Ktisis Hyperboreia dungeon guide
Ktisis Hyperboreia source-backed dungeon guide: unlock facts, first-clear prep, local mechanic notes, and related wiki source links.
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- Dungeon quick facts
- Before queueing
- Boss and mechanic notes
- Duty finder and rewards context
- Completion notes
- Verification boundary
Dungeon quick facts
The most extensive facility in Elpis, Ktisis Hyperboreia is a sprawling complex of magically simulated environs. Concepts awaiting evaluation are brought here for the last stages of observation, and, upon meeting the appropriate criteria, are finally released into the world at large. Determined not to surrender Meteion, it is within this facility that Hermes has taken refuge, and you and your companions must find and confront him if you are to shed light upon the truth of the Final Days.
- Category: Dungeon
- First Appearance: Patch 6.0, *Endwalker*
- Level: 87
- Item Level Requirement: 515
- Party Size: Light Party (4 players)
- Required Quest: Caging the Messenger
- Entrance: Elpis
- Entrance Coordinates: 13.2, 6.1, 4.9
- Region: The World Unsundered
Before queueing
Use the quick facts to check level, item level, party size, required quest, entrance, roulette, and time limit before queueing for Ktisis Hyperboreia.
- Repair gear and meet the listed level/item-level requirements.
- Tell the party if it is your first clear.
- Use the local wiki link for exact duty facts and related articles.
Boss and mechanic notes
Ktisis Hyperboreia has local boss notes for: Lyssa, Ladon Lord, Winged Defiance: Hermes. These notes are pulled from the local wiki and should be treated as source-backed prep unless separately marked as human-reviewed strategy.
- Skull Dasher: Tank Buster
- Frigid Stomp: Room-wide AoE
- Frostbite and Seek: The boss returns to the center of the arena and shrouds it in a snowstorm, then disappears. Shortly after, the boss will emerge from one of the six craters around the arena and cover it in a massive AoE that can only be avoided by standing behind the boss. Players can determine which crater the boss will emerge from by looking for the crater with no tracks leading away from it. If hit by this, players will take heavy damage and a Vulnerability Up debuff.
- Icicall: Three icicles spawn around the arena and fire point-blank AoEs. Following this they will either fire a straight line AoE across the edges of the arena or directly through the center.
- Heavy Smash: A random player receives a stack marker, requiring players to stack together to mitigate damage. This can occur during Icicall, and will resolve after the icicles have fired, so it is recommended to stack after the arena is clear.
- Scratch: Tank Buster.
- Intimidation: Room-wide AoE.
- Pyric Blast: Stack marker
- Inhale: The boss will inhale Aether, after which one or two of its heads will grow large and flames will issue from its mouths. This indicates which heads will perform Pyric Breath.
- Pyric Breath: The boss will leap to the center of the room, and once it begins casting, will face a direction and not turn. The heads that are swollen will cast a 120-degree fire AoE that fills an entire third of the room, with the normal heads indicating a safe zone to stand in. If the "side" heads are active (left and right head will fire), the spot in front of the boss is actually a safe area.
- Pyric Spheres: Summons four Pyric Spheres around the arena. They will fire cross-line AoEs across the arena, so players must stand in the spaces between to avoid.
- Trismegistos: Room-wide AoE.
- Double: Augments the next spell cast.
- Quadruple: Augments the next two spells cast.
Duty finder and rewards context
Use this section to decide whether the duty belongs in roulettes, high-end queues, mentor roulette, or repeat farming.
- Duty Finder: Dungeons (Endwalker)
- Roulette: Leveling
- Modes: duty support, trust, explorer
- Time Limit: 90
Completion notes
After your first clear, check whether the duty has mapping, clear, Blue Mage, loot, music, or collection reasons to return.
- Achievement: Mapping the Realm: Ktisis Hyperboreia
- Music: Main: Miracle Works
- Music: Mid-Bosses: On Blade's Edge
- Music: Final Boss: Finality
Verification boundary
This page is generated from local TJPedia wiki data. It does not invent missing mechanics, NPC coordinates, loot tables, or current-party-finder strategies. High-end positioning and current-prog tactics still need human review before being labeled as a full strategy guide.
- Source-backed: duty facts, local boss notes, achievements, and music.
- Needs human review: exact high-end progression strategy.
- Use official patch notes for changed requirements or rewards.
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