Record of Lodoss War FAQ

VERSION 0.8
(as of June 20, 2001)

By Freedom Colberg (Copyright (c) 2001 Freedom Colberg)

(Note: contact Tarannis, tarannis@mindspring.com until further notice)
 


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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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COPYRIGHT STUFF
SECTION 1 - GENERAL INFORMATION
SECTION 2 - GENERAL TIPS
SECTION 3 - WALKTHROUGH
SECTION 4 - ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS & POWERS
SECTION 5 - EQUIPMENT
SECTION 6 - MAGIC
SECTION 7 - SUB-QUESTS (DUNGEONS & DRAGONS)
SECTION 8 - UPDATES NEEDED
SECTION 9 - CREDITS/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS




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COPYRIGHT STUFF
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Copyright (c) 2001 Freedom Colberg

Yes, I'm aware that anything published on the internet is automatically 
copyrighted to the author. And in my experience looking at FAQs, I've never seen 
any blatant plagiarism of an FAQ. Still, Freedom put a LOT of work into this 
FAQ, as you can probably imagine, and I'd really hate to have to break the legs 
of anyone with the gall to rip this off and claim it as their own. <Tarannis>

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That having been said, please feel free to email Tarannis with questions, 
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Enjoy this FAQ - it was a doozy making it, but it's also been a labor of love..




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SECTION 1 - GENERAL INFORMATION
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1.1 INTRODUCTION
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Record of Lodoss War (hereafter known as ROLW) is the Dreamcast's answer to 
Diablo for the PC. One of its advantages is that it has an eminently respected 
storyline behind it, while the Diablo people at Blizzard had to work from 
scratch. ROLW's equipment system, while not completely revolutionary, is an 
extremely elegant one which is best learned through experiencing it first-hand. 
I see that I'm beginning to ramble a bit, so real quick I'll just dash off what 
I thought was wrong with this game: the lack of any indication as to the amount 
of XP needed to raise to the next level, and the unbelievably ridiculous amount 
of mithril needed to max out. All in all, not too many complaints for me, and 
they are far-outweighed by the things I loved about this game. <TARANNIS>


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1.2 STATS
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STR - This attribute affects your damage (see WEAPON CHART) and your impact.
DEX - Thus attribute affects your critical rate (see WEAPON CHART) and
      your bonus to parry (see SHIELD CHART)
INT - This attribute affects your magic power at a 2:1 ratio. (INT/2)=MAG
DMG - This is your total damage, enemies may take more or less depending
      on their damage absorb and elemental weaknesses/strengths, as well
      as any effects such as busters.
IMP - Given as a letter grade (S best, E worst) this is your chance of
      knocking an enemy down or staggering it.
CRIT- This is the % chance of getting a critical hit, followed by the
      multiple to damage if you successfully land one. The % is misleading
      as enemies have an attribute that lowers chance of critical hits.
AR  - This is your damage absorb, works on a 1:1 basis.
DUR - Durability, lowers duration of knockdown/stagger from enemies.
PAR - Parry, your chance of resisting knockdown/stagger from enemies.
MAG - Magic Power, affects your spell damage, ancient power damage, and
      your resistance to magic attacks. (Although I can't find a consistant
      ratio for magic resistance, it is a factor, just not a very big one).
HEAR- The range at which you can hear enemies, only useful in conjunction
      with the Visualize Noises ancient as no earrings other than the one
      that only increases hearing come in pluses.
STEP- The volume of your footsteps, the range enemies hear you at. Useful
      if you want to sneak by enemies, especially with invisibility.
Resist Fire/Dark/Cold/Lightning - Your elemental resistances, a % chopped
      off the damage you take from magic attacks.
HP  - Your hit points; if these run out you die.
MP  - Your mana points; if these run out you can only cast spells with a
      modified casting cost of 0. (Usually only recall).




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Off-colored monsters tend to be more powerful than their nearby counterparts,
and usually drop an item the first time they are killed.

Monsters get more difficult as the game progresses; the SAME monsters that
you fought in the cemetery are more dangerous in the hills, and FAR more
dangerous in the medallion dungeons. Don't assume because a monster was easy
before that you can ignore it.

After you beat the Goblin Fort, you can recall at any time except sub-quest
dungeons and bosses. Remember this, use it. Refill potions and save as needed.
There is no excuse to die in most sections of the game unless you get pinned.

After you recall, do NOT leave the Goblin Fort other than through your portal
or else your portal will be disappear, quite annoying.

Early in the game there is no reason to increase magic power as most helmets
won't give a decent multiplier to it, save your mithril for other things, if
you want more magic power, increase INT.

You can leave ANY ancient on a weapon or piece of armor, early in the game it
is usually better to leave something that gives bonuses rather than a power.

When engraving, look at the cost to bonus ratio. If it currently costs 500 to
get one level of Damage +2 and 450 to get TWO levels of Damage +1, go for the
lower cost.
 
Don't forget to use TRANSFORM. If you find a new item you want to use, goto
the smith and transform your old item into the new type, also refine the new
item for mithril to cover the cost. I don't usually find it useful to use
the transform book since you lose the benefit of any ancients you had inscribed
but not engraved on the old piece.

On that note, don't forget to reinscribe ancients on your equipment after you
transform or engrave.

If you empty your last healing potion and have more in your inventory, they
will automatically replace the last empty bottle, so you can use more than 6
potions without accessing the inventory screen. Also because of this, you may
as well keep items like the book of decoding and other non-healing potion
items in the bar, giving less priority (as long as you have one in the bar) to 
healing potions.

If you are just short of enough mithril for a lockpick or pickaxe, wander
around the Goblin Fort, smashing barrels, or talk to the shaman and have
the goblins search, chances are you will get a chunk or two of mithril.




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3.1  The Cemetery
3.2  The Goblin Fort
3.3  The Dark Elf Village
3.4  The Hunt for Parn (Dark Forest)
3.5  Canyon to Goblin Cave
3.6  DEEDLIT! (And more Canyon)
3.7  Ruselb and Narse
3.8  A Questing We Will Go!
3.9  The Hill of Falaris
3.10  The Dark Temple
3.11 More Questing and a Long Walk
3.12 Dark Castle
3.13 Cold Caves and the Bonus Quests
3.14 Endgame

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3.1 THE CEMETERY
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The game starts with a fmv showing the hero's resurrection at the hands of
Wart. After the hero, who cannot remember his previous life chooses his name,
then you are allowed to actually control yourself.

The first thing you should do is walk forward and talk to Wart. After a
dialog where you can ask a few questions, Wart will drop a sword. Pick it up,
then walk around behind the dias you are on and open the chest which contains
a small healing potion.

In the next room, there is a locked chest in the southeast corner. Just
attack it with your sword to open it and get the hood inside.

The next room has a monument in it, read it to cause an advisor spirit to 
appear, follow his instructions, then smash the crates blocking your way to
get to the stairs. If you ask the advisor to tell you about potions you will
get an extra empty bottle, which might be worth your time.

In the next room, read the monument, follow the sparkles stepping on their
locations to cause a potion to appear, pick it up, and the next spirit, a 
nasty skeleton who suffers from a bad case of envy will "help" you. The battle
should be easy, after that pick up the scroll and use it on the door to move
on. Don't forget to pick up and equip the buckler he drops.

In the next room, read the monument, use the well, kill the skeleton, equip
the boots, and you're good to go.

After this, Wart will join your party to help you with the next battle, take
his advice and don't get near the ogres, you get full experience for any kills
he makes, and they will take you out in 2 hits. When the battle is over, you
will talk to Wart and be told to kill the leader of the nearby goblin fort so
it can be used as a base.

Head north, read the monuments for a couple tips, save and head up the stairs
to the cemetery.

Here I would advise using your map to see where you haven't been, and killing
everything. The insects can be dangerous so be careful and always be prepared
to heal and return to the wells to refill potions if needed. To get lockpicks
to unlock the various locked chests, kill skeletons. A set of them around one
of the locked chests drops one apiece. 

You can take the north exit to the goblin fort, but the gates are closed so
nothing can be accomplished, you need an alternative route. Wander to the
southwest corner ofthe cemetery and talk to a goblin named Nobby, DO NOT, 
I REPEAT DO NOT attack him! You can kill him, and doing such will make it
impossible to get one of the ancients later in the game.

He will give you some advice, and more importantly point you to a scroll of
unlocking you can use to enter the game's next dungeon.

Wander to the magically sealed door near the middle of the southern half of the 
cemetery, use the scroll and enter, saving may be wise now too if you're a
paranoid saveaholic like me. The first floor of the cemetery cave is pretty
easy, just kill/gather everything before going down the stairs. You will notice
a magically sealed door in here, you can't enter it yet, soon my friend soon.
The astute will also notice that this is actually the same dungeon as where you
were resurrected, other than filling in part of the map, this is irrelevant,
you cannot walk between the two sections and many dungeons in the game are
connected to previous sections of the same dungeon with different entrances.

The next floor consists of slashing a few goblins in a one way passage. After
this you will end up near a cell with a dwarf held prisoner, speak to him and
free him, he will agree to forge for you as well as open the door to the next
section. You will find yourself in the jail beneath the goblin fort. The two
cells with creatures in them are locked (and this is good for you). The others
are unlocked but sadly have no treasure. Kill the goblins, and take the stairs
up to enter the Goblin Fort.

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3.2 THE GOBLIN FORT
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If you have been killing everything like a good bloodthirsty barbarian you
should be level 4 by now. Also, if you have looted everything you probably
have a few rings, I would suggest wearing ones that increase strength or hp
as dexterity isn't of much use this early in the game. Make sure you are
using the equipment set you want, and get ready for slaughter.

General advice for the next area is as follows, remember you can smash
crates barrels and pots, though all you will find is mithril, this can be
very useful. Watch out for the fireball slinging shamans, and remember you
can always move back to the well if you run out of potions so use them at
will.

You will find yourself by a room with a save crystal and a well, refill, save,
then move into the fort proper, clear the courtyard of goblins, then enter the
only unlocked door (the northwest of the courtyard). Make your way through
the rooms, slashing defenders out of your way. When you come to a room with a
desk and a taller goblin near it, this is the leader. Kill him for 1000 mithril
and the deed to the fort (not literally).

After you kill the leader, Wart will appear and talk to you. He will run you
through the basics of magic and give you your first spell; Recall.

After this, wander around the fort and talk to the goblins, adjusting the 
camera angle to see behind walls.

Of note are:

A chest on the parapets, this has always contained a +100 hp clothes belt for
me, VERY useful.

A goblin near the south gate who will give you a red mana restoring crystal.

A goblin shaman who will assemble the goblins, whereupon you can ask them
to hunt for treasure for you. Sometimes this gets nothing, sometimes it
gets mithril or red mana crystals. Rarely it will get a low class item.
(Like a buckler) Even more rarely it will yield a decoding scroll. You can
also ask them to die which they will do, usually dropping a chunk of mithril
in the process. To be able to seach again, leave the fort and return.

A goblin near the ramp to the parapets that trades in items for mithril.
The items in order and their rewards are listed in the subquest section. 

When you are ready, talk to the dwarf, he will send you back to the jail to
fetch some equipment then run you through a tutorial on engraving ancients.
The items are in the chests along the west wall just south of the jail cells.

After this talk to Wart again, he will give you your next task, a trip to
the Dark Elf Village, and unlock the gates for you.

At this point, I usually do NOT spend all of my mithril, instead I do a couple
side quests to increase my mithril so I can have the smith make the special
sword for me. 

Engrave the following:
  Sword Str+1 (x4) Damage +1 (x2) Damage +2 (x1)
  Armor/Helm/Shield Armor +1 (x3)
Place on your sword, but DO NOT ENGRAVE (cancel out) the
Damage up +2 ancient, give your other items all armor up +1, you can fit
two of these on each piece. This should give you over 20 damage and armor.

Firstly, head north out of the Goblin Fort, read the monument (parrying +1),
follow the path, and do your best not to tempt the ogres (although you should
easily kill them, they can do some mean damage). You will get to a spot where
the path is flanked on either side by walls with nasty axe throwing goblins.
Take the first left off the path AFTER the walls, and you will go up to the
top of one of the walls, kill all the enemies (this should get you to level 5)
then recall and save as well as refilling your potions. You are now ready for
your first medallion dungeon: Dungeon, Goblin King.

Enter the dungeon, be mindful of being swarmed and take out the goblins. The
boss is the large goblin wearing yellow, if you kill him all the others will
fall. You will be rewarded with a medallion and 3000 mithril. This is a bit
hard for now, but it's worth it in the long run.

Now go back to the Cemetery, talk to Nobby, ask about his trade, tell him you
are bored and listen to his story. Tell him it is interesting, and you would
like to adventure. You will be rewarded with a decoding scroll. Go back into
the Cemetery Cave, to that sealed door from earlier, and use the scroll. You
will find yourself in a previously unreachable section of the cemetery outside
of your second medallion dungeon.

RECALL and SAVE this can be deadly, and fully expect to die, this is also hard.
Try to avoid most of the zombies, tho they are decent experience if you want to
level a little. (I run around using hit and run tactics and only attacking a 
number of zombies with one swing.) Head up to the north of the dungeon and take 
out the red zombie. He will drop some mithril and some chests will appear as
well as a monument with the Holy Photon ancient power. This power is only good
against undead and demons, so don't use it now. Go talk to Nobby again, show
him what you found, he will faint and another monument will appear, with the
Words to Fighting Technique ancient. This is one of the BEST ancients in the
game if you use one handed weapons. It inceases your DEX (and therefore your
parry and critical hit chance) for each ancient you have engraved on your
shield. So a shield +20 gives +20 dex above and beyond any other bonuses it
gives, I *LOVE* this ancient. You should also get a fine necklace, which is a
nice little item that gives you a little increase to a variety of stats.

Ok so why did we do this? Go back to the smithy and ask about the special
sword, give him 10,000 mithril and let's be merrily upon our way. Oh you
probably want to dump the medallions in the stash while you're here, they
aren't of use for a while to come.

Head north out of the Goblin Fort again, following the path, when you get to
the branch near the signposts, take the right branch (or read the signs =P).
You will shortly end up in the swamp, Follow the path north, crossing bridges
as necessary, and take the north exit from the swamp, you will end up in the
Dark Elf Village. *CHEER*

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Immediately upon entering this area, you will overhear a conversation between
2 dark elf shamans, apparently the elder has been imprisoned by some jerk
named Ruselb.

To the west of the entrance are a well, save crystal and red portal. Enter the
red portal and you will find yourself back in the Goblin Fort with a shortcut
now available. (To activate the shortcuts in the future, just walk up to the
pillar and "talk" to it.) Head up to the smithy where you will overhear a
conversation between Wart and the dwarf. It ends with an item being dropped.
This is the Transform Book, useful in my opinion mostly to be able to swap
between weapons, not to be able to use new items as you find them.
For now, stow it in your stash you won't really be needing it.

You now have a choice to make, your Oriental Sword is now done, and if it
looks sweet, there's a reason for that, it is. High damage, good speed,
good range, and  welcome to CRITICAL HITS! If you intend to use it, start
concentrating on raising your dex on your armor, it's cheap and will make
you get criticals more often. Unfortunately, you can't use a shield, so
the Words to Fighting Technique won't help. You can quite successfully use
this sword throughout most of the game, but I won't be in this walkthrough.
You sacrifice your shield which means you lose parry, as well as have less
AR. If you choose to use this sword, then whenever I suggest increasing
something on a shield, put it on your weapon in crits/damage/str or on your
armor in dex. Or heck put it in whatever you want to, but those will best
utilize the sword. Also if you intend to use it, I suggest you swap the
accurate ring in for toughness, and don't forget to place a couple ancients
on the blade (2 damage +2 fit rather nicely don't they?)

If you're following my path, then refine the oriental sword, we now have
alot of mithril to work with as well as a pretty item in our glass case.

Engrave the following:
  Sword: STR Up+1 (x6) Damage Up+1 (x2) Damage Up+2 (x2)
  Armor: DEX Up+1 (x10) Armor +1 (x4)
  Shield: Armor +1 (x5) Parrying +1 (x10)
  Helmet: Armor +1 (x5)
Don't forget to put armor back on your armor/shield/helmet and damage on
your weapon when you are done. I mean why waste free points.

This should get you somewhere around 30 damage and AR and 20 parry.

Ok, back to the Dark Elf Village, take the red portal back and wander
around the town, shortly you will meet the blonde shaman, when she questions
you, answer with your name, then that you seek Parn, then that you wish to
kill him. Yea, it sucks to lie, but it's not really worth fighting the shaman
and her guards, while possible they give nothing for the effort and it's hard.

To the north of the village you will find the INT up+1 and MP up+1 ancients.
Also, to the northest you will find a building with a phantom in it. This
building contains a decoding scroll, a copy of the Book of Visions, and a
good chance at some mithril in the crates.

To the west of the village through a gate you will find a monument with the
Firebolt ancient power, south of here, you can talk to the silver-haired
shaman, Pirotess. Give her your name, then offer to help, she will open up
the first floor of the Pyramid to give you a test of worthiness to help her.

Destroy the crates in her room for more mithril and a lockpick, step on the
trigger to cause a chest containing a copy of the Book of Walls. Then head
to the first floor of the Pyramid.

Take either entrance, and make your way thru the pyramid, this should be a
cakewalk. The blue demon is near the north of the pyramid, when killed he
will drop 500 mithril and a sacred helmet. Also don't miss the potion bottle
between 2 bookshelfs in the northeast of the pyramid, the Armor +2 monument
in the north of the pyramid and the Book of the Wind in a chest activated by
a trigger in a room in the middle of the pyramid. There are also 2 smashable
chests in this area, one of them (in the northwest of the pyramid) is trapped
so make sure your HP are over 100 when you smash it. It contains the wicked
sword, another glass case item, and a decent weapon for now.

Leave, and talk to Pirotess near the stairs, she will open the next floor of
the pyramid. Head back to the Goblin Fort, transform your sword into a wicked
sword, then return and enter the next floor of the Pyramid. Kill all the elves
to open the door to elder. Smash all the crates to get treasure. I found a
pierce of ear +2, falchion, light plate, and leather boots +3, I think the
only thing random here is what the + on the items is. Head into the next room
and read the monument (Regenerate Speed +1) then talk to Marela (the elder).

Once again, head to the Goblin Fort, transform your armor into light plate,
and your sword into a falchion. Don't forget to reinscribe (without engraving)
ancients, I'd suggest Armor +2 and Armor +1 on the plate. Engrave Holy Photon
on your sword. Goto the top floor of the pyramid and use Holy Photon to kill
the demons in the first room. After this, finish off the remaining demons
(who are mostly immune to Holy Photon for some dumb reason) with melee combat.
Your booty? A magic charm, a copy of the Book of Fire, a pile of mithril,
and a monument with the Resist Hell ancient. Be careful you have full hp when
you smash open the wooden chest, it is once again trapped.

Head back to the Pyramid Ground Floor, and out the now unblocked east exit.
This will take you to the last part of the Dark Elf Village (nothing is here).
Fill your potions and head out the north exit into the Dark Forest and save.

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3.4 THE HUNT FOR PARN (DARK FOREST)
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You can choose to use just about any weapon you want here, I prefer the wicked 
sword. But if you don't want to spend too much time at the Goblin Fort, the 
falchion will do fine.

The first thing you should do here is head due north from the save crystal, you
will shortly reach a monument with the HP up +4 ancient. After this head back
down and take the next branch north, this should after a little weaving lead
you to a square ruins area with the Parrying +2 ancient inside. From here, head 
west, grab the Critical Resist +1 ancient, then head south over the bridge and
into the large building. Head downstairs, take the passage, brushing aside any
piles of bones that attempt to stand in your way, then take the stairs up. You
should be on a small island with a brave (now dead) elf, the Resist Lightning
ancient, and a wooden chest with a decoding scroll in it, take your rewards,
then return to the large building. Head nothing again, taking the path west of
the bridge and you will reach another building, head inside, loot the chest,
then head further north and grab the Visualize Noises ancient power. Head south
taking the narrow passage to the east this time, head down, then back around
and north and flip the lever (pointed at with a nice yellow arrow so you won't
miss it!!!) and head back to the large building in the southwest of the map.
Head back north OVER the bridge this time. Head north and take the now open
gate (next to the Critical Resist monument) and grab yet ANOTHER ancient,
STR up +2 this time. Continue heading into new territory around the bends and
you will shortly reach a magically sealed door, unlock it, head inside and
enjoy the spoils. (Is that a Barbarian Vitality ancient power? I think it is)
Then head west follow the path until you end up taking the entrance into the
old ruins.

All that is in this area is a few treasure chests (kill the blue gargoyles to
make them appear one in each room). I think the contents here are random. Once
you are done, don't forget to grab the Magic Power +1 ancient, then head up
the stairs. By now, we've probably gotten a bit of mithril, and some new
weapons and armor, so choose your outfit (don't forget boots and rings etc if
you have any you want to use). And it's that time again... the Goblin Fort!!

I'll trust you to handle your own engraving for now on, and with random mithril
drops, I have no clue how much you have anyways. I'd suggest a few points into
Resist Lightning however. Also, remember that it takes 2 points of STR to equal
1 point of damage (of course STR also increases Impact).

Don't forget to throw some ancients (or ancient powers) on your equipment, and
be sure to update it to the newest shiniest stuff to boot.

Head back to the Dark Forest, and head west for the DEX +3 ancient. Then head 
south and follow the oneway path until you reach the save crystal, save and
ONWARD to battle! Here you meet some loser who wants to kill you, Parn shows
up and rather than realizing his limited options he takes this as a good thing.
Thoroughly enjoy stomping the idiot!

After the battle, a dialog ensues, it really doesn't matter what you say, Parn
will join your party.

Loot the chests, then head down into the Old Ruins again. Here you will be
introduced to a new joy, an annoying monster that enjoys pretending to be a
chest or door. To make things worse, it always appears in a small explosion,
which OF COURSE does a large amount of damage, so keep a close eye on your HP.
In theorey, you should keep an eye on Parn's as well, so you don't risk him
dying, but the boy's a tank. If somehow he does become low on hp, use a potion
it will heal the both of you. The ruins here are straightforward, and I don't
think you can miss the MP +3 ancient along the way.


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3.5 CANYON TO GOBLIN CAVE
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After your next exit, you will find yourself in the Underground Canyon, a
maze like area you will likely grow to hate. But, for now we're just taking
a quick peek until we get to our next shortcut. Don't forget to fully map out
the areas, there's a few chests, the DEX +4 and INT +3 ancients, and a couple
passages that lead to short areas.

One of these leads to an area with a few chests, the MP Charge Speed +1 and
Damage up +3 ancients, and an alternate exit that leads to a small isolated
area. All that is in this area is some mithril you can't mine yet, and a few
monsters, kill the goblins to cause a chest to appear, then head back out.

The other area is one room, with a bunch of goblins, kill the leader to get
a longsword and a bunch of treasure to appear. Make sure you keep your HP up
as you open the chests, as they are all trapped.

Make sure you kill the Golem outside the Goblin Caves, as his death will bring
about the appearance of the Critical Rate +1 ancient. This is a MUST HAVE!!!
After this head into the Goblin Cave and save.

If you want you can take the portal back now, or you can wait until you get the
Goblin Killer ancient power shortly. I persoanlly don't see any reason to use
the Goblin Killer, since it's not as if goblins are hard to kill, so I'll take
the portal back now to activate it. If you have the mithril, engrave.

Before returning to the Goblin Cave, now is a very good time to clear out the
jail underneath the Goblin Fort, so save, go down the stairs you took when you
were first storming the fort, and talk to the jailer, assure him of your
bravery, and slaughter the two beasties. Your rewards will be a pair of heavy
boots (to prevent knockdown but boy are they LOUD), and the Stone Crasher club,
which is good for killing golems. After this return to the caves.

The Goblin Cave is pretty straight forward, on the way to the main cave is a
branch to the west with the aforementioned Goblin Killer anicent. When you get
to the main body of the cave, you will be met with hordes of goblins, make sure
you watch your HP they can go down surprisingly fast. Near the west of the cave
is a chest guarded by a cyclops with a copy of the Book of the Dead in it. To
the North of the main cave (just south of where you entered) is a room guarded
by 3 golems that contains a nice trove of locked chests. If you run out of
lockpicks, remember that the dwarf can duplicate more for you and he's just a
recall away. The only other two things of interest here are Deedlit (near the
middle of the cave), and the exit to the rest of the canyon (in the SW of the
cave).

After you rescue Deedlit, say more or less whatever you want, she'll join you
and you can start to wince whenever you hear Parn shout "DEEDLIT"! Which if
you are me happens about every 2 minutes.

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3.6  DEEDLIT! (AND MORE CANYON)
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This part is difficult to explain. Your eventual goal is to get to the NW of
this part of the canyon where you can read a monument and follow sparklies to
the boss and escape. However, you will want to fully explore all the various
underground ruins so as to get rich on loot and ancients. I will try to give
you general directions, but the best route is to use your automap frequently,
and remember which entrances you've been into. At least to make things easier
there are only one ancient and two chests above ground and both are fairly easy
to find =P.

After leaving the Goblin Caves you will be presented with a save crystal, your
first order of business as always should be to save. Head north, following the
winding paths until you reach an entrance to the Underground Ruins. If we're
on the same wavelength here, you should find yourself in a short dungeon filled
with zombies and skeletons and the HP +5 ancient. If not, well then I suck even
worse than I thought at giving directions...

Head back south to the save crystal and head west this time, very shortly you
should see another entrance to the Underground Ruins with a sparkly right in
the middle of a single room. This sparkly will trigger a big mean nasty golem
so before hitting it, I suggest you transform your weapon into that nifty
Stone Crasher and maybe even wear the heavy boots if your ears can take it (or
you feel like using MUTE on your tv). Kill the golem and be rewarded with the
Impact +1 Ancient.

Leave and head west, once again you should shortly reach an underground entrance 
(stick towards the bottom when you hit a branch). Explore this area to find the
STR up +4 and Regeneration Point +1 ancients as well as a locked chest that
triggers a fight when you open it. Kill the blue enemies that appear for a nice
chunk of mithril and a couple random items. There should be 3 reachable exits,
(as well as some from an earlier trip into a different section) the one you
enter from, and 2 roughly northeast. Take the middle of the 3 reachable, and
kill all the enemies to obtain a chest. Return, then take the northmost exit.

From here, head south, follow the winding queue like path west until you are
presented with the choice of winding back east or turning south. First go east
until you find a blue golem, kill it to cause a chest to appear. Then go south.
You will be presented with a end of the wind, and yet another entrance into the
Underground Ruins, I think you know what to do =P.

The only set object in this area is a chest in a room in the north. Other than
that, kill monsters and enjoy random drops and mithril. There are 3 exits
(including the one you entered by) into this area, first we will take the
southern one, however make sure you keep track of where this dungeon is, as
we will be returning shortly.

Head west, and enter the small one room section of Underground Ruins. There are
4 differently coloured demons in here, kill them and grab the ancient that
appears (Lightning Bolt ancient power) then return to the previous ruins, head
through them and take the northmost exit this time.

Head north, into another section of ruins (1 treasure chest in here, and a
couple mimics pretending to be chests). head through these, and out the
opposite exit.

Head mostly north from here, you will have to go east a little, but you mostly
want to be heading north and west for a bit. then south and west. When you
reach an area with alot of golems you're close =). Grab the Damage +4 ancient
and head north until you see a monument with a yellow arrow. OUR GOAL!!!

Note where this is, then read the monumnet, heading generally easy, touch each
sparkly to cause the next to appear, when they lead into the ruins, make sure
that you save, then go down and fight a big bad giant and his friends to unlock
the exit from the Underground Canyon. Head back to the monument, then north and
you will find yourself in a small section of the Dark Forest... FRESH AIR!

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3.7  RUSELB AND NARSE
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Well I lied, first we have a short section of old ruins before the dark forest,
in here all we have are monsters tho (the chests are mimics but killing them
will still yield treasure). Deedlit will have a brief elfy flash, doesn't
really matter what you choose to say. Head though the ruins, and surface in
the forest.

Here just make sure you fully explore this "huge" area before heading below
ground again at the only exit. Of note are the 2 chests, the Armor +3 ancient,
and a wall of mithril with a chest behind it that we can't reach yet.

Head below ground, and through the subway to come up, grab a chest, then duck
under again for more subway. Make sure you kill all the colored demons for
treasure, then head up and you'll be in the Dark Forest again.

Unlock the door with a scroll for 10,000 mithril and a resist fire cape, it's
probably a good idea to wear the cape. It's also probably a good idea to head
back to the Goblin Fort and spend that mithril. There is a scroll in the area
with the boss, but getting it tends to cause the boss to lock you into the
section unable to recall, so if you must get it, make sure to save first.

Now for Ruselb, if you've been keeping your mithril up, he shouldn't be too
tough, if worst comes to worst, let Parn and Deed take the brunt of the assault
while you play healer for them. Just remember to take the other monsters out
asap so they will attack Ruselb. You reward for his demise is a nice trophy
head!!! (and the appearance of the Fast Attack ancient).

Parn and Deedlit will now leave, it doesn't matter what you say, they will
leave... oh well, at least they were nice targets for the Ruselb fight. Recall
back to the Goblin Fort and talk to Wart for your next assignment.

He will tell you to seek Slayn and Leila in the Cave of Narse, to get there,
head north from the Goblin Fort, following the path until you hit the signs,
this time head west, you will shortly reach the desert.
Getting to the cave can be a pain, and nothing I can say will really help,
just take it slow and try not to get surrounded by ogres. Some people find
it easier to run past all the fights, some prefer fighting. I find it helpful
to use a shield here even if you usually use the oriental sword, but if you're
doing enough damage to easily kill the enemies, a shield may be irrelevant.
Whatever you do, DO NOT go into the sand, you will get seriously whomped by
the worms. Stick to the mountain paths, and use your map to find the Cave of
Narse (it's west and north from where you start).

When we get here, you will want to mostly hug the west section of the map,
heading north until you find an exit. This will lead into a  HUGE cavern, talk
to the people there, they will wake the dragon, talk to it to recieve the next
step in your quest. After all of this, head to the north exit of the cavern.
Read the monument, and you will be given a pickaxe by the Mithril Ghost
(looks like a mithril golem to me =p). This is the beginning of POWER!!!!
Recall, and have the dwarf duplicate your inventory full of pickaxes, then
return, mine the mithril wall away, and head north, following the tunnel,
grabbing the Durability +3 ancient, and heading downstairs.

Our next goal is to clear this floor of the Cave. In doing such we will find
along with the piles of mithril quite a few chests and some anicents. I won't
give step by step instructions, as you will want to cover every square inch of
this area (use your map) to get all the mithril. The ancients you should find
are: Durability +1, Resist Cold +1, MP Charge Point +1, and Body Control. You
should also find the Silver Knight's armor in a locked metal chest. The only
things you should watch out for are the red insects (they can critical hit and
kill you fast if you aren't careful) and the fire demons (they respawn, and
generally are easier to avoid than fight).

Once you finish up here, go back to the Goblin Fort and spend your mithril.
You should have around 35000 after finishing the Cave of Narse, not pocket
change to say the least. I would suggest pumping all 3 of the resists you have
to +10. I would also HIGHLY suggest getting at least 20 points in the 
Durability ancients between them (5 levels of +3 and 5 levels of +1)
You can of course do as you wish, but these increases will help any play style.
After this head to the next section for alot of "optional" subquesting (I say
"optional" since the power boost will really help out).

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3.8  A QUESTING WE WILL GO!
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(If you want, you can head back to the Underground Canyon and Dark Forest
on the way to Ruselb to mine the small amount of mithril and grab the chest,
I don't consider it worth the extra time...)

First, grab the medallions from storage if you put them there. Our next stop
is the Dark Elf Village. We want to talk to Marela (the rescued Elder) who
will confide in us, and give us a nice long quest to keep us occupied for
hours to come. She is just east of the portal to the village. She will also
reward us for the 2 medallions we brought her if we speak to her again.
(Immortal potion and Empty Bottle(large)). Lastly she is kind enough to mark
all these dungeons on our map to make things easier for us.

Save, then take the portal she made for us. It will take us outside of the
Dungeon, Lizard King. Go in, and kick some major behind for the Book of
Decoding which will allow us to go back and start doing dungeons at whim =).

After getting the book, return to the dark elf village, save and head out the
south exit. Head west to the Dungeon, Elder Knight. If you currently have any
decoding scrolls, now is the time to use them. We no longer need them with
the book, and you aren't allowed to discard them. So remember to use any
scrolls you may find over the book. Head into the Dungeon and stomp the elfies
into the ground, too bad this wasn't so easy before since that Elf Buster would
have been nice, but oh well... return the 2 medallions to Marela for our next 
reward.

Now head back out into the swamp from the Dark Elf Village, this time heading
east to the Dungeon, Dark Shaman. Getting here is a bit of a pain, you have to
head south, then east, then up the mountain and around to get there. While
you're en route, you might want to pick up the Durability +2 ancient (which is
"just east" of the entrance to the Dark Elf village. The dungeon really
shouldn't be too hard, but if you're having problems, try increasing your
resist lightning, your elf buster, or using the wicked sword. I suggest using
the sword you win here for quite a while to come if you're using 1-handers.

Head back to Goblin Fort, switch weapons if needed, use that mithril, and I'm
cutting you loose for a bit. Clear the Hills, and both Swamps of all the
dungeons, take the medallions to Marela, pump your ancients. To help out, I
am listing where to find the ancients in these sections, but what order you
do this in is your choice. If you have problems with a specific dungeon, read
the subquest section for advice. Oh and don't fret over getting to the two
island dungeons in the swamps (Lethal Demon/Hell Lord) you can't get to them
yet.

These show the locations ON THE MAP. You cannot just follow these however,
since they are aids for location, and the pc can't fly =P.

SE Marmo - Hills:
  MP up +2 (south of Dungeon, Goblin Lord)
  INT up +2 (due south of Dungeon, Skeleton King on the map but way south)
  HP +2 (east side of map, just south of the beach)
  STR +3 (east of Dungeon, Cyclope)
  Levitation (small graveyard west of Dungeon, Giant Zombie)

NE Marmo - Swamp:
  Durability +2 (east of entrance to Village but have to walk around).
  INT +4 (southwest of Dungeon, Elder Knight)
  HP +6 (east and slightly south of Dungeon, Lizardman)
  MP +4 (penisula at northeast of map)

N Marmo - Lake Shore:
  Armor +4 (north of Dungeon, Salamander)
  DEX +5 (due north of Dungeon, Hell Lord)
  MP Charge Point +2 (northeast of Dungeon, Lizard King)
  Damage +6 (west of Dungeon, Lizard King)
  Feet of the Cat (penisula on lake shore west of central island)

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3.9  The Hill of Falaris
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Over 100000 mithril, new ancients, new weapons, TREASURE TREASURE! Don't we
fell much better now? Don't spend that mithril all in one place, but now's a
good time to maybe spend some on the spendier things like damage for a bit
(if you haven't already been doing such). Well, done with cleanup and back to
the game proper... we will start with... a MEDALLION DUNGEON!!!

Take the portal back to the Cave of Narse, head through it to the northeast
exit, and take this exit, head out and head east, to Dungeon, Salamander. Don't
forget to pick up the Magic Power +3 ancient while you're over there too. Head 
back west, and around to the northern exit where we will shortly encounter...
a PORTAL AND SAVE CRYSTAL! Use them, love them, then move northwest.

In this area, the object is to destroy the 4 statues of Falaris (the 4 armed
Hindu looking god) so that you can enter the Temple of Darkness (and ultimately
kill Shoedle).

Our first statue is reached by heading NW from the save crystal until you get
to an upward slope leading west, take this slope, then continue to head west
until you reach a second upward west slope, DON'T take this, instead head
north where you will see the statue. Destroy it (which will trigger a fight).

Our next statue is north of the first, go back to that westward slope, and
take it this time, heading west then north and around to just north of the
first statue, destroy it, and you will be surrounded by nasty gargoyles. Get
out of the encirclement and let them have it.

Next, head northwest, you will see a HUGE chest, open it and *GASP* a fight
appears, a couple golems, a couple gargoyles and a titan. Nothing you can't
handle, but not a cakewalk either. (Or maybe you're better at this than me).
The treasure in the chest is random as far as I know.

Head back to the well (north of the save crystal) refill, then head north,
skirting the wall in front of you by going west then continuing north. You
will see some lizardmen around the third statue. Destroy them to get the
Fireball ancient power. Destroy the statue... nothing how odd... open the
treasure chest to north of the state, AH! There's our fight.

Go east, take the first north, and follow the east wall, you will reach a
black gate (you can't get through it yet, so don't stress). From here go west,
take the first north and we will hit our last statue. Destroy it and defeat
the enemies.

If you want that mithril you can see from the 4th statue (who doesn't) then
head west and around. Mine to your hears content, oh and saving is probably a
good idea too...

Head west then north for one HUGE ambush. Now is a good time for me to mention
that even if you can't see your character you can still hit the sword button
over and over for him to hack through hordes. In fact I usually watch my HP
instead of the battle, and just hit the button. After you kill all these foes,
the gates to the temple unlock, but don't enter them just yet. Head west, mine
the mithril. You will be temporarily locked in until you defeat the titan that
appears, but he shouldn't be any trouble even in an enclosed space. Now head
into the Temple of Darkness (tho still technically on the Hills of Falaris
map for now).

You will talk to Leila who will offer to join, you can choose to have Slayn
join again, but she's really the better choice, she heals both you and herself,
and her sacred sphere is nice for dealing with the demons that will swarm you
below. Take who you want, but if you take Slayn, watch his HP, and expect a
harder battle ahead.

Destroy the 4 statues in this room to go on, and keep an eye out for these,
you want to destroy all of them to unlock both treasure and the ways forward.

Head west first, destroying the 2 statues flanking the door to open it, then
the chest for treasure and a battle. Then head north destroying the 3 statues
along the west wall. Go north and destroy the statue of Falaris.

Head back to the entrance to the temple, and east, pick up the treasure in
the room to the south, then destroy the statues to open the door north. Head
north and then west into a room with an altar. Destroy the statues to either
side of the altar to cause a chest to appear (containing the Book of Visions).
Open the chest, and kill the foes to cause the Resist Fire +1 ancient to appear.

The stairs we want to take are just to the west from here, take note of that
so you know where to come back to, but we aren't done in the Hills yet. Go
back to the entrance of the temple on the outside, where the yellow monument
is that tells you to destory the statues. From here head east a short ways and
notice the missing pillar, you can get in behind it, loot the chest, and get
down into the remainder of the Hills of Falaris area.

Head east to the magically sealed door and open it. (BTW, if you have trouble
with the golems here, you can always go back to the Goblin Fort and transform
to the Stone Crasher, you can even carry 2 weapons with the Transform Book to
switch between them). Head east a bit more and you will shortly reach a
dungeon (Dark Cultist). Outside of this dungeon is a portal, you can hop into
it and back if you want, I'm not sure if it activates anything if you do, but
no harm done. However, you won't be able to go anywhere through the portal.
Enter the dungeon and clear it, then either head back or head south.

South from the dungeon is a treasure chest which often contains a giant shield.
This is nice for the Dark Temple, where you can afford less parry. HOWEVER, if
you get it, grab the treasure, then RECALL. The fight which appears takes
forever to cut through and you will be overran easily. Just walk back from the
Hills of Falaris portal. 

Once you are done, head back to the altar room and down the stairs for the
Dark Temple.

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3.10  THE DARK TEMPLE
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Head east, and follow the path to the door, head through it and hit the
sparkly to trigger a talk with Serafi (a demon who works for Shoedle) and
a boss fight. Finish the battle, then head west, destroy the statue, kill all
the enemies, flip the switch, then head west and get the Damage up +5 ancient.

Head back east, then south, your goal here is to destroy the 3 statues along
the southern corridors. Make sure you kill also all the enemies to get the
Parrying +3 ancient. Flip the switch, and use the doorway connecting the two
south corridors to travel, and when all the statues are destroyed and all the
loot gotten, head all the way west, and north. Oh, and in case you couldn't
guess, every statue you destroy and chest you open will trigger a fight.

Flip the switch, grab the chest, head north, flip the switch, head east,
smash the statue, head south, get the Regeneration Speed +2 ancient, head
north and go downstairs.

Save (always a good idea). Head west, destroy the small statue, then head west
and step on the sparkly to trigger another conversation with Serafi and
another boss fight. This fight can be either easy or not depending on how you
have built up. If you're having problems, increase damage or lightning resist.
You can also try using something like bonfire if you've built up your magic at
all. Lastly, you can just let your cohorts fight the boss if you want. If you
are using Leila, just stand close to the boss and her Sacred Sphere will hit
it when she casts it.

Head south, and DON'T FLIP ANY SWITCHES, head east and north to grab the
Armor +5 ancient, head back and flip the yellow switch. Continue following
the path, flipping any yellow switches you come across, killing the monsters,
and destroying the small statues. When you get back to the start of this floor,
go south from the Armor +5 ancient and you can get to a chest, then head back
though the boss room.

This time, choose the red switches, hitting them and moving along until you
get to the bottom of the map and two locked chests, opening them triggers a
fight and blockage by a big statue. Never fear, take out the fight, and reduce
the statue to rubble, then repeat. NOW hit the yellow switch, and follow the
path west destroying the two pedastle statues to claim the last piece of loot.
Now head back to the red switches and finish their path to finish this floor.

Save crystal, sparkly, Serafi talk, boss fight - anyone seeing a trend?
After the boss, flip the switch and head all east and north, destroy the
statues barring the way west, and work your way along until you reach the
HP +7 ancient.

Without flipping switches explore the entire floor so you have the map. After
this, head over to the magically sealed door and through it, to destroy a small 
statue. After this hit the yellow switch beyond the statue, follow the path
back out to by the save crystal, then go BACK to where the sealed door was, and
flip the yellow switch SOUTH of it. Now you can get to the middle south of the
floor, which has a chest, (and a fight of course) after this head back to the
middle of the level and west, flip the red switch to cause some monsters to
appear, kill them all for the Lizardman Killer ancient power. Once this is all
completed, head to exit and on to floor 4. 

No boss fight at the start of this floor... how onimous. First thing, destroy
the small statue to the east, then go around to the south of the stairs and
destroy the statue here. Kill the medusa that appears to cause the Prevent +1
ancient to appear. Now walk west and north until you see a small statue west
of the stairs you took down here. Destroy it through the stalactites with your
sword. Walk back around to the start of this floor, and head west from there.

Do not flip the yellow switch, follow the path until blocked by a small statue,
destroy it and follow the path until blocked by a large statue. Go into the
room to the west, destroy the small statue, then follow the path until the
next yellow switch (feel free to unseal the door and grab the chest on the
way). Flip this switch and continue to the next small statue blocking your
progress, destroy it.

Head east, then south through the magically sealed door. Open the chest to
trigger a fight, kill all the enemies to cause the Critical Rate +2 ancient
to appear. Head back north and continue onwards until you see a yellow switch,
don't bother with it, just head east to the 2 magically sealed doors. We'll
take the one on the east first, inside is a firewall trapped chest which
contains a Book of Fire. Now go through the other door and kill all the
monsters to cause a monument with the Sword of Darkness ancient power to
appear. 

Head west through the sealed door, then follow the path to the north until you
reach a chest. Open it to trigger a fight, defeat the baddies, destroy the
statue now barring your path west, then continue west. Ignore the section to
the northeast, and head south, mining through the mithril in your way as you
continue. Head past the magically sealed door for a chest, then head into the
room to the north. Mine the mithril out of the way and destroy the ugly statue.

Now the stalactites will rise and sink every few seconds, making it much easier
to grab the remainding 3 chests and the mithril deposit that remains (all on
the west half of the map). When you are done with collecting loot, portal back
to the Goblin Fort and spend all the mithril you've collected. I would suggest
some points in Resist Fire if you haven't already done such, and now might be
a nice time to start building up magic, since we will be using it to finish up
some of the last 15 medallion dungeons shortly. Prevent is nice and worth a
few points if you can spare the mithril, but it is spendy. If you're using a
shield, you can spread the cost by increasing it on both your armor and your
shield. Once you are ready, return to the Dark Temple and save at the crystal.

Shoedle should be pretty easy for you if you've done all the dungeons and
gotten all the loot, he teleports around occasionally and can petrify, but if
you have Leila she will keep you healed, and it seems she can cast a spell to
shorten the petrification length but I'm not sure on that. If you feel the
need you can wear a ring of stone or two, but I don't think you should need
them, Shoedle's firewalls are probably more of a threat. If you do get stoned,
remember you can still using healing potions while petrified. Wipe out his
minions, and then concentrate on him.

After you beat him, collect the head and the Pain to Mana ancient power, then
recall for a celebration parade... what it's been canceled? Oh well, guess
we'll just have to goto the next section instead.

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3.11 MORE QUESTING AND A LONG WALK
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First things first, go back to Narse's cave and present him with Shoedle's
head (and Ruselb's too if you didn't have it on you previously) he will give
you a key that you will use to enter Conquera Castle. After this, talk to
Slayn again, and Narse will present you with another task, this one is optional
and I would suggest holding off on it until after you've beaten the Demon Lord
dungeon (and opened up the dungeon portals).

Now walk out of the south Cave of Narse entrance, and hit the Iron Golem and
Titan dungeons. I highly suggest you use all of the mithril from these 2
dungeons to pump the Golem Buster ancient up to 25, since you will shortly be
fighting ALOT of golems. While you're in the area, pick up the Crit Resist +2
ancient, located southwest of the Cave of Narse (in the spiral). Head to the
Dark Elf Village and trade in your medallions for the Gothic Heaven shield.
Even if you don't want to use it (why not?!) it's 4000 mithril to refine.

Head south into the desert, do the Flame Demon dungeon and comb the desert for
ancients. If you get bored of the sandworms, use the Feet of the Cat ancient
power on your armor. You should pick up the follow ancients.

Center Marmo - Desert:
  STR +5 (East side of deset, just south of one of the entrances to the Hills)
  HP +8 (South of Dungeon, Titan in the sand)
  Damage +7 (North of Dungeon, Flame Demon)
  Magic Power +4 (West of Dungeon, Sandworm)
  Armor +6 (North of Dungeon, Sandworm)
  Critical Damage +1 (Oasis)

Now for some speed leveling. Head back to the Goblin Fort, equip the blazing
sword and use the Mana to Flesh ancient on it. Equip the Levitation ancient on
your armor. Now head to Dungeon, Sandworm. We will NOT be finishing this level
currently, just killing the sandworms (worth 20000 xp each). Kill a few, recall,
refill, repeat. You can get to level 50 in a few minutes. That is where I'm
stopping, but you can easily get alot more xp here if you wish, and if it gets
too tedious, you can always come back after some playing to get a few levels.
Make sure you save every time you recall, because little is more frustrating
than having to gain the same levels again if you do die. Also, stay away from
the northwest this is where the boss is, and he will kill you FAST. If you see
blue sandworms, you're getting too close, retreat and start over.

WARNING: Now is a very good time to look at what ancients you have been using,
and to assess your weaknesses. Try to make sure you have a decent amount of
everything. Make sure your magic resistances are ok, you have enough HP to
survive (although you can always level at the sandworms for 20 HP a level).
If you like the Words to ... ancient powers, you might also want to buy some
cheap but not necessarily great ancients (Critical Resist fits this bill). You
will be getting ALOT of mithril in these next dungeons, but after that, you
will be getting very little. If you don't want to wait until after you are
right in front of the final boss to be able to finish the subquests, I would
suggest balancing out.

After all the fun and frivolity, take the southwestern exit from the desert to
the ruins area and prepare for more medallion gathering and ancient grabbing.
It doesn't really matter which order you do the dungeons here in, you should
be powerful enough to do them in any order, but if you have problems with one,
do another and spend the mithril to improve any needed stats. You can't get to
the Dungeon, Mithril Golem yet, and stay away from the Dragon Guardian dungeon
as well. The ancient locations are;

SW Marmo - Ruins:
  Magic Power +5 (Southeast of Dungeon, Phantom)
  Armor +7 (North of Dungeon, High Imp)
  Critical Resist +3 (East of Dungeon, Phantom)
  INT +5 (Next to Dungeon, Goblin Master)
  Durability +4 (South of Dungeon, Mithril Golem)
  Damage +8 (Northwest corner of Ruins map)
  Parry +4 (West of Dungeon, Paddle Queen)

After finishing this area, make sure you have the Skull Statue Key in your
inventory, then walk north into the mountains. You MUST walk into the area
with the key in your inventory, recalling and getting it will NOT work due to
a bug in the game. With the key firmly in possession, head up to the northwest
of the mountain area, outside of the Dark Castle. There should be 4 pillars
around a much larger pillar. Destroy the large pillar to trigger a fight,
defeat the enemies to open the door to the Dark Castle. That accomplished,
don't enter yet, we have more questing to do.

Head to Dungeon, Great Demon and clear it, but ignore Gigantess for now, it's
a bit tough, but we'll be back shortly. Before heading out the northeast exit
(back into the center Marmo map), make sure to grab all the ancients from this
area, they are:

NW Marmo - Mountains:
  DEX +6 (Southeast of Dark Castle)
  Magic Power +6 (South of Dungeon, Great Demon)
  Parrying +5 (North of Dungeon, Great Demon)
  Regeneration Point +2 (North of Dungeon, Gigantess)
  MP Charge Point +3 (South of Dungeon, Gigantess)
  Damage +9 (West of Dungeon, Gigantess)

Once in the desert, head to Dungeon, Kimera and clear it. Then head south
making a stop to pick up the MP +5 ancient slightly west of the main path.
Follow the winding path all the way to Dungeon, Demon Lord. You will probably
want to switch to a weapon with good range, or the Sacred Sphere ancient power
to take out the 4 armed demons, as they cause stun, and summon others, which
can result in a deadly pin, especially if a chimera is near to lend firepower.

Make sure you save once you get to the Dungeon, the boss, while not as hard
as the last 5 dungeons (which we will be getting right to, lucky us) is hard
enough, and you really DON'T want to walk back here again. After you finally
defeat it, (took me 3 tries this time, and I knew what I was doing), do not
recall immediately, instead head to the northeast and take the now available
portal back to the Goblin Fort. You have opened up the Marmo-wide transport
system, and for now on, our walks are gonna be alot shorter =).

On your way out Pirotess will tell you to come to the Dark Castle immediately,
ignore her, as most games there is no time limit, and we have more important
fish to fry.

Head off to the Dark Elf Village and turn in the 8 medallions you've gathered
for the last 2 pieces of the Gothic Heaven set, most likely you'll want to
wear these as they are rather nice. I would also suggest that you put all of
the mithril you got from the Demon Lord dungeon into Magic Power and INT. If
your magic is low, or Damage and STR if your damage is low, you're going to
need both to make it.

Our next goal is to finish the last 5  medallion dungeons, I suggest the
following order: Sandworm, Lethan Demon, Gigantess, Hell Lord, Mithril Golem.
To get to Lethal Demon, take the teleporter that reads Demon Lord... gotta
love typos in the game.

Also, don't forget to pick up these ancients:

NE Marmo - Swamp
  Armor +10 (West of Dungeon, Lethal Demon)
SW Marmo - Ruins
  Tenacious Firmness (North of Dungeon, Mithril Golem)
Center Marmo - Lake Shore
  MP Charge Speed +3 (North of Dungeon, Hell Lord)
  Prevent +3 (West of Dungeon, Hell Lord. Kill a red demon lord to trigger it).

We're now ready to take a stab at the Narse subquest. Do the dungeons in the
following order. If you're having trouble, check the subquest section for help.

Helmet (by Oasis in desert)
Shield (south of Dungeon, High Imp/Medusa in the Ruins)
Sword (south of Dungeon, Lethal Demon)
Armor (north of Dungeon, Hell Lord)

After you get all of these, wear them and talk to Slayn in the Cave of Narse.
Tell him you accept the honor of being his guardian, then say you wish to
prepare before challenging him. This will net you the Dragon Buster.

Finally, we're ready for the final level of the game, the Dark Castle.

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3.12 DARK CASTLE
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As you enter the castle, a wall drops and you can no longer recall, shortly
you will talk to Pirotess, it doesn't matter what you say, eventually she will
join you. Explore the entrance floor fully before leaving, it's small. There
are two points of interest, a huge chunk of mithril which when mined triggers
a fight, and a magically sealed door. Behind the door is a yellow monument,
read it to cause a sparkly to appear. Step on the sparkly to cause 6 monsters
to appear, they must be killed in the following order or else they will come
back. Red Skeleton -> Green Naga -> Brown Titan -> Blue Puddle -> Black Shadow
Stalker -> White Demon. Your reward for this is the Gothic Marfa Helmet.

After this, leave the floor and Pirotess will talk to you again, follow the
path back into the castle, you will see a portal, but don't take it immediately.
Instead go on, a brief scene will ensue, then you will talk to Ashram, he will
give you various items depending on what (and if) you ask for. The possiblities
are a Speed Ring +2, a Magic Resist Cape, both the ring and the cape, nothing,
and a Soulbreaker Clone sword. If you use 2-handed weapons, the soulbreaker
clone is nice, otherwise I'd be greedy and go for the cape + ring since the
cape is useful against Wagnard. BTW, you have a random chance of finding the
cape and ring anywhere in the Dark Castle, and the sword in the Cold Caves, so
don't feel as if you'll miss out on the items whichever you choose.

Now head back through the portal, and save.

The next few floors of the castle are fairly simple, I will point out items
not to miss, and give help with the puzzles, but I expect that you will be
fully mapping out the floors, they aren't complex.

Dark Castle (Top Floor)
  Ancients: Regenerate Point +3, HP +9
  Items: Book of the Wind

  The "boss" is a cowardly skeleton who blocks the stairs, after you kill
  his minions, just walk around and finish the job. You won't even have to
  walk around again after =).

Dark Castle (1st Floor)
  Ancients: Regenerate Speed +3, Impact +2
  Items: Gothic Marfa Helmet, Book of Black Magic

  To advance on this floor, destroy the throne in the north of the floor.
  The boss is a shadow stalker that can freeze you, he will summon 3 waves
  of enemies to help him, during the first 2, hit him before he finishes his
  countdown so he can't freeze you, during the third wave it is best to take
  the enemies out and deal with being occasionally frozen, at least if you
  want to keep Ashram alive.

Dark Castle (2nd Floor)
  Items: Book of the Dead

  This is the fight with Wagnard, I have heard many people complain about how
  hard he is, and unfortunately, I can't MAKE him hard to find out what the
  problems people have are. His gust attack didn't even knock me over (I was
  wearing full dragon armor and had 60 resist thunder/fire/cold 24 dark) and
  I wasn't wearing ANY items to give me levitation or knockdown resist. I
  usually start by thining the crowd so Ashram will survive, then knocking out
  the pillars since as long as they are intact, monsters will keep appearing
  (salamanders for the west pillar, flame demons for the east). My durability
  was at 169 and my parry at 387, if anyone can figure out what makes him hard
  let me know so I can write an appropriate strategy.

  Ashram will leave you at the start of the next floor, so at least you don't
  have to worry about keeping him alive anymore.

Dark Castle (3rd Floor)
  Ancients: Regeneration Point +4, Prevent +2
  Items: Book of Walls, Gothic Marfa Shield.

  This floor is the home of the infamous trial by fire test to get the Gothic
  Marfa armor. To do this (I succeeded the first try with this combo) use the
  Gothic Dragon set with the following ancients: Dragon Scales, Mana to Flesh,
  Tenacious Firmness, Miley's Shield. You NEED parry for this, so buy some if
  you have ignored it to date, there is no way to get by this fight without
  parry which prevents stagger and knockdown. Now the secret to this fight,
  don't fight. I got through it without even healing once, my resists are at
  level 20 a piece and all of my regen attributes are maxed. If you swing your
  sword you may move off the spot. Instead, use mirror, and keep it up at all
  times, this will if you are oriented correctly (I faced west) keep the giant
  from ever charging to knock you down. The only other threat is the golem,
  and all I can say there is hope you have high parry and that the enemies
  keep him from hitting you too much. (If you don't fight you should be fairly
  thickly surrounded).

  To activate the boss, you need to destroy the 4 statues of Falaris located
  in approximately the 4 corners of the level.
  The boss is 3 giants, not much complex here, just a brute force fight. Only
  thing worth mentioning is don't let them gang up on you.

Dark Castle (4th Floor)
  Ancients: Incarnation of Goddess, Magic of the Wise Men.
  Items: Gothic Marfa Armor

  This floor is simple in layout, but long to walk through, you need to take
  the level clockwise, starting out with the east. To get the out with the
  Gothic Marfa armor, simply use a spell to kill the magician through the
  door.  To get the Incarnation of Goddess ancient, kill all the monsters in
  the room near the southeast corner. When you get to the room with the
  sparkly, destroy the 3 small Falaris statues, then step on it, kill all
  the enemies to move onward. This floor is the mark of beginning to see
  medusas as enemies, but here they only come one at a time, so you will have
  plenty of time to recover if you get stoned, later on when they swarm, you
  will grow to dread them. The southwest corner has a locked door, don't
  worry you will get behind that when you finish floor 5.

  The boss of this floor is a medusa, for the first half of the fight, she
  will play healer while you fight her minions. If you've pumped demon and
  golem buster to 25 as I have suggested countless times, you should have no
  problem killing them faster than she can heal. If the golem is a problem,
  you can also use fire wall, but I just used Secret of the Holy Sword and
  killed it in one critical hit. After her minions are gone, she summons a
  swarm of nagas and jumps into the fray. This should be no problem.

Dark Castle (5th Floor)
  All that really happens on this floor is a boss fight with Wagnard again
  (this time he's UNDEAD!!) you can walk blindly over the holes in the path
  with no problem, just there for effect I guess.
  When you fight Wagnard, take out the pillars first, so he can't bring more
  minions into the fight. Keep moving as much as you can, he will likely kill
  his own minions while trying to firecage you. After all the pillars and
  minions are dead, melee him, his melee does ALOT of damage, so watch your
  HP, but other than his damage, he isn't too tough and his HP are kind of low.
  When you defeat him, you get the Holy Sword ancient. Go upstairs to the
  corridor, then down to Cold Caves level 6 and the next section.

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3.13 COLD CAVES AND THE BONUS QUESTS
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This section is missing for now - Sorry guys, time crunch. =(

All I can say here is if you're going for mithril stay on floor 8, since there
are not many medusas and you can mine freely. If you want to get the ancients,
just take it slow and save every time you accomplish something. Wear the immune
stone from Karla, and carry a couple rings of stone to throw on if you get
petrified. I always found high Magic Power and vortex the easiest method to
fight the mithril golems here, but various strategys work.

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3.14 ENDGAME
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For now, we are skipping the Cold Caves, they are the hardest part of the game
and entirely optional. If you insist on visiting them first, go ahead and skip
ahead a section, but I suggest that you finish the game first, then goto the
cold caves for an additional challenge (same with the dragons).

The only things you can access in the cut off part of the Cold Caves 6 you
start in are the Critical Damage +2 ancient in the southeast corner, and
a green puddle queen. Kill the puddle to open a portal down to Cold Caves 8.

This is where you would enter the Cold Caves proper if you were doing them,
for now, just head west and down to Cold Caves 9. Walk south a bit and a
conversation with Wart ensues. After this, save at the nearby crystal, then
head west into the ice and step on the sparkly for the fight with Karla.

She is hard, and summon Ruselb and Shoedle to help her. Not only that, but
apparently these two have been working out in the underworld because they
are much tougher now. If you get ganged up on by any 2 you will probably die
quickly as they dish damage out nicely. To beat them, I run around dodging
for a but until Karla starts summoning walls (the foolish woman). Using these
walls as seperators, single out a target and kill it. Shoedle is the easiest
to take out first, though Karla has less HP she teleports around. Ruselb is
the hardest to take out, but makes up for it by being the least damaging. When
you defeat the trio, you will be awarded with an immune stone, and the entrance
to the Temple of Kardis will be unblocked.

Head east for a Conversation with Wart, and the appearance of a red portal.
This is your LAST CHANCE to goto the Goblin Fort before you face Kardis. I
suggest you grab any immortal potions you have, and make sure you've spent
every last drop of mithril. You may want to consider bringing two sets of
equipment as well, one with HP and Magic Power, the other a standard combat
outfit. If you do decide to go with dual sets, make sure to bring the Transform
Book. Also bring a Medieval Blade with Lightning Bolt, and any immortal potions
that you have left. Take a few healing potions, but leave enough slots open in
your inventory to carry a full set of armor and weapon.

I used a Wind Hilt with Secret of the Holy Sword, Dragon Armor with Words to
Power, Dragon Shield with Incarnation of Goddess, and Circlet with Magic of
the Wise Men. An alternative would be Harkuring with 2 speed rings and
Mana to Flesh inscribed upon it. If you go the Wind Hilt route, you might want
an accuracy ring on to increase critical chances since it's real close with
these mithril golems.

After you go downstairs, walk until you encounter a platform with a sparkly.
Step on this to start your descent, during this, you do NOT have to fight
anything, it's all a matter of time, not if you kill the enemies. However, the
mithril golems are worth 5000 mithril each. If you fight them with the set I
used, I'd suggest using mirror to distract the golems if you fight them, hitting
them then retreating before they turn and swing.

When you finish the descent, you will reach a save point, feel free to use it,
but don't take the red portal, it is one way back to the Goblin Fort.

I am going to get the Gothic Demon set, this can be hard, so if you get bored
of trying, skip ahead to the boss, and save this after you've gotten some
mithril in the Cold Caves.

To get the pieces of the Gothic Demon armor, you must destroy 4 pillars each
of which triggers a fight with a couple vivals, a medusa, a mithril golem, and
a horde of lethal demons. For added fun, each is harder than the last in terms
of monster HP and damage dealt. Also, once you hit the first pillar, the save
spot disappears and you can't recall, forcing you to do this all or nothing.
Well that's not entirely true, you can do some of them, then fight Kardis to
save your progress, this might be advisable if you're having trouble with the
#4 pillar.

The first piece (helmet) is easy enough, just run after you destroy the pillar.
Take the demons out as they charge you, then pick off everything but the golem.
Use mirror to distract the golem, and hit it from behind run and repeat. Don't
forget to cast mirror every few cycles.

The second (shield) is harder as you are on a cliff with only one exit, which
will be blocked by the golem. Take the medusa which appears near you out, then
cast mirror at the top of the ramp. Take any demons that get near you out, and
when you have mostly everything cleared, lure the mithril golem (using mirror
of course) away from the ramp. Then run down, cast mirror at the bottom to get
it's attention. When it starts down the ramp, move away, cast mirror again,
then use the hunt and peck technique.

The third(armor) is pretty much the same as the second. However, the golem
will take quite a few hits. Don't get impatient and try to hit him too many
times without retreating, killing him slowly is still faster than reloading,
and he will pack a wallop.

The fourth pillar is a little west of where the save spot was. It is across a
chasm and you will have to hit it with magic. Use gust or the medieval sword
with lightning bolt. Both are slow, so pay attention. As soon as the enemies
appear, quaff an immortal potion (if you don't have one, I'd really suggest
skipping this for now). Swing your sword a few times to wipe out the close-by
enemies then run into the clear so you have room. Your reward for killing the
monsters here (very challenging) is the Efreet Wall wand.

After all of this, head to the sparkly near the northwest of the map. Step on
it to cause Kardis to appear. If you have the Efreet Wall, then this item is
awesome for fighting Kardis, otherwise use Fire Wall. Either way, you will want
to switch to HP/Magic Power equipment now, every drop helps.

Kardis flys around the room, firing off energy bolts at you, casting a fire
tornado if you get too close and occasionally teleporting or charging you.
Dodge dodge dodge is the name of the game. If you're using the wand, you will
probably take damage when you attack her, but since the wand fires as rapid
as you hit the button, you should dish it out faster. If you use Fire Wall,
use standard tactics, hide behind corners and lay them in the path you think
she's going to take. Dump them on her if she stands still briefly.

Once she loses half her HP, she summons a huge beast to help her out. This
thing is slow but deadly, it will fire various attacks, all of which are easy
to dodge if you are paying attention. I highly suggest you do such, because
you will die way too rapidly if you don't. Other than additional attacks to
dodge, the strategy remains the same.

If you are having problems winning, you probably need more HP or Magic Power.
Use the red portal to the Goblin Fort (sigh the elevator again eh?) and either
kill Mithril Golems on the elevator for 5k a piece, or mine mithril on Cold
Caves level 8. (every time you leave a floor and come back any method other
than recall the monsters will reset, just to make things nice, in the cold
caves the MITHRIL resets as well).




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4.1 WEAPON ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS
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STR up +1 [Length: 3] (Cost: 50(+25) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 3800)
  The STR up ancients increase STR on a 1:1 basis.
  LOCATION: West of Smithy in Goblin Fort.

STR up +2 [Length: 4] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 7600)
  LOCATION: Dark Forest

STR up +3 [Length: 5] (Cost: 150(+75) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 11400)
  LOCATION: SE Marmo - Hills

STR up +4 [Length: 7] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 15200)
  LOCATION: Underground Ruins (under Underground Canyon)

STR up +5 [Length: 8] (Cost: 250(+125) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 19000)
  LOCATION: Center Marmo - Desert

STR up +6 [Length: 9] (Cost: 300(+150) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 22800)
  LOCATION: ???? MAX +5

Damage up +1 [Length: 3] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 12 Cost to Max: 4500)
  The Damage up ancients increase damage proportional to the weapon,
  for more information see the WEAPON CHART section.
  LOCATION: You start with this ancient.

Damage up +2 [Length: 4] (Cost: 300(+150) Max: 12 Cost to Max: 13500)
  LOCATION: West of Smithy in Goblin Fort.

Damage up +3 [Length: 5] (Cost: 600(+300) Max: 12 Cost to Max: 27000)
  LOCATION: Underground Ruins (under Underground Canyon)

Damage up +4 [Length: 5] (Cost: 1000(+500) Max: 12 Cost to Max: 45000)
  LOCATION: Underground Canyon

Damage up +5 [Length: 6] (Cost: 1500 (+750) Max: 12 Cost to Max: 67500)
  LOCATION: Dark Temple (1st Level)

Damage up +6 [Length: 7] (Cost: 2100(+1050) Max: 12 Cost to Max: 94500)
  LOCATION:N Marmo - Lake Shore

Damage up +7 [Length: 7] (Cost: 2800(+1400) Max: 12 Cost to Max: 126000)
  LOCATION: Center Marmo - Desert

Damage up +8 [Length: 8] (Cost: 3600(+1800) Max: 12 Cost to Max: 162000)
  LOCATION: SW Marmo - Ruins

Damage up +9 [Length: 9] (Cost: 4500(+2250) Max: 12 Cost to Max: 202500)
  LOCATION: NW Marmo - Mountains

Damage up +10 [Length: 10] (Cost: 5500(+2750) Max: 12 Cost to Max: 247500)
  LOCATION: ???? Max +9

Critical Rate +1 [Length: 5] (Cost: 500(+250) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 16250)
  The critical ancients increase critical proportional to the weapon,
  for more information see the WEAPON CHART section.
  LOCATION: Underground Canyon (kill Golem outside Goblin Cave)

Critical Rate +2 [Length: 6] (Cost: 2000(+1000) Max: 5 Cost to Max: 20000)
  LOCATION: Dark Temple (4th Level)

Critical Damage +1 [Length: 6] (Cost: 800(+400) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 92000)
  LOCATION: SE Marmo - Desert

Critical Damage +2 [Length: 7] (Cost: 3200(+1600) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 10400)
  LOCATION: Cold Caves (6th Floor)

Impact up +1 [Length: 6] (Cost: 500(+250) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 16250)
  LOCATION: Underground Ruins (under Underground Canyon)

Impact up +2 [Length: 7] (Cost: 2000(+1000) Max: 4 Cost to Max: 14000)
  LOCATION: Dark Castle (1st Floor)

Fast Attack [Length: 7] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 30 Cost to Max: 48500)
  LOCATION: Dark Forest (after Ruselb's Death)

Goblin Buster [Length: 7] (Cost: 10(+5) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 25645)
  The buster ancients increase damage by 3% per/level to appropriate monsters.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Goblin King

Golem Buster [Length: 10] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 512900)
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Iron Golem

Undead Buster [Length: 10] (Cost: 50(+25) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 128225)
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Titan Zombie

Elf Buster [Length: 10] (Cost: 10(+5) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 25645)
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Elder Knight

Dragon Buster [Length: 10] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 256450)
  LOCATION: NO MONUMENT: Get it for Completing Narse's Quest

Demon Buster [Length: 10] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 512900)
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Great Demon

Elemental Buster [Length: 8] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 256450)
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Paddle Queen

Lizardman Buster [Length: 8] (Cost: 10(+5) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 25645)
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Lizardman

Magician Buster [Length: 10] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 512900)
  LOCATION: Dragon Guardian (Narse's Quest): Helm

Wing Buster [Length: 8] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 512900)
  LOCATION: Cold Caves

Horn Buster [Length: 8] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 512900)
  LOCATION: Cold Caves

Scale Buster [Length: 8] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 512900)
  LOCATION: Dragon Guardian (Narse's Quest): Shield

Weapon Buster [Length: 10] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 512900)
  LOCATION: Dragon Guardian (Narse's Quest): Armor

Armor Buster [Length: 10] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 512900)
  LOCATION: Dragon Guardian (Narse's Quest): Sword

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4.2 WEAPON ANCIENT POWERS
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Mana to Flesh! [Length: 8]
  Halves your MP and triples your HP (you can have more than 9999 HP)
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Titan

Words to the Sword! [Length: 10]
  For every plus on your sword you gain 1 damage. This is NOT the same as
  damage rating, and is literaly ONLY 1 point per point.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Hell Lord

Rock Buster [Length: 9]
  Doubles your critical damage multiple.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Goblin Master

Secret of the Holy Sword [Length: 6]
  Doubles your critical rate.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Sandworm

Sword be Lightning! [Length: 6]
  Increases the speed of your weapon.
  LOCATION: Cold Caves

Sword of Darkness [Length: 6]
  Your weapon deals elemental damage (Dark).
  LOCATION: Dark Temple (4th Level)

Holy Sword [Length: 6]
  Your weapon deals elemental damage (Holy).
  LOCATION: Dark Castle (5th Floor)

Sword of Fire [Length: 6]
  Your weapon deals elemental damage (Fire).
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Gargoyle

Sword of Ice [Length: 6]
  Your weapon deals elemental damage (Cold).
  LOCATION: Cold Caves (level 8)

Sword of Thunder [Length: 6]
  Your weapon deals elemental damage (Lightning).
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Demon Lord

Goblin Killer [Length: 5]
  When a goblin type enemy is hit, no damage is dealt, instead it is slain.
  LOCATION: Goblin Caves

Elf Killer [Length: 6]
  When an elf type enemy is hit, no damage is dealt, instead, it is slain.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Dark Shaman

Lizardman Killer [Length: 6]
  When a lizardman type enemy is hit, no damage is dealt, instead it is slain.
  LOCATION: Dark Temple (3rd Level)

Firebolt [Length: 5]
  Launches a firebolt projectile.
  DAMAGE = (Magic Power *2)+100
  LOCATION: Dark Elf Village (west side)

Fireball [Length: 6]
  Launches a fireball projectile.
  DAMAGE = (Magic Power *3)+120
  LOCATION: Hills of Falaris

Explosion [Length: 8]
  Explosive damage in a radius around you.
  DAMAGE = (Magic Power *10)+150
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Flame Demon

Holy Photon [Length: 5]
  NOTE: Holy attacks deal x2 damage to demons and x3 to undead.
  Fires a bolt that can travel through obstacles and damages undead/demons.
  DAMAGE = (Magic Power *2)+100
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Zombie

Valkyrie Javelin [Length: 6]
  Hurls holy javelins that damage undead/demons. Hits mutliple targets.
  DAMAGE = (Magic Power *2)+150
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Lizard King

Sacred Sphere [Length: 8]
  Creates a ring around you that heals allies and damages undead/demons.
  This effect hits multiple times each second and is powerful.
  HEALING = (Magic Power * 0.25) DAMAGE = (Magic Power * 0.25) +20
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Giant Zombie

Lightning Bolt [Length: 5]
  Fires a lightning bolt projectile.
  DAMAGE = (Magic Power*2)+150
  LOCATION: Underground Canyon

Electric Body [Length: 8]
  For a (very) short time you will have an electric aura, any enemy who gets
  close will be hit. Ok for clearing crowds if you can get it up.
  DAMAGE = (Magic Power*2)+100
  LOCATION: Cold Caves

Ball Lightning [Length: 8]
  Fires multiple lightning orb projectiles which bounce off of walls.
  DAMAGE = Magic Power +80
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Gigantess

Hit the Wound [Length: 8]
  If you hit the enemy multiple times in succession, the additional hits will
  do higher damage.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Salamander

Vampire's Tusk [Length: 8]
  You will heal half of the damage you deal with your weapon.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Phantom

Revive as Mithril [Length: 10]
  When an enemy is killed it drops mithril based on the damage it takes and
  it's difficulty. The mithril dropped caps at 500.
  LOCATION: Cold Caves (6th Floor)

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4.3 ARMOR ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS
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HP up +1 [Length: 3] (Cost: 50(+25) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 5750)
  The HP up ancients increase HP on a 1:1 basis.
  LOCATION: West of Smithy in Goblin Fort.

HP up +2 [Length: 4] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 11500)
  LOCATION: SE Marmo - Hills

HP up +3 [Length: 5] (Cost: 150(+75) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 17250)
  LOCATION: West of Smithy in Goblin Fort.

HP up +4 [Length: 5] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 23000)
  LOCATION: Dark Forest

HP up +5 [Length: 6] (Cost: 250(+125) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 28750)
  LOCATION: Underground Ruins (under Underground Canyon)

HP up +6 [Length: 7] (Cost: 300(+150) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 34500)
  LOCATION: NE Marmo - Swamp

HP up +7 [Length: 7] (Cost: 350(+175) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 40250)
  LOCATION: Dark Temple (3rd Level)

HP up +8 [Length: 8] (Cost: 400(+200) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 46000)
  LOCATION: Center Marmo - Desert

HP up +9 [Length: 9] (Cost: 450(+225) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 51750)
  LOCATION: Dark Castle (Top Floor)

HP up +10 [Length: 10] (Cost: 500(+250) Max: 99 Cost to Max: 1282250)
  LOCATION: ???? MAX +9

Prevent +1 [Length: 4] (Cost: 1000(+500) Max: 24 Cost to Max: 157000)
  The Prevent ancients reduce damage by a percent equal to their rating.
  Shield and armor Prevent while cumulative are not additive. In example,
  20% on each would reduce 100 damage to 64 NOT 60 (100-20%=80 (-20%=64))
  LOCATION: Dark Temple (4th Level)

Prevent +2 [Length: 7] (Cost: 4000(+2000) Max: 12 Cost to Max: 180000)
  LOCATION: Dark Castle (3rd Floor)

Regen Speed +1 [Length: 6] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 12 Cost to Max: 9000)
  NOTE: These actually read "Regeneration Speed/Point", but in the interest
  of column length I abbreviated them.
  This ancient reduces the delay of HP regen by 1/3 second per level.
  LOCATION: Pyramid 1st Floor (Dark Elf Village)

Regen Speed +2 [Length: 7] (Cost: 600(+300) Max: 4 Cost to Max: 4200)
  This ancient reduces the delay of HP regen by 1/2 second per level.
  LOCATION: Dark Temple (1st Level)

Regen Speed +3 [Length: 8] (Cost: 1600(+800) Max: 2 Cost to Max: 4000)
NOTE: On the list this reads as a second Regeneration Speed +1
  This ancient reduces the delay of HP regen by 1 second per level.
  LOCATION: Dark Castle (1st Floor)

Regen Point +1 [Length: 7] (Cost: 400(+200) Max: 8 Cost to Max: 8800)
  These ancients increase the amount of HP you regain when you regenerate.
  (speed based on the regenerate speed ancient) on a 1:1 basis.
  LOCATION: Underground Ruins (under Underground Canyon)

Regen Point +2 [Length: 8] (Cost: 800(+400) Max: 6 Cost to Max: 10800)
  LOCATION: NW Marmo - Mountains

Regen Point +3 [Length: 9] (Cost: 1600(+800) Max: 4 Cost to Max: 11200)
  LOCATION: Dark Castle (Top Floor)
 
Regen Point +4 [Length: 10] (Cost: 3200(+1600) Max: 2 Cost to Max: 8000)
  LOCATION: Dark Castle (3rd Floor)

DEX up +1 [Length: 3] (Cost: 40(+20) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 3040)
  The DEX up ancients increase DEX on a 1:1 basis.
  LOCATION: West of Smithy in Goblin Fort.

DEX up +2 [Length: 4] (Cost: 80(+40) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 6080)
  LOCATION: ???? MAX +1

DEX up +3 [Length: 5] (Cost: 120(+60) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 9120)
  LOCATION: Dark Forest

DEX up +4 [Length: 7] (Cost: 160(+80) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 12160)
  LOCATION: Underground Canyon

DEX up +5 [Length: 8] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 15200)
  LOCATION: N Marmo - Lake Shore

DEX up +6 [Length: 9] (Cost: 240(+120) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 18240)
  LOCATION: NW Marmo - Mountains

Armor +1 [Length: 3] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 3250)
  The armor up ancients increase armor proportional to the item,
  for more information see the ARMOR/SHIELD/HELMET CHART sections.
  LOCATION: You start with this ancient.

Armor +2 [Length: 4] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 6500)
  LOCATION: Pyramid Ground Floor (Dark Elf Village) 

Armor +3 [Length: 5] (Cost: 300(+150) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 9750)
  LOCATION: Dark Forest

Armor +4 [Length: 5] (Cost: 400(+200) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 13000)
  LOCATION: N Marmo - Lake Shore

Armor +5 [Length: 6] (Cost: 500(+250) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 16250)
  LOCATION: Dark Temple (2nd Level)

Armor +6 [Length: 7] (Cost: 600(+300) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 19500)
  LOCATION: SE Marmo - Desert

Armor +7 [Length: 7] (Cost: 1400(+700) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 46500)
  LOCATION: SW Marmo - Ruins

Armor +8 [Length: 8] (Cost: 2400(+1200) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 78000)
  LOCATION: ???? MAX +7

Armor +9 [Length: 9] (Cost: 3600(+1800) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 117000)
  LOCATION: ???? MAX +8

Armor +10 [Length: 10] (Cost: 5000(+2500) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 162500)
  LOCATION: NE Marmo - Swamp

Durability +1 [Length: 3] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 3250)
  The durability ancients increase durability proportional to the armor,
  for more information see the ARMOR CHART section.
  LOCATION: Cave of Narse

Durability +2 [Length: 4] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 6500)
  LOCATION: NE Marmo - Swamp

Durability +3 [Length: 5] (Cost: 300(+150) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 9750)
  LOCATION: Cave of Narse

Durability +4 [Length: 7] (Cost: 400(+200) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 1300)
  LOCATION: SW Marmo - Ruins

Durability +5 [Length: 8] (Cost: 1000(+500) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 32500)
  LOCATION: ???? MAX +4

Durability +6 [Length: 9] (Cost: 1800(+900) Max: 30 Cost to Max: 436500)
  LOCATION: ???? MAX +5

Crit Resist +1 [Length: 4] (Cost: 50(+25) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 1625)
  NOTE: These actually read "Critical Resistance", but in the interest of
  column length I abbreviated them.
  LOCATION: Dark Forest

Crit Resist +2 [Length: 5] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 3250)
  LOCATION: Center Marmo - Desert

Crit Resist +3 [Length: 6] (Cost: 150(+75) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 4875)
  LOCATION: SW Marmo - Ruins

Crit Resist +4 [Length: 8] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 6500)
  LOCATION: ??? MAX +3

Crit Resist +5 [Length: 9] (Cost: 500(+250) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 16250)
  LOCATION: ??? MAX +4

Crit Resist +6 [Length: 10] (Cost: 1200(+600) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 138000)
  LOCATION: ??? MAX +5

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4.4 ARMOR ANCIENT POWERS
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Great Reincarnation [Length: 9]
  Doubles the speed of HP regeneration
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Monster Insect

Words to Power! [Length: 6]
  For every plus on your armor you gain 1 STR
  LOCATION: Dungeon, High Imp

Body of Steel [Length: 5]
  Doubles your AR.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Mithril Golem

Tenacious Firmness [Length: 5]
  Doubles your durability.
  LOCATION: SW Marmo - Ruins

Body Control [Length: 5]
  Doubles your Resist Critical
  LOCATION: Cave of Narse

Feet of the Cat [Length: 6]
  Gives you STEP S (silent)
  LOCATION: N Marmo - Lake Shore

Levitation [Length: 5]
  Prevents damage from ground based traps and prevents knockdown.
  LOCATION: SE Marmo - Hills

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4.5 SHIELD ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS
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HP up +1 [Length: 3] (Cost: 50(+25) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 5750)
  The HP up ancients increase HP on a 1:1 basis.
  LOCATION: West of Smithy in Goblin Fort.

HP up +2 [Length: 4] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 11500)
  LOCATION: SE Marmo - Hills

HP up +3 [Length: 5] (Cost: 150(+75) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 17250)
  LOCATION: West of Smithy in Goblin Fort.

HP up +4 [Length: 5] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 23000)
  LOCATION: Dark Forest

HP up +5 [Length: 6] (Cost: 250(+125) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 28750)
  LOCATION: Underground Ruins (under Underground Canyon)

Prevent +1 [Length: 4] (Cost: 1000(+500) Max: 24 Cost to Max: 157000)
  The Prevent ancients reduce damage by a percent equal to their rating.
  Shield and armor Prevent while cumulative are not additive. In example,
  20% on each would reduce 100 damage to 64 NOT 60 (100-20%=80 (-20%=64))
  LOCATION: Dark Temple (4th Level)

Prevent +2 [Length: 7] (Cost: 4000(+2000) Max: 12 Cost to Max: 180000)
  LOCATION Dark Castle (3rd Floor)

Prevent +3 [Length: 10] (Cost: 8000(+4000) Max: 8 Cost to Max: 176000)
  LOCATION: Center Marmo - Lake Shore (Kill red demon lord)

Armor +1 [Length: 3] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 3250)
  The armor up ancients increase armor proportional to the item,
  for more information see the ARMOR/SHIELD/HELMET CHART sections.
  LOCATION: You start with this ancient.

Armor +2 [Length: 4] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 6500)
  LOCATION: Pyramid Ground Floor (Dark Elf Village) 

Armor +3 [Length: 5] (Cost: 300(+150) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 9750)
  LOCATION: Dark Forest

Armor +4 [Length: 5] (Cost: 400(+200) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 13000)
  LOCATION: N Marmo - Lake Shore

Armor +5 [Length: 6] (Cost: 500(+250) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 16250)
  LOCATION: Dark Temple (2nd Level)

Parrying +1 [Length: 3] (Cost: 50(+25) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 1625)
  The parrying ancients increase parry proportional to the shield,
  for more information see the SHIELD CHART section.
  LOCATION: S/E Marmo, Hills (just north of Goblin Fort)

Parrying +2 [Length: 4] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 3250)
  LOCATION: Dark Forest

Parrying +3 [Length: 5] (Cost: 150(+75) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 4875)
  LOCATION: Dark Temple (1st Level)

Parrying +4 [Length: 7] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 6500)
  LOCATION: SW Marmo - Ruins

Parrying +5 [Length: 8] (Cost: 500(+250) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 16250)
  LOCATION: NW Marmo - Mountains

Parrying +6 [Length: 9] (Cost: 1200(+600) Max: 20 Cost to Max: 81000)
  LOCATION: ???? MAX +5

Crit Resist +1 [Length: 4] (Cost: 50(+25) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 1625)
  NOTE: These actually read "Critical Resistance", but in the interest of
  column length I abbreviated them.
  LOCATION: Dark Forest

Crit Resist +2 [Length: 5] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 3250)
  LOCATION: Center Marmo - Desert

Crit Resist +3 [Length: 6] (Cost: 150(+75) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 4875)
  LOCATION: SW Marmo - Ruins

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4.6 SHIELD ANCIENT POWERS
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Incarnation of Goddess [Length: 10]
  This ancient adds +50% to both MP and HP.
  LOCATION: Dark Castle (4th Floor)

Words to fighting technique [Length: 6]
  For every plus on your shield you gain 1 DEX
  LOCATION: Graveyard, Caretaker's Hut

Miley's Shield [Length: 7]
  This ancient doubles parrying.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Lethal Demon

Pain to Mana! [Length: 10]
  This ancient restores MP proportional to the damage you take.
  LOCATION: Dark Temple (Cathedral of Falaris)

Blood Curse [Length: 6]
  While equipped your STR is doubled, but you take 5% of the damage you deal.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Cyclope

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4.7 HELMET ANCIENT INSCRIPTIONS 
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MP up +1 [Length: 3] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 8 Cost to Max: 2200)
  The MP up ancients increase MP on a 1:1 basis.
  LOCATION: Dark Elf Village (north side)

MP up +2 [Length: 4] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 8 Cost to Max: 4400)
  LOCATION: SE Marmo - Hills

MP up +3 [Length: 5] (Cost: 300(+150) Max: 8 Cost to Max: 6600)
  LOCATION: Old Ruins (Underneath Dark Forest)

MP up +4 [Length: 5] (Cost: 400(+200) Max: 8 Cost to Max: 8800)
  LOCATION: NE Marmo - Swamp

MP up +5 [Length: 6] (Cost: 500 (+250) Max: 8 Cost to Max: 11000)
  LOCATION: ???? (I found this one, but lost it in my notes)

MP up +6 [Length: 7] (Cost: 600 (+300) Max: 8 Cost to Max: 13200)
  LOCATION: ???? MAX +5

Cost of curse -1 [Length: 4] (Cost: ???(+??) Max: 8 Cost to Max: ????)
  LOCATION: Cold Caves

MP Charge Speed +1 [Length: 6] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 12 Cost to Max: 9000)
  This ancient reduces the delay of MP regen by 1/3 second per level.
  LOCATION: Underground Ruins (under Underground Canyon)

MP Charge Speed +2 [Length: 7] (Cost: 600(+300) Max: 4 Cost to Max: 4200)
  This ancient reduces the delay of MP regen by 1/2 second per level.
  LOCATION: SW Marmo - Ruins (south side, near Dragon Quest)

MP Charge Speed +3 [Length: 8] (Cost: 800(+400) Max: 2 Cost to Max: 2000)
  This ancient reduces the delay of MP regen by 1 second per level.
  LOCATION: Center Marmo - Lake Shore

MP Charge Point +1 [Length: 7] (Cost: 400(+200) Max: 4 Cost to Max: 2800)
  These ancients increase the amount of MP you regain when you regenerate.
  (speed based on the charge speed ancient) on a 1:1 basis.
  LOCATION:  Cave of Narse

MP Charge Point +2 [Length: 8] (Cost: 800(+400) Max: 3 Cost to Max: 3600)
  LOCATION: N Marmo - Lake Shore

MP Charge Point +3 [Length: 9] (Cost: 1600(+800) Max: 2 Cost to Max: 4000)
  LOCATION: NW Marmo - Mountains

INT up +1 [Length: 3] (Cost: 50(+25) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 3800)
  The INT up ancients increase INT on a 1:1 basis.
  LOCATION: Dark Elf Village (north side)

INT up +2 [Length: 4] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 7600)
  LOCATION: SE Marmo - Hills

INT up +3 [Length: 5] (Cost: 150(+75) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 11400)
  LOCATION: Underground Canyon

INT up +4 [Length: 7] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 15200)
  LOCATION: NE Marmo - Swamp

INT up +5 [Length: 8] (Cost: 250(+15) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 19000)
  LOCATION: SW Marmo - Ruins

INT up +6 [Length: 9] (Cost: 300(+150) Max: 16 Cost to Max: 22800)
  LOCATION: ???? MAX +5

Magic Power +1 [Length: 3] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 6500)
  The magic power ancients increase magic power proportional to the helmet,
  for more information see the HELMET CHART section.
  LOCATION: Old Ruins (under Dark Forest)

Magic Power +2 [Length: 4] (Cost: 400(+200) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 13000)
  LOCATION: ???? MAX +2

Magic Power +3 [Length: 5] (Cost: 600(+300) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 19500)
  LOCATION: N Marmo - Lake Shore

Magic Power +4 [Length: 5] (Cost: 800(+400) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 26000)
  LOCATION: Center Marmo - Desert

Magic Power +5 [Length: 6] (Cost: 1000(+500) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 32500)
  LOCATION: SW Marmo - Ruins

Magic Power +6 [Length: 7] (Cost: 1200(+600) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 39000)
  LOCATION: NW Marmo - Mountains

Magic Power +7 [Length: 7] (Cost: 1400(+700) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 45500)
  LOCATION: ???? MAX +7

Magic Power +8 [Length: 8] (Cost: 1600(+800) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 52000)
  LOCATION: ???? MAX +8

Armor +1 [Length: 3] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 3250)
  The armor up ancients increase armor proportional to the item,
  for more information see the ARMOR/SHIELD/HELMET CHART sections.
  LOCATION: You start with this ancient.

Armor +2 [Length: 4] (Cost: 200(+100) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 6500)
  LOCATION: Pyramid Ground Floor (Dark Elf Village) 

Armor +3 [Length: 5] (Cost: 300(+150) Max: 10 Cost to Max: 9750)
  LOCATION: Dark Forest

Resist Hell [Length: 6] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 40 Cost to Max: 42500)
  The resist ancients increase resistance proportional to the helmet,
  for more information see the HELMET CHART section.
  LOCATION: Pyramid 2nd Floor (Dark Elf Village)

Resist Fire [Length: 6] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 40 Cost to Max: 42500)
  LOCATION: Hills of Faralis (inside temple)

Resist Cold +1 [Length: 6] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 40 Cost to Max: 42500)
  LOCATION: Cave of Narse

Resist Lightning +1 [Length: 6] (Cost: 100(+50) Max: 40 Cost to Max: 42500)
  LOCATION: Dark Forest

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4.8 HELMET ANCIENT POWERS
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Vitalization of Mana [Length: 6]
  This ancient doubles your MP total.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Goblin Lord

Words to Wisdom [Length: 6]
  For every plus on your helmet you gain 1 INT
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Skeleton King

Magic of the Wise Men [Length: 10]
  This ancient doubles magic power with no penalty.
  LOCATION: Dark Castle (4th Floor)

Dragon Scales [Length: 9]
  This ancient doubles all magic resistances.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Kimera

Visualize Noises [Length: 5]
  This ancient allows you to see blue ripples around enemies (including
  invisible/hidden enemies)
  LOCATION: Dark Forest

Barbarian Vitality [Length: 4]
  This ancient adds your MP to your HP then reduces MP to 0.
  LOCATION: Dark Forest

Magic Storm [Length: 6]
  While this ancient is equipped, your magic power is doubled, but your MP
  slowly degenerates instead of regenerates.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Dark Priest




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SECTION 5 - EQUIPMENT
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5.1 Weapons
5.2 Armor
5.3 Shields
5.4 Helmets
5.5 Jewelry (Earrings/Rings/Necklaces)
5.6 Accessories (Belts/Boots/Capes)
5.7 Miscellany

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5.1a - WEAPONS CHART
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The chart can be explained as follows:
WEAPON: Weapon name (HANDS) S= Single D = Double

DMG: A weapons' base damage, damage can be figured by this formula
   Damage = BASE + ((BASE * 0.1) * DAMAGEUP+) + ((BASE * 0.05) * STR)
   STR in this case is your total STR, including equipment STR bonus.

CRITICAL: A weapons' base critical rate followed by (critical damage)
  *RATE is expressed as a percentage of DEX.
   Rate increases @ (BASE * 4)+1 
   (remember base is a % so 15% would be ((0.15 * 4)+1) = 1.6
   To figure current rate: (BASE * DEX) + (((BASE * 4)+1) * CRITICALRATE+)
   Example: DEX: 400, Bastard Sword, 12 points of Critical Rate +
   ((0.15 * 400) = 60) + (((0.15 * 4) + 1 = 1.6) * 12) = 19.2) = 79%
  *DAMAGE is expressed as a multiple to the damage you would normally do.
   To figure damage use: BASE + ((BASE * 0.05) * CRITICALDAMAGE+)

IMP: Is NOT the actual impact rating of the weapon as I never figured the
   scale. It is an approximate scale based on increase due to STR and the
   Impact Up ANCIENT. Not all weapons increase impact at the same rate.

SPEED: Is a weapons' speed expressed as WITHOUT/WITH max Fast Attack ANCIENT.

SIZE: Is a weapons' length copied directly from the game.

CONTENT: Is a weapons' mithril content copied directly from the game.

SLOTS: Is the number of ANCIENT words a weapon can hold copied from game.

WEAPON       (HANDS) |DMG | CRITICAL | IMP | SPEED | SIZE | CONTENT | SLOTS
---------------------+----+----------+-----+-------+------+---------+----------
BASTARD SWORD     (S)| 12 | 15%(2.0) |  D  |  B/A  | 1.8m |    150  |   6    
BLAZING SWORD     (S)| 22 | 15%(2.0) |  D  |  A/S  | 1.8m |   1000  |   8    
BROAD SWORD       (S)| 10 | 10%(1.6) |  D  |  B/A  | 1.7m |    120  |   6    
CLAYMORE          (D)| 16 | 25%(1.8) |  E  |  A/A  | 1.5m |    160  |   9    
DEMON PUNISHER    (D)| 28 | 15%(1.5) |  D  |  C/B  | 1.7m |   1500  |  10    
DRAGON BLADE      (S)| 16 | 25%(2.5) |  D  |  B/A  | 2.0m |   1500  |  10    
ELEMENTAL SWORD   (S)| 10 | 20%(2.5) |  E  |  B/A  | 1.6m |    500  |   8    
ELF RAPIER        (S)|  7 | 50%(3.0) |  E  |  A/S  | 1.6m |   1000  |   6    
FALARIS BLADE     (?)| 15 | 15%(2.0) |  D  |  B/A  | 1.4m |   8000  |   6    
FALCHION          (S)| 10 |  5%(1.8) |  D  |  A/A  | 1.6m |     50  |   6    
FALKS             (D)| 18 | 30%(1.5) |  E  |  A/S  | 1.9m |     85  |   9    
FLAME MOUNTAINS   (D)| 20 | 15%(2.0) |  D  |  A/A  | 1.8m |     80  |   9   
GLADIUS           (S)| 14 | 30%(2.5) |  D  |  S/S  | 1.2m |     60  |   6     
HARKURING SWORD   (D)| 60 | 15%(1.0) |  C  |  D/B  | 2.4m |   2000  |  10    
KNOCKDOWN HAMMER  (S)|  6 |150%(1.0) |  B  |  A/A  | 1.4m |   2000  |   6    
LIGHTNING DAGGER  (S)| 20 |  5%(1.0) |  B  |  A/S  | 1.5m |   2000  |   8    
LONG SWORD        (S)|  9 | 15%(2.0) |  D  |  A/A  | 1.7m |    100  |   6    
MEDIEVAL BLADE    (S)|  4 |  0%(1.0) |  E  |  S/S  | 1.1m |   1000  |  10    
MITHRIL BLADE     (D)| 26 | 25%(2.5) |  D  |  A/A  | 2.0m |  20000  |  10    
OGRE SWORD        (S)| 40 |  0%(1.0) |  E  |  D/B  | 2.0m |   2000  |   6    
ORIENTAL SWORD    (D)| 15 | 30%(8.0) |  E  |  A/A  | 2.2m |  10000  |   8    
SABRE             (S)|  6 | 15%(2.2) |  E  |  A/S  | 1.5m |     30  |   6    
SCIMITAR          (S)|  7 |  5%(2.0) |  E  |  A/A  | 1.4m |     35  |   6    
SHORT SWORD       (S)|  4 |  5%(2.0) |  E  |  A/S  | 1.5m |     20  |   6    
SOULBREAKER CLONE (D)| 22 |  0%(1.0) |  B  |  B/B  | 2.0m |  15000  |  10    
STONE CRASHER     (S)|  7 |  0%(1.0) |  D  |  A/A  | 1.3m |    800  |   6    
TWO HANDED SWORD  (D)| 30 | 15%(1.2) |  C  |  B/A  | 2.0m |    180  |   9    
WICKED SWORD      (S)|  8 |  0%(1.0) |  E  |  A/S  | 1.4m |     10  |  10    
WIND HILT         (S)| 13 | 25%(2.0) |  D  |  A/S  | 2.2m |   1000  |  10    
---------------------+----+----------+-----+-------+------+---------+----------

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5.1b WEAPON LOCATIONS/NOTES
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Bastard Sword: Dark Temple
Blazing Sword: Dungeon, Flame Demon
  This weapon starts with the ancient power Sword of Fire built in.
  It does elemental damage, and cannot have elemental ancient powers attached.
Broad Sword: Underground Canyon
Claymore: Found in cemetery.
Demon Punisher: Dungeon, Hell Lord
  This weapon deals extra damage to demon type enemies.
Dragon Blade: Dragon Guardian subquest.
  This weapon deals extra damage to dragons (which includes chimeras).
Elemental Sword: Dungeon, Salamander
  This weapon deals extra damage to elementals (puddles/salamanders etc).
Elf Rapier: Dungeon, Dark Shaman
  This weapon deals extra damage to demi-humans (elves/goblins/lizardmen).
Falaris Blade: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
  Thie weapon deals extra damage to demons and undead.
Falchion: Pyramid 1st Floor (monster) (Dark Elf Village)
Falks: Canyon
Flame Mountains: Canyon/Goblin Caves
Gladius: Dark Temple
Harkuring Sword: Dungeon, Mithril Golem.
Knockdown Hammer: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Lightning Dagger: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
  This weapon starts with the ancient power Sword of Thunder built in.
  It does elemental damage, and cannot have elemental ancient powers attached.
Long Sword: Canyon/Goblin Cave
Medieval Blade: Dungeon, Dark Priest.
  This weapon reduces the charge time of ancient power projectile attacks.
Mithril Blade: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
  This weapon deals extra damage to creatures with scales and armor.
Ogre Sword: Dungeon, Gigantess
  This weapon kills goblins and lizardmen in one hit.
Oriental Sword: Goblin Fort made by Dwarf for 10000 mithril.
Sabre: Randomly dropped in cemetery.
Scimitar: Cemetery Cave.
Short Sword: Given to you by Wart at the start of the game.
Soulbreaker Clone: Ashram /RANDOM in Cold Caves.
  This weapon comes with the Vampire's Tusk ancient attached. Although you
  can attach it a second time there is no benefit to doing such. If you use
  an ancient power that allows 1-hit kills (Goblin Killer etc) you will get
  no HP back for the kill.
Stone Crasher: Kill Golem in jail underneath Goblin Fort.
  This weapon deals extra damage to golems.
Two Handed Sword: Underground Ruins (under Canyon)
Wicked Sword: Pyramid Ground Floor (chest) (Dark Elf Village)
  This weapon starts with the ancient power Sword of Darkness built in.
  It does elemental damage, and cannot have elemental ancient powers attached.
Wind Hilt: Medallion subquest
  This weapon deals extra damage to winged enemies.

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5.2a ARMOR CHART
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The chart can be explained as follows:

ARMOR: Name of item

AR: This number is the BASE AR of the armor, to calculate actual AR
   use this formula: BASE + ((BASE * 0.1) * ARMOR+)
   NOTE: Only use the ARMOR+ value of the armor here.

DUR: This number is the BASE Durabilty of the armor, to calculate actual
   durability use this formula: BASE + ((BASE * 0.1) * DURABILITY+)

CONTENT: Is an armors' mithril content copied directly from the game.

SLOTS: Is the number of ANCIENT words an armor can hold copied from game.

SPECIAL: Is a brief explanation of the special ability (if any).


ARMOR                | AR | DUR | CONTENT | SLOTS | SPECIAL
---------------------+----+-----+---------+-------+----------------------------
BREAST PLATE         |  4 |   1 |    100  |    5  | none
BRIGANDINE           | 10 |  20 |    160  |    7  | none
CAESAR'S PLATE       | 20 |  12 |    320  |   10  | none
CURZIER ARMOR        | 13 |  16 |    200  |    8  | none
FIELD ARMOR          | 14 |   5 |    180  |    9  | none
FIELD ARMOR MODIFIED | 16 |   6 |    220  |    9  | none
GOTHIC BULL          | 24 |  22 |   5000  |   10  | +404 HP
GOTHIC DEMON         | 14 |  18 |   5000  |   10  | Returns melee damage
GOTHIC DRAGON        | 20 |  16 |   5000  |   10  | +10 Fire/ice/elec resist
GOTHIC EAGLE         | 16 |  16 |   5000  |   10  | +20 DEX
GOTHIC HEAVEN        | 21 |  13 |   5000  |   10  | Fast HP Regen
GOTHIC LILY          | 19 |  11 |   5000  |   10  | +10 INT/Stone Recovery
GOTHIC LION          | 18 |  10 |   5000  |   10  | +40 STR
GOTHIC MARFA         | 17 |  17 |   5000  |   10  | Fast HP Regen/Damage Cancel
GOTHIC OCEAN         | 17 |  20 |   5000  |   10  | Fast MP Regen
HALF PLATE           |  6 |   2 |    120  |    6  | none
HEAVY PLATE          | 18 |  18 |   6000  |   10  | none
*** KNIGHT'S         | 16 |  14 |    240  |   10  | Variety of colors
LIGHT PLATE          |  8 |   3 |    140  |    7  | none
---------------------+----+-----+---------+-------+----------------------------

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5.2b ARMOR LOCATIONS/NOTES
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Breast Plate: Found as part of the tutorial in 3rd room of the game.
Brigandine: Dark Forest/Goblin Cave
Caesar's Plate: Dark Temple /RANDOM
Curizer Armor: Dark Forest
Field Armor: Underground Canyon /RANDOM
Field Armor Modified: Cave of Narse /RANDOM
Gothic Bull: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Gothic Demon: Temple of Kardis.
  This causes melee attackers to suffer damage back, the more pieces of this
  set you are wearing, the more damage (up to the full amount they inflicted)
  the attacker will suffer.
Gothic Dragon: Dragon Guardian Subquest.
Gothic Eagle: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Gothic Heaven: Medallion subquest.
Gothic Lily: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Gothic Lion: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Gothic Marfa: Dark Castle (4th Floor)
  Occasionally when hit you will heal equal to the amount of damage taken.
Gothic Ocean: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Half Plate: Beneath the Goblin Fort after clearing it/talking to the Dwarf.
Heavy Plate: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Knights': Cave of Narse (chest)
Light Plate: Pyramid 1st Floor (chest) (Dark Elf Village)


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5.3a SHIELD CHART
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The chart can be explained as follows:

SHIELD: Name of item

AR: This number is the BASE AR of the shield, to calculate actual AR
   use this formula: BASE + ((BASE * 0.2) * ARMOR+)
   NOTE: Only use the ARMOR+ value of the shield here.

PARRY(DEX): This number is the BASE parry of the shield, followed by the parry
   multiplier to DEX. To figure the actual value, add the following formulas.
   ((BASE * 0.2) * PARRYING+) + ((DEX) * DEX)
   In example: 300 DEX with a buckler with 150 points of PARRYING+
   (((9* 0.2) * 150) = 270) + (((0.20) * 300) = 60) = 330
   
CONTENT: Is a shields' mithril content copied directly from the game.

SLOTS: Is the number of ANCIENT words a shield can hold copied from game.

SPECIAL: Is a brief explanation of the special ability (if any).

SHIELD        | AR | PARRY(DEX) | CONTENT | SLOTS | SPECIAL
--------------+----+------------+---------+-------+----------------------------
BUCKLER       |  3 |   9(0.20)  |     30  |    5  | none
GIANT SHIELD  | 14 |   6(0.05)  |   5000  |   10  | none
GOTHIC BULL   | 14 |   7(0.10)  |   4000  |   10  | +404 HP
GOTHIC DEMON  |  7 |  10(0.25)  |   4000  |   10  | Returns melee damage
GOTHIC DRAGON |  9 |   9(0.20)  |   4000  |   10  | +10 Fire/ice/elec resist
GOTHIC EAGLE  |  5 |  12(0.35)  |   4000  |   10  | +20 DEX
GOTHIC HEAVEN | 10 |   8(0.15)  |   4000  |   10  | Fast HP Regen
GOTHIC LILY   |  6 |  11(0.30)  |   4000  |   10  | +10 INT/Stone Recovery
GOTHIC LION   |  8 |   9(0.20)  |   4000  |   10  | +40 STR
GOTHIC MARFA  |  7 |   9(0.20)  |   4000  |   10  | Fast HP Regen/Damage cancel
GOTHIC OCEAN  |  8 |  10(0.25)  |   4000  |   10  | Fast MP Regen
KITE SHIELD   |  7 |  10(0.25)  |    350  |    9  | none
*** KNIGHT'S  |  6 |  10(0.25)  |    100  |    7  | Variety of colors
LARGE SHIELD  |  8 |   8(0.15)  |    300  |    8  | none
ROUND SHIELD  |  4 |   8(0.15)  |     50  |    6  | none
--------------+----+------------+---------+-------+----------------------------

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5.3b SHIELD LOCATIONS/NOTES
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Buckler: Found in the fourth room of the game after defeating the skeleton.
Giant Shield: Hills of Falaris /RANDOM
Gothic Bull: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Gothic Demon: Temple of Kardis
  This causes melee attackers to suffer damage back, the more pieces of this
  set you are wearing, the more damage (up to the full amount they inflicted)
  the attacker will suffer.
Gothic Dragon: Dragon Guardian subquest.
Gothic Eagle: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Gothic Heaven: Medallion subquest.
Gothic Lily: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Gothic Lion: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Gothic Marfa: Dark Castle (3rd Floor)
  Occasionally when hit you will heal equal to the amount of damage taken.
Gothic Ocean: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Kite Shield: Dark Temple (random)
Knights': Dark Forest.
Large Shield: Dark Temple
Round Shield: Beneath the Goblin Fort after clearing it/talking to the Dwarf.

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5.4a HELMET CHART
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The chart can be explained as follows:

HELMET: Name of item

AR: This number is the BASE AR of the helmet, to calculate actual AR
   use this formula: BASE + ((BASE * 0.3) * ARMOR+)
   NOTE: Only use the ARMOR+ value of the helmet here.

MAG: This number is the multiplier to the MAGICPOWER+ Ancient on a helmet.
   In example: if you have 50 levels of MAGICPOWER+ on a hood, you would
   get a benefit of (50 * 0.2) = 10.

D/F/I/E: Are the BASE values versus Dark/Fire/Ice/Electric. To calculate your
   actual resistance value use the following formula:
   (RESIST+ * 0.5) + ((BASE * 0.125) * RESIST+)
   Where RESIST+ is Resist Hell/Resist Fire/Resist Cold/Resist Lightning as
   appropriate.
   
CONTENT: Is a helmets' mithril content copied directly from the game.

SLOTS: Is the number of ANCIENT words a helmet can hold copied from game.

SPECIAL: Is a brief explanation of the special ability (if any).

HELMET        | AR | MAG | D/F/I/E | CONT | SLOTS | SPECIAL
--------------+----+-----+---------+------+-------+----------------------------
HOOD          |  1 | 0.2 | 0/2/0/0 |   30 |    5  | none
FULL HELMET   |  5 | 0.2 | 0/0/2/0 |  150 |    8  | none
GOTHIC BULL   |  8 | 0.1 | 4/0/0/0 | 3000 |    9  | +404 HP
GOTHIC DEMON  |  4 | 0.6 | 5/3/0/1 | 3000 |    9  | Returns melee damage
GOTHIC DRAGON |  5 | 0.5 | 0/*/*/* | 3000 |    9  | +10 Fire/ice/elec resist
GOTHIC EAGLE  |  4 | 0.6 | 2/0/2/4 | 3000 |    9  | +20 DEX
GOTHIC HEAVEN |  4 | 0.7 | 1/2/2/5 | 3000 |    9  | Fast HP Regen
GOTHIC LILY   |  3 | 1.0 | 0/1/4/1 | 3000 |   10  | +10 INT/Stone Recovery
GOTHIC LION   |  6 | 0.3 | 2/4/0/2 | 3000 |    9  | +40 STR
GOTHIC MARFA  |  3 | 0.5 | 3/3/3/3 | 3000 |    9  | Fast HP Regen/Damage cancel
GOTHIC OCEAN  |  3 | 0.9 | 2/2/5/1 | 3000 |   10  | Fast MP Regen
GREAT HELMET  |  8 | 0.2 | 0/0/0/0 | 4000 |    8  | none
*** KNIGHT'S  |  4 | 0.2 | 2/0/0/0 |   80 |    7  | Variety of colors
SACRED        |  0 | 1.0 | 4/4/4/4 |   10 |   10  | Always 0 AR
STORM HOOD    |  2 | 0.2 | 0/0/0/2 |   50 |    6  | none

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5.4b HELMET LOCATIONS/NOTES
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Hood: This is found in the second room of the game in a wooden chest.
Full Helmet: Dark Temple /RANDOM
Gothic Bull: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Gothic Demon: Temple of Kardis.
  This causes melee attackers to suffer damage back, the more pieces of this
  set you are wearing, the more damage (up to the full amount they inflicted)
  the attacker will suffer.
Gothic Dragon: Dragon Guardian subquest.
  The base resists on this helm for fire/thunder/cold are 1.5 each. Since they
  didn't fit in the chart, I put them here instead.
Gothic Eagle: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Gothic Heaven: Medallion subquest.
Gothic Lily: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Gothic Lion: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Gothic Marfa: Dark Castle (1st Floor)
  Occasionally when hit you will heal equal to the amount of damage taken.
Gothic Ocean: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Great Helmet: RANDOM in Cold Caves.
Knights': Dark Forest
Sacred: Pyramid Ground Floor (Blue Demon drops) (Dark Elf Village)
Storm Hood: Beneath the Goblin Fort after clearing it/talking to the Dwarf.

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5.5 Jewelry
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NOTE: An item with no plus is level 1. Each plus adds a level, so an item
with +3 would be a level 4 item.

On Location, most items are randomly found in chests or dropped by enemies.
If this is otherwise I will give a location, in case of xxx/RANDOM, xxx is
where *I* first encountered said item. Your mileage may vary.

Accurate Ring:
  Increases DEX by 20/level.
  LOCATION: Cemetery Cave /RANDOM

Boost Charm:
  Increases MP by 50/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Temple /RANDOM

Cold Ring:
  Increases Resist Cold by 10/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Temple /RANDOM

Critical Ring:
  Increases Critical Rate by 5%/level.
  NOTE: This is a flat 5% NOT 5% of your total, so 20% +5% = 25% NOT 21%.
  Because of this, it is MUCH more efficient to use +DEX rings.
  LOCATION: Cave of Narse /RANDOM

Dark Talisman:
  Increases Resist Dark by 10/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Castle /RANDOM

Fine Necklace:
  Increases STR/DEX/INT by 2/level.
  Increases MP by 5/level.
  Increases Resist Fire/Dark/Cold/Lightning by 1/level.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Zombie /RANDOM

Fire Ring:
  Increases Resist Fire by 10/level.
  LOCATION: Hill of Falaris /RANDOM

Hell Talisman:
  Decreases STR/DEX/INT by 10/level.
  Increases Resist Fire/Dark/Cold/Lightning by 5/level.
  LOCATION: Goblin Fort (crates) /RANDOM

Holy Ring:
  Increases Resist Dark by 10/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Castle /RANDOM

Immune Stone:
  Decreases length of petrification.
  LOCATION: Karla /RANDOM in Cold Caves.

Impact Ring:
  Increases IMPACT.
  LOCATION: Underground Canyon /RANDOM

Knight's Ring:
  Increases STR by 20/level.
  Increases HP by 40/level.
  LOCATION: RANDOM: first found in Pyramid.

Magic Charm:
  Increases INT by 20/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Forest /RANDOM

Meiji Charm:
  Increases INT by 30/level.
  Decreases STR by 5/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Castle /RANDOM

Miracle Ring:
  Increases STR by 20/level.
  Increases DEX by 15/level.
  Increases INT by 10/level.
  LOCATION: RANDOM in Cold Caves

Pierce of Ear:
  Increases HEAR by level.
  LOCATION: Pyramid 1st Floor /RANDOM

Pierce of Echo:
  Allows you to see "ripples" around enemies even when invisible.
  LOCATION: Medallion subquest /RANDOM in Cold Caves.

Pierce of Item:
  Allows you to see a shimmer where items are.
  LOCATION: Cold Caves /RANDOM

Pierce of Trap:
  Allows you to see traps and dangerous floor areas.
  LOCATION: Medallion subquest /RANDOM in Cold Caves.

Prevent Ring:
  Increases Prevent by 3%/level.
  RANDOM in Cold Caves.

Prevent Talisman:
  Increases Prevent by 4%/level.
  RANDOM in Cold Caves.

Protection Ring:
  Increases AR by 3%/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Castle /RANDOM

Ring of Mana:
  Increases MP by 30/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Castle /RANDOM

Ring of Power:
  Increases STR by 20/level.
  LOCATION: Cemetery /RANDOM

Ring of Stone:
  Reduces length of petrification.
  LOCATION: Cave of Narse /RANDOM (and 1 preset in Hills of Falaris)

Ring of Toughness:
  Increases HP by 50/level.
  LOCATION: Cemetery Cave (monster) /RANDOM

Ring of Wisdom:
  Increases INT by 10/level.
  LOCATION: Goblin Cave (monster) /RANDOM

Soul Talisman:
  Prevents MP drain by enemies.
  Increases MP by 20/level.

Speed Ring:
  Increases swing speed of sword.
  LOCATION: Ashram /RANDOM

Strike Ring:
  Increases Damage by 2%/level.
  Increases IMPACT.
  LOCATION: Hills of Falaris /RANDOM

Sword Ring:
  Increases Damage by 5%/level.
  LOCATION: Underground Canyon /RANDOM

Thunder Ring:
  Increases Resist Lightning by 10/level.
  LOCATION: Underground Canyon /RANDOM

Time Ring:
  Decreases charge time to use ancient powers.
  LOCATION: Dark Temple /RANDOM

Wizard Ring:
  Increases INT by 10/level.
  Increases MP by 20/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Temple /RANDOM

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5.6 Accessories
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NOTE: An item with no plus is level 1. Each plus adds a level, so an item
with +3 would be a level 4 item.

On Location, most items are randomly found in chests or dropped by enemies.
If this is otherwise I will give a location, in case of xxx/RANDOM, xxx is
where *I* first encountered said item. Your mileage may vary.

Boots:
  Increases STEP
  LOCATION: Cemetery Cave (tutorial)

Cloth Belt:
  Increases HP by 100/level.
  LOCATION: Goblin Fort, parapet /RANDOM

Cold Coat:
  Increases Resist Cold by 10/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Castle /RANDOM

Fire Coat:
  Increases Resist Fire by 10/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Forest /RANDOM

Guarding Belt:
  Increases Parrying by 20/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Forest /RANDOM

Heavy Boots:
  Increases AR by 3%/level.
  Prevents knockdown.
  Decreases STEP
  LOCATION: Goblin Fort (jail) /RANDOM in Cold Caves.

Ironguard Boots:
  Increases AR by 5%/level.
  Decreases STEP
  LOCATION: Cemetery Cave (tutorial)

Leather Boots:
  Increase Lightning Resist by 10/level
  Increases STEP
  LOCATION: Pyramid 1st Floor (Dark Elf Village) /RANDOM

Levitation Cape:
  Prevents knockdown and avoids ground based traps.
  Increases DEX by 5/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Castle /RANDOM

Magic Resist Coat:
  Increases Resist ALL MAGIC by 20%/level.
  LOCATION: Ashram /RANDOM

Protection Belt:
  Increases AR by 5%/level.
  LOCATION: Underground Canyon /RANDOM

Rabbit Buckle:
  Increases Parrying by 40/level.
  Decreases AR by 5%/level.

Silent Boots:
  Increases DEX by 30/level.
  Increases STEP.
  LOCATION: Dark Castle /RANDOM

Soul Buckle:
  Increases AR by 3%/level.
  Prevents MP drain by enemies.

Soul Cape:
  Increases DEX by 10/level.
  Increase MP by 10/level.
  Prevents MP drain by enemies.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Skeleton King /RANDOM

Speed Boots:
  Increases DEX by 5/level.
  Increases STEP
  LOCATION: Dark Forest/RANDOM

Thunder Coat:
  Increases Resist Lightning by 10/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Castle /RANDOM

Turtle Buckle:
  Increases AR by 10%/level.
  Decreases Parrying by 10/level.
  LOCATION: Underground Canyon /RANDOM

Wilderness Boots:
  Increases STR by 10/level.
  Increases DEX by 20/level.
  Increases INT by 5/level.
  LOCATION: Dark Temple /RANDOM

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5.7 Miscellany
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On Location, most items are randomly found in chests or dropped by enemies.
If this is otherwise I will give a location, in case of xxx/RANDOM, xxx is
where *I* first encountered said item. Your mileage may vary.

Decoding Book:
  Unlocks magically sealed doors. Unlimited use.
  LOCATION: Dungeon, Lizard King

Decoding Scroll:
  Unlocks magically sealed doors. One use.
  LOCATION: Various

Efreet Wall:
  A wand that allows you to cast thunder bolts from the items menu. (Uses MP)
  LOCATION: Temple of Kardis

Elixir:
  Fills HP and MP.
  LOCATION: Dark Forest /RANDOM

Empty Bottle (large):
  Fill with healing potion at wells, holds 4 doses.
  LOCATION: Tutorial dungeon/Medallion Quest ( medallions)

Empty Bottle (medium):
  Fill with healing potion at wells, holds 2 doses.
  LOCATION: A couple are in the starting dungeons, random after that.

Empty Bottle (small):
  Fill with healing potion at wells, holds 1 dose.
  LOCATION: RANDOM

Freezing Potion:
  Adds cold element to your attacks temporarily.
  LOCATION: Dark Castle /RANDOM

Handbell:
  Ring to make noise (attract monsters, infinite use)
  LOCATION: Dark Forest (chest)

Healing Potion:
  Fills HP.
  LOCATION: I think the tutorial is the only place you get one of these.

Heat Potion:
  Adds fire element to your attacks temporarily.
  LOCATION: Dark Forest /RANDOM

Immortal Potion:
  Makes you temporarily invulnerable.
  LOCATION: Medallion subquest /RANDOM in Cold Caves.

Lockpick:
  Used to open locked iron chests.
  LOCATION: Everywhere, also can duplicate them.

Lucky Potion:
  Prevents critical hits by enemies.
  LOCATION: RANDOM

Magic Crystal:
  Completely fills your MP.
  LOCATION: Various places, can also ask for one at Goblin Fort.

Refresh Stone:
  Potion that cures petrification.
  LOCATION: Cave of Narse /RANDOM

Ruselb's Head:
  Proof that you have killed Ruselb, give it to Narse.
  LOCATION: Ruselb... (Dark Forest)

Shoedle's Head:
  Proof that you have killed Shoedle, give it to Narse.
  LOCATION: Shoedle... (Dark Temple)

Skull Statue Key:
  Needed for entrance to Dark Castle.
  LOCATION: Narse gives it to you.

Thunder Wall:
  A wand that allows you to cast thunder bolts from the items menu. (Uses MP)
  LOCATION: Room of Resurrection (the room Wart revived you in) after killing
  Kardis

Transform Book:
  Allows you to switch with piece of equipment has your engraved ancients.
  LOCATION: Goblin Fort Smithy after you have reached Dark Elf Village.




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