Final Fantasy IX Disc 3

Hilda Garde III and Optional Exploration

Gonna fly me an airship!

When you first have control again in Lindblum Castle, talk to Mogki and get a letter for Kumool, then save and head to the conference room and watch a bunch of cut scenes.

Optional: Kupo Nut

You can revisit Gizamaluke’s Grotto and give your to Moguta.

Optional: Ragtime

Now that you have the airship, you can finish the Ragtime Side Quest.

Optional: Chocobo Sidequest

You can now go back to Chocobo’s Forest and get the final chocograph pieces that make up the chocograph which points to the mist ocean. There Choco can learn to fly, and you can visit Chocobo’s Air Garden for the rest of the Chocographs. See the Chocobo Section for more information. You can complete all but the Ozma and parts of this side quest.

Optional: Friendly Monsters

If you’ve helped the 8 other Friendly Monsters (, , , , , , , and ), and if you’ve found the Chocograph treasure that unlocks Choco’s Flying ability, you should be able to complete this quest by helping . See the Friendly Monsters Section for more information.

Optional: Daguerreo

Area Enemies & Blue Magic: Around Daguerreo

Enemy	Eat to learn

See Blue Magic for the full reference.

When you first get the airship, this is one of the first places you’ll want to go. It’s an island with a HUGE mountain in the middle of it, near Chocobo’s Lagoon. There are waterfalls, too. You can’t miss it.

When you first enter Daguerreo, head right and search in the water for the Stellazio Coin. Continue going right, and you’ll meet a four-armed man (Gilgamesh) on the next screen. This is the guy you want to talk to about treasure. As your treasure hunter rank goes up, he becomes more and more impressed. By the time I got here, I was rank S. He said, “Pardon me for my rudeness,” and ran off. If/when that happens, follow him outside and talk to him near the entrance to Daguerreo for the .

Optional: If you examine the statue at the top of this screen you’ll be asked to place some there. If you put five there (this is why I told you to save them), they will turn into an .

Head back to the screen where you met the four armed man and take the elevator up to the next level. Mognet//Save with Noggy. Just up from him is the Synth for Daguerreo. Not only can you synth some pretty powerful weapons, armor and accessories, but you can finally synth Jewels. If you do so, be sure to save at least 5 for the mentioned above.

If you have the weapon for Eiko, you can learn the Jewel white magic. Every time you use that magic you’ll get an . Find some place with low level enemies and just have her cast that over and over to get as many as you can carry, then come back here and synth them into whatever jewels you like.

You might be asking, “Why do I want that much Ore?” It’s because the attack power of your summons is directly proportional to the number of jewels in your inventory that correspond to their affinity. See the Eidolons and Gems section for the full list of correlation, along with a note about which gems cannot be synthed at this time.

That being said, I don’t recommend doing that until AFTER visiting Ipsen’s Castle, since you can earn various gems by defeating enemies there.

Anyway, head left from the Synthesist and talk to the guy there, then exit through the door on the left. Read the names of the books near where you enter the screen, then go left, talking with folks en-route. One of these guys runs an item shop where you can buy the items you need for the various jewel synthing stuff.

Examine the statue at the top of the screen (Left of the arguing guys) and “push the button” there. Continue left and talk to the man standing by the bookshelf. Zidane should tell him where the book is, then you’ll have to move out of the way so the guy will get out of your way. There’s a ladder he was blocking that you can go down now. When you emerge, go left and down the stairs for an .

Remember, typically if people are in your way, just keep pressing (hold down the arrow; don’t press it over and over) toward them for a few seconds and you’ll walk through them. If you have the namingway card, and you talk to the guy here, he’ll learn the namingway technique, and then he’ll be able to change one of your character’s names for you. (If you’ve learned Dagger’s birth name, you might consider renaming her that. It’s not really of any use, but I found it entertaining.)

Now go all the way to the right and get another . Now walk to the middle of the area and search to go back up. Go through the doorway just to the right of the bookcase you were looking at. You’ll find a weapons shop owner who won’t sell you anything because he’s too upset about the broken elevator. Let’s fix it for him, shall we?

Backtrack to the room with the Moogle and ride the elevator down. Anyway, head left one screen. You are now downstairs from the weapon shop you just visited. You’ll see three levers (and a large stick leaning against the wall). Examine the levers and pull the left lever until the leftmost column is at (or rather, near) ground level (you should see a little box opening behind it). You should see something above it. Cancel out of this menu and go stand on that block (examine). You’ll notice the hole. Go grab the stick and Zidane will put it in the hole. Go back to the levers and pull the right one until the rightmost block is at ground level. Now go stand on the rightmost block, then talk to the weapons shop owner.

Optional: Revisit Treno

Consider revisiting Treno. The auction now has the for sale, the Knight’s House has a new monster you can fight, and you can take the opportunity to turn in any Stellazio in your inventory.

Treno Knight’s House

Head to the Knight’s House near the Auction House (where you fought the optional monsters before). As always, Save, then prep for the battle, then talk to the man at the counter to fight Amdusias.

Boss Fight Prep

Equip Auto-Reflect or a to blunt Bio and , especially if Zidane’s level is a multiple of four. Demon Killer or Bird Killer will increase physical damage.

Boss Fight: Amdusias

Steal	, , ,
Weak / Absorbs	Weak to Wind; immune to Earth
Reward	from the shopkeeper
Drops	n/a
Strategy	Protect Zidane from its magic, then use with Soul Blade for an instant Petrify or attack with Demon Killer or Bird Killer.

If you want, you can head to Treno and fight the Treno Amdusias. Steal if you want, but nothing he has is that great. He casts , so if Zidane’s level is a multiple of 4, ouch. He will also jump up in the air, after which he’ll use physical “horn” attacks. By now, Zidane is probably pretty high level, so hopefully that won’t be a problem. He will cast bio a lot, so having reflect is pretty helpful. Between reflecting Bio back to him, and equipping the ability “Mug”, when I was ready to kill him off, it only took a single Thievery attack. For this battle, I received as a prize. Apparently the game must have thought the pair I ALREADY HAD was wearing out. lol.

When you’re ready to advance the story, head to Ipsen’s Castle.