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Gaspar's Hint: "And there's a very special stone that can shine its light on each generation, from the distant past to the far future..."
This quest is particularly interesting because it crosses all time periods. You'll start out in 2300 A.D., and go to the Sun Palace. If you check your map by hitting select, the Sun Palace is at the island at the bottom left of the map. Head inside and equip your best fire resistant armor before fighting a difficult boss. It's advised that you equip the Red Mail to absorb fire, as many Ruby Armors as you bought in the previous sidequest, the Red Vest, and the Taban suit if you have Lucca and picked it up from Taban.
| Son of Sun (Son of the Sun) 
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| HP 12,000 (Son of Sun), 30,000 (each Flame) |
Weaknesses None |
Strengths All (Son of Sun) |
Absorbs All (each Flame) | |
| Charmables Black Mail (Son of Sun), 5x Elixir (each Flame) |
Drops None |
XP 3,800 |
TP 40 |
Gold 2,000 |
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Description/Strategy
This is a fairly gimmicky fight. You'll only want to attack the flames surrounding the eye of Son of Sun since it will counter-attack with Flare if you try to hit the center. The individual flames will also counter-attack with fire if you hit the wrong one. If you hit the right flame the game will make a "ding" sound and then it will deal damage to the center sphere. Keep attacking the same flame until it shuffles, then try to relocate the right flame again. Techs do not work on the flames, so only use regular attacks. To make this fight extremely easy, equip the Red Mail and Red Vest to absorb fire damage, and a Ruby Armor or two that you should have purchased. If you use Lucca, equip the Taban Suit if you picked it up from her father. | ||||
After you hit the correct flame enough times, the Son of Sun will lose it's flames and retire deeper inside the palace. Follow it, and watch the sceen where it turns into a Moon Stone. You'll need to leave it in direct sunlight for 65.0023 million years (Robo's estimated fraction is a bit off), so head to the Sun Shrine in 65 Million B.C. It is located to the northeast on the world map. You'll soon notice that the Sun Shrine exists in each era at the northeast portion of the map, and it's a mysterious spot where the sun never sets.
Head back to the future (2300 A.D.) and the stone will be missing, and a party member will intuitively guess it's been missing for 1300 years. First head back to 600 A.D. while you're at it to find a Power Tab in the Sun Shrine, and now go back to 1000 A.D., the present. Once you find that the Moon Stone is missing from the Sun Shrine, head over to Porre at the southwest corner of the map, to find that the Mayor's House is suspiciously glowing. The Mayor of Porre has it, but being a greedy man will not admit that he has stolen it. What you will you need to do is play with space and time to deal with his greed.
To do this, buy some Jerky from the nearby Snail Stop for 9,900 G and head back in time to 600 A.D. Go to the elder's house, which will one day be the Mayor's house. Speak to the woman across from the door. She will tell you that she needs some Jerky. When she sees that you have Jerky, she will offer to buy it from you for 10,000 G. You can sell the Jerky to her for 10,000 G and make a 100 G profit, but you should give it to her for free. This will change the way she feels about generosity and sharing. She will be stunned by your generosity and vow to raise her children to be fine, upstanding, and generous people. Head back to the present (1000 A.D.) after giving it to her.
In this new timeline, the mayor is a much more generous guy and will give you the Moon Stone for free, saying that he just found the Moon Stone lying around. Return the Moon Stone to its resting place at the Sun Shrine in 1000 A.D. and head to the future (2300 A.D.). Put Lucca in your party and go to 2300 A.D. to check on the Moon Stone. You will find that it has become a Sun Stone, and you will be taken to Lucca's house. Here, she uses the power of the Sun Stone to make her ultimate weapon: the WonderShot, although it's a wee bit unpredictable. Taban will also enter and give you the Sun Shades which raise your attack power, although they'll later be replaced by the PrismSpecs. Also note that this quest is necessary to get all the equipment at the end of Marle's quest involving the Rainbow Shell.
- Note: You can only purchase one jerky from the snail stop at a time. You can give jerky to both the king and the woman who asks for it. If you give it to the king first, the snail stop owner won't sell you another until you place the moon stone at Sun Shrine and return to the present (1000 A.D.) and you see the mayor's house shine.