Zhloe Aliapoh is a non-player character in Final Fantasy XIV who runs a orphanage in the Hard Place cellars known as Menphina's Arms. She runs her trading business on the main floor of the building. She has a sister named Khloe.
History[]
Zhloe was born into poverty and had to work for Geimlona's sister to pay off her family's debt. As their parents passed in the calamity, Zhloe struggled to take care of Khloe by herself. After paying off her family's debt, she rented a room and set up shop in the Hard Place where she started an orphanage and began her trading business.
Zhloe met the Warrior of Light on the behalf of Geimlona.[1] They wanted the Warrior to assist in Zhloe's trading business to help pay off Rowena's loans from opening up the orphanage. She had been skipping out on meals and buying clothes. Her business ran like Rowena's House of Splendors where she traded collectible items for crafting or gathering scripts, and sold the collectible items to buyers around Eorzea. Currently she was trying to sell Exotic treasures of Near Eastern design that were popular with Ishgardian nobles.
With the sales from the Near Eastern collectibles, Zhloe announced they could stay open for just a few more days, and planned on working even harder to keep the orphanage going.[2] With the Warrior of Light agreeing to continue helping, Zhloe wanted to celebrate with week old pineapple pudding. T'kebbe, a child from the orphanage, told Zhloe that she deserved it for how hard she worked to keep them fed. The child wondered who the Warrior of Light was and Zhloe introduced them. T'kebbe was excited to meet another adventurer like her parents who were the strongest adventurers she had ever seen, defending Idyllshire from monsters, but she had not seen them since they said they were going to hunt a "leet mark". She was happy to meet miss Zhloe as she was scared and lonely all by herself, but considered her to be a big sister, even if she forgot to unlock the door and feed them. She took her leave as she was going to listen to a story about dragons.
With T'kebbe gone, Zhloe revealed that search parties had been searching for T'kebbe's parents with no luck. She knows she should not keep her hopes up, but did not have the heart to tell T'kebbe the truth. When her parents had disappeared, T'kebbe had rushed out to the city gates and waited day and night. When Zhloe found her, she was sniffling and shivering in the cold, and the sight inspired her to open an orphanage. Thanks to the Warrior of Light, Zhloe could pay the rent, but Menphina's Arms was long away from financial stability. Zhloe wanted to spread her trading business across the realm and had found a new client: Master Gegeruju of Gegeruju Shipping. Her idea was to bring refreshing relics from the lands of Coerthas.
The Coerthan Souvenirs had been a hit with the people of Costa del Sol, and with the gil Zhloe bought books and writing tools for the orphanage. Zhloe hoped the children would cultivate their minds and one day strike out on their own. She thanked the Warrior of Light for their hard work. Reaching out to further clients Zhloe set her sights on a bigger client: the Maelstrom. She heard the admiral needed anything she could gather for war games. The material sent to the Maelstrom was a "godsend" and every piece was sold, overflowing Zhloe's coffers. With the procured money she could give the children one square meal a day, blankets and bedding free of mold and moth holes, and actual shoes, though she could not treat herself to a bowl of pudding every day and in-between those days she ate nothing.
Menphina's Arm's had been cleared of debt, and thanks to the Warrior of Light the business was thriving. T'kebbe came in looking sad, and Zhloe asked if she had forgotten to give her lunch again. T'kebbe explained she told her friend that her nameday was coming, which made her cry because she did not know when her nameday was, and she started crying too. She revealed that when she came to Menphina's Arms she cried in her bed every night and tried to smile in front of Zhloe, but knew her parents were never coming back. She wanted to do what Zhloe did and cheer her friend up, but did not know how because she could not give them her own nameday. Zhloe suggested T'kebbe's nameday could be the nameday of the friends that lacked a nameday so they could celebrate together. T'kebbe was delighted and ran off.
Zhloe began sniffling, and had the Warrior of Light craft gifts for the children. On T'kebbe's nameday, she thanked Zhloe and the Warrior for the presents, and told them it was her best nameday since her parents gave her a wind-up moogle. Her friend was also happy about her nameday, as she got to see a dragon. Khloe ran in, surprised to see the Warrior of Light working with her sister, and told T'kebbe she had another story to share. T'kebbe bid goodbye and reminded Zhloe to forget their dinner tonight. Zhloe did not know the Warrior of Light was sharing their stories with Khloe, but it explained why her stories were more exciting. She told the Warrior of Light that Khloe smiled a lot even though she was lonely, because she was always working. She proclaimed that she could spend more time with her now that Menphina's Arms was going strong and listen to her new stories.
Characteristics[]
Appearance[]
Zhloe Aliapoh is a Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te who wears a Hidekeeps Apron dyed snow white, Astral Silk Bottoms of Casting dyed honey yellow, and Ironworks Boots of Casting dyed sylph green.
Personality[]
Zhloe is scatterbrained, often forgetting what she was talking about, and not remembering to feed the kids at the orphanage. She works hard to clear her family's debts, and set up an orphanage funded by her trading business. She is caring to the children of Idyllshire.
Gameplay[]
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Custom Deliveries portrait.
Zhloe is part of the Custom deliveries addition. Zhloe's Custom Deliveries are located in Idyllshire (X:4.6 Y:6.7). Every week the player delivers collectible items to her and receives crafting and gathering scrips, in addition to experience and gil. To participate in her custom deliveries players need to be on a crafter or gatherer job leveled to 55.
Players can gain the ability to cast glamours on Zhloe by raising her satisfaction level to the maximum.
Gallery[]
Etymology[]
Zhloe's Japanese name, Shiro (シロ?), is 白 (shiro?, lit. white) spelt in katakana. As a counterpart to this her younger sister Khloe's Japanese name, Kuro (クロ?), is 黒 (kuro?, lit. black) spelt in the same manner.
Zhloe's English name appears to be derived from her Japanese name read literally which could be rendered as "Shilo", with an added "e" that approximates Zhloe. Similarly, Khloe's Japanese name could be rendered as "Klo", which with the addition of the same "e" approximates Khloe.
Aliapoh is a Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te surname, shared with the cousins Leih and Jihli Aliapoh.
Zhloe's surname is a protracted reference to the Final Fantasy XI non-player character Mihli Aliapoh, a Mithra that acts as Waterserpent General and is available as an alter-ego party member through Trust Magic.
Citations[]
- ↑ Final Fantasy XIV, Arms Wide Open
- ↑ Final Fantasy XIV, Custom Deliveries