The Scarlet Bloodletter

is a Quest in Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn.
==Journal==
* Novv has received the alarming news that the Coral Tridents are swarming another merchant vessel. Concerned that this incident will be the catalyst that triggers a full military campaign against the Sahagin, the clutchfather urges you to make haste to the deck of the Swallow to save its crew. Speak with Pahh, the seabeast tamer, and borrow an elbst to carry you across the waves.
* After a swift, albeit somewhat wet, journey on the back of the elbst, you pull yourself over the rails of the beleaguered Swallow. Speak with the captain of the craft and learn how you might best assist the crew.
* The captain of the Swallow bids you take the fight to the Sahagin while his men finish launching the lifeboats. Slay five of the enemies on board and give the captain and his crew the time they need to escape.
* You have slain a fistful of the Coral Trident raiders. Return to the captain and check on the crew's progress.
* Thanks to your valiant efforts, the entire crew of the Swallow has managed to flee to Aleport in relatively good health. Find the captain in the port town's tavern and learn how he fares.
* While recounting the first moments of the attack on his ship, the captain makes mention of the Tridents' supposed leader─a “red-hued sea devil.” Upon overhearing the story, a Maelstrom officer by the name of Ururu Kogururu urges the unhappy trader to recall the specific color. The Lalafellin lieutenant is visibly taken aback at the answer. Ururu goes on to explain that the Scarlet Sea Devil was a particularly savage Sahagin pirate that terrorized the seas of western La Noscea more than fifteen years ago. At the culmination of his chilling tale, the lieutenant departs to report the disturbing revelation to his superior.
Lamenting the loss of his vessel and livelihood, but thankful for his life, the captain of the Swallow gifts you with a sack of oranges he managed to salvage from the hold. Return to Novv's Nursery and share your reward with Novv and the spawnlings.
* After Novv praises you for your actions in saving the crew, you relinquish the sack of oranges to the clutchfather and his curious offspring. The elder Sahagin muses on the differences between your peoples, and provides some insight into the Coral Tridents' rise to prominence. Continue to offer your aid to Novv's Clutch and deepen your understanding of the Sahagin tribe.
==Objectives==
* Speak with Pahh.
* Speak with the captain of the Swallow.
* Defeat Coral Trident raiders aboard the Swallow.
* Speak with the captain of the Swallow.
* Speak with the captain of the Swallow in Aleport.
* Share the oranges with Novv at Novv's Nursery.
==Script==
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Novv 	Pshhh... The tide brings ill news, shhhorewalker. It seems the Coral Tridentsss and their finless pets, the Ssserpent Reavers, are even now ssswarming another vessel off the coast of wessstern La Noscea.
Novv 	But there is ssstill time─we mussst not let them sink this shhhip as they did the lassst one.
Novv 	Shhhould the Tridentsss continue to agitate the waters with sssuch abandon, the shhhorewalker elders will shhhurely bring their armies againssst usss.
Novv 	Shhhorewalker... Pshhh... [Player Name], is it? I need you to become the rock I ssspoke of when we firssst met. Board the trading vessel known as the Ssswallow as sssoon as you are able, and blunt the thrusssts of my foolhardy kin.
Novv 	We Sssahagin are comfortable with ssswimming long distances, but you have not the required...physiology. You mussst speak with my ssson Pahh.
Novv 	The elbssst he breeds are trained to carry those wounded in deepwater ssskirmishes, but they will just as easily carry an uninjured warrior into battle. Pshhh... Your seabeast sssteed awaits!
Novv 	Pshhh... Ssspeak with my ssson Pahh, and he will lend you an elbssst to carry you to the Ssswallow.
 	
Tamer01376 	Pshhh... The clutchfather has told me of your need. This elbssst is the largessst and ssswiftest creature in my ssstable, and should have no difficulty in bearing you across the waves.
Tamer01376 	Be shhhure you are prepared for heavy combat, shhhorewalker─the Coral Tridentsss often bring their own ssseabeasts into battle, ill-treated and foul-tempered brutes all. And I ssspeak not of the Ssserpent Reavers, though the description may be apt.
Tamer01376 	Pshhh... Are you ready to ride my elbssst to the Ssswallow, finless one?
Tamer01376 	Pshhh... The tide waitsss for no woman/man, shhhorewalker. Ssspeak with me again when your preparations are complete.
 	
Captain01376 	Please! Take whatever you want! Just let me keep my insides on the inside!
Captain01376 	...Eh? You don't work for those marrow-sucking fishbacks? You're here to rescue me and my crew? Well, then! I won't question how you reached us in the middle of the ocean without a vessel of your own...
Captain01376 	Ahem. This proud lady is the Swallow, and I'm her slightly less-than-proud captain. We were, in fact, in the ignoble process of abandoning ship.
Captain01376 	If you truly wish to save our skins, then I would be much obliged if you were to stall the enemies on deck while my men continue to prepare the lifeboats. Stall them how, you ask? Try spilling some of their black blood and see if that helps!
Captain01376 	I'll be supervising things from my, er, “vantage point” here. The deck is swarming with Sahagin and their cronies─pick a victim and set to, madam/sir!
 	
Captain01376 	By the Navigator's nightshirt! You certainly are a force of nature! I was so focused on your deadly dance that I scarce noticed the lifeboats were in the water.
Captain01376 	<sigh> As much as it pains my heart to lose my dear Swallow, losing my innards would be more painful still! Come, my brave lass/lad─I can hear the tavern in Aleport calling our names!
 	
Captain01376 	Thank you for your aid, my stalwart friend! If you hadn't inexplicably appeared malms from the coast without a sail in sight, I fear my crew and I would now be taking our final rest on the ocean bed─alongside the broken hull of my sweet Swallow.
Captain01376 	I had but recently fitted the ship with lifeboats, and I am full glad I did. 'Twas the sinking of that trading ship not long past that prompted me to take such precautions. An awful business, that.
Captain01376 	Tell me: how is an honest man meant to make a living when the trade routes are thus preyed upon? How can mere merchants be expected to fight through a sea of slavering fishbacks?
Captain01376 	The ones that attacked us were so bold as to introduce themselves before clambering over our rails. The “Coral Tridents,” they said they were, and praised their leader as some manner of red-hued sea devil─
Ururu Kogururu 	A red-hued sea devil!?
Ururu Kogururu 	...Ah, pray forgive my outburst. Storm Lieutenant Ururu Kogururu, at your service.
Ururu Kogururu 	Captain─and this is of vital importance─do you recall exactly which red hue the Sahagin used to describe their leader? It wouldn't happen to have been scarlet...would it?
Captain01376 	Well...now that you mention it, I'm fairly certain it was scarlet. If it were crimson or carmine, I'm sure I would have remembered. A merchant captain must keep abreast of such details, you underst─
Ururu Kogururu 	Twelve above... The demon rises from the depths once more!
Captain01376 	Is something terribly amiss, Lieutenant?
Ururu Kogururu 	Some fifteen years ago, there was one Sahagin pirate of such cruelty, such depravity, that he plunged the entire region of western La Noscea into gibbering terror.
Ururu Kogururu 	The hands of the stoutest sailor would shake at the mere hint of his shadow on the waves─truly, he was a monster that froze the hearts of men. Even the Knights of the Barracuda were powerless to halt this villain's rampage.
Ururu Kogururu 	So much delight did he take in the act of slaughter that the white coral necklace he wore was stained perpetually red with blood. Thus was the beastman whispered of in tavern-room tales as the “Scarlet Sea Devil.”
Ururu Kogururu 	'Tis been so long since the name's been uttered, I'd thought him perished of old age. But it appears the horror lives on...
Ururu Kogururu 	<shudder> These are dark days, my friends. I must return to Camp Skull Valley and report this development to Commander Falkbryda at once!
Captain01376 	<gulp> Well, this sea devil fellow sounds awfully unpleasant, doesn't he? Perhaps losing my ship was not the most terrible fortune, after all...
Captain01376 	Ah! I managed to save some things from the hold before we fled. I would be honored if you were to accept a small token of my gratitude.
Captain01376 	It is not, alas, a sack bulging with coin. You will, however, find no finer friend than these oranges for fending off illness on long sea voyages.
Captain01376 	<sigh> I had carved out a life for myself as an open-sea trader, but I believe it is time I took up a less perilous occupation. Pig farming, mayhap? Hmmm...
 	
Novv 	[Player Name], you have returned. My ssspawnlings have heard rumors from the Coral Trident camp that the crew of the Swallow essscaped with the aid of an elbssst-riding shhhorewalker. Pshhhahaha, well done! Though the shhhip was taken, the lives you sssaved will ssspare us much enmity.
Novv 	Pshhh? What is it you have there...?
Novv 	Ah, I have ssseen the like of these before. Fruit, yesss? Picked from your land-grown “trees.”
Infantsahuagin01376	Clutchfather! What are those!? They shhhmell shhhtrange!
Infantsahuagin01376	“Oh-ren-jez”? Do they tassste as good as sssea cucumbers?
Novv 	They are a gift from our shhhorewalker friend. Be shhhure to thank her/him, and shhhare them evenly among your clutchmatesss.
Infantsahuagin01376	Pshhh! Thank you, shhhorewalker!
Novv 	Ssstill ssso innocent. But I cannot shhhelter them from the world's harshhh truths forever. What of you, [Player Name]? Have you any offssspring?
Novv 	I imagine a warrior of your ssstature would have much to impart to your hatchlings/I imagine a warrior of your ssstature would have received many eggs from your matriarch. Ah, but you shhhorewalkers do not lay eggs, correct?
Novv 	Pshhh... There is much I am unfamiliar with concerning your kind, but there is alssso much of our people that you likely find mysssterious. For instance, why have the Coral Tridentsss sssuddenly come to prominence?
Novv 	Those who sssucceed in battle are vaunted amongst their kin. And with their ssstrategic use of the Ssserpent Reavers, the Tridentsss have achieved a growing number of victories.
Novv 	Now you tell me they boassst of a new leader? You are certain of the name?
Novv 	Pshhh... This does not bode well for our plans at all. I did not expect the Ssscarlet Sssea Devil to return...
 	
Tamer01376 	Pshhh... Are you ready to ride my elbssst to the Ssswallow, finless one?
Quest complete. 	Quest complete.
Category:Sahagin Quests in Final Fantasy XIV