The Minstrel's Ballad: Necron's Embrace

This article is about the level 100 challenge-mode trial. For the story-mode Main Scenario trial, see The Ageless Necropolis.

The Minstrel's Ballad: Necron's Embrace

Level

100 (Sync: 100)

Item Level

740

Difficulty

Extreme

Party size

Full Party
8 man • 2 2 4

Unsyncing

Not Allowed

Time limit

60 minutes

Phoenix Down

Not Available

Duty Finder

Raid Finder (Trials)

Tomestones

 25  14 

Req. quest

How the West Was Sung

Location

The Ageless Necropolis, The Lightless Abyss

Region

Unlost World

Stone, Sky, Sea

Available

Patch

7.3

“

Powerful was the onset of fear felt by a people who had long escaped death's mournful memories. And powerful was the entity which that fear begat. And yet, the minstrel muses, how much more powerful still would the primal be were it fed upon the dread of its summoner─a child genius who felt the hand of death close ever tighter upon his shoulder every day of his disease-ravaged life? The horror of that beleaguered heart begins to infect your own as the first chilling notes of the song pour forth from somber lips...

— In-game description

The Minstrel's Ballad: Necron's Embrace is a level 100 trial introduced in patch 7.3 with Dawntrail.

Guide

Animated guide by Hector Hectorson

Loot

See also: Ageless Weapons

• Each player will receive two Grave Totems per kill. Collect 10 totems to exchange for a weapon at Uah'shepya in Solution Nine (X:8.7 Y:13.5).
• Allagan Tomestones of Mathematics
• Allagan Tomestones of Mnemonics
• Necron Card (Drops at a fixed rate.)

Treasure Coffer

Name	Type	Item Level	Rarity	Quantity
Paladin's Ageless Arms (IL 755)	Other	N/A	CBlue	1
Ageless War Axe	Marauder's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Guillotine	Dark Knight's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Bayonet	Gunbreaker's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Spear	Lancer's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless War Scythe	Reaper's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Jamadhars	Pugilist's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Blade	Samurai's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Knives	Rogue's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Twinfangs	Viper's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Bow	Archer's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Revolver	Machinist's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless War Quoits	Dancer's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Staff	Two-handed Thaumaturge's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Index	Arcanist's Grimoire	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Rapier	Red Mage's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Paintbrush	Pictomancer's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Cane	Two-handed Conjurer's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Codex	Scholar's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Star Globe	Astrologian's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Ageless Milpreves	Sage's Arm	755	CBlue	1
Shattered Arc	Material	N/A	ABasic	1
Ageless Weapon Coffer (IL 755)	Other	N/A	ABasic	1
Wings of Death	Other	N/A	ABasic	1
FINAL FANTASY IX: The Final Battle (Dawntrail) Orchestrion Roll	Orchestrion Roll	N/A	ABasic	1

Achievements

This duty is associated with the following achievement:

Name	Points	Task	Reward	Patch
Not Today, Necron	10	Defeat Necron in the Minstrel's Ballad: Necron's Embrace.	-	7.3

Music

Section	Theme
Main	FINAL FANTASY IX: The Final Battle (Dawntrail)

Images

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History

• When released, this trial erroneously only dropped one totem. A hotfix was issued on Friday, August 8, 2025, and players would be compensated with their missing totems via Delivery Moogle.

Trivia

• This is the first extreme trial that directly drops its orchestrion roll instead of a faded copy as a crafting material for the roll. It is unclear if future extreme trials will follow the same system.