The Hideaway

Start by heading over to Charon’s Toll and purchasing the new sword she is selling. She is also selling a new belt and vambrace, but these are not significant upgrades, even after you reinforce them at The Black Hammer, so you can skip out on them if you’re finding yourself low on gil.

Purchased Item	Cost
Rune Blade	4,000 Gil
Rune Belt	3,600 Gil
Rune Crescents	3,800 Gil

Head over to Blackthorne to upgrade the items that you purchased (either one or all of them). As noted, the Rune Belt +2 and Rune Crescents +2 are still barely upgrades (if they are at all, that is) over what you likely already have.

Reinforced Item	Material
Rune Blade +1	Sanguine Isignia Wyrrite (x180) Magicked Ash (x180)
Rune Blade +2	Meteorite (x6) Magicked Ash (x120)
Rune Belt +1	Bloody Hide (x162) Magicked Ash (x81) Steelsilk (x81)
Rune Belt +2	Meteorite (x5) Coeurl Whisker Magicked Ash (x108)
Rune Crescents +1	Sanguine Isignia Steelsilk (x255) Magicked Ash (x87)
Rune Crescents +2	Meteorite (x5) Dragon Talon Desert Rose (x20)

There’s a new Notorious Mark that you can track down as well:

Head back to the Hideaway and speak to Otto next. This will kick off the next Main Scenario Subquest.

Like Father, Like Daughter

The first step of this quest is to “search Mid’s dungeon,” so make your way to the back of the Hideaway and head down the stairs. Inspect the volumes at the bottom of the left side of the stairs, and then inspect the desk that’s close by. The task will update to say “continue searching Mid’s dungeon,” and you can now inspect the nearby shelf to find an object with a letter tucked inside.

Head back up to the mess to speak with Otto again, and then head over to the Orchestrion in the Ale Hall. Speak to the two children standing in front of it and then inspect the Orchestrion again afterward. Clive will obtain The Final Piece, which Cid had hidden long ago. This completes the very short “Like Father, Like Daughter” Main Scenario Subquest.

A bunch of new Optional Quests will now be available for you to complete:

The reward from “Blacksmith’s Blues III” is the Ouroboros Design Draft, which allows you to craft the Ouroboros belt and The Sons of Ouroboros vambraces when you have the materials. For now, you’re missing the Stone Tongue and the Stained Loincloth, respectively.

This is mentioned on the Tears of Mercy quest page, but as a reminder, there is one more reward to collect after completing this quest. Speak to Tarja one more time, and she will give Clive the Medicine Chest curiosity.

If you’ve been following along with the Hunts and Optional Quests, you should have enough Renown to pick up your next reward at The Patron’s Whisper:

The Patron’s Whisper Donation	Renown	Crate Contents
A Fitting Performance	1,635	Clutchmine (x20) Wyrrite (x50) Magicked Ash (x50) Ability Points (x2,500)

It’s now time to move ahead with the Main Scenario Quest and return to the Ironworks, but before you do, swap over to your multi-target Eikonic Ability Set. Then, when you’re ready, open up the world map and select The Ironworks in the southern section of the map.