Palace of the Dead "NPC Easter Egg" [SPOILERS]

WARNING: This discussion Dead NPCs you will meet in Palace of the Dead.

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Now back on topic:
The Palace of the Dead have some hidden encounters consisting of NPCs who have all died from certain Story Quests.

So have you found and recongnize any NPCs while moving through Palace of the Dead who died?

Someone found Foulques from the Lancer Story Quest as he was named Duskwight Lancer.

I manage to find Leavold from the Gladiator Story Quest named to be a Sword Crazy Swordman.

The Encounters are random but it is a nice little hidden gem for those who remember the NPCs before their death.

My friend and I found a Stick Twirling Conjurer (may have the name wrong)--a lalafell conjurer but I could not for the life of me remember what quest they were from. Poor NPC just wanted to rest in the afterlife! I thought they were like other adventurers who got lost but I suppose if you're seeing Foulques...

I encountered a Lalafell mage, but I don't recall who it is... (Staff-spinning Adventurer).

Okay I really got the name entirely wrong if it's Staff Spinning Adventurer...

When did Foulques die?

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Originally Posted by Cakekizyy

When did Foulques die?

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At the end of the Lancer Storyline he fell to his death after he entered a state of fear when he lost to the WoL. In his state of fear he did not pay attention to surroundings as he moved back swinging his lance like a madman until it was too late and he slipped falling into the chasm behind him with his last expression being in a constant state of fear that he was about to die.

I didn't think much of it but on one of the floors my group ran into a female miqo'te with short pink hair. I don't recall what she was called in-game but I think she had a lance. Her death quote was something to the effect of "Oh Dolorous..." Did some research and found that she's from the early Sastasha NM through Copperbell NM quests. Her name is E'manafa.

My group found this guy,

http://i.imgur.com/ePqNbna.jpg

idk who he is though lol

I encountered a Roegadyn Serpent Reaver during my time down there with 3 of my FC buddies.
He looked something like this...
http://i.imgur.com/XBhpuj6.png
I'm starting to think maybe some little details were a bit different before we killed him. His name was 'Frenzied-Something'. I can't remember.
As he fell to the floor, he also said something along the lines of "Ye hear that, lads? The sea is callin' me name!". I'm not sure if that's exactly what he said. But I got really sad when he did.

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Originally Posted by Iromi

My group found this guy,

http://i.imgur.com/ePqNbna.jpg

idk who he is though lol

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I think he's meant to be this happy fellow from the early ARR Gridanian storyline (he was an Ishgardian who stole a chocobo egg from the Bentbranch chocobo stables, which a moogle retrieved from him only to be cornered by Janremi and his thugs... resulting in the player naturally stepping in to save the moogle and the egg, and killing the lot of them. But he only appeared during the Gridanian storyline so for players who started in Ul'dah or Limsa he would draw a blank.

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Originally Posted by Melixy

I didn't think much of it but on one of the floors my group ran into a female miqo'te with short pink hair. I don't recall what she was called in-game but I think she had a lance. Her death quote was something to the effect of "Oh Dolorous..." Did some research and found that she's from the early Sastasha NM through Copperbell NM quests. Her name is E'manafa.

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Interesting, as Dolorous's party was wiped out in Copperbell mines by giants, and have been "thorough in their work" as Alianne was calling it.
But apparently anything can happen in there, as people seem to pop up again after falling into miles-deep chasms and pits.

Oh, then maybe the Staff-spinning Adventurer is Kikina? the third member of Dolorous' party.

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Originally Posted by Arrius

Interesting, as Dolorous's party was wiped out in Copperbell mines by giants, and have been "thorough in their work" as Alianne was calling it.
But apparently anything can happen in there, as people seem to pop up again after falling into miles-deep chasms and pits.

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Or it's the work of that Mage the Boss of Floor 50 spoke off. You know, if one can built a Monster out of a Head... then one sure can steal corpses, throw them in Deep Dungeon and revive them in some sort of Zombie State.

... Mage ... ... Ascian -_- ...

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Ya I remember that guy back in Limsa starting storyline that he died by the hands of the WoL at the end of Limsa Starting Main Scenario for WoL who started in Limsa.

Only those who played through Limsa Starting City will be able to recongize him.

that guy was kidnapping people to be tempered by Levi and was attempting to abduct everyone in Swiftperch until the WoL and a squad of Yellow Jackets killed him and forced his remaining followers to retreat.

Think it would be interesting to see NPCs of other players who died inside (regardless of revive)

Dead people, huh... I wonder if we'll eventually see people who died in the MSQ.

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Originally Posted by Nerisu

Dead people, huh... I wonder if we'll eventually see people who died in the MSQ.

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*Think think think*
....omg, please no !!!! >.<

ohhh, now I get it. The true reason Yoshi P. said he thinks most players won't make it to floor 200 later on won't be the difficulty
But because we'll have to fight Brave Fortemps Knight and Icy Heretics Leader as floor 100 bosses....

Do it SE! I double dog dare ya!

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Originally Posted by swiss_Momo

ohhh, now I get it. The true reason Yoshi P. said he thinks most players won't make it to floor 200 later on won't be the difficulty
But because we'll have to fight Brave Fortemps Knight and Icy Heretics Leader as floor 100 bosses....

Do it SE! I double dog dare ya!

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Yeah, um. I MIGHT be able to bring myself to fight the latter. MAYBE. It would be tough.

But if I encountered the former I'd have to just /sit and wait for him to finish me. I'd be crying too hard to play anyway.

Just gonna copy and paste this post I made on another thread, but I saw Dolorous Bear and Kikina! Someone else said they saw E'manafa!

So while running floors 11-20 of Palace of the Dead for the first time, we ran across a “staff-spinning adventurer” enemy. It was a lalafellin conjurer. We felt kinda bad killing her because a speech bubble saying something like “Where am I?” appeared over her body.

The second time we ran those same floors, we found a sword-wielding adventurer. I had a closer look at him this time.

http://67.media.tumblr.com/a4067afd4...qd2yez_500.jpg

Bad screenshot timing, but his face looked familiar… oh no… It was Dolorous Bear!!! Upon death he said something like “We said we were gonna make a name for ourselves…”

http://66.media.tumblr.com/de3168280...qd2yez_500.jpg

If anyone remembers, we encountered the NPC Dolorous Bear and his two companions, E’manafa and Kikina, after clearing Sastasha for the first time. Then you could talk to them outside Tamtara. Finally, you learn from Alianne that they perished in Copperbell mines.

Floors 11-20 of Palace of the Dead somewhat resemble areas of Copperbell Mines… That first conjurer we killed was definitely Kikina… Someone else said they saw E'manafa, and she said something like "Dolorous, I never got to..."

This reddit post seems to have people encountering other familiar faces as well...

God....what if we see the scions who Livia murdered in here??!

Possibly, though Liavinne might not show up (uncertain if she is still undead).

Met a Roushspun Ruffian somewhere in floors 21-30. Didn't even have time to note his class or race as somebody was using a pomander of rage and instakilling everything, but he seemed Hyur (Don't know if Highlander of Midlander), wore a purple hooded robe, and said something like "I am undying...? Was it the elixir...?" when killed. Anyone have any idea who it could be?

Encountered an Immortal Flame that I'd assume is one of the traitors from the Ifrit story, tempered and executed afterwards.

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Met a Roushspun Ruffian somewhere in floors 21-30. Didn't even have time to note his class or race as somebody was using a pomander of rage and instakilling everything, but he seemed Hyur (Don't know if Highlander of Midlander), wore a purple hooded robe, and said something like "I am undying...? Was it the elixir...?" when killed. Anyone have any idea who it could be?

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Maybe Leovald from the Gladiator story? Though I don't think his purple robe had a hood.

Actually i think it might be the leader of the thieves that were ransoming Nanamo's crown at the beginning of the Ul'Dah main story. When you meet your first ascian

A friend of mine ran into the Immortal Flame down on floor 34, here's a good shot of him:

http://i.imgur.com/mEjxk8Q.jpg

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Originally Posted by Kirostyle

If anyone remembers, we encountered the NPC Dolorous Bear and his two companions, E’manafa and Kikina, after clearing Sastasha for the first time. Then you could talk to them outside Tamtara. Finally, you learn from Alianne that they perished in Copperbell mines.

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My group, last night, encountered a female Miqo'te enemy, with an eye patch. I guess it could have been E'manafa.

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Maybe Leovald from the Gladiator story? Though I don't think his purple robe had a hood.

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No, leovald is a gld class. The roughspun ruffian that mentions the elixer is a Marauder. Though people have reported roughspun ruffian carrying an Arcanist robe. So he may be someone from a crafting storyline. Maybe alchemist storyline?

the immortal flame is the traitor from the ifrit arc

If the Immortal Flame fellow is the kid pictured above, he's actually one of the tempered victims sentenced to death, not a traitor.

The traitor was tempered too.

He was, but the traitor was a highlander.

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Originally Posted by TankHunter678

No, leovald is a gld class. The roughspun ruffian that mentions the elixer is a Marauder. Though people have reported roughspun ruffian carrying an Arcanist robe. So he may be someone from a crafting storyline. Maybe alchemist storyline?

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I remember him now!

He is from the Ul'dah starting city Storyline as the Main Antagonist. Garibald Fargone was his name and he was killed in the end of the Ul'dah Starter Story when fighting with Papashan who had temporarily gotten out of retirement as a Paladin to help the WoL and save Owyne who was a young Paladin recuit from being killed by Garibald Fargone and his fellow syndicate members.

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Found E'manafa in 11-20 of PoTD earlier in the night. This whole dungeon gives me the feels something awful.

So, does this suggest, that every creature inside the palace(besides us) is dead? We are basically killing unrestfull 'souls', Edda being the most obvious one. No surprise there, considering the palace's name. Also makes sort of sense how we need weapons and armor made of aether to protect ourselves then. Did I somehow fail to get the point while reading NPC dialogues, or did nobody explain the palace's nature at all?

I kind of feel bad for facerolling through every floor now, without really paying attention or giving it any thought.

This is such a great find and fun feature! I've stumbled across some Humanoid characters, but didn't pay attention to recognize them. Now I know and knowing is half the battle!

Maybe someone should start a list and put together who is who just for reference. I for the life me won't remember most of these people as they are kind of generic looking to tell me who they were in story mode. Maybe they should've at least kept their names.

I wonder if we will find Moenbryda, Wilfred, Teledji, Haurchefant, Ysayle, Gaius, Fray, Louisoix, Guillaume, Raubahn's disembodied arm, etc. in here. Maybe they should do a whole floor of dead NPCs.

Moenbryda, Haurchefant and Ysayle will probably not appear, since they had closure and said their farewells.

Louisoix is the Primal; Phoenix.

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Originally Posted by Xelanar

So, does this suggest, that every creature inside the palace(besides us) is dead? We are basically killing unrestfull 'souls', Edda being the most obvious one. No surprise there, considering the palace's name. Also makes sort of sense how we need weapons and armor made of aether to protect ourselves then. Did I somehow fail to get the point while reading NPC dialogues, or did nobody explain the palace's nature at all?

I kind of feel bad for facerolling through every floor now, without really paying attention or giving it any thought.

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No one explained it since we're part of the team trying to figure out what the place is.

I want to say I encountered something called a Ravenous Revanant or something in the floor 30ish area? Maybe it was 40-50... It was reddish and cave-like. I wasn't really thinking of it at the time and it died pretty fast and I don't remember any death message since my group was pretty much rushing through the area. =/ All I remember was it was hume/elezen height. Cloaked, and was quite different than most of the other mobs and it had 2 Rs at the beginning of the name... though it could have been R-something adventurer I suppose.