Atarefaunet Atarefaunet is a non - playable Elvaan thief in " Final Fantasy XI " . He led a notorious gang of brigands , referred to as either Atarefaunet ' s Band or the Scarlet Thunder of La Theine , in the years before the Crystal War . They terrorized merchants traveling through Quon and amassed considerable wealth . Eventually Atarefaunet was brought to justice and executed , causing his group to disband . Rumors of the treasures he had collected persist , however , and many enterprising rogues still seek to claim these lost riches for themselves . Story . Wartime . Atarefaunet was born to the noble Remevel family in the Marquisate of Tavnazia . His high status did not discourage him from pursuing a life of crime but his loyalty to the Marquis compelled him to conduct his business abroad . He and his gang focused their efforts in the eastern Zulkheim region , robbing unlucky wayfarers on the roads between the Kingdom of San d ' Oria , the Republic of Bastok , and the Grand Duchy of Jeuno . Merchants were said to quake in fear at the mere mention of the band . In the opening moments of the Crystal War San d ' Oria was dealt a crippling blow by the unexpected advance of the Beastman Confederate . Unable to bear another assault , the Kingdom ' s army misdirected the Beastmen and lured them toward Tavnazia . This proved a most successful gambit , enabling San d ' Oria to regain its footing and turning the war in favor of the Alliance of Altana . The Marquisate was overwhelmed by flames and death , however , and reinforcements from the Alliance were insufficient against the hordes of Orcs and Behemoths that marched against them . This devastation on Tavnazian soil seized Atarefaunet ' s attention . During the chaos and confusion he was cornered by a pair of bounty hunters , Goldmane of Tavnazia and Ismenios Cutsilver of Bastok . Although the latter was killed in the confrontation , Goldmane successfully captured Atarefaunet and delivered him to San d ' Orian custody for a princely reward . This brought an end to his band and its remaining members parted . In a sense Atarefaunet was lucky to have been separated from his homeland . The Marquisate was obliterated overnight by an intense and luminous explosion . Nearly all of its citizens and most of the invading Beastmen were instantly lost . Atarefaunet still faced execution in San d ' Oria but this was a small threat compared to the calamity he had inadvertently avoided . During his stay in the Bostaunieux Oubliette a local landowner , Count Varonbiriaux M Teulomme , attempted to poison Atarefaunet to prevent him from revealing their past dealings . Though this treachery failed , it assisted Atarefaunet in faking his death and escaping from San d ' Oria . With the Royal Knights convinced of his demise , he adopted a new name , Vauderame , and went looking for information about Tavnazia ' s fate . He soon found Rochefogne I Tavnazia , the successor to the Marquisate , suffering from memory loss in the wake of their nation ' s destruction . Atarefaunet spent the next two decades waiting for this valuable individual to remember enough to be useful . Treasure Hunters . Rochefogne comes to his senses twenty years after the Crystal War . He reveals that Tavnazia had not been destroyed by an Orcish secret weapon , as many speculated , but by Lightbringer , a powerful sword entrusted to the Marquisate . Unaware of the weapon ' s dangerous nature , Rochefogne had drawn it himself and annihilated his homeland . Having lost track of Lightbringer after wielding it , the heir devotes himself to recovering the sword and preventing its future use . Wishing to maintain his influence over Rochefogne , Atarefaunet accompanies him on this quest using his Vauderame persona . The pair arrive in San d ' Oria to gather information about Lightbringer . They search Orc settlements and break into Chateau d ' Oraguille but discover very little . The endeavor yields nothing but trouble for Atarefaunet as the Temple Knights find the sword first and Rochefogne gets himself into considerable trouble the moment he ' s left alone . Eventually Lightbringer is safely interred in King Ranperre ' s Tomb and Atarefaunet is able to safely stash Rochefogne out of the public eye . With the future Marquis secure , Atarefaunet moves to assemble his old accomplices . Working through the Tenshodo in Jeuno , he asks a variety of small - time thieves to deliver letters to former members of his gang . He claims that this is a means for the Tenshodo to keep an eye on the old brigands . His messengers succeed in locating everyone and each recipient replies by signing a single initial . This subtly confirms their identities while acknowledging Atarefaunet ' s order to meet . A complication emerges when Nanaa Mihgo , the " Cat Burglar of Windurst " , fails to accept his justification for the message delivery and hatches her own scheme to find the legendary treasure of Atarefaunet ' s Band . She manages to expose most of his accomplices and beats them to their rendezvous at Ordelle ' s Caves . The assembled gang finds her rummaging through their hidden supplies and some call for her to be killed . Atarefaunet chooses to incapacitate her and induce short - term memory loss , however , as he is wary of being tracked by other Mithra if he murders one of their kin . Impressed that a young thief could gain so much ground against his veteran rogues , he leaves a few baubles to placate her . With his team rebuilt , redressed , and renamed " Vauderame ' s Knights " , Atarefaunet is a step closer to his goal of restoring the Marquisate of Tavnazia . More support is required , however , and he reaches out to various parties in search of troops and financial backing . He learns that a wealthy family from the western continent of Ulbuka would devote massive resources to Tavnazia in return for artifacts and knowledge that had been stored in its cathedral before the war . He therefore takes it upon himself to investigate this cache of relics and determine the fate of Mildaurion C Giloumet , the cardinal that had been in charge of them . " Vauderame " has no right to enter such a place , however , so Atarefaunet instead adopts the identity of Louverance N Mistalle , a former Royal Knight of San d ' Oria . With the real Mistalle wandering the Northlands , Atarefaunet is free to create the impression that Louverance has rejoined the military as a Temple Knight . He may then carry out an investigation of the Tavnazian Cathedral while pretending to act on behalf of its San d ' Orian counterpart . This disguise serves Atarefaunet well . The reputation of a knight , even one from a family as troubled as Louverance ' s , eases his way through many interactions . He is able to borrow an airship from Cid to simplify the journey to Tavnazia and quickly gains the trust of Despachiaire , a prominent figure among the Marquisate ' s survivors . The cathedral ' s reliquary has already been picked through , however , and the cardinal is nowhere to be found . Overhearing a conversation about Mildaurion between Despachiaire , Ulmia , and Prishe , Atarefaunet interrupts and reveals his interest in the missing clergywoman . Prishe strongly objects to the notion the cardinal ever did anything to justify a Temple Knight ' s pursuit . Pleased to have met someone with at least some knowledge of Mildaurion , Atarefaunet offers to take Prishe off of Despachiaire ' s hands . When he learns that she has other business with Tenzen at the Beaucedine Glacier he offers to give all her companions a ride on the airship instead . She would be then able to share information and still reach her destination in a timely manner . He therefore departs Tavnazia with Prishe , Tenzen , and Ulmia in tow . Atarefaunet returns Cid ' s airship to Bastok and briefly converses with the engineer . Although Prishe and Tenzen ' s scheduled meeting with Jeunoan diplomat Nag ' molada is of no particular relevance to Atarefaunet , he follows them to the Northlands out of curiosity . They descend into Pso ' Xja and , to his surprise , discover a mothercrystal , one of five shards of the original stone whose shattering brought Vana ' diel into being . Having reached the crystal some time earlier , Nag ' molada chides the party for its tardiness . He speaks at length about the history of the Kuluu , the Zilart , and the nature the Eye of Altana , an artifact he had appropriated from the Tavnazian Cathedral . When Selh ' teus arrives Nag ' molada signals an attack and Atarefaunet is drawn into a fight with Zilart agents . Selh ' teus interacts with the mothercrystal and everyone is unexpectedly drawn into the Emptiness . Atarefaunet becomes helplessly suspended in the darkness of Promyvion . An adventurer eventually sets him free and , still astounded by all that he has recently learned , the thief regroups with Tenzen and Ulmia . Together they explore deeper into the Emptiness . They encounter a vast chasm and consider retracing their steps to find another route . Nag ' molada emerges and reveals that the Eye of Altana can convert the void into a bridge of sorts . The party therefore joins him in search of an exit . What they find instead is Diabolos and an unconscious Prishe . The avatar indicates that the interaction between Selh ' teus and the mothercrystals will soon spread the Emptiness throughout the world but that this outcome is not what the boy had intended . Selh ' teus had come from Al ' Taieu on a mission to protect it . This information surprises the group as Al ' Taieu was supposed to have been destroyed ten thousand years earlier . Atarefaunet wonders if the Gates of Paradise might lie there and Diabolos laughingly dismisses this idea as the will of Promathia manifesting itself . Prishe awakens and argues with Diabolos , bringing an end to the party ' s encounter with the avatar . They are teleported to various locations in the Northlands and return to civilization separately . Atarefaunet meets Tenzen and Ulmia at Cid ' s office and they consider various avenues of investigation . Desiring a peek at Al ' Taieu , the source of the precious relics which he had been seeking , Atarefaunet volunteers to research the lost city . He therefore embarks for Tavnazia , where knowledge of the Celestial Capital had first been reintroduced to the public in modern times . Meeting with Despachiaire , Atarefaunet learns that a strange painting had been delivered to the Marquisate twenty - five years earlier . Cardinal Mildaurion had identified it as a depiction of Al ' Taieu when she joined the Tavnazian church . A party of Mithran Sin Hunters had later demanded that the image be relinquished to them but Mildaurion had somehow convinced them to leave the matter alone . Intrigued , Atarefaunet decides to study the Sin Hunters themselves . Still maintaining his Louverance disguise , Atarefaunet arrives in Windurst and seeks the counsel of Perih Vashai , chieftainess of the Federation ' s Mithra tribe . Although she knows nothing of Al ' Taieu , Perih explains that the painting had been stolen from the Temple of Uggalepih . When the trackers attempted to recover it Mildaurion impressed them with extensive knowledge of a Mithran legend . Their people were to awaken sleeping gods to heal the land when Emptiness threatened to consume it . The Cardinal claimed to have made preparations to do this herself and The Sin Hunters were compelled not to interfere . Their desire to execute Mildaurion for the theft remains , however , and Perih warns that this sin does not die with the Cardinal herself . In her absence the trackers intend to punish her successor , Prishe , instead . The chieftainess advises Atarefaunet to be cautious and the thief continues his journey . He does not accept Perih ' s stories at face value but is interested to note that the Sin Hunters had also failed to discover any trace of Mildaurion . As he begins to accept the idea that the Cardinal is permanently lost he is approached by Honoi - Gomoi , a wealthy Tarutaru that had done considerable business with his band in the past . As a request from Atarefaunet ' s subordinates , the merchant provides him with a Mimeo Mirror , a device that can manifest a person ' s memories for all to see . It had previously belonged to Atarefaunet and been broken during his capture . Honoi - Gomoi had the relic repaired and also discovered the hideout of the bounty hunter that had damaged it . Grateful for this information , Atarefaunet proceeds to Purgonorgo Isle to confront his old enemy . Unimpressed by the Orcish Warmachine and Mandragora puppets that Goldmane has assembled to defend himself , the thief soon faces his diminutive adversary . The Tarutaru threatens to send a letter to the Royal Knights informing them of Atarefaunet ' s survival but he is confident that his Louverance persona will rise above such petty accusations . Goldmane questions the impostor ' s motives and he states that his influence will be used to restore Tavnazia and see that justice is dealt to those that elected to sacrifice his people . The retired bounty hunter is surprised to learn that Tavnazian refugees exist and Atarefaunet mocks him for having cowered on his island without news of the wider world . The true purpose for their meeting is to discuss a mission Goldmane had accepted from the Tavnazian Cathedral to find an entrance to Al ' Taieu . Atarefaunet explains that the bounty hunter can keep either his silence or his life . The Tarutaru admits to having conducted the search but insists that he learned nothing except that the path to the Celestial Capital only opens at hundred - year intervals . As Atarefaunet gazes into the Mimeo Mirror for clues Goldmane flees across the island with surprising speed . Having seen an excavated statue of Promathia in the mirror , Atarefaunet decides that Goldmane ' s information is sufficient and leaves him alone . Having previously heard that the statue bore traces of Gustaberg soil and known that Moblins first emerged a hundred years earlier , Atarefaunet guesses that a connection to Al ' Taieu may be found in Movalpolos . Exploring the area he is surprised to see Selh ' teus there as well . The Moblins are excited by the boy ' s presence and Atarefaunet wonders what their intentions are . A Galka named Jabbos sneaks up behind him and inquires about the situation as well . Jabbos had lived with the Moblins for a century in an effort to make peace between them and the surface - dwelling races . He requests that Atarefaunet leave the situation to him . The situation worsens when the Chebukki Siblings arrive and charge the Moblins in an effort to capture Selh ' teus . Atarefaunet joins the fray but they are all knocked out when Jabbos throws a bomb into their midst . The Moblins briefly imprison their guests but forget about them when Selh ' teus wanders away . Jabbos uses the opportunity to release the Atarefaunet and the others in the hope that they will quickly depart . They still wish to pursue Selh ' teus , however , and Jabbos suggests that they move to Bastok to share their information . This results in the Moblins storming a Bastokan restaurant to drag Jabbos back to Movalpolos . Following them back underground , Atarefaunet attempts to convince the Galka to abandon his association with these Beastmen . Jabbos reveals that he is to fault for the Moblins ' belief that they are children of Promathia , however , and that he must stay to correct his past mistake . Atarefaunet points out that Beastmen are born from the Twilight God and that they would have figured it out for themselves anyway . Jabbos replies that a Tavnazian priest had said otherwise , however , and the thief cannot believe that someone from the Cathedral would deny the teachings of Altana . Jabbos can only repeat what he experienced : a church official stated that Promathia was long dead when the Beastmen came into being and proceeded to remove the god ' s statue from Movalpolos . It had brought peace to the Moblins until they discovered a mothercrystal far below their city . Before Atarefaunet can take advantage of this information the Moblins advance upon them . They overheard Jabbos and are angry that he had lied to them about their connection to Promathia . The Moblins unanimously sever their relationships with the Galka . Disheartened , Jabbos begins to wander aimlessly before Atarefaunet convinces him to join the struggle against the Emptiness . Together they return to Bastok and consult with Cid . Realizing that they have time to spare while the engineer remodels his airship for the next mission , they decide to pass the time by maintaining a vigil on Movalpolos . Their watch is soon interrupted by news that Prishe has arrived in Jeuno and been taken into custody by the local authorities . Assembling at a tavern in Upper Jeuno , Atarefaunet and Prishe ' s other allies discuss the possibility that Prishe is the Keeper of the Apocalypse , a person destined to become Promathia and bring about the end of the world . Ulmia cannot accept that Prishe could do this in spite of the evidence gathered by Tenzen from Fenrir . Angry that everyone is willing to sacrifice Prishe to save themselves , Ulmia storms out of the bar . Atarefaunet meanwhile contemplates calling in some old acquaintances to help free Prishe from the Duchy . A jailbreak ultimately proves unnecessary as Esha ' ntarl , duke vicarious of Jeuno and true identity of Cardinal Mildaurion , has no intention of detaining or otherwise punishing Prishe . She meets with Prishe and Ulmia to explain that the former had been the Keeper of the Apocalypse but that a ceremony had transformed the Emptiness inside her to magicite . Eliminating a Keeper only causes the darkness to reincarnate in another form , however , and Esha ' ntarl ' s ultimate goal is to resurrect Promathia and decisively defeat him as a god . Since she does not know the identity of the next Keeper , Esha ' ntarl is instead forced to battle Bahamut to prevent him from eliminating the Keeper by destroying all life . In spite of all this , Prishe still believes that she can become Promathia and be destroyed to save the world . She therefore orders Ulmia to discover the last verse of a song called the " Lay of the Immortals " so that it can be sung to transform her into the Twilight God . Having eavesdropped on this entire exchange , Atarefaunet offers to use the Mimeo Mirror to extract the required information from Mathilde , a woman in Selbina who knows the words but whose memory is notoriously poor . This succeeds but Ulmia cannot commit to using the completed song . Atarefaunet and Ulmia return to Jeuno to rejoin Prishe but are unable to locate her . Concluding that she has sneaked onto one of the warships departing to challenge Bahamut , they meet Cid in Bastok and ride his airship to Tavnazia where the rest of their party awaits . Cid fits the craft with special components from Norg and permits Atarefaunet to pilot it into battle . Receiving warning shots from the Jeunoan armada , Atarefaunet communicates their non - hostile intentions and is able to get his companions on board the Duchy ' s ships to look for Prishe . Eventually they find her battling Nag ' molada and Ultima , his mechanical pet . By the time they destroy this device Esha ' ntarl has arrived to deal with Nag ' molada , who had recently been relieved of his position and banished from Jeuno . The disgraced diplomat calls Bahamut to the vessel and teleports away . This results in the Jeunoan ship being targeted by a megaflare and forces Tenzen to sacrifice his Phoenix Blade to save everyone . Atarefaunet and the rest of Prishe ' s team regroup in Tavnazia and continue to Jeuno to discuss their next move with Esha ' ntarl . Having verified that Prishe is not the Keeper of the Apocalypse and learned that her successor lies in Al ' Taieu , they contemplate means to reach the lost city . Esha ' ntarl mentions that troops are preparing to invade Movalpolos to control the subterranean route and Jabbos promptly leaves to warn his Moblin friends . Feeling sympathetic for the hundred years the Galka had spent working with the Beastmen , Atarefaunet chases after him . Nag ' molada reaches the Moblins first and violently passes through their ranks on his way to Al ' Taieu . Atarefaunet pursues him but Nag ' molada collapses a tunnel behind himself to prevent anyone from following . Jabbos is eager to have revenge but with the Moblins injured there is insufficient manpower to clear the path . Prishe ' s team decides to consult Cid and the engineer reveals that a strange red light has been rising from the sea above where Al ' Taieu is thought to rest . The party suspects that they can use this to travel to the city but Cid ' s airship is not ready to fly after the earlier incident with Bahamut . Ulmia suggests that this is an opportunity to prepare themselves physically and spiritually for the final battle with the Keeper of the Apocalypse . Atarefaunet opts to facilitate Cid ' s repairs by gathering lumber at Carpenter ' s Landing . During this excursion Atarefaunet arranges for a group of Tonberries to ambush the real Louverance and secure his use of the identity . The Beastmen nearly cross paths with the knight , who has come to realize that his image and reputation have been stolen , but are unexpectedly dispatched by adventurers . Seeing that a trap had been set for him , Louverance declares that if someone would call himself a knight he should at least have a just cause to champion . Witnessing this , Atarefaunet muses that there is no higher cause than saving the world from destruction . He therefore returns to Bastok with his collected materials . With the airship repaired and equipped with a convenient autopilot system , the party flies to the column of light projecting from the ocean and is transported to another mothercrystal , the final shard separated from the world with the Celestial Capital ten thousand years earlier . They meet Selh ' teus and learn that he had drained the energy of the other four crystals in order to reignite the fifth and prevent the convergence of Al ' Taieu and its Keeper of the Apocalypse with modern day Vana ' diel . He could not transport this energy himself , however , so he stored it in an adventurer . Prishe will not allow this person to be killed to release the crystal light and complete the plan , however . As they consider alternatives Nag ' molada arrives and catapults Prishe out of the way with powerful magic . He knows that Al ' Taieu lies behind the mothercrystal and that its power must be drained before he can enter . He therefore siphons away the crystal ' s light himself . All present are immediately drawn into the ruins of the Celestial Capital . Separated from Prishe , Atarefaunet leads the rest of the party toward the Grand Palace of Hu ' Xzoi but is unable to open its gate . He begins to worry that the Keeper of the Apocalypse will be too great a foe as he and his companions hear a strange voice in their heads . The Chebukki siblings subsequently determine the means by which the palace opens and everyone proceeds inside . As they travel deeper into the castle the voice in their minds grows louder . Each is tempted by a different message . Atarefaunet is urged to lend his strength to the reconstruction of Al ' Taieu , a broken land not unlike his beloved Tavnazia . Soon he and his companions are climbing over each other as they try to get closer to the voice ' s source . Tenzen decides to render them unconscious for their own good . Prishe rejoins her incapacitated friends and Selh ' teus informs them that the voice they hear is the Emptiness inside them , the voice of Promathia himself . With Atarefaunet and the others lying uselessly in the hall , Prishe and Selh ' teus continue to face the Twilight God without them . They manage to defeat Promathia and eliminate the threat of apocalypse . Atarefaunet is able to pull himself together and reaches the battlefield in time to feel a tear of the Goddess Altana , who weeps for Promathia , falling upon him . The Chebukkis elect to warp everyone out of Al ' Taieu , however , and Atarefaunet is sent home before he can say anything . In light of his failure to assassinate the real Louverance and the knight ' s many opportunities to spread word of an impostor , Atarefaunet redresses himself as a priest named Meransarget . He uses this persona to pass Louverance a message challenging him to a duel in the Uleguerand Range as a knight of honor . The hot - headed Mistalle charges off to the Northlands immediately . Atarefaunet resumes his Louverance disguise , meets his counterpart on a snowy cliff , and allows himself to be defeated . Feigning death , he waits for Louverance to leave and returns to San d ' Oria as Meransarget . Although he failed to recover the artifacts desired by his western clients to secure their kingdom ' s support of Tavnazia , Atarefaunet has no further interest in Cardinal Mildaurion ' s relics now that he knows her true identity and the influence she wields . To an extent he is relieved to be free of his Louverance persona . Playing an impulsive would - be hero is much more stressful than pretending to be a peasant . In any case , with the Mimeo Mirror in his possession he has no need for an elaborate knightly presence . He can simply reveal the experiences of any noble with dark secrets and thereby force their compliance in his schemes . With a renewed commitment to restoring the Marquisate and the forgotten name of the Remevel family , Atarefaunet rejoins his gang of brigands . When Prishe ' s group later reunites to prevent the formation of another Keeper of the Apocalypse , they are accompanied by Atarefaunet , donning his " Louverance " armor once again at Esha ' ntarl ' s request .