Goliard Saio Set

A Mithra wearing the Goliard Saio set

The Goliard Set is obtained in Nyzul Isle during the Nyzul Isle Investigation Assault on floors 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100. It can be worn by White Mages, Black Mages, Red Mages, Bards, Summoners, Puppetmasters, and Scholars.

Number of Pieces: 5

Cost to store: Storable at Porter Moogle with Moogle Storage Slip 01

Level Armor Piece
75 Goliard Chapeau RareExclusive

[Head] All Races
DEF: 20 HP +20 MP +20
MND +5 CHR +5 Enmity -4
MP recovered while healing +2
Set: "Magic Def. Bonus"
Lv. 75 WHM / BLM / RDM / BRD / SMN / PUP / SCH

75 Goliard Saio RareExclusive

[Body] All Races
DEF: 42 HP +42 MP +42
"Conserve MP" +5
Enmity -5 Haste +4%
Set: "Magic Def. Bonus"
Lv. 75 WHM / BLM / RDM / BRD / SMN / PUP / SCH

75 Goliard Cuffs RareExclusive

[Hands] All Races
DEF: 18 Accuracy +4 Attack +4
"Magic Attack Bonus" +4
Magic Accuracy +4
Set: "Magic Def. Bonus"
Lv. 75 WHM / BLM / RDM / BRD / SMN / PUP / SCH

75 Goliard Trews RareExclusive

[Legs] All Races
DEF: 35 MP +28
Physical damage taken -3%
Enmity -4
Pet: DEF +10
Set: "Magic Def. Bonus"
Lv. 75 WHM / BLM / RDM / BRD / SMN / PUP / SCH

75 Goliard Clogs RareExclusive

[Feet] All Races
DEF: 19 DEX +4 INT +4 MND +4
CHR +4 Evasion +5
MP recovered while healing +3
Magic Accuracy +2
Set: "Magic Def. Bonus"
Lv. 75 WHM / BLM / RDM / BRD / SMN / PUP / SCH


Set Summary


Historical Background[edit]

The Goliards were a group of satirists who were clergy in the Catholic Church and students aspiring to become clergymen. They existed in the 1100s-1200s CE (the High Middle Ages). Their poetry satirized the Church. Their mockery was fueled by corruption in the Church and the failure of the crusades to retake the Holy Land, which undercut the Church's claim to piousness and competency in battle. The most well known set of poems by the Goliards is Carmina Burana (perhaps most known in Final Fantasy history through the musical work, "Carmina Burana", composed by Carl Orff in 1937, where some of its music & lyrics formed part of the Final Fantasy VII musical track "One-Winged Angel").

Some accounts of their behavior include attending mass with a herring (a type of fish) on a string trailing behind them, dressing a mule up in a silly costume and singing a song of praise about it, gambling on the altar of a church, using old shoes as incense censers, as well as wild dancing and ‘indecent gestures’.

Goliard is also used as a word for a wandering scholar or minstrel in medieval Europe known for wild partying and composing satirical poetry.

The term Goliard either derived from the Latin word for gluttony, gula or from Bishop Golias, the pen name many goliards used to write many of their poems. In their ‘mythology’, Golias was the patron saint of debauchery.

This article uses material from the "Goliard_Saio_Set" article on FFXIclopedia and is licensed under the CC-BY-SA License.