West Laban Tunnel
West Laban Tunnel Skits
| Skits: | Locations: |
|---|---|
| Taking The Boy | Automatically |
| Shared Interests | Automatically |
| Planning The Assault | Automatically |
| The Way Malakhim Used To Be | On the path after finding the Amber Paper chest. |
| White Turtlez Appears | Automatically |
| White Turtlez VS Velvet | Automatically |
| What's In A Name? | After 2nd White Turtlez Skit |
| The Reapers Coin | Automatically |
Where we last left off was just after defeating Teresa in Hellawes and getting away in the ship.
You’ll trigger a bunch of cutscenes followed by the skit: Taking The Boy. Once you regain control head around the ship and speak to everyone, making sure to speak to the boy Malakhim last. Speaking with him will trigger another scene, and a Boss Battle.
Boss Battle: Pirate Malak
| Boss: | Pirate Malak |
| HP: | 11,247 |
| Rewards: | Daredevil's Ventite and Pirates Eyepatch |
Daredevil’s Ventite
| Daredevil's Ventite | Allows wandering enemies to join battle on normal difficulty or higher. Earning a high enough Grade a consecutive number of times in the same map will cause wandering enemies to appear. |
The battle will end once the Malak reaches half health so just hang in there and it’ll be over soon.
After the battle, you’ll get a tutorial on Dire Foes, but basically, if you stay in one area and fight enough monsters you have a chance of running into one of these enemies at the end of a battle.
Speak to Magilou and Berwick the Pirate to trigger the skit: Shared Interests. Speaking to Dyle will give you some information about the Pirates as well. Nearby you’ll find an Earth Ring on the top of some climbable vines. After grabbing that make your way into the tunnels. Head straight for the marker on your map, along the way you’ll trigger: Planning The Assault.
Explore the next area to find a chest with Amber Paper inside, head towards the vines nearby to gain Kindling and the ability to burn Vines out of the way. Continue down the path until you trigger: The Way Malakhim Used To Be. As you go you’ll run into a Life Bottle, in the Northeastern exit, and a Katz Box in the Northwestern one.
You should notice an exclamation point on the map, if you head towards it you’ll meet a friendly NPC called the White Turtlez. Speak to him to trigger: White Turtlez Appears, and speak to him again to gain access to his shop. Continue to the next area to trigger: White Turtlez Vs Velvet and another skit, What’s In A Name? Take the eastern exit for a chest with 640 Gald, go back a screen, and take the Northern path. There are more vines here to burn and reveal a chest containing a Mercury Satchel. If you keep heading forward at this point you’ll eventually reach the end and trigger one more skit: The Reapers Coin. Leave the cave to enter the Burnack Plateau.
Burnack Plateau
Burnack Plateau Skits
| Skits: | Locations: |
|---|---|
| The Barrier At The Gate | Automatically |
If you continue north you’ll trigger the only skit in this area: The Barrier At The Gate. Take the Cliffside path instead and jump down the vines for a brief scene. Defeat the enemies that show up, you can find a Life Bottle item here near the water. Enter Vortigern once you’re done.
Vortigern
Vortigern Skits
| Skits: | Locations: |
|---|---|
| Daemonblight Outbreak | Automatically |
| Midgand's Dominance | Exit the Northern Building |
| The Yaksha And The Reaper | After the scene when you enter the Tower. |
| Exorcists And The Army | After the scene when you enter the Tower. |
| The Control Room | Automatically |
| The Key Is Found | Automatically |
| A Bump On The Head | After the skit: The Key Is Found |
| Keep It Safe | After the skit: A Bump On The Head |
| Ready To Detonate | Automatically |
| Rangetsu Style | Available after the skit: Ready To Detonate |
| Open The Gates | Automatically |
| The Van Eltia Charges | Automatically |
As soon as you enter, the first skit will trigger: Daemonblight Outbreak, afterward head north and exit out of the building to trigger: Midgand’s Dominance. Go east and enter the tower for another scene, the skits: The Yaksha And The Reaper and Exorcists And The Royal Army will both trigger here. Take the Southern Exit first to head back a screen and grab the life bottle at the end of the hallway.
At the save point take the West Exit and use a ramp to get to the other side of the blocked path. On this side you’ll find a chest with a Life Bottle and some Verbana to collect. Enter the other tower through a trapdoor in the floor, once inside, take the exit and examine the door here, to find its locked. Then climb the vines over by the other side of the building to reach an alternate path to our objective. Climb down the vines on the other side to find a chest containing an Earth Ring, then head inside. Watch the skits: The Control Room followed by The Key Is Found, A Bump On The Head, and Keep It Safe, before heading back to the earlier Savepoint.
From the Savepoint head up the stairs and in the final room you’ll find a chest with 680 Gald. Take the exit to outside and you’ll find a wooden ramp leading to a boulder you can roll off of the ledge to clear a path to a chest containing Plain Paper. Head back a screen and take the ladder in the corner down this time. Continue along the path until you reach our next Boss Battles.
Boss Battle: Longsword Praetor
| Boss: | Longsword Praetor |
| HP: | 8,614 |
| Rewards: | Twin Blade Ignicite |
Twin Blade Ignicite
| Twin Blade Ignicite | Allows the ability to add up to 2 random skills to equipment, on normal mode or higher. |
Focus your initial efforts on getting rid of the additional enemies supporting the Praetor in the fight. This will remove his buffing abilities. Once this is done switch focus and take the Praetor down.
Watch the skits that follow: Ready To Detonate and Rangetsu Style. Head back to the save point after that’s all over. We can now access a new part of the map, the Eastern exit, heading there will activate the Open The Gates skit. Climb the ladders and head inside the building for a scene, before using the ladder to get onto the roof of the building. Up here you’ll find another ladder down which will allow you access to a switch revealing a Katz Box on the ledge outside the room. Grab it before moving on.
Now that’s over, you’ll need to head back to the roof of the building to trigger another boss fight.
Boss Battle: Guardian
| Boss: | Guardian |
| HP: | 14,836 |
| Rewards: | Seer's Glacite |
Seer’s Glacite
| Seer's Glacite | Provides the ability to trigger a random skill that increases the amount of BG gained when using Break Souls. |
This battle features a tutorial for Mystic Artes, similar to Limit Breaks if you’ve played any of the Final Fantasy’s. Velvets main method of attack for this fight will need to be the move Mega Sonic Thrust to score decent damage with this boss. Try to avoid the boss’s big attacks and get around to his side or back to launch your attacks, these positions will give you the best stun chances. Use your new Mystic Artes abilities to deal additional damage when you get the chance as well.
Once the fight is over the skit, The Van Eltia Charges will play followed by a cutscene.
Port Zekson
Port Zekson Skits
| Skits: | Locations: |
|---|---|
| The Pirates Mooring | Automatically |
| Expedition Ship | Automatically |
| Exploring The Outer Seas | Automatically |
| The Fruits Of Exploring | Automatically |
| Code Red Daemons | Automatically |
| Aifread The Prisoner | Triggered after "Code Red Daemons" |
| Why Come With Us? | Triggered after "Aifread The Prisoner" |
The skit, The Pirates Mooring will automatically trigger, head for the nearby save point to trigger a second skit as well, Expedition Ship. Speak to Benwick, the nearby pirate for the skit: Exploring The Outer Seas followed by a tutorial on how to use Expeditions and another final skit, The Fruits Of Exploring?
Expeditions
You can send a ship out to scout an area with a chance for it to return with many different items. You basically want these to constantly be out exploring to level the ability up as fast as possible to get access to the best items from it. There is no real cost for this so make sure to have the ship out as much as possible.
On the Pier you’ll find another Katz box further up, as well as a few chests containing a Life Bottle and a Denore Bottle. Speak to the Merchant marked on the map and then to the Dock Trader to learn a bit about how Eizen worked out his deal. Before heading for the gate that leads out grab the 720 Gald near the shop, and the chest to the right of the south most exit for a Calcite Blade. When you approach the gate to leave you’ll trigger the skit, Code Red Daemons, followed by Aifread The Prisoner and Why Come With Us? Head through the gate and you’ll enter the Danann Highway.
Danann Highway
Danann Highway Skits
| Skits: | Locations: |
|---|---|
| The Great Capital | Automatically |
Head south into the big field where you’ll find a Calcite Waistcoat in the northeastern corner. Take the Eastern exit to find our next Katz Box behind a tree. Go back a screen and take the Southern exit, here cross the bridge to trigger the skit, The Great Capital.
Beneath the bridge is a chest with an Earth Ring, if you look in the east you’ll find a chest with 750 Gald.
Once you’re done item hunting, head to the entrance of Loegres for a scene.
Loegres
Loegres Skits
| Skits: | Locations: |
|---|---|
| Infiltrating The Capital | Automatically |
| Find The Shadow Guild | Automatically |
| Rokurou's Insight | Trigger's after "Find The Shadow Guild" |
| Artorius's Mentor | Automatically |
| King Claudin | Automatically |
| Mysteries Of The Shadow Guild | In the morning after recieving Mabo Curry but before heading downstairs. |
| Destroy Goods | Automatically |
Watch the skit: Infiltrating The Capital. Before speaking to the nearby people with event bubbles above their heads. They will fill out a little more info on where we are. You’ll find a dead-end to the East with a chest containing 800 Gald. Take the South exit when you’re done here and head towards the fountain in the center of town to speak to some more townspeople. If you head behind the buildings, in the South, and you’ll find a chest with a Calcite Garment inside. Climb the ladder, near the chest, to find another Katz Box. Once you’re done head south towards the exit to trigger another few scenes.
Once the cutscene is over, watch the skit Find The Shadow Guild and Rokurou’s Insight. Head back into the centre of town to overhear another conversation, before heading up the stairs to the east of the general store for a chest containing a Plain Pendant.
Head through the no longer blocked off Eastern exit towards the Cathedral. Enter the Cathedral and speak to the Priest to have Velvet confess her sins. Head over to the Alter for another scene.
Once you’re done head to the inn and grab a book called “The Rise and Fall of Midgand.” This will trigger a scene and two skits; Artorius’s Mentor and King Claudin. Exit North for a conversation in the alley that is to the west of you. Head back to the centre of town and enter the building to the west with the purple emblem. In here speak to the keeper for some scenes.
Here you’ll receive 3 requests from the Shadow Guild. You’ll need to complete all 3 to advance the story. Select the first “Destroy Goods” to gain a Travel Permit before triggering a cutscene. In the morning you’ll gain a new recipe for Velvet, the Mabo Curry. You’ll also trigger the skit: Mysteries Of The Shadow Guild. Once you exit the tavern the skit, Destroy Goods will play. You’ll also have a few new townspeople to interact with, any with new bubbles above their heads. Head into the Cathedral for a few other people you can speak to. Once you’re done, head out of town and back to the Danann Highway. We’ll be making our way to the Loegres Villa from here.
This section of the guide covers the events and quests for the Shadow Guild leading up to the Loegres Villa and finally the events of the Empyrean’s Throne.
Next will be the Yvolg Ruins and Vesper Tunnels.
Potentites Received: Armory Acerite I, Smoldering Glacite, Elemental-Dispersing Glacite, Villain’s Ventite, Apprentice’s Glacite, and the Intermediate Ignicite.
