Nald?
Dour Meadow: What!? Black Lotus, I must ask you to remove your helm!
Spectating Merchant: Thal's balls, it's really him! What'll happen now?
Spectating Craftsman: Nothing'll happen, that's what. Once expelled, a gladiator may not fight in the Coliseum again. There'll be no match.
Aldis: Aye, that's right. All this time it was me.
Aldis: I'm the last person who needs to be reminded of my own banishment. If you wish to call off the final, then so be it. I'll not argue.
Aldis: Nonetheless, I ask you this: will you not let [Forename] and I fight? We promise to give you a match that the bards shall long sing of!
Mylla: Oh, come on! One of the greatest swordsmen of our age is about to cross swords with a fabled hero, and you have to even think about it? Every one here must be aching to see them fight! Is this not so?
Mylla: If there is any indication of dishonest conduct, I shall take his head myself! But give them a chance, I say! Remember the incredible performances they've given us thus far, and imagine how much finer it will be!
The Bronze Bull: The First Sword speaks true! This is a once-in-a-lifetime event! 'Twould be a crying shame to have it end like this!
Spectating Merchant: Aye, listen to Mylla! I came here for a final, and I want one, dammit!
Spectating Craftsman: Me, too! I've watched Aldis since I was a lad, and I want to watch him fight again! Let it happen, rules be damned!
Nanamo Ul Namo: You have no objections, [Forename]?
Nanamo Ul Namo: I must confess that I, too, have awaited the match with bated breath. There will be time enough afterwards to revisit past misdeeds.
Nanamo Ul Namo: There you have it, Aldis. You have the blessing of all present.
Aldis: Don't ever change, Mylla.
Aldis: Come, [Forename]! Your opponent is the Sword of Nald!
-cutscene end

===Triumph in the Ul Cup final===
System: With the blessing of Nald'thal, two mighty warriors now meet in the Ul Cup final!
Aldis, Sword of Nald: Come, [Forename]! Show me what you can do!
Aldis, Sword of Nald: Let's see if you can dodge my specialty!
Aldis, Sword of Nald: Here's something new to knock you off your feet!
Aldis, Sword of Nald: Stay put for me, will you?
Aldis, Sword of Nald: Storms of Thanalan, devour all before you!
Aldis, Sword of Nald: I'll be damned, [Forename], you're even stronger than the rumors had me believe.
Aldis, Sword of Nald: But remember, this is the Sword of Nald you're facing. Let's see if you can outlast me!
System: And the champion of the Ul Cup─the greatest swordsman in the realm─is [Forename] [Surname]!

-cutscene start
Nanamo Ul Namo: A magnificent performance from start to finish! Such exquisite bladework I have seldom beheld!
Nanamo Ul Namo: Now then, perchance you have heard that the champion would be awarded a rare tome, one which holds the secret techniques of the first captain of the Sultansworn.
Nanamo Ul Namo: Papashan, if you would be so kind.
Papashan: Ahem. If I might speak plain, Your Grace...
Papashan: The tome does not exist.
Aldis: Well, well. I see what you did there, Master Papashan.
Aldis: You've revived not only Sultan Sisigan's tournament, but his vision as well!
Aldis: Seems a history lesson is in order. Ahem. During his reign, Sultan Sasagan Ul Sisigan invited swordsmen of all lands to Ul'dah to fight with his own elite in tournaments.
Aldis: In time, such tournaments came to attract sellswords, giving rise to a national institution: the grand diversion that is the Coliseum.
Aldis: While that was a defining development for Ul'dah, historians believe that, in bringing together expert swordsmen, the sultan's true intent was to advance the gladiatorial arts.
Aldis: But when the balance of power shifted away from the Royalists, the royal house lost access to the enormous funds needed to host grand tournaments.
Aldis: The revival of the Ul Cup, the promise of a nonexistent prize... All of it was in emulation of Sultan Sasagan's vision.
Papashan: You are most perceptive, Aldis. The true purpose in bringing together the highest names in swordplay was to raise the gladiatorial arts higher, as the sultan once did.
Papashan: And though we walk in his footsteps, our destination lies a little farther. For it is my hope that not only Ul'dah, but Eorzea as a whole, is strengthened.
Papashan: From the Garlean menace to the beast tribes and their primals, the realm is faced with numerous threats.
Papashan: If we are to protect our homes and loved ones, we must keep our blades sharp and our shields strong.
Papashan: Forgive me, Your Grace. Had you known there was neither tome nor technique, I feared you would not consent to the tournament.
Nanamo Ul Namo: You should have consulted me from the first. As it stands, we must needs find another means of rewarding our champion.
Nanamo Ul Namo: My dear [Forename]. Speak unto me your desire; I shall do mine utmost to bestow it.
Question: What will you request?
> A pardon for Aldis.
Nanamo Ul Namo: A noble request befitting your kind-hearted self. Ere I grant it, however, there is one thing I would know.
> Nothing.
Nanamo Ul Namo: ...Nothing? Truly? Very well, if the champion desires naught, then the prize shall go to the next in line.
Nanamo Ul Namo: Aldis. Though this was not to be your day, you fought outstandingly and may rightly stand tall. Ere I grant you your prize, however, there is one thing I would know.
---
Nanamo Ul Namo: I am given to understand you were sentenced to exile for being party to bribery. Is this true?
Aldis: It is, Your Grace.
Nanamo Ul Namo: I see. Very well, then.
Nanamo Ul Namo: I, Nanamo Ul Namo, Sultana of Ul'dah, do hereby absolve you of all crimes.
Nanamo Ul Namo: Our fair nation has need of men of your strength and skill, now more than ever. 'Twould be unconscionable to cast you aside.
Nanamo Ul Namo: And to the champion, [Forename], I offer my joyous congratulations! Your victory this day shall long remain in our hearts and minds!
Nanamo Ul Namo: Though the tournament is come to a close, I pray that all of you shall ever strive to raise your art higher—for the good of all the realm!
-cutscene end

===Speak with Mylla===
-optional start
Aldis: That was a fight to remember. You've truly grown strong, my friend.
Dour Meadow: A well-deserved victory! Congratulations!
Scrubby Stripling: You're even stronger than Uncle Aldy! If I'm gonna challenge you one day, I'm gonna have to train extra hard!
-optional end
-cutscene start
Scrubby Stripling: You're even stronger than Uncle Aldy! If I'm gonna challenge you one day, I'm gonna have to train extra hard!
Mylla: To think that such a motive existed for the tournament... We gladiators, too, must endeavor to do our part for the greater good of the realm.
Aldis: Hear, hear, my dear. Ah, but the things one must do to arrange a simple match with [Forename]. Judging by how quickly you've improved in my short time away, had we fought but a few days earlier, I like to think I would've come out on top.
Aldis: So. I'm good to return to the Coliseum?
Dour Meadow: You have Her Grace's personal endorsement—I'd say that's about as good as one can get. And as a finalist in the Ul Cup, you would draw decent crowds. We'd be glad to have you back.
Aldis: Hah, I never dreamed that this day would come...
Aldis: Well, I suppose I'll resume my wanderings.
Mylla: What!? You're given a royal pardon, yet you're leaving Ul'dah again!?
Aldis: Mylla, you watched [Forename] and I fight. For all my training during my travels, all the hardships I subjected myself to, I was no match for {{alternatives|f=her|m=him}}.
Aldis: 'Tis plain I still want for experience, for knowledge and skill, and I won't be at peace until I gain it. Surely you understand this?
Mylla: Yes, but—
Aldis: Worry not, Mylla. I will visit whenever I can. After all, there's a filly back home who whinnies incessantly after me.
Aldis: And you, my free paladin friend. Not only did you oblige me with a match, you rescued my boy and defended my honor besides. For that I cannot thank you enough.
Aldis: I learned much and more from our encounter, and I should be glad if you got something out of it also. Keenly do I look forward to our next meeting, when we can simply square off, with no complicating factors to distract us!
-quest complete
System: This concludes the paladin quests for FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood. In order to undertake the next series of quests, you must first meet the following requirements:
System: ※FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers must be registered to your service account. ※You must have completed the main scenario quest "Shadowbringers."
System: ※You must have completed the role quest "To Have Loved and Lost."
System: Once you have done so, the next paladin quest will be available from Jenlyns.
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=dXXLgvj2sHc}}

Raising the Sword

2026-07-21T16:04:35Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Formatting, word check

{{Quest infobox
| description = [[Mylla]] looks at you with a twinkle in her eye.
| image = Paladin SB quest image.png
| quest-giver = Mylla
| related-npcs = Adrien; Aldis; Bronze Bull; Constaint; Dour Meadow; Franz; Handeloup; Jenlyns; Nanamo Ul Namo; Papashan; Scrubby Stripling; The Bronze Bull; Tournament Registrar
| location = Ul'dah - Steps of Thal
| location-x = 9.3
| location-y = 12.0
| type = job
| job = Paladin
| level = 70
| gil = 2300
| reward1 = 1 Chivalrous Armor Coffer (IL 290)
| unlocks = ac Passage of Arms, ach Like a Knight in Shining Armor III, ngp Paladin - Part 3
| prev-quest = Fade to Black Lotus
| next-quest = Worth Fighting For
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68111
| id-edb = 9193a6f1c9c
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of War Job Quests
| journal-genre = Paladin Quests
| sortkey = 700
}}

== Steps ==
* Speak with the tournament registrar.
* Speak with [[Mylla]].

== Journal ==
* Mylla looks at you with a twinkle in her eye.

* Mylla can barely contain her excitement as she informs you the Ul Cup final will go ahead. Your long-awaited match against Aldis will take place shortly; when you are ready, the tournament registrar will show you through to the arena.

* No sooner do you arrive in the arena than a damnably curious spectator exposes Black Lotus as Aldis. Though the crowd is initially shocked, Mylla succeeds in rallying everyone behind the match. At this time, Nanamo steps in and gives her blessing for the contest to proceed. With no obstacles left to bar your way, you and Aldis finally square off. At the end of a furious clash, you emerge the victor and are crowned champion of the Ul Cup. Nanamo makes to present you with the promised tome of secret techniques, but Papashan confesses that such an item never existed. The true purpose in bringing together the highest names in swordplay, he explains, was to raise the gladiatorial arts higher, with the ultimate goal of strengthening the realm in the face of mutliple threats. At length, Nanamo turns her attention to the question of Aldis's banishment, and by a simple utterance grants him a royal pardon.

* And so, after numerous twists and turns, the Ul Cup comes to a close. Mylla and Aldis await you back at the Gladiators' Guild.

* Despite having received a pardon, Aldis chooses to continue his journey of self-discovery. Mylla protests, but he will not be swayed; his defeat to you made it clear he still wants for experience, and he will not know peace until he has gained it. As Aldis departs, he expresses his eagerness to meet you again in battle. In anticipation of that day, you resolve to continue striving for greater heights in your art.
==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Mylla: It's official, [Forename]! The Coliseum has agreed to host the Ul Cup final anew!
Mylla: In the interests of maintaining excitement, things are already in motion. And lest you wonder, Odde has since been apprehended by the Brass Blades and cannot hinder the proceedings.
Mylla: Aldis has been informed and makes ready even as we speak, and you should likewise see to your own preparations. When all is in order, the tournament registrar will escort you through to the arena.
Mylla: Suffice it to say I shall be cheering you on from the viewing gallery. Good luck, [Forename], and give Aldis a kiss for me—with the rim of your shield!
-quest accepted

===Speak with the tournament registrar===
-optional start
Mylla: When all is in order, the tournament registrar will escort you through to the arena. Good luck, [Forename], and give Aldis a kiss for me—with the rim of your shield!
-optional end
Tournament Registrar: This is it, my {{alternatives|f=lady|m=lord}}—no more sudden changes of plan! Are you ready to proceed?
-cutscene start
Adrien: Ladies and gentlemen! Finally, at long last, the moment you've all been waiting for is here: the Ul Cup final!
Spectating Craftsman: Before this starts, I want to know something! Is it true Black Lotus is actually Aldis, the Sword of Nald?
Dour Meadow: What!? Black Lotus, I must ask you to remove your helm!
Spectating Merchant: Thal's balls, it's really him! What'll happen now?
Spectating Craftsman: Nothing'll happen, that's what. Once expelled, a gladiator may not fight in the Coliseum again. There'll be no match.
Aldis: Aye, that's right. All this time it was me.
Aldis: I'm the last person who needs to be reminded of my own banishment. If you wish to call off the final, then so be it. I'll not argue.
Aldis: Nonetheless, I ask you this: will you not let [Forename] and I fight? We promise to give you a match that the bards shall long sing of!
Mylla: Oh, come on! One of the greatest swordsmen of our age is about to cross swords with a fabled hero, and you have to even think about it? Every one here must be aching to see them fight! Is this not so?
Mylla: If there is any indication of dishonest conduct, I shall take his head myself! But give them a chance, I say! Remember the incredible performances they've given us thus far, and imagine how much finer it will be!
The Bronze Bull: The First Sword speaks true! This is a once-in-a-lifetime event! 'Twould be a crying shame to have it end like this!
Spectating Merchant: Aye, listen to Mylla! I came here for a final, and I want one, dammit!
Spectating Craftsman: Me, too! I've watched Aldis since I was a lad, and I want to watch him fight again! Let it happen, rules be damned!
Nanamo Ul Namo: You have no objections, [Forename]?
Nanamo Ul Namo: I must confess that I, too, have awaited the match with bated breath. There will be time enough afterwards to revisit past misdeeds.
Nanamo Ul Namo: There you have it, Aldis. You have the blessing of all present.
Aldis: Don't ever change, Mylla.
Aldis: Come, [Forename]! Your opponent is the Sword of Nald!
-cutscene end

===Triumph in the Ul Cup final===
System: With the blessing of Nald'thal, two mighty warriors now meet in the Ul Cup final!
Aldis, Sword of Nald: Come, [Forename]! Show me what you can do!
Aldis, Sword of Nald: Let's see if you can dodge my specialty!
Aldis, Sword of Nald: Here's something new to knock you off your feet!
Aldis, Sword of Nald: Stay put for me, will you?
Aldis, Sword of Nald: Storms of Thanalan, devour all before you!
Aldis, Sword of Nald: I'll be damned, [Forename], you're even stronger than the rumors had me believe.
Aldis, Sword of Nald: But remember, this is the Sword of Nald you're facing. Let's see if you can outlast me!
System: And the champion of the Ul Cup─the greatest swordsman in the realm─is [Forename] [Surname]!

-cutscene start
Nanamo Ul Namo: A magnificent performance from start to finish! Such exquisite bladework I have seldom beheld!
Nanamo Ul Namo: Now then, perchance you have heard that the champion would be awarded a rare tome, one which holds the secret techniques of the first captain of the Sultansworn.
Nanamo Ul Namo: Papashan, if you would be so kind.
Papashan: Ahem. If I might speak plain, Your Grace...
Papashan: The tome does not exist.
Aldis: Well, well. I see what you did there, Master Papashan.
Aldis: You've revived not only Sultan Sisigan's tournament, but his vision as well!
Aldis: Seems a history lesson is in order. Ahem. During his reign, Sultan Sasagan Ul Sisigan invited swordsmen of all lands to Ul'dah to fight with his own elite in tournaments.
Aldis: In time, such tournaments came to attract sellswords, giving rise to a national institution: the grand diversion that is the Coliseum.
Aldis: While that was a defining development for Ul'dah, historians believe that, in bringing together expert swordsmen, the sultan's true intent was to advance the gladiatorial arts.
Aldis: But when the balance of power shifted away from the Royalists, the royal house lost access to the enormous funds needed to host grand tournaments.
Aldis: The revival of the Ul Cup, the promise of a nonexistent prize... All of it was in emulation of Sultan Sasagan's vision.
Papashan: You are most perceptive, Aldis. The true purpose in bringing together the highest names in swordplay was to raise the gladiatorial arts higher, as the sultan once did.
Papashan: And though we walk in his footsteps, our destination lies a little farther. For it is my hope that not only Ul'dah, but Eorzea as a whole, is strengthened.
Papashan: From the Garlean menace to the beast tribes and their primals, the realm is faced with numerous threats.
Papashan: If we are to protect our homes and loved ones, we must keep our blades sharp and our shields strong.
Papashan: Forgive me, Your Grace. Had you known there was neither tome nor technique, I feared you would not consent to the tournament.
Nanamo Ul Namo: You should have consulted me from the first. As it stands, we must needs find another means of rewarding our champion.
Nanamo Ul Namo: My dear [Forename]. Speak unto me your desire; I shall do mine utmost to bestow it.
Question: What will you request?
> A pardon for Aldis.
Nanamo Ul Namo: A noble request befitting your kind-hearted self. Ere I grant it, however, there is one thing I would know.
> Nothing.
Nanamo Ul Namo: ...Nothing? Truly? Very well, if the champion desires naught, then the prize shall go to the next in line.
Nanamo Ul Namo: Aldis. Though this was not to be your day, you fought outstandingly and may rightly stand tall. Ere I grant you your prize, however, there is one thing I would know.
---
Nanamo Ul Namo: I am given to understand you were sentenced to exile for being party to bribery. Is this true?
Aldis: It is, Your Grace.
Nanamo Ul Namo: I see. Very well, then.
Nanamo Ul Namo: I, Nanamo Ul Namo, Sultana of Ul'dah, do hereby absolve you of all crimes.
Nanamo Ul Namo: Our fair nation has need of men of your strength and skill, now more than ever. 'Twould be unconscionable to cast you aside.
Nanamo Ul Namo: And to the champion, [Forename], I offer my joyous congratulations! Your victory this day shall long remain in our hearts and minds!
Nanamo Ul Namo: Though the tournament is come to a close, I pray that all of you shall ever strive to raise your art higher—for the good of all the realm!
-cutscene end

===Speak with Mylla===
-optional start
Aldis: That was a fight to remember. You've truly grown strong, my friend.
Dour Meadow: A well-deserved victory! Congratulations!
Scrubby Stripling: You're even stronger than Uncle Aldy! If I'm gonna challenge you one day, I'm gonna have to train extra hard!
-optional end
-cutscene start
Scrubby Stripling: You're even stronger than Uncle Aldy! If I'm gonna challenge you one day, I'm gonna have to train extra hard!
Mylla: To think that such a motive existed for the tournament... We gladiators, too, must endeavor to do our part for the greater good of the realm.
Aldis: Hear, hear, my dear. Ah, but the things one must do to arrange a simple match with [Forename]. Judging by how quickly you've improved in my short time away, had we fought but a few days earlier, I like to think I would've come out on top.
Aldis: So. I'm good to return to the Coliseum?
Dour Meadow: You have Her Grace's personal endorsement—I'd say that's about as good as one can get. And as a finalist in the Ul Cup, you would draw decent crowds. We'd be glad to have you back.
Aldis: Hah, I never dreamed that this day would come...
Aldis: Well, I suppose I'll resume my wanderings.
Mylla: What!? You're given a royal pardon, yet you're leaving Ul'dah again!?
Aldis: Mylla, you watched [Forename] and I fight. For all my training during my travels, all the hardships I subjected myself to, I was no match for {{alternatives|f=her|m=him}}.
Aldis: 'Tis plain I still want for experience, for knowledge and skill, and I won't be at peace until I gain it. Surely you understand this?
Mylla: Yes, but—
Aldis: Worry not, Mylla. I will visit whenever I can. After all, there's a filly back home who whinnies incessantly after me.
Aldis: And you, my free paladin friend. Not only did you oblige me with a match, you rescued my boy and defended my honor besides. For that I cannot thank you enough.
Aldis: I learned much and more from our encounter, and I should be glad if you got something out of it also. Keenly do I look forward to our next meeting, when we can simply square off, with no complicating factors to distract us!
-quest complete
System: This concludes the paladin quests for FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood. In order to undertake the next series of quests, you must first meet the following requirements:
System: ※FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers must be registered to your service account. ※You must have completed the main scenario quest "Shadowbringers."
System: ※You must have completed the role quest "To Have Loved and Lost."
System: Once you have done so, the next paladin quest will be available from Jenlyns.
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=dXXLgvj2sHc}}

Fade to Black Lotus

2026-07-21T15:43:41Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| description = [[Mylla]]'s expectant gaze could only mean one thing: it is time.
| image = Paladin SB quest image.png
| quest-giver = Mylla
| location = Ul'dah - Steps of Thal
| location-x = 9.3
| location-y = 12.0
| type = job
| job = Paladin
| level = 68
| exp = 108000
| gil = 1447
| prev-quest = In Nald's Name
| next-quest = Raising the Sword
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68110
| id-edb = f810aba186d
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of War Job Quests
| journal-genre = Paladin Quests
| sortkey = 680
}}

== Steps ==
* Speak with Mylla.
* Speak with the tournament registrar.
* Search for Black Lotus.
* Gather information in Pearl Lane.
* With the chat mode in {{colorize|```Say```}}, enter “Doubt the truth” to let the suspicious fellow know you are a customer.
* Search for the burly bloke at Spineless Basin.
* Aid the scrubby stripling.
* Speak with Mylla at the Gladiators' Guild.

== Journal ==
* Mylla's expectant gaze could only mean one thing: it is time.
* Mylla sends you off to the Ul Cup final with words of encouragement, but no sooner do you take to the arena than your opponent is announced as having withdrawn from the match. Though this makes you the champion by default, such an unearned victory rings hollow to you. Perhaps your guildmaster can provide some clarity amid the confusion.
* Sensing your dissatisfaction and knowing too well the ways of the Ul'dahn underworld, Mylla decides to investigate your opponent's unexpected withdrawal and recruits your aid. To begin with, she suggests that you speak with the tournament registrar, the last person to see Black Lotus.
* According to the tournament registrar, after informing him that he no longer wished to fight, Black Lotus left in considerable haste in the direction of Pearl Lane.
* You track down Black Lotus, who, to little surprise, turns out to be a disguised Aldis. He explains that he withdrew from the tournament in order to save a boy he met during his wanderings, whom unscrupulous match-fixers took hostage in the mistaken belief that he is Aldis's own. At this time an unimpressed Mylla arrives, and Aldis goes on to reveal that rumors of your surpassing skills are what drew him back to Ul'dah. His mention of a child leaves her dismayed, but the questions must wait, for the boy has yet to be released. Aldis means to track down the abductors and mount a rescue, and bids you ask after shady sorts in Pearl Lane.
* Questioning the locals, you learn that a black market bookmaker has been operating in the area. In order to track him down, you must first go to his lackey near the Gate of Thal and indicate your intent do business.
* With the chat mode in Say, enter the password “Doubt the truth” to let the suspicious fellow know you are a customer.
* Satisfied that you are a customer, the suspicious fellow directs you to his associate near the Sultantree. And by the sounds of it, that is where you will find the abducted child.
* The burly bloke and his cronies set upon you, but they are no match for the Ul Cup champion─by default or no. With the ruffians subdued, you may turn your attention to the child.
* Mylla and Aldis join you as you finish freeing the child from his bindings. After a brief but warm reunion, Aldis informs you that he has found solid evidence implicating Odde, the detestable Lalafell from the Quicksand, in the match-fixing attempt. And then to Mylla's relief, he clarifies that the boy is not in fact his own. All is well, then, save for the fact that a dream match between you and Aldis was not to be. However, Mylla tells you not to give up, for she believes she can convince the organizers to host the Ul Cup final. Leaving to entrust the child to the Brass Blades' care, she bids you join her back at the guild afterwards.
* Mylla reiterates her confidence that the Ul Cup final will go ahead, and excuses herself to go about making it so. See to it that you are fully prepared for the imminent match, for it will doubtless prove the toughest of all.
: ※ The next paladin quest will be available from Mylla upon reaching level 70.
==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Mylla: It's time, [Forename], the Ul Cup final. You have what it takes to win. Just fight as you always do, and the rest will follow.
-cutscene start
Tournament Usher: L-Ladies and gentlemen. It is my regret to inform you that Black Lotus has withdrawn from the match.
Tournament Usher: In the absence of an opponent, the winner of the Ul Cup final is [Forename] [Surname] by default!
Spectating Merchant: Hey, you don't think that those rumors could be true, do you?
Spectating Craftsman: What, that Black Lotus is Aldis, the gladiator who was banished from the Coliseum? Seems a little far-fetched, but you never know these things.
Adrien: In an unexpected turn of events, Black Lotus, the winner of the Nald group, has withdrawn. I repeat, Black Lotus has withdrawn.
Dour Meadow: Twelve in a tangle, what in blazes is going on!?
Adrien: We will relay further information as soon as more becomes available. Please bear with us.
-quest accepted
-cutscene end

===Speak with Mylla===
Mylla: What is the meaning of this?
Tournament Usher: A-Apologies, my lady, but I'm as much in the dark as you are. 'Twas the tournament registrar who spoke with Black Lotus on the matter.
Mylla: Not even the organizers have full grasp of the situation...
Mylla: It isn't uncommon for combatants to withdraw from a match, but when it does happen, more often than not something illicit is afoot.
Mylla: While some might consider "default" to be the sweetest word, I know that you do not. Nay, an unearned victory such as this rings hollow and brings you no satisfaction. As such, I have a mind to delve into what will certainly prove to be some dark places. May I rely on your help?
Mylla: Good. To begin with, let us go and ask the tournament registrar about his conversation with Black Lotus.

===Speak with the tournament registrar===
-optional start
Tournament Usher: A-Apologies, but I'm as much in the dark as you are. 'Twas the tournament registrar who spoke with Black Lotus on the matter.
Mylla: Let us go and ask the tournament registrar about his conversation with Black Lotus.
-optional end
Tournament Registrar: Yes, {{alternatives|f=my lady|m=my lord}}, Black Lotus came and informed me that he no longer wished to fight.
Tournament Registrar: This happened shortly after you entered the anteroom. I assumed he would follow suit, but instead he declared his withdrawal.
Tournament Registrar: Stunned as I was, by the time I had gathered my wits and thought to ask for his reason, he had spun on his heels and left.
Tournament Registrar: He was headed in the direction of Pearl Lane, I believe. If you wish to speak with him, I suggest you take your search there.

===Search for Black Lotus===
-optional start
Tournament Registrar: If you wish to speak with Black Lotus, he was headed in the direction of Pearl Lane.
Mylla: Were you able to learn anything?
-optional end
-cutscene start
Black Lotus: Well, I'd say it's time to come clean. Sharp as you are, you'd probably seen through the masquerade anyway.
Aldis: [Forename], it's good to see you again. As myself, at any rate.
Aldis: Let me guess: {{alternatives|f=the heartbroken maiden demands to know why I abandoned her at the arena|m=you demand to know why I abandoned you at the arena}}. I'll tell you that and more besides, but this stays between us, understood?
Aldis: Since we took care of business with Leavold and I left Ul'dah, I've been roaming the land like a proper vagabond.
Aldis: In the course of which I helped a child in need. You've already met the little scamp. I came upon him one day, all on his lonesome, his face caked in dirt. A war orphan, like so many out there.
Aldis: Upon learning what I do—did for a living, he decided that he must learn swordplay and begged me teach him. Wouldn't take no for an answer, the stubborn bugger, and he's been following me around ever since.
Aldis: Now, those that came to me with threats, they mistook the boy for my own and took him hostage, and demanded that I pull out of the tournament.
Aldis: If it were just my own head, I wouldn't think twice about risking it, but I won't gamble with someone else's life. The boy may not be my flesh and blood, but he's in danger on my account. And here we are.
Aldis: What can I say? In spite of myself, I've taken to the rascal.
Mylla: I ''knew'' it was you. From the moment we fought.
Aldis: Mylla, my dear! You are as ravishing as ever!
Mylla: Spare me! All this time and you couldn't bestir yourself to send a single godsdamned letter!
Aldis: Easy on the anger, now. 'Twould be a right shame to line that beautiful face with wrinkles.
Mylla: Th-That's neither here nor there! Now, tell me why have you returned!
Aldis: <sigh> As hasty as ever too, I see. If you must know, rumors had reached me of a free paladin named [Forename] [Surname] whose skills were beyond compare.
Aldis: Precisely how far beyond compare had {{alternatives|f=her|m=his}} skills become, I simply had to see—nay, test for myself. So I made my way back to Ul'dah.
Aldis: When I arrived, I learned that the prestigious Ul Cup had been revived. If [Forename] enters, I'd get my wish. If {{alternatives|f=she|m=he}} doesn't, I'd just have to settle for winning the tournament and resuming my wanderings.
Aldis: With a little help from an old friend, I acquired an invitation and found myself a suitably menacing full-face helm. Being something of a pariah, it wouldn't do to be seen, you see.
Mylla: If you went through all that effort for the sake of fighting [Forename], why did you withdraw?
Aldis: Simply put? To make way for money. Not mine, mind you, but someone else's.
Aldis: As you know, a tournament of this scale sees stupendous sums of coin moved, and there are some who'd stop at nothing to ensure that it moves their way.
Aldis: Well, it turns out that Black Lotus was standing between an especially unscrupulous crew and their fortune. And so they took my boy and threatened his life.
Mylla: ...B-Boy?
Aldis: Aye, well, it's a rather embarrassing tale. Let's save it for after I'm a few tankards in.
Aldis: Someone wants you to win, [Forename]. At all costs. While I do not disagree with their choice of champion, their methods don't sit well with me.
Aldis: Ah, but I'm afraid the rest will have to wait. The danger hasn't passed.
Aldis: Though I did as I was told, they haven't kept their part of the bargain. I mean to mount a rescue, and for this I could use your help.
Aldis: I knew I could count on you. First of all, we must track down these match-fixing, child-abducting villains. For the sake of haste, let us split up and investigate. If you could ask after shady sorts in these parts, I'll see to the nearby areas.
Mylla: A-A child? When the hells did he...?
-cutscene end

===Gather information in Pearl Lane===
Wealthy Citizen: Shady sorts taking wagers on the Ul Cup? Haven't seen any myself, but safe to say they're out there. It's Ul'dah, after all.

Destitute Citizen: What? You here to laugh at me?
Destitute Citizen: ...Well, there's plenty 'round here hopin' to strike it rich quick. Don't know any bookmakers myself—don't have the coin for that—but someone's bound to.
-optional start
Destitute Citizen: As I said, there's plenty 'round here hopin' to strike it rich quick. Don't know any bookmakers myself—don't have the coin for that—but someone's bound to.
-optional end

Skittish Citizen: G-Gambling? M-Match-fixing? Whatever are you talking about?
Skittish Citizen: ...K-Kidnapping!? Oh, gods, I never imagined they'd go that— Ahhh! Me and my big mouth!
Skittish Citizen: <sigh> Alright, alright... I'll tell you what I know. Least I can do to clear my conscience.
Skittish Citizen: This black market bookmaker, he has no established base, the better to avoid the authorities, but right now he has a lackey near the Gate of Thal. Say to the fellow the words "Doubt the truth," and he'll tell you where to go.
Skittish Citizen: Now, leave me be...and you didn't hear any of this from me!
-optional start
Skittish Citizen: This black market bookmaker has no established base, the better to avoid the authorities, but right now he has a lackey near the Gate of Thal. Say to the fellow the words "Doubt the truth," and he'll tell you where to go.
-optional end

===With the chat mode in {{colorize|```Say```}}, enter "Doubt the truth" to let the suspicious fellow know you are a customer===
-optional start
Mylla: A child... I can't believe it...
Suspicious Fellow: What're you gawpin' at? Piss off.
Suspicious Fellow: With the chat mode in {{colorize|```Say```}}, enter the password "Doubt the truth" to let the suspicious fellow know you are a customer.
-optional end
Suspicious Fellow: ...Oh, a customer. Collectin', are you? Then it's over by the Sultantree.
Suspicious Fellow: Just so you know, it might be a bit noisy. My mate there's, er...babysittin' at the moment.

===Search for the burly bloke at Spineless Basin===
-optional start
Suspicious Fellow: Collection's over by the Sultantree. Just so you know, it might be a bit noisy. My mate there's, er...babysittin' at the moment.
Scrubby Stripling: <sniff> Are you a bad person, too? I want Uncle Aldy! <sob>
-optional end
Burly Bloke: Yeah? What you do you want?
Question: What do you want?
> Your clothes, your boots, and your chocobo.
Burly Bloke: You want my ''what''!? Whoever this clown is, get {{alternatives|f=her|m=him}}!
> The child.
Burly Bloke: One of Aldis's!? Get {{alternatives|f=her|m=him}}!
---

===Aid the scrubby stripling===
-cutscene start
Mylla: The child is unharmed?
Scrubby Stripling: Uncle Aldy, I-I'm so sorry! If only I was stronger...
Aldis: That's nothing a little training won't fix. By the way, have you thanked [Forename] here yet?
Scrubby Stripling: Oh, right!
Scrubby Stripling: Thanks for saving me, [Forename]! At first I thought you were one of the crooks, but you're a really nice person.
Scrubby Stripling: Oh, and you're really strong as well! I'm gonna train hard so I can be strong too and look after myself!
Aldis: Allow me to thank you also, my friend. And lest you wonder, I haven't been idle either. I managed to find solid evidence implicating the ex-sellsword Odde, our friend whom you saw me having a chat with. The Brass Blades have been alerted to his shenanigans, and he'll trouble us no more.
Mylla: Wait, did that boy just call you Uncle?
Aldis: Aye, well, I'm a little too far gone to be his playmate. What of it?
Aldis: Wait a minute—don't tell me you assumed he was...you know?
Aldis: Ahahaha! That certainly explains your black mood!
Aldis: To prevent further misunderstanding, he isn't mine. I chanced to help him and we became fast friends, is all.
Mylla: Oh. Oh! W-Well, it's not like I cared or anything. It's just...given how long you were gone, I wouldn't have been surprised...is all.
Aldis: Ahahaha! It takes a lot longer than that to grow 'em this big!
Mylla: Th-This is nothing to laugh about!
Aldis: Ahhh, but it ''is''! <sigh> At any rate, all's well that ends well. It's just a pity the dream match between me and [Forename] could not be...
Mylla: Don't be so quick to give up. You've evidence that you were being threatened, have you not? I believe there's a good chance we can still make it happen.
Mylla: The Ul Cup generated such excitement as the Coliseum has not seen in generations. The organizers would have to be hopeless fools to forgo the chance to crown it off with a grand finale.
Mylla: I will lodge a formal petition in my capacity as guildmaster. The match ''will'' take place, just you watch.
Aldis: Hah, that's my Mylla, as brilliant as you are beautiful!
Aldis: The First Sword's as good as her word, my friend—our match is a guaranteed thing. When we finally meet in the arena, let us hold nothing back. And no hard feelings if I win, yes?
Mylla: I will go and entrust the young one to the care of the Brass Blades. Pray come and see me at the guild afterwards.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Mylla at the Gladiators' Guild===
Mylla: My thanks, [Forename]. With your help, not only were we able to save Aldis's boy, we may yet spare the tournament an unceremonious end. All that remains is to convince the organizers to host the final. Knowing them, though, it won't require much convincing.
Mylla: On the subject of the boy...I would thank you to keep my little misunderstanding to yourself. Ahem.
Mylla: Now then, I must be about my business. Until such time as the match is confirmed, take what rest you can. You will need it.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=15gmjEj3FEQ}}

Fade to Black Lotus

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{{Quest infobox
| description = [[Mylla]]'s expectant gaze could only mean one thing: it is time.
| image = Paladin SB quest image.png
| quest-giver = Mylla
| related-npcs = Adrien; Aldis; Burly Bloke; Destitute Citizen; Dour Meadow; Scrubby Stripling; Skittish Citizen; Spectating Craftsman; Spectating Merchant; Suspicious Fellow; Tournament Registrar; Tournament Usher; Wealthy Citizen
| location = Ul'dah - Steps of Thal
| location-x = 9.3
| location-y = 12.0
| type = job
| job = Paladin
| level = 68
| exp = 108000
| gil = 1447
| prev-quest = In Nald's Name
| next-quest = Raising the Sword
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68110
| id-edb = f810aba186d
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of War Job Quests
| journal-genre = Paladin Quests
| sortkey = 680
}}

== Steps ==
* Speak with Mylla.
* Speak with the tournament registrar.
* Search for Black Lotus.
* Gather information in Pearl Lane.
* With the chat mode in {{colorize|```Say```}}, enter “Doubt the truth” to let the suspicious fellow know you are a customer.
* Search for the burly bloke at Spineless Basin.
* Aid the scrubby stripling.
* Speak with Mylla at the Gladiators' Guild.

== Journal ==
* Mylla's expectant gaze could only mean one thing: it is time.
* Mylla sends you off to the Ul Cup final with words of encouragement, but no sooner do you take to the arena than your opponent is announced as having withdrawn from the match. Though this makes you the champion by default, such an unearned victory rings hollow to you. Perhaps your guildmaster can provide some clarity amid the confusion.
* Sensing your dissatisfaction and knowing too well the ways of the Ul'dahn underworld, Mylla decides to investigate your opponent's unexpected withdrawal and recruits your aid. To begin with, she suggests that you speak with the tournament registrar, the last person to see Black Lotus.
* According to the tournament registrar, after informing him that he no longer wished to fight, Black Lotus left in considerable haste in the direction of Pearl Lane.
* You track down Black Lotus, who, to little surprise, turns out to be a disguised Aldis. He explains that he withdrew from the tournament in order to save a boy he met during his wanderings, whom unscrupulous match-fixers took hostage in the mistaken belief that he is Aldis's own. At this time an unimpressed Mylla arrives, and Aldis goes on to reveal that rumors of your surpassing skills are what drew him back to Ul'dah. His mention of a child leaves her dismayed, but the questions must wait, for the boy has yet to be released. Aldis means to track down the abductors and mount a rescue, and bids you ask after shady sorts in Pearl Lane.
* Questioning the locals, you learn that a black market bookmaker has been operating in the area. In order to track him down, you must first go to his lackey near the Gate of Thal and indicate your intent do business.
* With the chat mode in Say, enter the password “Doubt the truth” to let the suspicious fellow know you are a customer.
* Satisfied that you are a customer, the suspicious fellow directs you to his associate near the Sultantree. And by the sounds of it, that is where you will find the abducted child.
* The burly bloke and his cronies set upon you, but they are no match for the Ul Cup champion─by default or no. With the ruffians subdued, you may turn your attention to the child.
* Mylla and Aldis join you as you finish freeing the child from his bindings. After a brief but warm reunion, Aldis informs you that he has found solid evidence implicating Odde, the detestable Lalafell from the Quicksand, in the match-fixing attempt. And then to Mylla's relief, he clarifies that the boy is not in fact his own. All is well, then, save for the fact that a dream match between you and Aldis was not to be. However, Mylla tells you not to give up, for she believes she can convince the organizers to host the Ul Cup final. Leaving to entrust the child to the Brass Blades' care, she bids you join her back at the guild afterwards.
* Mylla reiterates her confidence that the Ul Cup final will go ahead, and excuses herself to go about making it so. See to it that you are fully prepared for the imminent match, for it will doubtless prove the toughest of all.
: ※ The next paladin quest will be available from Mylla upon reaching level 70.
==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Mylla: It's time, [Forename], the Ul Cup final. You have what it takes to win. Just fight as you always do, and the rest will follow.
-cutscene start
Tournament Usher: L-Ladies and gentlemen. It is my regret to inform you that Black Lotus has withdrawn from the match.
Tournament Usher: In the absence of an opponent, the winner of the Ul Cup final is [Forename] [Surname] by default!
Spectating Merchant: Hey, you don't think that those rumors could be true, do you?
Spectating Craftsman: What, that Black Lotus is Aldis, the gladiator who was banished from the Coliseum? Seems a little far-fetched, but you never know these things.
Adrien: In an unexpected turn of events, Black Lotus, the winner of the Nald group, has withdrawn. I repeat, Black Lotus has withdrawn.
Dour Meadow: Twelve in a tangle, what in blazes is going on!?
Adrien: We will relay further information as soon as more becomes available. Please bear with us.
-quest accepted
-cutscene end

===Speak with Mylla===
Mylla: What is the meaning of this?
Tournament Usher: A-Apologies, my lady, but I'm as much in the dark as you are. 'Twas the tournament registrar who spoke with Black Lotus on the matter.
Mylla: Not even the organizers have full grasp of the situation...
Mylla: It isn't uncommon for combatants to withdraw from a match, but when it does happen, more often than not something illicit is afoot.
Mylla: While some might consider "default" to be the sweetest word, I know that you do not. Nay, an unearned victory such as this rings hollow and brings you no satisfaction. As such, I have a mind to delve into what will certainly prove to be some dark places. May I rely on your help?
Mylla: Good. To begin with, let us go and ask the tournament registrar about his conversation with Black Lotus.

===Speak with the tournament registrar===
-optional start
Tournament Usher: A-Apologies, but I'm as much in the dark as you are. 'Twas the tournament registrar who spoke with Black Lotus on the matter.
Mylla: Let us go and ask the tournament registrar about his conversation with Black Lotus.
-optional end
Tournament Registrar: Yes, {{alternatives|f=my lady|m=my lord}}, Black Lotus came and informed me that he no longer wished to fight.
Tournament Registrar: This happened shortly after you entered the anteroom. I assumed he would follow suit, but instead he declared his withdrawal.
Tournament Registrar: Stunned as I was, by the time I had gathered my wits and thought to ask for his reason, he had spun on his heels and left.
Tournament Registrar: He was headed in the direction of Pearl Lane, I believe. If you wish to speak with him, I suggest you take your search there.

===Search for Black Lotus===
-optional start
Tournament Registrar: If you wish to speak with Black Lotus, he was headed in the direction of Pearl Lane.
Mylla: Were you able to learn anything?
-optional end
-cutscene start
Black Lotus: Well, I'd say it's time to come clean. Sharp as you are, you'd probably seen through the masquerade anyway.
Aldis: [Forename], it's good to see you again. As myself, at any rate.
Aldis: Let me guess: {{alternatives|f=the heartbroken maiden demands to know why I abandoned her at the arena|m=you demand to know why I abandoned you at the arena}}. I'll tell you that and more besides, but this stays between us, understood?
Aldis: Since we took care of business with Leavold and I left Ul'dah, I've been roaming the land like a proper vagabond.
Aldis: In the course of which I helped a child in need. You've already met the little scamp. I came upon him one day, all on his lonesome, his face caked in dirt. A war orphan, like so many out there.
Aldis: Upon learning what I do—did for a living, he decided that he must learn swordplay and begged me teach him. Wouldn't take no for an answer, the stubborn bugger, and he's been following me around ever since.
Aldis: Now, those that came to me with threats, they mistook the boy for my own and took him hostage, and demanded that I pull out of the tournament.
Aldis: If it were just my own head, I wouldn't think twice about risking it, but I won't gamble with someone else's life. The boy may not be my flesh and blood, but he's in danger on my account. And here we are.
Aldis: What can I say? In spite of myself, I've taken to the rascal.
Mylla: I ''knew'' it was you. From the moment we fought.
Aldis: Mylla, my dear! You are as ravishing as ever!
Mylla: Spare me! All this time and you couldn't bestir yourself to send a single godsdamned letter!
Aldis: Easy on the anger, now. 'Twould be a right shame to line that beautiful face with wrinkles.
Mylla: Th-That's neither here nor there! Now, tell me why have you returned!
Aldis: <sigh> As hasty as ever too, I see. If you must know, rumors had reached me of a free paladin named [Forename] [Surname] whose skills were beyond compare.
Aldis: Precisely how far beyond compare had {{alternatives|f=her|m=his}} skills become, I simply had to see—nay, test for myself. So I made my way back to Ul'dah.
Aldis: When I arrived, I learned that the prestigious Ul Cup had been revived. If [Forename] enters, I'd get my wish. If {{alternatives|f=she|m=he}} doesn't, I'd just have to settle for winning the tournament and resuming my wanderings.
Aldis: With a little help from an old friend, I acquired an invitation and found myself a suitably menacing full-face helm. Being something of a pariah, it wouldn't do to be seen, you see.
Mylla: If you went through all that effort for the sake of fighting [Forename], why did you withdraw?
Aldis: Simply put? To make way for money. Not mine, mind you, but someone else's.
Aldis: As you know, a tournament of this scale sees stupendous sums of coin moved, and there are some who'd stop at nothing to ensure that it moves their way.
Aldis: Well, it turns out that Black Lotus was standing between an especially unscrupulous crew and their fortune. And so they took my boy and threatened his life.
Mylla: ...B-Boy?
Aldis: Aye, well, it's a rather embarrassing tale. Let's save it for after I'm a few tankards in.
Aldis: Someone wants you to win, [Forename]. At all costs. While I do not disagree with their choice of champion, their methods don't sit well with me.
Aldis: Ah, but I'm afraid the rest will have to wait. The danger hasn't passed.
Aldis: Though I did as I was told, they haven't kept their part of the bargain. I mean to mount a rescue, and for this I could use your help.
Aldis: I knew I could count on you. First of all, we must track down these match-fixing, child-abducting villains. For the sake of haste, let us split up and investigate. If you could ask after shady sorts in these parts, I'll see to the nearby areas.
Mylla: A-A child? When the hells did he...?
-cutscene end

===Gather information in Pearl Lane===
Wealthy Citizen: Shady sorts taking wagers on the Ul Cup? Haven't seen any myself, but safe to say they're out there. It's Ul'dah, after all.

Destitute Citizen: What? You here to laugh at me?
Destitute Citizen: ...Well, there's plenty 'round here hopin' to strike it rich quick. Don't know any bookmakers myself—don't have the coin for that—but someone's bound to.
-optional start
Destitute Citizen: As I said, there's plenty 'round here hopin' to strike it rich quick. Don't know any bookmakers myself—don't have the coin for that—but someone's bound to.
-optional end

Skittish Citizen: G-Gambling? M-Match-fixing? Whatever are you talking about?
Skittish Citizen: ...K-Kidnapping!? Oh, gods, I never imagined they'd go that— Ahhh! Me and my big mouth!
Skittish Citizen: <sigh> Alright, alright... I'll tell you what I know. Least I can do to clear my conscience.
Skittish Citizen: This black market bookmaker, he has no established base, the better to avoid the authorities, but right now he has a lackey near the Gate of Thal. Say to the fellow the words "Doubt the truth," and he'll tell you where to go.
Skittish Citizen: Now, leave me be...and you didn't hear any of this from me!
-optional start
Skittish Citizen: This black market bookmaker has no established base, the better to avoid the authorities, but right now he has a lackey near the Gate of Thal. Say to the fellow the words "Doubt the truth," and he'll tell you where to go.
-optional end

===With the chat mode in {{colorize|```Say```}}, enter "Doubt the truth" to let the suspicious fellow know you are a customer===
-optional start
Mylla: A child... I can't believe it...
Suspicious Fellow: What're you gawpin' at? Piss off.
Suspicious Fellow: With the chat mode in {{colorize|```Say```}}, enter the password "Doubt the truth" to let the suspicious fellow know you are a customer.
-optional end
Suspicious Fellow: ...Oh, a customer. Collectin', are you? Then it's over by the Sultantree.
Suspicious Fellow: Just so you know, it might be a bit noisy. My mate there's, er...babysittin' at the moment.

===Search for the burly bloke at Spineless Basin===
-optional start
Suspicious Fellow: Collection's over by the Sultantree. Just so you know, it might be a bit noisy. My mate there's, er...babysittin' at the moment.
Scrubby Stripling: <sniff> Are you a bad person, too? I want Uncle Aldy! <sob>
-optional end
Burly Bloke: Yeah? What you do you want?
Question: What do you want?
> Your clothes, your boots, and your chocobo.
Burly Bloke: You want my ''what''!? Whoever this clown is, get {{alternatives|f=her|m=him}}!
> The child.
Burly Bloke: One of Aldis's!? Get {{alternatives|f=her|m=him}}!
---

===Aid the scrubby stripling===
-cutscene start
Mylla: The child is unharmed?
Scrubby Stripling: Uncle Aldy, I-I'm so sorry! If only I was stronger...
Aldis: That's nothing a little training won't fix. By the way, have you thanked [Forename] here yet?
Scrubby Stripling: Oh, right!
Scrubby Stripling: Thanks for saving me, [Forename]! At first I thought you were one of the crooks, but you're a really nice person.
Scrubby Stripling: Oh, and you're really strong as well! I'm gonna train hard so I can be strong too and look after myself!
Aldis: Allow me to thank you also, my friend. And lest you wonder, I haven't been idle either. I managed to find solid evidence implicating the ex-sellsword Odde, our friend whom you saw me having a chat with. The Brass Blades have been alerted to his shenanigans, and he'll trouble us no more.
Mylla: Wait, did that boy just call you Uncle?
Aldis: Aye, well, I'm a little too far gone to be his playmate. What of it?
Aldis: Wait a minute—don't tell me you assumed he was...you know?
Aldis: Ahahaha! That certainly explains your black mood!
Aldis: To prevent further misunderstanding, he isn't mine. I chanced to help him and we became fast friends, is all.
Mylla: Oh. Oh! W-Well, it's not like I cared or anything. It's just...given how long you were gone, I wouldn't have been surprised...is all.
Aldis: Ahahaha! It takes a lot longer than that to grow 'em this big!
Mylla: Th-This is nothing to laugh about!
Aldis: Ahhh, but it ''is''! <sigh> At any rate, all's well that ends well. It's just a pity the dream match between me and [Forename] could not be...
Mylla: Don't be so quick to give up. You've evidence that you were being threatened, have you not? I believe there's a good chance we can still make it happen.
Mylla: The Ul Cup generated such excitement as the Coliseum has not seen in generations. The organizers would have to be hopeless fools to forgo the chance to crown it off with a grand finale.
Mylla: I will lodge a formal petition in my capacity as guildmaster. The match ''will'' take place, just you watch.
Aldis: Hah, that's my Mylla, as brilliant as you are beautiful!
Aldis: The First Sword's as good as her word, my friend—our match is a guaranteed thing. When we finally meet in the arena, let us hold nothing back. And no hard feelings if I win, yes?
Mylla: I will go and entrust the young one to the care of the Brass Blades. Pray come and see me at the guild afterwards.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Mylla at the Gladiators' Guild===
Mylla: My thanks, [Forename]. With your help, not only were we able to save Aldis's boy, we may yet spare the tournament an unceremonious end. All that remains is to convince the organizers to host the final. Knowing them, though, it won't require much convincing.
Mylla: On the subject of the boy...I would thank you to keep my little misunderstanding to yourself. Ahem.
Mylla: Now then, I must be about my business. Until such time as the match is confirmed, take what rest you can. You will need it.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=15gmjEj3FEQ}}

In Nald's Name

2026-07-21T15:17:14Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| description = [[Mylla]] is ready for action.
| image = Paladin SB quest image.png
| quest-giver = Mylla
| location = Ul'dah - Steps of Thal
| location-x = 9.3
| location-y = 12.0
| type = job
| job = Paladin
| level = 65
| exp = 105000
| gil = 959
| prev-quest = In Thal's Name
| next-quest = Fade to Black Lotus
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68109
| id-edb = 10533977b5b
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of War Job Quests
| journal-genre = Paladin Quests
| sortkey = 650
}}

== Steps ==
* Speak with the [[Tournament Usher|tournament usher]] at the Coliseum.
* Speak with [[Franz]].
* Speak with [[Constaint]].
* Speak with [[Mylla]].
* Wait at the Quicksand.
* Report to Mylla at the Gladiators' Guild.

== Journal ==
* Mylla is ready for action.
* Before she enters the arena, Mylla suggests that you watch every Nald group match closely, as you will eventually face one of the combatants in the final. The tournament usher at the Coliseum will grant you access to the viewing gallery.
* You watch from the edge of your seat as the dance of steel plays out between the Nald group combatants. Your fellow free paladin Constaint comes away with a hard-fought win over Franz the Fair, but is left too spent to have a chance against the ever-reliable Mylla. This leaves the group final to be fought between the first sword and the mysterious Black Lotus. In a quality encounter, neither side yields the other ground, then seemingly out of nowhere Black Lotus claims victory with what can only be described as a sublime Shield Swipe. So it is that your opponent in the Ul Cup final is decided. As the dust settles, perhaps it would be meet to offer words of consolation to those who fell short, starting with Constaint and Franz.
* You have spoken with Constaint and Franz, with the former praising Mylla's fighting style and the latter finding Black Lotus's familiar in its beauteous ferocity. Last but certainly not least, you may seek out your guildmaster.
* Though disappointed by her elimination from the tournament, Mylla is pragmatic in defeat. As Franz did, however, she observes that her mysterious opponent strongly reminded her of someone. Curiously, Black Lotus now wishes to have words with you─a marked change from the disinterested tone he took with you earlier. Mylla sees no harm in obliging the man, who asks that you come to the Quicksand.
* You chance to witness a tense exchange between Black Lotus and a decidedly obnoxious Lalafell. Noticing you afterwards, Black Lotus gives his hasty assurance that all is well, though he asks that your meeting be postponed. Your business thus prematurely concluded, you may return to the Gladiators' Guild to report to Mylla.
* Though Mylla remains curious as to what Black Lotus desired, she turns her attention to your coming match with the man─as should you. With the Ul Cup final fast approaching, you would do well to dedicate yourself to preparing for an encounter that promises to go down in Ul'dahn history.
: ※ The next paladin quest will be available from Mylla upon reaching level 68.
==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Mylla: The Nald group matches are about to begin.
Mylla: As you will eventually be fighting one of us, I suggest you watch every match closely. The tournament usher outside will grant you access to the viewing gallery.
Mylla: Now then, I'd best set about my preparations. Let us speak again later.
Mylla: The tournament usher outside will grant you access to the viewing gallery. Let us speak again after the fighting is done.
-quest accepted

===Speak with the tournament usher at the Coliseum===
Tournament Usher: Greetings, my {{alternatives|f=lady|m=lord}}. Will you be watching the Nald group matches?
Question: Watch the Nald group matches?
> Yes
> No
---
-cutscene start
Dour Meadow: And so the Nald group has been pared down to two combatants! While we wait for their match to begin, let us look back over the group's notable encounters.
Dour Meadow: In the first round, local darling Franz the Fair crossed blades with Constaint, free paladin of Ishgard.
Adrien: Though the pundits tipped Franz as the outright favorite, the younger Constaint refused to be cowed, tenaciously staying in the game before landing a single, mighty blow that ended the proceedings. Undoubtedly one of the upsets of the tournament, and most upsetting of all for maidens the realm over.
Adrien: By that victory, Constaint booked a meeting with First Sword Mylla, who had predictably triumphed in her own opening match.
Adrien: For those of you who were banking on another upset, however, it was not to be. From the opening moments, it was plain from his sluggish movements that Constaint's earlier exertions had taken their toll.
Adrien: Meanwhile, the First Sword was all business. With her textbook-perfect technique and methodical maneuvering, she took firm control from the halfway mark and didn't let go until her opponent was on his knees.
Adrien: Ah, I believe preparations for the tournament's penultimate match are in order! Mylla, First Sword of the Gladiators' Guild, will take to the arena against Black Lotus, the mystery contestant who has soundly defeated all comers!
Adrien: And Black Lotus advances to the Ul Cup final!
Adrien: In another nail-biting clash, the First Sword showed her class against an unknown opponent. However, Black Lotus kept up with her blow for blow, and seemingly out of nowhere clinched victory with a magnificent parry!
Dour Meadow: So sublime was the timing, it calls to my mind the Sword of Nald!
Adrien: Ah, now that you mention it, I can definitely see the resemblance. And with that sublime strike, our second Ul Cup finalist has been decided!
Dour Meadow: [Forename] [Surname] will take on the mysterious Black Lotus in a battle that promises to go down in Coliseum—nay, Ul'dahn history! Please look forward to it—I know ''I'' will!
Suspicious Spectator: Sh-She lost! Mylla ''lost''!
Odde: Bah, so much for the lauded First Sword!
Suspicious Spectator: Wh-What will we do? That Black Lotus could ruin everything!
Suspicious Spectator: If he ends up winning the tournament, we'd be neck deep in debt paying what's owed...
Odde: Fret not, my friend. We already know Black Lotus's strings. As a matter of fact, we are pulling them as we speak.
Suspicious Spectator: Truly!?
Odde: Do I not always say one can never have too many guarantees?
-cutscene end

===Speak with Franz===
-optional start
Tournament Usher: Such riveting displays from both the Nald and Thal groups!
Mylla: Whoever this Black Lotus is, he is no ordinary swordsman...
-optional end
Franz: <sigh> To think that one more beauteous than me should be found in Ishgard... Well, there is naught for it but to train harder and grow more beauteous.
Franz: That Black Lotus fellow, though—there was something familiar about him. A beauteous ferocity I'd swear I've seen before, but I cannot remember where.

===Speak with Constaint===
Constaint: Mylla is truly a complete fighter, and she gave me nary a flaw or opening to exploit. I can see why she is the guildmaster.
Constaint: Well, my little campaign may be over, but I take heart in the knowledge that yours continues. I shall pray for your victory!

===Speak with Mylla===
Mylla: From technique to sheer strength, that Black Lotus was a class above me in all aspects. What's more, he fought with a ferocious style that resembled...
Mylla: But never mind that. Dwelling on it won't change the result. I was bested in a fair contest, and I shall give credit where it is due. My only regret is that I could not meet you in the final, [Forename]. It falls to you now to bring pride to our guild's name.
Mylla: Oh, after the match, Black Lotus came and said that he wished a word with you. The way he mentioned your name gave me the impression that he knew you, but then again many people do.
Mylla: At any rate, I don't see any harm in obliging the man. If you can spare a moment, he asks that you come to the Quicksand.
Mylla: If you can spare a moment, Black Lotus asks that you come to the Quicksand.

===Wait at the Quicksand===
-optional start
Odde: What do you want? If you know what's good for you, you will remove yourself from my presence. Right now.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Black Lotus: You can threaten me all you like, but I ain't pulling out. It's poor form, see?
Odde: Well, far be it from me to ruin your form...but there's a trivial matter I would bring to your attention.
Black Lotus: You bastard!
Odde: Very trivial, yes? I'm sure you will make the right decision. Hehehe...
Black Lotus: You were listening, eh? Don't worry, it's nothing I can't handle.
Black Lotus: Look, I know I asked you to come here, but something's come up. We'll have to do this another time.
-cutscene end

===Report to Mylla at the Gladiators' Guild===
-optional start
Black Lotus: I know I asked you to come here, but something's come up. We'll have to do this another time.
-optional end
Mylla: Well? Did you meet Black Lotus?
Mylla: ...Postponed, you say? I wonder what he wanted. If nowhere else, you could always try chatting in the arena. 'Twould hardly be the first time folk got talkative in battle.
Mylla: I must say, though, the disappointment of elimination is swiftly giving way to anticipation. I look forward to seeing you clash with Black Lotus and, needless to say, come away with the win.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
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In Nald's Name

2026-07-21T15:16:58Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Formatting, word check

{{Quest infobox
| description = [[Mylla]] is ready for action.
| image = Paladin SB quest image.png
| quest-giver = Mylla
| related-npcs = Adrien; Aldis; Black Lotus; Constaint; Dour Meadow; Franz; Odde; Suspicious Spectator; Tournament Usher
| location = Ul'dah - Steps of Thal
| location-x = 9.3
| location-y = 12.0
| type = job
| job = Paladin
| level = 65
| exp = 105000
| gil = 959
| prev-quest = In Thal's Name
| next-quest = Fade to Black Lotus
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68109
| id-edb = 10533977b5b
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of War Job Quests
| journal-genre = Paladin Quests
| sortkey = 650
}}

== Steps ==
* Speak with the [[Tournament Usher|tournament usher]] at the Coliseum.
* Speak with [[Franz]].
* Speak with [[Constaint]].
* Speak with [[Mylla]].
* Wait at the Quicksand.
* Report to Mylla at the Gladiators' Guild.

== Journal ==
* Mylla is ready for action.
* Before she enters the arena, Mylla suggests that you watch every Nald group match closely, as you will eventually face one of the combatants in the final. The tournament usher at the Coliseum will grant you access to the viewing gallery.
* You watch from the edge of your seat as the dance of steel plays out between the Nald group combatants. Your fellow free paladin Constaint comes away with a hard-fought win over Franz the Fair, but is left too spent to have a chance against the ever-reliable Mylla. This leaves the group final to be fought between the first sword and the mysterious Black Lotus. In a quality encounter, neither side yields the other ground, then seemingly out of nowhere Black Lotus claims victory with what can only be described as a sublime Shield Swipe. So it is that your opponent in the Ul Cup final is decided. As the dust settles, perhaps it would be meet to offer words of consolation to those who fell short, starting with Constaint and Franz.
* You have spoken with Constaint and Franz, with the former praising Mylla's fighting style and the latter finding Black Lotus's familiar in its beauteous ferocity. Last but certainly not least, you may seek out your guildmaster.
* Though disappointed by her elimination from the tournament, Mylla is pragmatic in defeat. As Franz did, however, she observes that her mysterious opponent strongly reminded her of someone. Curiously, Black Lotus now wishes to have words with you─a marked change from the disinterested tone he took with you earlier. Mylla sees no harm in obliging the man, who asks that you come to the Quicksand.
* You chance to witness a tense exchange between Black Lotus and a decidedly obnoxious Lalafell. Noticing you afterwards, Black Lotus gives his hasty assurance that all is well, though he asks that your meeting be postponed. Your business thus prematurely concluded, you may return to the Gladiators' Guild to report to Mylla.
* Though Mylla remains curious as to what Black Lotus desired, she turns her attention to your coming match with the man─as should you. With the Ul Cup final fast approaching, you would do well to dedicate yourself to preparing for an encounter that promises to go down in Ul'dahn history.
: ※ The next paladin quest will be available from Mylla upon reaching level 68.
==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Mylla: The Nald group matches are about to begin.
Mylla: As you will eventually be fighting one of us, I suggest you watch every match closely. The tournament usher outside will grant you access to the viewing gallery.
Mylla: Now then, I'd best set about my preparations. Let us speak again later.
Mylla: The tournament usher outside will grant you access to the viewing gallery. Let us speak again after the fighting is done.
-quest accepted

===Speak with the tournament usher at the Coliseum===
Tournament Usher: Greetings, my {{alternatives|f=lady|m=lord}}. Will you be watching the Nald group matches?
Question: Watch the Nald group matches?
> Yes
> No
---
-cutscene start
Dour Meadow: And so the Nald group has been pared down to two combatants! While we wait for their match to begin, let us look back over the group's notable encounters.
Dour Meadow: In the first round, local darling Franz the Fair crossed blades with Constaint, free paladin of Ishgard.
Adrien: Though the pundits tipped Franz as the outright favorite, the younger Constaint refused to be cowed, tenaciously staying in the game before landing a single, mighty blow that ended the proceedings. Undoubtedly one of the upsets of the tournament, and most upsetting of all for maidens the realm over.
Adrien: By that victory, Constaint booked a meeting with First Sword Mylla, who had predictably triumphed in her own opening match.
Adrien: For those of you who were banking on another upset, however, it was not to be. From the opening moments, it was plain from his sluggish movements that Constaint's earlier exertions had taken their toll.
Adrien: Meanwhile, the First Sword was all business. With her textbook-perfect technique and methodical maneuvering, she took firm control from the halfway mark and didn't let go until her opponent was on his knees.
Adrien: Ah, I believe preparations for the tournament's penultimate match are in order! Mylla, First Sword of the Gladiators' Guild, will take to the arena against Black Lotus, the mystery contestant who has soundly defeated all comers!
Adrien: And Black Lotus advances to the Ul Cup final!
Adrien: In another nail-biting clash, the First Sword showed her class against an unknown opponent. However, Black Lotus kept up with her blow for blow, and seemingly out of nowhere clinched victory with a magnificent parry!
Dour Meadow: So sublime was the timing, it calls to my mind the Sword of Nald!
Adrien: Ah, now that you mention it, I can definitely see the resemblance. And with that sublime strike, our second Ul Cup finalist has been decided!
Dour Meadow: [Forename] [Surname] will take on the mysterious Black Lotus in a battle that promises to go down in Coliseum—nay, Ul'dahn history! Please look forward to it—I know ''I'' will!
Suspicious Spectator: Sh-She lost! Mylla ''lost''!
Odde: Bah, so much for the lauded First Sword!
Suspicious Spectator: Wh-What will we do? That Black Lotus could ruin everything!
Suspicious Spectator: If he ends up winning the tournament, we'd be neck deep in debt paying what's owed...
Odde: Fret not, my friend. We already know Black Lotus's strings. As a matter of fact, we are pulling them as we speak.
Suspicious Spectator: Truly!?
Odde: Do I not always say one can never have too many guarantees?
-cutscene end

===Speak with Franz===
-optional start
Tournament Usher: Such riveting displays from both the Nald and Thal groups!
Mylla: Whoever this Black Lotus is, he is no ordinary swordsman...
-optional end
Franz: <sigh> To think that one more beauteous than me should be found in Ishgard... Well, there is naught for it but to train harder and grow more beauteous.
Franz: That Black Lotus fellow, though—there was something familiar about him. A beauteous ferocity I'd swear I've seen before, but I cannot remember where.

===Speak with Constaint===
Constaint: Mylla is truly a complete fighter, and she gave me nary a flaw or opening to exploit. I can see why she is the guildmaster.
Constaint: Well, my little campaign may be over, but I take heart in the knowledge that yours continues. I shall pray for your victory!

===Speak with Mylla===
Mylla: From technique to sheer strength, that Black Lotus was a class above me in all aspects. What's more, he fought with a ferocious style that resembled...
Mylla: But never mind that. Dwelling on it won't change the result. I was bested in a fair contest, and I shall give credit where it is due. My only regret is that I could not meet you in the final, [Forename]. It falls to you now to bring pride to our guild's name.
Mylla: Oh, after the match, Black Lotus came and said that he wished a word with you. The way he mentioned your name gave me the impression that he knew you, but then again many people do.
Mylla: At any rate, I don't see any harm in obliging the man. If you can spare a moment, he asks that you come to the Quicksand.
Mylla: If you can spare a moment, Black Lotus asks that you come to the Quicksand.

===Wait at the Quicksand===
-optional start
Odde: What do you want? If you know what's good for you, you will remove yourself from my presence. Right now.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Black Lotus: You can threaten me all you like, but I ain't pulling out. It's poor form, see?
Odde: Well, far be it from me to ruin your form...but there's a trivial matter I would bring to your attention.
Black Lotus: You bastard!
Odde: Very trivial, yes? I'm sure you will make the right decision. Hehehe...
Black Lotus: You were listening, eh? Don't worry, it's nothing I can't handle.
Black Lotus: Look, I know I asked you to come here, but something's come up. We'll have to do this another time.
-cutscene end

===Report to Mylla at the Gladiators' Guild===
-optional start
Black Lotus: I know I asked you to come here, but something's come up. We'll have to do this another time.
-optional end
Mylla: Well? Did you meet Black Lotus?
Mylla: ...Postponed, you say? I wonder what he wanted. If nowhere else, you could always try chatting in the arena. 'Twould hardly be the first time folk got talkative in battle.
Mylla: I must say, though, the disappointment of elimination is swiftly giving way to anticipation. I look forward to seeing you clash with Black Lotus and, needless to say, come away with the win.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=O5rkpu6aViA}}

In Thal's Name

2026-07-21T15:02:33Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| description = [[Mylla]]'s expectant gaze tells you that the time is come.
| image = Paladin SB quest image.png
| quest-giver = Mylla
| location = Ul'dah - Steps of Thal
| location-x = 9.3
| location-y = 12.0
| type = job
| job = Paladin
| level = 63
| exp = 103000
| gil = 1884
| prev-quest = Tournament of the Century
| next-quest = In Nald's Name
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68108
| id-edb = 5ede655db19
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of War Job Quests
| journal-genre = Paladin Quests
| sortkey = 630
}}
== Steps ==
* Wait at the designated location.
* Speak with the tournament registrar.
* Speak with [[Handeloup]].
* Speak with [[Mylla]].

== Journal ==
* Mylla's expectant gaze tells you that the time is come.
* Your tournament begins. With eight combatants in each group, you must defeat three in order to reach the final. For your first match you have drawn Bartholomew of the Sultansworn, and Mylla instructs you to proceed to the Coliseum entrance and await the call from the tournament registrar.
* As you wait, [[Bartholomew]] appears and offers you some sporting words, shortly after which the call comes to take your place in the arena. A succession of grueling confrontations lies ahead; if you have any final preparations, the tournament registrar bids you tend to them now.
* After outclassing Bartholomew, you stop [[Bronze Bull]]'s charge before vanquishing Handeloup of the Temple Knights, thus securing your place in the Ul Cup final.
* You return to the Gladiator's Guild to find your three opponents battered but otherwise whole. After trading blows, perhaps it would be a good idea to trade words in the spirit of camaraderie.
* Bartholomew, Bronze Bull, and Handeloup join in congratulating you and wishing you well for the battle ahead. As you are about to go your separate ways, you learn that Mylla has been looking for you.
* Describing your performance as awe-inspiring, Mylla declares her intent to win through her own group to arrange a final between guildmaster and pupil. Whoever should prove to be your opponent, you must be at no less than your best for the match.
: ※ The next paladin quest will be available from Mylla upon reaching level 65.
==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Mylla: It begins, [Forename]!
Mylla: There are eight combatants in each group, meaning you must triumph in three bouts in order to advance to the final.
Mylla: And the opponent for your first bout is Bartholomew of the Sultansworn.
Mylla: Defeat him, and you will next face the victor of another pairing, and so on. Needless to say each encounter will be more difficult than the last.
Mylla: But one fight at a time. The tournament registrar will call you when it's time to take to the bloodsands. Go now, and good luck!
-quest accepted

===Wait at the designated location===
-optional start
Mylla: The tournament registrar will call you when it's time to take to the bloodsands. Good luck, [Forename]!
Tournament Registrar: [Forename] [Surname], yes? If you could wait right there, I will let you know when it is time.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Bartholomew: Hah, to think that I would draw you for my very first opponent. I thank the heavens even as I curse them...
Bartholomew: But no matter who my opponent may be, I shall fight with all my being—for the pride of the Sultansworn. See you on the bloodsands, my friend.
Tournament Registrar: It is time, my {{alternatives|f=lady|m=lord}}. Pray see to your final preparations and let me know when you are ready to proceed.
-cutscene end

===Speak with the tournament registrar===
-optional start
Mylla: The tournament registrar will call you when it's time to take to the bloodsands. Good luck, [Forename]!
-optional end
Tournament Registrar: Are you ready to enter the arena?

===Defeat Bartholomew===
System: It begins! In the first match of the Thal Group, Bartholomew takes on [Forename] [Surname]!
System: Combatants, ready your arms!
Bartholomew of the Silver Sallet: No holding back, my friend!
Bartholomew of the Silver Sallet: For the pride of the Sultansworn!
Bartholomew of the Silver Sallet: How about this!?
System: And the winner is [Forename]!

===Defeat the Bronze Bull===
System: In the next match, [Forename] [Surname] and the Bronze Bull will fight for a place in the Thal group final!
System: Combatants, take your place!
The Bronze Bull: You'd do well not to underestimate me.
The Bronze Bull: Time for the technique I created to quench the Hellfire Phoenix!
System: And [Forename] stops the Bronze Bull's furious charge!

===Defeat Handeloup===
System: And now, for the final match of the Thal group: Handeloup versus [Forename] [Surname]!
System: Let us see who will have the honor of fighting in the Ul Cup final!
Ser Handeloup of the One Heart: Come, my friend. Let us fight with all our strength, in the sight of the Fury!
Ser Handeloup of the One Heart: I shall show you a technique forged in blood and ice.
Ser Handeloup of the One Heart: I am the sword and shield that defends Ishgard. Bear witness to my resolve!
Ser Handeloup of the One Heart: O Halone, grant me strength!
Ser Handeloup of the One Heart: That my most potent attack should be thwarted... But the match isn't over yet!
System: And [Forename] defeats Handeloup to claim victory in the Thal group!

-cutscene start
Dour Meadow: That concludes all the matches for the Thal group. And what heart-stopping encounters they were!
Adrien: Verily, Dour. The crowd expected and the combatants delivered, not least of all the group winner, [Forename] [Surname], who carved a convincing path to the final.
Dour Meadow: Shall we retrace {{alternatives|f=her|m=his}} steps for those who came in late?
Adrien: You read my mind. [Forename]'s first match pitted {{alternatives|f=her|m=him}} against Bartholomew. The Sultansworn fought with heart, but in the end he was outclassed by the star adventurer.
Dour Meadow: Though he can take pride in his effort, unfortunately he had to take his leave of the tournament. There was no getting past [Forename], who went on to face the hulking Bronze Bull.
Adrien: A veteran of countless matches here in the Coliseum, you could say he had the ground advantage. From the onset, the man brought his prodigious strength to bear, unleashing wave upon wave of punishing attacks, but [Forename] calmly weathered them all to emerge the victor.
Adrien: With that, {{alternatives|f=she|m=he}} advanced to the Thal group's final match against Handeloup of the Temple Knights. Employing blistering techniques seldom seen this side of Eorzea, the Ishgardian visitor looked dangerous indeed.
Dour Meadow: If truth be told, for a moment there I feared for [Forename], but the adventurer dug deep to secure victory—and a place in the Ul Cup final! Ahhh, the mere remembering of it sets my heart to racing like a runaway chocobo!
Adrien: Take deep breaths, my friend, for there's still more excitement to come. The Nald group matches are due to commence shortly, with the likes of First Sword Mylla taking to the bloodsands.
Dour Meadow: What have I done to deserve such a treat!? I won't be missing these matches, and neither should any of you!
Odde: All unfolds as anticipated. Good.
Suspicious Spectator: The free paladin I told you about is living up to expectations, aye?
Odde: Hehehe, that {{alternatives|f=she|m=he}} is. Keep up your winning ways, my friend, and win us a fortune.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Handeloup===
-optional start
Tournament Registrar: Welcome back, my {{alternatives|f=lady|m=lord}}, and may I offer my heartfelt congratulations for reaching the final!
Mylla: Well fought, [Forename]! I would congratulate you some more, but first you ought to go and speak with your opponents. After trading blows, 'tis a fine thing to trade words in the spirit of camaraderie.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Handeloup: [Forename], you were magnificent. Our match will remain etched in my memory and inspire me always.
Bartholomew: I had absolutely no answer to you. Such precious things you must have protected to become so strong.
Bartholomew: As you know, we Sultansworn live to protect Her Grace. By any measure, this is a vital duty, and ever do I strive to be worthy of the role.
Bartholomew: But crossing swords with you this day, it has given me to think that perhaps it is not enough. Whatever it is that I yet lack, mayhap I shall find it in witnessing you.
The Bronze Bull: I thought I had something of a chance, but I was clearly getting ahead of myself. You gave me a thorough schooling, and I mean to take the lesson to heart.
Handeloup: Though my tournament may be over, I shall remain in Ul'dah to watch the matches to come. And I believe I speak for all of us here when I wish you the best of luck. Our hopes go with you now, my friend.
Handeloup: Oh, a woman named Mylla was looking for you. If you haven't already spoken with her, mayhap you should seek her out.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Mylla===
Mylla: A place in the final! I knew you had it in you, but to witness it all unfold was nothing short of awe-inspiring!
Mylla: The winner of the Nald group will square off against you for the title, and suffice it to say I intend to be that person.
Mylla: I shall see to it that a match between us becomes a reality, and I hope that I can count on your support!
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=q2smPJhxqqU}}

Tournament of the Century

2026-07-21T14:57:51Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */

{{Quest infobox
| description = [[Jenlyns]] has an invitation in his pocket and he is happy to see you.
| image = Paladin SB quest image.png
| quest-giver = Jenlyns
| location = Ul'dah - Steps of Thal
| location-x = 10.8
| location-y = 11.1
| type = job
| job = Paladin
| level = 60
| req-quest = The Far Edge of Fate
| req-items = 1 Ul Cup Invitation
| requirements =
| exp = 100000
| gil = 648
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = This Little Sword of Mine
| next-quest = In Thal's Name
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68107
| id-edb = 86cb778a09a
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of War Job Quests
| journal-genre = Paladin Quests
| sortkey = 601
}}

==Walkthrough==
'''Jenlyns''' is located on the '''[[Hustings Strip]]''', which is a second floor of [[Ul'dah - Steps of Thal|the Steps of Thal]]. Players can get there using staircases off of [[The Gold Court]], and register the [[Aetheryte|Aethernet Shard]] for [[The Royal Promenade]] once they arrive.

== Steps ==
*Show the [[Ul Cup Invitation|Ul Cup invitation]] to the [[Tournament Registrar|tournament registrar]].
*Speak with tournament participants. (0/5)
*Speak with [[Mylla]].

== Journal ==
* Jenlyns has an invitation in his pocket and he is happy to see you.
* Jenlyns hands you an invitation to the Ul Cup, a prestigious fighting tournament to be held at the Coliseum. According to the Sultansworn captain, the tournament was founded by the first sultan of Ul'dah, and after generations of obscurity, Nanamo has decided to revive it. Gladdened by your intent to participate, Jenlyns instructs you to seek out the tournament registrar on the Royal Promenade.
* You speak with the registrar, who confirms your entry to the tournament. He further informs you that the opening ceremony is due to begin shortly, and suggests that you join those participants who have gathered in front of the Gladiators' Guild.
* Among your would-be opponents you see faces both new and old, and the affable adventurer that you are, you take the opportunity to greet each of them. With that settled, perhaps a quick visit to the Gladiators' Guild to speak with your old guildmaster is in order.
* Welcoming you warmly, Mylla gives you an overview of tournament rules, shortly after which the opening ceremony commences. Making a royal appearance, Nanamo declares the Ul Cup revived and gives her blessing to all combatants. May Nald'thal give strength to your sword arm.
: ※ The next paladin quest will be available from Mylla upon reaching level 63.

== Trivia ==
*[[Franz]] has special dialogue if the [[Delivery Moogle Quests|Delivery Moogle quest]] {{i|Sudul Eht Nioj}} has been completed.
*[[Greinfarr]] has special dialogue if the level 50 [[Blacksmith Quests|Blacksmith quest]] {{i|Waiting in the Winglet}} has been completed.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Jenlyns: Ah, [Forename], precisely the {{alternatives|f=woman|m=man}} I wished to see.
Jenlyns: I have something in my care for you.
Jenlyns: An invitation to a fighting tournament to be held at the Coliseum.
Jenlyns: Not just any tournament, mind you, but the prestigious Ul Cup. Founded by His Royal Majesty Sasagan Ul Sisigan, first sultan of Ul'dah, 'tis nigh as old as the nation itself.
Jenlyns: Lest you wonder why you are unfamiliar with so old and prestigious a tournament, it's because it has not been held in generations. At the sultana's behest it has been revived, and she now extends an invitation to Eorzea's finest swordsmen.
Jenlyns: It stands to reason that your name would appear among this exalted company, and doubt not but that Her Grace shall be pleased for your participation. So, can we expect you to fight in the tournament?
Question: Will you fight in the Ul Cup?
> Sure, where do I sign up?
Jenlyns: Wonderful! By witnessing you in combat, I daresay all of us Sultansworn, both fresh recruits and veterans alike, stand to gain something in our duty to protect.
> I might pass on this one.
Jenlyns: As a free paladin, you doubtless have many obligations that extend beyond the Sultansworn's purview.
Jenlyns: But if not for yourself, mayhap you would consider fighting for us? By witnessing you in combat, I daresay all of us Sultansworn, both fresh recruits and veterans alike, stand to gain something in our duty to protect.
Jenlyns: And so I make this personal plea: will you not participate in the tournament?
Jenlyns: You have my gratitude! Now then, allow me to furnish you with some additional details.
---
Jenlyns: The champion will be awarded a tome said to hold the secret techniques of the first captain of the Sultansworn. With such an enticing prize on offer, no small number of invitees have already confirmed their participation—I myself included.
Jenlyns: You should confirm yours as well, by making yourself known to the tournament registrar on the Royal Promenade.
-quest accepted

===Show the Ul Cup invitation to the tournament registrar===
-optional start
Jenlyns: If you haven't already done so, you will wish to confirm your participation in the tournament. Pray make yourself known to the tournament registrar on the Royal Promenade.
-optional end
Tournament Registrar: Greetings to you, good {{alternatives|f=madam|m=sir}}. You are come to enter the Ul Cup? Your invitation, if you would be so kind.

''The player hands over the {{i|Ul Cup Invitation}}.''

Tournament Registrar: Yes, everything appears to be in order. On behalf of the committee, I bid you welcome to the tournament!
Bartholomew: Wait—you're participating, too? To think that I might have the chance to cross swords with a fabled hero such as you! The tournament cannot begin soon enough!
Tournament Registrar: You needn't wait long, for the opening ceremony will begin any time now.
Tournament Registrar: I am told a number of participants have already gathered before the Gladiators' Guild. Perhaps you might like to join them?

===Speak with tournament participants===
-optional start
Tournament Registrar: A number of participants have already gathered before the Gladiators' Guild. Perhaps you might like to join them?
Bartholomew: To think that I might have the chance to cross swords with a fabled hero such as you! The tournament cannot begin soon enough!
Jenlyns: I look forward to meeting you upon the bloodsands, my friend.
Scrubby Stripling: Black Al—er, Lotus is the strongest! If you fight him, you better watch out!
-optional end
Constaint: [Forename], it's so good to see you! Am I correct in assuming that you are participating in the tournament?
Constaint: Wonderful! Raw though I still am, I also received an invitation—Captain Jenlyns' work, I suspect. But know that I do not intend to simply make up the numbers.
Constaint: Since last we met, I have trained without cease. Such improvements I have made, I hope to demonstrate to you in a rematch.

Black Lotus: You got business with me? Too bad, I've got none with you.
Black Lotus: Leave me be and find someone else to bother. Like Mylla.
Scrubby Stripling: You're fighting in the tournament? You look pretty strong, but it's Black Altus that's gonna win!
Black Lotus: Ahem. That's ''Lotus''. Black Lotus.
Scrubby Stripling: Yeah, what he said! He's the strongest and he always protects me!
Scrubby Stripling: If you fight him, you better watch out!

> If player has completed the quest {{i|Sudul Eht Nioj}}
Franz: I say, are you not the {{alternatives|f=postwoman|m=postman}} from before? Such a beauteous surprise this is!
Franz: Since coming to terms with my brilliance, I've given up provoking my opponents in favor of polishing myself further.
Franz: I would love nothing more than to pit my beauteous skills against yours, and I pray that I am afforded the chance!
-optional start
Franz: I would love nothing more than to pit my beauteous skills against yours, and I pray that I am afforded the chance!
-optional end
> Else
Franz: And what can I do for you this most beauteous of {{alternatives|morning=mornings|day=afternoons|night=evenings}}? Shall I sign your flyer with my mark, perhaps?
Franz: ...A contestant? ''Really''? Well then, you would do well to pray you are not drawn against me.
Franz: Before my beauteous skills, your defeat is all but assured!
-optional start
Franz: You would do well to pray you are not drawn against me. Before my beauteous skills, your defeat is all but assured!
-optional end
---

Owyne: Ah, [Forename]! Have you spoken with the captain? He is holding on to your invitation.
Owyne: ...Already entered! Marvelous!
Owyne: We are all looking forward to witnessing your skill at arms. And if the gods are good, I shall witness them up close and personal!

Handeloup: Ah, [Forename], a pleasure as always. Are you perchance entering the tournament?
Handeloup: Well then, this has become infinitely more interesting. Lest you wonder, I am joining the field as a representative of the Temple Knights.
Handeloup: For the honor of our order, I have every intention of winning. Do not hold back, my friend—because neither will I!

===Speak with Mylla===
-cutscene start
Mylla: Well, if it isn't [Forename]. That you would visit us at this juncture could only mean one thing: you're entering the Ul Cup.
Mylla: Good, good! You are one of our very best, and it pleases me to see you continue seeking new challenges.
Mylla: And mark my words, this will be a challenge the likes of which you have never experienced.
Mylla: This tournament brings together the realm's finest. If you are to rise above them, nothing less than complete preparation will suffice.
Mylla: Speaking of preparation, have you been apprised of the rules?
Mylla: Then allow me to explain. The tournament is elimination. You lose, you go home. You win, you advance to the next match, and on it goes until a champion emerges.
Mylla: Combatants are initially divided into two groups: Nald and Thal. Sounds fancy, but they're simply labels given to two branches of the tournament tree.
Mylla: Look, [Forename]. One of your potential opponents.
Mylla: Knowing is half the battle, and you'd do well to learn all you can of the competition.
> If player has completed the quest {{i|Waiting in the Winglet}}
The Bronze Bull: Oho, if it isn't the {{alternatives|f=woman|m=man}} who forged me my winglet. 'Tis a fine weapon, and I am wholly satisfied with it...but don't think that this earns you a favor should we meet in the tournament. Indeed, any less than my all would be an affront to both blade and blacksmith.
---
Mylla: ...Oh dear, is it that time already? The opening ceremony is about to commence. Shall we, then?
Dour Meadow: Ladies and gentlemen! Today I bid you welcome to the Coliseum for a truly special event!
Dour Meadow: To introduce it, it gives me great pleasure to call upon Her Royal Majesty Nanamo Ul Namo!
Nanamo Ul Namo: Generations ago, my ancestor, Sasagan Ul Sisigan, founded a tournament to celebrate the skill of our nation's finest swordsmen. One hundred years have passed since it was last held. By this declaration, I do hereby revive the Ul Cup!
Nanamo Ul Namo: Let it be known that all proceeds from this event shall go towards our continuing refugee relief efforts.
Nanamo Ul Namo: My dear combatants. My fellow citizens and I look forward to an inspiring performance from all of you. May Nald'thal give strength to your sword arms!
Dour Meadow: Thank you, Your Grace. Next, I would invite Master Adrien, Coliseum columnist for the ''Mythril Eye'', to share some insights into our combatants. What are your impressions of the field, Adrien?
Adrien: Well, Dour, I'd say it's as diverse a field as I've seen on the bloodsands. In addition to everyone's favorite gladiators and your friendly neighborhood Sultansworn, we have an Ishgardian knight as well as an acclaimed adventurer.
Dour Meadow: Truly a colorful cast of characters, all of whom bring their unique take on swordplay. With such an eclectic mix of fighting styles clashing, would you say that we're in for a veritable treat for the senses?
Adrien: Yes, I would, Dour. At this stage it's anyone's guess who will claim the title, but one thing is certain: when the match bell rings, you cannot afford to bat your eyelids! Keep watching this space, for the preliminary rounds are about to begin!
-quest complete
System: The next paladin quest will be available from Mylla upon reaching level 63.
System: The requirements for undertaking subsequent quests can be reviewed in your journal.
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=7EjcF-LWNYM}}

In Thal's Name

2026-07-21T14:57:09Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Formatting, word check

{{Quest infobox
| description = [[Mylla]]'s expectant gaze tells you that the time is come.
| image = Paladin SB quest image.png
| quest-giver = Mylla
| related-npcs = Adrien; Bartholomew; Bronze Bull; Dour Meadow; Handeloup; Odde; Suspicious Spectator; The Bronze Bull; Tournament Registrar
| location = Ul'dah - Steps of Thal
| location-x = 9.3
| location-y = 12.0
| type = job
| job = Paladin
| level = 63
| exp = 103000
| gil = 1884
| prev-quest = Tournament of the Century
| next-quest = In Nald's Name
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68108
| id-edb = 5ede655db19
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of War Job Quests
| journal-genre = Paladin Quests
| sortkey = 630
}}
== Steps ==
* Wait at the designated location.
* Speak with the tournament registrar.
* Speak with [[Handeloup]].
* Speak with [[Mylla]].

== Journal ==
* Mylla's expectant gaze tells you that the time is come.
* Your tournament begins. With eight combatants in each group, you must defeat three in order to reach the final. For your first match you have drawn Bartholomew of the Sultansworn, and Mylla instructs you to proceed to the Coliseum entrance and await the call from the tournament registrar.
* As you wait, [[Bartholomew]] appears and offers you some sporting words, shortly after which the call comes to take your place in the arena. A succession of grueling confrontations lies ahead; if you have any final preparations, the tournament registrar bids you tend to them now.
* After outclassing Bartholomew, you stop [[Bronze Bull]]'s charge before vanquishing Handeloup of the Temple Knights, thus securing your place in the Ul Cup final.
* You return to the Gladiator's Guild to find your three opponents battered but otherwise whole. After trading blows, perhaps it would be a good idea to trade words in the spirit of camaraderie.
* Bartholomew, Bronze Bull, and Handeloup join in congratulating you and wishing you well for the battle ahead. As you are about to go your separate ways, you learn that Mylla has been looking for you.
* Describing your performance as awe-inspiring, Mylla declares her intent to win through her own group to arrange a final between guildmaster and pupil. Whoever should prove to be your opponent, you must be at no less than your best for the match.
: ※ The next paladin quest will be available from Mylla upon reaching level 65.
==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Mylla: It begins, [Forename]!
Mylla: There are eight combatants in each group, meaning you must triumph in three bouts in order to advance to the final.
Mylla: And the opponent for your first bout is Bartholomew of the Sultansworn.
Mylla: Defeat him, and you will next face the victor of another pairing, and so on. Needless to say each encounter will be more difficult than the last.
Mylla: But one fight at a time. The tournament registrar will call you when it's time to take to the bloodsands. Go now, and good luck!
-quest accepted

===Wait at the designated location===
-optional start
Mylla: The tournament registrar will call you when it's time to take to the bloodsands. Good luck, [Forename]!
Tournament Registrar: [Forename] [Surname], yes? If you could wait right there, I will let you know when it is time.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Bartholomew: Hah, to think that I would draw you for my very first opponent. I thank the heavens even as I curse them...
Bartholomew: But no matter who my opponent may be, I shall fight with all my being—for the pride of the Sultansworn. See you on the bloodsands, my friend.
Tournament Registrar: It is time, my {{alternatives|f=lady|m=lord}}. Pray see to your final preparations and let me know when you are ready to proceed.
-cutscene end

===Speak with the tournament registrar===
-optional start
Mylla: The tournament registrar will call you when it's time to take to the bloodsands. Good luck, [Forename]!
-optional end
Tournament Registrar: Are you ready to enter the arena?

===Defeat Bartholomew===
System: It begins! In the first match of the Thal Group, Bartholomew takes on [Forename] [Surname]!
System: Combatants, ready your arms!
Bartholomew of the Silver Sallet: No holding back, my friend!
Bartholomew of the Silver Sallet: For the pride of the Sultansworn!
Bartholomew of the Silver Sallet: How about this!?
System: And the winner is [Forename]!

===Defeat the Bronze Bull===
System: In the next match, [Forename] [Surname] and the Bronze Bull will fight for a place in the Thal group final!
System: Combatants, take your place!
The Bronze Bull: You'd do well not to underestimate me.
The Bronze Bull: Time for the technique I created to quench the Hellfire Phoenix!
System: And [Forename] stops the Bronze Bull's furious charge!

===Defeat Handeloup===
System: And now, for the final match of the Thal group: Handeloup versus [Forename] [Surname]!
System: Let us see who will have the honor of fighting in the Ul Cup final!
Ser Handeloup of the One Heart: Come, my friend. Let us fight with all our strength, in the sight of the Fury!
Ser Handeloup of the One Heart: I shall show you a technique forged in blood and ice.
Ser Handeloup of the One Heart: I am the sword and shield that defends Ishgard. Bear witness to my resolve!
Ser Handeloup of the One Heart: O Halone, grant me strength!
Ser Handeloup of the One Heart: That my most potent attack should be thwarted... But the match isn't over yet!
System: And [Forename] defeats Handeloup to claim victory in the Thal group!

-cutscene start
Dour Meadow: That concludes all the matches for the Thal group. And what heart-stopping encounters they were!
Adrien: Verily, Dour. The crowd expected and the combatants delivered, not least of all the group winner, [Forename] [Surname], who carved a convincing path to the final.
Dour Meadow: Shall we retrace {{alternatives|f=her|m=his}} steps for those who came in late?
Adrien: You read my mind. [Forename]'s first match pitted {{alternatives|f=her|m=him}} against Bartholomew. The Sultansworn fought with heart, but in the end he was outclassed by the star adventurer.
Dour Meadow: Though he can take pride in his effort, unfortunately he had to take his leave of the tournament. There was no getting past [Forename], who went on to face the hulking Bronze Bull.
Adrien: A veteran of countless matches here in the Coliseum, you could say he had the ground advantage. From the onset, the man brought his prodigious strength to bear, unleashing wave upon wave of punishing attacks, but [Forename] calmly weathered them all to emerge the victor.
Adrien: With that, {{alternatives|f=she|m=he}} advanced to the Thal group's final match against Handeloup of the Temple Knights. Employing blistering techniques seldom seen this side of Eorzea, the Ishgardian visitor looked dangerous indeed.
Dour Meadow: If truth be told, for a moment there I feared for [Forename], but the adventurer dug deep to secure victory—and a place in the Ul Cup final! Ahhh, the mere remembering of it sets my heart to racing like a runaway chocobo!
Adrien: Take deep breaths, my friend, for there's still more excitement to come. The Nald group matches are due to commence shortly, with the likes of First Sword Mylla taking to the bloodsands.
Dour Meadow: What have I done to deserve such a treat!? I won't be missing these matches, and neither should any of you!
Odde: All unfolds as anticipated. Good.
Suspicious Spectator: The free paladin I told you about is living up to expectations, aye?
Odde: Hehehe, that {{alternatives|f=she|m=he}} is. Keep up your winning ways, my friend, and win us a fortune.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Handeloup===
-optional start
Tournament Registrar: Welcome back, my {{alternatives|f=lady|m=lord}}, and may I offer my heartfelt congratulations for reaching the final!
Mylla: Well fought, [Forename]! I would congratulate you some more, but first you ought to go and speak with your opponents. After trading blows, 'tis a fine thing to trade words in the spirit of camaraderie.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Handeloup: [Forename], you were magnificent. Our match will remain etched in my memory and inspire me always.
Bartholomew: I had absolutely no answer to you. Such precious things you must have protected to become so strong.
Bartholomew: As you know, we Sultansworn live to protect Her Grace. By any measure, this is a vital duty, and ever do I strive to be worthy of the role.
Bartholomew: But crossing swords with you this day, it has given me to think that perhaps it is not enough. Whatever it is that I yet lack, mayhap I shall find it in witnessing you.
The Bronze Bull: I thought I had something of a chance, but I was clearly getting ahead of myself. You gave me a thorough schooling, and I mean to take the lesson to heart.
Handeloup: Though my tournament may be over, I shall remain in Ul'dah to watch the matches to come. And I believe I speak for all of us here when I wish you the best of luck. Our hopes go with you now, my friend.
Handeloup: Oh, a woman named Mylla was looking for you. If you haven't already spoken with her, mayhap you should seek her out.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Mylla===
Mylla: A place in the final! I knew you had it in you, but to witness it all unfold was nothing short of awe-inspiring!
Mylla: The winner of the Nald group will square off against you for the title, and suffice it to say I intend to be that person.
Mylla: I shall see to it that a match between us becomes a reality, and I hope that I can count on your support!
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=q2smPJhxqqU}}

Tournament of the Century

2026-07-21T14:27:31Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| description = [[Jenlyns]] has an invitation in his pocket and he is happy to see you.
| image = Paladin SB quest image.png
| quest-giver = Jenlyns
| location = Ul'dah - Steps of Thal
| location-x = 10.8
| location-y = 11.1
| type = job
| job = Paladin
| level = 60
| req-quest = The Far Edge of Fate
| req-items = 1 Ul Cup Invitation
| requirements =
| exp = 100000
| gil = 648
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = This Little Sword of Mine
| next-quest = In Thal's Name
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68107
| id-edb = 86cb778a09a
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of War Job Quests
| journal-genre = Paladin Quests
| sortkey = 601
}}

==Walkthrough==
'''Jenlyns''' is located on the '''[[Hustings Strip]]''', which is a second floor of [[Ul'dah - Steps of Thal|the Steps of Thal]]. Players can get there using staircases off of [[The Gold Court]], and register the [[Aetheryte|Aethernet Shard]] for [[The Royal Promenade]] once they arrive.

== Steps ==
*Show the [[Ul Cup Invitation|Ul Cup invitation]] to the [[Tournament Registrar|tournament registrar]].
*Speak with tournament participants. (0/5)
*Speak with [[Mylla]].

== Journal ==
* Jenlyns has an invitation in his pocket and he is happy to see you.
* Jenlyns hands you an invitation to the Ul Cup, a prestigious fighting tournament to be held at the Coliseum. According to the Sultansworn captain, the tournament was founded by the first sultan of Ul'dah, and after generations of obscurity, Nanamo has decided to revive it. Gladdened by your intent to participate, Jenlyns instructs you to seek out the tournament registrar on the Royal Promenade.
* You speak with the registrar, who confirms your entry to the tournament. He further informs you that the opening ceremony is due to begin shortly, and suggests that you join those participants who have gathered in front of the Gladiators' Guild.
* Among your would-be opponents you see faces both new and old, and the affable adventurer that you are, you take the opportunity to greet each of them. With that settled, perhaps a quick visit to the Gladiators' Guild to speak with your old guildmaster is in order.
* Welcoming you warmly, Mylla gives you an overview of tournament rules, shortly after which the opening ceremony commences. Making a royal appearance, Nanamo declares the Ul Cup revived and gives her blessing to all combatants. May Nald'thal give strength to your sword arm.
: ※ The next paladin quest will be available from Mylla upon reaching level 63.

== Trivia ==
*[[Franz]] has special dialogue if the [[Delivery Moogle Quests|Delivery Moogle quest]] {{i|Sudul Eht Nioj}} has been completed.
*[[Greinfarr]] has special dialogue if the level 50 [[Blacksmith Quests|Blacksmith quest]] {{i|Waiting in the Winglet}} has been completed.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Jenlyns: Ah, [Forename], precisely the {{alternatives|f=woman|m=man}} I wished to see.
Jenlyns: I have something in my care for you.
Jenlyns: An invitation to a fighting tournament to be held at the Coliseum.
Jenlyns: Not just any tournament, mind you, but the prestigious Ul Cup. Founded by His Royal Majesty Sasagan Ul Sisigan, first sultan of Ul'dah, 'tis nigh as old as the nation itself.
Jenlyns: Lest you wonder why you are unfamiliar with so old and prestigious a tournament, it's because it has not been held in generations. At the sultana's behest it has been revived, and she now extends an invitation to Eorzea's finest swordsmen.
Jenlyns: It stands to reason that your name would appear among this exalted company, and doubt not but that Her Grace shall be pleased for your participation. So, can we expect you to fight in the tournament?
Question: Will you fight in the Ul Cup?
> Sure, where do I sign up?
Jenlyns: Wonderful! By witnessing you in combat, I daresay all of us Sultansworn, both fresh recruits and veterans alike, stand to gain something in our duty to protect.
> I might pass on this one.
Jenlyns: As a free paladin, you doubtless have many obligations that extend beyond the Sultansworn's purview.
Jenlyns: But if not for yourself, mayhap you would consider fighting for us? By witnessing you in combat, I daresay all of us Sultansworn, both fresh recruits and veterans alike, stand to gain something in our duty to protect.
Jenlyns: And so I make this personal plea: will you not participate in the tournament?
Jenlyns: You have my gratitude! Now then, allow me to furnish you with some additional details.
---
Jenlyns: The champion will be awarded a tome said to hold the secret techniques of the first captain of the Sultansworn. With such an enticing prize on offer, no small number of invitees have already confirmed their participation—I myself included.
Jenlyns: You should confirm yours as well, by making yourself known to the tournament registrar on the Royal Promenade.
-quest accepted

===Show the Ul Cup invitation to the tournament registrar===
-optional start
Jenlyns: If you haven't already done so, you will wish to confirm your participation in the tournament. Pray make yourself known to the tournament registrar on the Royal Promenade.
-optional end
Tournament Registrar: Greetings to you, good {{alternatives|f=madam|m=sir}}. You are come to enter the Ul Cup? Your invitation, if you would be so kind.

''The player hands over the {{i|Ul Cup Invitation}}.''

Tournament Registrar: Yes, everything appears to be in order. On behalf of the committee, I bid you welcome to the tournament!
Bartholomew: Wait—you're participating, too? To think that I might have the chance to cross swords with a fabled hero such as you! The tournament cannot begin soon enough!
Tournament Registrar: You needn't wait long, for the opening ceremony will begin any time now.
Tournament Registrar: I am told a number of participants have already gathered before the Gladiators' Guild. Perhaps you might like to join them?

===Speak with tournament participants===
-optional start
Tournament Registrar: A number of participants have already gathered before the Gladiators' Guild. Perhaps you might like to join them?
Bartholomew: To think that I might have the chance to cross swords with a fabled hero such as you! The tournament cannot begin soon enough!
Jenlyns: I look forward to meeting you upon the bloodsands, my friend.
Scrubby Stripling: Black Al—er, Lotus is the strongest! If you fight him, you better watch out!
-optional end
Constaint: [Forename], it's so good to see you! Am I correct in assuming that you are participating in the tournament?
Constaint: Wonderful! Raw though I still am, I also received an invitation—Captain Jenlyns' work, I suspect. But know that I do not intend to simply make up the numbers.
Constaint: Since last we met, I have trained without cease. Such improvements I have made, I hope to demonstrate to you in a rematch.

Black Lotus: You got business with me? Too bad, I've got none with you.
Black Lotus: Leave me be and find someone else to bother. Like Mylla.
Scrubby Stripling: You're fighting in the tournament? You look pretty strong, but it's Black Altus that's gonna win!
Black Lotus: Ahem. That's ''Lotus''. Black Lotus.
Scrubby Stripling: Yeah, what he said! He's the strongest and he always protects me!
Scrubby Stripling: If you fight him, you better watch out!

> If player has completed the quest {{i|Sudul Eht Nioj}}
Franz: I say, are you not the {{alternatives|f=postwoman|m=postman}} from before? Such a beauteous surprise this is!
Franz: Since coming to terms with my brilliance, I've given up provoking my opponents in favor of polishing myself further.
Franz: I would love nothing more than to pit my beauteous skills against yours, and I pray that I am afforded the chance!
-optional start
Franz: I would love nothing more than to pit my beauteous skills against yours, and I pray that I am afforded the chance!
-optional end
> Else
Franz: And what can I do for you this most beauteous of {{alternatives|morning=mornings|day=afternoons|night=evenings}}? Shall I sign your flyer with my mark, perhaps?
Franz: ...A contestant? ''Really''? Well then, you would do well to pray you are not drawn against me.
Franz: Before my beauteous skills, your defeat is all but assured!
-optional start
Franz: You would do well to pray you are not drawn against me. Before my beauteous skills, your defeat is all but assured!
-optional end
---

Owyne: Ah, [Forename]! Have you spoken with the captain? He is holding on to your invitation.
Owyne: ...Already entered! Marvelous!
Owyne: We are all looking forward to witnessing your skill at arms. And if the gods are good, I shall witness them up close and personal!

Handeloup: Ah, [Forename], a pleasure as always. Are you perchance entering the tournament?
Handeloup: Well then, this has become infinitely more interesting. Lest you wonder, I am joining the field as a representative of the Temple Knights.
Handeloup: For the honor of our order, I have every intention of winning. Do not hold back, my friend—because neither will I!

===Speak with Mylla===
-cutscene start
Mylla: Well, if it isn't [Forename]. That you would visit us at this juncture could only mean one thing: you're entering the Ul Cup.
Mylla: Good, good! You are one of our very best, and it pleases me to see you continue seeking new challenges.
Mylla: And mark my words, this will be a challenge the likes of which you have never experienced.
Mylla: This tournament brings together the realm's finest. If you are to rise above them, nothing less than complete preparation will suffice.
Mylla: Speaking of preparation, have you been apprised of the rules?
Mylla: Then allow me to explain. The tournament is elimination. You lose, you go home. You win, you advance to the next match, and on it goes until a champion emerges.
Mylla: Combatants are initially divided into two groups: Nald and Thal. Sounds fancy, but they're simply labels given to two branches of the tournament tree.
Mylla: Look, [Forename]. One of your potential opponents.
Mylla: Knowing is half the battle, and you'd do well to learn all you can of the competition.
> If player has completed the quest {{i|Waiting in the Winglet}}
Bronze Bull: Oho, if it isn't the {{alternatives|f=woman|m=man}} who forged me my winglet. 'Tis a fine weapon, and I am wholly satisfied with it...but don't think that this earns you a favor should we meet in the tournament. Indeed, any less than my all would be an affront to both blade and blacksmith.
---
Mylla: ...Oh dear, is it that time already? The opening ceremony is about to commence. Shall we, then?
Dour Meadow: Ladies and gentlemen! Today I bid you welcome to the Coliseum for a truly special event!
Dour Meadow: To introduce it, it gives me great pleasure to call upon Her Royal Majesty Nanamo Ul Namo!
Nanamo Ul Namo: Generations ago, my ancestor, Sasagan Ul Sisigan, founded a tournament to celebrate the skill of our nation's finest swordsmen. One hundred years have passed since it was last held. By this declaration, I do hereby revive the Ul Cup!
Nanamo Ul Namo: Let it be known that all proceeds from this event shall go towards our continuing refugee relief efforts.
Nanamo Ul Namo: My dear combatants. My fellow citizens and I look forward to an inspiring performance from all of you. May Nald'thal give strength to your sword arms!
Dour Meadow: Thank you, Your Grace. Next, I would invite Master Adrien, Coliseum columnist for the ''Mythril Eye'', to share some insights into our combatants. What are your impressions of the field, Adrien?
Adrien: Well, Dour, I'd say it's as diverse a field as I've seen on the bloodsands. In addition to everyone's favorite gladiators and your friendly neighborhood Sultansworn, we have an Ishgardian knight as well as an acclaimed adventurer.
Dour Meadow: Truly a colorful cast of characters, all of whom bring their unique take on swordplay. With such an eclectic mix of fighting styles clashing, would you say that we're in for a veritable treat for the senses?
Adrien: Yes, I would, Dour. At this stage it's anyone's guess who will claim the title, but one thing is certain: when the match bell rings, you cannot afford to bat your eyelids! Keep watching this space, for the preliminary rounds are about to begin!
-quest complete
System: The next paladin quest will be available from Mylla upon reaching level 63.
System: The requirements for undertaking subsequent quests can be reviewed in your journal.
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
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Tournament of the Century

2026-07-21T14:27:15Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Formatting, word check

{{Quest infobox
| description = [[Jenlyns]] has an invitation in his pocket and he is happy to see you.
| image = Paladin SB quest image.png
| quest-giver = Jenlyns
| related-npcs = Adrien; Aldis; Avila; Bartholomew; Black Lotus; Bronze Bull; Constaint; Dour Meadow; Franz; Handeloup; Mylla; Nanamo Ul Namo; Owyne; Papashan; Scrubby Stripling; The Bronze Bull; Tournament Registrar
| location = Ul'dah - Steps of Thal
| location-x = 10.8
| location-y = 11.1
| type = job
| job = Paladin
| level = 60
| req-quest = The Far Edge of Fate
| req-items = 1 Ul Cup Invitation
| requirements =
| exp = 100000
| gil = 648
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = This Little Sword of Mine
| next-quest = In Thal's Name
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68107
| id-edb = 86cb778a09a
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of War Job Quests
| journal-genre = Paladin Quests
| sortkey = 601
}}

==Walkthrough==
'''Jenlyns''' is located on the '''[[Hustings Strip]]''', which is a second floor of [[Ul'dah - Steps of Thal|the Steps of Thal]]. Players can get there using staircases off of [[The Gold Court]], and register the [[Aetheryte|Aethernet Shard]] for [[The Royal Promenade]] once they arrive.

== Steps ==
*Show the [[Ul Cup Invitation|Ul Cup invitation]] to the [[Tournament Registrar|tournament registrar]].
*Speak with tournament participants. (0/5)
*Speak with [[Mylla]].

== Journal ==
* Jenlyns has an invitation in his pocket and he is happy to see you.
* Jenlyns hands you an invitation to the Ul Cup, a prestigious fighting tournament to be held at the Coliseum. According to the Sultansworn captain, the tournament was founded by the first sultan of Ul'dah, and after generations of obscurity, Nanamo has decided to revive it. Gladdened by your intent to participate, Jenlyns instructs you to seek out the tournament registrar on the Royal Promenade.
* You speak with the registrar, who confirms your entry to the tournament. He further informs you that the opening ceremony is due to begin shortly, and suggests that you join those participants who have gathered in front of the Gladiators' Guild.
* Among your would-be opponents you see faces both new and old, and the affable adventurer that you are, you take the opportunity to greet each of them. With that settled, perhaps a quick visit to the Gladiators' Guild to speak with your old guildmaster is in order.
* Welcoming you warmly, Mylla gives you an overview of tournament rules, shortly after which the opening ceremony commences. Making a royal appearance, Nanamo declares the Ul Cup revived and gives her blessing to all combatants. May Nald'thal give strength to your sword arm.
: ※ The next paladin quest will be available from Mylla upon reaching level 63.

== Trivia ==
*[[Franz]] has special dialogue if the [[Delivery Moogle Quests|Delivery Moogle quest]] {{i|Sudul Eht Nioj}} has been completed.
*[[Greinfarr]] has special dialogue if the level 50 [[Blacksmith Quests|Blacksmith quest]] {{i|Waiting in the Winglet}} has been completed.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Jenlyns: Ah, [Forename], precisely the {{alternatives|f=woman|m=man}} I wished to see.
Jenlyns: I have something in my care for you.
Jenlyns: An invitation to a fighting tournament to be held at the Coliseum.
Jenlyns: Not just any tournament, mind you, but the prestigious Ul Cup. Founded by His Royal Majesty Sasagan Ul Sisigan, first sultan of Ul'dah, 'tis nigh as old as the nation itself.
Jenlyns: Lest you wonder why you are unfamiliar with so old and prestigious a tournament, it's because it has not been held in generations. At the sultana's behest it has been revived, and she now extends an invitation to Eorzea's finest swordsmen.
Jenlyns: It stands to reason that your name would appear among this exalted company, and doubt not but that Her Grace shall be pleased for your participation. So, can we expect you to fight in the tournament?
Question: Will you fight in the Ul Cup?
> Sure, where do I sign up?
Jenlyns: Wonderful! By witnessing you in combat, I daresay all of us Sultansworn, both fresh recruits and veterans alike, stand to gain something in our duty to protect.
> I might pass on this one.
Jenlyns: As a free paladin, you doubtless have many obligations that extend beyond the Sultansworn's purview.
Jenlyns: But if not for yourself, mayhap you would consider fighting for us? By witnessing you in combat, I daresay all of us Sultansworn, both fresh recruits and veterans alike, stand to gain something in our duty to protect.
Jenlyns: And so I make this personal plea: will you not participate in the tournament?
Jenlyns: You have my gratitude! Now then, allow me to furnish you with some additional details.
---
Jenlyns: The champion will be awarded a tome said to hold the secret techniques of the first captain of the Sultansworn. With such an enticing prize on offer, no small number of invitees have already confirmed their participation—I myself included.
Jenlyns: You should confirm yours as well, by making yourself known to the tournament registrar on the Royal Promenade.
-quest accepted

===Show the Ul Cup invitation to the tournament registrar===
-optional start
Jenlyns: If you haven't already done so, you will wish to confirm your participation in the tournament. Pray make yourself known to the tournament registrar on the Royal Promenade.
-optional end
Tournament Registrar: Greetings to you, good {{alternatives|f=madam|m=sir}}. You are come to enter the Ul Cup? Your invitation, if you would be so kind.

''The player hands over the {{i|Ul Cup Invitation}}.''

Tournament Registrar: Yes, everything appears to be in order. On behalf of the committee, I bid you welcome to the tournament!
Bartholomew: Wait—you're participating, too? To think that I might have the chance to cross swords with a fabled hero such as you! The tournament cannot begin soon enough!
Tournament Registrar: You needn't wait long, for the opening ceremony will begin any time now.
Tournament Registrar: I am told a number of participants have already gathered before the Gladiators' Guild. Perhaps you might like to join them?

===Speak with tournament participants===
-optional start
Tournament Registrar: A number of participants have already gathered before the Gladiators' Guild. Perhaps you might like to join them?
Bartholomew: To think that I might have the chance to cross swords with a fabled hero such as you! The tournament cannot begin soon enough!
Jenlyns: I look forward to meeting you upon the bloodsands, my friend.
Scrubby Stripling: Black Al—er, Lotus is the strongest! If you fight him, you better watch out!
-optional end
Constaint: [Forename], it's so good to see you! Am I correct in assuming that you are participating in the tournament?
Constaint: Wonderful! Raw though I still am, I also received an invitation—Captain Jenlyns' work, I suspect. But know that I do not intend to simply make up the numbers.
Constaint: Since last we met, I have trained without cease. Such improvements I have made, I hope to demonstrate to you in a rematch.

Black Lotus: You got business with me? Too bad, I've got none with you.
Black Lotus: Leave me be and find someone else to bother. Like Mylla.
Scrubby Stripling: You're fighting in the tournament? You look pretty strong, but it's Black Altus that's gonna win!
Black Lotus: Ahem. That's ''Lotus''. Black Lotus.
Scrubby Stripling: Yeah, what he said! He's the strongest and he always protects me!
Scrubby Stripling: If you fight him, you better watch out!

> If player has completed the quest {{i|Sudul Eht Nioj}}
Franz: I say, are you not the {{alternatives|f=postwoman|m=postman}} from before? Such a beauteous surprise this is!
Franz: Since coming to terms with my brilliance, I've given up provoking my opponents in favor of polishing myself further.
Franz: I would love nothing more than to pit my beauteous skills against yours, and I pray that I am afforded the chance!
-optional start
Franz: I would love nothing more than to pit my beauteous skills against yours, and I pray that I am afforded the chance!
-optional end
> Else
Franz: And what can I do for you this most beauteous of {{alternatives|morning=mornings|day=afternoons|night=evenings}}? Shall I sign your flyer with my mark, perhaps?
Franz: ...A contestant? ''Really''? Well then, you would do well to pray you are not drawn against me.
Franz: Before my beauteous skills, your defeat is all but assured!
-optional start
Franz: You would do well to pray you are not drawn against me. Before my beauteous skills, your defeat is all but assured!
-optional end
---

Owyne: Ah, [Forename]! Have you spoken with the captain? He is holding on to your invitation.
Owyne: ...Already entered! Marvelous!
Owyne: We are all looking forward to witnessing your skill at arms. And if the gods are good, I shall witness them up close and personal!

Handeloup: Ah, [Forename], a pleasure as always. Are you perchance entering the tournament?
Handeloup: Well then, this has become infinitely more interesting. Lest you wonder, I am joining the field as a representative of the Temple Knights.
Handeloup: For the honor of our order, I have every intention of winning. Do not hold back, my friend—because neither will I!

===Speak with Mylla===
-cutscene start
Mylla: Well, if it isn't [Forename]. That you would visit us at this juncture could only mean one thing: you're entering the Ul Cup.
Mylla: Good, good! You are one of our very best, and it pleases me to see you continue seeking new challenges.
Mylla: And mark my words, this will be a challenge the likes of which you have never experienced.
Mylla: This tournament brings together the realm's finest. If you are to rise above them, nothing less than complete preparation will suffice.
Mylla: Speaking of preparation, have you been apprised of the rules?
Mylla: Then allow me to explain. The tournament is elimination. You lose, you go home. You win, you advance to the next match, and on it goes until a champion emerges.
Mylla: Combatants are initially divided into two groups: Nald and Thal. Sounds fancy, but they're simply labels given to two branches of the tournament tree.
Mylla: Look, [Forename]. One of your potential opponents.
Mylla: Knowing is half the battle, and you'd do well to learn all you can of the competition.
> If player has completed the quest {{i|Waiting in the Winglet}}
Bronze Bull: Oho, if it isn't the {{alternatives|f=woman|m=man}} who forged me my winglet. 'Tis a fine weapon, and I am wholly satisfied with it...but don't think that this earns you a favor should we meet in the tournament. Indeed, any less than my all would be an affront to both blade and blacksmith.
---
Mylla: ...Oh dear, is it that time already? The opening ceremony is about to commence. Shall we, then?
Dour Meadow: Ladies and gentlemen! Today I bid you welcome to the Coliseum for a truly special event!
Dour Meadow: To introduce it, it gives me great pleasure to call upon Her Royal Majesty Nanamo Ul Namo!
Nanamo Ul Namo: Generations ago, my ancestor, Sasagan Ul Sisigan, founded a tournament to celebrate the skill of our nation's finest swordsmen. One hundred years have passed since it was last held. By this declaration, I do hereby revive the Ul Cup!
Nanamo Ul Namo: Let it be known that all proceeds from this event shall go towards our continuing refugee relief efforts.
Nanamo Ul Namo: My dear combatants. My fellow citizens and I look forward to an inspiring performance from all of you. May Nald'thal give strength to your sword arms!
Dour Meadow: Thank you, Your Grace. Next, I would invite Master Adrien, Coliseum columnist for the ''Mythril Eye'', to share some insights into our combatants. What are your impressions of the field, Adrien?
Adrien: Well, Dour, I'd say it's as diverse a field as I've seen on the bloodsands. In addition to everyone's favorite gladiators and your friendly neighborhood Sultansworn, we have an Ishgardian knight as well as an acclaimed adventurer.
Dour Meadow: Truly a colorful cast of characters, all of whom bring their unique take on swordplay. With such an eclectic mix of fighting styles clashing, would you say that we're in for a veritable treat for the senses?
Adrien: Yes, I would, Dour. At this stage it's anyone's guess who will claim the title, but one thing is certain: when the match bell rings, you cannot afford to bat your eyelids! Keep watching this space, for the preliminary rounds are about to begin!
-quest complete
System: The next paladin quest will be available from Mylla upon reaching level 63.
System: The requirements for undertaking subsequent quests can be reviewed in your journal.
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
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Our Unsung Heroes

2026-07-21T06:27:19Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = Our Unsung Heroes
| description = [[Alka Zolka]] impatiently awaits your arrival.
| image = Scholar_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Alka Zolka
| location = South Shroud
| location-x = 17.0
| location-y = 28.7
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Scholar Quests
| sortkey = 700
| organization =
| class =
| job = Scholar
| level = 70
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 216000
| gil = 3000
| reward1 = 1 Orator's Attire Coffer (IL 290)
| unlocks = ach Flying Colors III, ac Aetherpact (Scholar), ngp Scholar - Part 3
| prev-quest = The Chase
| next-quest = True Beauty
| patch = 4.0
| release = stormblood
| id-edb = 7dfe6b513d8
| id-gt = 68463
}}

==Steps==
*Speak with [[Alka Zolka]] near the gates to [[the Lost City of Amdapor]].
*Speak with Alka Zolka at [[Camp Tranquil]].
*Speak with [[Surito Carito]] at [[the Wanderer's Palace]].
*Speak with Surito Carito.
*Speak with [[Setoto]].
*Speak with Alka Zolka.

==Journal==
* Alka Zolka impatiently awaits your arrival.

* Alka Zolka informs you that Landenel has officially been granted permission from the Order of the Twin Adder to enter the lost city. Asking that you accompany him to the gates, he then dashes off with you following not too far behind him.

* You wait for Landenel to arrive, and together, the three of you enter the portal. Almost immediately you spot the phantom faerie and give chase. Puzzled by its movements, Alka comments that the sphere of purple light seems as though it is attempting to guide you somewhere. It eventually fuses together with Kuribu─one of the guardian statues. After defeating the resulting amalgamation, you glance down to see a blood red gem gleaming upon the ground.

* Stooping down, you quickly pocket the red gem that fell from the Kuribu-faerie fusion. Turning back, Alka calls out to you, bidding that you hurry to follow him and Landenel back to Camp Tranquil. Everyone is eager to see if Setoto has finally opened her eyes.

* Upon your arrival to Camp Tranquil, Landenel disappears and returns shortly with Setoto in tow. Alka is relieved to see that she is finally awake. Setoto tells you briefly of a dream she saw of her father and it spurs Alka to once more question the half-manifested Lilac's intentions for entering the lost city and seemingly leading you to Kuribu. He then turns to you and inquires as to what you crouched down to retrieve right before leaving Amdapor. You hold out the gemstone and Alka, recognizing its possible value, requests that you to deliver it to Surito Carito for inspection.

* According to Surito Carito, the gemstone is the crystal core of the statue you defeated and contains potent white magic. He surmises that Lilac, a part of Setoto's father's consciousness, was driven by a strong desire to see Setoto cured of the Green Death. As such, the phantom faerie led you through the lost city that you might discover this gem, which may contain a remedy to the condition afflicting inhabitants of the Wanderer's Palace.

* Certain it holds the key to curing the Green Death and reviving the scholarly arts, Surito Carito vows to begin his analysis of the red gemstone straightaway. He thanks you, going on to say he stands by his choice in bequeathing Lily onto you. While Surito Carito seems to have said all he means to say, Alka Zolka is looking at you expectantly. It seems, he too, has a few words for you.

* Alka Zolka is over the moon to see that Setoto is back to normal, and is incredibly excited about what the future holds in store for the Royal Marines. Telling you he feels blessed to have you as a friend, he then suggests that together you return home and train.
** ※The next scholar quest will be available from Alka Zolka once you have met the following requirements:
** ※ FINAL FANTASY XIV: [[Shadowbringers]] must be registered to your service account.
** ※ You must have completed the main scenario quest “[[Shadowbringers (Quest)|Shadowbringers]].”
** ※ You must have completed the role quest “[[The Soul of Temperance]].”

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
-optional start
Landenel: It shouldn't be much longer until we receive an answer from the Order of the Twin Adder.
-optional end
Alka Zolka: [Forename], you're here! Excellent.
Alka Zolka: Landenel, mere moments ago, received the necessary authorization for us to enter Amdapor.
Alka Zolka: He'll also be accompanying us into the lost city. He claims that in watching over Setoto, he's developed a brotherly affection for her and wants to help. Honestly, I think he's just raring for a fight.
Alka Zolka: Well, whatever his reasons, I am simply glad for his assistance. The more seasoned fighters we take, the faster we'll be able to dispatch the parasite leeching Setoto of her aether. Now, let us head to the gates—where we will be meeting Landenel.
-quest accepted

===Speak with Alka Zolka near the gates to the Lost City of Amdapor===
-optional start
Landenel: I presume Alka Zolka has apprised you of all that you need to know, including the fact that I'll be delving into the depths of the lost city with you. Please begin making your way there. I'll meet you at the gates.
-optional end
Alka Zolka: Are you ready, [Forename]?
Alka Zolka: Good. The moment Landenel joins us, we'll enter the lost city.

===Pursue the phantom faerie===
Alka Zolka the Slayer: [Forename], Landenel—after the faerie!
Landenel the Unafraid: Where's it going? ...Is it trying to lead us somewhere?
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Keepers of ancient Amdapor, no doubt! Let us quickly finish them off!
Landenel the Unafraid: Begone with you! It's the faerie we're after!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Look—it's just atop those steps! We must hurry and topple these things!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Is it...waiting for us?
Alka Zolka the Slayer: [Forename], fall back and provide us cover! Landenel, on your guard—it comes!
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: Is it... Is it gone? Haha! It is! We did it! It's another victory for the Royal Marines!
Landenel: The statue's stopped moving and the earlier dread I felt has begun to recede. It appears the phantom faerie is no longer...
Alka Zolka: Yes—which means there's a very good chance Setoto's aether has returned to her! She'll be up soon! Let's hurry back so that she might have a friendly face to wake to.
Alka Zolka: [Forename], what in the gods' name are you doing!? Come, we must return to Camp Tranquil posthaste!
-cutscene end

===Speak with Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil===
-optional start
Landenel: Go to Alka Zolka. I'll bring out the tonberry girl shortly.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: <pant> That fight...<pant>...took a lot more out of me than I thought it did. <pant> Where's Setoto? And Landenel, for that matter...
Alka Zolka: Setoto, you're awake!
Setoto: Alka, what's wrong? Are you all right?
Alka Zolka: ...Do you not remember? You attempted to summon Lilac, and fell unconscious. You've been asleep this entire time—well, at least until we defeated the faerie you had called forth.
Setoto: I...I had no idea... I'm so sorry. It was never my intention to place any of you in harm's way.
Setoto: ...While I was sleeping I had a dream.
Setoto: It was of my father. When the first wave of the sickness hit, person after person began taking ill. I watched as he and the other scholars rushed through the streets, trying to save anyone they could.
Setoto: Then, the sickness struck me. When my skin began to turn green and my limbs began to shrink, he decided to embark upon a mission to obtain the cure—one he knew was destined to end in failure from the very start.
Setoto: He made his way to where all the white mages resided—the enemy nation of Amdapor. In a last-ditch attempt to save me, he infiltrated their borders. I suppose we all know how that story ends...
Setoto: <sigh> Even if he no longer cared for me—loathed me, even—for what I had become, it wouldn't matter. I just wish I could have seen him one last time...
Alka Zolka: What are you talking about, Setoto!? Your father would have been delighted to see the stunning young woman you've grown into.
Setoto: Thank you, Alka. You always know what to say.
Setoto: While I've always known I'd never again feel my father's loving embrace, I had thought that maybe, just maybe, I could have at least seen his faerie.
Setoto: In my selfish desire to do so, however, I put everyone in danger, including Lilac. Words are not enough to express how sorry I am.
Alka Zolka: That reminds me... Setoto, do you have any idea why Lilac was so drawn to the lost city?
Landenel: You need not worry about it, friend. There is likely little rhyme or reason to the actions of a frenzied spirit.
Alka Zolka: Maybe...but the way she was moving seemed deliberate—almost as though she was trying to show us something. Do you have any ideas, [Forename]?
Question: What will you do?
> Hold out the gemstone.
> Shake your head.
Alka Zolka: That reminds me, after the battle you stooped down as if to retrieve something. Did you find anything interesting?
---
Alka Zolka: A gemstone? I think ''this'' is what Lilac was trying to lead us to!
Alka Zolka: We should take it to Surito Carito that he might examine it. He, of all people, will be able to comprehend its significance.
Setoto: Oh, I nearly forgot! Landenel, sir—thank you for taking care of me when I was unwell.
Landenel: Think nothing of it. This world may be full of self-serving men and women but don't forget that not all of us are like that.
Landenel: Should you run into someone or something that threatens to hurt you, be sure to come and find me. Once I run them through with my lance, they should bother you no longer.
Setoto: Thank you, sir. I'll be sure to do that.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Surito Carito at the Wanderer's Palace===
-optional start
Landenel: You were right, Commander. Truly, the duty of the strong is to protect the weak.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: Surito Carito, there is something we would like for you to examine.
Alka Zolka: [Forename] discovered this gemstone in the Lost City of Amdapor. It seemed as if to be of great import to the faerie Setoto summoned.
Surito Carito: Indeed?
Surito Carito: Dear gods... It couldn't possibly be...
Surito Carito: Th-This gemstone—it appears to contain concentrated white magicks. How did you find this!?
Surito Carito: Ah... From what you described, I can only surmise that this is the guardian statue's crystal core and the source of its power.
Alka Zolka: Is it possible, then, that ''this'' is what Setoto's father sought to acquire by infiltrating Amdapor?
Surito Carito: It is very likely. Had the Nymians managed to attain and analyze one of these gemstones, we could have found the remedies to any number of diseases—possibly even that of the sickness which destroyed our lands.
Alka Zolka: It is just as I thought. Lilac was acting with deliberate intent. She had guided us to the lost city that we might uncover this...
Surito Carito: Normally, a faerie which has failed to fully manifest is nothing more than a sphere of turbulent aetheric energy, incapable of being manipulated by its summoner.
Surito Carito: Lilac, however, is in part, a remnant of her father's aether. Perhaps she retained his strong will to see that Setoto was saved.
Setoto: Lilac... Father... Thank you. Thank you for everything.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Surito Carito===
-optional start
Alka Zolka: To think that Lilac would retain a fragment of her father's consciousness and guide us to the stone... Setoto must have meant the world to him.
-optional end
Surito Carito: The two of you have gone to great lengths to bring Setoto safely back to us. For that I cannot thank you enough.
Surito Carito: This gemstone that you brought back from Amdapor at Lilac's behest will no doubt pave the way for a new generation of scholars.
Surito Carito: I shall begin analyzing this gemstone straightaway. I will do whatever it takes to discover the cure, and thus carry on Setoto's father's legacy.
Surito Carito: And speaking of legacies, you have shaped up to be a mighty fine scholar, [Forename]. I cannot help but feel proud whenever I look upon you.

===Speak with Setoto===
Setoto: In my selfish desire to reconnect with my father, I caused the two of you a great deal of distress. For that, I am terribly sorry.
Alka Zolka: Setoto, there is no need to apologize. Your undying gratitude is more than enough.
Setoto: Hehehe! Thank you, Alka—for everything. That you should, even now, treat me like the young girl I once was...it is perhaps what I've come to like about you most.
Alka Zolka: My apologies, Setoto. I didn't quite catch that. Do you think you could— Setoto! Are you all right? You're going red! Mayhap you need to lay down and rest?
Setoto: I-I'm perfectly fine! Although... Alka, the next time the Royal Marines are out training, would it be all right if I joined you?
Alka Zolka: Of course! You'd be a fine addition to our ranks, my lady. You are the daughter of one of Nym's very own Royal Marines, after all!
Setoto: For now this is enough. When the day comes that I regain my original body, however, I pray that you will give me strength—Father, Lilac—that I might one day convey my feeling to him.

===Speak with Alka Zolka===
Alka Zolka: What a relief it is that Setoto is back to normal.
Alka Zolka: While incredibly trying, I cannot help but be glad for our little misadventure. Not only will it aid Surito Carito's efforts to discover a cure, but the Royal Marines have become all the stronger for it! We have even earned ourselves a new member!
Alka Zolka: I know I don't say it enough, but thank you, [Forename], for always being there. You are an excellent scholar and an even better friend!
Alka Zolka: Now, let us leave this place. It is past time we returned home to continue our training!
Alka Zolka: TO VICTORY—COME HELLS OR HIGH WATER!
-quest complete
System: This concludes the scholar quests for FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood. In order to undertake the next series of quests, you must first meet the following requirements:
System: ※FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers must be registered to your service account. ※You must have completed the main scenario quest "Shadowbringers."
System: ※You must have completed the role quest "The Soul of Temperance."
System: Once you have done so, the next scholar quest will be available from Alka Zolka.
</nowiki>}}

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Our Unsung Heroes

2026-07-21T06:27:06Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = Our Unsung Heroes
| description = [[Alka Zolka]] impatiently awaits your arrival.
| image = Scholar_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Alka Zolka
| related-npcs = Landenel; Setoto; Surito Carito
| location = South Shroud
| location-x = 17.0
| location-y = 28.7
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Scholar Quests
| sortkey = 700
| organization =
| class =
| job = Scholar
| level = 70
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 216000
| gil = 3000
| reward1 = 1 Orator's Attire Coffer (IL 290)
| unlocks = ach Flying Colors III, ac Aetherpact (Scholar), ngp Scholar - Part 3
| prev-quest = The Chase
| next-quest = True Beauty
| patch = 4.0
| release = stormblood
| id-edb = 7dfe6b513d8
| id-gt = 68463
}}

==Steps==
*Speak with [[Alka Zolka]] near the gates to [[the Lost City of Amdapor]].
*Speak with Alka Zolka at [[Camp Tranquil]].
*Speak with [[Surito Carito]] at [[the Wanderer's Palace]].
*Speak with Surito Carito.
*Speak with [[Setoto]].
*Speak with Alka Zolka.

==Journal==
* Alka Zolka impatiently awaits your arrival.

* Alka Zolka informs you that Landenel has officially been granted permission from the Order of the Twin Adder to enter the lost city. Asking that you accompany him to the gates, he then dashes off with you following not too far behind him.

* You wait for Landenel to arrive, and together, the three of you enter the portal. Almost immediately you spot the phantom faerie and give chase. Puzzled by its movements, Alka comments that the sphere of purple light seems as though it is attempting to guide you somewhere. It eventually fuses together with Kuribu─one of the guardian statues. After defeating the resulting amalgamation, you glance down to see a blood red gem gleaming upon the ground.

* Stooping down, you quickly pocket the red gem that fell from the Kuribu-faerie fusion. Turning back, Alka calls out to you, bidding that you hurry to follow him and Landenel back to Camp Tranquil. Everyone is eager to see if Setoto has finally opened her eyes.

* Upon your arrival to Camp Tranquil, Landenel disappears and returns shortly with Setoto in tow. Alka is relieved to see that she is finally awake. Setoto tells you briefly of a dream she saw of her father and it spurs Alka to once more question the half-manifested Lilac's intentions for entering the lost city and seemingly leading you to Kuribu. He then turns to you and inquires as to what you crouched down to retrieve right before leaving Amdapor. You hold out the gemstone and Alka, recognizing its possible value, requests that you to deliver it to Surito Carito for inspection.

* According to Surito Carito, the gemstone is the crystal core of the statue you defeated and contains potent white magic. He surmises that Lilac, a part of Setoto's father's consciousness, was driven by a strong desire to see Setoto cured of the Green Death. As such, the phantom faerie led you through the lost city that you might discover this gem, which may contain a remedy to the condition afflicting inhabitants of the Wanderer's Palace.

* Certain it holds the key to curing the Green Death and reviving the scholarly arts, Surito Carito vows to begin his analysis of the red gemstone straightaway. He thanks you, going on to say he stands by his choice in bequeathing Lily onto you. While Surito Carito seems to have said all he means to say, Alka Zolka is looking at you expectantly. It seems, he too, has a few words for you.

* Alka Zolka is over the moon to see that Setoto is back to normal, and is incredibly excited about what the future holds in store for the Royal Marines. Telling you he feels blessed to have you as a friend, he then suggests that together you return home and train.
** ※The next scholar quest will be available from Alka Zolka once you have met the following requirements:
** ※ FINAL FANTASY XIV: [[Shadowbringers]] must be registered to your service account.
** ※ You must have completed the main scenario quest “[[Shadowbringers (Quest)|Shadowbringers]].”
** ※ You must have completed the role quest “[[The Soul of Temperance]].”

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
-optional start
Landenel: It shouldn't be much longer until we receive an answer from the Order of the Twin Adder.
-optional end
Alka Zolka: [Forename], you're here! Excellent.
Alka Zolka: Landenel, mere moments ago, received the necessary authorization for us to enter Amdapor.
Alka Zolka: He'll also be accompanying us into the lost city. He claims that in watching over Setoto, he's developed a brotherly affection for her and wants to help. Honestly, I think he's just raring for a fight.
Alka Zolka: Well, whatever his reasons, I am simply glad for his assistance. The more seasoned fighters we take, the faster we'll be able to dispatch the parasite leeching Setoto of her aether. Now, let us head to the gates—where we will be meeting Landenel.
-quest accepted

===Speak with Alka Zolka near the gates to the Lost City of Amdapor===
-optional start
Landenel: I presume Alka Zolka has apprised you of all that you need to know, including the fact that I'll be delving into the depths of the lost city with you. Please begin making your way there. I'll meet you at the gates.
-optional end
Alka Zolka: Are you ready, [Forename]?
Alka Zolka: Good. The moment Landenel joins us, we'll enter the lost city.

===Pursue the phantom faerie===
Alka Zolka the Slayer: [Forename], Landenel—after the faerie!
Landenel the Unafraid: Where's it going? ...Is it trying to lead us somewhere?
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Keepers of ancient Amdapor, no doubt! Let us quickly finish them off!
Landenel the Unafraid: Begone with you! It's the faerie we're after!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Look—it's just atop those steps! We must hurry and topple these things!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Is it...waiting for us?
Alka Zolka the Slayer: [Forename], fall back and provide us cover! Landenel, on your guard—it comes!
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: Is it... Is it gone? Haha! It is! We did it! It's another victory for the Royal Marines!
Landenel: The statue's stopped moving and the earlier dread I felt has begun to recede. It appears the phantom faerie is no longer...
Alka Zolka: Yes—which means there's a very good chance Setoto's aether has returned to her! She'll be up soon! Let's hurry back so that she might have a friendly face to wake to.
Alka Zolka: [Forename], what in the gods' name are you doing!? Come, we must return to Camp Tranquil posthaste!
-cutscene end

===Speak with Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil===
-optional start
Landenel: Go to Alka Zolka. I'll bring out the tonberry girl shortly.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: <pant> That fight...<pant>...took a lot more out of me than I thought it did. <pant> Where's Setoto? And Landenel, for that matter...
Alka Zolka: Setoto, you're awake!
Setoto: Alka, what's wrong? Are you all right?
Alka Zolka: ...Do you not remember? You attempted to summon Lilac, and fell unconscious. You've been asleep this entire time—well, at least until we defeated the faerie you had called forth.
Setoto: I...I had no idea... I'm so sorry. It was never my intention to place any of you in harm's way.
Setoto: ...While I was sleeping I had a dream.
Setoto: It was of my father. When the first wave of the sickness hit, person after person began taking ill. I watched as he and the other scholars rushed through the streets, trying to save anyone they could.
Setoto: Then, the sickness struck me. When my skin began to turn green and my limbs began to shrink, he decided to embark upon a mission to obtain the cure—one he knew was destined to end in failure from the very start.
Setoto: He made his way to where all the white mages resided—the enemy nation of Amdapor. In a last-ditch attempt to save me, he infiltrated their borders. I suppose we all know how that story ends...
Setoto: <sigh> Even if he no longer cared for me—loathed me, even—for what I had become, it wouldn't matter. I just wish I could have seen him one last time...
Alka Zolka: What are you talking about, Setoto!? Your father would have been delighted to see the stunning young woman you've grown into.
Setoto: Thank you, Alka. You always know what to say.
Setoto: While I've always known I'd never again feel my father's loving embrace, I had thought that maybe, just maybe, I could have at least seen his faerie.
Setoto: In my selfish desire to do so, however, I put everyone in danger, including Lilac. Words are not enough to express how sorry I am.
Alka Zolka: That reminds me... Setoto, do you have any idea why Lilac was so drawn to the lost city?
Landenel: You need not worry about it, friend. There is likely little rhyme or reason to the actions of a frenzied spirit.
Alka Zolka: Maybe...but the way she was moving seemed deliberate—almost as though she was trying to show us something. Do you have any ideas, [Forename]?
Question: What will you do?
> Hold out the gemstone.
> Shake your head.
Alka Zolka: That reminds me, after the battle you stooped down as if to retrieve something. Did you find anything interesting?
---
Alka Zolka: A gemstone? I think ''this'' is what Lilac was trying to lead us to!
Alka Zolka: We should take it to Surito Carito that he might examine it. He, of all people, will be able to comprehend its significance.
Setoto: Oh, I nearly forgot! Landenel, sir—thank you for taking care of me when I was unwell.
Landenel: Think nothing of it. This world may be full of self-serving men and women but don't forget that not all of us are like that.
Landenel: Should you run into someone or something that threatens to hurt you, be sure to come and find me. Once I run them through with my lance, they should bother you no longer.
Setoto: Thank you, sir. I'll be sure to do that.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Surito Carito at the Wanderer's Palace===
-optional start
Landenel: You were right, Commander. Truly, the duty of the strong is to protect the weak.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: Surito Carito, there is something we would like for you to examine.
Alka Zolka: [Forename] discovered this gemstone in the Lost City of Amdapor. It seemed as if to be of great import to the faerie Setoto summoned.
Surito Carito: Indeed?
Surito Carito: Dear gods... It couldn't possibly be...
Surito Carito: Th-This gemstone—it appears to contain concentrated white magicks. How did you find this!?
Surito Carito: Ah... From what you described, I can only surmise that this is the guardian statue's crystal core and the source of its power.
Alka Zolka: Is it possible, then, that ''this'' is what Setoto's father sought to acquire by infiltrating Amdapor?
Surito Carito: It is very likely. Had the Nymians managed to attain and analyze one of these gemstones, we could have found the remedies to any number of diseases—possibly even that of the sickness which destroyed our lands.
Alka Zolka: It is just as I thought. Lilac was acting with deliberate intent. She had guided us to the lost city that we might uncover this...
Surito Carito: Normally, a faerie which has failed to fully manifest is nothing more than a sphere of turbulent aetheric energy, incapable of being manipulated by its summoner.
Surito Carito: Lilac, however, is in part, a remnant of her father's aether. Perhaps she retained his strong will to see that Setoto was saved.
Setoto: Lilac... Father... Thank you. Thank you for everything.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Surito Carito===
-optional start
Alka Zolka: To think that Lilac would retain a fragment of her father's consciousness and guide us to the stone... Setoto must have meant the world to him.
-optional end
Surito Carito: The two of you have gone to great lengths to bring Setoto safely back to us. For that I cannot thank you enough.
Surito Carito: This gemstone that you brought back from Amdapor at Lilac's behest will no doubt pave the way for a new generation of scholars.
Surito Carito: I shall begin analyzing this gemstone straightaway. I will do whatever it takes to discover the cure, and thus carry on Setoto's father's legacy.
Surito Carito: And speaking of legacies, you have shaped up to be a mighty fine scholar, [Forename]. I cannot help but feel proud whenever I look upon you.

===Speak with Setoto===
Setoto: In my selfish desire to reconnect with my father, I caused the two of you a great deal of distress. For that, I am terribly sorry.
Alka Zolka: Setoto, there is no need to apologize. Your undying gratitude is more than enough.
Setoto: Hehehe! Thank you, Alka—for everything. That you should, even now, treat me like the young girl I once was...it is perhaps what I've come to like about you most.
Alka Zolka: My apologies, Setoto. I didn't quite catch that. Do you think you could— Setoto! Are you all right? You're going red! Mayhap you need to lay down and rest?
Setoto: I-I'm perfectly fine! Although... Alka, the next time the Royal Marines are out training, would it be all right if I joined you?
Alka Zolka: Of course! You'd be a fine addition to our ranks, my lady. You are the daughter of one of Nym's very own Royal Marines, after all!
Setoto: For now this is enough. When the day comes that I regain my original body, however, I pray that you will give me strength—Father, Lilac—that I might one day convey my feeling to him.

===Speak with Alka Zolka===
Alka Zolka: What a relief it is that Setoto is back to normal.
Alka Zolka: While incredibly trying, I cannot help but be glad for our little misadventure. Not only will it aid Surito Carito's efforts to discover a cure, but the Royal Marines have become all the stronger for it! We have even earned ourselves a new member!
Alka Zolka: I know I don't say it enough, but thank you, [Forename], for always being there. You are an excellent scholar and an even better friend!
Alka Zolka: Now, let us leave this place. It is past time we returned home to continue our training!
Alka Zolka: TO VICTORY—COME HELLS OR HIGH WATER!
-quest complete
System: This concludes the scholar quests for FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood. In order to undertake the next series of quests, you must first meet the following requirements:
System: ※FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers must be registered to your service account. ※You must have completed the main scenario quest "Shadowbringers."
System: ※You must have completed the role quest "The Soul of Temperance."
System: Once you have done so, the next scholar quest will be available from Alka Zolka.
</nowiki>}}

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The Chase

2026-07-21T06:00:29Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = The Chase
| description = [[Alka Zolka]]'s face is drawn into tight lines.
| image = Scholar_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Alka Zolka
| location = South Shroud
| location-x = 17.0
| location-y = 28.7
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Scholar Quests
| sortkey = 680
| organization =
| class =
| job = Scholar
| level = 68
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 108000
| gil = 1943
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = In Loving Memory
| next-quest = Our Unsung Heroes
| patch = 4.0
| release = stormblood
| id-edb = 421de4c93ea
| id-gt = 68462
}}

==Steps==
*Speak with [[Surito Carito]] at [[the Wanderer's Palace]].
*Report to [[Alka Zolka]] at [[Camp Tranquil]].
*Survey the [[Upper Paths]] for the phantom faerie. 0/3
*Report to Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil.

==Journal==
* Alka Zolka's face is drawn into tight lines.

* In attempting to summon Lilac, Setoto has expended a majority of her aether─a condition one can normally recover from with a bit of rest. Despite having been asleep for quite some time now, however, the tonberry girl shows no signs of improvement, and Alka grows worried that something else is wrong. He asks that you visit Surito Carito at the Wanderer's Palace that the two of you might combine your scholarly knowledge to determine what exactly is amiss.

* Surito Carito speculates that the reason Setoto has not recovered is because she managed only a partial summoning. He believes this has resulted in a phantom faerie, which has forestalled her recovery by preventing her aether from being returned to her. Telling you the only way for you to save her is to track down and dispatch of this half-formed creature, Surito Carito leaves you to return to Alka Zolka.

* As you are informing Alka Zolka of the current state of affairs, Landenel approaches you with interesting news. He tells you of how a large number of his men have encountered a ghost in the forest─one in the form of a floating purple orb. This description happens to match the partially summoned Lilac at the ruins, and you and Alka decide to investigate. According to Landenel, the Wailers have spotted the phantom faerie in Snakemolt and the Upper Paths. The ex-marauder will be searching Snakemolt, while you have a look around the Upper Paths.

* You carefully survey the first area in the Upper Paths for the roaming purple specter. You find nothing. Perhaps it is time to move on.

* A thorough search of the next region in the Upper Paths uncovers nothing. Hopefully the last stretch of the South Shroud you have been ordered to inspect will turn up something.

* As you scan this last bit of land, something purple and aetherial catches your eye. It releases a hideous shriek and lashes out at you. You quickly defeat it, but alas, it is not the phantom faerie you seek. Alka Zolka no doubt awaits you back at Camp Tranquil. It is best not to keep him waiting.

* Alka Zolka also has had no luck in locating the faerie. As the two of you prepare to open up discussions on how you might proceed, Landenel appears, once again. He tells you of how one of his men was just attacked by the phantom faerie, which then escaped into the Lost City of Amdapor. While eager to give chase, due to the darkness that lingers there, the commanding Wood Wailer must first receive permission from the Order of the Twin Adder before any of you can enter. Asking that you make preparations while you wait, he goes to speak with his higher-ups.
** ※The next scholar quest will be available from Alka Zolka upon reaching level 70.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
-optional start
Landenel: Worry not, adventurer. The green girl is in safe hands.
-optional end
Alka Zolka: [Forename], something's terribly wrong. Ever since she collapsed, Setoto hasn't so much as stirred.
Alka Zolka: According to Surito Carito, the sickness transforms not only the body, but also the quality of the afflicted individual's aether.
Alka Zolka: As such, attempting to summon Lilac in her current state likely drained her of nearly all her vitality.
Alka Zolka: A bit of rest, however, should have been enough to replenish her reserves, and she should be awake by now. The fact that she's not means something else is amiss.
Alka Zolka: Please go and have a word with Surito Carito, scholar to scholar. Perhaps if you were to combine your wits, you might learn what is wrong. I shall remain here and look after Setoto.
-quest accepted

===Speak with Surito Carito at the Wanderer's Palace===
-optional start
Landenel: She doesn't seem to be recovering. Poor girl. Mayhap the green ooze has finally gotten the best of her...
Alka Zolka: If you and Surito Carito were to combine your wits, I'm certain you can find a way to save her. Make haste, [Forename]. I fear we may be running out of time.
-optional end
Surito Carito: So Setoto still slumbers on...
Surito Carito: Normally, when scholars summon their faeries, they do so by extracting a portion of the aether circulating through their body and willing it to take shape.
Surito Carito: By releasing that form, they can then dismiss it, and the aether will flow back into their bodies. This is what should have happened to Setoto when she fell unconscious. I cannot understand why she remains asleep... Unless...
Surito Carito: What if she only managed a partial summoning?
Surito Carito: There is a possibility that all of Setoto's aether fled from her body upon calling to Lilac, causing her to then fall unconscious before the faerie could fully manifest.
Surito Carito: That would mean this unbound phantom is out there somewhere, aimlessly roaming the land and preventing her from regaining consciousness.
Surito Carito: You and Alka must hurry to find and dispatch of it before it wanders too far. It may be the only way to wake her!

===Report to Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil===
-optional start
Surito Carito: [Forename], please hurry and tell Alka Zolka what I have shared with you. The partially summoned faerie must be stopped at all costs.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: Finally you've returned. What did Surito Carito have to say?
Alka Zolka: A partially summoned familiar!? Then, as Surito Carito suggests, we must hunt this thing down and destroy it.
Alka Zolka: Do you recall how, right before Setoto fell unconscious at the ruins, a purple sphere of light appeared before us? That must be the phantom faerie to which he refers.
Alka Zolka: Problem is, the moment it materialized it vanished from Amdapor Keep. There's no telling where it could have gone...
Landenel: The two of you are looking awfully somber. What's wrong?
Landenel: Hm... Does this thing, by any chance, resemble a floating violet orb?
Alka Zolka: So you've seen it?
Landenel: No, but lately many of the Wailers have been claiming they've encountered a specter in the forest. In fact, the reports have been so numerous in number that I've been given orders to investigate the matter.
Landenel: Interestingly enough, the description they've given me seems to match this phantom faerie of yours.
Alka Zolka: Aye. That'll be it, all right.
Landenel: While I'd like to immediately begin my search of this faerie-specter, there are a few rather pressing matters I must attend to first.
Alka Zolka: Not to worry! [Forename] and I will take it from here. We've already troubled you enough as it is.
Landenel: Very well, then. My men have spotted the thing along the Upper Paths and Snakemolt. You may want to begin by searching both those places.
Alka Zolka: Thank you.
Landenel: I'm not doing it for you. I'm doing it for the young lady. It's not as though I could simply stand by and watch as a helpless girl fights for her life.
Alka Zolka: <sigh> It may not seem it, but somewhere in that man is a good heart.
Alka Zolka: Now then, let's immediately begin surveying the areas Landenel mentioned. You take the Upper Paths, and I'll go to Snakemolt!
-cutscene end

===Survey the Upper Paths for the phantom faerie===
-optional start
Landenel: I wish I could accompany you, but unfortunately, I have a few other things I must attend to.
-optional end
System: You notice nothing out of the ordinary.
System: Out of the corner of your eye, you see an eerie glowing presence floating toward you.
System: It releases a hideous scream, and you find yourself under attack!

===Report to Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil===
-optional start
Landenel: Alka Zolka returned from his search a while ago and has been looking for you since. You best go and speak with him.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: Ah, it's about time you came, my friend! I was beginning to grow concerned one of the beasts in the forest had gotten the better of you.
Alka Zolka: I, myself, encountered a fair few woodland creatures during my search, one of which was a purple sphere of light. Alas, it turned out to simply be a will-o'-the-wisp. By the expression on your face, I assume your investigation went no better?
Alka Zolka: <sigh> Where the seven hells did that thing fly off to?
Landenel: There you are! Just moments ago, one of my men was attacked by your faerie.
Alka Zolka: Wh-What!?
Landenel: According to him, it disappeared into the Lost City of Amdapor. We won't be able to give chase, just yet, however. Entry into the area is heavily restricted due to the darkness which permeates it.
Landenel: We need to receive permission from the Order of the Twin Adder. I shall go and request that right now. In the meantime, I ask that you wait here.
Alka Zolka: Landenel, with all due respect, why is it that you're so intent on helping us? To put it bluntly, the faerie is our responsibility, not yours.
Landenel: I told you before—green of skin or not—I cannot stand to see the young girl suffer. After all, the duty of the strong is to protect the weak.
Landenel: Now, if the two of you are planning on joining me in this fight against the faerie-phantom, I suggest you begin making preparations. Taking this thing down is going to be no easy task.
-quest complete
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
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The Chase

2026-07-21T06:00:11Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = The Chase
| description = [[Alka Zolka]]'s face is drawn into tight lines.
| image = Scholar_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Alka Zolka
| related-npcs = Landenel; Surito Carito
| location = South Shroud
| location-x = 17.0
| location-y = 28.7
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Scholar Quests
| sortkey = 680
| organization =
| class =
| job = Scholar
| level = 68
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 108000
| gil = 1943
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = In Loving Memory
| next-quest = Our Unsung Heroes
| patch = 4.0
| release = stormblood
| id-edb = 421de4c93ea
| id-gt = 68462
}}

==Steps==
*Speak with [[Surito Carito]] at [[the Wanderer's Palace]].
*Report to [[Alka Zolka]] at [[Camp Tranquil]].
*Survey the [[Upper Paths]] for the phantom faerie. 0/3
*Report to Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil.

==Journal==
* Alka Zolka's face is drawn into tight lines.

* In attempting to summon Lilac, Setoto has expended a majority of her aether─a condition one can normally recover from with a bit of rest. Despite having been asleep for quite some time now, however, the tonberry girl shows no signs of improvement, and Alka grows worried that something else is wrong. He asks that you visit Surito Carito at the Wanderer's Palace that the two of you might combine your scholarly knowledge to determine what exactly is amiss.

* Surito Carito speculates that the reason Setoto has not recovered is because she managed only a partial summoning. He believes this has resulted in a phantom faerie, which has forestalled her recovery by preventing her aether from being returned to her. Telling you the only way for you to save her is to track down and dispatch of this half-formed creature, Surito Carito leaves you to return to Alka Zolka.

* As you are informing Alka Zolka of the current state of affairs, Landenel approaches you with interesting news. He tells you of how a large number of his men have encountered a ghost in the forest─one in the form of a floating purple orb. This description happens to match the partially summoned Lilac at the ruins, and you and Alka decide to investigate. According to Landenel, the Wailers have spotted the phantom faerie in Snakemolt and the Upper Paths. The ex-marauder will be searching Snakemolt, while you have a look around the Upper Paths.

* You carefully survey the first area in the Upper Paths for the roaming purple specter. You find nothing. Perhaps it is time to move on.

* A thorough search of the next region in the Upper Paths uncovers nothing. Hopefully the last stretch of the South Shroud you have been ordered to inspect will turn up something.

* As you scan this last bit of land, something purple and aetherial catches your eye. It releases a hideous shriek and lashes out at you. You quickly defeat it, but alas, it is not the phantom faerie you seek. Alka Zolka no doubt awaits you back at Camp Tranquil. It is best not to keep him waiting.

* Alka Zolka also has had no luck in locating the faerie. As the two of you prepare to open up discussions on how you might proceed, Landenel appears, once again. He tells you of how one of his men was just attacked by the phantom faerie, which then escaped into the Lost City of Amdapor. While eager to give chase, due to the darkness that lingers there, the commanding Wood Wailer must first receive permission from the Order of the Twin Adder before any of you can enter. Asking that you make preparations while you wait, he goes to speak with his higher-ups.
** ※The next scholar quest will be available from Alka Zolka upon reaching level 70.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
-optional start
Landenel: Worry not, adventurer. The green girl is in safe hands.
-optional end
Alka Zolka: [Forename], something's terribly wrong. Ever since she collapsed, Setoto hasn't so much as stirred.
Alka Zolka: According to Surito Carito, the sickness transforms not only the body, but also the quality of the afflicted individual's aether.
Alka Zolka: As such, attempting to summon Lilac in her current state likely drained her of nearly all her vitality.
Alka Zolka: A bit of rest, however, should have been enough to replenish her reserves, and she should be awake by now. The fact that she's not means something else is amiss.
Alka Zolka: Please go and have a word with Surito Carito, scholar to scholar. Perhaps if you were to combine your wits, you might learn what is wrong. I shall remain here and look after Setoto.
-quest accepted

===Speak with Surito Carito at the Wanderer's Palace===
-optional start
Landenel: She doesn't seem to be recovering. Poor girl. Mayhap the green ooze has finally gotten the best of her...
Alka Zolka: If you and Surito Carito were to combine your wits, I'm certain you can find a way to save her. Make haste, [Forename]. I fear we may be running out of time.
-optional end
Surito Carito: So Setoto still slumbers on...
Surito Carito: Normally, when scholars summon their faeries, they do so by extracting a portion of the aether circulating through their body and willing it to take shape.
Surito Carito: By releasing that form, they can then dismiss it, and the aether will flow back into their bodies. This is what should have happened to Setoto when she fell unconscious. I cannot understand why she remains asleep... Unless...
Surito Carito: What if she only managed a partial summoning?
Surito Carito: There is a possibility that all of Setoto's aether fled from her body upon calling to Lilac, causing her to then fall unconscious before the faerie could fully manifest.
Surito Carito: That would mean this unbound phantom is out there somewhere, aimlessly roaming the land and preventing her from regaining consciousness.
Surito Carito: You and Alka must hurry to find and dispatch of it before it wanders too far. It may be the only way to wake her!

===Report to Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil===
-optional start
Surito Carito: [Forename], please hurry and tell Alka Zolka what I have shared with you. The partially summoned faerie must be stopped at all costs.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: Finally you've returned. What did Surito Carito have to say?
Alka Zolka: A partially summoned familiar!? Then, as Surito Carito suggests, we must hunt this thing down and destroy it.
Alka Zolka: Do you recall how, right before Setoto fell unconscious at the ruins, a purple sphere of light appeared before us? That must be the phantom faerie to which he refers.
Alka Zolka: Problem is, the moment it materialized it vanished from Amdapor Keep. There's no telling where it could have gone...
Landenel: The two of you are looking awfully somber. What's wrong?
Landenel: Hm... Does this thing, by any chance, resemble a floating violet orb?
Alka Zolka: So you've seen it?
Landenel: No, but lately many of the Wailers have been claiming they've encountered a specter in the forest. In fact, the reports have been so numerous in number that I've been given orders to investigate the matter.
Landenel: Interestingly enough, the description they've given me seems to match this phantom faerie of yours.
Alka Zolka: Aye. That'll be it, all right.
Landenel: While I'd like to immediately begin my search of this faerie-specter, there are a few rather pressing matters I must attend to first.
Alka Zolka: Not to worry! [Forename] and I will take it from here. We've already troubled you enough as it is.
Landenel: Very well, then. My men have spotted the thing along the Upper Paths and Snakemolt. You may want to begin by searching both those places.
Alka Zolka: Thank you.
Landenel: I'm not doing it for you. I'm doing it for the young lady. It's not as though I could simply stand by and watch as a helpless girl fights for her life.
Alka Zolka: <sigh> It may not seem it, but somewhere in that man is a good heart.
Alka Zolka: Now then, let's immediately begin surveying the areas Landenel mentioned. You take the Upper Paths, and I'll go to Snakemolt!
-cutscene end

===Survey the Upper Paths for the phantom faerie===
-optional start
Landenel: I wish I could accompany you, but unfortunately, I have a few other things I must attend to.
-optional end
System: You notice nothing out of the ordinary.
System: Out of the corner of your eye, you see an eerie glowing presence floating toward you.
System: It releases a hideous scream, and you find yourself under attack!

===Report to Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil===
-optional start
Landenel: Alka Zolka returned from his search a while ago and has been looking for you since. You best go and speak with him.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: Ah, it's about time you came, my friend! I was beginning to grow concerned one of the beasts in the forest had gotten the better of you.
Alka Zolka: I, myself, encountered a fair few woodland creatures during my search, one of which was a purple sphere of light. Alas, it turned out to simply be a will-o'-the-wisp. By the expression on your face, I assume your investigation went no better?
Alka Zolka: <sigh> Where the seven hells did that thing fly off to?
Landenel: There you are! Just moments ago, one of my men was attacked by your faerie.
Alka Zolka: Wh-What!?
Landenel: According to him, it disappeared into the Lost City of Amdapor. We won't be able to give chase, just yet, however. Entry into the area is heavily restricted due to the darkness which permeates it.
Landenel: We need to receive permission from the Order of the Twin Adder. I shall go and request that right now. In the meantime, I ask that you wait here.
Alka Zolka: Landenel, with all due respect, why is it that you're so intent on helping us? To put it bluntly, the faerie is our responsibility, not yours.
Landenel: I told you before—green of skin or not—I cannot stand to see the young girl suffer. After all, the duty of the strong is to protect the weak.
Landenel: Now, if the two of you are planning on joining me in this fight against the faerie-phantom, I suggest you begin making preparations. Taking this thing down is going to be no easy task.
-quest complete
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

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In Loving Memory

2026-07-21T05:50:58Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = In Loving Memory
| description = [[Alka Zolka]] fusses over [[Setoto]].
| image = Scholar_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Alka Zolka
| location = South Shroud
| location-x = 17.0
| location-y = 28.7
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Scholar Quests
| sortkey = 650
| organization =
| class =
| job = Scholar
| level = 65
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 105000
| gil = 1857
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = A Safe Place to Hide
| next-quest = The Chase
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-edb = 549acb5b839
| id-gt = 68461
}}

==Walkthrough==
In the keep, examine the leather-bound tome on the left of the second room's entrance to open the path. Ignore all other interactables as you proceed to the manasnatcher, including a treasure chest dropped by a mana idol. While fighting the manascatcher, remember to heal your allies, and do not stand near them. Take the chest dropped by the manasnatcher to complete the duty.

==Steps==
*Rendezvous with [[Alka Zolka]] near [[Amdapor Keep]].
*Find [[Setoto]] a memento of her father!
*Defeat the [[manasnatcher]]!
*Speak with Alka Zolka at [[Camp Tranquil]].

==Journal==
* Alka Zolka fusses over Setoto.

* As Setoto appears to be fully recovered, Alka Zolka would like to begin the search for a memento of her father. The Royal Marine suggests beginning at Amdapor Keep. If, as you have come to suspect, Setoto's father was captured by the Amdapori while on a mission to discover a way to reverse the Nymian plague, he would have been transported to Amdapor Keep for questioning. It is then likely that some of his remaining possessions can be found there. Make your way to the ancient ruins and look for any items which Setoto might remember her father by.

* The three of you pick your way through Amdapor Keep, and you encounter various denizens of the ruins and ancient artifacts─including an Amdapori journal which touches upon taking a Nymian spy captive. From it you are able to conclude that Setoto's father's personal effects have been stored in a mana idol. As you begin dismantling these Amdapori golems, you are confronted by a manasnatcher, one of the hulking creatures that resides there. After a hard-fought battle, it falls lifeless to the ground, and a coffer tumbles from its innards. You, Alka, and Setoto move to open it.

* You open it to see that it contains what appears to be Setoto's father's grimoire, clothes, and soul crystal. Gingerly taking the crystal in her hands, Setoto begs her father's faerie, Lilac, to appear. It unleashes a sphere of purple light and Setoto falls to the ground, unconscious. After an unsuccessful attempt to wake her, Alka Zolka bids you help him transport the tonberry out of the dangerous ruins and to Camp Tranquil.

* You and Alka return to Camp Tranquil with Setoto, and the marauder asks that you use your knowledge to diagnose what is wrong with her. You conclude that, despite the lack of physical injuries, it will be a while before the young tonberry girl wakes. Alka is deeply troubled by the news, and his panicked shouts draw the attention of Landenel of the Wood Wailers, who offers to take Setoto into his care until such a time she has recovered. Requesting that you remain behind with her and Landenel, Alka Zolka leaves you for Bronze Lake to speak with Surito Carito.
** ※The next scholar quest will be available from Alka Zolka upon reaching level 68.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
-optional start
Setoto: For so long I've been treated like a hideous beast that I'd forgotten what it was like to be thought of as a girl. Alka has reminded me, and for that, I cannot thank him enough.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: Setoto! You appear to be doing much better. Even your complexion has returned to normal.
Setoto: Indeed! I, too, noticed that my skin once again glows a healthy shade of green!
Alka Zolka: [Forename], now that Setoto has recovered, our search can begin. Ere we depart, let us quickly review what we know.
Alka Zolka: Setoto's father was a scholar in the Royal Marines who had been dispatched on a mission to infiltrate Amdapor. He was to return with a cure to the disease that threatened to engulf Nym—only, he never did.
Setoto: Yes. I am almost certain he was caught, captured, and then killed by the Amdapori...
Setoto: Even if that was not the case, after fifteen hundred years, we can safely assume he is no longer alive. I hold out hope, however, that some of his belongings remain.
Alka Zolka: The Amdapori were extremely dedicated to expanding their knowledge of healing magic. Anything in a scholar's possession would have been of incredible value to them, and had your father been captured, they would have confiscated all that he had.
Alka Zolka: He would then likely have been transported to a remote and secure location for interrogation. That means...
Alka Zolka: Our chances of finding anything that once belonged to him will be highest in Amdapor Keep.
Setoto: Oh, Alka, not only are you terribly kind, but you are keen of mind, as well!
Alka Zolka: Ahem. Thank you. Now, in the final years of the War of the Magi, Amdapor was demolished by the Mhachi. It was overrun with a myriad of voidsent beasts that linger to this day.
Alka Zolka: As we forge forward, you must be sure to keep your wits about you! Amdapor Keep is fraught with dangers both known and unknown.
-quest accepted
-cutscene end

===Rendezvous with Alka Zolka near Amdapor Keep===
-optional start
Setoto: So this is Amdapor Keep...erstwhile home to the mages we fought so long and hard against.
-optional end
Alka Zolka: We've finally made it! [Forename], if you're ready, please lead the way.

===Find Setoto a memento of her father===
Alka Zolka: The Presence Chamber... From here we must tread with caution. We know not what dangers lurk in the shadows.
Setoto: Whatever happens, I shall not leave this place without something to remember my father by.
Setoto: Nothing in this bag looks as though it could have belonged to him...
Alka Zolka the Slayer: All the pages are in tatters. Perhaps we'll have better luck with the next one we find.
x@Tattered Log: The interrogation of the Nymian spy we apprehended is scheduled to soon take place at the Moot Hall.
x@Tattered Log: The healing powers his people wield are not like to those of white magic. Regardless of what it takes, we must find a way to determine the mysterious source of his power.
x@Tattered Log: We suspect his robes are crucial to his spellcasting. They will no doubt hold some of the answers.
x@Tattered Log: For now, however, we will be sealing them away in one of our mana idols.
Setoto: <gasp> [Forename]! This log—I think it's about my late father...
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Then we must begin dismantling the mana idols!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: One of them might be carrying Setoto's father's things!
Setoto: Rubbish, nothing more...
Alka Zolka the Slayer: <cough> <cough> The stench... It's worse than that of spoiled milk!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: This book appears to—
Alka Zolka the Slayer: <grunt> Wh-What's this? My body tingles from head to toe and suddenly I feel so light! It must be charmed!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: This chest is full to the brim with treasure!
Setoto: No. This isn't what we're looking for. Let us leave it.

===Defeat the manasnatcher===
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Why are there so many broken mana— Great gods! That beast! Over there!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: He's spotted us! We have no choice but to fight him.
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Is...is that a coffer!? This thing must have been feeding on the mana idols!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Setoto, [Forename]! Perhaps this is it...
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Seven hells! We're done for...
Setoto: Father...forgive me...

-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: Look! It's a Nymian grimoire!
Setoto: I recognize this! It's my father's! And these...
Setoto: These are his robes! Th-They're from the day he left. All of it has been so perfectly preserved, it's almost as though he were wearing them but yesterday...
Setoto: Oh? What's this?
Alka Zolka: ...Is that his ''soul crystal''!?
Setoto: Yes...and within slumbers the faerie that has been with my family for generations.
Setoto: I thought I had lost nearly everyone to that godsforsaken war and the terrible disease that followed... Yet, in spite of all odds, here she is—the last of my family, sitting right in the palm of my hand. I would give anything to see her again.
Setoto: Lilac...? Lilac, please... Answer me!
Alka Zolka: Setoto? ''Setoto''!? What happened? Wake up!
Alka Zolka: [Forename], something's wrong! She's not responding. We must get her back to Camp Tranquil immediately!
-cutscene end

===Speak with Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil===
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: [Forename], you're a Royal Marine and an outstanding scholar, besides. Surely, you can diagnose what's wrong with her?
System: Setoto has no external injuries, and both her breathing and pulse are stable. Despite this, she appears to have slipped into a coma from which she will not wake any time soon.
Alka Zolka: She won't be waking any time soon!? No, that can't be! What in the seven hells happened back there!?
Landenel: Troubled civilians in need of a helping hand, I presume? Might the Wood Wailers be of assistance?
Landenel: Ah! Well, if it isn't the adventurer! What brings you to this neck of the woods?
Alka Zolka: [Forename], this is another one of your friends, I take it?
Landenel: So, in essence, a botched invocation rendered this thing unconscious? The solution to that is simple enough. Just leave it there to rest until it wakes up.
Alka Zolka: Thing!? ''Thing''!? How dare you speak of Setoto in such a callous manner! And to think that you would suggest we leave this beautiful young lady out ''here'' in the open until she wakes up—you must be mad!
Landenel: Young lady...? You're quite sure that's what he—er, she is?
Landenel: Ahem. My apologies. I shall carry the young girl inside and see that she is given a proper place to rest. But before that... This...coat of green mucus isn't contagious, is it?
Alka Zolka: Green mucus!? That's not green mucus, it's... <sigh> Never mind.
Alka Zolka: No, it's not contagious. You should be fine. Thank you for your help, sir. It is greatly appreciated.
Alka Zolka: At least for now, we can rest easy knowing that Setoto is safe—or as safe as she can be given the circumstances.
Landenel: All should be in order. I've seen to it that your friend has been given a comfortable bed to rest in until she recovers.
Alka Zolka: [Forename], I shall return to Bronze Lake and inform Surito Carito of all that has happened. Perhaps he will be able to shed light on what is wrong with Setoto.
Alka Zolka: In the meantime, I would ask that you remain near on hand and keep an eye on her. Don't worry. I shouldn't be away too long.
-quest complete
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

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In Loving Memory

2026-07-21T05:50:47Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */

{{Quest infobox
| title = In Loving Memory
| description = [[Alka Zolka]] fusses over [[Setoto]].
| image = Scholar_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Alka Zolka
| related-npcs = Landenel; Setoto
| location = South Shroud
| location-x = 17.0
| location-y = 28.7
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Scholar Quests
| sortkey = 650
| organization =
| class =
| job = Scholar
| level = 65
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 105000
| gil = 1857
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = A Safe Place to Hide
| next-quest = The Chase
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-edb = 549acb5b839
| id-gt = 68461
}}

==Walkthrough==
In the keep, examine the leather-bound tome on the left of the second room's entrance to open the path. Ignore all other interactables as you proceed to the manasnatcher, including a treasure chest dropped by a mana idol. While fighting the manascatcher, remember to heal your allies, and do not stand near them. Take the chest dropped by the manasnatcher to complete the duty.

==Steps==
*Rendezvous with [[Alka Zolka]] near [[Amdapor Keep]].
*Find [[Setoto]] a memento of her father!
*Defeat the [[manasnatcher]]!
*Speak with Alka Zolka at [[Camp Tranquil]].

==Journal==
* Alka Zolka fusses over Setoto.

* As Setoto appears to be fully recovered, Alka Zolka would like to begin the search for a memento of her father. The Royal Marine suggests beginning at Amdapor Keep. If, as you have come to suspect, Setoto's father was captured by the Amdapori while on a mission to discover a way to reverse the Nymian plague, he would have been transported to Amdapor Keep for questioning. It is then likely that some of his remaining possessions can be found there. Make your way to the ancient ruins and look for any items which Setoto might remember her father by.

* The three of you pick your way through Amdapor Keep, and you encounter various denizens of the ruins and ancient artifacts─including an Amdapori journal which touches upon taking a Nymian spy captive. From it you are able to conclude that Setoto's father's personal effects have been stored in a mana idol. As you begin dismantling these Amdapori golems, you are confronted by a manasnatcher, one of the hulking creatures that resides there. After a hard-fought battle, it falls lifeless to the ground, and a coffer tumbles from its innards. You, Alka, and Setoto move to open it.

* You open it to see that it contains what appears to be Setoto's father's grimoire, clothes, and soul crystal. Gingerly taking the crystal in her hands, Setoto begs her father's faerie, Lilac, to appear. It unleashes a sphere of purple light and Setoto falls to the ground, unconscious. After an unsuccessful attempt to wake her, Alka Zolka bids you help him transport the tonberry out of the dangerous ruins and to Camp Tranquil.

* You and Alka return to Camp Tranquil with Setoto, and the marauder asks that you use your knowledge to diagnose what is wrong with her. You conclude that, despite the lack of physical injuries, it will be a while before the young tonberry girl wakes. Alka is deeply troubled by the news, and his panicked shouts draw the attention of Landenel of the Wood Wailers, who offers to take Setoto into his care until such a time she has recovered. Requesting that you remain behind with her and Landenel, Alka Zolka leaves you for Bronze Lake to speak with Surito Carito.
** ※The next scholar quest will be available from Alka Zolka upon reaching level 68.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
-optional start
Setoto: For so long I've been treated like a hideous beast that I'd forgotten what it was like to be thought of as a girl. Alka has reminded me, and for that, I cannot thank him enough.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: Setoto! You appear to be doing much better. Even your complexion has returned to normal.
Setoto: Indeed! I, too, noticed that my skin once again glows a healthy shade of green!
Alka Zolka: [Forename], now that Setoto has recovered, our search can begin. Ere we depart, let us quickly review what we know.
Alka Zolka: Setoto's father was a scholar in the Royal Marines who had been dispatched on a mission to infiltrate Amdapor. He was to return with a cure to the disease that threatened to engulf Nym—only, he never did.
Setoto: Yes. I am almost certain he was caught, captured, and then killed by the Amdapori...
Setoto: Even if that was not the case, after fifteen hundred years, we can safely assume he is no longer alive. I hold out hope, however, that some of his belongings remain.
Alka Zolka: The Amdapori were extremely dedicated to expanding their knowledge of healing magic. Anything in a scholar's possession would have been of incredible value to them, and had your father been captured, they would have confiscated all that he had.
Alka Zolka: He would then likely have been transported to a remote and secure location for interrogation. That means...
Alka Zolka: Our chances of finding anything that once belonged to him will be highest in Amdapor Keep.
Setoto: Oh, Alka, not only are you terribly kind, but you are keen of mind, as well!
Alka Zolka: Ahem. Thank you. Now, in the final years of the War of the Magi, Amdapor was demolished by the Mhachi. It was overrun with a myriad of voidsent beasts that linger to this day.
Alka Zolka: As we forge forward, you must be sure to keep your wits about you! Amdapor Keep is fraught with dangers both known and unknown.
-quest accepted
-cutscene end

===Rendezvous with Alka Zolka near Amdapor Keep===
-optional start
Setoto: So this is Amdapor Keep...erstwhile home to the mages we fought so long and hard against.
-optional end
Alka Zolka: We've finally made it! [Forename], if you're ready, please lead the way.

===Find Setoto a memento of her father===
Alka Zolka: The Presence Chamber... From here we must tread with caution. We know not what dangers lurk in the shadows.
Setoto: Whatever happens, I shall not leave this place without something to remember my father by.
Setoto: Nothing in this bag looks as though it could have belonged to him...
Alka Zolka the Slayer: All the pages are in tatters. Perhaps we'll have better luck with the next one we find.
x@Tattered Log: The interrogation of the Nymian spy we apprehended is scheduled to soon take place at the Moot Hall.
x@Tattered Log: The healing powers his people wield are not like to those of white magic. Regardless of what it takes, we must find a way to determine the mysterious source of his power.
x@Tattered Log: We suspect his robes are crucial to his spellcasting. They will no doubt hold some of the answers.
x@Tattered Log: For now, however, we will be sealing them away in one of our mana idols.
Setoto: <gasp> [Forename]! This log—I think it's about my late father...
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Then we must begin dismantling the mana idols!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: One of them might be carrying Setoto's father's things!
Setoto: Rubbish, nothing more...
Alka Zolka the Slayer: <cough> <cough> The stench... It's worse than that of spoiled milk!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: This book appears to—
Alka Zolka the Slayer: <grunt> Wh-What's this? My body tingles from head to toe and suddenly I feel so light! It must be charmed!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: This chest is full to the brim with treasure!
Setoto: No. This isn't what we're looking for. Let us leave it.

===Defeat the manasnatcher===
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Why are there so many broken mana— Great gods! That beast! Over there!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: He's spotted us! We have no choice but to fight him.
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Is...is that a coffer!? This thing must have been feeding on the mana idols!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Setoto, [Forename]! Perhaps this is it...
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Seven hells! We're done for...
Setoto: Father...forgive me...

-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: Look! It's a Nymian grimoire!
Setoto: I recognize this! It's my father's! And these...
Setoto: These are his robes! Th-They're from the day he left. All of it has been so perfectly preserved, it's almost as though he were wearing them but yesterday...
Setoto: Oh? What's this?
Alka Zolka: ...Is that his ''soul crystal''!?
Setoto: Yes...and within slumbers the faerie that has been with my family for generations.
Setoto: I thought I had lost nearly everyone to that godsforsaken war and the terrible disease that followed... Yet, in spite of all odds, here she is—the last of my family, sitting right in the palm of my hand. I would give anything to see her again.
Setoto: Lilac...? Lilac, please... Answer me!
Alka Zolka: Setoto? ''Setoto''!? What happened? Wake up!
Alka Zolka: [Forename], something's wrong! She's not responding. We must get her back to Camp Tranquil immediately!
-cutscene end

===Speak with Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil===
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: [Forename], you're a Royal Marine and an outstanding scholar, besides. Surely, you can diagnose what's wrong with her?
System: Setoto has no external injuries, and both her breathing and pulse are stable. Despite this, she appears to have slipped into a coma from which she will not wake any time soon.
Alka Zolka: She won't be waking any time soon!? No, that can't be! What in the seven hells happened back there!?
Landenel: Troubled civilians in need of a helping hand, I presume? Might the Wood Wailers be of assistance?
Landenel: Ah! Well, if it isn't the adventurer! What brings you to this neck of the woods?
Alka Zolka: [Forename], this is another one of your friends, I take it?
Landenel: So, in essence, a botched invocation rendered this thing unconscious? The solution to that is simple enough. Just leave it there to rest until it wakes up.
Alka Zolka: Thing!? ''Thing''!? How dare you speak of Setoto in such a callous manner! And to think that you would suggest we leave this beautiful young lady out ''here'' in the open until she wakes up—you must be mad!
Landenel: Young lady...? You're quite sure that's what he—er, she is?
Landenel: Ahem. My apologies. I shall carry the young girl inside and see that she is given a proper place to rest. But before that... This...coat of green mucus isn't contagious, is it?
Alka Zolka: Green mucus!? That's not green mucus, it's... <sigh> Never mind.
Alka Zolka: No, it's not contagious. You should be fine. Thank you for your help, sir. It is greatly appreciated.
Alka Zolka: At least for now, we can rest easy knowing that Setoto is safe—or as safe as she can be given the circumstances.
Landenel: All should be in order. I've seen to it that your friend has been given a comfortable bed to rest in until she recovers.
Alka Zolka: [Forename], I shall return to Bronze Lake and inform Surito Carito of all that has happened. Perhaps he will be able to shed light on what is wrong with Setoto.
Alka Zolka: In the meantime, I would ask that you remain near on hand and keep an eye on her. Don't worry. I shouldn't be away too long.
-quest complete
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
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In Loving Memory

2026-07-21T05:50:24Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = In Loving Memory
| description = [[Alka Zolka]] fusses over [[Setoto]].
| image = Scholar_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Alka Zolka
| related-npcs = Landenel; Setoto
| location = South Shroud
| location-x = 17.0
| location-y = 28.7
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Scholar Quests
| sortkey = 650
| organization =
| class =
| job = Scholar
| level = 65
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 105000
| gil = 1857
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = A Safe Place to Hide
| next-quest = The Chase
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-edb = 549acb5b839
| id-gt = 68461
}}

==Walkthrough==
In the keep, examine the leather-bound tome on the left of the second room's entrance to open the path. Ignore all other interactables as you proceed to the manasnatcher, including a treasure chest dropped by a mana idol. While fighting the manascatcher, remember to heal your allies, and do not stand near them. Take the chest dropped by the manasnatcher to complete the duty.

==Steps==
*Rendezvous with [[Alka Zolka]] near [[Amdapor Keep]].
*Find [[Setoto]] a memento of her father!
*Defeat the [[manasnatcher]]!
*Speak with Alka Zolka at [[Camp Tranquil]].

==Journal==
* Alka Zolka fusses over Setoto.

* As Setoto appears to be fully recovered, Alka Zolka would like to begin the search for a memento of her father. The Royal Marine suggests beginning at Amdapor Keep. If, as you have come to suspect, Setoto's father was captured by the Amdapori while on a mission to discover a way to reverse the Nymian plague, he would have been transported to Amdapor Keep for questioning. It is then likely that some of his remaining possessions can be found there. Make your way to the ancient ruins and look for any items which Setoto might remember her father by.

* The three of you pick your way through Amdapor Keep, and you encounter various denizens of the ruins and ancient artifacts─including an Amdapori journal which touches upon taking a Nymian spy captive. From it you are able to conclude that Setoto's father's personal effects have been stored in a mana idol. As you begin dismantling these Amdapori golems, you are confronted by a manasnatcher, one of the hulking creatures that resides there. After a hard-fought battle, it falls lifeless to the ground, and a coffer tumbles from its innards. You, Alka, and Setoto move to open it.

* You open it to see that it contains what appears to be Setoto's father's grimoire, clothes, and soul crystal. Gingerly taking the crystal in her hands, Setoto begs her father's faerie, Lilac, to appear. It unleashes a sphere of purple light and Setoto falls to the ground, unconscious. After an unsuccessful attempt to wake her, Alka Zolka bids you help him transport the tonberry out of the dangerous ruins and to Camp Tranquil.

* You and Alka return to Camp Tranquil with Setoto, and the marauder asks that you use your knowledge to diagnose what is wrong with her. You conclude that, despite the lack of physical injuries, it will be a while before the young tonberry girl wakes. Alka is deeply troubled by the news, and his panicked shouts draw the attention of Landenel of the Wood Wailers, who offers to take Setoto into his care until such a time she has recovered. Requesting that you remain behind with her and Landenel, Alka Zolka leaves you for Bronze Lake to speak with Surito Carito.
** ※The next scholar quest will be available from Alka Zolka upon reaching level 68.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
-optional start
Setoto: For so long I've been treated like a hideous beast that I'd forgotten what it was like to be thought of as a girl. Alka has reminded me, and for that, I cannot thank him enough.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: Setoto! You appear to be doing much better. Even your complexion has returned to normal.
Setoto: Indeed! I, too, noticed that my skin once again glows a healthy shade of green!
Alka Zolka: [Forename], now that Setoto has recovered, our search can begin. Ere we depart, let us quickly review what we know.
Alka Zolka: Setoto's father was a scholar in the Royal Marines who had been dispatched on a mission to infiltrate Amdapor. He was to return with a cure to the disease that threatened to engulf Nym—only, he never did.
Setoto: Yes. I am almost certain he was caught, captured, and then killed by the Amdapori...
Setoto: Even if that was not the case, after fifteen hundred years, we can safely assume he is no longer alive. I hold out hope, however, that some of his belongings remain.
Alka Zolka: The Amdapori were extremely dedicated to expanding their knowledge of healing magic. Anything in a scholar's possession would have been of incredible value to them, and had your father been captured, they would have confiscated all that he had.
Alka Zolka: He would then likely have been transported to a remote and secure location for interrogation. That means...
Alka Zolka: Our chances of finding anything that once belonged to him will be highest in Amdapor Keep.
Setoto: Oh, Alka, not only are you terribly kind, but you are keen of mind, as well!
Alka Zolka: Ahem. Thank you. Now, in the final years of the War of the Magi, Amdapor was demolished by the Mhachi. It was overrun with a myriad of voidsent beasts that linger to this day.
Alka Zolka: As we forge forward, you must be sure to keep your wits about you! Amdapor Keep is fraught with dangers both known and unknown.
-cutscene end

===Rendezvous with Alka Zolka near Amdapor Keep===
-optional start
Setoto: So this is Amdapor Keep...erstwhile home to the mages we fought so long and hard against.
-optional end
Alka Zolka: We've finally made it! [Forename], if you're ready, please lead the way.

===Find Setoto a memento of her father===
Alka Zolka: The Presence Chamber... From here we must tread with caution. We know not what dangers lurk in the shadows.
Setoto: Whatever happens, I shall not leave this place without something to remember my father by.
Setoto: Nothing in this bag looks as though it could have belonged to him...
Alka Zolka the Slayer: All the pages are in tatters. Perhaps we'll have better luck with the next one we find.
x@Tattered Log: The interrogation of the Nymian spy we apprehended is scheduled to soon take place at the Moot Hall.
x@Tattered Log: The healing powers his people wield are not like to those of white magic. Regardless of what it takes, we must find a way to determine the mysterious source of his power.
x@Tattered Log: We suspect his robes are crucial to his spellcasting. They will no doubt hold some of the answers.
x@Tattered Log: For now, however, we will be sealing them away in one of our mana idols.
Setoto: <gasp> [Forename]! This log—I think it's about my late father...
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Then we must begin dismantling the mana idols!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: One of them might be carrying Setoto's father's things!
Setoto: Rubbish, nothing more...
Alka Zolka the Slayer: <cough> <cough> The stench... It's worse than that of spoiled milk!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: This book appears to—
Alka Zolka the Slayer: <grunt> Wh-What's this? My body tingles from head to toe and suddenly I feel so light! It must be charmed!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: This chest is full to the brim with treasure!
Setoto: No. This isn't what we're looking for. Let us leave it.

===Defeat the manasnatcher===
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Why are there so many broken mana— Great gods! That beast! Over there!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: He's spotted us! We have no choice but to fight him.
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Is...is that a coffer!? This thing must have been feeding on the mana idols!
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Setoto, [Forename]! Perhaps this is it...
Alka Zolka the Slayer: Seven hells! We're done for...
Setoto: Father...forgive me...

-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: Look! It's a Nymian grimoire!
Setoto: I recognize this! It's my father's! And these...
Setoto: These are his robes! Th-They're from the day he left. All of it has been so perfectly preserved, it's almost as though he were wearing them but yesterday...
Setoto: Oh? What's this?
Alka Zolka: ...Is that his ''soul crystal''!?
Setoto: Yes...and within slumbers the faerie that has been with my family for generations.
Setoto: I thought I had lost nearly everyone to that godsforsaken war and the terrible disease that followed... Yet, in spite of all odds, here she is—the last of my family, sitting right in the palm of my hand. I would give anything to see her again.
Setoto: Lilac...? Lilac, please... Answer me!
Alka Zolka: Setoto? ''Setoto''!? What happened? Wake up!
Alka Zolka: [Forename], something's wrong! She's not responding. We must get her back to Camp Tranquil immediately!
-cutscene end

===Speak with Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil===
-cutscene start
Alka Zolka: [Forename], you're a Royal Marine and an outstanding scholar, besides. Surely, you can diagnose what's wrong with her?
System: Setoto has no external injuries, and both her breathing and pulse are stable. Despite this, she appears to have slipped into a coma from which she will not wake any time soon.
Alka Zolka: She won't be waking any time soon!? No, that can't be! What in the seven hells happened back there!?
Landenel: Troubled civilians in need of a helping hand, I presume? Might the Wood Wailers be of assistance?
Landenel: Ah! Well, if it isn't the adventurer! What brings you to this neck of the woods?
Alka Zolka: [Forename], this is another one of your friends, I take it?
Landenel: So, in essence, a botched invocation rendered this thing unconscious? The solution to that is simple enough. Just leave it there to rest until it wakes up.
Alka Zolka: Thing!? ''Thing''!? How dare you speak of Setoto in such a callous manner! And to think that you would suggest we leave this beautiful young lady out ''here'' in the open until she wakes up—you must be mad!
Landenel: Young lady...? You're quite sure that's what he—er, she is?
Landenel: Ahem. My apologies. I shall carry the young girl inside and see that she is given a proper place to rest. But before that... This...coat of green mucus isn't contagious, is it?
Alka Zolka: Green mucus!? That's not green mucus, it's... <sigh> Never mind.
Alka Zolka: No, it's not contagious. You should be fine. Thank you for your help, sir. It is greatly appreciated.
Alka Zolka: At least for now, we can rest easy knowing that Setoto is safe—or as safe as she can be given the circumstances.
Landenel: All should be in order. I've seen to it that your friend has been given a comfortable bed to rest in until she recovers.
Alka Zolka: [Forename], I shall return to Bronze Lake and inform Surito Carito of all that has happened. Perhaps he will be able to shed light on what is wrong with Setoto.
Alka Zolka: In the meantime, I would ask that you remain near on hand and keep an eye on her. Don't worry. I shouldn't be away too long.
-quest complete
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
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A Safe Place to Hide

2026-07-21T05:21:00Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = A Safe Place to Hide
| description = [[Surito Carito]] stares at you with a puzzled glimmer in his yellow eyes.
| image = Scholar_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Surito Carito
| location = Upper La Noscea
| location-x = 25.6
| location-y = 22.3
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Scholar Quests
| sortkey = 630
| organization =
| class =
| job = Scholar
| level = 63
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 103000
| gil = 1809
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = The Vanishing Act
| next-quest = In Loving Memory
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-edb = 2399e96dfa9
| id-gt = 68460
}}

==Steps==
*Speak with [[Alka Zolka]] at the [[Marauders' Guild]].
*Rendezvous with Alka Zolka at [[Camp Tranquil]].
*Survey the designated location.
*Defeat the poachers.
*Cast [[Adloquium]] on [[Setoto]].
*Speak with Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil.

==Journal==
* Surito Carito stares at you with a puzzled glimmer in his yellow eyes.

* Surito Carito wastes no time in informing you that Alka Zolka has received news of Setoto's possible whereabouts. He then tells you to make for the Marauders' Guild in Limsa Lominsa, where the marauder-turned-Royal Marine awaits to disclose to you the relevant details.

* According to Alka Zolka, the Brass Blades have managed to track down a creature resembling the description of the stowaway. Luckily for you, their quarry has slipped into the Black Shroud─an area that is outside of their jurisdiction. He then bids you to follow him to Camp Tranquil, where Setoto now likely is, and the two of you make ready to depart.

* Alka Zolka reminds you that while the stowaway─who may well be Setoto─is safe from the Brass Blades, the forested area is just as dangerous for a lone tonberry. With precious little time to waste, it is decided the two of you will split up to conduct separate searches. Alka will check the northern part of the Black Shroud, while you scour the south.

* You thoroughly investigate the area but you do not find Setoto. Mayhap it is time to move on and continue looking for the tonberry elsewhere.

* Despite your best efforts, your search of this area turns up nothing. Perhaps searching the lands further north will yield better results.

* You come across a tonberry lying facedown in the dirt surrounded by Coeurlclaw poachers. The pack of hunters are not at all pleased by your presence and warn you not to come any closer to them or their prey. Seeing as they intend to kill and skin the creature before them, it may be in your best interest to stop them.

* The poachers are no match for you, and you swiftly dispatch of all three of them. Setoto, on the other hand, did not seem to fare nearly as well as you in her fight against them. Quickly cast Adloquium on her that she might be healed.

* Shortly after casting Adloquium upon Setoto, you are joined by Alka Zolka, who is immediately enamored of the young tonberry girl. After commenting upon her beauty, he goes on to ask what motivated her to travel so far from her home in Bronze Lake. She tells you of how in the days before Nym's collapse her father was a scholar and Royal Marine. Suspecting he was captured by the Amdapori whilst on an undercover mission there, she sought to examine the ruins for anything that once belonged to him. Touched, Alka eagerly volunteers the both of you to aid her in her search. Return to Camp Tranquil with the tonberry girl and Alka to discuss how the three of you might proceed.

* Alka Zolka will be returning once to Bronze Lake to inform Surito Carito of all that has happened. Before going, however, he makes Setoto promise that she will no longer wander about on her own and asks that you see that she gets plenty of rest in his absence. Once he returns and Setoto is fully recovered, the three of you will be leaving to search Amdapor Keep for a memento of Setoto's father.
** ※The next scholar quest will be available from Alka Zolka upon reaching level 65.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Surito Carito: Ah, [Forename]. What brings you this way?
Surito Carito: Oh? It seems, then, Alka Zolka's last missive somehow failed to reach you.
Surito Carito: He has uncovered information regarding Setoto's possible whereabouts and is currently waiting for you to join him at the Marauders' Guild in Limsa Lominsa. You best hurry.
-quest accepted

===Speak with Alka Zolka at the Marauders' Guild===
-optional start
Surito Carito: Setoto, I pray that you are safe...
-optional end
Alka Zolka: Well come, my friend. My contacts have but recently caught wind of a rumor that the Brass Blades are once again on the move. It seems they have spotted a creature matching the description of the Vesper Bay stowaway.
Alka Zolka: Luckily for us, their quarry has fled into the Black Shroud—an area that is out of their jurisdiction.
Alka Zolka: While there is still much we do not know, at least we now have an idea of where to begin. Let us immediately depart for Camp Tranquil!

===Rendezvous with Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil===
Alka Zolka: As you may well already know, the only way to reach the Black Shroud from Thanalan is to pass through this area. That means whoever—or whatever—the Brass Blades were pursuing entered the forests from here.
Alka Zolka: If our hunch is correct and Setoto is in there, we best hurry. A tonberry who has seen little of the outside world would likely not last more than a few days on their own.
Alka Zolka: To cover more ground in less time, I suggest we split up: I shall take the north, while you scour the south. Once we're done, let us meet back here.

===Survey the designated location===
System: Try as you might, you do not catch sight of Setoto or anything resembling the missing tonberry.
System: You spy a fallen figure, small of stature and green of skin. It's surrounded by poachers!
-cutscene start
Surly Poacher: It looks like we've struck gold! Haha! If we skin and sell this thing, we're guaranteed a fortune!
Sneaky Poacher: Seven hells! Don't go celebrating just yet. We've got to kill it first. The hide's so thick, it broke my bloody knife!
-cutscene end

===Cast Adloquium on Setoto===
-optional start
Setoto: Ungh... Father... Is this where it all ends?
System: Setoto appears injured. Quickly cast Adloquium upon her that she might be healed.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Setoto: <pant> <pant> Thank you, {{alternatives|f=madam|m=sir}}. You saved my life.
Setoto: That spell... You wield Nymian magicks? Are you perchance [Forename]—the adventurer in possession of a soul crystal? Surito Carito often speaks of you.
Alka Zolka: <pant> Thank the gods... <pant>...you're safe.
Alka Zolka: After my search of the northern reaches turned up nothing, I returned to Camp Tranquil to wait for you. When you didn't appear I began to grow worried and came looking for you. Good thing I did, too. Bloody poachers!
Alka Zolka: Oh, but how rude of me. I nearly forgot to introduce myself. Hello, Setoto. I am Alka Zolka, Royal Marine and marauder. My friend, [Forename] [Surname] and I have been searching for you.
Alka Zolka: My lady, if I may be so bold as to say so, your radiance—it is blinding. [Forename], isn't she beautiful?
Question: What will you say?
> "She"? How did you know?
Alka Zolka: It's obvious isn't it? Her glowing skin, her comely face—she is clearly a lovely young woman.
> I'm pretty sure ''she'' is a ''he''.
Alka Zolka: Very amusing, [Forename]. I suggest you temper your jokes, however, lest the young lady before us take offense!
---
Alka Zolka: Now, Setoto, what prompted you to leave Bronze Lake so abruptly?
Setoto: As you are likely already aware, Surito Carito saved us. While on the outside we remain as tonberries, he has purged our hearts of the rancor.
Setoto: And that is why I left. There is something I must take care of now that my mind is once again my own.
Alka Zolka: And what, pray tell, is that?
Setoto: Over fifteen hundred years ago, back when Nym was still at its peak, my father was a scholar and a Royal Marine. He was dispatched upon a secret and incredibly dangerous mission to infiltrate Amdapor.
Setoto: The day he left was the last time I ever saw him. I suspect the reason he never returned was because he was discovered and apprehended by the Amdapori.
Alka Zolka: ...And so you came here—to the place the ancient nation once stood.
Alka Zolka: You do realize that regardless of whether he survived or not, your father, he...
Setoto: I know. I am under no illusions that he might still be alive. Even if he somehow escaped Amdapor, unlike those of us sealed away in the tower, the passage of time would have eventually robbed him of his life.
Setoto: I'm only looking to find something that reminds me of him—a keepsake, if you will.
Alka Zolka: ...It sounds as though you loved your father a great deal.
Alka Zolka: Very well, if this means that much to you, we—the Royal Marines—shall volunteer to aid you in your search! Ahem. Right, [Forename]?
Setoto: The two of you would really do that for me? Oh, thank you! Thank you so very much.
Alka Zolka: Now let us return to Camp Tranquil. There, we can discuss how to proceed.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil===
-optional start
Setoto: With the two of you by my side, I am absolutely certain nothing can go wrong!
-optional end
Alka Zolka: Before we begin searching for a memento of Setoto's father in earnest, I must go to Bronze Lake to inform Surito Carito we have found his dear comrade and that she is safe. Speaking of which...
Alka Zolka: Setoto, you must promise me you will never again do anything so reckless as wandering a foreign land alone. The realm is a dangerous place—doubly so for someone with your affliction.
Setoto: Very well. If it really means that much to you, I shall make that promise.
Alka Zolka: Ahem. ...G-Good. That is all that I ask.
Alka Zolka: [Forename], I ask that you look after Setoto and see that she gets some rest that she might recuperate from her ordeal. We shall make for the lost city upon her full recovery!
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
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A Safe Place to Hide

2026-07-21T05:20:49Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = A Safe Place to Hide
| description = [[Surito Carito]] stares at you with a puzzled glimmer in his yellow eyes.
| image = Scholar_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Surito Carito
| related-npcs = Alka Zolka; Setoto; Sneaky Poacher; Stealthy Poacher; Surly Poacher
| location = Upper La Noscea
| location-x = 25.6
| location-y = 22.3
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Scholar Quests
| sortkey = 630
| organization =
| class =
| job = Scholar
| level = 63
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 103000
| gil = 1809
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = The Vanishing Act
| next-quest = In Loving Memory
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-edb = 2399e96dfa9
| id-gt = 68460
}}

==Steps==
*Speak with [[Alka Zolka]] at the [[Marauders' Guild]].
*Rendezvous with Alka Zolka at [[Camp Tranquil]].
*Survey the designated location.
*Defeat the poachers.
*Cast [[Adloquium]] on [[Setoto]].
*Speak with Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil.

==Journal==
* Surito Carito stares at you with a puzzled glimmer in his yellow eyes.

* Surito Carito wastes no time in informing you that Alka Zolka has received news of Setoto's possible whereabouts. He then tells you to make for the Marauders' Guild in Limsa Lominsa, where the marauder-turned-Royal Marine awaits to disclose to you the relevant details.

* According to Alka Zolka, the Brass Blades have managed to track down a creature resembling the description of the stowaway. Luckily for you, their quarry has slipped into the Black Shroud─an area that is outside of their jurisdiction. He then bids you to follow him to Camp Tranquil, where Setoto now likely is, and the two of you make ready to depart.

* Alka Zolka reminds you that while the stowaway─who may well be Setoto─is safe from the Brass Blades, the forested area is just as dangerous for a lone tonberry. With precious little time to waste, it is decided the two of you will split up to conduct separate searches. Alka will check the northern part of the Black Shroud, while you scour the south.

* You thoroughly investigate the area but you do not find Setoto. Mayhap it is time to move on and continue looking for the tonberry elsewhere.

* Despite your best efforts, your search of this area turns up nothing. Perhaps searching the lands further north will yield better results.

* You come across a tonberry lying facedown in the dirt surrounded by Coeurlclaw poachers. The pack of hunters are not at all pleased by your presence and warn you not to come any closer to them or their prey. Seeing as they intend to kill and skin the creature before them, it may be in your best interest to stop them.

* The poachers are no match for you, and you swiftly dispatch of all three of them. Setoto, on the other hand, did not seem to fare nearly as well as you in her fight against them. Quickly cast Adloquium on her that she might be healed.

* Shortly after casting Adloquium upon Setoto, you are joined by Alka Zolka, who is immediately enamored of the young tonberry girl. After commenting upon her beauty, he goes on to ask what motivated her to travel so far from her home in Bronze Lake. She tells you of how in the days before Nym's collapse her father was a scholar and Royal Marine. Suspecting he was captured by the Amdapori whilst on an undercover mission there, she sought to examine the ruins for anything that once belonged to him. Touched, Alka eagerly volunteers the both of you to aid her in her search. Return to Camp Tranquil with the tonberry girl and Alka to discuss how the three of you might proceed.

* Alka Zolka will be returning once to Bronze Lake to inform Surito Carito of all that has happened. Before going, however, he makes Setoto promise that she will no longer wander about on her own and asks that you see that she gets plenty of rest in his absence. Once he returns and Setoto is fully recovered, the three of you will be leaving to search Amdapor Keep for a memento of Setoto's father.
** ※The next scholar quest will be available from Alka Zolka upon reaching level 65.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Surito Carito: Ah, [Forename]. What brings you this way?
Surito Carito: Oh? It seems, then, Alka Zolka's last missive somehow failed to reach you.
Surito Carito: He has uncovered information regarding Setoto's possible whereabouts and is currently waiting for you to join him at the Marauders' Guild in Limsa Lominsa. You best hurry.
-quest accepted

===Speak with Alka Zolka at the Marauders' Guild===
-optional start
Surito Carito: Setoto, I pray that you are safe...
-optional end
Alka Zolka: Well come, my friend. My contacts have but recently caught wind of a rumor that the Brass Blades are once again on the move. It seems they have spotted a creature matching the description of the Vesper Bay stowaway.
Alka Zolka: Luckily for us, their quarry has fled into the Black Shroud—an area that is out of their jurisdiction.
Alka Zolka: While there is still much we do not know, at least we now have an idea of where to begin. Let us immediately depart for Camp Tranquil!

===Rendezvous with Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil===
Alka Zolka: As you may well already know, the only way to reach the Black Shroud from Thanalan is to pass through this area. That means whoever—or whatever—the Brass Blades were pursuing entered the forests from here.
Alka Zolka: If our hunch is correct and Setoto is in there, we best hurry. A tonberry who has seen little of the outside world would likely not last more than a few days on their own.
Alka Zolka: To cover more ground in less time, I suggest we split up: I shall take the north, while you scour the south. Once we're done, let us meet back here.

===Survey the designated location===
System: Try as you might, you do not catch sight of Setoto or anything resembling the missing tonberry.
System: You spy a fallen figure, small of stature and green of skin. It's surrounded by poachers!
-cutscene start
Surly Poacher: It looks like we've struck gold! Haha! If we skin and sell this thing, we're guaranteed a fortune!
Sneaky Poacher: Seven hells! Don't go celebrating just yet. We've got to kill it first. The hide's so thick, it broke my bloody knife!
-cutscene end

===Cast Adloquium on Setoto===
-optional start
Setoto: Ungh... Father... Is this where it all ends?
System: Setoto appears injured. Quickly cast Adloquium upon her that she might be healed.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Setoto: <pant> <pant> Thank you, {{alternatives|f=madam|m=sir}}. You saved my life.
Setoto: That spell... You wield Nymian magicks? Are you perchance [Forename]—the adventurer in possession of a soul crystal? Surito Carito often speaks of you.
Alka Zolka: <pant> Thank the gods... <pant>...you're safe.
Alka Zolka: After my search of the northern reaches turned up nothing, I returned to Camp Tranquil to wait for you. When you didn't appear I began to grow worried and came looking for you. Good thing I did, too. Bloody poachers!
Alka Zolka: Oh, but how rude of me. I nearly forgot to introduce myself. Hello, Setoto. I am Alka Zolka, Royal Marine and marauder. My friend, [Forename] [Surname] and I have been searching for you.
Alka Zolka: My lady, if I may be so bold as to say so, your radiance—it is blinding. [Forename], isn't she beautiful?
Question: What will you say?
> "She"? How did you know?
Alka Zolka: It's obvious isn't it? Her glowing skin, her comely face—she is clearly a lovely young woman.
> I'm pretty sure ''she'' is a ''he''.
Alka Zolka: Very amusing, [Forename]. I suggest you temper your jokes, however, lest the young lady before us take offense!
---
Alka Zolka: Now, Setoto, what prompted you to leave Bronze Lake so abruptly?
Setoto: As you are likely already aware, Surito Carito saved us. While on the outside we remain as tonberries, he has purged our hearts of the rancor.
Setoto: And that is why I left. There is something I must take care of now that my mind is once again my own.
Alka Zolka: And what, pray tell, is that?
Setoto: Over fifteen hundred years ago, back when Nym was still at its peak, my father was a scholar and a Royal Marine. He was dispatched upon a secret and incredibly dangerous mission to infiltrate Amdapor.
Setoto: The day he left was the last time I ever saw him. I suspect the reason he never returned was because he was discovered and apprehended by the Amdapori.
Alka Zolka: ...And so you came here—to the place the ancient nation once stood.
Alka Zolka: You do realize that regardless of whether he survived or not, your father, he...
Setoto: I know. I am under no illusions that he might still be alive. Even if he somehow escaped Amdapor, unlike those of us sealed away in the tower, the passage of time would have eventually robbed him of his life.
Setoto: I'm only looking to find something that reminds me of him—a keepsake, if you will.
Alka Zolka: ...It sounds as though you loved your father a great deal.
Alka Zolka: Very well, if this means that much to you, we—the Royal Marines—shall volunteer to aid you in your search! Ahem. Right, [Forename]?
Setoto: The two of you would really do that for me? Oh, thank you! Thank you so very much.
Alka Zolka: Now let us return to Camp Tranquil. There, we can discuss how to proceed.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Alka Zolka at Camp Tranquil===
-optional start
Setoto: With the two of you by my side, I am absolutely certain nothing can go wrong!
-optional end
Alka Zolka: Before we begin searching for a memento of Setoto's father in earnest, I must go to Bronze Lake to inform Surito Carito we have found his dear comrade and that she is safe. Speaking of which...
Alka Zolka: Setoto, you must promise me you will never again do anything so reckless as wandering a foreign land alone. The realm is a dangerous place—doubly so for someone with your affliction.
Setoto: Very well. If it really means that much to you, I shall make that promise.
Alka Zolka: Ahem. ...G-Good. That is all that I ask.
Alka Zolka: [Forename], I ask that you look after Setoto and see that she gets some rest that she might recuperate from her ordeal. We shall make for the lost city upon her full recovery!
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=k6xg7oT9_ns}}

The Vanishing Act

2026-07-21T05:09:06Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = The Vanishing Act
| description = [[Alka Zolka]] is pleasantly surprised to see you.
| image = Scholar_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Alka Zolka
| location = Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks
| location-x = 11.1
| location-y = 6.2
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Scholar Quests
| sortkey = 601
| organization =
| class =
| job = Scholar
| level = 60
| requirements =
| req-quest = The Far Edge of Fate
| exp = 100000
| gil = 1873
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = Forward, the Royal Marines
| next-quest = A Safe Place to Hide
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-edb = 918ec10b713
| id-gt = 68459
}}

==Steps==
*Speak with [[Surito Carito]] near [[the Wanderer's Palace]].
*Speak with the [[Hunt Billmaster (Maelstrom)|Maelstrom Command Hunt billmaster]].
*Rendezvous with [[Alka Zolka]] in [[Vesper Bay]].
*Report to Surito Carito near the Wanderer's Palace.

==Journal==
* Alka Zolka is pleasantly surprised to see you.

* Alka Zolka has received a missive from Surito Carito, asking that you come see him straightaway. While he has not expounded upon why, it seems extremely urgent. Make your way to upper La Noscea to learn what is amiss at the Wanderer's Palace.

* Surito Carito reveals that his study of the invisible voidsent's corpse has yielded a quasi-cure capable of impeding the spread of the Nymian plague. A miraculous discovery though it may be, he goes on to say that the reason he summoned you is because one of his research assistants, Setoto, has vanished. Worried that harm will befall his friend should they wander too far, he asks that you find and escort the tonberry back. Alka believes there is a chance Setoto has been registered to the Hunt, and suggests you begin your search at the Maelstrom Command.

* The Hunt billmaster informs you that the only tonberry currently registered to the Hunt is one by the name of Marberry. Not too long after, R'ashaht appears bearing some interesting news. The Miqo'te commander tells you that Vesper Bay has been awash with rumors of an odd-looking stowaway who scurried off a ferry as it pulled ashore. Whoever─or whatever─it was, has been described as being small of stature like a Lalafell but with exotic features. Perhaps this mysterious passenger is your missing tonberry, and it would benefit you to investigate this matter further.

* You and Alka approach a sailor who looks to be a crew member of the boat R'ashaht mentioned. The man confirms having seen the stowaway, which he describes as some manner of rare beast of a gobbie without a mask. He assures you that whatever it was, the Brass Blades are looking for it. While Alka makes a detour to Ul'dah to see what more he can uncover though his contacts regarding this incident, he asks that you inform Surito Carito of all that has happened.

* Surito Carito is of the opinion that, if in Aldenard, Setoto will be near impossible to find. He believes it would be best to wait until you come across any additional news on where the missing tonberry might have gone before making a move. Rest while you can because as soon as word of Setoto's possible whereabouts reaches you and Alka Zolka, the two of you must rush to find, and possibly rescue, the tonberry.
** ※The next scholar quest will be available from Surito Carito upon reaching level 63.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Alka Zolka: [Forename], that you should arrive at this very instant—it is as though the gods themselves have sent you.
Alka Zolka: Not a quarter bell ago I received a missive from Surito Carito. An emergency has arisen at the Wanderer's Palace, and he has requested our immediate presence.
Alka Zolka: While the exact nature of this trouble remains unclear, we can scarce ignore his call.
Alka Zolka: He awaits us at his usual place. Come, my friend, we haven't a moment to waste!
-quest accepted

===Speak with Surito Carito near the Wanderer's Palace===
-optional start
Alka Zolka: We've done this a million times, and yet something about today has me feeling incredibly restless. Please, let us hurry and see what Surito Carito has to say.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Surito Carito: Alka Zolka, [Forename]. Thank you both for responding so swiftly to my summons.
Surito Carito: Forgive my brusqueness, but I believe it best if we cut straight to business. I presume the both of you remember the invisible voidsent we defeated not too long ago?
Alka Zolka: We could scarce forget such a vile creature.
Surito Carito: Well, you'll be pleased to hear that I have finished studying its remains and believe a cure may be within my grasp.
Surito Carito: Ah, but mayhap "cure" is a slight exaggeration. What I speak of will only halt the spread of the sickness, not reverse all of the effects it has had on our bodies.
Alka Zolka: Surito Carito, you are far too modest a man! Truly, what you speak of is incredible—a miracle, even.
Surito Carito: Alas, it is not to be praised for the progress I've made that I asked you here today. You see, Setoto, one of my comrades who has been assisting me in my experiments, has mysteriously vanished.
Surito Carito: I am terribly worried. While the rancor has subsided from most of our hearts, we still retain our tonberry forms. Were we to wander too far from our home here, any number of organizations would be more than happy to have us hunted down.
Surito Carito: That is why I would ask that you—my two most trusted associates—locate and escort Setoto back to the Wanderer's Palace before it's too late.
Alka Zolka: Of course we'll do it. We can hardly ignore the pleas of one of Nym's foremost scholars!
Alka Zolka: [Forename], I have an idea of where we can start. Let us check with the Grand Companies to see if a bounty has been placed on Setoto's head.
Surito Carito: Bounty? <sigh> Let us hope it has not yet come to that...
Alka Zolka: The Maelstrom Command is in Limsa Lominsa. There, we should be able to ask the Hunt billmaster if any tonberries have recently been registered.
-cutscene end

===Speak with the Maelstrom Command Hunt billmaster===
-optional start
Surito Carito: I fear for our friend's safety. Please, [Forename], do whatever it takes find and escort Setoto back to the Wanderer's Palace before it's too late.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Hunt Billmaster: Good {{alternatives|morning=morning|day=day|night=evening}} to you, sir. How might I be of service to you today?
Alka Zolka: We're looking to save—er—''slay'' a tonberry.
Hunt Billmaster: A tonberry, eh? We currently have only one tonberry marked for the Hunt by the name of Marberry.
Alka Zolka: Marberry? If I recall correctly, he was marked for the Hunt from even before Setoto disappeared. The possibility of there being a mix-up between the two is slim. It seems we must continue our search elsewhere.
R'ashaht Rhiki: {{alternatives|[GC Rank] [Surname]|[Forename] of the Scions}}, Alka. I wasn't aware the two of you knew each other.
Alka Zolka: R'ashaht! Good to see you again. I think I may have forgotten to say so the other day, but I greatly appreciated your help with my training.
R'ashaht Rhiki: You know I'm always happy to help. I don't suppose you've come all this way to thank me, however. What brings the two of you here?
Alka Zolka: We're searching for an escaped tonberry and thought it might have been marked for the Hunt.
R'ashaht Rhiki: A tonberry, you say?
R'ashaht Rhiki: While I can't promise this is in any way related, a few days back a disturbance broke out in Vesper Bay. They discovered a stowaway hiding in one of the ferries.
Alka Zolka: Indeed?
R'ashaht Rhiki: Witnesses say that a small green blur leapt from between the crates and dashed out of sight as soon as the ship pulled into port.
R'ashaht Rhiki: While of a similar size and build to a Lalafell or Qiqirn, they claim it looked far too alien to be either.
Alka Zolka: Hm... Thank you, R'ashaht. It sounds like you may have just given us our first lead!
Alka Zolka: [Forename], after me! We make for Vesper Bay with all haste.
-cutscene end

===Rendezvous with Alka Zolka in Vesper Bay===
-optional start
Sunbaked Sailor: What in the gods' name was that thing? I ain't never seen anythin' like it.
-optional end
Alka Zolka: Oh, good. For a moment I thought I had lost you. Let us begin by questioning this man here—he appears to be one of the men from the ferry R'ashaht told us about.
Sunbaked Sailor: Yer askin' if I saw the stowaway? Aye. Ye bet I did.
Sunbaked Sailor: Now it wasn't just any stowaway what boarded our ship. Nay. I suspect it was a one o' 'em fellas—a gob—without his mask. Either that, or it's a rare beastie ye can't find around these here parts. Not that it matter, mind ye.
Sunbaked Sailor: Whatever it was, the Brass Blades are after it, and ye best be sure they'll catch it.
Alka Zolka: Indeed. Thank you for all your help, sir.
Alka Zolka: If an organization that large has yet to find the stowaway, we've little chance of succeeding in such an endeavor ourselves.
Alka Zolka: Rather than blindly rushing about, our time would be better spent gathering what information we can regarding this incident. I shall go and speak with my acquaintances in Ul'dah. In the meantime, I ask that you return to Surito Carito and inform him of all that we learned.

===Report to Surito Carito near the Wanderer's Palace===
-cutscene start
Surito Carito: [Forename], I can only hope your swift return means you come bearing good news.
Surito Carito: ...Has crossed the sea and is likely now in Thanalan, you say!? What could possibly have spurred our friend to do such a thing?
Alka Zolka: Surito Carito, forgive my tardiness.
Alka Zolka: I made a small detour to Ul'dah to speak with my associates. Unfortunately, they could tell me nothing aside from the fact that the Brass Blades are looking into who the stowaway might be. I've, nevertheless, asked that they keep an ear to the ground and report to me should they learn more.
Surito Carito: Thank you, Alka Zolka. <sigh> If, as you suspect, our friend has fled to the vast continent of Aldenard, there is little sense in us conducting any more searches.
Surito Carito: Judging by the Brass Blades' inability to find their quarry, we should have no need to worry about the Hunt or any other institution capturing Setoto for now. Our best option is to wait until we know more.
Alka Zolka: I am inclined to agree. Should I come across any new information, I will send word to you right away.
Surito Carito: There's a good chance this search will turn into something of a long-term effort. [Forename], I suggest you rest while you still can.
-quest complete
System: The next scholar quest will be available from Surito Carito upon reaching level 63.
System: The requirements for undertaking subsequent quests can be reviewed in your journal.
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=awB8Y5jxPgU}}

The Vanishing Act

2026-07-21T05:08:58Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = The Vanishing Act
| description = [[Alka Zolka]] is pleasantly surprised to see you.
| image = Scholar_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Alka Zolka
| related-npcs = Hunt Billmaster; R'ashaht Rhiki; Sunbaked Sailor; Surito Carito
| location = Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks
| location-x = 11.1
| location-y = 6.2
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Scholar Quests
| sortkey = 601
| organization =
| class =
| job = Scholar
| level = 60
| requirements =
| req-quest = The Far Edge of Fate
| exp = 100000
| gil = 1873
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = Forward, the Royal Marines
| next-quest = A Safe Place to Hide
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-edb = 918ec10b713
| id-gt = 68459
}}

==Steps==
*Speak with [[Surito Carito]] near [[the Wanderer's Palace]].
*Speak with the [[Hunt Billmaster (Maelstrom)|Maelstrom Command Hunt billmaster]].
*Rendezvous with [[Alka Zolka]] in [[Vesper Bay]].
*Report to Surito Carito near the Wanderer's Palace.

==Journal==
* Alka Zolka is pleasantly surprised to see you.

* Alka Zolka has received a missive from Surito Carito, asking that you come see him straightaway. While he has not expounded upon why, it seems extremely urgent. Make your way to upper La Noscea to learn what is amiss at the Wanderer's Palace.

* Surito Carito reveals that his study of the invisible voidsent's corpse has yielded a quasi-cure capable of impeding the spread of the Nymian plague. A miraculous discovery though it may be, he goes on to say that the reason he summoned you is because one of his research assistants, Setoto, has vanished. Worried that harm will befall his friend should they wander too far, he asks that you find and escort the tonberry back. Alka believes there is a chance Setoto has been registered to the Hunt, and suggests you begin your search at the Maelstrom Command.

* The Hunt billmaster informs you that the only tonberry currently registered to the Hunt is one by the name of Marberry. Not too long after, R'ashaht appears bearing some interesting news. The Miqo'te commander tells you that Vesper Bay has been awash with rumors of an odd-looking stowaway who scurried off a ferry as it pulled ashore. Whoever─or whatever─it was, has been described as being small of stature like a Lalafell but with exotic features. Perhaps this mysterious passenger is your missing tonberry, and it would benefit you to investigate this matter further.

* You and Alka approach a sailor who looks to be a crew member of the boat R'ashaht mentioned. The man confirms having seen the stowaway, which he describes as some manner of rare beast of a gobbie without a mask. He assures you that whatever it was, the Brass Blades are looking for it. While Alka makes a detour to Ul'dah to see what more he can uncover though his contacts regarding this incident, he asks that you inform Surito Carito of all that has happened.

* Surito Carito is of the opinion that, if in Aldenard, Setoto will be near impossible to find. He believes it would be best to wait until you come across any additional news on where the missing tonberry might have gone before making a move. Rest while you can because as soon as word of Setoto's possible whereabouts reaches you and Alka Zolka, the two of you must rush to find, and possibly rescue, the tonberry.
** ※The next scholar quest will be available from Surito Carito upon reaching level 63.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Alka Zolka: [Forename], that you should arrive at this very instant—it is as though the gods themselves have sent you.
Alka Zolka: Not a quarter bell ago I received a missive from Surito Carito. An emergency has arisen at the Wanderer's Palace, and he has requested our immediate presence.
Alka Zolka: While the exact nature of this trouble remains unclear, we can scarce ignore his call.
Alka Zolka: He awaits us at his usual place. Come, my friend, we haven't a moment to waste!
-quest accepted

===Speak with Surito Carito near the Wanderer's Palace===
-optional start
Alka Zolka: We've done this a million times, and yet something about today has me feeling incredibly restless. Please, let us hurry and see what Surito Carito has to say.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Surito Carito: Alka Zolka, [Forename]. Thank you both for responding so swiftly to my summons.
Surito Carito: Forgive my brusqueness, but I believe it best if we cut straight to business. I presume the both of you remember the invisible voidsent we defeated not too long ago?
Alka Zolka: We could scarce forget such a vile creature.
Surito Carito: Well, you'll be pleased to hear that I have finished studying its remains and believe a cure may be within my grasp.
Surito Carito: Ah, but mayhap "cure" is a slight exaggeration. What I speak of will only halt the spread of the sickness, not reverse all of the effects it has had on our bodies.
Alka Zolka: Surito Carito, you are far too modest a man! Truly, what you speak of is incredible—a miracle, even.
Surito Carito: Alas, it is not to be praised for the progress I've made that I asked you here today. You see, Setoto, one of my comrades who has been assisting me in my experiments, has mysteriously vanished.
Surito Carito: I am terribly worried. While the rancor has subsided from most of our hearts, we still retain our tonberry forms. Were we to wander too far from our home here, any number of organizations would be more than happy to have us hunted down.
Surito Carito: That is why I would ask that you—my two most trusted associates—locate and escort Setoto back to the Wanderer's Palace before it's too late.
Alka Zolka: Of course we'll do it. We can hardly ignore the pleas of one of Nym's foremost scholars!
Alka Zolka: [Forename], I have an idea of where we can start. Let us check with the Grand Companies to see if a bounty has been placed on Setoto's head.
Surito Carito: Bounty? <sigh> Let us hope it has not yet come to that...
Alka Zolka: The Maelstrom Command is in Limsa Lominsa. There, we should be able to ask the Hunt billmaster if any tonberries have recently been registered.
-cutscene end

===Speak with the Maelstrom Command Hunt billmaster===
-optional start
Surito Carito: I fear for our friend's safety. Please, [Forename], do whatever it takes find and escort Setoto back to the Wanderer's Palace before it's too late.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Hunt Billmaster: Good {{alternatives|morning=morning|day=day|night=evening}} to you, sir. How might I be of service to you today?
Alka Zolka: We're looking to save—er—''slay'' a tonberry.
Hunt Billmaster: A tonberry, eh? We currently have only one tonberry marked for the Hunt by the name of Marberry.
Alka Zolka: Marberry? If I recall correctly, he was marked for the Hunt from even before Setoto disappeared. The possibility of there being a mix-up between the two is slim. It seems we must continue our search elsewhere.
R'ashaht Rhiki: {{alternatives|[GC Rank] [Surname]|[Forename] of the Scions}}, Alka. I wasn't aware the two of you knew each other.
Alka Zolka: R'ashaht! Good to see you again. I think I may have forgotten to say so the other day, but I greatly appreciated your help with my training.
R'ashaht Rhiki: You know I'm always happy to help. I don't suppose you've come all this way to thank me, however. What brings the two of you here?
Alka Zolka: We're searching for an escaped tonberry and thought it might have been marked for the Hunt.
R'ashaht Rhiki: A tonberry, you say?
R'ashaht Rhiki: While I can't promise this is in any way related, a few days back a disturbance broke out in Vesper Bay. They discovered a stowaway hiding in one of the ferries.
Alka Zolka: Indeed?
R'ashaht Rhiki: Witnesses say that a small green blur leapt from between the crates and dashed out of sight as soon as the ship pulled into port.
R'ashaht Rhiki: While of a similar size and build to a Lalafell or Qiqirn, they claim it looked far too alien to be either.
Alka Zolka: Hm... Thank you, R'ashaht. It sounds like you may have just given us our first lead!
Alka Zolka: [Forename], after me! We make for Vesper Bay with all haste.
-cutscene end

===Rendezvous with Alka Zolka in Vesper Bay===
-optional start
Sunbaked Sailor: What in the gods' name was that thing? I ain't never seen anythin' like it.
-optional end
Alka Zolka: Oh, good. For a moment I thought I had lost you. Let us begin by questioning this man here—he appears to be one of the men from the ferry R'ashaht told us about.
Sunbaked Sailor: Yer askin' if I saw the stowaway? Aye. Ye bet I did.
Sunbaked Sailor: Now it wasn't just any stowaway what boarded our ship. Nay. I suspect it was a one o' 'em fellas—a gob—without his mask. Either that, or it's a rare beastie ye can't find around these here parts. Not that it matter, mind ye.
Sunbaked Sailor: Whatever it was, the Brass Blades are after it, and ye best be sure they'll catch it.
Alka Zolka: Indeed. Thank you for all your help, sir.
Alka Zolka: If an organization that large has yet to find the stowaway, we've little chance of succeeding in such an endeavor ourselves.
Alka Zolka: Rather than blindly rushing about, our time would be better spent gathering what information we can regarding this incident. I shall go and speak with my acquaintances in Ul'dah. In the meantime, I ask that you return to Surito Carito and inform him of all that we learned.

===Report to Surito Carito near the Wanderer's Palace===
-cutscene start
Surito Carito: [Forename], I can only hope your swift return means you come bearing good news.
Surito Carito: ...Has crossed the sea and is likely now in Thanalan, you say!? What could possibly have spurred our friend to do such a thing?
Alka Zolka: Surito Carito, forgive my tardiness.
Alka Zolka: I made a small detour to Ul'dah to speak with my associates. Unfortunately, they could tell me nothing aside from the fact that the Brass Blades are looking into who the stowaway might be. I've, nevertheless, asked that they keep an ear to the ground and report to me should they learn more.
Surito Carito: Thank you, Alka Zolka. <sigh> If, as you suspect, our friend has fled to the vast continent of Aldenard, there is little sense in us conducting any more searches.
Surito Carito: Judging by the Brass Blades' inability to find their quarry, we should have no need to worry about the Hunt or any other institution capturing Setoto for now. Our best option is to wait until we know more.
Alka Zolka: I am inclined to agree. Should I come across any new information, I will send word to you right away.
Surito Carito: There's a good chance this search will turn into something of a long-term effort. [Forename], I suggest you rest while you still can.
-quest complete
System: The next scholar quest will be available from Surito Carito upon reaching level 63.
System: The requirements for undertaking subsequent quests can be reviewed in your journal.
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=awB8Y5jxPgU}}

An Art for the Living

2026-07-21T04:55:02Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = An Art for the Living
| description = [[Y'mhitra]] is ready to depart for [[Azys Lla]].
| image = Summoner_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Y'mhitra
| location = Old Gridania
| location-x = 10.9
| location-y = 6.3
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Summoner Quests
| sortkey = 700
| organization =
| class =
| job = Summoner
| level = 70
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 216000
| gil = 3200
| reward1 = 1 Channeler's Attire Coffer (IL 290)
| unlocks = ac Summon Bahamut, tt Enhanced Dreadwyrm Trance, ach Soul Summoner III, ngp Summoner - Part 3
| prev-quest = Off the Record
| next-quest = To Be Second Best
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68165
| id-edb = a1074a175f6
}}

==Steps==
*Rendezvous with [[Y'mhitra]] at [[Helix]].
*Search for a research facility terminal.
*Operate the research facility terminal.
*Speak with [[Dancing Wolf]].
*Defeat the evocation matrix!
*Speak with Y'mhitra at Helix.
*Speak with Y'mhitra in [[Gridania]].

==Journal==
*Y'mhitra is ready to depart for Azys Lla.

*Y'mhitra tells you what she has learned in preparation for your journey to the research facility on Azys Lla, and informs you that Captain Wolf and his summoner squad will be providing military support. Make ready for the expedition, then rendezvous with your companions at Helix.

*You join Y'mhitra and the others on Azys Lla, and the scholar urges you to begin the search for a control panel of some kind. Head towards your assigned area near the statues of the Warring Triad, and seek out a research facility terminal.

*You approach a promising control panel only to find yourself set upon by a trio of clockwork soldiers. After defeating your ambushers, you once more stretch forth a hand to operate the terminal...

*Your efforts at the terminal are rewarded by the appearance of Sari, who then proceeds to lay his challenge at your feet. Your companions arrive in time to witness the exchange, and Y'mhitra suggests that the “clone” is, in fact, some manner of summoned entity. Her observation seems supported by the evidence at hand, but gives rise to yet another question: who, then, is the summoner? Prepare yourself to face the formidable egi, then speak with Captain Wolf when you are ready to enter the facility.

*After a shocking revelation, you discover that the strings of the Sari-egi were being pulled by a sentient machine─an invention of Sari which describes itself as an “evocation matrix.” All attempts to reason with the warped intelligence fail, and you and your companions are drawn into a battle of surreal proportions. Despite the bewildering capabilities of your opponent, however, you seize victory over the mechanical summoner. Join Y'mhitra by the statues of the Warring Triad, and discuss the aftermath of the battle.

*With the evocation matrix destroyed, you have removed the final barrier to learning the secrets held within Principia's pages. Say your farewells to the summoning squad, and return to Gridania with Y'mhitra.

*Upon your return, Captain Wolf shares the results of his last-moment investigation. He reports that he salvaged a number of soul crystals from the wreckage of the machine, as well as an accompanying record which explains the master summoner's descent into a bitter pessimism. You muse over Sari's disparate attempts to bequeath summoning to future generations, and the philosophical differences evident in the construction of Principia and the evocation matrix. The familiar itself seems satisfied to have entrusted you with its creator's knowledge, and content to leave the succession of summoning magic in your capable hands. Principia returns to its slumber, its purpose fulfilled...for now.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Y'mhitra: I've learned all there is to be learned about the research facility. The time has come to make our move!
Y'mhitra: From what my sister and her colleagues have told me, the laboratories are housed in an extremely dangerous quadrant of Azys Lla. We'll not want to wander around inviting trouble, but rather plot the swiftest and safest route to our destination.
Y'mhitra: There should be a terminal somewhere that will allow us to pinpoint the section where Sari's research is being stored. Once we arrive on Azys Lla, finding such a terminal will be our highest priority.
Y'mhitra: Ah, I've informed Captain Wolf of our forthcoming expedition—he insisted that he and his summoner squad provide us with support. Let us make ready and meet them at Helix.
-quest accepted

===Rendezvous with Y'mhitra at Helix===
-optional start
Dancing Wolf: Have these ruins truly existed for thousands of years? It's all so bright and sharp...
Crispin: There are beasts from my worst nightmare simply strolling around up here. Prin tells me they would have been contained in the days when the Allagans yet worked at this facility.
Denise: Everywhere I turn there's a new wonder. I've pinched myself ten times already just to be sure I was awake...
Jajasamu: So, this is what ye get when ye fuse the arcane with the mechanical, an' neither is diminished by the result.
Y'mhitra: Azys Lla... Sari could hardly have chosen a more distant place to take refuge.
Principia: The name of Azys Lla is known to me. Its facilities were constructed by the oppressors in the military, however, so I was never welcomed there...
-optional end
Y'mhitra: Azys Lla is even more fantastical than I'd imagined... But we mustn't let ourselves be distracted by the scenery! We should fan out and search for a control panel of some description.
Dancing Wolf: And we can use that to plan the simplest route to our objective, yes?
Jajasamu: Aye, then we plunge ahead, swift an' sure, an' bring an end to this bastard clone!
Y'mhitra: That is my intention. 'Tis important to note, however, that we have yet to determine if our enemy is truly a clone or not.
Y'mhitra: Even an artificial copy would appear as a living, breathing being. The man you fought on Seal Rock seemed almost...otherworldly.
Dancing Wolf: I'm inclined to agree with you, Y'mhitra. But no matter what he is, we need to slay him to lift Prin's seal. The job remains the same.
Y'mhitra: True enough. Then we should first focus on finding that terminal. [Forename], if you would, pray search around the base of the Warring Triad statues.
Dancing Wolf: Keep your guard up—if Sari knows we're coming, he may have prepared a welcome!

===Operate the research facility terminal===
-cutscene start
Sari: I predicted you would be the first to find me. A lesser summoner would have been slain...
Y'mhitra: [Forename]!
Denise: Sari's clone! It's here!
Sari: ...Clone? Ah, you seek to explain my existence.
Sari: An understandable theory, but I am far more than one of those clumsy creations. You had best abandon this flawed perception, lest it lead you down the path to failure.
Sari: I shall await you inside, potential. You will pass my test—your true final challenge—or you will die never knowing what I truly am.
Dancing Wolf: Thal's teeth! He's gone again!
Y'mhitra: Did you see that, [Forename]!? The way he vanished? 'Tis akin to the dismissal of a summoned entity!
Jajasamu: So yer sayin' he's some sort of egi? One what's wearin' Sari's face? But how can he look so solid an'...well, alive?
Principia: With the aid of a computational machine, it would be theoretically possible to reconstruct aether into a near-perfect replica of Sari's corporeal form.
Crispin: He was summoned using a machine...?
Principia: Correct. Master Sari's research developed mechanical substitutes for grimoires. In fact, the lieutenant is standing right in front of one.
Jajasamu: ...This thing, eh? It looks a bit like them tomeliths on Seal Rock, only they was much bigger... Gods, can the bugger pop up anywhere there's one of these devices!?
Y'mhitra: Aye. I think we can now safely assume that this Sari is the product of enhanced summoning magic.
Y'mhitra: But our answer leaves us with yet another question: if Sari is the "egi," then who is the summoner? Even if the grimoire is replaced by a machine, there must still exist the one who commands it.
Jajasamu: We've got to find the master then. If we don't squash the summoner, the bastard'll just bring the Sari-egi back again an' again' an' again...
Principia: Whomever the "bastard" may be, he or she must be concealed somewhere nearby. An entity will always be summoned within a certain distance of the summoner—even machine-enhanced techniques cannot circumvent this basic principle.
Principia: That our antagonist chose not to make an appearance on Seal Rock suggests a reluctance to expose oneself to direct harm. In this location, however, with so many computational devices near to hand, I expect the foe's art will be significantly bolstered.
Dancing Wolf: So the egi will be even stronger than last time? All the more reason to take down this summoner quickly before we're swamped by aetherial horrors.
Y'mhitra: Well, I've brought a little device that should help—an aetherometer I borrowed from my sister, Shtola. If I can detect the right currents, it should lead us straight to our hidden enemy.
Dancing Wolf: Excellent, Y'mhitra. That may make all the difference. Right, let's be about this, then! Summoner squad! Take the van and clear the way forward.
Jajasamu: Aye, we've been waitin' for the chance to prove ourselves. Ye just focus on findin' the summoner, an' we'll sweep aside the dregs!
-cutscene end

===Speak with Dancing Wolf===
-optional start
Y'mhitra: The summoner squad will see to it that we have a clear path through the facility. Let us move swiftly, and repay their dedication with a resounding victory!
Principia: Go forth and defeat this impostor, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. The wisdom of my creator belongs to you...
Crispin: We've not been idle since that last debacle, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}. I'm eager to show you the results of our training.
Denise: Well, you couldn't ask for a more dramatic locale for a final confrontation. Assuming we survive all this, we'll sure have a tale to tell our barracks-mates!
Jajasamu: Whatever support ye need, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}, we're here to give it. We'll not leave till ye've busted that summoner's head an' got the rewards ye damn well deserve!
-optional end
Dancing Wolf: Ready for round two, [Forename]? The terminal has provided us with a direct route to the research storage chamber. We're going to rip through this facility and take Sari's clone apart!
Principia: It is an aetherial entity, Captain Wolf, not a clone. And I must point out that your true objective is the summoner, rather than the servant.
Dancing Wolf: Right, right, I knew that! As we planned, then! Summoner squad front and center—carve [Forename] a path through!
Jajasamu: Aye, Captain.
Dancing Wolf: Y'mhitra, you're in charge of finding whoever's pulling this impostor Sari's strings. Let's go!
-cutscene start
Sari: Wonderful. You've done well to make it this far.
Dancing Wolf: The summoner has to be around here somewhere. Y'mhitra, use your gadget—I'll buy you some time.
Dancing Wolf: We came here to remove the seal you put on Principia. Do as we ask, and this can all end peacefully.
Sari: I'm sorry, "Captain." I'm afraid I can't do that. To do so would run contrary to the purpose for which I was created.
Sari: Surely by now you have come to realize my true nature?
Principia: You are an egi in the form of my creator—an existence made possible through a fusion of summoning magic and aetherochemical technology.
Principia: But while Master Sari was the last of the great summoners of Allag, you are naught more than an elaborate imitation. And you are no match for the summoner who now stands before you!
Sari: Very good, but your conjecture has missed the mark. What I am is a defense mechanism that is capable of self-enhancement in order to combat ever greater threats.
Sari: Shall I phrase this in simple terms? In the event that I encounter a presence with greater potential than Sari, I am compelled to harness that potential through main force, and compose its aether into a new guardian entity.
Dancing Wolf: You mean to kill [Forename] and make an egi of the Warrior of Light!?
Sari: Have we reached an understanding? A peaceable conclusion to this encounter was never forthcoming.
Principia: His reasoning has broken down. Your deeds have saved countless lives, and will continue to do so. How can one justify killing you, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}, when you embody the very principles for which summoning magic was invented?
Dancing Wolf: Y'mhitra! Any luck finding that summoner!?
Y'mhitra: I've just finished tracing the threads... The camouflage is impressive, but I am still shocked that we missed something of that size.
Y'mhitra: Our true enemy...is up there!
Sari: How observant of you. You have uncovered master summoner Sari's greatest masterpiece: an artificially sentient evocation matrix.
Second Sari: The complexity of my design simply cannot be compared to the primitive principles used in Principia's construction.
Third Sari: Your defeat is inevitable.
Principia: Tough talk for an aging machine whose logic channels have obviously rusted with disuse! {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}, might you and your companions dispose of this unsightly and unseemly amalgamation of refuse?
-cutscene end

===Defeat the evocation matrix===
Y'mhitra the Learned: Three at once... Stay focused! We can afford no missteps!
Dancing Wolf: There'll be no false steps from us! Isn't that right, [Forename]?
Summoning Node: Potential confirmed as priority target for aetherial reconstitution. Evocation reinitialized.
Dancing Wolf: Thal's teeth, more of the damn things!? Where does it end?
Principia: Steel yourself, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}! The machine means to overwhelm you!
High Summoner Sari: Your combined strength is...unexpected. Accessing security systems...reviving bioweapon.
Y'mhitra the Learned: Sari's speech—it's become stilted! It strains to maintain the charade!
Summoning Node: <buzz> Alert! Alert! System overload detected. Deploying advanced security measures.
Dancing Wolf: Uh, I think we made it angry... But that must mean we're winning!
Summoning Node: <buzz> Exterminate hostile entities! Ex... Ex... Exterminate!
Principia: The system has recognized you as a legitimate threat. Its primary directive is overridden! It means to destroy you by any means!
Summoning Node: <buzz> <buzz> <beeeeeep> Exter...<buzz>...minate...
Principia: The machine is out of control! One last push, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}, and victory will be yours!
Dancing Wolf: What in the seventh hell! We can't fight all of them!
Y'mhitra the Learned: Ignore the Sari-egi! Destroy the machine!
Summoning Node: Reinitializing assessment... Analysis failed... Retry... Analysis failed... Unexpected error...
Y'mhitra the Learned: We did it, [Forename]! We won!
Principia: I never doubted you, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. May I suggest we now exit this unpleasant place?
Dancing Wolf: But I've fought...primals...ugh...
Y'mhitra the Learned: Forgive me, [Forename]...

===Speak with Y'mhitra===
-optional start
Principia: An inspiring triumph, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}! Your coordination with Lady Y'mhitra and Captain Wolf was truly a thing of beauty!
Crispin: I wish I could have seen your victory firsthand. As things stood, we were far too busy keeping the rest of the facility's hostiles at bay...
Denise: Congratulations, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}! Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine a thinking machine would be the villain behind all this chaos.
Jajasamu: So a machine built by Sari was summonin' an egi what looked like Sari... Them Allagans didn't see much use for the line betwixt idea an' reality, did they?
Y'mhitra: Oh...hello. We were not to meet by the Warring Triad statues? I shall be there—I promise!
Principia: {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}? I thought you were on Azys Lla...? Now that I mention it, I thought ''I'' was on Azys Lla...
-optional end
-cutscene start
Y'mhitra: A stunning victory, [Forename]! We've won the day, but Captain Wolf wished to stay behind and conduct a thorough search. I told him it was still too dangerous to wander around alone, but...
Crispin: ...But the captain is a stubborn man. Not to worry, though—if aught should happen, we'll soon charge off to fight at his side.
Denise: Captain Wolf will call if he needs us, aye. We should be celebrating here! Does this not mean Prin's seal is now broken!?
Principia: {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}'s success is indeed something to be celebrated. I was not crafted to experience emotion, but I do feel a certain rustle of satisfaction in my pages...
Jajasamu: Once ye've mastered them high-an'-mighty techniques, ye'll be stronger than ever... Well, I think I'd rather learn by yer example anyway, instead o' from musty scrolls written by some long-dead Allagan summoner!
Principia: It is in the hopes of achieving just such an outcome that I awoke from my slumber. "The art of summoning is for the living," as my creator was once so fond of declaring.
Y'mhitra: [Forename], Prin, let us say our farewells for the moment. Thank you for your aid, everyone—we could not have done this without you!
-cutscene end

===Speak with Y'mhitra in Gridania===
-optional start
Crispin: We will wait here for the captain. As much as I would've liked to assist you in the main battle, I am proud that we contributed to your success.
Denise: So a machine was using machines to summon egi... Can you even call that magic anymore? Or is it just another form of technology...?
Jajasamu: Don't get lazy with yer summonin', now! The next time we meet, I mean to be yer equal in the art!
Dancing Wolf: I completed a thorough investigation of the research facility before I left. My findings were worth the time and the danger, I think!
Principia: Welcome back, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. It is almost "that time"...
-optional end
-cutscene start
Y'mhitra: Welcome back, [Forename]! You were only meant to face three challenges, and we ended up chasing your prize into the heavens themselves.
Principia: An unexpected development which you handled with exceptional grace, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. And now, at long last, I can finally bequeath to you the highest secrets of summoning! Pray step forward!
Y'mhitra: What a momentous occasion! The wisdom of the last of Allag's master summoners is yours!
Y'mhitra: Ere you depart to explore your newfound powers, however, Captain Wolf has a report for us. It should explain much of what occurred on Azys Lla...
Dancing Wolf: Aye, well I wanted to be sure that machine was truly undone, and after poking around inside it I discovered a number of soul crystals. According to Principia, they belonged to Sari's disciples.
Y'mhitra: The captain also unearthed a tomestone containing undoctored records of that age. 'Twould seem that following the murder of his students, Sari became increasingly bitter.
Y'mhitra: He began to doubt that the future could be safely entrusted to the capricious whims of mortals. Instead he explored other methods by which new generations might be safeguarded from the threat of primals, and committed himself to aetherochemical research.
Principia: As you may have surmised, the evocation matrix was the end result of Master Sari's toil. Drawing on its embedded soul crystals and unrivaled computational power, this terrible invention was capable of manifesting a veritable host of aetherial avatars...
Dancing Wolf: Once he was satisfied with his work, Sari commanded the machine to act as civilization's mightiest guardian. And then he killed himself. His aetherial essence was absorbed, and a formidable egi was added to his invention's arsenal.
Dancing Wolf: So now you know the truth of it.
Y'mhitra: What a price to pay to ensure that the art of summoning survived unto the morrow... After failing to protect his disciples, I wonder if he meant to preserve their soul crystals in their stead?
Dancing Wolf: Even if that were his intention, he chose the wrong way to achieve it.
Dancing Wolf: Prin here is the embodiment of the hopeful ideals of Sari's younger self. The murderous machine of his latter years is the product of frustration and anger and grief.
Y'mhitra: Ah, but what shall we do with the crystals? We cannot risk them falling into the hands of another villain like Tristan...
Principia: If you wish, I could swallow the crystals and hold them safe until another era has need of them. My enchantments would ensure that they pass only into the hands of the worthy.
Dancing Wolf: Swallow...? You mean to eat them!?
Principia: Fear not, Captain: I have no digestive tract of which to speak. And now that I have instructed {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}} in the wisdom of Allag, this task shall be the last I perform ere I return to slumber.
Y'mhitra: Wait...so this is farewell!?
Principia: Correct. Or, mayhap more appropriately, "good night".
Principia: As a familiar, I was not enspelled to experience loneliness. I was, however, written with the knowledge that it is best not to draw out a parting of ways with needless sentimentality.
Dancing Wolf: No tears for you then, eh, Prin!
Principia: Summoning magic was created to combat the threat of the primals. The ideal world is one in which I need never again awaken. Wield the art well, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}.
Dancing Wolf: ...Off to dreamland, just like that. I suppose Prin's purpose is served, and that's the same as happiness to a familiar. Speaking of serving one's purpose, I think it's time I took my leave.
Y'mhitra: Aye, the tasks of the morrow beckon to us all. Let us do what we may, so that Prin might rest peacefully for many years to come!
-quest complete
System: This concludes the summoner quests for FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood. In order to undertake the next series of quests, you must first meet the following requirements:
System: ※FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers must be registered to your service account. ※You must have completed the main scenario quest "Shadowbringers."
System: ※You must have completed the role quest "A Tearful Reunion."
System: Once you have done so, the next summoner quest will be available from Y'mhitra.
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

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An Art for the Living

2026-07-21T04:54:45Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = An Art for the Living
| description = [[Y'mhitra]] is ready to depart for [[Azys Lla]].
| image = Summoner_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Y'mhitra
| related-npcs = Crispin; Dancing Wolf; Denise; Jajasamu; Principia; Sari
| location = Old Gridania
| location-x = 10.9
| location-y = 6.3
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Summoner Quests
| sortkey = 700
| organization =
| class =
| job = Summoner
| level = 70
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 216000
| gil = 3200
| reward1 = 1 Channeler's Attire Coffer (IL 290)
| unlocks = ac Summon Bahamut, tt Enhanced Dreadwyrm Trance, ach Soul Summoner III, ngp Summoner - Part 3
| prev-quest = Off the Record
| next-quest = To Be Second Best
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68165
| id-edb = a1074a175f6
}}

==Steps==
*Rendezvous with [[Y'mhitra]] at [[Helix]].
*Search for a research facility terminal.
*Operate the research facility terminal.
*Speak with [[Dancing Wolf]].
*Defeat the evocation matrix!
*Speak with Y'mhitra at Helix.
*Speak with Y'mhitra in [[Gridania]].

==Journal==
*Y'mhitra is ready to depart for Azys Lla.

*Y'mhitra tells you what she has learned in preparation for your journey to the research facility on Azys Lla, and informs you that Captain Wolf and his summoner squad will be providing military support. Make ready for the expedition, then rendezvous with your companions at Helix.

*You join Y'mhitra and the others on Azys Lla, and the scholar urges you to begin the search for a control panel of some kind. Head towards your assigned area near the statues of the Warring Triad, and seek out a research facility terminal.

*You approach a promising control panel only to find yourself set upon by a trio of clockwork soldiers. After defeating your ambushers, you once more stretch forth a hand to operate the terminal...

*Your efforts at the terminal are rewarded by the appearance of Sari, who then proceeds to lay his challenge at your feet. Your companions arrive in time to witness the exchange, and Y'mhitra suggests that the “clone” is, in fact, some manner of summoned entity. Her observation seems supported by the evidence at hand, but gives rise to yet another question: who, then, is the summoner? Prepare yourself to face the formidable egi, then speak with Captain Wolf when you are ready to enter the facility.

*After a shocking revelation, you discover that the strings of the Sari-egi were being pulled by a sentient machine─an invention of Sari which describes itself as an “evocation matrix.” All attempts to reason with the warped intelligence fail, and you and your companions are drawn into a battle of surreal proportions. Despite the bewildering capabilities of your opponent, however, you seize victory over the mechanical summoner. Join Y'mhitra by the statues of the Warring Triad, and discuss the aftermath of the battle.

*With the evocation matrix destroyed, you have removed the final barrier to learning the secrets held within Principia's pages. Say your farewells to the summoning squad, and return to Gridania with Y'mhitra.

*Upon your return, Captain Wolf shares the results of his last-moment investigation. He reports that he salvaged a number of soul crystals from the wreckage of the machine, as well as an accompanying record which explains the master summoner's descent into a bitter pessimism. You muse over Sari's disparate attempts to bequeath summoning to future generations, and the philosophical differences evident in the construction of Principia and the evocation matrix. The familiar itself seems satisfied to have entrusted you with its creator's knowledge, and content to leave the succession of summoning magic in your capable hands. Principia returns to its slumber, its purpose fulfilled...for now.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Y'mhitra: I've learned all there is to be learned about the research facility. The time has come to make our move!
Y'mhitra: From what my sister and her colleagues have told me, the laboratories are housed in an extremely dangerous quadrant of Azys Lla. We'll not want to wander around inviting trouble, but rather plot the swiftest and safest route to our destination.
Y'mhitra: There should be a terminal somewhere that will allow us to pinpoint the section where Sari's research is being stored. Once we arrive on Azys Lla, finding such a terminal will be our highest priority.
Y'mhitra: Ah, I've informed Captain Wolf of our forthcoming expedition—he insisted that he and his summoner squad provide us with support. Let us make ready and meet them at Helix.
-quest accepted

===Rendezvous with Y'mhitra at Helix===
-optional start
Dancing Wolf: Have these ruins truly existed for thousands of years? It's all so bright and sharp...
Crispin: There are beasts from my worst nightmare simply strolling around up here. Prin tells me they would have been contained in the days when the Allagans yet worked at this facility.
Denise: Everywhere I turn there's a new wonder. I've pinched myself ten times already just to be sure I was awake...
Jajasamu: So, this is what ye get when ye fuse the arcane with the mechanical, an' neither is diminished by the result.
Y'mhitra: Azys Lla... Sari could hardly have chosen a more distant place to take refuge.
Principia: The name of Azys Lla is known to me. Its facilities were constructed by the oppressors in the military, however, so I was never welcomed there...
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Y'mhitra: Azys Lla is even more fantastical than I'd imagined... But we mustn't let ourselves be distracted by the scenery! We should fan out and search for a control panel of some description.
Dancing Wolf: And we can use that to plan the simplest route to our objective, yes?
Jajasamu: Aye, then we plunge ahead, swift an' sure, an' bring an end to this bastard clone!
Y'mhitra: That is my intention. 'Tis important to note, however, that we have yet to determine if our enemy is truly a clone or not.
Y'mhitra: Even an artificial copy would appear as a living, breathing being. The man you fought on Seal Rock seemed almost...otherworldly.
Dancing Wolf: I'm inclined to agree with you, Y'mhitra. But no matter what he is, we need to slay him to lift Prin's seal. The job remains the same.
Y'mhitra: True enough. Then we should first focus on finding that terminal. [Forename], if you would, pray search around the base of the Warring Triad statues.
Dancing Wolf: Keep your guard up—if Sari knows we're coming, he may have prepared a welcome!

===Operate the research facility terminal===
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Sari: I predicted you would be the first to find me. A lesser summoner would have been slain...
Y'mhitra: [Forename]!
Denise: Sari's clone! It's here!
Sari: ...Clone? Ah, you seek to explain my existence.
Sari: An understandable theory, but I am far more than one of those clumsy creations. You had best abandon this flawed perception, lest it lead you down the path to failure.
Sari: I shall await you inside, potential. You will pass my test—your true final challenge—or you will die never knowing what I truly am.
Dancing Wolf: Thal's teeth! He's gone again!
Y'mhitra: Did you see that, [Forename]!? The way he vanished? 'Tis akin to the dismissal of a summoned entity!
Jajasamu: So yer sayin' he's some sort of egi? One what's wearin' Sari's face? But how can he look so solid an'...well, alive?
Principia: With the aid of a computational machine, it would be theoretically possible to reconstruct aether into a near-perfect replica of Sari's corporeal form.
Crispin: He was summoned using a machine...?
Principia: Correct. Master Sari's research developed mechanical substitutes for grimoires. In fact, the lieutenant is standing right in front of one.
Jajasamu: ...This thing, eh? It looks a bit like them tomeliths on Seal Rock, only they was much bigger... Gods, can the bugger pop up anywhere there's one of these devices!?
Y'mhitra: Aye. I think we can now safely assume that this Sari is the product of enhanced summoning magic.
Y'mhitra: But our answer leaves us with yet another question: if Sari is the "egi," then who is the summoner? Even if the grimoire is replaced by a machine, there must still exist the one who commands it.
Jajasamu: We've got to find the master then. If we don't squash the summoner, the bastard'll just bring the Sari-egi back again an' again' an' again...
Principia: Whomever the "bastard" may be, he or she must be concealed somewhere nearby. An entity will always be summoned within a certain distance of the summoner—even machine-enhanced techniques cannot circumvent this basic principle.
Principia: That our antagonist chose not to make an appearance on Seal Rock suggests a reluctance to expose oneself to direct harm. In this location, however, with so many computational devices near to hand, I expect the foe's art will be significantly bolstered.
Dancing Wolf: So the egi will be even stronger than last time? All the more reason to take down this summoner quickly before we're swamped by aetherial horrors.
Y'mhitra: Well, I've brought a little device that should help—an aetherometer I borrowed from my sister, Shtola. If I can detect the right currents, it should lead us straight to our hidden enemy.
Dancing Wolf: Excellent, Y'mhitra. That may make all the difference. Right, let's be about this, then! Summoner squad! Take the van and clear the way forward.
Jajasamu: Aye, we've been waitin' for the chance to prove ourselves. Ye just focus on findin' the summoner, an' we'll sweep aside the dregs!
-cutscene end

===Speak with Dancing Wolf===
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Y'mhitra: The summoner squad will see to it that we have a clear path through the facility. Let us move swiftly, and repay their dedication with a resounding victory!
Principia: Go forth and defeat this impostor, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. The wisdom of my creator belongs to you...
Crispin: We've not been idle since that last debacle, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}. I'm eager to show you the results of our training.
Denise: Well, you couldn't ask for a more dramatic locale for a final confrontation. Assuming we survive all this, we'll sure have a tale to tell our barracks-mates!
Jajasamu: Whatever support ye need, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}, we're here to give it. We'll not leave till ye've busted that summoner's head an' got the rewards ye damn well deserve!
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Dancing Wolf: Ready for round two, [Forename]? The terminal has provided us with a direct route to the research storage chamber. We're going to rip through this facility and take Sari's clone apart!
Principia: It is an aetherial entity, Captain Wolf, not a clone. And I must point out that your true objective is the summoner, rather than the servant.
Dancing Wolf: Right, right, I knew that! As we planned, then! Summoner squad front and center—carve [Forename] a path through!
Jajasamu: Aye, Captain.
Dancing Wolf: Y'mhitra, you're in charge of finding whoever's pulling this impostor Sari's strings. Let's go!
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Sari: Wonderful. You've done well to make it this far.
Dancing Wolf: The summoner has to be around here somewhere. Y'mhitra, use your gadget—I'll buy you some time.
Dancing Wolf: We came here to remove the seal you put on Principia. Do as we ask, and this can all end peacefully.
Sari: I'm sorry, "Captain." I'm afraid I can't do that. To do so would run contrary to the purpose for which I was created.
Sari: Surely by now you have come to realize my true nature?
Principia: You are an egi in the form of my creator—an existence made possible through a fusion of summoning magic and aetherochemical technology.
Principia: But while Master Sari was the last of the great summoners of Allag, you are naught more than an elaborate imitation. And you are no match for the summoner who now stands before you!
Sari: Very good, but your conjecture has missed the mark. What I am is a defense mechanism that is capable of self-enhancement in order to combat ever greater threats.
Sari: Shall I phrase this in simple terms? In the event that I encounter a presence with greater potential than Sari, I am compelled to harness that potential through main force, and compose its aether into a new guardian entity.
Dancing Wolf: You mean to kill [Forename] and make an egi of the Warrior of Light!?
Sari: Have we reached an understanding? A peaceable conclusion to this encounter was never forthcoming.
Principia: His reasoning has broken down. Your deeds have saved countless lives, and will continue to do so. How can one justify killing you, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}, when you embody the very principles for which summoning magic was invented?
Dancing Wolf: Y'mhitra! Any luck finding that summoner!?
Y'mhitra: I've just finished tracing the threads... The camouflage is impressive, but I am still shocked that we missed something of that size.
Y'mhitra: Our true enemy...is up there!
Sari: How observant of you. You have uncovered master summoner Sari's greatest masterpiece: an artificially sentient evocation matrix.
Second Sari: The complexity of my design simply cannot be compared to the primitive principles used in Principia's construction.
Third Sari: Your defeat is inevitable.
Principia: Tough talk for an aging machine whose logic channels have obviously rusted with disuse! {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}, might you and your companions dispose of this unsightly and unseemly amalgamation of refuse?
-cutscene end

===Defeat the evocation matrix===
Y'mhitra the Learned: Three at once... Stay focused! We can afford no missteps!
Dancing Wolf: There'll be no false steps from us! Isn't that right, [Forename]?
Summoning Node: Potential confirmed as priority target for aetherial reconstitution. Evocation reinitialized.
Dancing Wolf: Thal's teeth, more of the damn things!? Where does it end?
Principia: Steel yourself, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}! The machine means to overwhelm you!
High Summoner Sari: Your combined strength is...unexpected. Accessing security systems...reviving bioweapon.
Y'mhitra the Learned: Sari's speech—it's become stilted! It strains to maintain the charade!
Summoning Node: <buzz> Alert! Alert! System overload detected. Deploying advanced security measures.
Dancing Wolf: Uh, I think we made it angry... But that must mean we're winning!
Summoning Node: <buzz> Exterminate hostile entities! Ex... Ex... Exterminate!
Principia: The system has recognized you as a legitimate threat. Its primary directive is overridden! It means to destroy you by any means!
Summoning Node: <buzz> <buzz> <beeeeeep> Exter...<buzz>...minate...
Principia: The machine is out of control! One last push, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}, and victory will be yours!
Dancing Wolf: What in the seventh hell! We can't fight all of them!
Y'mhitra the Learned: Ignore the Sari-egi! Destroy the machine!
Summoning Node: Reinitializing assessment... Analysis failed... Retry... Analysis failed... Unexpected error...
Y'mhitra the Learned: We did it, [Forename]! We won!
Principia: I never doubted you, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. May I suggest we now exit this unpleasant place?
Dancing Wolf: But I've fought...primals...ugh...
Y'mhitra the Learned: Forgive me, [Forename]...

===Speak with Y'mhitra===
-optional start
Principia: An inspiring triumph, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}! Your coordination with Lady Y'mhitra and Captain Wolf was truly a thing of beauty!
Crispin: I wish I could have seen your victory firsthand. As things stood, we were far too busy keeping the rest of the facility's hostiles at bay...
Denise: Congratulations, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}! Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine a thinking machine would be the villain behind all this chaos.
Jajasamu: So a machine built by Sari was summonin' an egi what looked like Sari... Them Allagans didn't see much use for the line betwixt idea an' reality, did they?
Y'mhitra: Oh...hello. We were not to meet by the Warring Triad statues? I shall be there—I promise!
Principia: {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}? I thought you were on Azys Lla...? Now that I mention it, I thought ''I'' was on Azys Lla...
-optional end
-cutscene start
Y'mhitra: A stunning victory, [Forename]! We've won the day, but Captain Wolf wished to stay behind and conduct a thorough search. I told him it was still too dangerous to wander around alone, but...
Crispin: ...But the captain is a stubborn man. Not to worry, though—if aught should happen, we'll soon charge off to fight at his side.
Denise: Captain Wolf will call if he needs us, aye. We should be celebrating here! Does this not mean Prin's seal is now broken!?
Principia: {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}'s success is indeed something to be celebrated. I was not crafted to experience emotion, but I do feel a certain rustle of satisfaction in my pages...
Jajasamu: Once ye've mastered them high-an'-mighty techniques, ye'll be stronger than ever... Well, I think I'd rather learn by yer example anyway, instead o' from musty scrolls written by some long-dead Allagan summoner!
Principia: It is in the hopes of achieving just such an outcome that I awoke from my slumber. "The art of summoning is for the living," as my creator was once so fond of declaring.
Y'mhitra: [Forename], Prin, let us say our farewells for the moment. Thank you for your aid, everyone—we could not have done this without you!
-cutscene end

===Speak with Y'mhitra in Gridania===
-optional start
Crispin: We will wait here for the captain. As much as I would've liked to assist you in the main battle, I am proud that we contributed to your success.
Denise: So a machine was using machines to summon egi... Can you even call that magic anymore? Or is it just another form of technology...?
Jajasamu: Don't get lazy with yer summonin', now! The next time we meet, I mean to be yer equal in the art!
Dancing Wolf: I completed a thorough investigation of the research facility before I left. My findings were worth the time and the danger, I think!
Principia: Welcome back, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. It is almost "that time"...
-optional end
-cutscene start
Y'mhitra: Welcome back, [Forename]! You were only meant to face three challenges, and we ended up chasing your prize into the heavens themselves.
Principia: An unexpected development which you handled with exceptional grace, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. And now, at long last, I can finally bequeath to you the highest secrets of summoning! Pray step forward!
Y'mhitra: What a momentous occasion! The wisdom of the last of Allag's master summoners is yours!
Y'mhitra: Ere you depart to explore your newfound powers, however, Captain Wolf has a report for us. It should explain much of what occurred on Azys Lla...
Dancing Wolf: Aye, well I wanted to be sure that machine was truly undone, and after poking around inside it I discovered a number of soul crystals. According to Principia, they belonged to Sari's disciples.
Y'mhitra: The captain also unearthed a tomestone containing undoctored records of that age. 'Twould seem that following the murder of his students, Sari became increasingly bitter.
Y'mhitra: He began to doubt that the future could be safely entrusted to the capricious whims of mortals. Instead he explored other methods by which new generations might be safeguarded from the threat of primals, and committed himself to aetherochemical research.
Principia: As you may have surmised, the evocation matrix was the end result of Master Sari's toil. Drawing on its embedded soul crystals and unrivaled computational power, this terrible invention was capable of manifesting a veritable host of aetherial avatars...
Dancing Wolf: Once he was satisfied with his work, Sari commanded the machine to act as civilization's mightiest guardian. And then he killed himself. His aetherial essence was absorbed, and a formidable egi was added to his invention's arsenal.
Dancing Wolf: So now you know the truth of it.
Y'mhitra: What a price to pay to ensure that the art of summoning survived unto the morrow... After failing to protect his disciples, I wonder if he meant to preserve their soul crystals in their stead?
Dancing Wolf: Even if that were his intention, he chose the wrong way to achieve it.
Dancing Wolf: Prin here is the embodiment of the hopeful ideals of Sari's younger self. The murderous machine of his latter years is the product of frustration and anger and grief.
Y'mhitra: Ah, but what shall we do with the crystals? We cannot risk them falling into the hands of another villain like Tristan...
Principia: If you wish, I could swallow the crystals and hold them safe until another era has need of them. My enchantments would ensure that they pass only into the hands of the worthy.
Dancing Wolf: Swallow...? You mean to eat them!?
Principia: Fear not, Captain: I have no digestive tract of which to speak. And now that I have instructed {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}} in the wisdom of Allag, this task shall be the last I perform ere I return to slumber.
Y'mhitra: Wait...so this is farewell!?
Principia: Correct. Or, mayhap more appropriately, "good night".
Principia: As a familiar, I was not enspelled to experience loneliness. I was, however, written with the knowledge that it is best not to draw out a parting of ways with needless sentimentality.
Dancing Wolf: No tears for you then, eh, Prin!
Principia: Summoning magic was created to combat the threat of the primals. The ideal world is one in which I need never again awaken. Wield the art well, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}.
Dancing Wolf: ...Off to dreamland, just like that. I suppose Prin's purpose is served, and that's the same as happiness to a familiar. Speaking of serving one's purpose, I think it's time I took my leave.
Y'mhitra: Aye, the tasks of the morrow beckon to us all. Let us do what we may, so that Prin might rest peacefully for many years to come!
-quest complete
System: This concludes the summoner quests for FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood. In order to undertake the next series of quests, you must first meet the following requirements:
System: ※FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers must be registered to your service account. ※You must have completed the main scenario quest "Shadowbringers."
System: ※You must have completed the role quest "A Tearful Reunion."
System: Once you have done so, the next summoner quest will be available from Y'mhitra.
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==Video Archive==
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Off the Record

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Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = Off the Record
| description = [[Y'mhitra]] seems to be having trouble making headway with her research.
| image = Summoner_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Y'mhitra
| location = Old Gridania
| location-x = 10.9
| location-y = 6.3
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Summoner Quests
| sortkey = 680
| organization =
| class =
| job = Summoner
| level = 68
| requirements =
| req-items = 1 Rammbroes's Letter
| exp = 108000
| gil = 1429
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = An Egi-stential Crisis
| next-quest = An Art for the Living
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68164
| id-edb = bc1389226fc
}}
==Steps==
*Speak with [[Rammbroes]] at [[Saint Coinach's Find]].
*Deliver [[Rammbroes's Letter|Rammbroes's letter]] to [[Rowena]] in [[Revenant's Toll]].
*Speak with [[Y'mhitra]] in Revenant's Toll.
*Speak with Y'mhitra at Saint Coinach's Find.
*Speak with Y'mhitra in [[Gridania]].

==Journal==
*Y'mhitra seems to be having trouble making headway with her research.

*Y'mhitra has been unable to find significant mention of Sari in the usual histories, and decides to call on the assistance of her colleague, Rammbroes. Accompany Y'mhitra to Mor Dhona, and speak with the Roegadyn scholar at Saint Coinach's Find.

*Rammbroes considers your situation, and suggests you borrow the unread tomestones from Rowena's considerable stock. Head into Revenant's Toll, and deliver Rammbroes's letter into the merchant's hands.

*In exchange for summaries of their contents, Rowena has agreed to lend you a hefty pile of tomestone transcripts. Join Y'mhitra outside and begin sifting through the foreboding volumes.

*Y'mhitra discovers a passage of interest almost immediately, but realizes that further assistance will be needed to search through the mountain of material. She resolves to enlist Captain Wolf's squad of summoners, and Rammbroes offers the use of his tent. Return to Saint Coinach's Find and speak with Y'mhitra once more.

*With the aid of the summoner squad you learn the history leading to Sari's death, and construct a theory to explain the master summoner's simulacrum on Seal Rock. The acolytes head back to the island to search for further clues, and you return to Gridania with Y'mhitra to await their results.

*With the investigation on Seal Rock providing little in the way of new information, you prepare to make an expedition to the research facility on Azys Lla. Judging by Principia's explanation of the seal and the goading nature of the present-day Sari's parting words, it seems that your arrival will not be unexpected...
**※The next summoner quest will be available from Y'mhitra upon reaching level 70.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Y'mhitra: I searched through the usual histories, but found scant mention of Sari. 'Tis as Prin has said: records of his existence have all but been expunged.
Principia: And since my own knowledge is limited to the day I was stored away, we must rely on those lost Allagan records that escaped the purge.
Y'mhitra: My colleague, Rammbroes, may be able to help us there. Hardly a day goes past when his team does not lift some forgotten treasure from the ruins in Mor Dhona. Shall we pay him a visit?
-quest accepted

===Speak with Rammbroes at Saint Coinach's Find===
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Y'mhitra: Ah, hello, [Forename]. I've just been explaining our dilemma to Rammbroes here.
Y'mhitra: Come, we should visit Rammbroes at Saint Coinach's Find. He's sure to have something that survived the purge of Sari's history.
Principia: I would tell you the story of spending several thousand years locked in a dark room, but I fear I slept through most of it...
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Rammbroes: Y'mhitra has informed me of your search, and I shall be certain to contact you should our discoveries include any mention of this "Sari." There may, however, be a swifter way to acquire the information you seek.
Rammbroes: I know of a certain merchant who collects undeciphered tomestones with even greater zeal than the Sons of Saint Coinach.
Y'mhitra: Ah... You speak of Rowena.
Rammbroes: Aye. We have formed something of a symbiotic relationship with her consortium. In return for financing our excavations, we provide Rowena with a selection of our finds. I'm sure you would find her amenable to a request for assistance.
Rammbroes: After all, you would merely need to borrow her tomestones for a time, yes? Here, I've penned a letter with my personal reassurances that her stock will be returned none the worse for wear.

===Deliver Rammbroes's letter to Rowena in Revenant's Toll===
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Rammbroes: Take that letter to Rowena and ask to borrow her tomestones. I'm sure you will have no trouble coming to a mutually beneficial agreement.
Y'mhitra: You have Rammbroes's letter, yes? I'll let you do the haggling...
Y'mhitra: [Forename]? Were you not on your way to Revenant's Toll? ...Yes, yes, I will be there, don't you worry.
Principia: This merchant you go to see, she deals in Allagan records? How strange to think of history as currency...
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Rowena: Aye, what can I do for you?

''The player hands over {{i|Rammbroes's Letter}}.''

Rowena: ...So you've the backin' of old Rammbroes, eh? Well, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to lend you some o' my tomestones.
Rowena: In fact, I'll do you one better and let you borrow the transcripts—courtesy o' the scribes at the Ironworks. As books, they're a damn sight heavier, but you don't need fancy machines when it's all penned down in ink and parchment.
Rowena: Give me a summary of the contents when you're finished, and I'll consider that as payment. Collectors'll part with more coin if they know what they're gettin', and my time's too precious to waste on readin' ancient history!
Y'mhitra: Consider it a deal, Rowena, and thank you. Well, [Forename], shall we get to work?

===Speak with Y'mhitra in Revenant's Toll===
-optional start
Rammbroes: Rowena lent you the transcripts? Well, I hope she also lent you a cart to carry them. Both mediums have their inconveniences, I suppose...
-optional end
Y'mhitra: Fancy that. I've barely begun skimming the very first volume, and there are already some promising passages. Let us wake Prin, and share our findings, shall we?
-cutscene start
Y'mhitra: Ah, Rammbroes. Have you come to check on our progress?
Y'mhitra: This charming tome is Principia, a sentient familiar of ancient Allag.
Principia: A pleasure to meet you, Master Rammbroes. Pray call me "Prin," if you prefer.
Rammbroes: Thank you, Prin. And might I say what a privilege it is to meet such a rare and clever construct.
Y'mhitra: Clever? Well, yes, apparently Prin was written that way. In fact, we were just hoping to hear an opinion on a new snippet of information I've uncovered.
Y'mhitra: 'Twas an order listed in a record of imperial military communications, commanding that "the fruits of the master summoner's research be seized." It appears that the army had more than a passing interest in Sari's experiments.
Rammbroes: Hmmm. And what exactly was the purpose of this research?
Principia: Master Sari toiled to wed summoning magicks with aetherochemical technology. For example, he experimented with replacing grimoires with mechanical mediums, and sought to manifest egi of greater authenticity by utilizing high-speed computations.
Rammbroes: ...Simply put, he turned to machines to enhance traditional summoning methods. Is that the gist of it?
Principia: Correct. But Master Sari was never one to abuse the success of his experiments, no matter how they magnified his power. He would not place his trust in machines—their inherently complex nature was too prone to error, he said.
Y'mhitra: The dates on these communications indicate a time in the latter half of Sari's life. Is it possible something could have occurred between crafting you and the execution of this order that may have greatly altered the summoner's outlook?
Principia: There was, of course, the violent wave of anti-summoner sentiment that swept through Allag. It claimed the lives of many of Master Sari's disciples. Following their deaths, he began spending much of his time cloistered within his laboratory...
Rammbroes: Such an incident could certainly be responsible for changing a man. And Principia, you were unaware of subsequent events once you fell into slumber, yes?
Y'mhitra: From what we've learned so far, 'tis safe to say that the foe we encountered is related to Sari's research in some way.
Y'mhitra: And there are likely more clues buried in these records. I shall speak with Captain Wolf, and ask to borrow the sharp minds of his summoner squad—'tis a rather intimidating pile to tackle on our own.
Rammbroes: Well, seeing as you have the transcripts, there is no need to travel far. You are welcome to make use of my tent and the reference materials on Allag found therein.
Y'mhitra: That would be an enormous help, thank you! Let's haul these books to the dig site, shall we?
-cutscene end

===Speak with Y'mhitra at Saint Coinach's Find===
-optional start
Rammbroes: I have been checking in on Y'mhitra, and it seems she and the summoners are making good headway into those records.
Crispin: Some people dislike this manner of task, but I never tire of dredging through pages that transport one to the past!
Denise: These Allagan records are like to make my skull burst! Opening portals to other worlds, forging new moons...and it's not even fiction!
Jajasamu: I've been ignorin' aught that ain't to do with the military. 'Tis more efficient to have a narrow focus, I reckon.
Y'mhitra: We should make our way to Saint Coinach's Find. 'Twouldn't do to leave Rowena's transcripts unattended!
Principia: I did not count the days as I slept, but it truly has been millennia, hasn't it? In this age, the Master Sari I knew exists only in my memories...
-optional end
Y'mhitra: Our summoner colleagues arrived with a swiftness after I relayed to them our request. 'Tis well to see them recovered from their injuries!
Y'mhitra: With everyone pitching in, we stand a good chance of finding something useful...
-cutscene start
Jajasamu: Ah, here's the bugger I was lookin' for! This's a record of when the military finally caught up with Sari. It says here the summoner was found dead—killed by someone else, it seems.
Crispin: Then we have proof of the original Sari's demise in the Third Astral Era. Now there remains the question of who—or what—attacked us in this age...
Denise: My coin is on one of those "clone" creations! ...Is there aught more to the story, Lieutenant?
Jajasamu: Aye, it goes on to describe how the imperial army took over Sari's research, laudin' his experiments as "exceptionally dangerous, but ripe with potential applications."
Jajasamu: They shifted operations to an artificial island soon after an' began practical testin'. ...One cataclysmic accident later, though, an' that was the end o' that.
Y'mhitra: This artificial island must be a reference to Seal Rock—the very site of our encounter with the present-day Sari.
Principia: During the battle, my creator's simulacrum exhibited the ability to summon multiple egi simultaneously, as well as manifest highly authentic facsimiles of flesh-and-blood entities.
Principia: The basis for every one of these unorthodox techniques can be traced back to Master Sari's research into machine-enhanced summoning.
Crispin: I'd say we have enough evidence to support a working theory, then. Namely that the Allagan military was using a clone of the deceased Sari to perform hazardous experiments—tests which explored the feasibility of aetherochemically bolstered summoning magicks.
Denise: And when we landed on Seal Rock, we must have somehow awoken the remnants of those experiments!
Y'mhitra: Mayhap we have solved the mystery of who the attacker was, but now I would know the place to where he fled. What refuge exists for such a being?
Jajasamu: From what I can gather, the results o' Sari's work were bundled off to some secret laboratory called the "Aetherochemical Research Facility."
Denise: You know of this place, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}? Is it far?
Crispin: Azys Lla!? If that's where they were keeping Sari's research, then it's possible the clone may have headed there.
Denise: Our squad will fly back to Seal Rock and make further investigations. The relics of the past may hold some hint we haven't yet considered.
Y'mhitra: An excellent idea, thank you. We shall return to Gridania for the time being.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Y'mhitra in Gridania===
-optional start
Rammbroes: You found what you were looking for, then? Very good. 'Twould seem that many hands made light work. Speaking of which, do not concern yourself with the transcripts—I shall arrange for them to be returned to Rowena with summaries attached.
Principia: This simulacrum of Master Sari has sought to obstruct my creator's will, and I shall offer it no quarter. You deserve to learn the wisdom within my pages!
-optional end
Y'mhitra: I've received an update from Captain Wolf regarding their investigations on Seal Rock. 'Twould seem that certain of the Allagan relics have shown signs of recent activation!
Y'mhitra: The mechanisms were too heavily damaged to offer more in the way of useful information, however. I fear we must brave this Azys Lla facility and search for Sari ourselves. ...Is that what he was hoping for when he said "I will be waiting"?
Principia: It is possible. I did not think the detail important at the time, but the lock engaged by Master Sari's simulacrum was not of the strictest tier.
Principia: Rather, the seal is one which fades upon the sealer's demise.
Y'mhitra: Then he was goading us into finding and defeating him? Another challenge...or is it simply a trap?
Y'mhitra: I am not fond of rushing into the unknown. Gird yourself for the worst, [Forename], and I will learn the present circumstances of the research facility.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=F62I5VnSKwQ}}

Off the Record

2026-07-21T04:03:22Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = Off the Record
| description = [[Y'mhitra]] seems to be having trouble making headway with her research.
| image = Summoner_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Y'mhitra
| related-npcs = Crispin; Denise; Jajasamu; Principia; Rammbroes; Rowena
| location = Old Gridania
| location-x = 10.9
| location-y = 6.3
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Summoner Quests
| sortkey = 680
| organization =
| class =
| job = Summoner
| level = 68
| requirements =
| req-items = 1 Rammbroes's Letter
| exp = 108000
| gil = 1429
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = An Egi-stential Crisis
| next-quest = An Art for the Living
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68164
| id-edb = bc1389226fc
}}
==Steps==
*Speak with [[Rammbroes]] at [[Saint Coinach's Find]].
*Deliver [[Rammbroes's Letter|Rammbroes's letter]] to [[Rowena]] in [[Revenant's Toll]].
*Speak with [[Y'mhitra]] in Revenant's Toll.
*Speak with Y'mhitra at Saint Coinach's Find.
*Speak with Y'mhitra in [[Gridania]].

==Journal==
*Y'mhitra seems to be having trouble making headway with her research.

*Y'mhitra has been unable to find significant mention of Sari in the usual histories, and decides to call on the assistance of her colleague, Rammbroes. Accompany Y'mhitra to Mor Dhona, and speak with the Roegadyn scholar at Saint Coinach's Find.

*Rammbroes considers your situation, and suggests you borrow the unread tomestones from Rowena's considerable stock. Head into Revenant's Toll, and deliver Rammbroes's letter into the merchant's hands.

*In exchange for summaries of their contents, Rowena has agreed to lend you a hefty pile of tomestone transcripts. Join Y'mhitra outside and begin sifting through the foreboding volumes.

*Y'mhitra discovers a passage of interest almost immediately, but realizes that further assistance will be needed to search through the mountain of material. She resolves to enlist Captain Wolf's squad of summoners, and Rammbroes offers the use of his tent. Return to Saint Coinach's Find and speak with Y'mhitra once more.

*With the aid of the summoner squad you learn the history leading to Sari's death, and construct a theory to explain the master summoner's simulacrum on Seal Rock. The acolytes head back to the island to search for further clues, and you return to Gridania with Y'mhitra to await their results.

*With the investigation on Seal Rock providing little in the way of new information, you prepare to make an expedition to the research facility on Azys Lla. Judging by Principia's explanation of the seal and the goading nature of the present-day Sari's parting words, it seems that your arrival will not be unexpected...
**※The next summoner quest will be available from Y'mhitra upon reaching level 70.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Y'mhitra: I searched through the usual histories, but found scant mention of Sari. 'Tis as Prin has said: records of his existence have all but been expunged.
Principia: And since my own knowledge is limited to the day I was stored away, we must rely on those lost Allagan records that escaped the purge.
Y'mhitra: My colleague, Rammbroes, may be able to help us there. Hardly a day goes past when his team does not lift some forgotten treasure from the ruins in Mor Dhona. Shall we pay him a visit?
-quest accepted

===Speak with Rammbroes at Saint Coinach's Find===
-optional start
Y'mhitra: Ah, hello, [Forename]. I've just been explaining our dilemma to Rammbroes here.
Y'mhitra: Come, we should visit Rammbroes at Saint Coinach's Find. He's sure to have something that survived the purge of Sari's history.
Principia: I would tell you the story of spending several thousand years locked in a dark room, but I fear I slept through most of it...
-optional end
Rammbroes: Y'mhitra has informed me of your search, and I shall be certain to contact you should our discoveries include any mention of this "Sari." There may, however, be a swifter way to acquire the information you seek.
Rammbroes: I know of a certain merchant who collects undeciphered tomestones with even greater zeal than the Sons of Saint Coinach.
Y'mhitra: Ah... You speak of Rowena.
Rammbroes: Aye. We have formed something of a symbiotic relationship with her consortium. In return for financing our excavations, we provide Rowena with a selection of our finds. I'm sure you would find her amenable to a request for assistance.
Rammbroes: After all, you would merely need to borrow her tomestones for a time, yes? Here, I've penned a letter with my personal reassurances that her stock will be returned none the worse for wear.

===Deliver Rammbroes's letter to Rowena in Revenant's Toll===
-optional start
Rammbroes: Take that letter to Rowena and ask to borrow her tomestones. I'm sure you will have no trouble coming to a mutually beneficial agreement.
Y'mhitra: You have Rammbroes's letter, yes? I'll let you do the haggling...
Y'mhitra: [Forename]? Were you not on your way to Revenant's Toll? ...Yes, yes, I will be there, don't you worry.
Principia: This merchant you go to see, she deals in Allagan records? How strange to think of history as currency...
-optional end
Rowena: Aye, what can I do for you?

''The player hands over {{i|Rammbroes's Letter}}.''

Rowena: ...So you've the backin' of old Rammbroes, eh? Well, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to lend you some o' my tomestones.
Rowena: In fact, I'll do you one better and let you borrow the transcripts—courtesy o' the scribes at the Ironworks. As books, they're a damn sight heavier, but you don't need fancy machines when it's all penned down in ink and parchment.
Rowena: Give me a summary of the contents when you're finished, and I'll consider that as payment. Collectors'll part with more coin if they know what they're gettin', and my time's too precious to waste on readin' ancient history!
Y'mhitra: Consider it a deal, Rowena, and thank you. Well, [Forename], shall we get to work?

===Speak with Y'mhitra in Revenant's Toll===
-optional start
Rammbroes: Rowena lent you the transcripts? Well, I hope she also lent you a cart to carry them. Both mediums have their inconveniences, I suppose...
-optional end
Y'mhitra: Fancy that. I've barely begun skimming the very first volume, and there are already some promising passages. Let us wake Prin, and share our findings, shall we?
-cutscene start
Y'mhitra: Ah, Rammbroes. Have you come to check on our progress?
Y'mhitra: This charming tome is Principia, a sentient familiar of ancient Allag.
Principia: A pleasure to meet you, Master Rammbroes. Pray call me "Prin," if you prefer.
Rammbroes: Thank you, Prin. And might I say what a privilege it is to meet such a rare and clever construct.
Y'mhitra: Clever? Well, yes, apparently Prin was written that way. In fact, we were just hoping to hear an opinion on a new snippet of information I've uncovered.
Y'mhitra: 'Twas an order listed in a record of imperial military communications, commanding that "the fruits of the master summoner's research be seized." It appears that the army had more than a passing interest in Sari's experiments.
Rammbroes: Hmmm. And what exactly was the purpose of this research?
Principia: Master Sari toiled to wed summoning magicks with aetherochemical technology. For example, he experimented with replacing grimoires with mechanical mediums, and sought to manifest egi of greater authenticity by utilizing high-speed computations.
Rammbroes: ...Simply put, he turned to machines to enhance traditional summoning methods. Is that the gist of it?
Principia: Correct. But Master Sari was never one to abuse the success of his experiments, no matter how they magnified his power. He would not place his trust in machines—their inherently complex nature was too prone to error, he said.
Y'mhitra: The dates on these communications indicate a time in the latter half of Sari's life. Is it possible something could have occurred between crafting you and the execution of this order that may have greatly altered the summoner's outlook?
Principia: There was, of course, the violent wave of anti-summoner sentiment that swept through Allag. It claimed the lives of many of Master Sari's disciples. Following their deaths, he began spending much of his time cloistered within his laboratory...
Rammbroes: Such an incident could certainly be responsible for changing a man. And Principia, you were unaware of subsequent events once you fell into slumber, yes?
Y'mhitra: From what we've learned so far, 'tis safe to say that the foe we encountered is related to Sari's research in some way.
Y'mhitra: And there are likely more clues buried in these records. I shall speak with Captain Wolf, and ask to borrow the sharp minds of his summoner squad—'tis a rather intimidating pile to tackle on our own.
Rammbroes: Well, seeing as you have the transcripts, there is no need to travel far. You are welcome to make use of my tent and the reference materials on Allag found therein.
Y'mhitra: That would be an enormous help, thank you! Let's haul these books to the dig site, shall we?
-cutscene end

===Speak with Y'mhitra at Saint Coinach's Find===
-optional start
Rammbroes: I have been checking in on Y'mhitra, and it seems she and the summoners are making good headway into those records.
Crispin: Some people dislike this manner of task, but I never tire of dredging through pages that transport one to the past!
Denise: These Allagan records are like to make my skull burst! Opening portals to other worlds, forging new moons...and it's not even fiction!
Jajasamu: I've been ignorin' aught that ain't to do with the military. 'Tis more efficient to have a narrow focus, I reckon.
Y'mhitra: We should make our way to Saint Coinach's Find. 'Twouldn't do to leave Rowena's transcripts unattended!
Principia: I did not count the days as I slept, but it truly has been millennia, hasn't it? In this age, the Master Sari I knew exists only in my memories...
-optional end
Y'mhitra: Our summoner colleagues arrived with a swiftness after I relayed to them our request. 'Tis well to see them recovered from their injuries!
Y'mhitra: With everyone pitching in, we stand a good chance of finding something useful...
-cutscene start
Jajasamu: Ah, here's the bugger I was lookin' for! This's a record of when the military finally caught up with Sari. It says here the summoner was found dead—killed by someone else, it seems.
Crispin: Then we have proof of the original Sari's demise in the Third Astral Era. Now there remains the question of who—or what—attacked us in this age...
Denise: My coin is on one of those "clone" creations! ...Is there aught more to the story, Lieutenant?
Jajasamu: Aye, it goes on to describe how the imperial army took over Sari's research, laudin' his experiments as "exceptionally dangerous, but ripe with potential applications."
Jajasamu: They shifted operations to an artificial island soon after an' began practical testin'. ...One cataclysmic accident later, though, an' that was the end o' that.
Y'mhitra: This artificial island must be a reference to Seal Rock—the very site of our encounter with the present-day Sari.
Principia: During the battle, my creator's simulacrum exhibited the ability to summon multiple egi simultaneously, as well as manifest highly authentic facsimiles of flesh-and-blood entities.
Principia: The basis for every one of these unorthodox techniques can be traced back to Master Sari's research into machine-enhanced summoning.
Crispin: I'd say we have enough evidence to support a working theory, then. Namely that the Allagan military was using a clone of the deceased Sari to perform hazardous experiments—tests which explored the feasibility of aetherochemically bolstered summoning magicks.
Denise: And when we landed on Seal Rock, we must have somehow awoken the remnants of those experiments!
Y'mhitra: Mayhap we have solved the mystery of who the attacker was, but now I would know the place to where he fled. What refuge exists for such a being?
Jajasamu: From what I can gather, the results o' Sari's work were bundled off to some secret laboratory called the "Aetherochemical Research Facility."
Denise: You know of this place, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}? Is it far?
Crispin: Azys Lla!? If that's where they were keeping Sari's research, then it's possible the clone may have headed there.
Denise: Our squad will fly back to Seal Rock and make further investigations. The relics of the past may hold some hint we haven't yet considered.
Y'mhitra: An excellent idea, thank you. We shall return to Gridania for the time being.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Y'mhitra in Gridania===
-optional start
Rammbroes: You found what you were looking for, then? Very good. 'Twould seem that many hands made light work. Speaking of which, do not concern yourself with the transcripts—I shall arrange for them to be returned to Rowena with summaries attached.
Principia: This simulacrum of Master Sari has sought to obstruct my creator's will, and I shall offer it no quarter. You deserve to learn the wisdom within my pages!
-optional end
Y'mhitra: I've received an update from Captain Wolf regarding their investigations on Seal Rock. 'Twould seem that certain of the Allagan relics have shown signs of recent activation!
Y'mhitra: The mechanisms were too heavily damaged to offer more in the way of useful information, however. I fear we must brave this Azys Lla facility and search for Sari ourselves. ...Is that what he was hoping for when he said "I will be waiting"?
Principia: It is possible. I did not think the detail important at the time, but the lock engaged by Master Sari's simulacrum was not of the strictest tier.
Principia: Rather, the seal is one which fades upon the sealer's demise.
Y'mhitra: Then he was goading us into finding and defeating him? Another challenge...or is it simply a trap?
Y'mhitra: I am not fond of rushing into the unknown. Gird yourself for the worst, [Forename], and I will learn the present circumstances of the research facility.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=F62I5VnSKwQ}}

An Egi-stential Crisis

2026-07-21T03:35:10Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = An Egi-stential Crisis
| description = [[Y'mhitra]] has an announcement regarding the final challenge.
| image = Summoner_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Y'mhitra
| location = Old Gridania
| location-x = 10.9
| location-y = 6.3
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Summoner Quests
| sortkey = 650
| organization =
| class =
| job = Summoner
| level = 65
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 105000
| gil = 2577
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = Performing for Prin
| next-quest = Off the Record
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68163
| id-edb = 10eb3520763
}}
==Steps==
*Join [[Y'mhitra]] at the airship landing in [[Ul'dah]].
*Speak with the [[Elite Flyer]].
*Rescue the summoners!
*Defeat the unknown summoner!
*Speak with [[Dancing Wolf]].
*Speak with Y'mhitra in [[Gridania]].

==Journal==
*Y'mhitra has an announcement regarding the final challenge.

*Principia pronounces that the third challenge is at hand. Although seemingly unable to reveal the exact nature of the trial, the familiar explains that you will once more require the cooperation of Dancing Wolf's neophyte summoners. Y'mhitra contacts the flame captain, and he gladly arranges for the mock battle to take place on Seal Rock. Meet Y'mhitra at the airship landing in Ul'dah.

*You arrive in Ul'dah only to learn that Dancing Wolf and his soldiers have come under attack on Seal Rock. A greatly concerned Y'mhitra urges you to inform the elite flyer of this development, and make an immediate departure for the island.

*You have rescued Captain Wolf and his soldiers from an ambush sprung by a mysterious and powerful summoner. Regroup with your companions at the airship landing in Ul'dah.

*Though it seems impossible, you discover that the enemy who attacked your comrades appears to be Sari─an Allagan master summoner who lived several thousand years ago. Speak with Dancing Wolf at the airship landing in Ul'dah, and discuss this unnerving development.

*Dancing Wolf and his summoner squad thank you for their rescue, but the identity and abilities of their attacker remain the source of much confusion. Return to Apkallu Falls and join Y'mhitra as she prepares to question Principia.

*After considering the facts at hand, you conclude that the Sari you encountered was most likely a clone of Principia's creator. Whatever the truth of the situation, however, the familiar's most precious summoning wisdom has been sealed behind an arcane lock. Y'mhitra vows to scour Allagan records for clues that will allow you to track this “Sari” down and claim the knowledge you have earned...
**※The next summoner quest will be available from Y'mhitra upon reaching level 68.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
-cutscene start
Y'mhitra: The time has come, [Forename]! Prin is ready to administer the final trial.
Principia: Yes, your third challenge is at hand, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. I shall be glad to at last share the wisdom that has long lain dormant within my pages.
Y'mhitra: Thus far we've had evaluations of raw power and refinement of skill. What, then, will this third challenge seek to test?
Principia: ...That, I cannot tell you.
Y'mhitra: Cannot...or will not?
Principia: I do not keep this detail from you for the sake of my own amusement. It must be secret—were you aware of the test's purpose, such knowledge would unfairly affect its outcome.
Principia: What I will tell you, however, is that this trial requires conditions that are akin to an actual battlefield.
Principia: As such, I must ask that you call fellow summoners to your side, and arrange a location where you might join hands against a most-realistic primal threat.
Y'mhitra: Well, this ought to be welcome news for Captain Wolf. I shall see if his acolytes are available...
Y'mhitra: Greetings, this is Y'mhitra, I— Y'mhitra. ...Of the Sons of Saint Coinach? Aye. I have a favor to ask...
Y'mhitra: Well, Captain Wolf was more than eager to accept our request. He even offered to arrange exclusive use of a section of Seal Rock.
Y'mhitra: It seems there will be an airship waiting in Ul'dah to fly us to the island. Shall we rendezvous at the landing once you are prepared, then?
Principia: This will be the final and most grueling challenge. Pray ready yourself, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}, that you are not reduced to so much gruel.
-quest accepted
-cutscene end

===Join Y'mhitra at the airship landing in Ul'dah===
-optional start
Elite Flyer: Captain Wolf and his squad of summoners await you on Seal Rock. Permission has been granted to use the island for your...exercise, but we must ask that you avoid damaging the relics.
Y'mhitra: Make for Ul'dah when you are ready, [Forename]. There should be an airship waiting to take us to Seal Rock.
-optional end
Y'mhitra: I don't know about you, [Forename], but my nerves are beginning to get the best of me! Captain Wolf and the others have already landed on Seal Rock, so let us not delay the challenge any further.
Y'mhitra: Who could that be? ...Oh, Summoner Jajasamu, how might I— Pardon!? ...By whom!? We— ...Lieutenant!? Can you hear me!?
Y'mhitra: Blast! The call was cut off. [Forename], our Immortal colleagues are under attack.
Y'mhitra: Their situation sounds dire indeed. All the summoners are crippled by injuries, and Captain Wolf alone fights to keep the foe at bay.
Y'mhitra: ...Our planned battle has become rather more real than we anticipated. We'd best explain matters to the pilot, and arrange a rescue party!

===Speak with the Elite Flyer===
-optional start
Y'mhitra: Captain Wolf needs our help, [Forename]. We must inform the pilot at once!
Principia: The situation sounds grim, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. We should make for Seal Rock immediately!
Y'mhitra: I know not what possessed us to return here, but Captain Wolf and his soldiers are in mortal peril! Quickly now, back to the landing in Ul'dah!
-optional end
Elite Flyer: ...Ambushed, you say!? Understood.
Elite Flyer: I'll put in a call for reinforcements, but my ship is ready to depart now if you are. Shall we go in ahead?

===Rescue the summoners===
Y'mhitra the Learned: Follow me, [Forename]! They should be over this way!
Principia: I've located a survivor. Let us ensure his continued survival!
Flame Private Crispin: I'll live, I think... The others! We became separated...
Y'mhitra the Learned: His wounds are not too serious. Come, [Forename], we mustn't tarry!
Y'mhitra the Learned: [Forename], where are you going!? We must stay together!
Y'mhitra the Learned: Are these egi!? I've never seen their like!
Principia: I recognize them from Allagan times. But few could summon so many...
Principia: Such odd vocalizations. I have no records of egi speech.
Principia: Another survivor located. The wounds appear grievous!
Y'mhitra the Learned: We must treat these at once! Prin, can you, uh, apply pressure?
Flame Sergeant Denise: We were completely overmatched... The captain... He drew them away...
Principia: We shall tend to the injured. Go with haste, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}!

===Defeat the unknown summoner===
Dancing Wolf: [Forename]! Thank the gods! I'm in over my head here!
Off-center Summoner: Ah, the "potential" has arrived. Shall we test the limits of your power?
Off-center Summoner: So, this is what the art has become. More. Show me more!
Off-center Summoner: Familiar with Bahamut's power, are you? You must have another taste!
Dancing Wolf: We can't avoid those flares! But they seem weakest at the center of the blast.
Dancing Wolf: Who is this man!? He's worse than the Ascians...
Off-center Summoner: You exceed my expectations. Shall we try something new?
Dancing Wolf: Wait, those don't look like egi!
Off-center Summoner: Consummate skill. Expansive aetherial might. You truly are a fascinating specimen!
Off-center Summoner: My energies wane... This location was not ideal.
Dancing Wolf: He's just...too strong...
Y'mhitra the Learned: Forgive me. I'd hoped to be more help...

-cutscene start
x@???: Anomalous potential confirmed. Commencing scan.
x@???: Latent aetherial capacity: immeasurable. Standard parameters exceeded. Reinitializing system.
Dancing Wolf: What, he wants to go another round!?
Principia: Master Sari!? How have you come to be here?
Y'mhitra: Master... Surely you do not mean ''that'' Sari!?
Sari: Ah, Principia, they have woken you. ...This should suffice.
Y'mhitra: What did you do to Prin!?
Sari: The construct is unharmed. I simply added another layer of...security.
Sari: Do not disappoint me, summoner. I will be waiting.
Y'mhitra: How odd. The way he vanished was almost as if...
Dancing Wolf: Thal's teeth! What was that all about!?
Dancing Wolf: Bah! We'll discuss this back in Ul'dah after we've seen to the wounded.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Dancing Wolf===
-optional start
Y'mhitra: That summoner on Seal Rock, he... I have so many questions.
Principia: My pages are all aflutter. Master Sari... Here... Now...
Y'mhitra: Summoner Denise was gravely wounded. Had we arrived but a step or two later...
Elite Flyer: I thank you for saving my comrades. Your decisive action carried the day!
Crispin: That was like to a nightmare. What manner of summoner can command so many egi at once...?
Denise: I felt Thal's hand on my shoulder for a moment there, but Miss Y'mhitra's magicks brushed it away. Thank you for coming to our rescue!
Jajasamu: That bloke called up an army all by himself, an' I'm pretty sure some of 'em weren't egi. I didn't know that kind o' thing was even possible...
-optional end
Dancing Wolf: You arrived in the nick of time, [Forename]! Thanks to you, my soldiers survived that ambush, and they'll be fit for duty again after a bit of rest.
Crispin: Aye, you have our gratitude. If you hadn't plunged into the fray like that, we almost certainly would have perished.
Jajasamu: Ye said that bastard was "Master Sari," didn't ye? A summoner of ancient Allag? Did them mages have some way o' comin' back to life?
Dancing Wolf: Alright, Lieutenant, let's not jump to conclusions!
Denise: Well, he ''was'' wielding summoning magicks unlike aught we've ever seen before. Maybe Prin has some idea...
Y'mhitra: ...I'll be sure to ask. Come, [Forename]. Let us return to Gridania.

===Speak with Y'mhitra in Gridania===
-optional start
Principia: What misfortune that such an incident should occur on the cusp of your final challenge...
Dancing Wolf: Y'mhitra surprised me once before with her cunning, but I knew in my gut that that ambush was no part of her agenda—it was too sudden; too brutal. Even worse, we're not even sure of who our foe actually was...
-optional end
-cutscene start
Y'mhitra: Well, what was meant to be [Forename]'s final trial was certainly testing, to say the least. Tell me, Prin: what makes you so sure that that was Master Sari?
Principia: Based upon the evidence at hand, there can be no doubt. The vocal and aetherial signatures were identical to those exhibited by my creator.
Principia: The only aspect that gives me pause is his behavior. Master Sari was never one to offer harm to others with such callous indifference.
Y'mhitra: Ah, I would say there is a larger inconsistency to consider here, Prin: your creator supposedly died several thousand years ago.
Principia: There ''is'' one other possibility. The greatest minds of Allag unlocked a science known as "cloning," by which they could artificially create a replicant of a living being.
Principia: Seal Rock is, after all, a construction of the Allagan Empire. Assuming the individual you battled was indeed a clone of Master Sari, then my senses would recognize no appreciable difference.
Y'mhitra: An exact copy of the original person... 'Twould explain much, but the very thought of it is horrifying.
Y'mhitra: ...Oh, and did he not tamper with your enchantments!? Are you truly unharmed?
Principia: My faculties are undimmed, but the wisdom I was to impart to {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}} has been sealed behind an arcane lock. I can do nothing—only my creator holds the key.
Y'mhitra: Then your secrets are lost to us! If only [Forename] had been able to attempt that third challenge!
Principia: Attempt? {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}} has already passed it.
Principia: Allow me to explain: the third challenge is a test of the summoner's nature. Thus does the trial require the presence of companions and a realistic threat. Master Sari's ambush did, of course, bring an unexpected dimension to proceedings.
Principia: Yet {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}} leapt to the aid of {{alternatives|f=her|m=his}} fellow summoners without hesitation, and braved considerable danger to see that they were safely rescued—selfless acts that more than qualify {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}} as a worthy successor.
Y'mhitra: I had wondered why power and skill were not sufficient... Sari wished to see his teachings passed on to summoners of noble heart.
Principia: Correct. He could not countenance the idea that such knowledge might be put to evil ends. Now you understand why his display of violence so confused me...
Y'mhitra: Aye, and all the more reason to suspect an impostor. But whatever this man's identity may be, we will track him down and make him remove that seal. Your purpose is too important.
Principia: And I will assist you in any way I can. The Master Sari that made me would not stand to see his memory profaned with such wickedness.
Y'mhitra: Well said, Prin. For an enchanted stack of ink and parchment, you have an impressively developed moral compass!
Principia: I possess neither morals nor a compass—I merely follow my enspelled directions to guide worthy summoners. If I give the impression of such characteristics, then mayhap I am overstepping my bounds as a familiar?
Y'mhitra: No, no, you're fine, Prin! Forget I mentioned it.
Y'mhitra: I will see if I can unearth more detailed records of Master Sari. Mayhap the story of his later life will aid us in unraveling this present mystery...
-quest complete
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
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An Egi-stential Crisis

2026-07-21T03:34:59Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = An Egi-stential Crisis
| description = [[Y'mhitra]] has an announcement regarding the final challenge.
| image = Summoner_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Y'mhitra
| related-npcs = Crispin; Dancing Wolf; Denise; Elite Flyer; Jajasamu; Principia; Sari
| location = Old Gridania
| location-x = 10.9
| location-y = 6.3
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Summoner Quests
| sortkey = 650
| organization =
| class =
| job = Summoner
| level = 65
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 105000
| gil = 2577
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = Performing for Prin
| next-quest = Off the Record
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68163
| id-edb = 10eb3520763
}}
==Steps==
*Join [[Y'mhitra]] at the airship landing in [[Ul'dah]].
*Speak with the [[Elite Flyer]].
*Rescue the summoners!
*Defeat the unknown summoner!
*Speak with [[Dancing Wolf]].
*Speak with Y'mhitra in [[Gridania]].

==Journal==
*Y'mhitra has an announcement regarding the final challenge.

*Principia pronounces that the third challenge is at hand. Although seemingly unable to reveal the exact nature of the trial, the familiar explains that you will once more require the cooperation of Dancing Wolf's neophyte summoners. Y'mhitra contacts the flame captain, and he gladly arranges for the mock battle to take place on Seal Rock. Meet Y'mhitra at the airship landing in Ul'dah.

*You arrive in Ul'dah only to learn that Dancing Wolf and his soldiers have come under attack on Seal Rock. A greatly concerned Y'mhitra urges you to inform the elite flyer of this development, and make an immediate departure for the island.

*You have rescued Captain Wolf and his soldiers from an ambush sprung by a mysterious and powerful summoner. Regroup with your companions at the airship landing in Ul'dah.

*Though it seems impossible, you discover that the enemy who attacked your comrades appears to be Sari─an Allagan master summoner who lived several thousand years ago. Speak with Dancing Wolf at the airship landing in Ul'dah, and discuss this unnerving development.

*Dancing Wolf and his summoner squad thank you for their rescue, but the identity and abilities of their attacker remain the source of much confusion. Return to Apkallu Falls and join Y'mhitra as she prepares to question Principia.

*After considering the facts at hand, you conclude that the Sari you encountered was most likely a clone of Principia's creator. Whatever the truth of the situation, however, the familiar's most precious summoning wisdom has been sealed behind an arcane lock. Y'mhitra vows to scour Allagan records for clues that will allow you to track this “Sari” down and claim the knowledge you have earned...
**※The next summoner quest will be available from Y'mhitra upon reaching level 68.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
-cutscene start
Y'mhitra: The time has come, [Forename]! Prin is ready to administer the final trial.
Principia: Yes, your third challenge is at hand, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. I shall be glad to at last share the wisdom that has long lain dormant within my pages.
Y'mhitra: Thus far we've had evaluations of raw power and refinement of skill. What, then, will this third challenge seek to test?
Principia: ...That, I cannot tell you.
Y'mhitra: Cannot...or will not?
Principia: I do not keep this detail from you for the sake of my own amusement. It must be secret—were you aware of the test's purpose, such knowledge would unfairly affect its outcome.
Principia: What I will tell you, however, is that this trial requires conditions that are akin to an actual battlefield.
Principia: As such, I must ask that you call fellow summoners to your side, and arrange a location where you might join hands against a most-realistic primal threat.
Y'mhitra: Well, this ought to be welcome news for Captain Wolf. I shall see if his acolytes are available...
Y'mhitra: Greetings, this is Y'mhitra, I— Y'mhitra. ...Of the Sons of Saint Coinach? Aye. I have a favor to ask...
Y'mhitra: Well, Captain Wolf was more than eager to accept our request. He even offered to arrange exclusive use of a section of Seal Rock.
Y'mhitra: It seems there will be an airship waiting in Ul'dah to fly us to the island. Shall we rendezvous at the landing once you are prepared, then?
Principia: This will be the final and most grueling challenge. Pray ready yourself, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}, that you are not reduced to so much gruel.
-quest accepted
-cutscene end

===Join Y'mhitra at the airship landing in Ul'dah===
-optional start
Elite Flyer: Captain Wolf and his squad of summoners await you on Seal Rock. Permission has been granted to use the island for your...exercise, but we must ask that you avoid damaging the relics.
Y'mhitra: Make for Ul'dah when you are ready, [Forename]. There should be an airship waiting to take us to Seal Rock.
-optional end
Y'mhitra: I don't know about you, [Forename], but my nerves are beginning to get the best of me! Captain Wolf and the others have already landed on Seal Rock, so let us not delay the challenge any further.
Y'mhitra: Who could that be? ...Oh, Summoner Jajasamu, how might I— Pardon!? ...By whom!? We— ...Lieutenant!? Can you hear me!?
Y'mhitra: Blast! The call was cut off. [Forename], our Immortal colleagues are under attack.
Y'mhitra: Their situation sounds dire indeed. All the summoners are crippled by injuries, and Captain Wolf alone fights to keep the foe at bay.
Y'mhitra: ...Our planned battle has become rather more real than we anticipated. We'd best explain matters to the pilot, and arrange a rescue party!

===Speak with the Elite Flyer===
-optional start
Y'mhitra: Captain Wolf needs our help, [Forename]. We must inform the pilot at once!
Principia: The situation sounds grim, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. We should make for Seal Rock immediately!
Y'mhitra: I know not what possessed us to return here, but Captain Wolf and his soldiers are in mortal peril! Quickly now, back to the landing in Ul'dah!
-optional end
Elite Flyer: ...Ambushed, you say!? Understood.
Elite Flyer: I'll put in a call for reinforcements, but my ship is ready to depart now if you are. Shall we go in ahead?

===Rescue the summoners===
Y'mhitra the Learned: Follow me, [Forename]! They should be over this way!
Principia: I've located a survivor. Let us ensure his continued survival!
Flame Private Crispin: I'll live, I think... The others! We became separated...
Y'mhitra the Learned: His wounds are not too serious. Come, [Forename], we mustn't tarry!
Y'mhitra the Learned: [Forename], where are you going!? We must stay together!
Y'mhitra the Learned: Are these egi!? I've never seen their like!
Principia: I recognize them from Allagan times. But few could summon so many...
Principia: Such odd vocalizations. I have no records of egi speech.
Principia: Another survivor located. The wounds appear grievous!
Y'mhitra the Learned: We must treat these at once! Prin, can you, uh, apply pressure?
Flame Sergeant Denise: We were completely overmatched... The captain... He drew them away...
Principia: We shall tend to the injured. Go with haste, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}!

===Defeat the unknown summoner===
Dancing Wolf: [Forename]! Thank the gods! I'm in over my head here!
Off-center Summoner: Ah, the "potential" has arrived. Shall we test the limits of your power?
Off-center Summoner: So, this is what the art has become. More. Show me more!
Off-center Summoner: Familiar with Bahamut's power, are you? You must have another taste!
Dancing Wolf: We can't avoid those flares! But they seem weakest at the center of the blast.
Dancing Wolf: Who is this man!? He's worse than the Ascians...
Off-center Summoner: You exceed my expectations. Shall we try something new?
Dancing Wolf: Wait, those don't look like egi!
Off-center Summoner: Consummate skill. Expansive aetherial might. You truly are a fascinating specimen!
Off-center Summoner: My energies wane... This location was not ideal.
Dancing Wolf: He's just...too strong...
Y'mhitra the Learned: Forgive me. I'd hoped to be more help...

-cutscene start
x@???: Anomalous potential confirmed. Commencing scan.
x@???: Latent aetherial capacity: immeasurable. Standard parameters exceeded. Reinitializing system.
Dancing Wolf: What, he wants to go another round!?
Principia: Master Sari!? How have you come to be here?
Y'mhitra: Master... Surely you do not mean ''that'' Sari!?
Sari: Ah, Principia, they have woken you. ...This should suffice.
Y'mhitra: What did you do to Prin!?
Sari: The construct is unharmed. I simply added another layer of...security.
Sari: Do not disappoint me, summoner. I will be waiting.
Y'mhitra: How odd. The way he vanished was almost as if...
Dancing Wolf: Thal's teeth! What was that all about!?
Dancing Wolf: Bah! We'll discuss this back in Ul'dah after we've seen to the wounded.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Dancing Wolf===
-optional start
Y'mhitra: That summoner on Seal Rock, he... I have so many questions.
Principia: My pages are all aflutter. Master Sari... Here... Now...
Y'mhitra: Summoner Denise was gravely wounded. Had we arrived but a step or two later...
Elite Flyer: I thank you for saving my comrades. Your decisive action carried the day!
Crispin: That was like to a nightmare. What manner of summoner can command so many egi at once...?
Denise: I felt Thal's hand on my shoulder for a moment there, but Miss Y'mhitra's magicks brushed it away. Thank you for coming to our rescue!
Jajasamu: That bloke called up an army all by himself, an' I'm pretty sure some of 'em weren't egi. I didn't know that kind o' thing was even possible...
-optional end
Dancing Wolf: You arrived in the nick of time, [Forename]! Thanks to you, my soldiers survived that ambush, and they'll be fit for duty again after a bit of rest.
Crispin: Aye, you have our gratitude. If you hadn't plunged into the fray like that, we almost certainly would have perished.
Jajasamu: Ye said that bastard was "Master Sari," didn't ye? A summoner of ancient Allag? Did them mages have some way o' comin' back to life?
Dancing Wolf: Alright, Lieutenant, let's not jump to conclusions!
Denise: Well, he ''was'' wielding summoning magicks unlike aught we've ever seen before. Maybe Prin has some idea...
Y'mhitra: ...I'll be sure to ask. Come, [Forename]. Let us return to Gridania.

===Speak with Y'mhitra in Gridania===
-optional start
Principia: What misfortune that such an incident should occur on the cusp of your final challenge...
Dancing Wolf: Y'mhitra surprised me once before with her cunning, but I knew in my gut that that ambush was no part of her agenda—it was too sudden; too brutal. Even worse, we're not even sure of who our foe actually was...
-optional end
-cutscene start
Y'mhitra: Well, what was meant to be [Forename]'s final trial was certainly testing, to say the least. Tell me, Prin: what makes you so sure that that was Master Sari?
Principia: Based upon the evidence at hand, there can be no doubt. The vocal and aetherial signatures were identical to those exhibited by my creator.
Principia: The only aspect that gives me pause is his behavior. Master Sari was never one to offer harm to others with such callous indifference.
Y'mhitra: Ah, I would say there is a larger inconsistency to consider here, Prin: your creator supposedly died several thousand years ago.
Principia: There ''is'' one other possibility. The greatest minds of Allag unlocked a science known as "cloning," by which they could artificially create a replicant of a living being.
Principia: Seal Rock is, after all, a construction of the Allagan Empire. Assuming the individual you battled was indeed a clone of Master Sari, then my senses would recognize no appreciable difference.
Y'mhitra: An exact copy of the original person... 'Twould explain much, but the very thought of it is horrifying.
Y'mhitra: ...Oh, and did he not tamper with your enchantments!? Are you truly unharmed?
Principia: My faculties are undimmed, but the wisdom I was to impart to {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}} has been sealed behind an arcane lock. I can do nothing—only my creator holds the key.
Y'mhitra: Then your secrets are lost to us! If only [Forename] had been able to attempt that third challenge!
Principia: Attempt? {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}} has already passed it.
Principia: Allow me to explain: the third challenge is a test of the summoner's nature. Thus does the trial require the presence of companions and a realistic threat. Master Sari's ambush did, of course, bring an unexpected dimension to proceedings.
Principia: Yet {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}} leapt to the aid of {{alternatives|f=her|m=his}} fellow summoners without hesitation, and braved considerable danger to see that they were safely rescued—selfless acts that more than qualify {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}} as a worthy successor.
Y'mhitra: I had wondered why power and skill were not sufficient... Sari wished to see his teachings passed on to summoners of noble heart.
Principia: Correct. He could not countenance the idea that such knowledge might be put to evil ends. Now you understand why his display of violence so confused me...
Y'mhitra: Aye, and all the more reason to suspect an impostor. But whatever this man's identity may be, we will track him down and make him remove that seal. Your purpose is too important.
Principia: And I will assist you in any way I can. The Master Sari that made me would not stand to see his memory profaned with such wickedness.
Y'mhitra: Well said, Prin. For an enchanted stack of ink and parchment, you have an impressively developed moral compass!
Principia: I possess neither morals nor a compass—I merely follow my enspelled directions to guide worthy summoners. If I give the impression of such characteristics, then mayhap I am overstepping my bounds as a familiar?
Y'mhitra: No, no, you're fine, Prin! Forget I mentioned it.
Y'mhitra: I will see if I can unearth more detailed records of Master Sari. Mayhap the story of his later life will aid us in unraveling this present mystery...
-quest complete
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
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Performing for Prin

2026-07-21T03:16:18Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = Performing for Prin
| description = [[Y'mhitra]] asks that you lend an ear to [[Principia]].
| image = Summoner_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Y'mhitra
| location = Old Gridania
| location-x = 10.9
| location-y = 6.3
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Summoner Quests
| sortkey = 630
| organization =
| class =
| job = Summoner
| level = 63
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 103000
| gil = 1625
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = A Book with Bite
| next-quest = An Egi-stential Crisis
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68162
| id-edb = e179ffb29e4
}}
==Steps==
*Speak with [[Dancing Wolf]] at [[Camp Bluefog]].
*Speak with [[Crispin]], and defeat the [[egi]].
*Speak with [[Jajasamu]], and defeat the egi.
*Speak with Jajasamu, and defeat the egi.
*Speak with Dancing Wolf.
*Speak with [[Y'mhitra]] in [[Gridania]].

==Journal==
*Y'mhitra asks that you lend an ear to Principia.

*Y'mhitra directs your attention to Principia, and the toothy familiar announces you ready to undertake the second challenge. Finding herself stumped by the trial's requirement for additional summoners, Y'mhitra is forced to accept Dancing Wolf's proposal to cooperate with his regiment's new summoners-in-training. Travel to Camp Blue Fog in northern Thanalan, and report to the Flame Captain.

*After Principia explains the second challenge and its focus on skill, Dancing Wolf introduces you to his cadre of neophyte summoners. Prepare yourself to battle the acolytes' egi, then approach Summoner Crispin to begin the trial.

*You have overcome the pair of Ifrit-egi summoned by Crispin and Denise. Approach Summoner Jajasamu, and proceed to the next step of the challenge.

*You have triumphed over the formidable Ifrit-egi summoned by Jajasamu. Speak with the lieutenant once more, and prepare to face your final opponent.

*You have claimed victory over Jajasamu's Titan-egi. With no aetherial entities left to send against you, the novice summoners look on expectantly as Dancing Wolf waits to congratulate you.

*Principia declares your attempt at the second challenge a resounding success. Your opponents accept their defeat with good-natured grace, and seem eager to resume their training. Bidding them farewell, you turn to follow Y'mhitra back to Apkallu Falls.

*Upon returning to Gridania, Principia continues its lecture on the history of Allagan summoning and shares the accomplishments of its creator. Y'mhitra seems more determined than ever to see you earn the master summoner's long-lost wisdom, and urges you to prepare for the familiar's final challenge.
**※The next summoner quest will be available from Y'mhitra upon reaching level 65.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Y'mhitra: Greetings, [Forename]. 'Twould seem that Prin would speak with us about the second challenge.
-cutscene start
Principia: Congratulations, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. You are sufficiently prepared to undertake the next test.
Y'mhitra: Excuse me, Prin, but...how can you tell?
Principia: By analyzing the patterns of {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}'s aetherial emanations, I can gauge the strength and precision of {{alternatives|f=her|m=his}} recently cast incantations. Of course, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}} must attempt the challenge itself before I can provide an evaluation to the proper degree of accuracy.
Principia: This will be a test of skill. To administer this trial under the prescribed conditions, however, I must request the assistance of several more summoners to play the role of antagonists...
Y'mhitra: Several more summoners...? In this day and age, that will be no easy feat to arrange.
Dancing Wolf: Come now, Y'mhitra. The solution is right under your nose!
Dancing Wolf: [Forename], your deeds have caught the attention of the highest echelons of the Flames. After learning what you're capable of, we've begun an initiative to take our very own summoners into battle against the primals.
Dancing Wolf: A number of soldiers under my command have already begun intensive training—I handpicked veteran survivors of our expedition against Ifrit, and they've been issued with soul crystals we claimed from the Ascians.
Y'mhitra: Aye, and Captain Wolf has been howling in my ear for days, begging to enlist your aid as some kind of drill instructor for the aetherially gifted.
Dancing Wolf: But now you're in need of summoners for this trial of yours, yes? I am prepared to offer my regiment's full cooperation. All I ask in return is a few morsels of advice for the acolytes!
Principia: It seems to me a fair trade. And my enchantments do not restrict me from instructing neophyte summoners in the fundamentals of the art.
Y'mhitra: Very well... I suppose such an arrangement could prove convenient for us all.
Dancing Wolf: I knew you'd come around! Meet me at Camp Bluefog and I'll assemble the troops for inspection.
-quest accepted
-cutscene end

===Speak with Dancing Wolf at Camp Bluefog===
-optional start
Y'mhitra: We should meet Captain Wolf at the camp, then we'll find a nice, open space somewhere in northern Thanalan to conduct the second challenge.
Y'mhitra: I did warn him, however, that you're far too busy to train his soldiers on any kind of permanent basis.
Y'mhitra: These are the three neophyte summoners who will be assisting with the trial. I have heard Allagan training can be rather remorseless... Do your best, but pray try not to injure them during the fray!
Crispin: I am told we are to be your opponents for this exercise. It's an honor to meet you, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}.
Denise: Summoner Denise at your service, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}!
Jajasamu: ...Aye? We ain't started yet, have we?
Principia: As mentioned, the second challenge will be a test of skill. I shall be evaluating your technique for flawless execution and executed flaws.
-optional end

Dancing Wolf: Looks like we're all here! Let's get on with the briefing, shall we?
Principia: As you command. This second challenge will evaluate the elegance of your technique as opposed to the magnitude of your Miasma.
Principia: First, I shall infuse the egi of your opponents with secondary enchantments, and then you are to engage the entities in combat.
Y'mhitra: Prin explained to me that the enchantments store the aether expended during the battle, and allow for an in-depth analysis of your...flair for Deathflares. As it were. In any case, I expect you'll pass with flying colors!
Dancing Wolf: Right, I suppose you should know who you're up against. Designation and rank!
Crispin: Summoner Crispin. Private, first class. We're grateful for aught you can teach us, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}.
Denise: Summoner Denise. Sergeant. I'm new to spellcasting, but I've seen my share of combat, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}! Crispin and I are to fight you as a pair.
Jajasamu: Summoner Jajasamu. ''Lieutenant''. Ye've more'n a few admirers in the barracks, [Forename]...uh, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}. But that don't mean we'll go easy on ye!
Dancing Wolf: Enough chatter! Quick march to the training ground! Give the word to Crispin and Denise when you're ready to battle their egi, [Forename].
Dancing Wolf: After that, you'll be facing off against the lieutenant's beast. You won't be attacking my troops directly, so give it all you've got!

===Speak with Crispin, and defeat the egi===
-optional start
Principia: Everything is in readiness for the second challenge, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}.
Dancing Wolf: All set, [Forename]? As I said, Crispin and Denise will be your first opponents. Just give them the word.
Denise: Our egi are primed for battle, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}! We'll unleash them as soon as you've given Crispin the command!
Jajasamu: I'll just be watchin' for the now. Ye know, seein' how ye handle the small fish afore ye get to the ''real'' fight.
Y'mhitra: We should probably be in northern Thanalan. Captain Wolf and his summoners will be waiting.
Principia: Greetings, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. We are conducting the second challenge near this "Camp Bluefog" of yours. Strange, I do not recall teleporting back here...
-optional end
Crispin: Prepare yourself, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}! Denise and I will now summon our servants to battle!
Denise: Aye, a pair of Ifrit-egi for you!

===Speak with Jajasamu, and defeat the egi===
-optional start
Dancing Wolf: Outstanding! Speak with Summoner Jajasamu to continue the challenge.
Y'mhitra: The enchantments were also meant to strengthen the egi somewhat... Well, that hardly seemed to matter to you!
Principia: An excellent performance so far, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. Pray continue with the test.
Crispin: Your victory was overwhelming, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}. Watching you wield the art is simply mesmerizing...
Denise: We never stood a chance, really, but I was holding out a tiny bit of hope!
-optional end
Jajasamu: Ye finished warmin' up on them embers, then? 'Cause even together, me mates' egi don't hold a candle to the inferno I can summon.
Jajasamu: Right. Let's bring the flames!

===Speak with Jajasamu, and defeat the egi===
-optional start
Dancing Wolf: Your next opponent will be another one of Summoner Jajasamu's egi. The lad's not fond of losing, so expect no quarter!
Y'mhitra: You held your own easily enough, but that Ifrit-egi was still rather impressive.
Principia: How do you feel, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}? Dizziness? Itchiness? Nausea? No? Mayhap this challenge needs to be more...challenging. Continue!
Crispin: Even Jajasamu's egi was extinguished... Well, that's that, then.
Denise: It's not over yet: the lieutenant has one more card up his sleeve!
-optional end
Jajasamu: Ah, I had hopes for that one, but ye snuffed him out right quick!
Jajasamu: Not much of a trial, eh? Well then, yer lucky I fought another primal durin' me time with the Company of Heroes.
Jajasamu: Aye, yer not the only summoner as can command more'n one aetherial beastie! Say hello to yer final opponent: Titan-egi!

===Speak with Dancing Wolf===
-optional start
Y'mhitra: A former member of the Company of Heroes? I'm impressed. He has the makings of a talented summoner.
Principia: Allow me some time to chew on the residue of your battles, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. Though from the taste alone, I can predict a favorable flavor for the result...
Crispin: Titan-egi seemed so solid...and then you broke him into little pieces.
Denise: That was a pleasure to watch, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}. I can hardly wait to return to our training!
Jajasamu: I wish I'd been able to join in the battle with me own self. Not that the outcome would've been any different, mind...
-optional end
Dancing Wolf: I hope my summoners put up enough of a fight for you! Anyway, shall we hear what the book has to say?
Principia: I have ruminated upon the swirls and echoes of your battle, and the picture is clear: your technique is, without a doubt, a thing of exquisite beauty. Consider the second challenge conquered.
Dancing Wolf: Well, that's good news, if hardly surprising! After all, you did sweep through those egi like a storm through a field of dandelions!
Jajasamu: Me thanks. Ye've opened me eyes—I see I've some work to do afore I've truly mastered this discipline.
Y'mhitra: I'm glad to know we've been of service. Now, we really must be returning to Gridania.
Crispin: Thank you, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}. This was truly an enriching experience!
Denise: Aye, pray train with us again in the future!

===Speak with Y'mhitra in Gridania===
-optional start
Principia: One last challenge remains. Pray win through this trial, lest the higher knowledge I hoard remain lost.
-optional end
Y'mhitra: Congratulations, [Forename]. With your impressive demonstrations of power and skill, you have already conquered two of Prin's three challenges!
Y'mhitra: Ere we come to the final trial, however, Prin would further our education on Allagan summoning.
-cutscene start
Principia: First, I would ask what you know of the rise and fall of summoning in the Allagan Empire—I was made to "cover" rather a lot of history, you understand.
Y'mhitra: From our research, we have learned that summoners were initially lauded as heroes for their success against the primals. When certain of these mages began to abuse the art's power for personal gain, however, the adoration of the populace shifted towards an oppressive hatred.
Principia: Correct. We speak now of the latter half of the Third Astral Era. My creator, Master Sari, was one of those who expended his energies on the destruction of primals, even as he fled from relentless persecution. Alongside his disciples, he triumphed over Belias and many other lesser entities.
Y'mhitra: Belias? That was the name of the elder primal from whom Tristan once drew power... Master Sari must have been mighty indeed to defeat such a foe.
Principia: Yet he still knew fear: the thought that the grand discipline of summoning would fade into oblivion was more than Master Sari could bear. And so he sought to preserve its legacy, and provide for his successors.
Principia: My creator was well versed in aetherochemistry and held a particular interest in the technology of information. Broadly speaking, he researched methods for producing arcane geometries without grimoires, and experimented with machine-enhanced egi.
Principia: He eventually abandoned both of these technologies, deeming them unsuitable for the instruction of future generations. Hoping to provide guidance to those summoners yet unborn, he instead began writing and enchanting a work that would survive down the ages. He made me.
Y'mhitra: Such an accomplished personage... Why, then, have I seen but scant mention of his name in Allag's histories?
Principia: As you have said yourself, it was an age when the adulation of summoners experienced an extreme reversal. It is likely that Master Sari's achievements were struck from the records, even as his loyal pupils were struck down in the streets.
Principia: I was shut in a storeroom—abandoned to my slumber like some common treatise on trade agreements in the southern provinces—and thus I can tell you naught of what befell my creator in his later years.
Y'mhitra: I expected a dry recital on the history of summoning, but you've shared with us your personal narrative. 'Tis clear you hold a great deal of respect for Master Sari.
Principia: I am a familiar. I simply relay information as I was enspelled. This lecture is now over.
Y'mhitra: As you wish, Prin. Well, [Forename], 'twould seem class is dismissed for the moment. I suggest you recuperate from this day's trial, and look toward preparing yourself for the final challenge!
-quest complete
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
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Performing for Prin

2026-07-21T03:16:08Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = Performing for Prin
| description = [[Y'mhitra]] asks that you lend an ear to [[Principia]].
| image = Summoner_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Y'mhitra
| related-npcs = Crispin; Dancing Wolf; Denise; Jajasamu; Principia
| location = Old Gridania
| location-x = 10.9
| location-y = 6.3
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Summoner Quests
| sortkey = 630
| organization =
| class =
| job = Summoner
| level = 63
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 103000
| gil = 1625
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = A Book with Bite
| next-quest = An Egi-stential Crisis
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68162
| id-edb = e179ffb29e4
}}
==Steps==
*Speak with [[Dancing Wolf]] at [[Camp Bluefog]].
*Speak with [[Crispin]], and defeat the [[egi]].
*Speak with [[Jajasamu]], and defeat the egi.
*Speak with Jajasamu, and defeat the egi.
*Speak with Dancing Wolf.
*Speak with [[Y'mhitra]] in [[Gridania]].

==Journal==
*Y'mhitra asks that you lend an ear to Principia.

*Y'mhitra directs your attention to Principia, and the toothy familiar announces you ready to undertake the second challenge. Finding herself stumped by the trial's requirement for additional summoners, Y'mhitra is forced to accept Dancing Wolf's proposal to cooperate with his regiment's new summoners-in-training. Travel to Camp Blue Fog in northern Thanalan, and report to the Flame Captain.

*After Principia explains the second challenge and its focus on skill, Dancing Wolf introduces you to his cadre of neophyte summoners. Prepare yourself to battle the acolytes' egi, then approach Summoner Crispin to begin the trial.

*You have overcome the pair of Ifrit-egi summoned by Crispin and Denise. Approach Summoner Jajasamu, and proceed to the next step of the challenge.

*You have triumphed over the formidable Ifrit-egi summoned by Jajasamu. Speak with the lieutenant once more, and prepare to face your final opponent.

*You have claimed victory over Jajasamu's Titan-egi. With no aetherial entities left to send against you, the novice summoners look on expectantly as Dancing Wolf waits to congratulate you.

*Principia declares your attempt at the second challenge a resounding success. Your opponents accept their defeat with good-natured grace, and seem eager to resume their training. Bidding them farewell, you turn to follow Y'mhitra back to Apkallu Falls.

*Upon returning to Gridania, Principia continues its lecture on the history of Allagan summoning and shares the accomplishments of its creator. Y'mhitra seems more determined than ever to see you earn the master summoner's long-lost wisdom, and urges you to prepare for the familiar's final challenge.
**※The next summoner quest will be available from Y'mhitra upon reaching level 65.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Y'mhitra: Greetings, [Forename]. 'Twould seem that Prin would speak with us about the second challenge.
-cutscene start
Principia: Congratulations, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. You are sufficiently prepared to undertake the next test.
Y'mhitra: Excuse me, Prin, but...how can you tell?
Principia: By analyzing the patterns of {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}'s aetherial emanations, I can gauge the strength and precision of {{alternatives|f=her|m=his}} recently cast incantations. Of course, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}} must attempt the challenge itself before I can provide an evaluation to the proper degree of accuracy.
Principia: This will be a test of skill. To administer this trial under the prescribed conditions, however, I must request the assistance of several more summoners to play the role of antagonists...
Y'mhitra: Several more summoners...? In this day and age, that will be no easy feat to arrange.
Dancing Wolf: Come now, Y'mhitra. The solution is right under your nose!
Dancing Wolf: [Forename], your deeds have caught the attention of the highest echelons of the Flames. After learning what you're capable of, we've begun an initiative to take our very own summoners into battle against the primals.
Dancing Wolf: A number of soldiers under my command have already begun intensive training—I handpicked veteran survivors of our expedition against Ifrit, and they've been issued with soul crystals we claimed from the Ascians.
Y'mhitra: Aye, and Captain Wolf has been howling in my ear for days, begging to enlist your aid as some kind of drill instructor for the aetherially gifted.
Dancing Wolf: But now you're in need of summoners for this trial of yours, yes? I am prepared to offer my regiment's full cooperation. All I ask in return is a few morsels of advice for the acolytes!
Principia: It seems to me a fair trade. And my enchantments do not restrict me from instructing neophyte summoners in the fundamentals of the art.
Y'mhitra: Very well... I suppose such an arrangement could prove convenient for us all.
Dancing Wolf: I knew you'd come around! Meet me at Camp Bluefog and I'll assemble the troops for inspection.
-quest accepted
-cutscene end

===Speak with Dancing Wolf at Camp Bluefog===
-optional start
Y'mhitra: We should meet Captain Wolf at the camp, then we'll find a nice, open space somewhere in northern Thanalan to conduct the second challenge.
Y'mhitra: I did warn him, however, that you're far too busy to train his soldiers on any kind of permanent basis.
Y'mhitra: These are the three neophyte summoners who will be assisting with the trial. I have heard Allagan training can be rather remorseless... Do your best, but pray try not to injure them during the fray!
Crispin: I am told we are to be your opponents for this exercise. It's an honor to meet you, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}.
Denise: Summoner Denise at your service, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}!
Jajasamu: ...Aye? We ain't started yet, have we?
Principia: As mentioned, the second challenge will be a test of skill. I shall be evaluating your technique for flawless execution and executed flaws.
-optional end

Dancing Wolf: Looks like we're all here! Let's get on with the briefing, shall we?
Principia: As you command. This second challenge will evaluate the elegance of your technique as opposed to the magnitude of your Miasma.
Principia: First, I shall infuse the egi of your opponents with secondary enchantments, and then you are to engage the entities in combat.
Y'mhitra: Prin explained to me that the enchantments store the aether expended during the battle, and allow for an in-depth analysis of your...flair for Deathflares. As it were. In any case, I expect you'll pass with flying colors!
Dancing Wolf: Right, I suppose you should know who you're up against. Designation and rank!
Crispin: Summoner Crispin. Private, first class. We're grateful for aught you can teach us, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}.
Denise: Summoner Denise. Sergeant. I'm new to spellcasting, but I've seen my share of combat, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}! Crispin and I are to fight you as a pair.
Jajasamu: Summoner Jajasamu. ''Lieutenant''. Ye've more'n a few admirers in the barracks, [Forename]...uh, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}. But that don't mean we'll go easy on ye!
Dancing Wolf: Enough chatter! Quick march to the training ground! Give the word to Crispin and Denise when you're ready to battle their egi, [Forename].
Dancing Wolf: After that, you'll be facing off against the lieutenant's beast. You won't be attacking my troops directly, so give it all you've got!

===Speak with Crispin, and defeat the egi===
-optional start
Principia: Everything is in readiness for the second challenge, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}.
Dancing Wolf: All set, [Forename]? As I said, Crispin and Denise will be your first opponents. Just give them the word.
Denise: Our egi are primed for battle, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}! We'll unleash them as soon as you've given Crispin the command!
Jajasamu: I'll just be watchin' for the now. Ye know, seein' how ye handle the small fish afore ye get to the ''real'' fight.
Y'mhitra: We should probably be in northern Thanalan. Captain Wolf and his summoners will be waiting.
Principia: Greetings, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. We are conducting the second challenge near this "Camp Bluefog" of yours. Strange, I do not recall teleporting back here...
-optional end
Crispin: Prepare yourself, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}! Denise and I will now summon our servants to battle!
Denise: Aye, a pair of Ifrit-egi for you!

===Speak with Jajasamu, and defeat the egi===
-optional start
Dancing Wolf: Outstanding! Speak with Summoner Jajasamu to continue the challenge.
Y'mhitra: The enchantments were also meant to strengthen the egi somewhat... Well, that hardly seemed to matter to you!
Principia: An excellent performance so far, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. Pray continue with the test.
Crispin: Your victory was overwhelming, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}. Watching you wield the art is simply mesmerizing...
Denise: We never stood a chance, really, but I was holding out a tiny bit of hope!
-optional end
Jajasamu: Ye finished warmin' up on them embers, then? 'Cause even together, me mates' egi don't hold a candle to the inferno I can summon.
Jajasamu: Right. Let's bring the flames!

===Speak with Jajasamu, and defeat the egi===
-optional start
Dancing Wolf: Your next opponent will be another one of Summoner Jajasamu's egi. The lad's not fond of losing, so expect no quarter!
Y'mhitra: You held your own easily enough, but that Ifrit-egi was still rather impressive.
Principia: How do you feel, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}? Dizziness? Itchiness? Nausea? No? Mayhap this challenge needs to be more...challenging. Continue!
Crispin: Even Jajasamu's egi was extinguished... Well, that's that, then.
Denise: It's not over yet: the lieutenant has one more card up his sleeve!
-optional end
Jajasamu: Ah, I had hopes for that one, but ye snuffed him out right quick!
Jajasamu: Not much of a trial, eh? Well then, yer lucky I fought another primal durin' me time with the Company of Heroes.
Jajasamu: Aye, yer not the only summoner as can command more'n one aetherial beastie! Say hello to yer final opponent: Titan-egi!

===Speak with Dancing Wolf===
-optional start
Y'mhitra: A former member of the Company of Heroes? I'm impressed. He has the makings of a talented summoner.
Principia: Allow me some time to chew on the residue of your battles, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. Though from the taste alone, I can predict a favorable flavor for the result...
Crispin: Titan-egi seemed so solid...and then you broke him into little pieces.
Denise: That was a pleasure to watch, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}. I can hardly wait to return to our training!
Jajasamu: I wish I'd been able to join in the battle with me own self. Not that the outcome would've been any different, mind...
-optional end
Dancing Wolf: I hope my summoners put up enough of a fight for you! Anyway, shall we hear what the book has to say?
Principia: I have ruminated upon the swirls and echoes of your battle, and the picture is clear: your technique is, without a doubt, a thing of exquisite beauty. Consider the second challenge conquered.
Dancing Wolf: Well, that's good news, if hardly surprising! After all, you did sweep through those egi like a storm through a field of dandelions!
Jajasamu: Me thanks. Ye've opened me eyes—I see I've some work to do afore I've truly mastered this discipline.
Y'mhitra: I'm glad to know we've been of service. Now, we really must be returning to Gridania.
Crispin: Thank you, {{alternatives|f=miss|m=sir}}. This was truly an enriching experience!
Denise: Aye, pray train with us again in the future!

===Speak with Y'mhitra in Gridania===
-optional start
Principia: One last challenge remains. Pray win through this trial, lest the higher knowledge I hoard remain lost.
-optional end
Y'mhitra: Congratulations, [Forename]. With your impressive demonstrations of power and skill, you have already conquered two of Prin's three challenges!
Y'mhitra: Ere we come to the final trial, however, Prin would further our education on Allagan summoning.
-cutscene start
Principia: First, I would ask what you know of the rise and fall of summoning in the Allagan Empire—I was made to "cover" rather a lot of history, you understand.
Y'mhitra: From our research, we have learned that summoners were initially lauded as heroes for their success against the primals. When certain of these mages began to abuse the art's power for personal gain, however, the adoration of the populace shifted towards an oppressive hatred.
Principia: Correct. We speak now of the latter half of the Third Astral Era. My creator, Master Sari, was one of those who expended his energies on the destruction of primals, even as he fled from relentless persecution. Alongside his disciples, he triumphed over Belias and many other lesser entities.
Y'mhitra: Belias? That was the name of the elder primal from whom Tristan once drew power... Master Sari must have been mighty indeed to defeat such a foe.
Principia: Yet he still knew fear: the thought that the grand discipline of summoning would fade into oblivion was more than Master Sari could bear. And so he sought to preserve its legacy, and provide for his successors.
Principia: My creator was well versed in aetherochemistry and held a particular interest in the technology of information. Broadly speaking, he researched methods for producing arcane geometries without grimoires, and experimented with machine-enhanced egi.
Principia: He eventually abandoned both of these technologies, deeming them unsuitable for the instruction of future generations. Hoping to provide guidance to those summoners yet unborn, he instead began writing and enchanting a work that would survive down the ages. He made me.
Y'mhitra: Such an accomplished personage... Why, then, have I seen but scant mention of his name in Allag's histories?
Principia: As you have said yourself, it was an age when the adulation of summoners experienced an extreme reversal. It is likely that Master Sari's achievements were struck from the records, even as his loyal pupils were struck down in the streets.
Principia: I was shut in a storeroom—abandoned to my slumber like some common treatise on trade agreements in the southern provinces—and thus I can tell you naught of what befell my creator in his later years.
Y'mhitra: I expected a dry recital on the history of summoning, but you've shared with us your personal narrative. 'Tis clear you hold a great deal of respect for Master Sari.
Principia: I am a familiar. I simply relay information as I was enspelled. This lecture is now over.
Y'mhitra: As you wish, Prin. Well, [Forename], 'twould seem class is dismissed for the moment. I suggest you recuperate from this day's trial, and look toward preparing yourself for the final challenge!
-quest complete
-cutscene end
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
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A Book with Bite

2026-07-21T03:02:24Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = A Book with Bite
| description = [[Y'mhitra]] has the most fascinating news for you.
| image = Summoner_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Y'mhitra
| location = Old Gridania
| location-x = 10.9
| location-y = 6.3
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Summoner Quests
| sortkey = 601
| organization =
| class =
| job = Summoner
| level = 60
| requirements =
| req-items = 1 Allagan Tome
| req-quest = The Far Edge of Fate
| exp = 100000
| gil = 1326
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = A Flare for the Dramatic
| next-quest = Performing for Prin
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68161
| id-edb = b62edef8173
}}
==Steps==
*Speak with [[Rammbroes]] at [[Saint Coinach's Find]].
*Speak with [[Y'mhitra]] at [[Revenant's Toll]].
*Speak with [[Principia]] in [[north Silvertear]] and complete the first challenge.
*Speak with Y'mhitra in north Silvertear.
*Speak with Y'mhitra in [[Gridania]].

==Journal==
*Y'mhitra has the most fascinating news for you.

*Y'mhitra has had word from Saint Coinach's Find that the archaeologists have unearthed an Allagan tome on summoning magicks. Make your way to the camp in Mor Dhona and speak with Rammbroes.

*Rammbroes immediately places the ancient book in your hands, declaring that he was able to decipher little more than the fact that it contained the wisdom of Allagan summoners. He bids you take the tome to Y'mhitra in Revenant's Toll, and allow the scholar to peruse its pages.

*Y'mhitra carefully cracks open the tome's covers, and the both of you are caught off guard as the book suddenly jumps from her hands and introduces itself as “Principia.” According to the animate familiar, it was created as an instruction manual for promising summoners, but can only share its higher knowledge once the student in question has completed three formidable challenges. The first of these challenges is to be a test of power. Follow Y'mhitra out into the wilds of north Silvertear, and ask Principia to call forth your monstrous opponent.

*You have defeated the demon of the tome. Share your victory with the nearby Y'mhitra.

*It appears your victory over the tome's demon was more than satisfactory, but despite its glowing praise, “Prin” gives the impression that your technique is far from perfect. Amazed at this evaluation and intrigued by the tale of the familiar's creation, Y'mhitra seems lost in contemplation of the past. Return to Gridania, and rejoin the scholar at Apkallu Falls.

*Y'mhitra praises you on your triumph once more, and speaks eagerly of revealing the lost knowledge hidden within the tome. Before you can attempt Prin's next challenge, however, it seems you will need to work on perfecting your technique.
**※The next summoner quest will be available from Y'mhitra upon reaching level 63.

==Walkthrough==
As of [[Patch 5.0]], [[Titan-Egi]] is no longer a tank class that can hold enmity, which this quest has historically relied on using. The current recommended method is to make sure that you gear ilevel is at least 250 (if possible, use the [[Augmented_Shire_Armor|Augmented Shire Philosopher]]'s gear set that can be purchased with [[Allagan Tomestone of Poetics|Allagan Tomestones of Poetics]] in [[Idyllshire]]) and then use [[Ifrit-Egi]] and [[Companions|your Chocobo]]. Have both summoned before starting the encounter. Once the monster is summoned, immediately move away from it and towards the large crystal nearby. Apply Bio and Miasma, and then begin kiting it around the crystal while your Egi and Chocobo deal damage. Your Chocobo will likely die quickly, but it will give you time to cast some larger spells and heal through the initial poison that the monster applies.

Finish the fight by continually kiting around the large crystal and making use of Ifrit-Egi's skills, Bio and Miasma, and Dreadwyrm Trance to instant cast Ruin III.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Y'mhitra: [Forename], I've had the most fascinating news. 'Twould seem that the ruins of ancient Allag have yielded to us a tome containing unknown secrets of the summoner's art.
Y'mhitra: The tome in question is currently being kept under Rammbroes's watchful gaze at our dig site in Mor Dhona. I'll be heading there shortly myself, but I would not begrudge you an earlier peek!
-quest accepted

===Speak with Rammbroes at Saint Coinach's Find===
-optional start
Y'mhitra: Still here? I'd have thought the existence of an unknown work on the art of summoning would have had you flying along the currents of aether to Rammbroes's side by now.
-optional end
Rammbroes: Ah, I thought you might be along. Here, [Forename]—a prize such as this should be in your keeping.
Rammbroes: We uncovered it not terribly far from where we excavated the evoker's attire. I've judged the tome to be some manner of manual for summoning magic, but alas, I was unable to decipher the writings. 'Tis fortunate, then, that such a task falls directly within Y'mhitra's field of expertise.
Rammbroes: Speaking of which, would you mind taking the book to her yourself? She sent word that she had been held up by some dreary business in Revenant's Toll. Pray do be careful!

===Speak with Y'mhitra at Revenant's Toll===
-optional start
Rammbroes: Were you able to find Y'mhitra in town? I can think of no one better suited to unraveling the secrets within that Allagan tome.
Y'mhitra: ...[Forename]? I sent word that I would meet you in Revenant's Toll. Did Rammbroes not pass along my message?
-optional end
Y'mhitra: My apologies—a trifling but unavoidable matter prevented me from making directly for the dig site. Now, shall we take a closer look at this Allagan tome?

''The player hands over the {{i|Allagan Tome}}.''

-cutscene start
Y'mhitra: Oh my... 'Tis rather more shabby than what I've come to expect from the great works of Allag, but let's not be discouraged. The content is what truly matters.
Principia@???: A fine observation!
Principia: Principia, at your service. I am a humble familiar, humbly familiar with the doctrine of summoning.
Y'mhitra: ...Have we awoken a sentient tome from some ancient library? [Forename], we must keep it contained!
Principia: Have I somehow given offense? Strange, for I am not equipped with offensive capabilities. Imparting the art of summoning is my function, and instructional manual is my form.
Y'mhitra: ...A manual, you say?
Principia: Correct. When opened in the presence of summoners, I am bound to awaken and share with them the secrets of summoning. The young {{alternatives|f=mistress|m=master}} there is in possession of an active soul crystal, yes?
Y'mhitra: 'Twas the soul crystal that awoke you?
Principia: Correct. Only one who carries a soul crystal and has bathed in the aether of an eikon may wield the powers of a summoner. I sensed one worthy of instruction, and was thus compelled to introduce myself.
Y'mhitra: "Eikon"... That is the Allagan word for "primal." Excuse my need to clarify the obvious, but you are a construct created to teach summoning magicks to any potential student you encounter? Why would the ancients have deemed such a thing necessary?
Principia: Summoning came into being for the purpose of eliminating beings—specifically those beings known as eikons. Ahem, "primals." Once these entities have all been vanquished, however, new egi cannot be harnessed. Old summoners perish, and so, too, does their art.
Principia: It was upon glimpsing this bleak future that a certain master summoner set about crafting yours truly. Inscribed with arts of tremendous power, I exist to teach others how to safeguard their existence.
Y'mhitra: Fascinating... Your creation speaks to the heart of the discipline's rarity. Summoning harnesses the power of primals for the sole purpose of destroying them, and new summoners arise only in an age when primals are rife.
Y'mhitra: With the absence of living mentors, a true succession of the art is never achieved. Principia, are you then to instruct [Forename] in the lost secrets of Allag?
Principia: I am eager to oblige, but there are certain obligations. Ere the seal upon my higher knowledge can be unlocked, the student must first overcome the three challenges I am ensorcelled to present.
Y'mhitra: Well, considering how it refers to primals as "eikons," I'm inclined to believe that we have an authentic Allagan relic on our hands. What say you, [Forename]? Will you undertake these challenges?
Principia: The first challenge is a test of power. This trial is designed to evaluate the raw magnitude of your arcane talent by pitting you against a predetermined opponent of carefully measured fortitude. Also known as "I manifest a monster, and you fight it."
Y'mhitra: Ah, mayhap not terribly wise to attempt that in the middle of town. Why don't we find ourselves a less-populated area out near the Singing Shards?
-cutscene end

===Speak with Principia in north Silvertear and complete the first challenge===
-optional start
Y'mhitra: Are you prepared for this "test of power"? 'Twould seem Principia is but waiting on your word.
Y'mhitra: I thought we were headed for north Silvertear? We certainly cannot hold the trial ''here''.
-optional end
Principia: Shall we begin the test of power, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}?
Y'mhitra: ..."{{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}"? You treat your pupil as a superior, Principia?
Principia: Such was the way in which I was written. Ah, and if my full name begins to tire your tongue, you are welcome to call me "Prin" or "Pia."
Y'mhitra: Oooh, I rather like "Prin." Ahem, I mean, let us proceed with the challenge!

===Speak with Y'mhitra in north Silvertear===
-optional start
Principia: A fine showing, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. Even the greatest of Allagan summoners would be forced to recognize the extent of your extant power.
-optional end
Y'mhitra: A crushing victory, [Forename]! Who could argue the potential of modern summoning after that display?
-cutscene start
Principia: You have bested the first challenge, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. There are few summoners in Allag's long history who boasted this degree of native might!
Principia: Furthermore, that you have achieved such potency through naught but the study of ancient wisdom is simply astonishing. With a little polish to your technique, guiding you to loftier heights of power should be astonishingly simple.
Y'mhitra: I'd thought [Forename]'s technique more than sufficiently polished, but you say there is room for improvement? I see we shall have to adjust our yalmstick for perfection if we are to rival the practitioners of the past.
Principia: Indeed. If you would know more of past practices, then you need only ask.
Y'mhitra: Actually, I do have a question for you... If you would indulge me, [Forename]?
Y'mhitra: Prin, in which age were you created? You appear to lack the technological advancements that were predominant in constructs in the latter days of Allag's civilization...
Principia: Another excellent observation. I was penned by Master Sari, a preeminent summoner of his time. He was, in fact, likely the last master summoner of the Allagan Empire's reign.
Principia: Were I to date myself by your culture's notion of history, my creation would have taken place at a point just before the empire's collapse. In other words, solidly within the richest era of aetherochemical discovery.
Principia: One might reasonably wonder why this wonderful science was excluded from my invention, and I assure you, there is a reason...
Principia: In the beginning, the Allagans rose to superiority through their mastery of magecraft. It is told that the very first wielders of summoning magic made do with grimoires fashioned of leather and ink and parchment.
Principia: There came a tipping point, however, when the mundane sciences began to progress with ever-growing rapidity. These advances were married with the arcane, and aetherochemical technology was born.
Principia: Even as the harnessing of lightning energies gave rise to new recording mediums, techniques were developed that allowed complex arcane geometries to be instantly plotted. Traditional grimoires were replaced by devastatingly efficient and elegant weapons.
Principia: The convenience of these tools, however, did not lend themselves well to the instruction of initiates. Beyond such considerations, the new mediums could not be perused without dedicated machinery, and their manufacture was no simple matter.
Y'mhitra: ...And so the summoner who breathed life into you decided that tomestones and the like were not the ideal method for passing on his accumulated wisdom.
Principia: Correct. He chose for me the primitive form of a book, and inscribed within my pages a bounty of potent incantations that required no machine to be cast.
Y'mhitra: Thank you, Prin. I thought only to satisfy my academic curiosity, but I found myself swept up in your description of the past. ...You truly are the creation of an incredible age.
Y'mhitra: And thank you for your patience, [Forename]! Shall we return to Gridania?
-cutscene end

===Speak with Y'mhitra in Gridania===
-optional start
Principia: Welcome home, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. Or should that be, "welcome back"? I am told this is the base of your research efforts with Lady Y'mhitra, but I am unsure of the correct salutation.
Dancing Wolf: [Forename], you've been well I trust? I'm trying to bend Y'mhitra's ear, but she seems a little distracted.
Dancing Wolf: ...Not that I can blame her. Have you seen this hopping book? I'm fairly sure I caught a flash of teeth in between those pages...
-optional end
Y'mhitra: Well done, [Forename]! We are one step closer to revealing a new secret of ancient Allag!
Y'mhitra: Prin will issue the next challenge after you've had the chance to review your studies, and hone your abilities to a new level of perfection.
Y'mhitra: ...I've decided to keep the familiar here at my side for the moment. Even with as many wonders as Eorzea holds, folk tend to panic at the sight of a fanged tome that jumps around of its own accord.
Y'mhitra: Oh, and pay no mind to Captain Wolf. He obviously wishes to secure my services for some task or another, but we have more important matters to attend to!
-quest complete
System: The next summoner quest will be available from Y'mhitra upon reaching level 63.
System: The requirements for undertaking subsequent quests can be reviewed in your journal.
</nowiki>}}

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A Book with Bite

2026-07-21T03:02:10Z

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{{Quest infobox
| title = A Book with Bite
| description = [[Y'mhitra]] has the most fascinating news for you.
| image = Summoner_Job_Image_3.png
| quest-giver = Y'mhitra
| related-npcs = Dancing Wolf;Principia;Rammbroes
| location = Old Gridania
| location-x = 10.9
| location-y = 6.3
| type = job
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Class & Job Quests
| journal-category = Disciple of Magic Job Quests
| journal-genre = Summoner Quests
| sortkey = 601
| organization =
| class =
| job = Summoner
| level = 60
| requirements =
| req-items = 1 Allagan Tome
| req-quest = The Far Edge of Fate
| exp = 100000
| gil = 1326
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = A Flare for the Dramatic
| next-quest = Performing for Prin
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68161
| id-edb = b62edef8173
}}
==Steps==
*Speak with [[Rammbroes]] at [[Saint Coinach's Find]].
*Speak with [[Y'mhitra]] at [[Revenant's Toll]].
*Speak with [[Principia]] in [[north Silvertear]] and complete the first challenge.
*Speak with Y'mhitra in north Silvertear.
*Speak with Y'mhitra in [[Gridania]].

==Journal==
*Y'mhitra has the most fascinating news for you.

*Y'mhitra has had word from Saint Coinach's Find that the archaeologists have unearthed an Allagan tome on summoning magicks. Make your way to the camp in Mor Dhona and speak with Rammbroes.

*Rammbroes immediately places the ancient book in your hands, declaring that he was able to decipher little more than the fact that it contained the wisdom of Allagan summoners. He bids you take the tome to Y'mhitra in Revenant's Toll, and allow the scholar to peruse its pages.

*Y'mhitra carefully cracks open the tome's covers, and the both of you are caught off guard as the book suddenly jumps from her hands and introduces itself as “Principia.” According to the animate familiar, it was created as an instruction manual for promising summoners, but can only share its higher knowledge once the student in question has completed three formidable challenges. The first of these challenges is to be a test of power. Follow Y'mhitra out into the wilds of north Silvertear, and ask Principia to call forth your monstrous opponent.

*You have defeated the demon of the tome. Share your victory with the nearby Y'mhitra.

*It appears your victory over the tome's demon was more than satisfactory, but despite its glowing praise, “Prin” gives the impression that your technique is far from perfect. Amazed at this evaluation and intrigued by the tale of the familiar's creation, Y'mhitra seems lost in contemplation of the past. Return to Gridania, and rejoin the scholar at Apkallu Falls.

*Y'mhitra praises you on your triumph once more, and speaks eagerly of revealing the lost knowledge hidden within the tome. Before you can attempt Prin's next challenge, however, it seems you will need to work on perfecting your technique.
**※The next summoner quest will be available from Y'mhitra upon reaching level 63.

==Walkthrough==
As of [[Patch 5.0]], [[Titan-Egi]] is no longer a tank class that can hold enmity, which this quest has historically relied on using. The current recommended method is to make sure that you gear ilevel is at least 250 (if possible, use the [[Augmented_Shire_Armor|Augmented Shire Philosopher]]'s gear set that can be purchased with [[Allagan Tomestone of Poetics|Allagan Tomestones of Poetics]] in [[Idyllshire]]) and then use [[Ifrit-Egi]] and [[Companions|your Chocobo]]. Have both summoned before starting the encounter. Once the monster is summoned, immediately move away from it and towards the large crystal nearby. Apply Bio and Miasma, and then begin kiting it around the crystal while your Egi and Chocobo deal damage. Your Chocobo will likely die quickly, but it will give you time to cast some larger spells and heal through the initial poison that the monster applies.

Finish the fight by continually kiting around the large crystal and making use of Ifrit-Egi's skills, Bio and Miasma, and Dreadwyrm Trance to instant cast Ruin III.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Y'mhitra: [Forename], I've had the most fascinating news. 'Twould seem that the ruins of ancient Allag have yielded to us a tome containing unknown secrets of the summoner's art.
Y'mhitra: The tome in question is currently being kept under Rammbroes's watchful gaze at our dig site in Mor Dhona. I'll be heading there shortly myself, but I would not begrudge you an earlier peek!
-quest accepted

===Speak with Rammbroes at Saint Coinach's Find===
-optional start
Y'mhitra: Still here? I'd have thought the existence of an unknown work on the art of summoning would have had you flying along the currents of aether to Rammbroes's side by now.
-optional end
Rammbroes: Ah, I thought you might be along. Here, [Forename]—a prize such as this should be in your keeping.
Rammbroes: We uncovered it not terribly far from where we excavated the evoker's attire. I've judged the tome to be some manner of manual for summoning magic, but alas, I was unable to decipher the writings. 'Tis fortunate, then, that such a task falls directly within Y'mhitra's field of expertise.
Rammbroes: Speaking of which, would you mind taking the book to her yourself? She sent word that she had been held up by some dreary business in Revenant's Toll. Pray do be careful!

===Speak with Y'mhitra at Revenant's Toll===
-optional start
Rammbroes: Were you able to find Y'mhitra in town? I can think of no one better suited to unraveling the secrets within that Allagan tome.
Y'mhitra: ...[Forename]? I sent word that I would meet you in Revenant's Toll. Did Rammbroes not pass along my message?
-optional end
Y'mhitra: My apologies—a trifling but unavoidable matter prevented me from making directly for the dig site. Now, shall we take a closer look at this Allagan tome?

''The player hands over the {{i|Allagan Tome}}.''

-cutscene start
Y'mhitra: Oh my... 'Tis rather more shabby than what I've come to expect from the great works of Allag, but let's not be discouraged. The content is what truly matters.
Principia@???: A fine observation!
Principia: Principia, at your service. I am a humble familiar, humbly familiar with the doctrine of summoning.
Y'mhitra: ...Have we awoken a sentient tome from some ancient library? [Forename], we must keep it contained!
Principia: Have I somehow given offense? Strange, for I am not equipped with offensive capabilities. Imparting the art of summoning is my function, and instructional manual is my form.
Y'mhitra: ...A manual, you say?
Principia: Correct. When opened in the presence of summoners, I am bound to awaken and share with them the secrets of summoning. The young {{alternatives|f=mistress|m=master}} there is in possession of an active soul crystal, yes?
Y'mhitra: 'Twas the soul crystal that awoke you?
Principia: Correct. Only one who carries a soul crystal and has bathed in the aether of an eikon may wield the powers of a summoner. I sensed one worthy of instruction, and was thus compelled to introduce myself.
Y'mhitra: "Eikon"... That is the Allagan word for "primal." Excuse my need to clarify the obvious, but you are a construct created to teach summoning magicks to any potential student you encounter? Why would the ancients have deemed such a thing necessary?
Principia: Summoning came into being for the purpose of eliminating beings—specifically those beings known as eikons. Ahem, "primals." Once these entities have all been vanquished, however, new egi cannot be harnessed. Old summoners perish, and so, too, does their art.
Principia: It was upon glimpsing this bleak future that a certain master summoner set about crafting yours truly. Inscribed with arts of tremendous power, I exist to teach others how to safeguard their existence.
Y'mhitra: Fascinating... Your creation speaks to the heart of the discipline's rarity. Summoning harnesses the power of primals for the sole purpose of destroying them, and new summoners arise only in an age when primals are rife.
Y'mhitra: With the absence of living mentors, a true succession of the art is never achieved. Principia, are you then to instruct [Forename] in the lost secrets of Allag?
Principia: I am eager to oblige, but there are certain obligations. Ere the seal upon my higher knowledge can be unlocked, the student must first overcome the three challenges I am ensorcelled to present.
Y'mhitra: Well, considering how it refers to primals as "eikons," I'm inclined to believe that we have an authentic Allagan relic on our hands. What say you, [Forename]? Will you undertake these challenges?
Principia: The first challenge is a test of power. This trial is designed to evaluate the raw magnitude of your arcane talent by pitting you against a predetermined opponent of carefully measured fortitude. Also known as "I manifest a monster, and you fight it."
Y'mhitra: Ah, mayhap not terribly wise to attempt that in the middle of town. Why don't we find ourselves a less-populated area out near the Singing Shards?
-cutscene end

===Speak with Principia in north Silvertear and complete the first challenge===
-optional start
Y'mhitra: Are you prepared for this "test of power"? 'Twould seem Principia is but waiting on your word.
Y'mhitra: I thought we were headed for north Silvertear? We certainly cannot hold the trial ''here''.
-optional end
Principia: Shall we begin the test of power, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}?
Y'mhitra: ..."{{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}"? You treat your pupil as a superior, Principia?
Principia: Such was the way in which I was written. Ah, and if my full name begins to tire your tongue, you are welcome to call me "Prin" or "Pia."
Y'mhitra: Oooh, I rather like "Prin." Ahem, I mean, let us proceed with the challenge!

===Speak with Y'mhitra in north Silvertear===
-optional start
Principia: A fine showing, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. Even the greatest of Allagan summoners would be forced to recognize the extent of your extant power.
-optional end
Y'mhitra: A crushing victory, [Forename]! Who could argue the potential of modern summoning after that display?
-cutscene start
Principia: You have bested the first challenge, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. There are few summoners in Allag's long history who boasted this degree of native might!
Principia: Furthermore, that you have achieved such potency through naught but the study of ancient wisdom is simply astonishing. With a little polish to your technique, guiding you to loftier heights of power should be astonishingly simple.
Y'mhitra: I'd thought [Forename]'s technique more than sufficiently polished, but you say there is room for improvement? I see we shall have to adjust our yalmstick for perfection if we are to rival the practitioners of the past.
Principia: Indeed. If you would know more of past practices, then you need only ask.
Y'mhitra: Actually, I do have a question for you... If you would indulge me, [Forename]?
Y'mhitra: Prin, in which age were you created? You appear to lack the technological advancements that were predominant in constructs in the latter days of Allag's civilization...
Principia: Another excellent observation. I was penned by Master Sari, a preeminent summoner of his time. He was, in fact, likely the last master summoner of the Allagan Empire's reign.
Principia: Were I to date myself by your culture's notion of history, my creation would have taken place at a point just before the empire's collapse. In other words, solidly within the richest era of aetherochemical discovery.
Principia: One might reasonably wonder why this wonderful science was excluded from my invention, and I assure you, there is a reason...
Principia: In the beginning, the Allagans rose to superiority through their mastery of magecraft. It is told that the very first wielders of summoning magic made do with grimoires fashioned of leather and ink and parchment.
Principia: There came a tipping point, however, when the mundane sciences began to progress with ever-growing rapidity. These advances were married with the arcane, and aetherochemical technology was born.
Principia: Even as the harnessing of lightning energies gave rise to new recording mediums, techniques were developed that allowed complex arcane geometries to be instantly plotted. Traditional grimoires were replaced by devastatingly efficient and elegant weapons.
Principia: The convenience of these tools, however, did not lend themselves well to the instruction of initiates. Beyond such considerations, the new mediums could not be perused without dedicated machinery, and their manufacture was no simple matter.
Y'mhitra: ...And so the summoner who breathed life into you decided that tomestones and the like were not the ideal method for passing on his accumulated wisdom.
Principia: Correct. He chose for me the primitive form of a book, and inscribed within my pages a bounty of potent incantations that required no machine to be cast.
Y'mhitra: Thank you, Prin. I thought only to satisfy my academic curiosity, but I found myself swept up in your description of the past. ...You truly are the creation of an incredible age.
Y'mhitra: And thank you for your patience, [Forename]! Shall we return to Gridania?
-cutscene end

===Speak with Y'mhitra in Gridania===
-optional start
Principia: Welcome home, {{alternatives|f=Mistress|m=Master}}. Or should that be, "welcome back"? I am told this is the base of your research efforts with Lady Y'mhitra, but I am unsure of the correct salutation.
Dancing Wolf: [Forename], you've been well I trust? I'm trying to bend Y'mhitra's ear, but she seems a little distracted.
Dancing Wolf: ...Not that I can blame her. Have you seen this hopping book? I'm fairly sure I caught a flash of teeth in between those pages...
-optional end
Y'mhitra: Well done, [Forename]! We are one step closer to revealing a new secret of ancient Allag!
Y'mhitra: Prin will issue the next challenge after you've had the chance to review your studies, and hone your abilities to a new level of perfection.
Y'mhitra: ...I've decided to keep the familiar here at my side for the moment. Even with as many wonders as Eorzea holds, folk tend to panic at the sight of a fanged tome that jumps around of its own accord.
Y'mhitra: Oh, and pay no mind to Captain Wolf. He obviously wishes to secure my services for some task or another, but we have more important matters to attend to!
-quest complete
System: The next summoner quest will be available from Y'mhitra upon reaching level 63.
System: The requirements for undertaking subsequent quests can be reviewed in your journal.
</nowiki>}}

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It's a Zu Out There

2026-07-21T02:41:43Z

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{{Quest infobox
| title = It's a Zu Out There
| description = [[Munifrid]] seeks a seasoned adventurer for an important task.
| image =
| quest-giver = Munifrid
| location = The Lochs
| location-x = 11.3
| location-y = 20.6
| type = feature
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Lochs Sidequests
| sortkey = 9010
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 69
| req-quest = Upon the Great Loch's Shore
| req-items =
| exp = 27250
| gil = 601
| reward(1-8) =
| unlocks = cur Aether Current
| prev-quest =
| next-quest =
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68413
| id-edb = dddf25c4a66
}}
==Steps==
*Slay the [[zu]] nestling.

*Report to [[Munifrid]].

==Journal==
*[[Munifrid]] seeks a seasoned adventurer for an important task.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Munifrid: [GC Rank] [Surname], you are well known for your deeds as a soldier. On this day, however, I would call upon your broad experiences as an adventurer.
Munifrid: As for the situation at hand, it would seem that part of our patrol route has been claimed as territory by a fearsome zu nestling. Yet we cannot simply choose to circumvent the area, lest we risk providing an unobserved entry point for imperial scouts.
Munifrid: My men and I will gladly go toe-to-toe with any military opponent. But nothing in our training has prepared us to combat a foe which can soar through the ravines and swoop down upon us with impunity.
Munifrid: My comrade here almost lost his arm to such an attack, and I fear it is only a matter of time ere the creature makes a kill...unless you kill it first.
Munifrid: The nestling surveys its domain from a narrow pillar of rock to the northeast. Pray find this predator, and end the threat to our patrols.
-quest accepted

===Slay the zu nestling===
-optional start
Munifrid: We might take the thing down eventually, but too much of our own blood would stain those rock walls. For a monster-slayer of your caliber, however, I should hope it will prove no great challenge...
-optional end

===Report to Munifrid===
Munifrid: The nestling is slain, then? I knew I had chosen the right {{alternatives|f=woman|m=man}} for the job.
Munifrid: I am grateful you came along before any lives were lost to that monstrous bird. You have our thanks!
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

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A Rite to Rest

2026-07-21T02:41:01Z

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{{Quest infobox
| title = A Rite to Rest
| description = [[Betha]] seeks aid in quieting the dead.
| image =
| quest-giver = Betha
| location = The Lochs
| location-x = 10.9
| location-y = 21.0
| type = feature
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Lochs Sidequests
| sortkey = 9040
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 69
| req-quest = Upon the Great Loch's Shore
| req-items =
| exp = 27250
| gil = 637
| reward(1-10) =
| unlocks = cur Aether Current
| prev-quest =
| next-quest =
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68416
| id-edb = 7425b81ea22
}}
==Steps==
*Defeat [[Specter (Mob)|specters]]. The entrance is at {{coords|20.9, 7.9, 0.2}}. You must travel east first, then north past Aenadem Ol, then west to Bloodhowe to get there.

*Report to [[Betha]].

==Journal==
*[[Betha]] seeks aid in quieting the dead.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Betha: Ah, adventurer! I need your aid in saving the souls of the dead!
Betha: I... Pray excuse me. That sounded more dramatic than I intended. My name is Betha, by the way.
Betha: You have probably heard how the Empire took great pains to quash the religions of this land, for fear of the appearance of primals. But the imperials even went so far as to forbid the harmless ceremonies folk performed to honor their fallen.
Betha: As a result, the Lochs are now haunted by a host of restless shades who were denied their last rites. And sadly, brute force is the only way to banish them.
Betha: I spend such spare time as I have sending these spirits on to the next world, but there is only so much one woman can do. Any aid you could offer would be greatly appreciated.
Betha: You will find many an unquiet specter roaming the tombs to the northeast. Pray send them on to their final rest.
-quest accepted

===Defeat specters===
-optional start
Betha: The tombs to the northeast teem with restless shades. Do what you can to end their torment...
-optional end

===Report to Betha===
Betha: Your efforts will be felt, adventurer.
Betha: When this land was yet under the yoke of the Empire, my own father lost his life in the fight for freedom.
Betha: But although our conquerors permitted me to build him a gravestone, they would not allow me to perform his final rites as the teachings of the Fist of Rhalgr demanded.
Betha: It was later that I heard how a ghostly apparition was seen floating near his grave.
Betha: I should have performed the ceremony, and the Empire's laws be damned. I should have had more courage. But I was so afraid to die...
Betha: Ashamed at the cowardice I showed then, I began seeking out other shades and specters to put to rest. It is a seemingly unending path, and I thank you for walking even a few steps of the way alongside me.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

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Are They Ill-tempered

2026-07-21T02:39:45Z

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{{Quest infobox
| title = Are They Ill-Tempered
| description = [[J'zula Tia]] has a troublesome task for an adventurer.
| image =
| quest-giver = J'zula Tia
| location = The Lochs
| location-x = 10.6
| location-y = 22.5
| type = feature
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Lochs Sidequests
| sortkey = 9070
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 69
| req-quest = The Legacy of Our Fathers
| req-items = 2 Sturdy Hemp Sack, 2 Squirming Hemp Sack
| requirements =
| exp = 27250
| gil = 673
| reward(1-8) =
| unlocks = cur Aether Current
| prev-quest =
| next-quest =
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68419
| id-edb = 74f97bf621a
}}
==Steps==
*Use [[Sturdy Hemp Sack|sturdy hemp sacks]] to capture weakened yabbies. 0/2
*Deliver the [[Squirming Hemp Sack|squirming hemp sacks]] to [[J'zula Tia]].

==Journal==
*J'zula Tia has a troublesome task for an adventurer.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
J'zula Tia: You're [Forename], aren't you? The famous soldier and adventurer? It might be that I'm asking above my station, but I could use your help with a bit of a problem.
J'zula Tia: I've been tasked with rounding up a couple of nasty wavekin, and I have to admit to the fact that they're too much for me to handle. For a hero like you, however, I suspect they'd be naught more than a spot of light exercise before {{alternatives|morning=breakfast|day=lunch|night=dinner}}.
J'zula Tia: Have you seen those monstrous yabbies crawling about south of the White Aisle? I have some large hemp sacks you can use to drag them back here. Just be sure to tire them out a bit beforehand—any fight left in them and they'll rip right through the sack with those spiky tails of theirs.
-quest accepted

===Use sturdy hemp sacks to capture weakened yabbies===
-optional start
J'zula Tia: As I said, make certain to knock the fight out of those yabbies before you shove them in the sacks. And watch out for those tails!
-optional end

===Deliver the squirming hemp sacks to J'zula Tia===
J'zula Tia: Were you able to capture those yabbies for me?

''The player hands over the {{i|Squirming Hemp Sack}}.''

J'zula Tia: Oho, these are some lively nippers—I'd best get them in a pen before they tear their way free. It's a good thing they're ill-tempered, though.
> If player has completed the quest {{i|Stormblood (Quest)}}
J'zula Tia: Why is that, you ask? Well, we're planning on using the yabbies to help train new recruits. You never know when the Empire might try to reclaim lost territory, and a little battle experience is better than none.
> Else
J'zula Tia: Why is that, you ask? Well, just between you and me, we're planning on using the yabbies as a secret weapon to disrupt imperial military camps. I'd love to see the look on a Garlean officer's face to find one of these beauties running wild in his command tent.
---
J'zula Tia: Thank you, [Forename]. I was growing tired of sewing up the holes in those gigantic sacks...
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

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If I Were a Fish

2026-07-21T02:37:10Z

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{{Quest infobox
| title = If I Were a Fish
| description = Lieutenant [[Dorothe]] needs a soldier who knows how to swim.
| image =
| quest-giver = Dorothe
| location = The Lochs
| location-x = 8.2
| location-y = 20.5
| type = feature
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Lochs Sidequests
| sortkey = 9050
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 69
| requirements =
| req-items = 1 Imperial Materiel Crate (If I Were a Fish)
| exp = 27250
| gil = 745
| reward(1-10) =
| unlocks = cur Aether Current
| prev-quest = The Legacy of Our Fathers
| next-quest =
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68417
| id-edb = 6179661902d
}}

==Walkthrough==
The crate is located at {{coords|20.3, 19.4, -3.4}}

==Steps==
*Speak with the [[Flame Agent|flame agent]].
*Obtain the imperial secret at [[The Lochs]].
*Deliver the [[Imperial Materiel Crate|imperial materiel crate]] to the flame agent.
*Report to [[Dorothe]].

==Journal==
*Lieutenant Dorothe needs a soldier who knows how to swim.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Dorothe: [GC Rank] [Surname], I presume? I've spoken with members of the Scions, and if I may be so bold as to ask... Is it true that you learned some Far Eastern technique for moving underwater as freely as a fish?
Dorothe: Then it was not an exaggeration!? Incredible. Would you be willing to put that ability to use for us?
Dorothe: If so, I've an agent stationed underneath those towering steps by the loch who would dearly love to speak with you.
-quest accepted

===Speak with the flame agent===
-optional start
Dorothe: The agent I mentioned can be found underneath those grand steps the locals call the "Divine Audience." Aye, that structure built over the waters of Loch Seld.
-optional end
Flame Agent: Ah, [GC Rank] [Surname]! Lieutenant Dorothe said you might be on your way. Ready to get your boots wet, are you? I should probably begin from the beginning...
Flame Agent: One of the soldiers we captured during the battle at Castrum Abania was concealing a map on his person.
Flame Agent: The map was marked with a curious symbol, but no matter how hard we cajoled or threatened, the prisoner would not tell us the symbol's significance.
Flame Agent: This naturally piqued the curiosity of our commanders, and they immediately ordered a search of the marked area. Now, the problem is that the area mostly covers the water, and we found nothing of interest up above...
Flame Agent: Meaning this secret, whatever it is, ''must'' be down below. We were eager indeed to enlist someone with your apparent talent for underwater exploration.
Flame Agent: I've circled the spot on your map that we'd like you to investigate. If it turns out to be something you can bring back, pray do so. Be careful down there.

===Obtain the imperial secret===
-optional start
Flame Agent: I don't know how deep the loch is, but I'm told holding your breath won't pose a problem. At least the water looks warm...?
-optional end

===Deliver the imperial materiel crate to the flame agent===
Flame Agent: Anything of interest?

''The player hands over the {{i|Imperial Materiel Crate}}.''

Flame Agent: This looks like an imperial materiel crate. I doubt anyone would bother sinking ordinary supplies, so I say we take a look inside...
Flame Agent: Nald's breath! This thing's filled to the brim with gems and jewelry!
Flame Agent: From what I can tell, these all seem to be of Gyr Abanian design. In fact, I'd say this collection is of damn near royal quality.
Flame Agent: The bottom of a loch is not where I'd choose to keep such valuables, so it's safe to assume they were acquired in a less-than-honest fashion. Our prisoner likely hoped to hide them down there until his stint in the army was over...
Flame Agent: Rebuilding a country is an expensive job, eh? Ala Mhigo's royal family is no more, but we should return these to her citizens nonetheless.
Flame Agent: Thank you for braving those waters, [GC Rank] [Surname]. Pray report to Lieutenant Dorothe, and I'll see that this crate is transported safely back to headquarters.

===Report to Dorothe===
-optional start
Flame Agent: I'll start hauling the crate back to headquarters, but I'd appreciate it if you could have the lieutenant send a few large lads to help...
-optional end
Dorothe: Welcome back, [GC Rank] [Surname]. Was there aught to be found?
Dorothe: A fortune in stolen jewelry, was it? That explains the prisoner's unwillingness to share.
Dorothe: As my agent explained, we will see to it that those valuables are returned to Ala Mhigo's coffers. Thank you, [GC Rank] [Surname]—this will go a long way to helping the nation recover from the ravages of war!
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

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If I Were a Fish

2026-07-21T02:36:56Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = If I Were a Fish
| description = Lieutenant [[Dorothe]] needs a soldier who knows how to swim.
| image =
| quest-giver = Dorothe
| related-npcs = Flame Agent
| location = The Lochs
| location-x = 8.2
| location-y = 20.5
| type = feature
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Lochs Sidequests
| sortkey = 9050
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 69
| requirements =
| req-items = 1 Imperial Materiel Crate (If I Were a Fish)
| exp = 27250
| gil = 745
| reward(1-10) =
| unlocks = cur Aether Current
| prev-quest = The Legacy of Our Fathers
| next-quest =
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68417
| id-edb = 6179661902d
}}

==Walkthrough==
The crate is located at {{coords|20.3, 19.4, -3.4}}

==Steps==
*Speak with the [[Flame Agent|flame agent]].
*Obtain the imperial secret at [[The Lochs]].
*Deliver the [[Imperial Materiel Crate|imperial materiel crate]] to the flame agent.
*Report to [[Dorothe]].

==Journal==
*Lieutenant Dorothe needs a soldier who knows how to swim.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Dorothe: [GC Rank] [Surname], I presume? I've spoken with members of the Scions, and if I may be so bold as to ask... Is it true that you learned some Far Eastern technique for moving underwater as freely as a fish?
Dorothe: Then it was not an exaggeration!? Incredible. Would you be willing to put that ability to use for us?
Dorothe: If so, I've an agent stationed underneath those towering steps by the loch who would dearly love to speak with you.
-quest accepted

===Speak with the flame agent===
-optional start
Dorothe: The agent I mentioned can be found underneath those grand steps the locals call the "Divine Audience." Aye, that structure built over the waters of Loch Seld.
-optional end
Flame Agent: Ah, [GC Rank] [Surname]! Lieutenant Dorothe said you might be on your way. Ready to get your boots wet, are you? I should probably begin from the beginning...
Flame Agent: One of the soldiers we captured during the battle at Castrum Abania was concealing a map on his person.
Flame Agent: The map was marked with a curious symbol, but no matter how hard we cajoled or threatened, the prisoner would not tell us the symbol's significance.
Flame Agent: This naturally piqued the curiosity of our commanders, and they immediately ordered a search of the marked area. Now, the problem is that the area mostly covers the water, and we found nothing of interest up above...
Flame Agent: Meaning this secret, whatever it is, ''must'' be down below. We were eager indeed to enlist someone with your apparent talent for underwater exploration.
Flame Agent: I've circled the spot on your map that we'd like you to investigate. If it turns out to be something you can bring back, pray do so. Be careful down there.

===Obtain the imperial secret===
-optional start
Flame Agent: I don't know how deep the loch is, but I'm told holding your breath won't pose a problem. At least the water looks warm...?
-optional end

===Deliver the imperial materiel crate to the flame agent===
Flame Agent: Anything of interest?

''The player hands over the {{i|Imperial Materiel Crate}}.''

Flame Agent: This looks like an imperial materiel crate. I doubt anyone would bother sinking ordinary supplies, so I say we take a look inside...
Flame Agent: Nald's breath! This thing's filled to the brim with gems and jewelry!
Flame Agent: From what I can tell, these all seem to be of Gyr Abanian design. In fact, I'd say this collection is of damn near royal quality.
Flame Agent: The bottom of a loch is not where I'd choose to keep such valuables, so it's safe to assume they were acquired in a less-than-honest fashion. Our prisoner likely hoped to hide them down there until his stint in the army was over...
Flame Agent: Rebuilding a country is an expensive job, eh? Ala Mhigo's royal family is no more, but we should return these to her citizens nonetheless.
Flame Agent: Thank you for braving those waters, [GC Rank] [Surname]. Pray report to Lieutenant Dorothe, and I'll see that this crate is transported safely back to headquarters.

===Report to Dorothe===
-optional start
Flame Agent: I'll start hauling the crate back to headquarters, but I'd appreciate it if you could have the lieutenant send a few large lads to help...
-optional end
Dorothe: Welcome back, [GC Rank] [Surname]. Was there aught to be found?
Dorothe: A fortune in stolen jewelry, was it? That explains the prisoner's unwillingness to share.
Dorothe: As my agent explained, we will see to it that those valuables are returned to Ala Mhigo's coffers. Thank you, [GC Rank] [Surname]—this will go a long way to helping the nation recover from the ravages of war!
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

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Closing Up Shop

2026-07-20T23:07:23Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = Closing Up Shop
| description = An important individual has yet to visit [[Coldhearth]], and [[Sagar]] is growing concerned.
| image =
| quest-giver = Sagar
| location = The Peaks
| location-x = 27.1
| location-y = 36.5
| type = feature
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Peaks Sidequests
| sortkey = 9040
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 69
| req-quest = Raubahn's Invitation
| req-items = 1 Bottle of Arak
| requirements =
| exp = 27250
| gil = 673
| reward(1-10) =
| unlocks = cur Aether Current
| prev-quest =
| next-quest = Helping a Friend
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68396
| id-edb = 07988e9a019
}}
==Steps==
*Inquire about the missing merchant at [[Radiata]].

*Search for [[Fraunk]] at [[Ala Ghiri]].

*Speak with [[Sagar]].

==Journal==
*An important individual has yet to visit Coldhearth, and Sagar is growing concerned.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Sagar: You're one of those adventurers, aren't you? Travel this way and that, always helpin' folks? Well, I believe I speak for all of us here when I say we need your help.
Sagar: I'm sure you've noticed, but we don't have much. The only reason we get by is a merchant who comes and sells us supplies. I say "sell," but it's so cheap, he might as well give it away.
Sagar: Trouble is, without so much as a word he suddenly stopped comin'. I'd go and search for him myself, but anyone who could've kept watch while I'm gone has been conscripted by those damn imperials.
Sagar: Would you try askin' around at Radiata if anyone's seen him? He always talked about goin' there, so I figure it's a good place to start.
-quest accepted

===Inquire about the missing merchant at Radiata===
-optional start
Sagar: I bet someone at Radiata has seen him. He often mentioned his trips there.
-optional end
Oggery: A merchant traveling to ''Coldhearth''? Wait, that's the guy in league with the imperials, isn't he? Now that you mention it, I haven't seen him in a while.
-optional start
Oggery: I wonder what he's been up to.
-optional end

Godafre: Ya, I've heard of him. His name's Fraunk. Some folks say he's doing those people a favor, but I think he's up to something.
-optional start
Godafre: Nobody sells their wares for that cheap without good reason.
-optional end

Mawt: Coldhearth? Why would anyone sell their wares in that ghost town?
-optional start
Mawt: I can't imagine why anyone would go there. No money to be made.
-optional end

===Search for Fraunk at Ala Ghiri===
Fraunk: They're asking about me at Coldhearth? I'd love to help, but the situation has gotten complicated, you see. The reason I was selling to them so cheap is because someone else was footing the bill.
Fraunk: Some imperial soldier—said he grew up there. He went to the Garleans willingly, if you can believe it. They made him a watchman at one of their labor camps, and he's been funneling all his pay to me, granted I keep peddling my goods at Coldhearth.
Fraunk: Afraid his friends and family would refuse his gifts after turning his back on them, he got the smart idea of sending me up there, selling whatever they need for next to nothing. The thing is, he hasn't contacted me in days.
Fraunk: A shame too. On my next trip I was supposed to deliver this bottle of arak. It's hard to come by nowadays, but he paid me good money to find it.
Fraunk: Would you mind taking it there for me? As for this conversation, I'll leave it up to you whether or not you tell anyone. All things considered, I think he might've wanted someone to know.

===Speak with Sagar===
Sagar: Did you find any sign of the merchant?
Sagar: He was paid to come here by an imperial turncoat!? They worked at a labor camp...? No, it can't be!
Sagar: A bottle of arak. My son said... He said someday, we'd...
Sagar: Never mind about the merchant. Here. It's not much, but you deserve it. Thank you for this.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
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Closing Up Shop

2026-07-20T23:07:02Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = Closing Up Shop
| description = An important individual has yet to visit [[Coldhearth]], and [[Sagar]] is growing concerned.
| image =
| quest-giver = Sagar
| related-npcs = Fraunk; Godafre; Mawt; Oggery
| location = The Peaks
| location-x = 27.1
| location-y = 36.5
| type = feature
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Peaks Sidequests
| sortkey = 9040
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 69
| req-quest = Raubahn's Invitation
| req-items = 1 Bottle of Arak
| requirements =
| exp = 27250
| gil = 673
| reward(1-10) =
| unlocks = cur Aether Current
| prev-quest =
| next-quest = Helping a Friend
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68396
| id-edb = 07988e9a019
}}
==Steps==
*Inquire about the missing merchant at [[Radiata]].

*Search for [[Fraunk]] at [[Ala Ghiri]].

*Speak with [[Sagar]].

==Journal==
*An important individual has yet to visit Coldhearth, and Sagar is growing concerned.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Sagar: You're one of those adventurers, aren't you? Travel this way and that, always helpin' folks? Well, I believe I speak for all of us here when I say we need your help.
Sagar: I'm sure you've noticed, but we don't have much. The only reason we get by is a merchant who comes and sells us supplies. I say "sell," but it's so cheap, he might as well give it away.
Sagar: Trouble is, without so much as a word he suddenly stopped comin'. I'd go and search for him myself, but anyone who could've kept watch while I'm gone has been conscripted by those damn imperials.
Sagar: Would you try askin' around at Radiata if anyone's seen him? He always talked about goin' there, so I figure it's a good place to start.
-quest accepted

===Inquire about the missing merchant at Radiata===
-optional start
Sagar: I bet someone at Radiata has seen him. He often mentioned his trips there.
-optional end
Oggery: A merchant traveling to ''Coldhearth''? Wait, that's the guy in league with the imperials, isn't he? Now that you mention it, I haven't seen him in a while.
-optional start
Oggery: I wonder what he's been up to.
-optional end

Godafre: Ya, I've heard of him. His name's Fraunk. Some folks say he's doing those people a favor, but I think he's up to something.
-optional start
Godafre: Nobody sells their wares for that cheap without good reason.
-optional end

Mawt: Coldhearth? Why would anyone sell their wares in that ghost town?
-optional start
Mawt: I can't imagine why anyone would go there. No money to be made.
-optional end

===Search for Fraunk at Ala Ghiri===
Fraunk: They're asking about me at Coldhearth? I'd love to help, but the situation has gotten complicated, you see. The reason I was selling to them so cheap is because someone else was footing the bill.
Fraunk: Some imperial soldier—said he grew up there. He went to the Garleans willingly, if you can believe it. They made him a watchman at one of their labor camps, and he's been funneling all his pay to me, granted I keep peddling my goods at Coldhearth.
Fraunk: Afraid his friends and family would refuse his gifts after turning his back on them, he got the smart idea of sending me up there, selling whatever they need for next to nothing. The thing is, he hasn't contacted me in days.
Fraunk: A shame too. On my next trip I was supposed to deliver this bottle of arak. It's hard to come by nowadays, but he paid me good money to find it.
Fraunk: Would you mind taking it there for me? As for this conversation, I'll leave it up to you whether or not you tell anyone. All things considered, I think he might've wanted someone to know.

===Speak with Sagar===
Sagar: Did you find any sign of the merchant?
Sagar: He was paid to come here by an imperial turncoat!? They worked at a labor camp...? No, it can't be!
Sagar: A bottle of arak. My son said... He said someday, we'd...
Sagar: Never mind about the merchant. Here. It's not much, but you deserve it. Thank you for this.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

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Saint Sayer

2026-07-20T22:41:19Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = Saint Sayer
| description = Raganfrid would like to introduce you to an old friend.
| image = Saint Sayer.png
| quest-giver = Raganfrid
| location = The Peaks
| location-x = 24.4
| location-y = 6.8
| type = feature
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Peaks Sidequests
| sortkey = 1020
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 61
| requirements =
| req-items = 2 Urolith Soulstone
| exp = 25250
| gil = 800
| reward(1-10) =
| unlocks = cur Aether Current
| prev-quest = The Fires Fade
| next-quest = As Stubborn as Stone
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68191
| id-edb = b162e5aec3b
}}
==Steps==
*Speak with [[Sayer]].

*Speak with Sayer.

*Obtain two [[Urolith Soulstone|urolith soulstones]] from marble uroliths.

*Deliver the urolith soulstones to Sayer.

==Journal==
*Raganfrid would like to introduce you to an old friend.

*After hearing that you wish to be of help to Ala Gannha, Raganfrid suggests you may want to make the acquaintance of a friend. He speaks of a man named Sayer, one of the town's former quarriers, and the only one that has shown any real desire to revive the flagging industry. Raganfrid points you in his friend's direction and you head off to hear what he has to say.

*The locals hurl strings of abuse at Sayer as he tries to plead his cause, eventually electing to leave him on his own. It soon becomes clear that he wishes to revitalize the quarry in order to bring prosperity back to the village. However, the lack of support Sayer has becomes abundantly obvious when you witness that even his own granddaughter does not believe in his dream.

*Upon speaking with Sayer you learn that the quarry has become overrun with beasts, effectively making it unapproachable. Steadfast in his belief that the village would rally behind him if the quarry was free of danger, he asks you to expel the beasts from the area. You are instructed to bring back two urolith soulstones as proof that you have completed the task.

*You successfully rid the quarry of the urolith threat and get your hands on the requested soulstones. All that remains now is to present them to Sayer.

*Sayer remarks that he is glad to see you returned, but even gladder that you have brought the urolith soulstones with you. However, it yet remains to be seen if this alone will be enough to persuade the villagers to lend an ear to the old man's cause.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
===Deliver the urolith soulstones to Sayer===
Raganfrid: Fancy yourself as our village's savior, do you? If you truly mean what you say, I've a mind to introduce you to someone.
Raganfrid: His name's Sayer. Used to be one of the quarry's finest workers, he did.
Raganfrid: He keeps fighting the good fight to restore Ala Gannha to its former glory, but I do worry about the toll it must be taking on a man of his years. Have a chat with him if you're interested in helping.
-quest accepted

===Speak with Sayer===
-optional start
Raganfrid: As time's gone on, Sayer's slowly but surely become an isolated figure in our village. There aren't too many others here who share his enthusiasm to breathe fresh life into Ala Gannha, and that's putting it mildly.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Sayer: Thank you for coming. I'm still waiting for a few more of the villagers to arrive.
Cynical Villager: The old bugger's treatin' us to another one of his speeches, I see.
Sayer: How long do you plan to continue livin' in abject squalor, I ask you! It's high time we brought back the quarry that once made me proud to hail from Ala Gannha!
Sayer: Some of you may be too young to remember, but the quarry used to mean everythin' to this village!
Carle: Bloody hells, when is this old codger going to stop harping on about the good old days? Time you opened your eyes, you daft bugger!
Hodgkin: Time's long since passed when we could sell the stone here for a decent amount of gil. It's about time you faced the facts: there's no coin to be had sweating away your life in some bloody quarry. I'd be better served going out and hunting my own food.
Sayer: Just hear me out! If you give up on the quarry then you'll be givin' up on the village itself! Even the hardest of rocks will break if you keep chiselin' away at it—life's the same!
Swetelove: Grandfather, that's enough.
Swetelove: I can tell you now that no one here would claim to be happy with their lot, but there's nothing that can be done. You remonstrating with everyone is hardly going to do any good!
Sayer: Swetelove... Well, what do you bloody expect with that attitude!? No one's going to work to improve things when even my own granddaughter has next to no motivation!
Swetelove: There's a reason you don't see much quarrying going on anymore—there's no demand for it! We can get by just fine with the stones we gathered in the past and those we salvage from ruined buildings.
Swetelove: Prosperity doesn't lie in wait for us at the quarry, only monsters. It's about time you realized that we're lucky just to be alive these days. Come on, Grandfather, let's go home.
Sayer: Blasted girl understands nothin'! 'Course everythin's goin' to seem pointless if you're only sleepwalkin' through life. And who in the hells are you anyway!? I ain't doin' this for your amusement!
Sayer: I am indeed the Sayer you speak of. Raganfrid sent you my way, you say?
Sayer: [Forename], was it? So you're the {{alternatives|f=lass|m=lad}} we have to thank for savin' Wercrata? I can tell you've more fire in your belly than this entire village.
Sayer: Perhaps you'll be able to see that I'm not as crazy as these buggers think me.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Sayer===
Sayer: Ala Gannha owes everythin' to the quarry. The stones we extracted were solid and pleasin' on the eye to boot. We even supplied the stone used to build the palace; ah, those were the days...
Sayer: It was the imperial invasion that changed everythin'. Those bastards thought stone structures barbaric, favorin' their cold, tasteless metallic buildin's instead. They say they look "civilized"—don't make me laugh!
Sayer: The final blow to our way of life came when Garlemald began recruitin' our youth for their own army; we lost just as many to the rebel cause. With no one left to tend to the quarry, it slowly fell into ruin and is now overrun with beasts.
Sayer: The few of us that remain have been left to eke out a living using any means we can. I swear on Rhalgr's very name, if we could just take back the Sleeping Stones, this whole village would brim with vitality again.
Sayer: I just need somethin' that proves the beasts are gone from the quarry. Then the villagers would surely see fit to help me restore it to its former glory!
Sayer: I know this is a lot to ask of a complete stranger, but it's not as if I'm spoiled for choice right now—would you be able to rid the quarry of those damn monsters and bring me back two urolith soulstones?
Sayer: I'll forever be in your debt.

===Obtain two urolith soulstones from marble uroliths===
-optional start
Sayer: Slay the marble uroliths that inhabit the quarry and bring me back two urolith soulstones. That's all I need to turn everythin' around.
-optional end
Sayer: Nice to see you returned. It'd be even nicer if you happened to be in possession of certain stones...

''The player hands over the {{i|Urolith Soulstone}}.''

Sayer: Yes, this is exactly what I was after.
Sayer: Let's waste no time in showing them to the others. It's been far too long since the last ray of hope shone into the villagers' miserable lives.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

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Saint Sayer

2026-07-20T22:41:06Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = Saint Sayer
| description = Raganfrid would like to introduce you to an old friend.
| image = Saint Sayer.png
| quest-giver = Raganfrid
| related-npcs = Carle; Cynical Villager; Hodgkin; Sayer; Swetelove
| location = The Peaks
| location-x = 24.4
| location-y = 6.8
| type = feature
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Peaks Sidequests
| sortkey = 1020
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 61
| requirements =
| req-items = 2 Urolith Soulstone
| exp = 25250
| gil = 800
| reward(1-10) =
| unlocks = cur Aether Current
| prev-quest = The Fires Fade
| next-quest = As Stubborn as Stone
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68191
| id-edb = b162e5aec3b
}}
==Steps==
*Speak with [[Sayer]].

*Speak with Sayer.

*Obtain two [[Urolith Soulstone|urolith soulstones]] from marble uroliths.

*Deliver the urolith soulstones to Sayer.

==Journal==
*Raganfrid would like to introduce you to an old friend.

*After hearing that you wish to be of help to Ala Gannha, Raganfrid suggests you may want to make the acquaintance of a friend. He speaks of a man named Sayer, one of the town's former quarriers, and the only one that has shown any real desire to revive the flagging industry. Raganfrid points you in his friend's direction and you head off to hear what he has to say.

*The locals hurl strings of abuse at Sayer as he tries to plead his cause, eventually electing to leave him on his own. It soon becomes clear that he wishes to revitalize the quarry in order to bring prosperity back to the village. However, the lack of support Sayer has becomes abundantly obvious when you witness that even his own granddaughter does not believe in his dream.

*Upon speaking with Sayer you learn that the quarry has become overrun with beasts, effectively making it unapproachable. Steadfast in his belief that the village would rally behind him if the quarry was free of danger, he asks you to expel the beasts from the area. You are instructed to bring back two urolith soulstones as proof that you have completed the task.

*You successfully rid the quarry of the urolith threat and get your hands on the requested soulstones. All that remains now is to present them to Sayer.

*Sayer remarks that he is glad to see you returned, but even gladder that you have brought the urolith soulstones with you. However, it yet remains to be seen if this alone will be enough to persuade the villagers to lend an ear to the old man's cause.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
===Deliver the urolith soulstones to Sayer===
Raganfrid: Fancy yourself as our village's savior, do you? If you truly mean what you say, I've a mind to introduce you to someone.
Raganfrid: His name's Sayer. Used to be one of the quarry's finest workers, he did.
Raganfrid: He keeps fighting the good fight to restore Ala Gannha to its former glory, but I do worry about the toll it must be taking on a man of his years. Have a chat with him if you're interested in helping.
-quest accepted

===Speak with Sayer===
-optional start
Raganfrid: As time's gone on, Sayer's slowly but surely become an isolated figure in our village. There aren't too many others here who share his enthusiasm to breathe fresh life into Ala Gannha, and that's putting it mildly.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Sayer: Thank you for coming. I'm still waiting for a few more of the villagers to arrive.
Cynical Villager: The old bugger's treatin' us to another one of his speeches, I see.
Sayer: How long do you plan to continue livin' in abject squalor, I ask you! It's high time we brought back the quarry that once made me proud to hail from Ala Gannha!
Sayer: Some of you may be too young to remember, but the quarry used to mean everythin' to this village!
Carle: Bloody hells, when is this old codger going to stop harping on about the good old days? Time you opened your eyes, you daft bugger!
Hodgkin: Time's long since passed when we could sell the stone here for a decent amount of gil. It's about time you faced the facts: there's no coin to be had sweating away your life in some bloody quarry. I'd be better served going out and hunting my own food.
Sayer: Just hear me out! If you give up on the quarry then you'll be givin' up on the village itself! Even the hardest of rocks will break if you keep chiselin' away at it—life's the same!
Swetelove: Grandfather, that's enough.
Swetelove: I can tell you now that no one here would claim to be happy with their lot, but there's nothing that can be done. You remonstrating with everyone is hardly going to do any good!
Sayer: Swetelove... Well, what do you bloody expect with that attitude!? No one's going to work to improve things when even my own granddaughter has next to no motivation!
Swetelove: There's a reason you don't see much quarrying going on anymore—there's no demand for it! We can get by just fine with the stones we gathered in the past and those we salvage from ruined buildings.
Swetelove: Prosperity doesn't lie in wait for us at the quarry, only monsters. It's about time you realized that we're lucky just to be alive these days. Come on, Grandfather, let's go home.
Sayer: Blasted girl understands nothin'! 'Course everythin's goin' to seem pointless if you're only sleepwalkin' through life. And who in the hells are you anyway!? I ain't doin' this for your amusement!
Sayer: I am indeed the Sayer you speak of. Raganfrid sent you my way, you say?
Sayer: [Forename], was it? So you're the {{alternatives|f=lass|m=lad}} we have to thank for savin' Wercrata? I can tell you've more fire in your belly than this entire village.
Sayer: Perhaps you'll be able to see that I'm not as crazy as these buggers think me.
-cutscene end

===Speak with Sayer===
Sayer: Ala Gannha owes everythin' to the quarry. The stones we extracted were solid and pleasin' on the eye to boot. We even supplied the stone used to build the palace; ah, those were the days...
Sayer: It was the imperial invasion that changed everythin'. Those bastards thought stone structures barbaric, favorin' their cold, tasteless metallic buildin's instead. They say they look "civilized"—don't make me laugh!
Sayer: The final blow to our way of life came when Garlemald began recruitin' our youth for their own army; we lost just as many to the rebel cause. With no one left to tend to the quarry, it slowly fell into ruin and is now overrun with beasts.
Sayer: The few of us that remain have been left to eke out a living using any means we can. I swear on Rhalgr's very name, if we could just take back the Sleeping Stones, this whole village would brim with vitality again.
Sayer: I just need somethin' that proves the beasts are gone from the quarry. Then the villagers would surely see fit to help me restore it to its former glory!
Sayer: I know this is a lot to ask of a complete stranger, but it's not as if I'm spoiled for choice right now—would you be able to rid the quarry of those damn monsters and bring me back two urolith soulstones?
Sayer: I'll forever be in your debt.

===Obtain two urolith soulstones from marble uroliths===
-optional start
Sayer: Slay the marble uroliths that inhabit the quarry and bring me back two urolith soulstones. That's all I need to turn everythin' around.
-optional end
Sayer: Nice to see you returned. It'd be even nicer if you happened to be in possession of certain stones...

''The player hands over the {{i|Urolith Soulstone}}.''

Sayer: Yes, this is exactly what I was after.
Sayer: Let's waste no time in showing them to the others. It's been far too long since the last ray of hope shone into the villagers' miserable lives.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

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{{quest video archive|id=IymmWzmpP3Y}}

A Hunger for Trade

2026-07-20T21:53:31Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = A Hunger for Trade
| description = The [[Ponderous Porter]] appears to have a request for you.
| image =
| quest-giver = Ponderous Porter
| location = The Peaks
| location-x = 27.7
| location-y = 28.7
| type = feature
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Peaks Sidequests
| sortkey = 8240
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 68
| req-quest = Where Courage Endures
| req-items = 1 Imperial Supply Crate, 1 Sack of Foodstuffs
| requirements =
| exp = 27000
| gil = 738
| reward(1-10) =
| unlocks = cur Aether Current
| prev-quest =
| next-quest =
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68387
| id-edb = 1fee1054e26
}}
==Steps==
*Speak with the [[Testy Trader|testy trader]].

*Deliver the [[Imperial Supply Crate|imperial supply crate]] to the [[Highlander Merchant|Highlander merchant]].

*Deliver the [[Sack of Foodstuffs|sack of foodstuffs]] to the testy trader.

*Speak with the [[Ponderous Porter|ponderous porter]].

==Journal==
*The ponderous porter appears to have a request for you.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Ponderous Porter: ...You're not from around here, are you? You'd never see an Ala Mhigan strike up a conversation with a Radiata resident.
Ponderous Porter: But seeing as we're already talking, I have a job that's just right for an outsider like you. Talk with the girl behind that building over there, and she'll give you all the details. She's a bit testy, mind you.
-quest accepted

===Speak with the testy trader===
-optional start
Ponderous Porter: Did you find the lass I told you about? She's the one behind that building who looks ready to take a bite out of anyone who strays too close.
-optional end
Testy Trader: About bloody time. Here, take this supply crate and trade it with the merchant in Ala Ghiri for food. He's usually lurking in an alley somewhere. Shifty bastard. You'll know him when you see him.
Testy Trader: ''Do not'' tell him a Radiata native sent you. There'll be no grub for us if you do.

===Deliver the imperial supply crate to the Highlander merchant===
-optional start
Ponderous Porter: Sorry about the lass—she's really a sweetheart when her belly's not rumbling.
Testy Trader: Food. We need it. The trader in Ala Ghiri has it. Do I really need to explain this to you?
-optional end
Highlander Merchant: You want to trade, you'll show me the goods first. Then maybe we'll deal.

''The player hands over the {{i|Imperial Supply Crate}}.''

Highlander Merchant: Gods, these are military-issue Mark XLIII sedatives! High-quality stuff. Someone snatched a batch a while ago, but you wouldn't believe how quickly imperial medicines sell.
Highlander Merchant: Folk are always on edge around here, you see, never knowing when the Empire might decide to launch an assault. Some get so worked up that they can scarcely sleep without a little alchemical encouragement.
Highlander Merchant: How much do you want for them? I'm a bit curious how you came by this stash, but I'll take it off your hands all the same.
Highlander Merchant: ...Food? That's it—just food? All right, well here's a sackful of assorted edibles. Nice doing business with you!

===Deliver the sack of foodstuffs to the testy trader===
-optional start
Highlander Merchant: If you come across any more of those sedatives, you know where to find me!
-optional end
Testy Trader: Did you get the food? Tell me you got the food...

''The player hands over the {{i|Sack of Foodstuffs}}.''

Testy Trader: Oh, praise the heavens! And praise you, too, stranger. This'll be the first proper meal we've had in days...
Testy Trader: Go back and speak with my large friend, if you would—I'd wager he'd like to show his thanks as well.

===Speak with the ponderous porter===
-optional start
Testy Trader: Did you speak with my friend yet? I'm sure he'd like to thank you, too.
-optional end
Ponderous Porter: No troubles with the merchant, were there? Good. Take that sack to my irritable accomplice and watch her squeal with delight.
Ponderous Porter: Surprised to see us trading in imperial supplies? My quick-fingered friend once worked in a storeroom in Castrum Abania, and swiped those sedatives before she left.
Ponderous Porter: This settlement's full of those as used to labor for the imperial army. The folk in Ala Ghiri may have traded with the Empire, but even they spit on Radiatans—the army's "whipped curs," they call us.
Ponderous Porter: That's why we needed you to make the deal. If one of us dared to set foot in that town, they'd chase us out with a hail of stones. Or worse.
Ponderous Porter: But now we can eat our fill, get our strength back, and try to move on. Kind-hearted heroes like you are a godssend...
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=EUbjPIi0iIo}}

A Hunger for Trade

2026-07-20T21:53:16Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = A Hunger for Trade
| description = The [[Ponderous Porter]] appears to have a request for you.
| image =
| quest-giver = Ponderous Porter
| related-npcs = Highlander Merchant; Testy Trader
| location = The Peaks
| location-x = 27.7
| location-y = 28.7
| type = feature
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Peaks Sidequests
| sortkey = 8240
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 68
| req-quest = Where Courage Endures
| req-items = 1 Imperial Supply Crate, 1 Sack of Foodstuffs
| requirements =
| exp = 27000
| gil = 738
| reward(1-10) =
| unlocks = cur Aether Current
| prev-quest =
| next-quest =
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68387
| id-edb = 1fee1054e26
}}
==Steps==
*Speak with the [[Testy Trader|testy trader]].

*Deliver the [[Imperial Supply Crate|imperial supply crate]] to the [[Highlander Merchant|Highlander merchant]].

*Deliver the [[Sack of Foodstuffs|sack of foodstuffs]] to the testy trader.

*Speak with the [[Ponderous Porter|ponderous porter]].

==Journal==
*The ponderous porter appears to have a request for you.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Ponderous Porter: ...You're not from around here, are you? You'd never see an Ala Mhigan strike up a conversation with a Radiata resident.
Ponderous Porter: But seeing as we're already talking, I have a job that's just right for an outsider like you. Talk with the girl behind that building over there, and she'll give you all the details. She's a bit testy, mind you.
-quest accepted

===Speak with the testy trader===
-optional start
Ponderous Porter: Did you find the lass I told you about? She's the one behind that building who looks ready to take a bite out of anyone who strays too close.
-optional end
Testy Trader: About bloody time. Here, take this supply crate and trade it with the merchant in Ala Ghiri for food. He's usually lurking in an alley somewhere. Shifty bastard. You'll know him when you see him.
Testy Trader: ''Do not'' tell him a Radiata native sent you. There'll be no grub for us if you do.

===Deliver the imperial supply crate to the Highlander merchant===
-optional start
Ponderous Porter: Sorry about the lass—she's really a sweetheart when her belly's not rumbling.
Testy Trader: Food. We need it. The trader in Ala Ghiri has it. Do I really need to explain this to you?
-optional end
Highlander Merchant: You want to trade, you'll show me the goods first. Then maybe we'll deal.

''The player hands over the {{i|Imperial Supply Crate}}.''

Highlander Merchant: Gods, these are military-issue Mark XLIII sedatives! High-quality stuff. Someone snatched a batch a while ago, but you wouldn't believe how quickly imperial medicines sell.
Highlander Merchant: Folk are always on edge around here, you see, never knowing when the Empire might decide to launch an assault. Some get so worked up that they can scarcely sleep without a little alchemical encouragement.
Highlander Merchant: How much do you want for them? I'm a bit curious how you came by this stash, but I'll take it off your hands all the same.
Highlander Merchant: ...Food? That's it—just food? All right, well here's a sackful of assorted edibles. Nice doing business with you!

===Deliver the sack of foodstuffs to the testy trader===
-optional start
Highlander Merchant: If you come across any more of those sedatives, you know where to find me!
-optional end
Testy Trader: Did you get the food? Tell me you got the food...

''The player hands over the {{i|Sack of Foodstuffs}}.''

Testy Trader: Oh, praise the heavens! And praise you, too, stranger. This'll be the first proper meal we've had in days...
Testy Trader: Go back and speak with my large friend, if you would—I'd wager he'd like to show his thanks as well.

===Speak with the ponderous porter===
-optional start
Testy Trader: Did you speak with my friend yet? I'm sure he'd like to thank you, too.
-optional end
Ponderous Porter: No troubles with the merchant, were there? Good. Take that sack to my irritable accomplice and watch her squeal with delight.
Ponderous Porter: Surprised to see us trading in imperial supplies? My quick-fingered friend once worked in a storeroom in Castrum Abania, and swiped those sedatives before she left.
Ponderous Porter: This settlement's full of those as used to labor for the imperial army. The folk in Ala Ghiri may have traded with the Empire, but even they spit on Radiatans—the army's "whipped curs," they call us.
Ponderous Porter: That's why we needed you to make the deal. If one of us dared to set foot in that town, they'd chase us out with a hail of stones. Or worse.
Ponderous Porter: But now we can eat our fill, get our strength back, and try to move on. Kind-hearted heroes like you are a godssend...
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=EUbjPIi0iIo}}

Second Chances

2026-07-20T21:33:44Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{otheruses|the [[sidequest]]|the [[achievement]]|Second Chances (Achievement)}}
{{Quest infobox
| title = Second Chances
| description = J'dyalani is not yet ready to give up on Baut.
| image = Out of Sight (Quest).png
| quest-giver = J'dyalani
| location = The Peaks
| location-x = 16.8
| location-y = 37.5
| type = side
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Peaks Sidequests
| sortkey = 8200
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 68
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 27000
| gil = 1000
| reward-opt1 = 1 HQ Palladium Ring of Healing
| reward-opt2 = 1 HQ Palladium Ring of Casting
| reward-opt3 = 3 Savage Aim Materia V
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = The Path Forward, Dragged Through the Mud
| next-quest = A Parting Gift
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68381
| id-edb = 176bf367932
}}
==Steps==
*Search for [[Baut]].
*Aid Baut.
*Report to [[Brazen Brook]].

==Journal==
*J'dyalani is not yet ready to give up on Baut.

*Not wishing to waste time, J'dyalani rushes off to the location described in Baut's note─northwest on the path to the Fringes.

*A pantera was preparing to rend the life from its willing victim just as you arrived. Your battle with the beast quickly ensues, and after a furious clash of claws and steel, it is at last brought low. With a sigh of relief you help Baut to his feet.

*Baut is less than pleased that you intervened, and your bringing J'dyalani does little to ease his frustration. When you explain that the Alliance had no intentions of executing him, he scoffs at their offer of clemency, claiming he would find another way to end his life. J'dyalani pleads with him to reconsider, reminding him that the people of Ala Ghiri care a great deal about him. As he continues to lament that he has nothing left to live for, she surprises him with what sounds oddly like a profession of love. Baut is so taken aback he can only laugh in response. The mood now lightened, he concedes to your requests and agrees to speak with the Alliance, granted J'dyalani helps him explain to the villagers he will not be put to death. As you all return to Ala Ghiri, you decide to pay a visit to Brazen Brook to share with him the good news.

*Brazen Brook is equal parts relieved and ecstatic to see that Baut has agreed to turn himself in. Moreover, the people of Ala Ghiri have not taken arms against the Allied forces in protest. He suspects there is still lingering mistrust of the Resistance and Eorzean Alliance, but he believes that, given time, Ala Ghiri will prosper as it once did so many years ago.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
J'dyalani: We can't let him go through with this, [Forename]!
J'dyalani: It looks like he's heading northwest, toward the Fringes. I pray we're not too late.
-quest accepted

===Search for Baut===
-optional start
J'dyalani: Don't worry about me. Save Baut!
-optional end

===Aid Baut===
-cutscene start
Baut: I suppose this is where I'm supposed to thank you for saving my life.
J'dyalani: Baut, [Forename]. Thank goodness you're both unharmed.
Baut: Why in the hells did you bring ''her'' here?
Baut: Hmph! Cowards, the lot of them! They would waste the chance to make an example of me.
J'dyalani: This is all our fault. If we hadn't shown such aggression to the Allied forces, they would have likely made their intentions clear ages ago.
Baut: You needn't apologize. If I had known they wouldn't kill me, I would have merely sought another way to death's door.
J'dyalani: But why!? You have so much to live for!
Baut: I have nothing! What is a man without his family? A soldier without his men? I've stained my hands with the blood of so many innocents, and for what?
J'dyalani: You still have Ala Ghiri! It would have been all too easy to stand by and watch as the soldiers taunted and tormented us, yet you chose to show us mercy.
Baut: Well, that was...
J'dyalani: After all the good you've done here, are we not worth living for? Am ''I'' not worth living for?
J'dyalani: I know I can never replace your family. I would never try. But I'd like to try and make you happy, if you'll let me.
Baut: Wh-What!?
J'dyalani: Has this obsession with loss truly made you so blind? The people of Ala Ghiri care about you, none more so than me. You brought light and hope back into our lives, and I would return that kindness a hundredfold if I can.
Baut: Yes, by all means. Let's get married, settle down here in the village, and fill our cottage with the pitter-patter of little feet.
J'dyalani: Marriage!? I-I didn't mean to—that's not to say I'm opposed to... Oh dear, this is all so sudden.
Baut: Before you let your imagination run wild, there's still the matter of my surrender to the Allied forces. I'm going to need your help in assuring the others that I won't be put to death.
J'dyalani: Yes, of course!
Baut: I suppose this is it. I know not what they have in store for me, but I will at last atone for my crimes. When they release me, well...it seems I have something worth waiting for. Thank you, for everything.
-cutscene end

===Report to Brazen Brook===
Brazen Brook: There {{alternatives|f=she|m=he}} is, the hero of the hour! I don't know how you did it, but J'dyalani returned just now with Baut in tow. He says he's ready to turn himself in!
Brazen Brook: What's more, public reaction to his surrender's been surprisingly calm. The last thing we need is to be fendin' off the people we came to save.
Brazen Brook: If you hadn't shown up when you did, I'm sure they'd be chasin' us out of here with pitchforks and torches by now.
Brazen Brook: To make sure they don't, we'll all be takin' a leaf out of Baut's book in building better relations with the townsfolk. It'll take some work, to be sure, but we'll get this place back to the way it used to be.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=vKwdniUwM2g}}

Second Chances

2026-07-20T21:33:35Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{otheruses|the [[sidequest]]|the [[achievement]]|Second Chances (Achievement)}}
{{Quest infobox
| title = Second Chances
| description = J'dyalani is not yet ready to give up on Baut.
| image = Out of Sight (Quest).png
| quest-giver = J'dyalani
| related-npcs = Baut; Brazen Brook
| location = The Peaks
| location-x = 16.8
| location-y = 37.5
| type = side
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Peaks Sidequests
| sortkey = 8200
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 68
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 27000
| gil = 1000
| reward-opt1 = 1 HQ Palladium Ring of Healing
| reward-opt2 = 1 HQ Palladium Ring of Casting
| reward-opt3 = 3 Savage Aim Materia V
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = The Path Forward, Dragged Through the Mud
| next-quest = A Parting Gift
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68381
| id-edb = 176bf367932
}}
==Steps==
*Search for [[Baut]].
*Aid Baut.
*Report to [[Brazen Brook]].

==Journal==
*J'dyalani is not yet ready to give up on Baut.

*Not wishing to waste time, J'dyalani rushes off to the location described in Baut's note─northwest on the path to the Fringes.

*A pantera was preparing to rend the life from its willing victim just as you arrived. Your battle with the beast quickly ensues, and after a furious clash of claws and steel, it is at last brought low. With a sigh of relief you help Baut to his feet.

*Baut is less than pleased that you intervened, and your bringing J'dyalani does little to ease his frustration. When you explain that the Alliance had no intentions of executing him, he scoffs at their offer of clemency, claiming he would find another way to end his life. J'dyalani pleads with him to reconsider, reminding him that the people of Ala Ghiri care a great deal about him. As he continues to lament that he has nothing left to live for, she surprises him with what sounds oddly like a profession of love. Baut is so taken aback he can only laugh in response. The mood now lightened, he concedes to your requests and agrees to speak with the Alliance, granted J'dyalani helps him explain to the villagers he will not be put to death. As you all return to Ala Ghiri, you decide to pay a visit to Brazen Brook to share with him the good news.

*Brazen Brook is equal parts relieved and ecstatic to see that Baut has agreed to turn himself in. Moreover, the people of Ala Ghiri have not taken arms against the Allied forces in protest. He suspects there is still lingering mistrust of the Resistance and Eorzean Alliance, but he believes that, given time, Ala Ghiri will prosper as it once did so many years ago.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
J'dyalani: We can't let him go through with this, [Forename]!
J'dyalani: It looks like he's heading northwest, toward the Fringes. I pray we're not too late.
-quest accepted

===Search for Baut===
-optional start
J'dyalani: Don't worry about me. Save Baut!
-optional end

===Aid Baut===
-cutscene start
Baut: I suppose this is where I'm supposed to thank you for saving my life.
J'dyalani: Baut, [Forename]. Thank goodness you're both unharmed.
Baut: Why in the hells did you bring ''her'' here?
Baut: Hmph! Cowards, the lot of them! They would waste the chance to make an example of me.
J'dyalani: This is all our fault. If we hadn't shown such aggression to the Allied forces, they would have likely made their intentions clear ages ago.
Baut: You needn't apologize. If I had known they wouldn't kill me, I would have merely sought another way to death's door.
J'dyalani: But why!? You have so much to live for!
Baut: I have nothing! What is a man without his family? A soldier without his men? I've stained my hands with the blood of so many innocents, and for what?
J'dyalani: You still have Ala Ghiri! It would have been all too easy to stand by and watch as the soldiers taunted and tormented us, yet you chose to show us mercy.
Baut: Well, that was...
J'dyalani: After all the good you've done here, are we not worth living for? Am ''I'' not worth living for?
J'dyalani: I know I can never replace your family. I would never try. But I'd like to try and make you happy, if you'll let me.
Baut: Wh-What!?
J'dyalani: Has this obsession with loss truly made you so blind? The people of Ala Ghiri care about you, none more so than me. You brought light and hope back into our lives, and I would return that kindness a hundredfold if I can.
Baut: Yes, by all means. Let's get married, settle down here in the village, and fill our cottage with the pitter-patter of little feet.
J'dyalani: Marriage!? I-I didn't mean to—that's not to say I'm opposed to... Oh dear, this is all so sudden.
Baut: Before you let your imagination run wild, there's still the matter of my surrender to the Allied forces. I'm going to need your help in assuring the others that I won't be put to death.
J'dyalani: Yes, of course!
Baut: I suppose this is it. I know not what they have in store for me, but I will at last atone for my crimes. When they release me, well...it seems I have something worth waiting for. Thank you, for everything.
-cutscene end

===Report to Brazen Brook===
Brazen Brook: There {{alternatives|f=she|m=he}} is, the hero of the hour! I don't know how you did it, but J'dyalani returned just now with Baut in tow. He says he's ready to turn himself in!
Brazen Brook: What's more, public reaction to his surrender's been surprisingly calm. The last thing we need is to be fendin' off the people we came to save.
Brazen Brook: If you hadn't shown up when you did, I'm sure they'd be chasin' us out of here with pitchforks and torches by now.
Brazen Brook: To make sure they don't, we'll all be takin' a leaf out of Baut's book in building better relations with the townsfolk. It'll take some work, to be sure, but we'll get this place back to the way it used to be.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
{{quest video archive|id=vKwdniUwM2g}}

Dragged through the Mud

2026-07-20T21:23:22Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = Dragged Through the Mud
| description = Baut has a plan to smear his reputation.
| image = Out of Sight (Quest).png
| quest-giver = Baut
| location = The Peaks
| location-x = 16.8
| location-y = 37.4
| type = side
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Peaks Sidequests
| sortkey = 8190
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 68
| requirements =
| req-items = 1 Baut's Ring
| exp = 27000
| gil = 900
| reward-opt1 = 1 HQ Palladium Ring of Fending
| reward-opt2 = 1 HQ Palladium Ring of Slaying
| reward-opt3 = 1 HQ Palladium Ring of Aiming
| reward-opt4 = 3 Savage Might Materia V
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = The Path Forward, Public Opinion
| next-quest = Second Chances
| patch = 4.0
| release = stormblood
| id-gt = 68380
| id-edb = 4dd3b7a1b57
}}

==Steps==
*Show [[Baut's Ring|Baut's ring]] to [[J'dyalani]].
*Return Baut's ring to [[Baut]].
*Speak with J'dyalani.
*Speak with [[Brazen Brook]].
*Speak with J'dyalani.

==Journal==
* Baut has a plan to smear his reputation.

* Baut intends to ruin the villagers' perception of him through a rumor of his own creation. Taking his ring in hand, he plans for you to go about town claiming he is the man responsible for the death of one of the village's holy men shortly after his arrival. Before setting the rumor to spinning, however, he suggests gauging the reaction of a single individual. The victim he has chosen is J'dyalani.

* You show J'dyalani the ring and relay to her Baut's rumor. Her feigned shock is short-lived as she is certain you would never do anything to damage his reputation. She asks you to remind Baut that, regardless of any crimes he has committed in the past, the people of Ala Ghiri are only concerned with the kind-hearted man he has shown himself to be since arriving there.

* Baut is disappointed to hear J'dyalani was able to see through his lie so easily. He asks you to speak with her once more, hoping she will help you convince the villagers with the truth rather than falsehoods. In the meantime, he will continue deliberating on his next course of action.

* In light of Baut's situation, J'dyalani concedes that speaking with a member Alliance could potentially solve their problems. You mention that he has been working with Brazen Brook to arrange his surrender, and she grows concerned that his arrest─and execution─are imminent. She insists on speaking with Brazen Brook at once, hoping to convince him to spare Baut's life.

* J'dyalani pleads for Baut's life, going so far as to offer herself in his stead. Brazen Brook can only answer her with confusion. He soon makes clear that they have no intentions of executing Baut. Rather, they need to question him regarding documents left behind by the Garleans after they fled Ala Ghiri. J'dyalani is pleased to hear this, and leaves to go share the good news.

* You return to speak with Baut, but find only a note in his place. J'dyalani's eyes grow wide with horror as you read aloud the note's contents. Still haunted by the past, Baut means to end his own life, and asks that you deliver his head to the Allied forces. You must move quickly if you are to save him.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Baut: We'll need a good lie if we're going to change their opinions of me. Hmmm...
Baut: I've got it! A holy man here in Ala Ghiri was slain shortly after my arrival, just before I took command. It was the former imperial commander who killed him, but you can tell people it was me.
Baut: Take my ring as proof. Say it was a keepsake of his, and that I pried it from his cold, dead hands.
Baut: They'll be so blinded with hate, execution will seem too good a punishment for me.
Baut: Then again, if people see through the lie, it wouldn't do well for your reputation to be speaking so poorly of me.
Baut: Maybe we should start with just one person, and gauge their reaction before we set the rumor mill to spinning. Try speaking with J'dyalani, and see if this gets her blood boiling.
-quest accepted

===Show Baut's ring to J'dyalani===
-optional start
Baut: Would that I could see her reaction to the news, but she would never believe it coming from me. See how she takes it, then report back here.
-optional end
J'dyalani: Hm? What's this about Baut?

''The player hands over the {{i|Baut's Ring}}.''

J'dyalani: How awful! The people of Ala Ghiri will be furious to hear of this. Why, they might even consider handing him over to the Allied forces...which is exactly what he wants, isn't it?
J'dyalani: I haven't known you long, but I know an honorable {{alternatives|f=woman|m=man}} when I see one. I refuse to believe you would try to smear his reputation and turn us against him. I can imagine why he might try, though.
J'dyalani: When you return to Baut, you can tell him what I've told him countless times before: no matter what horrible deeds he may have done in the past, no one is beyond forgiveness.
J'dyalani: Travelers come and go from Ala Ghiri quite often, but should they wish to stay, who they were before coming here doesn't matter.
J'dyalani: We have no interest in the man Baut used to be, only the man he is now. Even if he was a murderer in the past, he's been nothing but kind to us since arriving here. The man we know has a gentle soul, and that is why we protect him.

===Return Baut's ring to Baut===
-optional start
J'dyalani: No matter what he says, he cannot change our minds. We could never send such a kind-hearted man away to be executed by the Eorzeans.
-optional end
Baut: How did she take the news? She was absolutely livid, wasn't she? Tell me everything.

''The player hands over the {{i|Baut's Ring}}.''

Baut: They only care about the man I am now? And what sort of man am I supposed to be, hm? My family is dead, I can't return to the Garleans...
Baut: But that's not your concern. It seems it'll take more than a nasty rumor to sway their opinions of me.
Baut: I'll have to think of something soon, though. It's only a matter of time before the Alliance decides it's done waiting.
Baut: Could you try speaking with J'dyalani once more? Not to spread more falsehoods, but about persuading the townsfolk to let me turn myself in peacefully. Hopefully inspiration will strike by the time you return.

===Speak with J'dyalani===
-optional start
Baut: I'm sure something will come to me. In the meantime, see if you can't persuade J'dyalani to help you speak with the townsfolk.
-optional end
J'dyalani: Let me guess. Baut sent you again, didn't he?
J'dyalani: He can conjure up whatever lies he likes, but he cannot change our minds. Though I suppose I can understand his worry.
J'dyalani: <sigh> I'm loath to admit it, but entreating the Alliance could resolve all this. It could also make things much worse...
J'dyalani: If only there was someone among them who knew what a kind and caring man Baut is. Perhaps then we could convince them to show him mercy.
J'dyalani: Baut has been speaking with Brazen Brook in private about his surrender? Does this mean the Allied forces will soon come for him?
J'dyalani: Let's go and speak with him, while there's still time.

===Speak with Brazen Brook===
-cutscene start
Brazen Brook: Ah, you've brought company. What can I do for the two of you?
Brazen Brook: An appeal on Baut's behalf? I'm not sure I follow...
J'dyalani: Please, Brazen Brook, is there nothing you can do to have him pardoned? Or better yet, take me in his stead. Say I am his accomplice, and I will tell your superiors anything they wish to hear.
Brazen Brook: Whoa! Calm down, miss. No one wants to help him more than I do.
Brazen Brook: That said, he's still a soldier of the Garlean Empire. An imperial centurion at that. As a member of the Resistance, I have a duty to take him into custody.
J'dyalani: You can't! The people of Ala Ghiri will not stand for his execution!
Brazen Brook: What!? Who said anythin' about an execution?
J'dyalani: But... The Garleans told us you kill all the soldiers you capture.
Brazen Brook: For goodness' sake, we're not savages. We're in the middle of assessin' the documents and supplies they left behind, and his testimony as to what we've found is sorely needed.
Brazen Brook: Everyone's made it quite clear how his presence has improved livin' conditions here, so I suspect my superiors'll be fairly lenient. That's not to say he won't face punishment, mind you, but he's got to come in for questionin'.
J'dyalani: I...I see... After so many years under their rule, the Garleans had convinced us you were no better, if not worse, than they were. On behalf of all the people of Ala Ghiri, I offer you our sincerest apologies.
J'dyalani: Thank you for clearing up this terrible misunderstanding. Baut will no doubt be relieved to hear of this.
J'dyalani: Let's go and share the good news.
-cutscene end

===Speak with J'dyalani===
-optional start
Brazen Brook: What sort of lies have the Garleans been feedin' them all this time? <sigh> I suppose it doesn't matter now. The people'll come around eventually.
-optional end
J'dyalani: It seems Baut has left us a note?
J'dyalani@Note from Baut: ''Dear [Forename], The time has come to bid you my final farewell. Try as I might to focus on the present, the past still haunts me—my family calls. If you can find it within you to grant me one last favor, I bid you deliver my head to the Allied forces. I have enclosed instructions to this end.''
J'dyalani: No... No, he can't! [Forename], we have to stop him!
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

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Dragged through the Mud

2026-07-20T21:23:07Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = Dragged Through the Mud
| description = Baut has a plan to smear his reputation.
| image = Out of Sight (Quest).png
| quest-giver = Baut
| related-npcs = Brazen Brook; J'dyalani
| location = The Peaks
| location-x = 16.8
| location-y = 37.4
| type = side
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Peaks Sidequests
| sortkey = 8190
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 68
| requirements =
| req-items = 1 Baut's Ring
| exp = 27000
| gil = 900
| reward-opt1 = 1 HQ Palladium Ring of Fending
| reward-opt2 = 1 HQ Palladium Ring of Slaying
| reward-opt3 = 1 HQ Palladium Ring of Aiming
| reward-opt4 = 3 Savage Might Materia V
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = The Path Forward, Public Opinion
| next-quest = Second Chances
| patch = 4.0
| release = stormblood
| id-gt = 68380
| id-edb = 4dd3b7a1b57
}}

==Steps==
*Show [[Baut's Ring|Baut's ring]] to [[J'dyalani]].
*Return Baut's ring to [[Baut]].
*Speak with J'dyalani.
*Speak with [[Brazen Brook]].
*Speak with J'dyalani.

==Journal==
* Baut has a plan to smear his reputation.

* Baut intends to ruin the villagers' perception of him through a rumor of his own creation. Taking his ring in hand, he plans for you to go about town claiming he is the man responsible for the death of one of the village's holy men shortly after his arrival. Before setting the rumor to spinning, however, he suggests gauging the reaction of a single individual. The victim he has chosen is J'dyalani.

* You show J'dyalani the ring and relay to her Baut's rumor. Her feigned shock is short-lived as she is certain you would never do anything to damage his reputation. She asks you to remind Baut that, regardless of any crimes he has committed in the past, the people of Ala Ghiri are only concerned with the kind-hearted man he has shown himself to be since arriving there.

* Baut is disappointed to hear J'dyalani was able to see through his lie so easily. He asks you to speak with her once more, hoping she will help you convince the villagers with the truth rather than falsehoods. In the meantime, he will continue deliberating on his next course of action.

* In light of Baut's situation, J'dyalani concedes that speaking with a member Alliance could potentially solve their problems. You mention that he has been working with Brazen Brook to arrange his surrender, and she grows concerned that his arrest─and execution─are imminent. She insists on speaking with Brazen Brook at once, hoping to convince him to spare Baut's life.

* J'dyalani pleads for Baut's life, going so far as to offer herself in his stead. Brazen Brook can only answer her with confusion. He soon makes clear that they have no intentions of executing Baut. Rather, they need to question him regarding documents left behind by the Garleans after they fled Ala Ghiri. J'dyalani is pleased to hear this, and leaves to go share the good news.

* You return to speak with Baut, but find only a note in his place. J'dyalani's eyes grow wide with horror as you read aloud the note's contents. Still haunted by the past, Baut means to end his own life, and asks that you deliver his head to the Allied forces. You must move quickly if you are to save him.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Baut: We'll need a good lie if we're going to change their opinions of me. Hmmm...
Baut: I've got it! A holy man here in Ala Ghiri was slain shortly after my arrival, just before I took command. It was the former imperial commander who killed him, but you can tell people it was me.
Baut: Take my ring as proof. Say it was a keepsake of his, and that I pried it from his cold, dead hands.
Baut: They'll be so blinded with hate, execution will seem too good a punishment for me.
Baut: Then again, if people see through the lie, it wouldn't do well for your reputation to be speaking so poorly of me.
Baut: Maybe we should start with just one person, and gauge their reaction before we set the rumor mill to spinning. Try speaking with J'dyalani, and see if this gets her blood boiling.
-quest accepted

===Show Baut's ring to J'dyalani===
-optional start
Baut: Would that I could see her reaction to the news, but she would never believe it coming from me. See how she takes it, then report back here.
-optional end
J'dyalani: Hm? What's this about Baut?

''The player hands over the {{i|Baut's Ring}}.''

J'dyalani: How awful! The people of Ala Ghiri will be furious to hear of this. Why, they might even consider handing him over to the Allied forces...which is exactly what he wants, isn't it?
J'dyalani: I haven't known you long, but I know an honorable {{alternatives|f=woman|m=man}} when I see one. I refuse to believe you would try to smear his reputation and turn us against him. I can imagine why he might try, though.
J'dyalani: When you return to Baut, you can tell him what I've told him countless times before: no matter what horrible deeds he may have done in the past, no one is beyond forgiveness.
J'dyalani: Travelers come and go from Ala Ghiri quite often, but should they wish to stay, who they were before coming here doesn't matter.
J'dyalani: We have no interest in the man Baut used to be, only the man he is now. Even if he was a murderer in the past, he's been nothing but kind to us since arriving here. The man we know has a gentle soul, and that is why we protect him.

===Return Baut's ring to Baut===
-optional start
J'dyalani: No matter what he says, he cannot change our minds. We could never send such a kind-hearted man away to be executed by the Eorzeans.
-optional end
Baut: How did she take the news? She was absolutely livid, wasn't she? Tell me everything.

''The player hands over the {{i|Baut's Ring}}.''

Baut: They only care about the man I am now? And what sort of man am I supposed to be, hm? My family is dead, I can't return to the Garleans...
Baut: But that's not your concern. It seems it'll take more than a nasty rumor to sway their opinions of me.
Baut: I'll have to think of something soon, though. It's only a matter of time before the Alliance decides it's done waiting.
Baut: Could you try speaking with J'dyalani once more? Not to spread more falsehoods, but about persuading the townsfolk to let me turn myself in peacefully. Hopefully inspiration will strike by the time you return.

===Speak with J'dyalani===
-optional start
Baut: I'm sure something will come to me. In the meantime, see if you can't persuade J'dyalani to help you speak with the townsfolk.
-optional end
J'dyalani: Let me guess. Baut sent you again, didn't he?
J'dyalani: He can conjure up whatever lies he likes, but he cannot change our minds. Though I suppose I can understand his worry.
J'dyalani: <sigh> I'm loath to admit it, but entreating the Alliance could resolve all this. It could also make things much worse...
J'dyalani: If only there was someone among them who knew what a kind and caring man Baut is. Perhaps then we could convince them to show him mercy.
J'dyalani: Baut has been speaking with Brazen Brook in private about his surrender? Does this mean the Allied forces will soon come for him?
J'dyalani: Let's go and speak with him, while there's still time.

===Speak with Brazen Brook===
-cutscene start
Brazen Brook: Ah, you've brought company. What can I do for the two of you?
Brazen Brook: An appeal on Baut's behalf? I'm not sure I follow...
J'dyalani: Please, Brazen Brook, is there nothing you can do to have him pardoned? Or better yet, take me in his stead. Say I am his accomplice, and I will tell your superiors anything they wish to hear.
Brazen Brook: Whoa! Calm down, miss. No one wants to help him more than I do.
Brazen Brook: That said, he's still a soldier of the Garlean Empire. An imperial centurion at that. As a member of the Resistance, I have a duty to take him into custody.
J'dyalani: You can't! The people of Ala Ghiri will not stand for his execution!
Brazen Brook: What!? Who said anythin' about an execution?
J'dyalani: But... The Garleans told us you kill all the soldiers you capture.
Brazen Brook: For goodness' sake, we're not savages. We're in the middle of assessin' the documents and supplies they left behind, and his testimony as to what we've found is sorely needed.
Brazen Brook: Everyone's made it quite clear how his presence has improved livin' conditions here, so I suspect my superiors'll be fairly lenient. That's not to say he won't face punishment, mind you, but he's got to come in for questionin'.
J'dyalani: I...I see... After so many years under their rule, the Garleans had convinced us you were no better, if not worse, than they were. On behalf of all the people of Ala Ghiri, I offer you our sincerest apologies.
J'dyalani: Thank you for clearing up this terrible misunderstanding. Baut will no doubt be relieved to hear of this.
J'dyalani: Let's go and share the good news.
-cutscene end

===Speak with J'dyalani===
-optional start
Brazen Brook: What sort of lies have the Garleans been feedin' them all this time? <sigh> I suppose it doesn't matter now. The people'll come around eventually.
-optional end
J'dyalani: It seems Baut has left us a note?
J'dyalani@Note from Baut: ''Dear [Forename], The time has come to bid you my final farewell. Try as I might to focus on the present, the past still haunts me—my family calls. If you can find it within you to grant me one last favor, I bid you deliver my head to the Allied forces. I have enclosed instructions to this end.''
J'dyalani: No... No, he can't! [Forename], we have to stop him!
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

==Video Archive==
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Public Opinion

2026-07-20T21:17:42Z

Colburn: Remove related-npcs from quest infobox

{{Quest infobox
| title = Public Opinion
| description = Baut is ready to get to the root of his problem.
| image = Out of Sight (Quest).png
| quest-giver = Baut
| location = The Peaks
| location-x = 16.8
| location-y = 37.4
| type = side
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Peaks Sidequests
| sortkey = 8180
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 68
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 27000
| gil = 800
| reward-opt1 = 1 HQ Palladium Bracelet of Healing
| reward-opt2 = 1 HQ Palladium Bracelet of Casting
| reward-opt3 = 3 Savage Aim Materia V
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = The Path Forward, Out of Sight
| next-quest = Dragged Through the Mud
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68379
| id-edb = 6256dd0a242
}}
==Steps==
*Gather information about [[Baut]].

*Speak with [[J'dyalani]].

*Rendezvous with J'dyalani.

*Examine the spinner's web and slay the spitting spinners.

*Speak with J'dyalani.

*Report to Baut.

==Journal==
*Baut is ready to get to the root of his problem.

*Before trying to convince the townsfolk of anything, Baut would first learn why they choose to defend him so fiercely. To that end, he suggests the two of you split up and learn what you can about why they adore him so.

*The people you speak with tell you of Baut's kindness and willingness to defend them from his fellow Garlean soldiers. One man, preoccupied with carrying cargo, suggests you speak with J'dyalani to learn more.

*J'dyalani agrees to tell you about Baut under one condition: you must accompany her outside of town to exterminate spinners that have built a nest close by. With no other options, you concede and follow her out into the barren lands of Wightrock.

*It is not long before you arrive at your destination. As you approach, she directs your attention to the spinner's nest, taking care to remain at a safe distance. You ready your blade and prepare to flush the beasts out of hiding.

*Despite their numbers, the spinners are no match for you. Perhaps now you can finally learn why the villagers are so protective of Baut.

*J'dyalani explains to you the hopeless situation the people of Ala Ghiri found themselves in, and how their living conditions quickly improved when Baut assumed command there. You wonder how he will react, knowing his actions are the source of their adoration.

*When you explain to Baut the villagers' reasons for defending him, he begins by asserting he merely grew tired of his men abusing them. As his explanation continues, it becomes clear the real reason for his compassion: their suffering reminded him of his deceased wife and children who he had been fighting to rescue from life under Garlean rule. Putting his recollections aside, Baut is ready to move on to the next step of his plan─convincing the townsfolk that he is not worth protecting.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Baut: So you'll help, then? Good, good.
Baut: For a start, it'd be nice to know why they're so insistent on protecting me in the first place.
Baut: Though I'd love to spare my blushes and leave this all to you, we need to hear from as many people as we can. How about we both make a sweep of the village and meet back here?
-quest accepted

===Gather information about Baut===
-optional start
Baut: You go on ahead. I need to figure out a good way to broach the subject without embarrassing myself.
J'dyalani: <sigh> I suppose if the spinners are to be exterminated I'll have to seek help from the soldiers after all.
-optional end
Light-hearted Lass: I never did anything wrong, but the Garlemans would always hit me. Mister Baut was different, though. He was always there to cheer me up, and he'd play with me sometimes. Do you think these new people will play with me too?
Affable Elder: If Baut hadn't stopped his men, I wouldn't be standing here before you. He was hard, but fair, and now these Resistance fighters have taken over the place. Sure, they seem friendly now, but just you wait...
Diligent Youth: I think it's fair to say we all owe Baut a great debt. I'd tell you more, but as you can see, I'm a little busy. Why not go talk to J'dyalani?

===Speak with J'dyalani===
J'dyalani: Ah, the adventurer from before. [Forename], was it? You wish to know more about Baut?
J'dyalani: I would love to tell you all about him, but first, I must ask a favor.
J'dyalani: The village has been plagued by spitting spinners as of late. I took a look around, and discovered they've built a nest close by.
J'dyalani: I considered petitioning the soldiers for aid, but you seem more than capable of the job. Help me get rid of the nest and I'll tell you everything you want to know. Agreed?
J'dyalani: Excellent. Let's get going, then. I'll lead the way.

===Rendezvous with J'dyalani===
J'dyalani: There you are. The nest is just ahead.

===Examine the spinner's web and slay the spitting spinners===
-optional start
J'dyalani: Be careful. Their spit is quite poisonous.
-optional end

===Speak with J'dyalani===
J'dyalani: Thank you ever so much. I can't tell you how many we've nearly lost trying to do away with those horrible things.
J'dyalani: Sadly this isn't the first time they've caused us trouble. When the Garleans first took Ala Ghiri, these lands were rife with spinners for a time. Though we begged for help, our pleas fell on deaf ears.
J'dyalani: Our village is meant to be a trading hub, so you'd think they would protect such a place, but no. They would come only to get deep in their cups, or take out their frustrations on whoever happened to be present at the time.
J'dyalani: If we weren't suffering at the hands of drunken soldiers, we were fending for our lives against all manner of beast with whatever makeshift weapons we could find. There was nothing we could do but endure their mocking laughter as we struggled to survive.
J'dyalani: Baut changed all that. After he came and assumed command, he immediately put an end to our misery. The difference in our treatment was like night and day.
J'dyalani: He gave us our lives back, which is more than I can say for what the Allied forces are like to do for us.
J'dyalani: Baut is a good man, and I hope in time you'll come to see him as we do.

===Report to Baut===
Baut: No matter who I talked to, there was too much beating around the bush to get any clear answers. Did they tell you anything useful?
Baut: They said all that? Well, I'm no saint. I was just tired of seeing my men beat them bloody all the time. I'd seen enough of it before coming here.
Baut: It's amazing how treatment of the Empire's subjects can vary from place to place. There are territories where life is unchanged by the Garleans' presence, and yet there are others whose denizens would welcome death with open arms.
Baut: The only escape from either is to join their armies. If you manage to survive twenty years of service, you and your family can earn citizenship, a chance to have a good life.
Baut: Needless to say I jumped at the opportunity. I fought and I fought until before I knew it, I was an imperial centurion.
Baut: But it was too late. Shortly after my promotion, I received word of my family's death, snatched away by some widespread illness.
Baut: The suffering of these people only served to remind me of my loss, so I put an end to it. Simple as that.
Baut: Yet still they thank me, after I've killed so many. I'll never understand such nonsense.
Baut: At least now we know for certain the reason for their adoration. Now we just have to convince them I'm not worth protecting.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

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Public Opinion

2026-07-20T21:17:31Z

Colburn: /* Dialogue */ Use dialogue template

{{Quest infobox
| title = Public Opinion
| description = Baut is ready to get to the root of his problem.
| image = Out of Sight (Quest).png
| quest-giver = Baut
| related-npcs = Affable Elder; Diligent Youth; J'dyalani; Light-hearted Lass
| location = The Peaks
| location-x = 16.8
| location-y = 37.4
| type = side
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Peaks Sidequests
| sortkey = 8180
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 68
| requirements =
| req-items =
| exp = 27000
| gil = 800
| reward-opt1 = 1 HQ Palladium Bracelet of Healing
| reward-opt2 = 1 HQ Palladium Bracelet of Casting
| reward-opt3 = 3 Savage Aim Materia V
| unlocks =
| prev-quest = The Path Forward, Out of Sight
| next-quest = Dragged Through the Mud
| release = stormblood
| patch = 4.0
| id-gt = 68379
| id-edb = 6256dd0a242
}}
==Steps==
*Gather information about [[Baut]].

*Speak with [[J'dyalani]].

*Rendezvous with J'dyalani.

*Examine the spinner's web and slay the spitting spinners.

*Speak with J'dyalani.

*Report to Baut.

==Journal==
*Baut is ready to get to the root of his problem.

*Before trying to convince the townsfolk of anything, Baut would first learn why they choose to defend him so fiercely. To that end, he suggests the two of you split up and learn what you can about why they adore him so.

*The people you speak with tell you of Baut's kindness and willingness to defend them from his fellow Garlean soldiers. One man, preoccupied with carrying cargo, suggests you speak with J'dyalani to learn more.

*J'dyalani agrees to tell you about Baut under one condition: you must accompany her outside of town to exterminate spinners that have built a nest close by. With no other options, you concede and follow her out into the barren lands of Wightrock.

*It is not long before you arrive at your destination. As you approach, she directs your attention to the spinner's nest, taking care to remain at a safe distance. You ready your blade and prepare to flush the beasts out of hiding.

*Despite their numbers, the spinners are no match for you. Perhaps now you can finally learn why the villagers are so protective of Baut.

*J'dyalani explains to you the hopeless situation the people of Ala Ghiri found themselves in, and how their living conditions quickly improved when Baut assumed command there. You wonder how he will react, knowing his actions are the source of their adoration.

*When you explain to Baut the villagers' reasons for defending him, he begins by asserting he merely grew tired of his men abusing them. As his explanation continues, it becomes clear the real reason for his compassion: their suffering reminded him of his deceased wife and children who he had been fighting to rescue from life under Garlean rule. Putting his recollections aside, Baut is ready to move on to the next step of his plan─convincing the townsfolk that he is not worth protecting.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Baut: So you'll help, then? Good, good.
Baut: For a start, it'd be nice to know why they're so insistent on protecting me in the first place.
Baut: Though I'd love to spare my blushes and leave this all to you, we need to hear from as many people as we can. How about we both make a sweep of the village and meet back here?
-quest accepted

===Gather information about Baut===
-optional start
Baut: You go on ahead. I need to figure out a good way to broach the subject without embarrassing myself.
J'dyalani: <sigh> I suppose if the spinners are to be exterminated I'll have to seek help from the soldiers after all.
-optional end
Light-hearted Lass: I never did anything wrong, but the Garlemans would always hit me. Mister Baut was different, though. He was always there to cheer me up, and he'd play with me sometimes. Do you think these new people will play with me too?
Affable Elder: If Baut hadn't stopped his men, I wouldn't be standing here before you. He was hard, but fair, and now these Resistance fighters have taken over the place. Sure, they seem friendly now, but just you wait...
Diligent Youth: I think it's fair to say we all owe Baut a great debt. I'd tell you more, but as you can see, I'm a little busy. Why not go talk to J'dyalani?

===Speak with J'dyalani===
J'dyalani: Ah, the adventurer from before. [Forename], was it? You wish to know more about Baut?
J'dyalani: I would love to tell you all about him, but first, I must ask a favor.
J'dyalani: The village has been plagued by spitting spinners as of late. I took a look around, and discovered they've built a nest close by.
J'dyalani: I considered petitioning the soldiers for aid, but you seem more than capable of the job. Help me get rid of the nest and I'll tell you everything you want to know. Agreed?
J'dyalani: Excellent. Let's get going, then. I'll lead the way.

===Rendezvous with J'dyalani===
J'dyalani: There you are. The nest is just ahead.

===Examine the spinner's web and slay the spitting spinners===
-optional start
J'dyalani: Be careful. Their spit is quite poisonous.
-optional end

===Speak with J'dyalani===
J'dyalani: Thank you ever so much. I can't tell you how many we've nearly lost trying to do away with those horrible things.
J'dyalani: Sadly this isn't the first time they've caused us trouble. When the Garleans first took Ala Ghiri, these lands were rife with spinners for a time. Though we begged for help, our pleas fell on deaf ears.
J'dyalani: Our village is meant to be a trading hub, so you'd think they would protect such a place, but no. They would come only to get deep in their cups, or take out their frustrations on whoever happened to be present at the time.
J'dyalani: If we weren't suffering at the hands of drunken soldiers, we were fending for our lives against all manner of beast with whatever makeshift weapons we could find. There was nothing we could do but endure their mocking laughter as we struggled to survive.
J'dyalani: Baut changed all that. After he came and assumed command, he immediately put an end to our misery. The difference in our treatment was like night and day.
J'dyalani: He gave us our lives back, which is more than I can say for what the Allied forces are like to do for us.
J'dyalani: Baut is a good man, and I hope in time you'll come to see him as we do.

===Report to Baut===
Baut: No matter who I talked to, there was too much beating around the bush to get any clear answers. Did they tell you anything useful?
Baut: They said all that? Well, I'm no saint. I was just tired of seeing my men beat them bloody all the time. I'd seen enough of it before coming here.
Baut: It's amazing how treatment of the Empire's subjects can vary from place to place. There are territories where life is unchanged by the Garleans' presence, and yet there are others whose denizens would welcome death with open arms.
Baut: The only escape from either is to join their armies. If you manage to survive twenty years of service, you and your family can earn citizenship, a chance to have a good life.
Baut: Needless to say I jumped at the opportunity. I fought and I fought until before I knew it, I was an imperial centurion.
Baut: But it was too late. Shortly after my promotion, I received word of my family's death, snatched away by some widespread illness.
Baut: The suffering of these people only served to remind me of my loss, so I put an end to it. Simple as that.
Baut: Yet still they thank me, after I've killed so many. I'll never understand such nonsense.
Baut: At least now we know for certain the reason for their adoration. Now we just have to convince them I'm not worth protecting.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

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Out of Sight

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{{other uses|The [[Aether Currents|aether current]] quest|the [[achievement]]|Out of Sight (Achievement)}}
{{Quest infobox
| title = Out of Sight
| description = [[Brazen Brook]] needs help with a rather delicate situation.
| image = Out of Sight (Quest).png
| quest-giver = Brazen Brook
| location = The Peaks
| location-x = 14.9
| location-y = 36.6
| type = feature
| quest-line =
| journal-section = Sidequests
| journal-category = Gyr Abanian Sidequests
| journal-genre = Peaks Sidequests
| sortkey = 8170
| organization =
| class =
| job =
| level = 68
| req-quest = The Path Forward
| req-items =
| requirements =
| exp = 27000
| gil = 800
| mettle =
| reward(1-10) =
| overridereward(1-10) =
| reward-opt1 = 1 HQ Palladium Bracelet of Fending
| reward-opt2 = 1 HQ Palladium Bracelet of Slaying
| reward-opt3 = 1 HQ Palladium Bracelet of Aiming
| reward-opt4 = 3 Savage Might Materia V
| overridereward-opt(1-8) =
| unlocks = cur Aether Current
| prev-quest =
| next-quest = Public Opinion
| patch = 4.0
| release = stormblood
| id-edb = 66ba617ee5c
| id-gt = 68378
}}

==Steps==
*Speak with [[Baut]].
*Gather information about Baut. 0/3
*Speak with Baut.

==Journal==
* Brazen Brook needs help with a rather delicate situation.

* As Brazen Brook tells it, a single man is responsible for the Alliance's effortless reclaiming of Ala Ghiri. The problem, however, is they are unable to bring this man in for inquiry. Afraid to speak more on the matter out in the open, he insists you speak with Baut, the person in question.

* Baut is startled by your presence, but is soon relieved when you explain Brazen Brook sent you to help. The reason for his initial panic is made clear when he reveals that he is, in fact, a centurion of the Garlean forces. He ordered his men to retreat in lieu of a crushing defeat at the hands of the Alliance, but ran into an unexpected problem when attempting to turn himself in. To better explain his predicament, he insists you speak with the people of Ala Ghiri and hear what they have to say of him.

* You speak with the people of Ala Ghiri, and their responses are not what one would expect. Baut appears to be well-liked, with some townsfolk being surprisingly protective of him. As the pieces of the puzzle slowly fall into place, you return to speak with him and confirm your findings.

* Baut has found himself in a precarious position. Resigned to being a prisoner of war, the Alliance has yet to take him into custody for fear of a revolt from the villagers who have, for reasons unknown, grown to care for him like one of their own. Not wishing for them to come to harm, Baut asks for your help in persuading the villagers to allow for his peaceful surrender.

==Dialogue==
{{Dialogue|<nowiki>
===Accepting the quest===
Brazen Brook: Hey, you're that adventurer everyone's been talkin' about, aren't you? Just the {{alternatives|f=woman|m=man}} I wanted to see. You've a bit of time to spare, I hope?
Brazen Brook: It seemed a bloody miracle we managed to take Ala Ghiri without spillin' a drop of blood, but it was all thanks to one man, a man the Alliance would very much like to speak with. Gettin' him to come in for questionin', however, has proven more trouble than we thought.
Brazen Brook: It's not my place to be dealing with this, to be honest with you, but I think it'd be best to resolve the matter quietly if possible. Things could get messy around here if the Alliance or the Resistance start kickin' up a fuss.
Brazen Brook: I'm like to draw attention if I leave my post, but you adventurers are free to move about as you please. So what do you say? Can you give me a hand?
Brazen Brook: You adventurers are good folk. Now I really shouldn't say much more out here in the open. You best go and speak with him yourself. Baut's his name. He can tell you the rest.
-quest accepted

===Speak with Baut===
-optional start
Brazen Brook: This isn't somethin' to talk about here in the open. Best you heard the rest from Baut.
-optional end
-cutscene start
Baut: The adventurer who slew Lord van Baelsar!? So they've sent you to claim my head, then?
Baut: Brazen Brook sent you to help? Oh, thank heavens.
Baut: You see, I'm actually a centurion of the Garlean forces. Now before you do anything rash, let me explain.
Baut: When I learned of the Allied forces' approach, I knew we had no way of repelling them, so I ordered all of my men to retreat from Ala Ghiri. I then planned to turn myself in, but I ran into certain...complications.
Baut: ...I can see you're unconvinced. Tell you what, why not ask the villagers about me.
Baut: When you hear what they have to say, I think you'll come to understand why I couldn't turn myself in.
-cutscene end

===Gather information about Baut===
-optional start
Baut: I doubt anything else I say will convince you, so go ahead. See what they have to say.
Brazen Brook: I appreciate your help, adventurer. This is a fairly delicate situation, you understand? We can't afford for things here to get out of hand.
-optional end
Weidheri: ...Where'd you hear that name? I won't have anyone speaking ill of him. Unless you're looking to pick a fight, you'll keep your mouth shut!
Fraunk: What do you want with Baut? He's not in trouble is he? We already told the Alliance scum they can't have him!
J'dyalani: Baut? The place wouldn't be the same without him, and we certainly have no intentions of sending him to be butchered by the Alliance.

===Speak with Baut===
Baut: There you are. Now do you see the cause for my hesitation?
Baut: In light of their reaction to my being arrested, the Alliance has allowed me to remain here for the time being, but for all intents and purposes I am a war prisoner.
Baut: The villagers initially meant to keep me hidden, but harboring one's enemy is a serious crime no matter whose side you're on, and I've heard what the Alliance does to those who help the Garleans. The stuff of nightmares, I tell you.
Baut: My execution is assured the moment they take me into custody, but if the villagers should take arms in protest... They don't deserve such a bloody fate.
Baut: Brazen Brook has made a valiant effort to assuage the people's anger, but there's only so much a man in his position can do.
Baut: I know how strange this may seem, but I want you to convince the people of Ala Ghiri to allow for my surrender.
-quest complete
</nowiki>}}

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