Final Fantasy XIV

The Yellowjackets can't solve the 'spate o' kidnappin's'. This problem runs in the background of the whole Limsa story. It starts with the tattooed men at Summerford (step 4). It ends in Feint and Strike (step 19).

Niniya's first prank turns into a real lead: you spread the kidnapping warning that runs through the main story (MSQ #0-#19).

Remember the kidnappings, a thread in the main story. They first come up in MSQ #0 Coming to Limsa Lominsa. In MSQ #4 Lurkers in the Grotto, the farm workers of Summerford fear them. See also Lost and Found.

Your class story: K'lyhia's past with the exiled pirate Doesmaga, played out at Mealvaan's Gate and Oschon's Embrace.

How customs are enforced; Mealvaan's Gate returns in the Arcanist quests.

Meet J'nasshym, who picks your shoes for the Admiral's banquet (MSQ #20).

Limsa's customs up close; P'tahjha of Mealvaan's Gate also gives Duty Calls.

Pirate loot vs fair prices; Swozblaet heads the league of MSQ #1's lost octant.

Backstory for the Maelstrom's dueling ground on the Wolves' Den Pier.

This is for arcanists only. Murie reveals that their guild exists by Admiral Merlwyb's own order, to keep the art alive. You meet the Admiral in step 19, Feint and Strike.

Baderon's sellsword past, through a gift that backfires.

A comic Yellowjacket case for Latisha of the Bismarck (from Duty Calls).

Ginnade's list of missing citizens (likely the kidnappings), then a lighter errand that introduces Sisipu of Back in the Water.

There is more behind Sisipu's grumbling than you see at first. One clue is her own quest, Back in the Water. Since the Calamity, she has been stuck on land. She is eager to go to sea again.

A strange bounty; meet H'naanza, who sends you to the Drydocks in MSQ #13.

The Bismarck's kitchen, which caters the Admiral's banquet (MSQ #20).

Sisipu's boat must wait: the shipyard is busy with the warship Victory (MSQ #13).

Meet the Kraken's Arms, pirates licensed to raid Garlean ships.

Keep in mind that Staelwyrn's farm workers are his old pirate crew. They feel pulled back toward piracy. The whole Summerford chapter, steps 3–9, is built around this.

Summerford's cash crop, picked by you because the ex-pirates won't; the same oranges go astray in MSQ #6 Double Dealing.

The Encyclopaedia Eorzea says puks are also called 'wind dragons'. But these fierce little creatures have no proven link to any real kind of dragon.

From Niniya's second prank to a strike on the kobolds in the Blind Iron Mines; their hoarded crystals point to Titan. Branch: Kobolds Ahoy.

Listen for a quick, passing mention of the 'New Worlders'. They come from a far land across the sea. For a long time, the game names that land only in passing. Remember it.

The sightseeing log says the Grey Fleet's mills use the steady winds of the Strait of Merlthor. The winds help them grind wheat and full (clean and thicken) the region's wool.

Skarnmhar worries that the Stead has no guards of its own. This sets up what comes next: the kobolds are coming.

Skarnmhar's warning is the turning point of the kobold chain. From here on, it is open conflict. It breaks out in the next quest, Bait and Swat.

Remember the name Titan. The kobolds are storing up crystals to summon this god. Baderon warns that defenses will matter little if it wakes. For now, the story says no more about this threat.

Weitzaren worries about a sail with a small cut. But Waentzirn names the real threat: 'grubby scavengers' who steal what the mill makes. Remember this when trouble comes back.

Staelwyrn does not worry much about the kobolds because the Sahagin worry him more. Remember that during his main-story quests at Summerford Farms (MSQ #3-#9).

The Sanguine Sirens lose their prizes to the Kraken's Arms (Licensed to Reave).

Staelwyrn's pirates 'traded in their cutlasses for coulters' (plough blades). This is the old saying 'swords into ploughshares'. Step 8, Plowshares to Swords, turns it around.

The Admiral's settlement initiative at work; Grynewyda returns in MSQ #9.

Farm comedy at the Red Rooster Stead, the farm the kobold chain later defends; Moegramm's warning starts Kobolds Ahoy.

The X before X'payan's given name shows her original tribe. It is the tribe of the Lynx, among the Seekers of the Sun. The X is said like 'She'.

Note K'lyhia's worn-out starter grimoire, which Thubyrgeim points out. It was a gift from the absent guildmaster. That book is the key to the rest of the Arcanist story.

The 'Cultured Conjurer' with the strange machine is Y'shtola. Y'shtola comes back at steps 9, 19, 21 and 28. Note how she reacts when you mention a 'towering crystal'.

The La Thagran Checkpoint of MSQ #6; Ostfyr returns in Kobolds Ahoy.

Watch Sevrin, the one farm worker who won't come back to work. His secrets drive Double Dealing, Plowshares to Swords and Just Deserts (steps 6, 8 and 9).

Arenlona's odd experiments at the pumpkin farm; she returns to plan the kobold ambush in Bait and Swat.

The item text of the viscera describes a 'moss-green ooze'. It leaks from the cracked shell 'after crushing an innocent, defenseless ladybug'.

Goblins are said to go on a great pilgrimage once every hundred years. They seemed to vanish from Eorzea for a long time. They came back only in the last five years.

The ex-pirates' brawls, and Tiller's Rest, the outpost of MSQ #7-#8.

Meet Broenruht and the Blind Iron Mines, later the kobolds' hideout.

The Cookpot is a patch of land with a strange wall of stone around it. That is why the locals started calling it the Cookpot.

Remember 'Reavers', the name the journal gives the tool thieves early on. They are found out in Just Deserts (step 9). They strike in Feint and Strike (step 19).

The Masked Magus calls up the golem, crying 'Surrender to the Darkness!'. Then he escapes. He is back in Feint and Strike (step 19), where Y'shtola gives the name of his kind.

The Descent swallowed a river, the Nym, along with the land it flowed through and countless lives. It got its scary name so no one else would fall over the edge.

Rival haulers at the Skylift keep food moving after the Calamity, seen from a fish trader's side.

The buzzards are another after-effect of the Calamity. Food has become so hard to find that even scavengers now dare to raid wagons on the road.

Why do mages chase goblin smugglers? Limsa's arcanists also check and value cargo at Mealvaan's Gate, the city's customs. K'lyhia's rank there is 'foreseer'.

A close-up of the Skylift cargo crunch of MSQ #10-#11.

Millioncorn's item text calls it 'native to the recently discovered New World'. This is like how corn came to Europe from the Americas. The story sails there much later.

Swiftperch's recovery plan, begun with the millioncorn of MSQ #11.

The Victory's supply line (MSQ #13-#18); the bridge returns in Pincer Maneuver.

The journal ends with a question. Why did a furnace that was fixed barely a week earlier fail? No later quest in this chart answers it. But trouble returns to Swiftperch in step 19.

Before the Calamity, only the Armorers' Guild could build at the Drydocks. This was to stop sabotage. Now they are short of workers, so they hire ex-pirates too. Remember this when the Victory is in danger (step 17).

In idle talk, Haldbroda explains the ferries from Candlekeep Quay. They are the main way to travel by water between island ports like Limsa Lominsa and Aleport.

The workers behind the warship Victory; the lumber count shows Limsa may need Gridania's wood, and the story soon sends you there (MSQ #22).

Oakwood is a forest by Bronze Lake. Most of it burned in the Calamity, and the rest was cut down for the Victory. So five years later, the Drydocks are still short of wood.

Sailors here swear by 'Leviathan's eye'. Also, 'fishback' is Lominsan slang for a Sahagin. Keep both names in mind, because they matter in La Noscea's main story.

Remember Ahtbyrm's guess that Sahagin magic caused the wreck on a calm day. Their part in Limsa's troubles is fully revealed in Feint and Strike (step 19).

Remember the 'boy' the pirates talk about. The journal leaves the question open. The very next quest, Victory in Peril (step 17), answers it.

Pirates smuggle foreign pests, like the coeurls of Like Cats and Dogs.

Meet lonely Rostnzeh; his story goes on in Say It with Flowers.

Rostnzeh's crush on Ghimthota, head of the Drydocks watch (MSQ #16-#18).

The Mamool Ja hired here are a tough race from the lands to the west. Their 'skill at arms is their primary export'. They fight for pay, as hired swords.

Ghimthota stops to wonder about Baderon's handy connections. Baderon reads the code himself. He has a past, and part of it is told in Feint and Strike (step 19).

This is easy to miss. Ryssfloh's regards 'to the Scions' are the first mention of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. This chart ends with that group (step 29).

Reyner never sailed under a pirate flag. He began his career as an officer under his teacher, Commodore Sthalmann of the Barracudas.

The Carteneau vision shows Raubahn and Kan-E-Senna. You meet them next, as envoy (step 22). It also shows Louisoix, named by Y'shtola in step 9. Note the '???' voice.

The Bloody Executioners pay their debts: Limsa's pirates up close.

Three names from the imperial cutscene come back later. One is Gaius van Baelsar, legatus of the XIVth Legion. The others are Nero tol Scaeva and the 'Garlond' Nero mumbles about.

Summon Topaz, the action taught here, is a newer skill. It came in patch 6.0 (2021-12-07) and replaced the old Summon II.

Remember the Morningstar's captain, the exiled pirate Doesmaga. This pirate has hurt K'lyhia before. The Arcanist story builds up to Sinking Doesmaga (Lv 30).

A Yellowjacket case against pirate animal smuggling. Remember the coeurls in MSQ #24 It's Probably Pirates.

Skribyld fears the coeurls could start breeding, and it has happened before. Wild coeurls come from escaped war beasts. They were trained on the Pearl, an island at the mouth of the Rothlyt Sound.

Quarterstone is the pup's hiding place. One part in four of its soil is rock. Yet it once had many grain stores and much golden wheat. That was partly thanks to the hard work of the people who lived there before.

The reward's item text points to an old translation mistake. Word for word, the item's Japanese name, フェニックスの尾, means 'Phoenix Tail', not 'Phoenix Down'.

Comic relief at Aleport's garrison that introduces Commander Falkbryda of Camp Skull Valley.

S'nairoh's 'storm private, second class' is a real Maelstrom rank. If you join the Maelstrom later in the main story, you start one rank below her. You start as Storm Private Third Class.

Remember Commander Falkbryda. She returns in the level 50 main story of patch 2.2, The Sea Rises. Once again, she is at Camp Skull Valley.

Falkbryda has more planned for you. She pays you at the end of Scythe Extra Large. She also gives the chart's last Aleport quest, I Hereby Relieve You.

Camp Skull Valley's fight against the Sahagin: Halfstone fell when Leviathan rose. It ends with the watch over Sastasha (MSQ #24).

Wiltswys is amazed at herself. As a girl, she didn't have two leather soles to slap together. She was too poor for shoes. Who would have thought she would make a fair quartermaster?

Leviathan is the primal behind the Sahagin. The Serpent Reavers serve the same primal. The Admiral explains this in MSQ #21 A Mizzenmast Repast.

Halfstone's fall, hinted at in Toxic Avenger, is told here. The farmer Aerghaemr gave away his boots and protected the others as they pulled back. The former pirate Roehanth tries to be like him.

Remember that Falkbryda is now interested in using adventurers. This interest leads straight into her next quest for you, I Hereby Relieve You.

Catguistl calls the Seagrot 'labyrinthine', like a maze, four times in one short talk. He says it once more in his idle line. He insists that only pure willpower kept him alive.

The brothers' long fight goes on after this quest. At level 48 it returns in Sibling Rivalry, a fitting name. There, two 'perfectly equal' sets of food rations still start an argument.

At the optional Hall of the Novice, watch Avere make fun of Edda's healing. The story of this arguing party goes on at steps 26 and 28. It also goes on past the end of this chart.

Limsans swear by the Navigator, Llymlaen. Miounne says 'The Matron be praised!', and the Matron is Nophica. Nophica is Gridania's guardian goddess. In myth, Nophica is also Llymlaen's younger sister.

Paiyo Reiyo leaves here in anger. Later, a letter comes from his old companion Edda, a conjurer. It invites him to her wedding to her dead fiancé, Avere.

Look at Momodi's hairpin. The official lore book says it reminds her of a young man. She only meant to encourage him, but she pushed him so hard that his future changed forever.

Remember what Edda says as she leaves: 'I shan't forget'. She leaves to start over as an adventurer. Her story goes on past the end of this chart.

That is why Tataru sings at the door. She is now twenty-one, and she is also a singer just starting out. She is known to sing to herself while she does her sums.

The Yellowjackets know that K'lyhia was once Doesmaga's prisoner. Keep it in mind, because the last part, Sinking Doesmaga (Lv 30), is about the chains of her past.

Thubyrgeim says the guildmaster avoids his own name. Among Seeker of the Sun men, the second name is a rank. Nunh is for a tribe's breeding male, and Tia is for the rest.

The eel-pie buyer Gegeruju is a rich and powerful Dunesfolk Lalafell. Only one thing is more of a mystery than him: how he got his money.