==================================== Tactics Ogre (PSP) Walkthrough/FAQ v 0.70 November 14, 2011 By Salah al-Din contact: iaianpr@gmail.

com ==================================== Table of Contents --------------------------------------------------------------------0: Version History [VHIST] 1: (Coming Soon) 2: Main Walkthrough 2.0 -- Before You Begin [TAROT] 2.1 -- Chapter 1: There is Blood on my Hands, How Long [CH1NW] Till it Lies on my Heart? ---The Lawful Path--2.2a -- Chapter 2: I Will Fear No Reproach 2.3a -- Chapter 3: Deceiver and the Deceived [CH2LW] [CH3LW]

---The Chaotic Path--2.2b -- Chapter 2: This World can be Put to Rights [CH2CW] 2.3b -- Chapter 3: Ambition and Greed Rule, While Dogs [CH3CW] and Swine Serve ---The Neutral Path--2.3c -- Chapter 3: There Will be Sacrifices ---The Finale--2.4 -- Chapter 4: Let us Cling Together 3: Secrets / 3.1 -3.2a -3.2b -3.3a -3.3b -3.3c -3.4 -3.5 -3.6 -3.7 -3.8 -3.9 -3.10 -3.11 -3.12 -3.13 -3.14 -3.15 -3.16 -[CH3NW] [CH4_W]

Optional Sidequests / Random Battles Chapter 1 Extras [CH1NX] Chapter 2 (Law) Extras [CH2LX] Chapter 2 (Chaos) Extras [CH2CX] Chapter 3 (Law) Extras [CH3LX] Chapter 3 (Chaos) Extras [CH3CX] Chapter 3 (Neutral) Extras [CH3NX] Chapter 4 Extras (Incomplete) [CH4_X] Random Battle Info (Incomplete) [RANDB] Post-Game Extras PH [POSTX] Optional Dungeon #1 : The Phorampa Wildwood [OD1PW] Optional Dungeon #2 : The Pirate's Graveyard [OD2PG] Optional Dungeon #3 : The Palace of the Dead PH [OD3PD] Optional Dungeon #4 : Temple of Hahnela [OD4TH] Optional Dungeon #5 : Temple of Vaasa [OD5TV] Optional Dungeon #6 : Temple of Nestharot [OD6TN] Optional Dungeon #7 : Temple of Greuza [OD7TG] Optional Dungeon #8 : Temple of Xoshonell [OD8TX] Optional Dungeon #9 : Temple of Lyuneram [OD9TL] Optional Dungeon #10: The San Bronsa Ruins PH [OD10X]

4: (Coming Soon) 5: (Coming Soon) 6: Credits/Thanks [SNOFF]

--------------------------------------------------------------------===================================================================== Part 0: Version History [VHIST] ===================================================================== v 0.70 (Nov, 14, 2011) - Neutral Route Completed -- Main Walkthrough is Done! - Six Temples Sidequest and Dungeon Info done - Filled in bits of missing information - Minor writeup corrections and proofreading - Fixed the Hanging Gardens Map -- It was based on the original game. Personal Note: For those emailing me wondering about the updates to the guide; I took a bit of a hiatus as I had life commitments, plus I needed a break from the game. Can't guarantee an update schedule, but can guarantee I'll reach v1.00 at the least. v 0.60 (Apr, 11, 2011) - Chaos Route Walkthrough Done - Confirmed Total SP Calculation -- Not Stage Dependent (usually) -- Therefore removed SP Rate from Tables -- Info to come in a later update - Filled out more of the Sidequest section -- Pirate's Graveyard completed. -- Most of Chapter 4 Quests done. -- Added Random Battle Info - Corrected Some Buried Treasure Locations - Tweaked the dungeon maps for clearer zones. Personal Note: It's only recently occurred to me that Retissue is actually Re-Tissue, as in creating new flesh. All this time I was reading it my mind similar to Retinue, thinking it was some pseudo made-up mystical word. It sort of was but man, mind blown. v 0.50 (Mar, 21, 2011) - Guide Layout and Planning Done - Law Route Walkthrough Done - Optional Extras section to finish - Figure out and insert Total SP Calculation - BTW "PH" in the Contents means "Placeholder" Personal Note: This guide is turning out much bigger than I thought. This game is much bigger than I thought. --------------------------------------------------------------------===================================================================== Part 2: Main Walkthrough ===================================================================== 2.0 -- Before You Begin [TAROT] --------------------------------------------------------------------When you start a new game, you will be given the option to name the main character -- default is Denam -- and chose his birthday, which will be the default name of your army when it's established later. In addition you will be asked five questions at random, each one

having three responses to choose from. These questions are randomly chosen from a pool of 22 Tarot Cards to signify them. The answers you give will add to the base stats of Denam when you start, and the Tarot cards chosen will be added to your inventory of consumables. Num. Card Answer HP STR VIT DEX AGI AVD INT MND RES ---- ------------------ -------- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --Left 4 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 Fool Middle 1 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 0 Right 5 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 ----------------------- -------------------------------------------Left 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 I Magician Middle 3 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 Right 4 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 ----------------------- -------------------------------------------Left 2 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 II High Priestess Middle 5 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 Right 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 ----------------------- -------------------------------------------Left 5 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 III Empress Middle 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 Right 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 ----------------------- -------------------------------------------Left 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 IV Emperor Middle 2 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 Right 1 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 ----------------------- -------------------------------------------Left 2 0 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 V Hierophant Middle 4 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 Right 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 ----------------------- -------------------------------------------Left 1 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 0 VI Lovers Middle 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 3 Right 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 ----------------------- -------------------------------------------Left 3 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 VII Chariot Middle 5 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 Right 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 ----------------------- -------------------------------------------Left 5 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 VIII Strength Middle 4 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 Right 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 ----------------------- -------------------------------------------Left 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 IX Hermit Middle 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 Right 4 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 2 ----------------------- -------------------------------------------Left 2 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 X Wheel of Fortune Middle 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 Right 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 ----------------------- -------------------------------------------Left 4 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 XI Justice Middle 1 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 Right 2 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 ----------------------- -------------------------------------------Left 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 3 XII Hanged Man Middle 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 Right 5 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 ----------------------- -------------------------------------------Left 5 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 0

XIII Death ----------------------XIV Temperance

----------------------XV Devil

----------------------XVI Tower

----------------------XVII Star ----------------------XVIII Moon ----------------------XIX Sun

----------------------XX Judgement

----------------------XXI World

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Middle 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 Right 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 -------------------------------------------Left 4 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 Middle 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 Right 2 0 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 -------------------------------------------Left 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 Middle 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 Right 1 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 0 -------------------------------------------Left 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 Middle 4 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 2 Right 3 2 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 -------------------------------------------Left 1 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 Middle 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 Right 5 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 -------------------------------------------Left 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 Middle 2 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 Right 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 -------------------------------------------Left 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 Middle 5 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 Right 2 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 -------------------------------------------Left 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 Middle 0 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 Right 4 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 -------------------------------------------Left 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 Middle 2 0 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 Right 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 3 --------------------------------------------

When playing the game it is not readily obvious what path you're on. However, looking at Denam's alignment in his status screen will give you your answer. In Chapter 1 Denam starts out as Neutral, and after making any important decision his alignment will change. Denam's current alignment is how you can tell what path you're on. If it's "L" he's on the Lawful Path, if it's "C" he's on the Chaotic Path, and if it's "N" he's on the Neutral Path. When in doubt of where you are in the game, check Denam's Alignment! --------------------------------------------------------------------2.1 -- Chapter 1: There is Blood on my Hands, How Long Till it Lies on my Heart? Battle #1 Battle #2 Battle #3 -- WORLD Anchor Point: Battle #4 Battle #5 -- WORLD Anchor Point: Battle #6 Battle #7 -- WORLD Anchor Point: [CH1NW]

-- Golyat + (Formatting Info) [B01N1] -- The Gates of Almorica [B02N1] -- Almorica Passageway [B03N1] After Returning to World Map --- Tynemouth Hill [B04N1] -- Krysaro [B05N1] After Route to Phidoch Opens --- Golborza Plain [B06N1] -- The Arkhaiopolis of Rhime [B07N1] After Route to Balmamusa Opens --

Battle #8 Battle #9 Battle #10 ** WORLD Route Split: Battle #11

-- Lake Bordu -- Xeod Moors -- Balmamusa (Part 1) To Law or Chaos ** -- Balmamusa (Part 2)

[B08N1] [B09N1] [B10N1] [B11N1]

--------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #1 -- Golyat + (Walkthrough Format Info) [B01N1] Squad Limit: 1 + 2 Guests Objective: Vanquish Lanselot _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------N/A None -------------------------------------------------------------------This "Battle" serves little more than as a tutorial on moving Denam on the map, as he's the only character you can control. Once you move Denam this encounter is effectively over, as Vyce will move up and take a swing at Canopus triggering a scene in the story. Use this opportunity to familiarise yourself with all the controls and have an in-depth look at all the characters on the map. In this guide all battles will have the table above to go along. Up above shows how much Base Exp can be had in this battle along with Special Loot you can obtain. Exp is divided by the number of each different class that participated (ie. if 2 of your 6 characters are Warriors the Warrior class will get a larger share than if 1 participated) and by their level, with lower level classes getting a larger share. Skill Points on the other hand are determined by the number of surviving characters after the battle, and how many kills were made. Bonus SP is added into the total amount based on how many levels higher the enemy that character killed in the battle was. After the battle they are split evenly between all characters, guests included. Any Exp and/or SP that was left over due to rounding will be carried over and added into the next battle. Special Loot is a list of particularly valuable items certain enemies may drop when killed, and for any buried treasure on the map. Directions for buried treasure are based on from the forward-right corner of your Squad Deployment area. This means the spot facing towards the bottom-leftmost edge of the screen when forming the battle party, as shown by the X in the diagram below. Battle Party Formation: ________ /_/_/_/_/ /_/_/_/_/ /X/_/_/_/ ____ \ / \/ Therefore if a unit is placed in this location, then when it appears on the map you count the steps based on the direction it's facing at the start of the battle.

--------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #2 -- The Gates of Almorica [B02N1] Squad Limit: 1 + 7 Guests Objective: Vanquish Bapal _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Special Loot----------------------300 Blessing Stone (Bapal Drop) Berserker's Mark (Bapal Drop) Grimoire Aiguille (Wizard Drop) Buried (Denam: 3 Steps Forward) Buried (Denam: 7 Steps Forward) Buried (Denam: 5 Steps Left) -------------------------------------------------------------------While this will be your first actual melee, you can only control Denam, and the guests are so overpowered you can sit back and let them pound their way through here. Lanselot in particular could easily solo this map on his own due to the insane cutting power of the Lombardia. There's not much for you to do but you should let the guests fight, while you run around and pick up the buried treasure on this map. Just move as far as you can to find them on each turn. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #3 -- Almorica Passageway [B03N1] Squad Limit: 1 + 7 Guests Objective: Vanquish Agares _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Special Loot----------------------300 Blessing Stone (Agares Drop) Knight's Mark (Agares Drop) Grimoire Rafale (Enchantress Drop) -------------------------------------------------------------------One last "auto-battle" before you gain control of your own personal army. Much like the previous one, let the guests do all the work for you, while you scavenge for any loot on the map. A side note; because Exp is fixed for all battles it is now possible to make a dedicated person to scavenge for loot. This was simply not advisable in the original game due to constant fear of everpresent death and making sure you squeezed as much Exp out of the battle with as many actions as possible. A scavenger should be fast, able to defend themselves, take hits, block enemy progress, and above all have vicious counterattacks when threatened. After this battle is over you'll be in full command of an army and be able to provide for them with the 30,000 goth allowed to you. You'll be given a Warrior, Archer, Wizard, Cleric, and a Rune Fencer. Their genders are determined by the answer you gave Lanselot when you first met him. You should recruit them all as they come with pre-set equipment and skills all ready to go. Though you can recruit more troops from the shops now, it's best that you don't because the squad limit will not allow you to use any more than what you already have for some time.

--------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #4 -- Tynemouth Hill [B04N1] Squad Limit: 6 + 3 Guests Objective: Vanquish Orba _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Special Loot----------------------700 Grimoire Bouledefeu (Orba Drop) Blessing Stone (Orba Drop) Mage's Mark (Orba Drop) Buried (2 Steps Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (16 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This is a good battle to test out your Archer's ability to fire arrows. Short Bows can fire in an arc, and like all good Archers, trajectory is everything. Even though the displayed range is between 3 and 6 panels, you can actually shoot further if your target is at the same elevation as you are. Typically it's about 1 square further in all directions from the limit on the the flats. However this range expands by about 1 panel for every step up in elevation you're at and contracts by 1 for each step below. These are only guidelines because depending upon obstacles and the topography, the archer might alter the trajectory for the best shot to hit from as far away as possible. While getting used to your Archers, make sure to keep any magic using classes like Wizards and Clerics away from the move and attacking range of the enemies, because they can easily be killed in as little as 2 hits. Rune Fencers and Valkyries will have this same sort of frailty issue, so make sure they are never far away from getting assistance from Clerics or item users because the enemy will try to target the weakest character in its vicinity. If you can keep and draw the enemy's wrath in a manageable fashion you can win most any battle as the rest of your troops can focus on them After the battle, Canopus will join your army as a permanent member. Do not decline him, as he will easily shoot to the top of your "must-deploy in every battle" list. His ability to fly, use bows, and deliver powerful melee attacks makes him incredibly versatile and powerful. And that's a very rare trait in this game where specialization is everything. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #5 -- Krysaro [B05N1] Squad Limit: 7 + 3 Guests Objective: Vanquish Moldova _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Special Loot----------------------700 Grimoire Sommeil (Moldova Drop) Blessing Stone (Moldova Drop) Grimoire Aquamasse (Enchantress Drop) Grimoire Foudrarc (Wizard Drop) Buried (2 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward Buried (1 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 16 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward)

-------------------------------------------------------------------This will be your first initiation in fighting undead "Phantom" type enemies and the Exorcism spell. Ordinarily when you knock a Phantom down to 0 HP it will have a countdown timer like one of your characters will if they're about to lose their life, but for Phantoms it's a countdown until they regenerate with full HP. It is during this time that you must use the Exorcism spell to eradicate it from the battle to actually defeat it and obtain the items it drops. In the original game this was the opposite, where you had to Exorcise it if it still had HP, not when its HP was depleted before it revived. Also changed is that healing spells, specifically from the Divine spellspehere can inflict pretty significant damage to the undead Both Catiua and Donnalto should have Exorcise, so make sure they always have at least 34MP when their turn comes around by using Magic Leaves. Unlike other RPGs, you should not be holding back or skimping on consumable items, they are vital. It's worth noting that in the original game you could recruit your first undead characters into your army here, unfortunately this is no longer possible. In fact you won't be recruiting your first undead unless you obtain the Necromancer class, which will not be until a long ways into the game In any case, the enemies here don't pose much of a threat if you keep your distance and remember that Melee characters are close-range fighters, mage-type characters are mid-range, and Archers are longrange. Focus your attacks on one enemy at a time and making sure Catiua and Donnalto have enough MP to always cast Exorcism, you should be fine. After the battle is over, Sara, Voltare, and Donnalto will join your army permanently. Interestingly, if Donnalto did not survive the battle a female Cleric by the name of Felicia will stand in for him. This is the only way Felicia will ever appear, nevermind join, in the game. Though the way to Qadriga Fortress is open, that battle is completely optional and will remain so until the end of the Chapter. Whether you go there or not your next destination is Almorica Castle, where Leonar will join as a guest and you'll receive another 5,000 Goth. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #6 -- Golborza Plain [B06N1] Squad Limit: 8 + 3 Guests Objective: Vanquish Brezen _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Special Loot----------------------700 Grimoire Rocher (Wizard Drop) Grimoire Engourdissant (Wizard Drop) Grimoire Hypnose (Enchantress Drop) Blessing Stone (Cleric Drop) Berserker's Mark (Brezen Drop) Buried (4 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Forward)

Buried (10 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------If you've been through Qadriga, then this should feel like a walk in the park. The only annoying thing about this fight is that Vyce has has a bad habit of charging the Wizard on the other side of the map and will basically soak up a ton of damage before you can heal him, because your immediate concern is the small group of troops starting just to the left of you across the river. The magic users here will easily fall to arrow attacks, and all the others, especially Brezen have low defense against magic. You should definitely try to kill everyone here as they all drop several items per bag. You'll probably wind up with 4-5 pages of battle spoils when you collect them. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #7 -- The Arkhaiopolis of Rhime [B07N1] Squad Limit: 8 + 3 Guests Objective: Vanquish Bolis _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Special Loot----------------------700 Grimoire Calcinant (Wizard Drop) Knight's Mark (Bolis Drop) Berserker's Mark (Berserker Drop) Beastmaster's Mark (Beast Tamer Drop) Cragwyrm's Mark (Earth Dragon Drop) Buried (7 Steps Left, 1 Step Back) Buried (8 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 12 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Depending upon your opening response when this battle starts, this fight will either be a decent challenge or absurdly difficult. If you choose to save Cistina, you absolutely must place Canopus in the front left corner of your deployment grid and get him over to Cistina ASAP, otherwise she'll pick a fight with a Valkyrie and hang around on a small island while attracting virtually all of the enemy's fire. If her HP hits 0, she instantly perishes and it's Game Over. However, if you choose not to save her at the beginning, then even if she perishes, you can still fight. Since she can potentially be recruited much later on the Chaos route, you'll need to decide now whether its worth it to save her for later on the Chaos route. If you're going Law then don't worry about saving her at all, because you won't meet her again after this fight on that route. On to the actual battle, and there's good news and bad news. The good news is that there's three new classes here. A Beast Tamer, a Hawkman Archer, and an Earth Dragon. The bad news is that the Earth Dragon has absurd defenses and is a major annoyance throughout the fight, you'll be lucky to do 10 damage or more to it with a single attack. The best thing you can do with the Dragon is to use magic and poison it, while you try and deal with the other enemies. You should definitely make sure to kill the Beast Tamer here as he will drop Classmarks for that class, which will eventually enable you to recruit Beasts and Dragons into your Army. The rest of the troops

aren't too tough, but trying to save Cistina is something to do using the WORLD system. If you do manage to save her, pick the second option during your chat with her to (just to be safe) meet her again on the Chaos route. After going to Phidoch, return to Almorica and the route to Balmamusa will open, Leonar will then leave, but Dame Ravness will take his place for the trip. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #8 -- Lake Bordu [B08N1] Squad Limit: 9 + 3 Guests Objective: Vanquish Grion _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Special Loot----------------------900 Knight's Mark (Grion Drop) Grimoire Malepluie (Wizard Drop) Grimoire Scindeceil (Enchantress Drop) Peregrine's Mark (Hawkman Drop) Berserker's Mark (Berserker Drop) Buried (4 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Step Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------It's very easy to get bogged down in marsh warfare. Your movement becomes highly restricted, hit rates plummet, and invariably your characters will group together as you try to lands hits on and kill your target, thereby increasing your inability to move around. The key to this fight is to watch where you step. Be sure to never stop on Marsh or Lake tiles, as this will always give you the upper hand in the fight. The enemy AI completely disregards what effects the terrain has on the accuracy and avoidance modifiers, and will invariably step on a Marsh tile. You can even make things easier by having characters make use of Knockback effects to move an enemy off a desirable tile onto a worse one. As long as you can maintain the terrain advantage, this fight will be a piece of cake. Be sure to kill the Hawkman here as it drops the very valuable Peregrine's Mark, which enables class changes into a Vartan. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #9 -- Xeod Moors [B09N1] Squad Limit: 9 + 3 Guests Objective: Vanquish Ganpp Hidden Objective: Lower Obda, Berda, or Ganpp's HP to 25% _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Special Loot----------------------900 Blessing Stone (Cleric Drop) Beastmaster's Mark (Beast Tamer Drop) Peregrine's Mark (Hawkman Drop) Berserker's Mark (Berserker Drop) Buried (4 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward)

Buried (1 Step Right, 2 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This is an extremely deceptive battle. On the face of it all of the enemies will likely be at the same levels as your characters, with roughly the same or weaker equipment than you. However once the fight begins it goes to hell in a handbasket very fast as your characters start taking huge amounts of damage in quick succession faster than your healers can act. It's made even more annoying by the fact that Ravness and Vyce will suicide rush the enemies and consequently escape when their HP drops to 10%, leaving you outnumbered and outgunned. Although the objective is to defeat Ganpp, you can also win the battle by getting either of his pet Gryphons' HP to less than 25%. You should really focus all your attacks on one Gryphon, so that you can end this battle fast because the longer you mess about here, the greater the chance you're going to die horribly. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #10 -- Balmamusa (Part 1) [B10N1] Squad Limit: 9 + 3 Guests Objective: Vanquish the Enemy _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Special Loot----------------------900 Blessing Stone (Female Archer Drop) Buried (4 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 10 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Be advised that once you set foot in Balmamusa, you will fight at least two battles back to back, and a possible third starts right off the bat as well. The game will allow you to save between them all, so you should make a separate save before the second battle. This first battle is basically a warm-up for the one that's going to follow immediately after the big decision at the end of the chapter. You start a mile above all the enemies, and as such you can use your Archers to devastating effect by firing arrows around double the displayed range. The skill Trajectory helps immensely to see if the shot will reach or not and should be on all bow wielding characters, not just Archers. The enemies here aren't particularly strong, and even less so with Archers softening them up for Vyce and Ravness to charge in and defeat them. After the battle you'll need to make a decision. The first option shifts Denam's alignment to Law, while the second option shifts it to Chaos. The resulting battle following that choice will differ slightly based on that choice. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #11 -- Balmamusa (Part 2) [B11N1] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish the Enemy _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Special Loot-----------------------

-- With Ravness -Grimoire Immobilisant (Wizard Drop) Blessing Stone (Knight Drop) Buried (6 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) -- Without Ravness -Grimoire Stagnation (Enchantress Drop) Buried (4 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------If your decision was the first one, you will have to fight Dame Ravness in addition to the enemies. Be warned that she can be a possible recruit later in the game, and killing her here will prevent that from happening. She is not considered an enemy and you must kill every foe except her if you want to recruit her later. The best way to do this is to have a Wizard put her to sleep with either the Air or Dark magic variety of the spell. On to the fight now, and this time the enemy has the height advantage while you start at the very bottom of the map. You have a bit of time to move your troops up the incline because the distance is too great for the enemy Archers and the AI tends to not shoot at the maximum possible range that you can. Even still you should hug any high walls you come across as they will protect you from any arrows fired your way. Wizards with indirect attack magic such as Thunderflare are extremely potent here as they can both hide behind high walls and fire their spells to the high ground at a distance. Canopus should also fly from Rooftop to Rooftop to continually get a height advantage wherever possible to loose some arrows. Finally, keep your melee fighters' HP topped up with heal from any Knights and Clerics you bring. By now everyone should also have Field Alchemy I learned and set to access Mend Leaves +2. It's a tough fight especially if Dame Ravness is around harassing you.

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========================= The Lawful Path =========================== 2.2a -- Chapter 2: I Will Fear No Reproach Battle #1 -- Balmamusa (Part 3) -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map Battle #2 -- Xeod Moors Battle #3 -- Rhea Boum Aqueduct Battle #4 -- Port Asyton (Part 1) -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map Battle #5 -- Port Asyton (Part 2) Battle #6 -- Qadriga Fortress Battle #7 -- Tynemouth Hill -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map Battle #8 -- Golborza Plain Battle #9 -- The Arkhaiopolis of Rhime -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map Battle #10 -- The Gates of Almorica -[B02L2] [B03L2] [B04L2] -[B05L2] [B06L2] [B07L2] -[B08L2] [B09L2] -[B10L2] [CH2LW] [B01L2]

Battle #11 -- Almorica Passageway (Part 1) [B11L2] Battle #12 -- Almorica Passageway (Part 2) [B12L2] --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #1 -- Balmamusa (Part 3) [B01L2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish the Enemy _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1000 Blessing Stone (Valkyrie drop) Knight's Mark (Knight Drop) Buried (2 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (14 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------And so begins the third battle in Balmamusa. Though some time has passed since that fateful decision, you have little time to prepare your troops. Unlike the previous game where your HP did not recover between back to back battles, it does this time around and you can also customize and learn skills for them. You can't access the shop though so you're stuck with the equipment you have until this battle is over. This battle will take veterans of the original game completely by surprise as it is has been completely changed. Instead of starting at the top of the map fighting off Dragons, Hawkmen, and Griffons, you start off at the bottom of the map fighting off Galgastan troops in the middle of the lower reaches of the town. Canopus can prove his worth once again by flying his way from rooftop to rooftop, to the top of the cliff overlooking the town. Once he gets there the battle will definitely turn in your favour. The enemies shouldn't be too difficult as the AI isn't smart enough to take the layout of this map to its advantage even with three Archers starting in excellent positions. If you have the Recruit skill you might want to convince a Warrior here to join as a replacement for Vyce now that he's no longer around to help you. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #2 -- Xeod Moors [B02L2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Garba _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1000 Grimoire Douleur II (Garba Drop) Blessing Stone (Lizardman Drop) Dreadknight's Mark (Terror Knight) Buried (5 Steps Left, 1 Step Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (3 Steps Right, 18 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Thankfully this fight is not nearly as hectic as the one with Ganpp was here earlier. Remember that terrain advantage in marshlands will

make the battle go easier. A few interesting things of note about this battle. It is where you can recruit your first beast -- a Gryphon -- as well as a Terror Knight here. There's even a Lizardman Warrior here too if you have the recruitment skill to obtain one. The Terror Knight should definitely be recruited out of all the enemies here followed by one of the Gryphons. The most dangerous enemies here are by far the Gryphons, as they can and will fly over your characters to your mages and do some serious damage. If your Clerics and Wizards aren't at full HP when a Gryphon attacks they will likely be knocked out. Recruiting one of them for your own can help greatly in turning the battle in your favour quickly. Note that when a character you've recruited joins after the battle in a class you don't yet have, they start at Level 1 and gain experience after the battle, despite fighting at the level you recruited them at. Essentially they lose the experience gained fighting in their old ranks and gain new experience fighting in yours. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #3 -- Rhea Boum Aqueduct [B03L2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Josephine _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------900 Waterwyrm's Mark (Female Beast Tamer Drop) Windwyrm's Mark (Male Beast Tamer Drop) Buried (2 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Right) Buried (6 Steps Right, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------One of the many brand new areas in the game, and an additional story battle added in to the Law Route of Chapter 2 in the process. The Rhea Boum Aqueduct is an unusual map consisting of many narrow canals that create many "islands" for characters to hop around on. It seems specifically designed for the Octopus unit to reach their full potential here as they become far more powerful in water than on land, but since so few classes can enter water they were largely useless in the original game. Not so this time around, in fact they can be one of the most deadly monsters in the game next to Dragons, since they can use ranged attacks to harass land based units from the safety of the water. You should definitely recruit an Octopus here before finishing this stage. Fighting on this stage can be rather problematic with the constricted movement, and the Octopi running around practically one-shotting your mages, which by the way are the only reliable way of dealing with them. The other enemies aren't too much of a threat, they are really only here to support the Octopi, especially with the leader being a Cleric. If you want to recruit one of these Octopi now expect a hard fight and lots of healing, but if you want to win quickly have Canopus make a beeline for the leader once he has enough TP to use

Dark Weight. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #4 -- Port Asyton (Part 1) [B04L2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Nadia _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------900 On Medicine I (Nadia Drop) Sandstone's Mark (Clay Golem Drop) Grimoire Torpeur (Hawkman Drop) Grimoire Gravite (Hawkman Drop) Grimoire Celerite (Berserker Drop) Grimoire Soins (Berserker Drop) Buried (2 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (8 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (8 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 16 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A new enemy shows up here, Clay Golems. Unfortunately you can't recruit them until you have a Warlock, because despite their appearance, they're classified as Dolls, rather than Beasts. You should still kill them for their Classmarks though. Clay Golems are exceptionally tough against physical attacks, but are fantastically weak against magic. A big change from how they were before with very high defense against both physical and magical attacks, but had very low HP. Apart from the Golems, there's not much you haven't seen or dealt with before, you also have a decent height advantage for your Archers, and putting Canopus on a roof here makes him virtually untouchable. Really though this battle is just a warm up for the next one. You'll be able to shop after and check the Warren Report after the battle, but the next one starts as soon as you try to leave Port Asyton. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #5 -- Port Asyton (Part 2) [B05L2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Arycelle _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------900 Buried (2 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (7 Steps Left) Buried (2 Steps Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (3 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (3 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Ah what an epic nostalgia trip this music is when Arycelle makes her appearance here. It's highly recommended that you do a bunch of crafting for your troops' equipment now, especially Bronze Helms +1, because the shops still haven't really updated much and the difficulty of this battle is quite a step up from the previous ones

so far. You start at the bottom end of town and will have to work your way single file through some of the streets between the houses, which will be a death sentence to any magic users there. Keep your magic users safe by keeping them behind the houses so that the Archers and Arycelle can't target them. Arycelle is by far and away the most dangerous Archer in the game with the ability to inflict heavy damage to targets with perfect accuracy in a Thunderstorm. She's also smart enough to use her height advantage to shoot arrows from more than halfway across the map, so make sure your front men have high defenses, close to 160 or higher to take these hits. Slow and steady advancing is the goal here, and you should defeat all the enemies to collect their loot as they'll drop boatloads of Oberyths -- over 40,000 Goth worth can be had here. As an aside, this battle was a nightmare in the original version due to instant permanent death, and the fact Arycelle could conceivably one-shot the main character if you weren't careful. Arycelle is toned down a fair bit, but still as deadly as ever. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #6 -- Qadriga Fortress [B06L2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Darza _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1300 Ways of the Gerges (Darza Drop) Baldur Armor (Male Warrior Equip) Grimoire Gravite (Cyclops Drop) Grimoire Rafale II (Orc Wizard Drop) Grimoire Foudrac II (Enchantress Drop) Mend Leaf +3 (Rune Fencer Drop) Buried (3 Steps Right) Buried (2 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 14 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (3 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------There's a couple of new enemies here, you can recruit your first Cyclops here and you'll meet your first Orc. Unfortunately you won't be able to recruit the Orc as it's considered an Umbra unit, and no class currently has the ability to recruit him. Saving Xapan should be your top priority, so Canopus should fly to his aid because he won't last long against all these enemies who are Levels 9 and 10. It's curiously harder than it was in the original because if you came here at a couple levels below the leader, Xapan would be at the same level of the leader and more than hold his own against the majority of the enemies. Not so now, as he could die in the first round before you get anywhere near him if the enemies get some critical hits in. He is a recruitable character and though you can recruit him now after the battle, if you turn him down after saving him you'll get another chance to get him much later in the game. Turning him down will open the way to a secret battle where you

can potentially get one of the Forbidden Spells. Your main worry in this battle is the leader Darza, the Enchantress and the Orc Wizard. All three of them hit very hard and will ruin Xapan's day if you don't deal with them. The two mages are glass Cannons and will fall in two or three hits from physical attacks, and are best dealt with by using long range attacks to reach them. Darza though is another story as he hits very hard, is not afraid of using Berserk, and rarely misses when attacking from the front. He can be defeated easily using indirect magic attacks from Catiua and a Wizard. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #7 -- Tynemouth Hill [B07L2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Wynoa _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1300 Blessing Stone (Female Cleric Drop) Buried (2 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (2 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (18 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (1 Step Right, 24 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle has changed significantly from the original. Not only is it on a new layout for Tynemouth Hill, but nearly all the enemies are Clerics with only two Archers. Oh and Gatialo is here at Level 16! Despite Gatialo's high level he can be defeated rather easily if you employ a Knight, Terror Knight and Archer. It's probably best just to let him go though as killing him doesn't yield anything other than coins and his Classmark. If kill him after you kill Wynoa you'll get a title. This battle is incredibly easy since all the enemies are quite fragile and will hardly put up a fight. However, that said be careful when approaching Wynoa as she has a Lobber for a weapon and will use it to slingshot explosives at you to devastating effect. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #8 -- Golborza Plain [B08L2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Gousin _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1300 Ninja's Mark (Gousin Drop) Bandit's Mark (Gremlin Drop) Familiar's Mark (Gremlin Drop) Buried under Tree (2 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (4 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (13 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (13 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A filler battle introducing the New Walister Alliance, and a couple

new classes as well. You can pick up a Faerie and a Rogue in this fight. Of the two, the Rogue is the more desirable. In any case, only Canopus can recruit the Faerie, though she won't come into her own until later in the game. The enemies here aren't too difficult, but Gousin is extremely dangerous once he gets up close and personal with your group. His Ninjutsu skills are incredibly powerful, capable of hitting upwards of 35 damage a hit, and they hit anywhere from 1-3 times. If he gets anywhere near your magic users, he will easily kill them in one attack. If you want all the loot and new classes here, you'll have to work at pacifying Gousin to do it, because even though he hits hard, he falls fast. It is possible to hit him with Torpor to slow him down, but the chance of success is rather low, indeed all status effects aren't much good against him. Having Knights with Rampart aura and Phalanx to block Gousin's movements is probably the best way to hold him off. It's strongly suggested you make a separate save file now, so that you can return to the Phorampa Wildwood if you're too weak to go through the next set of battles, because access will be blocked off once you reach Rhime. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #9 -- Arkhaiopolis of Rhime [B09L2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Vyce _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1300 Hallowing Stone (Valkyrie Drop) Shiftstone (Valkyrie Drop) Hallowing Stone (Rune Fencer Drop) Shiftstone (Rune Fencer Drop) Buried (3 Steps Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left) Buried (3 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (1 Step Left, 7 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------When you arrive at Rhime, Leonar has an important proposal for you. You will receive a Title depending upon which choice you make, it has no bearing on the story or Denam's alignment. Afterwards you'll return to the world map, so save now and use this opportunity to buy some equipment because the shops have updated and you can finally buy one and two-handed Katana for your Ninja and Swordmaster. The battle starts just as you leave Rhime. This can be quite a harrowing fight, because you're up against both Vyce and Arycelle. They both start nearby, and Arycelle is perfectly positioned on a perch to hit one of your weaker characters to do some serious damage. The hard part comes in that if you want to have Arycelle on your side, you must not kill her here. This is a change form the previous game where Arycelle would only join you on the Chaos Route. Not only that but veterans of the original game should take note that she no longer drops the vitally important revival spell. She held the only copy of it you could get on the Law route previously if you killed her.

This fight has the potential to turn ugly real fast, as there's not much room to move about and attack, and the two main routes to the top are only wide enough for one character to go through creating a huge bottleneck. It's strongly advised you just go straight for Vyce and ignore the other enemies, because the longer this fight drags on the worse it's going to get as one of those two Clerics will at some point cast Boon of Swiftness on Arycelle. On top of that, if you don't manage to kill an enemy before their turn comes round, the AI will do it's best to heal it using whatever means necessary. You should also use whatever means necessary to focus your attacks on Vyce, he's particularly hard to hit and has incredible physical and magical defenses. He's slightly weaker against magic than physical attacks, so Indirect Magic is the way to go for its guaranteed hit rate. Do your best to protect your magic users from Arycelle so you can take down Vyce, and goad the Clerics into healing characters other than Vyce by attacking any nearby enemies with characters that can't attack Vyce. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #10 -- The Gates of Almorica [B10L2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Modiliani _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1300 Grimoire Electrisant (Modiliani Drop) Grimoire Trombe (Warlock Drop) Gloomwyrm's Mark (Dark Dragon Drop) Gleamwyrm's Mark (Arc Dragon Drop) Granite's Mark (Stone Golem Drop) Buried (1 Step Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (4 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (1 Step Right, 14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle is interesting because it introduces a whole pile of new classes all at once. Three new monster and human classes each show up here for the first time. New monsters here are the Stone Golem, Arc Dragon, and Dark Dragon. If you have a Beast Tamer that can recruit Dragons, you should definitely pick those two Dragons up. The Stone Golems can't be recruited, as only the Warlock/Witch class has access to recruiting Golems. Lucky for you both the Warlock and Witch are present in this fight for you to recruit, unfortunately they won't spawn with the Golem Recruitment skill. Finally Modiliani has a unique enemy-only class -- the Sorcerer. Kind of odd he's the least important character in the story and he's been given a unique mage class. Anyways, the name of the game here is to recruit as many classes as you need instead of killing them, because most you've never seen before. This can be quite difficult with the number of enemies attacking you, and with Modiliani doing over 100 damage a hit. It is pretty much mandatory to at least have Field Alchemy II on more than half your troops so that you can use Mend Leaf +3 and Mending Seeds to keep your HP up, as the usual Heal spells just won't cut it here. Heal II is an option, but a Cleric must at least be Level 11 to

use it, and they're probably hovering around Level 10 now, with Catiua probably a level behind. Also, if you picked up a Dragoon from Phorampa they can really prove their worth in this fight. Without one though you should use the Terror Knight's Fearful Impact on the monsters here, especially the Golems. Two Terror Knights is ideal. When you've recruited at least the Witch or Warlock here, focus on Modiliani as his defenses are very low, and he can be killed in only a few hits. He does seem to have death wish by charging straight into your position. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #11 -- Almorica Passageway [B11L2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Marino _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1300 On Medicine II (Marino Drop) -------------------------------------------------------------------This fight is quite a bit easier than the previous one, despite the enemies having higher levels. This is largely because the only offensive threat against you is the three units standing on the ledge above you. A Ninja (the first recruitable one in the story), Warrior, and Archer don't have the greatest of defenses, so focusing on killing them before the other troops reach you is important. Once the other troops reach you after you've gotten rid of the offensive threat, this battle becomes incredibly simple. Have Canopus and an Archer take out the other Archers and Mages, and then have your magic users help in taking down the Knights. Be careful of that one Archer with a crossbow, as it can use a Finishing Skill, the same goes for one of the Knights and Marino because those skills have the potential to one-shot an unwary target. As long as you can keep your HP above 75 or 100, most of the enemies shouldn't pose much trouble. Side-note: In the original game Marino would drop a Fire-elemental sword, which would likely be your first elemental weapon. He doesn't This time around. One gets the feeling after this fight that elemental weapons are even more valuable after this fight. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #12 -- Almorica Passageway [B12L2] Squad Limit: 1 + 1 Guest Objective: Kill the Leader _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------400 None -------------------------------------------------------------------The siege isn't over yet there's one more surprise battle in store and it can be tough. You can only use Denam in this fight, but he's joined by Catiua, Vyce, and Arycelle if you spared her in Rhime. The main thing you need to do is play a game of attrition, and wear the leader down by attacking when your HP is above 100 and heal when

it's not. Make sure your HP over 180 when the Leader's TP reaches 100, as he'll use the sword finisher Rending Gale, which does at least 155 damage. Don't worry about Catiua leaving if she get's injured. Your main objective is to simply outlast the leader and let the others help you out. This fight was a brutal surprise in the original version since HP was not replenished between battles, so if Denam barely survived the previous fight he'd be killed before he got a turn because both he and Catiua started from where they were when the cutscene ended and your foe was strong enough to kill Catiua in a single hit at full HP. And since the old version did not permit saving between battles, you had to start all over again from the Castle Gates. --------------------------------------------------------------------2.3a -- Chapter 3: Deceiver and the Deceived [CH3LW]

-- WORLD Anchor Point: After Route to Brigantys Opens -Battle #1 -- Madura Drift [B01L3] Battle #2a -- Brigantys South Curtain Wall [B2AL3] Battle #2b -- Brigantys West Curtain Wall [B2BL3] Battle #3 -- Brigantys Great Hall [B03L3] Battle #4 -- Bahanna Highlands [B04L3] Battle #5 -- The Reisan Way [B05L3] -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map -Battle #6 -- The Gates of Coritanae [B06L3] Battle #7 -- Coritanae Ward [B07L3] Battle #8a -- Psonji Weald [B8AL3] Battle #8b -- Lake Bordu [B8BL3] Battle #9 -- Tynemouth Hill [B09L3] -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Lanselot and Catiua Scene -Battle #10 -- The Gates of Almorica [B10L3] Battle #11 -- Almorica Passageway [B11L3] Battle #12 -- Mount Weobry [B12L3] -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map -Battle #13 -- The Arkhaiopolis of Rhime [B13L3] Battle #14a -- Phidoch South Curtain Wall [B14AL3] Battle #14b -- Phidoch West Curtain Wall [B14BL3] Battle #15 -- Phidoch Great Hall [B15L3] --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #1 -- Madura Drift [B01L3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Hektor _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------900 Grimoire Scindeciel II (Wizard Drop) Grimoire Congelation II (Enchantress Drop) Buried under Brush (5 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (4 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (2 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle is a bit of a change from the original where you just fought Lizardmen and Dragons, who were all adept at fighting in the

cold. Now you're up against a Galgastani Patrol unit who is just as ill-equipped to fighting on the ice as you are. The key to this battle is to look for places where the earth is laid bare amongst this ice field. There aren't many spots like this to stand on, but once you find one amongst the snow ice, stay where you are. Standing on such a spot gives you about a 20% boost to hit and evade, while most of the enemies won't be standing on a spot like that when they attack. As such they'll be striking and evading 20% less, which is a huge difference when added together. Don't forget that patches of snow can be melted away to reveal the earth beneath it. Hektor is no ordinary Knight, he's only a level higher than the rest of his troops but he takes significantly less damage than anything you've ever faced up until now. Hektor will usually rush in cause havoc amongst your troops, so it's best to defeat him quickly. While you're at it, try to kill the Enchantress and Wizard from afar with an Archer to get a couple of new Grimoires early. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #2a -- Brigantys South Curtain Wall [B2AL3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Kakrinoros _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------1200 Grimoire Resurrection (Cleric Drop) Buried (5 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (10 Steps Right, 1 Step Back) Buried (6 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (11 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Now that's what I call a wall. You start hemmed in at the bottom of the map with an obvious height disadvantage with Archers and Mages above you. It's not so bad though if you have a few Hawkmen at your disposal as they can just simply fly up the wall and wreak havoc in general while your main troops make the long ascent. Make sure to have plenty of healing items. Mend Leaves +2 and Mending Seeds should be the order of the day here as you'll probably take a beating from above if they aren't distracted by your Hawkmen. Once everybody's made it to the top, the battle is pretty much over and Kakrinoros won't take more than 2 or 3 hits before he's gone. Make sure you kill the Cleric here as he drops the valuable and much needed Grimoire Resurrection that will finally enable your Clerics to raise your fallen comrades... at Level 14... for the price of 100 MP. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #2b -- Brigantys West Curtain Wall [B2BL3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Bingham _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------1200 Footsoldier's Mark (Hoplite Drop) Peregrine's Mark (Hawkman Drop)

Juggernaut's Mark (Juggernaut Drop) Buried under Rock (4 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 18 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 22 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This is arguably the harder of the two routes to take in Brigantys, as there is water nearly everywhere, and stepping stones to get across are few and far between. The enemy also has the advantage of having more terrain to fight on at their disposal. However, despite the enormous height advantage given to the Hawkman Archers here, they never seem to use it. This is probably the best map in the game for using Octopi, as the enemy melee fighters will attempt to cross the river to meet you. This makes them completely helpless when they come up against an Octopus. Two or three Octopi should be dispatched here to handle things. The two stages offer completely different rewards, in this one it's the rewards of getting your first Juggernaut and Hoplite Classmarks, along with a Cyclops to recruit if you missed getting one in the last chapter. The South Wall by contrast offers an early and much needed Resurrection Spell in an easier fight, but many enemies will start dropping them in a few stages time and you can't make use of it now until you gain a few more levels, whereas your next chance at getting Juggernaut and Hoplite Classmarks won't be for even longer and the reward is immediate. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #3 -- Brigantys Great Hall [B03L3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Hektor _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------1200 Grimoire Tourbillon II (Enchantress Drop) -------------------------------------------------------------------Hektor will meet you once again here, but strangely this battle is a lot simpler than the last time you fought him. To make this battle easy, send up a three person team between the two lamps and hold that line while keeping your other characters far behind them. Make sure you have a Knight up front in the middle of this line to help heal your group and pass on Light-Touched to help the other characters dish out damage. Hektor himself is incredibly resilient to taking damage, so he may be the last one you kill. Which ideally you should as the enemies here drop tons of coins that you can sell; something you can never have too much of in this game. After the battle during a scene you'll be given a choice. Pick the second option to recruit the Dragoon Jeunan. Interestingly, he's necessary in order to recruit Ravness a little later on. The choices given are incredibly ambiguous and it's very easy to make the wrong choice. In the original game the choice given was a perfectly clear "Yes" or "No" type affair, this becomes obvious when you get the

title for whichever choice you make. The description of it makes the choice seem like it should've been a straight Yes or No response. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #4 -- Bahanna Highlands [B04L3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Roberval _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------1200 Ninja's Mark (Roberval Drop) Grimoire Malepluie II (Enchantress Drop) Grimoire Bravoure (Cleric Drop) Hallowing Stone (Cleric Drop) Buried (1 Step Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (9 Steps Right) Buried (8 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (2 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 18 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This is a crucial battle if you want to recruit Ravness, and is the most esoteric part in the process. Before you fight, you should read the Talk entry in the Warren Report about "Lord of Coritanae Missing." Then when you're planning your battle party, make sure Jeunan is deployed. During the fight, when Roberval's HP drops to less than 70% a series of dialogues will happen mid-battle between Roberval, Denam, and Jeunan. You must make sure that the entire dialogue plays out before you defeat Roberval. When Denam says "What!?" the dialogue is over, and you may continue with the fight. Failing any of this will not trigger an optional battle later on involving Ravness. Besides all of that, this is in general a fairly straightforward fight, especially with Jeunan around who actually makes the underpowered spears very powerful indeed. Most of the enemies here are only lightly armoured and will fall to melee and arrow attacks fairly quickly. One thing to be careful of is that one warrior that starts on the other side of the river and will casually snipe at any magic user you have with his crossbow. Apart from him, not many enemies pose much of a threat here. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #5 -- The Reisan Way [B05L3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Vance _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------1000 Magus's Mark (Warlock Drop) Grimoire Oeildaigle (Warlock Drop) Grimoire Rocher II (Warlock Drop) Grimoire Resurrection (Cleric Drop) Cragwyrm's Mark (Earth Dragon Drop) Buried (11 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (7 Steps Right, 14 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (11 Steps Right, 21 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 8 Steps Forward)

Buried under Brush (4 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------The second brand new area and battle next to Rhea Boum that's been added into the remake. This is a rather unusual battle as it starts with you being pitted against another Galgastani support squad, but with a couple high level Zombie Dragons who will not attack either you or the Galgastani squad unless first attacked. The dragons start the battle stilled, so if you have someone with Exorcism handy, you can eliminate them before they wake up and start causing problems. You may notice that if you end up fighting the dragons, that some of your attacks do significantly more damage to them than your opponents, despite having much higher defenses. This is happening because Baldur Weapons have a hidden attribute which will deal considerable damage to undead creatures. You might wonder why there's no affinity bonus listed in the weapon's stat page, and that's because while Phantoms are undead, not all undead are of the Phantom race, which means undead is a condition and not a race. The enemies here are higher in level than the previous group, and have updated equipment to reflect this. However, if you've been crafting and have upgrade as much of the current equipment that can be bought for your side, then the advantage is yours. The best way to fight this battle is to simply block the road with your best melee fights, and hold that line. If the line breaks, all hell will break loose and you'll have a much harder time fending off all the enemies that decide to rush you. Regardless of how you go about this battle, you'll definitely want to kill or recruit the enemies that have new equipment. Of particular note are the two Clerics who drop Grimoires when killed that teach Resurrection and the Warlock who'll drop Magus Marks, your first Dragonic Grimoire, and a tome for the rank II version of Cragfall. Make sure you kill those enemies before clearing the stage. Seems so odd getting your first Dragon Magic here, when before they were exclusive to the Palace of the Dead (formerly Hell Gate). --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #6 -- The Gates of Coritanae [B06L3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Orgeau _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------1000 Grimoire Eclair (Wizard Drop) Grimoire Scindeciel II (Wizard Drop) Grimoire Resurrection (Cleric Drop) Grimoire Bravoure (Cleric Drop) Hallowing Stone (Cleric Drop) Peregrine's Mark (Archer Drop) Dragoon's Mark (Dragoon Drop) Buried under Brush (3 Steps Left, 6 Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 17 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This can be a tricky fight as there are two groups of enemies here

and they'll advance along two different routes. One will come along the main road leading from the gate, while another will try to hop across the semi-dried-up moat. If you send all your troops to meet one group, the others will catch up and attack you from behind. Therefore you will need to essentially divide up your squad of ten into two groups of five. They each need to be self-sufficient because there's little chance one group can afford to lose a member, much less help, to help the other group because of the distance and terrain needed to reach them. A balanced group should consist of two melee fighters, a caster, an archer, and someone for heal/support duties. As the fight progresses, reinforcements will enter the map from various locations and instantly get a turn when they do. They'll appear without warning and usually ambush group. There's only a limited number of reinforcements, but if you aren't quick in taking down at least some of the initial enemies, then you'll run the risk of both your groups getting overwhelmed in a hurry. If you're in this sort of situation, quickly focus your attacks on Orgeau to end things. He's only a Rune Fencer, and not a particularly powerful one either for his level. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #7 -- Coritanae Ward [B07L3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Gatialo (or Apollinaire) _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------1100 Grimoire Resurrection (Cleric Drop) Grimoire Bravoure (Cleric Drop) Hallowing Stone (Cleric Drop) -- Gatialo Version Only -Grimoire Scindeciel II (Wizard Drop) Grimoire Congelation II (Enchantress Drop) Ninja's Mark (Ninja Drop) Ninja's Mark (Kunoichi Drop) -- Apollinaire Version Only -Grimoire Revirement (Terror Knight Drop) Grimoire Monolithe (Rune Fencer Drop) -------------------------------------------------------------------The enemies you face here depend upon whether you defeated Gatialo all the way back at Tynemouth Hill in Chapter 2 or not. If you defeated him back then, then you will face Apollinaire instead. The two fights play out pretty much the same, but the enemies you face are completely different, and as such you get a few different rewards from those enemies depending upon if you had let Gatialo live or not. The bulk of the fight will take place on a narrow "bridge", where you'll meet the enemy head on. Since this will be your first time fending a full complement of 12 troops in this fight, expect manoeuvrability to be a problem in such a confined space. You'd best not be in either of the pits unless you're a solid spear user, like Jeunan, because apart from spears, whips, no other ranged weapons can strike above an elevation difference of 2. And if they don't have good defense they'll likely torn apart by the enemy Archers who just otherwise stand around doing nothing. The worse part about being in either of those pits is that there's only one path back out that

only characters who are Agile can use; Slow characters can not climb out. The easiest way is to simply fight this battle the same as you did in Brigantys by forming a three-man line across the bridge and slowly push the enemy back. Gatialo or Apollinaire will spearhead the attack against you, and as such will likely take the brunt of your assault. Forego defeating them long enough to at least kill the Cleric for another Resurrection Grimoire. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #8a -- Psonji Weald [B8AL3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Brutakos _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------900 Firewyrm's Mark (Flame Dragon Drop) Grimoire Eclair (Enchantress Drop) Juggernaut's Mark (Juggernaut Drop) Magus's Mark (Warlock Drop) Biblion Anatomiae (Warlock Equip) Grimoire Rocher II (Warlock Drop) Magus's Mark (Witch Drop) Biblion Anatomiae (Witch Equip) Grimoire Rocher II (Witch Drop) Grimoire Embourbant (Wizard Drop) Stormwyrm's Mark (Thunder Dragon Drop) Buried under Tree (2 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (11 Steps Left, 18 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------The first option to take on your route back to Almorica is incredibly valuable in terms of rewards, but it's not without its own risks. You can encounter a Hydra here for the first time, as well as a couple new dragons -- Thunder and Flame, and two Lizardmen Juggernauts. You should attempt to recruit one of each of those enemies into your army as they don't appear too frequently during the story. Also of note are the list of valuable items that drop from killing the rest of the enemies in this stage noted above. You should definitely make a point of killing the Warlock and the Witch to collect their loot. He'll drop the first Spellbook weapon for you to collect if you do, which is effectively your first weapon that can't be bought in stores. You will want to deploy one, maybe two, Dragoons on this map along with a couple heavyweights up front to soak up the hits the Dragons will dish out, as they'll be the first to reach your position. You should endeavour to move the front line of your deployment 4 steps in front. Add in a fifth character such as Canopus who can take hits and dish out ranged damage by standing on that one bit of scrub land a step to the right and behind your line of four to secure your spot on the hill. Hold this position until the Dragons and Lizardmen are dealt with, and then mop up the rest.

--------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #8b -- Lake Bordu [B8BL3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Muntzer _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------900 Grimoire Briseciel II (Valkyrie Drop) Juggernaut's Mark (Juggernaut Drop) Familiar's Mark (Familiar Drop) Bandit's Mark (Rogue Drop) Buried (3 Steps Right, 16 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (3 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------The second option is arguably more difficult than the first, however it does have some interesting rewards. The Necromancer Muntzer starts on the other side of the lake, and near you are zombified remains of the Walister Resistance. Those zombies start the battle stilled, so you should quickly exorcise them before they wake up and have to deal with them and Muntzer's troops. There are three enemies you should recruit here. One is the lone Cockatrice, another is a Lamia Matriarch, and regardless of whatever route you take, you should recruit a Lizardman here into your army if you have not already done so. The added allies you make in this fight will help out a lot as Muntzer will start summoning more enemies into the field as the fight progresses. It can be difficult moving about in the swamp, but if you get close enough to Muntzer to launch a few attacks at her, she'll go down quickly as she's rather frail. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #9 -- Tynemouth Hill [B09L3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Ganpp _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------1000 Footsoldier's Mark (Hoplite Drop) Juggernaut's Mark (Juggernaut Drop) Buried (8 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (4 Steps Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (9 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (6 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Ganpp shows up again with his two pet Gryphons, along with a couple uniquely coloured Cockatrices. You're able to kill his pets this time around but you really shouldn't, because Ganpp will then heal himself and stick your party with debuffs, or buff himself up. There's not too much in value here from killing all the enemies anyways, so you should focus all your attacks on Ganpp and finish this battle quickly.

After the battle and before moving on, you should seriously consider going to the Phorampa Wildwood, which is open again, and level your troops up to around Level 14 if they aren't already. Use the Krysaro shops as a resupply base before returning to Almorica, and make sure you have updated equipment to reflect your levels. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #10 -- The Gates of Almorica [B10L3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Gildora _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------1000 Beastmaster's Mark (Beast Tamer Drop) Dragoon's Mark (Dragoon Drop) Windwyrm's Mark (Cloud Dragon Drop) Black Iron's Mark (Iron Golem Drop) Buried (1 Step Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (5 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 17 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (7 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This will be the third and final time you fight at Almorica, and it introduces another new class. If you have a Witch or Warlock on your team, you should try to recruit at least one of the two Iron Golems. There are also a couple Dragons here, a Dark and Cloud dragon. The battle though is startlingly similar 2 against Modiliani. A magic user is the enemies, and assorted Archers and mages. progresses some reinforcements will drop battle a little more difficult. to the one back in Chapter leader, there's a few tough However, as the battle in and quickly make the

In order to succeed here, you must defeat and/or recruit both Dragons and Golems first, because their presence serves to slow you down and make this fight a headache. The Golems are quite susceptible to Magic and Crushing attacks, while bringing in a Dragoon can make short work of those Dragons. After those enemies have been dealt with, the only threat will be the leader and the number of reinforcements entering the field. It's best to kill the leader quickly now as there's not much in the way of rewards for killing the rest. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #11 -- Almorica Passageway [B11L3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Xaebos _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------Dragoon's Mark (Dragoon Drop) Grimoire Vifesprit (Warlock Drop) -------------------------------------------------------------------Back here again, only it's a bit dark inside. Xaebos is here commanding a sizable group of Galgastanis, and though he doesn't hold the Fafnir from the original game this time around, he does have something very valuable that you want. There is a Necromancer in his squad that you can recruit, and you should not finish this battle until you've convinced him to join your side because

Necromancers and their class marks can only be found near the very end of the game, and this is the only one during the story you can recruit. Take note that there are a lot of Terror Knights and a couple of Dragoons here, so have characters set up with Anatomy and Strengthen to do significant damage to these units. Take those units out before they can use their TP skills, which means ganging up on them one by one. Once they're gone all that's left are the magic users and Xaebos who loves using Phalanx at all times which means you should ignore him for a while until he stops using it to focus on the other enemies. The Warlock here has a chance to drop the Dragon Magic tome of Vifesprit, but it's rather low. Don't worry if you don't get it though, as it only teaches a buff spell that grants Spellcraft. After the battle Vyce, Arycelle (if she's alive), Mirdyn, and Gildas will all finally join you. If you also got the Necromancer, you now have a character to recruit Phantoms and 3 classes you need to get up to speed. Another thing to note is that three other members from the New Walister Alliance no longer join from the original game. They were Peyton, Beylevra, and Apsara who appeared in the scene "Kin is Kin" at the start of the chapter. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #12 -- Mount Weobry [B12L3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------1100 Familiar's Mark (Familiar Drop) Bandit's Mark (Rogue Drop) Gloomwyrm's Mark (Dark Dragon Drop) Gleamwyrm's Mark (Arc Dragon Drop) Buried (3 Steps Left, 3 Steps Back) Buried (2 Steps Right) Buried (8 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried (8 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Watch where you step here. The battle here on Mount Weobry is completely different from the original, with a new map and a new skirmish. Essentially you have to fight amongst high level Dragons Phantoms, Gremlins, and Lizardmen including the reinforcements that join in. Bring along a (Dragon) Tamer to recruit a Hydra here if you don't already have one, and a Dragoon to deal with the rest of the Dragons. If you managed to recruit that Necromancer and get him up to speed, you should use him to recruit a Phantom unit or two here as well, and Exorcise the rest with a Cleric. When fighting on Mount Weobry, stay away from any of the pits here as any character without the Fly or Float mobility will instantly lose a life if knocked off the edge. Although this is a good trick to kill enemies, you won't get any loot for doing so.

--------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #13 -- The Arkhaiopolis of Rhime [B13L3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Ozma _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------900 Grimoire Oeildaigle (Warlock Drop) Biblion Sacri (Warlock Equip) Buried (5 Steps Right) Buried (6 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Bit early for this music to all of a sudden start playing for those who've played the original. Anyways, saving Hobyrim here is a top priority because he's an amazing Swordmaster, and Swordmasters are an amazing class in their own right. You should though really concentrate on getting near Ozma to defeat her, as she can be quite wily in attacking and then moving just of out you attack range. Saving Hobyrim is a little different than it was in the original, mostly because the Swordmaster class is a completely different class than it previously was. They're more offense oriented and can last a decent amount of time against a number of enemies so Hobyrim will rush right in instead of retreating back towards you. You will definitely need to send Canopus over to administer some Mending Seeds as quickly as possible to keep Hobyrim going. There's also quite a lot of enemies in the streets of Rhime, so you will probably have to deal with some of them if they start sniping at you, because leaving them alone to track down Ozma can lead to some pretty nasty results. Send a few characters to save Hobyrim, while the rest fend off those annoying enemies. One enemy of particular note is the Warlock here. He drops a Dragon Magic Grimoire if you defeat him, but he also holds a new Spellbook that you can't buy in shops. So it's a tough call; if you've already gotten a Grimoire Oeildaigle, you should definitely recruit him to guarantee getting the Spellbook otherwise if you kill him there's only a chance you'll get the Spellbook, but you're guaranteed the Grimoire. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #14a -- Phidoch South Curtain Wall [B14AL3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Vestiarri _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------1000 Codex of Gems (Vestiarri Drop) Peregrine's Mark (Hawkman Drop) Biblion Sacri (Warlock Equip) Buried (4 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 20 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 22 Steps Forward)

-------------------------------------------------------------------And the Training Theme makes its return with great fanfare, but this battle is anything but a training regimen. As with any big castle sieges the enemies have a clear terrain advantage and numbers. In fact reinforcements will arrive soon after and slow you down, so you need to kill targets of opportunity while making your way to Vestiarri. The hard part, comes after crossing the stream in front of the first wall as the path starts to wind itself around to the top. You should wait on the other side of the stream until Vestiarri makes her way down from her position before advancing on her, because trying to fend off enemy attacks between the first and second walls with the possibility of reinforcements suddenly ambushing them will ensure defeat. If you take this route, make sure to recruit the Warlock here to nab his Spellbook. This is in contrast to the other route where you'll get some new magic from killing the Warlock over there. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #14b -- Phidoch West Curtain Wall [B14BL3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Mercure _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------1000 Codex of Gems (Mercure Drop) Granite's Mark (Stone Golem Drop) Biblion Sacri (Warlock Equip) Grimoire Fumerolle (Warlock Drop) Biblion Herpetou (Warlock Equip) Grimoire Aspirenergie (Warlock Drop) Buried (3 Steps Right) Buried (2 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Right, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 19 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This alternate route at Phidoch is by far the more valuable, as there are two Warlocks here that both drop new Grimoires, and they also wield some new Spellbooks that they might also drop. They are also fairly easy to kill as they're part of the group in front of the first wall. If you want to forego the Grimoire and ensure the possession of those two new Spellbooks, you should definitely recruit both of them instead. You'll want to take this battle nice and slowly dealing with all the enemies in front of the first wall, before those from the second wall make their way down. Don't rush the leader here as that'll result in a quick death, wait for the leader to rush you. The Golems must be dealt with first and foremost as they are walking walls themselves. They're weak against magic and crushing attacks, so use those attacks to dispatch them. The rest of the forces have drastically lower defenses than the Golems and can be dealt with quickly. Once you've got the Golems out of the way, the rest should be easy, even when reinforcements do arrive.

--------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #15 -- Phidoch Great Hall [B15L3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Oz and Balxephon _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------1000 Black Iron's Mark (Iron Golem Drop) Biblion Sacri (Warlock / Witch Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------This fight isn't nearly as maddening as it was in the original, where it was a two parter with a one-on-one spar with Oz who could take more than half of Denam's life with a single hit from his Glamrock axe to start. Now they've combined the two into one battle where Oz gets the first hit and, if Denam's a Knight, won't hurt Denam that badly. Another twist is that in the original you never fought Balxephon here, as he left with Lanselot. Definitely deploy Hobyrim here and he'll have a chat with both Oz and Balxephon during the fight. You will need to divide up half your troops here, one to take out the Templars and Oz, the other to block the enemy coming down the stairs and Balxephon. It's easy to form a line to block the enemy troops coming down the stairs by placing characters on either side of those lamps. You will get yet another chance to obtain a Spellbook here, so recruit either the Warlock or the Witch to guarantee it. Oz himself oddly isn't much more than dangerous than the Templars, Balxephon on the other hand is brutal if you get within the range of his spear. Do your best to defeat Oz, before Balxephon makes his way down so you can then focus all your troops on him. As long as you stay out of the range of Balxephon's spear when attacking you should have no trouble defeating him. ========================= The Chaotic Path ========================== 2.2b -- Chapter 2: This World can be Put to Rights -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map Battle #1 -- Port Asyton Battle #2 -- Rhea Boum Aqueduct Battle #3 -- Xeod Moors -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map Battle #4 -- Lake Bordu Battle #5 -- Tynemouth Hill Battle #6 -- Krysaro -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map Battle #7 -- Qadriga Fortress Battle #8 -- Golyat Battle #9 -- The Arkhaiopolis of Rhime -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map Battle #10 -- The Gates of Almorica Battle #11 -- Almorica Passageway ** WORLD Route Split: To Chaos or Neutral ** -[B01C2] [B02C2] [B03C2] -[B04C2] [B05C2] [B06C2] -[B07C2] [B08C2] [B09C2] -[B10C2] [B11C2] [CH2CW]

--------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #1 -- Port Asyton [B01C2] Squad Limit: 8 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Arycelle

_________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1000 Blessed Stone (Cleric Drop) Buried (3 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left) Buried (2 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle starts the moment you attempt to leave Port Asyton. You have time to use the shops before then, so buy any goods you need before you leave. This is a tough opening fight. You start at the bottom end of the town and are up against Arycelle, who's the most deadly Archer in the game. Whatever you do, do not send any magic users through the narrow streets as they'll be completely helpless against Arycelle and the other Archers you have to contend with. Keep those spellcasters behind buildings, and send your high defense characters such as Knights through the narrow streets. Don't send everyone in the same direction, as you'll find yourself tied up by your own squad's numbers, instead branch out through the three streets before you. If you're still finding the Archers too tough to deal with, use a Horn of the Savage to create some rain and lower their hit rates. If you deploy Donnalto in this fight, he and Arycelle will have a few words with one another. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #2 -- Rhea Boum Aqueduct [B02C2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Xapan _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1000 Dreadknight's Mark (Terror Knight Drop) Beastmaster's Mark (Beast Tamer Drop) Buried (7 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (14 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 16 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------One of the many new battles in this scenario, the Rhea Boum Aqueduct is really the playground for Octopi. There can be up to three of them in this fight, and you'd do well to try and dispatch them first, otherwise their special Aqua Bubble attack will be the death of you. Xapan is here earlier than you might expect along with his contingent of headhunters. There's a Terror Knight in his squad that is the first in the story and you should definitely either recruit or kill him for the Classmark. Xapan will have the upper hand in this fight as most of his troops can hit from afar, and in the Aqueduct, melee fighters will find it hard to get close to their target with all these islands.

If you can manage to recruit an Octopus or two here, you will turn the tide in your favour. If you can man the small islands with ranged attackers, after dealing with the Octopi, Xapan's troops will find it hard to even get close to you. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #3 -- Xeod Moors [B03C2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Vance _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1100 On Medicine I (Vance Drop) Familiar's Mark (Familiar Drop) Grimoire Soins (Familiar Drop) Grimoire Celerite (Familiar Drop) Sandstone's Mark (Clay Golem Drop) Bandit's Mark (Rogue Drop) Buried under Bush (4 Steps Left, 2 Steps Back) Buried (2 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Arycelle shows up again here, but not as an enemy. Your main objective is to defeat Vance of the Galgastani squad. Though if you wish to recruit Arycelle later on you will need to save her here and that's not an easy task as she starts on the other side of the map with all the Galgastanis focusing on her. Getting to her quickly is going to be a pain because of all the marshland between her and you, it'll be worse if its raining. An easy way of saving her is to equip Canopus with a Lobber, fly him out towards Arycelle and toss some Mend Leaves +2 her way. Don't bother attacking the Galgastanis until the rest of your troops catch up and then you can start attacking them. Though your mobility might suffer for it, using a Horn of the Savage can improve Arycelle's ability to dodge the enemy's attacks, and increase her odds of survival. There are many new classes here. The Faerie familiar can be recruited if Canopus has learned Fey Pact, or killed to obtain its Classmark and a couple of useful Grimoires that aren't available yet. The Rogue Gremlin should definitely be killed as it will drop a Bandit's mark so that you can gain access to the Rogue class. You can't recruit it, so you may as well kill it. Finally there are a couple Clay Golems here that will drop their classmarks for you. They can't be recruited just yet, but killing them may be problematic as they're highly resistant to physical attacks, but go down quickly against magic. An interesting note is that Vance is equipped with a Ring of the Horde +1!, a level 18 item that can't ever be bought. How he's able to use it is anyone's guess. Though it's good news for you as amazingly there's a chance he'll drop it. Originally you never had to save Arycelle here for her to join you later. This battle used to be the one where Xapan showed up as he did

in Rhea Boum. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #4 -- Lake Bordu [B04C2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 or 2 Guests Objective: Vanquish Genzo _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1200 Ninja's Mark (Genzo Drop) Jitte (Genzo Equip) Windwyrm's Mark (Cloud Dragon Drop) Waterwyrm's Mark (Flood Dragon Drop) Buried under Tree (7 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Depending upon how the dice roll here, you may have an average difficulty fight, or a hard one. There's a chance a couple new dragons will appear here, and if they do they'll be a pain to get rid of. Even Arycelle, who appears here as a guest if you saved her will have trouble against them. Despite having a small height advantage over your opponents, you start in a bad spot with water all around, which makes organizing your troops out of their starting position a bit problematic. Fliers of course won't have any issues, but other characters will. You'll need to split your squad into two groups here, one to move forward towards the lake, while the other comprised mostly of ranged attackers take the slightly higher route around the outside. However, none of that may matter as Genzo may rush in with incredible speed towards you. He's a Ninja, and while he can potentially be very deadly, he will die fast in the middle of fight. It may be more challenging to leave him until last, but you might miss out on a lot of money and items the other enemies drop if you focus on him first. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #5 -- Tynemouth Hill [B05C2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 or 2 Guests Objective: Vanquish Vyce _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1200 Dragoon's Mark (Dragoon Drop) Firewyrm's Mark (Flame Dragon Drop) Buried under Bush (1 Step Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 12 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Denam, Catiua, and Arycelle (if you saved her) start in the middle of the map, completely surrounded, with you squad some distance back. You will have to stay with them until your squad draws nearer and can lend a hand. Denam as a Knight will be crucial to seeing

that you survive the first few rounds so that he can help with Catiua's healing duties. You will meet your first Dragoon here, and it will drop its Classmark when killed, but it's better if you can recruit her, she just might come with a "slayer" skill already learned. On top of that she might help in dealing with the Flame Dragon here as well. Despite these odds, the battle is relatively easy, because the Crafting system will have opened up, and you can spend money on upgrading the stuff you bought back in Chapter 1. If you craft at least all Level 7 equipment up to Level 8, it should do you for the rest of the chapter. After the battle is over Arycelle will join as a permanent member, and if you check the Warren Report, the Phorampa Wildwood is open for exploring. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #6 -- Krysaro [B06C2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Farrel _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1200 Ring of Vitality (Farrel Equip) Buried under Bush (3 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 18 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (12 Steps Left, 22 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 20 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle plays out almost exactly like when you fought Moldova here in Chapter 1. The only difference being is that there's no Phantoms to contend with, just soldiers of the Walister Resistance. This is a fairly straightforward battle. Just send your melee units ahead and down the street to draw the enemy's attention. Hold your line when you meet the enemies, and fire on them from afar with ranged attacks and magic. While the enemies may be easy to kill, Farrel the leader is not. He is extremely resistant most physical attacks. He's tougher than most Golems at the same level. Though like Golems, he does have a soft spot against make, so exploit that to kill him, and obtain his Ring of Vitality. After the battle you'll meet the Knight Folcurt and he'll join you as guest for the next few battles. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #7 -- Qadriga Fortress [B07C2] Squad Limit: 10 + 2 Guests Objective: Vanquish Darza _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1200 Ways of the Gerges (Darza Drop) Buried (3 Steps Right) Buried under Crate (3 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward)

Buried (8 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (1 Step Left, 16 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Remember Cistina, whom you may have saved back in Rhime? Well if you don't save Bayin here, you'll never meet her later. Unfortunately he's dumber than Cistina, and being a Wizard you'd think the last thing on his mind is to charge into the enemy camp away from you when he's already surrounded. Though thankfully it's still much easier than in the original game where Bayin would likely die in one or two hits. There are three enemies here that are a real threat to Bayin, they're the Wizard, Enchantress, and Archer. Put your flying units at the bottom right corner of the deployment screen so they can hopefully fly up to the top of the fort on their second turn and throw down boulders or shoot arrows at those three enemies specifically. If you can keep them occupied, you'll easily save Bayin. The rest of the enemies will come pouring out of the fortress and you'll have to meet them on rough ground. but they're not especially difficult compared to what you've already faced. Try and recruit a Cockatrice here if you can. It's new class, and though their Petrification ability isn't as lethal as it was in the original game it's still a great way calming down the battle for a few turns when things get hectic. After the battle, if Bayin survived, you'll be given the option to go to Ndamsa Fortress to save Cistina. Pick the first option to go to this optional battle [OS2C2]. You really should do it, as you get nothing for doing otherwise. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #8 -- Golyat [B08C2] Squad Limit: 10 + 2-4 Guests Objective: Vanquish Dagon _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1400 Sandstone's Mark (Clay Golem Drop) Blessing Stone (Cleric Drop) Buried (6 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (3 Steps Forward) Buried (14 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (7 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (8 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (12 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------If you took the sidequest detour to rescue Cistina at Ndamsa Fortress then you will have a grand total of 4 Guests on hand, on top of the 10 you can deploy. This makes this battle a snap as you will outnumber the enemies by a margin of 14 to 12. The only tough enemies here are the Golems, but Catiua can easily deal upwards of 70 damage to them with Spiritsurge; twice as much as anyone else. Keep an eye on Cistina though, as you need to keep

her alive in this fight. She will run headlong into the middle of the enemies just to use Deadshot against a front-line target. Dagon won't last long against your assault once you reach him, so try to kill as many enemies as you can for the Oberyths they drop before your guests take him out. After the battle you'll go to Boed Fortress, where you can finally recruit Folcurt Bayin and Cistina, if they are all still alive. Your next battle is in Rhime. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #9 -- The Arkhaiopolis of Rhime [B09C2] Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Xapan _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1200 Bandit's Mark (Rogue Drop) Footsoldier's Mark (Hoplite Drop) Gloomwyrm's Mark (Dark Dragon Drop) Gleamwyrm's Mark (Arc Dragon Drop) Sandstone's Mark (Clay Golem Drop) Granite's Mark (Stone Golem Drop) Buried under Barrel (6 Steps Left, 1 Steps Back) Buried (11 Steps Left, 1 Step Back) Buried under Bush (11 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (12 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (18 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (20 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------You're in for a nasty unavoidable ambush with this fight. Denam and Catiua start in the middle of the map surrounded on three sides by Xapan's troops. You will have to remain in this spot for a couple turns to secure Catiua's retreat. Denam should definitely be a Knight in this battle and keep their HP up at all times as well as blocking the enemy's path to Catiua's with Rampart Aura. However, getting your main squad to meet Catiua is not easy as they'll have to file out of a single path from their starting position to meet her, which will slow them all down. Having fliers or characters that can move through water will enable you to get around that problem though. Once Catiua has safely retreated to your main force, you can begin the counterattack, which won't be too difficult at all. The streets of Rhime aren't too narrow as it takes a couple characters to block one. Deal with the Golems who will come in from the sides, and then you can hold up Xapan's troops as they will all move in direction towards you. The Dragons and Hoplites will be tough to kill, but the rest of the enemies won't be as dangerous. Focus on them first before going after Xapan and the rest. There's a lot of new classmarks and Oberyths to be had in this fight. After the battle you'll retreat to Boed Fortress and Rhime will be inaccessible. This is a change from the original game where you marched from Rhime, to a battle on Golborza before arriving in Almorica for the last battles of the chapter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Battle #10 -- The Gates of Almorica [B10C2] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Ramidos and Xapan _________ Hidden Objective: Vanquish Ramidos At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1100 On Medicine II (Ramidos Drop) Buried (1 Step Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (12 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (4 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (6 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (1 Step Right, 14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Before you approach Almorica, it's best to make sure Denam is a Level 11 Knight so he can equip the latest equipment that you can craft and has Counterattack I, Rampart Aura I, Fortify I, Dodge I, and Field Alchemy II learned. Also make sure you have a have a good supply of Healing Seeds on hand -- 10 or more should be good enough. This battle is a combination of two from the original game. Ramidos would be the leader in a battle on Golborza before reaching Almorica, and Xapan would be the leader here. Though since the Golborza battle has been done away with in the remake, Ramidos is here as well. This battle can be quite tough as reinforcements will come flooding in by the castle walls. You can easily be overrun here if you take too long. Despite that though you really only need to kill Ramidos despite what the objective says in-game. If you kill Xapan first, he'll run away leaving Ramidos behind for you to kill, and if you kill Ramidos first, Xapan flees and the battle is over. None of the enemies here drop anything of value, and nor are there any new classes to be had. You should only fight them if they're causing you trouble in reaching Ramidos. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #11 -- Almorica Passageway [B11C2] Squad Limit: 1 (Denam Only) Objective: Vanquish Vyce _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------300 None -------------------------------------------------------------------This is the reason you needed to prepare Denam before going to Almorica. This is a one-on-one fight with Vyce and he's an even match for Denam. Be careful not to attack when your HP falls below 50% nor let Vyce step behind you, lest he use Sneak Attack to inflict a ton of damage. If you don't have Rampart Aura, make sure your back is to the statues at all times regardless of where Vyce is standing. As long as you can keep your HP up while getting in a few attacks every now and lower Vyce's HP to less than 20% you'll win. In stark contrast to the original this fight was dead easy and would be over on Denam's first turn due to the fact Vyce would go first, Denam would counterattack, and then you'd attack on your turn and the damage done to Vyce would end the battle. Amazing how a little tweak with the introduction to TP and Counterattack skills makes this battle so different.

Leonar will then come in after the fight and give you a choice. This will affect which version of Chapter 3 you'll take. If you pick the first, you'll go onto the Neutral Route; picking the second will keep you on the Path of Chaos. --------------------------------------------------------------------2.3b -- Chapter 3: Ambition and Greed Rule, While Dogs and [CH3CW] Swine Serve Battle #1 -- Port Asyton [B01C3] -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map -Battle #2 -- Xeod Moors [B02C3] Battle #3 -- The Gates of Coritanae [B03C3] Battle #4 -- Coritanae Ward [B04C3] Battle #5 -- The Reisan Way [B05C3] Battle #6 -- Bahanna Highlands [B06C3] -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map -Battle #7a -- Brigantys South Curtain Wall [B7AC3] Battle #7b -- Brigantys West Curtain Wall [B7BC3] Battle #8 -- Brigantys Great Hall [B08C3] Battle #9 -- Bahanna Highlands [B09C3] Battle #10 -- The Gates of Coritanae [B10C3] Battle #11 -- Coritanae Ward [B11C3] -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map -Battle #12 -- Mount Weobry [B12C3] Battle #13 -- The Arkhaiopolis of Rhime [B13C3] Battle #14 -- Boed Fortress [B14C3] -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map -Battle #15a -- Phidoch South Curtain Wall [B15AC3] Battle #15b -- Phidoch West Curtain Wall [B15BC3] Battle #16 -- Phidoch Great Hall [B16C3] --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #1 -- Port Asyton [B01C3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Gannon _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1000 Sandstone's Mark (Clay Golem Drop) Grimoire Congelation II (Wizard Drop) Grimoire Scindeciel II (Enchantress Drop) Buried (2 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (1 Step Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (8 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Catiua has escaped and you're thrown into this fight immediately, so you cannot buy new equipment until you get through here. In any case you have a height advantage over Gannon and his troops here, and a numerical advantage as well (10 vs. 8) so bringing in two Archers is going to help things immensely in this rather simple fight. All you need to do is block off access to your start position by placing a Knight on the stairs beside the barrel, and then send Canopus or another flier onto the rooftops to snipe the mages. The

rest of the enemies will move towards your position and you can easily deal with them with your protected Archers and Magic users. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #2 -- Xeod Moors [B02C3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Felnatorre _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1000 Ninja's Mark (Ninja/Kunoichi Drop) Buried (3 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (1 Step Right, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Another straightforward battle. This time you're fighting in swampland, though none of your enemies here are any good at fighting in it. Keep your characters to the good terrain, and use your ranged characters to soften them up for your melee characters when they arrive. They'll have trouble crossing the swamp, which will give you plenty of time to be ready when they come within range. Try and kill as many troops here as possible, the level jump is enough that they'll all be higher level than you such that you'll get some decent bonus Exp for killing them with lower level characters. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #3 -- The Gates of Coritanae [B03C3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Gildora _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1100 Magus's Mark (Gildora Drop) Grimoire Prestess (Gildora Drop) Grimoire Resurrection (Cleric Drop) Granite's Mark (Stone Golem Drop) Buried under Bush (1 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried (2 Step Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (11 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried (9 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (8 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Be careful when attacking the front gates of Coritanae, as you must divide up your squad to cover the two paths the enemies will attack you from. If you send all your troops across the moat, you will be attacked from behind as the other group at the gates walks along the bridge and around to reach you. And if you send all your troops on the main road across the bridge, the others will cross the moat and work their way up to your position from behind. Make sure that you divide up your troops evenly and that they're both self-sufficient so that neither needs help from the other. Each group should be comprised of an Archer, Magic attacker, two melee fighters, and a designated healer or Cleric.

The enemies here aren't too difficult, but be prepared to deal with any reinforcements as they arrive. There aren't many, but the group being sent along the main road in will have to deal with more than the group you send across the moat will. Gildora will be the first Witch you encounter in the game. She'll drop Magus's Marks some Wyrm Gems, and a Dragon Magic tome when you defeat her to get your own Warlock or Witch started. Also be sure to kill the Cleric here as it will drop the very important Resurrection Grimoire. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #4 -- Coritanae Ward [B04C3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Gildora _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1000 Magus's Mark (Warlock Drop) Grimoire Oeildaigle (Warlock Drop) Grimoire Resurrection (Cleric Drop) Dragoon's Mark (Dragoon Drop) -------------------------------------------------------------------Careful you don't fall into the pits on either side of the central walkway here, it'll be hard getting out, and Slow-moving characters like magic users will never get out once they're in. This has changed since the original game where those little steps in the walkway were not present, which meant that any character except for a Ninja or a Flier could not get out of they went in. What you want to do here is send all your troops along the walkway and meet Xaebos's troops in the middle. Use your high defense characters to hold the line while your long range attackers attack from further back to inflict damage. Slowly push your way forward as the enemies fall and you'll eventually win. Make sure you kill the Warlock for some more Classmarks, and another rare Dragon Magic Tome, as well as the Clerics for more Resurrection Grimoires, and finally either kill the Dragoons for their marks, or recruit them into your army. This can be quite difficult as Xaebos will be at the front and his troops will stop you from getting anywhere near the Clerics and Warlock, but if you have sufficient healing and items to spare you can outlast them all. When those Clerics come within range to use their bombs, you better kill them quick before their turn comes round again or they'll pummel you relentlessly. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #5 -- The Reisan Way [B05C3] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish Cassandra _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------700 Footsoldier's Mark (Hoplite Drop) Familiar's Mark (Gremlin Drop) Grimoire Tourbillon II (Gremlin Familiar Drop) Juggernaut's Mark (Juggernaut Drop) Grimoire Rocher II (Wizard Drop) Bandit's Mark (Gremlin Rogue Drop) Buried (3 Steps Forward)

Buried (8 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (15 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (14 Steps Right, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Make sure you at least bring a Cleric along for this fight as there's going to be a number of undead you'll be fighting against in this battle. This is a brand new battle in an area that wasn't around in the original game, and starts off an interesting new sidestory that'll occur throughout the rest of the Chaos Route. The battle starts off with several neutral undead Phantoms already stilled while Cassandra summons in several more units of her own you'll have to fight. When those undead units wake up, they'll run away from anyone unless they're attacked, in which case they'll track down anyone belonging to the side that attacked them, so it's best to Exorcise what can of them before they all wake up. They do drop some Necromancy reagents, which are quite rare. This battle is relatively easy as all Baldur weapons are available in the shop, and they have a hidden trait of dealing double damage to any Zombie or Phantom type unit. The rest of the enemies aren't too terribly powerful for their levels. You should try to kill all the enemies here, even the ones Cassandra summons to replace the ones you've killed, because there's a number of rare Classmarks to be had as well as two more Grimoires you can get before they're available in stores. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #6 -- Bahnna Highlands [B06C3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Hektor _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1000 Blessing Stone (Hektor Drop) Hallowing Stone (Hektor Drop) Grimoire Scindeciel II (Wizard Drop) Grimoire Resurrection (Male Cleric Drop) Braised Skewer (Beast Tamer Drop) Dragoon's Mark (Dragoon Drop) Dragon Steak (Dragoon Drop) Grimoire Bravoure (Female Cleric Drop) Icewyrm's Mark (Frost Dragon Drop) Skyiron (Terror Knight Drop) Buried (8 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (9 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This new version of the Bahanna Highlands is host to an epic battle for a lot of amazing treasure to an equally awesome soundtrack. Do not be so quick to kill Hektor here as some highlights of the loot the enemies may drop here are the rather hard to come by Braised Skewer and Dragon Steak (which increase a character's base stats permanently) as well as the equally hard to find crafting ingredient

Skyiron from killing the Terror Knight. Despite the height advantage your enemies have, their Archers will not take advantage of it. However, the two Frost Dragons here are your biggest worry. If you don't have Dragoons it will take quite some time to deliver enough damage to kill just one of them. A good alternative is to send in a Berserker with Draconology set to take care of them both with the Berserk skill. A Terror Knight using Fearful Impact can help as well. Hektor himself is going to be even harder to kill, as he's much stronger than any ordinary Knight and will use Phalanx every chance he gets. Don't let him near your magic casters or he'll likely refill his TP gauge enough to use Phalanx endlessly. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #7a -- Brigantys South Curtain Wall [B7AC3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Kakrinoros _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1100 Grimoire Resurrection (Cleric Drop) Blessing Stone (Cleric Drop) Hallowing Stone (Cleric Drop) Peregrine's Mark (Hawkman Drop) Grimoire Antimagie (Witch Drop) Magus's Mark (Witch Drop) Buried (2 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (10 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (4 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle looks like it's going to be trouble from the start, as you're at the bottom of a huge wall, and have to work your way up the stairs to fight all the enemies. However, you can use Canopus and any other fliers to scale the wall immediately and keep the enemies busy while the rest of your troops can make their way up. It is imperative you focus on those three Archers that start above the first wall first as they're the biggest threat to you. The other Hawkman up on top of the second wall aren't nearly as troublesome since a couple of them only have crossbows which don't work too well shooting downwards at sharp angles. Once you've gotten all your troops up the stairs, things will start becoming a lot easier to deal with. Make sure you at least kill the Witch to obtain some Magus Marks and another rare Dragon Magic Tome. Kakrinoros is a Wizard, and while his magic can be quite strong, he will fall in only a couple of hits. Of the two paths, you should take this one, just for the possibility of getting a Dragon Magic Grimoire, which the other path lacks in obtaining. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #7b -- Brigantys West Curtain Wall [B7BC3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Orgeau

_________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1100 Peregrine's Mark (Orgeau Drop) Footsoldier's Mark (Hoplite Drop) Juggernaut's Mark (Juggernaut Drop) Grimoire Resurrection (Cleric Drop) Blessing Stone (Cleric Drop) Hallowing Stone (Cleric Drop) Buried (4 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (10 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 23 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------There's a lot of water on this map, and very little land to make your way across. Due to the number of troops you'll be bringing in to this fight, you need to split them in to two groups; there just isn't enough room to send them down the same direction. Like Coritanae before, send two self-sufficient groups along both paths. If you have an Octopus, this is the best map to send them out to see what they can do. Though the enemy has Octopi of their own, you should definitely try to recruit them. You can learn Subdue as a Beast Master, change classes to Valkyrie and they can use Subdue and wade through the water. Interestingly, many of the enemy Archers start in front of the wall, but they won't seek the higher elevation the wall provides for increased range and safety. Half the battle is just getting to the enemy, but once you do focus on getting rid of those Hoplite's first. They're a pain to kill, but if you focus all your attacks on one you can kill it before their turn comes round again. Of the two paths you can take, this one is less desirable than the the South Wall. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #8 -- Brigantys Great Hall [B08C3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Xaebos _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1100 Grimoire Mobilite (Cleric Drop) Grimoire Bravoure (Cleric Drop) Blessing Stone (Cleric Drop) Hallowing Stone (Cleric Drop) Magus's Mark (Witch Drop) Grimoire Rocher II (Witch Drop) Biblion Anatomiae (Witch Drop) Grimoire Scindeciel II (Wizard Drop) Grimoire Revirement (Terror Knight/Cyclops Drop) Granite's Mark (Stone Golem Drop) -------------------------------------------------------------------This is Xaebos's last stand and though he doesn't drop the Fafnir sword, his troops drop a lot of stuff you'll want. Take note of the Witch which can drop the first Spellbook, a Biblion Anatomiae; you

won't ever be able to buy it in shops so if you see any enemies wielding a Spellbook, make sure to recruit them to guarantee you get one. You can make this battle really easy by forming a front line of three soldiers stationed between the two lamps right in front of your starting position. Let the enemies come to you and use your Archers and Mages to attack those that come near. The Golems may be a bit troublesome to kill but they take more damage from blunt force and magic. Once you've gotten rid of most of the enemies, you can break the formation and start chasing down the weakly defended Mages and Archers. Save your TP for Xaebos as his defenses are very high and he'll take a lot of punishment before going down. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #9 -- Bahanna Highlands [B09C3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Modiliani _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1200 Bandit's Mark (Rogue Drop) Grimoire Flammes II (Enchantress Drop) Grimoire Malepluie II (Wizard Drop) Grimoire Resurrection (Cleric Drop) Grimoire Mobilite (Cleric Drop) Exarch's Staff (Cleric/Wizard/Enchantress Equip) Buried (2 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (2 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle is a bit of surprise, as you're not expecting anything before returning to Coritanae. Hobyrim the Swordmaster is being chased down by Modiliani's group from the Resistance. If you can save Hobyrim here, he will join your army. You should do what you can to save him as he's a powerful ally. Hobyrim starts some distance away from you, but closer to the enemy, so you should send Canopus and another flier or two on ahead to help him out until the rest of your troops arrive on the scene. The majority of enemies here hit pretty hard, but they also fall pretty hard too as there's no real tough defensive units for you to crack. Aim your bows on the Ninja and Kunoichi here as they're the most deadly attackers of the lot. The Berserkers and Wizards along with Modiliani are the next biggest threat. Modiliani's spells can hurt a lot, but as long as you bring Knights and a Cleric, recovering the damage shouldn't be a problem. If you can keep Hobyrim's HP up above 100 or so you'll he'll have no problems surviving the battle. Try to kill the Rogues before Modiliani as they'll drop Bandit's Marks here. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #10 -- The Gates of Coritanae [B10C3]

Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Marino _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1000 Grimoire Oeildaigle (Witch Drop) Gleamwyrm's Mark (Arc Dragon Drop) Firewyrm's Mark (Flame Dragon Drop) Windwyrm's Mark (Cloud Dragon Drop) Exarch's Staff (Cleric Equip) Composite Bow (Archer Equip) Brigandine (Beast Tamer Equip) Buried (9 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right) Buried (1 Step Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (2 Steps Left, 19 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Coritanae Keep has some new residents while Denam was away, so he has to fight through here again. The fight at the gates is virtually identical to when you were here not long ago, so you can use the same strategy you used before. The only real change is the addition of a number of Dragons and an Octopus, which are easy to kill if you have a Dragoon or somebody focused on killing Beasts and Dragons. Make sure to kill the Witch before moving towards Marino as she drops a Dragon Magic Tome. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #11 -- Coritanae Ward [B11C3] Squad Limit: 1 or 10 Objective: Vanquish Leonar _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------Solo: 400 -- Army Battle Version Only -Army: 1000 Grimoire Scindeciel II (Enchantress Drop) -------------------------------------------------------------------You can choose how you want to fight Leonar at the start. You can either choose to duel him one-on-one with Denam, or you can fight him and his squad with yours. If you fight with an Army, you can use the exact same strategy as you did here earlier in the chapter, the troop composition is virtually identical to before. Be sure to deploy Arycelle for the fight, so that she can have a few choice words with him. The duel version is notably easier than fighting with troops, but you don't get any rewards for doing so. Winning the duel is just a matter of keeping Denam's HP above 150 when Leonar's TP approaches 100 as you whittle down his HP. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #12 -- Mount Weobry [B12C3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Ganpp _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot---------------------

Footsoldier's Mark (Hoplite Drop) Juggernaut's Mark (Juggernaut Drop) Buried under Rock (2 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 9 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Ganpp returns, and with a couple of uniquely coloured Cockatrices in tow as well. You should take care when dealing with Ganpp's beasts, because if you kill them he'll stick your entire squad with debuffs, and heal or buff himself. You should do your best to simply incapacitate the beasts rather than kill them, and go directly for Ganpp instead. Reaching Ganpp however is going to be a problem on Mount Weobry, as there's not a lot of great footing to be had here. Flying characters and Flame Dragons are needed to traverse Mount Weobry with ease. Use ranged attacks against Ganpp, and do your best to stay out of the range of his beasts while keeping your attackers' HP up and you'll win quickly. This is not a battle where you want to hang around for too long. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #13 -- The Arkhaiopolis of Rhime [B13C3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Hiram _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------800 Grimoire Vifesprit (Warlock Drop) Wizard's Hat (Warlock/Cleric Equip) Buried (6 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (11 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (10 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Right, 15 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A lot of surprises are in store when you reach Rhime, and this battle is one of them. The enemies will converge on you from three different areas of Rhime. Though they start from seemingly very far away, they will close the gap in as little as two turns, and by then you'll just be getting out of the area you started in. The Terror Knight Hiram will lead the charge, and he's absolutely fearless, which means this battle could be over really quick if you focus on him. However, the enemies' levels are starting to climb much faster than yours will, so you'll need to kill as many enemies as you can to get the bonus Exp they'll yield. Pick your targets carefully by looking at the turn order, and if consecutive attacks from your troops can kill an enemy before they have a chance to recover then you're good. While you're at it, be sure to kill the Warlock here as he'll drop a new Dragon Magic Grimoire for you. If you anticipate things are going to fall apart, then kill Hiram quickly before things get too bad. Reviving characters is a tough

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job since it essentially requires two characters to get one knocked out character back on their feet, and is also an expensive procedure. Revival items aren't cheap and the Resurrection Spell, if usable now, takes a lot of MP to use. This battle is good practice to holding off a more powerful enemy to get as much Exp and SP out of them. After the battle, make your way to Almorica, where Mirdyn and Gildas will finally join. Then head to Boed Fortress. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #14 -- Boed Fortress [B14C3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Oz _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------800 Grimoire Aspirenergie (Templar Wizard Drop) Wizard's Hat (Templar Wizard/Cleric Equip) Buried (6 Steps Left, 1 Step Back) Buried under Crate (9 Steps Left) Buried (3 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (8 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------The lay of Boed Fortress is going to make fighting rather difficult as it is a primarily vertical map with large height differences. The Dark Knights have the edge on having the advantage in height, but you should have stronger equipment than them to even things out. You will definitely want people with crossbows here as they allow you to shoot up at enemies, and don't have the vertical limitation of normal bows. The majority of enemies here are magic users and melee-type classes. This means they will likely have to work their way down to your location to attack you which will also be to your advantage, because the foot of the fortress allows for easier movement and you can avoid having your troops clump together as they try to make their way up. Oz himself is not nearly as deadly as he was in the original game, in fact he's somewhat weak for major boss. You only need to watch out for his finishing attacks when his TP is high enough. He has a unique finisher that allows him to target characters 2-3 panels away for well over 100 damage. After the battle Cerya will join your cause. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #15a -- Phidoch South Curtain Wall [B15AC3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Vestiarri _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1000 Codex of Gems (Vestiarri Drop) Grimoire Vifesprit (Warlock Drop) Waterwyrm's Mark (Flood Dragon Drop) Stormwyrm's Mark (Thunder Dragon Drop) Wizard's Hat (Cleric/Enchantress/Warlock Equip) Buried (11 Steps Left, 2 Steps Back)

Buried (9 Steps Left) Buried under Brush (7 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 22 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Phidoch Castle is where the three paths will finally converge at. Though all the battles are virtually the same, there are some minor permutations based on whether you're following the Lawful, Chaotic, or Neutral path. Some enemies are swapped out for others and offer minorly different rewards upon clearing. As with any big castle sieges the enemies have a clear terrain advantage and numbers. In fact reinforcements will arrive soon after and slow you down, so you need to kill targets of opportunity while making your way to Vestiarri. The hard part, comes after crossing the stream in front of the first wall as the path starts to wind itself around to the top. You should wait on the other side of the stream until Vestiarri makes her way down from her position before advancing on her, because trying to fend off enemy attacks between the first and second walls with the possibility of reinforcements suddenly ambushing them will ensure defeat. If you take this route be sure to kill the Warlock here, as he has a chance to drop an ever hard to find Dragon Magic Grimoire. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #15b -- Phidoch West Curtain Wall [B15BC3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Mercure _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1000 Codex of Gems (Mercure Drop) Granite's Mark (Stone Golem Drop) Skyiron (Iron Golem -- Left Drop) Black Iron's Mark (Iron Golem -- Right Drop) Magus's Mark (Warlock Drop) Wizard's Hat (Cleric Equip) Buried (9 Steps Left, 2 Steps Back) Buried (3 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (6 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 16 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This alternate route in to Phidoch is not as valuable in terms of rewards compared to the other route, nor is it as valuable as the Law or Neutral versions. It still plays out exactly like the Law Version though. You'll want to take this battle nice and slowly dealing with all the enemies in front of the first wall, before those from the second wall make their way down. Don't rush the leader here as that'll result in a quick death, wait for the leader to rush you. The Golems must be dealt with first and foremost as they are walking

walls themselves. They're weak against magic and crushing attacks, so use those attacks to dispatch them. The rest of the forces have drastically lower defenses than the Golems and can be dealt with quickly. Once you've got the Golems out of the way, the rest should be easy, even when reinforcements do arrive. Of the two routes, the South Wall is the obvious choice as you can get an always hard to find Dragon Magic tome from the Warlock over there. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #16 -- Phidoch Great Hall [B16C3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Oz and Ozma _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ----------------------------Special Loot----------------900 Spiked Laurel (Ozma Equip) Wizard's Hat (Cleric/Templar Wizard Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------Virtually identical to the Law route version, but Ozma is the one you need to watch out for as she is incredibly deadly as opposed to her rather weak brother here. In fact Oz has lower stats than when you met him at Boed earlier, despite being the same level. Probably had to tone him down for this fight since he starts right near Denam and could knock off 2/3 of his HP before anybody else could move. If Denam didn't have full HP from the previous fight (as HP did not recover between back-to-back battles) it was Game Over. You will need to divide up half your troops here, one to take out the Templars and Oz, the other to block the enemy coming down the stairs and Ozma. It's easy to form a line to block the enemy troops coming down the stairs by placing characters on either side of those lamps. Do your best to defeat Oz, before Ozma makes her way down so you can then focus all your troops on her. As long as you stay out of the range of Ozma's whip when attacking you should have no trouble defeating her. However, watch out when her TP approaches 100 as her unique finisher can Bewitch your characters. Bewitch is essentially a more potent version of Charm. A character's loyalty will suffer and you can't snap them out of it by attacking them. You will have to let it wear off over time, or knock their HP to 0 to avoid them making a mess of things. One final important note is that this is the first appearance of a Hydra. They are quite rare Dragons, so you should definitely try to recruit this one here. ========================= The Neutral Path ========================== 2.3c -- Chapter 3: There Will be Sacrifices [CH3NW]

Battle #1 -- The Gates of Almorica [B01N3] -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map -Battle #2 -- Boed Fortress [B02N3] Battle #3 -- Tynemouth Hill [B03N3] -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map -Battle #4 -- Port Asyton [B04N3] Battle #5 -- Mount Hedon [B05N3] Battle #6 -- Hagia Banhamuba [B06N3]

Battle #7 -- Ndamsa Fortress [B07N3] -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Scene at Almorica -Battle #8 -- The Gates of Coritanae [B08N3] Battle #9 -- Coritanae Ward [B09N3] Battle #10 -- Mount Weobry [B10N3] Battle #11 -- The Arkhaiopolis of Rhime [B11N3] -- WORLD Anchor Point: After Returning to World Map -Battle #12a -- Phidoch South Curtain Wall [B12AN3] Battle #12b -- Phidoch West Curtain Wall [B12BN3] Battle #13 -- Phidoch Great Hall [B13N3] --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #1 -- The Gates of Almorica [B01N3] Squad Limit: 4 + 6 Guests Objective: Vanquish Hektor _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------900 Buried (3 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (5 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Though this battle starts immediately after the chapter begins with no time to shop, it is about as easy as the introductory battles at the start of the game. Pick any three characters to go along with Denam, it doesn't really matter as Leonar's squad of six has your opponents caught in a pincer attack, and yours is on their flank. The enemies here are poorly equipped, drop nothing of value, and with both your squads being fully equipped this fight is impossible to lose. One thing to take note of now that you're on the Neutral Path is that Arycelle's Loyalty value has bottomed out, and she'll have a very high chance of leaving your army after any battle you use her in. If you want to keep her in your ranks she'll have to gain a few skill levels or pick up some Lovers or Fool Tarot Cards dropped by enemies to get her Loyalty high enough where she won't threaten to leave. This is slightly different from the original game where she just automatically left upon your decision to go down the Neutral route. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #2 -- Boed Fortress [B02N3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Oz _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------900 Glamrock (Lv 31+ Oz Drop) Alluring Corset (Lv 31+ Oz Drop) Alluring Boots (Lv 31+ Oz Drop) Grimoire Resurrection (Templar Cleric Drop) Bloodied Ventricle (Templar Warrior Drop) Grimoire Scindeciel II (Templar Wizard Drop) Grimoire Congelation II (Templar Wizard Drop) Buried (1 Step Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward)

Buried under Bush (7 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------An easy fight, but if you're looking to save Cerya and be able to recruit her in Chapter 4 then this battle becomes obnoxiously difficult. Cerya starts with no weapons, Leadened, and trapped by Oz with a whole squad of Templars. She won't survive more than than two turns attacks from Oz so you'll have to act fast. Canopus or any other flier equipped with a Lobber is about the only way to quickly climb to the top of the fortress where Cerya is and keep her alive with Mending Seeds. While the rest of your army makes their way up, use a Horn of the Savage or two to worsen the weather as it'll increase the chance of Cerya avoiding attacks until everyone is in position. Use whatever crossbowmen or missile magic you have to snipe at the Templars from below as you climb up the fortress. This will help soften up the enemy before your main melee force arrives to put the smackdown on Oz. Interestingly, if you come back here via the WORLD Tarot at Level 31 or higher, Oz will drop his exclusive gear upon defeat. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #3 -- Tynemouth Hill [B03N3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Ganpp _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Grimoire Bravoure (Cleric Drop) Blessing Stone (Cleric Drop) Hallowing Stone (Cleric Drop) Mend Leaf +3 (Cleric Drop) Juggernaut's Mark (Juggernaut Drop) Grimoire Resurrection (Hoplite Drop) Grimoire Tourbillon II (Wizard Drop) Buried (3 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (5 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (7 Steps Left, 19 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Left, 19 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Ganpp is back for a second time on this new map of Tynemouth Hill. Even though you can now kill his pets, you don't really want because he'll stick your entire squad with debuffs and either heal or buff himself, making the whole battle a lot harder. Instead you should just focus on defeating Ganpp from long range, because he hits hard once he's within his attacking range. If possible, try to kill the Lizardmen here for some new Classmarks and a very valuable Grimoire to revive your allies. However if things get dicey from ignoring Ganpp's pets, don't hesitate to end the battle quickly by defeating Ganpp; you'll get another chance at those items soon enough. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #4 -- Port Asyton [B04N3]

Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Condition: Oelias or Dievold Must Survive At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1000 Grimoire Mobilite (Zombie Cleric Drop) Blessing Stone (Zombie Cleric Drop) Hallowing Stone (Zombie Cleric Drop) Mend Leaf +3 (Zombie Cleric Drop) Windwyrm's Mark (Zombie Cloud Dragon Drop) Juggernaut's Mark (Zombie Juggernaut Drop) Bloodied Ventricle (Zombie Warrior Drop) Buried under Barrel (3 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 1 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (3 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (2 Steps Left, 16 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------You'll want to bring in at least one or two Clerics here with Exorcism, because there's nothing but undeads here. At this point in the game you should be around Level 12, and have Baldur weapons on everyone. You may notice that the amount of damage you inflict on the undead here skyrockets, this is because Baldur weapons have a hidden effect on dealing double damage to undead targets. Half the enemies on the map start out stilled, so quickly dump some Magic Leaves +2 or Magic Seeds on your Clerics so they can start exorcising right away. As long as you keep their MP up so that they can exorcise on demand your character's Baldur weapons should keep those undead stilled with ease. Unlike other rescue missions where your charges can be killed without consequence, you must at least keep either Oelias or Dievold alive. If one dies, it's not a problem, but if both die then it's Game Over. Keeping Oelias alive isn't much of an issue to her Sanctuary being active in keeping undead away from her. Dievold however will require a bit of work by getting Canopus with a Baldur Bow to fly over and stilling undead around him. Once the battle is over both Oelias and Dievold will ask to join your ranks if either survived. You'll get a different scene if Oelias did not survive, or a new Title if both survived. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #5 -- Mount Hedon [B05N3] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish Cassandra _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Bandit's Mark (Rogue Drop) Firewyrm's Mark (Zombie Flame Dragon Drop) Juggernaut's Mark (Juggernaut Drop) Footsoldier's Mark (Hoplite Drop) Skyiron (Summoned Terror Knight Drop) Buried (1 Step Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (2 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (3 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward)

Buried (7 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This is a relatively straightforward fight as you start facing Necromancer Cassandra, who's no less than 8 steps away from your starting position and has weak defenses. She can easily be killed with a couple shots from a bow without incident. The real prize here is the possibility of obtaining a chunk of Skyiron (a very rare crafting ingredient) from a Terror Knight that Cassandra can summon. Cassandra won't summon in any enemies unless you've killed a few yourself. Since four of the enemies here are neutral zombies and start off stilled, you should quickly exorcise them so that Cassandra will replace them with her own undead. The only tough enemy to kill is a single Hoplite, which you should try to recruit. Once that Hoplite is out of the way all the other enemies will fall quite quickly due to having low defenses and being susceptible to your Baldur weapons. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #6 -- Hagia Banhamuba [B06N3] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish Cressida _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1100 Familiar's Mark (Familiar Drop) -------------------------------------------------------------------A very easy battle if you have a couple Archers on your side. You start with a good enough height advantage that they can shoot at least halfway across the map. Cressida is a very frail Necromancer who can be killed in two hits from an Archer. She will summon Gremlins, Orcs, and Lamias when necessary as you kill other enemies here. However, since none of the enemies here apart from the Faeries drop anything worth of note, it's best just to go for Cressida right from the start to finish this battle quickly before those stilled undead wake up. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #7 -- Ndamsa Fortress [B07N3] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish Nybeth _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1100 Peregrine's Mark (Zombie Rune Fencer Drop) Granite's Mark (Summoned Stone Golem Drop) Buried (0 Steps -- Underfoot at start) Buried under Rock (2 Steps Right) Buried (2 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This rematch against Nybeth should go a lot smoother than it did way back in Chapter 1. Virtually all the enemies here are undead so equipping Baldur-based weaponry combined with stockpiling Exorcisme Grimoires for anyone to exorcise the hordes of undead at will, makes

this battle incredibly easy. Nybeth is also accompanied by a Death Knight, and though he may appear to be undead he's only partially undead. Baldur weapons still deliver double damage as you'd expect against him, but he dies like any other living character would. If you deploy Canopus in this fight he'll have a brief chat with him. By the same token deploy Oelias and Dievold as well to see an exchange between them and Nybeth. You should try to end this battle quickly, because if you don't Nybeth will start summoning Stone Golems, Hydras, and Dark Dark Dragons. Unless you have a competent Dragoon and Warlock on hand to deal with those monsters they'll be a pain to deal with all at once. Once the battle is over, return to Almorica for a scene. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #8 -- The Gates of Coritanae [B08N3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Gildora _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1300 Magus's Mark (Gildora Drop) Grimoire Oeildaigle (Gildora Drop) Hallowing Stone (Cleric Drop) Blessing Stone (Cleric Drop) Grimoire Resurrection (Cleric Drop) Shoulder Shard (Female Terror Knight Drop) Dried Eyestem (Knight Drop) Buried (6 Steps Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 1 Step Back) Buried (8 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (12 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A divide and conquer strategy works best here in Coritanae when you're fielding a full complement of 12 characters here. Split your force into two teams of six -- one to cross the moat, the other to cross the bridge. This has the added advantage of not letting the enemy force circle round behind and your characters won't get held up at choke points. Standard engagement tactics work best due to the topography of the map. Your melee attackers should always be up front, followed by your magic casters some 4 or 5 steps behind, and your archers at the very back providing damage support. Keep in mind that several reinforcements will arrive to replace the enemies you defeat here. They'll appear in the three corners of the map furthest from where you start. Always the back of the group going over the bridge covered as reinforcements will likely appear behind or very close by them. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #9 -- Coritanae Ward [B09N3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Xaebos _________ At Stake \

-Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1200 Hallowing Stone (Cleric Drop) Blessing Stone (Cleric Drop) Grimoire Resurrection (Cleric Drop) Grimoire Brisciel II (Female Terror Knight Drop) -------------------------------------------------------------------The majority of this fight will take place on a narrow walkway, with two sunken "pits" on either side. You do not want anyone in those pits because it will be very difficult for them to climb out, mages and other "Slow" characters will be trapped if they go down into those areas. Send in melee characters to block the walkway and hold the line while your magic users and Archers pound on them from relative safety. There are a lot of enemies here so move your front line slowly along the walkway to push the enemies back. Once all the opposing melee fighters are gone, you can freely break ranks and charge on Xaebos and his entourage of Archers and Magic users. When Xaebos uses Phalanx it's actually signal to divert focus to those weakly defended troops of his, which is rather typical of him. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #10 -- Mount Weobry [B10N3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1100 Winged Boots (Gryphon Drop) Grimoire Vifesprit (Warlock Drop) Cragwyrm's Mark (Earth Dragon Drop) Firewyrm's Mark (Flame Dragon Drop) Gloomwyrm's Mark (Dark Dragon Drop) Granite's Mark (Stone Golem Drop) Juggernaut's Mark (Juggernaut Drop) Footsoldier's Mark (Hoplite Drop) Hallowing Stone (Knight Drop) Buried under Tree (9 Steps Left) Buried (9 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (7 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (12 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 16 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------On this new map of Mount Weobry you'll happen across a small group of Highwaymen besieged by a large number of Dragons and Phantoms. As logic dictates, you'll have clear a path through the mountain of both camps to secure safe passage. Be sure to bring in at least one Dragoon to deal with the Dragons here, and a Cleric to exorcise the undead. A couple magic users is also essential in dealing with the Highwaymen quickly, because they're Lizardmen and Golems. The map can be figuratively divided into two portions -- near and far. The enemies on the far side of the map will take several turns to reach you, so focus your efforts on the enemies near your start point first. By the time you're done with them, the rest of the enemies will be at your doorstep. Though a limited number of enemies will arrive at random points on the field to replace those you've killed.

Also be wary of placing any units near any cliffs here, enemies can will intentionally try to knock characters off the map -- killing them instantly, if given half the chance Do what you can to recruit the dragons here for auctioning off, as they all have very low Loyalties and give you a lot more loot from being auctioned off rather than being killed. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #11 -- The Arkhaiopolis of Rhime [B11N3] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Hallowing Stone (Female Cleric Drop) Buried under Bush (6 Steps Left) Buried (2 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (10 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 15 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------The Neutral version of this fight is a fairly straight forward fight than if you came here on the Law or Chaos route, as it's just you against a motley crew of Bakram soldiers and a couple of Dragons. You'll want to split your troops into one small team and one large team -- a team of 3 and 7 characters would do. The small team's job is to keep that Arc Dragon and those two enemy soldiers from crossing the canal and making things difficult for the larger team as they engage the main force amongst the houses. Try to recruit this Arc Dragon as they're quite hard to come by. If you're having difficulty employ a Dragoon to deal with the two Dragons here, and be at around Level 13 with the best gear you can craft. You'll need it for the battles after returning to Almorica. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #12a -- Phidoch South Curtain Wall [B12AN3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Vestiarri _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1000 Codex of Gems (Vestiarri Drop) Biblion Sacri (Warlock Equip) Magus's Mark (Warlock Drop) Peregrine's Mark (Beast Tamer Drop) Dragon Steak (Dragoon Drop) Buried under Bush (3 Steps Left, 1 Step Forward) Buried under Bush (6 Steps Right, 1 Step Back) Buried (7 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 18 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (20 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Phidoch Castle is where the three paths will finally converge at.

Though all the battles are virtually the same, there are some minor permutations based on whether you're following the Lawful, Chaotic, or Neutral path. Some enemies are swapped out for others and offer minorly different rewards upon clearing. As with any big castle sieges the enemies have a clear terrain advantage and numbers. In fact reinforcements will arrive soon after and slow you down, so you need to kill targets of opportunity while making your way to Vestiarri. The hard part, comes after crossing the stream in front of the first wall as the path starts to wind itself around to the top. You should wait on the other side of the stream until Vestiarri makes her way down from her position before advancing on her, because trying to fend off enemy attacks between the first and second walls with the possibility of reinforcements suddenly ambushing them will ensure defeat. If you take this route into Phidoch, be sure to kill the Warlock to obtain his Classmark and the Dragoon to get a very useful Dragon Steak. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #12b -- Phidoch West Curtain Wall [B12BN3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Mercure _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1000 Codex of Gems (Mercure Drop) Granite's Mark (Stone Golem -- Left Drop) Black Iron's Mark (Iron Golem -- Left Drop) Magus's Mark (Warlock -- Chaos Drop) Biblion Herpetou (Warlock -- Chaos Equip) Grimoire Vifesprit (Warlock -- Neutral Drop) Buried (1 Step Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (2 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 18 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (12 Steps Right, 20 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This alternate route in to Phidoch is by far the more valuable of the two, and should be the one to choose of the two. It will play out exactly like the Law Version though. You'll want to take this battle nice and slowly dealing with all the enemies in front of the first wall, before those from the second wall make their way down. Don't rush the leader here as that'll result in a quick death, wait for the leader to rush you. The Golems must be dealt with first and foremost as they are walking walls themselves. They're weak against magic and crushing attacks, so use those attacks to dispatch them. The rest of the forces have drastically lower defenses than the Golems and can be dealt with quickly. Once you've got the Golems out of the way, the rest should be easy, even when reinforcements do arrive.

--------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #13 -- Phidoch Great Hall [B13N3] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Ozma _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1000 Rose Whip (Lv 31+ Ozma Drop) Hagiaknight's Mark (Lv 31+ Ozma Drop) Magus's Mark (Witch Drop) Biblion Sacri (Witch Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle is a bit easier than the Law or Chaotic versions as you only have to fend off one leader rather than two; that being Ozma. Even still, this battle plays out exactly like those versions. Ozma starts up on the high path at the far end of the map and will take the stairs down to meet you. Use this opportunity to quickly deal with the Templars at the bottom before she arrives. Use a few units to block the other enemies starting on the stairs by placing them in line with the separating wall and lamps. This will keep them from interfering with your troops who are engaging the Templars. Once the Templars are dealt with it becomes a simple matter of focusing your efforts on Ozma and her troops. While you're doing that be sure to recruit the Hydra here into your ranks either as one of your own, or to auction off for the materials it fetches. As a point of interest Ozma can drop some very rare and nice items if you come here via the WORLD Tarot provided she's high enough in levels. ============================ The Finale ============================= 2.4 -- Chapter 4: Let us Cling Together -- WORLD Anchor Point: Battle #1 Battle #2a Battle #2b Battle #3 Battle #4 -- WORLD Anchor Point: Battle #5 Battle #6 Battle #7 Battle #8 Battle #9 Battle #10 -- WORLD Anchor Point: Battle #11a Battle #11b Battle #12 Battle #13a Battle #13b Battle #13c Battle #14 Battle #15 -- WORLD Anchor Point: [CH4_W]

After Report of Brigantys Revolt --- Bahanna Highlands [B01_4] -- Brigantys South Curtain Wall [B2A_4] -- Brigantys West Curtain Wall [B2B_4] -- Mount Hedon [B03_4] -- Hagia Banhamuba [B04_4] After Route to Barnicia Opens --- The Vanessan Way [B05_4] -- Lambiss Hill [B06_4] -- Tzorious Field [B07_4] -- Gates of Barnicia [B08_4] -- Barnicia Courtyard [B09_4] -- Barnicia Grand Staircase [B10_4] After Reuniting with Catiua --- Iorumza Canyon [B11A_4] -- Boulder Sands [B11B_4] -- Oeram City [B12_4] -- Heim South Curtain Wall [B13A_4] -- The Gates of Heim [B13B_4] -- Heim Postern Gate [B13C_4] -- Heim Courtyard [B14_4] -- Heim Great Hall [B15_4] After Hanging Gardens Opens --

The Final Dungeon -- Hanging Gardens The Endings

[EDEN0] [THEND]

--------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #1 -- Bahanna Highlands [B01_4] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Uram _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Ring of Vitality (Uram Drop) Icewyrm's Mark (Frost Dragon Drop) Ring of Alacrity (Frost Dragon Equip) Ring of Vitality (Swordmaster Equip) Ring of the Horde (Valkyrie Equip) Buried (9 Steps Right, 1 Step Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (6 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (3 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------The hard part of this battle is that no matter your level, you'll be spending most of the time trying to cross the river, as the only points your troops can cross are at the extreme ends of the map. The Ideal crossing point is at the top of the river, so that you'll have the height advantage over the enemies with any Archers you have. However if you have flying characters around such as Canopus, then the crossing won't be so bad as they can hit hard and fast. For those left behind, let them build up their MP over time and then start casting buff spells to them just before they cross so that their effectiveness lasts long enough for the fight. There are a couple Frost Dragons here, so deploying a Dragoon can help greatly. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #2a -- Brigantys South Curtain Wall [B2A_4] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies Before you start, you can actually skip the battle at Brigantys, but only from the South Wall. If you remove all of Denam's equipment and send him in alone to the South Wall, a different scene will occur and the Philaha guards will let you in without a fight. It's strongly recommended that you do this instead of fighting the battles here if you're on the Chaos route. _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Magus's Mark (Warlock Drop) Biblion Sacri (Warlock / Witch Equip) Grimoire Fumerolle (Wizard Drop) Ring of the Mind (Cleric Equip) Ring of the Horde (Dragoon Equip) Ring of Vitality (Swordmaster Equip) Ring of Deftness (Archer Equip) Buried (2 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward)

Buried (3 Step Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Effectively a repeat of the same battle in Chapter 2, only easier, because there's only two Archers who are a real threat. The magic users are all well back and will take quite a few turns before they come into play/ By then most of your troops will be halfway up the wall. As before fly Canopus or any other flying unit you have straight to the top of the wall, and make life difficult for all the enemies sitting up there. The only tough enemies to kill are a pair of Dragoons, and they only have moderate defenses compared to Knights. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #2b -- Brigantys West Curtain Wall [B2B_4] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Magus's Mark (Witch Drop) Biblion Herpetou (Witch Equip) Ring of Vitality (Witch / Terror Knight Equip) Ring of the Mind (Cleric Equip) Ring of Evasion (Knight Equip) Ring of Deftness (Archer Equip) Buried (4 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (5 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (8 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 16 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 22 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------The alternate route is also pretty much the same as the last time you were here in Chapter 2. This is the perfect place to use an Octopus or two if you have them. One can really put a dent in the enemy, two can make the battle easy, and three would be overkill. Absolutely none of the enemies here can enter the water, but if you can, you'll have the upper hand. * * *

After the scenes in Brigantys, but before proceeding to Mount Hedon is a sidequest checkpoint where new Sidequests open up and others close permanently if you haven't done them by the time you get to Mount Hedon. Here's a rundown: [] [] [] [] [] Last chance to complete Part 1 of the Port Omish Sidequest If Law, must read Talk: "Rift in the Dark Knights" by now If Chaos, the Balmamusa Dead sidequest is available Visit Almorica Castle for an enlightening scene Visit Golyat if you declined Xapan during Chapter 2 Law [OS4_X] [OS5_L] [OS5_C] [SB1_L]

--------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #3 -- Mount Hedon [B03_4] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish LeRozza _________

At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------900 Magus's Mark (LeRozza Drop) Gloomwyrm's Mark (Dark Dragon Drop) Firewyrm's Mark (Flame Dragon Equip) Cloud Shoes (Familiar Drop ~ Used WORLD) Buried under Rock (1 Step Right, 7 Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 9 Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (6 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (13 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------An interesting battle to be sure as there's a bit of everything here. There are a hard hitting Warrior, Berserker, Dragoon, and Terror Knight; a couple Dragons; a few mages; Familiars; and an Archer. With such a well-balanced group you'd think this would be a bit of a tough fight. Unfortunately it's not because the AI routines hamper them more often than not. Your biggest roadblocks are the two Dragons who are positioned perfectly to block any further advancement on the enemy. Show them the point of Jeunan's spear and you'll be through them easily. Then return the favour by keeping a couple tanks such as a Hoplite or Knight to halt the enemy's progress and pound on them from afar. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #4 -- Hagia Banhamuba [B04_4] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Sherri _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------900 Scroll of the Cicada (Ninja Drop) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle is just as easy as it was in the original if you have Archers capable of reaching that ledge right behind your starting position. Canopus and other Hawkmen can get up there and fire arrows safely over 2/3 of the map with ease. All your ground troops need to do is fend off the weakened enemies that try to advance on your position. Just be careful to place any troops near any of the pitfalls, as being knocked off the ledge sends them to a quick death. Unlike the original game, you don't have to make a difficult choice in this battle. That choice being, bring Sherri to within an inch of her life so she'd join you (and unlock the Forbidden Earth Magic) or defeat her and get a unique and very useful Dark Magic spell. She doesn't drop anything of importance this time around so you really should try to recruit her here by bringing her HP down to less than 10%. She'll escape, but when you return to Phidoch afterwards, go to Balmamusa when it's raining and she'll join you then. After the battle you'll have a talk with Mreuva, and he'll pose a question to you that has a dramatic effect on an upcoming battle depending upon your choice. Though you're given no indication on where to go next, return to Phidoch. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #5 -- The Vanessan Way [B05_4]

Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Alessandro _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1100 Stormwyrm's Mark (Dark Dragon Drop) Wateryrm's Mark (Flame Dragon Equip) Grimoire Entrave (Wizard Drop) Buried (2 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (7 Steps Right, 21 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 22 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 26 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A third new battle was added here to the original game largely because the long route to Barnicia only had one battle before it. The map in the original game looked kind of odd with the long route between locations, considering you are marching straight through Bakram's front door. Anyways, you'll be fighting atop a large viaduct here, so be careful in sending units out towards the edges, as the drop may very well knock them out should they get pushed off the side. The bridge isn't too narrow, but given the large number of troops in this fight, mobility may be an issue. Though since not all the enemies will reach you at the same time, it's best to focus all your attacks on each one as they draw near. If you demarcate the viaduct into five equal parts, you should secure the second or third fifth for most of the battle. Once you've gotten rid of most of the enemies, it's really just a mop up until you get to Alessandro. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #6 -- Lambiss Hill [B06_4] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Pajeot _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1100 Gleamwyrm's Mark (Arc Dragon Drop) Buried (1 Step Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (5 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (1 Step Left, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A weird twist on an old battle from the original game. You're fighting in the opposite direction, which is weird since the cliffs are to the North or to the West and should be to the party's left. It's like you're fighting your way out of Bakram. In any case you will definitely want a Dragoon or two in this fight, since there are three dragons present, and one of them is an Arc Dragon, which can be quite a pain to kill. You may want to try recruiting this Arc Dragon, but don't expect it to join so easily as its loyalty is usually very high.

While your Dragoons are busy taking down Dragons, your Archers and Mages should focus on the Beast Tamers. Pajeot will generally charge forward leaving his Hawkmen Archers behind, and once he does that you can pretty much focus on him without worry as there really isn't much point killing the rest of the troops here. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #7 -- Tzorious Field [B07_4] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Andoras _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1100 Cragwyrm's Mark (Earth Dragon Drop) Buried under Crate (1 Step Forward) Buried (10 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (8 Steps Left, 24 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 21 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------The fourth of the brand new stages and it showcases the rather underused character of Andoras. If you have her, deploy Ozma for bit of back and forth banter between the two. Canopus will also have some words with him as well towards the end of the fight. Of the new battlefields this one can be quite annoying, as it's basically one giant tar pit. Tar basically has the same effect on movement as water does, only everyone can walk on tar. Most of the enemies though will forego better judgement and try to make a direct crossing, while you should aim to follow the dry land around the tar pit and use ranged attacks to take out the hapless enemies. The best way to tackle this map is to mount a defense of your starting position, to keep as many enemies in the tar as possible. Focus on the enemy nearest your starting position and then move on to the next one when he's defeated. Keep in mind an archer or two will try to flank you so be sure to take them out as well. If you move your melee characters around the far side of the map, you'll ensnare the enemies in a trap and it should be easy pickings from there. * * *

Before heading to Barnicia Castle is another sidequest checkpoint. Some sidequests will close upon your arrival there, while some new ones may have opened up earlier. Below is a checklist: [] [] [] [] [] Last chance to complete Part 2 of the Port Omish Sidequest If Law, last chance to meet Ozma with Hobyrim Last chance to find Sherri in Balmamusa if you spared her Exeter Island sidequest is now available If Neutral and you saved Cerya, a sidequest is available [OS4_X] [OS5_L] [B04_X] [OS6_X] [OS5_N]

--------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #8 -- Gates of Barnicia [B08_4] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1200 Black Iron's Mark (Iron Golem Drop)

Magus's Mark (Book Wielding Templar Drop) Buried (3 Steps Left, 1 Step Back) Buried (1 Step Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (11 Steps Right, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 16 Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 10 Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This will be a long slug-fest as there's tar everywhere, a couple of highly resistant Iron Golems, Hawkman Archers, and a random assortment of Templars. You've little choice but to simply meet the enemy head on and take advantage of the terrain wherever possible. You will definitely need at least two Clerics working here as having one just won't be enough to cover your army as their mobility will be severely hampered by random bits of tar getting in their way. Speaking of mobility issues, make use of any and all flying and floating units you have as they can move unimpeded by the tar, giving them a huge advantage over your enemies. Ranged attackers and magic users reign supreme on this map, there's not a whole lot of work your melee fighters can do as they will have problems simply getting within range to attack. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #9 -- Barnicia Courtyard [B09_4] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Barbas _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1200 Rimfire (Templar Arbalest Wielder Drop) Buried (2 Steps Left) Buried under Rock (2 Steps Right, 1 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (6 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (12 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 8 Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 7 Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------In case you were wondering about the dialogue as you go through Barnicia concerning Ozma. During the original game you could not recruit her at all, as you were forced to kill her no matter which route you took. So interestingly the dialogue during Chapter 4 remains unchanged since then. Just like in the original game, take note of the location of the Templar that Barbas hands that fusil off to in the scene before the battle. Killing that Templar will force him to drop the weapon and you can obtain your first fusil here, though you won't get the skill for it until a little later on. In any event you should definitely deploy Vyce, Canopus, Ozma, Mirdyn and Gildas in this fight for a lot of extra and fantastic dialogue. All four will help out greatly in this fight as well. Barbas isn't anywhere as strong as he used to be, and is somewhat crippled by his skill set-up thanks to being stuck in the past before as originally he equipped an Earth Hammer, which is why he has Augment Earth but equips Dark Magic instead. Barbas is also

rather dumb, because if you hang around will make his way down to your location target for everyone to hit. Though make of fliers out to get that Rimfire Fusil though.

the area where you start, he and become a very easy sure you send a small group before you defeat Barbas

--------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #10 -- Barnicia Grand Staircase [B10_4] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Lanselot _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1200 -- Catiua Version -Magus's Mark (Templar Book Wielder Drop) Treatise on Seduction (Templar F Swordmaster) -- Without Catiua -(None) -------------------------------------------------------------------This is the fight your decision back at Banhamuba affects. If you picked the first option, you will have to fight Catiua here. If you picked the second, you won't have to fight Catiua, but you'll face different versions of Templars instead. In both fights, you have to defeat Lanselot here. From this point on in the game, whether Catiua lives or dies has a huge effect on the ending. If you want the best ending, you must keep Catiua alive until then. This fight has received an overhaul from the previous version, where you were pretty much trapped in the room you started in, while all the Templars warped around the map. Now though the map has opened up the obscured middle corridor and enemies no longer warp about. This makes for a tougher fight as it will take Lanselot a very long time to get near your main force from where he starts, and you will have to divide up your troops to get everyone into the middle corridor where the fight will mostly take place. If you have fliers with bows, get them on to the high corridor overlooking the room to garner and advantage. Regardless Lanselot is strangely not anywhere as dangerous when he enters the fight than from the original, if you're around Level 16 or 17 ganging up on him will be the easiest way to defeat him. * * *

After the battle, you'll have to convince Catiua to join you. If she does, you'll have access to her Princess class and you'll get the best ending. If she doesn't, then Denam will obtain his Lord class and you'll get either an alternate or worst ending. How you talk to her changes depending on whether she was in that battle or not: If Catiua was in the Battle: Pick the second, then first choice. If Catiua wasn't in the Battle: Pick the first, then second choice. Afterwards, return to Phidoch to begin the final phase of battles before the final dungeon. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #11a -- Iorumza Canyon [B11A_4] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Stanoska _________

At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1200 Juggernaut's Mark (Lizardman nearest Rock) Buried (11 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 3 Steps Back) Buried (9 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (13 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Left, 16 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Unlike the original game, you now have a choice to go through here or the Boulder Sands. If ever there's a night and day choice in the game, this would be it. Iorumza Canyon was and still is a nasty stage unless you compose your entire army out of fliers and Octopi. There is no other way to cross the river that cuts the map in two, and leaves you on a tiny area for the enemies to attack you on. The only decent reward you get from this map is the possibility of getting some Juggernaut Marks from one of the Lizardmen here. In any case, send a couple fliers up to the top of the canyon behind your starting position so that they can rain down arrows on the enemy's side as they try to make the crossing. Also meet them in the river with one or two Octopi. Magic will only become useful here if any enemies enter the water, otherwise they're just simply too far away to hit. You essentially need to defend the small bit of land you start on and prevent the enemy from landing there. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #11b -- Boulder Sands [B11B_4] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Mimose _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1200 Cragwyrm's Mark (Earth Dragon Drop) Buried (5 Steps Right, 1 Step Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (3 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (6 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Boulder Sands is without a doubt the easier of the two routes. You start with a pretty good height advantage over the enemies, and there's some not too often found Lamias and Dragons here for you to recruit as well. Not only is it easier, it arguably pays better in the end. All you need to do to win this stage is to preserve your height advantage by employing a few archers and some monsters to lob boulders, with mages for support and melee units to be the mop-up crew. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #12 -- Oeram [B12_4] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Hanzo _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot----------------------

Buried (4 Steps Left) Buried under Barrel (8 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (11 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (4 Steps Right, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This looks much worse than it actually is. The unbelievable height advantage over you in this can't really make use of it because out of the only two of them are Archers. The rest are all enemy forces have an town, however they 14 troops they have melee units.

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In spite of that, you only have one way out, and that's up the stairs to your right as you start. You have the option of taking shelter in front of the taller buildings, so that even the Archers can't reach you with their arrows. Try to put your magic users in those spots so that you can use indirect spells from safety. As long as you can keep your HP up until those two Archers are dealt with by your flying characters, and can defend against the enemies who come down the stairs, you'll win easily. Hanzo at some point will make a charge against you down the stairs, when that happens he's as good as dead. * * *

Before marching on Heim there is one last sidequest checkpoint and it's a big one, so be sure you've completed all time sensitive sidequests now. After Heim is your last respite before the final dungeon, and many big sidequests can become unavailable to you then. Therefore it's best to complete all time sensitive quest now, and open up all the others to be completed either now or after Heim. [] Last chance to complete Part 3 of the Port Omish sidequest [OS4_X] [] The Six Temples sidequest is available and Step #2 must be [OS9_X] completed before going to Heim. [] The Wreck of the Rhamsen sidequest is available [OS7_X] --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #13a -- Heim South Curtain Wall [B13A_4] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Vermado _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1300 Grimoire Vifesprit (Witch Drop) Magus's Mark (Witch Drop) Treatise on Cleansing (Swordmaster Drop) Damasc Leggings (Rune Fencer Equip) Biblion Herpetou (Witch Equip) Buried under Tree (2 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (11 Steps Left, 19 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------The assault on Heim has changed a little bit since the original game. You have a choice of three entry points that meet up at the Courtyard

instead of two separate paths with two different battles each that met up at the Great Hall. The South Curtain wall used to be the battle after the Postern Gate, but now you can go straight here instead as one of the first battles. This can be a very difficult map to clear due to some cunningly placed bushes that prevent you from easily going up the stairs to meet the enemy above. You should destroy these bushes to make moving about a little easier and open up the fighting a little, because those narrow stairs will create a huge jam for both you and the enemy. Make use of Flying characters to scale the first wall and harass the enemy so that they turn away from the stairs. This will allow the rest of your characters to come up and help out to make things much easier. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #13b -- The Gates of Heim [B13B_4] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Derain _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1300 Gloomwyrm's Mark (Dark Dragon Drop) Magus's Mark (Warlock Drop) Steelbow (Hawkman Archer Equip) Damasc Leggings (Rune Fencer Equip) Biblion Herpetou (Witch Equip) Damasc Leggings (Berserker Equip) Buried (9 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (5 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (15 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------You will absolutely need to some very fast Hawkmen Archers to take out those three Archers who start in a perfect position to kill any magic users you brought out on their first turn. This was a major sticking point in the original game because of those three Archers and having characters get permanently killed before they could make a move. Once you get rid of those Archers, the rest of the battle isn't so bad. The enemies will mostly come down the stairs, which you should get to before them or things will start going south as you'll end up trapped by your starting position. Keep your Archers up on the walls, as they can likely still target most of the enemies that make their way forward from there. Of the three battles, this one is the quickest and easiest to clear. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #13c -- Heim Postern Gate [B13c_4] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Halphas _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1300 Ring of Alacrity +1 (Halphas Drop) Gleamwyrm's Mark (Arc Dragon Drop)

Waterwyrm's Mark (Flood Dragon Drop) Damasc Leggings (Rune Fencer/Valkyrie Equip) Damasc Leggings (Knight Equip) Buried (1 Step Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (15 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (6 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Left, 16 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------At first glance this doesn't look difficult; it's pretty flat, the enemies are spread out, and there's a number of Dragons here for Dragoons to kill easily. However the arrangement of all the bushes here will force you to take certain routes and you'll have to divide your troops up to avoid overcrowding the paths. More than that though you might not notice when you start that there are two Archers waayyy up there on top of the wall. They're human, so they're stuck up there and won't come down. They will be a major pain unless you manage to get a Hawkman or two to fly up there and take them out. Though getting a Hawkman behind all those enemies and surviving is not very likely. The best thing you can do is draw the enemy to your starting position, where it's relatively open and your characters can move about freely. You'll be outside the range of the Archers, and you can mount a coordinated defense by having characters with Rampart Aura block the entry into your starting area. Once the enemies are suitably jammed up within the maze of bushes you can safely attack them from afar with arrows and magic. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #14 -- Heim Courtyard [B14_4] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Latimer _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1300 Walloon Sword (Latimer Drop) Damasc Leggings (Latimer Drop) Ring of Evasion +1 (Latimer Drop) Scroll of Windshear II (Ninja Drop) Scroll of the Cicada (Ninja Drop) Buried under Brush (11 Steps Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Left, 24 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 20 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A deceptively easy battle, despite this map's daunting size. If you can get a couple Hawkman Archers up on the wall to the left and take out the enemies at the top of the tower, you'll be free to snipe at all the enemies who'll make their way down towards you. Much of the fighting will take place by the Watchtower or the stairs leading to the base of it. During the fight you'll be dealing with a rather tough Iron Golem, and a team of Ninja. Kill the Iron Golem with Magic and make sure you kill all the Ninja here as two of them drop hard to come by Ninjutsu scrolls.

Latimer himself is a pain to kill as he'll use Phalanx repeatedly every chance he gets. You can get around this by casting Torpor to slow him down and afflict him with Poison, so that he takes more damage from the poison than he does from hits and he's out of your way while you deal with the rest of his troops. --------------------------------------------------------------------Battle #15 -- Heim Great Hall [B15_4] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Brantyn _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1300 Grimoire Annulation (Cleric Drop) Grimoire Purgation (Cleric Drop) Magus's Mark (Witch Drop) Steelbow (Archer Equip) Damasc Leggings (Terror Knight Equip) Rimfire (Fusilier Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------The battle with Brantyn is thankfully not nearly as annoying as it was in the original game. The army of Terror Knights are still here, but since they no longer automatically lower your stats when you're near one of them they are much easier to kill. The stat reduction could be compounded and fighting half a dozen Terror Knights would mean having to fight them at half strength, thankfully that's no longer the case. The battle is in general really simple, just charge forward with your melee characters, while your Archers and Magic users soften them up in advance. Take care not to kill the two Fusiliers, and instead recruit them. They're rare enough to come by and they don't drop anything special here. Brantyn is pretty tough to kill for being a magic using class, and that's because he's oddly quite susceptible to magic over physical attacks. He no longer wields a sword, though his magic can hurt a lot. Catiua inflicts large amounts of damage with Spiritsurge but Brantyn can easily do twice as much as her with that spell, so be careful and have some Mending Seeds ready to undo the damage. For those that remember the original game, you can no longer recruit Divine Knights here that Brantyn would summon as he's lost that ability. A shame though as this was the only place in the story where you could get one without sacrificing a character. Divine Knights can be had, but only much later during the post-game quests. * * *

That concludes the main portion of the story. All that's left is to tackle the final dungeon but only go there when you've done all that you needed to do, because all Chapter 4 sidequests must be completed, or else they will remain unfinished during the post-game scenario. Once you start the final dungeon there is no returning to the world map. The dungeon is a massive gauntlet of battles one after the other so be sure to stock up on supplies and have all the best equipment that can currently be bought and equipped on your characters. Also stock up on buff and debuff items as well as the best healing items you can craft and buy. They will prove their

usefulness in the final battle. If you're uncertain you're ready or not, a trip through the Palace of the Dead is probably in order to get your characters up to speed. The Final Boss at the end of the dungeon is incredibly nasty because all these battles will lull you into thinking it's a particularly easy end to the game. Once you're ready, make a separate save file as it's time to plunge past the point of no return. The Final Dungeon: The Hanging Gardens========================[EDEN0] The Hanging Gardens (known as Eden unlike any other. Most dungeons in set paths, not this one. There are after that, however you don't have want to. in the original game) is a place the game are pretty linear with 18 stages, plus the final four to fight them all if you don't

The main feature of the Hanging Gardens is that each stage may have more than one exit leading to elsewhere. All the paths lead forward through the dungeon, but some allow you to skip further ahead than others do. You find these exits by standing next to a door when a character ends their turn. And then after you clear the stage, all paths you found leading from that stage to the others are revealed. Though since you can only complete each stage once, you should endeavour to find all the doors in the stage before clearing it. Note though that not all doors will be visible, some of these doors are completely hidden and are only found by standing at a certain place when you've ended your turn like opening a normal door. One last thing to be mindful of are the edges of the maps from the 2nd floor on up to the 18th. Characters can get knocked off the maps here in the Hanging Gardens, and unless they're a flying character, they will instantly lose a life. Map of the Hanging Gardens: --------------------------If you do not open any doors during the clearing of a stage, then the game automatically opens the door that sends you to the next highest in sequence that is available using the map below. Use the tags "EDEN1", "EDEN2", "EDEN3" etc to find the battles you're looking for. The game doesn't identify the floors by numbers only by name, so here's the names of all 18 floors identified by their number: 1F 2F 3F 4F 5F 6F 7F 8F 9F 10F 11F 12F ------------Foot of the Gardens The Serpent's Spine His Fist Upraised Echoes of Her Passage Tears of Topaz The Verdant Stair Songs of Raven Hair Enraptured Dreams Hold High Your Cups Halcyon Days The Beast Has Fangs Vermillion Stair [EDEN1] [EDEN2] [EDEN3] [EDEN4] [EDEN5] [EDEN6] [EDEN7] [EDEN8] [EDEN9] [EDEN10] [EDEN11] [EDEN12]

13F 14F 15F 16F 17F 18F

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Sounding of the Hours Faith and Devotion Sharp and Cold the Stars Ebon Stair Ivory Stair Twixt Heaven and Earth

[EDEN13] [EDEN14] [EDEN15] [EDEN16] [EDEN17] [EDEN18]

=============== The Hanging Gardens Ascent ============== [1F -- EDEN1] +----------------+----------------+ V [3F -- EDEN3] V [5F -- EDEN5] V [2F -- EDEN2] V [4F -- EDEN4] V [6F -- EDEN6]

V [8F -- EDEN8]<---------+ V [7F -- EDEN7]<---------+ V [9F -- EDEN9]----------+ V +---------------- -------->[10F -- EDEN10] [11F -- EDEN11]<--------+ V V V [14F -- EDEN14] [12F -- EDEN12] [13F -- EDEN13] V [15F -- EDEN15]<--------+----------------+ V V [17F -- EDEN17]<-[16F -- EDEN16] V +-------->[18F -- EDEN18] ============== The Heart of the Gardens =============== V [The Tomb Below -- EDEN19] V [Relics of the Past -- EDEN20] V [Chamber of the Seal (Part 1) -- EDEN21] V [Chamber of the Seal (Part 2) -- EDEN22]

There are two popular routes to take in the Hanging Gardens. The fast route, and the normal route. The fast route comprises of 6 battles and finding a few hidden doors along the way: 1F -> 6F -> 10F -> 13F -> 16F -> 18F The Normal Route is the one you take if you don't bother to open any doors, and is held over 10 battles: 1F -> 2F -> 4F -> 7F -> 9F -> 10F -> 13F -> 15F -> 17F -> 18F The Hanging Gardens remains mostly unchanged since the original. The only difference being is that the hidden door on 6F takes you to 10F instead of 9F. This means that's there's only two mandatory battles during the ascent instead of three. Battles Inside the Hanging Gardens: ----------------------------------1F -- Foot of the Gardens [EDEN1] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1200 Hidden Door to 6F (15 Steps Left, 10 Forward) Grimoire Soins II (Templar Cleric Drop) Grimoire Scindeciel III (Templar Wizard Drop) Buried under Tree (4 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (13 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A tough map to start from to be sure. You will need some fliers here as the enemies are divided onto two floors. The higher floor can only be reached by flying units, and that's where most of the enemies are. Your melee characters won't be doing much in this stage as they'll have to move along the bottom of the map by the water and get hit a lot by Archers. Be sure to find the hidden door before finishing this stage, it's in a small nook near the far corner of the map. 2F -- The Serpent's Spine [EDEN2] Squad Limit: 7 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Grimoire Tourbillon III (Templar Rune Fencer) Grimoire Sylphide (Templar Rune Fencer Drop) Grimoire Malepluie III (Templar Wizard Drop) Buried (5 Steps Right, 5 Steps Back) Buried (3 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried under Urn (15 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (5 Steps Right, 15 Steps Forward)

-------------------------------------------------------------------A fun map to fight on, three parallel paths on different levels with water going through the middle and lower paths. Let the enemies come to you, and when they get held up by your tank characters, you can let them have it with arrows and magic. 3F -- His Fist Upraised [EDEN3] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Buried under Urn (3 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This area is quite small, so you'll be fighting from the get go. There may be a number of Gryphons here, so bring a Dragoon to deal with them. Other than that, bring along Canopus so he can quickly get to the higher ledges and harass the enemies. 4F -- Echoes of Her Passage [EDEN4] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Hidden Door to 8F (8 Steps Right, 1 Step Back) Grimoire Flammes III (Templar Rune Fencer) Grimoire Orestiad (Templar Enchantress Drop) Grimoire Soins II (Templar Cleric Drop) Buried under Urn (1 Step Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right) Buried (8 Steps Right) Buried (2 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Another small map with not very many enemies, though mostly magic users here. You can get a flier right to the top of stage on the first turn and wreck havoc on the enemies. Crossbow and Fusil users really shine on this map because all the enemies are above you, and you can easily shoot at any of them from your starting area. 5F -- Tears of Topaz [EDEN5] Squad Limit: 5 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Gloomwyrm's Mark (Dark Dragon Drop) Buried (1 Step Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (3 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (18 Steps Forward) --------------------------------------------------------------------

You'll be kicking yourself if you come here without any fliers. You start on a small island with all the enemies on the much larger landmass clear on the other side. Anybody that can't fly is stuck on that island and has to wait for enemies to come within range to attack with indirect magic. Ranged weapons don't work too well here on non-Hawkmen and melee characters are completely useless. Hope you saved before coming here, as this is a veritable rage-quit point. 6F -- The Verdant Stair [EDEN6] Squad Limit: 5 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------700 Hidden Door to 10F (1 Step Right, 4 Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 3 Steps Back) Buried (2 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried under Urn (4 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 18 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 15 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Bring a Dragoon here to deal with the Cockatrices. You're mostly fighting an uphill battle here so Crossbows and Fusils can help greatly in attacking the enemies that come down to meet you. Be sure to open the hidden door before you finish the stage. Canopus can reach that spot on his first turn. 7F -- Songs of Raven Hair [EDEN7] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Grimoire Oeildaigle (Templar Warlock Drop) Grimoire Wendigo (Templar Enchantress Drop) Buried under Urn (6 Steps Left, 2 Steps Back) Buried under Tree (6 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This one is a bit more difficult than the previous stages. There can be as many as 3 or 4 Archers here, and they all start right above you in a perfect spot to fire arrows where you stand. Most of the enemies here aren't too resistant to physical attacks, save the one Templar Knight and Cyclops, so sending at least two flying characters to deal with those archers shouldn't be a problem. Just make sure to use some healing items to keep your HP up at all times. The enemies will make you pay for a wrong move by sending a litany of magic to one character in an effort to kill them. If they can survive a magic barrage, then you'll be okay. 8F -- Enraptured Dreams [EDEN8] Squad Limit: 7 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot----------------------

Grimoire Annulation (Cleric Drop) Grimoire Purgation (Cleric Drop) Heretic's Mark (Randomly Appears Cleric Drop) Buried under Tree (2 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (6 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A pretty straightforward battle, there'll only be two Archers at the most. Otherwise there's only one to deal with, and it's the only long range attacking class on the field. You can do just as well to let the enemy make their way to you. Sticking Canopus above the door where you start from can make things go by much easier. 9F -- Hold High Your Cups [EDEN9] Squad Limit: 7 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Hidden Door to 12F (3 Steps Left, 15 Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (5 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle will mostly take place on large flat area in front of your starting position. There can be many Beasts and Dragons here, so a Dragoon will help out greatly. The tough part is in getting all your characters up the stairs to get in the fight, though if you have flying characters that's no longer a problem. The enemies here can also hit pretty hard so don't hesitate in using healing items if your Clerics can't keep up. Be sure to open the hidden door before you finish, it's oddly placed not more than a few steps from an already visible one. 10F -- Halcyon Days [EDEN10] Squad Limit: 9 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1100 Grimoire Purgation (Templar Rune Fencer Drop) Gleamwyrm's Mark (Arc Dragon Drop) Buried (5 Steps Right, 1 Step Back) Buried (2 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Urn (6 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------One of the bigger and tougher battles you'll face going up, but it's still rather simple. There no real ranged attackers to be found on this map. There are Rune Fencers, but their magic isn't really that potent. However the classes that are here can be tough to kill.

There are Arc Dragons, Warriors, and Knights. Bring out a Dragoon, Archers, and some magic attackers to deal with them. Of course, don't neglect your own tank characters as well. 11F -- The Beast Has Fangs [EDEN11] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Buried (1 Step Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (1 Step Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 4 Steps Back) Buried (1 Step Right, 18 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------The halfway point of the Dungeon, though you'll probably skip it going by the map as this is part of the least used, long route to the top. If you do make it here you'll find Hippogryphs, an enemyonly variant of the Gryphon that you sadly can't recruit. This stage is characterized by the large wall spanning the edge overlooking this map. It's a great place to send Canopus to, though he shouldn't go alone as the Hippogryphs might track him down. If any enemies start or go up onto the wall, you can easily snipe at them with Crossbows or Fusils. Not a difficult stage to get through. 12F -- Vermillion Stair [EDEN12] Squad Limit: 9 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Icewyrm's Mark (Frost Dragon Drop) Firewyrm's Mark (Flame Dragon Drop) Grimoire Vitalite III (Templar Cleric Drop) Heretic's Mark (Templar Cleric Drop) Hidden Door to 16F (1 Step Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried under Urn (2 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This interesting map is about as vertical as you'll find in the game. Unfortunately you start at the bottom but thankfully there are no ranged attackers at all here, only meleers. Though saddling you with 9 characters does make climbing up here a bit of a pain due to how small this map is. As should be obvious by now, flying characters just flat out rule in the Hanging Gardens. They're about the only character that can reach that hidden door before you clear this stage. 13F -- Sounding of the Hours [EDEN13] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1000 Hidden Door to 16F (8 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward)

Grimoire Tourbillon III (Enchantress Drop) Crescente (Archer Drop) Grimoire Rocher III (Rune Fencer Drop) Buried (4 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried under Urn (2 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (8 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------You'll be introduced to Basilisks here, which are enemy-only variants of the Cockatrice. They are annoying if you let them live, so bring in a Dragoon to cut that short. There's only one magic using Templar that's of any real danger to you, all the others have to get close to hurt you. As long as you deal with the Basilisks, the others shouldn't be much trouble. There is a hidden door here that takes you to the 16th floor, it's on the same block as the visible one. It's not far to the top now. 14F -- Faith and Devotion [EDEN14] Squad Limit: 7 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Grimoire Exorcisme II (Templar Cleric Drop) Grimoire Purgation (Templar Rune Fencer Drop) Buried (2 Steps Left, 1 Step Forward) Buried under Urn (4 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (11 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A smattering of enemy-only Onyx Dragons and Hippogryphs make their home here, so you may want to bring in a Dragoon or two to help out. This is quite a confusing map to navigate, so it's best if you let the enemy do that for you and wait for them to arrive. There's not a whole lot of trouble they can cause as there's no Archers or decent spell casters in their midst. 15F -- Sharp and Cold the Stars [EDEN15] Squad Limit: 9 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Grimoire Flammes III (Wizard Drop) Grimoire Meriottes (Wizard Drop) Stormwyrm's Mark (Thunder Dragon Drop) Cragwyrm's Mark (Earth Dragon Drop) Buried under Urn (1 Step Left, 1 Step Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (1 Step Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Things can get pretty dicey here as there's only one route up to the top that non-fliers can take, and it's around a perilous spot on

the outside edge of the map. The reason it's perilous is because there's an enemy Skeleton Archer up top, and if it gets a lucky critical hit, it's bye bye to that character. Most of the enemies here are undead, so equip some Baldur weapons to help take those enemies down. Hawkman Clerics sound an odd combination, but they work wonders in Exorcising the numerous enemies here. 16F -- Ebon Stair [EDEN16] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Hidden Door to 18F (1 Step Left, 3 Steps Back) Grimoire Vitalite III (Templar Knight Drop) Scroll of the Cicada (Templar Kunoichi Drop) Buried (2 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 19 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This is one of the few non-random areas of the Hanging Gardens. This showcases another enemy-only Gryphon variant called the Phoenix. There aren't many enemies here, and for good reason, this stage is specifically designed for fliers, because only they can get around the potential log jams just one or two characters can cause here. The Phoenixes are quite deadly, but Dragoons can rectify that issue. The last hidden door is here and it's strangely sitting right behind you. You can only get to that door if you have a flying unit though, you did bring one didn't you? 17F -- Ivory Stair [EDEN17] Squad Limit: 5 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Grimoire Soins II (Templar Cleric Drop) Grimoire Annulation (Templar Valkyrie Drop) Buried (1 Step Left, 4 Steps Back) Buried under Bush (3 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (12 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (1 Step Right, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 18 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------The last ascent, and it's quite an epic battle that you'll miss if you took the quick way up the Hanging Gardens. There are a few Archers and Fusiliers on this upward sloping map, and they're well protected by an assortment of foot-soldiers and magicians in front of them. Try to bring in characters that are resistant to piercing attacks, such as Hoplites, Golems, Dragons, and others like them. If you put them out front, the Archers' and Fusiliers' attacks won't hurt so bad. Just press forward to the top of the map, you're almost there. 18F -- Twixt Heaven and Earth [EDEN18]

Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Andoras _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1300 Ring of Deftness (Andoras Drop) Heretic's Mark (Templar Cleric Drop) Magesteel's Mark (Baldur Golem Drop) Stormwyrm's Mark (Thunder Dragon Drop) Buried (5 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (5 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (2 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle will either be very easy, or very hard depending on how you approach it. If you're looking to kill all the enemies here for some of the fantastic loot they drop and finally get a Baldur Golem, then it will be hard. This is because Andoras will make a run at you and he's surprisingly very easy to kill. If you leave Andoras alone, he becomes a one-man blockade because of the layout of the area which makes killing the other enemies quite problematic. It's probably not a good idea to fool around up here, as it's been a long climb up and doing something other than the stated objective would be rather foolhardy unless you're grossly overpowered. * * *

From this point on you can't return to the Ascent of the Hanging Gardens. It's best to make another separate save file before moving on to the final stretch of the Hanging Gardens. Just four more battles left to go! Heart of the Gardens -- The Tomb Below [EDEN19] Squad Limit: 9 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1100 Grimoire Malepluie III (Templar Wizard Drop) -------------------------------------------------------------------Most of the enemies here are undead, so bring in a couple Clerics and outfit most of your characters with Baldur weapons. Not all of them though as there are a few Templars down here as well. Unfortunately this battle is nowhere near as easy as it was in the original. You just can't wipe the map clear of undead at the start now, it's just not possible in the remake. You just have to work on tracking down those undead, kill them, and then Exorcise them, which is what you would've done in the original if you didn't have Starion. Heart of the Gardens -- Relics of the Past [EDEN20] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1200 Grimoire Purete II (Templar Cleric Drop) Magus's Mark (Templar Witch Drop) --------------------------------------------------------------------

One last mass battle before the big showdown and it's not a terribly difficult one. There's only a couple magic users and a Fusilier, the rest are just melee units. The map is virtually dead flat, so the only advantage you have over the enemy is raw power and intelligence. For those who haven't played the original, you would finally get Barbas's Earth Hammer here, the second most useless weapon drop in the game, because you could not come out of the Gardens with it. Glad that's been done away with. Heart of the Gardens -- Chamber of the Seal (Part 1) [EDEN21] Squad Limit: 5 Objective: Vanquish Barbas and Martym _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Guardsman's Earring (Martym Drop) Temblor Earring (Barbas Drop) -------------------------------------------------------------------This will be a quick and easy battle before the Final Boss. You can have 5 characters deployed, and only Martym and Barbas are here. Of the 5, including Denam, you should bring out at least Vyce, Catiua, and Ozma for additional dialogue. Denam starts right near Martym so you need to have Catiua up front in the party formation to heal Denam immediately. Martym is an easy first target, because Barbas is quite dumb and takes the long way around the standing stones to sometimes hit your characters with magic. As long as you can keep your HP up with items and spells, this battle's a snap. As an aside, this was a harrowing fight in the original game because Martym would lop off over half of Denam's HP before he got a chance to move. Luckily the designers had foresight to place Barbas in such position that he could not reach Denam as well. If he did this would be the most aggravating battle in the entire game because the last save point was two battles ago, and there was a limit of two save slots. Additionally Martym would drop his Nifrit sword here in the original, which was the most useless drop in the entire game. There's only one battle left, and the sword would not put a dent in any of the enemies during the final boss. At least the Earth Hammer could be used against either Barbas or Martym to great effect. You do get the Brynhildr though which is far from useless in the final battle. Thankfully, Post-Game content has been added to make these important end-game drops actually useful. Heart of the Gardens -- Chamber of the Seal (Part 2) [EDEN22] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish The Ogre _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1400 (None) -------------------------------------------------------------------This is it, the final battle, and it's certainly been made a lot more challenging. Previously it was just the last boss and an few "Dark" versions of enemies you'd find in the Palace of the Dead. Now he will summon literal doppelgangers of the characters you bring in to the fight. They are exact copies right down to their equipment

and stats. So you might think this battle to be quite difficult if you're characters are strong enough to take each other out. Not so, the enemy AI has a few peculiarities you can exploit. Chief among which, is item usage with Field Alchemy. For some reason the AI will never use advanced healing items, or even buff and debuff items if given Field Alchemy. What this means is, don't bring in any Clerics or support mages, you can do most of the same things with your characters if they have Field Alchemy skills equipped. The AI will use Clerics quite well, but strangely not item users. On the other hand don't equip anyone with a lobber, because then the AI will know how to use it appropriately and may use bombs to attack you with it, which hurt a lot. All those buff and debuff items you probably never used during the game are absolutely critical in getting past the doppelgangers as you can do something they can't. Try not focus too much on taking down the doppelgangers, and instead focus on taking down the boss instead. You need to conserve as much HP as possible here, so only attack the doppelgangers if they're in your way of reaching the boss. Once the boss has lost sufficient HP, the second part of this battle begins, and your HP, MP, and TP levels all carry over. Now the real fight begins and this boss does not mess around. He has over 600 HP and very high defenses. It's a good thing you didn't bring any Clerics out for this fight or you'd have trouble keeping them alive, use high level recovery items and buff items to increase your stats temporarily. Using the Instill Magic from your hybrid fighters such as Terror Knights, Knights, and Rune Fencers can help a little bit in doing extra damage. Every little bit helps in this fight. Above all else, when you see his TP approach 100, scatter your troops far and wide because some of his special finishers can hit large areas and damage multiple troops quite heavily. The less time your characters spend healing themselves, is the more time you're whittling down this boss's life. Keep at it, and hopefully you don't run out of items in the process. Good Luck.

The Endings: ------------

[THEND]

Depending upon your actions in the game, you'll see up to three main endings, with a few additional scenes depending upon who you recruited in the army. The Three Main Ending Conditions are: Best Ending: Catiua survives through to the end of the game Normal Ending: Catiua does not survive, but you have a Chaos Frame of 30 with Walister, Bakram, and Galgastan Worst Ending: Same condition as the Normal Ending except your Chaos Frame is below 30 To explain the Chaos Frame factor; it is a hidden stat that determines your reputation among all the different clans in the game. It's starts at 50, and goes up or down with each clan

depending upon those dialogue choices you make through the story. It also rises and falls depending upon your combat record, but does so very slowly. In general you need to be an ideal diplomat in speaking, and model commander in action. You can't say or do anything without thinking about the consequences, because the eyes of Valeria are on you at all times. ===================================================================== Part 3: Secrets / Optional Sidequests / Random Battles (Incomplete) ===================================================================== 3.1 -- Chapter 1 Extras [CH1NX] Optional Sidequest #1 -- Qadriga Fortress [OS1N1] --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Sidequest #1 -- Qadriga Fortress [OS1N1] Availability: Clear Krysaro, but before arriving in Balmamusa Squad Limit: 8 + 2 Guests Objective: Vanquish Nybeth _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Buried (2 Steps Right) Buried (1 Step Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------If you come here immediately after defeating Moldova in Krysaro, you'll be in for a very hard fight. All the enemies here will be around Level 4 or 5, while you'll likely be at Level 3. Winning this battle is not impossible, but it does take patience. You should definitely include 2 Clerics (the one you started with and Donnalto) in your party and make sure they and Catiua all know Exorcism as all the enemies except Nybeth are undead. You should also bring in 1 or 2 Knights and Wizards for healing and damage, because the Clerics will need a lot of MP to use Exorcise which may cut into their healing duties. Wizards can deal good damage regularly because hit rates and damage from physical attacks will be low and all the enemies here have slightly more powerful armour than you do. The most important unit is Canopus, as you need to get him to fly up to the very top and rain down arrows to help you deal with all the undead and Nybeth. Nybeth will summon as many undead as you Exorcise, but after so many uses of Summon Darkness he'll run out of reagents. Unfortunately you might not live long enough to see that happen, so you should concentrate on building Canopus's TP gauge until he can use Dark Weight. Use Dark Weight once Nybeth's HP is low enough that it will deliver the finishing blow. You should try to Exorcise as many undead as you can here, because they're equipped with some pretty expensive items. ===================================================================== 3.2a -- Chapter 2 (Law) Extras Optional Sidequest #2 -- Ravness (Part 1) Optional Dungeon #1 -- Phorampa Wildwood [CH2LX] [OS2L2] [OD1L2]

--------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Sidequest #2 -- Ravness (Part 1: The Reisan Way) [OS2L2] Availability: Before going to Qadriga Fortress Make sure you read the story about Ravness being captured in the Warren Report (under Talk) beforehand to open up a battle on The Reisan Way, because you must save Ravness if you want to recruit her later on. Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Alfred _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------900 Ring of Vitality (Alfred Drop) Shiftstone (Alfred Drop) Hallowing Stone (Alfred Drop) Grimoire Trombe (Wizard Drop) Grimoire Enflammant (Wizard Drop) Buried (6 Steps Left) Buried (1 Step Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 14 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (6 Steps Left, 25 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 26 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Though Ravness during the scene starts completely surrounded, she'll make a break towards your position so that she's halfway between her captors and you. Thankfully this makes saving her relatively simple as you just need to catch up to her when she starts attacking. Though Ravness can more than hold her own out here, she can fall if a bunch of the enemies decide to all target her at once. Such a situation is rare, but it can happen if the turn order ends up being 6 enemy actions in a row. Barring that potentially happening this is a relatively straightforward fight. Take note that not all the tiles on the "road" are road tiles, some a gravel, which offer drastically reduced hit and avoid rates, so watch where you walk as it's hard to tell between the two types at first glance. --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Dungeon #1 -- Phorampa Wildwood [OD1L2] Availability -- After Tynemouth Hill, but before reaching Rhime The Phorampa Wildwood is an area with consecutive random battles. The size of the battles is generally quite small and the enemies will be hovering around your level, so in general none of the battles are too difficult. It is a good place to gain Exp, SP, and Items for Characters if you're falling behind. You can leave a battle and the Wildwood at anytime you feel like it. Just be mindful that if you do leave the Wildwood, all progress is lost. Refer to the Section concerning the The Phorampa Wildwood [OD1PW] for more information as the Wildwood is the same in all paths, but opens and closes throughout the story differently. On top of this, only a few areas of the Wildwood are open now, and more areas are unlocked for Chapters 3 and 4.

===================================================================== 3.2b -- Chapter 2 (Chaos) Extras Optional Battle #1 -- Ndamsa Fortress Optional Dungeon #1 -- Phorampa Wildwood [CH2CX] [OB1C2] [OD1C2]

--------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Battle #1 -- Ndamsa Fortress [OB1C2] Availability: Saved Cistina in Chapter 1 and Bayin at Qadriga Fortress, then choose to help. Squad Limit: 10 + 3 Guests Objective: Vanquish Veldrei _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- ------------------------Special Loot--------------------1200 Hallowing Stone (Veldrei Drop) Shiftstone (Veldrei Drop) Familiar's Mark (Gremlin Drop) Bandit's Mark (Rogue Drop) Buried under Rock (2 Steps Right) Buried Directly Underfoot Buried (8 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle against Veldrei, whom Darza mentioned as he died, is in general quite easy. Cistina is held captive but you thankfully don't have to rescue her from herself since she's not on the battlefield. Just make a charge up the fortress, as the enemy will not make use of its height advantage over you and simply charge your position. Veldrei herself will even hang back for a few turns before coming at you as well. Bayin may show his stupendous intelligence by sometimes hitting your characters with Dust Storm to target the enemy. Best way to avoid that is to attack at range, but that's a bit difficult to manage in most places on this map. --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Dungeon #1 -- Phorampa Wildwood [OD1C2] Availability -- After Tynemouth Hill. The Phorampa Wildwood is an area with consecutive random battles. The size of the battles is generally quite small and the enemies will be hovering around your level, so in general none of the battles are too difficult. It is a good place to gain Exp, SP, and Items for Characters if you're falling behind. You can leave a battle and the Wildwood at anytime you feel like it. Just be mindful that if you do leave the Wildwood, all progress is lost. Refer to the Section concerning the The Phorampa Wildwood [OD1PW] for more information as the Wildwood is the same in all paths, but opens and closes throughout the story differently. On top of this, only a few areas of the Wildwood are open now, and more areas are unlocked for Chapters 3 and 4. =====================================================================

3.3a -- Chapter 3 (Law) Extras Optional Dungeon #1 -- Phorampa Wildwood Optional Sidequest #2 -- Ravness (Part 2)

[CH3LX] [OD1L3] [OS2L3]

--------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Dungeon #1 -- Phorampa Wildwood [OD1L3] Availability -- From Start of Chapter 3, Until Coritanae is taken. Then after defeating Ganpp at Tynemouth Hill. Four new stages have opened up in the Phorampa Wildwoods for you to explore. Some new classes can be found if you missed them at the end of the last chapter. You can find Warlocks/Witches, and Cockatrices in these new areas. See the section on the Phorampa Wildwood [OD1PW] for more detailed information. --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Sidequest #2 -- Ravness (Part 2: Bahanna Highlands) [OS2L3] Availability -- After taking Coritanae (Conditions Apply) This marks the battle where you're finally able to recruit Dame Ravness to your army. It takes a lot of work to get this battle to appear, and even then it's not obvious at all that there's a battle at the Bahanna Highlands. Here's a recap of the conditions needed to get this battle to occur. If all these conditions are met, then the battle will appear otherwise it won't, and Ravness will not join. 1: Dame Ravness must survive the battle at the end of Chapter 1 2: Trigger the optional battle on the Reisan Way by reading about Ravness's Capture in Chapter 2 before going to Qadriga Fortress. 3: Dame Ravness must survive the above battle in Chapter 2. 4: Recruit Jeunan in Brigantys during Chapter 3 by picking the second option in a scene after taking the castle. 5: Read the Talk entry about the Missing Lord of Coritanae before leaving Brigantys in Chapter 3. 6: Deploy Jeunan in the fight on the Bahanna Highlands to trigger a mid-battle dialogue scene when the leader's HP falls below 70%. Ensure Denam says "What!?" before finishing the battle by passing turns. Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1000 Buried (3 Steps Left) Buried (4 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (8 Steps Left, 1 Step Back) Buried (11 Steps Left, 1 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Ravness starts in the middle of the map caught between two small groups of Galgastani troops. The group up on the hill will take some time to reach her, so you should send most of your troops across the stream to help her out. Send 2 or 3 troops with one Archer to

harass the group up on the hill and hopefully they'll be attracted to them and not Ravness. If all goes well Ravness should be able to defend herself easily with your help. ===================================================================== 3.3b -- Chapter 3 (Chaos) Extras Optional Dungeon #1 -- Phorampa Wildwood [CH3CX] [OD1C3]

--------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Dungeon #1 -- Phorampa Wildwood Availability -- After arriving in Almorica [OD1C3]

Four new stages have opened up in the Phorampa Wildwoods for you to explore. Some new classes can be found if you missed them at the end of the last chapter. You can find Warlocks/Witches, and Cockatrices in these new areas. See the section on the Phorampa Wildwood [OD1PW] for more detailed information. ===================================================================== 3.3c -- Chapter 3 (Neutral) Extras Optional Dungeon #1 -- Phorampa Wildwood Optional Sidequest #2 -- Hobyrim [CH3NX] [OD1N3] [OS2N3]

--------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Dungeon #1 -- Phorampa Wildwood Availability -- Start of the Chapter [OD1N3]

Four new stages have opened up in the Phorampa Wildwoods for you to explore. Some new classes can be found if you missed them at the end of the last chapter. You can find Warlocks/Witches, and Cockatrices in these new areas. See the section on the Phorampa Wildwood [OD1PW] for more detailed information. --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Sidequest #2 -- Hobyrim Availability -- After Battle #3 on Tynemouth Hill [OS1N3]

This sidequest is an unusual one, even though it centers on recruiting Hobyrim into your ranks there are two battles you can choose to do so. However, the moment you enter into one of these battles you will not be able to do the other. Therefore, before embarking on this sidequest you need to decide in which battle you want to recruit Hobyrim in because if you decline his offer to join you won't get another chance. Optional Battle (a) -- Fort Qadriga Availability: Visit Krysaro after defeating Ganpp on Tynemouth Hill before arriving in Port Asyton Squad Limit: 8 + 3 Guests Objective: Vanquish Botis _________

At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1500 Buried (6 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (3 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 16 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 9 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle is a little trickier than it was in the original because the three generics (Chamos, Phaesta, and Tamuz) start the battle off incapacitated. Previously they would just be petrified and could be left alone. However, since you only have three turns until they die and are gone forever you have two strategies to save them. You can either revive them within three turns, or defeat Botis and win within three turns. Of the two strategies, defeating Botis within three turns is the easiest course of action to take. Chamos is at the far end of the map behind all those enemies, and getting a few characters over there to revive him and keep his HP up within three turns is a tall order when you've got to do the same for his allies. Botis is a Wizard, which means he's extremely susceptible to attacks from Archers. Quickly send Canopus up to the top of the Fort, and two shots from his bow should do the trick. For added speed, cast Boon of Swiftness and Flame Fusion (or anything that grants Strengthen) on him. After the battle all of the surviving generics along with Hobyrim (after a short scene) will offer to join and you'll receive a new Title. Optional Battle (b) -- Golyat Availability: After Ndamsa Fortress before Coritanae if you did not fight at Qadriga Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish Orgeau _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------500 Footsoldier's Mark (Hoplite Drop) Juggernaut's Mark (Juggernaut Drop) Buried (4 Steps Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (6 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (3 Steps Right, 14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Your second chance to recruit Hobyrim takes place on the very first map where you encountered the Xenobians at the start of the game, and is the only real battle that takes place here. You're outnumbered here 10-6 so you will need to be prudent in focusing your attacks on a single nearby enemy at a time and keep your HP up to avoid getting overwhelmed. The Octopus is the biggest threat here as it knows Poison Rain, which can severely damage a number of your units. Use this to your

advantage against the numerous enemies by recruiting it to turn the battle in your favour. When Orgeau's defeated, you'll be able to recruit Hobyrim in a scene. If you choose this battle to recruit Hobyrim, then you miss out on the recruiting those three generic characters from Qadriga. ===================================================================== 3.4 -- Chapter 4 Extras Optional Dungeon #1: Phorampa Wildwood Optional Sidequest #3 : Deneb Optional Sidequest #4 : Port Omish Optional Dungeon #2: The Pirate's Graveyard Optional Sidequest #5L: Ozma and Hobyrim Optional Sidequest #5C: The Balmamusa Dead Secret Battle (Law): Xapan Returns in Golyat Optional Sidequest #5N: Pirates of Qadriga Optional Sidequest #6 : Exeter Island Optional Dungeon #3: Palace of the Dead Optional Sidequest #7 : Wreck of the Rhamsen Optional Sidequest #8 : Neimrahava Wood Optional Sidequest #9 : The Six Temples [CH4_X] [OD1_4] [OS3_X] [OS4_X] [OD2_4] [OS5_L] [OS5_C] [SB1_L] [OS5_N] [OS6_X] [OD3_4] [OS7_X] [OS8_X] [OS9_X]

--------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Dungeon #1: Phorampa Wildwood [OD1_4] Availability: From the Start of Chapter 4. The last 4 stages of the Phorampa Wildwood are now available, and this dungeon's full potential can be realized. You can obtain various high-end recipe books called "Enchiridions" that enable you to craft some of the game's strongest weapons in areas throughout the wood. However these recipe books will only drop from specific enemies in specific areas, and only if they're of a high enough level (at least level 20 to be sure). See the section on the Phorampa Wildwood [OD1PW] for more detailed information. --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Sidequest #3: Deneb [OS3_X] Availability: Read Talk Report "Deneb's Emporium" Anytime during Chapter 4 Though you can start this sidequest immediately upon starting the Chapter, it is by far the longest and most time consuming of all the sidequests. Once you've read the report, Deneb's profile in the Character section is available and her shop starts randomly appearing in various cities each month. She stocks various goods that are otherwise very difficult or time consuming to obtain. Visit the corresponding cities on these days of any month to meet her. Day ---1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Location -----------------------Port Omish Grimsby Heim Oeram Barnicia Castle Golyat Almorica Castle Arkhaiopolis of Rhime Over the course of the Chapter her shop will start stocking more valuable items, so it pays to find her shop and stock up once in a while. She initially sells a few new Divine and Dark Magic Grimoires along with a couple new Treatises for War Dances. Though most importantly from the outset she sells some Reagents for Necromancy, and a consumable that

9 Krysaro 10 Phidoch Castle 11 Balmamusa 12 Coritanae Keep 13 Port Asyton 14 Brigantys Castle 15 Port Omish 16 Grimsby 17 Heim 18 Oeram 19 Barnicia Castle 20 Golyat 21 Almorica Castle 22 Arkhaiopolis of Rhime 23 Krysaro 24 Phidoch Castle 25 Balmamusa -----------------------------

will remove the Zombie condition from a target. Working with the undead is starting to open up thanks to Deneb's Shop.

But the real secret is that you can actually recruit Deneb, but doing so is going to take a lot of time and effort. Deneb won't join unless you purchase 5 of every Orb item from her. That means a total of 45 Orbs, or wait for it... 405,000 Goth to get her. Unfortunately Deneb doesn't ever stock Orbs normally, instead you have to Auction off Dragon units to get them, but each Dragon yields only 2 Orbs of the element it's aligned to. So you effectively need to recruit and Auction off 3 Dragons of each type so that you can buy the Orbs required for her to join. Below is checklist: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction Auction 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Hydras Cloud Dragons Earth Dragons Storm Dragons Flood Dragons Flame Dragons Frost Dragons Arc Dragons Dark Dragons -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> -> Buy Buy Buy Buy Buy Buy Buy Buy Buy 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 Void Orbs Gale Orbs Dust Orbs Storm Orbs Cataract Orbs Inferno Orbs Black Ice Orbs Radiant Orbs Gloom Orbs

Though if you're really a Deneb fan, this sidequest is far from over. Deneb has two classes. She can either join you as a normal Witch, or with her unique secret Wicce class that is more powerful, and she comes equipped with far better stuff. If you stop now, you'll get her in her Witch incarnation, but to get her Wicce class you'll need to find and sell her 30 Glass Pumpkins. Glass Pumpkins are dropped seldomly from the Umbra Familiars in the Palace of the Dead that you can unlock later on in the chapter. Either way, once this is all done and you've unlocked Vasque from Optional Sidequest #6: Exeter Island, Deneb will ask to meet you there and a battle will ensue. Once the battle is over, Deneb will finally join. Optional Battle -- Vasque Availability: Anytime after buying 5 of every Orb from Deneb Squad Limit: 10 + 1 Guest Objective: Vanquish Punkin _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1000 Buried Buried Buried Buried Buried Buried -------------------------------------------------------------------This quest was never this time consuming in the original game. You only had to buy 255 items from Deneb, didn't matter how much they

cost, to get her to join normally. You'd get her improved version with rare gear and an otherwise unobtainable spell by recruiting 10 Pumpkinheads from her. Those were gotten by selling 10 Glass Pumpkins at her shop. You would easily get that number from a single run through of the Palace of the Dead, and there was no special battle after the fact. --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Sidequest #4: Port Omish [OS4_X] Availability: Part 1 -- Read Talk Report "Port Omish, Den of Thieves" then complete before going to Mount Hedon Part 2 -- Read Talk Report "The Pirate's Graveyard" After Banhamuba, then finish before Barnicia Part 3 -- After Barnicia, but before Heim This brand new sidequest concerns the pirate Azelstan, the other new character opposite Ravness. Getting Azelstan to join is incredibly tricky as it requires making several side trips throughout the course of the Chapter, and they each must be done within the time frame that they're allowed. If you miss the the window of time in which a part of this sidequest is available, you will not get Azelstan and his Classmarks that can turn a few of your story-based characters into Buccaneers like him. And just to make things even more difficult there is a potential screw-over point if you're on the Law Route that is quite easy to avoid, but still a real possibility. If you declined Xapan back in Chapter 2 Law, you will have to fight him in Golyat after the scenes in Brigantys. That fight is much harder than the one in Port Omish. If you decided to put off going to Port Omish until the last possible moment, you may find yourself blocked by the Xapan fight and unable to get there until you clear that battle. You may have to grind a few levels before you're able to get through. Therefore if you declined Xapan, complete Part 1 before going to Brigantys instead. Part 1: ------Optional Battle -- Port Omish Availability: Before going to Mount Hedon Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Ragnar _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Buried (2 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (12 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (14 Steps Left, 27 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel(4 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 22 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------You must complete this part of the sidequest before going on to Mount Hedon, so be sure the read the Talk Page on Port Omish and come here before then. Unfortunately because you're probably around Level 15 or 16, you will have to go up against Level 20 troops, and they all have upgraded gear for those levels. If you're really up for a hard challenge, try recruiting everyone

here for their gear, but make sure you at least kill the Rogue as it has a chance to drop the rare Bandit s Mark. You won't be able to use this gear for some time, but it will save you a ton of money in having to buy it all. If this isn't possible, just go straight for the Leader to end this fight as soon as possible, because the enemies here will just overpower you at their strength. Part 2: ------Read the Talk Report on "The Pirate's Graveyard" after the events at Banhamuba, then head to the Pirate's Graveyard and check the Warren Report once inside, and another Talk entry will be listed. Read "The Dread Pirate", leave the Pirate's Graveyard and go to Port Omish for a scene. You'll have to leave Port Omish and come back after being "kicked" out of the graveyard. Finally, after that go to Qadriga Fortress for yet another scene and you're done this part of the sidequest for now. Part 3: ------Once you've finished the battles at Barnicia go to Port Omish, and you'll trigger another battle. You must ensure Azelstan survives the following battles. Optional Battle -- Port Omish Availability: After Barnicia, but Before Going to Heim Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1100 Spiked Flail (Terror Knight Equip) Damasc Leggings (Terror Knight Equip) Buried (8 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried (8 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (10 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 22 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (6 Steps Right, 21 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 16 Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------You start at the opposite end of town compared to last time, which makes navigating your way to save Azelstan really complicated. Archers can make their way along the roofs of house by going to the house just to left of your starting point and to the one on the far right. Magic users will get funnelled through a narrow winding alleyway that goes past Denam's starting point, and everybody else has to make a long trek along the path by the house at the far right. Fortunately flying and characters that can move through water can simply go straight through town. You need to get a healer within range of Azelstan fast if you have any chance of saving him. The best character to do this is Denam, so make him a Knight and cast Boon of Swiftness on him ASAP. You should also be around Level 18 or 19, so that the enemies will more or less focus on you rather than Azelstan. Keep in mind that if Azelstan's HP drops to 0 here it's Game Over.

After the battle go inside the Pirate's Graveyard and fight your way through the first couple areas of it; Azelstan will be in the Crystal Halls. You'll gain access to the deeper levels of the graveyard only if Azelstan is in your army when you clear Ripples of Grief for the first time. And finally the quest is over when you beat the boss of the dungeon at On Holy Ground. Those unique battles are covered in the following section [OD2_4], while the random battles are covered in the dedicated section at [OD2PG] --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Dungeon #2: The Pirate's Graveyard [OD2_4] Availability: During Optional Sidequest #4: Azelstan The Pirate's Graveyard is the second optional dungeon you'll unlock in the game. However you can only progress through the first five areas of it initially. The later areas become available once you've recruited Azelstan into your army and fought your way through to Ripples of Grief. The enemies here start at Level 22 and are mostly Reptiles and Aquatics, but further down and you'll run into legions from the underworld. They can drop some pretty rare and otherwise unobtainable equipment, but mostly this is the single greatest place to get Damasc equipment early. An unusual feature of the Graveyard is that you don't gain very much SP here. The 80 SP per surviving character factor does not apply in the graveyard, only kills and Action Skill usage count. Their effect is quite minimal on the Total SP gained, so it's a bit of a shock to see characters barely getting more than 20 SP a fight. There is a famed treasure of the graveyard, but only if Azelstan was recruited and still alive at the end of the dungeon will you be able to obtain it. Though if you do obtain it, other clans in Valeria may look down on you. What follows next is the conclusion of the Azelstan sidequest with three one-time only battles that you will encounter in the Graveyard. Pirate's Graveyard / Crystal Halls (Event Battle) Availability: Cleared second Port Omish battle. Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1000 Buried (4 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried under Crystal (4 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (3 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This time it's Azelstan's turn to save you. He joins as a guest in this battle and he's considerably more powerful now thanks to being at Level 22 and outfitted in Damasc armor. Don't overly rely on him to take out all the enemies though, you'll need to keep his HP up regardless.

Bring Canopus along, and fly him up those very high ledges near your starting position. If he and any other fliers get up there, they can rain down arrows and boulders, making this battle absurdly easy. Another character to bring along if you're on the Law route is Xapan. He and Azelstan trade some choice words with one another. After the battle pick the first choice during the scene and Azelstan will finally join. You can continue fighting through the Pirate's Graveyard indefinitely from now on but you can only go through as far as Ripples of Grief, which is the fifth area. On your first foray into that area is an event battle. Pirate's Graveyard / Ripples of Grief (Event Battle) Availability: If Azelstan is in your army Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Grimoire Sangnoir II (Lv 34+ Male Lich Drop) Grimoire Tourments (Lv 34+ Female Lich Drop) Grimoire Dondevie (Lv 34+ Warlock Drop) Magesteel's Mark (Baldur Golem Drop) Buried (4 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (8 Steps Left, 16 Steps Forward) Buried (19 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle is noteworthy for two reasons. The first is that you will likely spot the appearance of your first two Liches, both male and female. They only drop Necromancy that is of importance when using the WORLD Tarot, so if this is your first visit you should definitely recruit at least one. They're classified as Human, so the plain old Recruit skill will work on them. However be warned that there's no real "Lich Classmark" as such even though they can change into any other Human Class. Changing back to a Lich is an involved process available only in the Palace of the Dead. The second thing of note is that Baldur Golems also make their first appearance here as well. There's two of them, so you should try to recruit both; you can keep one and auction off the other. Lowering their HP can be problematic as they're resistant to both magic and physical attacks. The trick is to pay attention to the prevailing element of the battlefield. The Golems will take substantially more damage if attacking with the appropriate element. Aside from the Liches and Baldur Golems all the enemies here are undead. Bring at least two Exorcism casters accompanied by Baldur bowmen and they can cut through here with ease. When you reach the very bottom of the graveyard "On Holy Ground", there is a boss battle against Rackham. Pirate's Graveyard / On Holy Ground (Event Battle) Availability: If Azelstan is in your army Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Rackham

_________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1000 Grimoire Malediction III (Lv 34+ Rackham Drop) Buried under Crystal (4 Steps Left, 3 Steps Back) Buried (3 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 1 Step Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 7 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Only Octopi and Phantoms are here so make sure you have your beast and undead slayers at the ready. You have some time to fend off the enemy, especially those two Octopi that start in hiding quite close to where you start, until Rackham gets close enough for you to attack. Rackham is real glass cannon, he can hit hard, but only if he's within melee range to do so. He falls spectacularly quickly to people powerful spellcasters such as a Sherri. Archers can be useful against him, but only to a lesser degree as Rackham has a Rank 5 Deflect skill set to block them with alarming regularity. An interesting tidbit is that if you come here again via the WORLD Tarot, Rackham will drop a Necromancy Tome that teaches Curse III if he's around Level 34 or higher. After the battle Azelstan will lead you to the treasure of the Pirate's Graveyard, and there's a couple choices here for you to make: At the first decision: If you say "I cannot take this." then you will not receive the treasure, but your standing with all clans will be improved. If you say "THIS is the treasure?" then you'll move on to a second decision. At the second decision: If you say "I cannot take this." then you will not get the treasure, and your standing with the clans does not change. If you say "However little. It will help." then the treasure is yours, but your standing with all clans will go down. Ultimately if you take the treasure or not, then characters in your army with Lawful or Neutral alignments will see a decrease in Loyalty if you took it, or an increase if you didn't. You'll also receive a new title indicating whether you took the treasure or not. The treasure consists of the following items, despite the fact there's no notification of them appearing in your inventory (?!): Consumables - Seal of Rebirth (Turns a Phantom into a Human at San Bronsa) - Elixir (Restores 1 Lost Heart to a character) - Glass Pumpkin (Restores all MP, but should be sold to Deneb) Reagents

- Gold Oberyth x10 Classmarks - Pirate's Mark x1 (Allows class change into a Buccaneer) --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Sidequest #5L: Ozma and Hobyrim [OS5_L] Availability: Denam's Alignment must be Lawful to read Talk Report "A Rift in the Dark Knights" before Mount Hedon. If you've taken the Lawful route to get to Chapter 4, then this sidequest can be taken upon the start of the chapter by reading the Talk Report "A Rift in the Dark Knights" before going to Mount Hedon. Then after the events at Banhamuba and Phidoch, go to Krysaro. However you should leave this until just before going to Barnicia, because the enemies in the ensuing battle are all Level 21 and you need to fight against both Ozma and Volaq. You'll need the extra time to be on fighting terms with them. It was hard enough having to battle level 20 troops at the start of Azelstan's quest, so it's going to be a little harder here. Optional Battle -- Krysaro Availability: After Banhamuba/Phidoch, before going to Barnicia Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Ozma and Volaq _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1000 Buried under Brush (11 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 15 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (2 Steps Right, 18 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Ozma and Volaq start some distance in front of the main field of enemies. The trick to this battle is speed. You must defeat Volaq first, and then focus on Ozma before all those Templars arrive because things will go to hell in a handbasket quickly when they enter the fight. Volaq may retreat to the Templars on his first move, so if that happens you're in for a brutal fight. Ideally you want to send a Knight and/or Hoplite to block off the bridge and hold their position while Archers and Magic users attack the advancing enemy. Dealing with Ozma will be difficult in the early goings as she will charge ahead and wreak havoc on your troops. Try to avoid dealing with her until Volaq is within range. Those Desert Blades that Volaq and a couple Templars wield are just begging to be picked up. This is likely your first sighting of elemental weapons but unfortunately they never seem to drop here. If you managed to get Ozma's HP to critical, defeated Volaq, had Hobyrim reveal himself to Ozma by having his Loyalty at 50 or above, then the battle will end and a special scene will occur. You can recruit Ozma by picking the first choice during that scene. --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Sidequest #5C: The Balmamusa Dead [OS5_C] Availability: Denam's Alignment must be Chaotic to read Talk Report "The Balmamusa Dead" after Brigantys

Upon reading the Talk Report of The Balmamusa Dead after visiting Brigantys, a series of three battles around Southern Valeria are available. This new sidequest arc centers around Cressida, where it will be possible to recruit her at the end. But it's only a possibility, she might not even join you. Details on what affects this possibility will be explained at the end of this sidequest. These battles are somewhat difficult when first encountered, but thankfully there's no time limit in which to complete them. It's best you start this sidequest if you've saved Catiua and just before the final dungeon, for reasons that will become clear at the end of the sidequest. This also avoids it conflicting with Azelstan's sidequest arc. In any event the first of these battles is in Balmamusa. Optional Battle -- Balmamusa Availability: Read "The Balmamusa Dead" anytime after Brigantys Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1100 Grimoire Entrave (Zombie Terror Knight Drop) Skyiron (Zombie Juggernaut Drop) Pirate's Mark (Zombie Rogue Drop) Arbalest (Skeleton Archer Equip) Buried (1 Step Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (8 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (11 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Make sure you bring out both Donnalto and Olivya here to exorcise the undead as that's all that's here! The battle starts unusually for a "save the character" battle as Oelias starts the battle unconscious, and you'll need to revive her before her counter reaches 0 otherwise it's Game Over. Thankfully once you revive her, she escapes to safety, so you don't need to worry about her getting killed the moment she's back on her feet. Since there's nothing but undead here, be sure to equip Baldur weapons on everyone to inflict double damage against them. You start at the bottom of the town and will have to fight your way up, just like at the end of Chapter 1. Interestingly a few monsters also start the battle stilled, so if you're fast enough you might be able to exorcise one of them before they wake up. Though odds are they'll wake up anyways as they're quite far away from you. While you're at it, make sure you exorcise the Terror Knight here, as it can drop a Dark Magic Grimoire that can't be bought in stores. After talking to Oelias after the battle, your next destination is Qadriga Fortress. This is in spite of the fact she tells you to go towards Almorica. Optional Battle -- Inside Qadriga Fortress Availability: Clear the Balmamusa battle from "The Balmamusa Dead" Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Dievold _________

At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------900 Grimoire Radiance III (Warlock Drop) Magus's Mark (Terror Knight/Enchantress Drop) Gloomwyrm's Mark (Zombie Dark Dragon Drop) Arbalest (Skeleton Archer Equip) Biblion Sacri (Warlock Equip) Buried (8 Steps Right) Buried (5 Steps Right, 1 Step Back) Buried (4 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (7 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------All enemies here are undead as well, except for the leader Dievold. As before the more dangerous monsters all start the battle stilled, so bring in at least two Clerics and outfit your characters with Baldur weapons to help clear out the undead here with ease. The battle is a relatively easy one, just be mindful of the the Zombie Dragons though as they hit very hard and are significantly tougher to kill than all the enemies here. If you stick a Cleric on the left and right-hand edges of the deployment area, you're sure to exorcise at least one of them before they wake up. Dievold will not last long against your assault if you gang up on him, since he's slow, doesn't have very good damage resistance, and poor evasion. Next stop is Golyat for the end of this sidequest. Optional Battle -- Golyat Availability: Clear Qadriga Fortress battle from "The Balmamusa Dead" Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Nybeth _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------900 Salted Lobe (Wight Drop) Bloodied Ventricle (Wraith/Night Crow Drop) Shoulder Shard (Uruk Drop) Sorcerer's Robe (Necromancer/Wraith Drop) Damasc Sword (Uruk/Knight/Hanged Man Drop) Overguards (Uruk/Wight/Hanged Man Drop) Overguards (Terror Knight/Knight/Berserker/Warrior Drop) Biblion Herpetou (Wraith Drop) Buried (10 Steps Left, 10 Steps Back) Buried (9 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (13 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (5 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------If you want to recruit Cressida, you'll have to save her here and it is no small feat. She starts the battle knocked out and will die in three turns if you don't revive her. Unlike Oelias though, she will not escape and if her HP falls to 0 again she will die and you'll lose the opportunity to recruit her. Therefore, when you revive her you must also have other characters nearby to restore her

HP before any nearby enemy attacks her. Checking the turn order on when to revive her is imperative. That said, there are quite a number of familiar faces here risen from the dead. But they aren't classed as being zombies oddly. In fact most of the enemies here aren't undead. The only ones that are, are the Wraiths, Wights, Knights, and Terror Knights, so you'll probably only need one Cleric around to exorcise them. On top of all this any enemies you kill Nybeth will at some point replace as many as he needs with one action. Needless to say, this battle is going to be a nightmare. You'll need to divide your squad into two groups due to the topography as Nybeth is at one area, and Cressida in the other. Send one group out rescue Cressida, this group should be composed mainly of fliers and tanks so they aren't obstructed by the enemies and obstacles and any enemies nearby will try to head to the other group, giving Cressida a chance at survival. The other group should deal with the nearby enemies and eventually make their way to Nybeth. Nybeth is rather crafty and will try to keep as far away from you as possible, but there's nothing he can do to stop long range arrows being lobbed his way. If Cressida managed to survive the battle, you'll have a chance at recruiting her. She will only join you if your reputation with Galgastan is sufficiently high enough. This largely isn't a problem as your reputation with Galgastan goes up or down primarily by decisions in the game, you just have to make the right choices during the game. Those choices are: 1 : Recruit Folcurt, Bayin, and Cistina. 2 : Avoid the fight at Brigantys Castle. 3a: Catiua must at least survive through Heim. or 3b: If Catiua has been killed, pick choice #1 at Heim. You then don't have to make the following decision. 4a: Choose not to take the treasure from the Pirate's Graveyard at the first opportunity. or 4b: Tell Mreuva in Coritanae "I'm beginning to wonder" during The Six Temples sidequest, which will end it there. If you have to make the choice between taking the Pirate's Treasure and completing the Six Temples sidequest, declining the Pirate's treasure is easily the better option. The treasure is nowhere near as valuable as those Six Temples are. You also need to be careful if you have any Galgastanis in your army. If they end up killing a Galgastani, then your Reputation will go down slightly. But if a Galgastani recruit has their HP reduced to 0 it will go up slightly. As long as the number of homicides is less than than the number of Galgastani incapacitations on your side then an additional scene after the battle will occur and you can recruit Cressida by picking the second option. --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Sidequest #5N: Pirates of Qadriga [OS5_N] Availability: Must have saved Cerya in Chapter 3. Denam's Alignment must be Neutral to read Talk Report "Pirates of Qadriga Fortress" after returning to Phidoch from Banhamuba

If you're not also doing the Azelstan's sidequest, this sidequest is very easy to miss. After returning to Phidoch Castle after the events at Banhamuba, pay a visit to Krysaro and the Warren Report will be quietly updated with a new Talk Report titled "Pirates of Qadriga." Reading this report will open up Qadriga Fortress again. Visit Qadriga Fortress for a scene, and if you respond with "Will you aid us?" then Cerya will finally join along with Captain Ehlrig. However if you respond with "What 'Free Seas' Pirate?", then the following battle will ensue and you will miss recruiting Cerya and Ehlrig. Optional Battle -- Qadriga Fortress Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Ehlrig _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Buried (1 Step Right, 1 Step Back) Buried (1 Step Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 19 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (4 Steps Right, 20 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Though all the enemies here start at Level 20 and you'll be at around Level 15, the disparity is not as daunting as it looks. All the enemies here will have low defense, making them reasonably easy to take down if you focus on nearby enemies one at a time. You'll want to employ at least two Clerics and someone who can throw healing items around as needed, because the enemies will hit fairly hard and incapacitate a character in just a few hits. As long as you hang back and let the Rogues and Archers come to you, you'll have an easier time. It's much better than trying to chase them back up the stairs from where they started from, because the less time you spend attacking is the more time your trying to get an attack in while the enemies are hitting you hard. Because all the enemies here start at Level 20, they will be carrying some very nice and expensive equipment that you won't be able to buy or even use for a long while. Recruit some of these Pirates to your cause to obtain their equipment and also make the fight a little bit easier. --------------------------------------------------------------------Secret Battle (Law): Xapan Returns in Golyat [SB1_L] Availability: Declined to Recruit Xapan in Chapter 2. After Brigantys Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Xapan _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------900 Buried (9 Steps Left) Buried (7 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (16 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Truly a secret battle if ever there was one. If you declined to recruit Xapan way back in Chapter 2 Law and if you're on your way to to Port Omish any time after the events at Brigantys, you'll be

thrown into a fight against Xapan in Golyat. However, unlike in the original game Xapan does not have any unique equipment on him, just stuff that can be bought in shops. Though since he and his squad are quite tough being all at least Level 20, they'll have equipment you can't buy yet. If you fight this battle as soon as you can, you'll probably be around Level 16, and in these tight streets, the fighting here will be very hard. It's recommended you take this fight on a little later on when you're a higher level. You will need to split up your squad into 3 groups: one group of fliers to man the rooftops, one group to go through the middle of town, and the third sniping their way along from the near edge of the map to come around behind the enemy that will be stuck in the middle of town. Xapan hits extremely hard, but if you pepper him with ranged attacks, taking him down won't be so difficult. Get him to within an inch of his life and you'll be able to recruit him by picking the second option. A point of interest is that a Witch sometimes makes an appearance in this fight, if she does and she's a high enough level (due to using WORLD), she may drop a Forbidden Magic. --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Sidequest #6: Exeter Island [OS6_X] Availability: After Banhamuba read Talk Report "Blast on Exeter Island" This is a long multi-battle sidequest that ultimately culminates in unlocking the positively massive Palace of the Dead, and is a necessary component in unlocking various other battles for other sidequests. Specifically Deneb's and the Six Temples. You can also recruit the Beast Tamer Ocionne along the way if you have taken the Lawful Path and Jeunan is still with you Optional Battle -- Madura Drift Availability: Read Talk Report "Blast on Exeter Island" Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Chief's Mark (Patriarch Drop) Familiar's Mark (Familiar Drop) Juggernaut's Mark (Juggernaut Drop) Greased Ring (Naga Drop) Ring of Clouds (Scylla Drop) Buried under Brush (5 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (11 Steps Right, 20 Steps Forward) Buried (17 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (10 Steps Left, 18 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A new version of the Madura Drift battle starts this sidequest and is a completely random battle. There'll be one enemy-only Dragon class that will be fighting against you and the enemies, along with a random assortment Dragon and Umbra units. You should kill that special Dragon if it's a Scylla or Naga as it drops an otherwise extremely hard to obtain accessory. Though which one you get differs

if it's a Scylla or Naga. You won't get anything useful from the Crystal or Onyx Dragons if they spawn instead. You will have won the battle when all enemies except that special Dragon or Hydra have been killed, so be sure to kill that special Dragon before killing the last enemy. Optional Battle -- Belmorose Highwilds Availability: Read Talk Report "Blast on Exeter Island" Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Jilessa _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Damasc Leggings (Valkyrie/Knight Equip) Buried (1 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (5 Steps Right, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------The fight at Belmorose has changed quite significantly from the original game. Instead of an assortment of wild creatures, including the first, and previously very rare Cyclops you're up against a smattering of Bakram troops led by Jilessa. The terrain here is very uneven with pits and trenches abound to to trap slow-moving magic users, so watch your step. The enemies here are a well-balanced group of Archers, Knights, Valkyries, and Clerics. A general strategy of focusing on killing the one enemy who will get a turn the soonest within the expected number of attacks it will take to get the job one works well here as it does in all battles. Optional Battle -- Vasque Availability: Read Talk Report "Blast on Exeter Island" Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Cielo _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------900 Rimfire (Cielo Drop) Damasc Leggings (Berserker Equip) Gleamwyrm's Mark (Zombie Arc Dragon Drop) Firewyrm's Mark (Zombie Flame Dragon Drop) Windwyrm's Mark (Zombie Cloud Dragon Drop) Cragwyrm's Mark (Zombie Earth Dragon Drop) Buried (2 Steps Back) Buried under Tree (9 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (4 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This new battle is the beginning of fleshing out the character Occione, who just seemed to be a last second addition in the original game. It's going to be an ugly battle if you don't have two things; fliers and Clerics. You start on an island virtually surrounded by a poison swamp with the town perched on a cliff face in front of you. You will need Cleric here to exorcise a horde of Zombie Dragons.

In reality the Zombie Dragons are a neutral entity and may end up helping you by attacking the Bakram troops, but if they attack you, you'll have to fight them off with Baldur Weapons. The quickest way to win this battle is to have a group of Hawkmen, Gryphons or Cockatrices, fly up onto the roofs and use ranged attacks against Cielo. He starts close enough to you that you can begin attacking him on your first and second turns if you fly over to him. Optional Battle -- Lhazan Fortress Availability: Clear the Battle in Vasque Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish the Enemy _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1000 Steelbow (Archer Equip) Desert Blade (Warrior/Terror Knight Equip) Walloon Sword (Knight Equip) Damasc Leggings (Warrior/Knight/Terror Knight Equip) Buried (9 Steps Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (12 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (14 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Continuing along the Ocionne sidestory of this sidequest is this brand new area that features a very unusual battle. Half the enemies here are actually townsfolk from Vasque, but they aren't your primary targets. The four Bakram skeletons are all you need to defeat to win here. If you have a Necromancer, you should seriously consider recruiting all the skeletons here as they all have great gear that isn't sold in stores that you'll want. Needless to say if you can't recruit the skeletons, bring in a Cleric or two to exorcise them. Another battle at Lhazan immediately follows this one. Optional Battle -- Inside Lhazan Fortress Availability: Clear the Battle at Lhazan Fortress Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Reymos _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1000 Desert Blade (Terror Knight Equip) Damasc Leggings (Warrior/Terror Knight Equip) Buried (3 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (15 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (9 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (14 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------If you've come here by the Law Route, be sure to deploy Jeunan if you have him. He and Ocionne have a history and will say few words to one another along with Denam. When Denam says "No. But his remorse is sincere." then Ocionne will join if she survives the battle. This battle is actually pretty easy, as Ocionne can essentially win

it for you by killing Reymos because she and her dragon start very close to him, and you start very far away from them both. Be sure to cast Boon of Swiftness on both Jeunan and Denam at the start of the battle to ensure the discussion between them and Occione plays out before she kills Reymos. Optional Battle -- Bortegun Fens Availability: Read Talk Report "Blast on Exeter Island" Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Reymos _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------900 Juggernaut's Mark (Juggernaut Drop) Footsoldier's Mark (Hoplite Drop) Sparkguard Ring (Thunder Dragon Drop) Stormwyrm's Mark (Thunder Dragon Drop) Chief's Mark (Matriarch Drop) Damasc Leggings (Rune Fencer/Berserker/Hoplite Equip) Buried (7 Steps Left) Buried under Tree (4 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (2 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This is basically a battle against some random Lizardmen, Lamias, Orcs, and Dragons in a poisonous swamp. Bring along a Dragoon to deal with the Dragoons and as always deployed a balanced group of Ranged, Melee and Magic using characters to deal with the assorted rabble that's here. Hopefully a Thunder Dragon will be in the fight. If it is you should kill it for the Sparkguard Ring it may drop. This battle marks the end of the Exeter Island sidequest, but after it is the Palace of the Dead. See the overview of the initial event battles in the following section below [OD3_4], and the full dungeon details in its dedicated section at [OD3PD]. --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Dungeon #3: The Palace of the Dead [OD3_4] Availability: After Bortegun Fens in Optional Sidequest #6: Exeter Island Welcome to the Palace of the Dead, Tactics Ogre's vast labyrinth filled with creatures from the underworld. It is comprised of 100 floors and though you don't have to go through all of them, if you want to obtain all the secrets and treasures it holds you will have to do so... at least 2 or 3 times. This place is no joke as it's bigger than all of the game's optional dungeons combined. It will take the better part of a week or two to get through it the first time, so it's strongly advised you set aside a separate save file just in case things go awry. Be advised that once you leave this place all your progress will be lost and you'll have to start all over again from the first floor, you will still have credit for the event battles you fought.

At least now the game allows you to navigate through the dungeon and save as you go, unlike the original where it was a straight 100 floor gauntlet to the end with no saving and healing between the battles. Also changed from the original game is that aside from the first five floors and the last one, all the floors have new and unique designs. Previously the palace only had unique floors on every 5th floor past the 5th, and all the others in between were identical "staging rooms". There used to be event battles on the 25th and 50th floors, but with the entire redesign of this place they've been moved around and a few more added. Another interesting feature that's been added is the ability to shop on some floors. Do not pass these places up as they carry goods you will not find anywhere else in the game. It goes without saying though you should really maximize your income on the floors by recruiting as many enemies as you can and strip them of their gear. Finally one big change is that you can earn experience here now. Strange as that sounds to anyone who hasn't played the original, it was a nice break to not have to micromanage your characters levels fighting through here and not have to worry about becoming demi-gods after going through; the items obtained were more than enough. Though there was the Necro/Retissue trick if that was your goal, which has of course been done away with for the remake. Regardless the Palace is an amazing place to focus on level grinding considering virtually every battle here apart from the few event battles requires you to defeat all enemies. To help get you started, the first three floors on your first visit are covered below since those floors are required. Past that though the rest of the Palace is sealed away, and on revisits the battles become randomized. Be sure to bring in Necromancers and Clerics on every floor, as there are Phantoms and Zombies everywhere here. Also note that you will have the option of turning a character into a Lich within the Palace somewhere deep inside. Having a Lich in your army means that you can finally start recruiting those Umbra units such as Zombies, Orcs, and Gremlins. Palace of the Dead (1st Visit) -- Level 1 Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Falfaday _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1200 Buried under Statue (1 Step Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 18 Steps Forward) Buried under Statue (6 Steps Left, 20 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Easy battle. You start way up above the enemies and they're all Familiars and Magic Users, so they are easy prey for your Archers who can shoot over halfway across the map. Palace of the Dead (1st Visit) -- Level 2 Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies

_________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1000 Damasc Leggings (Warrior/Knight/Terror Knight Equip) Buried (2 Steps Left, 3 Steps Back) Buried (6 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried under Statue (4 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried (5 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried under Statue (6 Steps Right, 16 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 21 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------One of the hardest rescue missions in the game. Rudlum is a Warlock seeking Dragon Magic and he's found himself trapped by a horde of undead. Alone, not very well armed, miles away from where you start and a Dragon Zombie between you both, you'll need a lot of luck to save him. If Rudlum moves away from you on his first turn, odds are he won't survive but if he moves toward you, he might. A Hawkman with a Lobber to toss some healing items to Rudlum is the best way to keep him alive. He'll ask to join you if he survives the battle. All the enemies here are undead so prepare accordingly by outfitting many of your troops with Baldur weapons. You absolutely must also bring in at least two characters who can exorcise them. One for the enemies on the ledge in front and the other to go down the main route towards Rudlum. Catiua is fantastic here as her Priest class has an Action Skill that Exorcises undead, which frees up your ability to use Divine Magic to either heal or Exorcise another target on the same turn. Palace of the Dead (1st Visit) -- Level 3 Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Xadoba _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------700 Door to Level 4 (7 Steps Right, 3 Steps Back) Steelbow (Archer Equip) Damasc Leggings (Juggernaut/Hoplite/Knight Equip) Buried (4 Steps Left, 1 Step Forward) Buried (8 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried under Statue (10 Steps Right, 3 Steps Back) Buried (11 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried under Statue (12 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Denam starts this battle ambushed by the Gorgon Xadoba some ways away from your squad. He's not in too much danger though as he's only a turn away from them and most of the enemies start quite far away. The best course of action is to regroup and then focus on Xadoba. Xadoba is a Gorgon who has two special abilities that thankfully can't be used together. The first attempts to have all your characters face her, while the second turns everyone within her field of view that is facing her to stone. Aside from that she's like a stronger Matriarch and will go down quickly from any number of attacks.

Opening the secret door here takes you to level 4. It's the one space surrounded by poison tiles by the wall behind you on a ledge. Move a character there and the way into the palace's deepest areas will open after the battle. If you don't find it, don't worry you can always leave and come back for it again. See section [OD3PD] for continuing details on the Palace of the Dead. --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Sidequest #7: Wreck of the Rhamsen [OS7_X] Availability: After Returning to Phidoch from Barnicia. Though this quest is not time sensitive, you before going to Heim because The Six Temples need to complete this quest to complete that Talk Report on "The Wreck of the Rhamsen" to need to complete it sidequest is and you one as well. Read the open up this sidequest.

There are two battles to complete, with the first one being much harder than the one after it. You will want to be about Level 18 or 19 before venturing here. Optional Battle -- The Leupha Coast Availability: Read "The Wreck of the Rhamsen" Talk Report Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Chief's Mark (Matriarch Drop) Steelbow (Archer Equip) Walloon Sword (Hoplite Equip) Desert Blade (Juggernaut Equip) Buried (7 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried (7 Steps Right, 27 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 1 Step Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 20 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Left, 27 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------You can pick up some fantastic equipment here if you have the proper recruit skills. Most of the enemies have average to low loyalties, which makes them fairly easy to recruit. You can also pick up some rare Chief's Marks to make Matriarchs and Patriarchs. If you don't have a Lamia now, here's a great place to get one. Of course none of this comes easy as you have to deal with four, yes four, Octopi in a map that's half water. They also know Poison Rain and aren't afraid to spam you with it. A Dragoon or two is a necessity here. The best way to avoid Poison Rain is to spread out and have your units more than 5 spaces apart at all times. This of course means they're susceptible to getting ganged up on, but if they have significantly high evasion and defense stats they'll be able to endure the hits long enough for someone to heal them. If you can take out all the Octopi first, then this battle will become a little easier, but by no means a walk in the park as you still have to contend with the status ailments brought on by the Matriarchs. As it bears repeating again, recruiting the enemies here will make a huge difference in the outcome of this fight.

Optional Battle -- Grimsby Availability: Read "The Wreck of the Rhamsen" Talk Report Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Martym _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------1100 The Fusil (Templar Terror Knight Drop) Damasc Leggings (Templar Warrior/Knight/T. Knight Equip) Buried (4 Steps Right, 1 Step Back) Buried under Brush (2 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Right, 14 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (5 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 16 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Lindl is in a spot of bother, being surrounded by Templars being led by Martym. Thankfully though Lindl can actually defend himself this time, since in the original game he was unarmed. Lindl is not too far from your starting position so you should easily be able to keep him within range of your healers from the start. The Templars, though well equipped, should not pose too much of a problem if you're equally well equipped and at around Level 19. One very important thing to keep in mind is that one of the Templars here holds the only copy of The Fusil recipe book in the entire game. If you miss getting it here, you'll have to use WORLD to get back here and retrieve it. The Templar in question you need to kill is the grey one that Lindl is facing directly at when the battle starts. If Lindl is still alive after the battle, he will offer to join you as a Fusilier and supply you with Fusilier Marks as well. Fusilier Marks are amazingly rare. The only way to get them is through this scene when Lindl is recruited, and by stealing them from enemy Fusiliers. --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Sidequest #8: Neimrahava Wood [OS8_X] Availability: Complete Optional Sidequest #7: Wreck of the Rhamsen Once you've completed the battle at Grimsby, you can open up a path to the Neimrahava Wood for a short one-battle sidequest by reading the Talk Report "The Bandits of Neimrahava". Optional Battle -- Neimrahava Wood Availability: Read "The Bandits of Neimrahava" Talk Report Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish Ganpp _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------900 Juggernaut's Mark (Juggernaut Drop) Footsoldier's Mark (Hoplite Drop) Pirate's Mark (Rogue Drop) Damasc Leggings (Rune Fencer/Juggernaut/Berserker Equip) Damasc Leggings (Hoplite Equip) Buried under Tree (4 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (15 Steps Forward)

Buried under Brush (6 Steps Right, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Ganpp shows up here for the third and final time in a poison marshland. He's accompanied by Obda's and Berda's kids, and like their parents, they're no ordinary Gryphons. Though you're tasked with defeating Ganpp, if you bring his HP down to 10% or less without killing him he'll automatically join wielding a Commander Gun and his two Gryphons, provided you left them alone. This is easier said than done however. Ganpp starts at the back of his squad, while his gang will do their best to stop you getting anywhere near him. You'll have no choice but to take out each member of Ganpp's squad in a systematic fashion, because traversing this marsh will slow you down and cause problems for your health. Keep the weather favourable if it turns bad by using a Coral Harp or two, otherwise nobody's moving anywhere through the swamp if it's storming. --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Sidequest #9: The Six Temples [OS9_X] Availability: Return to Phidoch after Barnicia with at least Olivya, Sherri, Cistina, or Cerya recruited into your army. This is a very long and involved sidequest that also requires you to complete two other sidequests to even begin taking on. Through it all you must have at least one of the Phoraena Sisters alive and recruited in your active party. This is usually Olivya, as she's the only one you're guaranteed to recruit in Chapter 4. Previously in the original game each sister could only unlock the one temple they're aligned to; Olivya -- Water, Cerya -- Fire, Sherri -- Earth, and Cistina -- Wind. Though since there are now six temples and each being their own optional dungeons now rather than a one-time only battlefield, this limitation has obviously been removed. Additionally this sidequest was not time sensitive and you could complete it whenever you liked, this has changed for the new version as all initial battles before meeting Mreuva in Coritanae should be completed before going to Heim. 1: a) Read the Talk Report on "The Ancient Temples" to open up Qadriga, Boed, Geyld, and Ndamsa fortresses. b) Read the Talk Report "Galgastani Sighted at Lhazan" after clearing Lhazan Fortress, and Bortegun Fens during Optional Sidequest #6: Blast on Exeter Island to open up Lhazan. c) Read the Talk Report "Fortresses Under Siege" after completing Sidequest #7: Wreck of the Rhamsen to open up Gecho Fortress. 2: - After reading a report, you can go to the corresponding fortress for a battle. This can be done in any order you see fit. 3: - After completing the battles at all the fortresses, go to Coritanae to speak with Mreuva and say "I Know I Will". 4: - Return to each of the Six Fortresses, and at each one of the Phoraena Sisters will unlock the Temples within them. Each Fortress now becomes a seven floor dungeon. You can go through them in any order.

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Hahnella Vaasa Nestharot Greuza Xoshonell Lyuneram

[OD4TH] [OD5TV] [OD6TN] [OD7TG] [OD8TX] [OD9TL]

The preliminary battles before opening up the Temples are covered below, while the battles you'll face upon returning to the fortresses and within the Temples themselves are each covered in their own dedicated sections as referenced above. Optional Battle -- Ndamsa Fortress Availability: Read "The Ancient Temples" Talk Report Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Aeshan _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------700 Damasc Leggings (Terror Knight/Dragoon Equip) Buried (1 Step Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (5 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This is a defensive fight, don't have any of your characters break ranks to attack or kill an enemy. There are so many enemies here that they will likely be ganged up on and knocked out of the fight as a result. Ndamsa Fortress is small and the topography is rough making it harder to revive a character should you need to. Keep your guys close to one another so you can gang up an enemy and have healing close-by whenever you need it. Bring Gerun Powders to this fight, a couple Ninja have Petridart blowguns for weapons and will petrify your characters with abandon. Optional Battle -- Gecho Fortress Availability: Read "Fortresses Under Siege" Talk Report Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Barvan _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------700 Damasc Leggings (Terror Knight/Berserker Equip) Buried (6 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried (8 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (1 Step Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (5 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (5 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A simple battle if you have crossbows and fusils. Most of the enemies are up on high ledges, making it easy for characters with those weapons to hit them. The fact that virtually all enemies here have no ranged attacks to assist them with their height advantage means they'll have trouble even reaching you to inflict damage.

Once they do get in melee range though, you'll find they aren't all that threatening, most are Rogues that will deploy traps instead of attacking you. The Terror Knights and Berserkers have low defense, and the Warlock and Witch rarely use attack magic. The two Dragons are the only real offense they have, but deploying a Dragoon will solve that. Optional Battle -- Qadriga Fortress Availability: Read "The Ancient Temples" Talk Report Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Leon _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------700 Steelbow (Archer Equip) Buried (2 Steps Right) Buried (7 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------You've been here a couple times already, and fighting here once more is no different. There are three Golems and two Dragons you'll need to deal with so bring in a Witch (Sherri is ideal) and a Dragoon to fend them off. The rest are somewhat ill-equipped humans, apart from that one Archer with a Steelbow who can ruin any mage's day. Recruit or kill her ASAP if only to get her Steelbow for yourself. Optional Battle -- Geyld Fortress Availability: Read "The Ancient Temples" Talk Report Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Anaberg _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Damasc Leggings (Juggernaut/Hoplite Equip) Steelbow (Archer Equip) Buried (7 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried (2 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (3 Steps Right, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Your biggest opponent here is the terrain, as there's only two very narrow paths to assault the enemies holed up on the fortress. If one of those paths gets blocked, you'll have a hard time reaching the enemies unless you have some long range attacks. The enemies are going to be a pain to deal with as some Ghosts are present along with Hawkmen Archers, and Lizardmen Hoplites and Juggernauts. Worst of all though is that Anaberg will sit in the far corner of the map and summon creatures of the underworld as you kill those in your way. He can only summon a limited number, so if you keep killing enemies he eventually will not be able to call anymore.

Split your squad in to two groups of five to take both paths into the fortress and be sure you have a Knight or two to use Guardian Force so that your mages are suitably protected from those Archers. Optional Battle -- Boed Fortress Availability: Read "The Ancient Temples" Talk Report Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Lobos _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------700 Damasc Leggings (Warrior/Berserker Equip) Steelbow (Archer Equip) Buried (5 Steps Left, 1 Step Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (8 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------You'll be at a severe height disadvantage here, especially since there are four well-armed Archers at the top of the Fortress. The Dragons, Berserkers, and Warriors will rush down to slow your progress up the fortress walls. Hang back for a while and let the enemy come to you as fighting by the walls here can be a bit tricky. Thankfully Lobos is a Rogue and loves to get in close. Defeating him and winning this fight will be easy; waiting for him to get within range while trying to fend off attacks is the tough part. Optional Battle -- Lhazan Fortress Availability: Read "Galgastani Sighted at Lhazan" Talk Report Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish Josephine _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------800 Damasc Mace (Josephine Drop) Damasc Leggings (Knight Equip) Icewyrm's Mark (Frost Dragon Drop) Buried (8 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (15 Steps Left, 2 Steps Back) Buried (13 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (17 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (5 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------If you've taken the Law route you may remember Josephine from waayyy back at the beginning of Chapter 2, how she wound up here is anyone's guess. Anyways you're going to have to slug it out in this battle. Most of the enemies are Knights, Clerics, and some monsters. Bring in a Dragoon to deal with the Dragons and Monsters, otherwise the Clerics and Knights will undo all the hard work you did in damaging them. With them out of the way, this battle should be a snap if you gang up on one enemy at a time and kill them before the healing spree starts again. * * *

As you defeat the Guardians in each temple, they will become unavailable. Don't fret though as once you've cleared them all, you'll ultimately obtain 3 Oracle Marks to turn select special characters into Shamans. Once you've collected those Classmarks the Temples will once again be opened and you can repeat the process of obtaining Oracles Marks as much as you like. It's best to do that on your return visits when using the WORLD Tarot because high level Guardians will drop more powerful versions of the Apocrypha as well as some rare equipment to boot. ===================================================================== 3.5 -- Random Battle Info Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Random Battle Area Area Area Area Area Area Area Area Area Area Area Area Area Area Area Area Area Area Area Area # 1: # 2: # 3: # 4: # 5: # 6: # 7: # 8: # 9: #10: #11: #12: #13: #14: #15: #16: #17: #18: #19: #20: Tynemouth Hill Golborza Plain Lake Bordu Xeod Moors Rhea Boum Aqueduct Madura Drift Bahanna Highlands The Reisan Way The Psonji Weald Mount Weobry Mount Hedon The Vanessan Way Lambiss Hill Tzorious Field Iorumza Canyon Boulder Sands Belmorose Highwilds Bortegun Fens The Leupha Coast Neimrahava Wood [RANDB] [RB01TH] [RB05GP] [RB02LB] [RB03XM] [RB04RB] [RB06MD] [RB07BH] [RB08RW] [RB09PW] [RB10MW] [RB11MH] [RB12VW] [RB13LH] [RB14TF] [RB15IC] [RB16BS] [RB17BH] [RB18BF] [RB19LC] [RB20NW]

--------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #1 -- Tynemouth Hill [RB01TH] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Defeat Orba on Tynemouth Hill Chapter 2 (L) -- Defeat Wynoa on Tynemouth Hill; Only until reaching Rhime Chapter 2 (C) -- Defeat Vyce on Tynemouth Hill Chapter 3 (L) -- Defeat Ganpp on Tynemouth Hill Chapter 3 (C) -- Arrive in Almorica Chapter 3 (N) -- Open from the start Chapter 4 -- Open from the start Squad Limit: 7 / Enemy Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ---------------------Enemy Appearances------------------800 Races: Human, Lizardman Class: Lv 2+ Archer, Lv 2+ Cleric, Lv 2+ Berserker, Lv 2+ Warrior, Lv 2+ Wizard/Enchantress, Lv 2+ Rune Fencer/Valkyrie ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #2 -- Golborza Plains [RB02GP] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Defeat Brezen on Golborza Plains

Chapter 2 (L) -- Defeat Gousin on Golborza Plains Chapter 2 (C) -- Defeat Xapan at Rhime Chapter 3 (L) -- Open from the start Only until reaching Coritanae Keep Chapter 3 (C) -- Defeat Hiram at Rhime Chapter 3 (N) -- Open from the start Chapter 4 -- Open from the start Squad Limit: 7 / Enemy Limit: 7 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ---------------------Enemy Appearances------------------800 Races: Human, Hawkman Class: Lv 4+ Rune Fencer/Valkyrie, Lv 4+ Cleric, Lv 4+ Berserker, Lv 4+ Wizard/Enchantress, Lv 4+ Warrior, Lv 4+ Archer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #3 -- Lake Bordu [RB03LB] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Defeat Grion on Lake Bordu Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Defeat Genzo on Lake Bordu; Only until reaching Tynemouth Hill Chapter 3 (L) -- Defeat Brutakos in Psonji Weald, or Defeat Muntzer on Lake Bordu Chapter 3 (C) -- Arrive in Almorica Chapter 3 (N) -- Open from the Start Chapter 4 -- Open from the start Squad Limit: 6 / Enemy Limit: 5 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Enemy Appearances-----------------700 Races: Hawkman, Orc, Gryphon, Octopus, Cyclops Class: Lv 5+ Gryphon, Lv 5+ Octopus, Lv 5+ Cyclops, Lv 5+ Beast Tamer, Lv 5+ Wizard, Lv 5+ Archer, Lv 5+ Warrior, Lv 5+ Berserker ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #4 -- Xeod Moors [RB04XM] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Defeat Ganpp at Xeod Moors Chapter 2 (L) -- Defeat Garba at Xeod Moors; Only until reaching Qadriga Fortress Chapter 2 (C) -- Defeat Vance at Xeod Moors; Only until reaching Tynemouth Hill Chapter 3 (L) -- Clear Coritanae Keep Chapter 3 (C) -- Defeat Felnatorre at Xeod Moors Chapter 3 (N) -- Open from the start Chapter 4 -- Open from the start Squad Limit: 7 / Enemy Limit: 7 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- --------------------------Enemy Appearances-------------800 Races: Human Zombie, Ghost, Skeleton Class: Lv 4+ Knight, Lv 4+ Archer, Lv 4+ Warrior,

Lv 4+ Terror Knight, Lv 4+ Wizard/Enchantress, Lv 4+ Rune Fencer/Valkyrie ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #5 -- Rhea Boum Aqueduct [RB05RB] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Defeat Josephine in Rhea Boum Aqueduct Only until reaching Qadriga Fortress Chapter 2 (C) -- Defeat Xapan in Rhea Boum Aqueduct; Only until reaching Tynemouth Hill Chapter 3 (L) -- Clear Coritanae Keep Chapter 3 (C) -- Defeat Gannon in Port Asyton Chapter 3 (N) -- Open from the start Chapter 4 -- Open from the start Squad Limit: 6 / Enemy Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Enemy Appearances-----------------700 Races: Human, Octopus, Golem Class: Lv 6+ Warrior, Lv 6+ Berserker, Lv 6+ Archer, Lv 6+ Wizard, Lv 6+ Octopus, Lv 6+ Clay Golem, Lv 6+ Stone Golem, Lv 6+ Terror Knight ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #6 -- Madura Drift [RB06MD] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- Defeat Hektor in Madura Drift Chapter 3 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (N) -- Unavailable Chapter 4 -- Pass through Madura Drift on way to Palace of the Dead Squad Limit: 7 / Enemy Limit: 7 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Enemy Appearances-----------------800 Races: Hawkman, Lizardman, Lamia, Skeleton, Ghost, Gryphon, Dragon, Cockatrice Class: Lv 10+ Warrior, Lv 10+ Berserker, Lv 10+ Gryphon, Lv 10+ Cockatrice, Lv 10+ Frost Dragon, Lv 10+ Rune Fencer, Lv 10+ Wizard, Lv 10+ Witch ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #7 -- Bahanna Highlands [RB07BH] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- Defeat Roberval in Bahanna Highlands Chapter 3 (C) -- Defeat Hektor in Bahanna Highlands Chapter 3 (N) -- Unavailable Chapter 4 -- Open from the start

Squad Limit: 9 / Enemy Limit: 9 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Enemy Appearances-----------------1000 Races: Skeleton, Ghost, Lizardman, Lamia, Orc, Gremlin, Dragon, Cyclops Class: Lv 10+ Warrior, Lv 10+ Archer, Lv 10+ Warlock, Lv 10+ Enchantress, Lv 10+ Berserker, Lv10+ Witch Lv 10+ Hoplite, Lv 10+ Patriarch, Lv 10+ Rogue Lv 10+ Terror Knight, Lv 10+ Flood Dragon, ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #8 -- The Reisan Way [RB08RW] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- Defeat Vance on The Reisan Way Chapter 3 (C) -- Defeat Cassandra on The Reisan Way Chapter 3 (N) -- Unavailable Chapter 4 -- Open from the start Squad Limit: 12 / Enemy Limit: 18 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Enemy Appearances-----------------1300 Races: Human, Lizardman, Lamia, Dragon, Gremlin, Ghost, Orc, Faerie Class: Lv 11+ Warrior, Lv 11+ Berserker, Lv 11+ Archer, Lv 11+ Rogue, Lv 11+ Cleric, Lv 11+ Enchantress, Lv 11+ Hoplite, Lv 11+ Patriarch/Matriarch, Lv 11+ Witch/Warlock, Lv 11+ Juggernaut, Lv 11+ Earth Dragon, Lv 11+ Thunder Dragon, Lv 11+ Terror Knight, Lv 11+ Familiar ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #9 -- The Psonji Weald [RB09PW] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- Defeat Brutakos in Psonji Weald, or Defeat Muntzer on Lake Bordu Chapter 3 (C) -- Arrive in Almorica Chapter 3 (N) -- Open from the start Chapter 4 -- Open from the start Squad Limit: 10 / Enemy Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Enemy Appearances-----------------1000 Races: Lizardman, Lamia, Faerie, Ghost, Gremlin Class: Lv 12+ Warrior, Lv 12+ Berserker, Lv 12+ Hoplite, Lv 12+ Witch, Lv 12+ Juggernaut, Lv 12+ Familiar, Lv 12+ Enchantress, Lv 12+ Patriarch/Matriarch, Lv 12+ Warlock, Lv 12+ Rogue --------------------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #10 -- Mount Weobry [RB10MW] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- After passing through Mount Weobry Chapter 3 (C) -- Defeat Ganpp on Mount Weobry Chapter 3 (N) -- After passing through Mount Weobry Chapter 4 -- Open from the start Squad Limit: 8 / Enemy Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ----------------------Enemy Appearances-----------------800 Races: Human, Gryphon, Dragon, Faerie, Ghost, Skeleton, Cockatrice Class: Lv 12+ Gryphon, Lv 12+ Flame Dragon, Lv 12+ Wizard/Enchantress, Lv 12+ Warrior, Lv 12+ Archer, Lv 12+ Familiar, Lv 12+ Cockatrice Lv 12+ Beast Tamer, Lv 12+ Berserker Lv 12+ Dark Dragon -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Buried (4 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #11 -- Mount Hedon [RB11MH] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (N) -- Defeat Cassandra on Mount Hedon Chapter 4 -- Defeat LeRozza on Mount Hedon Squad Limit: 6 / Enemy Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ---------------------Enemy Appearances------------------700 Races: Hawkman, Gremlin, Ghost, Dragon Class: Lv 11+ Archer, Lv 11+ Enchantress, Lv 11+ Rogue, Lv 11+ Flame Dragon, Lv 11+ Familiar -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Buried (2 Steps Left, 5 Forward) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #12 -- The Vanessan Way [RB12VW] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (N) -- Unavailable Chapter 4 -- Defeat Alessandro on The Vanessan Way

Squad Limit: 12 / Enemy Limit: 18 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ---------------------Enemy Appearances------------------1200 Races: Human, Zombie Templar*, Hawkman, Lizardman, Gremlin, Faerie, Orc, Golem, Cockatrice, Dragon Class: Lv 14+ Archer, Lv 14+ Juggernaut, Lv 14+ Rogue, Lv 14+ Familiar, Lv 14+ Berserker, Lv 14+ Hoplite Lv 14+ Clay Golem, Lv 14+ Stone Golem, Lv 14+ Cockatrice, Lv 14+ Earth Dragon, Lv 14+ Flame Dragon, Lv 14+ Patriarch, Lv 14+ Cleric, Lv 19+ Warrior, Lv 19+ Knight, Lv 19+ Rune Fencer ----------------------Special Loot----------------------Hagia Knight's Mark (Steal from Zombie Templars) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: The Zombie Templars only appear during a spell of "Rain" or "Heavy Rain". All enemies will have their base level boosted to 19, and you'll be starting from a different than normal location. It's essentially a secret random battle. --------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #13 -- Lambiss Hill [RB13LH] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (N) -- Unavailable Chapter 4 -- Defeat Pajeot on Lambiss Hill Squad Limit: 7 / Enemy Limit: 7 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ---------------------Enemy Appearances------------------800 Races: Hawkman, Lizardman, Lamia, Dragon Class: Lv 14+ Archer, Lv 14+ Warrior, Lv14+ Rune Fencer, Lv 14+ Matriarch, Lv 14+ Juggernaut, Lv 14+ Cloud Dragon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #14 -- Tzorious Field [RB14TF] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (N) -- Unavailable Chapter 4 -- Defeat Andoras on Tzorious Field Squad Limit: 12 / Enemy Limit: 13 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ---------------------Enemy Appearances------------------1300 Races: Orc, Gremlin, Golem, Dragon, Uruk* Class: Lv14+ Juggernaut, Lv14+ Hoplite, Lv14+ Berserker, Lv14+ Rogue, Lv14+ Clay Golem, Lv14+ Stone Golem,

Lv14+ Iron Golem, Lv14+ Baldur Golem, Lv14+ Uruk, Lv14+ Flame Dragon, Lv14+ Earth Dragon, Lv14+ Familiar -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Uruks cannot be recruited --------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #15 -- Iorumza Canyon [RB15IC] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (N) -- Unavailable Chapter 4 -- Defeat Stanoska in Iorumza Canyon or Defeat Mimose in Boulder Sands Squad Limit: 9 / Enemy Limit: 9 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ---------------------Enemy Appearances------------------1000 Races: Human, Hawkman, Lizardman, Faerie, Gremlin, Orc Cockatrice, Gryphon Class: Lv16+ Warrior, Lv16+ Rune Fencer, Lv16+ Hoplite, Lv16+ Patriarch, Lv16+ Familiar, Lv16+ Rogue, Lv16+ Berserker, Lv16+ Terror Knight, Lv16+ Archer, Lv16+ Cockatrice, Lv16+ Gryphon ----------------------Special Loot----------------------Buried (3 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #16 -- Boulder Sands [RB16BS] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (N) -- Unavailable Chapter 4 -- Defeat Stanoska in Iorumza Canyon or Defeat Mimose in Boulder Sands Squad Limit: 11 / Enemy Limit: 11 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ---------------------Enemy Appearances------------------1200 Races: Human, Gremlin, Ghost, Skeleton, Dragon, Golem, Faerie Class: Lv 16+ Rogue, Lv 16+ Warlock, Lv 16+ Enchantress, Lv 16+ Warrior, Lv 16+ Clay Golem, Lv 16+ Archer, Lv 16+ Stone Golem, Lv 16+ Earth Dragon, Lv 16+ Familiar ----------------------Special Loot----------------------Buried (8 Steps Left, 1 Step Forward) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Random Battle Area #17 -- Belmorose Highwilds [RB17BH] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (N) -- Unavailable Chapter 4 -- Defeat Jilessa at Belmorose Highwilds on the way to the Palace of the Dead Squad Limit: 9 / Enemy Limit: 9 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ---------------------Enemy Appearances------------------1000 Races: Hawkman, Lamia, Orc, Gremlin, Faerie, Skeleton, Ghost Class: Lv18+ Rune Fencer, Lv18+ Juggernaut, Lv18+ Archer Lv18+ Witch/Warlock, Lv18+ Familiar, Lv18+ Rogue, Lv18+ Warrior, Lv18+ Matriarch, Lv18+ Enchantress Lv18+ Berserker ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #18 -- Bortegun Fens [RB18BF] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (N) -- Unavailable Chapter 4 -- Pass through Bortegun Fens on the way to the Palace of the Dead Squad Limit: 10 / Enemy Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ---------------------Enemy Appearances------------------1100 Races: Human, Lizardman, Orc, Faerie, Gremlin Class: Lv 18+ Warrior, Lv 18+ Rogue, Lv 18+ Archer, Lv 18+ Wizard/Enchantress , Lv 18+ Patriarch, Lv 18+ Berserker, Lv 18+ Terror Knight, Lv 18+ Familiar ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #19 -- The Leupha Coast [RB19LC] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (N) -- Unavailable Chapter 4 -- Pass through The Leupha Coast on the way to Grimsby Squad Limit: 12 / Enemy Limit: 12 _________ Info \ Objective: Vanquish all Enemies

-Base Exp- ---------------------Enemy Appearances------------------1300 Races: Human, Hawkman, Lizardman, Octopus, Kraken*1 Class: Lv 18+ Knight, Lv 18+ Cleric, Lv 18+ Archer, Lv 18+ Patriarch, Lv 18+ Rune Fencer/Valkyrie, Lv 18+ Fusilier, Lv 18+ Berserker, Lv 18+ Octopus Lv 18+ Kraken, Lv 18+ Terror Knight, Lv 18+ Enchantress, Lv 18+ Warrior -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Crescente (Lv 24 Hawkman Archer Equip)*2 -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note 1: Krakens cannot be recruited. *Note 2: A base Level 24 Hawkman Archer may appear if it is raining. It will have a very hard to acquire Crescente bow. You will also be starting at the opposite end of the map than normal and there will be two other factions in the battle. If the average level of your squad is at Level 26 or above the Hawkman Archer will no longer have the Crescente equipped. This is essentially a secret random battle. --------------------------------------------------------------------Random Battle Area #20 -- Neimrahava Wood [RB20NW] Availability: Chapter 1 -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 2 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (L) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (C) -- Unavailable Chapter 3 (N) -- Unavailable Chapter 4 -- Defeat Ganpp in Neimrahava Wood Squad Limit: 12 / Enemy Limit: 13 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ Info \ -Base Exp- ---------------------Enemy Appearances------------------1300 Races: Hawkman, Faerie, Gremlin, Skeleton, Ghost, Dragon Zombie Human Class: Lv 20+ Wizard/Enchantress, Lv 20+ Familiar, Lv 20+ Terror Knight, Lv 20+ Rune Fencer/Valkyrie Lv 20+ Dark Dragon, Lv 20+ Earth Dragon, Lv 20+ Rogue -------------------------------------------------------------------===================================================================== 3.6 -- Post-Game Extras Optional Sidequest #10: The Songstress Optional Dungeon #10: San Bronsa Ruins [POSTX] [OS10X] [OD10X]

--------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Sidequest #10: The Songstress [OS10X] Availability: Canopus and Gildas must be "Alive" in the Warren Report and in your army. Special Note -- Gildas does not join on the Neutral Route. --------------------------------------------------------------------Optional Dungeon #10: San Bronsa Ruins [OD10X] Availability: Complete Optional Sidequest #10: The Songstress =====================================================================

3.7 -- Optional Dungeon #1: The Phorampa Wildwood

[OD1PW]

Availability -- Chapter 2: Law (After Tynemouth Hill, Before Rhime) Chaos (After Tynemouth Hill) Chapter 3: Law (Start of Chapter, Before Coritanae) (After Tynemouth Hill) Neutral (Start of the Chapter) Chaos (After Arriving in Almorica) Chapter 4: From the Start of the Chapter Map of the Phorampa Wildwood: ----------------------------=================== Chapter 2 Regions ===================== [Adventurer's Gap -- PW1] +----------+----------+ V [Snowmelt Stream -- PW2] V [Phorampa's Doorstep -- PW4] V [The Howling Hills -- PW6] V [Field of Fallen Shadow -- PW3] V [Untrodden Marsh -- PW5] +----------+-------------+

V [The Feral Shore -- PW7] =================== Chapter 3 Regions ============ ======= V [Gunagua Headwater -- PW8] +------------------------+ V [Whisper of Leaf and Water -- PW9] V [Lie Down in Green Pastures -- PW10] +-----------+-------------+ V [The Frostfen -- PW11] =================== Chapter 4 Regions = ================= V [Scenic Knoll -- PW12] +---------+ +-----------------+-----------------+

V [Land of the Supplicant -- PW13] V [Wonder at the Gods Above -- PW15]

V [Heart of the Wildwood -- PW14]

Treasures of the Phorampa Wildwood: ----------------------------------Item Name Location Target --------------------- ------------------------ ---------------------Ring of the Horde Chapter 2 Regions Lv 14~15+ Enemies Chapter 3 Regions Lv 17+ Enemies Ring of Vitality Chapter 2 Regions Lv 14~15+ Enemies Chapter 3 Regions Lv 17+ Enemies Ring of Deftness Chapter 2 Regions Lv 14~15+ Enemies Chapter 3 Regions Lv 17+ Enemies Ring of Alacrity Chapter 2 Regions Lv 14~15+ Enemies Chapter 3 Regions Lv 17+ Enemies Ring of Evasion Chapter 2 Regions Lv 14~15+ Enemies Chapter 3 Regions Lv 17+ Enemies Ring of Intellect Chapter 2 Regions Lv 14~15+ Enemies Chapter 3 Regions Lv 17+ Enemies Ring of the Mind Chapter 2 Regions Lv 14~15+ Enemies Chapter 3 Regions Lv 17+ Enemies Magebane Band Chapter 2 Regions Lv 14~15+ Enemies Chapter 3 Regions Lv 17+ Enemies Abuna's Mark [PW1][PW2][PW4][PW8] R1 Steal/Cleric [PW9][PW10] Spear Enchiridion [PW8] Lv 17+ Rune Fencer Axe Enchiridion [PW9] Lv 17+ Beast Tamer 1H Katana Enchiridion [PW10] Lv 17+ Ninja 2H Katana Enchiridion [PW11] Lv 17+ Swordmaster Whip Enchiridion [PW12] Lv 20+ Beast Tamer Fist Enchiridion [PW13] Lv 20+ Warrior 2H Sword Enchiridion [PW14] Lv 20+ Terror Knight Bow Enchiridion [PW15] Lv 20+ Archer --------------------------------------------------------------------Battles of the Phorampa Wildwood: --------------------------------Phorampa Wildwood / Adventurer's Gap [PW1] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv 7+: 800 Various "Rings" (Lv 14+ Enemy Equip) Lv14+: 900 Abuna's Mark (Rank 1 Steal from Clerics) Peregrine's Mark (Lv 20+ Hawkman Drop?) Buried (4 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 14 Steps Forward) --------------------------------------------------------------------

You might want to use the overhead view for a lot of the time as some areas of the map are completely obscured by tall cliffs. There's only a handful of basic class enemies here and the odd Gryphon, usually about a level below your highest character, so it's meant to be a good opening stage. Phorampa Wildwood / Snowmelt Stream [PW2] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv 7+: 800 Various "Rings" (Lv 14+ Enemy Equip) Lv14+: 900 Abuna's Mark (Rank 1 Steal from Clerics) Buried (4 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left) Buried (4 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Enemy composition is pretty much identical to the Adventurer's Gap, only this time you're fighting across a frigid stream. Nothing to really worry about. Phorampa Wildwood / Field of Fallen Shadow [PW3] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv 7+: 800 Various "Rings" (Lv 14+ Enemy Equip) Lv14+: 900 Bandit's Mark (Rogue Drop) Buried (9 Steps Right) Buried (3 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (2 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (4 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Non-human classes abound here. Various types of Dragons and Familiars (Gremlins and Faeries) can appear in this area ripe for the picking. The Gremlins are Umbra creatures and thus not easily recruitable unless you have the proper skill, which isn't available until much later in the game. Dragons are brutal, so take care here. You might want to pick up a Dragoon from The Howling Hills before coming here. Phorampa Wildwood / Phorampa's Doorstep [PW4] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv 7+: 800 Various "Rings" (Lv 15+ Enemy Equip) Lv15+: 900 Abuna's Mark (Rank 1 Steal from Clerics) Buried under Brush (2 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 6 Forward) Buried (10 Steps Left, 7 Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 14 Forward)

Buried (4 Steps Left, 14 Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------More advanced human classes start appearing here, Knights, Terror Knights, and Rune Fencers generally. You start right next to large hill that overlooks the battle field, so get a couple of bowmen up there to make this fight easy as pie. Phorampa Wildwood / Untrodden Marsh [PW5] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv 8+: 800 Various "Rings" (Lv 15+ Enemy Equip) Lv15+: 900 Buried under Brush (5 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (6 Steps Left, 16 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------More non-human enemies are here, this time Octopi are added into the mix along with other Dragons and Phantom-race units. The difficulty in the Wildwood starts ramping up now as there can be as many as 9 enemies you'll have to fight here. Phorampa Wildwood / The Howling Hills [PW6] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv 7+: 800 Various "Rings" (Lv 15+ Enemy Equip) Lv15+: 900 Buried (7 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Left, 7 Forward) Buried under Tree (4 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (1 Step Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (5 Steps Right, 1 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This is an amazing stage in the Phorampa Wildwood that is well worth coming here in Chapter 2, because you can recruit a bunch of new classes that come with a several skills already learned and weapons you simply cannot buy when the Wildwood first opens up. Ninja, Swordmasters, Dragoons, and Terror Knights are all found here. Phorampa Wildwood / The Feral Shore [PW7] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv 9+: 800 Various "Rings" (Lv 15+ Enemy Equip) Lv15+: 900 Buried (1 Step Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (1 Step Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward)

Buried under Brush (4 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Last area in Chapter 2 and it throws you a major curve ball if you thought this arm of the route was mostly Beasts and Dragons. All the enemies here are Zombified, so make sure you have a Cleric or two on hand to exorcise them all. It is actually possible to recruit various Zombie versions of the classes here but they get no Exp or SP after the fight, even though they count in the divvying up of them. They can be useful if you want to completely stop the growth of your other characters to allow new classes to catch up to them though. Phorampa Wildwood / Gunagua Headwater [PW8] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv11+:1000 Spear Enchiridion (Lv 17+ Neutral Hawkman Rune Fencer) Lv17+:1100 Abuna's Mark (Rank 1 Steal from Cleric) Various "Rings" (Level 17 Enemy Equip) Buried (3 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Left, 2 Steps Back) Buried (10 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (12 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Witches and Warlocks appear here for you to recruit or get their marks. They're otherwise pretty hard to come by during the main story battles, so this is as good a place as any to get them. Take care when fighting on the river as it is quite wide and there are many islands to get stuck on. Better you bombard the enemy foolish enough to cross. Phorampa Wildwood / Whisper of Leaf and Water [PW9] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv11+:1000 Axe Enchiridion (Lv 17+ Female Beast Tamer) Lv17+:1100 Abuna's Mark (Rank 1 Steal from Cleric) Various "Rings" (Level 17 Enemy Equip) Buried (1 Step Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (7 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 16 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (3 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 12 Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------If you're looking for Cockatrices, this is the place to come, there's always at least one here when you fight. Human and Hawkman classes also show up here, but they are only lightly armed; mostly Archers, Clerics, and the odd Swordmaster.

You might recognize this map from before as that of The Feral Shore. That's because it's a copy of it, but you start from the other end of the map this time. Phorampa Wildwood / Lie Down in Green Pastures [PW10] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv11+:1200 1-H Katana Enchiridion (Lv 17+ Male Ninja) Lv17+:1300 Abuna's Mark (Rank 1 Steal from Cleric) Various "Rings" (Level 17 Enemy Equip) Buried (6 Steps Left, 1 Step Back) Buried under Tree (6 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (1 Step Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (4 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------All sorts of Human classes appear here, and there's a lot of them. Warlocks/Witches, Swordmasters, and Ninja are the highlights here. Be careful on this map, because the enemy formation is quite dense. There's a sizable forest separating you from them at the start, and only a medium sized gap where the two of you'll meet. It's best to let the enemy come to you so you can fight them in your area and have some room to move about when things get a bit dicey. Phorampa Wildwood / The Frostfen [PW11] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv11+:1200 2-H Katana Enchiridion (Lv 17+ F Swordmaster) Lv17+:1300 Various "Rings" (Level 17 Enemy Equip) Buried under Brush (4 Steps Right, 3 Steps Back) Buried under Tree (5 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (5 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 18 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------So the march through a light flurry leads you into a 10-on-18 fight. No doubt about it, this melee is going to be quite hard. Bring lots of healing items into this fight, you'll be using them like no tomorrow just to keep up. You need to focus on a few high damage dealers such as Warriors, Archers, and Terror Knights, and use their special skills to up their damage and give guaranteed hits. There's lots of enemies to kill and it's best you focus on them one-by-one. Send Knights into the thick of it and have them use Phalanx to soak up the damage, grant Light-Touched to your attackers and administer any healing in the midst of the fight. Phorampa Wildwood / Scenic Knoll Squad Limit: 10 [PW12] Objective: Vanquish All Enemies

_________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv15+:1200 Whip Enchiridion (Lv 20+ Hawkman Beast Tamer) Lv20+:1300 Buried under Brush (7 Steps Right, 1 Back) Buried (5 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (8 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (13 Steps Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A re-used map of the Howling Hills, only this time you start at the very bottom and have to work your way up. Make sure you bring a Dragoon here, as there are plenty of Dragons to be found here. If you're at Level 20 or above a Grim Reaper may appear here, if you have Steal at Rank 3, try stealing from him to get a very rare ring. It's currently unknown if this ring can be gotten anywhere else. Also of note is that there are two Hawkman Beast Tamers here, but only one carries the Enchiridion. The one that does is the one standing next to the Briars patch at the very top of the hill. Phorampa Wildwood / Heart of the Wildwood [PW13] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv15+:1400 Fist Enchiridion (Lv 20+ Neutral Male Warrior) Lv20+:1500 Buried (2 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (2 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Brush (2 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 17 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Similar to Phorampa's Doorstep and The Frostfens, but here you'll find many Familiars, Mages, and Golems accompanied by hordes of Phantoms. You absolutely must have a Cleric on hand to Exorcise the undead if you want to win here. Equip everyone with Baldur weapons so that you can have an easier time with the Phantoms. You're outnumbered 18-12, and half of those are undead. A Male Warrior sometimes appears here, kill him to get the Fist Enchiridion. Phorampa Wildwood / Land of the Supplicant [PW14] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv15+:1400 2-H Sword Enchiridion (Lv 20+ Walister Terror Knight) Lv20+:1500 Buried (2 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (12 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (11 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (11 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (16 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This fight is almost exactly like Field of the Fallen Shadow. Takes

place on the same map, has mostly the same enemies, but you start at the opposite end this time. Look for a Walister Skeleton Terror Knight when entering this map, you'll have a chance at obtaining the 2-H Sword Enchiridion if you exorcise it. Phorampa Wildwood / Wonder at the Gods Above [PW15] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv15+:1400 Bow Enchiridion (Lv 20+ Female Archer) Lv20+:1500 Buried under Tree (3 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (11 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (8 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (8 Steps Right, 16 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------And you're reward for getting to the last stage of the Phorampa Wildwood is a big hole in the ground. Well, not really, but there is a big hole in the middle of the battlefield that you have to fight around. Bring Clerics into this fight, because there's a large number of undead units you'll need to Exorcise in this battle. Archers will be a huge help here as the enemies will get held up if you approach them on the left and right sides of the map when they try to move forward. Have your Knights block the enemy's way and then use your Archers and other mid/back row fighters to pick off the enemies as they move forward into your wall. That's all there is to the Wildwood. No real fanfare for finishing all the stages, but you can come back to go through it as many times as you like. ===================================================================== 3.8 -- Optional Dungeon #2: The Pirate's Graveyard [OD2PG]

Availability: Initial Areas -- During Part 2 of Azelstan Sidequest Deeper Section -- Clear Ripples of Grief with Azelstan Map of The Pirate's Graveyard: -----------------------------====================== Initial Areas ======================= V [Cape of Spite -- PG01] V [Astride the Border -- PG02]-----------+ V [Crystal Halls -- PG03] V [Valley of Shadow and Light -- PG04] V

+--------[Ripples of Grief -- PG05]------------+ ======= ============== Deeper Section ================ ===== V V [Memories of Turquoise -- PG06] [Crumbling Garden -- PG07] V [Wonder's Hollow -- PG08] V [Bosom of the Sea Goddess -- PG09]<-------+ V +----------[Midline Rift -- PG10] V [Into the Darkness -- PG11] V [On Holy Ground -- PG12] Enemy Classes appearing in the Pirate's Graveyard (Can't Recruit): -----------------------------------------------------------------Class Name Race ----------------- --------------------Kraken Octopus Dagon Octopus Blood Gavial Lizardman Incubus Gremlin Banshee Faerie Wight Skeleton Wraith Ghost --------------------------------------Treasures of the Pirate's Graveyard: -----------------------------------Item Name --------------------Legguard Enchiridion BodyArmor Enchiridion Hammer Enchiridion Damasc Gear (Most) Phoenix Flamecoat Viraat's Thundercoat Whale Whiskercoat Falcon Mail Roodbow Damasc Crossbow Dragon Scale Wyrmscale Armor Location -----------------------[PG09] [PG10] [PG11] Target ---------------------Hoplite Blood Gavial Knight

Wyrmscale Sleeves

All Locations Non-Magic Users [PG01] Kraken (near) [PG01] Kraken (far) [PG04] Kraken [PG04] Cleric (Hawkman) [PG05] Lv26+ Hoplite (Drop) [PG05] Lv26 Hoplite [PG05], [PG07], [PG08], Lv26+ Hoplite, [PG09] Terror Knight, Lv27 Juggernaut [PG05], [PG06], [PG07], Lv26+ Hoplite, Rogue, [PG08], [PG09], Incubus, T. Knight Lv27 Juggernaut, Lv28 Blood Gavial [PG05], [PG09] Lv26 Hoplite,

Ji'ygla's Bracers Jamadhar Holy Crown Nathalork Rockcoat Musty Gauntlets Reeking Armor Francisca Glistening Helm Falcon Feathercoat Vikrant Icecoat Earthen Greaves Malitza's Staff Aganista Lightcoat Ji'ygla's Darkcoat

[PG05] [PG05], [PG09] [PG06] [PG08] [PG09] [PG09] [PG09] [PG10] [PG10] [PG11] [PG11] [PG12] [PG12] [PG12]

Lv27 Juggernaut Lv28 Blood Gavial Rogue (Gremlin; Drop) Rogue (Gremlin), Lv28 Blood Gavial Incubus Lv26+ Kraken Juggernaut (Drop) Blood Gavial (Drop) Lv27 Juggernaut, Juggernaut Lv26+ Kraken Lv26+ Kraken Baldur Golem Lich Lv28+ Dagon (Elev 5) Lv28+ Dagon (Elev 4)

Magesteel's Mark [PG05], [PG06], [PG11] Baldur Golem Recruit [PG05], [PG06], [PG12] Lich Recruit [PG03], [PG09] Flood Dragon --------------------------------------------------------------------Battles of the Pirate's Graveyard: ---------------------------------Pirate's Graveyard / Cape of Spite [PG01] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv22+: 700 Phoenix Flamecoat (Kraken Drop) Viraat's Thundercoat (Kraken Drop) Buried (1 Step Right) Buried (1 Step Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (5 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (12 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (14 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried under Wreck (12 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------You start high up on the cliffs above most of the enemies. Normally this'd be ideal, but since most of the enemies below are going to be Octopi or Krakens, your arrows will hardly make a dent. You'll need to either fly down and take them on in close quarters using a Dragoon or use indirect magic. Make sure you focus all attacks on one Octopus or Kraken before they get a turn, because they'll use Poison Rain past 50 TP which can spell a Game Over if they all do it around the same time. Pirate's Graveyard / Astride the Border [PG02] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish All Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv22+: 700 Buried (3 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward)

Buried (9 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) Buried under Crystal (5 Steps Left, 18 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Much easier than the previous area, mostly Lizardmen and occasionally and Octopus. Since there are mostly Reptiles in this dungeon, setting Coax and Herpetology should help you nab all the Damasc gear they're all wearing. Pirate's Graveyard / Crystal Halls [PG03] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv22+: 700 Buried (4 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried under Crystal (4 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (3 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Lots of Reptiles here, so Herpetology can help a bit. Virtually the same as when Azelstan was here, so get Canopus or other fliers onto those high ledges to make things easier. Pirate's Graveyard / Valley of Shadow and Light [PG04] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv22+: 700 Whale Whiskercoat (Kraken Drop) Falcon Mail (Cleric Drop) Buried under Crystal (3 Steps Left, 3 Steps Back) Buried (9 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried under Rock (11 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 1 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Bring plenty of flying and aquatic units into this fight, because you'll be hopping from island to island to fight the enemies here. Undead may be around, so bring along a Cleric to exorcise them just in case. If a Kraken appears here you may get a rare Water-elemental armor for killing it. Pirate's Graveyard / Ripples of Grief [PG05] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv22+: 700 Ji'ygla's Bracers (Unique -- Rogue Drop) Jamadhar (Lv 30 Rogue Equip) Damasc Mitts (Lv 30 Rogue Equip) Wyrmscale Armor (Lv 30 Rogue Equip)

Roodbow (Lv 26+ Hoplite Drop) Damasc Crossbow (Lv 26 Hoplite Equip) Dragon Scale (Lv 26 Hoplite Equip) Wyrmscale Armor (Lv 26 Hoplite Equip) Wyrmscale Sleeves (Lv 26 Hoplite) Magesteel's Mark (Baldur Golem Drop) Buried (4 Steps Left, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (8 Steps Left, 16 Steps Forward) Buried (19 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A Lich and Baldur Golem may appear here along lack any Baldur Golems or Liches, this is one dungeon that they can appear together for you always the case with the undead, equip Baldur Clerics or Catiua to exorcise them. with the undead. If you of two places in the to recruit. As is weapons and bring

Keep an eye for the high level Hoplite and Rogue that may spawn here. The Rogue can drop the unique Ji'ygla's Bracers, while the Hoplite can drop a Roodbow. Since they're equipped with some good equipment you can get some of it if you kill them, or all of it if they're recruited. Pirate's Graveyard / Memories of Turquoise [PG06] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv22+: 700 Wyrmscale Armor (Lv 25 Incubus Drop) Holy Crown (Lv 25 Incubus Drop) Buried (2 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Crystal (3 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (12 Steps Left, 2 Steps Back) Buried under Rock (8 Steps Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (11 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------More undead, Liches, and Baldur Golems here. You may start somewhat surrounded on three sides, so use MP restoring items on your exorcisers at the start and let your undead slayers get a head start. A Level 25 Incubus sometimes appears here for you to kill to obtain some of its equipment. Pirate's Graveyard / Crumbling Garden [PG07] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv22+: 700 Dragon Scale (Lv 29 Hoplite Equip) Wyrmscale Armor (Lv 29 Hoplite Equip) Buried (3 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried (7 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (4 Steps Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (17 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward)

-------------------------------------------------------------------A very hard fight against 16 opponents, most of them Reptiles with you backed into a corner. Setting Herpetology on everyone can help out a bit here. Be very careful traversing the central area of the map as there are pitfalls abound. Unless characters can fly they will lose a life. You should use an assortment of flying characters anyways to easily traverse some of the larger gaps between the pillars, and make use of ranged attacks and magic. You'll come across Blood Gavials here likely for the first time and though they are Reptiles, you cannot recruit them. One thing to look out for is a Level 29 Hoplite that sometimes appears here. He drops a Roodbow if you kill him but is usually outfitted with Level 25 gear that you can obtain by recruiting him. Pirate's Graveyard / Wonder's Hollow [PG08] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv22+: 700 Nathalork Rockcoat (Lv 26+ Kraken Drop) Dragon Scale (Terror Knight Drop) Wyrmscale Armor (Lv 25 Terror Knight Equip) Buried under Crystal (1 Step Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (4 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (14 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (13 Steps Left) -------------------------------------------------------------------Though the map is a copy of Crystal Halls, the fight is anything but. You start on the opposite side of those ledges, with Krakens and Dagons rushing to attack you from the outset. Those ledges are no longer an option so you will need one or two Dragoons here to deal with them. There's only a few undead here, but enough that you'll probably need to exorcise them to clear this stage, so having at least one Cleric on hand is required. Take note that a specific Kraken may spawn here, and it can drop a Nathalork Rockcoat when killed. It starts at Level 26 and appears in the middle of the map. Pirate's Graveyard / Bosom of the Sea Goddess [PG09] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv22+:1100 Legguard Enchiridion (Hoplite Drop) Musty Gauntlets (Unique -- Juggernaut Drop) Francisca (Lv 27 Juggernaut Equip) Dragon Scale (Lv 27 Juggernaut Equip) Wyrmscale Sleeves (Lv 27 Juggernaut Equip) Wyrmscale Armor (Lv 27 Juggernaut Equip)

Reeking Armor (Unique -- Blood Gavial Drop) Jamadhar (Lv 28 Blood Gavial Drop) Wyrmscale Sleeves (Lv 28 Blood Gavial Drop) Wyrmscale Armor (Lv 28 Blood Gavial Drop) Buried under Crystal (4 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 18 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Steps Left, 18 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------A valuable stage to fight in as there's a lot of good stuff to be had. There are three key enemies you need to look for when starting and they all start in roughly the same spot, which is the highest point of the stage overlooking your start position. The Hoplite that appears here will drop a Legguard Enchiridion, and both the Juggernaut and Blood Gavial can drop their excellent equipment on top of the Musty Gauntlets and Reeking Armor respectively. They can be rather a handful to kill all at once, but if you focus on one of them, and charm the others they shouldn't pose much of a threat. Most of the enemies here will be undead, but there will be a few Reptiles, Dragons, or Banshees (enemy-only Faeries) lurking about. All you need to do is kill those Lizardmen to grab their awesome loot and hold the spot where they started for your Archers and Monsters to attack from, while everybody else engages the enemies. Pirate's Graveyard / Midline Rift [PG10] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv22+: 700 Body Armor Enchiridion (Blood Gavial Drop) Glistening Helm (Unique -- Juggernaut Drop) Falcon Feathercoat (Lv 26+ Kraken Drop) Buried (9 Steps Left, 2 Steps Back) Buried (8 Steps Left, 1 Step Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (13 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Similar to that of the Valley of Shadow and Light, but this time you're starting from the opposite side of the map, rather than that nice raised island. The enemies down here are notably tougher, more Dagons and Krakens, as Banshees, Wraiths, and the odd Blood Gavial. The biggest of all these monsters are the Krakens and Dagons, so be sure to have a Dragoon deployed here in the event they appear so they can easily be dealt with. There are three enemies here that drop some special items. The Blood Gavial holds the Body Armor Enchiridion, while the Juggernaut drops the unique Glistening Helm, and a Level 26 Kraken will rarely drop a Falcon Feathercoat when killed. Pirate's Graveyard / Into the Darkness [PG11]

Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv22+:1100 Hammer Enchiridion (Knight Drop) Vikrant Icecoat (Lv 26+ Kraken Drop) Earthen Greaves (Baldur Golem Drop) Magesteel's Mark (Baldur Golem Drop) Buried (2 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (6 Steps Right) Buried under Crystal (12 Steps Right, 22 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (1 Step Right, 15 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Get ready for a long fight as this map is quite massive, and it's essentially a path through underground lake with enemies in the way. Some of the terrain absolutely requires fliers and aquatics to navigate the shortcuts here. You will definitely need a Cleric on hand to exorcise the undead, not just because they start right next to you, but also because a Skeleton Knight here will drop the valuable Hammer Enchiridion. A couple other enemies to look for when venturing into this area is a Level 26 Kraken that will drop a Vikrant Icecoat, and a Baldur Golem you'll need to kill for a pair of Earthen Greaves. You will need powerful magicians to take down those creatures quickly to obtain their loot. Pirate's Graveyard / On Holy Ground [PG12] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Lv22+:1100 Malitza's Staff (Lich Drop) Aganista Lightcoat (Lv 28+ Dagon Drop) Ji'ygla's Darkcoat (Unique -- Lv 28+ Dagon Drop) Pirate's Mark (Skeleton Archer Drop) Buried (1 Step Forward) Buried (7 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Left) Buried (15 Steps Left, 4 Steps Back) Buried (14 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Similar to the event battle before it, there are mostly Phantoms, Krakens, and Dagons here. This is also a rare place where a Lich may appear that you will both want to kill and recruit if possible on repeat visits here. You could recruit the Lich, then retreat and come back again for the kill or vice versa. You will definitely want a Dragoon or two to handle those aquatic creatures because up to 6 of them can spawn, and two is already a handful without a Dragoon. There can be up to three Dagons on this map, but only two of them are of any note as they're both at Level 28 and drop some fantastically rare equipment. The one that drops the Aganista Lightcoat starts at an elevation of 5, while the one that drops the unique Ji'ygla's Darkcoat starts at an elevation of 4.

That's the extent of the Pirate's Graveyard, even if you get everything here you may want come back here and go on a recruiting spree. The equipment everybody wears in here can sell for quite a lot of money, and in this game there's no such thing has having too much money to spend. There's always something you'll need the money for and never have enough. ===================================================================== 3.9 -- Optional Dungeon #3: Palace of the Dead [OD3PD]

===================================================================== 3.10 -- Optional Dungeon #4: Temple of Hahnela [OD4TH]

Availability: Speak with Mreuva in Coritanae Keep after fighting battles at all six Fortresses initiated by reading Talk Reports. Map of Ndamsa Fortress / Temple of Hahnela: ------------------------------------------================== Ndamsa Fortress ================= [Ndamsa Fortress -- TH01]<----+ <Start> V [Within the Fortress -- TH02] ================== Temple of Hahnela ================= V [1st Descent -- TH03] V [2nd Descent -- TH04] V [3rd Descent -- TH05] V [4th Descent -- TH06] V [Sanctum of Hahnela -- TH07] Treasures of the Temple of Hahnela: ----------------------------------Item Name --------------------Damasc Gear (Most) Muso Blade Walloon Sword Damasc Helm Damasc Crossbow Location -----------------------All Locations [TH03], [TH04] [TH03]-[TH06] [TH07] [TH07] Target ---------------------Lv 22+ Enemies Ninja/Kunoichi Knight Archer Archer

1H Sword Enchiridion The Fist The Crossbow

[TH06] [TH07] [TH07]

Knight Vainateya Vainateya

Grimoire Onde [TH07] Vainateya Grimoire Onde II [TH07] Lv 35+ Vainateya --------------------------------------------------------------------Battles of Ndamsa Fortress / Temple of Hahnela: ----------------------------------------------Dungeon traits: All enemies start at Level 22 (lots of Damasc Gear) Most enemies are Humanoid (Set Anatomy for everyone) Common Monsters are Gryphons (Deploy Dragoons) Air magic is used often Prepare for Sleep, Stun, Petrify, and Bind statuses. Ndamsa Fortress [TH01] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 900 Races: Human, Hawkman, Gryphon Class: Archer, Rune Fencer, Rogue, Beast Tamer, Wizard, Gryphon -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Buried (1 Step Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (5 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Two enemies may spawn right beside the party at the start, so take them out first before turning to face the rest. The battlefield is small, so take the fight to the enemies, eliminating any Archers and Gryphons first. Ndamsa Fortress / Within the Fortress [TH02] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 500 Races: Human, Hawkman, Gryphon, Hippogryph* Class: Cleric, Archer, Rune Fencer, Berserker, Gryphon, Hippogryph -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Buried under Crate (1 Step Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (4 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (15 Steps Forward) Buried (17 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (1 Step Right, 21 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Hippogryphs can't be recruited. An unusual map for being so narrow. You do have the high ground though, so fight your way through using Archers and assorted melee fighters. Just keep the enemy on the lower reaches of the map.

Temple of Hahnela / 1st Descent [TH03] Squad Limit: 7 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 600 Races: Human, Hawkman, Gryphon, Hippogryph* Class: Cleric, Archer, Rune Fencer, Berserker, Gryphon, Hippogryph, Knight, Wizard, Warlock, Ninja, Kunoichi, Beast Tamer -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Muso Blade (Ninja/Kunoichi Equip) Walloon Sword (Knight Equip) Buried under Bush (1 Step Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried under Bush (9 Steps Left) Buried (7 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (5 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Hippogryphs can't be recruited. The blowing grass and bushes are a nice touch here, and like the breeze so is the battle. The map is small so the enemies will be in your face from the get-go. The Kunoichi and Beast Tamers are the biggest annoyance if they show up. The Kunoichi can Bind anyone with 100% success without using Concentration, while the Beast Tamers are petrify you with normal attacks thanks to their blowguns. Have healing items stocked to deal with them or you'll lose badly. Temple of Hahnela / 2nd Descent [TH04] Squad Limit: 7 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 600 Races: Human, Hawkman, Hippogryph*, Night Crow* Class: Cleric, Archer, Night Crow, Berserker, Gryphon, Hippogryph, Rogue, Warrior, Warlock, Ninja, Kunoichi, Beast Tamer -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Muso Blade (Ninja/Kunoichi Equip) Walloon Sword (Knight Equip) Buried under Bush (3 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (11 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Hippogryphs and Night Crows can't be recruited. Another easy battle you can blow though. Like before your biggest threat is the Ninja or Kunoichi, who can bind your characters with ease. Take them out first followed by any Hippogryphs and then the Archers. Night Crows make their debut here, though they're just enemy-only versions of Hawkmen who are only slightly stronger Vartans. Temple of Hahnela / 3rd Descent [TH05]

Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 700 Races: Human, Hawkman, Dragon, Hippogryph*, Night Crow* Class: Cleric, Archer, Night Crow, Cloud Dragon, Hippogryph, Knight, Wizard/Enchantress, Beast Tamer -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Walloon Sword (Knight Equip) Buried (10 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried under Bush (5 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Hippogryphs and Night Crows can't be recruited. A fairly difficult fight if you don't have a Dragoon handy to deal with a lot of Hippogryphs and Cloud Dragons that make this place their nest. Try not to get caught in the trough between the paths. Slow moving mages will have to turn back to get out. Temple of Hahnela / 4th Descent [TH06] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 900 Races: Human, Hawkman, Dragon, Hippogryph*, Night Crow* Class: Cleric, Archer, Night Crow, Cloud Dragon, Hippogryph, Knight, Wizard, Warrior, Beast Tamer -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Sword Enchiridion (Knight Drop) Walloon Sword (Knight Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Hippogryphs and Night Crows can't be recruited. Into the Temple proper now. There's little change in the enemies from the previous fight, but you're fighting in a narrow hallway. Push forward and up the stairs with your melee characters while you have Crossbowmen, Fusiliers, and magic users for ranged support. Places like this are a perfect reason Fusiliers should always have their Course Correction ability set to shoot past your characters and obstructions. Be sure that a Knight makes an appearance here (retreat from the battle and return if it doesn't), as killing it will net you the 1H Sword Enchiridion. Temple of Hahnela / Sanctum of Hahnela [TH07] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish the Temple Guardian _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv23+:1200 Races: Hawkman, Gryphon, Guardian Class: Cleric, Archer, Wizard, Rune Fencer, Gryphon, Vainateya

-----------------------Special Loot---------------------The Crossbow (Vainateya Drop) The Fist (Vainateya Drop) Grimoire Onde (Vainateya Drop) Grimoire Onde II (Lv 35+ Vainateya Drop) Damasc Crossbow (Archer Equip) Damasc Helm (Archer Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------This underground aerie is home to Vainateya, the guardian of this shrine. You only have to defeat it to win and it's a shockingly simple task due to the fact the guardian is bizarrely weak against physical attacks; they deal double damage to it! If that wasn't enough it's also considered a beast. Therefore the Beastslayer skill can end this fight in short order. Though you'll probably defeat the guardian before having enough TP to use it. Before you do that, one of the Archers here has a Damasc Crossbow and a Damasc Helm equipped. Recruit him to get these items if you're in short supply, as he's the only one in the Shrine to have either of these armaments. Truth be told it's more trouble than it's worth with a paper tiger ... er bird, at your doorstep. On to the next Shrine. ===================================================================== 3.11 -- Optional Dungeon #5: Temple of Vaasa [OD5TV]

Availability: Speak with Mreuva in Coritanae Keep after fighting battles at all six Fortresses initiated by reading Talk Reports. Map of Gecho Fortress / Temple of Vaasa: ---------------------------------------================== Gecho Fortress ================= [Gecho Fortress -- TV01]<----+ <Start> V [Within the Fortress -- TV02] ================== Temple of Vaasa ================= V [1st Descent -- TV03] V [2nd Descent -- TV04] V [3rd Descent -- TV05] V [4th Descent -- TV06] V

[Sanctum of Vaasa-- TV07] Treasures of the Temple of Vaasa: --------------------------------Item Name --------------------Damasc Gear (Most) Desert Blade Damasc Hammer Walloon Sword Dagger Enchiridion The Bow The Crossbow Location -----------------------All Locations [TV02], [TV04], [TV05], [TV06], [TV07] [TV05], [TV07] [TV06] [TV05] [TV07] [TV07] Target ---------------------Lv 22+ Enemies Terror Knight, Wight, Dragoon Terror Knight, Wight Knight Rogue (Female) Nathalork Nathalork

Grimoire Seisme [TV07] Nathalork Grimoire Seisme II [TV07] Lv 35+ Nathalork --------------------------------------------------------------------Battles of Gecho Fortress / Temple of Vaasa: -------------------------------------------Dungeon traits: All enemies start at Level 22 (lots of Damasc Gear) Most enemies are Undead (Bring Baldur Weapons/Cleric) Common monsters are Golems (Deploy Witches/Warlocks) Earth and Dark magic is used often. Prepare for Slow, and Petrify statuses. Gecho Fortress [TV01] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 900 Races: Human, Skeleton, Ghost, Golem Class: Archer, Rune Fencer, Rogue, Warrior, Wizard, Knight, Warlock, Berserker, Kunoichi, Clay Golem -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Buried (6 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried (8 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (1 Step Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (5 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (5 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Some of the undead start off Stilled, so try to exorcise them before they revive. One of the Archers starts in a good position with a Siege Bow equipped, he should be a priority target, so send a flier or two to take him out. The rest of the battle should be pretty straightforward. Gecho Fortress / Within the Fortress [TV02] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 500 Races: Human, Skeleton, Ghost, Golem Class: Archer, Terror Knight, Witch, Ninja, Wizard,

Warlock, Valkyrie, Clay Golem -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Desert Blade (Terror Knight Equip) Buried under Crate (11 Steps Right, 1 Steps Back) Buried (11 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Step Right, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (2 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Most of the enemies here will be Skeleton Archers, so tread carefully The uneven ground here makes it particularly treacherous for mages, since they may find themselves trapped in a hole that they can't get out of. Keep your Clerics out of the holes and trenches to avoid them becoming completely useless here. Temple of Vaasa / 1st Descent [TV03] Squad Limit: 7 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 600 Races: Human, Zombie Human, Skeleton, Ghost, Golem Class: Archer, Terror Knight, Berserker, Necromancer, Wizard, Warlock/Witch, Enchantress, Stone Golem -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Salted Lobe (Necromancer Drop) Buried (8 Steps Left, 1 Steps Back) Buried (2 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (9 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------The road down to the shrine is teeming with undead from here on out. Usually the only living thing down here is a lone Necromancer that sometimes makes an appearance, making these descents the easiest place to find this rare class. You start this battle surrounded, and at the bottom of a ruined viaduct. Characters will have to find their own up the cliff to get to the road, Flying characters will have the easiest time here. Temple of Vaasa / 2nd Descent [TV04] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 700 Races: Human, Zombie Human, Skeleton, Ghost, Golem, Wight* Class: Archer, Terror Knight, Warrior, Necromancer, Warlock/Witch, Wizard/Enchantress, Wight, Stone Golem, Iron Golem -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Dried Eyestem (Necromancer Drop) Bloodied Ventricle (Necromancer Drop) Desert Blade (Terror Knight Equip) Desert Blade (Wight Drop) Buried (2 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward)

Buried (7 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (11 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried under Rock (2 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (9 Steps Right, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Wights cannot be recruited The stench of the Earth's Breath grows stronger here as Wights start making an appearance in this diagonally oriented map. You have to fight your way up the stairs, and thankfully it's a very simple route to take if you divide up your squad into two equal groups. Temple of Vaasa / 3rd Descent [TV05] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 700 Races: Human, Zombie Human, Skeleton, Ghost, Golem, Wight*, Dragon Class: Archer, Rogue, Dragoon, Necromancer, Warlock, Beast Tamer, Wight, Stone Golem, Iron Golem, Earth Dragon -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Dagger Enchiridion (Female Rogue Drop) Damasc Hammer (Wight Drop) Desert Blade (Dragoon Equip) Buried (5 Steps Right, 1 Step Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (5 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 18 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Wights cannot be recruited This stage is actually valuable for few reasons. First and most importantly is that a Female Rogue here drops the Dagger Enchiridion when she's exorcised; keep retreating from the battle until she appears. Secondly, one of the Wights might have a Damasc Hammer equipped which not many enemies wield; you'll have to exorcise it to have a chance of obtaining it. Lastly this is likely the first appearance of a generic female Necromancer in the game that you can recruit. The battle itself is rather unremarkable as it virtually dead flat and a few undead enemies that start the battle stilled are close by. Temple of Vaasa / 4th Descent [TV06] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 900 Races: Human, Zombie Human, Skeleton, Ghost, Golem, Wight*, Dragon Class: Archer, Knight, Dragoon, Necromancer, Warlock, Beast Tamer, Witch, Wight, Stone Golem, Iron Golem, Earth Dragon

-----------------------Special Loot---------------------Walloon Sword (Knight Equip) Desert Blade (Dragoon Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Wights cannot be recruited Almost to the chamber, be careful not to fall of the narrow ledges here. There tends to be a lot of Archers here, and you're in a lot of a trouble if they start readying Tremendous Shots to knock you off them. The best way is to go around the outsides, as this makes it virtually impossible to be knocked off. Temple of Vaasa / Sanctum of Vaasa [TV07] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish the Temple Guardian _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv23+:1200 Races: Skeleton, Ghost, Golem, Guardian Class: Archer, Terror Knight, Warlock, Enchantress, Iron Golem, Nathalork -----------------------Special Loot---------------------The Bow (Nathalork Drop) Armorcraft (Nathalork Drop) Grimoire Seisme (Nathalork Drop) Grimoire Seisme II (Lv 35+ Nathalork Drop) Damasc Hammer (Terror Knight Equip) Desert Blade (Terror Knight Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------You'll face the oft-mentioned but rarely seen Nathalork here in this underground mausoleum of sorts, and it's best you leave him until last because he is a god among tanks. He's at Level 25 and hardly anything will make a dent, as magic and physical attacks are virtually useless against him. About the only thing that will are TP attacks and surprisingly Poison. Focus on taking down the Iron Golems first, and then start wiping out his small army of phantoms. This is one of the hardest Guardian battles but you'll be rewarded with two crafting books and of course the Earth Apocrypha. The next shrine awaits. ===================================================================== 3.12 -- Optional Dungeon #6: Temple of Nestharot [OD6TN]

Availability: Speak with Mreuva in Coritanae Keep after fighting battles at all six Fortresses initiated by reading Talk Reports. Map of Qadriga Fortress / Temple of Nestharot: ---------------------------------------------================= Qadriga Fortress ================ [Qadriga Fortress -- TN01]<----+ <Start>

V [Within the Fortress -- TN02] ================ Temple of Nestharot =============== V [1st Descent -- TN03] V [2nd Descent -- TN04] V [3rd Descent -- TN05] V [4th Descent -- TN06] V [Sanctum of Nestharot -- TN07] Treasures of the Temple of Nestharot: ------------------------------------Item Name --------------------Damasc Gear (Most) Desert Blade Muso Blade Biblion Sacri Biblion Herpetou Helm Halver Commander's Gun Damasc Helm Helm Enchiridion The Blade Cudgel & Whip Location -----------------------All Locations [TN01] [TN01]-[TN06] [TN01], [TN06], [TN07] [TN01], [TN04], [TN07] [TN02]-[TN06] [TN03]-[TN05] [TN07] [TN06] [TN07] [TN07] Target ---------------------Lv 22+ Enemies Dragoon Kunoichi Familiar, Banshee Familiar, Banshee Swordmaster Fusilier Rogue Cleric Xolotl Xolotl

Grimoire Eclat [TN07] Xolotl Grimoire Eclat II [TN07] Lv35+ Xolotl --------------------------------------------------------------------Battles of Qadriga Fortress / Temple of Nestharot: -------------------------------------------------Dungeon traits: All enemies start at Level 22 (lots of Damasc Gear) Most enemies are Faeries, Gremlins, and Humans Common monsters are Cockatrices (Deploy Dragoons) Lightning magic is used often. Prepare for Stun, Charm, Bewitch, and Shackle effects Qadriga Fortress [TN01] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 900 Races: Human, Faerie, Gremlin, Cockatrice Class: Cleric, Enchantress, Dragoon, Rogue, Familiar, Archer, Kunoichi, Cockatrice -----------------------Special Loot----------------------

Biblion Sacri (Familiar Equip) Biblion Herpetou (Familiar Equip) Desert Blade (Dragoon Equip) Muso Blade (Kunoichi Equip) Buried (1 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------An easy battle due to the fact you're so familiar with this location. None of the enemies are particularly threatening, save for the odd use of Coquettish Kiss or, even worse, Virtuous Dance from the Familiars. This will be a common situation all through the dungeon. Qadriga Fortress / Within the Fortress [TN02] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 500 Races: Human, Faerie, Gremlin, Cockatrice Class: Cleric, Enchantress, Berserker, Rogue, Familiar, Swordmaster, Kunoichi, Cockatrice -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Helm Halver (Swordmaster Equip) Muso Blade (Kunoichi Equip) Buried under Crate (1 Steps Right, 2 Steps Forward) Buried (10 Steps Left, 2 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (6 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (11 Steps Left, 12 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 16 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle will go like the clappers. The enemies are all various distances away and in small numbers. They'll come at you one after the other from near, middle, and far distances away. You really only face 2 or 3 enemies at a time. If a Swordsman appears, try recruiting her for that Helm Halver Katana. Temple of Nestharot / 1st Descent [TN03] Squad Limit: 7 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 700 Races: Human, Faerie, Gremlin, Cockatrice, Basilisk* Class: Cleric, Archer, Fusilier, Rogue, Familiar, Swordmaster, Kunoichi, Cockatrice, Basilisk -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Helm Halver (Swordmaster Equip) Muso Blade (Kunoichi Equip) Commander's Gun (Fusilier Equip) Buried under Stone (11 Steps Left) Buried under Tree (3 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried (8 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (9 Steps Left, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Step Right, 11 Steps Forward)

-------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Basilisks cannot be recruited The layout for this stage is not pretty, unless you have a Ninja or a Flier, you're going to be stuck fighting in those trenches. Have a couple characters block off those trenches at the start, to prevent the enemies coming through so that your main force has the time it needs to move onto that main pathway. Whatever you do, don't jump back down. This will likely be your first fight with a Basilisk, they'll occasionally use their Evil Eye skill to petrify everyone who's facing them that is not wearing a shield. Keep this in mind when one is approaching 50 TP. Temple of Nestharot / 2nd Descent [TN04] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 700 Races: Human, Faerie, Gremlin, Banshee*, Incubus*, Basilisk* Class: Cleric, Fusilier, Rogue, Familiar, Banshee, Swordmaster, Kunoichi, Basilisk, Incubus -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Biblion Herpetou (Banshee Drop) Helm Halver (Swordmaster Equip) Muso Blade (Kunoichi Equip) Commander's Gun (Fusilier Equip) Buried (8 Steps Left, 1 Step Back) Buried under Rock (3 Steps Right, 1 Step Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Basilisks, Incubi, and Banshees cannot be recruited You've got little choice but to fight your way up this three-tiered cordon, and there's only two paths up, one for magic users, and another for everybody else. Of course flying characters can just ignore all that. Keep an eye out for that Fusilier, if it appears it'll be at the very top and snipe at your characters with ease. You'll want a crossbowman or a Fusilier to take her out fast. Temple of Nestharot / 3rd Descent [TN05] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 700 Races: Human, Faerie, Gremlin, Dragon, Incubus*, Basilisk* Class: Cleric, Fusilier, Rogue, Beast Tamer, Archer, Dragoon, Swordmaster, Kunoichi, Berserker, Necromancer, Enchantress, Thunder Dragon, Basilisk, Incubus -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Helm Halver (Swordmaster Equip) Muso Blade (Kunoichi Equip) Commander's Gun (Fusilier Equip)

-------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Basilisks, and Incubi cannot be recruited An unusual stage for a Temple Dungeon, as there's a huge variety of classes here. Not the least of which is the bizarre appearance of the only Necromancer in this temple. You start essentially in the middle of the map, so send a small group "backwards" to face the enemies behind you if any appear there and forge a path forward with your main attack force. Temple of Nestharot / 4th Descent [TN06] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 900 Races: Human, Faerie, Gremlin, Dragon, Incubus*, Basilisk*, Banshee* Class: Cleric, Witch, Rogue, Familiar, Kunoichi, Swordmaster, Thunder Dragon, Basilisk, Incubus, Banshee -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Helm Enchiridion (Cleric Drop) Biblion Sacri (Banshee Drop) Helm Halver (Swordmaster Equip) Muso Blade (Kunoichi Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Basilisks, Incubi, and Banshees cannot be recruited Be careful where you walk here as there are several narrow paths you can take to reach the main walkway at the other end where it is very easy for an enemy to knock a character into the pits below. A Dragoon is essential here as there's the possibility of three Thunder Dragons appearing that will block those three paths. Finally, there's a Cleric here you'll definitely want to appear so that you can kill her for the Helm Enchiridion she holds. Temple of Nestharot / Sanctum of Nestharot [TN07] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish the Temple Guardian _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv23+:1200 Races: Faerie, Gremlin, Hydra, Guardian Class: Rogue, Familiar, Hydra, Xolotl -----------------------Special Loot---------------------The Blade (Xolotl Drop) Cudgel and Whip (Xolotl Drop) Grimoire Eclat (Xolotl Drop) Grimoire Eclat II (Lv 35+ Xolotl Drop) Damasc Helm (Rogue Equip) Biblion Sacri (Familiar Equip) Biblion Herpetou (Familiar Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------This battle will be a piece of cake if you have a Dragoon in your Ranks, since Xolotl is considered a Dragon. Take out those Familiars

first, lest they Bewitch you with their Virtuous Dance. This can easily be done by sitting around the raised entrance of this abode and loosing arrows and boulders at them. This battle is also the best place to recruit the three Hydras that are necessary for the Deneb sidequest. They are very hard to find outside of event battles, and having three right here in one battle couldn't be better. That's another temple done. ===================================================================== 3.13 -- Optional Dungeon #7: Temple of Greuza [OD7TG]

Availability: Speak with Mreuva in Coritanae Keep after fighting battles at all six Fortresses initiated by reading Talk Reports. Map of Geyld Fortress / Temple of Greuza: ----------------------------------------=================== Geyld Fortress ================== [Geyld Fortress -- TG01]<----+ <Start> V [Within the Fortress -- TG02] ================== Temple of Greuza ================= V [1st Descent -- TG03] V [2nd Descent -- TG04] V [3rd Descent -- TG05] V [4th Descent -- TG06] V [Sanctum of Greuza -- TG07] Treasures of the Temple of Greuza: ---------------------------------Item Name --------------------Damasc Gear (Most) Walloon Sword Desert Blade Damasc Helm Shield Enchiridion Axe, Spear & Hammer Location -----------------------All Locations [TG01], [TG06] [TG01], [TG03]-[TG06] [TG07] [TG06] [TG07] Target ---------------------Lv 22+ Enemies Hoplite Warrior, Juggernaut Juggernaut Hoplite (1H Sword) Tlaloc

The Katana

[TG07]

Tlaloc

Grimoire Vaporisateur [TG07] Tlaloc Grimoire [TG07] Lv35+ Tlaloc Vaporisateur II --------------------------------------------------------------------Battles of Geyld Fortress / Temple of Greuza: --------------------------------------------Dungeon traits: All enemies start at Level 22 (lots of Damasc Gear) Most enemies are Humans and Lizardmen Common monsters are Octopi (Deploy Dragoons) Water magic is used often. Prepare for Poison and Hobble Statuses Geyld Fortress [TG01] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 900 Races: Human, Lizardmen, Octopus Class: Cleric, Archer, Warrior, Berserker, Rogue, Hoplite, Patriarch, Octopus -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Walloon Sword (Hoplite Equip) Desert Blade (Warrior Equip) Buried (7 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried (2 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (3 Steps Right, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Virtually the same as when you were first here. Divide up your troops into two groups and storm the fortress from two different paths. There's no undead here, nor is Anaberg here to summon more enemies, so it will be an easier fight. The Berserker and Hoplite sometimes have equipment on that make them prime recruiting targets. Geyld Fortress / Within the Fortress [TG02] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 500 Races: Human, Lizardmen, Octopus Class: Cleric, Archer, Valkyrie, Berserker, Rogue, Hoplite, Patriarch, Witch/Warlock, Octopus -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Buried under Crate (2 Steps Right, 2 Steps Back) Buried (7 Steps Left, 3 Steps Back) Buried (2 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 14 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (5 Steps Left, 9 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Step Left, 15 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------An easy fight against a small number of enemies. Divide up your small group of characters to stop the enemy from climbing up the either

side of the stairs, regrouping only when they move towards the center of the map. You also have a height advantage so Archers can offer some long rang harassment as well. Temple of Greuza / 1st Descent [TG03] Squad Limit: 7 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 600 Races: Human, Lizardmen, Lamia, Octopus, Kraken* Class: Cleric, Rune Fencer/Valkyrie, Berserker, Witch, Warlock, Hoplite, Matriarch, Juggernaut, Octopus, Kraken -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Desert Blade (Juggernaut Equip) Buried (3 Steps Right, 1 Step Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 9 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Krakens cannot be recruited. An underground stream divides this small map in two. Though there are many crossing points, you should stay on your side until you've defeated at least half the enemies and there are no more Octopi and Krakens swimming about. Let the enemies come to you so that you have the terrain advantage and take them out as the come over to your before going over to theirs. Temple of Greuza / 2nd Descent [TG04] Squad Limit: 7 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 600 Races: Human, Lizardmen, Blood Gavial*, Kraken* Class: Cleric, Rune Fencer, Archer, Berserker, Warrior Hoplite, Patriarch, Juggernaut, Terror Knight, Blood Gavial, Kraken -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Desert Blade (Juggernaut Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Blood Gavials and Krakens cannot be recruited. You start this battle caught in a pincer attack, but it's surprisingly easy to fight your way out of because most of the enemies aren't that aggressive. Have a couple fliers or ranged attackers fight their way up the stairs to gain an advantage over the enemies below. Your other characters should hold the area near where they started and prevent any other enemies reaching your ranged attackers. Temple of Greuza / 3rd Descent [TG05] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances--------------------

Lv22+: 700 Races: Human, Lizardmen, Dragon, Blood Gavial*, Kraken*, Dagon* Class: Cleric, Rune Fencer/Valkyrie, Archer, Berserker, Hoplite, Patriarch, Flood Dragon, Blood Gavial, Kraken, Dagon -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Desert Blade (Juggernaut Equip) Buried under Rock (6 Steps Left, 1 Step Back) Buried (9 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (8 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (6 Steps Right) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Blood Gavials, Krakens, and Dagons cannot be recruited. The battle looks difficult because of the terrain, but it's actually very easy if you withhold using close-quarter attackers. Spear and Whip users will be the best complement to your ranged attackers and fliers. Magic will help take down those Krakens and Dagons quickly. Temple of Greuza / 4th Descent [TG06] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 900 Races: Human, Lizardmen, Dragon, Blood Gavial*, Dagon* Class: Cleric, Rune Fencer/Valkyrie, Berserker, Hoplite, Juggernaut, Flood Dragon, Blood Gavial, Dagon -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Desert Blade (Juggernaut Equip) Walloon Sword (Hoplite Equip) Shield Enchiridion (Hoplite Drop) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Blood Gavials, and Dagons cannot be recruited. A stage almost attackers. You their way up a easily be able too good to be true for your Archers and other ranged start on the high ground, while the enemy has to weave long path with pitfalls separating them. You should to defeat each enemy as they approach your position.

One of two Hoplites that spawn here will drop the Shield Enchiridion, the one that does is usually equipped with a one-handed sword. Temple of Greuza / Sanctum of Greuza [TG07] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish the Temple Guardian _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv23+:1200 Races: Lizardman, Octopus, Guardian Class: Juggernaut, Patriarch, Berserker, Octopus, Tlaloc -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Axe, Spear & Hammer (Tlaloc Drop) The Katana (Tlaloc Drop) Grimoire Vaporisateur (Tlaloc Drop) Grimoire Vaporisateur II (Lv 35+ Tlaloc Drop) Damasc Helm (Juggernaut Equip) --------------------------------------------------------------------

Tlaloc takes the form of an Octopus in this sanctuary, as such he is susceptible to the Beastslayer skill for an easy victory. Attack the other enemies, especially the Patriarchs to quickly build up TP for attacking Tlaloc. The other enemies can generally be ignored. The Juggernauts might have a Damasc Helm or two equipped, so try to recruit them as well for some extra equipment. That's that Temple cleared. ===================================================================== 3.14 -- Optional Dungeon #8: Temple of Xoshonell [OD8TX]

Availability: Speak with Mreuva in Coritanae Keep after fighting battles at all six Fortresses initiated by reading Talk Reports. Map of Boed Fortress / Temple of Xoshonell: ------------------------------------------=================== Boed Fortress ================== [Boed Fortress -- TX01]<-----+ <Start> V [Within the Fortress -- TX02] ================ Temple of Xoshonell ================ V [1st Descent -- TX03] V [2nd Descent -- TX04] V [3rd Descent -- TX05] V [4th Descent -- TX06] V [Sanctum of Xoshonell -- TX07] Treasures of the Temple of Xoshonell: ------------------------------------Item Name --------------------Damasc Gear (Most) Walloon Sword Commander's Gun Desert Blade Muso Blade Biblion Sacri Damasc Helm Location -----------------------All Locations [TX01]-[TX06] [TX01], [TX03]-[TX06] [TX01], [TX02], [TX03], [TX07] [TX03], [TX04] [TX03], [TX04], [TX06] [TX07] Target ---------------------Lv22+ Enemies Hoplite, Knight, Uruk Fusilier Warrior, Dragoon, Terror Knight Ninja Warlock Archer

Ice Blade Fusil Enchiridion The Fist Armorcraft Shieldcraft Codex of Jewelry

[TX07] [TX06] [TX07] [TX07] [TX07] [TX07]

Hoplite Fusilier Ifrit Ifrit Lv35+ Ifrit Lv35+ Ifrit

Grimoire Calcination [TX07] Ifrit Grimoire [TX07] Lv35+ Ifrit Calcination II --------------------------------------------------------------------Battles of Boed Fortress / Temple of Xoshonell: ----------------------------------------------Dungeon traits: All enemies start at Level 22 (lots of Damasc Gear) Most enemies are Humans and Orcs (Set Daemonology) Common monsters are Cyclopes (Deploy Dragoons) Fire magic is used often. Prepare for Envenomed Status Effect Boed Fortress [TX01] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 900 Races: Human, Orc, Cyclops Class: Archer, Warrior, Fusilier, Rune Fencer, Dragoon, Knight, Hoplite, Patriarch, Cyclops -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Walloon Sword (Hoplite/Knight Equip) Commander's Gun (Fusilier Equip) Desert Blade (Warrior/Dragoon Equip) Buried (5 Steps Left, 1 Step Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (8 Steps Left, 13 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Bring a few flying characters into this fight, in case a few Archers appear. Those Archers appear on top of the fort and will be very hard to reach otherwise due to the topography of the map, and the fact a lot of enemies will swarm you at the start, preventing you from reaching those Archers while they pummel you relentlessly. Boed Fortress / Within the Fortress [TX02] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 500 Races: Human, Orc, Cyclops Class: Archer, Berserker, Terror Knight, Rune Fencer, Knight, Patriarch, Cyclops -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Walloon Sword (Knight Equip) Desert Blade (Terror Knight Equip) Buried under Barrel (4 Steps Back) Buried (4 Steps Left, 2 Steps Back) Buried (3 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward)

Buried (2 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Right, 16 Steps Forward) Buried under Crate (1 Step Right, 21 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------Surprisingly, this map, and the one inside Ndamsa Fortress are copies of one another. However this time, you're at the opposite end and will likely have to fight through Archers perched on the higher section. Melee fighters and indirect magic is the way to go here, given the incredibly narrow passage you're fighting makes using missile attacks tricky and inadvisable. Temple of Xoshonell / 1st Descent [TX03] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 700 Races: Human, Orc, Cyclops, Spriggan* Class: Archer, Fusilier, Terror Knight, Rune Fencer, Rogue, Knight, Ninja, Warlock, Patriarch, Cyclops Juggernaut, Spriggan -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Walloon Sword (Knight Equip) Desert Blade (Terror Knight Equip) Muso Blade (Ninja Equip) Biblion Sacri (Warlock Equip) Commander's Gun (Fusilier Equip) Buried under Rock (10 Steps Left, 2 Steps Back) Buried (6 Steps Left, 4 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Spriggans cannot be recruited You will have to fight around a pit of Lava here, and having a Flame Dragon will help a bit as they can move over it and gain a bonus by attacking and being attacked on it. Divide the rest of your troops up to get them around the pool and attack. Be sure to recruit any Ninja that appear as they sometimes hold Muso Blades. Temple of Xoshonell / 2nd Descent [TX04] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 700 Races: Human, Orc, Cyclops, Spriggan*, Titan* Class: Archer, Fusilier, Terror Knight, Rune Fencer, Rogue, Knight, Ninja, Warlock, Patriarch, Cyclops Warrior, Juggernaut, Spriggan, Titan -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Walloon Sword (Knight Equip) Muso Blade (Ninja Equip) Biblion Sacri (Warlock Equip) Commander's Gun (Fusilier Equip) Buried (7 Steps Right, 9 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (5 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 17 Steps Forward) Buried (1 Step Left, 18 Steps Forward) --------------------------------------------------------------------

*Note: Spriggans and Titans cannot be recruited Similar to the previous map, you will need to divide up your force into two equal groups to fight through the two narrow paths leading away from your starting position. Each group should have a melee attacker to block enemy advancement, a bow user and magic attacker to inflict heavy damage, and a healer to keep the group moving forward. Temple of Xoshonell / 3rd Descent [TX05] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 700 Races: Human, Orc, Dragon, Spriggan*, Uruk* Class: Archer, Fusilier, Terror Knight, Rune Fencer, Cleric, Knight, Flame Dragon, Patriarch, Berserker, Spriggan, Uruk -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Walloon Sword (Knight Equip) Walloon Sword (Uruk Drop) Commander's Gun (Fusilier Equip) Buried (7 Steps Right, 3 Steps Forward) Buried (2 Steps Right, 10 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (4 Steps Right, 13 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Right, 16 Steps Forward) Buried (15 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Spriggans and Uruks cannot be recruited Although there are two paths present here, it is better to hold your ground and let the enemy come to you and attack them as they approach, because the paths are too long to afford splitting up and will weaken your position. There's a lot of a Lava here so having a Flame Dragon or two on your side can benefit you immensely. Archers and Fusiliers may be present here to make things difficult, but if you send in a Ninja and use Steelstance after every attack, you can take them down with ease. Temple of Xoshonell / 4th Descent [TX06] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 900 Races: Human, Orc, Dragon, Titan*, Uruk* Class: Archer, Fusilier, Beast Tamer, Rune Fencer, Cleric, Warrior, Knight, Flame Dragon, Patriarch, Warlock, Berserker, Titan, Uruk -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Fusil Enchiridion (Fusilier Drop) Walloon Sword (Knight Equip) Walloon Sword (Uruk Drop) Biblion Sacri (Warlock Equip) Commander's Gun (Fusilier Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Spriggans and Uruks cannot be recruited Not an especially difficult fight, despite the possibility of being attacked from three sides. The enemies are so far apart that you

should be able to defeat one or two at a time with your whole squad before the next few get close to you. Take note that a Fusilier can appear here and may drop the valuable Fusil Enchiridion when you kill him. Temple of Xoshonell / Sanctum of Xoshonell [TX07] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish the Guardian _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv23+:1200 Races: Orc, Cyclops, Guardian Class: Archer, Wizard, Terror Knight, Hoplite, Cyclops, Ifrit -----------------------Special Loot---------------------The Fist (Ifrit Drop) Armorcraft (Ifrit Drop) Shieldcraft (Lv35+ Ifrit Drop) Codex of Jewelry III (Lv35+ Ifrit Drop) Grimoire Calcination (Ifrit Drop) Grimoire Calcination II (Lv35+ Ifrit Drop) Damasc Helm (Archer Equip) Ice Blade (Hoplite Equip) Desert Blade (Terror Knight Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------This guardian fight is slightly more difficult than most, because of the number of enemies that will be in your way, and the limited space to move all your troops around in this hall. Oddly, Ifrit himself is classed as a Faerie instead of a Beast despite the appearance of being a Cyclops, which is a Beast. His only weaknesses are against magic and TP Skills, so you will need to use Magic Leaves for MP and attack some of the other enemies to gain TP. Interestingly the only good thing Ifrit drops is the Fire Apocrypha when you first meet him, the two recipe books are also dropped by other Guardians. However, when encountering him again via WORLD he will drop the real goods if he's at Level 35 or higher. One more Temple to go. ===================================================================== 3.15 -- Optional Dungeon #9: Temple of Lyuneram [OD9TL]

Availability: Speak with Mreuva in Coritanae Keep after fighting battles at all six Fortresses initiated by reading Talk Reports. Map of Lhazan Fortress / Temple of Lyuneram: -------------------------------------------================= Lhazan Fortress ================= [Lhazan Fortress -- TL01]<-----+ <Start> V

[Within the Fortress -- TL02] ================ Temple of Lyuneram ================ V [1st Descent -- TL03] V [2nd Descent -- TL04] V [3rd Descent -- TL05] V [4th Descent -- TL06] V [Sanctum of Lyuneram -- TL07] Treasures of the Temple of Lyuneram: -----------------------------------Item Name --------------------Damasc Gear (Most) Walloon Sword Commander's Gun Desert Blade Biblion Sacri Biblion Herpetou Helm Halver Damasc Crossbow Damasc Helm Cudgel Enchiridion Thrown Weapons II Codex of Jewelry IV Location -----------------------All Locations [TL01], [TL03], [TL04], [TL05], [TL06] [TL01]-[TL04] [TL01], [TL03], [TL04], [TL05] All Locations All Locations [TL03], [TL04] [TL07] [TL07] [TL06] [TL07] [TL07] Target ---------------------Lv22+ Enemies Knight, Hoplite Fusilier Dragoon, Warrior, Terror Knight Witch Witch Swordmaster Archer Archer Gorgon (Left, Elev 9) Lygenstzel Lygenstzel

Grimoire Grandfroid [TL07] Lygenstzel Grimoire [TL07] Lv 35+ Lygenstzel Grandfroid II --------------------------------------------------------------------Battles of Lhazan Fortress / Temple of Lyuneram: -----------------------------------------------Dungeon traits: All enemies start at Level 22 (lots of Damasc Gear) Most enemies are Humans and Lamias (Set Herpetology) Common monsters are Hydras (Deploy Dragoons) Ice magic is used often. Prepare for Leadened and Petrify Status Effects Lhazan Fortress [TL01] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 900 Races: Human, Lamia, Hydra Class: Archer, Enchantress, Witch, Dragoon, Knight,

Fusilier, Terror Knight, Hydra -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Walloon Sword (Knight Equip) Commander's Gun (Fusilier Equip) Desert Blade (Dragoon Equip) Biblion Sacri (Witch Equip) Biblion Herpetou (Witch Equip) Buried (8 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (4 Steps Left, 6 Steps Forward) Buried (15 Steps Left, 2 Steps Back) Buried (13 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (17 Steps Left, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Rock (5 Steps Left, 14 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------You'll be up against a large number of units that can attack from a distance, so be sure to set Sidestep on most of your characters especially any magic users. You will also have to divide up your troops to cross the water via the two paths in front of your start position to attack the enemy. If possible, use the high walls of the fort as cover from the Fusiliers. Lhazan Fortress / Within the Fortress [TL02] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 500 Races: Human, Lamia, Octopus, Hydra Class: Archer, Enchantress, Witch, Warrior, Fusilier, Terror Knight, Octopus, Hydra -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Commander's Gun (Fusilier Equip) Biblion Sacri (Witch Equip) Biblion Herpetou (Witch Equip) Buried (13 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried under Barrel (11 Steps Left, 7 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Right, 9 Steps Back) Buried (5 Steps Left, 8 Steps Back) Buried under Crate (2 Steps Left, 12 Steps Back) -------------------------------------------------------------------A comparatively easy battle, many enemies, and those that another. Given the amount of Octopus to take advantage of as the map is quite large, there aren't are around are very far away from one water on this stage, deploying an the terrain of will help a fair bit.

Temple of Lyuneram / 1st Descent [TL03] Squad Limit: 6 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 500 Races: Human, Lamia, Hydra, Scylla* Class: Archer, Enchantress, Witch, Warrior, Fusilier, Hoplite, Knight, Terror Knight, Swordmaster, Hydra, Scylla -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Commander's Gun (Fusilier Equip) Walloon Sword (Knight Equip)

Desert Blade (Warrior/Terror Knight Equip) Helm Halver (Swordmaster Equip) Biblion Sacri (Witch Equip) Biblion Herpetou (Witch Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Scyllas cannot be recruited The ease of this battle is largely determined by where all the enemies will appear. You start in the middle of a bend in a corridor, and enemies will appear either at one end of the corridor, or both. If the enemies are at one end of the corridor, then the battle will be a snap, but if they appear at both ends, you should take out the enemies in front of you first, then turn back and take out the enemies behind you. This is because the corridor is very narrow behind you and it makes fighting in there difficult, whereas it opens up in front of you. As such you'll end up fighting most of the enemies around the open area of your starting position, which allows you to move around. Temple of Lyuneram / 2nd Descent [TL04] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 700 Races: Human, Lamia, Hydra, Gorgon*, Scylla* Class: Archer, Enchantress, Witch, Dragoon, Fusilier, Hoplite, Knight, Terror Knight, Swordmaster, Juggernaut, Gorgon, Hydra, Scylla -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Commander's Gun (Fusilier Equip) Walloon Sword (Knight Equip) Desert Blade (Terror Knight Equip) Helm Halver (Swordmaster Equip) Biblion Sacri (Witch Equip) Biblion Herpetou (Witch Equip) Buried (7 Steps Left, 5 Steps Back) Buried under Tree (1 Step Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Steps Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (9 Steps Left, 3 Steps Back) Buried (8 Steps Left, 15 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Scyllas and Gorgons cannot be recruited Crossbowmen and Fusiliers can help greatly at picking off most of the enemies that start on the big stairs leading to the top of the map, while a few assorted troops can deal with the enemies directly in front of you. Once the enemies at the lower reaches are dealt with, it'll be a simple matter of using the broken wall to quickly shortcut your way to the stairs to finish off the rest. Temple of Lyuneram / 3rd Descent [TL05] Squad Limit: 8 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 700 Races: Human, Lamia, Dragon, Gorgon*, Scylla* Class: Archer, Enchantress, Witch, Dragoon, Beast Tamer, Hoplite, Knight, Terror Knight, Juggernaut,

Frost Dragon, Gorgon, Scylla -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Walloon Sword (Knight/Hoplite Equip) Desert Blade (Dragoon Equip) Biblion Sacri (Witch Equip) Biblion Herpetou (Witch Equip) Buried (6 Steps Right, 5 Steps Forward) Buried (3 Step Left, 8 Steps Forward) Buried (5 Steps Left, 11 Steps Forward) Buried under Tree (2 Steps Right, 16 Steps Forward) Buried (7 Steps Right, 11 Steps Forward) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Scyllas and Gorgons cannot be recruited This can be a bit of an awkward battle to fight as many of the enemies will spawn on the raised area in front of you. It's best to simply hang back and let them come to you instead of trying to rush them on the stairs. Use mages, gun, and crossbowmen to soften them up a bit for your other characters to kill. Use long-range archers to hold off the few enemies that may spawn to the right of the ledge, as they'll have the capacity to wreck your strategy if you ignore them. Temple of Lyuneram / 4th Descent [TL06] Squad Limit: 10 Objective: Vanquish all Enemies _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv22+: 900 Races: Lamia, Naga*, Gorgon*, Scylla* Class: Archer, Enchantress, Witch, Matriarch, Hoplite, Juggernaut, Naga, Gorgon, Scylla -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Cudgel Enchiridion (Gorgon Drop) Walloon Sword (Hoplite Equip) Biblion Sacri (Witch Equip) Biblion Herpetou (Witch Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------*Note: Scyllas, Nagas, and Gorgons cannot be recruited This battle will proceed rather smoothly. You have a bit of a height advantage over the number of enemies, and there are three single-file paths you can block off easily. Archers and Fusiliers are ideal while your melee attackers hold the enemies at bay. One of the Gorgons here will drop the Cudgel Enchiridion when killed, but only if she appears. The Gorgon in question appears at the far end of the map near the same wall the party starts from. Temple of Lyuneram / Sanctum of Lyuneram [TL07] Squad Limit: 12 Objective: Vanquish the Guardian _________ At Stake \ -Base Exp- --------------------Enemy Appearances-------------------Lv23+:1200 Races: Lamia, Cockatrice, Guardian Class: Archer, Witch, Matriarch, Cockatrice, Lygenstzel -----------------------Special Loot---------------------Codex of Jewelry IV (Lygenstzel Drop) Thrown Weapons II (Lygenstzel Drop)

Grimoire Grandfroid (Lygenstzel Drop) Grimoire Grandfroid II (Lv 35+ Lygenstzel Drop) Damasc Crossbow (Archer Equip) Damasc Helm (Archer Equip) Biblion Sacri (Witch Equip) Biblion Herpetou (Witch Equip) -------------------------------------------------------------------The enemies will have the high ground here, putting you at a disadvantage. Fortunately the Archers here will likely all have crossbows, which vastly limits their ability to make use of this. Like the previous Guardians, exploit this one with a Dragoon that has Beastslayer and/or Beastbane to kill him quickly and easily. The Cockatrices can be safely ignored as you push your way up the stairs taking out the Archers and magic users. If that stone-cold sanctuary was the last one you cleared, you'll receive three Oracle Marks and all the Fortresses will once again be open for you to repeat the challenge and obtain higher quality loot during a WORLD Tarot playthrough at higher levels. ===================================================================== 3.16 -- Optional Dungeon #10: The San Bronsa Ruins [OD10X]

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===================================================================== 6. Credits / Thanks etc... [SNOFF] ===================================================================== Thanks to: - GameFAQs: for hosting this guide - Square: For letting this game be a reality - Old Quest Team: For making a great game even better Credits: - Brady Games Guide: For confirming buried loot locations! - Japanese Wiki: http://www.masterwiki.net/tacticsogre/ For confirming a few details I wasn't sure on. --------------------------------------------------------------------Copyright 2011 Iaian Ross. This guide may not be reproduced in any form without prior written consent. All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their respective trademark and copyright holders.