Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom System: XBox 360 / PC Author: Mianatw Ver. 1.0 - 2/3/2008 **************************** Contents **************************** 1 - Updates 2 - Controls 3 - The Cast 4 - The Bosses 5 - Character Quests 6 - Skills 7 - Legal Stuff **************************** 1. Updates **************************** V. 1.0 - 2/3/2008 - Completed the FAQ. **************************** 2. Controls **************************** Left Analog - Move Character Right Analog - Shift Camera Directional Pad Up - Target First Ally (online only) Directional Pad Right - Target Second Ally (online only) Directional Pad Down - Target Third Ally (online only) Blue X Button - Attack, Hold: Charge Attack, Hold - Use Enhancement Yellow Y Button - Pick Up Items, Hold - Use Detection Red B Button - Use Ability Green A Button - Attack, Hold: Charge Attack, Hold - Use Enhancement Click Left Analog - Zoom in / out of mini-map Click Right Analog - Move camera behind character Left Bumper - Use Equipped Item Left Trigger - Use Ability Right Bumper - Use Equipped Item Right Trigger - Switch to Aiming View Back Button - Options Menu Start - Character Sheet **************************** 3. The Cast **************************** Kendal - The Church of Ecclesia knew Kendal as the ideal military commander: a zealousknight with unshakable belief in the tenets of his faith and his duty to the church. But behind his inscrutable faceguard, Kendal hid his worries and self-doubt. To escape the confusion in his mind, he threw himself into the certainty of battle. His bravery saved the Age of Light from the encroaching Darkness and brought about the end of the Encablossa War. But when the dust settled, Kendal was nowhere to be found. What happened to Kendal after he dove into Encablossa? Did the holy knight choose the path of righteousness? Or is the cosmos more complicated than it seems. Description: Strong but slow, relies on heavy armor and raw power over speed and manuverability. ################### Regnier - In the history of Bersia, no man has been more influential or more infamous than the man now known as Regnier. Once the noble Rick Miner, he was slaughtered during the First War of Heroes by the lich, Khiliani. Ressurected by the Ancient Heart, he surfaced as Rick Blood, commander of the Dark Legion, in the Second War of Heroes. Finally, weilding a flaming blade with devastating strength and ruthlessness he reemerged as Regnier, the immortal warlord of Hextor. Forging an unlikely truce with the Human Alliance, Regnier united with Kendal to pierce the body of Encablossa and prevent the Age of Light's destruction. Where is Regnier now, and what form has he taken? What secrets lie hidden in his past? Description: Power with moderate speed relies on a mix of speed and power to dominate his foes. ################### Celine - Quick, agile, and deadly, this seemingly fragile elf has led her people to victory through countless battles. During the Second War of Heroes, Celine's elven nation allied with King Curian and the humans to protect the Ancient Heart from falling into the grasp of the Dark Legion. Fighting side by side, Celine and Curian fell deeply in love. All seemed destined for happiness until the end of the war, when the two disappeared without a trace. What happened to Celine? And what fate has befallen her lover? Description: Quick and talented with a bow, she does best with a bow and magic spells while not faring the best in melee. ################### Curian - The monks of Hironeiden raised Curian to be a messenger of peace. The eager young orphan cherished his message... and brought it with him to the battlefield. As the Second War of Heroes raged about him, Curian proved himself a brilliant leader and eventually took the throne as King of Azilla. With Celine, his elven lover, at his side, King Curian and the Alliance of Light soundly defeated the Dark Legion and returned peace to the continent of Bersia. The thankful masses sang his praises, but the king was nowhere to be found. Did Curian abandon the people of Azilla? Will the king reclaim his throne? Description: Rather like Kendal he uses raw power and heavy armor to decimate his foes. ################### Duane - Arrogant and vain, Sir Duane is the epitome of narcissism. He may be balding, battle-scarred, and potbellied, but in his mind, Duane has always been an awe-inspiring warrior... and an irrestistable ladies' man. Born into a wealthy noble family, Duane used his connections to obtain a respectable (and profitable) position as Kendal's officer during the Encablossa War. Yet the position was more than he bargained for - he, too, disappeared with his commander at the end of the war. What role is left for Duane to play in the drama of Bersia? Is it his turn to shine as a true hero? Or is he too self- absorbed to care? Description: Duane uses a mix of close range combat and a variety of guns to perform excellent crowd control. ################### Leinhart - Half-vampire prince of Vellond, Leinhart is as greedy, amibitious, and ruthless as his father, King Valdemaar... but he lacks His Majesty's wit and wisdom. Leinhart's life has been a series of disappointments. His father stole his lover, Morene, and stripped him of his rank. So, in disgrace, Leinhart joined Regnier's army. Although he became Regnier's right-hand officer Leinhart's thirst for power did not abate. With the nation of Vellond now fractured by the Encablossa War, can Leinhart restore his kingdom? How far would this foolish prince go to satisfy his ambition? Description: The prince relies upon quick surgical melee combos mixed with some good crowd control to handle his foes. **************************** 4. The Bosses **************************** Forest of Embracing ******************* While this boss seems kind of hard at first, if you have a ranged weapon then it isn't actually all that bad. This is a general rule for all boss battles though, as melee with them almost never works out very well. A good ranged weapon will serve you infinitely better than any powerful melee weapon almost ever will. The boss is comprised of four heads, a circular body and a number of legs. The dangerous points of his body are the legs, which can stomp on you, and the various mouths which will spit acid out on you. The legs are very little threat to you since they don't do much damage on the rare occassion that they hit you. You have to watch out for the mouths since the acid that they spew will do alot of damage if the whole stream catches you and then it stays on the floor, doing yet more damage to you. To make your life simple just stay back and start throwing ranged weapons at each face. When the face gets down to 50% health the four petals that look like a mask will shatter. This is your signal to move to the next one and attack it. Keep doing this until all four are destroyed. Once that is done the boss will leap into the air and start climbing on the ceiling area. Enter look mode to lock onto him and start flinging your ranged weapons into his gut. Try to keep him from getting above you since the red goop that drops down damages you and when he plummets from the ceiling he does some radial damage. When he does land simply start circling him again and start to attack the exposed faces. You can destroy them now. When you do destroy a face he will usually drop a powerful ranged weapon suited for your class, so start using that. If he drops a fire enchanted one, all the better, so start using that. Keep on attacking his heads until they are all destroyed. This will cause him to start leaping into the air over and over. Now all you need to do is keep hammering on his belly area and he will give up the ghost soon enough. ******************* End of Desolation ******************* This boss is fought only by playing as Kendal in solo play. If you are playing online co-op then if someone in your party is playing as Kendal then you can all fight him. Coming with a party makes this almost unfairly easy but then again it's not your job to go easy on these boss monsters. Curian is a melee based enemy thus you can easily defeat him if you have a good ranged attack weapon. All you really need to do is hang back and pluck away at his health, throwing in any ranged attack magic spells that you might have. If you are fighting him as Kendal then you may need to resort to a different tactic. I would heavily suggest that you invest in some decent armor and learn the Heal spell. Stock up on small and medium health potions and wait some time to go after him (level up a bit). When you actually engage him, try to move away from him when you see him powering up for his radial attacks and then move in and combo him a few times. If you have to retreat then heal up with the spell or use healing potions. It isn't a complicated fight although it can be a bit hard in a straight up slugfest with him. Just be patient and careful. ******************* Hall of Arrogance ******************* When coming into this fight I suggest equipping anything that allows you to resist lightning attacks easier. Also bring in a bunch of white and red potions so that you never have to worry about your health and SP. Make sure that you have a good ranged attack weapon on hand so that you can cut down his life, any melee attacks will end up badly for you here. Try to also have the Magic Shot spell with you, it makes the final fight easier. Loki only has three main attacks. He can spin around and ram into you, he will lay down on his back and try to ram into you and he will send lightning arcing around the walls. As you hurt him his armor will fly off, the goal is to take off all of his armor and get to the gooey bits beneath it. When he spins at you simply back up and start flinging ranged weapons at him as you back up. Every time you hit him he will stop moving for a moment. This lets you move to the side to evade his attacks and slowly but steadily put distance between you two. If you see him laying back to charge at you he doesn't home in on you as well as when he is spinning at you so just move to the side and keep on hitting him with your ranged weapons. The lightning blast dances around the walls when he fires it and then flys at you, doing a lot of damage. There isn't much you can do to evade it so keep on moving and just hope for the best. Simply keep on trying to hit the armored up parts of his body and tear off that protection. When you take away half of his health all of his armor will be gone. He is now immune to ranged attacks so you have two chioces, magic spells or melee him. He will begin emanating off electricity in all directions. If you try to get close to him you will be hit like it and hurt rather badly, being staggered by it. If you have Magic Shot then you can move in, hit him with the spell and then back off and heal up from the electricity that he radiates. Keep on doing that and he will go down sooner than later. When he dies, complete the roll for the item quickly and move over to his dead body and wait. You will see a worm looking thing moving, kill it as quickly as you can. If it gets away from you then fire off a magic shot and try to kill it before it gets away. This nets you an achievement. ******************* Valley of Solitude ******************* You would think that an ice based boss would be harder to defeat but apparently that is not the case. She only has four attacks and none are all that hard to totally evade, I beat her the first time as Celine without taking any damage and then repeated it with Curian. The Ice Maiden only has four primary attacks. The first is a two hit melee type attack that has very limited range. The second is a ground based attack where the ice crawls along the ground at a slow pace at you. She can do this in a pair if she so chooses. Third is a move where she makes several clones and they all try to kill you. Lastly she makes a bunch of Frozen Ice Maidens appear around the area, turns immaterial and trys to attack you. Try to keep your distance and hit her with a ranged weapon, a fire enchanted one if you have it. Aim for her head/chest area for the best results. Keep on your toes and keep moving away from her while you attack. This will protect you from her melee attacks. If you see her trying for her ranged attack all you need to do is strafe to the side and you will avoid it. When she summons the clones ignore them totally and simply keep running around the battlefield until they go away in puffs of smoke. If you see her summon up all the ice maidens keep moving, stay away from the edges and watch out for her ghostly form. You can destroy the maidens for the loot but avoiding her is more important, if she touches you she does a bit of damage and the screen goes totally insane, showing you trees for some reason. As I said before, just keep moving and hitting her with ranged weapons whenever possible. You can use Magic Shot to chunk her health and you can melee her if you so choose but it doesn't really matter. ******************* Cave of Rage ******************* Many people seem to think that this is the hardest boss in the entire game but I don't see it that way. None of these bosses are particularly all that hard. The Balrog is definitely cheesy but if you have the Magic Shot and Heal spells then he isn't all that hard. You don't have much room to stand in this fight. The lava will recede away a bit at times giving you more room to stand on but this doesn't last all that long so you have to move back to your little island to start with. When you see him starting to attack you, if you don't believe that you have enough space on your little platform then move onto the other space. Sometimes when you walk on the lava you will take less damage than if you had simply let your character get whiffed by the boss. Keep it in mind. The boss has two primary moves that he uses. The first is a simple charge type move where he tries to ram into you. Dodge to the sides to avoid this one and you should have little problems dodging it. He will often flail about if you stand close to him after this charge so don't be there. The second attack is a weird one. He fires his hands at you, from the forearm down, and they will slam into the floor nearby you. Then, using the chains that attach his forearms to his upper arms, he will throw himself at you. This attack does a fair bit of damage but if you want to avoid it simply don't stand between the two chains. Another thing to watch out for is the fact that he will occasionally run right up one of the walls. While he is up there he is immune to attack so this is a great time to heal up with the Heal skill. After a bit he will dive from the ceiling right at you before thrashing around and trying to hurt you. Get as far away from where you were standing while he was on the ceiling so he doesn't hit you. He will then march back into the lava pool to start this all over again. To defeat him you will have to keep hitting him in the face and forearms with any ranged attacks at your disposal. If you have Magic Shot use it whenever he gets close to you but keep on hitting him with the ranged weapons as best you can and you will slowly whittle his life down to nothing. When he tries to dive from the ceiling at you sidestep out of the way and wait for him to start to march into the lava. While he does this hit him with a Magic Shot and then hit him in the arms/back of the head with ranged weapons. When you take away half of his life he will move to stand behind the lava pillar in the middle of the room. When he is standing there he will start to fire his arms at you. They do a lot of damage when they hit you but if you're sidestepping then they will almost always miss. As soon as they miss fire off a Magic Shot and then try to attack them. What you want to do is to shatter both of his arms by attacking them. Do NOT attack his body while this is going on or you run the risk of the fight advancing to the next stage without you having destroyed both of his arms. If this happens you're basically dead, so don't let it happen. Destroy his arms to push the fight into its next stage. When both of his arms are destroyed he will start freaking out and thrasing all over the place. He is going to start charging at you and spinning at you as he tries to whale on your face. To stop him here you are going to want to keep on hitting him with your ranged weapon in the head area. Whenever you hit him you will stagger him briefly. Keep on doing this, mixing it up with Magic Shots as he gets closer and you should find him dead sooner rather than later. If by some chance he does get close enough to you to hit you with his arms you are going to be sent flying all over the place. Simply try to get your bearings and start hitting him in the head as you try to heal up. If you find yourself all the way stuck in the lava then don't even bother trying to run past him and get back on the land. Simply keep on hitting him in the head with your ranged weapon and wear him down. Once he's staggered you can try to strafe onto safe land and keep hitting him. So long as you stay healed you should be fine. ******************* Road of Chaos ******************* Keither ******************* When I first fought Keither I was using Celine and thought he was one of the hardest bosses ever. Then I did it with Curian... the differences were totally astounding. Ranged characters will actually have a much harder time with him than a melee character which is a total change of pace. He's the only boss where this stands true as well. Keither has five attacks and three of them only matter if you stay close to him long enough. First he has a three hit combo that does a lot of damage if you are close to him. You will need to get away from him as soon as possible if you hope to avoid damage. There's a thrust move where he stabs you with his polearm and spews out some crows at you. It doesn't do much damage but it's nearly impossible to dodge if he starts the move. He can also surround himself with a barrier of earthen horns that make him invulnerable for a moment and can knock you for a loop. If you try keeping your distance he will sometimes rip up earthen spikes from the ground and throw them at you, although this is rare and I only saw it when he was lower on health. Normally he will simply send a group of Crows flying at you, damaging you and afflicting you with the darkness status. You can easily sidestep the crows but the spikes are a bit harder. Keither is a powerhouse of damage but he is super slow. This means that, so long as you are careful you could theoretically whittle his health down without taking any damage. The real trick to fighting Keither comes when you finally manage to whittle his health down to 50% he has a trick up his sleeve. When you finally do this he will summon up two clocks behind himself which will attach chains to him. He is immune to damage during this animation and when it ends he will be covered in a red aura that attaches to the clock tower in the middle of the arena. While he is covered in the aura he is immune to damage and he will be healing slowly. To counteract this you will need to attack the clock tower and do enough damage to it to make the aura go away. You cannot see what health it has left and it seems to be based on how many times you hit it rather than how much damage you deal. So what you will want to try to do is keep the clock tower between the two of you and keep on hitting the clock tower until the aura dissipates. The best way to approach this fight is risky but it should be doable so long as you have a few things. You will need all the red potions you can carry of all the various sizes, max white potions, the Heal and Magic Shot skills and a good melee (power 80 or higher) and ranged weapon (power 40 or up). What you want to do is equip your ranged weapon and hang back, hitting him with it as much as you can while trying to dodge his crow attack. Mix in some magic shot attacks when possible and keep up that distance until you whittle down his health to the point where he summons up the clock tower aura. This is the best time to heal up with the Heal skill. Switch your attention to the clock tower and keep hitting it until the aura on it breaks. Once that aura breaks quickly move on over to Keither and get into melee with him. Start hitting him with your strongest weapon while you try to stay behind him as much as possible. If you see him start doing the three hit combo move away, wait for the combo to end and then charge into melee. If he is doing the thrust move just keep on hitting him and don't worry about the hit you will recieve. Generally you can simply slug it out if you have enough health. By staying in close range with him Keither will quite often do his best to kill you and just totally ignore healing himself with the clock tower. If you try to stay at a distance he will continually keep on healing himself up to 50% health with the clock tower aura. Locking him into melee with you is the best way to avoid him using his obnoxious little regeneration ability over and over. ******************* End of Chaos ******************* Encablossa is actually one of the easier bosses in the game so long as you have plenty of health potions. He has a variety of attacks and most are near but impossible to actually dodge. As such you will be getting hit near constantly so don't panic over that fact. Most of the hits don't do too much damage by themselves, they simply add up over time. The boss has two forms, that of a white shadow and that of a black shadow. The white shadow can only be hurt by magical attacks while the black one can only be hurt by weapon attacks (melee or ranged). Regardless of his color he uses the same attacks over and over again. As he flys around he will send the organic looking debris that makes up the area flying at you, hitting you fairly accurately and doing very little damage. He can also fire off fireballs, lightning bolts and ice shards at you that do some damage and afflict you with the appropriate status effect. When damaged a bit he will also fly into you head first like a spinning torpedo, step to the side to avoid this one. To defeat this form all you need to do is continue pounding on him with your best attacks. To hit his white form fire off Needle or Poison Needle spells at him. Needle is more reliable than Magic Shot because Magic Shot will try to hit the debris that is flying around instead of Encablossa. When his black form is out simply start hitting it with a good ranged weapon, he will go down in just about no time. Once you have removed half of his health he will call the debris from the area to surround him in a ball. This is still easy enough to defeat though. Simply side step around as much as you can to avoid him ramming into you at the slow speed he moves and hammer on him with your ranged weapon and spells. He will go down eventually and you will have completed the game. **************************** 5. Character Quests **************************** Celine ******************* Unlike most of the other quests this one should start very quickly after you start talking to the people in your dreams. Once it starts you will be told that you need to find the Spirit Crystal. Your clue is that it is in the place where Curian and Celene split up from five years ago. Like that means anything to anybody... Go back to the beginning of the Forest of Embracing and scour the maps for it. The crystal is located randomly on one of the maps here so it is going to take you some searching to find it. Once you have it go to sleep and Moonlight will tell you that he needs the mind of those who once lived. You can find plenty of undead soldiers and knights in that section of the forest. Once you have done this head back to sleep and you will be told to get an elixir from the Idol of Death. So wake up and do so. The Idol wants you to get the Splinter of Death. Head on over to the City of Desolation and start killing off the Blacksand Soldiers and Warriors. You will have to do this for some time but eventually the quest will complete itself. You will get a notification that the quest has been completed eventually. Go on back to the Idol of Death and get the elixir from him. Sleep again to end the quest for the time being. When you go to sleep you get congratulated and not much else. The quest picks up again when you reach the Valley of Solitude and sleep at the first Idol. Talk to Moonlight and he will explain that Curian is dead but his spirit is holding on in the form of his Will. Go speak to the Idols before his Will passes on. Head on back to the Idols and talk to all three of them, each wants you to bring something back to them to offer you their aid. Starting with the Idol of Death, he wants Cursed Honors. To obtain these you need to kill the Ghost Knight type enemies. You can find them spread across the world. Warp back to the Forest of Embracing and kill the Ghost Knights there. Then move on to the City of Desolation and take out the Flame and Lightning Knights. Move on to the Hall of Arrogance and take out some Dark Knights. Last, but most certainly least, is the Ice Knight in the Valley of Solitude. Once you have gotten all that head on back to the Idol of Death to get the Mind Trace. Moving on to the Pure Gold you need to kill the Golden Louse enemy. These small enemies are only found in the Hall of Arrogance, Twilight Corridor map. However the Louse only appear five at a time but, as a nod to your sanity, they respawn in whenever you leave that map square. So kill the five enemies, leave the map, come back, kill them again and keep on doing this until the quest completes. Return to the Idol of Greed and he will take the Mind Trace and start trying to trace Curian's Will. This will take some time and go for the next quest. You need to get the Cold Love now. It can be obtained from the Valley of Solitude by killing the Yuki Onna and Yuki Otoko enemies. Once you have killed enough of them you will be told that the quest has completed so head on back to the Idol of Love. She will tell you where Curian's Spirit Crystal is located. Go to the Cave of Rage and search around the first area to find the golden orb that contains the Spirit Crystal. Sleep at the next three statues to advance the plot. At the fourth one you go to sleep at you will be told that the side quest is over. Celine doesn't fight Keither so it's just a matter of taking out Encablossa. ******************* Kendal ******************* You will need to sleep three times to get the quest started. Talk to Walter and wait until he mentions his pendant. Now talk to Moonlight to get the quest to retrieve said pendant. Head for the City of Desolation and start killing off all the enemies you see. One of them will eventually give you the pendant. Now head for the nearest idol and go to sleep. Chat with Moonlight and he will point you towards the Idol of Love. The Idol of Love points you towards the Halls of Arrogance and says to go and find the five pieces of Spiritual Purity. Go the Halls of Arrogance and venture through them, searching every nook and cranny to find them. They can be seen from a distance with ease since they all look like glowing golden orbs. Once you have all five of them go find another Idol and chat with the Idol of Love. Sleep again and talk to Moonlight. Moonlight gives you a key and says that you have to destroy Curians mutated form. Go to the City of Desolation and head for the fourth area and scour the map until you find the doors that lead to the End of Desolation. Open them up and go inside, taking out Mutant Curian. Go to sleep and have a chat. Go to the Hall of Arrogance and complete the level but do NOT head for the End of Arrogance. Head for the entrance to the Sunrise Atrium instead of going up the stairs. When prompted to enter the Sunrise Atrium refuse to do so and then keep walking forward. Hidden behind a table you will find some stairs, go down them to find the Glass of Serenity. Head back upstairs and go to the Idol and sleep. Have a chat until the Water Embracing Time is mentioned. Go to the Forest of Embracing and head to the second map. Keep going until you see a waterfall on your right while you cross a land bridge. Grab up the orb and head for an Idol to sleep. You will now likely have two quests to do simultaneously: destroy the glass and water in the Caves of Rage and gather up the three tomes from the Halls of Arrogance. I picked the Halls of Arrogance one. There is no simple way to do this quest. Essentially you have to scour every area of the Halls until you have completed it, return and scour it again until you find all three tomes. I suggest having a Greed enchanted weapon and that you pick up a few skills to learn while doing this. Then head to the Caves of Rage and make your way to the End of Rage. You should see a glowing orb right in front of the door to the boss, go over to it to get rid of the glass. Now head for the nearest Idol and go to sleep. Chat with Encablossa to get the key to the Gap. Make your way to the Road of Chaos fourth map, called the Gateway, and enter the Gap. Kill Keither and then go to the Idol and sleep. From there you only need to kill Encablossa to complete the story quest. ******************* Leinhart ******************* You will have to sleep about three times to get your quest even started up. With that done wake up and talk to the Idol of Death. He will send you to the Idol of Greed. He in turn tells you that he wants the Seed of Lust, something you can only get from the Idol of Love. I wonder if they're being this spiteful to you because Leinhart is an absolute arse to them. To get the Seed of Lust you need to get a regular seed and transform it into the Seed of Lust. Getting the seed requires that you kill off 10 Plant Kings. You can find two of them on your first pass through the level so simply find your way back here once you have beaten the Forest Guardian. A bunch of Plant Kings spawn into each of the Forest of Embracing areas so you can easily get all 10 of them. Once you have the seed bring it to the Idol of Love. You will need to get the Endless Desire to nurture the seed in it. This will turn it into the Seed of Lust. To get this you will need to kill the Ice Maiden in the Valley of Solitude. Once you do so and get the Endless Desire from her find the first Idol in your path. Wap from that Idol to the Forest of Embracing and turn around towards the white ruins. There is a golden orb floating there, go over and touch it. You will plant the seed there and be confused when nothing happens. Head for the next Idol and wait for it to become the Idol of Love. Talk to her and you will find out that the Water Embracing Time is needed. To find this you will need to head to the second section of the Forest of Embracing and look for it. You can find it on a land bridge when you can see a waterfall to your right. Go to the golden orb and pick it up. Now head back to the white ruin where you planted the seed before. Using the Water Embracing Time on the seed will net you the Seed of Lust. Head on over to the Idol of Greed and he will arrange a meeting between you and Encablossa in the dream world. Sleep at the Idol and chat with Encablossa. He wants to test you now so head on over to the Spiral of Desolation to find the Paused Hourglass. This is found in the third map of the City of Desolation. All you need to do is follow the path in a straight line until you see the glowing orb in the middle of a huge spiral filled with dozens of vermin. Grab up the Paused Hourglass and head for the next Idol. Sleep again and talk to Encablossa who tells you that you must get the Narrow Wisdom and the Potion of Self-Confidence to mutate. Warp to the Road of Chaos and turn around. You will see the Narrow Wisdom as a glowing orb right behind where you started off. Pick it up and then head for the Gateway map in the Road of Chaos, this is the fourth map. Find the entrance to The Gap and defeat Keither to get the potion. Now go to sleep and talk to Valdemaar and Morene until they stop saying new things. Once that is done head on to the final fight and take out Encablossa. ******************* Regnier ******************* You will need to sleep at the statues four times to actually start th quest. To get it started you must use different Idols although you can sometimes sleep at the third one twice to start this. Now you need the Blessing of Absolute from the three Idols. Wake up once you have the quest and cycle through the Idols until you can talk to the Idol of Death. Do so to find out that you need the three Splinters and must make them into perfect versions of themselves. Talk to all three Idols to get their respective splinters. To make them grow to their perfect forms you will have to do a lot of killing. Start with Perfect Greed by heading to the Hall of Arrogance. You will only have to go around and kill off a bunch of the Sculptor Apprentices, Sculptor Maestros and a variety of the statues. As you fight them you will get messages saying that the splinter has grown. Sooner, rather than later, you will get a message saying that it has grown into Perfect Greed. Now you have to go to sleep and chat with Encablossa and you will be told to start working on the Perfect Love. Wake up and use the statue to go to the Valley of Solitude and start hunting down the immortal lovers, Yuki Onna and Yuki Otoko. You will need to kill them off for quite some time but you will eventually be told that it has become the Perfect Love. Now go to sleep and talk to Encablossa again. You are told to start working on the Perfect Death splinter now. To make this splinter grow you need to kill off enemies that are dead but not, ie. the Undead. This requires that you start to kill skeleton soldiers, Flesh Men, Flesh Spears and Ghost Knights. You can find them scattered in each of the levels so I would suggest you start at the Forest of Embracing and work your way to the final levels. You should complete it by the time you finish the Valley of Solitude. Just as a note, the splinter will say that it is growing but sometimes it is not doing so. To find out if this is the case, check to see what the percentage is like in your quest menu. When it turns into Perfect Death head to an Idol, sleep and talk to Encablossa. After the cutscene ends simply play through the final level as normal, killing off Keither, sleeping and then Encablossa and you will complete this quest. **************************** 6. Skills **************************** To gain skills you must kill enemies. Unfortunately the game doesn't tell you what enemies you must kill to gain the skill until you ask to learn it. As such this should help people out. I have also detailed where it's best to acquire the skill in question. ************************ Novice Skills ************************ Cherub Statue ************** Skeleton Soldier x16 Skeleton Archer x13 - Best Learned: Can be gotten on your first pass through Forest of Embracing. -------------- Chilling Touch ************** Blue Lizardman Wizard x13 Rare Blue Lizardman Wizard x3 Blue Lizardman Warrior x5 Rare Blue Lizardman Warrior x2 - Best Learned: Second trip through the Forest of Embracing. -------------- Dash ************** Red Lizardman Soldier x6 Blue Lizardman Soldier x6 Stalker x13 Red Lizardman Warrior x1 Blue Lizardman Warrior x1 Wooden Golem x1 - Best Learned: Second trip through the Forest of Embracing. -------------- Heal ************** Red Lizardman Wizard x20 Blue Lizardman Wizard x20 Plant King x7 - Best Learned: First trip through Forest of Embracing. -------------- Magic Shot ************** Stalker x60 Blue Lizardman Wizard x10 - Best Learned: Second trip through Forest of Embracing. -------------- Needle ************** Plant Jack x7 Plant Queen x7 Stalker x33 - Best Learned: When passing through the Forest of Embracing the second time. -------------- Throw Sand ************** Red Lizardman Soldier x30 Blue Lizardman Soldier x30 Red Lizardman Archer x30 Blue Lizardman Archer x30 - Best Learned: Second trip through Forest of Embracing. -------------- Poison Needle ************** Plant King x2 Stalker x20 Ripper x13 Poison Ripper x13 - Best Learned: Second trip through Forest of Embracing. ************************ Intermediate Skills ************************ Darkness Hand ************** Ghost Knight x17 Rare Ghost Knight x8 Dark Knight x17 Rare Dark Knight x8 Blacksand Shaman of Darkness x100 Blacksand Warrior x33 - Best Learned: Will likely require two trips through Desolation to get this. -------------- Bleed ************** Forest Guardian Head x12 Forest Guardian x2 - Best Learned: Will take three fights against the Guardian to acquire. -------------- Chain Lightning ************** Lightning Knight x6 Rare Lightning Knight x3 Blacksand Shaman of Fire and Lightning x13 Iron Golem x6 Rare Iron Golem x3 - Best Learned: If you can find the rare Lightning Knights and golems this can be gotten by the time you finish the Hall of Arrogance. -------------- Mirror of Abyss ************** Chandelier x2 Sculptor Apprentice x20 Sculptor Maestro x20 - Best Learned: Hall of Arrogance, first time. The chandelier is found in the Sunrise Atrium. Look at the ceiling. -------------- Icicle ************** Frozen Flesh Spear x13 Ice Knight x13 Blacksand Soldier x66 Frozen Flesh Man x13 - Best Learned: It will likely take several trips through Solitude to kill enough enemies. -------------- Weep ************** Ripper x66 - Best Learned: In the Forest of Embracing, at any time. -------------- Web ************** Scorpion Spider x53 Blacksand Shaman of Darkness x10 Blacksand Soldier x66 Louse x66 - Best Learned: Pick it up in the Forest of Embracing, kill the Louses and then go to City of Desolation. You should easily get it there. -------------- Snow Bat ************** Snow Bat x60 Frozen Flesh Man x20 Ice Knight x25 Yuki Onna x40 - Best Learned: Likely by the second pass through Solitude. -------------- Fireball ************** Red Lizardman Wizard x33 Forest Guardian Head x7 Blacksand Shaman of Fire and Lightning x17 - Best Learned: You can get most of this in a single pass. It will take two fights against the Guardian to get the heads. -------------- Explosion ************** Mutated Curian x1 Blacksand Shaman of Fire and Lightning x13 - Best Learned: Can only be gotten if you are playing as, or with, Kendal. It can be gotten quite easily. -------------- Drill ************** Driller x20 Ice Driller x20 - Best Learned: If you have it as a quest then you can get it by the time you beat Solitude the first time. -------------- Flesh Spear ************** Flesh Spear x20 Ghost Knight x6 Flesh Man x20 - Best Learned: Can be gotten by the first pass through Desolation. -------------- Power of Love #1 ************** Flesh Man x33 Frozen Flesh Man x33 Explosive Flesh Man x33 Frozen Ice Maiden x2 - Best Learned: It will take you two fights against the Ice Maiden but you will have to go to Cave of Rage and fight a bunch of the Explosive Flesh Men but that will only take you one or two passes, tops. -------------- Thorn ************** Forest Guardian x7 Forest Guardian Head x100 Plant King x33 Plant Queen x100 - Best Learned: It will take you 25 fights against the Forest Guardian and it will likely take you at least 8 or 9 trips through the Forest of Embracing to kill the required Plant Kings. Let the queens spawn from the kings until you have the required amount. -------------- Ice Sword ************** Frozen Ice Maiden x1 Frozen Flesh Man x33 Ice Knight x13 Rare Ice Knight x6 Ice Driller x13 - Best Learned: The only hard part here are the rare knights. Try to do all the others first and worry about them last. Everything else can be gotten in one clean sweep. -------------- Golem Heart ************** Magma Man x33 Magma Giant x6 - Best Learned: Easily gotten in one pass of the Caves of Rage. -------------- Allure ************** Necromancer x13 Fire Necromancer x13 Ice Necromancer x13 - Best Learned: Easily gotten in one pass through the game if you have it when you fight the Ice Necros. -------------- Angel Statue ************** Cherub Statue x33 Angel Statue x20 Archangel Statue x13 - Best Learned: This might take you two or three passes through the Halls of Arrogance but otherwise is easily gotten. -------------- Vampire Bat ************** Flesh Man x100 Flesh Spear x100 Flesh Golem x20 - Best Learned: It will likely take you around 5 play throughs of the City of Desolation to get this. -------------- Petrify Breath ************** Sculptor Apprentice x200 Sculptor Maestro x20 Angel Statue x30 Archangel Statue x10 Invisible x50 - Best Learned: Go to the Halls of Arrogance and kill enemies until all that remains are the Invisibles. Then play through the game, you will get it in due time. ------------------------ Advanced ------------------------ Power of Love #2 ************** Rare Encablossan Archmage x6 Encablossan Archmage x20 Yuki Onna x33 Yuki Otoko x26 Mutated Curian x3 Keither x3 - Best Learned: This is tough as it requires you to fight Keither 3 and Curian 3 times, meaning both levels will need to be played repeatedly. You can only fight Curian as Kendal. Otherwise the hard part is the rare Archmagi. -------------- Invisibility ************** Invisible x50 Rare Invisible x30 Mutated Curian x3 Keither x3 - Best Learned: This is tough as it requires you to fight Keither 3 and Curian 3 times, meaning both levels will need to be played repeatedly. You can only fight Curian as Kendal. Otherwise the hard part is the rare Invisible. -------------- Silence ************** Blacksand Shaman of Darkness x100 Dark Knight x50 Encablossan Archmage x25 Keither x10 Mutated Curian x10 Rare Dark Knight x25 - Best Learned: This is tough as it requires you to fight Keither 3 and Curian 3 times, meaning both levels will need to be played repeatedly. You can only fight Curian as Kendal. Otherwise the hard part is the rare Dark Knight. -------------- Self-Destruction ************** Keither x3 Encablossan Archmage x40 Rare Encablossan Archmage x15 Skeleton Soldier x50 - Best Learned: To learn this easily, beat the game and then return to fight Keither a few more times. It shouldn't take you very long to get this. -------------- Kaleidoflamma ************** Encablossan Archmage x30 Flame Knight x40 Balrog x3 Magma Man x50 Rare Magma Giant x30 - Best Learned: You will have to fight the boss 3 times to get this. During the level runs to do so you can get most of the others. It will likely take you two passes through the final level to get the required Archmagi kills. **************************** 7. Legal Stuff **************************** This FAQ may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site or otherwise distributed publicly without advance written permission. Use of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. All trademarks and copyrights contained in this document are owned by their respective trademark and copyright holders. Email: mianatw@yahoo.com (If you spam me or send junk mail, expect blocking) System: 360 FAQ Copyright 2008 N.B. This FAQ may only be posted on Gamefaqs.com and no other website will be given permission to use it.