Taejin's Tower

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Taejin's Tower
(テージンタワー, Tējin Tawā?, lit. Tejin Tower)
Background information
Type	Dungeon
Region	Gran Pulse
Affiliation(s)	Pulse fal'Cie
Areas	The Palisades The Tyrant's Gate Ground Tier Second Tier Third Tier Fourth Tier Fifth Tier Sixth Tier The Cloven Spire (Apex) Seventh Tier
Residents	Menhirrim Dahaka
Gameplay details
Items	Sinister Fang x20 Chipped Fang x12 4721 gil Sparkbane Brooch Spark Plug x5 Simurgh Metal Armband x2 Glass Orb x2 Gale Ring Rainbow Anklet x2 Ancient Bone x9 Librascope Tear of Woe x4 Unsetting Sun Clay Ring Tear of Remorse x8 Frostbane Brooch x2 Ethersol Collector's Catalog
Enemies	Regular encounters: Mánagarmr Amphisbaena Goblin Chieftain Goblin Munchkin Pulsework Gladiator Varcolaci Yaksha Yakshini Tyrant, Centaurion Blade Vampire Penanggalan Chonchon Amphisbaena Marks and bosses: Munchkin Maestro (Mark 20) Gelatitan (Mark 21) Ambling Bellows, Cryptos (Mark 22) Gurangatch (Mark 23) Mushussu, Yakshini x2 (Mark 24) Vetala (Mark 25) Mithridates (Mark 27) Juggernaut (Mark 29) Gelatitan x3 (Mark 60) Dahaka (boss)
Quests	Reach the top Reach the hidden floor (seventh tier)

Taejin's Tower is a location on Gran Pulse in Final Fantasy XIII. It is a large tower amid the wilderness overlooking the village of Oerba. Taejin's Tower is an ancient structure built by the fal'Cie for purposes unknown before serving as home to the fal'Cie Dahaka. What once towered the Pulse sky is now broken and crumbling, but most of its mechanisms still function, including the living statues called Menhirrim imprisoned by Dahaka.

Later, Bhakti's bonus tip #10 explains that the party can climb to the top of the tower and ride the elevator back down all seven flights, which allows the player to find a hidden seventh tier and battle an Undying Cie'th.

Datalog

Template:See Also This towering spire was built by the fal'Cie in ages past. While the purpose of the structure is unclear, its original height suggests that the mighty beings sought to pierce even the heavens in their insatiable quest for expansion.

No matter the reason for its construction, the tower now lies in ruin, its great spine snapped, and its crumbling interior serving as a lair for the fal'Cie Dahaka.

Story

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Menhirrims protect the party from Dahaka.

The party ventures through the tower on their way to Oerba and must take on a series of missions from the resident statues, whose powers are held in check by the monsters inhabiting the tower. Completing the missions allows the statues to spin the tower's segments into alignment, opening the path upward.

As they approach the top, the fal'Cie Dahaka approaches the party, but is beaten back by the now-freed statues. At the tower's apex, the wounded fal'Cie attacks directly but is defeated. As the party gazes out from the top of the tower, Fang and Vanille are disappointed to discover their hometown looks dilapidated and barren, instead of the grove of flowers they recall from their memories. Despite this, the party decides to ride a capsule down the slope to Oerba to take a closer look.

Spoilers end here.

Treasure

Item	Location
Sinister Fang x20	The Palisades
Chipped Fang x12	Ground Tier
4721 gil	Ground Tier
Sparkbane Brooch	Ground Tier
Spark Plug x5	Second Tier
Simurgh	Third Tier
Metal Armband x2	Third Tier
Glass Orb x2	Fourth Tier
Gale Ring	Fourth Tier
Rainbow Anklet x2	Fourth Tier
Ancient Bone x9	Fifth Tier
Librascope	Fifth Tier
Tear of Woe x4	Sixth Tier
Unsetting Sun	Sixth Tier
Clay Ring	Sixth Tier
Tear of Remorse x8	Sixth Tier
Frostbane Brooch x2	The Cloven Spire
Ethersol	The Cloven Spire
Collector's Catalog	Seventh Tier

Enemies

The Palisades

• Mánagarmr (two separate encounters)
• Amphisbaena
• Amphisbaena, Mánagarmr
• Goblin Chieftain, Goblin x2, Munchkin, Munchkin Maestro (Mark 20)
• Juggernaut (Mark 29)

The Tyrant's Gate

• Mánagarmr x2

Ground Tier

• Mánagarmr x2
• Mánagarmr (two separate encounters)
• Mithridates (Mark 27)

Second Tier

• Pulsework Gladiator x3
• Mánagarmr
• Pulsework Gladiator x4
• Mánagarmr, Pulsework Gladiator x2
• Pulsework Gladiator x5
• Gelatitan (Mark 21)
• Ambling Bellows, Cryptos x2 (Mark 22)
• Gurangatch (Mark 23)

Third Tier

• Mánagarmr x2
• Pulsework Gladiator x2

Fourth Tier

• Varcolaci x2
• Yaksha x2

Fifth Tier

• Yakshini x2
• Yakshini, Yaksha x2
• Pulsework Gladiator x5
• Tyrant, Centaurion Blade
• Mushussu, Yakshini x2 (Mark 24)
• Vetala (Mark 25)

Sixth Tier

• Vampire (three separate encounters)
• Varcolaci
• Chonchon x4
• Varcolaci x2
• Vampire, Chonchon x3
• Vampire x3
• Penanggalan, Chonchon x4

Seventh Tier

• Yaksha x2, Yakshini x2

The Cloven Spire

• Amphisbaena, Mánagarmr
• Amphisbaena
• Pulsework Gladiator x5
• Gelatitan x3 (Mark 60)
• Dahaka (boss)

Quests

Seventh Tier

There is a second elevator on the apex that leads to another tier. It can be activated after the boss at the top of the tower, Dahaka, has been defeated. The player can use this new elevator to get to the seventh tier where they find another statue. Activating that spins the tower allowing the main elevator to reach every tier.

Missions

Main article: Missions (Final Fantasy XIII)

Musical themes

"Taejin's Tower"

The first background theme heard at Taejin's Tower is "The Vestige", the background theme heard at the Pulse Vestige. It is calm and mysterious, which suits the sight of the tower's palisades. Inside, Taejin's Tower's eponymous theme starts playing, and features a strange tune, reminiscent of electronics, mirroring the tower's mysterious structure and machinery.

The Taejin's Tower elevator has 'elevator's music'. Each times it moves (specifically reaches a floor), it plays classical music in the same mechanics like a music box. The music sounds more like wind chimes instead of digital sounds.

On the "Taejin's Tower" theme, Mina Sakai, who performs the vocals for many background themes in the game, performed a traditional Ainu instrument called the mukkuri.

Other appearances

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Map

Map of Taejin's Tower.

Gallery

Artwork

Ground Tier artwork.

Artwork.

Elevator artwork.

Gate artwork.

Screenshots

The Palisades.

The Tyrant's Gate.

Ground Tier.

Second Tier.

Third Tier.

Fourth Tier.

Fifth Tier.

Sixth Tier.

The elevator.

The Cloven Spire.

Summit.

View from the top.

Trivia

• Building a tower up to reach the heavens may have been a fal'Cie plan on locating the Etro's gate. This is supported by the fal'Cie Dahaka making its abode atop the tower, a fal'Cie tasked with searching for the Gate from the skies of Gran Pulse. Thus, the tower may allude to the Biblical story of Tower of Babel where people attempted to build a tower tall enough to reach God, but the tower was struck down by Him.