Desert Fever: Being a most baneful affliction, unresponsive even to the letting of blood, its course reversible only by the light of a Damcyan sand pearl.
Final Fantasy IV description
Sand Pearl (砂漠の光, Sabaku no Hikari?, lit. Desert Light), also known as the Sand Ruby, is a recurring key item in the Final Fantasy series. Whenever it appears, the Sand Pearl acts as a cure to the illness known as the Desert Fever.
Appearances[]
Final Fantasy IV[]
When Cecil Harvey and Kain Highwind do not return from their mission, Rosa Joanna Farrell goes on a journey to find them. In the Kaipo desert, Rosa is stricken with Desert Fever and taken to the town where she is looked after. When Cecil, Rydia, and Edward Chris von Muir visit one of the houses, they find a bedridden Rosa and are tasked with finding the Sand Pearl in order to cure her from the illness. With the help of Edward and Rydia, Cecil obtains the pearl from the Antlion's Den by defeating the Antlion and takes it back to Kaipo. On the next day, Rosa decides to join Cecil.
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years[]
Edward must find the Sand Pearl during the Full Moon for Harley, who succumbs to Desert Fever in Kaipo.
Final Fantasy Dimensions[]
Final Fantasy Record Keeper[]
Gallery[]
Etymology[]
pearl is a hard object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk. Just like the shell of a clam, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which has been deposited in concentric layers. The ideal pearl is perfectly round and smooth, but many other shapes (baroque pearls) occur. The finest quality natural pearls have been highly valued as gemstones and objects of beauty for many centuries. Because of this, pearl has become a metaphor for something rare, fine, admirable and valuable.
Aruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide). It is the birthstone for July.
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