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Keeping the Spirit Alive

Pugilist class quest, level 20. 110th of 180 in play order.

Quest giver: Hamon, Ul'dah - Steps of Nald (X 9.7, Y 10.4).

Next: My Little Chocobo (Immortal Flames) ›

Steps

  1. Speak with Chuchuto.
  2. Use Bootshine on the indentations and obtain hornet stingers.
  3. Present the hornet stingers to Hamon.
  4. Train with Hamon.
  5. Speak with Hamon.
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Journal
  1. Hamon is in dire need of cheering up.
  2. Recent events have left Hamon deeply depressed. Unable to muster up the will to train you, he bids you seek out Chuchuto for your next lesson.
  3. Chuchuto believes that if you go about your training the way that Hamon once did, you might serve to stoke the fires of his fighting spirit. To this end, she bids you go to the southern part of Drybone, and there perform a Bootshine combo on the trees that bear indentations. Doing so will stir hornet clouds from their hives. Defeat them and claim three of their stingers.
  4. You have obtained the required number of hornet stingers. Present them to Hamon at the Pugilists' Guild.
  5. As Chuchuto had expected, the hornet stingers remind Hamon of his younger days, and the man expresses his fervent desire to relive them again. Rather unexpectedly, however, he demands that you now fight him. Let your guildmaster know when you are ready to begin.
  6. No sooner does your bout with the guildmaster end than his old rival, Weggfarr Wideaxe, arrives on the scene with Rurukuta in tow. Having made a mockery of Hamon's efforts, Weggfarr challenges him to a public rematch, with the Pugilists' Guild itself as the prize for the winner. Speak with your guildmaster and learn his mind on the matter.
  7. Much to Chuchuto's dismay, Hamon is determined to face Weggfarr again. Back in his prime, the guildmaster defeated the hulking marauder, and he believes he can repeat the feat─with your help. Keep up your training, that your progress might inspire Hamon to regain his former strength. ※The next pugilist quest will be available from Hamon upon reaching level 25.
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Lore Hamon swears 'Thal's balls!'. Thal is one half of Nald'thal, the guardian god of Ul'dah, who is the twins Nald and Thal in one.
In-game text The Hornet Stinger text adds that each stinger holds 'a single drop of poison' that spills very easily. So bringing back three whole stingers is harder than it sounds.
Characters 3

  • Hamon

    Hamon is deeply sad since his weakness came out, and no longer wants to teach you.

    What you know from earlier quests 4
    • #2 Way of the Pugilist: Hamon first mistakes you for his errand boy and panics about a dancer. Then he welcomes you to the guild, explains that pugilists fight fast with fists and feet, sends you to hunt vermin, and gives you a hunting log.
    • #25 Harder than Rock: Hamon makes you sprint around Ul'dah to collect his scattered gil, and teaches you to pace yourself. He sends you to fight earth sprites at the trial stones, praises you, and introduces his assistant Chuchuto. He mentions one other early student, then stops.
    • #46 Burning Up the Quarter Malm: Hamon teaches you the combo Bootshine, True Strike, then Snap Punch. He likes to tell how he beat the marauder Wideaxe. He took in Chuchuto and Rurukuta as starving orphans and worries about her slump. He lets you join other guilds.
    • #72 The Spirit Is Willing: Hamon agrees to catch somnus (a drug) smugglers for a fan. At the hideout he finds his student Rurukuta among them. Rurukuta reveals he saw a marmot beat Hamon. Hamon admits old age took his strength, apologizes, and leaves to be alone.

  • Chuchuto

    Chuchuto hoped your progress might lift Hamon out of his gloom, but it has not worked.

    What you know from earlier quests 3
    • #25 Harder than Rock: Chuchuto is Hamon's right hand and his very first student, who joined just after he became guildmaster. She is cheerful, wants to master the art with you, and steers talk away from the past. She asks for her gil, needed for gear repairs.
    • #46 Burning Up the Quarter Malm: Chuchuto teases Hamon, who tells tales of beating Wideaxe but never shows his skill. She praises your fast progress. Hamon says she has been in a slump since her closest friend and rival, Rurukuta, vanished from the guild. Both were orphans Hamon took in.
    • #72 The Spirit Is Willing: Chuchuto fights beside you and explains that somnus, made from dream flowers, can cause endless sleep. She confronts Rurukuta at the hideout. After seeing Hamon's weakness, she still respects him, owes him her life, and teaches you Steel Peak to rekindle his spirit.

  • Rurukuta

    Rurukuta is away from the guild, mixed up with the Alacran smugglers.

    What you know from earlier quests 2
    • #46 Burning Up the Quarter Malm: Hamon mentions Rurukuta as Chuchuto's closest friend and rival. Both were born to refugees, orphaned in the Calamity, and taken in by Hamon. Rurukuta suddenly disappeared, and nobody knows what became of him.
    • #72 The Spirit Is Willing: Rurukuta is the silver-haired Lalafell smuggling somnus (a drug) with the Alacran criminals. He left the guild after he secretly saw a common marmot beat Hamon. He calls Hamon a liar about his strength and flees after the fight.
What happens in this quest spoilers for this quest
  • Hamon: The hornet stingers remind Hamon of his youth. He fights you and feels alive again. His old rival Weggfarr Wideaxe offers a public rematch, the guild as prize, and Hamon accepts. He admits he is weak but says fighting you reminds him who he was.
  • Chuchuto sends you to Drybone to strike the trees marked by Hamon's fists and fight hornet clouds, as he did in his youth. Her plan works. She is dismayed when Hamon agrees to Weggfarr's rematch with the guild as the prize.
  • Rurukuta arrives at the guild with Weggfarr Wideaxe, Hamon's old rival. Weggfarr says Rurukuta now works for him in the Alacran, and that he was surprised to learn Rurukuta trained under the Holyfist.
Dialogue 48 lines

Accepting the quest

Hamon

Oh, it's you, [name]. I'm sorry, but I don't have anything to teach you...if I ever did at all. You're far better off training under Chuchuto. You'll find her over yonder. Just... Just leave me be.

Speak with Chuchuto.

Chuchuto

Hrmmm... I was so hopeful that seeing you improve in leaps and bounds would spur Master Hamon out of his doldrums. It seems more must be done.

Use Bootshine on the indentations and obtain hornet stingers.

Chuchuto

Perhaps the end result is not so important as the manner in which you get there. In other words, if you were to train precisely as Master Hamon once did─overcome the selfsame challenges that he did in his youth─I daresay it would stoke the fires of his fighting spirit!

Listen well, [name]. Master once told me that he used to refine his combinations by provoking deadly creatures into unleashing their fury upon him. For this purpose, he often went to the southern part of Drybone to fight the hornet clouds there.

To this day, the tree trunks that he struck to stir the vilekin from their hives bear the mark of his fists. I want you to seek out these trees, and do as Master Hamon once did─strike them with a Bootshine combo, and fight the hornet clouds that emerge.

Once you have felled enough of the creatures to collect three of their stingers, return here and present them to Master Hamon. They will remind him of better days, I am sure of it!

Present the hornet stingers to Hamon.

Hamon

What is it now? Can't you leave a feeble old man in peace?

Thal's balls, these are hornet stingers! You...you trained as I once did out in Drybone!?

Heh, those hornet clouds were right pesky buggers. I fair lost count of the times they stung me, though I remember the, er...places well enough. The pain was nigh unbearable, but I always stood my ground!

  • FR Je ne compte plus le nombre de piqûres qu'elles m'avaient infligées... mais je me rappelle bien la douleur. ‘I've lost count of the stings they gave me... but I remember the pain well.’ English jokes that he remembers the places he was stung; French says he remembers the pain.
  • DE Ich kann mich nur allzu gut daran erinnern. ‘I can remember it all too well.’ English jokes that he remembers the places he was stung; German just says he remembers it all too well.
  • JA お主が、若い頃のワシの修行を軽々と……！ ‘You breezed through the training of my younger days...!’ English recalls the pesky hornet clouds and their stings; Japanese marvels that you easily did his youthful training.

Ah, the memories of my younger days come flooding back! What I wouldn't give to relive them!

Train with Hamon.

Hamon

[name]! I want you to fight me, right here, right now! Make me remember what it's like to be young again─to have nothing to lose and everything to gain!

  • FR Tu n'as rien à perdre, bien au contraire, crois-moi ! ‘You have nothing to lose, quite the contrary, believe me!’ English recalls youth as having nothing to lose; French tells you that you have nothing to lose.
  • JA この熱い想いを忘れぬうちにじゃ！！ ‘Before I forget this burning feeling!!’ English asks you to make him remember being young; Japanese wants to fight before he forgets this burning feeling.

Speak with Hamon.

Hamon

Hah hah hah! Gods, I haven't felt this invigorated since...since forever! When I'm fighting you, it's as though I'm fighting my younger self! Mayhap there's still hope for these old bones! I'll make my comeback yet, see if I don't!

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Hamon

Ready or not, here I come!

Make me feel good, [name]!

  • FR N'espère pas que je retienne mes coups, [name] ! ‘Don't expect me to hold back my blows, [name]!’ English has him ask you to make him feel good; French warns he will not hold back his blows.
  • JA 拳聖のハモンの拳を、しかと目に焼き付けるが良い！ ‘Burn the fists of Hamon the Fist Saint firmly into your eyes!’ English has him ask you to make him feel good; Japanese has him boast that you should behold his fists.

Ugh... That'll leave a bruise...

Yes! It's starting to come back to me!

  • JA よ、予定通り！ ‘J-just as planned!’ English cheers as his strength returns; Japanese has him stammer that it is all going as planned.

You won't have it so easy this round, [name]!

Hah hah hah! There's no stopping the Holyfist!

Chuchuto

I...I can't bear to watch...

Hamon

Ngaaah! Have you no respect for the elderly!?

  • JA も、もうちょっと優しくして……。 ‘B-be a little gentler with me...’ English protests at a lack of respect for the elderly; Japanese begs you to be a bit gentler.

Yes! Yes! My strength returns!

  • JA け、計画通りじゃのう！ ‘J-just according to plan!’ English cheers as his strength returns; Japanese has him stammer that it is going according to plan.

Come on! Let's go it one more round!

Chuchuto

Again!?

Hamon

Get ready to feel the power of Hamooon HOLYFIIIST!

I'm just getting started!

More, [name]! Give me more!

Urgh! I...I feel so...so alive!

  • JA わ、ワシ……なんだか目覚めちゃいそう……！ ‘Guhaa! I... somehow feel like I'm about to awaken...!’ English has him feel so alive; Japanese has him say he feels he might somehow awaken.

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Weggfarr

???: Gahahaha! What are ye doin', old man? Learnin' how to walk?

  • FR T'essaies de dérouiller tes articulations ou quoi ? ‘Are you trying to loosen up your rusty joints or what?’ English mocks him as learning how to walk; French mocks him as loosening rusty joints.

Y-You're...Weggfarr Wideaxe!

Ain't none called me that in ages... Nay, not since the day ye defeated me on the bloodsands...

I gave up prizefightin' after that for the humiliation, but it weren't long till I found a place in the Alacran. Yer boy Rurukuta works for me now. Imagine me surprise when I learned he used to train under the mighty Holyfist.

  • FR À cause de toi, j'ai arrêté les combats organisés, et après quelques années d'errance, j'ai fini par rentrer chez les Alacrán. ‘Because of you, I quit organized fights, and after a few years of wandering, I ended up joining the Alacrán.’ English says it was not long before he joined the Alacran; French says it took years of wandering.
  • DE Eine Zeit lang habe ich mich einfach treiben lassen, bis ich schließlich bei den Alacran eine neue Heimat fand. ‘For a while I simply let myself drift, until I finally found a new home with the Alacran.’ English says it was not long before he joined the Alacran; German says he drifted for a while first.

But Holyfist ain't nothin' but a name these days, so I'm told. How do ye sleep at night, knowin' how flaccid ye've become?

'Course, if yer havin' trouble noddin' off, ye could always try a whiff o' somnus. I'll even give ye a complimentary sample. But like as not, a dodderin' old sort like you won't ever wake up again! Gahahaha!

Hamon

Shut your mouth, Weggfarr, or I'll shut it for you!

  • JA あと僅かで「拳聖のハモン」は完全復活するからのう！ ‘In just a little while, Hamon the Fist Saint will be fully revived!’ English threatens to shut Weggfarr's mouth; Japanese boasts that Hamon will soon be fully revived.

Weggfarr

Now, now, let's be civilized for a moment, eh? We're old friends, after all, an' friends help each other out. Ye mentioned makin' a comeback just now. If yer serious about it, I'd be glad to lend a helpin' hand.

  • FR Tu veux me faire mourir de rire ou quoi, l'ancêtre ? ‘Do you want me to die laughing or what, old-timer?’ English has him feign civility; French has him openly laugh at the comeback.
  • JA 笑わせるぜ！ ‘Don't make me laugh!’ English has him feign civility; Japanese has him openly laugh at the comeback.

By way o' motivatin' ye, how's about we have us a rematch? O' course, it'd take place in public, jus' like old times. Oh, an' there should be a fittin' purse as well. Let's say...the winner gets the Pugilists' Guild.

Chuchuto

What!? That's ridiculous! Master, you're not obligated to take him up on this!

Weggfarr

Ah, this must be yer little nursemaid! Rest assured, after I've taken over the guild, I'll keep her on as me personal assistant! Gahahaha!

  • JA お、後ろの可愛い子ちゃんは店の看板娘にしてやろうか？ ‘Oh, shall I make the cutie behind you the poster girl of my shop?’ English mocks her as Hamon's nursemaid, kept as assistant; Japanese calls her a cutie for his shop's poster girl.

Chuchuto

D-Do you really mean to fight him?

Hamon

Have no fear, Chuchuto.

Chuchuto

Master...

Hamon

[name]. I don't mean to put undue pressure on you...

  • JA [name]わかっているな……？ ‘[name], you understand, don't you...?’ English disclaims putting pressure on you; Japanese bluntly asks whether you understand.

But the fate of the guild rests upon your shoulders!

Chuchuto

I don't believe this!

  • JA く、クソジジイ……！ ‘You d-damn old geezer...!’ English expresses disbelief; Japanese curses him as a damn old geezer.

Hamon

Listen to me, Chuchuto. I know I can do this. I just need [name] to keep getting stronger, as she/he's been doing so far. Fighting her/him reminds me of who I used to be. I'm confident I can be that man again.

If you're feeling apprehensive about this rematch business, I don't blame you. I'm not blind to reality. If I were to face Weggfarr as I am now, I'd be down for the count in a matter of heartbeats, if not lying dead in a pool of my own blood.

But I'm determined to win, and I can with your help. Your presence sets my fighting spirit to raging, [name]!

So keep at your training─I promise to do the same. When you've grown stronger, return here, and we'll both continue our lessons!