Final Fantasy 14's latest expansion, Endwalker, has many fascinating quests and activities for you to participate in, with "Secret in the Box" being amongst the most cryptic of the bunch. To obtain the contents of the secret box, you must solve three riddles entrusted to you by a mysterious person.
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Each riddle is solvable in Old Sharlayan, making things a bit easier, but they are still quite vague and can still prove challenging to solve. Fortunately, once you know where to go and what to do, this quest can quickly get completed in a matter of minutes—no need to roam around, scratching your head.
Before accessing the "Secret in the Box" quest, you must first meet a few requirements. Though it's nothing absurd, you will have to make it through a significant portion of the Endwalker MSQ, which can take a bit of time.
After meeting the requirements above, you can finally start the quest! To do so, head to Old Sharlayan and warp to The Aetheryte Plaza. Once there, head to the following coordinates (X:10.6, Y:11.1). You will see a woman on a bench next to a sparkling chest.
After speaking to the woman, she will entrust you with a letter, which provides steps to open the lockbox on the bench. However, there's a catch, there are three steps, all of which are cryptic riddles. The good news is that each riddle is solvable in Old Sharlayan, so you don't have to go too far.
Towards wisdom aspiring, a keeper doth gaze, by young minds inquiring and new trails blazed. Yet the mind is a muscle, in rest it doth grow, so let all embrace slumber, the better to know.
To solve the first riddle quoted above, warp to The Studium Aetheryte, then head to the coordinates (X:7.9,
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