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Eschalon: Book I Walkthrough

 

Warning: This guide contains many spoilers!

This is certainly not the only way to complete the game, so its more fun if you dont use it unless you are really stuck.

This guide will help you with the following -

-Main Quest

1 Getting to Aridel

2 Obtaining the Amulet

3 Finding Lilith

4 Defeating the Queen

5 Finding the Vault

6 Finding your brother

7 Getting to Eurabor

8 Obtaining the keys

9 Finishing up

-Side Quests

1 Secrets of Transference Circuits

2 Restoration Potion

3 Mithril Bar

4 Incinerator Fuel

5 Wedding Ring

6 Crucible

7 The Locket

8 Fungal Slimes

9 Pure Water Tree

10 Liliths Amulet

11 The Letter

12 Divine Ore

13 Blackwater Thugs

14 Healthy Acorn

-Getting Experience

1 Monsters

2 Quests

3 Easter Eggs

 

 

Main Quest

1 Getting to Aridel

You start in room, and get a brief message. Look around and notice where your cursor hovers. Certain objects will light up when it is above them. That usually means they are openable, though to simplify things well just say that they are useable. Now head outside to the south. Here you will find a well, a barrel and a few stumps. If you look closely, one of the stumps is useable. Check it, and you will find a few items that may come in useful. Now look in the barrel, as there are also some items in there. To check your inventory, click on the inventory icon near the top right hand side of the screen, or press I. Read the sealed note. It will tell you to find Madock in Aridel. There are a few ways to Aridel, though one of them is easily fastest. You may want to look around the abandoned town you started in first though. Notice the Fanged Salamanders. They are your first challenge. Killing them will grant you 8 experience towards your next level. Once youre done exploring, head north-east. You will find a path there. Follow that path for a ways and soon youll find a bridge. Just past the bridge is Aridel! As you walk in, use the sign. This will add Aridel to your Quick Travel locations. No matter where you are, as long as youre not near enemies, you can use the quick travel to go to Aridel. To access your quick travel menu, click on the paper colored square on the right side of your screen. If you have the Cartography skill, it will be a map of your explored world. Once in Aridel, feel free to look around a bit, sell what items you dont want, and buy what items you do. When youre done with that, head to Madocks house in the south-eastern most corner of the town. Talk to him for a bit and hell tell you that he did have stuff for you. Search his drawers, and youll find a sack of gold for you, and a 2nd Sealed Note. Youll also have leveled up by now, so click on the green Plus sign to add stats to your character.

2 Obtaining the Amulet

When you read the 2nd Sealed Note, this mysterious man will tell you that you must retrieve your amulet from a crypt, and after that to speak with Lilith for information about the amulet. First though, youve got to get it. Walk north out of Aridel. The black line that you see, north of the town is simply a region divider. This helps the game run smoother, because not all of the world map has to be loaded at one time. Now, in the next region, take the first right. This will lead you to a house. Enter it and speak with the man. Tell him that you must retrieve one of your belongings from the crypt. There are two ways to get the key to the crypt. The first is to agree with him, and kill every Salamander in his Cellar. This is not hard, though there are quite a few Salamanders. Either click on the torch icon near the inventory one, or press T on your keyboard to light a torch. Torches will light up a small area around you in dark places such as dungeons, or anywhere at nighttime. Your second option is to break into his room and steal the key from his drawers. Once you have the key, head west. Keep heading west until you see what looks like a big graveyard at the far west edge of the screen. Go in and kill the two Blood Sippers. Now enter the crypt to the north. The crypt is a large area, with lots of creatures, so be prepared. Once inside the crypt, head south to an intersection there. From there, go west to the next intersection at the end of the hall. Head north there. Go as far north as you can, and then enter the room. Go into the next room, and after that, the next one after that. From there, take a Security Key from one of the storage units. Now head back out to the most recent intersection. This time, go south and follow the path until you find a large room to the south of you. Entering this room is optional, though it is essential to complete the Secrets on Transference Circuits Side Quest. Now, continue east along the corridor. When you reach a room with a few gates and levers, pull the levers. These will open gates. One of theses such gates will allow much easier access to this point if for any reason you must leave the Crypt after this point. Continue east until the path changes direction, and takes you north. In the north room you will find 2 Noximanders, which are large, and green fanged salamanders. The only difference is that Noximanders are poisonous. If you dont have a Detox Serum to cure poison, you might not want to enter this point yet. After you kill the Noximanders and Fanged Salamanders in that room, open the door ahead. The Security Key that you gained earlier will unlock this. In the room north of there, you will find a few Blood Sippers and chests. Before you enter the room at the north west end of the hall you are currently in, be sure you are prepared for a long fight. Once you do enter, save before you step on the tile that has a square on it. Once you step on that, the gates to the north and south will open, and 2 Walking Corpse will walk out. These arent easy to fight, even by the end of the game. I can give no advice to killing them other than Be careful not to stay in their attack range for too long. Remember that this game is turn based, and that they will only move when you do. Good luck! After this fight, you may want to go north for quite a bit of loot. Be warned, to the north there are many Fungal Slime which are technically supposed to be the second monster in the game, after Fanged Salamanders. Fungal Slime have a long ranged attack, and give you 25 experience towards your next level when they are killed. From the area with the fight between you and the to Walking Corpse, walk south. When you reach a lever, shortly after a turn west, dont pull it yet. First, continue west. After a turn north again, you will find another lever. Pull this one. Now walk into the room. Feel free to loot stuff from a any coffin, but the one youre really looking for is on the west side of the room, closer to the north end than the south end. Inside you will find an amulet shaped like a triangle with a circle in it. Take this Strange Amulet. You very well might have leveled up again. Now go back to the first lever in the hallway. Pull it, and walk south through the open gate. As you walk, the gates will close behind you and open in front of you, making it impossible to go back the way you came.

3 Finding Lilith

Once out of the crypt, feel free to explore a bit. Once youre done exploring though, head north east of the crypt to the opposite corner of the map. Walk into the next region. Walk north, but be careful. When you see a path with a sign that says Quick route to Aridel ignore it. Continue walking north until you see the trees and path sort of turn to the west. Head the direction. Any second now, Bandit(s) will start walking out from their places to attack you. Do not stand and fight, but rather run past them to the next region. NPCs (Non-Player Characters) cannot follow you through regions. Use this to your advantage as you play. Continue heading east, but stay close to the trees. More Bandits will continue to stream out towards you. Until you see a small fire near a sign, stay next to the trees. Once you do see that, head north, towards it. Let the archer and the black smith of this town defeat the Bandits while you run around in circles, uselessly. If one of them dies, re-load your last save game you dont want any of these characters to die. Once the Bandits are dead, click on the sign to at Bordertown to your quick-travel menu. Feel free to shop, rest, and gather information in this town for a while. Once you feel up to it though, head south west out of the town. If you find 2 guards guarding a gate, head more south. If not, youre on the right trail. When the trail branches out, dont go west, but rather south. Youll find a Hive Drone here. These are a lot harder to kill, and will give you 60 experience every time you kill one. I suggest you run past it unless youre really confident. Dont be so confident in the next region though. Head south a bit past the first drone, and youll see the Region divider. In this region, there will be more drones than you can imagine. Run past them, and do not stand and fight. You will be overwhelmed. Not long after you the Region divider, there is a branch to the east. Do not take it. Instead, keep going south until youre about 5/6 of the way through that region. At about the ½ point there is a branch to the west. Dont take that yet either. At 5/6 of the way through youll find another branch to east. Do take that. Soon youll find a dock at a lake, and a house just past the lake. Run in there and slam the door on those stupid drones. Well, youve found Lilith! Speak to her, and shell tell you shes allergic to bees. She wants you to go kill the Hive Queen. Well, if you open her door and run to further safety, youll find that shes not really allergic to bees, but rather just is too lazy to kill it herself. Shell punch bees for quite a while, but eventually she will die. Try not to let that happen, as if she dies, there is a lot less experience you can get.

4 Defeating the Queen

Stock up for a big fight, and head back to Liliths house. From there, return to the second intersection to the east, which leads to Liliths house. Once again, continue south. Once you enter the new region, head east as soon as possible. Go as far east as you can while staying in that region. There you will see a stone pillar. If you click on it, it will add Grimhold West to your quick-travel menu. This will come in useful later on. From there, head south until it you reach a intersection, close to the end of the region. The signs will warn you not to go east there, but you should anyway. Youll know when you reach the bee cave. Before you go in however, go to the far east end of the region, at this great rift in the ground. Follow it south, avoiding rocks and trees. At the end, youll find a chest. Open it, and take the gold. Now you can enter the Hive. I wont say much about the Hive, because its pretty straight forward, and very hard to get lost inside of there. First thing to know though, is that when you find an area lit up with tall torches, that has a path you cant get to, because of a rock, pull the north west, south west, and middle east levers. That will get you where you want to go. There is a chest down there that says something about Steel. Its not too difficult of a riddle, so all that Ill give you is this: A=1, B=2, Z=26. The next thing Ill tell you is that when you get to a room that says something like Id better not touch anything, it would be wise to do just that. The last thing Ill tell you about the cave is that once youve defeated the Queen, stay in that area a bit longer. See those things that look like Giant Honeycombs? Take 10 of the Giant Larva from those. Good luck in the caves! Once you defeat the Queen, bring Lilith your Queens Stinger She wont take it, so you can still use it as a weapon if youd like. Once you show that to her, shell explain that the amulet of yours is a key to a very high guarded bank in Blackwater. Useful huh, doesnt even tell you where Blackwater is No matter where you are now, head back to the Crypt. Go to the south western corner, and youll find a man named Hemish. Give you your 10 Gant Larva and hell give you a Flask of Incinerator Fuel This is probably going to help you most in one of the final fights. Head outside to any NPC in an open area. Save! Now throw it at them. Pretty, isnt it? Now, reload your game before you threw it. Keep that for later.

5 Finding the Vault

You may want to head back to Bordertown now, and take the 70 pound Crucible the Black smith wants you to take to the Black smith in Blackwater, if you want to do that quest. Whether you have it or not though, head to that area I mentioned earlier, the branch off to the west on the path to Liliths house. Be ready to run. Head into the next region, following that path west. If you follow the path, youll notice very quickly that every other adventurer to pass through there died quickly, but ruthlessly. Follow the path until you see some dinosaurs. Actually, theyre Raptors but thats unimportant. The important part is that you run past them without being killed. Just follow that same path west. Eventually, youll come to the end of the region. Go through to this next region. You will find that this area is pretty foggy, and that it looks like a swamp. You dont have much to do in this area. Yet. Walk west a little longer, and find another stone pillar, this one is a bit more worn down. Again, clicking on it will unlock a quick-travel route. This one is to Vela. After getting that, walk south again and youll exit that region. Keep walking south, but go a little west as well. Soon youll find a town. You can choose two ways to get in. Firstly, and ideally, talk to the guards, and pay the 100 gold fee. The other way, is simply to kill the guards. Before you enter however, I suggest going to the south entrance of the town. Once again, click on the stone pillar to add Blackwater to you quick-travel menu. Now, whichever way you enter the town, head to the blacksmith. Hes not hard to find, he lives on the corner, and has tons of weapons in his store. Give him the Crucible as soon as possible, if you brought it. Now, head down the western path a bit more, to the last house on the north. Enter the house with the dead body. Beware of traps though. When you get in, search the dead body, and youll find a note. Read this note and learn about Foozgrumph. Now exit again, and head to the tavern, close to the northern entrance to the town. When you walk in, the bandit looking man will ask you to go kill Lilith and bring him her amulet. Well, now some pieces start to click This mysterious man sent you to Lilith to learn about your amulet, because she herself has one. Someone of value must be in her vault Feel free to ignore him if you wish. Talk to the innkeeper, and ask for a room. When he asks for your name, tell him you are Foozgrumph. He will say something like Ah, I see. Now you will be shown Foozgrumphs room. The rock on the north wall of your room is fake. Feel free to walk through it anytime, and follow that path. At the end of that path, youll notice a staircase. Go down it. Theres nothing to fight down here, if youre careful. When you reach the goblin at the desk, show him you Amulet 26. He will open the gate for you. Explore down here for a while, until you find your vault. Inside, you will find a chest. In that chest are The Crux of Ages, and the third sealed note. Read the note carefully. It will tell you that you need to go find your brother, and it will tell you whos been sending you these notes yourself. At this point, I recommend going back to Lilith, killing her, taking her amulet, and entering her vault in this bank. Inside is the best sword in the game. If you dont want to use it, feel free to sell it for lots of gold though. Again, if you dont want to kill Lilith, dont. If you give the Bandit man the key after you take the sword from her vault, hell come back to kill you. But its just more experience, right?

6 Finding your brother

Your brother is in Vela. Be careful in Vela, as soon as you enter, there are traps everywhere. This will probably be your first encounter with fighting goblins in the game as well though. It will also probably be your first time killing a Taurax. Enter Vela, and very carefully walk through the streets. I suggest you kill everything in Vela, but you only technically have to kill 2 things in Vela. First, head north, annihilating everything in your path. When you get to the Goblin Warlord be careful. These are harder to kill than the other types. Youll notice that goblins usually drop something when they die. These are the first commonly appearing creatures that drop stuff. When you kill the Goblin Warlord in the north end of the city, Youll notice he drops a Goblin Key. Keep it. Now walk to the more western end of the ruined city, again, clearing your path as you go. Sooner or later, youll come to a very large red, demon/minotaur looking thing. This is your first Taurax. I would kill it, though there are many other options, such as locking it in a room. My personal favorite, other than killing it by hand was to lock it in the room full of poison traps. Youll find that near the far end of the north buildings, as you enter the city. Once that is dealt with, head north, across the bridge. Youll find your brother in a room. If Im correct, you must now walk around the building, and pull a lever to gain access to this room. Talk with your brother, and hell tell you to speak with Eurabor, who lives in Shadowmirk. Then, put him out of his misery if you wish. If your brother is not in the room, you are experiencing a fairly common bug. Reload the game from your last save that you hadnt entered Vela yet. If your brother is still not there when you get to that point, save anywhere but the region of Vela. Take that map out of your maps folder in your Eschalon Book I folder. When you reload, and walk back into Vela, the map will reload itself. Try again. To Shadowmirk now!

7 Getting to Eurabor

Eurabor is a wizard. Wizards live in Shadowmirk is that strange castle that seems impossible to enter. You probably saw it on your way to Bordertown. So, head back to Bordertown, and then east one region. There might still be bandits waiting there for you, but by now you should be able to fend them off. When you get to Shadowmirk, it still seems impossible to enter. So, head around it to the east, and follow a small trail in the trees. It will lead you up to the side, where you cant see that theres land. Keep following this path until you reach the back door. Now you can enter. If I were you, Id head back out to the front of the castle, and pull the lever that opens the gate into there. Now head back into Shadowmirk. Once you kill the Dimensional Eye hovering near the pillars, continue forwards. At the hallway, head east, past the first door, and to the open room. Talk with the wizard if you want. Go into the Arachnid Chamber, and fend off the spiders. Search through all of the egg sacks till you find a key. Now leave the Chamber. Head to that first door, and your key will unlock it. Now walk past the skeletons, and into the room at the end. Look through the chests there, and take everything in them. Now, work your way back to the place with the pillars. As you leave the room youre in, the skeletons will come alive and attack you. Theyre not too hard to fight if you take them 1 at a time. Once youre back at the pillars, head west to the magic symbol on the ground. Those symbols represent teleporters, though theyre not always functional. Work your way through this maze without getting sent back to the beginning. Telling you would take all the fun out of it. Once you get to the end, look at the chests in the room there. One of them has a sign that says Give me Strength. Place a potion of Ogre Strength in that chest, and close it. Ogre Strength is the pink potion you got in the room with the skeletons. Try to figure out which potion goes in the other chest. It will be a potion that you picked up in Shadowmirk, so no need to try every single potion. The next floor is a simple matter of remembering which portal leads where, like a larger version of the teleporter maze you did on the first floor. Once you reach the third floor, talk to Eurabor.

8 Getting the keys

He will tell you about the Goblin keys you need to collect. Go to the room north of him and take the green goblin key from his chest. The next one is in Grimhold. Use your quick-travel to go to Grimhold West. Head to the region to the east. Youre now in Grimhold. Kill everything in here, and go downstairs. There are a few ways downstairs, but for now, only one is available to you. Ill let you explore the basement for yourself, but remember to search every single chest. One of them, near the center of the dungeon holds a Goblin Key. Once you have that goblin key, head back to Aridel. Talk to the priest in Aridel and hell tell you to take the Potion of Restoration to a poor man south of there. So, take it from the church chest, and head to the region south of Aridel. There are plenty of bandits here for you to fight. The man lives near the north west corner of the region. Bring him the potion, but if youre close to death, dont drink it. Bring it to him and hell tell you that its Boiled Noximander Venom, and that youre an idiot for believing that fool in Aridel. He will tell you to bring the notes he has to a man near Bordertown. So, head there now. Talk with the two guards west of the town. Tell them its urgent, and theyll let you in. Even though you promise not to steal anything, when you bring the man his note, steal the Gate Key from one of the chests there. From there on out, it doesnt matter whether or not you steal anything from there. When you go to leave, tell the guard you are ready to leave. Now youre out. That was easy, huh? Head to Blackwater. From there, go south east. Its one region south and one region east of Blackwater. Be careful there, because there are two Taurax, and more waiting further away. Close to the north west corner of this region is a broken stone pillar. You may want to get this quick travel route too. Now, head south further until you see a giant gate. Your Gate Key will unlock the gate. This is Crakamir. The most dangerous of lands in the Escahlon Book I world. In fact, its so dangerous, that you cant use quick travel in Crakamir. Anyway, head west three regions, avoiding the Acid Grubs. Acid Grubs give you 160 experience when killed, but they also release acid. This acid can easily destroy your armor, clothing, or weapons. Be careful. When you are three regions west of the gate to Crakamir, you should see the ocean. Now, head to about the center of the region, but a bit further west. You should see giants. I strongly suggest you dont attack them. Talk to the leader. He is easy to tell from the others, and lives in the north most building. He will tell you that he will give you the red Goblin Key, and help your fight against goblins if you return their Giant Skull. Agree to help them now. Head north of the giant town, until you find a room with seemingly 3 teleporters. Try them all out. Only one of them should work for now. That should be the north most one. Enter it, and you will be teleported to a strange place. Wait no Its Blackwater! So, pull the lever, and exit. Go back into the region with Raptors ad search around for a while. Eventually, you should find a large area. Find the entrance, and make your way in. Search around the hunting grounds for a while, and eventually, youll find the Skull in one of the storage units in a room. Bring it back to the Giants. They will give you your key now!

9 Finishing up

Now head to the Goblin Citadel, south, and east of the giant village. Youll notice it is quite large. Before entering, head east of it. Youll see a chest heavily guarded by Taurax. Inside that chest is the best breastplate in the game. I strongly suggest you get it. Now, enter the Citadel. There will be a huge fight. I strongly suggest you use your flask of incinerator fuel here. Once everything is dead, head underground. All I will tell you of this is that it is very dangerous, and fun. By now, it should be hard still, but not as hard as youd think. I dont want to spoil the entire game for you, so Ill let you finish from there. Good luck, and have fun!

 

 

[Vroqren]

I wrote that all today.

[Vroqren]

I guess I'll just....

[Vroqren]

Quadruple post?

[Dax]

D:

[jimmy_jim]

:shame:

[Napalm]

http://min.us/mdA5AdE

 

I can see...

 

forever.

 

Also, Jimmy, you don't like fashion?

[H2PM]

JIMMAY

[Vroqren]

Heh. I win. Quintuple posted.

[H2PM]

Jimmy is such a cutie.

[Napalm]

>Leaving the quadruple post right there

>Removing fashion

[H2PM]

>ending the shuttle missions

>still fighting a losing war in the middle east

 

 

Hopefully Seany wont read this.

[Napalm]

Pepsi and Dax's lack of post is disturbing.

[Vroqren]

... No matter how many more posts I make, my post count stay at 79... What did I do wrong...?

[Napalm]

Forum games doesn't count toward post count.

 

 

 

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I suppose we won't be seeing him again

[H2PM]

... No matter how many more posts I make, my post count stay at 79... What did I do wrong...?

You touch yourself at night.

[Vroqren]

CRAAAAAAP lol, that makes perfect sense. Wish I was a bit smarter. Alright, I'm heading to bed. I guess I lose this time, even with that quintuple post. That was epic.