To Be the Wood

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
==Journal==
* For your second test, Timbermaster Beatin challenges you to demonstrate your skill as a carpenter by crafting three maple shields. Fashion the requested items to the best of your ability and deliver them to him at the Oak Atrium.
* Having expressed his satisfaction with your shields, Timbermaster Beatin stresses to you the responsibility that comes with crafting equipment for war, explaining that to embrace this duty is to become one with the wood. He rewards you with an amateur's claw hammer, and bids you return when you are ready to attempt the next test.
※The next carpenter quest will be available from Beatin upon reaching level 10.
==Objectives==
* Deliver square maple shields to Beatin.
==Script==
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Beatine 	It is plain from your bearing that you and your saw have begun to move as one, as true partners.
Beatine 	Good. You are ready for the second test.
Beatine 	You must be the wood.
Beatine 	Before, you brought me maple lumber to demonstrate your knowledge of wood. This time you will demonstrate your ability to create with it.
Beatine 	I bid you craft me three maple shields. For this you will require maple lumber and bronze rivets.
Beatine 	As you would expect, our guild supplier, Ferreol, has no shortage of that which you require. Should you desire a more economical solution, however, you might consider a more traditional method of acquisition.
Beatine 	Many materials essential to our craft are harvested by our steadfast allies, the botanists of the Greatloam Growery. Were you to befriend one of their number, you might be able to come to a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Beatine 	Or, if you would rather not be beholden to another, you could even try your hand at botany.
Beatine 	Now go, and do not disappoint me.
Beatine 	What's this? Have you already bent the wood to your will?
Beatine 	You...are no workaday carpenter. That much is plain.
Beatine 	Well done, child. Your shields are most satisfactory.
Beatine 	The pattern of the grain, the lingering scent of maple... Your choice of materials is excellent, and the construction above criticism. Few carpenters can claim such skill.
Beatine 	The Elezen once favored shields of wood, do you know this?
Beatine 	Today, it is not so. They, like your adventurer brethren, are wont to choose the surety of the armorer's metal.
Beatine 	But a shield of wood provides ample protection for a lower price. It is readily made and readily replaced if broken.
Beatine 	And while not quite so sturdy, it may yet serve to spare a man his doom just as readily as any shield of metal.
Beatine 	To imbue shield and spear with your strength, to pour your life into the wood that others might preserve their own...
Beatine 	This is what it means to be the wood.
Beatine 	Such responsibility is not to be taken lightly, child.
Beatine 	You have passed the second test, and in so doing have earned this amateur's claw hammer.
Beatine 	Though a saw will suffice for many tasks, a carpenter who wields blade and hammer both can perform his trade with greater ease.
Beatine 	If you wish to improve as a carpenter, it is essential that you learn to use the two tools in combination.
Beatine 	Continue to refine your skills, and return to me when you are ready to take the next step.
Quest complete.	Quest complete.
Category:Disciple of the Hand Quests in Final Fantasy XIV