Late-Game Sidequests and Optional Content
In Final Fantasy Tactics, sidequests operate a lot like the main plot does - the optional story content largely takes place around the contexts of travel from location to location or around the battles that you encounter along the way. Since there are limited avenues to enter into sidequest or optional content, in many cases you need to be looking at different ways of traveling around, or listening to as many tavern rumors as you can, or even just be lucky and come to the right spot at the right time. Or, failing that, you need a guide like this.
Most of these sidequests involve a string of battles and significant travel but some are much less involved. In order to unlock most of them, though, you need to keep Mustadio in the traveling party until the quests are unlocked, as most of the triggers to start the quests revolve around Goug and Besrudio.
Here, the major sidequests/optional battles/hidden scenes are organized by the order in which you can encounter them; this page contains the descriptions of how to access the content, but battles are described in their own pages, so check the links. Many of them are available only in the PSP version of the game, so make sure you're looking at the right version's coverage before diving in.
Agrias' Birthday Gift
This can be triggered any time after Chapter 4 starts, but it's a pain to unlock due to the requirements and timing. In order to see this small scene, you need to have all four of Mustadio, Agrias, Alicia and Lavian still in the party. You also need to have half a million gil in your war chest, and you need to be able to time your movements to land on a standard city location on exactly Cancer 1, which is Agrias' birthday. If you do all of this, you'll get a new cutscene in which Mustadio gives Agrias a very expensive gift that doesn't appear to have the desired impact on its recipient. After the scene, you'll get to keep the
Tynar Rouge for future use.
The Colliery of Gollund
This quest requires Mustadio in order to get started. Parts of unlocking this one also unlock other quests, too, including probably the most famous one. You can start it as soon as you're into chapter four, though it does take a lot of wandering around.
The Ruins Offshore: Nelveska Temple
After completing the quests at Gollund, you'll want to head back go Goug. This will speed things along some, and also grant you the opportunity to recruit Construct 8. You can then step away from Goug and go straight back, and you can get yet another scene with more weird machinery. This one's got a new marking of the Zodiac, and you don't have the stone yet for that either, so it's another dead end for now, until you head northeast.
The Flower Girl and the Dimensional Anomaly
Even before you run into some of the other sidequests on this page, you will probably encounter a pretty commoner selling flowers in Sal Ghidos. She's unmissable, and you'll see the scene with her the first time you reach the city no matter what. This is your one chance to continue the sidequest - if you don't buy her flower you're done. You should have also unlocked the second machine at Goug, so if that's not happened for you, do it as soon as you buy the flower. You'll need to revisit Sal Ghidos to move forward.
The Thieves of Dorter
You can't unlock this battle until you've fought Meliadoul at Bervenia. Then there are a couple hops you need to make, first to either Lesalia or Gollund, to check for a rumor about a growing number of thefts in Dorter. Then, understandably, you're off to Dorter for another rumor, this time to find more constables to stem the crime wave. Then, you might be a little confused because nothing obvious happens, but at that point it's time to try to leave and be sucked into battle.
Disorder in the Order
This one unlocks very late in the game, after completing the events of Mullonde deep in chapter four. To participate in this sidequest, you must have Agrias, and you must first travel to Zeltennia to get a scene with Ovelia. After that, you'll need to head to one of the towns in Gallionne (think Eagrose, Gariland, or Dorter) and find the rumor aforementioned in the title of this section. Then it's time for a trip to Brigand's Den for a battle!
More Bad Stuff at Lionel
For this one, you need to have completed all of the quests for Beowulf and Reis mentioned above and have both still in the party. This quest also starts with a rumor, but it's one that shows up in a lot of towns once you've finished the battles at Mullonde, and it discusses the change of leadership at Lionel, which you might remember you caused by outing Delacroix as a demon and then ending up as a heretic. That rings a bell, right? Once you get that rumor, head to Lionel for a series of cutscenes and battles.
Midlight's Deep
This is the big one, the single sidequest that will take the most time by far. It unlocks very late, after Mullonde, and you might well see it if you pick up other sidequests late as you are around Goug, as it's triggered by visiting Warjilis. Encountering this scene will open up a new location offshore called Midlight's Deep. It's a mission that involves ten battles, and the odds are that you'll have to do many of them more than once no matter how well you prepare.
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