NPC Lost and Found: Who survived the Calamity? (No/little Spoilers)

So I'm having a hard time matching NPCs from 1.0 to the ones in ARR. That could be my poor memory at work. I'm pretty curious about who is still around in ARR, especially those who were central in older storylines pre-Dalamud, like class questlines.

Who have we found? Who can we confirm died?

Please do not use this thread to discuss revelations brought to us by the new main story. Even with spoiler tags, it is a little awkward. Stuff in trailers is fair game. As is whatever happened in 1.0, of course.

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Originally Posted by Riposte

So I'm having a hard time matching NPCs from 1.0 to the ones in ARR. That could be my poor memory at work. I'm pretty curious about who is still around in ARR, especially those who were central in older storylines pre-Dalamud, like class questlines.

Who have we found? Who can we confirm died?

Please do not use this thread to discuss revelations brought to us by the new main story. Even with spoiler tags, it is a little awkward. Stuff in trailers is fair game. As is whatever happened in 1.0, of course.

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Ul'dah wise the only definitive name I know that is dead is Eolande, who was a member of the Syndicate and owner of Frondale's Phrontistery. I didn't get that far so maybe it's explained how, but only thing I read was she died during the Calamity.

I don't know how to tell you who from 1.X is still alive in ARR while not discussing knowledge sourced from ARR. I ... I could start a list, I guess? But... then, but I don't... how do I... is that...

[/sits down and weeps]

That said, I'm not really sure what's what yet. I was waiting until the database sites had the full NPC list for launch before I compared it to their old data.

Where's Gogorono? (sniffle~)

Soliene (sp?), from the Conjurer's guild is no longer there. No mention that I recall if she survived or not..assuming she didn't.

Unless there is a definite lore-drop, it would be wrong to assume someone has died just because they're missing. But we CAN look at who has survived and how they have changed.

For example, Nicolaux is now the "big kid" at the Oak Atrium.

E-Sumi-Yan has also become a resident guildmaster of Stillglade Fane rather than roaming the wood as a senior hearer.

Frediswitha is still at the Drybone Aetheryte!

Most if not all older somewhat important npc's got relocated to other places. Like the lalafell blacksmith guildmaster is now found at one of the Aetheryte hubs. The one where they build ships. I do hope I get to see him again with his three women in the class quests related to BSM :(. And I've seen many other npc's at other locations.

Mithra dancers in the miners guild are now in the middle of uldah.

The Azeyma preacher from Gridania is also in Drybone. Not sure how he got there though.

It seems to me that more people are dying now than in the attack from the Bahamut Especially in Thanalan. Between the refugee crisis, kidnappings and tempering by Ifrit, and constant attacks from the Amal'jaa, Ul'dah is looking to be a weaker city-state than all the rest. Limsa looks idyllic in comparison.

Cicely is at the BTN Guild, as is Keelty at the ARC guild. Both had main roles in their respective 1.0 class questline.

Oh, Noes. That guy was a performer in 1.0. He's still by Apkallu Falls in New Gridania.

He's all sad now.

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Originally Posted by Jacien

...as is Keelty at the ARC guild.

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I must have missed her. I'm going to have to take another look. Thanks for pointing that out.

Oh cool. Keelty was one of the NPCs I was looking for.

It seems the flashback cutscenes covering the events we also see in the "A New Beginning" trailer shows some known names and their fates.

Fredswitha (spelling) is in Drybone now.

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Found 'Marques' in one of the quests.... though he wasn't really endangered since we saw the Crystal's Call trailer.

Look at his face and you'll understand :3

No sign of O-App Pesi :|

Pimelle, the owner of Bric-a-Brac (which has also been replaced) is missing. Just think of the hours we spent selling items to her! I hope she's still alive and well somewhere. :(

A NPC states that there were no survivors from Camp Tranquil.

EDIT: Also, I couldn't find Keetly. Does she appear during quests?

Yet Camp Tranquil has been retained (even looks vaguely like it did originally, only now it's kinda suspended up in the air on tree stumps and surrounded by swamp land.)

And speaking of Gridania NPCs, Bowlord Lewin is still around but he isn't the Guildmaster for the ARC Guild anymore - instead

he has his own swank office in the back of the Guild complete with cool BGM.

I haven't found Swethyna, the leader of the Wood Wailers from 1.0 yet though, I wonder if she was killed in the Calamity?

Also Tierney, the guildleve counter assistant at Gridania's Adventurer's Guild is now based out at Bentbranch as the camp's 'levemate' fittingly, although she seems to have aged a bit and her hair has turned grey (she had darker hair in 1.0 from what I remember).

Sadly the miqo'te proprietor of the Roost Inn at Gridania in 1.0, V'korolon, has been replaced by an male elezen too. I wonder what happened to her too. ; ;

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

And speaking of Gridania NPCs, Bowlord Lewin is still around but he isn't the Guildmaster for the ARC Guild anymore - instead

he has his own swank office in the back of the Guild complete with cool BGM.

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Not quite correct. Lewin was always Bowlord of the God's Quiver. The difference in ARR is that they are now differentiating this organization (and the wood wailers) from the educational/dojo arm of the guild.

The guy by the water falls in Gridania that talked about getting married is still alive...but no he talks about how he lost his family in the fall of Dalamud.

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Originally Posted by Vilhem

No sign of O-App Pesi :|

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I KNOW! I was kind of looking for him! He seemed like he'd be less creepy than E-Sumi.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

I haven't found Swethyna, the leader of the Wood Wailers from 1.0 yet though, I wonder if she was killed in the Calamity?

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oh man i could swear I saw Swethyna somewhere...I want to say she was part of a quest or something and it was an option to speak to her in an instance but I'm not 100% sure...I'll investigate that whenever I get the opportunity.

Two guildmasters that I remember being alive still are Fufucha of Greatloam Growery, now in cool botanist "af" gear, and Yayake of the Ossuary, who has aged a bit (her hair's gray now!) and isn't the main class quest npc anymore, but is still around.

Some random NPC that I didn't see was Totonawa, who was the leve guy at the Quicksand in Ul'dah. There is an NPC at Camp Horizon with the name Totonowa, though...not sure if they mistranslated it and he got moved, or it's a completely different lalafell. Either way, he still gives out leves. I know there was another more important npc that went MIA but now I can't remember who it was...I'll edit this post if I remember...but yeah, i'm also on the "what happened to brother o-app?!" train.

also this is a little relevant to the topic so i'll post it here too--a lot of the GC officers that were named...don't have names anymore? For example, I don't think they mentioned Serpent Lieutenant Fulke's name; he's just like "Serpent personnel officer" or something like that. A friend of mine in the Maelstrom also mentioned that Guincum's name was changed to "Storm personnel officer" in a cutscene...she was pretty upset about that. :P

Wawalago is still the guildmaster at Fisherman's Bottom (luckily I kept my star-spangled subligar in case he needs someone to dance for the fishes!).

Mimidoa isn't in Limsa, I found him in another camp (maybe Aleport I can't remember sorry).

EDIT: is J'moldva alive? There is a lalafell in the Gladiator's guild naming the Hellfire Phoenix but she is actually nowhere to be found :(

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Originally Posted by Khira

EDIT: is J'moldva alive? There is a lalafell in the Gladiator's guild naming the Hellfire Phoenix but she is actually nowhere to be found :(

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That name sounds really familiar...i think I might've seen J'moldva around, but I'm not sure...

Oh, and I remembered who else I was wondering about! Has anyone seen Popokkuli and/or Seserukka (the miner twins and part of the Ul'dah 1.0 storyline) around? I didn't get to run around Ul'dah as much as I'd have liked this past weekend but I wanted to look for them!

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Originally Posted by Fleurette

That name sounds really familiar...i think I might've seen J'moldva around, but I'm not sure...

Oh, and I remembered who else I was wondering about! Has anyone seen Popokkuli and/or Seserukka (the miner twins and part of the Ul'dah 1.0 storyline) around? I didn't get to run around Ul'dah as much as I'd have liked this past weekend but I wanted to look for them!

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I think we'll be seeing those NPCs sometime later in the game, after launch. I think Ferne mentioned awhile back that they may implement quests to wrap up the unanswered questions we had regarding these characters (Nielle, F'lhaminn, Greinfarr, Popokkuli and Seserukka).

Has anyone seen Nenekku? She's supposed to be helping preserve Sil'Dihn history. I imagine she's probably working with the Miner's guild, if not on the excavation project.

Did the guy who wrote love letters to oppo-oppos survive?

Mimidoa is in Moraby Drydocks. I guess he moved there to work on the new ship? As far as I can tell, the BSM/ARM guild only has the one Miqo'te guildmaster now. I believe he gives at least one sidequest, but that was during P3 test 1, so my memory is a little fuzzy as to the details.

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Originally Posted by REDace0

Mimidoa is in Moraby Drydocks. I guess he moved there to work on the new ship? As far as I can tell, the BSM/ARM guild only has the one Miqo'te guildmaster now. I believe he gives at least one sidequest, but that was during P3 test 1, so my memory is a little fuzzy as to the details.

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He tells you to go cheer up his apprentice... and appearently Limsa's new flagship needed all the best blacksmiths and armorers they could get, so I guess they sent him there to help out.

Then when you come back to him after the quest, he doesn't remember you and he gives the usual speech about remembering (insert name) and had teeth as white as pearls... and that you didn't have the right nose job.
...Why do I remember that?

Also that Azeyma worshiper in Gridania(he gives you a quest in 1.0 to find Azeyma's disciples across the three cities) has moved to Camp Drybone to 'consul' the refugees there. Swyltenhart or whatever... can't remember the exact spelling.

A lil note on Wawalago, it seems his manner of speech has changed? In ver 1 he said things like "A paradise for pullers, and by pullers I mean puller of nets, and by nets I mean ones chock-full of fresh fish from the frothing fathoms of our fair waters" or "they've done nothing but cause constant commotion, preventing my poor pullers from pulling that which it is their prerogative to pull."

It seems like now he does a much more basic template of rhyming the last word every sentence. I only remember reading a few lines from him so I may be wrong, but I was a bit disappointed in how it changed... I loved how he talked in ver.1! Also, Sisipu is still in the Fisherman's Guild as well. I get the vibe she's matured a bit and is taking charge of things in the guild now!

Maybe the Goldsmith quests say something about this, but since I didn't unlock GSM, all I have is the small talk from the GSM guildmaster: He's new, and replaced an old guildmaster due to some incident or scandal.

I believe he may be referring to Nielefresne's brother, who inherited Eshteime's Lapidaries after his death, and whom was also in love with Fl'hammin?

Was also sad not to see any mention of F'lhaminn or the Lala twins and their family at the Miner's Guild.

I thought the name Frediswitha sounded familiar! Was he the one with a bad memory in 1.0? I remember he was at Drybone, like he is now.

I was in the Immortal Flames in 1.0, and did some GC quests there involving a Captain Jakys Ryder. Sad to say, he died at Cartenau. May his soul rest in paradise and may Nald watch over him. Or was it Thal? I can never remember which one is which. One of them is in charge of the afterlife, right?

Kayokane, which quest was that? And what do you mean, are you saying he's a returning character? No wait a second...you're not saying that's Cid, are you? Speaking of which, Cid is missing, presumed dead (although, as you said, his appearance in the E3 trailer dispels my worry for him.)

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Originally Posted by RahfaelFavinco

I thought the name Frediswitha sounded familiar! Was he the one with a bad memory in 1.0? I remember he was at Drybone, like he is now.

I was in the Immortal Flames in 1.0, and did some GC quests there involving a Captain Jakys Ryder. Sad to say, he died at Cartenau. May his soul rest in paradise and may Nald watch over him. Or was it Thal? I can never remember which one is which. One of them is in charge of the afterlife, right?

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Fredswitha was a woman that worked for some rich collector. She would trade stuff from his collection in exchange for items you win from certain leves and the primals. She would give you Ifrit and Garuda weapons and some pre-AF armor for classes. In 1.0, she was located between Bric-a-Brac, and the PUG guild.

Now, she's hanging out by the Drybone Aetherite. Dunno if she's still working for the collector, I can't remember her dialog.

Speaking of Bric-a-brac, it's not there anymore, now it's a front for the WVR guild. I made so much money from that store, it's sad it's not there anymore. I thought of it as an Ul'dah landmark.

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Originally Posted by Lucke

Fredswitha was a woman that worked for some rich collector. She would trade stuff from his collection in exchange for items you win from certain leves and the primals. She would give you Ifrit and Garuda weapons and some pre-AF armor for classes. In 1.0, she was located between Bric-a-Brac, and the PUG guild.

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That was Rowena. Fredswitha has always been in Camp Drybone. She was the person you delivered crafting leves to.

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Originally Posted by Magnesium02

That was Rowena. Fredswitha has always been in Camp Drybone. She was the person you delivered crafting leves to.

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Oh that's right! Herpaderp...well, where's Rowena then?

You mean all this time I had Freddy's gender wrong...?

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Originally Posted by RahfaelFavinco

You mean all this time I had Freddy's gender wrong...?

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Yeah. That’s a Midlander Hyur female

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Originally Posted by Lucke

Oh that's right! Herpaderp...well, where's Rowena then?

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You mean the currency exchange NPC? (Assumption on my part, but I think it's a good one.)

If we assume Rowena is still serving the same master, she is probably missing for the same reason that higher level content is missing.