Nalbina Dungeons

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Relax. It's just a corpse. Jump at every little thing down here and you'll wear yourself out. (yawn) It's not even a proper dungeon. They just sealed off the bottom level of the fortress. Take a look around. We're not the first they've thrown down here.

Balthier

The Nalbina Dungeons is an unrevisitable location in the land of Ivalice in Final Fantasy XII. It is a large portion of the fortress that dominates the city of Nalbina.

Escaping the Nalbina Dungeons in The Zodiac Age awards the "A Traitor Redeemed" trophy/achievement.

Sage Knowledge[]

A great dungeon, created when the Archadian army sealed off the lower levels of Nalbina Fortress. Originally a complex lowtown region. In addition to the usual collection of petty thieves and murderers, its inmates include political dissenters and prisoners of war from the Dalmascan and Nabradian armies, all thrown together without discrimination, separation, or order. An oubliette has been created in the depths of the fortress to hold those prisoners whose cases await judgment before the Court of Archadia.

Sage Knowledge

Locations[]

Nalbina Dungeons are the lower portion of the Nalbina Fortress, which has been sealed off and turned into a prison. The Oubliette is a chamber deep beneath the dungeons and is where Captain Basch is kept imprisoned.

The mechanism of the prison is rather unique as each prisoner is placed in cages hanging from certain chambers. In an interrogation, one can simply pull a level and choose which cage to bring forward for the interrogation process. Further down the Oubliette is the cavern leading to the abandoned Barheim Passage.

Stockade
Arena
The Confiscatory
The Black Watch

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Treasures[]

Stockade[]

Zodiac

Chest	Spawns	Holds Gil%	Gil	Normal Treasure
1	100%	20%	≤ 3 gil	Knot of Rust
2	100%	20%	≤ 3 gil	Knot of Rust
3	100%	20%	≤ 3 gil	Knot of Rust
4	100%	20%	≤ 3 gil	Knot of Rust

Original

Chest	Spawns	Holds Gil%	Gil	Normal Treasure
1	100%	0%	N/A	Knot of Rust
2	100%	0%	N/A	Knot of Rust
3	100%	0%	N/A	Knot of Rust
4	100%	0%	N/A	Knot of Rust

Confiscatory[]

All chests in this location do not respawn.

Zodiac

Chest	Spawns	Holds Gil%	Gil	Normal Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure
5	100%	0%	N/A	Tourmaline Ring	Tourmaline Ring
6	100%	100%	428 gil	N/A	N/A
7	100%	0%	N/A	Orrachea Armlet	Orrachea Armlet

Original

Chest	Spawns	Holds Gil%	Gil	Normal Treasure
5	100%	0%	N/A	Tourmaline Ring
6^{[note 1]}	100%	100%	316 gil	N/A
7	100%	0%	N/A	G-Foe: targeting leader

↑ Opening this chest prevents the Zodiac Spear from spawning in the Necrohol of Nabudis.

The Black Watch[]

All chests in this location do not respawn.

Zodiac

Chest	Spawns	Holds Gil%	Gil	Normal Treasure		Diamond Armlet Treasure
8	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Item 1	Item 2	Common	Rare
8	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Potion	Antidote	Knot of Rust	Meteorite (A)
9	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Aquara Mote		Common	Rare
9	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Aquara Mote		Knot of Rust	Meteorite (A)
10	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Ether		Common	Rare
10	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Ether		Knot of Rust	Meteorite (A)
11	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Aero Mote		Common	Rare
11	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Aero Mote		Knot of Rust	Meteorite (A)
12	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Item 1	Item 2	Common	Rare
12	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Potion	Headgear	Knot of Rust	Meteorite (A)
13	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Item 1	Item 2	Common	Rare
13	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Potion	Bronze Helm	Knot of Rust	Meteorite (A)
14	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Item 1	Item 2	Common	Rare
14	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Ether	Phoenix Down	Knot of Rust	Meteorite (B)
15	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Item 1	Item 2	Common	Rare
15	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Phoenix Down	Ether	Knot of Rust	Meteorite (C)
16	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Hi-Potion		Common	Rare
16	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Hi-Potion		Knot of Rust	Meteorite (A)
17	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Item 1	Item 2	Common	Rare
17	80%	30%	≤ 100 gil	Potion	Silken Shirt	Knot of Rust	Meteorite (A)

Original

Chest	Spawns	Holds Gil%	Gil	Normal Treasure
8	90%	0%	N/A	Item 1	Item 2
8	90%	0%	N/A	Knot of Rust	Aero Mote
9	90%	0%	N/A	Item 1	Item 2
9	90%	0%	N/A	Knot of Rust	Chromed Leathers
10	90%	0%	N/A	Knot of Rust
11	90%	0%	N/A	Item 1	Item 2
11	90%	0%	N/A	Knot of Rust	G-Ally: HP < 60%
12	90%	0%	N/A	Item 1	Item 2
12	90%	0%	N/A	Knot of Rust	Ether
13	90%	0%	N/A	Item 1	Item 2
13	90%	0%	N/A	Knot of Rust	G-Foe: targeting ally
14	90%	0%	N/A	Item 1	Item 2
14	90%	0%	N/A	Knot of Rust	Water Mote

Story[]

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. (Skip section)

Fran balthier prison — Fran and Balthier in Nalbina Dungeons.

Vaan and his new comrades, Balthier and Fran, must escape the dungeons after being locked in upon being discovered trespassing in the Royal Palace of Rabanastre. Fran, being a viera, senses a way out, but the way deeper into the fortress is blocked off.

A Judge enters the dungeons and the group decides to follow him. They follow the Judge to the bottom of the dungeons where Basch is kept locked in a private cage. The Judge confronts Basch, then leaves. Basch's cage hangs above a "bottomless pit", which is the way out Fran could sense. They cut Basch's cage loose from the ceiling causing the tunnel to collapse on itself and the group to fall through the pit to the Barheim Passage.

Following their escape from the dungeon into Barheim Passage, the Nalbina Dungeons can no longer be accessed.

The manga version expands on the events. When Vaan intervenes on a seeq prisoner attacking a former Dalmascan soldier, the Goddess's Magicite falls from Vaan's pocket and the seeq seizes it. Balthier tells Vaan he will teach him why he lost and challenges him to a game where Balthier will throw a coin into the air, catch it, and Vaan must decide which hand it is in.

Vaan fails, and Fran reveals she has the coin and Balthier's hands are empty. Meanwhile, Gabranth authorizes Ba'Gamnan to search the prisoners for Balthier. Fran reveals she has found the exit and used her magic to forge a duplicate key to the bindings that guard it. Balthier decides to make their move in two hours after investigating the resistance, and Vaan declares to have recovered the stone when he returns. He finds the seeq who stole it but is ambushed by two more.

Nalbina-dungeons2-ffxii — Nalbina Dungeons battle arena.

Vaan is thrown into a cell until the seeq, Daguza, is ready to face him in the arena. Ba'Gamnan offers to free him, but Daguza intervenes and the two fight, and Vaan escapes and charges Daguza. In a flashback, Balthier explains to Vaan he won the coin flip using the magic spells Decoy and Vanish to distract Vaan, toss a fake coin while throwing the invisible real coin to Fran, and Vaan lost because he was too naive and didn't watch his surroundings. Vaan ignores Balthier's lesson and surprises Daguza with a frontal attack seizing the Goddess's Magicite, and flees to meet up with Balthier.

In the deepest layers of the prison Gabranth speaks to Basch, asking how he is kept alive and if he knows anything about the prisoner "Amalia" Emperor Gramis and Vayne are secretly transporting, suspecting information is being kept from him. When Gabranth leaves Balthier, Vaan and Fran investigate the pit below for an escape route, and when Vaan causes a clamor, the trio drop Basch's cage into the pit to escape.

Spoilers end here.

Enemies[]

Map[]

Map from the original Final Fantasy XII that includes all treasure information.

Musical themes[]

"Nalbina Dungeons"

The track that plays in the Nalbina Dungeons is the eponymous "Nalbina Dungeons" (ナルビナ城塞地下雑居房, Narubina Jōsai Chika Zakkyobō?, lit. Nalbina Fortress Underground Prison). The track that plays when Vaan is forced to battle the seeq dungeon masters is called "Among Savages" (蛮族, Banzoku?, lit. Savage Tribe).