Yakumo Effigy
Essential3★One of the strange Pal effigies scattered across the Palpagos Islands. Offering them up at a certain statue strengthens your own abilities.
Yakumo Effigy is a item you pick up rather than build.
Details
It stacks up to 9,999.
Where to Find Yakumo Effigy
Exactly four exist in the world, and the ladder costs exactly four. There is no spare and no farm: every one of them is a fixed placed pickup, so a missed effigy is a rank you cannot buy back. Clear all four before you spend anything at a statue.
Where the four sit, by the nearest fast-travel stone: one on Feybreak barely 30 m from The Oculus Gate, Tower in Sight — close enough to grab on the warp in; one on Sunreach Isle about 300 m out from Farcry Marsh; and two inside the World Tree, the first roughly 250 m from Lacrymal Shoal on the Within the Seal side, the second under 100 m from the Abandoned Laboratory stone.
Using Yakumo Effigy Well
This is the currency for the rainbow-passive upgrade at the Statue of Power, and it is one of the shortest ladders in the game: 4 ranks, one effigy per rank, paying +1% per rank for +4% at the top. The bonus raises the chance that a wild Pal spawns carrying a rainbow-grade passive skill, so it is a catching-quality multiplier rather than a combat stat — turn it on before a long shiny-passive hunt, not before a tower fight.
Half the ladder is locked behind the World Tree. Lunaris and Relaxaurus effigies are the other two four-piece tracks, and both of those sit entirely on the main map — Yakumo is the only one of the three with placements past the tree gate. That caps you at rank 2 until you have beaten Panthalus, so treat the last two ranks as a post-World Tree errand and do not wait on them for an early-game catching run.
Nothing about the pickup marks it as scarce — it uses the same glow and the same prompt as the Lifmunk Effigy, of which there are hundreds. Four world-unique items dressed as the most common collectible in the game is how most players end up short a rank. Full ladder-by-ladder numbers are in the effigy upgrade guide.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Other items at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
