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
Grasping Eternity: Necron
Loot
- 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 Heliometry
- Allagan Tomestones of Mathematics
Necron Card (Drops at a fixed rate.)
Treasure Coffer
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 |
Dialogue
- Calyx: You are bound by the limits of flesh. It will betray you. (upon pull)
- Calyx: Do you not see? Death is upon you... (Blue Shockwave)
- Calyx: Drag them to their graves. (Fear of Death)
- Calyx: There. (Cold Grip)
- Calyx: Fall to ruin. (Memento Mori)
- Calyx: Perhaps this. (Soul Reaping)
- System: Necron draws in aether...
- Calyx: Kill them. (Twofold/Fourfold Blight)
- Calyx: Bothersome. (The End's Embrace)
- Calyx: Fear compounds fear, eroding your strength. (Grand Cross)
- Calyx: I will reduce you to aether. (Neutron Ring)
- Calyx: You will die for me now. (adds phase begins)
- Calyx: Accepting death is the greatest sin a life can commit. (Darkness of Eternity)
- Calyx: The endless darkness engulfs you... (prior to solo phase)
- System: You have been dragged into the abyss...
- System: You have escaped the abyss!
- Calyx: Still alive. But there are ways to change that. (Specter of Death)
- Calyx: Those who do not resist death deserve it. (Relentless Reaping)
- System: Necron draws in aether...
- Calyx: Kill them. (The Second/Fourth Season)
- Calyx: I am prepared for you. (first Circle of Lives)
- Calyx: You struggle in vain. (Soul Reaping)
- Calyx: Fight if you must. (Mass Macabre)
- Calyx: ...Why do you persist? (second Circle of Lives)
- Calyx: Once the terror takes root, it will only continue to grow. (Specter of Death)
- Calyx: Mankind must evolve. (Darkness of Eternity enrage)
- Calyx: And here it ends for you. (cast completes)
Music
| Section | Theme |
|---|---|
| Main |  FINAL FANTASY IX: The Final Battle (Dawntrail)
|
Images
History
When released, this trial erroneously only dropped one totem. A hotfix was issued on Friday, August 8, 2025, and players were 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.
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