Shine On You Crazy Mordling

Quest giver: Paternal Mord
Location: Amh Araeng (X:13.3, Y:10.4)
Quest line: Amh Araeng Sidequests
Level: 70 
Required items: 1 Twinkling Gemstone
Experience: 54,000-57,240
Gil: 679
Previous quest: Free Trade
Patch: 5.0
Links: EDB GT TC

An especially fatherly looking Mord needs your help to solve an unusual quandary.

— In-game description

Steps

Speak with the paternal Mord.

Speak with the paternal Mord again.

Retrieve the twinkling gemstone.

Deliver the twinkling gemstone to the Mord youngling.

Journal

An especially fatherly looking Mord needs your help to solve an unusual quandary.

Walkthrough

If you don't have flying in this region, if you select the gemstone when visible, and go on top of the boxes on the porch below it, you can retrieve the gemstone without jumping on the roof.

However, if you do wish to do this legitimately, before defeating Lightwarden and before gaining flight, then simply use Company Chocobo and jump (at full speed) from the nearby plank that is suspended over the cliff. The Company Chocobo or any mount, will easily get you to the roof top, even without requiring additional mount speed from region's riding map.

Using Sprint and your own two legs will not work, as you will always fall a hair short of the roof.

Related NPCs

Dialogue

Accepting the quest

Paternal Mord

It is a dire emergency! Dire indeed! You must help!

Follow me, I will explain everything!

Speak with the paternal Mord.

Optional dialogue

Maternal Mord

What ever shall we do!?

Mord Youngling

My most prized possession... I am lost without it!

Paternal Mord

Hear my plea, noble traveler!

My son was playing with his favorite gemstone and somehow it ended up on that balcony up there. I told him “If it is so precious, you should stop throwing it around like that,” but alas, my words fell on deaf ears!

Mord Youngling

It looked so pretty, spinning through the air! Oh, how it sparkled!

Paternal Mord

Enough of that, you fool! Ahem. As you can see, it is too high for any of us Mord to reach. We are simply not built for such acrobatics!

I have a feeling you would fare better. This way, please!

Optional dialogue

Maternal Mord

My poor boy... What did he do to deserve such awful luck?

Mord Youngling

I would do anything to get my gemstone, but Mother says, “No jumping off of cliffs!”