Where to get every Esper

Chapters are when the videos say each Esper becomes available. Moves and effects are on the battle systems page.

Spoiler clip · Titan in the Grandshelt desert, and 'You can now summon Titan!' · reveal

Checked on screen · Oct 25, 2026

4:40–4:51 · 11 sTitan in the Grandshelt desert, and 'You can now summon Titan!'

Verified (first-hand, our play-test, full game on PC via Steam, Normal difficulty, October 31, 2026). Some townsfolk gossip about espers. Talking to one shows 'The location of an esper's dwelling has been added to the map!', followed by a tip card called 'Rumors of Espers'. The card says the mark shows the general area, not the exact spot, and that an esper you find may lend you its strength. Our example so far is the Male Researcher in Zoldaad's Imperial Hotel, marked with a '!' speech bubble instead of the usual '...'. He talks about roars from the volcano to the east, guesses a new lifeform or an esper, and says an airship can get in. He doesn't name the esper.

The Drofox Gazette Vol. 4, on the notice board in Zoldaad's station square, also fits the Titan route below, without naming him: one article lists the Gaia Hammer among the Colosseum's prizes, and another describes an enormous sealing stone in the desert north-east of Grandport. Touching it shakes the land, the locals call that Gaia's Wrath, a survey found an energy source sealed inside, and the stone can't be broken by normal means. We haven't taken a hammer to it ourselves.

Siren comes with the story. Gamer Guru's caption calls her a main-story event that can't be missed, 100% Guides' says you get her automatically in the Chapter 1 story, and Gamer Guru's banner puts it at Siren's Tower; the card that follows says 'Fina has learned how to summon espers!' The Chapter 1 walkthrough covers that fight.

Ramuh waits on Mt. Thunderclap in the Dirnado region in Chapter 2. In Gamer Guru's video a robed figure still labelled '???' tells the party it is an esper before the battle, and 100% Guides' caption says you get him by defeating him there.

Spoiler clip · Siren comes with the story; Ramuh waits on Mt. Thunderclap · reveal

Checked on screen · Oct 25, 2026

0:02–0:48 · 46 sSiren comes with the story; Ramuh waits on Mt. Thunderclap

Both videos give the same order in Chapter 3, in the Olderion Federation: use the stone tablet in Ruby Cave, gather three Ruby Fragments out in the field (Gamer Guru's video shows 'Ruby Fragment #2'), then come back and use the tablet again.

1. Use the stone tablet inside Ruby Cave.
2. Collect all three Ruby Fragments in the field.
   Spoiler clip · Picking up the second Ruby Fragment, with a hint for the third · reveal

   Checked on screen · Oct 24, 2026

   kingy.wiki4:06–4:15 · 9 sPicking up the second Ruby Fragment, with a hint for the third

   4:06–4:15Spoiler clip
3. Return to Ruby Cave and use the tablet again.

Both videos' captions name Fledgling Battle 5 at the Colosseum, which opens during Chapter 4, as the way to get the Gaia Hammer. Take the hammer to the rock in the Grandshelt desert, break it, and defeat Titan; in 100% Guides' video the notice 'You can now summon Titan!' follows.

1. Win Fledgling Battle 5 at the Colosseum for the Gaia Hammer.
2. Break the rock in the Grandshelt desert with it.
3. Defeat Titan.

Ifrit is inside the volcano in the Zoldaad Empire. Both videos say to fly into it, which Gamer Guru's caption notes needs the airship, and then defeat him.

Shiva is on a small island near Mysidia; Gamer Guru's caption says to fly to the one to the south-west. Defeat her there.

Both videos say Leviathan is the reward for finishing the side quest 'Nichol's Duty' in Olderion in Chapter 5, and both show the notice 'You can now summon Leviathan!' after it. In 100% Guides' video an Enchanted Ring is handed over just before.

Verified (first-hand, our play-test, full game on PC via Steam, Normal difficulty, October 26, 2026). Separate from the side quest: we fought the story Leviathan at Lake Dorr in Chapter 3 (see the Chapter 3 walkthrough). Its result gave 4,500 EXP, 2,400 gil, 60 MRP and a Magicite Shard. We have not reached 'Nichol's Duty', so the unlock described above is still from the videos.

Odin is the reward for the side quest 'Iron Splitter' in Gronoa, the Shuttered Land, in Chapter 6. In Backseat Guides' video the quest's objectives are to search for the broken sword on the western precipice of Gronoa and then return it to its owner at the Nameless Ruins; their caption says to find both broken sword hilts. Gamer Guru's caption adds that the quest opens after you clear the miasma in the story, and 100% Guides' caption places it at Bladerain Stele.

1. After clearing the miasma in the Chapter 6 story, take the side quest Iron Splitter.
2. Find the broken sword on the western precipice of Gronoa.
   Spoiler clip · Iron Splitter's first objective and the Bladerain Stele · reveal

   Checked on screen · Oct 24, 2026

   6:39–6:55 · 16 sIron Splitter's first objective and the Bladerain Stele

   6:39–6:55Spoiler clip
3. Return it to its owner at the Nameless Ruins (the next objective shown).

Bahamut comes last. Both videos say that once you have the other eight Espers and have reached Chapter 7, you talk to Evan on the airship and then defeat Bahamut; in Gamer Guru's video a large dragon looms behind the party in a scene on the airship deck, and a fight there follows.

Seven of the nine Espers are fought to unlock them; Carbuncle is freed from the Ruby Cave tablet without a battle, and in the videos checked Leviathan's unlock follows 'Nichol's Duty' with no fight (Leviathan is a separate story fight earlier, in Chapter 3 at Lake Dorr, which reads Lv.23). Levels on the target flags: Siren Lv.11, Ramuh Lv.20, Ifrit Lv.33 and Shiva Lv.35. Titan, Odin and Bahamut showed no flag in the frames checked.

Ifrit's Libra card in CGInferno's Chapter 5 video reads Beast, 96,000 HP, with a Weak-style badge on the blue wave-swirl icon and a null-style badge on the red flame icon. Its traits: 'Uses a powerful skill when stagger gauge is rapidly reduced.', 'Becomes enraged when repeatedly hit with attacks.' and 'Calms when splashed with water.' Shiva's side panel in Gamer Guru's video shows the Weak-style badge, labelled Weak there, on the red flame icon instead.

Settled Battle Results (EXP / gil / MRP, item): Siren 700 / 2,100 / 30, Magicite Shard; Ramuh 2,700 / 1,570 / 65, Magicite Shard; Titan 7,200 / 6,070 / 75, Magicite; Ifrit 10,800 / 8,070 / 172, Magicite (CGInferno's settled at 8,000 gil); Shiva 15,000 / 10,070 / 172, Magicite; Odin's rider in 'Iron Splitter' 22,000 / 16,570 / 219, Magicite Cryst; Bahamut 50,000 / 18,750 / 168, Magicite Cryst. Each win is followed by 'You can now summon …!' for that Esper, except Siren, where Gamer Guru shows a summoning tutorial instead. Some totals include a No Damage or Stagger Finish bonus shown on the result screen; Gamer Guru's and CGInferno's Ifrit gil differ (8,070 vs 8,000) and the reason isn't shown.