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The '''Ascians''' are the principal antagonists in [[Final Fantasy XIV]]. They wear black (or rarely, white) robes and masks that conceal their faces. They are powerful, mysterious, and almost-immortal servants of [[Zodiark]], the god of Darkness that opposes [[Hydaelyn]]. Many questions about these beings yet remain unanswered, for lack of evidence. The few details ''we do know'' about the Ascians are '''heavily entwined with key story details''' for all expansions of Final Fantasy XIV.

{{Quotation|Encyclopaedia Eorzea Volume 1 (2022 printing), page 213|Servants of Darkness, the Ascians are pledged to Zodiark, a celestial syzygy legend holds was exiled to the moon by Hydaelyn Herself. From the shadows, they have shaped history by imparting forbidden knowledge unto mortals, stoking the fires of war while revealing the secrets of primal summoning. Throughout history, they have been known by many names, among those, Paragons and the Bringers of Chaos.

'''On the Ascians'''

What are the Ascians and whence did the shadowless beings come? Do their bodies harbor “life” as is defined by our laws of nature, or are they something different—something more sinister? As of this writing, these questions and more remain unanswered for want of evidence. Mankind has not, however, been completely blind to the existence of the Ascians. A report compiled by the Scions and the Students of Baldesion points to their lingering presence throughout recorded history. Indeed, it is thought these beings also known as Paragons have long interfered with the affairs of man, and are somehow connected to each of history’s seven umbral calamities.

Recent direct encounters with the beings have shed more light on both their true nature and intentions. For one, the Ascians are known to possess the Echo—just as the Warrior of Light and a handful of his companions—and use this power to transfer their souls into the bodies of others. This is doubtless the secret behind how the so-called “immortals” have survived for so long. Should the vessel an Ascian inhabited to be utterly obliterated, his soul does not appear to succumb to the tug of the Lifestream. Instead, the Paragons harness the power of the Crystal of Darkness to find sanctuary in a space that lies twixt corporeal and aetherial. At present, there is only one known means to destroy an Ascian: entrap its soul within white auracite—a substance capable of temporarily holding aether—and then shatter the stone with a blade of concentrated life energy.}}
{{Quotation|[[The_Unending_Codex#The_Ascians|The Unending Codex § The Ascians]]|Throughout Eorzean history, whether it be in folklore or myth, there has been scattered mention of dark-robed figures known variously as “Ascians” or “Paragons.” With their twisted words, they would incite strife between peoples, or indeed, entire nations─often escalating hostilities by instructing the beleaguered inhabitants in the rituals of primal summoning.<br><br>While this portrayal was not inaccurate, it was not the entire story. In the course of their efforts to counter the machinations of the Ascians, the Scions of the Seventh Dawn came to understand the true nature of their enemy. They learned that the cabal was comprised of thirteen prominent individuals: three “unsundered” survivors of the Convocation of Fourteen, the council which had orchestrated the summoning of Zodiark in antiquity; and ten “sundered” souls─fragments of members restored to their former offices. They were known as Loghrif, Mitron, Emet-Selch, Pashtarot, Fandaniel, Altima, Halmarut, Nabriales, Igeyorhm, Deudalaphon, Emmerololth, Lahabrea, and Elidibus. These positions served as both name and title, for should an Ascian fall, another bearing a shard of the same soul would be found and raised to the vacant seat.<br><br>The Ascians' ultimate purpose was nothing less than the restoration of their dark god, Zodiark, and the resurrection of their ancient brethren. Such miracles demanded they sow chaos in both the Source and its reflections, that they might cultivate the conditions for cataclysmic Rejoinings. Only then would Zodiark be freed of His chains, and the souls of the modern age be worthy of offering up in sacrifice.}}
==Overview==
Long ago, in a time well before recorded history, [[Hydaelyn]] battled and triumphed against the will of Darkness, [[Zodiark]], casting him into space, and imprisoning him within the silver Moon. In doing so, Hydaelyn tore open the dimensional fabric, spawning thirteen mirror images of the world, and effectively dividing--or '''"Sundering"'''-- the aether that made up the original world into fourteen parts. <ref name="dc">Encyclopedia Eorzea, 2022 edition, "Dimensional Compression"</ref>

==Doctrines and Beliefs==
To wake their exiled god, Zodiark, the Ascians seek to "rejoin" these mirrored worlds with the original "source" world, by breaking down the walls between dimensions, causing the mirror worlds to collapse in on themselves. On the Source, where Final Fantasy XIV takes place, this also causes Umbral Calamities.<ref name="dc" />

Operating together under a ''strict social hierarchy'', the Ascians have successfully "rejoined" a recorded total of seven worlds by sowing chaos and discord on Hydaelyn, but they do not accomplish this randomly; they have clear methods, now practiced a total of seven times.

===Ascian Overlords===
Efforts to cause the necessary conditions for these [[Rejoining]]s are led, foremost, by the three '''Unsundered''' Ascians, also known as the '''Ascian Overlords'''. The overlords are fundamentally more powerful than their counterparts because their souls were able to escape the effects of Hydaelyn's Sundering, retaining their original identities and abilities, whereas all other souls that existed at the time were divided into fourteen parts among the fourteen worlds.

Overlords make up the topmost rung of the Ascian social hierarchy. To them, all other beings are considered inferior, and therefore disposable.

===Red-masked Ascians===
The [[Ancient]] people who existed before the Sundering were governed by a structure of their own, a council of fourteen members, known as the [[Convocation of Fourteen]]. The Convocation members are also referred to by their title, or seat, and have different personal names from before assuming a position on the council. A successor would then assume the name of the seat they filled. Preceding the sundering, each of the current members of the Convocation stored their memories in crystal, a format that the ancients commonly used for information.

Seeking allies for their cause in the times that came after the Sundering, the Ascian Overlords would seek out the souls that were sundered from the former Convocation members, restore their memories, and thus bring them back into the fold. Each Ascian occupying a seat on the "new" Convocation of Fourteen wears a '''red mask''' as their ancient counterparts did, with each mask bearing a design symbolizing the owner's specific seat on the Convocation. The Ascian Overlords, each being members of the Convocation prior to the sundering, ''also wear red masks'' for this reason.

===Black-masked Ascians===
Frequently unnamed, Ascians wearing black masks are exclusively made up of sundered peoples recruited to the Ascians by other members. The method of how being unclear.

===White Robes===
Robes of white indicate an Ascian emissary, such as the Overlord [[Elidibus]]. The symbolism of the robes also dates back to the [[Amaurotine|ancients]], but the meaning used by the Ascians is somewhat different.

==Known Members==

===Overlords===
* [[Lahabrea]]
* [[Elidibus]]
* [[Emet-Selch]]

===Red Masks===
* [[Pashtarot]]
* [[Nabriales]]
* [[Igeyorhm]]
* [[Loghrif]]
* [[Mitron]]
* [[Hermes|Fandaniel]]
* Emmerololth

The remaining Red-mask Ascians appeared in a cutscene around [[Patch 2.3]], but have yet to reappear in-game as of [[Patch 7.0]].
* Altima
* Halmarut
* Deudalaphon
* Emmerololth -- the one exception on this list. Mentioned again in [[Patch 4.55]], but still does not appear on screen.

{{see also|The Convocation of Fourteen}}

===Black Masks===
''Not including instances of "masked mages" from 2.0 that were actually just Lahabrea''
*[[Ascian of the Twelfth Sword]]
*[[Ascian of the Twelfth Staff]]
*[[Ascian of the Twelfth Chalice]]
*[[Ascian of the Twelfth Pentacle]]

== Encounters ==
As the game's primary antagonists, the Ascians are fought throughout the Main Scenario Questline and beyond.
===A Realm Reborn ===
* [[Lahabrea]] is fought as the final boss of the main storyline, during {{questlink|main|The Ultimate Weapon}}. He was originally faced as the final boss of {{questlink|dungeon|The Praetorium}}, but due to the lack of an ilvl sync and the lack of mechanics, the encounter became notoriously easy. In [[Patch 6.1]], Lahabrea's encounter was revamped to become a solo quest battle.
* [[Nabriales]] is fought as the boss of the trial, {{questlink|trial|The Chrysalis}}.
===Heavensward ===
* [[Lahabrea]] and [[Igeyorhm]] are faced as the penultimate boss(es) of the main storyline, during the final encounter of {{questlink|dungeon|The Aetherochemical Research Facility}}. The second phase sees the Ascians fuse into a [[Ascian Prime]]. In [[Patch 6.3]], this encounter was mechanically overhauled, with the first phase especially extended.
* The [[Ascian of the Twelfth Chalice]] is faced in two quest battles during the expansion's [[Summoner]] storyline. He is first faced alone during {{questlink|feature|I Could Have Tranced All Night}}, and then alongside the other three Ascians of the Twelfth during {{questlink|feature|A Flare for the Dramatic}}.
=== Stormblood ===
* [[Lahabrea]] reappears as the boss of the intermission phase of {{questlink|ultimateraid|The Weapon's Refrain (Ultimate)}}.
* [[Elidibus]] is fought as the final boss of the patches storyline during {{questlink|main|A Requiem for Heroes}}, while using [[Zenos yae Galvus]]' body as vessel.
===Shadowbringers===
* [[Emet-Selch]] is fought under his true name, '''Hades''', as the final boss of the main storyline, during the trial, {{questlink|trial|The Dying Gasp}}. It's extreme mode sees shades of previously defeated Ascians reappear.
* [[Elidibus]] is twice faced during the events of [[Patch 5.3]]'s storyline. The first battle is against him possessing the body of [[Ardbert]] in the solo quest battle during {{questlink|main|Faded Memories}}. The final battle is against him in his "'''Warrior of Light'''" guise during the trial, {{questlink|trial|The Seat of Sacrifice}}, as well as it's extreme mode.
*A mutated Ascian Prime consisting of [[Mitron]] and [[Gaia]]/[[Loghrif]], '''Eden's Promise''', is the final boss of the [[Eden]] raid series. It is faced during {{questlink|raid|Eden's Promise: Eternity}}, as well as it's savage mode.

===Endwalker===
* [[Fandaniel]] is fought thrice throughout the main storyline, though never under his true name or form. The first battle is against him possessing the body of Zodiark in the trial, {{questlink|trial|The Dark Inside}}, as well as it's extreme mode. He is later fought as his unsundered incarnation, [[Hermes]], as the final boss of {{questlink|dungeon|Ktisis Hyperboreia}}. The third battle is against '''Amon the Dying''', a lich version of his [[Amon]] incarnation, as the final boss of {{questlink|dungeon|The Aitiascope}}
* [[Lahabrea]]'s splintered fragment, [[Hephaistos]], is fought as the boss of {{questlink|raid|Abyssos: The Eighth Circle}}, as well as its savage mode.
* A reincarnation of [[Elidibus]]'s orignal self, [[Themis]], is fought as the boss of {{questlink|raid|Anabaseios: The Eleventh Circle}}, as well as its savage mode.

==History==
=== Pre-Game Events ===
In prehistory, a single race, known as the [[Amaurotine|Amaurotines]], inhabited all corners of the planet [[Etheirys]]. Through their vast pool of aether and the innate ability to use "creation magick" they accomplished wondrous feats and built utopian cities, including [[Amaurot]], the center of their civilization and home to the [[Convocation of Fourteen]].

The actions of the Convocation's current "Fandaniel", [[Hermes]], doomed their people when he allowed his creations, [[Meteion]] and her sisters, to commence the song of oblivion. Only the former "Azem", [[Venat]], escaped Hermes's act of altering the memories of those who learned of his deed. The Meteia's song stagnated Etheirys's aether and instilled despair in the ancients, warping their creation magick to unleash grotesque monsters formed from their subconscious fears. This calamity would come to be known as the [[Final Days]].

The Convocation devised a plan to "weave the laws of reality anew" through the summoning of Zodiark, an entity able to quell the aether stagnation as a darkness-attribute primal. [[Azem|The ancient who succeeded Venat]] in the seat of "Azem" refused to participate in the summoning and left the Convocation who yet went on to sacrifice half of the ancients' population for the amount of aether needed to summon Zodiark; the ancient bearing the title of "Elidibus", [[Themis]], offered himself as Zodiark's core. Though the summoning halted the Final Days, it was but a temporary solution, as the calamity had reduced most of the star into a lifeless, blighted land, prompting the Convocation to sacrifice another half of their population to restore life to the world.

The Convocation sought to call upon Zodiark's power once more by offering the primal the harvested life energies of the new life forms that had been born in their world to reconstitute those who had sacrificed themselves and now rested within their deity. Venat assembled a faction of ancients who opposed the Convocation's plans to sacrifice the new life forms, this summoning the current Azem also refused to participate in. Elidibus separated himself from Zodiark to aid the Convocation as a primal in a failed attempt to restore order. Venat used her followers' sacrifice to become Hydaelyn to subjugate Zodiark to buy time until she would devise a permanent solution to stop the Meteia. The two elder primals fought ceaselessly until Hydaelyn used all her strength to fragment Zodiark, shattering the "very fabric of reality" and dividing the world into thirteen reflections and the Source. Amaurot was destroyed along the remains of the ancients' civilization, while the souls of the living similarly split into fourteen pieces across the fragmented worlds.

Only three ancients escaped the sundering with their souls intact: Elidibus, Hades (the ancient bearing the title of "[[Emet-Selch]]") and Hephaistos (the ancient bearing the title "[[Lahabrea]]"). The three resolved to orchestrate a series of events to revive Zodiark and restore their home via Umbral Calamities, cataclysms designed to gradually merge the Source and the thirteen shards back into the original Etheirys. They intended to resume sacrificing some of the rejoined current humanity to bring back their loved ones once the Rejoining was complete. They reformed themselves as the Ascians, and began searching for the fragmented souls of their fellow Convocation members to bring them into the fold. By imparting their knowledge of creation magick, the Ascians posed as saviors to the races whose persecution they exploited, allowing the beast tribes to summon their "gods" to grant them succor. Elidibus and Emet-Selch also contributed across the Source and its shards as part of their plan, the latter nurturing civilizations while the former began the legend of the "[[Warriors of Light|Warrior of Light]]".

Originally, each Ascian was entrusted to personally oversee a shard. That changed following [[Igeyorhm]] manipulating the heroes of the Thirteenth shard into using auracite to contain primals to prevent their resummoning. The heroes, corrupted by the leaking aether, turned on each other and the people they were meant to protect. The conflicts escalated into great wars, unleashing a [[The Flood|Flood of Darkness]] that decimated the Thirteenth shard and transformed the survivors into [[voidsent]], rendering the world unfit for Rejoining. The Ascians discovered a link between the aether of the shards and the Source, and theorized that a simultaneous disaster on the Source and the shard of the same elemental aspect would allow for them to rejoin, a theory subsequently proven in the first Umbral Calamity of Wind. Since then, Ascians have worked in groups to oversee the process.

During the Third Astral Era, Emet-Selch established the [[Allagan Empire]] on the Source to set up the Fourth Umbral Calamity. The Ascians manipulated the grief-stricken [[Tiamat]] and the [[First Brood]] into reviving Tiamat's deceased mate [[Bahamut]] as a primal and provided the Allagan emperor, [[Xande]], the means to capture and bind primals. While the Allagans sealed the primal Bahamut in [[Dalamud]], the [[Warring Triad]] were imprisoned at [[Azys Lla]] to power Allag's aetherochemical research. Prior to Xande causing the Fourth Umbral Calamity in his attempt to destroy the world, Emet-Selch inducted the Allagan scientist [[Amon]] into the Ascians by restoring his memories as a fragment of Hermes, the ancient who had held the seat of "Fandaniel" in the Convocation of Fourteen.

By the time that the Fifth and Sixth Umbral Calamities were completed, the centuries in between each Rejoining gradually took their toll upon the three Unsundered. Lahabrea's fanatical obsession of completing the Rejoining would see him constantly swap bodies, draining his mental and physical strength. Elidibus would forget about his original life in Amaurot, rejecting Emet-Selch's suggestion to use a memory crystal and remaining committed to his duty. Emet-Selch was the only Ascian to maintain his sanity and full strength, taking rests in the rift between each Rejoining. He later assumed the identity of Solus zos Galvus and established the [[Garlean Empire]] to suit his brethren's needs in setting up the Seventh Umbral Calamity.

===A Realm Reborn (2.0)===

Following the [[Seventh Umbral Calamity]], the Ascians became much more active in their efforts to influence the Source. The Ascians' actions were uncovered with several reports of '''"Masked Mages"''' spotted interacting with the beast tribes. '''[[Lahabrea]]''' was the first ''named'' Ascian introduced, introducing himself to the Warrior of Light within the depths of '''Toto-Rak''' during the Level 24 quest [[Into the Beast's Maw]]. It would be him, operating from the shadows, working to manipulate Legatus [[Gaius van Baelsar]] into being an unwitting pawn for his master plan. The Garleans would cooperate while being completely unaware of his true motives, seeking out [[The Ultima Weapon]] made by the Allagans, and using it to absorb the Aether of summoned Primals.

Lahabrea struck a personal nerve with the Scions when he took possession of [[Thancred Waters]], using him as a spy against his friends for an unknown amount of time before revealing his charade during [[Escape from Castrum Centri]]. Thancred remained the unwilling vessel of Lahabrea until [[Operation Archon]]; after the Warrior of Light's defeat of The Ultima Weapon, Lahabrea attempted to kill the hero using the powers of darkness. His attempt was initially successful, but the Warrior was then revived by Hydaelyn's intervention. Empowered, the Warrior defeated Lahabrea and expelled him from Thancred's body.

====2.0 Epilogue====
In the Epilogue cutscene for A Realm Reborn, [[Lahabrea]] was shown to have survived his expulsion, and ''three more named Ascians were introduced'' with their hoods down, but faces obscured. This included '''[[Pashtarot]]''', '''[[Igeyorhm]]''', and '''[[Nabriales]]''' in that order.

{{Quotation|Cutscene dialogue following Lahabrea's defeat, during [[The Ultimate Weapon]]|<br>Pashtarot: Bahamut stirs.<br>Igeyorhm: As will the others ere long.<br>Nabriales: 'Tis not a question of whether Eorzea's champion shall yield, but of when.<br>Lahabrea: And with each passing moment we draw closer to the Reckoning.<br>(Lahabrea raises his hands, and the camera zooms out to reveal the presence of more hooded Ascians behind them).<br>Ascians: To the one true god! <br>Ascians: To Zodiark!}}

====Patch 2.1====
As the Scions are making preparations to depart for [[Mor Dhona]], the white-robed Ascian '''[[Elidibus]]''' appears within the solar and introduces himself to [[Minfilia]] as 'emissary of the Ascians.' Elidibus departs again in at the end of [[The Gifted]], leaving the Warrior of Light with some ominous words to chew on.
{{Quotation|Elidibus, during [[The Gifted]]| "As it was, so shall it be again."}}
After this, Nabriales appears again in a brief confrontation with Elidibus, asking him why he revealed himself to the Scions.

During cutscenes for the Extreme fights for The Howling Eye, The Navel, and The Bowl of Embers, we are first introduced to an unnamed '''Ascian of the Twelfth Staff''' and an '''Ascian of the Twelfth Sword'''. Their contribution to the plot is minimal at best.

====Patches 2.2 through 2.5====
* Elidibus is credited with "granting the Echo" to a Sahagin priest, teaching him how to cheat death by possessing the body of another. Interestingly enough, this is also the first recorded case of an Ascian who does not belong to one of the "races of man", even if he was shortly subsumed by the Primal Leviathan
* In [[What Little Gods Are Made Of]], the first information is revealed about how Ascian "immortality" works, resulting in a wonderful slideshow presentation. Within this same quest is another scene with the Ascian Convocation meeting in [[the Chrysalis]], in which '''Emmerololth''' and '''Altima''' are named and shown on screen for the first time. We also get to see the first visual depiction of Zodiark, ''outside of'' his "crystal" form.
* In [[The Instruments of Our Deliverance]], Nabriales is shown observing the defeat of Shiva at the hands of the Warrior of Light.
* The scenes during [[Aether on Demand]] give us our second slideshow presentation about the Scion's plan to trap an Ascian soul within White Auracite, the first step in destroying it. Later, '''Nabriales meets his end''' during [[An Uninvited Ascian]], marking the ''first time an Ascian is permanently killed.''

===Heavensward (Patch 3.0)===
* [[Lahabrea]] and [[Igeyorhm]] work in the background for most of the expansion, teaching various parties how to summon new primals.
* During the Summoner class quests, the [[Ascian of the Twelfth Chalice]] flees Azys Lla after being defeated by the Warrior of Light. The finale of these quests results in the defeat of the Ascians of the Twelfth Chalice, Staff, Sword, and Pentacle. These scenes also reveal that the four of them are specifically servants of Lahabrea (or ''were''). Their mortal forms are defeated, but it is unclear if they are able to harness rebirth the same way their masters do.
* On [[Azys Lla]], Lahabrea and Igeyorhm use the power of the Echo to fuse into an [[Ascian Prime]] for the first time. After the defeat of Ascian Prime, '''Igeyorhm dies''' at the hands of the Warrior of Light, using a White Auracite in their possession. Following this, '''Lahabrea dies''' after being betrayed by [[Thordan VII]], who consumes the aether of his soul to further empower his primal form.
* Off-screen, [[Mitron]] and [[Loghrif]] attempted to enact an Umbral Calamity on [[The First]] at the same time as Lahabrea and Igeyorhm on the Source. Their plots were foiled by the Warriors of Light on the First; their leader [[Ardbert]] '''destroyed Loghrif''' with a blade of light and caused Mitron to transform into a sin eater, [[Eden]], triggering a Flood of Light.
* [[Elidibus]] reappears in an Epilogue scene, shown on the Moon for the first time. With the Ascians taking heavy losses, he opts to recruit the First's Warriors of Light to restore balance on the Source.

====Patches 3.1 through 3.5====
* Elidibus tricks the Warriors of the First into believing they can save their homeworld by enacting an Umbral Calamity on the Source. They perform various tasks for Elidibus, such as retrieving the eyes of [[Nidhogg]] and defeating numerous newly-summoned primals, such as [[Ravana]].
* The Warriors are eventually sent back to the First by Hydaelyn to stop the Flood of Light themselves. Meanwhile, Elidibus hands over the eyes of Nidhogg to [[the Griffin]], who goes on to use them to summon the primal [[Shinryu]], leading to all-out war between Garlemald and Eorzea.

===Stormblood (Patch 4.0)===
* Ascians are largely absent from this expansion, as the Echo and its capabilities take the stage in other ways.
* An unnamed Ascian causes trouble under the sea: [[Kurenai]] of [[Sui-no-Sato]] mentions the visitation of a "man cloaked in black" in the days before a voidsent takes possession of the [[Ruby Princess]]'s body.
* At the conclusion of Stormblood, Elidibus appears to Emperor [[Varis zos Galvus]] after the death of his son, [[Zenos yae Galvus|Zenos]]. Elidibus removes his mask before the Emperor, causing him shock for reasons that are not revealed within the scene.

====Patch 4.1 through 4.5====
* Elidibus is revealed to have stolen the body of Zenos from its unmarked grave in Ala Mhigo, and assumes his identity.
* Elidibus teaches [[Asahi sas Brutus]] how to summon a primal, leading to the summoning of [[Tsukuyomi]]. He continues to escalate the war between Garlemald and Eorzea in hopes of goading Varis into using [[Black Rose]], a chemical weapon that will produce the desired calamity.
* [[Gaius van Baelsar]] is revealed to have survived his apparent demis. In revenge for Lahabrea's manipulations, he has been hunting Ascians. Gaius collected the masks of the Ascians he defeated, including those of [[Altima]] and [[Deudalaphon]]. It is unclear if his actions resulted in the "true death" of the Ascians involved, or if he merely dispatched their corporeal forms.
* In Patch 4.4, [[Solus zos Galvus]] is introduced, and revealed to be an Ascian, and to have built the Garlean Empire specifically to further the goals of the Ascians.
* A memo from Galuf Baldesion reveals that, by casting the Isle of Val into the Lifestream, they also ensured the defeat of an Ascian known as '''Emmerololth,''' also ensuring that he would "never reform."
* The Warrior of Light does battle against Elidibus posing as Zenos. Due to an untimely vision, he deals a critical blow and nearly defeats the Warrior, but is foiled by Estinien Wyrmblood rescuing them before he can deal a finishing blow. Elidibus-Zenos returns to Garlemald afterwards.

===[[Shadowbringers]] (Patch 5.0)===
* In this expansion we get a very clear idea of what happens with [[Rejoining|Rejoinings]], [[Umbral Calamity|Umbral Calamities]] and how the [[Ascians]] have been involved the whole time.
* [[Solus zos Galvus]] comes forth pretty quickly and '''re-introduces himself as the Unsundered Ascian, [[Emet-Selch]]'''. Although his objectives remain obscured for several chapters, [[Emet-Selch]] eventually emerges as the primary antagonist of the expansion.
* When the Scions reach [[The Tempest]], we are first introduced to the concept of the [[Ancient]]s and their capitol city, [[Amaurot]], through the recreation made by Emet-Selch (other details that were revealed about the Ancients during this time are detailed on that page).
* [[The Final Days]] is also name-dropped and partially explained during the final few chapters, before the Warrior of Light eventually fights and '''kills Emet-Selch.'''
* Meanwhile, Elidibus, now the last remaining Unsundered, is forced to flee Garlemald after the real Zenos, who had cheated death by possessing another, takes back his body and murders Varis to halt the Black Rose. He vows to avenge his comrades by using the "Warriors of Light"

====Patch 5.1 through 5.3====
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* Release of the first two parts of the Eden raid series, providing hints about the past and potential future on the First.
* Release of the lead-up to Seat of Sacrifice, featuring Elidibus.

Following the defeat of Emet-Selch, the Scions begin investigating The Empty and discover the slumbering form of Eden. After awaking the Sin Eater, then begin using its power to try to reverse the effects of the Flood of Light. They are interrupted by the arrival of Gaia, a girl they determine to be the Oracle of Darkness. Throughout her life, Gaia has been hearing what she calls a 'fairy,' an internal voice or feeling that guides her actions. She then joins the Scions in their investigation.

====Patch 5.3====
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* Release of [[The Seat of Sacrifice]], resulting in the '''capture of Elidibus within the Crystal Tower'''.

Elidibus heads to the First and possesses the body of [[Ardbert]] and awakens the latent power of the Echo in the people of the First to continue the legend of the Warrior of Light, using their faith in the myth to strengthen himself the way a primal would feed on the faith of those who would summon it.

Elidibus, at his peak strength, attacks the [[Crystal Tower]] and summons simulacrums of the Warriors of Light from other worlds to fight the darkness with him. He and the Warrior of Light engage in combat at the top of the tower, and he almost wins. However, in a turn of events, the call that Elidibus evoked reached Emet-Selch, who pulled the Warrior of Light out of the Void to continue the fight.

The Warrior of Light prevails, and the last Unsundered Ascian was sealed within the Crystal Tower. Before fading completely, the remnants of Elidibus's shade gifts the Warrior of Light with the [[Soul Crystals]] of the Convocation of the Fourteen, sharing his memories with them. With Elidibus gone, the Ascians can no longer replenish their ranks, meaning the end of them and their plans.

====Patch 5.4====
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* Release of Eden's Promise, the final third of the Eden Raids, revealing the history and fate of [[Mitron]] and [[Loghrif]] on The First.

It is discovered that Gaia is the reincarnated form of the Ascian Loghrif, and that the 'fairy' was Loghrif's former partner and lover Mitron, trapped in the form of Eden. Mitron forcibly integrates Loghrif's memories into Gaia while erasing Gaia's own memories, and together they form an Ascian Prime. The Ascian Prime is then defeated by the warrior of darkness. After the defeat, Mitron's essence is returned to the aetherial sea, and a restored Gaia remains on the First.

====Patch 5.5====
* Introduction of the Ascian [[Fandaniel]], through the release of [[Paglth'an]]

After the death of Elidibus, Fandaniel begins to act of his own accord. He entreats with Zenos and convinces him to help him in his mission to destroy the Source, promising him the chance to face off against the Warrior of Light one more time.

Fandaniel confronts the Scions upon their return to the Source, warning them that he and his group of rogue Ascians, the Telophoroi, will destroy the Source using their [[Lunar Primals]], which they create by kidnapping the people of the Source and trapping them in strange towers, draining their Aether to summon the twisted versions of the Primals. Fandaniel, Zenos and the rest of the as yet unnamed Telophoroi ready to engage with the Warrior of Light, who intends to stop their coming apocalypse.

===Endwalker (Patch 6.0)===
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Fandaniel siphoned aether from his towers around Eorzea and concentrated them upon [[The Tower of Babil]]. Knowing the the prison of Zodiark laid upon the moon, Fandaniel used the aether to severely weaken Zodiark's binds, and had Zenos finish the job. Fandaniel then plunged into [[The Dark Inside]] and took control of Zodiark's body, and battled the Warrior of Light. The Warrior defeated the incomplete Zodiark, but the elder primal's destruction had been the Ascian's goal all along, as it recommenced the Final Days. Zodiark's death in Fandaniel's suicidal gambit marked '''the end of the Ascians as a threat''', if any remained.
====Patches 6.1-6.5====
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No Ascians appeared in the patches.

===Dawntrail (Patch 7.0===
No Ascians appeared, marking the first expansion to not include them.
====Patches 7.1-7.2====
No Ascians have appeared in the patches.
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Ascians

2025-08-07T19:53:55Z

Fleckeye: /* Pre-Game Events */ corrected phrasing which implied Elidibus was Emet-Selch

The '''Ascians''' are the principal antagonists in [[Final Fantasy XIV]]. They wear black (or rarely, white) robes and masks that conceal their faces. They are powerful, mysterious, and almost-immortal servants of [[Zodiark]], the god of Darkness that opposes [[Hydaelyn]]. Many questions about these beings yet remain unanswered, for lack of evidence. The few details ''we do know'' about the Ascians are '''heavily entwined with key story details''' for all expansions of Final Fantasy XIV.

{{Quotation|Encyclopaedia Eorzea Volume 1 (2022 printing), page 213|Servants of Darkness, the Ascians are pledged to Zodiark, a celestial syzygy legend holds was exiled to the moon by Hydaelyn Herself. From the shadows, they have shaped history by imparting forbidden knowledge unto mortals, stoking the fires of war while revealing the secrets of primal summoning. Throughout history, they have been known by many names, among those, Paragons and the Bringers of Chaos.

'''On the Ascians'''

What are the Ascians and whence did the shadowless beings come? Do their bodies harbor “life” as is defined by our laws of nature, or are they something different—something more sinister? As of this writing, these questions and more remain unanswered for want of evidence. Mankind has not, however, been completely blind to the existence of the Ascians. A report compiled by the Scions and the Students of Baldesion points to their lingering presence throughout recorded history. Indeed, it is thought these beings also known as Paragons have long interfered with the affairs of man, and are somehow connected to each of history’s seven umbral calamities.

Recent direct encounters with the beings have shed more light on both their true nature and intentions. For one, the Ascians are known to possess the Echo—just as the Warrior of Light and a handful of his companions—and use this power to transfer their souls into the bodies of others. This is doubtless the secret behind how the so-called “immortals” have survived for so long. Should the vessel an Ascian inhabited to be utterly obliterated, his soul does not appear to succumb to the tug of the Lifestream. Instead, the Paragons harness the power of the Crystal of Darkness to find sanctuary in a space that lies twixt corporeal and aetherial. At present, there is only one known means to destroy an Ascian: entrap its soul within white auracite—a substance capable of temporarily holding aether—and then shatter the stone with a blade of concentrated life energy.}}
{{Quotation|[[The_Unending_Codex#The_Ascians|The Unending Codex § The Ascians]]|Throughout Eorzean history, whether it be in folklore or myth, there has been scattered mention of dark-robed figures known variously as “Ascians” or “Paragons.” With their twisted words, they would incite strife between peoples, or indeed, entire nations─often escalating hostilities by instructing the beleaguered inhabitants in the rituals of primal summoning.<br><br>While this portrayal was not inaccurate, it was not the entire story. In the course of their efforts to counter the machinations of the Ascians, the Scions of the Seventh Dawn came to understand the true nature of their enemy. They learned that the cabal was comprised of thirteen prominent individuals: three “unsundered” survivors of the Convocation of Fourteen, the council which had orchestrated the summoning of Zodiark in antiquity; and ten “sundered” souls─fragments of members restored to their former offices. They were known as Loghrif, Mitron, Emet-Selch, Pashtarot, Fandaniel, Altima, Halmarut, Nabriales, Igeyorhm, Deudalaphon, Emmerololth, Lahabrea, and Elidibus. These positions served as both name and title, for should an Ascian fall, another bearing a shard of the same soul would be found and raised to the vacant seat.<br><br>The Ascians' ultimate purpose was nothing less than the restoration of their dark god, Zodiark, and the resurrection of their ancient brethren. Such miracles demanded they sow chaos in both the Source and its reflections, that they might cultivate the conditions for cataclysmic Rejoinings. Only then would Zodiark be freed of His chains, and the souls of the modern age be worthy of offering up in sacrifice.}}
==Overview==
Long ago, in a time well before recorded history, [[Hydaelyn]] battled and triumphed against the will of Darkness, [[Zodiark]], casting him into space, and imprisoning him within the silver Moon. In doing so, Hydaelyn tore open the dimensional fabric, spawning thirteen mirror images of the world, and effectively dividing--or '''"Sundering"'''-- the aether that made up the original world into fourteen parts. <ref name="dc">Encyclopedia Eorzea, 2022 edition, "Dimensional Compression"</ref>

==Doctrines and Beliefs==
To wake their exiled god, Zodiark, the Ascians seek to "rejoin" these mirrored worlds with the original "source" world, by breaking down the walls between dimensions, causing the mirror worlds to collapse in on themselves. On the Source, where Final Fantasy XIV takes place, this also causes Umbral Calamities.<ref name="dc" />

Operating together under a ''strict social hierarchy'', the Ascians have successfully "rejoined" a recorded total of seven worlds by sowing chaos and discord on Hydaelyn, but they do not accomplish this randomly; they have clear methods, now practiced a total of seven times.

===Ascian Overlords===
Efforts to cause the necessary conditions for these [[Rejoining]]s are led, foremost, by the three '''Unsundered''' Ascians, also known as the '''Ascian Overlords'''. The overlords are fundamentally more powerful than their counterparts because their souls were able to escape the effects of Hydaelyn's Sundering, retaining their original identities and abilities, whereas all other souls that existed at the time were divided into fourteen parts among the fourteen worlds.

Overlords make up the topmost rung of the Ascian social hierarchy. To them, all other beings are considered inferior, and therefore disposable.

===Red-masked Ascians===
The [[Ancient]] people who existed before the Sundering were governed by a structure of their own, a council of fourteen members, known as the [[Convocation of Fourteen]]. The Convocation members are also referred to by their title, or seat, and have different personal names from before assuming a position on the council. A successor would then assume the name of the seat they filled. Preceding the sundering, each of the current members of the Convocation stored their memories in crystal, a format that the ancients commonly used for information.

Seeking allies for their cause in the times that came after the Sundering, the Ascian Overlords would seek out the souls that were sundered from the former Convocation members, restore their memories, and thus bring them back into the fold. Each Ascian occupying a seat on the "new" Convocation of Fourteen wears a '''red mask''' as their ancient counterparts did, with each mask bearing a design symbolizing the owner's specific seat on the Convocation. The Ascian Overlords, each being members of the Convocation prior to the sundering, ''also wear red masks'' for this reason.

===Black-masked Ascians===
Frequently unnamed, Ascians wearing black masks are exclusively made up of sundered peoples recruited to the Ascians by other members. The method of how being unclear.

===White Robes===
Robes of white indicate an Ascian emissary, such as the Overlord [[Elidibus]]. The symbolism of the robes also dates back to the [[Amaurotine|ancients]], but the meaning used by the Ascians is somewhat different.

==Known Members==

===Overlords===
* [[Lahabrea]]
* [[Elidibus]]
* [[Emet-Selch]]

===Red Masks===
* [[Pashtarot]]
* [[Nabriales]]
* [[Igeyorhm]]
* [[Loghrif]]
* [[Mitron]]
* [[Hermes|Fandaniel]]
* Emmerololth

The remaining Red-mask Ascians appeared in a cutscene around [[Patch 2.3]], but have yet to reappear in-game as of [[Patch 7.0]].
* Altima
* Halmarut
* Deudalaphon
* Emmerololth -- the one exception on this list. Mentioned again in [[Patch 4.55]], but still does not appear on screen.

{{see also|The Convocation of Fourteen}}

===Black Masks===
''Not including instances of "masked mages" from 2.0 that were actually just Lahabrea''
*[[Ascian of the Twelfth Sword]]
*[[Ascian of the Twelfth Staff]]
*[[Ascian of the Twelfth Chalice]]
*[[Ascian of the Twelfth Pentacle]]

== Encounters ==
As the game's primary antagonists, the Ascians are fought throughout the Main Scenario Questline and beyond.
===A Realm Reborn ===
* [[Lahabrea]] is fought as the final boss of the main storyline, during {{questlink|main|The Ultimate Weapon}}. He was originally faced as the final boss of {{questlink|dungeon|The Praetorium}}, but due to the lack of an ilvl sync and the lack of mechanics, the encounter became notoriously easy. In [[Patch 6.1]], Lahabrea's encounter was revamped to become a solo quest battle.
* [[Nabriales]] is fought as the boss of the trial, {{questlink|trial|The Chrysalis}}.
===Heavensward ===
* [[Lahabrea]] and [[Igeyorhm]] are faced as the penultimate boss(es) of the main storyline, during the final encounter of {{questlink|dungeon|The Aetherochemical Research Facility}}. The second phase sees the Ascians fuse into a [[Ascian Prime]]. In [[Patch 6.3]], this encounter was mechanically overhauled, with the first phase especially extended.
* The [[Ascian of the Twelfth Chalice]] is faced in two quest battles during the expansion's [[Summoner]] storyline. He is first faced alone during {{questlink|feature|I Could Have Tranced All Night}}, and then alongside the other three Ascians of the Twelfth during {{questlink|feature|A Flare for the Dramatic}}.
=== Stormblood ===
* [[Lahabrea]] reappears as the boss of the intermission phase of {{questlink|ultimateraid|The Weapon's Refrain (Ultimate)}}.
* [[Elidibus]] is fought as the final boss of the patches storyline during {{questlink|main|A Requiem for Heroes}}, while using [[Zenos yae Galvus]]' body as vessel.
===Shadowbringers===
* [[Emet-Selch]] is fought under his true name, '''Hades''', as the final boss of the main storyline, during the trial, {{questlink|trial|The Dying Gasp}}. It's extreme mode sees shades of previously defeated Ascians reappear.
* [[Elidibus]] is twice faced during the events of [[Patch 5.3]]'s storyline. The first battle is against him possessing the body of [[Ardbert]] in the solo quest battle during {{questlink|main|Faded Memories}}. The final battle is against him in his "'''Warrior of Light'''" guise during the trial, {{questlink|trial|The Seat of Sacrifice}}, as well as it's extreme mode.
*A mutated Ascian Prime consisting of [[Mitron]] and [[Gaia]]/[[Loghrif]], '''Eden's Promise''', is the final boss of the [[Eden]] raid series. It is faced during {{questlink|raid|Eden's Promise: Eternity}}, as well as it's savage mode.

===Endwalker===
* [[Fandaniel]] is fought thrice throughout the main storyline, though never under his true name or form. The first battle is against him possessing the body of Zodiark in the trial, {{questlink|trial|The Dark Inside}}, as well as it's extreme mode. He is later fought as his unsundered incarnation, [[Hermes]], as the final boss of {{questlink|dungeon|Ktisis Hyperboreia}}. The third battle is against '''Amon the Dying''', a lich version of his [[Amon]] incarnation, as the final boss of {{questlink|dungeon|The Aitiascope}}
* [[Lahabrea]]'s splintered fragment, [[Hephaistos]], is fought as the boss of {{questlink|raid|Abyssos: The Eighth Circle}}, as well as its savage mode.
* A reincarnation of [[Elidibus]]'s orignal self, [[Themis]], is fought as the boss of {{questlink|raid|Anabaseios: The Eleventh Circle}}, as well as its savage mode.

==History==
=== Pre-Game Events ===
In prehistory, a single race, known as the [[Amaurotine|Amaurotines]], inhabited all corners of the planet [[Etheirys]]. Through their vast pool of aether and the innate ability to use "creation magick" they accomplished wondrous feats and built utopian cities, including [[Amaurot]], the center of their civilization and home to the [[Convocation of Fourteen]].

The actions of the Convocation's current "Fandaniel", [[Hermes]], doomed their people when he allowed his creations, [[Meteion]] and her sisters, to commence the song of oblivion. Only the former "Azem", [[Venat]], escaped Hermes's act of altering the memories of those who learned of his deed. The Meteia's song stagnated Etheirys's aether and instilled despair in the ancients, warping their creation magick to unleash grotesque monsters formed from their subconscious fears. This calamity would come to be known as the [[Final Days]].

The Convocation devised a plan to "weave the laws of reality anew" through the summoning of Zodiark, an entity able to quell the aether stagnation as a darkness-attribute primal. [[Azem|The ancient who succeeded Venat]] in the seat of "Azem" refused to participate in the summoning and left the Convocation who yet went on to sacrifice half of the ancients' population for the amount of aether needed to summon Zodiark; the ancient bearing the title of "Elidibus", [[Themis]], offered himself as Zodiark's core. Though the summoning halted the Final Days, it was but a temporary solution, as the calamity had reduced most of the star into a lifeless, blighted land, prompting the Convocation to sacrifice another half of their population to restore life to the world.

The Convocation sought to call upon Zodiark's power once more by offering the primal the harvested life energies of the new life forms that had been born in their world to reconstitute those who had sacrificed themselves and now rested within their deity. Venat assembled a faction of ancients who opposed the Convocation's plans to sacrifice the new life forms, this summoning the current Azem also refused to participate in. Elidibus separated himself from Zodiark to aid the Convocation as a primal in a failed attempt to restore order. Venat used her followers' sacrifice to become Hydaelyn to subjugate Zodiark to buy time until she would devise a permanent solution to stop the Meteia. The two elder primals fought ceaselessly until Hydaelyn used all her strength to fragment Zodiark, shattering the "very fabric of reality" and dividing the world into thirteen reflections and the Source. Amaurot was destroyed along the remains of the ancients' civilization, while the souls of the living similarly split into fourteen pieces across the fragmented worlds.

Only three ancients escaped the sundering with their souls intact: Elidibus, Hades (the ancient bearing the title of "[[Emet-Selch]]") and Hephaistos(the ancient bearing the title "[[Lahabrea]]"). The three resolved to orchestrate a series of events to revive Zodiark and restore their home via Umbral Calamities, cataclysms designed to gradually merge the Source and the thirteen shards back into the original Etheirys. They intended to resume sacrificing some of the rejoined current humanity to bring back their loved ones once the Rejoining was complete. They reformed themselves as the Ascians, and began searching for the fragmented souls of their fellow Convocation members to bring them into the fold. By imparting their knowledge of creation magick, the Ascians posed as saviors to the races whose persecution they exploited, allowing the beast tribes to summon their "gods" to grant them succor. Elidibus and Emet-Selch also contributed across the Source and its shards as part of their plan, the latter nurturing civilizations while the former began the legend of the "[[Warriors of Light|Warrior of Light]]".

Originally, each Ascian was entrusted to personally oversee a shard. That changed following [[Igeyorhm]] manipulating the heroes of the Thirteenth shard into using auracite to contain primals to prevent their resummoning. The heroes, corrupted by the leaking aether, turned on each other and the people they were meant to protect. The conflicts escalated into great wars, unleashing a [[The Flood|Flood of Darkness]] that decimated the Thirteenth shard and transformed the survivors into [[voidsent]], rendering the world unfit for Rejoining. The Ascians discovered a link between the aether of the shards and the Source, and theorized that a simultaneous disaster on the Source and the shard of the same elemental aspect would allow for them to rejoin, a theory subsequently proven in the first Umbral Calamity of Wind. Since then, Ascians have worked in groups to oversee the process.

During the Third Astral Era, Emet-Selch established the [[Allagan Empire]] on the Source to set up the Fourth Umbral Calamity. The Ascians manipulated the grief-stricken [[Tiamat]] and the [[First Brood]] into reviving Tiamat's deceased mate [[Bahamut]] as a primal and provided the Allagan emperor, [[Xande]], the means to capture and bind primals. While the Allagans sealed the primal Bahamut in [[Dalamud]], the [[Warring Triad]] were imprisoned at [[Azys Lla]] to power Allag's aetherochemical research. Prior to Xande causing the Fourth Umbral Calamity in his attempt to destroy the world, Emet-Selch inducted the Allagan scientist [[Amon]] into the Ascians by restoring his memories as a fragment of Hermes, the ancient who had held the seat of "Fandaniel" in the Convocation of Fourteen.

By the time that the Fifth and Sixth Umbral Calamities were completed, the centuries in between each Rejoining gradually took their toll upon the three Unsundered. Lahabrea's fanatical obsession of completing the Rejoining would see him constantly swap bodies, draining his mental and physical strength. Elidibus would forget about his original life in Amaurot, rejecting Emet-Selch's suggestion to use a memory crystal and remaining committed to his duty. Emet-Selch was the only Ascian to maintain his sanity and full strength, taking rests in the rift between each Rejoining. He later assumed the identity of Solus zos Galvus and established the [[Garlean Empire]] to suit his brethren's needs in setting up the Seventh Umbral Calamity.

===A Realm Reborn (2.0)===

Following the [[Seventh Umbral Calamity]], the Ascians became much more active in their efforts to influence the Source. The Ascians' actions were uncovered with several reports of '''"Masked Mages"''' spotted interacting with the beast tribes. '''[[Lahabrea]]''' was the first ''named'' Ascian introduced, introducing himself to the Warrior of Light within the depths of '''Toto-Rak''' during the Level 24 quest [[Into the Beast's Maw]]. It would be him, operating from the shadows, working to manipulate Legatus [[Gaius van Baelsar]] into being an unwitting pawn for his master plan. The Garleans would cooperate while being completely unaware of his true motives, seeking out [[The Ultima Weapon]] made by the Allagans, and using it to absorb the Aether of summoned Primals.

Lahabrea struck a personal nerve with the Scions when he took possession of [[Thancred Waters]], using him as a spy against his friends for an unknown amount of time before revealing his charade during [[Escape from Castrum Centri]]. Thancred remained the unwilling vessel of Lahabrea until [[Operation Archon]]; after the Warrior of Light's defeat of The Ultima Weapon, Lahabrea attempted to kill the hero using the powers of darkness. His attempt was initially successful, but the Warrior was then revived by Hydaelyn's intervention. Empowered, the Warrior defeated Lahabrea and expelled him from Thancred's body.

====2.0 Epilogue====
In the Epilogue cutscene for A Realm Reborn, [[Lahabrea]] was shown to have survived his expulsion, and ''three more named Ascians were introduced'' with their hoods down, but faces obscured. This included '''[[Pashtarot]]''', '''[[Igeyorhm]]''', and '''[[Nabriales]]''' in that order.

{{Quotation|Cutscene dialogue following Lahabrea's defeat, during [[The Ultimate Weapon]]|<br>Pashtarot: Bahamut stirs.<br>Igeyorhm: As will the others ere long.<br>Nabriales: 'Tis not a question of whether Eorzea's champion shall yield, but of when.<br>Lahabrea: And with each passing moment we draw closer to the Reckoning.<br>(Lahabrea raises his hands, and the camera zooms out to reveal the presence of more hooded Ascians behind them).<br>Ascians: To the one true god! <br>Ascians: To Zodiark!}}

====Patch 2.1====
As the Scions are making preparations to depart for [[Mor Dhona]], the white-robed Ascian '''[[Elidibus]]''' appears within the solar and introduces himself to [[Minfilia]] as 'emissary of the Ascians.' Elidibus departs again in at the end of [[The Gifted]], leaving the Warrior of Light with some ominous words to chew on.
{{Quotation|Elidibus, during [[The Gifted]]| "As it was, so shall it be again."}}
After this, Nabriales appears again in a brief confrontation with Elidibus, asking him why he revealed himself to the Scions.

During cutscenes for the Extreme fights for The Howling Eye, The Navel, and The Bowl of Embers, we are first introduced to an unnamed '''Ascian of the Twelfth Staff''' and an '''Ascian of the Twelfth Sword'''. Their contribution to the plot is minimal at best.

====Patches 2.2 through 2.5====
* Elidibus is credited with "granting the Echo" to a Sahagin priest, teaching him how to cheat death by possessing the body of another. Interestingly enough, this is also the first recorded case of an Ascian who does not belong to one of the "races of man", even if he was shortly subsumed by the Primal Leviathan
* In [[What Little Gods Are Made Of]], the first information is revealed about how Ascian "immortality" works, resulting in a wonderful slideshow presentation. Within this same quest is another scene with the Ascian Convocation meeting in [[the Chrysalis]], in which '''Emmerololth''' and '''Altima''' are named and shown on screen for the first time. We also get to see the first visual depiction of Zodiark, ''outside of'' his "crystal" form.
* In [[The Instruments of Our Deliverance]], Nabriales is shown observing the defeat of Shiva at the hands of the Warrior of Light.
* The scenes during [[Aether on Demand]] give us our second slideshow presentation about the Scion's plan to trap an Ascian soul within White Auracite, the first step in destroying it. Later, '''Nabriales meets his end''' during [[An Uninvited Ascian]], marking the ''first time an Ascian is permanently killed.''

===Heavensward (Patch 3.0)===
* [[Lahabrea]] and [[Igeyorhm]] work in the background for most of the expansion, teaching various parties how to summon new primals.
* During the Summoner class quests, the [[Ascian of the Twelfth Chalice]] flees Azys Lla after being defeated by the Warrior of Light. The finale of these quests results in the defeat of the Ascians of the Twelfth Chalice, Staff, Sword, and Pentacle. These scenes also reveal that the four of them are specifically servants of Lahabrea (or ''were''). Their mortal forms are defeated, but it is unclear if they are able to harness rebirth the same way their masters do.
* On [[Azys Lla]], Lahabrea and Igeyorhm use the power of the Echo to fuse into an [[Ascian Prime]] for the first time. After the defeat of Ascian Prime, '''Igeyorhm dies''' at the hands of the Warrior of Light, using a White Auracite in their possession. Following this, '''Lahabrea dies''' after being betrayed by [[Thordan VII]], who consumes the aether of his soul to further empower his primal form.
* Off-screen, [[Mitron]] and [[Loghrif]] attempted to enact an Umbral Calamity on [[The First]] at the same time as Lahabrea and Igeyorhm on the Source. Their plots were foiled by the Warriors of Light on the First; their leader [[Ardbert]] '''destroyed Loghrif''' with a blade of light and caused Mitron to transform into a sin eater, [[Eden]], triggering a Flood of Light.
* [[Elidibus]] reappears in an Epilogue scene, shown on the Moon for the first time. With the Ascians taking heavy losses, he opts to recruit the First's Warriors of Light to restore balance on the Source.

====Patches 3.1 through 3.5====
* Elidibus tricks the Warriors of the First into believing they can save their homeworld by enacting an Umbral Calamity on the Source. They perform various tasks for Elidibus, such as retrieving the eyes of [[Nidhogg]] and defeating numerous newly-summoned primals, such as [[Ravana]].
* The Warriors are eventually sent back to the First by Hydaelyn to stop the Flood of Light themselves. Meanwhile, Elidibus hands over the eyes of Nidhogg to [[the Griffin]], who goes on to use them to summon the primal [[Shinryu]], leading to all-out war between Garlemald and Eorzea.

===Stormblood (Patch 4.0)===
* Ascians are largely absent from this expansion, as the Echo and its capabilities take the stage in other ways.
* An unnamed Ascian causes trouble under the sea: [[Kurenai]] of [[Sui-no-Sato]] mentions the visitation of a "man cloaked in black" in the days before a voidsent takes possession of the [[Ruby Princess]]'s body.
* At the conclusion of Stormblood, Elidibus appears to Emperor [[Varis zos Galvus]] after the death of his son, [[Zenos yae Galvus|Zenos]]. Elidibus removes his mask before the Emperor, causing him shock for reasons that are not revealed within the scene.

====Patch 4.1 through 4.5====
* Elidibus is revealed to have stolen the body of Zenos from its unmarked grave in Ala Mhigo, and assumes his identity.
* Elidibus teaches [[Asahi sas Brutus]] how to summon a primal, leading to the summoning of [[Tsukuyomi]]. He continues to escalate the war between Garlemald and Eorzea in hopes of goading Varis into using [[Black Rose]], a chemical weapon that will produce the desired calamity.
* [[Gaius van Baelsar]] is revealed to have survived his apparent demis. In revenge for Lahabrea's manipulations, he has been hunting Ascians. Gaius collected the masks of the Ascians he defeated, including those of [[Altima]] and [[Deudalaphon]]. It is unclear if his actions resulted in the "true death" of the Ascians involved, or if he merely dispatched their corporeal forms.
* In Patch 4.4, [[Solus zos Galvus]] is introduced, and revealed to be an Ascian, and to have built the Garlean Empire specifically to further the goals of the Ascians.
* A memo from Galuf Baldesion reveals that, by casting the Isle of Val into the Lifestream, they also ensured the defeat of an Ascian known as '''Emmerololth,''' also ensuring that he would "never reform."
* The Warrior of Light does battle against Elidibus posing as Zenos. Due to an untimely vision, he deals a critical blow and nearly defeats the Warrior, but is foiled by Estinien Wyrmblood rescuing them before he can deal a finishing blow. Elidibus-Zenos returns to Garlemald afterwards.

===[[Shadowbringers]] (Patch 5.0)===
* In this expansion we get a very clear idea of what happens with [[Rejoining|Rejoinings]], [[Umbral Calamity|Umbral Calamities]] and how the [[Ascians]] have been involved the whole time.
* [[Solus zos Galvus]] comes forth pretty quickly and '''re-introduces himself as the Unsundered Ascian, [[Emet-Selch]]'''. Although his objectives remain obscured for several chapters, [[Emet-Selch]] eventually emerges as the primary antagonist of the expansion.
* When the Scions reach [[The Tempest]], we are first introduced to the concept of the [[Ancient]]s and their capitol city, [[Amaurot]], through the recreation made by Emet-Selch (other details that were revealed about the Ancients during this time are detailed on that page).
* [[The Final Days]] is also name-dropped and partially explained during the final few chapters, before the Warrior of Light eventually fights and '''kills Emet-Selch.'''
* Meanwhile, Elidibus, now the last remaining Unsundered, is forced to flee Garlemald after the real Zenos, who had cheated death by possessing another, takes back his body and murders Varis to halt the Black Rose. He vows to avenge his comrades by using the "Warriors of Light"

====Patch 5.1 through 5.3====
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* Release of the first two parts of the Eden raid series, providing hints about the past and potential future on the First.
* Release of the lead-up to Seat of Sacrifice, featuring Elidibus.

Following the defeat of Emet-Selch, the Scions begin investigating The Empty and discover the slumbering form of Eden. After awaking the Sin Eater, then begin using its power to try to reverse the effects of the Flood of Light. They are interrupted by the arrival of Gaia, a girl they determine to be the Oracle of Darkness. Throughout her life, Gaia has been hearing what she calls a 'fairy,' an internal voice or feeling that guides her actions. She then joins the Scions in their investigation.

====Patch 5.3====
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* Release of [[The Seat of Sacrifice]], resulting in the '''capture of Elidibus within the Crystal Tower'''.

Elidibus heads to the First and possesses the body of [[Ardbert]] and awakens the latent power of the Echo in the people of the First to continue the legend of the Warrior of Light, using their faith in the myth to strengthen himself the way a primal would feed on the faith of those who would summon it.

Elidibus, at his peak strength, attacks the [[Crystal Tower]] and summons simulacrums of the Warriors of Light from other worlds to fight the darkness with him. He and the Warrior of Light engage in combat at the top of the tower, and he almost wins. However, in a turn of events, the call that Elidibus evoked reached Emet-Selch, who pulled the Warrior of Light out of the Void to continue the fight.

The Warrior of Light prevails, and the last Unsundered Ascian was sealed within the Crystal Tower. Before fading completely, the remnants of Elidibus's shade gifts the Warrior of Light with the [[Soul Crystals]] of the Convocation of the Fourteen, sharing his memories with them. With Elidibus gone, the Ascians can no longer replenish their ranks, meaning the end of them and their plans.

====Patch 5.4====
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* Release of Eden's Promise, the final third of the Eden Raids, revealing the history and fate of [[Mitron]] and [[Loghrif]] on The First.

It is discovered that Gaia is the reincarnated form of the Ascian Loghrif, and that the 'fairy' was Loghrif's former partner and lover Mitron, trapped in the form of Eden. Mitron forcibly integrates Loghrif's memories into Gaia while erasing Gaia's own memories, and together they form an Ascian Prime. The Ascian Prime is then defeated by the warrior of darkness. After the defeat, Mitron's essence is returned to the aetherial sea, and a restored Gaia remains on the First.

====Patch 5.5====
* Introduction of the Ascian [[Fandaniel]], through the release of [[Paglth'an]]

After the death of Elidibus, Fandaniel begins to act of his own accord. He entreats with Zenos and convinces him to help him in his mission to destroy the Source, promising him the chance to face off against the Warrior of Light one more time.

Fandaniel confronts the Scions upon their return to the Source, warning them that he and his group of rogue Ascians, the Telophoroi, will destroy the Source using their [[Lunar Primals]], which they create by kidnapping the people of the Source and trapping them in strange towers, draining their Aether to summon the twisted versions of the Primals. Fandaniel, Zenos and the rest of the as yet unnamed Telophoroi ready to engage with the Warrior of Light, who intends to stop their coming apocalypse.

===Endwalker (Patch 6.0)===
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Fandaniel siphoned aether from his towers around Eorzea and concentrated them upon [[The Tower of Babil]]. Knowing the the prison of Zodiark laid upon the moon, Fandaniel used the aether to severely weaken Zodiark's binds, and had Zenos finish the job. Fandaniel then plunged into [[The Dark Inside]] and took control of Zodiark's body, and battled the Warrior of Light. The Warrior defeated the incomplete Zodiark, but the elder primal's destruction had been the Ascian's goal all along, as it recommenced the Final Days. Zodiark's death in Fandaniel's suicidal gambit marked '''the end of the Ascians as a threat''', if any remained.
====Patches 6.1-6.5====
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No Ascians appeared in the patches.

===Dawntrail (Patch 7.0===
No Ascians appeared, marking the first expansion to not include them.
====Patches 7.1-7.2====
No Ascians have appeared in the patches.
==References==
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Dye

2025-04-23T10:56:49Z

Fleckeye: /* Types of Dye */ Added Color groups for new dyes

{{otheruses|the [[items|item]] category|the [[action]]|Dye (action)}}
{{see also|Materials}}
[[File:Dyes icon1.png|baseline|link=]] [[Dye]] is a type of [[materials|material]] used to [[Dye (action)|change the color]] of dyeable [[gear]] and [[furniture]].
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==Types of Dye==
{| {{STDT|sortable item align-center}}
|-
! Dye
! Icon
! Class/Level
! Purchased From
! Cost
! Color group
! Note
|-
| [[Abyssal Blue Dye]] || [[file:abyssal blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Blue #17 ||
|-
| [[Acorn Brown Dye]] || [[file:acorn brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sylphic Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|sylphic goldleaf|1}} [[Sylphic Goldleaf]] || Brown #12 ||
|-
| [[Adamantoise Green Dye]] || [[file:adamantoise green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Kobold Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|titan cobaltpiece|1}} [[Titan Cobaltpiece]] || Green #12 ||
|-
| [[Aldgoat Brown Dye]] || [[file:aldgoat brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sylphic Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} or {{Tribe token|sylphic goldleaf|1}} [[Sylphic Goldleaf]] || Brown #10 ||
|-
| [[Apple Green Dye]] || [[file:apple green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Kobold Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|titan cobaltpiece|1}} [[Titan Cobaltpiece]] || Green #08 ||
|-
| [[Ash Grey Dye]] || [[file:ash grey dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Kasumi]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Grey #03 ||
|-
| [[Azure Blue Dye]] || [[file:azure blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Mesouaidonque]] || {{cosmocredit|600}} || Blue #20 ||
|-
| [[Bark Brown Dye]] || [[file:bark brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Kasumi]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Brown #03 ||
|-
| [[Blood Red Dye]] || [[file:blood red dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Red #08 ||
|-
| [[Bone White Dye]] || [[file:bone white dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Kasumi]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Yellow #01 ||
|-
| [[Bright Orange Dye]] || [[file:bright orange dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Mesouaidonque]] || {{cosmocredit|600}} || Brown #19 ||
|-
| [[Cactuar Green Dye]] || [[file:cactuar green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sylphic Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|sylphic goldleaf|1}} [[Sylphic Goldleaf]] || Green #09 ||
|-
| [[Canary Yellow Dye]] || [[file:canary yellow dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Enie]] or the [[Horrendous Hoarder]] || {{Skybuilders scrip|100}} or {{cowrie|seafarer|500}} || Yellow #10 ||
|-
| [[Carmine Red Dye]] || [[file:carmine red dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Mesouaidonque]] || {{cosmocredit|600}} || Red #12 ||
|-
| [[Celeste Green Dye]] || [[file:celeste green dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Green #15 ||
|-
| [[Ceruleum Blue Dye]] || [[file:ceruleum blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Blue #07 ||
|-
| [[Charcoal Grey Dye]] || [[file:charcoal grey dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Grey #06 ||
|-
| [[Cherry Pink Dye]] || [[file:cherry pink dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Enie]] or the [[Horrendous Hoarder]] || {{Skybuilders scrip|100}} or {{cowrie|seafarer|500}} || Red #11 ||
|-
| [[Chestnut Brown Dye]] || [[file:chestnut brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Brown #14 ||
|-
| [[Chocolate Brown Dye]] || [[file:chocolate brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Brown #04 ||
|-
| [[Coeurl Yellow Dye]] || [[file:coeurl yellow dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Amalj'aa Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} or {{Tribe token|steel amalj'ok|1}} [[Steel Amalj'ok]] || Yellow #06 ||
|-
| [[Colibri Pink Dye]] || [[file:colibri pink dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Purple #07 ||
|-
| [[Coral Pink Dye]] || [[file:coral pink dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sahagin Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|rainbowtide psashp|1}} [[Rainbowtide Psashp]] || Red #07 ||
|-
| [[Cork Brown Dye]] || [[file:cork brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Kobold Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|titan cobaltpiece|1}} [[Titan Cobaltpiece]] || Brown #07 ||
|-
| [[Corpse Blue Dye]] || [[file:corpse blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sahagin Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} or {{Tribe token|rainbowtide psashp|1}} [[Rainbowtide Psashp]] || Blue #06 ||
|-
| [[Cream Yellow Dye]] || [[file:cream yellow dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Yellow #07 ||
|-
| [[Currant Purple Dye]] || [[file:currant purple dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Amalj'aa Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|steel amalj'ok|1}} [[Steel Amalj'ok]] || Purple #03 ||
|-
| [[Dalamud Red Dye]] || [[file:dalamud red dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Red #04 ||
|-
| [[Dark Blue Dye]] || [[file:dark blue dye icon1.png|40px]]|||| [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #09.2 ||
|-
| [[Dark Brown Dye]] || [[file:dark brown dye icon1.png|40px]]|||| [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #05.2 ||
|-
| [[Dark Green Dye]] || [[file:dark green dye icon1.png|40px]]|||| [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #07.2 ||
|-
| [[Dark Purple Dye]] || [[file:dark purple dye icon1.png|40px]]|||| [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #11.2 ||
|-
| [[Dark Red Dye]] || [[file:dark red dye icon1.png|40px]]|||| [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #04.2 ||
|-
| [[Deepwood Green Dye]] || [[file:deepwood green dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Green #14 ||
|-
| [[Desert Yellow Dye]] || [[file:desert yellow dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Yellow #03 ||
|-
| [[Dragoon Blue Dye]] || [[file:dragoon blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Enie]] or the [[Horrendous Hoarder]] || {{Skybuilders scrip|100}} or {{cowrie|seafarer|500}} || Blue #18 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Dark Blue Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose dark blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #09.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Dark Brown Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose dark brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #05.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Dark Green Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose dark green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #07.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Dark Purple Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose dark purple dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #11.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Dark Red Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose dark red dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #04.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Jet Black Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose jet black dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #02.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Metallic Blue Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose metallic blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #19.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Metallic Gold Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose metallic gold dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #13.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Metallic Green Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose metallic green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #17.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Metallic Orange Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose metallic orange dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #15.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Metallic Purple Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose metallic purple dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #20.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Metallic Red Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose metallic red dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #14.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Metallic Silver Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose metallic silver dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #12.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Metallic Sky Blue Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose metallic sky blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #18.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Metallic Yellow Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose metallic yellow dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #16.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Pastel Blue Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose pastel blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #08.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Pastel Green Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose pastel green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #06.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Pastel Pink Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose pastel pink dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #03.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Pastel Purple Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose pastel purple dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #10.1 ||
|-
| [[General-purpose Pure White Dye]] || [[file:general-purpose pure white dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Quick Exploration]] [[Retainer Ventures]] (via the {{item icon|Venture Coffer}} lootbox) || || Metallic #01.1 ||
|-
| [[Gloom Purple Dye]] || [[file:gloom purple dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Kasumi]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Purple #02 ||
|-
| [[Gobbiebag Brown Dye]] || [[file:gobbiebag brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Kobold Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|titan cobaltpiece|1}} [[Titan Cobaltpiece]] || Brown #15 ||
|-
| [[Goobbue Grey Dye]] || [[file:goobbue grey dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Grey #04 ||
|-
| [[Grape Purple Dye]] || [[file:grape purple dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Purple #05 ||
|-
| [[Gunmetal Black Dye]] || [[file:gunmetal black dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Enie]] or the [[Horrendous Hoarder]] || {{Skybuilders scrip|500}} or {{cowrie|seafarer|2500}} || Metallic #21 ||
|-
| [[Halatali Yellow Dye]] || [[file:halatali yellow dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Yellow #08 ||
|-
| [[Honey Yellow Dye]] || [[file:honey yellow dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Yellow #04 ||
|-
| [[Hunter Green Dye]] || [[file:hunter green dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || [[Ixali Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} || Green #10 ||
|-
| [[Ice Blue Dye]] || [[file:ice blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Kasumi]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Blue #01 ||
|-
| [[Ink Blue Dye]] || [[file:ink blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Blue #09 ||
|-
| [[Iris Purple Dye]] || [[file:iris purple dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sahagin Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|rainbowtide psashp|1}} [[Rainbowtide Psashp]] || Purple #04 ||
|-
| [[Jet Black Dye]] || [[file:jet black dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #02.2 ||
|-
| [[Kobold Brown Dye]] || [[file:kobold brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Brown #06 ||
|-
| [[Lavender Purple Dye]] || [[file:lavender purple dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sahagin Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} or {{Tribe token|rainbowtide psashp|1}} [[Rainbowtide Psashp]] || Purple #01 ||
|-
| [[Lilac Purple Dye]] || [[file:lilac purple dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sahagin Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} or {{Tribe token|rainbowtide psashp|1}} [[Rainbowtide Psashp]] || Red #02 ||
|-
| [[Lime Green Dye]] || [[file:lime green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sylphic Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} or {{Tribe token|sylphic goldleaf|1}} [[Sylphic Goldleaf]] || Green #03 ||
|-
| [[Loam Brown Dye]] || [[file:loam brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Brown #18 ||
|-
| [[Lotus Pink Dye]] || [[file:lotus pink dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Purple #06 ||
|-
| [[Marsh Green Dye]] || [[file:marsh green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sylphic Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} or {{Tribe token|sylphic goldleaf|1}} [[Sylphic Goldleaf]] || Green #07 ||
|-
| [[Meadow Green Dye]] || [[file:meadow green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Kobold Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} or {{Tribe token|titan cobaltpiece|1}} [[Titan Cobaltpiece]] || Green #05 ||
|-
| [[Mesa Red Dye]] || [[file:mesa red dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Brown #02 ||
|-
| [[Metallic Blue Dye]] || [[file:metallic blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #19.2 ||
|-
| [[Metallic Brass Dye]] || [[file:metallic brass dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Enie]] or the [[Horrendous Hoarder]] || {{Skybuilders scrip|500}} or {{cowrie|seafarer|2500}} || Metallic #23 ||
|-
| [[Metallic Cobalt Green Dye]] || [[file:metallic cobalt green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Orbitingway]] || [[Cosmic Fortune]] || Metallic #26 ||
|-
| [[Metallic Dark Blue Dye]] || [[file:metallic dark blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Orbitingway]] || [[Cosmic Fortune]] || Metallic #27 ||
|-
| [[Metallic Gold Dye]] || [[file:metallic gold dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #13.2 ||
|-
| [[Metallic Green Dye]] || [[file:metallic green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #17.2 ||
|-
| [[Metallic Orange Dye]] || [[file:metallic orange dye icon1.png|40px]]|||| [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #15.2 ||
|-
| [[Metallic Pink Dye]] || [[file:metallic pink dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Orbitingway]] || [[Cosmic Fortune]] || Metallic #24 ||
|-
| [[Metallic Purple Dye]] || [[file:metallic purple dye icon1.png|40px]]|||| [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #20.2 ||
|-
| [[Metallic Red Dye]] || [[file:metallic red dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #14.2 ||
|-
| [[Metallic Ruby Red Dye]] || [[file:metallic ruby red dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Orbitingway]] || [[Cosmic Fortune]] || Metallic #25 ||
|-
| [[Metallic Silver Dye]] || [[file:metallic silver dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #12.2 ||
|-
| [[Metallic Sky Blue Dye]] || [[file:metallic sky blue dye icon1.png|40px]]|||| [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #18.2 ||
|-
| [[Metallic Yellow Dye]] || [[file:metallic yellow dye icon1.png|40px]]|||| [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #16.2 ||
|-
| [[Midnight Blue Dye]] || [[file:midnight blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Blue #15 ||
|-
| [[Millioncorn Yellow Dye]] || [[file:millioncorn yellow dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Yellow #05 ||
|-
| [[Mole Brown Dye]] || [[file:mole brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Brown #17 ||
|-
| [[Morbol Green Dye]] || [[file:morbol green dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || [[Ixali Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} || Green #17 ||
|-
| [[Moss Green Dye]] || [[file:moss green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Green #04 ||
|-
| [[Mud Green Dye]] || [[file:mud green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Kasumi]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Green #01 ||
|-
| [[Neon Green Dye]] || [[file:neon green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Mesouaidonque]] || {{cosmocredit|600}} || Green #17 ||
|-
| [[Neon Pink Dye]] || [[file:neon pink dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Mesouaidonque]] || {{cosmocredit|600}} || Red #13||
|-
| [[Neon Yellow Dye]] || [[file:neon yellow dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Mesouaidonque]] || {{cosmocredit|600}} || Yellow #12||
|-
| [[Nophica Green Dye]] || [[file:nophica green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Green #13 ||
|-
| [[Ochu Green Dye]] || [[file:ochu green dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Green #11 ||
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| [[Olive Green Dye]] || [[file:olive green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Green #06 ||
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| [[Opo-opo Brown Dye]] || [[file:opo-opo brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Brown #09 ||
|-
| [[Orchard Brown Dye]] || [[file:orchard brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Brown #13 ||
|-
| [[Othard Blue Dye]] || [[file:othard blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Blue #11 ||
|-
| [[Pastel Blue Dye]] || [[file:pastel blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #08.2 ||
|-
| [[Pastel Green Dye]] || [[file:pastel green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #06.2 ||
|-
| [[Pastel Pink Dye]] || [[file:pastel pink dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #03.2 ||
|-
| [[Pastel Purple Dye]] || [[file:pastel purple dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #10.2 ||
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| [[Peacock Blue Dye]] || [[file:peacock blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Amalj'aa Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|steel amalj'ok|1}} [[Steel Amalj'ok]] || Blue #04 ||
|-
| [[Pearl White Dye]] || [[file:pearl white dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Enie]] or the [[Horrendous Hoarder]] || {{Skybuilders scrip|500}} or {{cowrie|seafarer|2500}} || Metallic #22 ||
|-
| [[Plum Purple Dye]] || [[file:plum purple dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Purple #08 ||
|-
| [[Pumpkin Orange Dye]] || [[file:pumpkin orange dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Brown #11 ||
|-
| [[Pure White Dye]] || [[file:pure white dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Final Fantasy XIV Online Store]] || 1 for $1 USD or 10 for $7.50 USD || Metallic #01.2 ||
|-
| [[Qiqirn Brown Dye]] || [[file:qiqirn brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sylphic Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|sylphic goldleaf|1}} [[Sylphic Goldleaf]] || Brown #08 ||
|-
| [[Raisin Brown Dye]] || [[file:raisin brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Amalj'aa Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|steel amalj'ok|1}} [[Steel Amalj'ok]] || Yellow #09 ||
|-
| [[Raptor Blue Dye]] || [[file:raptor blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Amalj'aa Vendor]]|| {{gil|216}} or {{Tribe token|steel amalj'ok|1}} [[Steel Amalj'ok]] || Blue #10 ||
|-
| [[Regal Purple Dye]] || [[file:regal purple dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Purple #09 ||
|-
| [[Rhotano Blue Dye]] || [[file:rhotano blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sahagin Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|rainbowtide psashp|1}} [[Rainbowtide Psashp]] || Blue #05 ||
|-
| [[Rolanberry Red Dye]] || [[file:rolanberry red dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Red #03 ||
|-
| [[Rose Pink Dye]] || [[file:rose pink dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Kasumi]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Red #01 ||
|-
| [[Royal Blue Dye]] || [[file:royal blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || [[Ixali Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} || Blue #14 ||
|-
| [[Ruby Red Dye]] || [[file:ruby red dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Enie]] or the [[Horrendous Hoarder]] || {{Skybuilders scrip|100}} or {{cowrie|seafarer|500}} || Red #10 ||
|-
| [[Russet Brown Dye]] || [[file:russet brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Brown #05 ||
|-
| [[Rust Red Dye]] || [[file:rust red dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Red #05 ||
|-
| [[Salmon Pink Dye]] || [[file:salmon pink dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Red #09 ||
|-
| [[Seafog Blue Dye]] || [[file:seafog blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Amalj'aa Vendor]]|| {{gil|216}} or {{Tribe token|steel amalj'ok|1}} [[Steel Amalj'ok]] || Blue #03 ||
|-
| [[Shadow Blue Dye]] || [[file:shadow blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sahagin Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|rainbowtide psashp|1}} [[Rainbowtide Psashp]] || Blue #16 ||
|-
| [[Shale Brown Dye]] || [[file:shale brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sylphic Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} or {{Tribe token|sylphic goldleaf|1}} [[Sylphic Goldleaf]] || Brown #16 ||
|-
| [[Sky Blue Dye]] || [[file:sky blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|40}} || Blue #02 ||
|-
| [[Slate Grey Dye]] || [[file:slate grey dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|216}} || Grey #05 ||
|-
| [[Snow White Dye]] || [[file:snow white dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || [[Ixali Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} || Grey #02 ||
|-
| [[Soot Black Dye]] || [[file:soot black dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || [[Ixali Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} || Grey #07 ||
|-
| [[Storm Blue Dye]] || [[file:storm blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Blue #12 ||
|-
| [[Sunset Orange Dye]] || [[file:sunset orange dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Brown #01 ||
|-
| [[Sylph Green Dye]] || [[file:sylph green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Kobold Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} or {{Tribe token|titan cobaltpiece|1}} [[Titan Cobaltpiece]] || Green #02 ||
|-
| [[Terebinth]] || [[file:terebinth icon1.png|40px|40px]] || || [[Unsynrael]], [[Alaric]], [[Nanabe]], [[Frine]], [[Eilonwy]], [[Tokohana]] || {{gil|60}} || Grey #01 || Removes all dye.<br>Also used to craft {{item icon|Varnish}}
|-
| [[Turquoise Blue Dye]] || [[file:turquoise blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Enie]] or the [[Horrendous Hoarder]] || {{Skybuilders scrip|100}} or {{cowrie|seafarer|500}} || Blue #19 ||
|-
| [[Turquoise Green Dye]] || [[file:turquoise green dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Sylphic Vendor]] || {{gil|334}} or {{Tribe token|sylphic goldleaf|1}} [[Sylphic Goldleaf]] || Green #16 ||
|-
| [[Ul Brown Dye]] || [[file:ul brown dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Kobold Vendor]] || {{gil|216}} or {{Tribe token|titan cobaltpiece|1}} [[Titan Cobaltpiece]] || Yellow #02 ||
|-
| [[Vanilla Yellow Dye]] || [[file:vanilla yellow dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Enie]] or the [[Horrendous Hoarder]] || {{Skybuilders scrip|100}} or {{cowrie|seafarer|500}} || Yellow #11 ||
|-
| [[Violet Purple Dye]] || [[file:violet purple dye icon1.png|40px]] || || [[Mesouaidonque]] || {{cosmocredit|600}} || Purple #10 ||
|-
| [[Void Blue Dye]] || [[file:void blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Blue #13 ||
|-
| [[Wine Red Dye]] || [[file:wine red dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Red #06 ||
|-
| [[Woad Blue Dye]] || [[file:woad blue dye icon1.png|40px]] || Level 30 [[Crafting]] Class || || || Blue #08 ||
|-
|}

==Types of Pigment==
{| {{STDT|sortable item align-center}}
|-
! Pigment
! Icon
! Class/Level
! Used to Craft
! Note
|-
| [[Blue Pigment]] || [[file:blue pigment icon1.png|40px]] || Level 28 [[Miner]]/[[Botanist]] ||align = "left" | {{item icon|Abyssal Blue Dye}}, {{item icon|Othard Blue Dye}}, {{item icon|Royal Blue Dye}}, {{item icon|Storm Blue Dye}}, {{item icon|Void Blue Dye}}, {{item icon|Woad Blue Dye}} ||
|-
| [[Brown Pigment]] || [[file:brown pigment icon1.png|40px]] || Level 28 [[Miner]]/[[Botanist]] ||align = "left" | {{item icon|Kobold Brown Dye}}, {{item icon|Loam Brown Dye}}, {{item icon|Pumpkin Orange Dye}}, {{item icon|Sunset Orange Dye}} ||
|-
| [[Green Pigment]] || [[file:green pigment icon1.png|40px]] || Level 28 [[Miner]]/[[Botanist]] ||align = "left" | {{item icon|Celeste Green Dye}}, {{item icon|Deepwood Green Dye}}, {{item icon|Hunter Green Dye}}, {{item icon|Morbol Green Dye}}, {{item icon|Ochu Green Dye}} ||
|-
| [[Grey Pigment]] || [[file:grey pigment icon1.png|40px]] || Level 28 [[Miner]]/[[Botanist]] ||align = "left" | {{item icon|Snow White Dye}}, {{item icon|Soot Black Dye}} ||
|-
| [[Purple Pigment]] || [[file:purple pigment icon1.png|40px]] || Level 28 [[Miner]]/[[Botanist]] ||align = "left" | {{item icon|Colibri Pink Dye}}, {{item icon|Lotus Pink Dye}}, {{item icon|Plum Purple Dye}}, {{item icon|Regal Purple Dye}} ||
|-
| [[Red Pigment]] || [[file:red pigment icon1.png|40px]] || Level 28 [[Miner]]/[[Botanist]] ||align = "left" | {{item icon|Dalamud Red Dye}}, {{item icon|Wine Red Dye}} ||
|-
| [[Yellow Pigment]] || [[file:yellow pigment icon1.png|40px]] || Level 28 [[Miner]]/[[Botanist]] ||align = "left" | {{item icon|Honey Yellow Dye}}, {{item icon|Millioncorn Yellow Dye}} ||
|-
|}

==Gallery==
''Note: Dye color '''will''' vary based on which item is being dyed.''
<gallery mode=packed>
File:Abyssal Blue.PNG | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Abyssal Blue Dye|Abyssal Blue]]</div>
File:Aldgoat Brown.png | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Aldgoat Brown Dye|Aldgoat Brown]]</div>
File:Apple Green.png | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Apple Green Dye|Apple Green]]</div>
Image:ash grey.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Ash Grey Dye|Ash Grey]]</div>
Image:bark brown.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Bark Brown Dye|Bark Brown]]</div>
Image:blood red.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Blood Red Dye|Blood Red]]</div>
Image:bone white.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Bone White Dye|Bone White]]</div>
File:Celeste Green.png | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Celeste Green Dye|Celeste Green]]</div>
Image:cereulum blue.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Ceruleum Blue Dye|Ceruleum Blue]]</div>
Image:charcoal grey.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Charcoal Grey Dye|Charcoal Grey]]</div>
Image:chestnut brown.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Chestnut Brown Dye|Chestnut Brown]]</div>
Image:chocolate brown.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Chocolate Brown Dye|Chocolate Brown]]</div>
File:Colibri Pink.PNG | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Colibri Pink Dye|Colibri Pink]]</div>
Image:cream yellow.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Cream Yellow Dye|Cream Yellow]]</div>
File:Dalamud Red.PNG | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Dalamud Red Dye|Dalamud Red]]</div>
Image:desert yellow.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Desert Yellow Dye|Desert Yellow]]</div>
Image:goobbue grey.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Goobbue Grey Dye|Goobbue Grey]]</div>
Image:gloom purple.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Gloom Purple Dye|Gloom Purple]]</div>
Image:grape purple.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Grape Purple Dye|Grape Purple]]</div>
Image:halatali yellow.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Halatali Yellow Dye|Halatali Yellow]]</div>
File:Hunter Green.PNG | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Hunter Green Dye|Hunter Green]]</div>
Image:ice blue.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Ice Blue Dye|Ice Blue]]</div>
Image:ink blue.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Ink Blue Dye|Ink Blue]]</div>
File:Kobold Brown.PNG | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Kobold Brown Dye|Kobold Brown]]</div>
File: Lime Green.png | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Lime Green Dye|Lime Green]]</div>
Image:mesa red.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Mesa Red Dye|Mesa Red]]</div>
Image:midnight blue.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Midnight Blue Dye|Midnight Blue]]</div>
Image:mole brown.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Mole Brown Dye|Mole Brown]]</div>
Image:moss green.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Moss Green Dye|Moss Green]]</div>
Image:mud green.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Mud Green Dye|Mud Green]]</div>
Image:nophica green.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Nophica Green Dye|Nophica Green]]</div>
Image:olive green.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Olive Green Dye|Olive Green]]</div>
Image:opo-opo brown.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Opo-opo Brown Dye|Opo-opo Brown]]</div>
Image:orchard brown.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Orchard Brown Dye|Orchard Brown]]</div>
File:Othard Blue.png | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Othard Blue Dye|Othard Blue]]</div>
File:Rhotano_Blue.PNG | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Rhotano Blue Dye|Rhotano Blue]]</div>
File:Royal Blue.PNG | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Royal Blue Dye|Royal Blue]]</div>
Image:rolanberry red.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Rolanberry Red Dye|Rolanberry Red]]</div>
Image:rose pink.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Rose Pink Dye|Rose Pink]]</div>
Image:russet brown.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Russet Brown Dye|Russet Brown]]</div>
Image:rust red.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Rust Red Dye|Rust Red]]</div>
Image:salmon pink.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Salmon Pink Dye|Salmon Pink]]</div>
File:Seafog_Blue.PNG | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Seafog Blue Dye|Seafog Blue]]</div>
File:Shadow Blue.png | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Shadow Blue Dye|Shadow Blue]]</div>
File:Shale_Brown.PNG | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Shale Brown Dye|Shale Brown]]</div>
Image:sky blue.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Sky Blue Dye|Sky Blue]]</div>
Image:slate grey.jpg | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Slate Grey Dye|Slate Grey]]</div>
File:Snow White.PNG | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Snow White Dye|Snow White]]</div>
File:Soot Black.PNG | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Soot Black Dye|Soot Black]]</div>
File:Storm Blue.png | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Storm Blue Dye|Storm Blue]]</div>
File:Sunset_Orange.PNG | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Sunset Orange Dye|Sunset Orange]]</div>
File:Turquoise_Green.PNG | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Turquoise Green Dye|Turquoise Green]]</div>
File:Woad Blue.png | <div style= "text-align: center">[[Woad Blue Dye|Woad Blue]]</div>
</gallery>

<gallery heights=200px mode="packed">
File:amaljaa dyes1.jpg|Amalj'aa Dyes at Recognized rank
File:amaljaa dyes2.jpg|Amalj'aa Dyes at Friendly rank
File:sylph dyes1.jpg|Sylph Dyes at Recognized rank
</gallery>

{{materials}}

Custom Deliveries

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{{see also|Collectables|Crystarium Deliveries|Studium Deliveries}}
[[File:Custom Delivery (map icon).png|24px|link=]] [[Custom Deliveries]] are NPCs that accept turn-ins of [[Collectables#Custom_Delivery|specific, dedicated collectables]] {{collectable}}, and award players with {{gil}} [[gil]], {{exp}} [[EXP]] and [[Scrips]].

Clients will come to trust you more and more as you complete deliveries and increase their satisfaction level. Upon reaching a new satisfaction level, you will have the opportunity to learn more about them and earn greater rewards from deliveries.

Custom Deliveries were first introduced with [[Zhloe Aliapoh]] in [[patch 3.55a]]. A new custom delivery NPC is usually added every major odd-numbered patch, making three new NPCs per expansion starting from [[Stormblood]].

==Requirements==
{{#lsth:Collectables|Unlock}}
==Undertaking Custom Deliveries==
<big>''A detailed explanation of how collectables work in general (with images), can be found at [[Collectables#Crafting|Collectables]].''</big>
===Confirming items sought for delivery===
[[File:custom deliveries1.png|350px|right]]
Speak with clients seeking custom deliveries to confirm which items they require that week.
* Each player is limited to a total of twelve deliveries per week, and no more than six deliveries ''per NPC'' per week. Eligibility for deliveries will be reset every Tuesday at 12:00 a.m. (PST).

The location of NPCs accepting custom deliveries can also be confirmed on the map and mini-map.

[[File:custom deliveries2.png|400px]]
===Preparing items for delivery===
[[File:custom deliveries3.png|350px|right]]
The items sought by clients fall into three categories: crafted items, gathered items, and fish.

====Crafted Items====
The Custom Deliveries category has been added to the Crafting Log. Five of these items are subject to requests for delivery. The components required to create the items for Zhloe can be purchased from the [[Scrap Salvager]] NPC in [[Idyllshire]] (X:5.9 Y:7.3).
* Recipes can be confirmed while viewing the Custom Deliveries list by selecting the requested item and accessing the subcommand menu.

====Gathered Items====
Five items have been added to the Gathering Log, which may be requested for delivery by Zhloe.
* The location of these items can be confirmed while viewing the Custom Deliveries list by selecting the requested item and accessing the subcommand menu.

====Fish====
Five new fish have been added to the fishing log, which may be requested for delivery by Zhloe.
* The locations of these fish can be confirmed while viewing the Custom Deliveries list by selecting the requested item and viewing its item description.

===Completing deliveries===
Upon delivering the items requested, you will receive a reward of gil, as well as white (and purple when level 90) crafters' or gatherers' scrips. To deliver items you need Disciple of the Hand or Land level 56+. The client's satisfaction level will also increase. Items with a higher collectability will earn greater rewards gil and scrip rewards (the satisfaction gain is fixed, as long as the item meets the minimum collectability requirement).

[[File:custom deliveries4.png|400px]]

===Raising satisfaction levels===
With each successful delivery, clients will come to trust you more, leading to assignments of greater importance. Satisfaction levels are displayed as a gauge atop the Custom Deliveries list. When the gauge is filled to the maximum, the client's satisfaction level will increase. Players will receive rewards upon increasing in satisfaction level, and have the opportunity to learn more about their clients. Upon reaching the next rank, the "story" for that Custom Delivery NPC is advanced, with a cutscene and potentially a quest serving to further that story before the next rank's deliveries are unlocked.

All Custom Delivery NPCs use the same satisfaction scaling, with it taking 3 deliveries to reach rank 2, and 6 deliveries each to reach ranks 3 through 5. As such, each Custom Delivery NPC requires a minimum of 4 weeks to reach Level 5 satisfaction, due to the limit of 6 deliveries per NPC per week. Note that the shared 12 deliveries per week cap amongst ''all'' Custom Deliveries means one cannot simultaneously rank up with all of the available NPCs. At most, one can rank up with two NPCs simultaneously without increasing the time to reach rank 5 with each.

[[File:custom deliveries5.png|400px]]

==List of NPCs==
For more details about each NPC's custom deliveries, see their individual pages.
{| {{STDT|npc}}
! width=15% align="center"|Name
! Level
! width=10%|NPC Location
! Unlock Quest
! width=50%|Prerequisite(s)
! Glamour-able*
! Added
|-
|[[File:Zhloe Aliapoh CD.png|100px|link=Custom Deliveries/Zhloe Aliapoh]]
'''[[Custom Deliveries/Zhloe Aliapoh|Zhloe Aliapoh]]'''
|60
|[[Idyllshire]] (X:4.6, Y:6.7)
|{{questlink|feature|Arms Wide Open}}<br>[[Idyllshire]] (X:5.8, Y:7.0)
|{{questlink|feature|Go West, Craftsman}} (and the main scenario quest {{questlink|main|A Great New Nation}} for access to [[Idyllshire]]).
|Yes
|[[Patch 3.55a|3.55a]]
|-
|[[File:M'naago CD.png|100px|link=Custom Deliveries/M'naago]]
'''[[Custom Deliveries/M'naago|M'naago]]'''
|60
|[[Rhalgr's Reach]] (X:14.6, Y:9.4)
|{{questlink|feature|None Forgotten, None Forsaken}}<br>[[Rhalgr's Reach]] (X:9.8, Y:12.5)
|{{questlink|feature|Reach Long and Prosper}} and the main scenario quest {{questlink|main|Return of the Bull}}<br>''NOTE: The quest icon will not appear over Galiena's head unless you are actively playing a DoH/DoL class.''
|No
|[[Patch 4.1|4.1]]
|-
|[[File:Kurenai CD.png|100px|link=Custom Deliveries/Kurenai]]
'''[[Custom Deliveries/Kurenai|Kurenai]]'''
|62
|[[The Ruby Sea]] (X:28.3, Y:15.3, Z:-1.2)
|{{questlink|feature|The Seaweed Is Always Greener}}<br>[[Kugane]] (X:10.1, Y: 9.9)
|Complete {{questlink|feature|None Forgotten, None Forsaken}} to unlock M'naago's custom deliveries (see above for requirements)
Complete [[Kurenai]]'s quest line, consisting of:
:*{{questlink|feature|The Palace of Lost Souls}} (requires completion of main scenario quest {{questlink|main|Forever and Ever Apart}} )
:*{{questlink|side|Fathoms Below}}
:*{{questlink|side|A Part of Your World}}
:*{{questlink|side|The Elixir of Life}}
:*{{questlink|side|The Two Princesses of Sui-no-Sato}}
|Yes
|[[Patch 4.3|4.3]]
|-
|[[File:Adkiragh CD.png|100px|link=Custom Deliveries/Adkiragh]]
'''[[Custom Deliveries/Adkiragh|Adkiragh]]'''
|66
|[[Idyllshire]] (X:4.8, Y:6.6)
|{{questlink|feature|Between a Rock and the Hard Place}}<br>[[Idyllshire]] (X:5.8, Y:7.0)
|The main scenario quest {{questlink|main|Stormblood (Quest)|Stormblood}}, side quests {{questlink|feature|Arms Wide Open}} (Zhloe's deliveries), and {{questlink|side|Purbol Rain}}
|Yes
|[[Patch 4.5|4.5]]
|-
|[[File:Kai-Shirr CD.png|100px|link=Custom Deliveries/Kai-Shirr]]
'''[[Custom Deliveries/Kai-Shirr|Kai-Shirr]]'''
|70
|[[Eulmore]], [[The Canopy]] (X:12.2, Y:9.9)
|{{questlink|feature|Oh, Beehive Yourself}}<br>[[Eulmore]] (X:11.7, Y:11.7)
|The main scenario quest {{questlink|main|Moving Forward}} and unlock Shadowbringers collectibles via {{questlink|feature|The Boutique Always Wins}}.
|Yes
|[[Patch 5.1|5.1]]
|-
|[[File:Ehll Tou CD.png|100px|link=Custom Deliveries/Ehll Tou]]
'''[[Custom Deliveries/Ehll Tou|Ehll Tou]]'''
|70
|[[The Firmament]] (X:13.5, Y:11.2)
|{{questlink|feature|O Crafter, My Crafter}}<br>[[The Firmament]] (X:14.2, Y:12.7)
|The main scenario quest {{questlink|main|Litany of Peace}} and the side quest {{questlink|feature|Go West, Craftsman}}.
The Firmament unlocked through {{questlink|feature|Towards the Firmament}}.<br>
[[Ishgardian_Restoration_Main_Quests|Ishgardian Restoration Main Quests]] beginning with {{questlink|feature|A Home in the Firmament}} and ending with {{questlink|feature|To Thaw a Frozen Heart}}. <br>
After completing the above quests, obtain and complete the side quests from [[Ehll Tou#Quests_Started|Ehll Tou]], {{questlink|feature|If Songs Had Wings}} and {{questlink|feature|O Crafter, My Crafter}}.
|No
|[[Patch 5.3|5.3]]
|-
|[[File:Charlemend CD.png|100px|link=Custom Deliveries/Charlemend]]
'''[[Custom Deliveries/Charlemend|Charlemend]]'''
|70
|[[The Firmament]] (X:8.9, Y:8.5)
|{{questlink|feature|You Can Count on It}}<br>[[The Firmament]] (X:8.9, Y:8.4)
|The quests {{questlink|feature|Smiles Cross the Sky}}, {{questlink|feature|The Brume Lifts}}, and {{questlink|feature|Go West, Craftsman}}.
|Yes
|[[Patch 5.5|5.5]]
|-
|[[File:Ameliance CD.png|100px|link=Custom Deliveries/Ameliance]]
'''[[Custom Deliveries/Ameliance|Ameliance]]'''
|80
|[[Old Sharlayan]] (X:15.6, Y:7.2)
|{{questlink|feature|Of Mothers and Merchants}}<br>[[Old Sharlayan]] (X:12.6, Y:9.7)
|The main scenario quest {{questlink|main|Endwalker (Quest)}} and the side quest {{questlink|feature|Go West, Craftsman}}.
|Yes
|[[Patch 6.1|6.15]]
|-
|[[File:Anden CD.png|100px|link=Custom Deliveries/Anden]]
'''[[Custom Deliveries/Anden|Anden]]'''
|80
|[[Il Mheg]] (X:17, Y:34)
|{{questlink|feature|That's So Anden}}<br>[[The Crystarium]] (X:9.3, Y:11.3)
|The main scenario quest {{questlink|main|Endwalker (Quest)}} and the side quest {{questlink|feature|Go West, Craftsman}}.
|Yes
|[[Patch 6.3|6.3]]
|-
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki>Upon reaching maximum satisfaction level (5) with most Custom Delivery NPCs, the player will be able to apply [[glamour]] to them. The player must have glamours unlocked to acquire this ability. Glamour prisms are required as catalysts for the glamouring process. Items used to cast glamours will be bound to you, and can no longer be traded or sold on the market.

[[Category:Patch 3.5 Features]] [[Category:Patch 4.1 Features]] [[Category:Patch 4.3 Features]] [[Category:Patch 4.5 Features]] [[Category:Patch 5.1 Features]] [[Category:Patch 5.3 Features]] [[Category:Patch 5.5 Features]] [[Category:Patch 6.1 Features]] [[Category:Patch 6.3 Features]]