Nopon Archsage (XC1DE)

The Nopon Archsage is an in Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. He can be found in an area reachable by portals found all over the Bionis and Mechonis. He offers time attack missions and gives the player various items in exchange for. It is unknown whether he is related to, or even the same character as, the XC2 character of the same name.

List of tradable items
There are four general categories of items the Nopon Archsage sells.
 * Equipment intended to be used as cosmetic appearances rather than worn for stats. This incldues a "resort" set of equipment with designs new to DE, and a "legacy" set of equipment that retains the original heavy armour designs (which DE slimmed down for the main game's equipment).
 * All s and collectables that are required as part of Colony 6 reconstruction. They are unlocked after entering for the second time.
 * A full set of all gems at all ranks from to.
 * Master-level artbooks, sold for 20,000 Noponstone each after Future Connected is cleared. They raise the learnable level of an art to and are available for all arts except Monado Arts or 's arts.

The value of every gem bought is the minimum it can have of its rank. All gems of a single level are unlocked at once after a particular story point:
 * : Unlocked from the start
 * : After Sharla joins the party in the Refugee Camp to rescue Juju
 * : After Riki joins the party in Frontier Village to defeat the
 * : After Seven joins the party on the Fallen Arm
 * : After Junks is docked at the Interior Landing Site in the Bionis' Interior