I've been spending time in Gridania trying to get some insight on this Archon business from the original Dreamer herself, Jihli Aliapoh. She hasn't been a lot of help, however. She simply speaks verses from the Dreamer's Gospel and hands out eggs for me to warm with her assistants and her two spriggan helpers. I been warming their eggs for days wondering what will happen in the future and how much stock there is to these Archon legends when I noticed a tall Elezen woman standing near by with a small field journal.
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| Jihli and the Egg Spriggan |
She introduced herself as Marcette, a journalist employed by Eorzean Geographic, and explained that she was doing a study on the spriggan. She had been trying to get in a word with Jihli and her helpers but was also making no progress with the Dreamers. She asked me if I would go out into the forest and hunt some and return with their teeth for examination. It sounded a bit weird, but I set off with Nimla to help her out.
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| Spriggan Hunt! |
We returned to her with the teeth and other "droppings" and she quickly analyzed some of the data. Through this expedition, I've learned that spriggans are gregarious animals. They nest in large groups below-ground, digging labyrinthine tunnel networks. They are skilled predators, and that they are even capable of creating fire using flint stones which makes them rather intelligent. Jihli's spriggan helpers in particular are capable of primitive speech, though all they talk about is eggs and Archon.
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| Marcette and her Assistants |
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