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Welcome Back to the Wonderful World of Vana’diel

With FINAL FANTASY XI's eleventh anniversary celebrations well underway, we're proud to announce another appreciative measure: two types of the Return Home to Vana'diel Campaign!

While you may have been away for many moons, Vana'diel has developed nicely over the past years, with the recent additions of enticing new content and improvements to familiar content making the realm easier than ever before to explore! Why not make now the time to check up on old friends and see some new sights?

Peruse the particulars on what Vana'diel has to offer returning adventurers.

Grennith’s Diary

The one-and-only wonderful funderful Fremilla here, ready to liven up your day!

What's that? You don't remember me?

How could you forget the most memorable face in all of Ulbuka? We even had a moment together outside the gates of Castle Adoulin. You were looking for Arciela...

Come on! Honestly, I don't know how that couldn't get your memory a-movin'.

Even if my lovely countenance doesn't spark your memory, though, this nifty-shifty item here should at least spark your interest.

"...What's that?"

"Cynthia, just because you asked to look doesn't mean you can rip it out of my hands like that! Proper etiquette dictates that you wait for me to give my approval and let me hand it to you. People's property isn't the teat of a wetnurse, you infantile brute."

"Hey, this is Grennith's diary..."

"That would be correct. It details the daily events of our tyrant of tidiness and timeliness way back twelve years ago when she was but a maiden of sixteen. Coincidentally, that's almost the same age as we are now!"

"Twelve years ago...I was only three."

"No one asked you, Cynthia. Perhaps it would be better for you to take a page out of Grennith's diary and shut your trap until you're spoken to. Now then, there's a particular entry around the time she first entered into servitude at the castle. Does that interest you at all?"

"Yes...but I wouldn't want to test my luck."

"Test my luck? I think you mean tear the lid off some delicious tidbits of information. How can you balk at a chance to read the innermost thoughts of a young Grennith? Perhaps she even pens a few paragraphs on her exploits in the field of love!"

"Maybe, but I certainly didn't have you in mind when I wrote those entries."

"Eeek!"

"Fremilla! Get over here this instant!

"G-G-Grennith! How long have you been here?! Uh, I mean you've got it all wrong! Please, not the whip! Anything but the whip!"

"I told you it was a gamble."

Peruse the yellowing pages of Grennith's diary to discover what her life was like when she first came to Castle Adoulin.

Repeat Login Campaign No. 5 Comes Shufflin’ Into Town!

All of Vana'diel looks forward to seeing you each day--and Repeat Login Campaign No. 5 is here to greet you when you visit!

Campaign Period: Monday, November 11, 2013 at 12:00 p.m. (PST) to Monday, December 2, 2013 at 6:00 a.m.

Receive login points each day just for saying hello to the citizens of Vana'diel, and exchange them for various in-game rewards!

This time around, we have reduced the number of logins needed to receive certain rewards so that you can get your hands on them even easier than before!

If you are logged in when the campaign begins, you must either relog or change areas in order to receive your points.

Read on for a list of available items and how to participate in Repeat Login Campaign No. 5.

Today, Altana has blessed us with the latest version update!

We are pleased to announce the long-awaited updates to relic, mythic, and empyrean weapons as well as artifact armor!

We have also added the ability to unlock weapon skills previous only useable with certain empyrean weapons; new special abilities; new Seekers of Adoulin missions and areas; new monsters, including a ferocious Naakual; higher tier versions of existing battlefields; adjustments to Monstrosity; PlayStation 2 anti-blackout measures; and a variety of other content!

Read on to count your blessings!

Arboreal Maledictions

Our amazing analysts at the Adoulin Examiner are back with their third enchanting exposition!

In our last issue, the dynamic duo sought to question a quirky man dressed in black...but their valiant efforts ended in vain.

I wonder who he was, kupo...

Setting that aside, in this astounding article Fam and Owl attend to the magnificent mysteries of the Ulbukan continent.

To think! A genteel girl gallivanting through the wilds! Her family must be furious, kupo!

But this time, they took with them a young woman affiliated with the Order of Weatherspoon, which asserts authority equal to the omnipotent Order of Adoulin.

Why? Well, with exceptional exorcists like...what's his name...that's right, Vortimere! Vortimere commands the highest heights of respect.

You know, for many moons, men have told tales of the "curse of the forest"...could it be related to the exorcists, kupo?

Read the revealing report on their adventures with a freshly-minted exorcist and find out!

Don’t Judge a Galka by His Fur

Happy harvest-time hoedown, hearty harriers of havening!

Once again the vibrations of voluminous voices chanting "Trick or treat," will soon echo extensively off enclosures and embankments throughout the three nations, kupo.

By the way, do you remember the record of rambling rovers from the remote west who smoked out the secrets of the spooky and spine-chilling Dark Lilies for all to see? I believe they maintained peace under the moniker of "exorcist," kupo.

Well, one of these acolytes of Altana wound up waxing wise in Windurst with a mage.

Thanks to his seriously sagacious statements, the mage learned some lasting lessons about not berating a book based on its binding, kupo.

Read on for the entirety of an encouraging exchange between an enchanter and exorcist.