Wiz Chocobo Post

Wiz Chocobo Post is a location from Final Fantasy XV that also appears in Final Fantasy XV: Comrades. It is a chocobo stable situated in the Duscae region owned by Wiz Forlane. At the post chocobo riders can rest their chocobos and Wiz sells merchandise, much of it chocobo-related. There is a caravan at the site the player can use for resting. A chocobo racing track is located across the road.
The outpost's item shop sells a standard assortment of curatives, as well as a cactuar statuette that Noctis can give to Talcott Hester at Cape Caem. A woman by the chocobo pens sells special greens as chocobo feed and also offers the opportunity to customize the name and color of the party's chocobos. Wiz acts as the post's tipster, and the player can talk to him for information on the surrounding area, order a meal, or volunteer for one of the available hunts. The player must take on the hunt to vanquish the behemoth Deadeye to unlock the ability to rent chocobos. In addition to hunts, Wiz also offers a series of sidequests to Noctis, all of which are chocobo-related.
==Almanac==
On a barrel near the chocobo pens.
:Duscaen dude ranch focused on the protection and propagation of everyone's favorite feathered friends. Tourists are invited to feed and interact with the birds at their leisure. The post also sponsors chocobo races and a bird rental service (for a small fee).
:Wild chocobos one trotted freely through the forests of Duscae, but the recent influx of ferocious beasts has sent the birds running in fear. Despite the Hunters strengthening their patrol of the area, their numbers were not enough to attend to all the lost and injured birds, and the population continued to decrease.
:Troubled by the chocobos' travails, Wiz Forlane sought to set up a safe haven for birds in need. Thanks to his efforts, the feathered friends of the forest once again had a place to rest their tired wings in peace. Without his hard work, the national Lucian sport of chocobo racing might have been lost to the annals of time.
==Story==
A few weeks after Niflheim confiscated the Regalia, Noctis and his retinue end up at the chocobo post. They encounter Umbra who leads them to Gentiana, who explains how Noctis can forge a covenant with Ramuh.
When party asks if they can rent chocobos, the owner Wiz explains that they can't because a vicious behemoth named Deadeye is making the birds afraid of leaving the outpost. The party accepts the hunt and returns to claim their bounty and to rent chocobos. Later, Wiz asks the retinue to check on a rare wild black chocobo. When the party goes to check on her, they don't find her, but find she has laid an egg. They bring the egg back to Wiz and he looks after it and informs the party when it hatches.
When darkness overruns Eos Wiz Chocobo Post is abandoned and in ruins. Chocobos are at first thought to be extinct, but one of Wiz's workers escorts some chocobos to Old Lestallum and some chocobo chicks are sent to Meldacio Hunter HQ, including the black chocobo chick.
==Locations==
===Café Claire===
Café Claire is operated by Wiz outside the main building. Wiz is the chef and the local tipster, who hooks the party up with various hunts (see below) and tells them about the area. Wiz's own quests (see below) are accepted by inspecting the cafe table, as talking to Wiz enters his establishment instead.
===Shops===
====Post Kiosk====
The kiosk is at the main building, opposite the chocobo pens.
Item	Gil 	Type 	Info
 	50 	Items 	Restores half of HP.
 	100 	Items 	Fully restores HP.
 	400 	Items 	Fully restores HP and MP and regenerates half of maximum HP.
 	800 	Items 	Restores maximum HP and MP.
 	1000	Items 	Brings fallen party members back to life. Temporarily increases HP and MP recovery rate.
 	10 	Items 	Cures Poison.
 	30 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Croque Madame and Multi-Meat Sandwich
 	400 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Charcuterie on Toast, Stacked Ham Sandwich, Golden Egg Galette, Golden Chocobo Tart
 	100 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Mystery Meat Sushi and Cannedwich.
 	20 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Croque Madame, Classic Tomato & Egg Stir-Fry, Creamy Crustacean Omelette, Egg-Fried Crustacean Bowl, Fried Rookie on Rice, Golden Egg Galette, Mother & Child Rice Bowl, Papa Bird & Baby Bowl, and Golden Chocobo Tart.
 	60 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Multi-Meat Sandwich, Creamy Fowl Sauté, Peppery Daggerquill Rice, Quillhorn Soup
 	80 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Prairie-Style Skewers, Breaded Cutlet with Tomato, and Miss Mercenary's Cassoulet.
 	220 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Fried Frontier Skewer, Crown City Dive-Style Dumplings, Ace Hunter's Schnitzel, Meat-and-Beet Bouillon, Pit Crew's Meat Wraps
 	120 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Grease Monkey's Schnitzel Sandwich, Dry-Aged Tender Roast Stew, Stacked Ham Sandwich
 	160 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Spicy Long-Bone Rib Steak, Quillhorn Soup, Meldacio Meat Pie, and Horntooth Meat Pie.
 	240 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Paella de Pollo, Mother & Child Rice Bowl, Green Soup Curry
 	100 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Oil-Drizzled Steamed Fish, Quillhorn Soup, Hunters' Krazy Kebabs, Creamy Bisque, Anointed Allural Sea Bass, and Hearty Stir-Fry.
 	200 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Burly Bean Bowl, Breaded Cutlet with Tomato, Classic Tomato & Egg Stir-Fry, Dry-Aged Tender Roast Stew, and Keycatrich Salad.
 	100 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Grease Monkey's Schnitzel Sandwich, Fried Frontier Skewer, Crown City Dive-Style Dumplings, Ace Hunter's Schnitzel, Fluffy Chiffon Cake, Cannedwich, Meldacio Meat Pie, Crispy Fish Fritterwich, Beanball Croquettes, Golden Egg Galette, Garulessandwich, Horntooth Meat Pie, Karlabos Cream Croquettes, and Fishsticks on Sticks.
 	200 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Peppery Daggerquill Rice, Egg-Fried Crustacean Bowl, Garden Curry, Triple Truffle Risotto, Free-Range Fowl over Rice, Creamy Milk Risotto, Fried Rookie on Rice, Fisherman's Favorite Paella, Paella de Pollo, Mother & Child Rice Bowl, Royal Road Paella, Papa Bird & Baby Bowl, Hearty Cutlet on Rice, and Roc of Ravatogh Rice.
 	10 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Veggie Medley Stew, Creamy Fowl Sauté, Creamy Milk Risotto, Taelpar Harvest Galette, Kupoberry Cheesecake, Golden Chocobo Tart, Keycatrich Salad, and Moogle Mousse with Kupoberry Sauce.
 	40 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Veggie Medley Stew, Dish and Chips, Dry-Aged Tender Roast Stew, Battered Barramundi, Ace Hunter's Schnitzel, Garden Curry, Meat-and-Beet Bouillon.
 	80 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Veggie Medley Stew, Creamy Fowl Sauté, Triple Truffle Risotto, Croaker in Brown Sauce.
 	20 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Prairie-Style Skewers, Spicy Long-Bone Rib Steak, Grilled Wild Trevally, Peppery Daggerquill Rice, Crown City Dive-Style Dumplings, Robust Bean Soup, Toadsteak Drumsticks, Skewered Wild Trout, Creamy Bisque, Devilfin Soup, Crown City Roast, Legendary Herb-Grilled Whopper, and Broiled King-on-a-Stick.
 	50 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Burly Bean Bowl, Fried Rookie on Rice, Sweet & Spicy Cygillan Crab, Green Soup Curry, Blazing Braised Gizzard, Fire-Sauce Fillet, Sweet Saltwater Crustacean Curry, Plump 'n' Pungent Tofu, and Pit Crew's Meat Wraps.
 	100 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Hot Hopper Skewers, Darkshells Marinières, Kenny's Original Recipe, Prime Garula Rib, Fried Tide Grouper, Kenny's Secret Recipe, Semur Skewers, and Hearty Stir-Fry.
 	300 	Ingredients	Used for cooking Elegant Orange Cake, Taelpar Harvest Galette, and Military Man's Banquet.
 	3000	Auto Parts 	A custom decal set with a colorful pop art motif.
 	1500	Auto Parts 	A decal featuring a chocobo.
 	1500	Auto Parts 	A decal featuring a moogle.
 	1500	Auto Parts 	A decal featuring a cactuar.
 	100 	Auto Parts 	Adds music from Final Fantasy X to the music player.
 	500 	Key Items 	Can be given to Talcott at Cape Caem.
 	800 	Key Items 	Teaches Ignis Prime Garula Rib.
 	500 	Key Items 	Quest item for Adventurer from Another World.
====Culless Munitions - Chocobo Post====
Culless Munitions is a weapons and accessories vendor operating from a black Culless Munitions van at the outskirts of the outpost. It has largely the same inventory as the Culless Munitions at Coernix Station - Cauthess.
Item	Gil 	Type	Info
 	300 	 	ATK 83	MP+7Reduces the MP cost of aerial maneuvers.
 	131 	 	HP+82 Fire Resist+27%Inflicts fire damage.
 	300 	 	ATK 55	Magic+32
 	300 	 	ATK 58	MP+6 Magic+10They sap the attacking strength of foes.
 	300 	 	ATK 53	Spirit+5Fires poisoned rounds.
 	300 	 	ATK 52	Vitality+15 Ballistic Resist+8%Blinking restores a small amount of health.
 	1200	 	HP+100
 	800 	 	Strength+30
 	1500	 	Vitality +50
 	2000	 	Ballistic Resist+10%
 	1200	 	Spirit+50
 	200 	 	Magic+60
 	5000	 	Protects from all staining.
 	1000	 	Protects from some staining.
====Chocobo Salon====
Camilla operates the Chocobo Salon next to the chocobo pen. She sells greens and can customize the player's rented chocobos (Iris's chocobo cannot be customized) with dyes and medals. New greens become available at the shop by completing quests for Wiz Forlane; the best greens don't become available until after all of his quests are done. The greens can be fed to chocobos while camping with rented chocobos, and the perks can be used in chocobo races.
 
Item	Gil	Type 	Info
 	50 	Leisure Goods	Boosts chocobo's stamina.
 	50 	Leisure Goods	Boosts chocobo's gliding ability.
 	50 	Leisure Goods	Boosts chocobo's galloping ability.
 	300	Leisure Goods	Boosts all of chocobo's attributes.
====Racing track====
Across the road from the outpost is a chocobo racing track where the player can compete in various courses after chocobos have been cleared for riding in lieu of the hunt for Deadeye. The player can earn medals to decorate their chocobo with and find fruit to unlock new chocobo colors at the salon.
==Items==
*Iron Bangle
*Camera Strap - unique accessory for Prompto (deck of the main building)
*Book of Cosmogony (bench by the main building)
==Quests==
===Wiz's quests===
Wiz hands out several chocobo-related quests, giving chocobo-related rewards for completing them, and is first met by Noctis's group when Prompto wishes to take up chocobo racing. However, races and riding are suspended as a hulking behemoth (Deadeye) roams about the area. Noctis's party sets out to slay the beast, tracking it back to its den and slaying it. Afterward, Wiz will let the party rent chocobos and use the chocobo-grooming services to customize their looks.
Wiz will ask the group to find missing and possibly injured chocobos and heal them, or photograph them for Wiz to determine their condition. On another instance, he asks the group to find ingredients for a recipe which he believes would attracts more visitors to the ranch. From the ingredients Wiz makes servings of stacked club sandwiches from which Ignis can learn a similar recipe.
Wiz's final quest tasks the player with finding a rare female black-feathered chocobo that has fallen under attack. Noctis's party saves the egg but can't find the mother bird. They take the egg back to Wiz who notifies the group once it hatches.
===Adventurer from Another World===
To start the quest, the player must head to Cauthess Rest Area after completing the main quest and objective "The Hexatheon's Blessings: Touch the first runestone" in the story. The player can fast-travel there if they have visited the location previously, and the quest starts as soon as the location loads. The retinue hears a voice and follows it to the warehouse where they find Y'jhimei stuck under a gargantuan chocobo. The party must go to Wiz Chocobo Post to buy Premium Gysahl Greens from the kiosk (they cost 500 gil and the player can only buy one) and give them to the chocobo to free Y'jhimei. She heads off to Perpetouss Keep where the party is to follow. 
===Hunts===
===New recipes===
Eating Fat Chocobo Triple-Decker at Cafe Claire teaches Stacked Ham Sandwich to Ignis, but the player must make it available at the cafe first by completing Wiz's quests.
Purchasing Iron Shelf Recipes, Vol. 2 from Post Kiosk teaches Prime Garula Rib.
===Artist in Altissia===
There are two drawings at the outpost drawn by an artist in Altissia, one of Wiz and one of a chocobo.
===Photo ops===
The player can ask Prompto to take a photo of the party by the chocobos at a spot near the stables.
After completing the "A Behemoth Undertaking" hunt and reaching Cape Caem in Chapter 6, driving by Wiz Chocobo Post has Prompto suggest a photo there, opening the quest Photo Op: Ranch. Completing it yields 250 EXP.
==Episode Duscae demo==
Wiz Chocobo Post is one of the locations available to visit in the Final Fantasy XV Episode Duscae game demo. In the demo, the post has much more limited features available, as it is not possible to rent or ride chocobos even after Deadeye is defeated. Wiz himself mans the shop counter, but is not always actively behind it. If a "Be right back" sign is posted, the player must talk to him on the chocobo post grounds to open it.
==Musical themes==
"Blues de Chocobo" plays at Wiz Chocobo Post. It is a version of the traditional "Chocobo Theme," and was composed by Yoko Shimomura.
==Behind the scenes==
The main building at Wiz Chocobo Post has rooms inside that seem unfinished and the player can't enter the building. The "hidden" rooms can be explored with Ansel in the Windows Edition.
When the party leaves Leide after Chapter 2, they talk about Duscae and where they are headed next. Ignis says Duscae has a chocobo forest, likely referring to Wiz Chocobo Post. Chocobo forests were a recurring location in the pre-PlayStation 2 era Final Fantasy games where the player could find chocobos.
Where the name of Wiz's cafe comes from is unknown, but Claire is also Lightning's true name from Final Fantasy XIII.
A "chocobo pen" dubbed Wiz Chocobo Post was present at Square Enix's booth in EGX 2016 where attendees could pet "real" chocobos.
== Gallery ==
Radio at Wiz Chocobo Post in FFXV.png|Radio at the entrance.
FINAL-FANTASY-XV-EPISODE-DUSCAE Wiz Chocobo Post.jpg|Main building.
FFXV-Wiz-Chocobo-Post.png|Chocobo stables.
Wiz-Shop-FFXV.png|The shop.
Wiz-Chocobo-Post-Caravan-FFXV.png|The caravan.
Wiz-Chocobo-Post-Night-FFXV.png|Wiz Chocobo Post at night.
Wiz-Chocobo-Post-FFXV.png|Artwork.
Chocobo-Merchandise-FFXV.png|Merchandise at the outpost.
Wiz-FFXV.png|Wiz, chocobo outpost owner.
==Etymology==
==Citations==
pt-br:Wiz Chocobo Post
ru:Станция чокобо Уиз
Category:Locations in Final Fantasy XV
Category:Organizations in Final Fantasy XV