Characters / Final Fantasy XIV - Disciples of the Land

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Class and Job Questlines: Disciples of War (Tank | Melee | Ranged) | Disciples of Magic | Disciples of the Hand | Disciples of the Land
Races: Playable Races | Beast Tribes
Seasonal Event NPCs

This page covers the NPCs featured in the various Disciple of the Land questlines. For the Disciple of the Land classes themselves, see The Warrior of Light.

As the story has advanced beyond the point of hiding plot twists, there are unmarked spoilers below, you have been warned.

Miner

Adalberta Sterne

Race: Highlander Hyur
Discipline: Miner

"It's not easy, managing a boisterous bunch of lads and lasses who'd sooner drain a tankard than swing a pickaxe, but I give it my best."

The guildmaster of the Miners' Guild. An Ala Mhigan refugee, she rose her way up through the ranks and considers the Miners' Guild her family after it took her in following the death of her father.

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• Amazonian Beauty: Adalberta sports an extremely defined muscle tone befitting that of a miner. She's also a gorgeous redhead with a large bust amplified by a low-cut vest.
• Benevolent Boss: In contrast to Deep Canyon, Adalberta cares deeply for each and every one of her workers, showing intense concern when they're going into risky areas, making sure they're equipped with the best knowledge and gear, and doing whatever she can to ensure their safety, profits be damned.
• Deceptive Disciple: Deep Canyon believes her to be this, slandering him so that she would inherit the guild instead of him. However, this is far from the truth, quite the opposite in fact.
• Forgiveness: Her kind and compassionate nature allows her to forgive years of mistreatment from Deep Canyon out of her past respect for him. She goes so far as to send you out to collect darksteel ore in order to save Canyon's job once his misdeeds are brought to the higher-ups.
  Adalberta: Above all else, I miss my friend and mentor. To get him back, I would forgive much and more.
• Happily Adopted: Her father made a living as a miner until he was killed in a mine collapse. The other members of the Miners' Guild subsequently took her in and became her family. While she was initially hesitant about becoming a miner because of how her father died, she decided to give back to the people who raised her, eventually becoming the guildmaster.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Despite her accomplishments and excellent leadership, she admits that she was surprised when she was chosen to become guildmaster.
• Only Sane Man: Compared to Deep Canyon's scheming and Wide Gulley's machismo, Adalberta stands out as the most compassionate, reasonable, and responsible member of the guild. It's telling that she's beloved by all of her guild members, who fear that Wide Gulley will try to unseat her and wish she'd kick him out to protect herself. Even so, she knows that it's only natural for her workers to get competitive and try to rise through the ranks like she did.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: She is an ideal leader and authority figure: welcoming, responsible, and passionate about her work and recruiting new members. She never asks you to do more than you can handle and is aghast when Deep Canyon has you go after mineral veins in extremely dangerous areas. Unfortunately, her hands are tied as his company owns the guild, though she's quick to offer you tips on where to go and what to look out for when mining. She also brushes off suggestions to kick Wide Gulley out of the guild for vying for her position as guildmaster, saying that it's only natural for miners to want to rise up on their own merits.
• Mythology Gag: Her full name is extremely similar to that of Adelbert Steiner from Final Fantasy IX, though there is little in common between the characters otherwise.
• Self-Made Woman: Not many Ala Mhigan refugees get to the kind of position she has in Ul'dah.
• Shipper on Deck: During Little Ladies’ Day 2019 when she and Mylla were out and about, she implicitly teased her friend about the possibility of seeing Aldis among her potential suitors.
• Sweet Tooth: Adalberta says she's "fond of the odd sweet or three".
• Workaholic: She discusses and invokes this, complaining that the Warrior of Light seems to do nothing but work, work, and more work, returning to the Miners' Guild after a trip to Ishgard only to ask for advice on where to find titanium ore. She then asks them to sit down with her and share some stories next time rather than being singlemindedly devoted to their craft.

Wide Gulley

Race: Hellsguard Roegadyn
Discipline: Miner

The son of Deep Canyon and a star miner of the guild. He quickly starts a rivalry with the Warrior of Light as their accomplishments threaten to eclipse his own.

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• Becoming the Boast: A variant, his father has been tampering with records to inflate his accomplishments, so rather than let such lies stand he does everything he can to achieve the feats his father made up on his behalf. This does not go well, forcing him to ask the Warrior of Light for help to keep up with all of his orders.
• Break the Haughty: His pride is shattered after losing to the player character three times and discovering that his father has been tampering with the record books to inflate his accomplishments to a point he can't keep up with. He compares himself to brass afterward: pretty to look at, but brittle underneath.
• Everyone Has Standards: He cannot condone his father tampering with the records to raise his standing to the point where he frantically tries to legitimize them. In fact, he is the one who turns him in.
• Generation Xerox: Seems to resent the Player Character as much as his father resents Adalberta. He comes around.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's prideful, smug and demeaning toward you, declaring that there's no way an upstart would be able to keep up with him as a miner. But following several servings of Humble Pie, he realizes how awful he's been as well as his father's tampering with the guild records. Gulley then files a complaint against him for an abuse of power because he can't stand the idea of endangering his fellow miners.
• The Rival: As one of the best miners in the guild, he takes note of the Warrior of Light's meteoric rise, challenging them to contests to prove who the better miner is despite how reckless and counterproductive it is.

Vice Foreman Deep Canyon

Race: Hellsguard Roegadyn
Discipline: Miner

The vice foreman of Amajina & Sons Mineral Concern, the company behind the Miners' Guild. Because of this, he commands as much authority as Adalberta through his control of the guilds' funding.

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• Fatal Flaw: Pride. His love of mining and pride in his accomplishments is so severe that being passed over for the role of guildmaster turned him into The Resenter who undermines Adalberta at every turn despite being her closest friend and mentor in the past. He even tampers with guild records and sends miners out on assignments they aren't prepared for just to spite her, which illustrates why he was passed over in the first place.
• Laser-Guided Karma: His tampering of the guild records, out of misguided revenge towards Adalberta, is what nearly costs him his job.
• Leader Wannabe: Prior to the previous guildmaster's retirement, Canyon was favored to be the next guildmaster thanks to his expertise and experience. He's outraged when Adalberta was named the new guildmaster instead. His resentment leads him to damage her reputation and standing however he can as an act of revenge.
• The Mentor: Adalberta says that he taught her everything she knows about mining and that she never would have made it to where she is without him.
• Pointy-Haired Boss: He doesn't seem to care much for the other miners so long as they make him a profit. In one quest, he sends the Warrior of Light to obtain 10 onzes of high-grade cinnabar even though they're only a novice at this point. Later on, Adalberta reports that several miners were nearly killed after Deep Canyon sent them out on more jobs than they were ready for. All of this is a carefully calculated scheme to make Adalberta look as incompetent as possible to strengthen his son's chances of unseating her as an act of revenge. But once this is revealed to the company, it's his job that's on the chopping block until you and Adalberta intervene on his behalf.
• Poor Communication Kills: Believed that Adalberta spoke to the previous guildmaster to discredit him when in actuality she was speaking against herself inheriting the guild. Not once did he ask her about this out of his own misguided pride.
• The Resenter: Towards Adalberta, whom he believes conspired against him to inherit the guild for herself.
• Vicariously Ambitious: Deep Canyon wants Wide Gulley to inherit the guild after ruining Adalberta's reputation. Then the player's character comes along and starts outperforming him...
• We Used to Be Friends: He taught Adalberta everything she knows and she loves him as her closest friend. But an unspecified incident in the past drove a wedge between them, leading him to make her life as miserable as he can for reasons she can't fathom.

Haimirich

Race: Highlander Hyur
Discipline: Gladiator

"There's only one breed o' strays I don't take—them what want a place to die. They're bad for business an' bad for the company."

The Leader of a band of mercenaries who were hired to prospect Coerthas and Dravania for valuable resources. They act as muscle and guards, while you are brought on to do the actual prospecting work.

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• A Father to His Men: He wants to help raise the standing for his group and give them all a better life, but he's careful to always keep everyone's safety in mind, even if they have to trek deep into hostile territory.
• Heroic BSoD: In the Level 60 quest, "The Hole Truth," he has one when Hatchling runs off against monsters, feeling like it's his dead brother all over again.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: The Warrior of Light can give him one of these during his Heroic BSoD, pulling him back together.
• My Greatest Failure: The loss of his reckless younger brother haunts him to this day. Hatchling's reckless impetuousness reminds Haimrich of him, and Haimirich is especially hard on Hatchling out of fear of losing him too.
• The Nicknamer: Assigns one to everyone under his command. Including you. Since you're the actual mining specialist of the group, he decides Professor is a suitable title.
• Rugged Scar: Several are visible on his face, likely the result of many years of mercenary work.

Stickqix

Race: Goblin
Discipline: Blacksmith

The focus of the Stormblood Miner quests, an Idyllshire goblin who is looking to combine goblin and Eorzean technology to further the advancement of machina in general.

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• Accent Slip-Up: He's learned to speak the common tongue fluently, though he lapses back into Goblin Buffy Speak when he gets agitated.
• Dark Secret: He was originally a member of the Illuminati, but left once the organization became fanatical and xenophobic.
• Only Sane Man: Often has to provide a middle ground solution when his colleagues disagree on how the Gobroller should be built. When one says the controls should be built for the average Eorzean, and the other believes they should be sized for Goblins, Stickqix offers up the suggestion to make the controls adjustable.
• Poor Communication Kills: Inverted. Him leaving without informing his colleagues of where he's going inspires them to finally stop infighting and finish the Gobroller. The reason the message didn't get through is cause the goblin he gave the message to was Brayflox Alltalks.

Botanist

Fufucha Fucha

Race: Dunesfolk Lalafell
Discipline: Botanist

"Nature is an unsentimental creature. She may provide for our every need today, only to take it all away on the morrow."

The Guildmaster of the Botanist's Guild. A gentle woman who abhors violence, she prioritizes respect for the Twelveswood above all.

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• Actual Pacifist: Fufucha despises warfare. This causes her no end of turmoil as so many orders from her guild are supplies to be used in Gridania's continuous conflict with the Ixal.
• The Cameo: She makes an appearance in the Level 50 Leatherworker quest along with Beatin as a judge in the competition.
• Caring Gardener: Being the guildmaster of the Botanist's Guild, she's naturally quite caring towards the lives of plants. She speaks in reverent tones about the beauty of nature, and has great knowledge of plant life. Also, the idea that a law, a country, or a decree can have any effect on nature irks her to no end. When the Holy See of Ishgard threatens to have another botanist arrested for planting "false" gyshal greens, Fufucha says that "foolish doesn't begin to describe it" when people try to use laws to control nature.
• Companion Cube: Evidently has a sabotender that she adores and talks to, though she's a little embarrassed by it.
• Face Palm: She does this at Mujih's introduction in "Call from the Clouds."
• Green Thumb: Besides being the guildmaster of the Botanist's Guild, "Seeds of Hope" has her friend Yannie tell that she went around planting trees after the Calamity.
• 10-Minute Retirement: The Level 50 Botanist Quest, "Seeds of Hope," has her do this because she can't stand all the constant violence in the Gridanians' war against the Ixals and now with the Empire joining in the fray that she quits being the guildmaster. It takes the Warrior of Light bringing a builder in Coerthas some Spruce Logs to rebuild homes to show her efforts are not in vain.

Mujih Mewrilah

Race: Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te
Discipline: Reporter

A reporter for The Raven, a newspaper in Gridania.

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• Artistic License – Biology: In-universe. Your first effort with Basyle has him cautiously optimistic that the onions you gathered could grow better at Cloudtop. Mujih reports this as the onions being a surefire game-changer for Cloudtop's agricultural woes. That makes a much better headline, after all.
• Always Identical Twins: She has an identical sister, Lina, who's assigned to Kugane.
• Hidden Depths: Though she initially comes off as only interested in the Warrior of Light's work to write stories for The Raven, she helps clear Basyle's name of heresy in the Level 60 Botanist quest by having chysahl greens seeds sent to Ishgard under Fufucha's name, spending nearly all of her writing earnings to do so.
• Intrepid Reporter: She follows the Warrior of Light in their 50-60 Botanist chain.
• Noodle Incident: How she managed to get into Ishgard, which is notoriously closed off to foreigners. All she says to the Warrior of Light about it is "if anyone asks, I'm your retainer."

Basyle

Race: Wildwood Elezen
Discipline: Botanist

The Botanist representative for Heavensward and a member of House Haillenarte who's trying to make Camp Cloudtop self-reliant.

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• Caring Gardener: His goal is to breed cultivars that will grow in Cloudtop's poor soil so that its soldiers will be happier and more well-nourished (the poor quality of food supplies comes up in a number of ancillary sidequests in the region). He really doesn't have any ambitions beyond that, and no interest in military matters beyond improving conditions for them.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: His efforts to feed the soldiers stationed at Camp Cloudtop are met with accusations of heresy from Ishgard's church members, all for cultivating a type of gysahl green deemed to not be native to Coerthas. Even then, the church's supposedly native greens actually came from the Near East, while the variety Bsayle is cultivating are native to Eorzea.

Fisher

Wawalago Momolago

Race: Dunesfolk Lalafell
Discipline: Fisher

"I have deemed that love and fishing are not so dissimilar in definition. Why, neither fish nor maid can be caught without a carefully considered cast, after all."

The guildmaster of the Fisherman's Guild. He's a fantastic fisherman whose vast icthylogical knowhow is only matched by his irresponsibility and dizzying alliteration.

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• Added Alliterative Appeal: Truly, you'd become weary watching for a window where one of his worldly weavings of wordplay wasn't like this. His hellacious alliteration habit has rubbed off on the receptionist who employs it almost as rapidly as he does.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: He undoubtedly has the talent required of a Guildmaster and is arguably the best fisherman in Eorzea, but is far too busy spending his days fishing and womanizing to bother with actually running the guild.
• Dirty Old Man: He has a bad habit of running off to flirt with the fairer sex when he isn't fishing. In the 2022 Make It Rain event, you can convince him to visit the Gold Saucer by telling him about all the costumed women working on the premises.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Level 50 Fishing quest shows that his telling Chuchuroon that the Mazlya marlin is quite the "monster" which ended up to getting a ban put on fishing until the Warrior of Light catches it.
• Obsessed with Food: The only thing he knows more about than fish is all the delicious ways that they can be prepared for dinner.
• Shipper on Deck: Heavensturn 2020 reveals he's this between Rhoswen and Carvallain.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: He has a penchant for appearing out of nowhere after someone catches something interesting.
• Vocal Dissonance: According to Reyna, he has a deep and manly voice, which has her Expecting Someone Taller when they first meet.

Sisipu

The acting guildmaster of the Fisherman's Guild. While Wawalago is out carousing, fishing and eating, Sisipu is the one who keeps the books in order.

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• Beleaguered Assistant: She would like to be out fishing as much as Wawalago, but she's the only one experienced, responsible, and present enough to actually manage the guild in his constant absence.
• Dude Magnet: If the Delivery Moogle quests are any indication, she has a number of admirers who consider her a paragon of temperance and Lalafellin beauty. She brushes them off and says there are many other fish in the sea for them to drop a line for.
• Women Are Wiser: Whereas Wawalago is Brilliant, but Lazy, Sisipu is the responsible acting guildmaster who keeps everything in order in the face of his refusal to do work.

Ansaulme de Rougecarpe

Race: Wildwood Elezen
Discipline: Fisher

A master fisher from Ishgard and the heir to a noble house of Ishgard.

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• Big "WHAT?!": He lets one of these out in the Level 60 quest when Reyna tells him her brother plans to fill in the family fishing holes to spite him.
  "Whaaaaaat!? That lowlife can order my friends to put poisoned arrows in my heart all he likes, but I'll never forgive him if he dares to damage my family's fishing holes!"
• Old Friend: He's friends with Wawalago.
• Really Royalty Reveal: The Level 58 Fisher quest reveals he's the missing eldest son of the Rougecarpe House.
• Skewed Priorities: His evil brother threatening to send assassins to put a poisoned arrow in his heart? Meh. That same brother threatening to poison and destroy his family's fishing holes? This Is Unforgivable! (though it helps that he figured that the people under House Rougecarpe would be safer if said brother's ire was directed at him rather than the commonfolk).
• Who's Laughing Now?: He says this to Reyna in the Level 53 Fisher quest when the Warrior Light catches three large icepicks over her two.

Reyna

Race: Midlander Hyur
Discipline: Fisher, Archer

A rival fisher that Ansaulme meets in the Heavensward Fisher storyline.

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• Affably Evil: Reyna is an assassin-for-hire to fund her fishing hobby, but she's so nice and passionate about fishing you wouldn't think twice about it unless you asked her.
• Big "WHAT?!": She lets one out in the Level 53 Fisher quest when the Warrior of Light beats her record of catching two HQ icepicks by catching three.
• Cool Shades: She wears a pair of shades over her face.
• The Rival: She becomes this to Ansaulme and the Warrior of Light in the Fisher storyline.
• Professional Killer: She moonlights as one of these, and uses the funds gained to fuel her fishing hobby. Ansaulme's brother tries to order a hit on him, but she refuses.

Govv

Race: Sahagin
Discipline: Fisher

A Sahagin that Wawalago accidentally caught on a fishing trip. Upset that the population of "shooting stars of the sea" has been dwindling, he joins the Warrior of Light and Wawalago to investigate the cause.

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• Commonality Connection: He and Wawalago started off antagonistic until they hit it off about fishing.
• Didn't Think This Through: Despite being a master spearfisher, Govv loses horribly when he challenges the Warrior of Light to a fishing contest in the Fringes. Not just because the Warrior of Light is an amazing Fisher, but because Govv lives in the ocean and the subtle differences of fresh water drastically threw him off his game.
• Hypocritical Humor: While visiting the Kojin village of Tamamizu, Govv is quick to point out the ridiculousness of a talking turtle. The Kojin he's talking to is just as amused to have encountered a talking fish.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Govv wants the shooting stars to return not so that he can catch or eat them, but so he can watch and admire their beauty as they swim overhead.

The Crystalline Mean (Facets of Gathering & Fishing)

Qeshi-Rae

Race: Mystel

"Well, that was certainly a harrowing outing, but it wasn't without fruit─in the form of a piece of the samiel itself! Ahhh, to feel the scaly texture in my hands and breathe in its mysterious smell... Pure bliss, I tell you! Alas, Yalana snatched it from me before I could have a little taste..."

Qeshi-Rae is the eccentric head of the Facet of Gathering, a subset of the Crystalline Mean responsible for providing raw materials for the people of the Crystarium. Though undeniably good at her job, Qeshi-Rae is more interested in chasing rumours of the samiel, a mythical creature no one has ever seen. She acts as the Shadowbringers questgiver for Miners and Botanists.

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• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She's spacey, wont to chasing after the Samiel rather than her work as the head of the Facet of Gathering, and prone to spontaneous fits of laughter. But she is exceptionally devoted to her research and has the respect of most of her fellow gatherers as the "Chief".
• Cloudcuckoolander: She's obsessed with the samiel and will drop everything to chase after it the minute word comes out about a potential sighting. Qeshi-Rae is so fixated that she'll even taste dried flakes of skin from it.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: Her colleagues all dismissed her obsession with the samiel as there was no evidence at the time to support its existence, only for her and the WoL to find them Kholusia—them being a species of massive sauropods capable of turning themselves invisible, hence why no one had seen them before.

Frithrik

Race: Ronso
Discipline: Fisher

"I'd much rather be reeling in fish than scrawling numbers in a ledger, but such is life... It's my responsibility to ensure that the citizenry have a steady supply of freshwater and saltwater foodstuffs, which is not a task to be taken lightly."

Frithrik is the head of the Facet of Fishing, a division in the Crystalline Mean in charge of providing a variety freshwater and saltwater fish for consumption. Although he came into the position almost by chance, he takes his role seriously and tries to increase the diversity of fish available to the Crystarium in hopes of providing vital nutrients needed to stave off illness. Unfortunately, his efforts are rebuffed by the other fishers, who see nothing wrong with maintaining the status quo. He acts as the Shadowbringers questgiver for Fishers.

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• Face of a Thug: As a Ronso, Frithrik is powerfully built and cuts an imposing figure. In fact, Lobb is loathe to mention that the cysteosis patient that Frithrik is trying to treat is in fact Mervyl's daughter Hurielle on account of their apparent rivalry. Frithrik himself is aghast that anyone would think he would be so petty as to poison someone else's daughter. Later, Mervyl expects Frithrik to either argue with him or fight him after the former accuses him of using Hurielle as a guinea pig. Mervyl is floored when Frithrik instead begs Mervyl's help in catching more prospero eels to help other patients.
• Gone Horribly Right: He became the leader of the Facet of Fishing entirely by accident, as the position is given to whoever makes the most catches in a given season. Frithrik rediscovered some long-forgotten techniques for increasing fishing yields while perusing the Cabinet of Curiosity, which landed him the position after he used said techniques to his advantage. To his dismay, his new responsibilities prevent him from fishing as often as he likes. He also suffers scorn from the other fishers for his attempts to introduce new techniques and for proposing fishing expeditions into dangerous territory to acquire new varieties of fish for the Crystarium. It's not until the Warrior arrives and agrees to help him that his fortunes begin to change.
• Ignored Expert: When he's not fishing or managing the Facet of Fishing, Frithrik can usually be found with his nose in a book to learn about fishing techniques and the nutritional value of fish species consumed in the past. Unfortunately, his penchant for research and his constant attempts to launch fishing expeditions into dangerous areas earns him the scorn of the other fishers, who refuse to risk life and limb to look for varieties of fish that may not exist after the Flood.
• Nice Guy: Frithrik is an absolute sweetheart of a man who only wants the best for his fellow man at the Crystarium. Despite the constant scorn and derision he gets from the other fishers, he never stops trying to improve the lot of everyone around him.
• Turn the Other Cheek: Frithri continues to try to help others even though all of his co-workers seem intent on berating him at every turn. Mervyl, his sternest and most frequent critic, is stunned that Frithrik would try so hard to help Hurielle after all the insults he lobbed at him.
  Mervyl: You did all this for Hurielle, even after everything I said...
  Frithrik: And we'll continue to do so, perhaps with you there to lend a hand.

Faculties of Anthropology and Aetherology

Hinageshi

Race: Midlander Hyur
Discipline: Anthropologist

"Well, this is all going rather swimmingly! I had hoped this research might bring us closer together, but I never dreamed we would end up living together."

A student under the Faculty of Anthropology whose professor, Tankin, is coming close to a research deadline, but with hardly any progress to speak of. Hinageshi also harbors feelings for Tankin, and hopes that she can get him to reciprocate her feelings by helping him with his research. She acts as the questgiver for Miners and Botanists in Endwalker.

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• Bait-and-Switch: At the end of her questline, Tankin finally realizes that he's fallen in love with Hinageshi and is about to try and confess to her, only to learn that she has received as "suitor". Initially crestfallen, the Warrior encourages Tankin to act decisively and he makes a ring with materials the Warrior gathered in Labyrinthos to propose to Hinageshi. But it turns out that this "suitor" was actually a business partner of Hinageshi's parents, who are looking forward to a long-term partnership. Although Tankin and the Warrior are blindsided by this, Hinageshi happily accepts Tankin's proposal to the point of swiping the ring out of his hand to put on her finger.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Due to spending more time with her nose in a book than socializing with people, Hinageshi feels too awkward to confess her feelings to Tankin when the Warrior points out the obvious solution instead of her roundabout attempt to court him.
• Everyone Can See It: Much of the other faculty at the Studium are aware of her feelings for Tankin and have secretly been cheering her on for some time. Finding this out after the end of her questline has her both appreciative and slightly mortified.
• Odd Name Out: She's a Midlander Hyur with an Othardian name because her parents traveled to the Far East during their research and grew enamored with the land and its flowers. They named her after the hinageshi, the common poppy flower, as the flower they loved the most.
• Skewed Priorities: She's trying to help Tankin complete an incredibly important project that could cost him his tenure if he doesn't finish it. She also tries to use this project to get him to realize her feelings for him. It gets to the point that she's so excited to visit the Far East that she starts to act like a tourist in Kugane, earning a stern scolding from Tankin.
• Teacher/Student Romance: Hingaeshi has been a student of Tankin since she first entered the Studium and has since fallen in love with him. She recruits the Warrior act as her Romantic Wingman through her Studium Deliveries chain, hoping to have Tankin realize her feelings for him while she helps him with his research.

Tankin

Hinageshi's professor of anthropology and the target of her affections. Although he's a skilled and serious reesarcher, he suffers from indecision and absent-minded behavior at times, only recently deciding to make the study of daily life of other cultures the focus of his next thesis.

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• Absent-Minded Professor: He's an astonishingly skilled researcher, managing to accurately recreate the clothes, foods, and languages of the cultures the Warrior takes samples of as part of his project. He's even successful at speaking the language of the ancients as heard in Emet-Selch's phantom Amaurot with the samples the Warrior obtained from Elpis. Even so, he's prone to indecision and roundabout thinking, resulting in his looming deadline due to his inability to decide on a topic.
• Secret-Keeper: Near the end of the questline, Tankin reveals that he too was privy to the Forum's "noble duty" to evacuate the star in the event of the Final Days. His research was meant to determine which cultures were worthy of preservation and to figure out how best to record them.
• Teacher/Student Romance: The Anthropology Studium Deliveries are centered around Hinageshi's affection for him. He eventually realizes that he too has fallen in love with her and proposes to her with some urging from the Warrior. After a few misunderstandings regarding a "suitor", Hinageshi accepts and they're married on the spot in Searcher's Meet.

T'laqa Tia

Race: Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te
Discipline: Aetherologist

"I may not be good at dealing with aether or pressure, but one thing is certain: for Professor Nele's sake, I must not fail. I cannot!"

An associate professor of aetherology in need of fish for his thesis statement. Unfortunately, he's at an impasse on his due to lacking data, and is unable to teleport without getting aether sickness. He acts as the questgiver for Fishers in Endwalker.

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• Calling Your Nausea: The Warrior is initially skeptical of the severity of T'laqa's aether sickness problem. The professor begrudgingly heads to the aetheryte plaza to demonstrate, calling it right before he empties his lunch all over the plaza.
• Can't Hold His Liquor: Sometimes he wishes he could just drink his worries away. But he also says that he handles alcohol about as well as he handles aether, which is to say, not very.
• Fictional Disability: T'laqa suffers from aether sickness, meaning that any attempt to use aether-based technology that requires one to attune to it will result in intense nausea and vomiting. He lampshades how ironic and inconvenient it is for an aetherologist to have aether sickness, enlisting the Warrior to help him because he can't possibly finish his thesis in time otherwise. He eventually realizes that he's been using his ailment as an excuse to avoid pushing himself, insisting that he accompany the Warrior on their excursion to Thavnair despite the immense nausea and vertigo he suffers in the process. His research into treating aetheric sickness in wildlife caused by Zodiark's destruction is also adapted into a medicine to mitigate the effects of aether sickness, allowing him to obtain his own specimens.
• Mr. Exposition: T'laqa's aetherological research is focused on the aether currents that run across the planet. He explains how the spectral currents that Fishers encounter on ocean fishing trips work, as well as the potential boons for the fishing industry should it be possible to predict where these spectral currents are likely to occur.
• Passing the Torch: After completing his thesis, he becomes a full-fledged professor right after Nele retires, effectively making him his successor.
• Performance Anxiety: He's a gifted researcher and scholar, but suffers from anxiety when he's put on the spot. Just thinking about the potential gravity of his work gets his stomach in knots.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: At the end of his questline, T'laqa Tia dons the same blue Alexandrian robes as his mentor Nele, showing that T'laqa has been promoted to a fully tenured professor of aetherology.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Downplayed. T'laqa attributes his success to the tutelage of his mentor, Professor Nele. But Nele's high hopes for T'laqa are what get the associate professor's stomach in knots and drive him to try and prove that Nele's faith in him is warranted.