FFXIV Trivia
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100 free FFXIV trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This FFXIV trivia quiz covers Final Fantasy XIV from the failed 2010 original through A Realm Reborn and every expansion: Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, Endwalker, Dawntrail and the announced Evercold. You will get questions on Eorzea's city-states and the Garlean Empire, the Seventh Umbral Calamity and Bahamut, the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, the Ascians and Zodiark, plus the mechanics: the Armoury system, jobs and the expansions that added them, level caps, Trusts, flying, swimming and Island Sanctuary. It also covers the people and the numbers behind the game: Naoki Yoshida's rescue, the Legacy campaign, Masayoshi Soken's Guinness-record soundtrack, the 24 million registered players, the console ports from PlayStation 3 to Nintendo Switch 2, the awards, and the Netflix drama Dad of Light. Difficulty runs from easy questions any Warrior of Light can answer to expert ones for raiders and lore hounds. Every answer was checked against a reference page before publishing, so the dates, names and job details hold up.
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Q 01The original 2010 Final Fantasy XIV ran on which engine, built for Final Fantasy XIII?
Crystal Tools
Crystal Tools — Yoshida later said it was made for console games, not for crowds of players sharing one world, so the relaunch got a new client, new servers and a new engine.
Q 02Which Final Fantasy XI producer also produced the 2010 Final Fantasy XIV and stepped down after its failed launch?
Hiromichi Tanaka
Hiromichi Tanaka apologised for the state of the game and took full responsibility for its problems when he left the post in December 2010, making way for a new team.
Q 03Naoki Yoshida had been planning chief of which game before taking over FFXIV?
Dragon Quest X
Dragon Quest X is also an online RPG, so Yoshida arrived with MMO experience when Square Enix put him in charge of the struggling game.
Q 04What was the codename for the rebuilt game before it was titled A Realm Reborn?
Version 2.0
Version 2.0 undersold it: behind the modest number sat a new client, new servers and a new engine, built in secret while the old game stayed online.
Q 05A Realm Reborn launched in August 2013 on Windows and which console?
PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3 — the console version promised for the 2010 original never shipped, so this was its debut; support lasted until 2017, when Stormblood left the PS3 behind.
Q 06Players who paid for three months of the failed original game earned which status, with cheaper subscriptions for life?
Legacy
Legacy status also brought an exclusive chocobo mount and a place in the relaunch's credits, Yoshida's thanks to those who kept paying while the game was rebuilt.
Q 07Which elder primal escaped from the lesser moon Dalamud to trigger the Seventh Umbral Calamity?
Bahamut
Bahamut had been caged inside Dalamud, which was no moon at all but an ancient Allagan prison; it broke open above the Battle of Carteneau and he laid Eorzea to waste.
Q 08Which sage sent Final Fantasy XIV's 2010 heroes five years forward in time?
Louisoix Leveilleur
Louisoix Leveilleur failed to cage the rampaging primal, so he sent the adventurers 'beyond the reach of time' instead, which is how players' 2010 characters carried over.
Q 09Which Eorzean city-state is a thalassocracy on the island of Vylbrand?
Limsa Lominsa
Limsa Lominsa is led by an Admiral rather than a king, and most of its wealth comes from shipping, guarded by a navy that still has pirate crews to chase.
Q 10Which power, having conquered the continents to the east, invades Eorzea?
The Garleans
The Garleans cannot wield magic, so they built their empire on magitek instead: ceruleum-fuelled war machines and airships that outgunned their spell-casting neighbours.
Q 11The Scions of the Seventh Dawn are led at the start of A Realm Reborn by whom?
Minfilia
Minfilia, known as the Antecedent, folded her own Path of the Twelve into the new order, and she is the one who tells the player that their strange visions are the Echo.
Q 12The Ascians seek to awaken which dark god?
Zodiark
Zodiark is the god the Ascians worship, and every Calamity they engineer is one more step toward restoring him; players finally face him in Endwalker.
Q 13Which Allagan war machine does Gaius van Baelsar pilot in the Praetorium?
The Ultima Weapon
The Ultima Weapon absorbs the primals Ifrit, Titan and Garuda one after another, so the machine the player finally fights carries the strength of all three.
Q 21Stormblood has players lead rebellions in Ala Mhigo and which Far Eastern nation?
Doma
Doma had spent some 25 years under imperial rule, and the story sends the player across the sea to help its exiled prince win it back before returning to free Ala Mhigo.
Q 22Which Final Fantasy Tactics and XII veteran wrote Stormblood's Ivalice raid storyline?
Yasumi Matsuno
Yasumi Matsuno, who created Ivalice, was a hardcore player of the game himself, which is how Naoki Yoshida came to bring him in as a guest to write the Return to Ivalice raids.
Q 23Shadowbringers takes place on which parallel dimension?
The First
The First is a world nearly erased by a Flood of Light, so the player, a Warrior of Light at home, has to become its Warrior of Darkness and bring the night back.
Q 14Under Final Fantasy XIV's Armoury System, what determines a character's class?
Their equipped weapon
Their equipped weapon sets the class, so swapping a lance for a fishing rod turns a fighter into a gatherer and one character can level every class.
Q 15In Final Fantasy XIV, which two disciplines cover crafting and gathering?
Hand and Land
Hand and Land are full classes, not side skills, yet unlike in the 2010 game nobody can start as one: a War or Magic class has to reach level 10 before one unlocks.
Q 16What is a four-player dungeon group called in Final Fantasy XIV?
Light party
A light party is one tank, one healer and two damage dealers, and the Duty Finder fills those four seats automatically with players from other servers, so nobody has to recruit.
Q 17Player-run guilds in Final Fantasy XIV are called what?
Free Companies
Free Companies are the guilds, and free-trial players can't join one; they can still join linkshells, which are only chat channels.
Q 18Heavensward, the first expansion, takes players into which city-state's thousand-year war against dragons?
Ishgard
Ishgard teaches that the dragons started the Dragonsong War. The expansion reveals its own first king broke the peace by killing a dragon for the power in her eyes.
Q 19Which three jobs did Heavensward introduce?
Dark Knight, Machinist and Astrologian
Dark Knight, Machinist and Astrologian gave the expansion a new tank, damage dealer and healer at once, and all three skip the early grind by starting at level 30.
Q 20Which movement ability did the Heavensward expansion introduce to Final Fantasy XIV?
Flying
Flying came with zones built far larger to make room for it, and a mount cannot take off until the player has attuned to every aether current in that area.
Q 24Shadowbringers' new tank job, Gunbreaker, takes its gunblade from which earlier numbered entry?
Number VIII
Number VIII is where the gunblade first appeared, and Naoki Yoshida said the community had always wanted to wield that iconic weapon, so he built a tank around it.
Q 25What system introduced in Shadowbringers lets players run dungeons with computer-controlled companions?
Trust
Trust lets a player clear the expansion's story dungeons alone, fighting beside main characters from the plot instead of waiting to be matched with other people.
Q 26Which game director wrote the Shadowbringers alliance raid crossover with NieR: Automata?
Yoko Taro
Yoko Taro came aboard because players kept asking for NieR: Automata outfits, and Naoki Yoshida chose a full raid written by that game's own director over simply adding the costumes.
Q 27Endwalker's healer job Sage uses floating magical objects called what?
Nouliths
Nouliths are four floating foci a Sage steers with aether to shield and heal, and Naoki Yoshida introduced them as an original weapon rather than a callback to an older game.
Q 28What slowed production of Endwalker, which arrived over two years after Shadowbringers?
The COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic sent the Tokyo team home in April 2020, and Naoki Yoshida warned players that lockdowns were holding up artwork, voice recording and testing around the world.
Q 29Which 'slow life' farming mode debuted in Endwalker patch 6.2?
Island Sanctuary
Island Sanctuary was designed as a solo retreat free of competition, so its crops, animals and workshops run on rules of their own and need no crafting or gathering levels.
Q 30Dawntrail sends players to which continent across the sea for a rite of succession?
Tural
Tural is the 'New World' far to the west of Eorzea, where the player acts as champion for Wuk Lamat in the contest to decide who rules Tuliyollal next.