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Ultima 8 Walkthrough Copyright 1994 Jeff Abramson jabram@ichips.intel.com Detailed Solution follows - read at your own risk. -------------------------------------------------- Beach-side/Pier: --------------- - You wake up at the shore by a fisherman, Devon. He tells you how he pulled you from the lake. At this point consult the reference card and it gives you instructions on how to control and where to go next. Head to the west and up the stairs. Turn left and go to the end of the pier. - You witness the execution and get glimpses of some of the main characters in Tenebrae. After everyone leaves, you can head back up the pier to the city. Tenebrae: --------- - The city is divided into three parts. East Tenebrae has the wealthy members and the library. West Tenebrae has the tavern and blacksmith. The palace is in the center. There are four exits from the city, one on each side, and you are at the South entrance. Head into the city and you see a guard, who basically tells you what I have said above. Head into East Tenebrae. East Tenebrae: -------------- - List of buildings in the east section (from North to South): Library Bentic Friendly and good source of info Houseboat ? Gem/Tailorshop Rhian her husband was executed House Beren Mage House ? House ? Trainer Darion Will train and sell arms House Salkind Lady Mordea's assistant House Aramina Lady Mordea's servant House Tarno Leader of the guard There is also a monument of some sort just east of Rhian's house, there is a chaos gem on the roof, and if you climb up there it collapses. I haven't fallen down it yet to see what happens... There are also lots of beggars, children, and peasants. The peasants won't talk to you, the beggars ask for money, and the children either won't talk or ask lots of questions. Read books in the library about the various treasures, etc. There is a guide to mushrooms, and also a intro to types of puzzles you'll see later in the game. Read all the books in case a book is a trigger to some other event later in the game. Some homes have levers that open up rooms either downstairs or on the same floor. Darion has a locked chest downstairs that I haven't opened yet. There is a key in Salkind's bedroom hidden under something, it opens a locked door, and there is still a chest there. The key to the chest is under a vase, and the chest is trapped. - There is an exit out of E. Tenebrae that leads to the cemetery. West Tenebrae: -------------- - List of buildings in the west section (from North to South). Note that there is also a river running through this part of the city. Burned House ghosts Building ? House ? Zoo troll House ? House ? House ? House ? House ? Tavern Orlock has lots of stories Jenna She'll get mad at you if you are not careful Smithy Korick Very humble blacksmith House Shaana Executioner from the pier - Go to the burned house. There is a pile of debris, that as you move it you will see a hole. Go down into the hole and you get find some coins. You can climb out the way you entered. - Go into the zoo. Do this by climbing onto the top and falling in. Be careful and just plain avoid the troll (you are probably not equipped to fight it). There is a bag in the debris with some gems, and move all the debris away to reveal a lever to open the door to let yourself out. - Listen to the ghost story from Orlock, go back and ask Jenna, Darion, and Bentic for more information on the treasure. Don't get Jenna mad at you. Once you talk to Jenna, her father Darion will drive you nuts about marrying her. - There is an exit out of the city on the est side. Palace: ------- - Lady Mordea will pretty much ignore you. There is a key hidden under a cushion in her throne room, and she'll zap you if you try to steal it while she's in the room. Wait till she is eating. It opens the door to her bedroom. - There is one locked area on the first floor I haven't been into. - The guard area on the north is locked but you can get in from the second floor. The key ring is there. Yes - no doubt the best feature from Silver Seed...but no hotkey for it... Double click on a key, then single click on the keyring to add the key to the keyring. Then a double click on the keyring followed by a single click on a door or chest will unlock it if you have the correct key. - Walk around the outside of the palace, between the moat and the palace, you should find a dead body with some coins. - Basement has a lot of locked torture rooms, and one closed off area. West of Tenebrae: ----------------- - There is a cave on the west wall of the mountain side, you can find some coins and other stuff there (I think a sword). If there are kith there, just exit the cave and go back in. - There is a building near the south with a lever, opens up the fence and there are two kith guarding a few barrels of fish. Don't know if there is anything else useful there. - There is at least one place in the mountainside where you can climb up one level, and then climb up again but you cannot see yourself, and then it is easy to fall to your death. - House SW of the gate is Kilandra's house. She talks about how her daughter Elaina was denied help by Mordea and is now dead. Go back and talk to her after talking to Gwillim until she tells you where the key is. - There is a cave behind the waterfall. Leads to a chest behind a fence with a lever. There is a skeleton in this cave, and they are tough because they die and come back to life. The chest has an axe and some armor. North of Tenebrae: ------------------ - The north valley contains one couple: Corinth and Gwillim. Talk to Corinth and she'll tell you Gwillim knows about the ghosts. Confront Gwilliam and he reluctantly tells you Kilandra has the key. If you already have gone into the cave, you will see that you are stuck at a locked door - they key opens this one. You'll find Gwillim at the north end of the valley. - There is a group of children to the SE once you exit the city, and they'll attack you and chase you. You'll find them when you start seeing dolls and toy animals. - West of Gwillim is a cave that leads to a pond with stones. This takes you to Mythran - see below for details. - East of Gwillim is a cave entrance covered with debris. Open it up, and this leads to some ruins that supposedly has the ghost treasure - see below for details. Go back and talk to Orlock if you haven't heard the story yet. East of Tenebrae: ----------------- - Follow the road to the north and you'll get to the cemetery. Elaina's grave is one of the ones on the NW side. Once you read her grave, the ghost will appear and throw you the key. I assume you must have talked to her mother first. (It's nice that the graves and signs are translated for you - big improvement from previous Ultimas.) - There is a house ruin south that has a gem in the center. The floor will bust under you and you find yourself underground. Read the book. Go through the tower doors and continue west. You'll find another book about the mystical Slayer. Continue west and follow the corridors, eventually you'll end up in a dead end with a backpack - get the key. Head back to where you saw the second book, and go north - you should see a lever and a door. Hit the lever and continue on. Eventually you should reach a chasm and some stepping stones. I jumped basically using the centermost stones (rising and falling). After jumping, avoid the seeker and unlock the door. The Slayer is up a small room with a door. Climb up and get it, and then enter the door to return to the east side of Tenebrae between the cemetery and the city walls. The Slayer is a magic mace that sounds a large thunderclap when you kill an opponent, and also strikes down an opponent on the first hit every 20th enemy (or something like that). - There is a small house with a guardsman that attacks you. There are some items in the house, but I didn't see anything of importance. Caves to Plateau and Mythran: ----------------------------- - You can pretty much jump from stone to stone, but you have to be careful. You may have to move back or forward on a stone to get the right distance. There is also a chest - disarm it while you are in the lake, which has some scrolls. - Once you cross the lake, you'll get to an hill with two ways around it. There is an electrified fence blocking the south way, and there are some traps blocking the north way, which you can't see. Instead climb up and go over the hill. (throw something at the death disk to see what happens.) - You then reach an area with a winch and broken lever, a set of bars, and a rope bridge. Cross the rope bridge. There are seven levers: L1 L2 L3 R1 R2 R3 C Pull L2, R1, R2 (so all left levers are down and all right levers are up), and then C will automatically pull. You'll see and feel a large shaking. Then go back across the rope bridge. The broken lever has been fixed - pull it to open the bars. You can then head out to the plateau. - You'll reach the open plateau. There are a couple chests out in the area. One is buried in a pile of debris in a ruin, and the other is on a two level hill guarded by undead. I didn't see anything of major use there. - You should find a small house. If you remember from the library, Mythran's house is much bigger inside than outside. First you have a small obstacle course. Just go straight and if you time it well you can go through the fences and avoid the spiked spheres. At the end is a red potion to help you heal. Once you exit you are in Mythran's house. NOTE: Once you talk to Mythran, this little obstacle course fortunately will not appear for subsequent visits to Mythran. - There is another cave entrance to the west of the entrance cave. Navigate past some flaming arrow shooters and you will eventually find a chest. It is trapped and there are scrolls of trap destruction nearby. Inside the chest is the Hammer of Strength if you don't have a magic weapon yet. - There is also a locked door in this cave, and the key is nowhere to be found. Mythran's scroll won't unlock it either. Rumor has it that this is where the Pagan Add-On will take place. Mythran: -------- - Read the books in Mythran's house. When you talk to Mythran he will give you a teleportation device and also permission to borrow whatever you need. You can return to Tenebrae the same way you came or via the teleportation device as long as you have been up to the roof of Tenebrae palace and seen the teleporter. - Before you leave, buy at least on of Mythan's Open Door spells. This spell will unlock some doors. - Mythran will instruct you to see the Necromancers north of the east exit of the city. NOTE: Shaana was in Mythran's house while I was there. I still don't know why. Necromancers: ------------- - Go through the cemetery to the building. Head inside and you will meet Vividos. He'll tell you a bit about what the necromancers do and also tell you that the head necromancer, Lothian, is dying, and that Lady Mordea stole their ceremonial dagger. Promise to get the dagger back. Tenebrae: --------- - You will not find the dagger in Mordea's bedroom, but you should notice a closet with a chest. Talk to Aramina about the dagger, and she'll give you the key - but you have to visit her at her home to get the key. NOTE: Aramina is only available at Bloodwatch in here home. So you may need to occupy yourself somewhere and wait (or go to sleep in the house directly south of hers). - Don't try to enter Mordea's bedroom while she's sleeping - zap! Necromancers: ------------- - After you return the dagger to Vividos, you are instructed to give Lothian to the Mountain King. Go behind the building (but stay in the fence), and double click on Lothian's body.Vividos then takes you on as his apprentice, and instructs you to get two reagents: executioner's hood, and a wooden stick. There is Hood in abundance in a small area SE of the cemetery. The sticks can be found near the burned home in W. Tenebrae. - Then you will receive instructions on your first spells, Death Speak and Open Ground. Go through a fence to the building directly north of the cemetery main building and cast Open Earth on the middle of the wall that leads to the mountain. A cave entrance will open up. NOTE on spells and reagents: Make sure you have the correct reagents. I confused sticks with wood, and I know many others have as well. A pile of wood is a little pile that is brown and green. Bone shards are bone shards, you cannot use a skull or a piece of bone. If you get the message "something is not right" then you probably have the wrong reagan. Catacombs: ---------- - You are in the main level of the catacombs. Watch out for skeletons, electric gates, and lava pits. You can detect lava pits by watching for puddles on the floor (in fact there is a book somewhere that tells you this). Just be careful and save your game often. - Map the catacombs to save you grief later. You spend far too much time in here... Some of the gates have levers and some move up and down themselves. If a door is closed or closes when you walk by, then walk away from it (maybe 30 steps or so), and then return, and it should open for you. As far as I could tell, there was no certain thing I had to do in order to reach either the lower catacombs or Stone Cove. There are some locked doors that I didn't get to open, however. I found one key at the "Master of Keys" and that opened an empty chest near two flaming arrow cannons. - Your first goal is to find the necromancers. Look for a small tomb with a door and a ghoul inside. Enter the tomb and you will fall through a pit to the lower catacombs. Lower Catacombs: ---------------- - You'll find yourself in the lower catacombs near some barrels. Stock up on all the reagents you can hold, and create as many Death Speak spells as possible (some reagents are hard to find). Look for the first necromancer. Watch out for falling stalactites. As long as you keep moving you should be okay. Find the first necromancer and cast Death Speak. He'll teach you a new spell, Fake Death and instruct you where to go. - Cross the area that used to be blocked by stalag mites. When you see the daemons, cast the new spell that fakes death. The daemons will think you are dead and you can go past them. Head to the next necromancer. NOTE: You can just run by the Daemons. Casting the spell is not required. - The second necromancer will give you a new spell, Stone Flesh. Continue following the cave, and when you get a long north corridor, bolts of lightning will start firing at you. Here is where you need to cast your Stone Flesh spell. Then run through the corridor and head to the next necromancer. - The 3rd necromancer will give you a new spell. You will be teleported to an area with a bunch of electric gates. Go through them and jump over the chasm. Here you will see the 4th necromancer. You should cast the spell on the pile of bones to create the skeleton to ward off the other skeleton while you talk to the necromancer. - The 4th necromancer will give you a new spell, Grant Peace. You will then be teleported to a new area. Go into the small room with the throne to be teleported yet again. - You will see a platform with some magic armor. You can get the armor, but be careful of the pit in the center of the platform. At the lava, you have to jump the lava stream, and then follow the rock until you get to a dead end. Then jump across to the next rock, and you will be teleported. Cast Grant Peace on any ghoul. - The 5th necromancer will give you a new spell, Withstand Death (or something like that). When you get to the last necromancer, you should see some stairs. If you go near the stairs, a ghost and many ghouls will appear. Cast the spell on yourself, and then open the door to talk to the necromancer (ignore the stairs). He'll give you instructions for Create Golem, and then you can head up the stairs back into the main catacombs. Fall down from the platform and you are back near where you started. Next job is to find Stone Cove. Catacombs: ---------- - Continue to head east and south and look for a door on the east wall. This will eventually lead you to a gate with red columns and an electric zapper. Go through there and eventually you should find a flaming arrow cannon, a lever, and some spike traps. Navigate through the traps and hit the lever to open up another gate. This takes you out to Stone Cove. (Note that there are a couple very narrow corridors that you may miss if you are not watching.) Stone Cove: ----------- - You'll eventually end up in an open area. There's a Seeker nearby, and two doors. Also at the opposite end in the water, are stones that rise and fall. I haven't navigated the stones yet, but I believe this leads to the Magic Deceiver Axe. Large Door: ----------- - Create a golem and have it open both doors for you. Enter the large door. Continue going north and cross the chasm. To the west you may have noticed a rock with a large rune of the mountain king (looks like Brittania "A") on it, and past that, a chasm too long for you to jump across. If you keep going north you will come to a ruin. One lever is outside, one is inside. Climb over the wall and pull the lever INSIDE. Fight the ghouls and climb back out. There is a pit between the chasm and the ruin so be careful. - Then go back to the chasm to the west. Now there is a skull bridge that is fading in and out. Traverse the bridge and you will find yourself in front of four sliding platforms. Traverse the platforms. You will then find yourself in front of some sinking platforms. There are a total of eight of these. (NOTE: This requires some dexterity never before required for Ultima games, so save often and be patient.) - After traversing the obstacle course you will find yourself at a locked door. Head to the north and you will be in a maze of energy beams and mushrooms. One of the notes suggests a way to deal with the beams using the mushrooms, but you can just beeline it and heal when necessary. At the very end is a chest with the key and a gem of protection. Open the door. - The door leads to two shorelines with floating stones that rise and fall. Go to the south first, and jump the stones to get to a small piece of land, where there is a skeleton. Get the key from the skeleton. - The stones on the north lead to another cavern. As you go north watch for two *very* thin hallways that lead to the west. Take the southernmost hallway and it will lead to a room with more forcefields. Go through there and get to the chest. Hiding behind a potion is a key. - Next go to the next thin hallway. That will take you to a locked door. Unlock and go through. One more obstacle course with moving platforms that lead you across water. - The Mountain kind is to the northwest. You'll see a line of skeletons and ghouls. After speaking to him, you can go to the south and find the teleporter. This allows you to use the recall device later to return to the King if you need to. Also in that area is a rock with a rune that will teleport you back to the entrance of the caves. - If you continue north past the two thin halls, you'll find another floating platform which leads to a small island with a large rune of the mountain king in the center. Grab the scrolls in the barrels and whatever else you need and step on the rune to teleport back to the first rune. Necromancers: ------------- - Return to Vividos and tell him you have talked to Lithos. He'll instruct you to give Lothian to the King. Go NE of the main building of the cemetery and you'll see her body. Double click on it and the Mountain King will receive her. Then Vividos will instruct you to go on the pilgrimidge, give you the key of scion, and refers to the Pit of Death. NOTE: The Key of Scion looks like the other key you use to make spells and it has glowing eyes. If you have a full backpack, he won't give you the key, so get rid of something first. Catacombs: ---------- - Enter the catacombs like you did before. Go toward the locked door that is near where you returned from the lower catacombs before. The door is labelled: "Towards Fate Do You Travel." Unlock it with the key of Scion. And head down. Lower Catacombs (Key of Scion): ------------------------------- - There is a invisible chest near the Return to Sight scroll. Lots of potions, death disks, flasks, and a magic armor. Read the book on the Zealan Gods. - Enter the door "Do Not Enter". You enter new caves and new music... Follow past two spiked spheres and a locked door, and past a maze of gates. You should end up in a room with five levers surrounding a chest inside a cage. Guardian will tell you not to go near there. I think the levers may be random, since I got different behavior, but you have to trigger two levers to lower the cage. Just try different combinations. The levers may turn you upside down, or shoot fireballs at you. In the chest is a key for the door directly to the north. - The maze of fences is interesting, but once you get the key above, you can just go through the door and avoid this thing altogether. To traverse the maze, you also need to climb up on the platform. It is not hard. - Head through the door, and then follow the path around north-east-south and it will dead end at a chest (it is trapped). Inside is the Skull of Quakes. - If you continue back the way you came, and go past the three spiked spheres you will eventually reach a corridor going south that dead ends and there is a single spiked sphere. You can climb up to the west and continue on. It took me a while to get this just right. - Follow to a gravesite, and cast Open Earth. Convienent reagents and bag right there on the table. Go down the opening. - Follow the caves until you reach a gate and a bunch of rolling spheres (marbles) and a table. You have to throw something on the small elevated platform on the other side of the gate in order to lower the fence. Grab a marble, and throw it - you should be able to do this if you move away from the fence. The gate should lower. - Beyond the gate are two platforms, and two elevators. When activated, the elevator rises when you step on it. When not activated, the elevator just stays up. Underneath each platform is a key - get both of them, and any thing else you want. - Head past the light ray (you can jump over it), and you should arrive at a wall with a stair going into it. The wall is three squares wide and the stairs are on the right-most stairs. You have to move the stairs to the center via stepping on the three platforms right in front of the walls/stairs. This is kind of like a Tower of Hanoi problem. I got the stairs in the center by first building them on the left. Once this is done, the wall will open. - Beyond is two laser beams. Cast Stone Flesh so you can walk through the beams, otherwise they will kill you (I had 42 hits and still got killed). This will lead you to a large door. Unlock and go through the next set of doors. - You should see three statues of the Zealan Gods. The skeleton has a key or is covering a key that unlocks the doors that allow you to bypass the laser beam. Use these doors, and go back and get the ceremonial shield. If you continue south from where the shield is at, you can reach the very first door you saw once you passed the "Do Not Enter" sign. This is an easy way to get back into the main catacombs. - Return to the temple, and place the shield on the altar and the Zealan statues will speak to you. The Zealans instruct you to proceed through the next door and retrieve a blackrock pyramid shaped object. - To open the door, you'll need the magical unlock spell from Mythran. If you don't already have it, you'll need to use your recall item to return to him (or go via the plateau caves) and buy the scroll. Don't forget to get the reagents to cast Open Ground again. - Open the door and you will find the spirit of Khumash Gor. You can cast Grant Peace on him to vanquish him, and then grab the obelisk tip. There is also a magic scimitar and a key ring if you need them. - Head back out and the Zealans will tell you that you need to become the Titan of Ether. Return to the main catacombs. Catacombs: ---------- - You are probably wondering/hoping if there is a teleporter in the catacombs. From the "fate" door, head southeast until you see a small two story room with a chest on top of it. (You can get up there from the pseudo-stairs on the other side of it.) Continue east and look for a red circle on the next small room. The circle is on the east wall. Double click on the Skull of Quakes and insert it in the circle. You'll see that directly east of you is a collapsed room with a door. Fall down there, open the door, and activate the teleporter (Upper Catacombs). Small Door at Stone Cove: ------------------------- - There is a Locked room with a sign - Conventicle of Death. There is an entrance on both the south and north sides. - Obstacle course with spiked spheres and flaming arrows. It is not too difficult to get past here, just stay to the left and bottom of the area. - You will reach a crypt with a gate covering it. Pull the small lever to open the gate, the corpse has a key. Use the large lever to open the gate to continue onward. This key opens the locked room you found earlier. - Go into the conventicle of Death. Go into the grave area and read the gravestone. Cast Open Earth and it will open up and reveal the Heart of the Earth. Grab it. - If you continue further, you'll hit some more traps, but eventually will lead you to the Pit of Death. Pit of Death: ------------- - Another set of catacombs. I found absolutely nothing in here other than reagents, death disks, scrolls, and a few items. There are some invisible chests near the Return-to-Sight scrolls. - There is a torture chair at the end of a hall. You can climb up to the roof of the catacombs. Didn't find anything up there but you can go past the limits of where the programmers thought, and cause all sorts of neat effects. You can eventually end up inside the catacomb walls with no way to exit. - Near the entrance is several dragon statues and statues of Mordea around a wooden throne. There is a chest with lots of potions (use Restore to Sight) that sits in between the four dragon statues. - At the eastern end of the maze is a door that is blocked by a flaming arrow shooter. If you open the door, you'll see that there is a wall behind it. However, if you go on the *other* side of the door, so that the flaming arrows are being blocked by the door, and jump straight up, you will be in a room. The room has oil flasks, fire gems, and all sorts of armor and weapons. One chest has all the magic weapons found in the game, and there is a magic shield also in there. Tenebrae: --------- - Devon is in the jail underneath the palace. Talk to him, and then continue to explore the basement of the palace. Use a secret door spell to unlock the room to the east, and read the book. - Then guards come take you to the pier where Devon is to be executed. Confront Mordea about the truth, but don't insult here. Devon kills Mordea and he then leaves to ponder his new role. Catacombs: ---------- - In the caves that you took from the main catacombs to Stone cove, there is also a route that takes you out to a open area and a teleporter. Activate it and you can find out that you are at Carthax lake. Carthax Lake: ------------- - This is a large open area surrounding a valley. There are many land bridges, some intact, some not. Find a route to the "island" in the middle, and you'll see a white bridge. Cross the white bridge and you'll meet Hydros. - Ask Hydros for the power of the Tempestry and she'll tell you she cannot. Offer to help her. Catacombs: ---------- - There is a wall with two rising doors and a lever, and each time you trigger the lever, the walls switch, so you never can get through. Look for a small *switch* that is on the wall near the lever. It is not hidden, but blends in very well with its surroundings. Trigger the switch and the wall will open. That leads you out to the lava field. - Another locked door (Key Of Scion) leads you out to an open area with a brick path and spiders. This is Argenrock Isle. Argenrock Isle: --------------- - Exiting from the catacombs/cave into an open area and a long walking bridge takes you to Argenrock Isle, home of the Theurgists. You should find a walled in area, with one large building and several small buildings. The teleporter is east of the town - go activate it. - Enter the town, and talk to everyone. You'll meet: Stellos, the leader several nameless ones who don't have anything to say Cyrrus who you may remember hearing about back in Tenebrae Xavier - teacher Torwin - arrogant student Enter the monetary and read all the books, both upstairs and in the main floor. - Talk to Xavier and you can take the first two tests from him. The first is the test of wisdom and involves answering questions. There are about 10 questions, and he'll ask you random 5. You have to get all five correct, and he won't tell you which ones you got right. Most of the questions are common sense, think about Stratos and what she represents. Although Xavier tells you the answers are in the library, this is not really true. - After completing the Test of Wisdom, Xavier will instruct you how to take the Test of Centerness. Go west from the monastery until you see a rock face. Climb up one story and look for a small two-story rock with the symbol of Stratos on it. Climb up there and the test will begin. You have to prevent yourself from falling off the rock. Fairly easy to do in one or two tries. - After you pass this test, return to Stellos, and he will instruct you further. He gives you the key to the catacombs below the monastery (enter from the kitchen), and tells you to gather some silver ore. - Enter the monastery's kitchen and then go below. Go to the east and unlock the door. Continue east - basically follow the wall to the north and east. You will pass some electrified gates, and eventually see a closed off building (see below). Keep going and there should be a *very* narrow corridor leading to the east. That leads to a bunch of silver ore (and changelings). There are a few more pieces of ore scattered around. - Stellos will warn you to lock the door when you leave. Don't know if this matters, but if you get all the ore you need, it shouldn't matter. - If you look at the spells in the manual, there are ten total. One does not require a focus (Resurrection), and one is cast the first time without a focus (Air Walk). So search for 8 ores. - The closed off building may be opened by casting one of Mythran's secret door spells. Inside is the magic weapon Protector. - After retrieving ore, head back to Tenebrae and talk to the Smithy, Korick. He'll forge you a focus of your choice, and once you return to Argenrock Isle you can enchant the focus by setting it on the altar. If you single click on the focus before hand, it will just say something like "Pointing Hand", but if you click on it after, it will say something like "Reveal Focus". That is how you determine if it has been enchanted. Construct and enchant all 8 ores for all the foci he will create: Pointing Hand, Open Hand, Chain, Fist, Bracer (Arm Band), Open Eye, Closed Eye, Sextant. (Don't try to enchant two at the same time...) - Stellos instructs you to go back under the monastery after getting the focus. If you go north this time, you will see a wounded Torax on the ground below. If you jump down there, you cannot get back up - you'll have to use the teleporter. Instead you can cast Aerial Servant on the Torax and move it to where you are, and then cast Healing Touch or Restoration. - When you return to the surface, you will hear that Xavier is missing his focus, and no one will help you continue your training. Cast Hear Truth and go talk to everyone. Cyrrus is hiding the fact that he knows where Torwin has gone. - Go up to where you took the test of Centerness and continue west. You'll confront Torwin - he wants to resurrect his father, Toran, who you saw executed at the beginning of the game. He plans to go to the Pit Of Death, but when you tell him that Hydros has his father's body he does not believe you. He'll throw the focus and a ring back at you can jump off the cliff. Return the focus to Xavier. And keep the ring. - Go talk to Stellos and he'll instruct you on your next test. You are to take a leap of faith at the same place where Torwin jumped off the cliff. When you jump, however, the Air Walk spell kicks in, and you clear the water. Next you have way too many jumps to make, but you can eventually get to Stratos. - Stratos will reward you with the Wings focus for casting Air Walk. She'll also tell you about the Breath Of Wind, which is how she heals. Return back to Stellos (either by jumping or teleport), and he'll give you some vague hint about the Breath Of Wind. - The Breath of Wind is hidden on a small rock right near Stratos. Cast reveal to see where it is, and cast Aerial Servant to retrieve it. Carthax Lake: ------------- - Return to Carthax lake, and follow the cave wall to the south. You should find a cave entrance. Enter the cave. Among other items in this cave, you will find magic leggings and magic armguards. - Right past the second cave opening is a wall with spikes on top, but there is one or two spikes missing. Climb on and over the wall. You'll then come to a wall with a gate in the middle. The left switch opens the gate. - Continue and you will eventually find an exit out of the cave. You will then find a gravestone. Cast Open Ground, and the ground will open and a waterfall will begin to fill Carthax Lake. - There is also a chest on a platform. No magic weapon here (like I thought), but some other items. - Return to Hydros. She'll "thank" you for freeing here, and then say "We'll see who reaches Devon first" or something like that. Return to Tenebrae. Tenebrae Palace: ---------------- - Devon should now be in the palace. Tell him you have freed the Lurker and he'll tell you to visit the Sorcerers. Ghost Treasure: --------------- - First set of ruins has a hole in the floor. You can find a scroll there that gives you a little idea of what is next. Then head to the locked doors, and unlock with the key Kilandra gave you. - Second set of ruins are a pain. You have to jump from the ruins onto this tiny piece of floor that is kind of in the middle. Then you can climb up to the next set of ruins that leads off to the North. Just keep at it until you get it. - Go down the hallway, and then you go up two flights of stairs and reach a bunch of undead. After killing them you can chase around the armor forever - it just keeps moving away. I tried to cast Aerial Servant on this, but didn't get the spell to work - I think this is what you need to do to get the armor. Lava River: ----------- - After entering the open area with the lava, continue south on the small land area. The center of the screen should shift, and you should see Beren, warning you about the sorcerers. - Cast Air Walk, and jump across to where Beren was, and then continue to follow to the south. You should eventually lead to another cave entrance. You have entered the Sorcerers' Enclave. Sorcerer's Enclave: ------------------- - There are several people of interest in the Enclave. There are four sorcerers: Beren, Bane, Vardion (and one other). Vardion is the First Acolyte. Talk to all four of them to get an idea of what they do. The other sorcerers in the area are pretty much useless. - To learn sorcery, talk to Bane. She will accept you as a disciple and give you her Truename and ask you to find Vardion's Truename. - To get Vardion's Truename, ask him about his dealings with Tenebrae, and then admit that it is a good deal for both sides. He'll then confide in you and give you his Truename and ask for you to find Bane's Truename. - Now you have a choice. You can betray Vardion or Bane. I think that gameplay continues in the same manner regardless of who you betray. - After you tell Bane what Vardion's Truename is, she will summon a Daemon and kill Vardion. Master Malchir will appear, and Bane will offer for you to become a replacement Acolyte. To learn more, tell he she is devious. - Bane will instruct you to go to the library and read all the books - she gives you the key. Make sure you right down the locations of the candles and reagents. - Return to Bane and take the test - note that she now is in Vardion's home. There is not enough candles/reagents/foci for you to take the test, so tell her no. Go to the library and/or Bane's old home and get a rod, and all the candles and reagents you need for all three tests. If you leave Bane's (really Vardion's) house, you forfeit the test and have to start over. - The books tell you where to put red candles, put black candles in the other positions. Place the candles, place the reagents, place the focus. Then manually double click on each candle to light them. Then move out of the pentagram, turn-around and double click on it. Get those reagents as close as possible to the corners - it's a pain. If it doesn't work, move them closer. - After creating the three spells, Bane will instruct you to go to the Obsidian fortress. This is to the west of the city across a bridge over lava. The doors will open for you automatically. Run past the first daemons. - Inside the Obsidian fortress, you will meet a Daemon sorcerer. He will give you more instructions. Create foci for Armor of Flame, Extinguish, Flash, and Endure heat, and proceed west to the platform. You will teleport to a new area with hallways in all four directions. - The four hallways lead outward to an outer hallway with five other hallways. Four of them have plaques. The fifth leads to a room with a crazy sorcerer. If you can defeat him, he has the spellbook for the Conflaguration spell and some other items. - Each of the other four hallways has a plaque that tells you what spell you need to cast to survive. Each hallway leads eventually to a pentagram symbol, which you should grab. In the "Flash" hallway, you will find Flame Sting, a nice weapon. In the "Armor of Flames" hallway, you will find a magic shield. In the "Extinguish" hallway, you will find a magic helm. In the "Endure Heat" hallway, you will find a magic armor. Cast the appropriate spell to help you get through to the object and back. NOTE: For the Extinguish hallway, you can cast Extinguish on each candle to remove the flames. Underneath the helm is the object. - After retrieving all four objects, head back to the center, and get on the platform. The daemon will give you more instructions to go confront Malchir who is the master Sorcerer. Go back to the platform. - You'll arrive in Malchir's sanctum. He will instruct you to create and cast Flame Bolt, Explosion, and Summon Daemon all at him in that order. Use the staff and pentagram and the reagents. Before casting Summon Daemon, however, create a Banish Daemon focus. NOTE: To successfully cast Summon Daemon, first double click on the focus, then single click on your target. This is different from many of the other spells. When you cast the summon daemon on Malchir, he will then summon his own Daemon, which you should banish. - After completing the tests and returning Malchir's staff, the two of you will flash to the large Pentagram east of the library. The five sorcerers will start the Ritual of Flame. Pryos will appear, try to attack, and Malchir will tell Pyros that he has the Tongue of Flame and then will banish Pyros. Malchir then flames out at everyone and disappears. - If you have been doing your reading, you now know that when the temple was destroyed, there were five pieces of the obelisk. The Tongue of Flame is one of the objects. After talking to everyone again and reading, you will realize that you have to get the Tongue from Malchir. - Return to the Fortress, and return to Malchir. He'll attack you. After you kill him, get the Tongue from his body. Read the book also, which warns you not to go on the pentagram with the Tongue. So do exactly that, and when you do, Pyros will be released and rains of fire will start to come down. Make sure you grab the Tongue and leave the Enclave. NOTE: You cannot use Mythran's recall item while in the Enclave. You have to return across the lava river (cast Endure Heat), and then go through the cave door. Once you are in the catacombs, recall back to wherever. Tenebrae: --------- - You have four of the five items, missing just the Tear of Seas. Talk to Devon, and he'll give you a key to the chest in the Southwest corner of the palace - first floor. In there is the Tear of Seas. NOTE: If this doesn't happen, then go talk to Mythran first - you may need to... Plateau: -------- - Return to Mythran and tell him about the blackrock items. Tell him you want to recreate the obelisk. He will give you the Ethereal Travel spell (costs 250 coins). - Read the spell, it doesn't tell you anything about reagents specifically. After reading it, I bought one of each reagent from him (Eye of Newt, Dragon Blood, and two others), and then my spell book started to glow. Clicking on the spell book will teleport you to the Ethereal Plane. Ethereal Plane: -------------- - There are four hallways that lead to doorways. Each doorway leads to a Titan. It is fairly obvious which Element you are in when you first enter the doorway. - Stratos: Ignore the magic items, and just head north to find Stratos. I used the "Flash" spell a couple times to avoid dealing with the jumping. After she sends some attack winds after you, double click the Breath of Air and target it at her. You'll banish her and return to the Ethereal Plane. - Hydros: Head west and jump the stones. There are three stones you can jump to from the west side - I jumped to the middle stone, and at one point cast Air Walk to jump the final longer distance, but I don't think this is required. Then you have to keep going and cover some bridges - I think one you climb from one broken bridge to another. Head west and you'll find the white bridge and platform of Hydros. After she sends some attack lightning after you, double click the Tear of Seas and target it at her. You'll banish her and return to the Ethereal Plane. - Lithos: This takes a while, but just go past the earthquakes and falling stalagmites and undead. Check all corners, remember that Lithos appeared in a NW corner of a cave. After he sends out a couple golems, double click on the Heart of the Earth and target it at him. You'll banish him and return to the Ethereal Plane. - Pyros: This one is the hardest. After jumping from one land mass to another, to the east and north is a broken bridge. Jump it across to a new land mass. Follow this north and north and north past Seekers and Daemons until you reach two trees and a platform with a jewel box. (Note Flame Sting behind the tree if you don't have it already.) Get at least 10 of the little white spheres from the jewel box. Return to the second land mass, Look for a small 10 sided star with colored rectangles around it. Place one sphere on each rectangle and you'll see a bridge of stones appear. Cross it, and it will lead to Pyros. (NOTE: There is also a building to the west with four spheres, and some potions. You can find one more sphere in Lithos's domain, and one more sphere on the body near the star - but there are more than you need in the jewel box.) After he sends out a couple Daemons, double click on the Tongue of Flame and target it at him. You'll banish him and return to the Ethereal Plane. Ethereal Plane: -------------- - Place the four glowing items at the appropriate places on the pentagram. Heart of Earth - the point that points to the hallway you took to Lithos. Tear of Seas - the point that points to the hallway you took to Hydros. Tongue of Flame - the point that points to the hallway you took to Pyros. Breath of Air - the point that points to the hallway you took to Stratos. - Double click on the obelisk tip and then on yourself. Then place the tip at the remaining point of the pentagram (Aphelion). After some lightning, a black gate should appear in the center, enter it.