After years as the brains behind the Scions, Tataru ventured out on her own inEndwalkerand started her own business. Unfortunately, there’s a long list of sidequests from previous expansions that must be completed. Here’s everything you need to know about unlocking and progressing through Tataru’s Grand Endeavor!
How to unlock Tataru’s Grand Endeavour
The only requirement for unlocking the initial quest of Tataru’s Grand Endeavor is the completion of the first post-Endwalkerquest titled “Newfound Adventure.”To pick up this quest, talk to Tataru (X:6.0, Y:5.9) herself at the Rising Stones in Mor Dhona.
Once you’ve completed “Newfound Adventure,” you’ll be able to pick up a quest titled “Small Business, Big Dreams” by talking to Mehdjina (X:11.8 Y:9.8) in Old Sharlayan. This is the first quest in the Tataru’s Grand Endeavor storyline.
Unfortunately, this is the most (and only) straightforward step in the chain. Beyond this point, you need to check off a whole host of past sidequests from previous expansions. The good news is that they’re all very popular sidequests, so there’s a high likelihood that you’ve already completed them.
Quick-fire requirements
Just in case you haven’t already completed them, though, let’s look a little deeper at each follow-on quest and what you need to do to unlock it.
Duremert – Eorzea’s newest portrait vendor
The first follow-on quest from “Little Business, Big Dreams” is called “Soaring Profits”. In order to unlock this quest, you must have completed the entire Shadow of Mhach quest line, including the three Alliance Raids that are tied to it.
Soaring Profits requirements
Once you’ve completed this quest line, head back to Old Sharlayan and talk to Mehdjina (X:11.8 Y:9.8). You’ll be reunited with Leofard from the Shadows of Mhach quest line and accompany him around Idyllshire in an attempt to get back some stolen cargo.
Completion of this quest will unlock Duremert, the portrait artist. Going forward, he can be found in The Pillars of Ishgard. He offers various portraits of beloved friends, costing 20,000 gil each:
Reuniting with Hancock
The next follow-on quest from “Small Business, Big Dreams” is “An Auspicious Opportunity,” and sees you reunited with Hancock. He’s received word from the Four Lords that an imposter is causing problems, and the Warrior of Light is obviously the only person who can solve this mystery.
Once you’ve completed the Four Lords quest line, head to Old Sharlayan and talk to Mehdjina (X:11.8 Y:9.8) to unlock “An Auspicious Opportunity”.
Completing this quest gives the Yakaku set. For more information about the quest involved, head on over toour guideon this specific quest.
Gaius van Baelsar’s Endwalker questline
The third and final quest, “Aggressive Expansion,” reunites us with Gaius, who needs our help tracking down a stolen mechanical war machine.
Following the now familiar pattern, to unlock this quest, you need to have completed some past content. This time, it’s the Sorrow of Werlyt quest line fromShadowbringers, including three 8-player trials – Cinder Drift, Castrum Marinum, and The Cloud Deck.
Aggressive Expansion requirements
If you’ve got these completed, find Mehdjina (X:11.8 Y:9.8) in Old Sharlayan, and she’ll have the “Aggressive Expansion” quest.
Completing this Tataru’s Grand Endeavor quest unlocks an optional sidequest, “Forever in Our Hearts,” that completes Gaius’Endwalkerquest line. To unlock it, head to Terncliff and find Gaius (X:6.1, Y:5.9).
I won’t give spoilers for this quest as I believe that it’s best experienced firsthand and having gone in blind, but the completion reward is a poignant painting of Gaius and his adopted children.
After you’ve completed “Forever in Our Hearts”, you’ll be able to head back to Old Sharlayan to talk to Mehdjina again, this time to pick up the quest “Treasured Bonds”. Completing this quest will unlock the last of the currently available quests in the Tataru’s Grand Endeavor quest line, “More Precious than Gil”, which will reward the Tataru’s Bespoke Framer’s Kit and Wayfarer’s Barding.
Tataru’s Grand Endeavor in Dawntrail and beyond
Although “More Precious than Gil” did an excellent job of tying off Tataru’s story and bringing the quest line to a close, it’s entirely possible that more content of the same ilk will make a comeback in future patched past 7.0, although nothing has been mentioned on this front.
However, Tataru is nothing if she’s not an opportunist, and there’s definitely a place for her in Tural if she decides to make the journey and continue providing her fashion expertise to the Turali people, or those in Alexandria.
