Yow Rabntah Yow Rabntah is a non - playable Mithra ranger in " Final Fantasy XI " . She traveled from Olzhirya , the Mithran homeland , to Mindartia ten years before the Crystal War . During this brief sojourn in the north she was hired to accompany Iru - Kuiru , a Windurstian white mage , on the influential Multinational Expedition . Story . Some years before she journeyed abroad Yow Rabntah lived in Yhoh , the capital of the Gha Naboh Matriarchate . There she gave birth to a son , Lehko , as the result of an unknown union . This was auspicious as males are most rare among the Mithran people and are well - protected by their culture . Northlands . Having crossed the sea to the Middle Lands , Rabntah met Rhinostery Minister Iru - Kuiru preparing for a mission to Fei ' Yin , a ruined Zilart city . His nation had been invited to investigate the site in cooperation with the Republic of Bastok and the Kingdom of San d ' Oria . He would have to cross the whole of Mindartia to join them in Quon , however , and requested Rabntah ' s company . The pair were eventually joined by three of Bastok ' s Mythril Musketeers , Ulrich , Cornelia , and Raogrimm , and a San d ' Orian knight , Francmage M Mistalle . They followed Ranguemont Pass to the Beaucedine Glacier and made their way across the frozen landscape to Fei ' Yin . They were unable to explore much of the ruins , though , as the fiends swarming within were too numerous . Discouraged by their lack of progress , the Adventurer ' s party turned west to see what might lie in Xarcabard . They found a snowy wasteland so empty that it had no scent Rabntah could detect . The expedition remained in the area , however , and its members had opportunities to look around for themselves . Rabntah seized this chance and subsequently discovered a piece of magicite . Sensing the power of the crystal and elated at what it might do for Gha Naboh , she kept the find to herself and rejoined to the group . At some point the Mythril Musketeers wandered away from the rest of the Adventurer ' s party and left Rabntah and Iru - Kuiru to debate the value of their investigation with Francmage . As they exchanged opinions they were suddenly approached by Ulrich . He quickly explained that the Musketeers had been ambushed and that Raogrimm and Cornelia had fallen into a crevice . Rabntah and the others immediately followed him to the scene of the incident . In spite of her tracking skills , Rabntah failed to locate their lost comrades . Francmage suggested that they withdraw before more lives were lost and Rabntah , having already found her prize , was quick to agree . The Adventurer ' s party resolved to depart the next day and its surviving members prepared to return to their respective nations . The expedition ended in failure but Yow Rabntah did not leave the Northlands empty - handed . Homecoming . Rabntah arrived on Olzhiryan soil with the magicite safely in her possession . She planned to harness the stone ' s power by fashioning a weapon around it . Her design would be known as the Bow of Light , an enchanted armament whose beauty was a testament to Rabntah ' s craftsmanship . Her unique creation surpassed all other bows , its great strength could defend Gha Naboh from any threat . The magicite at the weapon ' s heart proved most dangerous , however . Those who wielded it found the worst aspects of themselves forced to the surface . Overcome by fear , hatred , and jealousy , an archer would lose control and attack her sisters indiscriminately . Before anyone realized what was happening the Mithra were plunged into a bloody civil war . Tracing the bow back to Rabntah , the Matriarchate deemed her a sinner for having unleashed such chaos upon the motherland . Rabntah insisted that her creation could still be an asset in the hands of a pure - hearted wielder but such platitudes were of no value to the suffering Mithra population . They intended to execute the ranger for her crime . As Rabntah awaited judgment a great demon , the Shadow Lord , appeared before her . Born from Raogrimm ' s fury as he died in the frozen north , the creature sought vengeance against those that had abandoned him . He cut Yow Rabntah down and vanished before her kin could see their justice served . With her dying breath she chanted a spell to seal the Bow of Light ' s power so that her people might never suffer its evil again . Yow Rabntah ' s spirit found no rest in death , however . Drifting helplessly between reality and the dreamworld of Dynamis , she watched as violence continued in Olzhirya even in the bow ' s absence . She saw her son forced to live as a fugitive since , under Mithra law , he had inherited her sin and the associated punishment . The following decade brought the defeat of the Shadow Lord and the birth of a granddaughter , Nanaa , but Rabntah remained a disembodied observer . Present Day . Thirty years after Rabntah ' s death the Shadow Lord returns and is vanquished a second time . This succeeds in freeing Raogrimm from the rage that had bound him but reveals a separate problem . When Raogrimm first transformed a fragment of his soul had broken away and settled in the dreamworld . Over the years this splinter had grown into a new Shadow Lord , or Dynamis Lord . This creature hoped to absorb the remainder of Raogrimm ' s spirit and venture forth into reality . As Raogrimm is unable to resist the Dynamis Lord ' s pull , the ghosts of his former companions are left to orchestrate an opposition on his behalf . Adventurers wandering into the dreamworld are recruited by the expedition members and a makeshift army soon marches across the shrouded land . Admitting that she had been happy to ignore tensions among her comrades and that Raogrimm ' s transformation was partly her fault , Rabntah guides the living through a illusory copy of the Ru ' Lude Gardens . In time they face the new Shadow Lord and break his towering figure across the plains of a false Xarcabard . No longer overwhelmed by the creature ' s pull , Raogrimm explains that his fractured soul is trapped in Dynamis and that the dreamworld ' s architect , Diabolos , has tasked him with a vigil that will last until hatred no longer exists . Other expedition members offer to stand with him during this task and Rabntah urges everyone to celebrate their thirty - year reunion . The six of them therefore begin their eternal surveillance of Dynamis .