Desert Palace

The Desert Palace is Kuja's lair in Final Fantasy IX, located in the desert on the Outer Continent. It is an immense underground fortress, filled with traps. It can only be entered through a mock Antlion pit. This is the only place where one can find the Namingway card, which can be shown to a man in Daguerreo in order to rename your characters.

The Desert Palace is one of the locations from Terra that ended up on Gaia 5,000 years ago due to Garland's failed attempt to merge the two planets into one.

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When the party is captured by Kuja, they are nearly killed when the floors of their cells drop away. However, Cid Fabool IX manages to save them and release them from their cells. The party then searches for a way to escape Kuja's fortress.

Navigating the dungeon is tricky and requires the completion of several puzzles, which involve candle lights and hidden passages. The security system of the Desert Palace is the Valia Pira, which the party can make weaker by turning off the Bloodstones scattered across the palace. The Bloodstones also yield treasure for the party.

Enemies

 * Drakan
 * Grimlock
 * Ogre
 * Torama
 * Valia Pira (Boss)

Trivia
Complementing Kuja's tastes, the Desert Palace contains many works of fine art, including a trio of statues arranged in a triangular fashion. Two of these are decidedly demonic looking, replete with bat-like wings and tridents, and are referred to as the "Promise of the Evil God" and "Truth of the Devil". The white angelic statue in the middle is called the "Illusion of the Goddess". This is a pointed allusion to the Warring Triad from Final Fantasy VI.