About that smirk...(spoilers)

[Kaiser-Ace]

I might also add that the chimerical gear that she gets for Y'shtola is, according to the NPC that gave it to you, "impossible to come buy unless you have big balls or deep pockets, and that friend of yours didn't look like she had either". Were it just to upgrade Y'shtola for aesthetic purposes, I wouldn't really pay attention to it. But having another NPC point out the impossibility of it sends off a red flag for me, especially considering that the area that you would have to farm chimerical hides from, if I'm not mistaken, is Azys Lla, far before you can reach it. How, exactly, did Tataru come by said gear without our help?

Who said she didn't have help? She could have talked her lover boy Wedge into tracking down a few rouge chimeras (And there are a few poking around since they were over world enemies in 1.0 Mor Dohna) then get him to blast it with a weapons grade Magitech Cannon. Pretty sure as head over heels as Wedge is for Tataru he'd be willing to do just about anything just cause she asked.

And being love stricken combined with commandeering a Garlond Ironworks Magitek Armor would probably give him the reckless disregard for his own safety to go Chimera Hunting as well as the firepower to come back alive and pelts in hand afterwards.

[JeniLinsky]

Who said she didn't have help?

The girl hangs out with the WoL... and in my time wearing that hat, I've killed at least two Chimera... one in Cutter's Cry, and one in the Relic Reborn questline. We know Tataru has DoL classes; she may have gone out and skinned the carcasses after I was done, thinking that she'd surely find some use for the skin!