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I dont think its based on Mog house element. My Mog house is : 'faintly aglow with water energy kupo!' and i got the color Black from the npc at mhaura.

I think its related to the gear related element you have on you when you touch the lucky runes. So the higher you have in this based element, better it is. But like someone said, song from brd seems not working. Thats why i think its only gear elemental bonus. Try to equip only the elemental the npc ask you.

I received Green/Wind as my color while the location of my luck rune lies West/Pashow Marshlands(Lighting, Water).


Reading through the Azimuth Circle event, I am wondering if the places you have to go to are the Luck Runes. You also have to have a Partner for this quest. I wonder if the fortune is telling you how to get the +1 items from this event. Just speculation, but it is interesting how many details may overlap.

8 Elements.
8 Avatars.
8 Constellations.
8 Named Stars.
8 Guilds.
8 Days of the Week.
8 Weather Patterns.
8 Phases of the Moon.

Each element corresponds with a stat.

Fire = Strength
Earth = Vitality
Lightening = Dexterity
Wind = Agility
Ice = Intelligence
Water = Mind
Light = Charisma

You'll notice Dark does not have a stat. This is not unintended, I believe.

In artistic color theory, White reflects visible light, and therefore is considered to be devoid of color. Black, however, absorbs all color in the spectrum, and is therefore considered to be an amalgamation of all color.

White and Black reflect this in the game. This can be seen via AF coloring (see below) as well as in two high level rings, the Light Ring and the Dark Ring. The Light Ring offers only a bonus to HP and Charisma, and actually substracts from your stats that correspond to color. The Dark Ring adds bonuses to all of your color stats, including CHR, and MP. This can be viewed as an example of Light reflecting away color and Dark absorbing color.

Also note that there is a direct elemental correspondance between job class, their strengths, and their AF color.

Warrior - Strength/Fire - Red AF
Thief - Evasion/Wind - Green AF
Monk - Vitality/Earth - Yellow AF
Dragoon - Accuracy/Lightening - Purple AF
Beastmaster - Charisma/Light - White AF

As mentioned above White reflects color, while Black absorbs color. In this way, one can see the correlation of color between Paladin and white, reflective armor as well as the black armor of a Dark Knight, the kings of absorbtion.

While all the mages take their color from their namesake, they also have color for more specific reasons. It can be stated that a WHM is White because they do not use color/elemental magic, and a BLM is Black because they are the amalgamation of the elements/colors in the spectrum. Red Mages may be considered red because their original intended purpose to melee via swords/sword magic - showing a further correlation between Red/Strength/Attack.

Ninja wear black AF for the same reason a BLM is black - their key designed strength, Ton Ninjutus, makes them an amalgamation of color.

Certain armor only have hints of color. Samurai have hints of Yellow in their AF, which alludes to their intended purpose of tanking/support tanking. Ranger have hints of Green, which corresponds to their reliance upon Agility for Ranged Accuracy.

As for Bard I cannot say. Bards pure brown AF may be simply because of their style of play. Perhaps they are considered to be non-elemental? This would certainly correspond to the Brown in the RNG AF - in so far as being a non-elemantal DD as opposed to an elemental BLM DD.

And I'm just completely stumped on SMN AF.

However, this is all the info I have on the correlation between the number 8, color, and the game. I hope this can be of help to you all in some way.

Edited, Wed Jul 27 13:40:47 2005 by GrayHavens

Are you F%&*^ING SERIOUS? Did you even read the description of the Azimuth Event? It ALMOST EXACTLY DESCRIBES WHAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN DOING WITH THE RUNES FOR A WEEK. If the runes / fortunes aren't for the Azimuth Event I'll eat both of my Sniper's rings. Jeez.

Valium. {Please check it.}

The circle event sounded, to me, entirely confined within a city.... not the entirety of vana'diel.

K I relize that the proverbs have probably been figured out but since theres still a bunch of speculation in general I thought Id throw out my 2gil for the hell of it. (now I didnt get a chance to read all 7 pages because its an ungodly hour of the night here so feel free to correct me if this sounds totally wrong)

I was thinking that the proverbs might ALSO have to do with location somehow (speculation: this may tie in with the idea that you need to go to more then one luck rune to complete the quest) for example:

"Even the best parties must end." = Xarcabard

I thought of this because if your rank 5+ you should remember the cut scenes *minor spoiler if a 5 second cut scene is a big deal o.O* in Xarcabard where the party made up of people from each nation was sent to set the seal and that one guy killed the other and ended up killing that girl at the same time, eh just seemed to apply - Im not good at describing stuff - if you've seen the scenes you might get what im saying =/

I admit its a stretch but thats the point of threads like this right - to get our ideas out there so they can either become more or be disproven^^.

Edit: I cant spell -.-

Edited, Tue Aug 2 06:24:20 2005 by Pandorra

Hmmm... I was thinking, those NPC's that tell you if your partner, when your duoing will bring you good fortune or not may have something to do with it?

There's one of them in Port Windurst, I believe his name is, Pherchabalet. Maybe it is nothing, but possibly it could be?

2Weeks and still can't get anything new from Emila nor my rune. I have examined all other runes solo and get the "Nothing out of the ordinary" message.

I am going to start seeking a person with the title I need. There's got to be something more to this than crystals and a never reseting single fortune.

Elemental resistance from *buffs* doesn't affect it. Neither bars nor carols. So no worries about dragging along WHMs or BRDs. Pretty sure it's just equipment, though I agree it seems terribly pointless for a once-a-char-lifetime reward of a few crystals.

I just went on my day (earth/yellow) to the correct rune (Tahrongi/north) with a partner with the correct title, and got "You think your lucky color might bring you fortune" or w/e, when I clicked the rune. No crystals, despite casting barstonra and stoneskin. I did not have any stone protection equipment on, and the elements I did have protection for didn't exceed 2. I waited for earth weather but got wind instead. I waited for the wind to die down and for the day to change to water, and got the same message.

I'll try going back with actual earth resistance equipment and see what happens.

edit: went back with same partner but wearing +37 earth gear. Went on ice day (didn't feel like waiting) and got 1 crystal. =p

Edited, Fri Aug 5 03:59:10 2005 by Vashkoda

Any updated information about this quest?

Actually, my roomie and I did go to the san d'orian guy. Our given fortune was... less than desireable. :P

He said something along the lines of anything we do together will turn out deadly and bad.

Not too sure that it has anything to do with the fortune teller... but I have been boiling my brain on this stuff. I can't figure any of it out.