DUTY COMMENCED - Episode 10 Lore Lowdown (Gerolt & Rowena)

[Frederick22]

Awesome, thanks for writing this up for us, Moose! So nice to finally learn more about Rowana and Gerolt... I'm surprised she hasn't learned the truth yet, about that borrowed money. But maybe someday.... at the end of the Anima questline? I can hope!

(Hey, I'm a sucker for romantic happy endings, what can I say.... still holding out hope for Carvallain and Rhoswen! After all, Lisette and Hortefense are finally engaged!)

There is a reason why she is using us to help Gerolt. Maybe she knows, maybe not.

[Nalien]

The Zodiac Weapon was at last complete. Or so they thought. Curious to know more about the Trials of the Braves, Gerolt struck a deal with Rowena to acquire a full set, including the final tome of the series, the "Book of Netherdark." It was there that he discovered the original Zodiac Weapons possessed a sentience shaped by the bearer's soul—a sentience the recreation appeared to be lacking.

Utilizing Gerolt's criminal connections, the adventurer contacted a black market trader named Remon, who supplied them with the means to awaken the Zodiac Weapon—mahatma. A new potent catalyst in hand, the adventurer set off once more. Their soul resonance with the weapon grew stronger with every encounter. Then, with a final potion from Jalzahn and Gerolt's fiery forge, it was done. The Zodiac Weapon Zeta had awoken.

And then we melted it down, because FATE grinding sucks and we needed to make a new weapon to awaken, despite having just done that... Gerolt apparently drunk so heavily after the Zodiac Weapon Zeta quest, that he forgot the entire affair when we run into him again in Idylshire...

Yes, I'm mad about the Anima weapon quest...

CERULEUM CAN'T MELT DARKSTEEL BEAMS

THE SULTANATE IS SECRETLY AN AU RA!

Hope no one gets on Rowena's case about branding her "slaves", last I checked we do the exact same thing with our Retainers. We even force them to act in certain ways, if the tsundere Au Ra dialog is anything to go off...

[Whiteroom]

Could it not be argued that Rowena is already more powerful than the Syndicate? She already has arguably the most influence on adventurers of anyone in Eorzea. If whatever she had her minions get us for a relic step, or tome gear, we would gladly do. She could influence any city state by having us either ignore it by sending us elsewhere, or actively attacking it. And the grand companies do have a large number of adventurers in their ranks...

I still don't trust her at all, though your info has shed a lot of light that I did not know.

Also about the only having women thing, I, and I'm sure you(Moose) have noticed the Roe near her shop in the Shire muttering about having borrowed money from her, could this be a turn in that habit? I am working under the theory that he will play a part in one of our relic quests. He could just be building her new shop, to get her out of that tent though...

A note on the above, I really do want to start a thread about picking NPC's like that and guessing what, if any part they will play in future patches... Should get on that, just getting screenshots from PS4 is a pain.

[ruskie]

Should get on that, just getting screenshots from PS4 is a pain.

Plug in usb, copy screenshots, sort on PC...

[myahele]

She has never implicated having bad intentions at all. Still, she probably has a large collection of tomestones ... and isn't that what the GCs in Seize are fighting over?

Since they were married at one point, I always had a theory that Gerlot's Soldiery gear (that he made at his peak) was based on a Tomestone either he/Rowena discovered and whose knowledge they create. hence, why Chimerical gear is sold in Asyz lla.

That Early success probably started her trend at collecting tomestones

[Whiteroom]

She has never implicated having bad intentions at all. Still, she probably has a large collection of tomestones ... and isn't that what the GCs in Seize are fighting over?

Since they were married at one point, I always had a theory that Gerlot's Soldiery gear (that he made at his peak) was based on a Tomestone either he/Rowena discovered and whose knowledge they create. hence, why Chimerical gear is sold in Asyz lla.

That Early success probably started her trend at collecting tomestones

I would say that the way she essentially sets herself up to own the people in her employ suggests a lot about her. The same with the demands of stuff we need to obtain for her, which her own people have let slip more than once are not that valuable. I just don't think we will know her plot until it is too late, she is a good schemer.

[Morningstar1337]

She has never implicated having bad intentions at all. Still, she probably has a large collection of tomestones ... and isn't that what the GCs in Seize are fighting over?

She is an enigmatic and pragmatic figure. We don't know what her motives are besides profit and maybe Gerolt's and her marriage, but much of her plans and who she operates the way she does, (not to mention what her and her clients plan to do with the knowledge in the tomestones) are shrouded in mystery

[myahele]

When I think of it, the gear we get for the tomes really aren't that expensive compared to selling the tomestones themselves.

The Dark light were replicas, soldiery gear were wornout/ old gear gerlots (easy to obtain as his ex wife), law is just domain armor .... And there's plenty of unemployed crafter's from Domain willing to work for less.

Though I guess that's what makes her such a good merchant