******************************************************************************* * * * DRAKENGARD WEAPON HISTORY * * * * Written by Siela_ * * Email: [email protected] * ******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* CONTENTS ******************************************************************************* 1. ----- General information [GNIF] 2. ----- Weapons of the first walkthrough [1WLK] 2a �-- Nowe�s Short words [1NS] - Nowe�s Sword [1NS01] - Oror�s Falconblade [1NS02] - Oror�s Lionblade [1NS03] - Savior Blade [1NS04] - Sealknife: Calamitous Strings [1NS05] - Mage�s Promise [1NS06] - Kingsblood [1NS07] - Carrion Maker [1NS08] - Deathdance [1NS09] - Maiden Kris [1NS10] - Glory�s Bane [1NS11] - Hunter�s Joy [1NS12] - Flamberge [1NS13] - Scream [1NS14] 2b --- Nowe�s Long swords [1NL] - Nowe�s Long Sword [1NL01] - Calf-carver [1NL02] - Bloody Fang [1NL03] - Silver Butterfly [1NL04] - Sealblade: Calamitous Verse [1NL05] - Union [1NL06] - Injustice [1NL07] - Caim�s Sword [1NL08] - Takamasa [1NL09] - Skald�s Song [1NL10] - Nobuyoshi [1NL11] - Slaughterism [1NL12] - Soldier�s Sword [1NL13] - Guard�s Sword [1NL14] - Inuart�s Long Sword [1NL15] 2c �-- Eris�s Spears [1E] - Eris�s Spear [1E01] - Sealspear: Calamitous Dance [1E02] - Hanch�s Spear [1E03] - Robber King [1E04] - Victor�s Spoil [1E05] - Apostate�s Misery [1E06] - Sorrowborn [1E07] - Ozymandia�s Might [1E08] - Tower of Warning [1E09] 2d �-- Manah�s Staves [1M] - Manah�s Staff [1M01] - Knights of the Seal�s Curse Staff [1M02] - Sealstaff: Calamitous Sonnet [1M03] - Northern Siren [1M04] - Dream Blossom [1M05] - Wisdom [1M06] - Magi�s Sorrow [1M07] - Edacious [1M08] - Philosopher�s Staff [1M09] 2e --- Urick�s Axes [1U] - Urick�s Axe [1U01] - Crimson Hood [1U02] - Executioner�s Song [1U03] - Foul Blade [1U04] - Mourning Thorn [1U05] 3. ----- Weapons of the second walkthrough [2WLK] 3a �-- Nowe�s Short words [2NS] - Evil�s Bronze Blade [2NS01] - Moonlit Beauty [2NS02] - Thief�s Secret [2NS03] 3b --- Nowe�s Long swords [2NL] - Captured Goddess [2NL01] - Pitch Black [2NL02] - Sealblade: Calamitous Melody [2NL03] 3c �-- Eris�s Spears [2E] - Falcon�s Pinion [2E01] 3d �-- Manah�s Staves [2M] - Phoenix Curse [2M01] - Yaha�s Staff [2M02] 3e --- Urick�s Axes [2U] - Broken Iron [2U01] - Zhangpo�s Axe [2U02] - Sealaxe: Calamitous Rhythm [2U03] 4. ----- Weapons of the third walkthrough [3WLK] 4a �-- Nowe�s Short words [3NS] - Hero�s Knife [3NS01] 4b --- Nowe�s Long swords [3NL] - Moonfire [3NL01] 4d �-- Manah�s Staves [3M] - Monk�s Red Staff [3M01] 5. ----- �Code needing weapons� [CNWP] - Writheheart [CNW1] - Sealaxe: Calamitous Rhythm [CNW2] - Poisontongue [CNW3] - Widow�s Death [CNW4] 6. ----- Version History and updates [VERH] 7. ----- Legal information [LEGI] 8. ----- Contact Information [CONT] 9. ----- Credits and thanks [CRED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |1. General information [GNIF] | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for reading my guide ^_^ This guide is based on the English version of Drakengard 2. Includes the weapon history for all the weapons, attack and guard break information for the different levels. At this moment the guide does not include the information of the place and time you can obtain the weapons. Also the experience points needed to level up and the range of the weapons are not included, I'm thinking about including these later. Please note, that the order of the weapons is based on the order they are in the game, when you equip them on the Grand Wheel. It isn't the order you acquire them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 2. Weapons of the first walkthrough [1WLK] | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the first walkthrough you can obtain 52 weapons: 29 Swords for Nowe ( 14 Short and 15 Long Sword), 9 Spears for Eris, 9 Staves for Manah and 5 Axes for Urick ******************************************************************************* | 2a. Nowe�s Short Swords [1NS] | ******************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------- 1) Nowe�s Sword [1NS01] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 20 / 22 / 24 / 26 Guard break: 18 / 18 / 20 / 24 Level 1. This sword belonged to a hero called Iron Dragon of the Two Swords. It was a gift from a female knight who trained him for his first battle. It saved the lives of many, including the Iron Dragon. He cherished it as though is was his own body. Level 2. One day, Iron Dragon entered hidden land, lead by a priest�s divine guidance. There, he met a dragon who spoke the words of men and a child who spoke the words of dragons. Iron Dragon knew right away that this must be the legendary savior, and asked for custody of the boy. But the dragon sneered... Level 3. �What right have you to take this child from his father? What could you possibly offer him?� And Iron Dragon replied, �I shall become the child�s father. Without knowledge of human ways, this child would grow to become a wingless dragon � a pointless creature. I vow to raise him to be a fine knight. So it is a future that I offer to the child.� Level 4. Amused the dragon said, �Fine. You shall take the child, but I shall come with him, for only I can teach him the ways of dragons.� Iron Dragon agreed, and presented his sword as a token of his pledge. The dragon sneered at the foolish human gesture, and threw the sword into his lair � the only world his child had ever known until then. --------------------------------------------- 2) Oror�s Falconblade [1NS02] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 65 / 74 / 82 / 90 Guard break: 46 / 52 / 58 / 64 Level 1. Once, one of Sir Gismor�s men was caught attempting to steal General Oror�s sword. When he was brought before his master, Sir Gismor harshly reprimanded the knight, and threatened to execute him. The knight pleaded, �I only wished to be more like General Oror.� When Oror heard this, he interrupted Sir Gismor, and began to speak... Level 2. �This sword was crafted after the elfin myth of two brothers who become the gods of destruction. The older one was called Falcon, and possessed the gift of knowledge. The younger one was called Lion, and possesses the gift of might. They fought in a war between humans and elves. Level 3. �Using their gifts, Falcon and Lion brought mankind to its knees. But with the end of the war, there was no one left to test their skills against, so they continued their quest for knowledge and power. Eventually, Flacon gained the knowledge of the universe and Lion cracked open the earth and sky with his fists. Level 4. �The brothers had become the gods of destruction, and the elves had no choice but to seal them in �Hero�s Time�, using the lives and souls of millions. Your crime is the same as the brothers�. But in the name of my sword, Gismor, I beg you: spare this man.� And so the knight was spared. But I never forgot the darkness I saw in Gismor�s eyes that day. --------------------------------------------- 3) Oror�s Lionblade [1NS03] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 54 / 60 / 68 / 78 Guard break: 40 / 45 / 48 / 50 Level 1. Violence. Death. Ruin. Eighteen years ago, Oror was a general in the army of the Union, and led his forces against the armies of the Empire. During one fateful battle, a catastrophe befell the world and lightning rained down from the skies killing Oror�s men where they stood. Level 2. Loss. Starvation. Disease. The heroes saved the world from chaos and the was ended quickly, but the wounds caused by catastrophe were felt by mankind for many years to come. During that time, Oror traveled the world trying to bring hope to the people. Their pitiful plight broke his heart. Level 3. Flags. Armor. Spears. Oror had learned that the heroes had formed a band of knight, sealed the �fire�, and were now working to save the needy. Knowing that he could not save humanity alone, Oror willingly joined the knight. With knights under his command, he dedicated his life to saving as many people as possible. Level 4. Death. Love. Hate. Caught up in the internal politics of the heroes, Oror lost his life. Gismor was the culprit. However, Oror did not hate Gismor. for his crime. His love for humanity would not permit such hatred, ever for his murder. And so Oror remained true to His was of life, until death. --------------------------------------------- 4) Savior Blade [1NS04] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 20 / 24 / 28 / 32 Guard break: 2 / 4 / 8 / 12 Level 1. Once upon a time, a land faced Destruction due to the deception that corrupted people�s heart. Level 2. Mourning the state of his realm, the king passed a new law sentencing to death anyone who spread false hope among his people, with lies that the country was being rebuilt. Level 3. It was then that a merchant appeared before the king with a sword that only killed liars. The king rejoiced, and paid a good sum of gold to purchase the sword. Level 4. Eager to test his miraculous acquisition, the king swung the sword at the merchant and clove him clean in two. The king mourned once again... --------------------------------------------- 5) Sealknife: Calamitous Strings [1NS05] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 5 / 6 / 8 / 70 Guard break: 4 / 4 / 6 / 46 Level 1. A master blacksmith, embittered by the god�s maltreatment of the world, vowed to forge a weapon with which to destroy them. Level 2. The power of the seal negates the power of the gods, and the seal derives its power from the goddess... So the blacksmith sealed the power of the goddess into his creation. Level 3. The goddess lived for her love. She gave her body for the sake of her beloved. She was a fiery goddess. Level 4. Sealed inside was the fire, the spirit that nurtures the life of the red earth... --------------------------------------------- 6) Mage�s Promise [1NS06] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 52 / 62 / 74 / 86 Guard break: 112 / 126 / 140 / 154 Level 1. There once was a man, strong of limb, who lived in a poor village. A caring fellow, he decided to join the army and earn a better life for his fellow villagers. Grateful for his gesture, they presented him with a silver club before his departure. Level 2. To the kind-hearted man, the battlefield was hell itself. Stunned by the gruesome reality of war, he ran away before even swinging his club. Dejected, he returned to the village. Level 3. He retuned to the village to find It burned down to the ground; his people massacred. Despairing, he cursed the heavens, cursed his weakness, and pleaded with the devil for more strength. Level 4. Back on the battlefield, he swung with the blind fury of a wild animal. In the end, he split his own head open with the it, and only the cursed club remained. --------------------------------------------- 7) Kingsblood [1NS07] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 75 / 82 / 88 / 94 Guard break: 68 / 74 / 79 / 84 Level 1. Once, there lived two generals. One possessed supreme bravery and the other possessed supreme intellect. The two men admired each other and trained together to become better soldiers, until one day, their hearts were stolen by this ancient sword, Kingsblood. They fought to decide who should own it. Level 2. The battle for Kingsblood led to war. The brave general fought using what he called � Iron Guard� formation � a strategy dependent on sheer effort and hardship. It had served him well throughout his glittering military career. The astute general meanwhile, used srategies never before seen in the battlefield. No on knew who would prevail. Level 3. The brave general�s direct approach dominated at first, but as time passed, the astute general�s ever- changing strategies began to turn the battle to his favor. So the brave general�s army held on with dogged determination, and managed, at length to cancel out the astute general�s advantage. The was had reached a stalemate. Level 4. After the war, a villager visited the battlefield and said: � They were both great generals. If only their talents had not been polarized... If only they had possessed a balance of might and intellect, we would have been spared the tragedies of war.� --------------------------------------------- 8) Carrion Maker [1NS08] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 32 / 35 / 38 / 45 Guard break: 64 / 70 / 76 / 90 Level 1. The iron club was placed at the corner of the torture chamber. After prisoners had been subjects to every conceivable form of torture, it would make an appearance. Level 2. With their bodies in mutilated ruins, victims longed for the iron club�s fatal blow, and an end to the pain. Level 3. From toothless mouths, they would wail, �The club! The club! Please, show me the club!� And, like a bloody angel, the iron club would come to answer their prayer. Level 4. The weapon turned its victim into meat with a single crushing blow, then waited in silence for the next prayer. Caked in flesh and blood, it came to resemble the bodies it violated. --------------------------------------------- 9) Deathdance [1NS09] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 28 / 30 / 32 / 36 Guard break: 16 / 16 / 20 / 30 Level 1. Long ago, in a war-torn region where a small nation constantly fought for supremacy, one country thrived under the leadership of a great hero. In time, he became an emperor and his armies conquered the neighboring lands. Exhausted by years of war, the conquered subjects of this new emperor welcomed his rule. Level 2. The emperor held a feast from time to time. It was the one luxury he allowed himself. Disregarding the advice of his council, he would even entertain guests from enemy nations. That day, he had invited a beautiful dancer to perform for him. She hailed from a country which had resisted his conquest for several years. Level 3. The dancer possessed such beauty and grace, she stole the emperor�s heart in an instant. At the end of her performance, he applauded generously and ordered her to approach his throne so that he might reward her. As he reached out to hand her a priceless ring, she stabbed him through the heart with the sword she�s used in her dance. Level 4. Bereft of its emperor, the empire soon crumbled, and the flames of war engulfed the region once again. War brought suffering and death to the people of every nation. The assassin�s sword was lost, but its story and cruel legacy remains. --------------------------------------------- 10) Maiden Kris [1NS10] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 65 / 72 / 79 / 85 Guard break: 52 / 72 / 95 / 114 Level 1. A short sword lay, at the corner of the altar in the shrine. During its construction, the sword was used to take the lives of sacrificial maidens, whose blood was offered to earn the blessing of the gods. Level 2. The number of maidens sacrificed is the number of the pillars. Each of the maidens, who died against their will, cursed the sword with their last breath. Level 3. Soon after the shrine�s completion, the priests fell victim to disease and misfortune. One by one their order dwindled and the shrine was eventually abandoned in the wake of the war. Level 4. Several hundred years later, the shrine still stood. Resting on its forgotten altar, the cursed sword remained, casting an eerie light around the murdered maidens� tomb. --------------------------------------------- 11) Glory�s Bane [1NS11] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 25 / 25 / 25 / 28 Guard break: 1 / 1 / 1 / 2 Level 1. Once upon a time, on a warm spring day, an evil dragon attacked a palace. He killed the royal family, the palace guard, and even the court jester, just because he felt like it. Satisfied with his work, the dragon settled down for a nap in the throne room, and it was then that a little girl walked in, holding a sword. She shook the dragon awake. Level 2. She asked, �Could you tell me where the king is, please? I have to kill him.� Rather taken back, the dragon replies, �I�ve already eaten him.� Hearing this, the little girl bow politely and said �Thank you very much!� Puzzled by her appreciation, the dragon asked, �Why do you thank me, little girl?� Level 3. The girl replied, �The king you ate was not the true king. My dead mummy told me that he took the palace from my daddy. That�s why I had to kill him � to get my palace back!� The little girl wasn�t lying either. She really was the rightful heir t the throne. Level 4. The girl continued, �Now I�m Queen, I�m going to kill all the people who let my daddy die!� The dragon laughed and said,� Very well, little Queen. Then I shall bestow my power upon you and your sword.� So they exchanged their beating hearts. Then the little girl took her sword, slaughtered everyone, and lived happily aver after. --------------------------------------------- 12) Hunter�s Joy [1NS12] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 18 / 20 / 22 / 24 Guard break: 27 / 30 / 34 / 38 Level 1. A lord with a penchant for hunting once owned this sword. With it at his side, he would ride out into the forest and not return until he had slaughtered all the animals he could find. Several decades later, when the lord�s grandson inherited the title, he also inherited this sword. Level 2. The new lord was a gentle soul, and wasn�t fond of hunting � until the day he found this sword among his grandfather�s possessions. From then on, his interest grew and he began to make frequent hunting trips. Level 3. As the months passed, the young lord�s behavior became more and more eccentric. He would lick the food off his plate and was sometimes seen walking on all fours around the castle. Then one day he disappeared. Level 4. No one knew what had become of him - only that a beastly roaring could be heard echoing from deep within the castle dungeons. It is said that it can still be heard to this day. --------------------------------------------- 13) Flamberge [1NS13] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 92 / 95 / 97 / 98 Guard break: 74 / 75 / 76 / 76 Level 1. The dragon faced certain death, he lamented: why had he tried to save the life of a wretched human child, only to fly straight into the trap of dragon hunters? With his consciousness fading, the dragon thought he saw a man fighting. When he awoke, the man was treating his wounds. Level 2. The man who saved the dragon�s life aspired to become king. The dragon was not interested in such matters, but he thought that he would make a fine ruler. Suddenly, an arrow pierced the man�s chest. The dragon hunters had called in reinforcements. Critically injured, he groaned and fell to his knees. Level 3. Struggling to his feet, the man fought back bravely, but his wound was slowing him down. Just as it seemed he was about to be overwhelmed, the sound of tearing flesh filled the air. The dragon had torned out its own tongue! When the man pierced the tongue with his sword, a wall of flame spilled out burning the dragon hunters to ash. Level 4. �I�d hate to sacrifice myself for a mere human, but I do not wish to live with your death on my conscience.� Said the dragon, as he closed his eyes. At that moment, a bond that transcended species was forged. With Flamberge in his hand, the man later became king. --------------------------------------------- 14) Scream [1NS14] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 47 / 48 / 50 / 54 Guard break: 28 / 28 / 30 / 32 Level 1. The young man lived to trick young girls. Gleefully he stole their hearts and wealth. But in time, the women he�d scorned banded together and sought the help of the faerie king, who sealed the young man�s spirit in a sword. Trapped inside the cold blade, he came to regret his sins. Then time passed, the women grew old, and one by one they died. Level 2. With each women�s death, time, Which had been halted, returned to the man who had never known old age within the blade. As it did so, his hatred for the women who had imprisoned him grew. When the last of the women died, the curse was finally broken, and he regained his physical form. Level 3. Once the young man�s body had been restored, his desire knew no bounds. He tricked one woman after another, stole hearts and wealth � until one day, he met a beautiful young woman, and fell in love for the very first time. He gave her all his live and wealth, but she felt nothing for him, and left town with another man. Level 4. The young woman committed then same crime as the young man and, in time, the men she�s scorned tried to seal her spirit into this sword. Just as they were about to cast the sealing spell, the young man pushed his beloved out of the way and took her place inside the blade, which was turned red by his passion. There he remains. ******************************************************************************* | 2b. Nowe�s Long Swords [1NL] | ******************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------- 1) Nowe�s Long Sword [1NL01] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 10 / 12 / 14 / 16 Guard break: 10 / 10 / 12 / 14 Level 1. A gift from the previous general. Nowe received this sword on the day he joined the knights as a trainee. Since taking him in from the wild, General Oror had been Nowe�s human father, teaching him the ways of men. Level 2. Oror was a strong and generous man whose skills with the sword was without equal. He was Nowe�s hero. Mocked by some as a wild beast, Nowe dreamed of one day becoming as strong and generous a human being as his adoptive father. Cherishing that dream, he trained every day with his sword and lived the life of a knight. Level 3. During Nowe�s first battle, Oror saved his life. The cruel reality of wall, all noise and blood and death was too much for the young Nowe to take in. He stood transfixed frozen with fear. Seeing this, Oror rushed to his son�s side and commanded Nowe to listen carefully to his words. Level 4. �The sword takes life, but is also saves the lives of your friends. What matters is the will of the one who holds the sword.� So... would Nowe use this sword to Take life or save ir? Neither the sword nor Oror could answer that question. --------------------------------------------- 2) Calf-carver [1NL02] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 45 / 48 / 54 / 68 Guard break: 90 / 92 / 96 / 124 Level 1. There once was an extremely valiant and intelligent general. Tales of his bravery spread far and wide, and the streets echoed with his name. Level 2. The king felt threatened by his general�s popularity. He arrested the general without reason, and threw him into a dungeon deep inside the castle. The dungeon was known to drive its captive insane within three days. Level 3. Three years later, the king visited the dungeon. There he saw the general, both of his legs rotted away, glaring back at him with unchanged intensity. The general�s stare enraged the king, and, wandering why he hadn�t done so three years before, he drew his sword and prepared to deal the finishing blow. Level 4. Just before the point of the king�s sword could pierce the general�s heart, he produced a sword from the pile of rags behind him and stabbed the tyrant, killing him instantly. He had fashioned the sword from the bones of his own legs, which he had amputated for the purpose. The general went on to become a noble and just king. --------------------------------------------- 3) Bloody Fang [1NL03] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 42 / 45 / 48 / 55 Guard break: 34 / 36 / 38 / 45 Level 1. The sword smith longed to create a perfect sword � a sword that would tear through a limb with one slash, and impale organs with a single thrust. A sword that would make its victims suffer right up to their dying breath. Level 2. In search of the cruelest of agonies, the sword smith worked night and day. After months of toil, it was complete � a sword that would deal unending pain to its victims. All that remained was to test its abilities. Level 3. The sword smith took the weapon to his king, and told him that even the most courageous man would tell its wielder anything he wanted to know. When the king tested his claim, he found the sword smith�s words to be true: prisoners divulged their secrets without hesitation. Level 4. Elated with the sword, the king demanded to know how it was forged, but the sword smith refused to reveal his methods, fearing his masterpiece would be copied. As a result, he got to experience his work first hand. He shed tears of joy at the quality of his creation. --------------------------------------------- 4) Silver Butterfly [1NL04] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 10 / 10 / 10 / 140 Guard break: 10 / 10 / 10 / 100 Level 1. A lady was married off at a young Age to a count in a nearby land. She was blessed with a kind husband and servants, but her life was a bore. She confided her malcontent to her husband, who suggested that she go on a journey. There were many things she needed to learn as a countess, he said. She appreciated her husband�s understanding. Level 2. She heard many riveting tales From other travelers. There were Stories of farmers whose lives changed with the seasons; of children surviving without their parents; of the betrayal and treachery of kings in foreign lands. After two eventful years on the road, the countess began the voyage home as she had promised. Level 3. When she returned, the countess found her husband confused and weak. The mansion was in ruins, deserted apart from her husband and his favorite servant. Suddenly she realized that her journey had been the servant�s idea, a part of his scheme to take over the estate. �But surely a loving wife would notice such a plot?� he smirked. Level 4. The servant was arrested and executed, but the count never regained his health. He died quietly, leaving the devastated countess to mourn. She had his body cremated, and his ashes encased in a large sword. The butterfly engraved on the blas� was based on a mask the countess had brought as a gift for her husband during her travels. --------------------------------------------- 5) Sealblade: Calamitous Verse [1NL05] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 96 / 97 / 98 / 98 Guard break: 90 / 92 / 96 / 104 Level 1. A master blacksmith, embittered by the god�s maltreatment of the world, vowed to forge a weapon with which to destroy them. Level 2. So the power of the seal negated the power of the gods? ...And the seal derived its power from the goddess? ...and this master blacksmith sealed the power of the goddess into some kind of weapon? Level 3. A trainee blacksmith heard these rumors, and decided he could make a tidy profit if he made a weapon like the one in the legends. Level 4. After many months of hard work, the blacksmith finally completed the weapon, but no one knows what became of him after that. Some said he had been attacked by a thief who desired the sword, others said it was the curse of the goddess, but no one knew for sure. --------------------------------------------- 6) Union [1NL06] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 28 / 28 / 28 / 30 Guard break: 14 / 15 / 16 / 18 Level 1. In his instructions to the royal sword smith, the king demanded that his new sword should combine the fang of a behemoth, the beak of a gryphon, the talon of a dragon, and iron from the eastern lands. Though he knew the task would be long and arduous, the faithful smith vowed to make the weapon and set out to find the materials right away. Level 2. Clearly, the smith needed help, but no traveling companion could be found. Nor was it any surprise that no one rose to the challenge; it was because the kingdom was weak that the king had searched the library to find a sword powerful enough to protect his subjects. This was no mere whim, the smith knew � he had to find a way. Level 3. So, the sword smith traveled alone, But two months passed without any progress. Navigating the monster infested wilderness was proving to be difficult and he was close to despair. It was then that a hero of the time happened to pass by, and, after listening to the smith�s tale, he agreed to lend a much needed hand. The two fought on together. Level 4. After countless adventure, the faithful smith forged the king�s sword. Sadly, it did not possess as much power as the kind had hoped, but he was still elated with it. Using the power of the sword, the king kept the monsters at bay and continued to rule the land. The smith was duly knighted and served his king for many happy years. --------------------------------------------- 7) Injustice [1NL07] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 38 / 40 / 43 / 46 Guard break: 30 / 32 / 34 / 36 Level 1. Generation of heroes carried this sword as the symbol of freedom. To carry this sword, and to win acclaim as heroes, they had to shed much blood. Level 2. With this sword in hand, the heroes invaded foreign lands in the name of freedom. Their soldiers looted the lands and many innocent people died. Level 3. The sword was later stolen by a bandit and sold to a warmongering general. Subsequently, he too invaded neighboring kingdoms is the name of freedom, his soldiers looted the lands, and many innocent people died. Level 4. After each war, the sword changed hands. To this day, no one could find a hero wielding in the name of freedom. --------------------------------------------- 8) Caim�s Sword [1NL08] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 100 / 110 / 120 / 128 Guard break: 92 / 108 / 124 / 124 Level 1. Eighteen years ago, when the world faced destruction, a human and a dragon dared to fight the gods. In the end, the dragon gave her life to save the world. Left behind, the man wandered the desolate lands, his heart full of sorrow. Accompanying him on his journey was the very same girl who brought mankind to the brink of extinction. Level 2. Betraying the alliance he�s formed during the war, the old hierarch altered the seal to increase the dragon�s burden. When the wandering man felt the dragon�s agony, the girl sensed his distress and made her escape. Alone again, his mind was consumed by thoughts of vengeance and his hollow soul burned with bloodlust once more. Level 3. Caim hunted down the treacherous hierarch. Ignoring his pleas for mercy, he killed him with a single blow. However, Caim�s efforts were in vain: the seal was permanently altered. The burden was tearing the dragon�s mind apart, so the world�s former savior faced a similar choice... But this time, Caim would choose the dragon over the world. Level 4. Caim and Angelus were finally reunited, when all the keys to the seal had been broken. Once more, the world faced destruction, but at least they were together � complete. They vowed then never to part again � a vow they kept until the end. After that, only Caim�s sword Remained in the doomed world. --------------------------------------------- 9) Takamasa [1NL09] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 136 / 136 / 136 / 138 Guard break: 2 / 12 / 28 / 64 Level 1. After a lengthy war, the warrior finally captured Takamasa from his enemy, a mere fugitive. Level 2. The fugitive�s skills were no match for his own, but as soon as their swords crossed, the warrior�s blade broke in two. Risking his life, the warrior allowed the fugitive to plunge Takamasa into his shoulder. Inching agonizingly down its blade, He advanced and stabbed his enemy to death with the broken sword. Level 3. �Let him cut my flesh and I shall break his bones.� Takamasa responded well to the warrior�s philosophy. Armed with the legendary blade, he became a renowned hero. One day, he was ordered to kill a demon with the strength of one hundred men and a body like steel. Level 4. Showing no sign of fear, the warrior approached the demon and challenged it to strike him. Laughing at this folly, it shattered his body with a single mighty punch - but even as it did so, Takamasa pierced its scaly throat, killing it instantly. "Let him break my bones, and I shall take his life." The warrior's spirit lived on inside the sword. --------------------------------------------- 10) Skald�s Song [1NL10] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 26 / 26 / 28 / 32 Guard break: 16 / 19 / 20 / 26 Level 1. In a cold land to the north, there lived two sisters who loved each other very much. They made their living as blacksmith and owned a little workshop in the village. One day, they were working hard as usual when a villager ran in, and told them that their mother - who had been missing since they were little � had been found! Level 2. The sister�s mother was trapped inside a glacier on the top of a mountain, as beautiful as the day she disappeared. The sisters tried to destroy the glacier, but none of their smithing tools could make any impression on the iron-hard glacial ice. Level 3. When nothing else showed any sign of working, one of the sisters said, �Sister, what about one of our swords?� So they too their finest creation, Skald�s Song, and swung it at the glacier. As the blade touched the ice, there was a mighty explosion and the sisters found themselves in the loving arms of their long lost mother. Level 4. �How you�re both grown!� Their mother had survived inside the glacier for all that time. The sisters cried tears of joy and talked so their mother for days on end. When they finally got up to leave, their mother made no attempt to stop them. They were, after all, smiths who commanded fire. --------------------------------------------- 11) Nobuyoshi [1NL11] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 80 / 40 / 10 / 100 Guard break: 60 / 20 / 5 / 145 Level 1. In an eastern land, a poet, who made his living singing songs, grew weary of his trade, when he realized he�d reached the limits of his talents. While contemplating what else he might do with his life, he saw a beautiful sword in the window of a pawnshop. Enchanted by its crimson blade, he bought the sword and took it home. Level 2. That night he slept with the sword by his side. As he began to dream, an imp appeared and demanded a trade. He said that if the poet gave up his name, the imp would gave him talent in return. Level 3. The poet gave his name to the imp without a second thought. In return, he received a beautiful body and an exquisite talent for songs overnight. Level 4. But without a name, the beautiful poet lost more and more of his humanity as the days went by. One faithful morning, he awoke to find that he'd been turned into an imp! Fearing to be seen in the world of men, he fled and was never seen again. He left behind the beautiful sword, now granted a name. --------------------------------------------- 12) Slaughterism [1NL12] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 96 / 98 / 102 / 108 Guard break: 70 / 85 / 96 / 110 Level 1. What has happened to me? Every time I wield this sword - every time I see blood pour out of my victim�s neck � I�m overwhelmed with unspeakable joy. Level 2. Crimson blood paints the street red. It stains my pale body scarlet. Its vivid hue is burned into my eyes and won�t leave my mind... Blood, blood, blood, blood. Level 3. The blood gushes out with a happy splash! When it�s all gone, I�m sad, so I find new flesh and tear it up! It�s best when it�s warm, but I like it cold too! When it�s dry, it�s not so red, which isn�t much fun, but it�s still blood, so I still like it very, very much! Blood, blood, blood, blood ! Level 4. BlOody, bLoOdY, BLooDY, bLOod!! CRiMsOn BLOOD!! BLoODy RED!! ReD, CrImSOn, SCaRLeT!!! --------------------------------------------- 13) Soldier�s Sword [1NL13] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 15 / 16 / 18 / 20 Guard break: 10 / 12 / 14 / 15 Level 1. This sword was forged by a tribe using a closely guarded secret technique. In order to maintain secrecy, a daughter of the tribe was forced to kill her lover, whom the elders suspected of spying for a neighboring tribe. She committed suicide soon after. Level 2. The tribe secrecy was maintained but it came at a high price. Paranoia gradually spread, and the tribe began to punish and torture its own. They blackmailed each other and soon, all order was lost. Level 3. The torture methods were cruel. Some died of having melted iron poured into their mouth, and others simply lost their minds from the trauma of the ordeal. Level 4. Then all trust was lost within the tribe, they began to murder one another, and in a matter of days they had wiped themselves out. And so their technique remained a secret for all times, just as they had wished. --------------------------------------------- 14) Guard�s Sword [1NL14] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 36 / 42 / 48 / 56 Guard break: 54 / 57 / 60 / 64 Level 1. The man who wielded this sword used to belong to the Knights of the Seal. His rank placed him directly above the one they called �dragon child.� Level 2. The knight challenged the dragon child to a duel, scheming to halt the young knight�s stratospheric rise through the ranks and earn himself a reputation in the bargain. However, the dragon child easily defeated the knight. Humiliated, he trained night and day and won promotion to platoon commander. Level 3. While he was on duty with his platoon, a traitor known as �the one-eyed man� attacked them and massacred half of their numbers without breaking a sweat. Terrified, the knight fled from the battle, abandoning his friends to their fate. Level 4. He could never return to the order after deserting them in their time of need. Stripped of his rank, and having even lost his sword, he wandered into the wilderness and was never seen again. --------------------------------------------- 15) Inuart�s Long Sword [1NL15] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 46 / 49 / 55 / 68 Guard break: 50 / 54 / 60 / 68 Level 1. In a solitary confinement somewhere In the desert, a man was tied to a stake. He had fought to protect the one he loved, but lacked the strength to save her, and stood on the brink of despair. He could remember her smile... but her smiles were directed at her brother. Level 2. Drifting in and out of consciousness, he was about to accept his fate when a girl appeared before him. Her eyes were a deep crimson and glistened like rubies. She smiled like the pretty little girl that she was, but spoke in a strange voice... It was the voice of neither a child nor an adult. Level 3. �If I only had more strength...� Her crimson eyes peered into the Weak man�s mind. He became the girl�s servant. Beyond that, he could remember nothing... The only thing he could remember was seeing his beloved kill herself in front of him... Then, standing before the Seed of Destruction... Level 4. Eighteen years later... The man�s long sword now belonged to a boy raised by a dragon. The sword was used to fight his lover�s brother, the one-eyed man. Standing beside the boy was the girl with crimson eyes, now a grown woman. Their tale of life, death and tangled relation was told for generations. ******************************************************************************* | 2c. Eris�s Spears [1E] | ******************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------- 1) Eris�s Spear [1E01] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 14 / 16 / 18 / 24 Guard break: 14 / 14 / 15 / 18 Level 1. Once, there was a man called the Iron Dragon of the Two Swords, famed for his dignity and countless acts of heroism. The owner of this appear was a female knight who trained him. Whether because of its uncommon quality or because it as a gift from Iron Dragon, she always left for battle with this spear in her hands. Level 2. During a mission she faced a terrible choice. Ordered to retreat, she stood between countless enemy troops, and a defenseless village. Ignoring her orders, she stayed and fought to death. The enemy paraded her violated remains, then burned the village to ash, while her former allies sullied her name with the charge of subordination. Level 2. When the Iron Dragon found out what had happened, he charged into enemy territory and retrieved his beloved mentor�s remains and her spear. Cradling her broken body in his arms, he swore to win back her good name, to become as noble a knight as she had been, and to raise knights who would give their lives to protect the people. Level 4. Eris inherited the spear, a memento of these two noble heroes. One can only wander about what she thinks and for whom she fights, but the fallen knights can rest in peace knowing that their magnanimity of spirit lives on in her. --------------------------------------------- 2) Sealspear: Calamitous Dance [1E02] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 128 / 134 / 138 / 156 Guard break: 102 / 128 / 144 / 158 Level 1. A master blacksmith, embittered by the god�s maltreatment of the world, vowed to forge a weapon with which to destroy them. Level 2. The power of the seal negates the power of the gods, and the seal derives its power from the goddess... So the blacksmith sealed the power of the goddess into his creation. Level 3. The goddess was a noble knight, Determined to carry out her mission. She was a noble goddess. Level 4. Sealed inside was light, the power to illuminate. --------------------------------------------- 3) Hanch�s Spear [1E03] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 112 / 112 / 112 / 114 Guard break: 140 / 140 / 140 / 148 Level 1. The chaser in the fortress city to the west was a master of his craft. The nobles had him decorate their armor. However, he wouldn�t let anyone into his shop, and went out at night without telling a soul where he was going. In time, his wife grew suspicious and tried to follow him, but lost him in a cemetery near the outskirts of the city. Level 2. One night, the chaser�s wife decided to wait for her husband in the cemetery. Sure enough, the chaser arrived soon afterwards and began to dig up a freshly buried coffin. Horrified, his wife ran away without saying a word. Once she�s collected her thoughts, she decided that it was high time she had a look inside her husband�s shop. Level 3. What she was there were corpses dressed in armor and matching accessories, and her husband dancing naked among them. The chased had brought back dead bodies and clothed them in his richly decorated creations. Level 4. Maddened by disgust and despair, she lunged at her husband, impaling herself and him on a spear held by one of the grotesque mannequins. Several days later, the couple was Discovered, skewered together and surrounded by corpses. The offending spear, notable for its exquisite chasing, eventually found its way into the hands of Hanch. --------------------------------------------- 4) Robber King [1E04] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 16/ 18 / 20 / 26 Guard break: 16/ 18 / 20 / 24 Level 1. At the end of a long battle, the rebel leader finally pierced the tyrannical king�s heart with his spear. As he drew his last breath, the army of the revolution poured into the castle. Now the land would be free of corruption, and peace would return. The victorious rebel smiled at the thought, but his smile was short-lived. Level 2. The last battle perplexed him. The king offered no resistance - it almost seemed as if he gave his life willingly. But would a corrupt king do that? While he pondered over this, his allied called for him to come to the dead king�s chamber. Level 3. There he found the princess, bound and gagged. His allies quickly explained that they had found her like this. Feeling rather bemused, he removed the her gag and heard the truth: she had been taken hostage by a spy from a nearby land, and used as a leverage to force her father to sabotage his own kingdom. � He was no tyrant!� she cried. Level 4. Moving as if to free her from her bonds, the rebel drew his knife and then slit the princess�s throat. Whether or not her father had been a tyrant did not matter now. All that mattered was that the angry masses had risen up to remove a corrupt king. The truth was buried with the princess�s body and her murderer was crowned that day. --------------------------------------------- 5) Victor�s Spoil [1E05] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 40 / 42 / 44 / 85 Guard break: 32 / 38 / 45 / 54 Level 1. Once, there lived two princes. One studied the martial art of bravery, and the other studied the martial art of adaptability. The two trained constantly to refine each other�s skills. Level 2. The brothers asked their master, �Which school is more effective?� The master handed a spear to the brothers. Level 3. Smiling, he explained, � A good spear has a hard, sharp blade and a staff as flexible as a willow. What matters is that the two schools fight together, not against each other.� Level 4. The master eventually died of old age. The princes buried him with the spear that had taught them so much, cowing that they would work together for the rest of their lives. Their kingdom flourished. --------------------------------------------- 6) Apostate�s Misery [1E06] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 20 / 22 / 25 / 29 Guard break: 22 / 24 / 26 / 26 Level 1. The young man was popular with everyone in the village. He had the ability to control the wind, and was often seen flying over rivers and valleys. He was a cheerful boy, though he always seemed be troubled by something. Level 2. Several years later, his father passed away. Before he died, he told his son about the young man�s mother, whom his son had learned never to mention in his presence. Level 3. �Go to the place marked on the map.� said his father. As if guided by a spirit, the young man took up his scythe and left, carried by the wind. How long had he been traveling? Over the forests, oceans and mountain Ranges he flew. Exhausted and frail, He came at last to a village. Level 4. The chief of the village welcomed the young man and told him that the scythe he was carrying had once belonged to the village. Just then, a beautiful woman entered the room. The young man knew at once that she was his mother. From that day forth, he helped keep peace between humans and wind spirits. The scythe was never used again. --------------------------------------------- 7) Sorrowborn [1E07] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 84 / 108 / 120 / 126 Guard break: 100 / 124 / 132 / 136 Level 1. There was a small pond near a small village. This pond was said to have been created by the tears of young lovers torn apart. One such lover, a boy left behind in the village when his lover�s family moved away, longed to see the one he sighed for just once more Level 2. One day a spirit of the pond appeared before the boy, and made a wager. If the boy could bring back some spiderwort that only grows in the far northwest mountains, it would bring the girl back. The boy left the village in search of the spiderwort and found a village in the northern lands. There, he also found his lost lover. Level 3. Reunited, the two lovers shed tears of joy. Sitting together in the small village, next to the small river, they talked until the sun set and made a solemn vow to marry each other. As night fell, the boy smiled Contentedly, his dreams fulfilled. But it was only an illusion created By the treacherous fog of the forest. The boy died, alone in the darkness. Level 4. The spirit of the pond mourned for the boy�s unrequited love. It sealed the lovers� tears into this spear, praying for their happiness in the afterlife. --------------------------------------------- 8) Ozymandia�s Might [1E08] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 135 / 136 / 138 / 142 Guard break: 108 / 108 / 110 / 114 Level 1. This holy spear would demand to know if its owner was worthy of becoming a ruler. It had been passed down by a generation of soldiers who desired to rule. Long ago, one such soldier � who sought to rule above all � held this spear. Level 2. The spear asked of its owner, �When should a ruler use force?� The soldier could not answer. He managed to conquer and rule a small kingdom with the power of the spear, but it was too weak to repel the invading army of a neighboring kingdom and fell within a decade. Level 3. As the soldier�s kingdom collapsed, one of his generals escaped with the spear, the invading army hot at his heels. They caught up with him soon enough, but just as they surrounded him, the spear asked the general the same question. He answered, �There are seven circumstances. The first � � Level 4. Before he could finish, the spear enveloped his body in lightning and slaughtered all of his assailants. Using the power of the spear, the general went on to become the emperor of a grand empire. It flourished for over one thousand years. --------------------------------------------- 9) Tower of Warning [1E09] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 75 / 80 / 90 / 110 Guard break: 112 / 120 / 135 / 165 Level 1. This spear belonged to e gentle and mild-mannered man. He lived in shame for a certain antisocial tendency, so he avoided the company of strangers, and lived deep inside the forest with his brothers. Level 2. He led a quiet life until one day, the Empire attacked his land, slaughtered his brothers, and torched his house. In despair, he tried to commit suicide. But just as he was about to die, a malicious faeie came to him and forced him into a pact, saving his life. Level 3. As the price of his pact, he lost his sight. But with his newfound power, he rose up against the Imperial forces and fought to save the world from the tyranny of the Empire. Level 4. Alongside the voiceless savior, he prevented the end on the world. Though he was now a hero, his shameful tendencies remained, so he returned to his life of solitude, a vilified exile. ******************************************************************************* | 2d. Manah�s Staves [1E] | ******************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------- 1) Manah�s Staff [1M01] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 20 / 20 / 20 / 24 Guard break: 24 / 24 / 24 / 26 Level 1. Eighteen years ago... The girl stood alone in the dark forest. Abandoned by her mother, her longing to be loved soon turned into madness. The gods, charmed by her insanity, chose her as a tool to rule the world. Her eyes began to glow red in the darkness. Level 2. The girl with crimson eyes sent the world spiraling into chaos. The sight of the world collapsing soothed her. But the order was restored by a silent man with a sword. He took her on a journey to atone for her sins. Though she tried to look away, he forced her to face the suffering she has caused. Level 3. One day the man looked up to the sky and hatred filled his eyes. The girl wandered what had happened to make her captor so angry. Spying her opportunity, she stabbed with a knife she had hidden in her robe and threw herself into a nearby gorge... Level 4. Several years later, the girl had lost all memory of her crimes and lived in a poor village. She learned about the Knight of the Seal, who oppressed the villagers. In a strange twist of fate, the girl who brought chaos to the world took up this staff, and began to destroy the seals once more... --------------------------------------------- 2) Knights of the Seal�s Curse Staff [1M02] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 54 / 57 / 59 / 60 Guard break: 81 / 85 / 88 / 90 Level 1. Back when General Oror still lived, there was a magician who was assigned to protect the District of Soul Flame. He possessed the ability to control fire. Level 2. The magician was a good friend and a confident of General Oror. He used his power to cleanse the land of Soul Flame. Level 3. After Oror was killed by an enemy, the magician left the knights. He did not take kindly the new general�s methods. Acutely aware of the plight of his former wards, he returned to the district to ease the suffering of the oppressed. Level 4. The magician sold everything in his possession to feed the hungry. He even sold weapons which were crucial to his use of magic. When all of his wealth and power had been exhausted, he starved to death. --------------------------------------------- 3) Sealstaff: Calamitous Sonnet [1M03] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 8 / 10 / 14 / 86 Guard break: 12 / 14 / 21 / 144 Level 1. A master blacksmith, embittered by the god�s maltreatment of the world, vowed to forge a weapon with which to destroy them. Level 2. The power of the seal negates the power of the gods, and the seal derives its power from the goddess... So the blacksmith sealed the power of the goddess into his creation. Level 3. She was a goddess who lived for her depraved love, and was fated to die for it. She was a noble goddess. Level 4. Sealed inside was water, the power to make life. --------------------------------------------- 4) Northern Siren [1M04] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 74 / 74 / 74 / 78 Guard break: 110 / 110 / 110 / 118 Level 1. To a tiny pub in a northern port, A pretty young girl visited. Beautiful skin, alluring voice, All the men fell in love. She only carried with her a staff. She said she would sing. Level 2. Men gathered to see the girl. Squeezed into the tiny pub. The girl sang songs of the ocean. The men listened to her voice. They all tried to win her heart. But she would say: �No, not you.� Level 3. One month later a traveler visited The pub where the girl now worked. Innocent eyes, handsome face. His smile was so charming. She knew what she had to do. She told him that he was the one. Level 4. Next day, the girl left with the boy. Leaving only her staff and a letter. The staff was a token of thanks. The letter said: �I�m an ocean spirit and it was time I went home.� Men sang: �You could have said.� --------------------------------------------- 5) Dream Blossom [1M05] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 38 / 40 / 43 / 47 Guard break: 58 / 60 / 64 / 70 Level 1. In a far-eastern land, there lived a king, who made a pact with a spirit to acquire the strength he needed to protect him kingdom. He would be absent for months, defending the borders of his realm against demonic incursions. He spent so little time in the capital, in fact, that many of his subjects did not even know his face. Level 2. One such subject was a renowned female warrior, whose heroic exploits were famous throughout the kingdom. During the season of spring blossom, she demonstrated her skills with a staff before the king. Though each had heard stories about the other before that day, they had never actually met. Level 3. It was love at first sight. In the space of a moment, the two heroes were under each other�s spell. The warrior exchanged the ring that adorned her staff � a priceless heirloom that had been in her family for generation � for the king�s ornate blade, and they vowed to fight, side by side, to protect the kingdom. Level 4. Despite their effort, the demons gained ground in the years that followed. Town and villages were destroyed and eventually the capital fell. The lovers fought on until the very end, but when the dust of the final battle settled, all that remained was a staff bearing the words: �If we should part, we�ll meet again, beneath the blossom.� --------------------------------------------- 6) Wisdom [1M06] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 45 / 45 / 45 / 64 Guard break: 68 / 68 / 68 / 95 Level 1. During his journey south, a priest stopped off at a poor, nameless village far from civilization. Though he was famous for his wisdom, and could see for a thousand miles, he was just another traveler to the people of the remote settlement. Level 2. But nonetheless, the village gave the traveling priest a very warm welcome. Moved by their heartfelt hospitality, he presented them with a staff as a toke of hi appreciation. Level 3. The staff held miraculous powers. As the priest watched the villagers� face light up at the gift, he prayed that their lives would be filled with happiness. Level 4. However, the villagers gave the staff to a traveler with a bad back. when the priest heard word of this, he realized that the villagers lives were already as happy as they could be. Their contentment was a greater gift than even his staff. --------------------------------------------- 7) Magi�s Sorrow [1M07] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 18 / 18 / 20 / 24 Guard break: 27 / 28 / 30 / 36 Level 1. The stone set In this staff possesses the soul of a gifted young magician. An ordinary human life did not interest this boy. In search of a higher spiritual place, he summoned all of his strength and turned himself into a stone, wishing to live in this world forever. Level 2. One day he learned that his owner was a beautiful stateswoman. He loved her so, but as time has passed she grew old and died. Even the streets and houses and trees that he loved inevitable grew old too and turned to dust. Sorrow consumed him Level 3. As a stone, the young magician could watch people�s happiness as well as their misfortune. But as a stone, he could not share in their joy or lend them a helping hand. All he could do was mourn alone. Level 4. Will the boy ever be released from the burden of his rashly garnered immortality? Will time heal the wounds of an immortal to whom time is a stranger? Or will you, perhaps, lead him into the light? --------------------------------------------- 8) Edacious [1M08] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 24 / 25 / 26 / 28 Guard break: 36 / 40 / 42 / 45 Level 1. This staff was created with the skin and bones of a gaunt magician. The magician was a famous man with many disciples. When he grew old, he asked his disciples to select one of their own number to be his successor. Level 2. One of the magician�s disciples was a talented young man with eyes as sharp as an eagle. The old magician named him his successor, and taught him everything he knew. The young man mastered every known spell within half a year. Thrilled by his progress, the old magician asked him to help train other disciples. Level 3. During training, the young man began to invent new spells. Soon the other disciples began to train directly under him, rather than their former master. The old magician knew that his time passed, and asked him protege to take his place. But the young man refused. He said he wanted to travel the world and seek out new magic. Level 4. Stung by the young man�s refusal, the magician�s emotions, pent up until now, exploded... Jealousy. Hatred. Love... He unleashed every spell he knew, but the young man calmly reflected each of his curses back at him. Caught in a maelstrom of his own magic, the old man�s flash melted leaving nothing but skins and bones. --------------------------------------------- 9) Philosopher�s Staff [1M09] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 28 / 30 / 32 / 35 Guard break: 38 / 39 / 40 / 40 Level 1. The magician had no friend. It was not that he disliked people - quite the contrary � nor was he a bad person to be around ( though he could be a little pedantic), yet anyone who met him seemed to hurry away as soon as they could. The poor man was at a loss to Understand why. Level 2. One day, the magician was struck by a mysterious illness. Fever high, heart pounding, limbs shaking, he could hardly walk. He tried casting spells, but when they didn�t help, he took up his favorite staff and headed for the medicine man. Level 3. After a trying journey, he explained His conditions to the medicine man. �The various symptoms afflicting my corporeal form are quite beyond the treatment of a layman unversed in the science of diagnosis - even one so familiar with the arcane �� But before he could finish, the medicine man muttered something about being busy and fled. Level 4. Having failed to obtain any medicine, the magician�s conditions worsened and he died. If only he�s realized that knowledge was not for flaunting, but for sharing in words that everyone could understand... If only he�s been aware of this simple truth... perhaps he wouldn�t have died of food poisoning. ******************************************************************************* | 2e. Urick�s Axes [1U] | ******************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------- 1) Urick�s Axe [1U01] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 47 / 48 / 50 / 55 Guard break: 112 / 116 / 120 /125 Level 1. A king who mad offering to the reaper, hoping to live forever, commissioned this axe to act as an instrument of the gods. Its purpose: to sever the necks of beautiful young men and drink their blood in the reaper�s honor. It has tasted the blood of many hundreds, and the reaper has prospered from these tributes. Level 2. For the first ceremony, the king chose two men and ordered one to execute the other. Every subsequent month, he would choose a new executioner to sacrifice the last. So it continued, year after year, executioner becoming sacrifice, until the month of the kings one hundred and fiftieth birthday. Level 3. The pair involved in the ceremony this month were best friends. When one had sacrificed the other, he turned to the king, crying and said: �I shall give my own life to the reaper. I shall walk the road to Hades with my friend.� The he cut off his own head and the axe pierced the altar so deeply that none could remove it. The king�s long life was at an end. Level 4. The axe finally found its way into the hands of Urick, where it once more provides sacrifices to the reaper. The cycle of blood which curses it cannot be halted � a secret known only by the reaper himself. --------------------------------------------- 2) Crimson Hood [1U02] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 Guard break: 112 / 116 / 120 / 125 Level 1. �Not enough! I haven�t had enough!� The magician awoke with a start. The axe... had it spoke to him? Or had he been dreaming? Level 2. Since that night, the magician�s face, recognized throughout the kingdom, slowly seemed to change. After several months, he began to resemble in infamous thief who had terrorized the lands decades before. Level 3. The thief�s soul had resided within the axe for years, waiting for the perfect moment to seize a new body. Though the magician tried to resist, the thief eventually conquered his mind and stole his life. Level 4. The nobles of the kingdom did not think to question what he did them. How could they have known that he was no longer his true self? And so they all met a disastrous end, while the magician lived on... --------------------------------------------- 3) Executioner�s Song [1U03] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 54 / 55 / 56 / 58 Guard break: 92 / 99 / 106 /116 Level 1. The axe thought to itself, �How many heads have I cut off?� Over the many years it had executed criminals, traitors, revolutionaries, politicians, even innocent, but it could not remember any of their faces, save for one � a peculiar boy. Level 2. The boy showed no fear as he placed his head on the block. Even the bravest men harbor a desperate hope at the moment of their death. The axe could feel the rush of their Emotions even as it took their life. Level 3. Not this boy � he was different. His spirit was filled to the brim with hope. It wasn�t the false hope of a devout believer, but rather, the knowledge that he was there by choice. His spirit was so pure that it made the axe want to scream. Level 4. The boy�s execution was carried out. Among the crowd that gathered to witness the event, a group of young men shed tears. The axe did not understand what it meant. All it knew was that the young men would speak of the boy�s high hopes for the world�s future for generations to come. --------------------------------------------- 4) Foul Blade [1U04] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 86 / 90 / 96 Guard break: 138 / 144 / 154 Level 1. A twisted magician sealed a fire lizard into this axe. It would whisper words of hatred for others, and drive its owner to madness. Level 2. A thief who stole this axe soon extended his territory to beyond the neighboring mountains, and became the chief of a large group of bandits. Level 3. A page who acquired this axe became an infamous soldier, and was made lieutenant in an order of knights. --------------------------------------------- 5) Mourning Thorn [1U05] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 80 / 84 / 88 / 90 Guard break: 144 / 151 / 158 / 162 Level 1. �I�m so hungry...� The hobgoblin decided to help his boss as he always did. Usually he had to get food by helping out with various odd jobs, but today he would get a meal without having to do anything at all. An attack on a human village was planned for the following evening, and a hearty meal was provided in a preparation. Level 2. So they charged into battle, expecting a swift victory. But the humans repelled their attack with great determination, and the fight raged on. In the midst of the carnage, the hobgoblin fell into a shallow well. There he found a magnificent scythe. It was the failed creation of a demented magician. Level 3. The scythe was designed to Increase its wielder�s desire to win. In reality, however, it brought out Other uncontrollable desires in its Wielder. Deemed useless, it had Been thrown into the well. The hobgoblin climbed out of the well with the scythe in his hands. Hungry for food and blood , he began to kill humans left and right. Level 4. But the scythe�s power soon began to overwhelm the hobgoblin. When all of the humans were dead, he began to bite and maim the other goblins. Even murdering and eating the entire of his own tribe failed to satiate his appetite, and finally he slit his own throat with the scythe. It was later found by a beautiful elf. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 3. Weapons of the second walkthrough [2WLK] | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the second walkthrough you can obtain 12 weapons: 6 Swords for Nowe ( 3 Short and 3 Long Sword), 1 Spears for Eris, 2 Staves for Manah and 3 Axes for Urick ******************************************************************************* | 3a. Nowe�s Short Swords [2NS] | ******************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------- 1) Evil�s Bronze Blade [2NS01] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 84 / 85 / 86 / 86 Guard break: 96 / 97 / 98 / 98 Level 1. In ancient times, there was a realm ruled under magic. Level 2. The realm performed a ceremony each year to restore the magical protection. There a shrine maiden would dance with this bronze blade. Level 3. The bronze blade glowed with more radiance each year. A haunting purple light emanated from it whenever the shrine maiden danced. Strangely, the maiden�s beauty did not fade with years, but rather, it intensified with age. Level 4. The princess of the realm wondered if the bronze blade was the secret of the shrine maiden�s preservation. In a fit of jealousy, she took the blade for herself and killed the maiden. And so the princess gained everlasting beauty. But without the maiden�s magical protection, the land faded within a year, and the princess took her own life. --------------------------------------------- 2) Moonlit Beauty [2NS02] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 118 / 119 / 120 / 124 Guard break: 8 / 16 / 32 / 48 Level 1. Once upon a time, there lived a Pedigreed gentleman whose Excellence with the sword had Won him as many duels as his Handsome face had the hearts Of the young ladies. Level 2. One night, during an evening walk, he came upon the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, standing in the moonlight beside a lake. Level 3. Lost in her beauty, he stood there entranced and time seemed to him to stand still. Then suddenly, the woman let out a gasp and cried: �Why!?� Her beautiful bosom was stained red with blood. Following her horrified gaze, the gentleman saw that his own sword was buried to the hilt in her chest. Level 4. The lake reflected the gentleman�s smiling face. In his ears, he heard the echoes of his own voice whisper, �Now there is n one fairer than you in this world.� The next day, the gentleman�s body was found next to the lake. He had pierced his own heart with his sword. --------------------------------------------- 3) Thief�s Secret [2NS03] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 62 / 64 / 65 / 70 Guard break: 60 / 62 / 64 / 68 Level 1. Many years ago, there was a mighty gang of bandits, who made their living by doing dirty deeds for the rich and powerful. On of the founding members was a man named Left Eye. He was a valued lieutenant who specialized in intelligence gathering and other clandestine undertakings. Level 2. Left Eye did not participate in battle. No one ever saw him draw his sword. It was a magic sword that brought riches to its owner. And Left Eye was indeed affluent. Being a lieutenant with unique talents, he was paid handsomely for his work and had amassed a sizeable fortune over the years. Level 3. One day, some of the younger bandits surrounded Left Eye. They told him that they were unhappy about the size of his share compared to theirs. In truth, however, they were after more than just their fare share; they were after old Left Eye�s fortune. Reading their intentions, Left Eye finally drew his sword... Level 4. Gone was the reserved man they all knew. Standing in his place, a bandit as fearsome as the ruthless young man who had founded the gang year before. It was over in a second. Left Eye walked away from the youngsters� bodies and told his old friend that he was leaving. Though they begged him to stay, he Disappeared into the desert. ******************************************************************************* | 3b. Nowe�s Long Swords [2NL] | ******************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------- 1) Captured Goddess [2NL01] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 76 / 85 / 95 / 106 Guard break: 98 / 110 / 124 / 138 Level 1. A long, long time ago... A young girl regained consciousness in a small, dark space, thick with the stench of blood. She couldn�t move her arms, her legs, or even her mouth. The only thing she could do was stare into the darkness with wide open eyes. Level 2. The last light the girl had seen was the fire that burned with people as its fuel. Its awful glow had illuminated the hand crawling all over her... After that, she had felt something cold pierce her body many, many times. And then... blackness. That was all she could remember. �What am I...?� Level 3. Suddenly the girl was freed from the darkness. The starry sky opened before her dazzled view, its faint light too bright. Desperately, she moved her eyes, searching to see herself, but the familiar lines of her body were gone; in their place, a ruined mass of blood and quivering flesh. Level 4. The girl let out a voiceless scream. as she did so, a black shadow obscured the stars. A monster with long fangs was kneeling over her, lowering its gruesome maw towards her face. In a moment of white agony, her ruined flesh contorted into a sword and lunged at the monster�s head, stabbing it between the eyes. --------------------------------------------- 2) Pitch Black [2NL02] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 164 / 176 / 188 / 220 Guard break: 84 / 96 / 108 / 120 Level 1. There once lived a man to whom killing was as essential to life as breathing. There was no special reason why he murdered. He was not driven by bloodlust. It was only that murder was all he knew. Level 2. One day, he encountered a group of thugs who had surrounded a helpless girl. As usual, he murdered every las one them without hesitation. Level 3. When he turned to kill the girl, he found her thanking him with tears in her eyes. It was the first time that anyone had ever thanked him for what he had done. As he looked at her, he finally realized that his actions had meaning and purpose. Level 4. Smiling, with happiness in his heart, he brought his sword down on the young girl�s head. With kindness in his eyes, he paused for a moment to watch the pool of blood expanding around her crumpled form, before leaving the scene feeling greatly fulfilled. --------------------------------------------- 3) Sealblade: Calamitous Melody [2NL03] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 145 / 148 / 154 / 168 Guard break: 124 / 128 / 134 / 145 Level 1. A master blacksmith, embittered by the god�s maltreatment of the world, vowed to forge a weapon with which to destroy them. Level 2. The power of the seal negates the power of the gods, and the seal derives its power from the goddess... So the blacksmith sealed the power of the goddess into his creation. Level 3. She was a goddess whose heart concealed a forbidden love. She was a pure goddess. Level 4. Sealed inside was life. ******************************************************************************* | 3c. Eris�s Spears [2E] | ******************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------- 1) Falcon�s Pinion [2E01] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 130 / 138 / 144 / 148 Guard break: 104 / 110 / 115 / 118 Level 1. I awoke on a rainy day and looked up to see my brothers still in the nest from whence I�d fallen. It was a small nest, and I�d guessed that it would only be a matter of time before something like this happened. I was only two months old. �Well, that�s life,� I thought, just as my parents flew back. They looked down at me, but they began to feed my brothers. Level 2. I tried chirping, but they ignored me. �That�s it for me, I suppose.� I thought, when a lightning bolt struck the tree, setting it alight. I flapped my wings in a desperate attempt to get away. Once I�d scrabbled to a safe distance, I turned to see the nest in flames, my brothers� burning bodies illuminating the forest. Level 3. You can never tell what�s going to happen in life. Cowering there in the wet grass, a human who�d come to investigate the fire saw me and scooped me up. One year later, I was an adult falcon and sat on his arm. He was middle-aged, poor, and drank a lot. That was all I knew about my savior. Level 4. After two years together, we parted ways when my companion sold me to buy alcohol. The human who brought me butchered, cooked and served me to another human whose belly I paused in en route to the privy. My feathers were used to decorate a spear which was sold to a fool at an exorbitant price. What a ridiculous waste of money and life. ******************************************************************************* | 3d. Manah�s Staves [2M] | ******************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------- 1) Phoenix Curse [2M01] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 118 / 124 / 130 Guard break: 94 / 99 / 104 Level 1. Back, when magic flourished, magicians played an integral role on the battlefield. The potency of their magic was derived in large part from the power of their staffs. Indeed, wars were fought over the ownership of powerful staffs - especially the staffs of the ancients magicians, which contained mighty spells, long forgotten. Level 2. At around that time, a magician found a staff buried in some ancient ruins. Though he wasn�t especially gifted, using the staff�s power, he was capable of unimaginable feats and soared up through the ranks of his army. Within a year, he sat at the general�s right hand. Level 3. The magician�s powers knew no bounds on the battlefield and he became very influential. The one day, an identical staff was found in the same ruins, with hundreds more like it... In a matter of months, every kingdom had acquired one, and the war raged on with renewed ferocity. --------------------------------------------- 2) Yaha�s Staff [2M02] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 92 / 100 / 108 / 120 Guard break: 112 / 120 / 130 / 144 Level 1. A bureaucrat was accused of treachery and executed by his distrustful king. His family followed his fate, but the executioner took pity upon his youngest son. He let the boy go and told the king that the job was done. Level 2. The bureaucrat�s son grew up to be a beautiful young man. He made his living as a thief, stealing goods from the bazaar. Sometimes, he would be caught and beaten, but the pain was nothing to him compared to the joy of revenge would bring. In time, he used the money he�d saved to bribe his way into a job at the king�s castle. Level 3. The boy�s androgynous beauty caught the king�s eye right away and soon enough, he became one of then King�s �special� companions. Late one night, he decided that the time had finally come to exact vengeance, so he headed to the king�s bedchamber armed with his father�s staff, an elegant weapon tipped with a deadly blade. Level 4. However, the king became suspicious when he was beads of sweat on the boy�s brow, and called for his guards. As they converged on him, the boy cut his own throat to the tune of the king�s victorious laughter. Perhaps it was fate that Lieutenant Yaha, whose own beauty had shaped his twisted destiny, would eventually own this staff. ******************************************************************************* | 3e. Urick�s Axes [2U] | ******************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------- 1) Broken Iron [2U01] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 140 / 160 / 180 / 200 Guard break: 280 / 300 / 320 / 340 Level 1. What was once hailed as the largest blade in the world, striking fear into the hearts of men, now bore no trace of its former glory. Only a shattered heap of iron remained. Level 2. Back when this heap was still a sword, its owner had tried to fuse it with unimaginable variety of objects. His mania for modifying the weapon had seen its titanic form incorporate armor, other swords and even the bones of the dead. Mighty though it already was he was obsessed by the idea that it could be made yet stronger. Level 3. The blade slowly began to change color, turning crimson towards its edge. The gradation seemed to symbolize its place on the boundary between this world and the next. Certainly, it had been the difference between life and death to many a friend and foe in the past. But when its owner tried to fuse it with a baby, its blade finally shattered. Level 4. Discarded as a failed experiment, the sword longed for the days, when it had terrified men with its fearsome form... So it searched for an owner who could forge its blade afresh. --------------------------------------------- 2) Zhangpo�s Axe [2U02] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 128 / 138 / 148 / 158 Guard break: 218 / 248 / 266 / 284 Level 1. In a small village, a man lived with his pet mouse in a shack. He was a kindly soul, but the other villagers mistrusted him because his face had been disfigured since birth. In spite of their prejudice, he harbored no bitterness towards them, smiling even when children threw stones at him. Level 2. Secretly the villagers schemed to drive their unsightly neighbor away. So they claimed that his mouse damaged their crops, and captured it one day. While he wandered the forest searching for his little companion, they cut off its head, and laid its body on his doorstep. Level 3. When the poor man returned to his shack, he saw that his only friend in the world had been murdered. With a howl of despairing rage, he took his axe and decapitated each of the villagers in turn, piling their heads in the center of the common. To add another to the pile, he then cut off his own, and the axe tumbled from his lifeless grasp. Level 4. When it was finally retrieved from its grizzly resting place, the axe�s blade had been dried red by the villagers� blood. Lieutenant Zhangpo, whose pact cost him the pleasure of eating, may have tried to replace the los sensation with the joy of butchering foes with this axe. --------------------------------------------- 3) Sealaxe: Calamitous Rhythm [2U03] --------------------------------------------- Attack power: 130 / 142 / 154 / 168 Guard break: 234 / 255 / 277 / 302 Level 1. A master blacksmith, embittered by the god�s maltreatment of the world, vowed to forge a weapon with which to destroy them. Level 2. The power of the seal negates the power of the gods, and the seal derives its power from the goddess... So the blacksmith sealed the power of the goddess into his creation. Level 3. She was a legendary goddess who held the seeds within her body and saved mankind from ruin. Level 4. Sealed inside was time, the conqueror of space and all dimensions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | 4. Weapons of the third walkthrough [3WLK] | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the third walkthrough you can obtain 3 weapons: 2 swords for Nowe ( 1 Short and 1 Long Sword) and 1 Stave for Manah. ******************************************************************************* | 4a. Nowe�s Short Swords [3NS] | ******************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------- 1) Hero's Knife [3NS01] --------------------------------------------- Attack Power 135 / 135 / 135 / 145 Guard Break 150 / 160 / 170 / 180 Level 1. A couple was elated by the news that they were to have a child. As this was their first, their friends held a feast the next day to celebrate. Many came to the party - among them, a prophet dressed in a richly embroidered clerical gown. Level 2. The prophet presented the couple with a short sword, and said, "This blade will make a master swordsman of the wielder. Use it to protect your children." When the husband grasped its hilt, he felt its power coursing through his boy, making him stronger. This was no ordinary sword. Level 3. "The child who will be born is a child of heaven. The child who will be born is child of man. Should the child bring disaster upon mankind, kill it with this sword." The couple's faces paled, and the husband raised the sword to strike the prophet, but he had already disappeared. Level 4. After the day of the feast, the wife unable to forget the prophet�s words, grew ever more gloomy. The husband used the power of the sword to become a soldier and returned home ever more infrequently. Eventually, their child was born � or rather, a pair of twins was born: a beautiful boy and girl. ******************************************************************************* | 4b. Nowe�s Long Swords [3NL] | ******************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------- 1) Moonfire [3NL01] --------------------------------------------- Attack Power 146/ 146 / 146 / 148 Guard Break 120/ 120 / 120 / 180 Level 1. The sword made of marble emits a fierce chill and quietly awaits its owner. Level 2. The legend told that the marble sword could freeze even its owner�s age. It continues to wait patiently. Level 3. The marble sword continued to wait. So long it waited - long enough to freeze time. Level 4. The sword had waited for so long that surely even the warmth of human blood could not awaken it now. The only thing what could be said for sure is that the frozen face of its wielder would be reflected in its blade. ******************************************************************************* | 4c. Manah�s Staves [3M] | ******************************************************************************* --------------------------------------------- 1) Monk's Red Staff [3M01] --------------------------------------------- Attack Power 145 / 150 / 155 / 160 Guard Break 218 / 225 / 232 / 240 Level 1. Once, a high-ranking priest traveled to the western lands with three companions. He was to receive a sacred book. Level 2. On the was there, he performed Acts of charity in the villages he Passed through, and his companions Cleansed the lands of monsters Who threatened the people. Level 3. Slaying the monsters was the specialty of one of the priest's traveling companions. It was he who wielded this staff. In his skilful hands, it protected the priest and ensures their safe passage to the western land. Level 4. When the party arrived at their destination, the sacred book was placed in the priest's care as promised. With their quest at an end, the priest thanked his companions and honored each of them with a fitting "name". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |5. �Code needing weapons� [CNWP] | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are 4 weapons, 1 Long Sword and a Short Sword for Nowe, 1 Spear for Eris and 1 Axe for Urick. These weapons can only be obtained using some kind of �cheating device�: ARMAX, GAMESHARK or CODEBREAKER. --------------------------------------------- 1) Writheheart [CNW1] --------------------------------------------- This weapon is one of Nowe�s Short Sword�s. Attack power: 19 / 21 / 24 / 26 Guard break: 13 / 15 / 17 / 18 Level 1. Once, there live a girl, fair and pure. Born into a life of poverty, she was sent to word as a maid in the home of a noble family. There, she was treated like an animal. After months of hard labor and abuse, her mind and body began to fail her. Level 2. The only one who treated the girl with any kindness was her lord�s youngest son. He comforted her, and soon they began an illicit affair. The doting girl lived for the short midnight meetings, alone with her lover Level 3. Late one evening, she made her way to the meeting place at the usual time and found her love waiting for her. But he was not alone. With him were all of his brothers and sisters. Smiling like demons, they encircled her and forced her to the ground. She lost consciousness when she caught sight of the cruel grin on her lover�s face... Level 4. The next morning, the girl limped back to the mansion. In her hands she held a beautiful sword. When she caught sight of her lover, she lunged for him without a word, and pierced his and her own heart. Steeped in their life blood, the fatal weapon took up the scorned girl�s bitter hatred and had been cursed ever since. --------------------------------------------- 2) Sealaxe: Calamitous Rhythm [CNW2] --------------------------------------------- This weapon, in spite of its name, is one of Nowe�s Long Sword�s. Attack power: 97 / 98 / 99 / 150 Guard break: 194 / 196 / 198 / 300 Level 1. A master blacksmith, embittered by the god�s maltreatment of the world, vowed to forge a weapon with which to destroy them. Level 2. The power of the seal negates the power of the gods, and the seal derives its power from the goddess... So the blacksmith sealed the power of the goddess into his creation. Level 3. She was a legendary goddess who held the seeds within her body and saved mankind from ruin. Level 4. Sealed inside was time, the conqueror of space and all dimensions. --------------------------------------------- 3) Poisontongue [CNW3] --------------------------------------------- This weapon is one of Urick�s Axes. Attack power: 24 / 25 / 26 / 28 Guard break: 48 / 50 / 52 / 56 Level 1. Long ago there was a vast kingdom surrounded with water end enclosed by mighty walls. Blessed with the gift of water, the people lived a life of happiness. An altar to the water goddess stood at the center of the kingdom. On it lay an axe, which radiated a calm blue light. Legends told that the goddess used the axe to slay the demon king of drought. Level 2. Beyond its walls, other nations schemed to steal the prosperous kingdom�s wealth. Under the command of their king, the citizens fought bravely, but the peace-loving people of the water kingdom were no match for the invaders. Soon, their mighty walls lay in ruins and the war was on their doorstep. Level 3. When the flames of war reached the water goddess�s altar, the axe came to life. Floating above its resting place, its blade give off a blinding flash of light. The next moment, a tidal wave washed over the invading armies and continued past the kingdom�s borders, drowning the land of the enemy. Level 4. Having served its purpose, the axe lost its luster and the waters subsided. Now, the ancient weapon looked as drained and lifeless as the desert. --------------------------------------------- 4) Widow�s Death [CNW4] --------------------------------------------- This weapon is one of Eris�s Spears. Attack power: 19 / 21 / 24 / 26 Guard break: 13 / 15 / 17 / 18 Level 1. Neustria�s King Chilperich I ended the long confrontation with Astracia by agreeing to the marriage of his second son, Alfonstein, to Fonpadel, the third daughter of Sigibert I, king of Austracia. Level 2. All was peaceful between Neustria and Austracia until Sigibert I�s heir Almabar, missing since his tour of the Western Gothic land of Aunatras, returned to claim the throne. Level 3. Almabar killed his mother, Brunhilda, then confronted King Chilperich�s widow, Fredegunde, who had planned to assassinate him, and claimed that Fonpadel and Alsonstein�s marriage was illegitimate. He then declared war against Fredegunde�s eldest son, King Clotair II of Neustria. Level 4. The battle began in the northern Austracian land of Vyomar. Almabar led his Austracian army to victory over the Neustrians. Fredegunde was captured at the castle, and executed by the same axe used to behead Brunhilde. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |6. Version history and updates [VERH] | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 01.June 2006 - Started typing in the guide... Finished 58% of Nowe�s Short Sword�s, and 75% of the Long Sword. No weapons of Eris, Manah or Urick, yet. - 02.June 2006 � Added some of Eris�s weapons ( 58 % finished) - 06.June 2006 � After spending a whole weekend with my Drakengard 2 ^_^, so I added a few things like Nowe�s SS ( 76%), LS ( 78%) and Eris�s Spears ( 72 %) Still no Manah and Urick... yet. - 07.June 2006 � Added Manah�s weapons ( 91%) - 08.June 2006 � Added a few of Nowe SS ( 89%), Eris�s spears ( 86 %) Finished Manah�s staff and added Urick�s axes ( 95%) - 12.June 2006 � Another weekend spent with... errr, no, wrong guess. I was playing with Magna Carta :) But I did finish Urick�s weapons. And added a few of Nowe�s Weapons: SS ( 96%) - 13.June 2006 � Nowe SS ( 98%), LS ( 91 %), Eris ( 94%) Also corrected a few things... - 19.June 2006 � I�ve been a goooood girl :))))) Now, let us see what that means, shall we? Finished Nowe�s SS, LS (96%). Also started to add the weapons for the second walkthrough. Added a totally new part for the weapons that can be obtained by using codes... - 22.June 2006 � Finished Eris�s Spears. All of them :( Finished Nowe�s SS for the second walkthrough. Added 3 code weapons. - 26.June 2006 � Being so close to the end of the game I did not sleep the weekend... well, to be honest, it was because of the weather. Having 33 C in the evening who could sleep??? Added a few things here and there, finished Manah�s weapons. - 03.July 2006 � FINISHED!!! YES !!!! FINISHED THE WHOLE THING!!!! 71 weapons, all on Level 4., more than 83 hours and a few dozen dead brain cells... That�s the result of the game :) - 29.Aug. 2006 � Made a few corrections here and there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |7. 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Contact Information [CONT] | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For suggestions and/or corrections for this guide please email: [email protected] or [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |9. Credits and thanks [CRED] | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - You for reading this guide ^_^ - Me for writing it :) - Meru Wingly � for sending the Level 4 details of Nobuyoshi and Takamasa - Cavia / SquareEnix / Ubisoft for making it possible to go on a killing spree again :) - GameFAQs, Neoseeker and Supercheats for hosting this guide. - Drakengard.net for hosting my guide
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