Missions (Final Fantasy XIII)

Missions in Final Fantasy XIII are quests that give the player party a target monster to defeat. They can only be found on the world of Gran Pulse, and can be repeated. Cie'th Stones will divulge the information about a certain monster that must be destroyed to succeed. There are 64 missions in all, some of which are overseen by the fal'Cie Titan.

Some of the l'Cie also have special properties:
 * Waystones serve as teleporters when the missions are completed, allowing travel to other activated waystones.
 * Palings emanate road blocks which dissipate when the missions are completed.
 * Menhirrim are statues in Taejin's Tower whose missions must be completed to advance the story.

The toughest of the missions are battles against The Undying which normally have a specific effect on the area that they take place in.

1 - Pond Scum
''The gelatinous rube beside that pond is the very ectopudding I seek! I need only slay it to avoid becoming a Cie'th. How many years must it have been since I left the village in pursuit of that vile pest? My brand will not wait forever, I must kill it, and quick. And then, when I awake from my crystal slumber, I can help to repair the ruin it left in it's wake... ''
 * Class: D
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Central Expanse
 * Mark Location: Same as Stone Location
 * Mark(s): Ectopudding
 * Reward: Energy Sash
 * Rank: Good Samaritan

2 - Goodwill Hunting
Time runs short. Todays is the day I put an end to that troublesome uridimmu! The problem, I fear, will be the pack of loyal gorgonopsids. The master alone is a worthy enough foe. Must I face the hounds as well?

Alas...if it must be, so be it.
 * Class: D
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Central Expanse
 * Mark Location: Same as Stone Location
 * Mark(s): Uridimmu, Gorgonopsid x 4
 * Reward: Cobaltite

3 - Massif Combination
I must hurry to the Yaschas Massif. For the ugallu-lord of its peaks-is my prey. Yet those peaks loom distant on the horizon, and already my limbs refuse the urgings of my mind. Please, obey but for a few days more!

Would that I could still the passage of time...
 * Class: D
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Central Expanse
 * Mark Location: Yaschas Massif - Tsubaddran Highlands
 * Mark(s): Ugallu
 * Reward: Platinum Bangle
 * Rank: Mercifex

4 - A Hero's Charge
You mean to tell me my Focus is to hune that one-eyed adora that plagues the Ascendant Scarp? Did I really need to be made a l'Cie to go hunting? Did I not do that every day? Are l'Cie not meant to fight Cocoon? Is that not the reason I left, boasting of the feats of heroism I would accomplish?

...Am I never to return home again?
 * Class: D
 * Stone Location: Yaschas Massif - Tsubaddran Highlands
 * Mark Location: Yaschas Massif - The Ascendant Scarp
 * Mark(s): Adroa x 4, Verdelet x 2
 * Reward: Pearl Necklace
 * Waystone?: Yes

5 - Joyless Reunion
So, I'm told to rid the world of Edimmu. She was prowling the Tsumitran Basin last I heard.

Perhaps it is time to pay her a final visit, and join her as a Cei'th. I could not bear to raise a weapon against my own wife, after all. Not even if her mind is no longer her own.
 * Class: D
 * Stone Location: Yaschas Massif - The Ascendant Scarp
 * Mark Location: Yaschas Massif - Tsumitran Basin
 * Mark(s): Edimmu
 * Reward: Sorcerer's Mark

6 - No Place Like Home
At last, reason to be thankful for the gift of l'Cie power! I am charged with slaying a munchkin maestro-the very creature which brought devastation upon my home I left behind.

When I have put an end to this demon, and saved the village...please, bear my crystal to the forum. There I shall rest, never to leave my beloved home again.
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Yaschas Massif - Paddraean Archaeopolis
 * Mark Location: Yaschas Massif - The Pass of Padra
 * Mark(s): Munchkin Maestro, Munchkin x 4
 * Reward: Fulmen Ring
 * Waystone?: Yes

7 - Bituitus, the Pillager
The Undying-fearsome Cie'th who defy fal'Cie will, driven by an intense loathing of all that lives.The Pillager, Bituitus, is of their number, and it is my fate to seal his.

Villages that survived the war remain unsafe, for his path of destruction sweeps through them all. Even my own fell before him. The demon is said to make his fastness in the Paddraean archaeopolis, but he will find no sanctuary from me there.
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Yaschas Massif - Paddraean Archaeopolis
 * Mark Location: Yaschas Massif - Paddraean Archaeopolis
 * Mark(s): Bituitus
 * Reward: R&D Depot
 * Rank: Archaeopolitan Idol

8 - The Eleventh Hour
''A rakshasa lurks along the route to the Yaschas Massif, and I'm supposed to hunt it down? I think I'll pass! If it's crystal or Cie'th, my life is over anyway. I might as well make the most of it! From here on out, I live for me!''
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Vallis Media - Base Camp
 * Mark Location: Vallis Media - Atzilut's Tears
 * Mark(s): Rakshasa, Flan x 3
 * Reward: Collector Catalog
 * Waystone?: Yes

9 - Heave-ho
Even with the power of a l'Cie-a kaiser behemoth? Really? So I have the choice of being gored to death beside that pond, or wandering the wild as an eternally damned Cie'th? Lovely.

All those years of har work and careful planning of this! I should have lived more for the moment.
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Central Expanse
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Central Expanse
 * Mark(s): Kaiser Behemoth
 * Reward: Rhodochrosite
 * Waystone?: Yes

10 - Hollow Hope
The war claimed my family. The war claimed my home. This focus is my last remaining hope.

I long for the release of crystal sleep. Perhaps when I wake the world will be a better place. I should hurry and destroy the ambling bellows raising havoc on the steepe's northern highplain.
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Central Expanse
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Northern Highplain
 * Mark(s): Ambling Bellows
 * Reward: Super Conductor x 4

11 - Pride Before a Fall
My focus this time appears to be dispatching an adroa on the Archylte Steppe. I don't know how many years have passed since the fal'Cie last called upon me, but there seem to be more beats about.

Not that it matters. provided I can complete my Focus and retain my master's favor, I will never die. And a little hardship is a small price to pay for an eternity of peaceful dreaming.</i>
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Northern Highplain
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Central Expanse
 * Mark(s): Adroa x 4, Verdelet x 2
 * Reward: Frost Ring x 2

12 - Geiseric, the Profane
The Undying-fearsome Cie'thwho defy fal'Cie will, driven by an intense loathing of all that lives. Geiseric, the Profane, is of their number, and my Focus is his doom. He is said to lead a horde of Cie'th on the steepe's western benchland.

To think you would become such a Cie'th, Geiseric! You, who would not harm a fly. Whatever part of you lingers in that grotesque prison of crystal and flesh must suffer. I will set you free my friend.</i>
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Arid Strath
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Western Benchland
 * Mark(s): Geiseric
 * Reward: Royal Armlet
 * Road Block?: Yes
 * Rank: Baneslayer

13 - Eternity Unpromised
It is a cruel and contemptible contest the fal'Cie have devised, but one from which I may not yet absent myself. We asse,bled l'Cie must overcome innumerable obstacles as we compete to slay the goblin chieftain on the northern highplain. The prize? Freedom from bondage as a l'Cie.

I will win, be made human again, and return to propose to my lover, from whose arms the tyrant fal'Cie stole me.</i>
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Central Expanse
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Northern Highplain
 * Mark(s): Goblin Chieftain, Goblin x 3
 * Reward: Cobaltite

14 - Defender of the Flock
A sahagin infestation threatens the steppe chocobos who roost at the Font of Namva- those gentle souls I've known since I was a child!

The great and merciful fal'Cie heard my plea, and granted me the power to save them, I may never again be able to feel the warmth of their golden down, but I can think of no happier way to spend eternity than watching over them form the water's edge.</i> NB! This area is inaccessible until mission 12 is completed.
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Western Benchland
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Font of Namva
 * Mark(s): Sahagin x 2, Ceratosaur x 2
 * Reward: Gysahl Reins
 * Rank: Feathered Friend

15 - Tribal Warfare
There are other l'Cie who share my Focus. The first to complete it is the winner, with freedom from this l'Cie fate as his prize. But for all who have tried, none have yet survived.

...So I guess that will make me the first! No more being a fal'Cie tool for me! Just need to take out that goblin chieftain on the northern highplain, near the range of the behemoth king...</i> NB! This is inaccessible until mission 14 is completed. A chocobo is needed to reach it.
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Central Expanse
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Northern Highplain
 * Mark(s): Goblin Chieftain, Goblin x 6
 * Reward: Survivalist Catalog

16 - Surrogate Slaver
My dear, sweet sister set out with her grandiose dreams of saving the chocobos, but never returned. I have sought her crystal high and low, but it is nowhere to be found. Can it be that she turned into a Cie'th? No, she will return-she must. But until she does, there is no one to defend the flock.

Perhaps if I complete her Focus, the fal'Cie will set her free? I will set out for the Font of Namva at dawn, and put an end to the sahagin's predation!</i>
 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Eastern Tors
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Font of Namva
 * Mark(s): Sahagin x 2, Ceratoraptor x 4
 * Reward: Rhodochrosite

17 - A Widow's Wrath
A Pulsework champion that had been working the Mah'habara Subterra has gone haywire, and is now raising chaos on the steppe's northern highplain. It is my Focus to see the automaton deactivated-a duty which I undertake not only at the fal'Cie's behest, but for my husband, whom the accursed machine butchered.

By all that is sacred, I will not rest until I have torn it washer from bolt!</i>
 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Northern Highplain
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Northern Highplain
 * Mark(s): Pulsework Champion
 * Reward: Perfect Conductor x 3
 * Waystone?: Yes

18 - So Close, Yet So Far
Who designed this place? It's a maze of dead ends! How am I supposed to find the ambling bellows? Knowing it's in a twilight cavern doesn't help much when I'm trapped in a maze of the blasted things!

Curse my luck. I'm running out of time. I'd every intention of fulfilling my Focus, and now I'm going to end up a Cie'th!</i>
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Mah'habara - Twilit Cavern
 * Mark Location: Mah'habara - Twilit Cavern
 * Mark(s): Ambling Bellows, Hoplite x 4
 * Reward: Sorcerer's Mark
 * Waystone?: Yes
 * Rank: Dismantler

19 - Triangle of Tragedy
Time is of the essence. He must not defeat me in this! I must be the one to slay the uridimmu at Sulyya Springs.

We were alwyas together-he, my princess and I-but it was he who won her love. Were</i> he ''now to turn to crystal, I fear it would break her heart...and so it must be me! Then my princess can live out her days in happiness, as a princess rightly should.''
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Sulyya Springs - Ceiling of Sky
 * Mark Location: Sulyya Springs - Subterranean Lake
 * Mark(s): Uridimmu x 4
 * Reward: Cobaltite
 * Waystone?: Yes

20 - Words Unspoken
''When father told me he was leaving us, I struck him full in the face. I can still remember the look in his eye to this day...just as I'll never forget the way he picked himself up and left without a word. I found out later that he had turned to crystal. It pain me now to think of how I never made any attempt to understand how he suffered under the burden of his Focus. That is why I must triumph over the goblin chieftain near Taejin's Tower-so that someday I can tell him that I am sorry.''
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Taejin's Tower - The Palisades
 * Mark Location: Taejin's Tower - The Palisades
 * Mark(s): Goblin Chieftain, Goblin x 2, Munchkin Maestro, Munchkin
 * Reward: Rhodochrosite
 * Waystone?: Yes

21 - A Tremulous Terror
Brave soul, head my plea and we shall bring light to your dark path.

Know that a gelatitan holds my power thrall within this spire. Slay it and I shall once more be free.

If you can but restore the strength of my two brethren and I, here on the second tier, the way will be opened unto you.</i>
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Taejin's Tower - Second Tier
 * Mark Location: Taejin's Tower - Second Tier
 * Mark(s): Gelatitan
 * Reward: Speed Sash

22 - Infernal Machine
Puissant soul, head my plea and we shall bring light to your dark path.

Know that an ambling bellows holds my power thrall within this spire. Slay it and I shall once more be free.

If you can but restore the strength of my two brethren and I, here on the second tier, the way will be opened unto you.</i>
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Taejin's Tower - Second Tier
 * Mark Location: Taejin's Tower - Second Tier
 * Mark(s): Ambling Bellows, Cryptos x 2
 * Reward: Particle Accelerator x 3

23 - Natural Defenses
Sage soul, head my plea and we shall bring light to your dark path.

Know that a gurangatch holds my power thrall within this spire. Slay it and I shall once more be free.

If you can but restore the strength of my two brethren and I, here on the second tier, the way will be opened unto you.</i>
 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Taejin's Tower - Second Tier
 * Mark Location: Taejin's Tower - Second Tier
 * Mark(s): Gurangatch
 * Reward: Warrior's Wristband

24 - A Potent Sting
Tormented soul, head my plea and we shall bring light to your dark path.

Know that a mushussu holds my power thrall within this spire. Slay it and I shall once more be free.

If you can but restore the strength of my two brethren and I, here on the upper tiers, the way will be opened unto you.</i>
 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Taejin's Tower - Fifth Tier
 * Mark Location: Taejin's Tower - Fifth Tier
 * Mark(s): Mushussu, Yakshini x 2
 * Reward: Moonblossom Seed x 6

25 - Spectral Hunt
Enlightened soul, head my plea and we shall bring light to your dark path.

Know that a vetala holds my power thrall within this spire. Slay it and I shall once more be free.

If you can but restore the strength of my two brethren and I, here on the upper tiers, the way will be opened unto you.</i>
 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Taejin's Tower - Sixth Tier
 * Mark Location: Taejin's Tower - Fifth Tier
 * Mark(s): Vetala
 * Reward: Cobaltite

26 - So Shrill, the Cry
Defiant soul, head my plea and we shall bring light to your dark path.

Know that a penangglan holds my power thrall within this spire. Slay it and I shall once more be free.

If you can but restore the strength of my two brethren and I, here on the upper tiers, the way will be opened unto you.</i>
 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Taejin's Tower - Fifth Tier
 * Mark Location: Taejin's Tower - Sixth Tier
 * Mark(s): Penanggalan, Chonchon x 4
 * Reward: Diamond Bangle
 * Rank: Monumental Ally

27 - Mithridates, the Lone
The Undying-fearsome Cie'th who defy fal'cie will, driven by an intense loathing of all that lives. Mithridates, the lone, is of their number, and his undoing is my burden.

It is said in life he once loved music. I can but hope the notes sounded by the elevator in Taejin's Tower descending from the apex might lure him out, and allow me to restore a touch of harmony to the discord of the tower's tainted song. </i>
 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Taejin's Tower - The Cloven Spire
 * Mark Location: Taejin's Tower - Ground Tier
 * Mark(s): Mithridates
 * Reward: Blaze Ring
 * Rank: Grudge Settler

28 - Faded Glory
<i>This timeworn ghost town is Oerba? I hardly recognize the place! Could the ceratosaurs I've been sent to destroy have done this? And even if they did, what purpose would it serve to eradicate them now? Are the fal'Cie planning to raise a new village in this white wasteland?

Well, whatever they intend, I suppose I'd better get to the harbor where the creatures nest...</i>
 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Oerba - Village Proper
 * Mark Location: Oerba - Village Proper
 * Mark(s): Ceratosaur x 10
 * Reward: Giant's Glove
 * Waystone?: Yes

29 - Faltering Faith
''The cloven spire of Taejin's Tower forms the bridge between the Archylte Steppe and the outlying lands. Yet a rampaging juggernaut now bars all passage, and I have been charged with its disposal.''

''Why do the fal'Cie value that place so? Why do they protect it, and yet stand idly by when our village is threatened? I sense the place must guard some secret of theirs...''


 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Mah'habara - Maw of the Abyss
 * Mark Location: Taejin's Tower - The Palisades
 * Mark(s): Juggernaut
 * Reward: Uraninite

30 - Syphax, the Insidious
<i>The Undying-fearsome Cie'th who defy fal'cie will, driven by an intense loathing of all that lives. Syphax, the Insidious, is of their number-a number of which I am tasked with bringing low.

My mark dwells in the abandoned dig Cie'th lair deep withing the bowels of Mah'habara. He's a treacherous foe, to be sure, but one I must overcome if I am to see my crystallized beloved again.</i>
 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Haerii Oldroad
 * Mark Location: Mah'habara - Abandoned Dig
 * Mark(s): Syphax, Numidia x ~40
 * Reward: Uraninite
 * Road Block?: Yes
 * Rank: Heartstriker

31 - Newfound Purpose
''It doesn't much matter if it's destroying a Pulsework champion in the Haerii Archaeopolis or picking flowers in the yard-if it's my Focus, I'm going to do it. Life was boring before, with nothing to live for. But now I'm a l'Cie, I have a Focus-and life is beautiful, the clouds have parted, and...and there are rainbows! Cie'th or crystal, it's all the same to me-so long as I can put myself tot the test,challenge my own limits, and win!''
 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Haerii Archaeopolis
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Haerii Archaeopolis
 * Mark(s): Pulsework Champion, Seeker x 3
 * Reward: Perfect Conductor x 3
 * Waystone?: Yes

32 - And Then There Was One
<i>Fate is not without a sense of irony, it seems. I am commanded to hunt the amam that stalks a pond in the steppe's western benchland-just as the rest of my family were once charged, to their doom. They are Cie'th now, and I alone am left to put an end to the abomination's blooby reign.

I am coming for you creature. I will have my revenge.</i>
 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Vallis Media - Earthern Bosom
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Western Benchland
 * Mark(s): Amam
 * Reward: Glass Buckle

33 - A Parent's Pledge
<i>I have been charged with putting down a stray adamanchelid that wanders the steppe's eastern tors, no doubt seeking it's lost parents.

What kind of monster could preform such a deed? Not a day goes by I don't recall the pain of losing a child to a rampaging beast. Would I now subject other parents to that fate? No, I forsake my Focus. The cycle of suffering ends here.</i>
 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Haerii Archaeopolis
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Eastern Tors
 * Mark(s): Adamanchelid
 * Reward: White Cape
 * Rank: Adamantine Knight

34 - Zenobia, The Butcher
<i>The Undying-fearsome Cie'th who defy fal'Cie will, driven by an intense loathing of all that lives. Zenobia, The Butcher, is of their number, and I, of her line. But I go now to stay her blade, as my father and his father before him once attempted.

The Butcher's den is in the old Haerii archaeopolis, at the northern edge of the steppe. There, at the scene of her foulest atrocities, I will expunge her taint, and restore my family's honor.</i>
 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Way of the Ancients
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Haerii Archaeopolis
 * Mark(s): Tonberry
 * Reward: Hermes Sandles
 * Road Block?: Yes
 * Rank: Curse Lifter

35 - The Road Less Traveled

 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - Truthseeker's Rise
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Primeval Crossroads
 * Mark(s): Gurangatch
 * Reward: Witch's Bracelet

36 - Dark Deliverance

 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - Primeval Crossroads
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - A Dance of Shadow
 * Mark(s): Amam
 * Reward: Uraninite

37 - Dying of the Light

 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - Primeval Crossroads
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - A Dance of Light
 * Mark(s): Rafflesia x 5
 * Reward: Star Pendant

38 - Moonlit Madness

 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - A Dance of Shadow
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Via Lunae
 * Mark(s): Verdelet x 3, Adroa
 * Reward: Diamond Bangle

39 - Seeing Stars

 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - A Dance of Shadow/A Dance of Light
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Via Stellarum
 * Mark(s): Ochu, Microchu x 2
 * Reward: Siltstone Ring

40 - Solar Power

 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - A Dance of Light
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Via Solis
 * Mark(s): Verdelet x 2
 * Reward: Zealot's Amulet

41 - Gaian Grudge

 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - Via Lunae
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Gaian Path
 * Mark(s): Tonberry x 3
 * Reward: Doctor's Code

42 - Antihero

 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - Via Lunae/Via Stellarum
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Salamandrine Path
 * Mark(s): Borgbear Hero, Borgbear x 4
 * Reward: Witch's Bracelet

43 - The Hero Never Dies

 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - Via Stellarum/Via Solis
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Sylphid Path
 * Mark(s): Borgbear, Borgbear Hero, Goblin, Goblin Chieftain, Munchkin, Munchkin Maestro
 * Reward: Speed Sash

44 - The Old Ones go to Rust

 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - Via Solis
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Nereid Path
 * Mark(s): Corrosive Custard, Monstrous Flan, Hybrid Flora
 * Reward: General's Belt

45 - Emergent Evolution

 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - Gaian Path
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Titan's Throne
 * Mark(s): Neochu
 * Reward: Hunter's Friend

46 - On Silent Wings

 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - Salamandrine Path
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Titan's Throne
 * Mark(s): Zirnitra
 * Reward: Gilgamesh Inc.

47 - Unfocused Rage

 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - Salamandrine Path
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Titan's Throne
 * Mark(s): Raktavija
 * Reward: Mnar Stone

48 - The Abyss Stares Back

 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - Sylphid Path
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Titan's Throne
 * Mark(s): Verdelet x ?
 * Reward: Twenty-Sided Die

49 - Tyrannicide

 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - Sylphid Path
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Titan's Throne
 * Mark(s): Tyrant
 * Reward: Particle Accelerator x 7

50 - Road to Predation

 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - Neired Path
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Titan's Throne
 * Mark(s): Humbaba
 * Reward: Scarletite

51 - Attacus, the Soulless

 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Faultwarrens - Sylphid Path/Gaian Path/Salamandrine Path/Nereid Path
 * Mark Location: Faultwarrens - Titan's Throne
 * Mark(s): Attacus
 * Reward: Genji Glove

52 - Head in the Clouds
<i>Why do men dream of flying? And why must we be without wings? True, a nest of vipers hangs in our sky. Yet were the sky the province of all things harmful to life, still would I gladly soar amongst the clouds. What cruel irony then that I should be charged with smiting a winged zirnitra...

Regardless, I had best head to the eastern tors. Then again, crystals cannot fly, and some Cie'th can...</i>
 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Western Benchland
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Eastern Tors
 * Mark(s): Zirnitra
 * Reward: Gale Ring

53 - Freedom from Fear
<i>Curse my luck! I've lost it again. Last I saw, it was heading in the direction of...where? The southern part of the Yaschas Massif, perhaps? Damn that zirnitra and its wanderlust! It's caused me so mush trouble, I think I'd kill it even if that weren't my Focus!

...And be a crystal when I do. I think I'd better concertrate on the present, and forget about what's to come. This is going to be a long walk.</i>
 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Mah'habara - An Asylum from Light
 * Mark Location: Yaschas Massif - The Pass of Paddra
 * Mark(s): Zirnitra, Alraune x 4
 * Reward: Blaze Ring

54 - The Bigger They Are...
''We five l'Cie are the Shepherds who see the caravan safe from harm. Though we act as one, it falls to me to fulfill our Focus, for I am the leader, and what manner of leader would shirk his most onerous of duties? I could not abide such shame. The eastern tors are the dominion of our mark--a fell gigantuar. It is said to frequent a rise within the oretoise territory. For honor, the fal'Cie, and my brothers, I will slay the spiny scourge, and carve my own legend in its ruined husk.''
 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Northern Highplain
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Eastern Tors
 * Mark(s): Gigantuar
 * Reward: Cactaur Doll

55 - Can't We All Just Get Along?

 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Oerba - Deserted Schoolhouse
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Aggra's Pasture
 * Mark(s): Neochu, Picochu x 5
 * Reward: Growth Egg

56 - A Toothy Grin

 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Eastern Tors
 * Mark Location: Yaschas Massif - The Ascendant Scarp
 * Mark(s): Ugallu, Munchkin x 4
 * Reward: Rhodochrosite

57 - What's Yours is Brine

 * Class: C
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Eastern Tors
 * Mark Location: Vallis Media - Atzilut's Tears
 * Mark(s): Sahagin x 3, Alraune x 2
 * Reward: Uraninite

58 - The Culler of Many

 * Class: B
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Eastern Tors
 * Mark Location: Mah'habara - The Earthworks
 * Mark(s): Humbaba
 * Reward: Speed Sash

59 - Two-faced Fiend

 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Eastern Tors
 * Mark Location: Sulyya Springs - Subterranean Lake
 * Mark(s): Zirnitra, Ceratoraptor x 3
 * Reward: Energy Sash

60 - Dégelà Vu

 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Eastern Tors
 * Mark Location: Taejin's Tower - The Cloven Spire
 * Mark(s): Gelatitan x 3
 * Reward: Mnar Stone

61 - I, Juggernaut

 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Eastern Tors
 * Mark Location: Oerba - Village Proper
 * Mark(s): Juggernaut
 * Reward: Royal Armlet

62 - Indomitable Will

 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Archylte Steppe - Eastern Tors
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Central Expanse
 * Mark(s): Raktavija x 2
 * Reward: Genji Glove

63 - Crushed by Doubt

 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Sulyya Springs - Subterranean Lake
 * Mark Location: Archylte Steppe - Eastern Tors
 * Mark(s): Adamantortoise
 * Reward: Genji Glove

64 - The Doomherald

 * Class: A
 * Stone Location: Oerba - Rust-eaten Bridge
 * Mark Location: Yaschas Massif - Paddreaen Archaeopolis
 * Mark(s): Vercingetorix
 * Reward: Gold Watch