Moonfire Faire

The Firefall Faire is a seasonal event held on Final Fantasy XIV on every year, during Summer in the north hemisphere. It offers players unique rewards such as swimsuits after the completion of certain quests.

2011 - Firefall Faire
During a heat wave, citizens living on the outskirts of coerthas started reporting the appearance of unknown creatures made of fire near their settlements, falling from the skies like meteor showers and burning everything in their wake. The Ishgardians named those creatures "Bombards", but their existence was never truly believed.

However, as more and more people talked about similar appearances all over the realm, a mysterious group known as faire chaperones used the festivities of the Firefall Faire to fool adventurers into joining a Bombard hunting group, offering "fireproof" gear to those that agreed to help eliminating the bomb menace.

Participation and rewards
To start the event, players simply had to speak with any of the Firefall Faire chaperones, who appeared in each of the three city-state and accept their quest. After that, all that was needed is go to any of the Hamlets all over Eorzea and speak to the dispatched Cascadier NPCs to begin the "battle" against the Bombards and acquire their ashen remains.

To defeat the bombards, players had to find one of them near the hamlet, target the bomb and use any of the following emotes to enrage it and lead it into one of the furnaces placed in the hamlets to incinerate them:
 * /wave
 * /laugh
 * /rally
 * /dance
 * /pose

Every once in a while, a group of monsters would spawn and attack the bomb. If the bomb took too much damage, it would explode and the mission end in failure.

The bomb ash obtained by the event could then be traded for the "fireproof" gear, swimsuits. Each hamlet dropped a different bomb ash color, and each swimsuits required different bomb ash combinations. After obtaining all items, players gained access to a special wallpaper on the lodestone, featuring their character equipped with a swimsuit.

The rewards from the 2011 Faire are generally no longer available, but the swimsuit is set to be re-introduced as a Veteran Reward in A Realm Reborn.

2012 - Moonfire Faire


The Bombards were thought to have been completely eliminated after the efforts of the faire chaperones. However, during a new heat wave, the creatures raised once again out of the ashes left behind in the aftermath of the previous invasion. Once again, the faire chaperones resorted to using the Firefall Faire festivities to recruit adventurers, this time offering rare garments from the East as rewards to those who joined the Bombard hunting groups.

Participation and rewards
To start the event, players simply had to speak with any of the Firefall Faire chaperones, who appeared in each of the three city-state and accept their quest.

This time, the Bombards appeared in the camps near the city states, and had to be defeated by using the /firedance emote when targeting them. Defeating a regular bombard required 1 dance, while the King Bombards required 3. After all bombs were defeated, players could get up to 20 bombard ash as reward, which could be traded for Yukatas or Bombard Blooms (fireworks).

All rewards from the 2012 Moonfire Faire are no longer obtainable.

2013
As the traditional timing of the event fell during the later beta testing phases for A Realm Reborn, and with the launch of ARR coming at the end of the traditional "summer" period, it was assumed that the event would not be held in 2013, but during his eight Live Letter from the Producer, Naoki Yoshida confirmed that the event would, in fact, be held while there was still the barest bit of "summer" left, with festivities to commence approximately one week after the game's launch.