Shadowcaster - Player’s Guide

Ruinsa - Level 1
You appear on this level at 1-6, facing east. You’ll quickly meet a weak monster 
with a glowing brain. A few good kicks will dispatch him. Wander over and touch 
the obelisk and you’ll gain the Maorin (cat) form. Touching the obelisk also 
unlocks the door, behind which is a teleporter that takes you to another location 
on the level. There is a floating chest in this area that shoots fireballs at you if you 
stand still. Once you kill it, a silver key and a float seed will fall to the floor. Place 
the key on the magic pedestal and the statue will slide back, revealing a teleporter 
to the Ruinadrn level.
To the east of the sliding statue is an area with a few monsters, and to the north 
you’ll find an area of quicksand. Drop float seeds into the quicksand and they’ll 
grow into vines that you can use as a bridge.
To the northeast of the quicksand are walls that spit fireballs. Use Maorin, who 
can see what triggers the faces using his sight ability, to pass through unharmed. 
You should now be able to see a boomerang on the floor. Make sure that you get 
this, it’s very useful.
To the west of the fireball area there are some disks of woe. Destroy the disks 
using a missile weapon (such as the boomerang that you picked up earlier). 
Behind the fires you find three glowing brain monsters. Kill them, take the stone 
statue head and you’ve finished this level.

Ruinadrn - Level 2
When you slide back the statue in Ruinsa and step on the teleporter, you’ll appear 
at 12-8, facing west. Swim around until you find the plug chain (remember that 
cats can’t swim very well). Pull the plug chain and the water drains away. 
Remember, you can only hurt the bats on this level when they ‘flash’ you. You 
now have to solve the mystery of the skull and the headless skeleton - and it’s a 
bit of a toughy. After putting the head on old Boney, it and the throne suddenly 
morph into a fully working skeleton. Very impressive. Kill the skeleton anyway, 
and the western wall of the room will open up.
Here you’ll find a power potion and a set of Maorin armour. Open the gate to the 
south and you’ll find another stone statue head. Take the teleport out. You should 
appear south of the quicksand in Ruinsa.

Ruinawat - Level 3
This is simply the underwater part of Ruinadrn. Try going below the surface if 
you really want to see lots of clear blue water - and drown slowly but peacefully.

Ruinsb - Level 4
You’ll start this level at 29-18, facing west into a foggy area. The skeletons all 
around you attack as you approach, so be ready for them. To the southeast of your 
starting position is a path, in the middle of which is a key. When you pick this key 
up, large wooden spikes rise up out of the surrounding ground and trap you. Ten 
dwarf cyclops will then appear. After ten seconds or so, the spikes drop and the 
dwarves attack. Kill them. Well, you don’t have to kill them if you’re feeling 
friendly, but that’ll be the end of your game.
North of this area is the ‘skeletons over an open fire’ bit. There’s nothing much 
here, so go around it. To the northwest is a statue head, which you should collect. 
Travel back to the east and swim to the isle that has statues for walls. Kill the 
monster that you encounter, place the stone heads on the headless statues and the 
stairway to Ruinbtem will appear. As if by magic.

Ruinbwat - Level 5
This is merely the underwater section of Ruinsb, and the same advice that applied 
to Ruinawat applies here: stay out or you’ll drown, slowly and horribly.

Ruinbtem - Level 6
You start this level at 15-24, facing north. Make your way to the acid room in the 
northwest and you’ll see a huge disk of woe. Using the boomerang against this 
takes some time, so try the wand of fireballs from Level One if you’re in a hurry.
Destroying the disk creates a bridge across the acid and explodes the wall on the 
other side - enabling you to proceed to Zardaz, the four-armed skeletal wizard. 
Killing him is advisable, because afterwards you can proceed down the hall and 
touch the second obelisk, gaining the Caun form. The door behind the obelisk 
then opens, revealing a teleporter to Temple.

Temple - Level 7
Temple is a sort of base, from which you explore various other levels. However, 
every time you return here you’ll find new monsters to defeat, so be warned.

First Trip 
The first trip through the temple is easy. You arrive at 16-30, facing north, and 
should seek out and destroy four disks of woe, which open the north wall. Go 
through the area with the nother Zardaz, preferably avoiding the fireballs if at all 
possible. Enter the teleport in the northwest corner of the room and you’ll go to 
Castwine.

Second Trip
When you return from the castle levels you’ll appear at 21-4, facing north. Walk 
to the door and open it - you have to freeze the fires just outside - and travel 
through the monsters in the next room. Get to the room with the teleporters in it 
and you’ll see that one of the obelisks has risen out of the ground and has a tip on 
it. The teleporter to the castle should by now have been replaced by a new 
teleporter (which will take you to Wateraci).

Third Trip
Upon returning from the water level, you will be at 11-6, facing west. Make your 
way south. After killing the dragon look north, through some spikes in the floor, 
and you’ll see a rope encased in ice. Melt it free with some form of fire. Destroy 
the rope to lower the spikes, and you can now pick up the Horn Of Shocking.
When you enter the room with the melted chain, a west wall will open to your east 
(it does make sense, honest). This enables you to get back to the teleport/obelisk 
room. Although, of course, the monsters along the way will try their utmost to 
stop you...
In the teleport/obelisk room you’ll notice that two of the four obelisks have 
already risen out of the floor. By the way, don’t worry that the teleport you used 
has vanished. Another appears which will take you to Undrmine, fortunately.

Fourth Trip
While travelling from your starting position at 21-20, facing east, to the 
teleport/obelisk room, you must destroy three dragons. Once you enter said room, 
you’ll see that yet another obelisk has risen from the floor (so now you have a 
grand total of three in your collection!). Again, the teleporter you used last time 
has vanished, while a new one has appeared in its place (which will take you to 
Avamud). You should be seeing a pattern by now...

Fifth Trip
You’ll probably be glad to know that this is your last trip through Temple. You 
start at 2-26, facing south, and must thrash several large spiders and an acid 
dragon on your way to the teleport/obelisk room this time around. All four 
obelisks should now be up, and the only teleporter remaining will be in the centre 
of the room. This takes you to Vestetst.

Castwine - Level 8
You enter the castle at 25-8, facing north. If you look to your left you’ll see that a 
werewolf is trying to rip your arm off. Kill him, then go west, down a long hall 
with a lot of locked cell doors. Eventually, you’ll come to an open room with a 
small table and two werewolves in it. Again, kill them.
The only door you can go through from here is the northern one. Behind it is a 
room with a chain. Pull this chain to unlock (or lock) the doors to the cells and the 
other two doors in this northern area of the castle. Far to the south is the great pit 
of despair. Pull the chain here to raise the cage, and as the cage goes up a sound 
plays and a suit of Caun armour will fall on to the quicksand below. The Caun can 
then snag this with his far-reaching grab (diving into the quicksand isn’t a good 
idea, naturally).
Also on this level is a set of silver armour that fits all your forms, and a silver 
sword that does a lot of damage to werewolves. To get out of this level, go to the 
stairs at 25-13, and they’ll take you to Castthrn.

Castthrn - Level 9
You start at 30-15, facing south. The teleporter looks like a door and will take you 
back to Castwine if you go through it. The teleporter to Castmoon is at 3-7, and 
there’s the first power pool at 6-2. This boosts you and/or your items up by some 
50 power points. Apart from the above, this level is essentially a monster mash, so 
have fun killing everything in sight.

Castmoon - Level 10
This level is quick and easy. You appear at 26-30, facing west. Kill the werewolf 
that’s charging you and open the door. Destroy the werewolf hiding behind this 
door and open the next. Behind this you’ll find two werewolves and a power 
potion. Kill these two and you’ll get to meet the werewolf lord himself. He’s 
slightly harder to kill than his predecessors, but not much. Use the cat’s claws to 
make him drop the obelisk tip and the staff, then place the obelisk tip on the 
obelisk and you’ll gain the Opsis form. You’ll also unlock the door to the north 
that hides the teleporter (which sends you back to Temple).

Undemine - Level 11
You start at 27-30, facing east. To the north is the mine cart area, which contains, 
er, some mine carts. There are a few boar monsters and some Caun to kill here 
too. Go north (there are a few storage areas with crates and crystal bombs here), 
and then east. You’ll come across a room with a drain wheel and the tree of life. 
After killing the boar lord, click on the sprinkler knob and the area around the 
shrub turns blue with water. While the fluid drains away, the shrub will morph 
into the tree of life. The two pieces of fruit restore the bars of the appropriate 
colour when you eat them. Once the tree is fully-grown, a teleporter appears 
behind it. This will take you to Underspi.

Underspi - Level 12
You appear at 1-4, facing south, and must make your way through a cavern filled 
with spiders that cling to both the floor and the ceiling. The acid pool hides the 
second power pool, which, as before, is good for 50 points. Continue to fight your 
way to and then through the mushroom jungle. After entering the northern door 
(past the jungle), you’ll have to find a way to dodge the fireballs and mines in the 
danger room. Once past this you’ll see a lake of acid with a chain in the middle. 
Pull the chain to remove the wall to the west. Through this is a big and nasty 
monster - kill it and you’ll get the obelisk tip.
Once the tip is in your possession, the room containing the acid lake loses a north 
wall. In this new room is the obelisk. Placing the tip in the appropriate position 
gains you the Kahpa form and opens a teleport to the southwest, which will take 
you back to Temple.

Wateraci - Level 13
The level has little purpose other than to get you used to moving and fighting in 
water. You start at 28-30, facing north. Just be sure to dive under at some point.

Watercan - Level 14
This level is the home of the lobster king, who has poisoned the dragons’ water 
supply. Kill the king and grab the potion from his throne room before teleporting 
out. There’s also a set of frog armour and a water cannon here, which might come 
in handy, you never know...

Waterdra - Level 15
The dragons on this level are dying of thirst because the aforementioned lobster 
king has turned their water supply into acid. As soon as you appear at 28-2, facing 
south, use the acid-to-water potion from the previous level in front of you. Once 
you put the potion into the acid the dragons will be too busy drinking their newly 
transformed water supply to bother you, unless you get too close to them.
To the west of the acid/water pool is the entrance to a room that contains a tipped 
obelisk. Touching the obelisk gives you access to the Ssair form and opens a 
teleporter to Temple.

Waterobe - Level 16
This is the acid that you should have just transformed into water, so get out unless 
you happen to feel really suicidal.

Avamud - Level 17
You start at 6-28, facing north. To the east is a door that leads to an area of 
geyser-like quicksand. Travel eastwards through these to snap up a few useful 
items.
If you decide to travel north you’ll see a disk of woe. Break this to make the west 
wall disappear. To the northwest is an area with fireball-spitting walls. Run in, 
grab the tablet and get out quick, before anything nasty happens. The faces stop 
shooting when you close the door.
The idea on this level is to find three tablets and place them on the special altars. 
After doing this you should hear a grinding sound and the area of burning ground 
should immediately become accessible. Located in the northwest corner of the 
burning coals is a small room with a 50 point power pool and a few other handy 
items. Once you’ve got them, follow the hot coals round to the south to find the 
teleporter to Lavamine.

Lavamine - Level 18
You start at 1-1, facing east. Make your way east and you’ll come across a wall 
with a frog’s head carved into it. Feed the head with the Caun’s insect swarm and 
the north wall in that area should disappear. To the east is an area of quicksand, 
and to the south a sort of resting point before your trip through the lava area, 
during which you’ll find an obelisk tip and an hourglass.
After a long journey through the lava, you’ll reach the southern section of the 
map. Here you’ll find an obelisk that blinks in and out around the room. Place the 
hourglass in the hole in the wall that looks like an hourglass (another tough 
puzzle), and the obelisk will come to rest in the middle of the room. Place the tip 
on the obelisk and you’ll gain the Grost form.
As a Grost you’ll be able to break through the cracked walls around this area. 
There’s a secret room with a power pool in it to the northeast, and the teleporter 
to Temple is located in the east.

Vestetst - Level 19
You start up to your waist in blood at location 15-23, facing south. You have to 
retrieve three crystals - one of blood, one of flesh and one of bone - and place 
them on the pedestals to make the teleporter to Vestefin appear.
To get the flesh crystal, you must get the stone sword from the northeast and place 
it in the hand of the statue located to the northwest. Be quick, though, because as 
soon as you enter the room containing the statue you’ll get pelted with fireballs. 
Once you’ve placed the sword, the west wall will open up immediately, so run 
into the room, grab the flesh crystal and dash back out again, dodging the 
fireballs. Now get ready for the skeletons that will attack you from the other side.
To get the bone crystal, you must make your way through a room with a pile of 
floating bones on the eastern side of the map. To get the blood crystal, swim 
under the blood river to find a secret room containing a mutant heart. Destroy this 
to find the last crystal.
Once you’ve placed all the crystals on the pedestals, they will disappear and the 
pedestals retract into the ground. The teleporter to Vestefin then appears.

Vestebld - Level 20
This is the river of blood that you must swim through to reach the secret room in 
Vestetst. Watch out for the little blood monsters. They’re rather tough.

Vestefin - Level 21
Fight Veste, the evil-bad-guy-leader, who can morph into the shapes of the main 
bosses from all the previous levels. That’s all this level is about. After you’ve 
killed him, the ending animation plays through in all its glory. Simple.