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Side questLevel 4

Glory Days

Quest giver S'dhodjbi in Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks

Summary and analysis

SummaryAnalysis

S'dhodjbi wants to treat Baderon to aurelia umbrellas, slimy parts of creatures he ate in his old days. She misread his drunken talk: he hates them. She says Baderon once found her passed out, took her in and helped her drink less.

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

Tempest Gate

Where it all starts (Ch. 1): Baderon's regulars, Niniya's pranks and the first hints of the kidnappings.

The kidnappings

What happens, step by step

  1. S'dhodjbi needs your help to prepare a treat for Baderon.
  2. S'dhodjbi wants to present several aurelia umbrellas to Baderon as a gesture of appreciation for all his hard work. Speak with Klindrael for more information about where to find the creatures.
  3. Though repulsed by the thought of eating aureliae, Klindrael directs you to the river past the Tempest Gate and to the east. Slay the creatures and obtain four of their umbrellas.
  4. You remove four slimy umbrellas from the carcasses of the foul beasts. Present them to Baderon on behalf of S'dhodjbi.
  5. It seems S'dhodjbi misinterpreted her employer's drunken ramblings, as Baderon states that aurelia umbrellas are the most vile, disgusting food he has ever tasted. Even so, the former sellsword cannot help but laugh as he reflects on his glory days.
Remember this

Remember S'dhodjbi, who works for Baderon at the Wench. She is at the center of a later Limsa quest, Beauty Is Only Scalp Deep. That quest unlocks the aesthetician.

Key lines explained

The lines worth a second look, in the order you hear them, and what each one means.

Deliver the aurelia umbrellas to Baderon

BaderonAhahaha! This godsdamned smell! I've 'ated aurelia umbrellas since I was a sellsword. 'Tis only the nastiest shite I ever put in me mouth!
Lore

Before he ran the Drowning Wench, Baderon was a sellsword, a fighter for hire. The aurelia umbrellas in this quest were the worst thing his band of sellswords ever ate.

More about this quest

Lore

Those glory days as a sellsword gave Baderon his nickname, 'Tenfingers'. It is a mark of respect, because few sellswords leave that life with all their fingers whole.

Lore

S'dhodjbi tells how Baderon found her passed out outside his place one morning. Baderon took her in, cleaned her up and helped her give up the worst of her drinking.

Easter egg

Ask S'dhodjbi about the tavern's name, and she just laughs. The girl in the name isn't drowning in water. The name has more to do with far too much ale.

Easter egg

Klindrael's name means 'Child Doe' in the traditional Roegadyn language.

Remember this

Remember S'dhodjbi, who works for Baderon at the Wench. She is at the center of a later Limsa quest, Beauty Is Only Scalp Deep. That quest unlocks the aesthetician.

In-game text

The item text says the aurelia umbrella is a special treat in Othard. There, its soft, jelly-like body is dried and sliced. Then it is mixed with oil of sesame and dragon peppers.

Title reference

Bruce Springsteen's song 'Glory Days' looks back on being young. So does the journal. It ends with Baderon laughing about his days as a sellsword.

Characters

Who they are, and what they do in this quest.

Baderon

Baderon is at the Drowning Wench, so busy looking after others that he neglects himself.

Baderon laughs at the gift: he has hated aurelia umbrellas since his days as a sellsword, a fighter for hire, when even salt and a campfire did not help. Few sellswords keep all their fingers, so he earned the respected nickname "Tenfingers".

S'dhodjbi

S'dhodjbi works for Baderon at the Drowning Wench. She worries he is so busy looking after others that he neglects himself.

S'dhodjbi wants to treat Baderon to aurelia umbrellas, slimy parts of creatures he ate in his old days. She misread his drunken talk: he hates them. She says Baderon once found her passed out, took her in and helped her drink less.

Klindrael

Klindrael stands by the Aftcastle and knows where wild beasts gather.

Klindrael is disgusted that Baderon likes aurelia umbrellas and never thought of eating such foul things. Still, she sends you to the river past the Tempest Gate, to the east, to find aureliae. Her name means "Child Doe" in Roegadyn.

Other languages

The game was written in Japanese and rewritten, not just translated, for each language. Here is what the other versions say, next to the English.

Japanese溺れた海豚亭の裏メニュー
‘The Drowned Dolphin Inn's Secret Menu’
FrenchUne saveur médusante
‘A Stupefying Flavour’
GermanEin glibberiger Genuss
‘A Slimy Delight’
English, S'dhodjbi

Whenever he's in his cups and starts speaking of the old days, he never fails to mention aureliae. Seems he and his mates used to eat the creatures on occasion.

Japanese

なんでも、傭兵時代に食材がなくて、やむなく食った「浮クラゲの刺身」の味が忘れられないんだとか……。酔うと、必ずその話をするんだよね。

‘They say that in his mercenary days, short of food, he had to eat floating jellyfish sashimi, and he can't forget the taste... When he's drunk, he always tells that story.’

S'dhodjbi took this as fondness. Baderon meant it the opposite way.

English, S'dhodjbi

Whenever he's in his cups and starts speaking of the old days, he never fails to mention aureliae. Seems he and his mates used to eat the creatures on occasion.

French

Quand il est ivre, il se met toujours à parler du temps où il était mercenaire, notamment du fait qu'il ne mangeait rien d'autre que du sashimi de méduse.

‘When he's drunk, he always starts talking about the time he was a mercenary, notably the fact that he ate nothing but jellyfish sashimi.’

German

Es gab so wenig zu essen, dass er oft nichts als Quallen zu essen hatte.

‘There was so little to eat that he often had nothing but jellyfish to eat.’

Japanese

なんでも、傭兵時代に食材がなくて、やむなく食った「浮クラゲの刺身」の味が忘れられないんだとか……。

‘Apparently he can't forget the taste of the "floating jellyfish sashimi" he reluctantly ate because there was no food in his mercenary days...’

English says he and his mates ate them on occasion; French says he ate nothing but jellyfish sashimi.

English says he and his mates ate them on occasion; German says he often had nothing else to eat.

English says they ate them on occasion; Japanese says he ate it unwillingly because there was no other food.

English, S'dhodjbi

It's obvious he still has fond memories of that life, so I'm thinking a few aurelia umbrellas might be something he'd appreciate. Could you help me by procuring four of them?

German

Ich bin mir sicher, dass er sich freuen wird, nach so langer Zeit noch einmal diesen unvergesslichen Geschmack zu erleben.

‘I'm sure he'll be glad to taste this unforgettable flavor again after so long.’

Here too, the mix-up hangs on one word. Baderon meant unforgettably awful.

English, Klindrael

Baderon actually likes aurelia umbrellas!? Gods, I'd never even considered trying to eat one of those foul things!

French

La chair de ces animaux est pourtant élastique et pas vraiment succulente.

‘Yet the flesh of these animals is rubbery and not really tasty.’

French Klindrael calmly describes the flesh as rubbery; English has her appalled at the idea of eating it.

English, Baderon

S'dhodjbi said an adventurer might be droppin' by to deliver somethin' special. That you, lass/lad?

French

S'dhodjbi m'a expliqué qu'elle avait commandé quatre tranches de méduse pour moi, mais en réalit...

‘S'dhodjbi explained to me that she had ordered four slices of jellyfish for me, but in realit...’

Japanese

「浮クラゲの切り身」を4つほど用立てたと、給仕のス・ホジュビが、嬉しそうに言ってきたんだが……

‘The waitress S'dhodjbi happily told me she had arranged about four "floating jellyfish fillets", but...’

English leaves the delivery as something special; French already says it is four jellyfish slices.

English leaves the delivery as something special; Japanese already says it is four jellyfish fillets.

English, Baderon

Ah, 'ells, lass/lad, ye didn't 'ave to go to all this trouble!

German

Igitt, das sind ja Quallenstückchen!

‘Yuck, those are jellyfish pieces!’

English thanks you for going to all this trouble; German cries out in disgust at the jellyfish pieces.

English, Baderon

Ahahaha! This godsdamned smell! I've 'ated aurelia umbrellas since I was a sellsword. 'Tis only the nastiest shite I ever put in me mouth!

German

Also, als ich sagte, dass der Geschmack „unvergesslich“ sei, hatte ich das eigentlich anders gemeint ...

‘Well, when I said the taste was unforgettable, I actually meant it another way...’

English, Baderon

Ahahaha! This godsdamned smell! I've 'ated aurelia umbrellas since I was a sellsword. 'Tis only the nastiest shite I ever put in me mouth!

French

Je n'en ai jamais été très friand, en vérité.

‘I was never very fond of it, truth be told.’

English calls it the nastiest thing he ever put in his mouth; French says he was never very fond of it.

English, Baderon

Ahahaha! This godsdamned smell! I've 'ated aurelia umbrellas since I was a sellsword. 'Tis only the nastiest shite I ever put in me mouth!

Japanese

浮クラゲの刺身ねぇ……あれは確かに忘れられねえ味だったぜ。ただし、好物とは逆の意味でな。

‘That sure was an unforgettable taste. Only, in the opposite sense from a favourite.’

English says he has hated them since his sellsword days; Japanese jokes the taste was unforgettable, but not as a favourite.

English, Baderon

We tried sprinklin' it with salt and cookin' it o'er a campfire, but 'twas still little better than chewin' on driftwood. Try it fer yerself, lass/lad─ye'll see what I mean!

Japanese

生じゃ噛みきれたもんじゃねぇが、食塩とアルメンで漬け込みゃ、食えんことはねぇぞ。

‘Raw, there's no biting through it, but pickle it in salt and alum and it's edible enough.’

Pickled this way, the jellyfish becomes edible. The English Baderon cooks it over a fire instead, and it stays like driftwood.

English, Baderon

We tried sprinklin' it with salt and cookin' it o'er a campfire, but 'twas still little better than chewin' on driftwood. Try it fer yerself, lass/lad─ye'll see what I mean!

French

Nature, il faut l'avouer, c'est assez infâme, mais en laissant macérer avec du sel et du cristal d'alun, ça devient plus ou moins mangeable.

‘Plain, I must admit, it's pretty foul, but if you let it steep with salt and alum crystal, it becomes more or less edible.’

English, Baderon

We tried sprinklin' it with salt and cookin' it o'er a campfire, but 'twas still little better than chewin' on driftwood. Try it fer yerself, lass/lad─ye'll see what I mean!

German

Dass S'dhodjbi sich solche Mühen macht, um mir eine Freude zu bereiten ... das rührt mich.

‘But nonetheless: that S'dhodjbi goes to such trouble to bring me some joy... that touches me.’

English describes salting and cooking it over a campfire; German says instead he is touched by S'dhodjbi's effort.

English, Baderon

We tried sprinklin' it with salt and cookin' it o'er a campfire, but 'twas still little better than chewin' on driftwood. Try it fer yerself, lass/lad─ye'll see what I mean!

German

Was für ein gutes Mädchen!

‘What a good girl!’

English invites you to try it yourself; German instead praises S'dhodjbi as a good girl.

Full dialogue

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Accepting the quest

S'dhodjbi

These days, poor Baderon's so busy looking after others, he hasn't been able to look after himself. He deserves something for his efforts.

S'dhodjbi

Whenever he's in his cups and starts speaking of the old days, he never fails to mention aureliae. Seems he and his mates used to eat the creatures on occasion.

S'dhodjbi

It's obvious he still has fond memories of that life, so I'm thinking a few aurelia umbrellas might be something he'd appreciate. Could you help me by procuring four of them?

S'dhodjbi

If you're willing to help, speak with Klindrael, by the Aftcastle. She knows where various wild beasts congregate.

Speak with Klindrael

Klindrael

Baderon actually likes aurelia umbrellas!? Gods, I'd never even considered trying to eat one of those foul things!

Klindrael

Nevertheless, if it's aureliae you seek, you ought to find plenty by the river just past the Tempest Gate and to the east.

Deliver the aurelia umbrellas to Baderon

Baderon

S'dhodjbi said an adventurer might be droppin' by to deliver somethin' special. That you, lass/lad?

Baderon

Ah, 'ells, lass/lad, ye didn't 'ave to go to all this trouble!

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