Chapter 1 side quests: Kol, Felicitas and Grandport

All four are Chapter 1 ('Tailing the Truth') quests in the game data. The first opens in the capital, the next two in Felicitas and Grandport around the Kolobos Ruins story, and the last only after you have Siren, so the natural order is the story's.

None of them is missable as far as any source says: PowerPyx counts no missable trophies and says the map stays open in free roam after the story.

Chapter 1 walkthrough: Earth Shrine to Siren's Tower

RPG Site says a Soldier in Grandshelt's town square offers it after the Grandshelt Inn story. Rain asks Scott, the engineer who helped found the airship squadron, to help rebuild the airships. Scott refuses, and the quest summary says his eyesight is failing from an illness that the Dew of Reprieve may slow.

The fight is a Poison Flora: RPG Site puts it north-east of Kol, and the game's objective says a monster in the east of the desert. MeowDB lists it at Lv.7 with 1,200 HP, weak to Fire and Wind, and using Poison attacks. In PanyapiN's demo video the target label reads 'Poison Flora Lv.7'; the party staggers it and finishes it with a Resonance (the menu offers Hibernal Fury and Healing Wind, and the hit is an ice burst). The win pays 100 EXP, 120 gil plus a 36 Overkill Bonus, 15 MRP plus a 5 Stagger Finish Bonus and a Potion, with Rain and Lasswell at Lv.8 and Fina at Lv.6 afterwards.

Kingy played it through in the full game (1.0.1.0) on October 24. The Soldier stands by the fountain in the capital's plaza with the equestrian statue, west of the Commercial District; he hands over a letter from Scott, and the quest log lists Flamberge and 500 gil from the start. Scott waits in front of a house on the west side of Kol. In the Earth Shrine the thing to find is the airship squadron's banner, which Rain and Scott designed: an Examine point in the first hall, just left of the save point (fast travel there from the dungeon tab of the Destination List). The Poison Flora stands on the small headland at the desert's north-east tip, beside the rope bridge back toward the capital. We beat it with the party at Lv.9 and Fina at Lv.6 for the same totals as the video, 100 EXP, 156 gil and 20 MRP with both bonuses, plus a Potion and then the Dew of Reprieve.

Spoiler clip · Finishing the Poison Flora with a Resonance · reveal

Checked on screen · Oct 24, 2026

1:22–1:40 · 18 sFinishing the Poison Flora with a Resonance

1. Talk to the Soldier by the fountain in the capital's statue plaza to start it.
2. Talk to Scott on the west side of the Village of Kol.
3. In the Earth Shrine's first hall, Examine the spot just left of the save point to find the squadron banner, then talk to Scott again.
4. Beat the Poison Flora on the headland at the desert's north-east tip for the Dew of Reprieve.
5. Take the Dew of Reprieve to Scott in Kol.

Flamberge and 500 gil; Game Rant calls the Flamberge Rain's weapon. PanyapiN's quest log shows both rewards against the final goal, 'Deliver the Dew of Reprieve to Scott in the village of Kol'.

Handing in the quest showed 'You obtained the following: Flamberge x1, 500'. In our play the Flamberge had Phys. Atk. 41 and Mag. Atk. 19 and read 'Increases HP by 140'; on Rain it beat the shop Longsword (32 and 15) and raised his maximum HP from 718 to 858.

Chloe, a scholar, stands at the counter of the item shop in the Town of Felicitas. She wants three Kolobos core samples; RPG Site puts the three blue objective points north-east, south-west and south-east of Felicitas. PanyapiN's full-game video tracks it as 'Collect Kolobos core samples (0/3)' while the main objective still reads 'Find a ship in Grandport', and fights ordinary field battles on the way.

The reward is a Magicite Shard and the Monk's Prayer Beads. Talk to Chloe again afterwards: the Legendary Arms page covers how she leads to the Ancient Bow.

We took it in the full game (1.0.1.0) on October 24, after the Kolobos Ruins. Chloe, investigating crystals for the king of Grandshelt, gives Rain a device; in her words, 'It'll react when you get to an area that we need a sediment sample from', and it then takes the sample by itself. The log lists Goal 'Collect Kolobos core samples (0/3)' and Rewards Magicite Shard x1 and Monk's Prayer Beads x1, and its map shows three markers on Felicitas's island: on the north-east coast east of town, just west of the Kolobos Ruins, and in the south-west. We collected all three. The device only reacted when Rain got off the chocobo and pressed Examine on the sparkle, though the third also showed the prompt from the saddle. The first is in the grass just south of the north-east beach, the second just north-west of the Kolobos Ruins entrance, by the trees under the crystal mountain, and the third on a rocky ledge above the bay on the island's south-western arm. The markers show on the quest log's map view (Sub Quests, then R), not on the M map. Back at the counter, Chloe found no trace of crystals below a sudden change in the sediment layers. She paid a Magicite Shard ('A shard imbued with the power of the Farplane') and the Monk's Prayer Beads, an accessory that prevents Charm.

All 12 Legendary Arms (Chloe and the Ancient Bow)

1. Take the quest from Chloe in the Felicitas item shop.
2. Collect the three core samples around Felicitas (north-east, south-west and south-east).
3. Bring them back to Chloe.

RPG Site says a Soldier in Grandport offers it after the Kolobos Ruins story; the game data files it as Lasswell's quest. You ask around for a thief and corner him in the Kolobos Ruins, where, in vanijelli's demo video, a Grandshelt Soldier vows they'll never take him alive and fights alone; he hits the whole party with Grand Slash. Rain and Lasswell were Lv.11 and Fina Lv.10 after the win and got a Potion from the battle.

We started it in the full game on October 24. The Soldier with the blue marker stands in the plaza at the top of the stairs north of Grandport's canal bridges. He tells of a thief who robbed shady merchants three years ago and left food at the orphanage. Lasswell, who investigated those thefts, says the thief is Rolan, who lives in Felicitas. The log then reads 'Speak with Rolan in Felicitas'.

Rolan lives in the small house at the far north-west of Felicitas: go up the wooden ramp towards the item shop, then west along the upper level to the third door. He greets Lasswell, says he hasn't forgotten the promise he made him, and leaves for work. Lasswell then tells Rain how he cornered the thief alone three years ago. The goal becomes 'Gather info from people in Grandport'.

Back in Grandport the same Soldier now stands with a Middle-Aged Man whose money was stolen. The thief left a note bearing the noble thief's motif, and witnesses saw the thief run off to the Kolobos Ruins. Fast travel puts you at the ruins' entrance. The thief, dressed as a Grandshelt Soldier, waits on the upper landing at the top of the big west staircase, at the landing's east end. When Lasswell asks for his unit, he attacks.

In our fight the foe's label read 'Imposter Soldier Lv.10', with two affinities hidden behind question marks and Escape greyed out. Plain attacks staggered him in about two rounds, and nobody got into trouble. Afterwards he claims to be the noble thief, and Lasswell calls him a petty thief for using that name. Back in Felicitas, three children from the orphanage are waiting at Rolan's house, and a short scene there completes the quest.

Spoiler clip · Cornering the thief in the Kolobos Ruins · reveal

Checked on screen · Oct 24, 2026

8:38–9:01 · 23 sCornering the thief in the Kolobos Ruins

1. Speak with Rolan in his house in the north-west corner of Felicitas.
2. Talk to the Soldier and the robbed man in Grandport's north-west plaza.
3. Find the 'Grandshelt Soldier' on the upper landing of the Kolobos Ruins and beat the Imposter Soldier (Lv.10).
4. Return to Rolan's house in Felicitas.

Iwakirimaru and 500 gil. Game Rant calls the Iwakirimaru Lasswell's weapon. We got exactly that when the quest completed: 'Iwakirimaru x1' and 500 gil. Only Lasswell's weapon list offered it. Its tooltip reads Phys. Atk 37, Mag. Atk 27 and 'Increases MP by 20.', a step up from the Kogarasumaru sold in Grandport (34 and 25).

Zile, on Grandport's western pier, offers it once you have Siren (Game Rant: after Siren's Tower). The Human Traps are random encounters around Grandport, so keep fighting in the fields until you have four. MeowDB lists them at Lv.7 with 300 HP, weak to Fire and Wind, easily staggered, and using Slow attacks.

The reward is a Magicite Shard and 500 gil.

1. Talk to the Grandport chocobo coachman.
2. Defeat four Human Traps near Grandport.
3. Hand the extracts to the coachman.