The Beast Within

Featurequest1 Icon.png Lv. 50   The Beast Within
Quest

Journal detail hr1 07.png Acquisition
This quest requires you to fight enemies in a level 50 instance with a 30 minute time limit.
Alka Zolka: Limsa Lominsa Upper Decks - Coral Tower (x:11.2, y:6.2)

Map33 Icon.pngClosest Aetheryte: Limsa Lominsa Lower Decks → Marauders' Guild

Journal detail hr1 08.png Requirements
071341.png45For Your Fellow ManFeaturequest1 Icon.png For Your Fellow Man (Level 45)

Scholar Icon 3.png Scholar (Level 50)

Journal detail hr1 03.png Rewards

46,800
Experience Points



Guaranteed
Scholar's Gown
Argute Attire Coffer (IL 90)
Sacred Soil
Achievement
026011.png Flying Colors I
Miscellaneous Reward
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Unlocks ability to purchase Scholar's Gown
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Journal detail hr1 04.png Description
Alka Zolka has an urgent request.
Journal detail hr1 01.png Objectives
  • Speak with Alka Zolka in upper La Noscea.
  • Defeat the tonberry wanderer!
  • Heal the tonberry wanderer!
  • Speak with the soft marauder.
  • Speak with Surito Carito.
Journal detail hr1 02.png Unlocks Quests
071341.png50A Relic Reborn (Omnilex)Featurequest1 Icon.png A Relic Reborn (Omnilex) (Level 50)
071341.png50The Green DeathFeaturequest1 Icon.png The Green Death (Level 50)

  • Alka Zolka has an urgent request.
  • Another knife-wielding denizen of the Wanderer's Palace has emerged to terrorize the people of Vylbrand, and once again it falls to the Marauders' Guild to find and slay it. Determined not to repeat the mistakes of the past, Alka Zolka has enlisted the aid of two other marauders. He would also like you to join as well─but only if you can promise to keep your faerie in check. If you can, rendezvous with him and the others in Bronze Lake, at the same ruins where you fought the first tonberry.
  • You pursue the tonberry to the Wanderer's Palace, leaving many of its brethren slain in your wake. As the creature grows weaker, Alka Zolka once again raises his axe to deliver the final blow─and once again is prevented from doing so by your faerie. At last understanding her intent, the two of you turn your restorative magicks upon the tonberry. Rejuvenated, it rises to its feet, and reveals that it was once a man named Surito Carito, one of countless Nymians transformed by a mysterious sickness, and imprisoned within the Wanderer's Palace by their own countrymen. Like his fellow Nymians, Surito was driven mad by his fate─until you returned with his dear companion Lily and cleansed him of his rancor. This shocking revelation has doubtless affected the marauders, so it may be wise to see how they are faring.
  • After exchanging a few words, the three marauders depart for Limsa Lominsa, leaving you alone with Surito Carito, the scholar turned tonberry. Seek the wisdom of your predecessor.
  • Alas, the sickness which transformed Surito Carito has rendered him incapable of summoning Lily. By what providence you came to possess his Soul of the Scholar he does not know, but he is nevertheless pleased to see his dear companion in good hands. Declaring that only you are fit to wield the magicks now, he bequeaths to you a scholar's gown, as well as knowledge of the spell Sacred Soil. He then bids you farewell, embarking on a quest to rid his countrymen of their rancor. Carry on the traditions of your Nymian colleagues and share your scholarly gifts with the people of Eorzea!
※The next scholar quest will be available from Alka Zolka once you have completed the main scenario quest “Before the Dawn.”

Forename, you must come with me at once! Another tonberry has emerged from the Wanderer's Palace!


A traveling peddler caught sight of the fiend and fled to Camp Bronze Lake. Once again, it falls to the Marauders' Guild to find and slay it.


This time, we will hunt the tonberry in greater numbers, so that we might surround it and cut off all avenues of escape.


I have not forgotten our previous attempt to slay one of the foul creatures.


Nor have you, I trust. I have your assurances that you will keep your faerie in line this time, yes?


Then let us make for Bronze Lake at once. Our comrades have already departed, and I do not wish to fall behind. We will rendezvous with them at the same place we battled the first tonberry.
Quest Accepted
My sun, my dear sun... Stay away... I cannot...

<sniffle> <sob> I...I nearly killed him! Thank the gods that faerie stopped me.


I wonder...did she know it was Surito from the beginning, or was it only...


In any case, she has regained a good portion of her memories, if not all of them, I suspect.


Well, if you would excuse me─I need to take some time to put my thoughts in order, and decide how I might explain this to the axemaster...
So wait a bleedin' moment─that tonberry used to be a scholar like you? So...does that mean you'll turn into one of 'em if you keep slingin' those spells? Or did I misunderstand what he said back there? Ah, the hells with it...

I came expectin' to fight one tonberry, not a whole bloody mess of 'em. If it wasn't for you an' yer flyin' friend, I reckon we'd not have left there alive.


Gotta say, you and Alka make a great team. Shame there ain't more of you scholarly types around, 'cause I could use a partner like you. Take care, Forename.
Long has my mind been clouded with hatred. But by the resplendent light of Lily, at long last, I am free...

That the traditions of my people have not been lost to the ages is of great comfort to me.


I do not know how that soul crystal came into your possession, but I am glad that it did. For the sickness robbed me not only of my body, but of Lily as well.


The Soul of the Scholar no longer resonates with my aether. I cannot summon her─only you can. Only you are fit to wield the magicks now.


Here─a gown as befits a scholar of your standing. I bequeath it to you, along with the knowledge of Sacred Soil, my most versatile art.


I cannot thank you enough for purging the rancor from my heart. But there are still countless others who have yet to see the light. I cannot abandon them to their fate. I will not.


And so I bid you farewell, Forename. Carry on our traditions with pride!
Quest Completed
System
This concludes the scholar quests for FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn. In order to undertake the next series of quests, you must first meet the following requirements:

※ You must have completed the main scenario quest “Before the Dawn.”


Once you have done so, the next scholar quest will be available from Alka Zolka.
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