Ronan Kognan - the achievement question - 10 deaspected crystals

[ScoutX]

Besides the 30 crystals achievement "Rapsody in White" and a Peregrine helmet, has anyone given only 10 crystals for exchange or many times 10 crystals.
I would do it for myself but there are insane prices on deaspected crystals and i have just managed to get 30. I mined and logged for 5h straight on grade 5 and got not one single crystal. Could it be that all deaspected crystals are now dark matter?

If anyone gave it, did u get an achievement?

Purpose is to update my " Achievement Guide" on this forum.
Please help me out on this.

[RinZhu]

unsure if you've already found the answer or not, but it only takes 1 Despected crystal for any other the other trades.
Did a single crystal=10shards trade few mins ago, so wont know about if it gives a achievement or not for awhile.

He said this tho:
Ronan Kognan: Muaha! Many, many thanks, adventurer, muahaha! Yeees, you have brought me a rare thing indeed. Muahahaha!
Ronan Kognan: The Ashcrown Consortium has dealings with many peoples and tribes─beastmen among them. Yeees, we trade crystals with even the Amalj'aa and Ixal. That is how we came to learn that they, too, are attempting to solve the mystery of this deaspecting phenomenon.
Ronan Kognan: They claim this Ifrit of theirs─the flame deity conjured by their vile rituals─consumes crystals. I thought perhaps the dead ones were all that remained after the foul god's feasting─crumbs after a meal. But they told me I was wrong in this.

[Catapult]

I've received 5 different responses, including the one RinZhu wrote above:

- Yees! More! Mooore! Muahahaha! Hm? What will I do with them after my staudies are complete, you ask?
Why, I shall restore their lost power, of course! Yeees, certain corners of this realm are awash with aether. You need only bury a deaspected crystal there, and what once was dead will soon be alive again! Alive, do you hear!? Aliiive! Muahahaha!
Yet Many will never know such joyous rebirth. My studies take their toll on the crystals, you see. It's all the probing. Often, I am left with mere fragments. Even the tiniest of these seem to interest the moogles, though. Might you know why? They're rather odd, if you ask me.

- Many thanks, adventurer. Yeees, many thanks indeed. These will prove invaluable to my studies. Invaluable! Muahahaha! Tore them from the corpse of a foul beast, did you?
Many of the crystals I collect are formed faaar below the earth, where aether flows in abundance. Yeees, but aether flows through living things, as well.
And so it is with us, muahahaha! Even now, as we speak, that strapping adventurer's body of yours is coursing with the stuff! Yeees, you too have an aspect! Perhaps there is even a colorless, deaspected Lalafell running about somewhere in Eorzea...

- No doubt about it, the aspects of these crystals have been utterly obliterated. Muahahaha!
I've seen blindingly brilliant crystals, darkened dead crystals, and crystals with only a hint of their aspect still glimmering within. That is how I know these deadened crystals were not always so, but once shone as magnificently as any. But why has their light gone out? Why?
Ohhh, if only the knowledge of Sharlayan had survived... No doubt the insight of their scholars could have illuminated us as to the cause of this darkness.

- *lost the first line here*
Most curious... It seems the crystals share some bond with the moon. Yeees, the lunar phases seem to influence the flavor-err, the rate at which the crystals lose their aspect.
I could be wrong, but I have a feeling the greatest loss of flav-errr, power occurs on cloudless evenings when the moon is clearly visible. Ahhh, but I must know the truth... Bring me more.