Ultima VIII:Pagan (Part 2)

             Solution by Alex van Kaam

@~When Alex sent the first of these Pagan files, he hadn't
@~actually finished the game so I put it into the hints section.
@~Now, however, he HAS completed it and so I have moved it into
@~the solutions section.

@~Continued from the Hints section last issue

I left you with the question of wisdom from the theurgist, I did
get it right after about 50 or so tries, the only tips I can say
to this are: honesty and loyalty.

After the test of wisdom comes the test of centeredness, go to
windy point north of the monastery, climb up on the rocks and
stand on the air symbol, there will now come a whirlwind that will
try to push you off the rock, try to keep on it and after a short
while there will be some thunder and lightning and you have
completed the test.  Now go to Stellos and he will give you the
key to the dungeon underneath the monastery, here you have to find
silver to make your foci, since there are 9 foci (read the manual
page 26-27) you will need 9 pieces of silver.

Search this area well and you will find them, they are small grey/
white rocks.  You will also find a red house, use secret door on
the east wall and you can enter, here you will find the magical
sword called protector.

After I found the 9 pieces of silver I used the recall item to get
to Tenebrea, go the the smith in the west part and he will make 8
foci, he will not make the wings foci.

Then head back to the monastery on foot or by using the recall
item if you found the teleport pad near the monastery.

Now put all the foci on the altar and they will be filled with
power, now go the Stellos and he will tell you that you should go
back to the dungeon and undergo a test.

Go down to the dungeon and to the west you will see a wounded
animal, this creature you have to heal and this can only be done
by standing next to is and casting healing touch, but if you jump
down to this creature you can not get back up so you have to get
the creature up to your position, to do this use the aerial
servant spell, then heal the creature and go back to Stellos, he
will tell you that he can not congratulate you because Xavier's
healing focus is stolen and he has to find it, he also says that
if Xavier knows more he isn't telling.

Go to Xavier outside the monastery to the south/east, he will tell
you that it was stolen in the night by someone who was very very
quiet.  Cast hear truth (the chain) and talk again to Xavier, now
ask him about Cyruss, and you will hear the truth about Cyruss,
that he is a wimp and will not reach the adept status, and he
spends too much time with Torwin.

I then went to Cyruss, cast hear truth again and asked him if he
saw Torwin, he answers with no but you hear the truth, then I
asked him where Torwin was and he will say at Windy Point.  I went
to Windy Point and here I found Torwin, next follows a long story
about his dead father (the intro of the game), and in the end
Torwin will leap into the water leaving you with his ring and the
focus of Xavier.

I brought the focus to Xavier and went to Stellos, told him about
Torwin and he gave me the final test to become an adept.

Go to Windy Point, stand between the two black pillars and jump
west, you will then be caught by Stratos, titan of the air, and
you will land on a large rock.  Now work your way east and then
north until you reach a large plateau, remember to save often.

Here you will meet Stratos, she will tell you about the Breath of
Air, after this she will give you the wings focus. (turn the Fx
off if you can't understand her). Take it and head back to
Stellos, he will tell you that the Breath of Air is located near
Stratos but you can't see it.  Head back to Stratos, cast Reveal,
and use Aerial Servant to get the Breath of Air.

You now have the Heart of Earth and the Breath of Air, it seems
you have to get an important item from all the elements, anyway
head back to the monastery.

Here Stellos will tell you that he now has lost all his power and
he will fade away.......I hope this is the right route..??

Anyway, this is about it on Argentrock Isle, I then headed back
into the caverns and I headed to the other two doors that can be
opened with the key of scion, one door leads to a large lava
section, using the wings I could reach the island in the middle
but that was it, so on to the next door, here I came to a large
area which seemed to be a lake at one time. (don't forget to find
the transport platform)

In the middle I found an isle on it I found Hydros, she offered
her power to me if I could open the grave of her captor's loved
one, after a bit of searching I found a cave in the south/west,
this led to another cave and so one until I found a grave, I used
open ground on it and the water started streaming down.  (Here I
also noticed that only the wing focus worked, the other didn't,
probably because I took the Breath of Air)

I then headed back to the cave of Hydros, it was now full of
water, I headed back to her island and here she didn't give me
some of her power instead she told me she would kill Devon !!  (I
sure hope this was the right thing to do, but as long as you are
able to save you are able to finish the game.) Anyway, I used the
Recall item to get back to Tenebrae, I rushed to Devon and I told
him what had happened, his answer was to visit the sorcerers
across the Lava river (this must be the lava section that can be
reach through the catacombs)

Use the Recall item to get back to Carthax Lake (Hydros) and go
from there into the catacombs, then go the through the door that
leads to the lava section, walk straight north until you reach the
lava, now head to the north/west corner and you will now see a
sorcerer appear on the island, listen to him and then slowly walk
a little bit on the hard pieces of lava, then use the wings focus
and jump west to the island.  Now work your way around the island
at the base until you see an area where you can jump over onto
some solid rock, here you will see a river, seek a place to jump
and then search the west wall until you see a place to climb up,
now head east and you will enter a new area.  This is the
sorcerers' Enclave, there is a transporter here but your (or at
least my) recall item doesn't work !!  Search all the homes and
talk to all the people and you will notice that there are two
sides, one is led by Vardion the other by Bane, both of these will
ask you to give the true name of the other so that he/she can
destroy him/her.

To get their true names you have to become a disciple of Bane and
of Vardion, they will then tell their true name to you.  Now you
have to choose, will you betray Vardion or Bane, I choose for
Vardion so I gave his true name to Bane and she destroyed him and
gave me the key to the library to become a sorcerer.  I also tried
the other way around and the end result was the same so the choice
is up to you. (I choose for Bane since she was not as brutal and
unpolite as Vardion)

So onto the library, get key from box, read all the books and you
will learn all the spells, now try them out and ... only 3 or 4
work !!!. It seems someone tampered with the books.

Well, it took me 2 afternoons but I finally got them all right, a
list follows in a while but remember even though the spells aren't
right in the books you do have to read these books otherwise your
avatar won't know the words !!

To cast a spell you must now the following:

A pentagram has five points and they are named like this:  (note:
most of the time the 'A' is to the south)

              A              A = Aphelion
                            MZ = Mesostel ze
        MZ         MP       MP = Mesostel pa
                            PZ = Perivolcan ze
         PZ       PP        PP = Perivolcan pe

To cast a spell:

Place all the candles on the points, these are black unless the
spellbook says different, then place the reagents near the
candles, (I found that placing then left or right of the candle on
the brown edge works best), place the foci (look in the manual for
the best one for that spell) in the middle and light all the
candles, now leave the circle and double click on the black edge,
if your Avatar has read the spell he will says the magic words and
the spell will be stored in the foci, if the first time doesn't
work try to move the reagents closer to the candles.

Now as the glossy magazines say and to make you buy the next issue
of SynTax:

           The list of spells will be continued next issue......
           ...
           ...
           ...
           Just kidding...........

Here comes a list of all the spells:

          Extinguish: (An Flam)

Red candles: none
Reagents   : Pumice at PZ+PP+A

          Ignite: (In Flam)

Red candles: at A
Reagents   : Ash at A, Pumice at PZ+PP

          Flash: (Flam Por)

Red candles: at A+PZ+PP
Reagents   : Ash at MZ+MP, Pumice at A


          Flame bolt: (In Ort Flam)

Red candles: at PP+MZ+A
Reagents   : Ash at MZ, Pumice at PP, Iron at MP

          Endure heat: (Sanct Flam)

Red candles: at PP+PZ
Reagents   : Obsidian at PP+PZ, Iron at A

          Fire shield: (In Flam An Por)

Red candles: at PZ+MZ+PP
Reagents   : Ash at MZ, Obsidian at PP+PZ, Iron at A

          Armour of flames: (Vas Sanct Flam)

Red candles: at PP+PZ+MP
Reagents   : Ash at MZ, Obsidian at PZ+PP, Iron at A, Brimstone at
             MP


          Create fire: (In Flam Ylem)

Red candles: at MP+MZ
Reagents   : Ash at MP+MZ, Pumice at PP, Obsidian at PZ

          Explosion: (Vas Ort Flam)

Red candles: at PZ+MP+A
Reagents   : Ash at MP, Pumice at PZ, Iron at MZ, Brimstone at A

          Summon daemon: (Kal Flam Corp Xen)

Red candles: at MZ+PP+PZ+A
Reagents   : Ash at MP, Pumice at MZ, Obsidian at PP+PZ, Daemon
             bone at A



          Banish daemon: (An Flam Corp Xen)

Red candles: at PZ+PP+MP+A
Reagents   : Ash at MZ, Pumice at MP, Iron at PP+PZ Deamon bone at
             A

Well that's about it, the only one left is Conflagration, but
there is no book of this spell so.....

Anyway, head back to Bane (she is now in Vardion's home) and she
will test you, in this first test you have to create 3 spells,
Flash & Flame-bolt & Endure heat, so make sure you have 3 foci.
(you can take somebody else's foci and empty it so you can
re-use it)

After casting these spells Bane will tell you that you are now an
Acolyte, and you can now enter the Obsidian Fortress, this is
located west of the town over a stone bridge.  Before I entered I
got all the foci I could get including the Deamon Talisman, I then
charged this talisman with the Banish Deamon spell and I entered
the Fortress.  Here the master will greet you, tell you to find
him and then he will set two deamons onto you, use the talisman to
get rid of them, then climb down the stairs and you will met
another deamon.  DO NOT KILL HIM, he will tell you all you need to
know, from his story you will also hear that he has been to earth
so it is also possible for you.......

This deamon will tell you to prepare yourself for the next test,
you must find four symbols, and you may use his pentagram and
reagents.  At this point I made ALL the spells, this does take a
lot of time but who knows what you will encounter....

After this go west through the two pillars and you will come to a
large area with five major corridors, four of these will have a
plaque at the beginning which will name a spell that is very
useful in this corridor.  In the fifth corridor you will find a
sorcerer who will attack you, raise your armour of flame and kill
him with your sword.  In this room you will find a pentagram and a
lot of items, including a book with the spell of Conflagration.


In the book it says the following:

Red candles: all
Reagents   : Ash at MZ, Pumice at PZ, Obsidian at PP, Iron at MP,
             Brimstone at A, Deamon bone at PP+PZ+A.

If I prepared the spell this way it wouldn't work.  But in the
room, on the pentagram, the spell is already prepared like this:

Red candles: all
Reagents   : Ash at MP, Pumice at PP, Obsidian at PZ, Iron at MZ,
             Brimstone at A, Deamon bone at PP+PZ+A.

Using it this way all the candles, items and the foci will
explode!!  But there is another option, near the bone at PP is
another pile of bones, take this pile and the pile you find in the
chest and make the following:


Read candles: all
Reagents    : Ash at MP, Pumice at PP, Obsidian at PZ, Iron at MZ,
              Brimstone at A, Deamon bone at PP+PZ+MP+MZ+A

This will create a deamon that will tell you that he came for
you....  the only option is to kill him.

After this I entered the other corridors, they aren't very hard,
just use the right spells for each corridor.  At the end of these
corridors you will find a symbol, get all four.  You will also
find a piece of armour, first check if it is better than the one
you are using and then equip it.

After all this go back to the plateau where you entered this area,
you will then be transported back to the Deamon, he will tell you
to go to the master......

Step through the pillars and you will reach his inner sanctium.
Here the master will ask you to cast 3 spells at him, first
examine his room and you will find a chest with a book and the
blade of Striking, equip the blade, read the book, it will tell
about the 5 pieces of the obelisk, the Heart of Earth, the Breath
of Air, the Tear of Seas, the fourth part that was given to the
five sorcerers to hold Pyros and the Tip.

You have 3 of these so all is going well (I hope), anyway, make
sure to get a red candle in your inventory and then cast the 3
spells at the master, in return the master will cast a deamon at
you, banish it and you will be transported to the large Pentagram
outside the town.

All five of you will now summon Pyros, if you have a red candle
with you all will go well and the master will tell you in the end
that you maybe will become his first acolyte, if you do not have a
candle Bane will give you one but you will be the weak link in the
defence, the master will warn you when all is over, so make sure
you bring your one red candle.

I still needed the black stone of the fire titan, but where...? I
headed back to the fortress, and inside I met the master, he was
very angry and tried to kill the Avatar.  Raise your Armour of
Flames and attack him with your sword, spell will have not much of
an effect on him, kill him as fast as you can.  After his death
you will find a book and the Tongue of Flame, your fourth piece of
black rock, take it and head back into the village, make Bane your
first Acolyte and head back to the catacombs.  Here the recall
item works so I transport the Avatar back to central Tenebrea.

Since Devon sent me to the sorcerers I first headed back to him,
here the Avatar (thanks to reading the book) asked Devon where the
Tear of Seas was, after a short conversation Devon will give you
his key to his study, where there is a chest with a black rock.
Now go and find his study, if you meet the mother of Torwin (the
lady that sells/buys gems) tell here that her son is death and
that he tried to resurrect his father.

This is where I leave you, good luck and hopefully till next
issue....

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