Nobilia Marketplace

The Nobilia Marketplace is a sub-area of Nobilia in Antiqua. It is home to many traders and merchants seeking to do business, but not always fairly.

Shops[]

Rogue[]

In the inn behind a row of crates, a rogue will sell the player Atlas Amulets and teach the player the related Atlas formula.

Fish[]

A vendor in the northern area of the market sells fish for 30 Jewels each. The fish are not inventory items and are immediately consumed to heal 30 HP and cure status. The vendor will also sell the player the Cure formula for 150 Jewels if they do not already have it.

Traders[]

Numerous traders inhabit Nobilia; consult the map to locate them.

Trading[]

Nobilia holds many rare items to acquire, which can also be lost if the player makes poor deals. The following are the Charms and equipment that can be acquired, and what is needed to trade for them:

Stone Vest → trade a Jeweled Scarab and 75 Jewels.
Bronze Gauntlet → trade a Souvenir Spoon and 3 Tapestry.
Armor Polish → trade the Silver Sheath and 75 Jewels. The same merchant offers to trade the items back for an additional 75 Jewels.
Magic Gourd → trade the Chocobo Egg.
Ruby Heart → trade the Moxa Stick or a Tapestry, a Jeweled Scarab, and a Limestone Tablet
Jade Disk → trade 3 Beads and 3 Chickens.
Sun Stone → trade 5 Rice and a Limestone Tablet.
Moxa Stick → trade 2 Chickens, a Jeweled Scarab, and 12 Spice.
Silver Sheath → trade the Sun Stone or a Golden Jackal and 10 Spice.

The player should do almost all of these trades, keeping their key items when an alternative trade with common trade items is offered in the case of the Silver Sheath and the Ruby Heart. Trading the Chocobo Egg for the Magic Gourd should be followed with repeating the trade for 5 ceramic pots until another Chocobo Egg is acquired. If the player misses this and is dedicated to acquiring all of the Charms, they can conduct the trade and acquire another Chocobo Egg in Ivor Tower Alley later. Trading away the Silver Sheath for the Armor Polish is fine, as the Sheath does nothing due to a glitch and can also be purchased again in Ivor Tower Alley.

After trading the three armor-trading merchants once, they will offer to trade even stronger equipment if the player still owns the original item traded for:

Centurion Cape → trade the Jade Disk.
Gloves of Ra → trade the Moxa Stick.
Centurion Helm → trade 10 Spice and a Golden Jackal.

Provided they purchased all the armor pieces available for sale in Crustacia, and own both them and the initial armor pieces traded for, the player can find the third-tier armor for free in the Nobilia Colosseum. Alternatively, the player can trade for the Stone Vest and then spare The Prophet to acquire the Centurion Cape, and the pot in the Colosseum that could contain an armor piece will instead contain the Thug's Cloak. Either way, the player can acquire these third-tier armor pieces without having to give up valuable Charms.

Appraiser[]

An appraiser in the southern area of the market will, for 5 Jewels, explain what a selected trade good or Charm does, and then offer to buy it for a fixed price. They will purchase all of a trade good the player has, with the below price being the price per item (ie, 5 Rice will sell for 20 Jewels).

Any item not listed in the below table cannot be sold.

Item	Price
Amulet of Annihilation	10 Jewels
Beads	8 Jewels
Ceramic Pot	8 Jewels
Chicken	8 Jewels
Golden Jackal	28 Jewels
Jeweled Scarab	24 Jewels
Perfume	16 Jewels
Rice	4 Jewels
Spice	8 Jewels
Souvenir Spoon	12 Jewels
Tapestry	13 Jewels
Armor Polish	160 Jewels
Jade Disk	180 Jewels
Magic Gourd	120 Jewels
Moxa Stick	260 Jewels
Ruby Heart	200 Jewels
Silver Sheath	160 Jewels
Sun Stone	200 Jewels
Chocobo Egg	80 Jewels

Money-Making[]

An easy way to make money in the market is to buy as much Rice as possible from the merchant that sells it at 3 Jewels a bag, then trade it all to the merchant that trades Ceramic Pots. Finally, go the appraiser and sell all the Pots. Each Pot trades for 2 bags of Rice, costing 6 Jewels in total, while the appraiser pays 8 Jewels for each Pot. The player may also randomly find Jewels in the Pots upon purchasing them. The player can then go buy more Rice and repeat the trading sequence as often as they like.

When doing this the player should trade their Rice for Pots in groups of five, as the Pots have more often Jewels in them than buying in groups of 10; single-purchase buys will never contain anything. The amount of Jewels found with each discovery depends on whether the Chocobo Egg or the Magic Gourd is possessed, 50 if at least one of both items is possessed, otherwise 10.

Secret Jewel Cache[]

There is a secret cache of 500 Jewels in the pot east of the stall offering a jar of Spice for four bags of Rice or Ceramic Pots. Said pot can only be accessed during the two times the market is closed, since there is a basket blocking it otherwise.

Musical Theme[]

"Lively Nobilia Marketplace"
	File:Lively Nobilia Marketplace.ogg
Trouble with the audio sample?