Suikoden Kwanda Rosman Pannu Suikoden Index : Walkthrough / FAQ
Attacking Kwanda Rosman and defending the Elves : Great Forest : Elves Hideaway : Dwarves Hut : Dwarves Vault : First War Battle
After Lepant’s Mansion in Kouan, return to the HQ. On the second floor you’ll see Varkas and Sydonia who join you. They have a sweet Unite Attack that rivals the Fisherman Attack of Tai Ho and Yam Koo. A banquet will be suggested and you’ll eventually be at the banquet. As you leave the area you’ll be attacked by an Assassin. Heal if you need to but he probably won’t kill you, and he’ll flee after two turns. Pahn and Viktor come in to help you, and they’ll be paranoid after this and will be outside McDohl’s bed.
The next day Gremio will join you, so go out to the docks. You’ll see a passed out elf named Kirkis looking for the Liberation Army’s help. Kwanda Rosman is going to exterminate the Elves, yet the army is not strong enough to battle them head on currently. So you are to go to the area on a reconnaisance mission and see for yourself. Kirkis joins and you can choose three other characters. At this point you have enough characters to make your own judgments, but bring Juppo and Lepant along for recruits and talk to Marie a bunch of times at the Inn until she mentions needing a cook. Also talk to Rock and get used to Detaching your backups in order to get the best defensive gear for your current party members. Honestly, this warehouse is easier to navigate than ANY of the other four in the Suikoden series. Now leave out for Kaku after this.
Go to the northeast and talk to Meg (with Juppo in the group). She’ll recognize him and ask to join, so you should let her. They actually have a decent Unite attack too. Save at the Inn now, and then go to the bar. Talk to Gaspar in the basement and he’ll play that game that Tai Ho played with you. If you win, he’ll join you. I got lucky and he rolled a 1, 2, 3 first round and he joined. Go to Seika to the northeast of Kaku. With Lepant along, you can go to the Inn and recruit Sheena. Lepant will then leave your group. Talk to Antonio the cook now, and if Marie mentioned that she needs a cook, he’ll join. Otherwise, go back and talk to her until she does. Return back to the castle now and reform. For the record, I have Eileen, Lepant and Sansuke :)
Back through Kaku and through the Great Forest. With Kirkis, you can now navigate your way through it this time. Continue along until Viki teleports in and you can recruit her. She can teleport you anywhere that you’ve been from the HQ (you’ll get her in the next four Suikoden’s also). Continue all the way east from here for a Gauntlet, and then return to that Viki screen. Go south and east quickly for an Escape Talisman, and then back west. Another screen west and you’ll have a Needle, and a Water Rune Piece a little south of that. Go east for a few screens now and grab the Fortune Rune Piece to your north along the way. Further east is the Kobold Village but it is empty. Kuromimi (a Kobold) does come behind you and says a few things. Leave and go southeast to the Elve’s Village.
The elves don’t really like you. They have some nice things at the Armor Shop though. Talk to the Chief and he’ll throw you in jail, then talk to your two jailmates. Search the bars and Sylvina will let you out. Leave Elve’s Village and Valeria will join (I dropped Sansuke, Valeria is really good with the Falcon Rune anyway). Go to the northeast to the Dwarve’s Trail.
This is a long and rewarding trail. Head through the first path and go west to get the Feather in the second one. Continue north to the next path, where you should go east immediately for a Karate Uniform and then north a little and west a little for a Sacrificial Buddha. Back north and then go north when you can, up a ladder. This leads to a Guard Robe, so now return to the previous passage and go all the way east for a Killer Crystal (a little hard to see). Go up the ladder north of you and through the next passage. Now, get the treasure you see for a Medicine and then north for a Fortune Rune Piece. Continue along this path and then you’ll meet Kuromimi in the next passage. Save in the next screen and then just continue along and then you’ll be on the World Map, where you should go north to see the Dwarves.
Inside, go to the southeast to see the Blacksmith. They can get your weapon up to level 9 and Meese will join you also (if Maas has been recruited). Meese can upgrade your weapons to level 9 at your place now. Not much else to do here so go to the northeast and talk to the Dwarf Chief. He won’t believe that Kwanda stole the Burning Mirror so he says if you can break into the vault and get the Water Root he’ll believe your story and aid you.
Go downstairs a few times once you get in. You’ll get to an area with three switches and lots of boulders blocking your way. I hit the middle one, left one then right one and it was all good from there. Grab the Sunbeam Crystal on the east side of this room and go south to exit. Down some more stairs and into a room with several walls that are easy to navigate. Make your way to the southeast for a Blue Ribbon and in the central part for a Medicine. Now, just go to the southwest corner for a Magic Robe and the northeast for the exit. Down some more stairs, and then into a room with platforms. Go straight south to get on one, and then straight south to get on another. This will take you to a Thunder Rune Piece. You’re going to want to get on the platform to the east, and then hit the platform facing the south. This will take you to the exit.
You’ll now be in an area will blue floors. Cool looking room, head east upon entry for a Pointed Hat, and north a little for a Skill Rune Piece. Continue along the path now, getting the Medicine along the way, and you’ll get to an area with two lights that you have to rotate using. First, hit the left one, and then the right one twice. Now use the left one three times and the right one twice and it’ll be open. A four-way fork now. West for a Mega Medicine, east for 5,000 bits and north for more stairs. Go south when you can, then to the southwest for an Escape Talisman. Enter the stairs in the central-south area (the stairs in the NE and SE are dead ends). This path will lead to a battle against a boss named Gigantes, so be prepared. Use your best runes and utilize your medicine. Eileen’s Voice of Earth won’t work as it is a flying creature. Melee attacks are just fine, and Valeria’s Falcon Rune does a lot of damage. When it is done, you’ll get 3,000 bits and you can continue north. Take the west fork for a Defensive Rune Piece, ignore the right path and take the middle for that Running Water Root. I hope to god you got that Escape Talisman shortly before this, if so use it to leave.
The Dwarf Chief will believe you now, so rush back to the Elve’s Village with the good news. Along the Dwarf Trail you’ll see the Elve’s village on fire and Kirkis will say “After returning from Dwarves’ Village” and that’s it. Classic 1996 Suikoden translation. Make your way to the Elve’s Village and Kirkis will be depressed, although you must trudge on. Exit and re-enter to find Templeton, the mapmaker. She’ll join and give you the Suiko Map, a brilliant map to see your location around the land. Back at Kobold Village you’ll see Kuromimi and then be surrounded by Imperial Soldiers! Valeria will leave your party but Kuromimi will join, even though Kuromimi ends up in the back row and is un-usable for the fight since he is a short-range attacker only. Same thing happened with Lepant when he joined, the game should have just put those new guys in front. Anyway, just use Eileen’s Voice of Earth or someone else’s attack-all magic to get an easy win. Despite how easy the battle is, Gremio and your party will act like you’re losing.
Mathiu and Humphrey will save you however, and it’ll be time for a war battle whether you like it or not. Nothing too hard, although this is actually one of the harder battles you’re going to face. This is simply because you can tell the enemy’s attacks later on with the amount of Ninja’s you acquire, but you can only use Krin and Giovanni to see the enemy’s attacks and they sometimes fail (Giovanni fails often for me). It’s simple rock, paper and scissors, and Kwanda tends to use Charge more often than not. If you’ve recruited everyone up to now you’ll be well off. Kwanda will be done and you are to charge Pannu Yakuta castle. You’ll have a set party here, with the hero McDohl, Gremio, Valeria, Viktor, Kirkis and Kuromimi. Hopefully they have decent equipment, they have some moderately difficult battles ahead.
You can save at the Elve’s Village. At Pannu Yakuta, you can enter the east door to rest or the west to get a Steel Shield. Taking the west also results in a Thunder Rune Piece on the second floor. Both paths lead to the second floor of the Pannu Yakuta fort. In the east room is a Gale Crystal, the west room is empty. The Northwest room has some Medicine, the northeast has the Old Book Volume One. Go down to the first floor now. Northeast corner of this floor is empty, northwest has a Half Armor though. The west room is empty and the east has a Gauntlet. You should probably rest now and then go up to the third floor. It’s time to battle “Dragon”. Hopefully you have someone with a Water Rune or lots of Medicine. Use your powerful melee attacks, and abuse the Falcon and Clone Runes. The Dragon will eventually die, and then have the hero rest up and give him the best equipment that your party has.
On the rooftop you’ll meet Kwanda, who challenges McDohl to a duel. The first duel in the game in fact, and also goes by the paper, rock, scissors theme, but you have to guess whether Kwanda will use a Desperate Attack, Attack or Defend by what he says. Can be tricky, especially in the earlier Suikoden’s with the translation issues. Anyway, once defeated you’ll have some choices. You can choose to kill Kwanda or say “Something’s Wrong” and then “I Want you to join us”. That way you can recruit him, the ideal scenario. Kwanda is a physical specimen, great for front-line fighting. After he joins (or dies) you’ll be out front, where Kuromimi, Valeria, and the Elve’s will join you permanently. Mathiu will ask you to come back, but tell him you have some unfinished business. Still more recruits before you return.
At the Great Forest / Kobold Village, you can recruit Fu Su Lu at the Inn if you have 10,000 potch. Rubi is there also but he won’t join yet. In the southern house is Gon, Kuromimi’s brother. He’ll join with Kuromimi with. Go through the Great Forest now and stop at Kouan. Talk to Lorelai now, and since you’re level 25 or higher she’ll finally join you. Go to Seika now and to Mathiu’s house, where Apple (veteran of Suikoden 2 and 3 also) will be. Talk to her and she’ll join you. Back to Kaku and then Lake Toran castle, where you will fast forward to three months after Kwanda Rosman’s defeat.