Characters / Final Fantasy XIV - Disciples of War

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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
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Seasonal Event NPCs

This page covers the NPCs featured in the various Disciple of War questlines, divided into Tank, Melee and Ranged. For the Disciple of War classes and jobs themselves, see Tank Classes, Ranged DPS Classes and Melee DPS Classes.

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

Role Quests (Physical DPS)

Lue-Reeq Chalah

Race: Mystel
Epithet: Lue-Reeq of the Gilded Bow
Discipline: Archer

"May the best hunter win!"

A bounty hunter who specializes in hunting sin eaters. He hires the Warrior of Light to fight alongside him against the Cardinal Virtue Andreia.

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• Big Eater: Pretty much any time you meet him at the bar in the Crystarium, he orders a lavish feast to eat while talking to you. Even when he meets you in your inn room later on during the main story, he's eating food while talking to you.
• Calling the Old Man Out: When his neglectful father threatened to cut off his funding, citizenship, and family ties unless he gave up bounty hunting, Lue-Reeq sends a message telling him, essentially, that he can take his money and shove it.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Growing up with naught but money and the attention of his wet nurse has left Lue-Reeq desperate to prove himself and find his way in life. He tries to become a bounty hunter in imitation of his childhood hero, but is lousy at it due to spending more time eating and using his wallet than actually honing his skills. It's not until he casts off his family's yoke that he is able to move forward with renewed purpose.
• Everyone Has Standards: He may have hated Lanbyrd, albeit for entirely selfish reasons of feeling that the man was just not the kind of companion he wanted to pay for before Lanbyrd became competitive to rub it in his face, but seeing the jerk turned into a Sin Eater by Renda-Rae has him horrified and swear to put them to rest. Though he's not above complaining how much of a pain in the ass the resulting fight has Lanbyrd be for it.
• Family of Choice: After his father thratens to strip him of his money, Eulmoran citizenship, and even his familial ties, Lue-Reeq tells him to shove it, as Olvara is the only woman who has ever shown him any kind of love in all his life.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: One of the bartenders in the Crystarium admits he only puts up with Lue-Reeq because he's loaded, and it's mentioned that several of his "friends" in his childhood only cared about his money. When he "fires" the Warrior for letting Andreia get away a second time, the nicest response the Warrior can come up with is, "Uh... good luck with that.", while the other option is to tell him to piss off.
• Guest-Star Party Member: He fights alongside you during the Lakeland portion of The Heroes' Gauntlet.
• Hero-Worshipper:
  • His wet nurse Olvara regaled him with stories of a peerless bounty hunter who struck down mark after mark with her skill with a bow. It's these stories that inspired Lue-Reeq to become a bounty hunter and take up archery himself to imitate his childhood hero. These stories turn out to be Renda-Rae's hunts, but Olvara changed the names so Reeq wouldn't be persecuted for idolizing a Warrior of Light. Once he realizes this, he uses his knowledge of Renda-Rae's hunts to predict Andreia's appearances.
  • These stories also inspire him to turn Andreia's hearing against her by procuring arrows from the Crystalline Mean that act as incredibly loud firecrackers to disable her, allowing him and the Warrior to strike down her Sin Eater protectors so they can take the fight to her.
• Miles Gloriosus: He talks a big game about his skills as a bounty hunter, but he's paralyzed when he meets Andreia alone face-to-face and realizes that she's turned several of the fellow bounty hunters he once hired into Sin Eaters. He then falls on his rear and backs away in horror before Andreia simply turns around and vanishes to another place. He later admits as much to the Warrior, who is completely unsurprised. After the final fight with Andreia, he admits his limits and hangs up his bow to spend more time with Olvara. In the post-game for Shadowbringers, it's revealed that he's gone back to work to help provide for Olvara, assisting you in the Lakeland portion of the Heroes' Gauntlet.
• My God, What Have I Done?: He regrets "firing" the Warrior almost immediately after doing the deed, realizing that it was stupid, pointless, and nonsensical, especially after learning that Renda-Rae didn't kill Balam-Quitz by herself, but with the help of her fellow Warriors of Light.
• Named Weapon: Cry of the Wherewetrice, the bow he inherited from Olvara when he became a hunter.
• No Social Skills: Beneath his chipper exterior is someone who's painfully lonely and it shows in his social interactions. He barely stops to let others get a word in, is quick to jump to conclusions about others' intentions, and will reject someone just as quickly as he offers them friendship. The reasons for this become clear after you meet his neglectful parents, who couldn't be arsed to show him the barest amount of affection. His old wet nurse Olvara also explains that many of his childhood "friends" were only drawn to his wealth and quickly abandoned him when his parents withheld his allowance. The way he quickly "befriends" the Warrior before rejecting them after their Echo visions cost them two chances to hunt Andreia demonstrate how he's both desperate for companionship but also terrified of being used again.
• Parental Neglect: His parents were always able to lavish him with wealth and opportunity, but never gave him much in the way of attention or love. By the time of the questline, they've essentially grown bored of him; the elder Lue is more annoyed than anything at seeing his own son.
• Parental Substitute: The Hume Olvara, a former bounty hunter and Reeq's wet nurse, was more of a parent to Reeq than either of his biological parents. Even when he outgrew her services and she was forced to leave Eulmore for Gatetown, she still loves and cares for her "Little Reeq".
• Poor Communication Kills: After the Warrior of Light gets their second Echo vision of Renda-Rae's past, Lue-Reeq assumes that they're doing it on purpose to let Andreia get away and angrily "fires" them. Only later does he learn that the Warrior can't control their Echo visions, after which he soon apologizes for his behavior.
• Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: While he tries to get by in his own merits, it becomes increasingly clear that he's been heavily reliant on the money his parents give him. He doesn't think to ask anyone beyond the Crystarium about Andreia's whereabouts after he angrily refuses his father's money in an emotional outburst.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: He's a free citizen of Eulmore, but became a bounty hunter when he got bored of the lifestyle. Following the questline, he intends to continue to help and defend Olvara and the other residents of Gatetown.
• Stepford Smiler: He acts cheerful and energetic most of the time, but his loneliness and struggle for any kind of validation from his parents show that this is largely a mask he puts on while acting the part of a bounty hunter. He only finds true happiness at the end of his questline, where he stops trying to get his parents' attention and instead devotes himself to protecting the one person who truly loves him.
• The Straight and Arrow Path: He's an archer by trade, toting around an expensive-looking Diamond Bow as his weapon.
• Too Dumb to Live: After arguing with the Warrior of Light, he attempts to fight Andreia. Alone. Thankfully, he survives.
• Uncle Pennybags: Gil is no object for Lue-Reeq. He promises ample compensation for helping him hunt Andreia, pays to have others supply him with bait for beast hunting, then treats you to a lavish feast for proving your worth to him, that is until he stops taking money from his parents, determined to finish the hunt on his own merits. Later on, he offers to buy drinks for himself, Granson, Cerigg, Giott, and the Warrior above Taynor's warnings. Lue-Reeq is astonished to find that Giott drank away a week's worth of earnings in a single meal.
• Upper-Class Twit: Is a bounty hunter, but he isn't very good at it, mainly relying on his wealth to get information while not doing any of the tracking or dirty work himself. He gets better by the time he faces Andreia.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: It's implied that one of the reasons Lue-Reeq is so insistent on hunting a Sin Eater as dangerous as Andreia is to get any attention from his neglectful parents, who are too busy drowning themselves in the pleasures of Eulmore to even look him in the eye.