Sixteen years later, it is a nice day as Liana tells of the horror wrought on both countries from the war. Tobias and Menicks mention training with Sebastian. During these loading scenes you can see some general tips in the background along with the pictures.

Young Calvin grabs a few weapons and then you get to control Tobias over to the weapon rack for a Practice Sword and Practice Bow. After 5 attacks your skill level goes up.

More bullying from Menicks but Tobias confronts him. Notice how wide the axe attacks – it can hit multiple targets including an ally. Bow practice is next. As you see, going into action – weapon switches your weapon. Attack the dummy three times and your skill level goes up. Skill level went up two more times the next two hits as well.

Sebastian is ready to teach everyone magic. First, he has you get the treasure next to him – Book: Mobility. Time to use some magic on the dummies. Use Dark Star, a spell you may remember from Vandal Hearts I. The hex spell to use after this is Ensnare. Now use an Augment spell on an ally – Holy Shield or Bless Weapon. Last, cast a healing spell on a friend – either Heal, Cure, or Magic Shield.

Battle 1 – Bandit Ambush – Bandit Archer, Bandit Slasher (2)

You are then ambushed by some bandits. Notice you must keep both Tobias and Calvin alive, along with clearing all enemies. Menicks and Sebastian act as NPC’s and will charge the enemies with melee weapons, so stand back and use your arrows from the elevated ground (however, the Bandit Archer will counter you). Finish him off first before he retreats behind the two Bandit Slashers. Go ahead and use Dark Star or whatever you would like, as the two Slashers should be easy to surround and off. Do as much damage as you can to up your skills because Menicks will route them with his axe.

Unfortunately, enemies are all over town. Sebastian orders Tobias and Calvin to Devilsteel Garrison to call for reinforcements. You now get your 300 gold coin reward for the previous battle.

Scene with Calvin and Tobias afterward. Connor then shows up. Eleanor then screams over by the riverbed. You are then prompted to save in one of three slots, so do so. Then ‘leave camp’. Go towards the Dry Riverbed

Battle 2 – Dry Riverbed -Red Wolf (3), Blue Wolf (4)

The female screaming is not Eleanor, but still obviously must be saved.

Check Connor’s status. His core skills show that he is best as a melee fighter (like Tobias, but not as balanced). Calvin clearly is a magician at heart, attack from afar.

Rush ahead to engage the Wolves during turn 1, as the injured female must be saved quickly. Connor will go first and then get bombarded by three blue wolves, but he should do a fair amount of damage himself. The wolves then like to gang up on Calvin since he’s weak so try to pull out his sword if you can remember, just so that he can counter-attack. The female loses 12 HP each turn so you have a while, but you cannot heal her.

By the time the last red wolf comes by from the far end of the map, you should have the rest defeated. Just circle around the wolves and try to protect your backs from critical hits. You should gain about 760 Gold Coins from this battle.

Tobias will heal the female after the battle. Turns out the red-haired girl is Urdain. Her name is Altyria Jono. She joins with you though Connor just wants to get going. Save your game and leave camp.

Head on south to Devilsteel Garrison. Tell Gren that Tolby is being overrun by bandits. Luce comes out. You now have a decision to make, whether to keep her there or have her come with you. For reference I am choosing to bring her with.

Lots to buy here. You will have to pick and choose, but probably will want new bows and swords for Tobias and Calvin. Gave an axe to Connor and then some defensive equipment with the rest of the gold. You’ll have to make some choices as the funds are limited.

Dry Riverbed Skirmish (optional)

Now you fight over twice as many wolves as you did before, but you have three new characters now (assuming you brought Altyria with). Be aggressive in overwhelming these wolves before they all gang up on you. Still, Gren and Luce have near impregnable defenses so as long as you protect someone weak like Calvin you should be okay. Just use this battle as a means of furthering skills for each character and acquiring more Gold. Any gear you weren’t able to purchase before, you should be able to afford now.

Battle 3 – Town of Tolby –

As you get to Tolby, you see Eleanor. Looks like a big guy with a big weapon named Kelbrun is about to do something bad. He strikes Eleanor and Connor becomes enraged and leaves the party (acts as an NPC). You still must protect him along with Tobias, and defeat as many bandits as possible before confronting Kelbrun.

Connor starts the battle in a frenzy, mauling two enemies and moving on to a third. Push forward with your troops to keep up with him. Only 5 bandits start off, but several more join in after round 2 (including a Bandit Healer and Bandit Lt.). Round 3 yields more enemies (another Bandit Healer, Bandit Lt. and also a Bandit Mage). Should take you a few rounds to clear out most of these. At this point, Kelbrun will go after you himself. At the same time though, General Daldren Gray comes in. The battle becomes easy at this point, as Gray and the Golden Captains will terrorize the remaining bandits near that exit. Try to grab the Herb in the chest up the hill (where two bandits were, attacking villagers). Lots of gold comes your way for winning.

Luce and Daldren speak after the battle. Connor is still pissed about losing Eleanor after messing around waiting for Altyria. Connor does re-join the party after this though. Daldren then says it is time to counterattack the Urdain and the thugs they hired. Sebastian Horne, son of Baltus Horne, pledges to fight. Menicks Racine joins as well. You are reminded to head back for weapons if you so please. Liana speaks with you first.

Return to the Garrison. They have new weapons and armor; namely, a Long Bow, Ornate Hammer, Brigandine Armor, Brigandine Gorget, Master’s Cloak and the Master’s Cowl. Tobias, Luce, Calvin and Altyria can use the Long Bow, while the Ornate Hammer is good for Gren and maybe Connor.

Also, check out the Mess Hall. Like the bars of old Vandal Hearts, you can learn some important things (namely, that one guy hid in a tree in the Riverbed).

Riverbed – Optional Battle

More Wolves to beat up. This time, heed the advice of the man at the Garrison Mess Hall. See up the hill where there is a recess in the tree (looks like something females have). You want to bring a character over here, though it may be hard as you maul the enemies each time they attack. Use Paralysis to keep them at bay, or just cast Mobility on a few characters to get them to hurry up the hill and to that tree with the hole. Choose Action – Examine. You find a map with four Kings, pertaining to a place east of here.

Four Swordsmen Spring – Optional Treasure Map

Again, this battle surfaces after you search the tree with the opening at the Riverbed. Lots of bandits here, but nothing too difficult for your party. Do make a point of grabbing that treasure by the statues, the Graceblade.

Battle 4 – Fort Pelgaius

A golden trooper talks with Daldren. Then a strange young man named Shance comes into the picture.

The party then approaches the fortress of Kelbrun. Calvin slips up and causes a rock to smash the fortress, ruining their position. You will have to continue with the boulder-pushing to open up the gates. Once you push four boulders into that gate, it opens, and Kelbrun then comes down. He will charge you, but wait back and continue to slowly pick his forces off. Kelbrun’s charge will be a lonely one after that.

After Kelbrun charges out, mop up the rest of his forces that are trailing him. This should enable you to search the fort better. Notice the shiny weapon racks – one of them yields a Master’s Cowl, while the other one near the entrance has a Brigandine Gorget. Check the treasure chests for 800 Gold and a Master’s Cowl. Another rack in the far corner of the fort, which has another Brigandine Gorget. The well has a Master’s Cowl.  I think we need more of these. At this point, just finish off Kelbrun.

The plot thickens after this. Just watch the scene.

Act Two – The Darkest Road

The group gathers themselves and even Altyria comes out of her shell and speaks. Turns out she was out and about because her village, Ven Aldekai, burned down.

Luce plans on heading to the King at Shumeria.

Battle 5 – Dreas Village – Hellhound Medic (2), Hellhound Mage (2), Hellhound Fist (6), Hellhound Ninja (2), Shance Aya

Check out the Shop of course. Save and then leave the village.

You are stopped by a Watchman. He says you are to lay down your weapons and submit to General Daldren Gray and the Golden Order. Shance Aya the Hellhound is here. The plan for the time being is to run east into the Dread Caverns. The Path of Unity should take us to Capital Shumeria.

Time to hurry, as the enemy approaches.

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Nostalgia

As you get to the ship, it’s time for a battle against the Man in Armor. He doesn’t seem to do much damage to you at first, until he busts out Prominence and knocks Gilbert Brown down. The air ship sets sale but Gilbert Brown is cut down and falls. Watch the credits.

The scene shifts to Brown’s House, London. Mr. Evans has come to see Mrs. Brown. Evans runs in to tell Margaret that something bad has happened to Gilbert, but can’t say in front of young Eddie (blonde character). Anyway, he goes and says that Gilbert’s Airship was found in the Mediterranean Sea. No one will go search with Sky Pirates and another scary black group hunting people down.

Of course, this is when Eddie decides he wants to be an adventurer and look for his dad. First, he needs to be admitted to the Adventurer’s Association. You can now pull up the menu, where you can save your game and look through your inventory and statistics. You can see Eddie already has a Short Sword, Headgear and a Leather Coat. You can rest by talking to the butler, and then leave the London Brown Mansion.

Head to your right into London Town. Head north now and look to your left for the Adventurer’s Association at London HQ. Speak with the Clerk and she says that you need to pass the entrance exam to be an Adventurer – exterminate the Monster Rats in the sewers. Head out and check the shops in the south part of the west end here. Nothing at the weapon shop but you might want to buy a pair of Gauntlet Gloves for Eddie to equip, then head east. Clemens says the sewer is here too.

Go to the item shop in the south in this east end, then go north to see Marie say that an old rate stole something from Pad. Enter the London Sewers. If you take the west path all the way and south, you will see a red switch that shuts the sluice gate. Don’t hit it yet, just continue south for 500G. Then go up and hit the switch, and travel east to that new open area. You can see a treasure chest is in here; work your way to the east end to enter to see a boy shooting. This must be Pad. Just attack these five rats to save him. After the battle, search the book in the center to save your game and restore HP. The treasure just southwest of here is Heal Bottle x2. Save your game and continue eastward, but as you do the sluice gate will shut and a freaky monster will have you surrounded. Pad comes to your rescue. Time to battle the boss Monster Rat. Use Overdrive and Lock On to start the battle, then attack away. Use a Heal Bottle when need be. Monster Rat has about 50-60 HP. Before you leave, head all the way to the east for 500 Gold.

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The Mario Bros. inside of Bowser are controlled in classic 2-d mode, while Bowser is in 3d Mode and you can access his by pressing Y. Unlike Partners in Time you aren’t continually using different characters. There is more continuity though it will switch up often enough to keep it interesting. Naturally, you know what to expect from your characters; the Mario Bros are going to be less powerful but faster and more versatile. Bowser’s power is immense though he lacks speed and can’t use combination moves.

Gameplay also features some neat things, like parts you can collect or minions to free for Bowser. Doing so will net you a special move that are fun to use, effective, and won’t become repetitive like in PiT. Fighting enemies doesn’t take as long as it used to, but they are more potent with a higher attack. If you are successful with your basic moves you will on occasion get a badge that will raise something, like your base stats or HP.

Some rares scenes you will be a huge version of Bowser. Bowser has new controls then; the stylus acts as the punching mechanism while breathing into the microphone is (you guessed it) fire breath.

Upwards of 20+ hours to complete this game with all the hidden treasures, beans, mushroom orbs, and all the other things you can collect. There are also optional bosses that will pose a threat you wouldn’t otherwise face. Along with the fast and fluid gameplay, the replay value is high. It’s simply one of the best Mario RPG type games yet, certainly the most innovative.

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Watch the opening scenes as you start a new game. Name the Hero. Including a Nick Name.

Shibuya 901 : Day Before : Mid-August

The summer of your second year of high school is almost over. People visiting Tokyo have begun traveling back home. It feels as if there are fewer people about in Shibuya. Your cousin Naoya, with whom you’d been living until a few years ago, suddenly called for you to meet him outside 901…

Atsuro comes by to say he has a problem with coding, and then Yuzu Tanikawa comes by. Ask her where Naoya is and she just ran into him. Turns out she has game systems for you, very DS-like. Communication Player things, or just COMPs. Just choose to remove the crack. Or should you not since they are Naoya’s? Either way, Atsuro does it and gets a COMP.

Read the message. At around 16:00, a man will be killed in a Shibuya-ku Aoyama apartment by a carnivorous beast. A large explosion will occur in Minato-ku Aoyama at 19:00. At 21:00, a blackout will affect the entire Tokyo metropolitan area. Have a nice day.

You are then introduced to the map. You can also press X to look at your menu and do things like save your game (only one save slot). Places we can check out include Ebisu, Omotesando, Harajuku, Aoyama, and Shinjuku. Omotesando seems to be a place to spend money. Aoyama is a residentual area.

Something seems to be going on at the Shinjuku. Shomonkai ‘freaks’ are here. Go to ???.

Shinjuku, Kannagi-cho

Yuzu wonders what to do. Meanwhile, a suspicious group in orange come up. “…the smiting from God against the Tower of Babel
returns! With the power of the internet, the world will be as one once more…”.

Omotesando

Go to Yuzu under Omotesando. Talk a bit, and you realize it’s 4:30. Cop cars are headed over to Aoyama.

Aoyama : Residential Area

The police were headed to the building where Naoya is. Turns out a student was eaten next door to Naoya. Naoya says some more creepy stuff, and has no intention of answering anything else.

Atsuro then calls you up. He’s at the Electric Museum in Shibuya!

Save, and then choose ‘Atsuro’. You then see Naoya ahead. Atsuro finishes it up – decryption confirmed. DEMON SUMMONING PROGRAM ready to boot?! Let’s Survive.

Devil Survivor Mission 1

Three creatures seem to have appeared from the COMPs, one being a Pixie. She encounters Yuzu, so fight back. Kabuso attacks next, and then a Kobold. Kobold uses a guaranteed critical, so it might be wise to guard. Try to gang up on the Pixie with Hero and Yuzu, as Atsuro has no problems with the Kabuso. If you gain a level with the Hero, you get to choose which stat you would like to add to. Each enemy that falls is becomes a servant to the character.

After the battle, choose to look at the COMPs a bit more. Atsuro recognizes that this is the Demon Summoning Program. Within the COMP, Atsuro also finds the Harmonizer. Anyway, the party surmises that they can prevent these demons from destroying any given area by following the ‘clue’ emails you have been getting. Also, there are numbers above people’s heads. Everyone here has a 1.

Naoya’s House

The police are still surveying the scene, but Yuzu points out a bunch of newspapers. As you read them, NAOYA sends you an email. He tells you what you already know – also though, to go to Aoyama Cemetery to see a person who will affect your future activities. Read the other email to learn more about the ‘Demon Taming’. It’s related to the Teams in the COMP menu.

Atsuro talks to you some more about the COMP. The function called Skill Set looks like it lets us use Magic Spells. Check your COMP so you can look at the Team function, see the beasts you have acquired, and the spells that they have (and your human allies too).

Just as you get to the graveyard, you will remember the explosion..

Devil Survivor Mission 2

Sure enough, a battle looms after the huge explosion. A Wendigo is seen running out of the northwest forest. It smashes up a ‘believer’, who cries for Lady Amane. As he dies, you see the number above his head vanish. A Priestess then runs out. As the mission starts, the objective is to defeat all Demons and make sure all three characters stay alive. The Priestess joins your party, but warns that Wendigo is too powerful for you right now.

This battle is different than the last, because each character should have a monster aiding them. Like any Persona, you are looking to exploit the enemy’s weakness. Use Agi on those Kobolds, for example. First order of business should be positioning your three characters to attack the next turn (though Atsuro can attack turn 1). Priestess can use Maragi on the Wendigo, and the Wendigo and Priestess will then flee. Pretty much everyone else in this battle is weak against Agi, from the Kobolds to the Ogre’s and Pixie’s. Kabuso will be a nice asset. Just spread out the kills and kill off the side enemies first for more exp.

After Mission 2, the lights go out in Tokyo, as said in the email. That strange Priestess walks up, and introduces herself. She is actually Amane Kuzuryu, maiden of the Shomonkai. Oddly enough, she sets up a barrier and leaves, telling you to stay until dawn. Read your emails, and you can respond to the one from Atsuro. After, you’ll be at the next day.

1st Day Tokyo Lockdown

Talk a bit with your friends, and of course you get an email from Naoya. He explains the Death Clock to you, which is what you figured – the estimated days left a character has to live, based on the calculations from the Laplace System. Which is why at times you’ve noticed your number going away after battles, with the immediate threat over. Read the Laplace Mail to learn about all the wonderful things that will be happening today.

Omotesando

After you leave the Cemetery, Yuzu stops. The streets of Miyamasuzuka are crowded, you cannot get near the station. Poisonous gas has leaked here, with all the people here. The SDF guy calms everyone, and the party surmises there is probably more than poisonous gas being leaked inside. But you must be careful with your COMPs – the police would question you. Save your game after this, because you have a chance to go around a bit.

Go to the Roppongi first, and listen to the people. You will get 50 Macca. Then you will have to choose your time however you see fit. I went to ???, and you see a scene with Kaido of the Shibuya Daemons. A daemon is a guardian spirit, says Atsuro. Just go ahead and talk to him and ask him about Naoya, and then about any secret exits.

After this, you will get two more emails. One from Naoya, telling you about the Devil Auction that you now have access to. You acquired three devils earlier in a battle, but from now on the Devil Auction is the only way to get new demons to join you. Save, and then do a few devil auctions. You will get the hang of it – basically, bid at the end, trying to keep it as low as you can. No matter what, at the very end you get a chance to put up a max bid (so long as you bid at least once before). Basically, you can save 10% – 15% off the ‘buy it now’ price if you go along and bid. Obviously as you bid for the better demons you’ll be wanting to save often to try to save as much Macca as possible. A bought a level 4 Pixie and level 4 Ogre and went to look at the Yamanote Line.

The area near the Ebisu Station is also blocked off. Seems these SDF Force guys don’t have a Death Clock present. Not much to do here, so head over to Atsuro. Or you can choose Yuzu. I’m assuming this just goes into their backgrounds (it did for Atsuro, telling why he’s so brilliant with COMPs). After this, some new things open up.

Omotesando

Head over to Omotesando to see ???. Some guy who recognizes Yuzu is here. Yuzu tells of this indie singer she likes, Haru. This is Haru’s guardian, Gin (Eiji).  You can go see him at the bar if you need to talk later.

Roppongi Boulevard

Check the ???. It’s Haru. Yuzu loses herself, then after the quick performance she says Haru used to be in the band called D-Va. But ah, her Death Clock was at zero. Yuzu would like to help, but there are more important things, like your own Death Clock being at zero.

Check the Yamanote line once more. Again, the SDF has it blocked. Someone Atsuro recognizes comes up, a guy named Keisuke. He gasps at your number – mention this to your friends, because he must be able to see numbers too. His was 1.

Shinjuku – Naoya – Mission 3

Save, and then head over to Shinjuku, where you see Naoya + Battle. Head towards him quick, but he gets away and sics some Demons after you. Clearly, the toughest ones of the bunch are the level 7 Moh Shuyuu’s, that like to use Bufu for good damage. Definitely will have to heal after that, and obviously don’t use Zio since they will drain that. You may not have a wind (Zan) attack to exploit this unfortunately.  However, you have Agi, and that at least does more damage than most regular attacks. This is a tough battle – you can always do a practice battle before this, and / or acquire more demon pets to help you out. There are a ton of enemies on this stage, so you may feel overwhelmed.

At the end, a Waira unit comes in with a Pixie. Waira is level 9 with 155 HP, and has Devil Speed as an ability. This thing is tough, and hopefully you have enough HP and MP left by the time it gets into the fray. It will use Zan, eating up your Ogre’s and doing good damage on everyone else. Take out the Pixie next to it asap, of course, and then just have everyone surround it. Mission Complete.

You and your friends still have a 0 on the Death Clock, however. You do get a few emails, about Macca Bonuses in battle (which you just learned a bit about). Another one on Skill Set Bonus, if certain conditions are met within battle. The key to this function is an energy known as Magnetite.

After Mission 3, you might want to go back into the Devil Auction and get a Wilder Waira (preferably with a Sharp Claw) and an Avian Moh Shuyuu, if you can afford them. Bid efficiently, and maybe do a battle to earn some more Macca and EXP.

Ikebukuro Sunset Street

Check out the Yamanote Line here. Another blocked path. Suggest the east side.  Two more emails come your way – read about Skill Cracks from the COMP.sys. Of course, another personal email from Naoya.

Suidobashi – Kourakuen Bunkyoku – Tokyo Dome

Check out the Suidobashi – Tokyo Dome for a battle. Save beforehand. Three are to be murdered by an Abominable Snowman. You three happen to be at the scene (with a 0 on the Death Clock..)

Sure enough, a Wendigo shows up and says you’re screwed. Uh oh, looks like we’re actually going to have to fight it this time. Line your party up by the other two enemy units (as close as you can get). Notice that you can now Crack Skills in this battle – except for the high-level Wendigo abilities. Though if you are leveled enough, you may be able to get Ice Dance, which would be a boon. Try to crack a Bufu or two for your main characters. The Moh Shuyuu unit has two low level Kabuso enemies, so it should be easy to slaughter. The unit with three Waira enemies is not one to mess with and will probably slow you down a bit. Other enemies will continue to filter out from the northwest – some are pathetic, some are a nuisance. Wendigo is an entirely different story. Easily the hardest battle / unit you’ve faced yet, and you’re likely to lose a unit (I lost Yuzu). Anyway, ganging up on it with Agi is the key, though you’ll need some Zan users to pierce through the Moh Shuyuu’s. Wendigo’s physical attacks are absurd, but maybe the most dangerous ability is Ice Dance which hits everyone multiple times for a lot of damage. It is random, so it can be devastating or you can get lucky. This will wreak havoc on one of your units, but thankfully he only used it once against me (he’ll use it the first time he encounters you). You get 250+ EXP for taking out Wendigo. Threaten the rest of the demons, and they’ll leave.

Looks like things are okay for the time being, but your Death Clock is still 0. Well wait, it changes to 2. Atsuro realizes though that these COMPs run on rechargeable batteries, so we need to find a charger. Atsuro suggests Akihabara.

Akihabara

Check out the stations beneath the tracks in Akihabara. You see Keisuke, who has a hand-powered charger! Keisuke brings you to a back-alley store, where you obtain a charger. Seems that the SDF Forces are the only ones that are going to survive this lockdown – something will happen in six days. Emails come in.

From COMP.sys, about Cath.exe. The Cathedral of Shadows is an organization that fuses demons together. If you’ve played Persona 3 for example, you will be familiar with this type of fusing. Things really open up for you after this. You can check the Yamanote Lines in various locations, or meet several different people. Also, spend some time fusing your lesser demons.

Ikebukuro

You meet Midori Komaki here, cosplaying and catching Atsuro’s attention. Turns out she’s Dolly.

Roppongi

Go here, since you see Haru and ???. Haru had a 0 for her Death Clock if you remember. A man named Azuma is trying to convince her to join the Shomonkai. Talk to Haru for a bit, and she’ll head off.

Shiba Park

Check out ??? at Shiba Park. Plenty of people stranded here, and then you notice the Shomonkai cultists, and their founder making a speech about the Tower of Babel. You’ll have a cultist come up, but then Amane Kuzuryu steps in, the maiden of the Shomonkai.

After this, start to check the different Yamanote Lines. None of them will open up. Eventually, you will want to look for Kudanshita, where Haru and a battle are.

Kudanshita – Bugeikan

Something is going on here. Haru is in trouble, but can use a COMP so she’s not worried. However, the COMP is out of batteries, so she can’t do much. Haru cannot die in this battle, so you’ll have to rush her and protect her. This battle should be alright, so long as you don’t stop to fight the enemies along the way. When they fight you, feel free to fight back, but don’t waste valuable time in the turn order initiating a battle against them. The Waira unit will attack her the first turn, so you really have to hustle to get over there to take that unit out. The enemies here aren’t particularly hard, but you’ll want plenty of Zio-users for the bot enemies. Maybe the biggest factor is whether or not the enemy gets Bind off on your units, which obviously will hamper your ability to get to Haru and save her. With any luck, you should be able to make it there and take out these mediocre enemies.

After the battle, Haru talks about her Sequencer. It’s her way of summoning demons, by singing in sync with the sequencer. If you pry, you find out she got it from Aya, the old leader of D-Va.

Shinagawa – Shomonkai HQ

Meet with Gin here. Well, actually you just catch him staring at Shomonkai HQ. Go meet with Yuzu for a bit, and then save and make your way to the Cemetery when you are ready.

Aoyama Cemetery

As you enter, you see a portal for demons entering the area, right in the middle of the Cemetery. Another portal is by your side, and Yuzu notices a COMP in the miasma. You can move over to the space and do the ‘pick up’ option, to grab the COMP and get rid of the miasma. If you want, you can go to the northwest part of the map to get the other COMP, but it might not be worth your time – you’ll do it automatically after the battle, and all the enemies come to you anyway.

Hopefully at this point you have a nice variety within each group, both in terms of fighters / magicians but also having each elemental attack to match up with weaknesses. Most of these enemies you’ve seen – the Bilwis Bots, the Moh Shuyuu’s and Waira’s. However, some new enemies are around, like the Femme Kikimora’s and Hairy Jack Beasts. You may have ran across them through fusions. Either way, they have weaknesses like anything else, so exploit them and try to crack as many skills as you can. Poison+ can be a nice added effect for Atsuro, one of your main physical attackers.

Shibuya

Head to Shibuya where there is a scene with Atsuro + Yuzu. The group talks about all the things that have happened, from the Laplace Mail to the Cathedral of Shadows (fusing demons). Read your emails and make your replies to Yuzu and ‘At-Low‘. Save after this.

Day 2 – Any Way Out

You are now on day 2. It seems the Gov’t still has things on lock down, and the party wonders when that will change. As you speak, a Laplace Mail comes in for the day. A monster will appear in Minato-ku Shiba at 17:00 but thanks to the Shomonkai no one will die. However, at 18:00 in Toyoshima-ku Ikebukuro, there will be over 50 deaths by a monster.

Many new places to go once things clear up, including some new demons to get from the auction if you so please (Genma Jambavan, not that great).

Shinjuku – Kannagi-Cho

Head here to see a guy drop off some rations.

Omotesando

Head to Omotesando to see Gin & Kaido. It seems Gin is holding a COMP. A new time-based action is set in Kanda Station, for Kaido. Kaido just goes ahead and asks you about the Bloodless Murders.  Note that if you choose these two events, you miss out on the Omotesando event (where a guy lies about seeing Haru) and then one with Yuzu / Atsuro.

Highway Ramp

You meet some people as you get here. A guy in a suit named Yasuyuki Honda and he mentions that you should share information with him as you find new things out. Good idea. Many new areas open up after this, including choices that you passed up just a bit earlier.

Check out Kanda for Miss Mari Mochizuki, someone Atsuro recognizes. You can go back this way to see a scene with Mari and Kaido, with Kaido getting upset and Mari wanting Kaido to not put himself in danger. Or you can go to Shibuya to see Kaido and Honda go off talking about COMPs. After you choose two of these events, it is time to go to the Tokyo Tower.

Shiba Park – Tokyo Tower

You meet a Tamer Thug as you get here. Unfortunately, these guys are looking to collect COMPs and probably need to be stopped. Don’t back down, just choose to fight them. They are of high level and have some tough demons, though. Another problem is that these Tamer Thugs are able to use abilities for all their allies at the beginning of battle, plus they have no weaknesses. So it takes a while to take these units out, but if you have even decent Demons on your side you should be able to withstand their attacks. The second heat of thugs doesn’t hit the forefront for a little bit, so feel free to take out the ones that appeared like right on top of you. After the battle, the group realizes that with the current situation, more people will be abusing these COMPs.

A few new places to go, but check out the Devil Auctions. Some of  the newer enemies you just fought are in here, like the Dragon Toubyou and Wilder Garms. Check out the Shiba Park – if anything, more people have came to wait here. Makes it dangerous should a Demon appear. At Ikebukuro there is a ??? to meet. This is Shoji the journalist. She asks you a bunch of questions, but does mention that the city highway connects to the subway at the end. She tells of the Akasaka Tunnel. Shoji has also heard rumors that the lockdown has been done with the purpose to keep monsters from escaping. Shoji goes further into this topic, realizing that the government is slowing giving out information to make it look like they’re working on the main issue, to control panic.

Maybe do a random battle if you haven’t for a while, and then head to the Akasaka Tunnel.

Akasaka Tunnel

This place is a mess, just like everywhere else. The screen will switch to battle-mode, and you will see a Gagyson. The gagyson has a device to summon more demons. You must stop them immediately.

After moving your characters the first time, the Gagyson mentions Master Beldr. Seems they have a plan. There are three of these Gagyson enemies, and their units obviously are the toughest. They do not move though – they are stationary, and they summon weaker enemies like Bilwis bots. Still, it’s an annoyance, so charge the Gagyson units and destroy them. Try to crack Elec Dance if you can – it’s expensive, but great for enemies weak against Zio. Speaking of, you’ll want plenty of Zio and Zan users (and Bufu helps a bit too). After summoning about 5-6 of these Bilwis bots, the Gagyson enemies seem to stop. This makes rushing them a cinch, so you have no excuse not to crack Life Bonus and / or Elec Dance.

After the battle, the party goes over the fact that it’s not good that demons are using COMPs now. Could it be a high-level demon? Anyway, a woman charges you. Hero and friends run away, barely.

Of course, we can now get Fallen Gagyson’s from the Devil Auction. Head to Omotesando to meet up with Atsuro. What is the point of these Demon’s coming to this world anyway? Do they all have contracts? After this talk, many new places open up for you.

At Omotesando, you meet a guy who tries to lie to you about Haru. You may have done this earlier, but he says he called someone, which would have been impossible. Head to Tokyo – Hibiya Park to find that same guy, who won’t tell you about his Master but he seems like a Demon Worshipper. Save, and head to Kanda. You may have already done the first scene with Mari here, though there is a second one with her quarreling with Tadashi ‘Kaido’.

Ikebukuro – Eikokuji

Head here when you are ready for a battle. There are Demons abound, and Lilim is looking for your equipment (COMPs). They too are pawns of the great demon master Beldr. Kaido and Honda then come from the east end to join the battle. This battle is annoying, mostly because of the Jack Frosts and their ability to spam Dia and Charm. Especially when paired with those Snake Makara’s that will use Dia all day long too. Thus, try to finish off enemies whenever possible so that they can’t get restored to full health. The other enemies you’ve seen before, but by and large it seems you’ll want Bufu and Zan users in this battle. Try to head over to Honda and Kaido to help them stave off the demons. Three sets of  Gagyson demons appear towards the end of the battle, but they should be easy to mop up by the time they get near you (assuming you still have some MP).

Honda and Kaido head off and the party wonders about this Beldr demon. Again, you have a few choices for events to head out for. You can see three different Honda events, with him trying to find a way through the Yamanote to get to his ailing son. After the third event, Atsuro wonders if there is more to Honda than meets the eye, as he had a radio he shoved into his pocket. You can choose between these three events, or you can see Kaido twice (learning more about his motives regarding his brother) and then Honda once. Either way, battle at the Tokyo Tower when you are prepared.

Tokyo Tower

Of course you see Demons as you enter. But you also see an Office Girl surrounded. More workers are surrounded, but Atsuro makes up a lie that monsters are at Shiba Park, so the police officer runs offs. However, one of the demons follows the police officer, so we will have to dispatch these Demons quickly.

The biggest issue is probably an enemy slipping by, especially one of the tougher units. They cannot reach the northeast end otherwise the battle ends. The worker unit on the left is under heavy attack quickly, but the other units you should have no trouble saving. Watch out for the Gozuki enemies, they are by far the toughest random enemies you’ve faced yet. Berserk can be a brutal physical maneuver, but it can be terrible sometimes as well. Still, Gozuki units are the ones you’ll want to go afte  to make sure they can’t flee the battle.

Shiba Park

After the battle, the party figures people are probably pretty freaked out that they are fighting with Demons. The scene then shifts to Shiba Park with a police officer protecting people, and then the Shomonkai come in to intervene. Lady Amane stops in and calms everyone. Then she turns into a ‘Goddess’, which looks a lot like a Demon. The enemy says that the name is Laksmi.

Atsuro wonders if something is up with the Shomonkai and the Demon Summoning Program, since they did ask Naoya to create it. Time for a scene with Kaido at Kanda (or with Honda if you’ve done the Kaido scenes). Then, off to Ikebukuro.

Ikebukuro

This is where many potential victims are. Midori Komaki and Keisuke Takagi are here, with Keisuke trying to calm her. Keisuke summons Jack Frost and Pyro Jack. Keisuke realizes it is his day to die protecting Midori, but it seems her Death Clock is 0 as well. Atsuro and the rest of you come in to save them. With little effort, Midori should be protected. But Keisuke is under heavy fire early on, and his demons will likely be routed quickly. Head on over there as fast as you can to clear out the enemies near him. The key is to not be afraid to throw out all the ‘Dance’ type magic abilities to quickly get the jump on enemy units. You will burn through your MP but the only relevant thing is to get through the early turns with Keisuke alive.

Keisuke and Midori have their Death Clocks changed to 5. Keisuke brings up the possibility that the Defense Force causes all the deaths, since they have nothing over their Death Clock. Midori snatches a COMP that  you found earlier and goes off with Keisuke, eager to learn how to use a COMP.

Shibuya

Head to Shibuya where there is an Atsuro and Yuzu event. Another day and you are still stuck in the circle. Not to mention you have no days left starting tomorrow.

3rd Day : Beldr

Third day Beldr means trouble looms for you. It is likely the 0 days left on your Death Clock is related to this Beldr character. GGGGGoood mornining. Here is todday’s NEWS. Only thing of note is that in Minato-ku Aoyama Cemetery, Beldr the immortal will be revived. 300 casualties and you can probably guess who three of them are. Afterwards, Keisuke comes up wanting to talk about Midori. Seems she is doing good things but her Death Clock changed as a result. Offer to help out, and Keisuke will officially join your team. When he does, his Death Clock will turn to 0 like yours. What do you do though, save Midori or get out of here by 18:00 when Beldr is scheduled to come mess stuff up.

A few things to do here (Shoji, Kaido and Honda). I went to Kanda to meet with Shoji, the reporter. She doesn’t know much about Beldr but is too skeptical about the chances for our world. After this, too many things open up to mention. First of all though, you will need new Demons for your friend Keisuke who joined as the fourth unit. Pay 800 Macca for the Gold Card at the Devil Auction to acquire higher-level demons.

You can head to Akasaka Tunnel to see that SDF Female that you ran from earlier. She agains points a gun at you, though after some discussion she’s willing to believe you’re humans and will talk. But she can’t let you through, since some demons use human form to trick people. The lady is Captain Misaki Izuna.

Go to Shinjuku to see Naoya. You see him for a second, and then you see Gigolo. Strange guy here. He knows Naoya and of Beldr and the Death Clock. He gives you some advice, saying there is something you must find to be able to compete with Beldr.

Tokyo

Go to Tokyo, to the Haru scene. She’ll be playing music, but a group of demons is here to sneak up on her. Of course, you cannot let Haru die in this battle (or Hero for that matter). Lots of enemy units in this stage (many reinforcements), but you have a fourth character so you’ll see how efficient you can be with three total new allies in battle. Keisuke might start off with few abilities but soon he’ll be formidable in battle (and he’s quite fast and covers a lot of distance).  You’ve seen these monsters before, but the Wendigo’s aren’t quite the threat they used to be. Pyro Jack is new but nothing particularly special. If you have characters that fly / teleport, that will make the route to Haru much easier. Heal her upon getting near her and she’s sure to have sustained some damage. Mop up the reinforcements and that’s that.

Haru now has a whopping 1 day left on her Death Clock, but it beats 0. She’s really being hounded by demons though, for her ‘ancient tongue’.

Many new areas open up, and several that you didn’t get to do before the Haru battle. You can only do two total before the next battle. You can meet with Haru at Kudanshita, and you can meet her again afterwards. I chose to do that. You can also meet with Atsuro, Honda, Gin, and save a kid in a tree with a demon. Again, after two total events, you will next have to go to Ikebukuro to see what Midori is up to.

Ikebukuro

As you get here, you see the Magical Dolly the Warrior of Love, taking on Demons all by herself. Well, she does summon Cait Sith. Combined with those Cait Sith’s, her unit is good enough to manage for a time. It’s the villagers you want to rush to and protect. This battle is a joke for the most part, so long as you get to those villagers in time to heal them or allow them to leave to the southeast. You may run across some new enemies like Mezuki’s, who you can crack Mazio from. Just make sure that the villagers flee before finishing off the rest of the enemies. Because..

A big grey statue-like demon appears, and yes, it’s Beldr. Midori tried to attack it, but to no avail. Beldr sends out a Vampire Mist attack that does anywhere from 0-80 damage (but usually 20-30) to everyone on the map. Hopefully your villagers have escaped before Beldr comes out. As you retreat, Beldr summons some enemies to stop you. Tough, new enemies like Basilisks, Cait Siths and Vidofnir. More importantly, they have really high levels. Gang up on them to efficiently take them out. Beldr is very slow, so if you can take out his allies you should be able to escape, along with Midori. Midori escapes automatically but you have to get on the blue space and choose ‘run’. Once everyone is gone, your Mission is complete.

Shinagawa

Head to Shinagawa for an Atsuro scene. He is able to access some data about Beldr – Loki had him killed with devil’s fuge. It seems there is still much to learn about the Devil’s Fuge. We can go get more information at Nagata-Cho, but other scenes are available too (Shibuya (saving the kid), Omotesando (Gin), Suidobashi (Midori) and Ikebukuro (Atsuro + Honda). After a scene, you get an option of a battle with Honda and Kaido. Anyway, I chose to see Atsuro a few times and he ran into his friend 10BIT. 10 BIT passes away but not before handing over a COMP, telling of a big secret that the government is hiding.

Seeing Midori puts you in another battle where you have to protect her and villagers. Try to crack Berserk with Atsuro, if you can. Most challenging part of this stage is when the Wendigo’s bind your characters and the citizen, leaving you to suffer and move one step at a time. For this reason, try to wipe out the Wendigo’s as fast as you can and make sure the Civilian and Midori stay healed, though Midori should be fine for the most part.

Ask around about the Devil’s Fuge. Turns out, it’s a plant. However, someone bought it and you’ll have to meet them at 17:00 at Nagata-Cho.

Shibuya

Eventually, you will have to go to the battle with Kaido and Honda at Shibuya. As you head there, you can hear voices nearby – sure enough, it is Kaido speaking with Honda. They spot some demons, and Kaido is looking to cash in on the Macca. There are 7 enemy units and you need to defeat four of them before Kaido and Honda do. They’ll start the battle off by killing one unit, thanks to Kaido using Double-Hit. But worry not, this tactic makes it take forever for him to act again, so this should give you time to rush to the center and take out three units. Problem is, you have to get to the southeastern end of the battlefield to take out one more unit, so you’ll either have to race past Honda and Kaido in the northeast, or use a flying character to fly across the center to the Pyro Jack enemy unit for the fourth kill. This battle can be annoying at times and you may feel like you are going to lose, but be patient and efficient and you should be fine. Remember, you just need to defeat the leaders, so feel free to just head-hunt them as you’re probably used to killing off the side enemies as well. If you can crack something nice like Ice Rise and Fire Rise, even better.

After you win though, Pazuzu comes in and has pity for Kaido. Honda recognizes Pazazu as the Demon King of the Wind. Kaido doesn’t seem to mind, and has a new demon partner. This doesn’t seem good. Anyway, you still have to finish off the battle if there are other enemy units, which should be simple.

Kudanshita – Bugeikan

There is a battle at Kudanshita – Bugeikan. Turns out the Shomonkai are pestering citizens for their COMP, or to get them to join their cause. Don’t worry about these Zealots. However, they have important abilities we want to crack, like Fortify and especially Blitzkrieg, upping your attack power. Mazan and Elec Rise are nice too. Either way, you’ll find this is an easy battle. Towards the end, some true ‘believers’ from the Shomonkai will come in from the northwest to aid you. Not that you need it. If anything, these reinforcements might come in and screw up by killing one of those northwest Zealots and ruining your ability crack session.

Nagata-Cho – Kasumigaseki – Diet Building

Head to Nagata-Cho after you have saved. We need to meet them at the Diet Building for the Devil’s Fuge information. As you get there, a Pyro Jack is seen talking about the Believers of Belial. You have some Demon Tamer’s here, and you need to beat them up as well as the mediocre Demons you’ve seen before. The Demon Tamer’s cannot die – you have to be the ones to defeat them, and then they ‘flee’. But as said before, the enemies in this battle are easy, you’ve seen them all before. Still, you will want to rush to the northwest as soon as the stage starts. Another opportunity to crack some valuable skills though, like Blitzkrieg, Berserk, Force Rise, Elec Rise, etc. After you defeat the final Demon Tamer unit, you will acquire the Devil’s Fuge plant. The Demon Tamer’s mock you however, so the party is unsure of how to feel going ahead.

You have time for one more event, and since I’m choosing the Atsuro route this time through I’m choosing his. For his friends password, choose on his handle ( 2 ^ 10 =1024). Actually 1023, since in programming..oh nevermind. Atsuro finds something out about the PSE Law. A chip installed into any technological device. But the UEM Field (Ultra Electromagnetic) is a super weapon that uses EM Waves. Could this be related to what the government is doing?

After the one event you choose, there will be only one event left. At Aoyama Cemetery, with Beldr.

Aoyama Cemetery – Beldr

The long awaited battle is about to begin. As Atsuro says, the Hero has the Devil’s Fuge, and is the only one who can harm Beldr. Before anything else, make sure you crack Mana Surge from Beldr if your main character is mp-based. Many enemy units are present, some you haven’t faced as enemies in battle before (Cait Sith, Vidofnir). The key is to leave at least a few of the weaker units alive. I’m not sure how many, but I left one unit alive for a while and he summoned them all. So the next time I just left the two Pyro Jack units and the Yuki Jyorou unit, but Beldr still summoned more friends. This leads me to believe it’s a time limit of sorts, so if you don’t hurry that second wave will be coming in. This is absolutely key, because watching the Cait Sith units run in and spam Media on Beldr is sickening. So hopefully you have Double-Hit + Basilisk / Evil Wave so that you can attack twice from long distance, avoiding a counterattack. Beldr should not last long with this strategy. Hero will then crack Mana Surge, which is perfect if he’s a magician like my Main. Beldr mumbles Loki’s name and then blows away. Everyone now has a three on their Death Clock.

Shinjuku

First thing to do afterwards is head over to Shinjuku for ???. Gigolo is here, wondering how you’re still alive after fighting Beldr. Tell him you found Devil’s Fuge plant. Turns out though, this is just the beginning. Beldr was one of the few demons to be crowned with the name Bel. These monsters are having a fight for superiority with the name Bel. Others include Belial, Jezebel, Belberith and Belzaboul. Gigolo says in three days time you’ll have to fight Belial which is probably the reason you are scheduled to die then.

Shibuya

Go to Shibuya to speak with Atsuro and Yuzu. Things seem kind of hopeless right now. Strangely enough it is Yuzu who is the positive one. Belial looms in three days and still no end to the lockdown in sight. Many emails after this, like seven of them. Answer them however you wish, save, and you will be on Day 4.

4th Day : Crumbling Reason

The lockdown has reached a fourth day. Time to read the new Laplace Mail. Really big things happening, like the SDF planning to kill Haru and claim it to be a suicide. Midori will also be ‘murdered’ by Demon Tamers. We’ll have to remember to save them both. But Keisuke flips out over Midori maybe being killed by humans. He leaves the party and his Death Clock changes to 1.

Many new areas to go to. I chose Atsuro to have him talk about our plight. Chances are, the SDF forces and the government won’t be able to stop the Demons. After this, go to Ikebukuro to see Midori. She’s going nuts, showing her demons to everyone and the public thinks she’s crazy. It’s clear you’ll have to protect her until you can get her to change her ways. Meanwhile, another Atsuro sceneff as there is a container with food and clothing. The stronger people are holding the elderly and young from the food. It’s sad. After this, the same scenes are available but now you can go see Azuma, a friend of Lady Amane from the Shomonkai. You can ask him many questions, about Naoya, the server, Bel’s Throne, Belial, etc. You also get to speak to the Shomonkai Founder. Ask him about Belial, known as the Holy Flame, an incarnation of the inferno. After this conversation though, you can meet someone else, but then it will be time to look for Midori.

Ikebukuro – save Midori

Time to save Midori. Only three members on your team, but you just need to go forth and smack one enemy around a bit, and then they’ll want to flee. Unfortunately, this battle is not so black and white.

But after not too long, guess who comes in? An old friend, we’ll say, and he flips out on the punks. Yama then comes forth and talks to him much like with Pazuzu and Kaido. Yama is a God of the underworld also known as Enma. This guy really has gone mad. The ‘enemies’ that were fleeing now have to take the southeast route, but send one of your allies in this southeast corner. Meanwhile, one or two allies can go over by Keisuke and kill off his demons (Bai Ze and Power). After the fleeing groups get close to the southeast, Keisuke will summon two Loa units with Vidofnir. Take these units out quick, because you’ll want everyone to gang up on Yama to take him out. Yama will basically kill anyone when it attacks, so you’ll need to be fast and having Evil Wave to resist counter attacks is a nice move (use Basilisks). Yama is strong against Fire and Lightning, so try to get someone with high magic to use Force or Ice Dance for 150+ damage. Yama yields a whopping 3000 EXP, leveling up even a high-leveled Hero.

Hard to imagine what has gotten into Atsuro’s friend. Kind of a sad situation though with the humans being saved being upset at the Demon Tamer’s that saved them. Events left over from before are still left over – I had Honda and Gin, so I went to Gin. Gin talks about his lover Aya. Offer to help him ask about Aya, and you can do so at Omotesando. New spots open up after this, so I went to Shibuya to see Atsuro. Atsuro has an idea to go to Naoya’s room with the Shomonkai, and you can offer to go in since you are related to Naoya. Maybe you could find some valuable source code there. A new spot with Midori popped up at Omotesando after this. A mob is searching for Midori, blaming her for all the demons that have sprung out. Sympathize with Midori and she’ll finally realize the error in her ways – but will want to join up with you and still fight Demons. She replaces Keisuke. Remember to give Midori abilities in the ‘Team’ menu.

Spend some more time looking for information about Aya. You will get a hint about a time along with the fact that you should meet Master Azuma. In two days at noon he is going to be at the Hills building and you can talk to him then. Speak to Gin a few times to let him know of this, and also to talk about the COMPs and how it’s strange the Shomonkai are willingly handing them out. After this, go to Azuma and just ask for Naoya’s things, even though it doesn’t sound like much. Now, time to go to Kannagi-Cho.

Shinjuku – Kannagi-Cho

As you get here, it will be time for a battle. Some Demon Tamer jerks are here bullying workers for money and food. You’ll have to take these candid fools out. Some abilities to crack here, with the key one being Battle Aura. If you don’t have Fortify or Blitzkrieg, get them too. Nothing too hard about this battle, though Battle Aura actually is a decent ability that will neutralize any weaker attacks to those leaders. Once you knock off the main Demon Tamer’s, the weaker units (if alive) will attempt to flee. Shouldn’t be too hard to stop them and still have time to make sure you can crack all the skills necessary, which aren’t many sadly.

After the battle, should have Wilder Afanc’s available. You can see Azuma, Shoji and a battle with Honda and Kaido. You may have already met with Azuma to ask for Naoya’s stuff, but if not it’s still here. Shoji meanwhile knows you are Demon Tamers, but has information on the lockdown and the role of Angels. Seems like they may be controlling the Self Defense Forces, the ones that ordered the lockdown to go after Demons. You can meet Shoji once more at Shinjuku to learn about the SDF Forces and the Angels that run them.

Suidobashi

Suidobashi is where we meet Kaido and Honda. You can choose to help the citizens flee, or just take out the attackers in Kaido and Honda. Nice abilities to crack here, so make sure to do so (Null Force from Pazuzu, Recarm from Kaido, ). Honda fortunately will appear in the east part, and attack a citizen that is right by an escape pod (the pods appear when the civilians can move). Kaido attacks first, but the citizen attacked should move towards you and you should be able to heal before Kaido gets a chance to kill them off. But Kaido has a tough unit between him and Pazuzu. Pazuzu has Chaos Wave, so he can attack from a mile away seemingly. The Media is annoying too. Needless to say, you will want to take out Pazuzu right away with Ice magic. Pazuzu attacks twice, with Mazan and will use Media quite often too. Kaido is weaker than you would think, and Honda’s unit is pretty generic as well. Once you defeat Pazuzu the battle just rolls, but try to get Recarm and Null Force from Kaido’s unit. Fem Peri’s should be available in the Devil Auction now.

Now, it’s 17:00. Go to Haru and you’ll convince her not to commit suicide – the demon’s were here long before her songs, after all. Meet with Kaido after this, who calls you the justice freaks. The guy he is talking about has to be Keisuke.

Shibuya

Next thing to do is to meet Mari at Shibuya for a battle. A strange demon named Kudlak will sneak up on her (Kresnik). Mari will retreat through the park, so you’ll have to race towards her while she’s taking heavy damage. Fortunately, she’s quite talented herself and will heal herself and take out enemy units, all by herself. Still, you will want to get to her as fast as possible to give her some space to breath. Obviously the toughest enemy here is Kudlak. You are warned not to kill him, so finish off his Loa allies and then leave his unit be and defend when he attacks. His critical hits can take off a lot, so beware. Clear off the rest of the enemies so Mari can run off, and then follow her. Mari now has 1 day instead of 0 left. You will speak with her some more and learn that she really is Kresnik, destined to battle the fiendish vampire Kudlak. Turns out Kudlak is weak to a powder made from white amnion, but it was stolen from Miss Mari and soon enough Kudlak appeared, knowing that the item that can defeat him is not around. We need to find that bag of Mari’s.

Head to Kanda to ‘Look for Mari’s bag’. You won’t find it here, but it will open up a new area in Ueno where you can find the guy with the bag. Take it, and now you will just have Kudanshita open for a battle.

Kudanshita – Bugeikan

Here you will see someone in pain, talking about a police man and demon. As you get there, amazingly, a cop summons a demon and says this guy deserves the death penalty! It seems these cops have rebelled, feeling that they’ve been screwed being stuck in the lockdown while the SDF Forces get to be on the outside.

Some nice abilities to crack from these jerk policemen. Phys Rise, Diarahan, Anti-Phys, Mighty Hit, etc. The cops in the eastern part of the screen are easy to take care of since you appear right next to them, but don’t sleep on the citizen and cops in the far west. Two cops may gang up on a civilian here so try to dispatch a unit or two there immediately to catch that threat before it starts.

Shibuya

Afterwards, go to Shibuya to speak with Atsuro and Yuzu. It’s night time, so you go over the recent topics with Atsuro (Miss Mari, Shoji’s information, the system server, etc).

5th Day : Revelations

Beautiful scenery heading into the fifth day here. Talk a bit and that Laplace Mail comes in. At 12:00 Kudanshita there will be a body found drained of blood by Mari Mochizuki. Sounds like Keisuke might die from Kaido as well. Another busy day, to be sure. And ah, the sky is turning red? If you go to the Devil Auction you can now buy a Platinum Card, an upgrade from even the Gold-Level demons you were getting earlier.

Millions of places you could go here. Check out Kannagi-Cho to see a punk coming away with a COMP – tell him the truth and he’ll say a Shomonkai guy with squinty eyes and a black coat gave it to him. Talk to Shoji now to learn about how the Shomonkai are intentionally giving out the COMPs to get more Demons on the streets, in hopes of eventually summoning Belberith. Meet with the Shomonkai, both with the founder (to see an argument with Lady Amane) and then with Azuma to get Naoya’s COMP. Now check out Keisuke to learn about why he is continuing to punish those around Tokyo. Hopefully you can find the bag and give it to Mari otherwise she’ll be in trouble.

Ikebukuro – Sunset Boulevard

“Sorry kids, but you all have to die here”, says the SDF Soldier. They have become Tamer Captain’s. Many nice new abilities for you to crack here, like Null Mystic, Holy Dance, ‘Healing’, Ban Mystic, Drain, Might Call, etc. New enemies too though, like an Ym, Hanuman, and Orobas. Plus, the SDF Force soldiers are a nuisance. They will block many of your physical attacks, can heal at the beginning of turns in battle, and have a good defense against physical attacks. You will want to use ‘Dance’ magic abilities on them to put them away so you can get their valuable skills like Healing and Ban Mystic for example. Try to make a point to protect the northwest and southwest exits. After you defeat a few SDF Forces, they will try to flee. The southern exit in particular is cheap because one of the soldiers is stationed right by it, so you don’t want them to escape easily.

Many new choices to go to, but at 12:00 or 12:30 you need to go see Mari.

Kudanshita

At Kudanshita, you have Mari. If you didn’t give her the bag in time, she’ll die. The battle is then easy, since Kudlak doesn’t really care now that Kresnik is gone. Kudlak can be killed simply by anyone at this point. However if you gave the bag to Kresnik / Mari, then you have a shot. The other demons aren’t much to speak of, but you will need Kresnik / Mari to be the one to take out Kudlak. Not too much to ask, assuming you didn’t take out Kudlak the battle before like Mari advised. If you did take Kudlak out, you will have a much tougher battle on your hands. For abilities to focus on cracking, you should take a look at Bufudyne, Extra One, Null Mystic and Ice Repel. New abilities because you are fighting new enemies like Badb Catha and Orthrus.

It’s almost time for Kaido and Keisuke to clash. As you get there, you see Pazuzu and Yama fighting it out. Pazuzu takes out Yama somehow. Keisuke goes down for me here, though I imagine if you meet him earlier (which I thought I did) you can save him. Starting the battle off, you get swarmed by all the Mothmen. Take them out, and this should leave you with a few enemy units besides Pazuzu and Kaido. Obviously, the less enemies around for that the better. Pazuzu’s entire group is weak to ice, so plan accordingly. Bufudyne from the previous battle (and Ice Dance) can really mess Pazuzu up. It would help having someone with Chaos Wave or Evil Wave so that you don’t get counterattacked, but you can’t have everything. Kaido is the same as he always has been, high physical attack and hit points but he too can have his HP eaten up quickly with high level spells. There was nothing to Crack here for me so that helped the planning though there may be an ability or two here you might want to go out of your way to get. Pazuzu can now be fused.

Akasaka – Izuna & Fushimi

As you go to check on Izuna and the Akasaka Tunnel, you see demons close in behind you. Definitely Crack Zandyne and Force Jump. After a turn though, you see Izuna and Fushimi, and they have COMPs themselves. However after they summon the demon, they realize they cannot control it because they did not make a contract with it. So they are armed with guns that are weak, but have the ability to defeat the demon and be a demon tamer. Since they are weak, you will need to protect them, and you’ve seen this stage before (lots of isolated areas). After a bit, a demon teleportation device will appear in the southwest. You’ve seen them before, but they didn’t do anything earlier in the game. This one will have demons spawning. (Orobas enemies). You can close it off or just kill off all the enemy units. Once you get to Izuna and Fushimi, you should have no trouble routing these demons.

Nagati-Cho Station

But now, these guys know how to wield a COMP. Izuna speaks out and provides the open minded answer for the elite forces. You are taken to the subway platform by Izuna. Izuna tells you all the juicy details about the governments motives for the lockdown. A lot of this is obvious, as you can imagine what is going to happen to everyone within the Yamanote Circle. Long scene.

Afterwards you will have Honda, Shoji, Amane, Yuzu and Izuna available to see. Amane ‘meets you for the first time’ as Metatron’s subordinate, the angel Remiel. You are told about the fire demon Belial who will fight you tomorrow. Several more topics you will go over with Amane / Remiel. Check the Shomonkai Facility to hear from a Believer on his way out. He tells you that the Shomonkai worship a Demon, something you may have caught onto earlier. This guy also worked under Naoya, and he has some things to tell you about, though he is in the dark about plenty of it. But Lady Amane had a ritual peformed by Kuzuryu at an early age, so that may explain the previous scene. However you also here about how they brought in a ‘woman’ and the plan went much better – that has to be Aya. Izuna just tells you about Belberith, the demon that the Shomonkai worship.

Shibuya – Miyashita Park

Head to Miyashita Park at Shibuya. A Tamer Thug is running rampant, and demons show up too. Another chaotic stage of rushing to save the villagers. Great abilities to crack, namely Magic Yang (MP cost halved) but also Phys Rise and Ice Jump. Send a unit to the right side and have them clear out the area and stay, as reinforcements will appear over here. The others can rush the Thug beating up on the people. You will want to crack that Magic Yang from him (instead of his other good abilities). The 50% magic cost is too valuable to pass up. After that, you will have to usher this thug back to the teleport in the southwest, or just bring him along as you hunt these demons. Mostly Orobos and Legions.

Nagata-Cho – Kasumigaseki

Wow, looks like Naoya has showed up. Save, and head to Nagata-Cho. Naoya taunts you a bit, but you can ask him some questions and he answers them relatively well. He gives you credit for defeating Beldr, but summons some more demons for you to play with. You must defeat six demons before you move three times – tricky. But not really. Having a bird with Yuzu or some way to fly and have a move of more than 3 would help. But with high-level spells, you should be able to wipe these enemies off the map quickly. Also factoring in the enemy will attack you back, so if you don’t kill a unit in the first attack it’s likely you will as they counter attack.

Naoya is willing to open up more after this. He wants you to be King of Bel, leader amongst demons. Might be what you need to do to gain respect over the rest of the demons and lift the lockdown on Tokyo. Naoya also mentions he didn’t do this alone, he needed the help of a female who was talented with music. As you might have guessed earlier, it’s Aya, and you can ask Azuma of the Shomonkai if you want to know more. Talk with Atsuro and Yuzu for a bit at night, and read your emails. You get one from Gin, telling you about his demon Take-Mikazuchi.

6th Day – Decisive Moment

Time for the 6th day, the Decisive Moment. Fire in Hibiya outdoor concert hall, cause unknown. Victims include you and your party. This must be Belial (18:00). You can talk to Izuna for more information, Amane too. Talking to Shoji you learn that her mentor was 10BIT, the guy who was looking into the PSE Law.

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SUIKODEN TIERKREIS TRADING FAQ

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• Suikoden Tierkreis Guide Cragbark Shams
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• Suikoden Tierkreis Recruit 108 Starbearers Guide FAQ
• Complete Suikoden Tierkreis Walkthrough with 108 Stars Guide

There are 108 Starbearers in Suikoden Tierkreis just as there are 108 Stars of Destiny in the other Suikoden’s. There are some things to be aware of with many of the optional recruits, so if you want all 108 and the best ending, pay attention and make sure you don’t miss out on anyone.

The 108 Starbearers will be listed as they are available in the game.

1. Hero – Automatic recruit.

2. Marica – Automatic recruit. Joins at Citro Village

3. Jale – Automatic recruit. Joins at Citro Village

4. Liu – Automatic recruit. Joins at Citro Village

5. Hotupa – Automatic recruit. Wanderer who joins at Forest Ruins

6. Moana – Automatic recruit. Wanderer who joins at Forest Ruins

7. Logan – Automatic recruit at Grayridge.

8. Erin – Automatic recruit, Logan’s daughter who acts as spy under Macoute.

9. Mubal – Joins Company upon entering the Magedom and stays to learn about the power of Chronicles.

10. Zahra – Doctor found at the Magedom who joins to treat Cougar.

11 Eunice – Nurse for Zahra, who also joins your company after treating Cougar.

12. Wahie – Joins after you get Cougar. Hotupa will attempt to send Cougar to his own world, but he is unable to go. Wahie comes out and tells you some Gateway advice, and joins after this. You can go to him to do your Nintendo Wi-Fi stuff.

13. Sisuca – With 10 characters recruited, head out via the front exit of your HQ and Sisuca will show up. She’ll say ‘wow, you have 10 characters’ and head out. Later, return to Citro Village and go to the Elder’s House. Have her get ready to go to your HQ, and she will join you there.

14. Anya – After returning from the Magedom of Janam, put Erin in your party and go to Grayridge. Check out the mine and go northeast to see Anya. With Erin in your party, you can recruit Anya. Note that earlier as you leave Grayridge you can get extra dialogue with Anya if you have Erin in your party, but it is not required for Anya’s recruitment.

15. Selen – Selen is Jale’s mom. During the ‘blooming flower’ season, Selen will show up if you enter the Forest Ruins HQ from the front entrance. The first time Selen shows up, you are likely level 16 or so and Selen will not even bother to battle you. Selen seems to show up every other blooming flower season, and the next time you meet her you should be about level 20 or 21 with Jale. With some luck, you can take her down. But if she knocks you down with her Shrike move, you’re in trouble. Even still you’ll be burning through Mega Medicines trying to survive. Two-Way Strike obviously will do the bulk of the damage but it requires Jale to be almost full HP to survive the turn. Hope that Selen wastes turns blocking. If you still have trouble with her, return to fight her after the Coastal Cave – if you bring Jale along for that he will be about level 25, making the battle much easier. Once you beat Selen, she
joins your army.

Recruitment note : After returning from the Magedom of Janam, visit Grayridge Ch Hall to get a scene with Luvais warning you. This is an important event for a recruit later on.

16. Tongatihi – Once you return from the Magedom and have access to the Corridor area, head there and travel east to a new screen. Once you see a young wanderer, talk to him and his name is Tongatihi. Return to Moana and sign up for Window Information. It is a request from Tongatihi and you can send whoever, because it is bound to fail. After reporting on this quest, a new quest should open up called Windows Beyond the Gateway – this too will be a failure so don’t worry. After reporting on Windows Beyond the Gateway just go
to the Corridor and talk to Tongatihi. Ask him to make Windows for you, and Tongatihi will decide to join. Talk to him in the castle to change the color scheme of your Windows.

17. Gadburg – Blacksmith for the Blades of Night’s Veil. Chrodechild decides to station Gadburg at Hero’s Forest Ruins HQ so the Mage Lord can’t steal his services. Gadburg can use the Spark command (appears below ‘run’ in the main battle command menu). Spark instantly kills enemies lower in level than you but you don’t gain items after battle that you otherwise would have. Gadburg also sells you some nice weapons / armor, and gets more options as you trade more goods throughout the game.

18. Muro – After you go through Giney Valley and Tehah Village, return back to your HQ. There should be a new request, Demon Hunting in Gineh. Go to Giney Valley, specifically the west end. Because in this west-most area, just go straight south and west when you can. You should see some Wanderers running out. Enter the southwest area by the waterfall to see Muro, an Auster Folk. If you don’t see him, exit the area, run back east, and then you should see the scene with the Wanderers running (and Muro should have appeared in the southwest waterfall area of Giney Valley). Muro is a useful recruit because he allows you to get Gorno earlier in the game.

19. Luvais – Luvais was mentioned a bit above, but you can recruit him after visiting Tehah Village for the first time. As stated above, you will see Luvais at Fort Arc, Mislato River, and then an optional scene at Grayridge CH Hall. Many people miss Luvais here. If you have met him there, Luvais will then show up after you finish checking out Tehah Village for the first time. Return to your HQ and Luvais should show up as you enter from the front. Luvais tells you the Order is on there way. You will have to repel a weak effort from some Cynas Conscripts and the Captain. After this, Luvais will join your army. *Edit – After playing through again, it seems you need to visit Luvais once more at Grayridge CH Hall. He will stop you there and tell you to be careful and that he’ll watch the Order. Then, once you return to your HQ, he alerts you of their attack and their strategy. He is recruited afterwards (this was after the HQ upgrades, mind you..)

20. Nimni – Joins you initially as you enter the Coastal Cave to retrieve the Porpos-kin beads. After you return, Nimni joins with Niera as the main rep of the Porpos-kin at your HQ.

21. Neira - Priestess Neira joins after you find the Bds of Priestss. She takes a while to come to your HQ but is a very worthwhile member as a magician in battle.

22. Nemne – Pink Porpos-kin who joins with Nimni.

23. Nomno – Dark skinned, sleepy-head Porpos who also joins with Nimni.

Note that Nomno does not officially join until after the Blades join and HQ expands. Nomno will be tired from the battle and sleeping in the west area of 1F. Check Nomno out, then go to the third floor west side room to find the Porpos-kin, and chat with Nemne. She says Nomno is just exhausted. Also in Nomno’s sleeping area is the cook Wustum (who we will have recruited by this point). Talk to Wustum and a scene happens with Nomno – he just needed some food. Nomno is then officially recruited.

24. Wustum - Upon returning from the Coastal Cave / Naineneis storyline sequence, check out Tehah Village Inn during Sprout season. It is said this dialogue can be accessed even outside of Sprout season – but anyway, talk to the Innkeeper (far left behind the counter) and you will have an opportunity to test some soup.

Assuming your leader quests are clear, head back to HQ and sign up for Find the Chef from Shairah. Asad cannot be in your party, if you are doing this later. Go to El-Qaral Imperial Plaza to talk to Asad. After this conversation, head back to Tehah Village and talk to that Innkeeper. She says Wustum went to the mountain. Sure enough, go towards the peak of the Ch’olui Mountains to see some Janam mages encounter Wustum. Wustum beats them down with his bare fists. You will end up ‘failing’ the quest, but this is good since it means you recruit Wustum.

Wustum can be missed if you do not recruit him by the time the desert is here.

25. Semias – You meet this gambler at the Grayridge Mine, where he makes a bet that he will see you again some time. After you finish the ‘Make Allies of the Porpos’ request, you can go to Naineneis and find Semias. He is the peculiar looking red-clad guy as you enter the Inn. He says he’s going off to make the biggest bet he has ever made. Return to your HQ, and go west of Erin and Logan on 1F and you will see Semias. Talk to him to recruit him.

- WHEN HQ UPGRADES
Recruitment note : Now that HQ is upgraded and Neira is at your HQ, Namna will visit Neira on the third floor west room every bud season. Absolutely make sure to stop by and talk to Namna, because Namna will leave but you still need this dialogue to recruit Namna a bit later. Namna is often missed so do not forget.

26. Chrodechild – After serving the Magedom, joins automatically.

27. Meruvis – Another Blade of Knight’s Veil who joins with Chrodechild.

28. Roberto – Blade of Knight’s Veil who joins with Chrodechild.

29. Manaril - Automatically recruited after saving her at the Arcane Academy. Bring Manaril to the 2nd floor Chronicle room and Mubal officially joins also.

30. Asad - After serving the Magedom, Asad joins your company automatically.

31. Zenoa – Once our HQ expands, leave and enter and go to the basement floor (easier to reach from the back entrance). Zenoa is down here and joins with the Tablet of the Starbearers.

32. Yadima – As HQ expands, check out the western exterior. Past the dock where Anya is, you will find Yadima and his fields. One pre-requisite to seeing Yadima here is to visit him at his hamlet southeast of Citro Village, on the plains. If you talked to him there, you will find him at the fields at HQ. After talking to Yadima, go to Moana and sign up for Plowin’ The Field. Send your strongest characters with the highest attack, like Jale, Selen, Muro, Asad, etc. After you succeed you will want to go talk to Yadima and you will then recruit him.

33. Rekareka – The mother wanderer who you see at Naineneis as you initially enter. After you make allies of the Porpos-kin, return to Naineneis Trade Shop to see that pair again. The mother is Rekareka and the son Tuhululu. If you have done this you will see a Make My Son a Man request after the HQ expands. Sign up for the request, and go towards the ‘Inn’ type area on floor 1 of the HQ – just west past Semias. Anya normally would be found on the right side of this room, but now you see Tuhululu and Rekareka. Rekareka informs you on the
quest she put up. So, go report on that quest now that you have the information and another quest should show up – I Need Laggart Pelts. Not sure who to send but I figured Hotupa is a good start. Once you succeed at I Need Laggart Pelts, you can report for 30000 potch, Rainbow Thread, Rainbow Cloth and Silk Cloth. Also, Tuhululu and Rekareka will officially join your company after this.

34. Tuhululu – See Rekareka above.

35. Geschutz – Optional, missable recruit from Ritterschild. The first request from him is after you do the 2nd Empress Consort’s mission and have checked out the Arcane Academy. Geschutz and his friends pose as ’students’ from Ritterschild, but really want to get their hands on a Chronicle. After this first meeting, you don’t hear back from them until after your HQ expands and Asad, Chrodechild, etc join your Company. A new ‘Special Proposal’ appears from Geschutz, so accept and go meet him again at Mislato River. Geschutz has been instructed to join your company in the fight against the Order.

36. Buchse – Recruited with Geschutz.

37. Minen – Recruited with Geschutz.

38. Sotah – Wise sage of Tehah Village. If you speak to him as you enter and check out his Encyclopedia three or four times, you can ask him to join but he won’t join your company quite yet. Come back after your HQ has expanded and ask Sotah to join and he will. He adds to your EXP gained if a support member and has plenty of knowledge for you.

39. Balsam – You first meet Balsam and Yod early on at the Grayridge Mine. It is not until later when your HQ expands that you can go talk to Balsam and ask him to look at the elevator. Back at your Forest Ruins HQ, Yod and Balsam will check out your elevator but determine that they need a pump and will have to take it from Yod. If you remember though from Naineneis, that treasure chest at the Trade Shop had a pump. Go to Naineneis, and tell the Trade Shop owner that the original owner of the pump needs it back – he gladly gives it to you.
Return to Balsam and Yod at your HQ and they will get the Elevator going and both will then join your army (note that it takes 10 days for the elevator to be finished).

40. Yod – Recruited with Balsam, read above.

41. Khemia – Go to Citro Village with the Ritterschild trio (Geschutz, Buchse, and Minen). Khemia seems to have created a decent gun, not perfect but it has potential. Khemia then joins to work further on guns for your company. Also there will be new guns available from your weapon shop at HQ after recruiting Khemia.

42. Nuzhat - Bring Mubal to Salsabil after HQ expands and after you have the lift working. Enter the ‘Residence’ to see that strange woman you saw earlier at the Magedom. This is Nuzhat. She gladly joins and turns the cellar into that same dreambeast room that the Arcane Academy had. You can test it out but you will find the EXP yielded here is quite weak. Still, Nuzhat is recruited and has value in being able to increase magic damage in battle as a support member.

43. Icas – You first meet him at Cynas, flirting with girls. Icas then comes up after you visit Salsabil for the 3rd Empress Consort. After this, there is a request at Forest Ruins HQ detailed ‘Find Somebody‘. Go to the Inn at Salsabil to meet Morrin and Yovel. They are looking for Icas, but he will be hard to find. It is not until a bit later when HQ expands and some new young females join that you can recruit Icas. You need ‘young females’, Selen does not count for example. Marica, Sisuca, Erin, Manaril, Chrodechild and Minen are good choices though. So basically, right after HQ expands and you recruit the latter three. Sent a full group of these females and you will find Icas. Another quest will appear labeled Bring Icas to Me. The Hero has to personally bring Icas to Salsabil. Tell Icas he can join and he will be recruited. Turns out as you go to leave, Morrin is already at HQ with Yovel. As you are out here with those three, an Assassin comes by for Icas. Fend him off (he has about 1000 HP), and he will flee. Yovel and Morrin are now recruited as well.

44. Morrin – Recruited with Icas above.

45. Yovel – Comes with Morrin.

46. Numnu – Rascal Porpos-kin who you first meet at the Entryway of Naineneis, after you return with the Cerulean Flux. Later on you will see an ‘Order Attacks Naineneis‘ request where you will meet the Lonomakua Pirates, and shortly after you will see a ‘Porpos abducted‘ request. The villagers are quiet about it but know that the Porpos is at the Coastal Cave. You have to work your way to the back (all the way north and then the middle spring). Within you will see that Numnu is the abducted Porpos and went willingly. You will fight the Dromon Pirates, a tough yet rewarding battle, and then Numnu will be back at HQ being scolded by the Sea Goddess Ninulneda. Numnu is recruited.

47. Dromon – Dromon is the leader of the Lonomakua Pirates and you will see some scenes with him before you get a chance to recruit him. First, you meet
him after ‘Order attack on Naineneis’ and then again after the Porpos-kin faux abduction (you fight him and his friends after the latter request).

After this, return to the Coastal Cave. At the middle spring that you take, this time it sends you to a third floor. Grab some treasures here like the Godspeed Talisman and the Lazuli Spear, then drop down the hole to level two. You can travel to the back of the cave to find the Lonomakua Pirates. You will chat with them and they wonder why they haven’t built a hideout after all this time. The Porpos-kin then go search Lonomakua to see if anything has changed. Nimni says that a chunk of the Lonomakua Chain Islands disappeared, and then
the party appears back at the end of the Coastal Cave. Dromon, Xebec, and Felecca have the vision too, but Dromon wishes to fight you first before
joining. The battle is the same – hopefully you brought new characters to level up to 31-33, but they must be formidable because the battle is still difficult. Defense Canopy helps a lot as usual. Dromon, Xebec, and Felecca are recruited after this.

48. Felecca – Joins with Dromon.

49. Xebec - Joins with Dromon.

50. Nhazu – Nhazu is first encountered at Tehah Village and through the Ch’olui Mountains. After the HQ upgrades and the west half of the mountain disappears, go to Tehah Village to see Nhazu talking junk about Dogha. But agree to take him up to see Dogha’s hut. Even Dogha has nothing but bad things to say about himself. He has lost his identity without the mountain. Return back to your Headquarters.

A new quest will be up, Search for Nhazu! Sign up and you’ll be at Tehah Village to learn the details. Speak with the townspeople who think Nhazu is up at the mountain. You will then appear at Dogha’s hut, who you should talk to and he eventually gets a lead. Go east of his hut for a ledge which can be used with a rope. Follow the path to see Nhazu in the corner. Talk to him and Dogha and Nhazu will start to remember their past a bit.

Back at Tehah Village you will talk some more, and then head back to Headquarters. Nhazu will beat you to HQ and join.

51. Dogha – Comes to HQ with Nhazu after the above events, but you have to
talk to Dogha, exit, enter HQ and talk to him again to recruit Dogha.

52. Sphiel - The Snow Fairy. She can be recruited after getting Dogha. Sign up for Get Rid of the Snow Fairy, and do not put Dogha in your party. Go to Ch’olui Mountains, towards Dogha’s house. Go northwest of his house to see the Snow Fairy. The Snow Fairy will not be here if you have Dogha. Anyway, she battles you with tough snow magic. Retreat to your base and talk to Dogha. He says to tell her you are full. Return, tell her you are full, and she is recruited.

53. Maybelle – While you are at the Ch’olui Mountains getting Sphiel, you might want to head towards the peak and look for a north route that leads to a
huge statue. This girl here knows about a fight 1000 years ago and this Maybelle was the lover of Ru’ukahthis. Hero runs away at this point.

At HQ, Find my Fated Lover will be available. Sign up and Maybelle comes out to profess her love for Hero. Report on the quest for some potch, and head towards Hero’s room. Once inside, Jale will have to come in and take Maybelle away. Now put Marica in your party (or any young girl) and leave HQ. Maybelle will come by and say something. Say ‘that’s it, I can’t take it anymore’ and the scene will turn to Hero and Maybelle in his room. Have her touch the book and have the vision – she is finally recruited.

54. Nakil – A tricky recruit. It is important to be active using Asad after your HQ expands. Eventually as you enter through the front entrance, Asad will say he has to go off. After a short while (it took 15 days / passed a season for me) Asad will come back with Nakil. This is all you need to do to recruit Nakil.

55. Hafin – After Asad returns from saving Nakil, head to the Mislato River with Asad in your party and you will see a scene with Hafin. He has deserted the Magedom to join your company with Asad and Nakil. Hafin is then recruited. Note that these two recruits can be switched in order, but they both must be finished by the time the desert is here.

56. Diulf – Joins automatically after defending Cragbark from the Order.

57. Servillah – Joins automatically after defending Cragbark from the Order.

58. Lycia – Joins automatically after defending Cragbark from the Order.

59. Gorno – Recruiting Gorno at this point is a slightly risky situation because of the Fanged Silkmoth along the route to Gorno. Gorno is at Mt. Svatgol, and if you don’t take this secret passage in Grayridge Mine, you won’t head there for a long time in the game. But after the HQ expands and you recruit Muro and Balsam, you can begin to make your way to Gorno.

Go to the Grayridge Mine with Muro and two other quality members. Take the ‘lift’ to the ‘lowest floor’. This is only recently accessible to you, and it is where all the tough enemies are. Go west and take the first path south, and continue along south a LONG ways, winding left and right a bit until you reach the stairs. Even in the lower 30’s, your party will struggle here with the Fanged Silkmoths. They can do a sleep-all attack on everyone in your party, one of the few really deadly enemies in the game. Just continue to run from them, it’s not worth the risk. Thankfully you will be fighting other enemies too but they are very weak.  It’s a long walk but you will eventually come to Mt Svatgol, along the way in the mine you will find a Moonlight Sword, Uncut Emerald, Emerald Ring, and a Spun Silvr Armr. These are the other good reasons for coming along to get Gorno. Once you get to Mt. Svatgol, go east but look for a south path to find Gorno. With Muro in your party, he will be recruited. You have to walk all the way out as the guards won’t let you go further into Mount Svatgol. Gorno is a support character who raises physical attacks and will sell accessories at the HQ.

Maybe the biggest boon you receive from venturing to Mount Svatgol is that the enemies here will level you up to 40-45! This is a double edged sword however as it will eliminate the difficulty of battles for a while (the ‘challenge’ that is hardly in the game as it is). Still, it’s fun to bring characters through the mine to Svatgol to get them from level 10 or 20 to level 40 in no time.

60. Chein – This is a tricky recruit if you don’t know where to look. You have to put Lycia in your party, and go to Cragbark. Travel directly north of it on the Marsinah Plains and you will come across Chein. This battle can be won, but it doesn’t have to be. Chein is tough so you could lose. Head to Cragbark and the Hse of the King

61. Autar – Autar can be recruited right after recruiting Diulf and the Roar Tribe. Talk to Autar at Cragbark and then ‘Gather Animals!’ will appear at your HQ. To succeed in this quest, you need every character with 80 in the speed and luck department. Leveling them up at the Marsinah Plains would be an easy way to get characters close enough in both categories. Just pick characters that are naturally high in both, especially speed. Luck can be augmented big time with Treasure Swords and Noble Shoes, luck raising gear from Pharamond. After completing ‘Gather Animals!’, report on it and then visit Autar at the Town Square and he will be recruited.

62. Guntram – Popular citizen of Pharamond, he joins automatically as you storm back to take Astrasia.

63. Fredegund – Sister of Chrodechild, joins automatically upon taking Astrasia back from the Order.

64. Ouragan – Assassin who you first meet after finishing the Icas and Morrin events. You have to defeat him in battle, and then he leaves. At this point I went and recruited the Dromon Pirates, and by the time I got back Ouragan was at the HQ talking about Icas. Next go to Naineneis to see a scene with the Assassin again. Return to your HQ and the Assassin will be there, and will ask Hero to show him that Icas is still at your HQ. Hero does so, and Assassin leaves again. After returning from recruiting Diulf and the Roar, then talking to Atrie, leave for Cragbark General Store. The Assassin will be here and talks to you a bit more about his motives for following Icas. He doesn’t seem to care much anymore. At this point I took

Pharamond back over and walked around for maybe 15 days / the next season, and Ouragan was back at the HQ. Turns out he wants to join your company so he can continue his adventures.

65. Luo-Tao – After visiting the Scribes with Liu, Luo-Tao will join automatically.

66. Len-Lien - Joins your company with Luo-Tao.

67. Yula – Yula I believe becomes available after returning from the Scribes’ Village. Bring Chrodechild with and talk to Yula along the way to the Pharamond Castle. Chrodechild will be in a duel with Yula. Use your Basic Falcon and Mega Medicine if you need to. Yula should not be too tough for someone as statistically gifted as Chrodechild. Even better, she’ll gain several levels, all the way to 40 for me. By touching the sword, Yula got a vision. She is then recruited after this. You will want to level her up as she will be needed in the near future.

68. Amaralicht - With Fredegund and or Chrodechild in your party, go to the Pharamond Castle to see Amaralicht and Quillard. Quillard will make a comment about the ‘traitor’ Fredegund, and then run off. You have to go find him now, and Quillard has made his way to the Wilds of Veile. Head northeast past where you encountered the Auster Folk. In the next screen you will see some Order soldiers messing with Quillard – they shouldn’t be too hard for you to mop up. Afterwards, Quillard apologizes and both Quillard and Amaralicht will join your army.

69. Quillard - See Amaralicht above.

70. Lathilda - After returning from the Scribe’s Village, talk to Guntram at the Pharamond Castle. He talks about the Woodsland and has a feeling that some lady from Astrasia now lives there. Take out any Scribes in your party, and put in Chrodechild, Fredegund and Guntram into your party.

Go to the Noslaw Woods, and travel east a few screens (from the south end). You will come across Bosche, a wild guy. He runs off a bit further to show you his beautiful wife Lathilda. The Astrasia people you brought with recognize her and is glad to hear that the Order is no longer in control of Pharamond. They then travel to Pharamond with you to see that it is indeed peaceful. In order to keep it that way, they join your army.

71. Bosche - Joins with his wife Lathilda.

Recruitment note : After returning from Scribe’s Village, go through the east entrance to Giney Valley without Liu in your party. In the next screen you should see a dark shrouded figure, asking about the Elder Scribe. Then she walks off, but it is important to see this event right now. You will then see a request from her labeled ‘I want to see the Elder’. Complete this and then you will see her much later.

72. Mourgent - Make sure Yula and Chrodechild are not in your party, and then go to the Blades of Night’s Veil’s area at HQ (2nd floor, west end). Yula and Chrodechild will be talking about a legendary blademaster named Mourgent. Now take Yula over to Noslaw Woods or Wilds of Veile to level up in the low to mid thirties. Sign up for Request from Gadburg, and you will appear at those strange ruins by Citro Village. Gadburg calls for Mourgent who actually walks right up. Yula has been following your party and challenges Mourgent. Use Basic Falcon and it won’t be a long battle, he has but 500-600 HP. Use a Mega Medicine if you need to. Mourgent is then convinced to join your company by Gadburg and Yula, and he does. Mourgent is an elite swordsman in battle with True Falcon. Good candidate for the Evil-Eye Sword as his magic attack and magic defense are already close to 0 as it is.

73. Elder Rajim – After Luo-Tao begins to work on finding where the Chronicles are, go talk to Moana. She says Elder Rajim is by the back entrance, so go there with Hero and Liu. Rajim touches Liu and gets the vision – he is a starbearer as well it seems. Rajim joins your company.

74. Megion – After the Ch’olui Mountains disappear, travel through the peak and down the rope to that northeast end of Marsinah Plains. Try to enter the ruins, and as you do Megion talks to you.

A bit after returning from the Scribe’s Village you should see a request labeled Return of Megion. Level up Diulf and his crew at the Wilds of Veile or Mt Svatgol to get them in the mid 30’s to make this battle easier. Then go to Cragbark to meet two roar friends of Megion, Eusmil and Nictis. Tigre will mention those Decaved Ruins northeast of Cragbark that you have been to. Rest up and head through the Ch’olui Mountains to get to the Mysterious Ruins.

There are some really tough enemies in these ruins and some really easy ones. Take the southwest route and then north for a Lazuli Rod. Now go back a bit and look for a north route going west. You will meet the three Roars led by Megion up ahead. It is imperative you have those Roar Tribe members of your own leveled up and outfitted nice, because this can be a tough battle. Megion in particular can wreak havoc by upping his attack and taking off upwards of 300 damage without a barrier. The other two are a tad weaker than Megion and really don’t have many powerful abilities (the female will poison you). With some underleveled Roars I managed to win with the group leveling up from 25-26 to 34-35. Hero and Diulf have the group touch the Chronicles to get a vision of the One King. They then decide to fight by Diulf’s side. Eusmil, Nictis and Megion are recruited. Megion is a demon in battle, use him.

75. Nictis – Joins with Megion above.

76. Eusmil – Joins with Megion above.

77. Savina – On the second floor of the Inn at Pharamond, you will find Savina. You have to have Icas in your army, and if she won’t show up at the Inn you may need to rest or go through a plot event to get her to appear. She is looking for her lover Darrow (you’ve met them at Cynas before), but Darrow is stuck in Cynas. Savina will be recruited for now.

78. Lubberkin – Sign up for Atrie’s World after returning from the Scribe’s Village. Report on the quest to learn that your participants saw someone from our own world in another world. Now, to the Grayridge Mine. Hotupa and Hero appear at the Grayridge Gateway to see this scrubby man, who is crying. He leaves and thankfully you appear at the Grayridge town. Go to the Inn and put Logan in your party, and then go down the alley to see that man cowering by a wall. Logan recognizes him as Lubberkin, both miners. Lubberkin is sad the town has fallen to the Order, and he decides to join you and Logan at your company.

79. Namna - Namna is the Porpos-kin you have hopefully been visiting for many bud seasons up until now. After you have defeated the Archivists after they turn into Chronicle Monsters (Dirk being the last), you should be able to get a different dialogue from Namna. Both times I’ve played through this is when Namna would join, right after the Dirk battle at the front end of HQ. Namna usually just checks up on Niera and says it’s time to leave, but at this point Neira should stop Namna from leaving and order Namna to join your company. I visited Namna 8-10 times up until this point, not sure if that influences it but make a habit of visiting Namna every Bud season. Otherwise, if you wait too long the dialogue will never change and you won’t be able to recruit Namna.

80. Hina - At the port area outside of the castle to the west, talk to the Dromon pirates, specifically Xebec. He will spew out several lines about the past of Lonomakua. Speak with him a few times and then go to Moana to see a new request up. Put the Pirate party in and Xebec will recognize the name Hina Aumakua, who has the same blood as the Chief. This quest is a whopping 40 days, so walk around for a while and return to see the pirates have brought Hina back. She may be little but she is a powerful magician and daughter of the Tribal Head Kane Hekili Aumakua.

81. Shams – After the Janam event, go to Salsabil to see things have completely changed. After you talk to Shams and stay at the Inn, he will come by again and tell of what happened and express his desire to join. Shams then joins with the Ancient Covenant Chronicle.

82. Taj - Taj initially comes with Shams as you leave Salsabil, though he does not know what really happened and cannot use the Mark of the Stars. You will fight Dirk with him, and afterwards he will continue to be in your service. However, you have to later go to Shams’ room and talk to Taj there, and it will be time for him to touch the Chronicle and see the truth. Taj is then recruited.

83. Tsaubern - After you have escaped to the castle with Shams and Taj (after defeating Dirk), return back to Salsabil and check out the entire town. After checking each spot, you can try to leave and Tsaubern stops you. He is from Ritterschild but is in a hurry so he leaves, but promises a visit.

Return home to HQ and sign up for ‘Promised Visit’. You will be at the top of your HQ with Tsaubern – turns out he is a rep from Ritterschild. Have him touch the Chronicle and he’ll have those visions of the Magedom. Tsaubern is then recruited.

84. Ramin – Ramin is the Maestro you first come across as you return to Salsabil. Ramin is at the Trade Harbor making music, making everyone mad. Hero chases him off, and then return to HQ to sign up for Discordant Countermeasures which is based in Naineneis. Head to the ‘Street’ to see that same Maestro. Hero can tell that music makes people mad, and he runs Maestro out of there. Go to Cragbark now, the Town Square. Hero won’t let him play music here as the Roar would annihilate Ramin, so Hero drags him out to Marsinah Plains. A battle with Pekklars begins, and everyone is in Fury status. These should be easy to maul and you now know what Ramin does in battle – occassionally provides Fury status upon start of battle. It is less likely than passive Fury Marks but still has some value. Ramin then joins the army.

85. Diadora – Joins automatically after defeating her at the El-Qaral Arcane Academy while looking for a Chronicle with Luo-Tao. Diadora is an elite magician and provides extra scenes at the end of the game if you use her.

86. Misrach - You meet this ‘ruffian’ much earlier in the game, but doesn’t join until after the desert event and immediately after acquiring the Endless Travels Chronicle. Misrach is the leader of the Salsabil Liberation Army, and you fought him during the 3rd Empress Consort mission (and possibly again if you visited that southeast Mislato River area again). Also there was a Salsabil Liberation Army request where you see Misrach too. Anyway, after the battle at the bottom of the Arcane Academy with Diadora, make your way to Salsabil. Go to the royal house to see Misrach. He doesn’t remember fighting you at all since Janam is not around anymore. After returning to Mislato River and then touching a Chronicle, Misrach remembers and has even more reason to join and fight the Order. I was really looking forward to using Misrach but he’s quite mediocre.

87. Nova - After storming the Tower of the Way with Diadora, you will flee and bring Nova along as well. He is passed out but joins automatically after this.

88. Nofret – Once you return with Nova and Diadora from the Tower of the Way, make your way to the El-Qaral ruins, Arcane Academy. As you go down the stairs you will see a new room open to the right at the second to last level. Take this route to meet some bandits led by Nofret. You can fight her by choosing the first option, she isn’t hard.

Go to Salsabil and put Manaril and Shams in your party, then return to Nofret. Nofret trusts that these two are truly royalty. Back at Forest Ruins HQ, there should be a new request to help them dig. Bring strong members – not sure how strong, but your strongest should suffice (check their specific responses to make sure). After succeeding, take your rewards and then put Shams / Manaril back in your party to go visit Nofret. Nofret is recruited after this.

89. Vaslof - Enemy general who turns to the Hero’s side after the failed attack on Fort Arc. Vaslof touches the Chronicle and remembers what happened with Ladzaa Fortress, and joins automatically.

90. Resno - Joins automatically with Vaslof.

91. Gilliam – This is a tough recruit, so read closely. You meet Gilliam at the very beginning when you initially go to Grayridge. After the first failed attack on Fort Arc, go to visit Gilliam at the Grayridge Ch Hall. Valfred is losing the confidence of Grayridge. Ask Gilliam to join, but he can’t yet.

Now please save your game. You have to succeed with flying colors on this upcoming request or else you will not be able to recruit Gilliam. Sign up for ‘Defend Grayridge‘ and send three groups to defeat the sand monsters. Try to load up with strong members, at least over 110+ each and preferably 140+. You need 3 full groups so you might be stretching it a bit, though your army should have sufficient depth at this point for a quest of this nature.

If you succeed completely, you gain 50000 potch. Now there is a semi-complete ending to this too, if you gain 5000 potch and the Order never attacked. This is not the result you want, as you will not be able to recruit Gilliam (at least as far as I know). So, make sure you save and succeed completely with 50000 potch – then go to Grayridge Ch Hall to talk to Gilliam and recruit him.

92. Chief Kashgar - Joins automatically after Ordovic comes.

93. Ordovic - Auster spirit who joins after visiting Lugenik with Vaslof. One of my personal favorites with his high attack power, and really high MP for a front line fighter.

94. Indrik - An Auster oracle who you fight at Lugenik and then joins automatically with the Chief.

95. Diiwica – Another Auster oracle who fights you at Lugenik and then joins automatically with the Chief.

96. Sophia - Joins automatically after finally taking out Dust Sophia at Fort Arc. Another powerful mage.

97. Darrow – Hopefully you recruited Savina from Pharamond Inn (read above). After you storm Fort Arc and take back Sophia, put Savina in your party and head to Fort Arc. Heading from Forest Ruins HQ, go through main street but take the second east passage. Continue east, up the stairs, and after some walking you will run into Darrow. If you brought Savina, she will call out to him and Darrow will join. You do not have to complete ‘Find Darrow’ to recruit him either.

98. Yomi – Put Tsaubern and Yula in your party, and go to Lugenik main street. Some performers are here and they say that they are off to Cynas to perform.

With Tsaubern and Yula still in your party, go towards the Grayridge Ch Hall to see those performers once more. Cynas didn’t like their dances. Ask them to help you, and they will introduce themselves as Yomi and Chihaya. You then recruit them.

99. Chihaya – Joins with Yomi above.

Recruitment note : After Rarohenga appears, go to Scribe’s Village with Liu and talk to Hao-Shi. If you have noticed as you progress, Hao Shi has new things to say to you, and he has more to say. He still will not join, but you will now have to look for a ‘Cleaning up the Woodlands’ request.

100. Tigre – After Rarohenga appears, bring Diulf to Cragbark Town Square. Talk to Tigre and Diulf will convince Tigre to join. He is a decent front line fighter but is adept at being a healer.

101. Keflen – You first can meet Keflen as soon as the desert of Janam appears. You will find him knocked out, and then will venture through these Mysterious Ruins to the west end. Keflen doesn’t remember much, but after Rarohenga appears and you attain the Chronicle of Boundless Amber, talk to Keflen at your HQ. He seems to have remembered some more things and wants to go to those Mysterious Ruins once more.

So go to those Mysterious Ruins just southeast of El-Qaral ruins. Make your way to the back, west end, once more. The Chronicle of Boundless Amber will begin to glow and a strange man appears. Keflen recognizes this man as Belemuel, spirit of the bearer of the Tensyo Star. Keflen gains confidence in his past and decides to fight the One King alongside you and Belemuel. Both Keflen and Belemuel are then recruited.

102. Belemuel – Recruited with Keflen – read above.

103. Kow-Low – You see Kow-Low at the Scribe’s Village (he is the west-most character). After Rarohenga appears and after you see Valfred there, return to your HQ and sign up for Find Someone in Rarohenga.

So go to Rarohenga, and then those Mysterious Ruins in the northwest part of Rarohenga. Within you see that Scribe Man with three Pawn enemies – defeat them and then this Kow-Low guy will follow you. He was reluctant to leave the Woods but had to save a girl.

Continue going east within to find a girl being attacked by a few more pawns. The girl has a way to chase the Pawns off. Her name is Rufa and they both join after this scene.

104. Rufa - Joins with Kow-Low after the ‘Find Someone in Rarohenga’ request. Read above for more details.

105. Enumclaw – If you have been keeping up on requests throughout the game, you have seen ‘Get Rid of Citro Monster’ and ‘Get Rid of Mislato Monster’. After the Mislato one you should have had more dialogue with this Enumclaw fellow who hunts these Formless Demons.

Sign up for ‘Get Rid of Woodland Monster’ which appears after Rarohenga. Make your way to Noslaw Woods and you will see Enumclaw after entering. Enumclaw can sense when the worlds become unstable and a Formless Demon is about to come. Hero will go with Enumclaw and eventually you run across this demon. Fight it for a while and then Enumclaw interferes to send the monster away. Enumclaw afterward admits he is the Teni Star and Hero then recruits Enumclaw.

106. Hao-Shi - As stated in the Recruitment note above, Hao-Shi is the ugly, grouchy Scribe you meet at the village. After certain story events, Hao-Shi will have added dialogue including after Rarohenga appears. Talk to him then, and he’ll still be opposed to leaving the village.

After seeing Valfred at Rarohenga, a bunch of quests open up including ‘Clean up the Woodlands’. The party will appear at Noslaw Woods after signing up for the quest. Beat a few Pawns and then Hero and Liu go to the Woodlands Village. Hao-Shi is still not willing to help until Liu convinces him. Hao Shi will follow you as you defeat some more Pawns, and then the village is safe. Afterwards, Hao Shi can finally be recruited.

107. Zayin – Strange cyborg found at the deepest part of the Rarohenga Mysterious Ruins. You can visit him initially as you enter Rarohenga, but you will have to bring Balsam and Yod. They realize that Zayin is an android like Yod.

Balsam gets Zayin going, and he has a dangerous arsenal of attack magic marks, not to mention a natural back-row regular attack (not that you’d ever use it).

108. Mun-Tsang – She is mentioned in a Recruitment note above, because you need to meet her at Giney Valley (towards the east end) without Liu in your party. ‘I Want to See the Elder’ appears, a request by this strange woman. She sees Liu at Flesaria Forest and is recognized as a banished Scribe.

After searching Rarohenga, put Liu in your party and go through Fort Arc. Mun-Tsang will be recruited here, which should be the last Starbearer for you.

Further Reading:

• Suikoden Tierkreis Walkthrough Fort Arc One King
• Complete Suikoden Tierkreis Walkthrough with 108 Stars Guide
• Suikoden Tierkreis Walkthrough Characters FAQ Guide
• Suikoden Tierkreis Walkthrough Porpos Kin Chronicles
• Suikoden Tierkreis FAQ Pharamond Mission Recruits

The text version of the Suikoden Tierkreis Walkthrough FAQ has been completed. After the walkthrough there is guide to recruit all 108 Starbearers in order of appearance. Enjoy.

I will be putting up a 108 Stars guide for Tierkreis on lys.com soon as well.

Further Reading:

• Suikoden Tierkreis Recruit 108 Starbearers Guide FAQ
• Suikoden Tierkreis Walkthrough Fort Arc One King
• Suikoden Tierkreis Walkthrough Characters FAQ Guide
• Suikoden Tierkreis FAQ Pharamond Mission Recruits
• Suikoden Tierkreis Trade Guide Walkthrough FAQ

Forest Ruins HQ

The walkthrough picks up after returning from the Tower of the Way with Diadora, and after recruiting Nofret.

At the fourth floor strategy room, the group will be talking about attacking Fort Arc. It has to happen, so that the True Chronicle cannot be used to send the HQ away. Go down to the first floor by Moana, and you’ll see Hotupa run in saying Atrie is here. More insight on the One King, and what may possibly happen if the One King is not stopped. Hotupa goes off into other worlds to find more information after this.

After this, go up to the fourth floor strategy room. Liu has news that the Order has pulled troops from Grayridge, and just plan on meeting our army at Fort Arc. Choose to attack Fort Arc. Nova is recruited before you choose parties. There are three parties – one starting with Hero and Nova, another with Logan and Asad, and a final one with Diulf, Nimni and Chrodechild. Fill up the rest with your best warriors.

Fort Arc

As Hero enters, you begin in battle with a Cynas Captain and two Cynas Mages. These goons should provide little resistance to Hero’s party. Diulf, Nimni and Chrodechild then get to make short work of the same enemy Order combo. The team then flips the lever. Logan and Asad then have the same group to trounce, and one more lever to hit.

At the north end, you meet Resno and Vaslof. Vaslof’s magic defense seems to have improved, though you should still focus on drilling him with magic spells. He has more like 4000-4500 HP in this battle. Resno is a little over 3000. Just be sure to focus all of your efforts on one of them to make it a 4 on 1 battle, and get a Defense Canopy up after turn 1. Your rewards are Order Armor and Crescent Axe.

Vaslof and Resno touch the False Chronicle and gain memory of their fight against Hero at Ladzaa Fortress. Vaslof and Resno are amazed, and won’t believe Hero that Valfred did it.

Further ahead, and Sophia comes out. She summons four Dust Minions. You can’t really damage these guys, only 30-70 damage. Get a Defense Canopy up to absorb the two front line hits you take per turn. You cannot win this battle, and after three turns it ends. Then, Sophia’s 10th Chronicle shows it’s true form. Everyone has to flee.

Forest Ruins HQ

Hero appears in his room at HQ. Report on Fort Arc Seige for 30000 potch. Rest up, give Nova some Mark of the Stars abilities, then put Logan / Liu in your party.

Woodlands Village

With Liu in your party, go along the path and talk to everyone. Liu will talk to Hao-Shi, the disgruntled scribe. Talk a bit, until you speak of the Magedom of Janam disappearing. Not much else you can do at this point, but remember Hao-Shi’s location. And remember to always bring Liu when you go to talk to him.

Grayridge

Go outside the Ch Hall. Enter the Ch Hall and speak with our old friend Gilliam from long ago. He tells of Valfred losing Grayridge’s loyalty after many losses to your company. After the talk, ask him to join you.

Forest Ruins HQ

Absolutely positively save your game right now. Then go talk to Moana. Defend Grayridge should be a request up, by Gilliam. Send three groups of able fighters to go defend Grayridge from the sand monsters. You have to succeed, but many characters should be able to do the job for you. Some say you need everyone over 110 strength but I think it’s higher than that. Try to aim for 3 groups full of 140+ attack to be sure to pass it. Report this quest and if you succeed, you will gain 50000 potch. If you lose, you will gain 5000 potch and be unable to recruit Gilliam.

Grayridge

Back to the Grayridge Ch Hall. Gilliam will thank you for aiding Grayridge, and you can then recruit Gilliam. Again, if you failed, Gilliam will not join you if you go to talk to him.

Sign up for That World in the Ravine. Liu heads this quest, but fill up his party and come back in 15 days. Just 100 potch for a reward.

Forest Ruins HQ

To continue the story after the botched attack on Fort Arc, go to where Erin, Logan and Semias are in the castle. Go left of Semias to see a scene with Diadora and Nova. Turns out, after Nova received a Mark from the Chronicle of the Sacred Twin Blades, he blacked out.

Go to the third floor, and the west wing. Talk to Luvais about how he is from Ladzaa. Now, new quests have popped up. Luvais’s Outings and About Fierce Regalia. To complete Luvais Outings, just take Hero over to Mislato River. Take the first north path, go all the way north, then follow east and northeast to Ladzaa Fortress. Eventually, you come to the Ladzaa Fortress ruins, and our friend Luvais is here, just looking.A nice talk about his past. Make the haul out of Mislato now.

Report on Luvais’s Outings for 100 potch, and About Fierce Regalia for 1000 potch.

Now go to the fourth floor strategy room to talk to Resno and Vaslof. He wants to go convince his fellow Auster Folk, so time to head to Lugenik, city of Auster Folk. Vaslof and Resno are recruited. Sounds like in order to get there, we will have to go through the desert and up Mount Svatgol.

Desert of Janam

Just head east and look for that north route up. You are now allowed to take it.

Mount Svatgol

Travel north, until you reach an upside down T. Go west, then south to see Gorno. If you have an Auster male with like Vaslof or Muro, they will recognize this guy. Gorno is an outcast from the village because he opposes the Order, so naturally once he learns you are fighting the Order he joins. After recruiting Gorno, you can take the west ladder down to Grayridge Mine (even though on the map it seems like Grayridge is much farther away). But be careful here – you might run into a Fanged Silkmoth. They have an absurdly strong attack all + sleep ability, that can put you in a dire position real quick. Please run from this monster at all costs. Just follow the path, take the ladder down in this first area, and then follow the path northeast until you reach a fork. North and east a bit leads to the lift that takes you to Grayridge. From here, travel to the southeast and look for an eastern path that leads to a Moonlight Sword. Then go to the far southeast corner and look to go west through a slim wall for Spun Silvr Armr. Go back all the way north to the lift, then east to go up some stairs.

Grab the Uncut Emerald west of you, then west further through a wall for an Emerald Ring. Back down that rope, then west to the lift. From here, travel southwest to the ladder going up. Northeast of here to get to the ladder leading up to Mount Svatgol. East from where you recruited Gorno, to get back to that first fork. Go north this time, which leads to another upside down T. Southeast for a Silver Ore, then the north route for yet another upside down T. North is a dead end, so go west all the way through thet wall for a Strength Sash, and then take the north route to exit out to a new area, outside of the cave-like part.

Run through this area as it winds left to right. After taking the north exit to a new area, look for an east path as you go north. This leads back outside but further south for a Demon Hammer. Back to where you veered off to this east route, and continue on north, but head the northeast wall as you walk. You should walk through the wall for a Mystic Medicine. Just walk right west back through that wall, and continue west (you can ignore the north part, since that just led to that treasure you got via the shortcut). Exit out to the exterior.

Go south, and as the path splits, travel southeast to enter the cave. Go right through the east wall, and work your way south and southwest for Sterling Armor. Back west, to the exterior. Continue on westward, ignoring the eastern splits. Back in the caves, you’re going to want to take the south path at the first fork, which leads southeast to that treasure you saw earlier (Roasted Corn). Return and take the north path in the caves. If you work your way northeast (hugging the wall for a shortcut), you can reach the yellow crystal signifying the exit.

But you can also travel southwest to a new area as well (you will pass those shining white borders in this new place). South is a dead end, but if you go east and southeast through a wall, you can see a treasure. But the controls are a headache, trying to navigate through these walls. It might be a dead end anyway, as you can head to the northeast, and follow this route south all the way to a Diamond. Just go back west and exit out to the northwest to that final room.

Again, in the northeast of this room is the yellow exit. But if you go northwest and go through the west wall, you can grab a Dragon Helm before you leave.

Lugenik

Lugenik is but a day away. It is a cliff city. Vaslof first says he wants you to talk to Chief Kashgar. You can rest at the Inn, save, and check out the shops here. Powerful weapons, armor and accessories that will be tough to afford, but a few things may be worth getting. Not much going on at the street, so go to the Chief’s. The Chief is not willing to believe our story, and Kashgar tells you to leave. Vaslof then tells you outside about the Auster Folk’s first ancestor Ordovic.

Save your game, then go towards the Ancestral Altar. Two Oracle Soldiers stop you, but Vaslof knows we must press onward. Work on one of them first, with Vaslof’s Earthspasms 300% damage attack probably wasting one of them real quick. This battle should put you past level 45 once you complete it, then you can see the huge Altar wherer Vaslof wants to talk to Ordovic.

Sure enough, after some talking the Chronicle of Noble Steel shines and a voice is heard. Some dust scatters, and Ordovic appears. Ordovic goes to tell Chief Kashgar about his foolishness. Finally, Kashgar is able to touch the book of Noble Steel and see the truth. Hard to believe they wer e so confused that they were fighting with the One King and the Order. Kashgar is recruited after this.

Forest Ruins HQ

With the Auster Folk as allies, go back to HQ and report on Make Allies of Auster Folk, for 30000 potch and Hell Fists.

After this, go to the Gateway at HQ. Hotupa is just getting back from visiting other worlds, specifically one where there is a very sophisticated magical kingdom, even more so than the Magedom. They might have an idea about the One King, but they would not tell. Rest, save, then go to the Strategy Room hallway.

In the strategy room, Nimni tells of an ability he has from the Cerulean Flux Chronicle. Nova makes plans for seeing his daughter Sophia, and your company starts to get ready for the Auster Folk’s arrival. As you go to leave the strategy room, you see a scene in Cynas.

Cynas

Valfred is talking to Dirk. Dirk is then in a room, gaining power from the Furious Roar Chronicle.

Forest Ruins HQ

Back at HQ, the Chief of the Auster’s is here. He brought those oracles you beat up, Indrik and Diiwica. Have them touch the Noble Steel Chronicle. Indrik and Wiiwica are recruited. Rest, save, and go to Liu in the strategy room hall to set forth on Fort Arc once more.

Hero and Nova start out as one group, and then you have Neira / Nimni as the second group and Vaslof / Resno as the third. Put some magicians with Vaslof / Resno, and probably one front line fighter and one magician with the Porpos-kin. Put two of your strongest allies with Nova and Hero. Mission Accepted, and it is time to go.

Fort Arc

Those Sand Monsters are still here. Diadora starts by sending some of these sand monsters away immediately. Neira and Vaslof run ahead to trounce the remaining Sand creatures.

Your first battle is with Neira and friends. These Dust Minions love using Silence Sand on you for about 100 damage. So setting up a Magic Canopy is a good start for preventing heavy damage, especially once the Auster’s get in battle. Physical attacks don’t do much, but Spear Torrent is very nice against these two. After three Spear Torrents (1500 HP or so), these enemies should be gone.

The Auster Folk is next. Their physical attacks should do the trick, especially Vaslof’s Earthspasm. Finally, it is time for Hero and Nova to run down main street.

Sophia is still in the form of that sand monster. Liu comes from behind to counter Sophia’s power. Time for a battle against Dust Sophia. Unless you have Auster’s in your party, or Spear Torrent, it’s hard to do damage to Sophia. Physical attacks are still worthless, less than 100 damage. So Nova won’t be providing much, and really Hero can’t do much either. Hopefully you kept those Auster’s in your party, but if not let’s hope you have Spear Torrent to use. If you rely on weak, 80 HP physical attacks, this will take a long time. Sophia likes to use Silence Sand, and can use physical attacks on everyone (long range). Sophia also has an annoying stun tactic to knock down all allies at once.

Some scenes, and you appear back at Forest Ruins HQ.

Forest Ruins HQ

Report on Rescue Sophia! for 40000 potch. Put Tsaubern, Yula and Savina in your party.

Fort Arc

Go to Fort Arc from Forest Ruins HQ, and walk through main street. See those side passages as you go? Ignore the first right one, but take the second east passage. Continue east, and then up the stairs. Eventually you see Darrow, and if you brought Savina, she will call out to him. Darrow is recruited. Note that you do not have to complete the ‘Find Darrow’ quest. You can recruit Darrow anyway.

Make sure Yula and Tsaubern are in your party.

Lugenik

As you enter, you hear some strange music. Along the main street, the crowd is roaring. Some traveling performers are here. They seem to look like Yula. These two head off, saying they want to go by Cynas to perform, despite you telling them not to.

Grayridge

Go outside the Ch Hall. Turns out these performers went to Cynas and back, but those in Cynas didn’t find their dances to be interesting. Such is the way of life when it is predetermined. Tell them to help you, and they introduce themselves as Yomi and Chihaya. You then recruit Chihaya and Yomi, the traveling performers.

Forest Ruins HQ

Lots of small, worthless-type requests to take care of. Sign up for North Star Cuisine, and talk to Wustum. Kind of funny, kind of awkward. Report on North Star Cuisine now for  a Dragon Patty and Crab Stew.

Sign up for Oracle Quarrel?! Hero will go and talk to those two Auster Folk Oracles that you fought earlier. Diiwica and Indrik go and talk to Ordovic about his past, about dying as a Starbearer and reviving as one once more. After this talk, return back and report on Oracle Quarrel?! for Hell Fists.

Next, there is another Hero request called SHOWDOWN!!! It is sent in by Gorno, who would like to test his artisan ability with someone else from another world. Two identical Gorno’s go at it here. For SHOWDOWN!!! you acquire Sun Necklace, Moon Necklace and Venus Ornament. Definitely worth doing for these accessories.

To continue on with the story, go to the physician center (2nd floor, on the right). Diadora is here, saying she was about to find Hero. Sophia wants to talk. Sophia says the Chancellor Valfred gave her the Mark of the True Chronicle. The 10th False Chronicle is now in your hands – the Chronicle of Boundless Amber. Sophia passes out and can’t tell you any more.

Outside of the Physician room, Marica runs up. Liu is in trouble. Dirk seems to have taken the Scribe Chronicle from Liu. Liu and Dirk go off to the main street to get some room, so Hero and Dirk can duel.

Dirk uses his Chronicle to neutralize your Mark of the Stars. Dirk’s regular attacks do 70 damage, and he’ll use his strike-back counter move on occasion. Hero takes off 300 each time, but the battle ends after a few turns. Hero then summons some strange powers and can use Mark of the Stars again. Use Healing Glitter to stay healed, and then spam Flame Vortex / Masterpiece for victory. Dirk will go down after about 1300-1500 HP, and Hero goes to level 47 or so. Oh, and you get Beast Armor.

Something strange is going on around Cynas. Hotupa, Liu and Hero try to use the Gateway, but to no avail. Dirk has the one Chronicle that Valfred has not used yet, the Chronicle of the Tatau Council. Dirk summons the power from the Furious Roar Chronicle to stop the Fusion of the 11th world, and the HQ is saved. Dirk leaves a skull in his wake.

Back at the Hall, you talk with Sophia. Four of the eleven worlds have been chosen by the One King. Diadora finds out that the 11th world really has come here – without the True Chronicle, we can only knock the fusions out of range. Sophia is recruited, as the party has to hurry to obtain the 11th World’s Chronicle before the 12th world can be summoned. Diadora got a good look at this new place – it is called Rarohenga. It means Hell.

You have Sophia in your party, so give her some Mark of the Stars abilities. Report on Showdown with Dirk for a Demon Spear.Put Liu and Diulf in your party, along with Hero and Sophia.

Woodlands Village

Go to the path, and talk to Hao-Shi. Now that Rarohenga has appeared, you have some new dialogue with him. But he still doesn’t join, so head back to Forest Ruins HQ. Soon, there should be a quest about cleaning up the Woodlands Village.

Cragbark

With Diulf in tow, head to Cragbark. Go to the Town Square, and talk to Tigre. Diulf tells him to come join your company. Tigre is recruited.

Forest Ruins HQ

Talk to Keflen, by the front entrance. He has been waiting to talk to Hero. Evidently the Chronicle of the Boundless Amber has made him remember some things, and he wants to go back to those mysterious ruins.

Mysterious Ruins – Janam Desert

Easier way to get here is to enter the Janam Desert from the Magedom Ruins or Salsabil on the world map. This way, the trip to the Mysterious Ruins is a stone’s throw away.

Upon entry, go south and take the west route. At the next fork, continue west so that the path leads to that north dead end. The Chronicle of Boundless Amber starts to glow. A mysterious man appears. Keflen recognizes him as Belemuel, the spirit of the bearer of the Tensyo Star. Keflen gains the confidence to stand up to the One King, and becomes a Starbearer. You now recruit Keflen and recruit Belemuel.

Rarohenga

You fight an enemy as you enter, one who has about 4000 HP. Rarohenga actually isn’t that big, just travel north until you can go west, then wrap around south and east to a new area.

Valfred is here. He has the 11th Chronicle with him so that’s not good. You battle him for three turns, and you do 0 damage to him on all attacks. Use Magic Canopy and just defend and stay healed up. Afterwards, the Shining Legacy Chronicle that belongs to Hero starts to shine, and you can then do damage on Valfred. This lasts just one turn though, as Valfred flees to Cynas to finish up the ritual of calling the One King.

Enter the Mysterious Ruins in the previous screen, just north of this second area. Travel east then south for a Darkness Stone. Continue east and go north for another pair of Hell Fists. Further east, ignoring the south path you see, and you’ll walk a long way to a weird light blue android. It’s not working so we’ll leave it for now.

Forest Ruins HQ

Hero tells Moana to assemble the troops at the Strategy Room. First though, we need to talk to Moana. Report on Check Out Rarohenga for an Iris Axe. Sign up for Find Someone in Rarohenga.

Rarohenga

Enter the Mysterious Ruins to see that Scribe Man by three strange monsters. Defeat these Pawns, and then this guy will introduce himself as Kow-Low. He was reluctant to leave the Woodland’s Village but he wanted to save a girl. Take the east routes until you see the girl, attacked by two more Pawns.

After the battle, the girl has a way to chase these Pawns off. Her name is Rufa. Rufa doesn’t say much, but you recruit Rufa and recruit Kow-Low after this.

Forest Ruins HQ

Lots of requests to report on. Find Somebody in Rarohenga nets you 30000 potch. Rarohenga? rewards you with 1000 potch. Correcting our Error gives us just 10 potch.

Sign up for Get Rid of Woodland Monster. You remember these Requests, coming from Citro and Mislato before. Time to check out the Noslaw Woods. Sure enough, Enumclaw is here. He says these Formless Demons show up whenever the boundary between worlds is unstable.

Hero goes with Enumclaw and comes across a flying demon. Just wail on it for a few turns and Enumclaw will interfere and send the demon away. After this, Hero talks to Enumclaw. Enumclaw admits to bearing the Teni Star. Hero convinces him, and you then recruit Enumclaw.

Return to HQ and report on Get Rid of Woodland Monster for 50000 potch and a Death Helm. Now, sign up for Clean Up the Woodlands, sent in by a Porpos-kin.

Noslaw Woods

Upon starting the ‘Clean Up the Woodlands’ quest, you appear at Noslaw Woods. More of those Pawns to wipe out.

Woodlands Village

Liu and Hero run over to the Woodlands Village to see the Pawns haven’t made their way here yet. Hao-Shi talks some more junk about Liu and the humans he brought in, but he ultimately wants to save the place so he joins as a companion. Fight a few more Pawn battles, and the village is safe. Afterwards, Hao-Shi continues his bitter ways but does finally decide to join your company. You finally recruit Hao-Shi.

Forest Ruins HQ

Go report on Clean Up the Woodlands for 50000 potch. Put Balsam, Yod and Liu in your party and go out.

Rarohenga – Mysterious Ruins

Enter the Mysterious Ruins of Rarohenga, and take the east route that leads all the way to the northeast and then west and south to a strange android. With Balsam and Yod, they realize this thing is just like Yod. It seems to have been constructed just for battle against the One King. We will call this android Zayin. Hero asks Zayin to join, and Zayin is then recruited.

Okay, there should be a mission A Monster Like Zayin that is available to you. Sign up for the quest and you’ll end up at the Wilds of Veile. Take the second northeast path to the next screen, then continue northeast to see it. Evidently this is Prototype Version 12, code name Lamade. This thing is programmed to kill the One King but unfortunately it is programmed to think any human is the One King. You have to destroy it, but it isn’t as hard as it sounds. Sleep Frost can really cripple this guy – he only pulled off an 80 damage drain attack on turn one. He does have well over 5000 HP though, so the battle may take a bit. Return back and report on A Monster Like Zayin? for a Giant God Fist

Fort Arc

Stop by Fort Arc as you return from Rarohenga. Actually though, enter Fort Arc from the north or south so you can easily walk through and see Mun-Tsang. Assuming you were following earlier and met her at Giney Valley, she will join here if you have Liu in your party. Mun-Tsang is then recruited, which makes 108 Starbearers just like any other Suikoden.

Of the 108 Starbearers, 93 of them can be used in battle. Try to pick out about 12-16 that you like and level them up around the Rarohenga Mysterious Ruins until they reach level 50-52.

Forest Ruins HQ

Go to the strategy room, and everyone surmises that it will take the Chancellor a while to use the 11th Chronicle, since it has always been a while for him to summon a new world after he gets a new chronicle. Everyone begins to get ready for the seige on Cynas, but take the Hero over to the gateway.

Here, you will see Atrie. He too is getting ready to take down the enemies trying to go to the One King’s world. Atrie mentions that the Hero you and Atrie have seen in the Chronicle visions actually had a son, who was lost in a gateway portal. Hmm.

Head to the third floor and go right to the Chronicle area. Talk to Mubal about one of the Chronicles lighting up while we were in Rarohenga. Next, check out the Tablet Room to see Diulf, Diadora, Ordovic and Zenoa talking about how to defeat the One King (since they’ve all been a part of an effort to stop the One King in previous worlds).

At this point, talking to Liu in the strategy room starts the siege and is the point of no return if you wish to do jobs, grind, recruits, etc. So make sure you save and recruit everyone by this point.

Cynas

You see Valfred at the top of the Tower of the Way.

Forest Ruins HQ

Marica visits Hero in his room. Time to go to the Strategy Hall to decide who is going to be in your final army. Hero and Liu are in one party, then there are three more parties with just the leaders (Asad, Chrodechild and Diulf).

Cynas

The party is greeted by some crazy townspeople. Then, two Akephaloi’s appear. The villagers tell them to attack you and then you’re in a battle. After you take these monsters out, the villagers run on. You should too.

But who decides to show up, Macoute of all people. He seems out of his mind, and after some talking he just turns into Angel Macoute. He surprised me and used a sleep attack on round 1 on everyone, not cool. His attacks other than this are quite weak. The physical attacks are strong but to only one ally. Macoute is extremely suspectible to physical attacks, and also the instant-death from Gate to Nowhere (Diadora Mark). It’s worth using Gate to Nowhere to get that Instant Kill early on.

The party runs forward towards the Tower of the Way and sees Diulf, who passed by some citizens himself. You can rest, but then just go into the Tower of the Way.

Go west to enter 1F. Continue west to get an automatic scene with some Order fellows, and a ’servant’. Take out the Horn Guts, which has a lot of HP, and the back row won’t be able to hold up past a round. If you go west, you have an exit to the exterior which leads to nothing. So continue north and the scene will fade to Asad and his group. Two Dullahan’s are in the way. They have close to 4000 HP but have a terrible defense like many recent enemies have had. This time physical attacks and magic take off quite a bit, while Dullahan generally
uses regular attacks for ~150 damage. Not a very hard battle, and Asad pulls the activation switch to open the first elevator.

You are now on the 2nd floor. South a long ways for a Crazed Shield. This shield is absurd, with a +30 attack and +60 defense. With how easy this game is you have probably opted to go with two swords instead of 1 and a shield, but this Crazed Shield makes you think twice with such a high defense and lessening the attack drop-off. Back to the north, and go east all the way for an unusual enemy, a One-King Pawn. Further east and the Hero will be by the lift. This time, you have Chrodechild in the area to cut down the path that leads to the lever. You have to fight two Rooks. These guys have like 1500 HP, so don’t be distracted by the ‘boss’ theme – they aren’t anything like that.

Hero makes his way to the third floor. Skip the first south path, and take the next one. You will see Beardsley ahead. He too has given his soul to Valfred as the Rarohenga Chronicle has been fused into him, and made him turn into Angel Beardsley. But, he has the same terrible defense that Angel Macoute had. You should have no problem doing 1000 damage with powerful physical attack marks, and Beardsley only has 5000-6000 HP so he won’t last long. Angel Beardsley just used physical attacks – the good part is, even at
level 53-55 you will gain decent EXP.

Just run north and you’ll get near the lift – now it is time for Diulf to fight a Fallen Angel. For some reason, Fallen Angel did not even act in the 3 turns that it was alive. It has a decent physical defense, but Sophia was made alert and her Bind Lightning took off over 1700. A Death Skull and Darkness Stone areyour rewards. Another lift activated.

Now, we are on the fourth floor. East is a dead end, so go south a long way until you can go east. That first north path leads to a dead end, so continue east and then back north. Continuing north leads to the room you always saw Valfred in during the Cynas scenes, but it is now empty. Go back to that intersection and go east this time, and you’ll be in this newer area with a really nice view.

Valfred is going to buy some time so the 12th world can come. Two Dullahans come your way. Just use this battle to make sure you are healed up, especially if you were caught off guard and didn’t heal before this battle. Old Valfred is up next, and he has a set of Gigas Arms fighting with him (in the back row, for some reason). Not sure about this setup, with Valfred taking the front line hits right away and getting mauled by Hero and friends. His HP is in the 5500 neighborhood, but for some reason he just used physical attacks, along with the Gigas Arms. Put up both Canopy’s incase Valfred decides to use magic. Even after Valfred is defeated, the battle does not end. The Gigas Arms will also use a weird poison-like attack for 80 or so. You are rewarded with a Demon Hammer, Revival Statue and Old Vestments.

Unfortunately, it is too late. The One King has been summoned. Hero runs right at him and it’s time for a fight. Your party hp / mp is restored thankfully, but this battle is not for the weak at heart. You take off 0 damage to this strange being. After three turns, the battle ends (Tierkreis couldn’t end the game without one more no-damage-for-3-turns gimmick battle). The Chronicle of Shining Legacy shines, and another battle starts up. This time you can do damage to the One King.

Citro Village

Hero wakes up at Citro. Go to the Town Square, talk to everyone, then go east to talk to your main party. You will have to repeat this day three times, and then the fourth day choose ‘it’s the same thing’.

Forest Ruins HQ

Hero goes to the HQ. Liu, Jale and Marica follow him. After you go to the Strategy Room, everyone else comes back too. Time to go out and figure out what happened with the One King at Cynas. You can head to Citro first or just go to Cynas. Diadora gives you the Rarohenga Chronicle, the Chronicle of Resonant Horror.

Nothing much at Citro Village really. So just head to Cynas.

Cynas

Cynas looks crazy, with huge green lights heading into the sky. Go back to HQ to report on the condition of Cynas.

Forest Ruins HQ

Also you can report on Cynas Siege for 30000 potch and Check Things Out for 10000 potch. Save, and go to the strategy room.

Time for our big decision. Do you want to go with the only strategy you know to work? Everyone seems willing. But if you choose yes, it is game over. So choose no.

After splitting out, it turns out Mubal and Manaril have some information at the second floor Chronicle Room. If you have all 12 Chronicles you may be able to damage the One King. You have 11 Chronicles but the last one is by ‘Other Cynas’, the ruin-like interpretation of Cynas./

Other Cynas

Just run left to a new area. Travel east but stick to the north to find a Death Helm. Northeast to continue to a new area, then north to another.

Go east and southeast in this new place. Eventually you will have to go west and you can see a treasure to the south as you go – it is the Soul Reaper, a powerful weapon. Further west for the exit.

As you go north in this area, look west for a Crimson Cape. Continue north to the next area, rest up, and continue north. Eventually you reach the area where the 12th Chronicle is, but a battle looms against a Queen. Queen has a laser attack on the front line for about 150-250 damage per character. However spells and regular attacks do a number on the Queen. She does have close to 8000-9000 HP, easily one of the biggest counts you’ve faced so far if not the highest. You gain an Uncut Diamond and Goddess Breath for your victory. Watch the remaining parts of the Chronicle Visions.

Forest Ruins HQ

Go to the gateway area to have Hotupa spread the news about the 12 Chronicles. Rest, save, and go to the strategy room. You have the choice to go on ahead with everyone to take on the One King. You can take some time to go through the castle and speak with everyone. When you are ready, rest at your room and then the following day it is time to get all the teams ready to take out the pillars and storm the One King’s Tower. Note that with the new Chronicle you have more abilities – make sure the Hero has Two-Way-Thrust and Ire. This combination is absurd when paired with two swords.

Cynas

Negating all of the barriers caused a giant statue of the One King to appear in place of the Tower of the Way. Don’t worry about being stuck with Jale and Marica, you can switch them out momentarily when Moana comes by. Make sure you have at last one magician (goes without saying) but try to get someone with Magic Canopy and Healing Tide (most powerful heal-all mark). Magic Canopy will need to be used right away. For the record, I’m bringing Liu, Diadora and Ordovic. Many combinations will work, but the main boss is much harder than what you’ve seen so far in Tierkreis. Save and head to the Stat of the One Kng.

Hero sees Valfred’s perpetual day, and Valfred of course does not want to give this up. He condemns Hero and then you begin a battle against Death Valfred. Start the battle off by using Ire on Hero (and I did this with Ordovic too). Liu and Diadora put up Magic and Defense Canopy respectively. Tear into Valfred with Hero’s Two-Way-Thrust which did about 4500 damage. Use your best spells and physical marks when your remaining characters are not needed for healing. Valfred just had a physical attack for 100 damage (200 without a shield). Death Valfred drops the Robe of Death and the Beast King Swrd. Beast King Swrd is very powerful and provides a huge boost to your other stats, but  it’s hard sacrificing the total attack power you get from wielding two elite one handed weapons (God-Beast Sword and Giant God Fist).

One King Statue

Hero makes a speech, and then you regain control. Exit out and save or change your party if you want.

On the first floor, take the west path for Ultimate Fists. Then continue east and north to a split. Take the first north path you come to for a Gungnir Lance. The second north path quickly take you south until you reach two more paths. Take the western one, as it leads a long ways to another Goddess Breath Rod.

The initial south path takes you to a new area, and another intersection as you go north. Take the northwest route for a staircase down to a Totem Pole. Powerful weapon but it requires both hands unfortunately.

Return back down and take the right path to a strange area, one that has the Mark of the Stars tablet and looks like a dark version of your HQ. The Tablet of Promise here only has 1 star left, the Tenkai Star. Grab the Star Armor and save. Star Armor is a great deal better in three stats compared to the Warrior Amor Hero had on up to this point.

On the fourth floor, continue west and north until you reach two paths leading south. Take the western one and follow the long route to a Hero’s Cape. Return back and take that first south path that you skipped. It goes to a staircase.

Sixth floor now. Make your way to the east side of the room, and as you go north look for a west route that leads to the 5th floor and a set of Hero’s Armor. Back to the sixth floor, then take that northeastern route to another staircase going back to the fifth floor.

Take the southeast path here to the fourth floor. Continue to the third floor and then you will find the Master’s Gloves. These are great for accuracy. Okay, return to the fifth floor and go north for a Goddess Raiment. Follow the path north and to the sixth floor, and follow that path until you see a west exit to take. Rest up as you go through this side area. Ahead comes the One King.

Hero uses the Chronicles, and then a battle begins against the One King. Start off by using Defense Canopy and Magic Canopy, hopefully both on turn 1. The other two charactesr I had use Ire to get in Fury status. Two-Way-Strike and Thrust your way through the One King. He won’t last more than a few turns right now, and he just uses a physical attack for 150+ damage each turn. You will level up to 59 or so after the fight.

But there is another fight with the One King. Definitely get the Canopies up on turn one. This One King has an Avalanche attack for 120-150 damage with the Magic Barrier up. One King also uses a blue laser attack that goes through two allies for 120-150 damage.

You will need at least one person using Healing Tide almost every turn. This really isn’t too dangerous though so long as your Canopy’s are up and you have Healing Tide accessible. Use Ire and then your best physical marks and this boss shouldn’t last much more than 3 or 4 turns. After turn 3, it might be wise to replenish your MP.

Because immediately after you fight the One King’s third form. Have your physical mark users get Ire up, and of course Magic and Defense Canopy. At this point your MP might be exhausted especially Hero with his Two Way Thrusts at 90 MP a pop. This is why I like Ordovic; for one, he can take off 200% damage for 30 MP, and two he has a whopping 500+ MP. Have one character use Healing Tide (Liu) and then the other (Diadora) can replenish MP counts and attack or heal if necessary.

One King will put up a barrier of sorts on turn one, really reducing the damage you are able to do. On turn two, One King probably will use the crystally-blue attack on everyone for around 200 damage to each person, assuming you have a canopy up. Definitely will want Healing Tide after that. One King Third Form also uses a physical attack on two party members, about 110-150 damage with a barrier up. The dangerous part about the One King is his agility is high so he often goes ahead of you, plus he may catch you while you are reloading your MP (hopefully not). Liu was a bit slower so it made healing a risk – Hero is generally faster so he can be an emergency healer at times. You will find yourself scrambling through your Mystic Medicines, but there is no reason to hold back on your MP replenishing items, this is it.

Enjoy the ending and the extra scene with Atrie if you collected all 108 Starbearers.

Further Reading:

• Suikoden Tierkreis Recruit 108 Starbearers Guide FAQ
• Suikoden Tierkreis Walkthrough Characters FAQ Guide
• Suikoden Tierkreis Walkthrough Porpos Kin Chronicles
• Suikoden Tierkreis FAQ Pharamond Mission Recruits
• Suikoden Tierkreis Janam Empress Consort Mission Requests

Pharamond

As you get there, you get one good piece of news at least. Hotupa has linked the Gateway here with the one at Forest Ruins HQ, so there is no reason to keep the army stationed at Pharamond. That said, the enemy is planning an attack so hurry to Forest Ruins HQ and then back to Pharamond.

Forest Ruins HQ

Your friends are happy to see you. Everyone is gathered in the strategy room, and you can’t leave Forest Ruins HQ. So go up to the 4th floor room to chat. Four of the 7 Chronicles have been stolen from the company.

Word comes in that Vaslof and his beasts are facing off at Fort Arc with the Magedom of Janam. You have two parties to fill out here – one starting with Hero and Liu, the other with Chrodechild and Fredegund. Might want to get a magician or two with the latter pair. Then, the groups head off through the gateway to Pharamond.

Pharamond – Wilds of Veile

Hero goes off to the northeast to meet the enemy, which has amassed near Pharamond.

In this new Wilds of Veile area, going east all the way initially leads to a dead end. If you take the last north route, you meet three auster soldiers. Use Defense Canopy right away, because these guys are powerful front line fighters. They have stiff physical defenses, but I had the Ice Queen using Spear Torrent and the austers just couldn’t handle it (900 damage to all each time). After this battle, the scene shifts to Fredegund and Chrodechild.

The two ladies run into Beardsley. Unless you have a weak party, this should be easy. Beardsley uses magic in the back, fire and poison-like magic for about 100 damage. The Conscripts take off insignificant damage so long as you can use Fredegund’s barrier. They do have a stingy D, along with Beardsley. So the battle will last a while. Fortunately, our friend Beardsley drops an Old Tree Spear, and two Revival Statues.

Once this battle is over, you take control of Hero’s party. Go northeast to go to a new area. East all the way to meet Vaslof. Time for yet another battle against him and two Austers. This time though, you can take him. It was very easy for me since I had Sphiel, and he Spear Torrent makes short work of all of them. Vaslof didn’t even get a chance to attack, stuck in the back row. With Liu’s Defense Canopy, you should be safe from physical attacks. As stated, any kind of magic will rip these three apart. You’ll level up to 34 or so, and acquire the Beetle Axe and two Mega Medicine.

Vaslof and Hero chat for a bit, wondering why his Austers have joined the order. After a bit, Resno runs in and tells him to get back. Mission accomplished, as Resno and Vaslof leave.

Cynas

Meanwhile in Cynas, Valfred sees that Hero is doing a lot since he has returned. It seems Valfred has plans for Dirk. Report on Nab the Intruders for 1000 potch and Defend Pharamond! for 30000 potch.

To advance the story, we are to go to the meeting room. But there are things to do that we haven’t had a chance to do, so let’s do them. Bring Chrodechild and Fredegund with.

Pharamond

Walk towards the castle, to see Yula. Talk to her twice, and she’ll go into the castle with Chrodechild. Use Basic Falcon, and you should be alright (though she takes off a ton herself). Chrodechild will level up all the way to 40 or so.

Note that there is a ‘cheat’ of sorts regarding Yula. If you just bring Fredegund first, Yula and Fredegund will fight and Fredegund will go up to level 40 or so. Afterwards, you still have to fight this battle with Chrodechild to get to level 40. So bringing Fredegund first allows you to level up both Fredegund and Chrodechild to level 40. Something to consider certainly. *Thanks to LYS user ‘Dante’ for this trick.

After the duel, Yula gets the vision after touching Chrodechild’s blade. As a Starbearer, she joins you, realizing the Order is a threat. Re-enter the palace after recruiting Yula. Talk to the two kid swordsmen, and Quillard once again says that Fredegund should be punished. Quillard runs off outside of the city.

Wilds of Veile

Take the route you took with Hero to meet the Austers. East past where you fought Vaslof is a new area, where some Cynas Conscripts are messing with Quillard. Nothing tough here, though there are three of them (Spear Torrent blew them away in round 1).

Quillard is happy to see Amaralicht here to save him. The Divine Edge shines after this, with Quillard and Amaralicht proving to be Starbearers. You have recruited Amaralicht and Quillard.

Cragbark

Time to head for the Furious Roar Tribe. Put Lycia in your party, and from Cragbark, go back to the plains above and enter. Now go straight north from Cragbark. Lycia should mention that something dangerous is here.

Lycia is in a duel with Chein. Regular attacks work best (300+ damage with Argent Fists). Heal with Mega Medicine – Chein has two types of attacks, a regular one for 80 damage and a Mark of the Stars stab for about 110. She has a high agility so be cautious about healing, but if you die it’s not game over either.

Lycia talks a bit with Chein and then Hero. Chein looks to be the only human from the Furious Roar world to have came here.

Back at Cragbark, go to the house of the king. Chein is here with Tigre. Tell her it’s okay to touch the book, and she does get the visions everyone else had. As a starbearer, Chein is now recruited.

Pharamond

Enter the throne room. Now that you have defended Astrasia, talk to Guntram. He is surprised about Liu but even more surprised about the Woodsland. Guntram talks of it being a place where nearby people go who have given up hope, and seems to think some lady has made her way there.

Head to the Inn, and take out any Scribes (like Liu) if you have them in your party. Put Guntram Chrodechild and Fredegund in your party.

Noslaw Woods

Inside the Noslaw Woods, go east a few screens (assuming you came from the south end). Eventually you run into a strange, wild man named Bosche. He is the Adventurer’s Adventurer. Then he runs off, wanting to show you his beautiful wife. So travel east just a tad more, to meet Lathilda. Hopefully you brought some of the Astrasia people, like Fredegund, Guntram, or Chrodechild. Lathilda will then go talking about how she used to live there but left after the Order took control (note how she mis-spells her husbands name as ‘Bosch’). Go ahead and take her to Pharamond, to show her the new Astrasian capital.

Bosche and Lathilda will be amazed at the new, peaceful Pharamond. Bosche decides it would be a good idea to fight by your side and clear out the Order for his wife. Lathilda too joins your army.

Woodland Village

Talk to the Scribe-man with a unique portrait, further to the left along the ‘Path’. He seems to want to follow Liu, but he still won’t. Keep checking back with him after important plot events pass.

Giney Valley

You may be able to do this quest earlier, but I forgot about this character and must have had Liu in my party when I went through Giney Valley (because the character doesn’t show up if you bring Liu, so don’t take him). Anyway, from the east entrance, take the northwest path, and you should see a blue figure ahead.

The mysterious woman asks about the Elder Scribe, Liu. Then she walks off. We’ll see her later.

Forest Ruins HQ

At your HQ, make sure Yula and Chrodechild are not in your party, then go to the Blades of Night’s Veil part of HQ (2nd floor, west end). Yula and Chrodechild will be talking about the legendary blademaster Mourgent. Build up Yula at the Noslaw Woods (close to level 30). Then return to HQ, take her out of the party, then talk to Moana.

She has a request from Gadburg so sign up for that.

Ruins near Citro Village

You appear in these strange ruins. Gadburg calls for Mourgent. Hard to believe this swordsman is still around, but Mourgent walks right on down. After some chatting, it seems like Yula has been following us. She just runs up and challenges Mourgent to a duel. Just use Basic Falcon, that is all she really has with just three Chronicles at her disposal. He has but 500-600 HP, and it is a short battle (not even sure if winning is essential). But afterwards, Mourgent is pressured to join by Gadburg and Yula, and he finally does. You have recruited Mourgent.

Forest Ruins HQ

Return to your HQ, and report on Request from Gadburg. You gain 50000 potch and the Evil-Eye Sword.

We have been doing optional recruits for a while, but to advance the story, go to the strategy room. Luo-Tao tells us that he can sense where a Chronicle is. He is going to go to where the Chronicles are, and work on finding out where the other four are.

After this talk, go to the first floor. Moana tells you that Elder Rajim is here. Elder is by the back entrance, so Hero and Liu go chat with him. Rajim goes to mess with Liu because of the tattoos, and Rajim seems to get a vision. Evidently Elder Rajim is a starbearer as well.

Hero then goes and has a chat with Zenoa. Ask her a bunch of questions – it’s actually quite insightful, but information you probably had a good idea on before this.  Liu leaves, as he has to stay here in the event Diadora shows up and Liu would then have to use that power which the Elder Scribe used.

Sign up for Return of Megion, and you’ll need to bring Diulf and his crew back to Cragbark.

Cragbark

Once you are at Cragbark, you meet two new Roar – Eusmil and Nictis. They are Megion’s crew. Tigre tells you about the Decaved Ruins, northeast of Cragbark. You’ve already been here and met Megion once before (if you remember, it’s the ruins past the exit once you get to the end of Ch’olui Mountains).

So rest up, gather your party, and enter those Mysterious Ruins the same way you did earlier (through the mountains).

Mysterious Ruins

This place is strange in that you’ll find some tough monsters, and some really low level monsters. head south all the way, then west. West all the way is a dead end, but the north route before that is a Lazuli Rod, very powerful and worth getting.

West all the way through the middle path leads you to those three Roars. This is a rare difficult battle, especially if you haven’t built the Roars up much. Focus on Megion first, because he’ll up his attack power and then has an attack that will do 300+ damage. The other two are just minor nuisances, though their regular attacks are just a tad worse than Megion’s. My roars were about level 25-26 going into this battle, but reached 34-35 afterwards.

The enemy roars wonder about the One King after the battle, coming to their senses a bit. Hero and Diulf prompt them to touch the Chronicle. The roars regain some of their memory, and are then grateful to fight by your side – you have recruited Megion, Eusmil and Nictis.

Forest Ruins HQ

Report on the Return of Megion Mission for Wtr Dragon Claws.

Sign up for My Husband’s Birthplace and Zenoa Interview. Just 1000 potch and 100 potch, worthless quests. A lot of these types popping up now.

Order Soldiers in Plains could be good, as you get a pretty random assortment of characters. Roberto wants to go, as does Chein and Ouragan even. But they don’t actually fight in battle (unless you put them in). Anyway, these three Cynas Conscripts have stellar defenses, and pack quite a punch too. All they do is regular attacks though, and guard. Your characters will go up to about level 33 for victory.

Run straight north to the next screen. North more (west path going north) to reach some different looking Order soldiers, including that Captain stationed at Fort Arc back in the day. Funny stuff from Ouragan here, and a fight breaks out. Use magic if you want to take out the Cynas Archers in the back, otherwise just push through the Conscript up front and the battle is yours.

Next though, we have a battle against the Cynas Captain, along with a Cynas Archer and Cynas Mage. The Captain is a bit more powerful than the others you’ve fought, while the mage tends to use regular attacks more than actual magic. Still, taking out the back row first might be a better idea, so that you can control who gets attacked a little better. By the end of this battle, you should be level 35 or so.

Return to Forest Ruins HQ (actually, you do automatically). Report on Order Soldiers in Plains for 50000 potch.

Pharamond

Go to the second floor of the Inn in Pharamond. At this point you should see Savina by the window – if not, you might need to wait longer or talk to Icas and see if he mentions it (I had to do neither, however). Agree to help her save Darrow, but he is in Cynas so Hero tells her it will take some time. At any rate, Savina is recruited for the time being.

Forest Ruins HQ

Get ready to do Gather Animals! For this, you will need high speed (running man icon) and luck (yellow star). Leveling people up at the Wilds of Veile to 33-34 should start to weed out the characters that have naturally high speed and luck. Now remember there are weapons / accessories that up your other stats. At Pharamond, you can buy a bunch of Treasure Swords, equipping 2 on some characters for a total of +60 luck! Along with the Noble gear, you should be able to get enough characters with at least 80-100 agility and luck. Send these parties out to Gather Animals, and you get 5000 potch and Pekklar Meat for your troubles.

Finished up some pointless quests, like Servillah and Eusmil for 1000 potch. Atrie’s World wasn’t worthless though actually. You get a Scale Shield, and also Moana says that the group that went to the other world saw someone from our own world there.

Grayridge Mine

Hotupa and Hero appear at the Grayridge Gateway. Hotupa saves this Scruffy Man, who continues to cry. He leaves, and thankfully you are automatically transported to Grayridge town. Put Logan in your party.

Go down the alley, all the way to the right. Logan recognizes Lubberkin, as they both were miners. He is upset at the Grayridge he has come home too, so he joins your cause against the Order. Lubberkin is recruited.

Cragbark

Now that you have completed the Gather Animals! Mission (see above), you can recruit Autar. Go to the town square to see Autar, and he will join you right after.

Forest Ruins HQ

Sign up for The Green Stone. Turns out Len-Lien has Liu’s stone. You get to see into Liu’s love life for a second, and report Liu’s Green Stone mission for 100 potch.

Enough side-questing. Go to the second floor, east section. Where the Chronicles are. Talk to Luo-Tao and he can sense the Chronicles now. It seems the Archivists have them, and they are bringing them closer to the castle! It could be a big attack.

Go to the fourth floor strategy room now. You have four parties here to help split up and get the Chronicles back. Hero and Liu are one, with Logan and Jale as another, Asad, Chrodechild and Manaril as the third and finally Neira and Nimni lead the fourth party. Diulf has a group but you don’t control them. Lots of members to fill in, just make sure you have balanced parties (a magician / healer type, along with two front line fighters).

Mislato River

As this starts off, the Porpos-kin encounter Conon near the Magedom part of Mislato River. Conon turns into a monster! Wtr Dragn Conon is your new enemy. Use high powered magic attacks, like Spear Torrent and Sleep Frost (I had Ice Queen in this battle, along with Niera’s magical brilliance). Two-Spear Attack is quite powerful by Nimni. Wtr Dragn Conon uses 100+ attack physical attacks, and a Spear Torrrent himself for 100-180 damage if unprotected with Magic Canopy. Also, this boss has over 3000 HP, probably closer to 4000. Your reward for victory is an Evil-Eye Sword and Dragon Hide. The Porpos-kin regain the Cerulean Flux.

Now it’s Logan’s turn. He meets Fergus, who is looking for Hero. Fergus too turns into a monster, this time it’s StlGiant Fergus. Even with Defense Canopy up, this boss almost takes off 100 per physical attack. Use Logan and Jale’s Two-way attacks for 500 damage, and keep them healed for the 30 damage run-off from using those abilities (plus the 100 they acrue from the physical attacks by the StlGiant Fergus). Uncut Sapphire and Giant’s Armor are your rewards, in another long battle with a boss that has 4000+ hp. Fergus then turns into the Chronicle of Noble Steel.

Chrodechild and Asad get to fight Sophia and Nova. Nova has a ton of HP in this battle, and acts as his usual tank-self. Probably close to 4000 damage before he even gets on his knees (near death). His physical attacks are brutal even with a shield up, while Sophia can carve you up with a staff attack. Even though your party is probably doing fine, Hero has to jump in with his group. The battle is pretty much the same, Nova takes another 5000 HP or so and then the battle ends.

Just as it looks like Hero and Asad’s group are in trouble, Manaril starts chanting and draws something from the Chronicle. Sophia passes out, and you regain the Fierce Regalia Chronicle.

Last is the Furious Roar Chronicle, and guess who comes up to HQ with the Chronicle. None other than Dirk, up to meet Diulf. Hero and Liu go out to meet him but they start at the top of the castle, so you can run down and save /rest along the way. Or change your party. Go to the front entrance to see Dirk.

He says Chancellor Valfred gave him this Furious Roar Chronicle. Dirk turns into a pink beast, Demon Beast Dirk. The Demon Beast likes to roar, and then used a rolling attack for 120-140 damage on everyone (but halved if you have Defense Canopy up, which you should). It’d help if you brought someone who could heal everyone a little instead of having to use multiple people to heal with Medicine. Dirk also has a Flame Explosion spell for high magic damage on one ally. Liu’s Silence Sand is effective to the tune of 700+ damage, which he should use after he puts a Canopy or two up. Dirk has a ton of hp, probably near 6000. Your characters will level all the way up to 37-39, and gain a Demon Horn. Head back inside the castle.

Cynas

After seeing the Citro Village folks talks about Dirk, the scene shifts to Cynas where Valfred is congratulating Dirk on his efforts. He has been promoted as an Archivist of the One True Way. The location of the 10th world is mentioned.

Forest Ruins HQ

Hero gets word from the Magedom of Janam about a possible attack on the enemy. For now though, report on some missions. Engage the Archivists nets you 10000 potch. Also had sent out a group to Marica’s? World, to see that Marica is the Tenkai Star there. This is worth doing even if you already did the Jale / Atrie one, because you get a Crescent Axe.

It was bud season, so I visited with Namna once again. And finally, the dialogue changed and I was able to recruit Namna. I probably visited Namna almost 10 times, but maybe the earliest time to recruit is after the last plot event (recovering the Chronicles).

Go to the port area, where the Lonomakua Pirates are. Talk to them, specifically Xebec, a few times. Then head back to Moana. A new request should have shown up, Letter from Lonomakua. Accept this quest, and fill up the Pirate party. Xebec will recognize the name Hina Aumakua, a blood relative of the Lonomakua Chief. They’ll go off on this quest, which takes a whopping 40 days.

Return to report on Letter from Lonomakua, for 10000 potch. Also you get a scene with the Dromon Pirates returning, as they bring Hina with. You recruit Hina, daughter of the Tribal Council Head of Lanamakua, Kane Hekili Aumakua.

Also sign up for I Can’t Take My Mask Off! Hero tries to yank Yovel’s mask off, but it doesn’t work. Morrin comes in to re-assure Yovel. The party then talks to Balsam about this super strong glue. Evidently all you need is some Squidcreeper Sap to counter it. However these King Squidcreepers are not in this world! Hero can’t go, but Yovel still wants to. Now report I Can’t Take My Mask Off! for 100 potch.

To follow up, sign up for Seek Squidcreeper Sap. As you read the directions carefully, the enemy is underwater. So fill up your party with Porpos-kin to take out this squid. When you return, you get 50000 potch, Fish Guts, Whale Tusk, and Prismatic Peach for reporting Seek Squidcreeper Sap.

If you want to continue the story, go to the fourth floor strategy room. A joint attack seems like a good idea, but the Order is being strange in withdrawing already. Something might be up, like at Ladzaa Fortress. The Hero has gotta tell them, and he says Asad, Manaril and Mubal should go with. Manaril just acts as a companion, so you will have another member to choose to bring with.

In Flesaria Forest, the party stops to see a huge light. They hurry to the Magedom.

Magedom of Janam

A huge desert is where El-Qaral used to be. Well, start off by heading south a long ways until you reach an Oasis of sorts. Near the water is a Chakram, a powerful long range weapon.

To the far southeast are some Mysterious Ruins, but we are not worrying about them now. In the far northeast of the desert is an exit that Asad does not allow you to take – to El-Qaral he says. But head west a tad and then straight south from this point – you will come to some more ruins and a red dot, so enter. Manaril and Asad freak out.

Cynas

Diadora too is upset with the Magedom being erased. Valfred says he had to do it with them plotting to attack with your army. Dirk is off to find another False Chronicle.

Janam Desert

From the city ruins, travel south for a ways until you can no further. Then go east to see the exit towards Salsabil.

Salsabil

Thankfully Salsabil is unharmed. Of course, since they are not starbearers, they feel like the Magedom of Janam never existed, and they are under their own power. Go to the Mansion to see Taj first.

Shams and the king and queen are in the far west room. They don’t remember anything either, but history has changed a bit. Still, Shams wishes to join you to fight the Order. Walk around the Trade area – seems that guy forgot about his wife in Janam but still kind of remembers her. A lady west of him mentions the United Kingdom of Ritterschild.

Go to the Inn now. At night, Shams comes by. He hands you the Arcane Academy Chronicle, and you have a vision about the Hero and an explosion. Shams then noticed that everyone forgot about the Mage Lord, their families, and Janam. After the talk, you recruit Shams and then acquire the Ancient Covenant Chronicle.

As you go to leave, Taj accompanies you along the way, but leaves once you reach the Desert. Or is about to, until Dirk shows up. Another battle against Demon Beast Dirk – despite having someone like Taj who cannot use Mark of the Stars, you should still be okay. Hero can do 750 damage+ with Flame Vortex while Asad can do almost 700 if you use Ire and then Masterpieces. Mubal can act as your healer, and Taj should defend the whole time pretty much (try to keep him alive).

The battle ends automatically it seems, and Dirk flees for now. Allow Taj to come along, Shams will finally agree.

Forest Ruins HQ

Hero reports on the Magedom of Janam disappearing. There is a new chronicle there that must be recovered before the Archivists find it. Luo-Tao and Hotupa will go with Hero to find it.

Cynas

Valfred talks of the recent doings. The 10th Chronicle must be found.

Forest Ruins HQ

Go back inside, and report on some quests. I had Find the Sticky Criminal! to report on for 5000 potch. For Hurry to the Magedom you get 10000 potch. A bunch of new quests should have popped up thanks to the desert. Pay Back Time has nothing to do with that but it’s a neat request as the other world slave from Grayridge goes back to the world he escaped to tell them off. Once returning and reporting on the quest, you find out that the town disappeared like Janam. 100 potch is your reward.

I Want to See the Elder is from that mysterious woman you met as Giney Valley a while back. She wants to see the Scribe Elder, which would be Hero’s close friend. Accompany him to North Flesaria Forest to meet the woman. She knows he is the Chronicle of the Tatau Council. The red tattoos symbolize that she is an exile. She then introduces herself as Mun-Shang. She wanted to oppose the order just like Liu, but was banished because of it. She is jealous of Liu, and decides to duel him. Make use of his Sand spell, one of them should almost kill her, while the second surely will (first one might silence her too). Her flame explosion attack can take Liu out in maybe 2 turns, so be careful (could use Magic Canopy on turn 1 if you want). Liu will level up near 39.

Luo-Tao comes up after battle to talk to Mun-Shang. She then leaves. Report on I Want to See the Elder for another 100 potch.

Sign up for Something I Want to Check by Wustum. Chef Wustum wants to have a chat at the table with Prince Shams and Princess Manaril. Prince Shams tastebuds are shot, and this is how Wustum knows the Magedom truly existed. Report on this awesome quest for Salted Guts, Roasted Corn, and that is it.

Flush Out the Criminal was next. Time to find someone smaller than Yod.

Get Rid of Mislato Monster is like the Get Rid of Citro Monster a long while back.

Mislato River

The party appears at Mislato River. That Mystery Warrior is back from the past hunt. This guy finally introduces himself as Enumclaw. This bird beast has a ton of HP, and a tough to penetrate physical and magic defense. After about 5000 damage you will take off zero, and the battle ends. Enumclaw then runs off.

Forest Ruins HQ

Go to where Erin is, then go up the stairs as you go west. Enter the room where Manaril is, along with Shams and Taj. Talk to Taj, and he’s ready to touch the Chronicle. Taj is recruited. Not that if you do not go here and talk to him, you don’t recruit Taj. So make sure you do it.

Had some more quests to report on. Manaril and Hina nets you 1000 potch, typical pointless Anya endeavor. Flush Out the Criminal shows us that Autar had an empty adhesive bottle, so he is our prime suspect. Another 1000 potch for this, and yet another job related to this quest opens up.

Get Rid of Mislato Monster nets you a huge prize of 40000 potch and Darkness Cape.

Sign up for Corner the Sticky Criminal, and Hero goes to talk to Autar. Autar claims to know nothing about it, and after talking to Moana, you decide there would have been fur on the bottle. Hmm, it’s someone smaller than Yod and doesn’t have fur. Must be that rascal Numnu. Report on this only nets you 100 potch, but at least you know now.

Magedom’s Two Chronicles is one sent in by Liu. Of course send in the El-Qaral crew, namely Mubal and Manaril but Asad as well.

Salsabil

Meanwhile, go to Salsabil. Enter the trade harbor, to see a Maestro. It seems his music makes people mad. A guard sees him, and then he runs off. Talk to everyone after the commotion, then exit out. After you’ve checked everything out in Salsabil, Tsaubern should come out and introduce himself. He is from the east continent. Tsaubern is in a hurry so he leaves, but it’s good that we’ve talked to him.

Forest Ruins HQ

Back to HQ, and report on Magedom’s Two Chronicles for 1000 potch. They used both chronicles it seems.

Sign up for The Promised Visit. Accept the request to meet at the top of HQ with Tsaubern. Tsaubern is a representative of the United Kingdom of Ritterschild. Tell him it’s okay to touch the Chronicle so he can figure out what really happened to the ‘other large country fighting the Order’. Tsaubern then sees the vision of the Magedom of Janam. After this discussion, you recruit Tsaubern.

Report on the Promised Visit for 10000 potch. Accept One More Mission, created by Tsaubern. Evidently, someone from the Empire of the North Star has come to our HQ, and he wants to know why. Someone in your army is from this area, and you need to find her. Go to the second floor, all the way left (where the Blades of Night’s Veil hang out). You will see Yula, aka Princess Mayula. Yula claims she is just a warrior from the Empire of the North Star. Tsaubern still thinks it is her, as the war priestess of General Daigoh said Mayula left. Report on One More Mission for 100 potch.

Discordant Countermeasures is a quest definitely worth doing. Someone is making a lot of noise over at Naineneis.

Naineneis

Go to the ’street’, to see that same Maestro. Hero figures out the music is making everyone mad, and the Maestro introduces himself as noble Ramin. He runs off, to practice music elsewhere.

Cragbark

Cragbark is Ramin’s next stop. Hero just takes Ramin after seeing him here. Out in the field, Pekklar see you. Ramin’s music puts everyone in Fury status so you can make short work of these enemies. Ramin has now joined your party.

Forest Ruins HQ

Lots of requests to report on. Discordant Countermeasures nets you 5000 potch. War is an Offering and Taj’s Secret both reward you with 1000 potch.

Sign up for Let Me Perform!, and you’ll be at the Corridor with Wahie.

Pharamond

You then appear at Pharamond. There is another Ramin from another world playing music that makes everyone laugh. Meanwhile, the real Ramin comes up to play his music. They cancel eachother out and Hero takes the other Ramin back to his world. Return and report on Let Me Perform! for 100 potch.

Mysterious Desert Ruins

As you enter the desert, Hotupa comments about how amazing this really is. Note that you always enter from the northwest when you first have the scene with Hotupa and sensing the Chronicle. But if you exit, go to Salsabil, then back to the desert, you can enter from the southeast side. This is what you want to do, so that you can make a short trip to the Mysterious Desert Ruins. From the southeast desert entrance, go north a tad and then east past the rivers. You should spot the Ruins soon.

And upon entry to the ruins, Hero spots someone down. This odd fellow is having a hard time wondering why he passed out, or what he’s looking for. His name is Keflen. After some convincing, Hero goes with Keflen to look for this thing in the Ruins.

Start by heading southeast, and then east for a Mystic Medicine (south more is a dead end). Back to the first split, and go west. This time, south leads to a treasure, the Iris Blade. This is a powerful addition to your blade arsenal. Then go west and north for a dead end.Keflen is still not sure to think, but Hero offers him a place to stay. He goes back to HQ with you, but has not officially joined yet.

Forest Ruins HQ

Back at HQ there was a pointless request (The Seven Imperial Generals) to report on for 1000 potch. Keflen is right by the front entrance, but won’t join officially for a while. Now get your party set and ready to find the Chronicle in the desert.

Buried Mage City

Enter the Desert Ruins where the Magedom of Janam once was. From the northwest entrance, go east along the north wall until you see that north exit (that you can’t take). A tad west and a good deal south to find the Magedom ruins.

Hotupa and Luo-Tao are in shock, and wonder why the building ruins are still here. More importantly, Luo-Tao senses the Chronicle within the ruins. Go to the Plaza Ruins for a Party Dress to the west. Nothing at the Imperial Palace Ruins, but check out the Arcane Academy Ruins. The Cellar seems to be in perfect condition. Go to where Manaril’s room was. Diadora beat you to it though.

Actually though, Diadora had this Chronicle for some time. The Chronicle of Endless Travels is within her staff. Hotupa puts away her first Gateway but she continues to summon them. Finally, a battle with Diadora and two Generals Guts. Luo-Tao’s Healing Wave is very nice here. I had Hotupa attacking with the Crescent Axe and Hero using Masterpiece on the frontline and then Vortex on Diadora. It’s hard to see the amount of damage you do to Diadora with the screen rotating just as you hit her, but she has around 4000 HP or so. She has a lightning attack on one character for 120-140 HP and Spear Torrent for 100 or so damage on everyone. You gain a Moonlight Stone and Mystic Medicine for victory.

Choose to bring Diadora with you. Hotupa opens the Gateway left by Diadora, and you can go right to Forest Ruins HQ.

Forest Ruins HQ

Diadora will be sleeping in bed, but the Doctor would like Liu to watch over her to prevent her from escaping. Report on Find the Desert Chronicle! for 10000 potch.

Salsabil Royal Palace

Go to Salsabil, and then the royal palace. This is the first time that our Ruffian friend shows up, Misrach. But actually Misrach is the head of the Salsabil Self-Defense Volunteers. Hero wants him to remember fighting you as the Salsabil Liberation Army. Hero takes Misrach to Mislato River to show him, and gives him a Chronicle to touch. Misrach joins your party after this.

Forest Ruins HQ

Go to the second floor, and east to the doctor’s office. Diadora complies with you, and hands over the staff. Hero touches it and gets a vision of the end of Diadora’s world. The Chronicle of Endless Travels was the True Chronicle of her world. After some talking, Diadora asks if Hero wants to go to the Gateway to wait for her. Save, and do so.

At the Gateway, Diadora says she can create a Gateway to reach the Tower of the Way, so that we can steal the 10th Chronicle.

Cynas – Tower of the Way

Diadora really does take you through the gateway to the Tower. The True Chronicle isn’t here like she had expected, but we should cautiously explore for it.

You start on the 4th floor. South of here leads to an east / west fork. West leads to a lift that goes down, but we need to travel up. So take the east route, and just go straight north to a new room.

Here, you see Nova, Sophia and Valfred. Nova gets his butt kicked, and then Diadora gives away our position. Unfortunately, Beardsley and Dirk run in as well. Too many enemies here, so Diadora just uses her ability to teleport Hero, Liu, Nova, and herself back to Forest Ruins HQ.

Forest Ruins HQ

Nova finally regains consciousness back at the castle, and tells that the 10th Chronicle is carried by Sophia. Nova wants to go and recover her from Valfred’s grasp, but is too tired out right now. The party can no longer use a gateway to the Tower of the Way, since Valfred knows Diadora is not on his side anymore.

Report on To the Tower of the Way for 10000 potch.

Buried Mage City

Go to the Arcane Academy, and as you go down the stairs, notice that the second to the last staircase has an open door to your right. Enter it to see three individuals. One is Miss Nofret. They’re bandits, looting the undergrounds here. If you choose the first option you will fight them, nothing too hard. Either way, she tells you to bring a prince and a princess, so go to Salsabil and put Shams and Manaril in your lineup. Then return to Nofret. Nofret genuinely believes your group.

Forest Ruins HQ

Back at HQ, sign up for Help Them Dig. Bring strong members – not sure how strong, but you can tell whether their response to the quest is positive or not. When you go to report on Help Them Dig, you acquire 10000 potch, Noble Shoe’s and Magic Armband. Also, Nofret tells you to come visit her with Manaril and Shams again.

She gives Shams and Manaril some things from their parents, then Hero asks for Nofret’s help. Nofret is then recruited.

Save your game, and head to the fourth floor strategy room to begin mobilizing towards Cynas.

Further Reading:

• Suikoden Tierkreis Janam Empress Consort Mission Requests
• Suikoden Tierkreis Trade Guide Walkthrough FAQ
• Suikoden Tierkreis Walkthrough Fort Arc One King
• Suikoden Tierkreis FAQ Pharamond Mission Recruits
• Suikoden Tierkreis Walkthrough Characters FAQ Guide