Aethra Chronicles - Book Of Prophecy

                 Quick Guide by James Judge

Start the game by getting a human Paladin, halfling Rogue and a
half-elven Sorcerer. Watch out for the Rogue as he'll have very
low hit points and he'll die easily. Give the Paladin strength of
100 and Wisdom of 100 and high other scores, then increase his
Fortification, Hand Weapons, Spell points and Perception scores,
as well as any others that you feel are necessary. For the Rogue
give him high Agility and Intelligence and increase his Bow skill,
Trap Detection and Removal as well as Lock Picking Skills as high
as possible, as well as Fortification and Attack Dodging. For the
Elf give him high Intelligence and Reasoning and then increase
Object Identification, Rune Reading, Spell List, Spell Points,
Fortification Dodging and Perception.

When you enter the city get Kasalah from the Mercenary Guild,
Lunica from the temple and Peral from the Crafts Guild.  Buy
everyone an assortment of armour (chain mail for the your Paladin
and Kasalah and Leather Jerkins for the rest) and get Peral and
your Rogue as good a bow as you can afford (at least a Normal).
Also get Broadswords for your Paladin, Kasalah, Peral and your
Rogue as well as a Hammer for your Cleric. If you can afford it
get a Broadsword++ for your Paladin and a Two-Handed axe for
Kasalah.

Then go to the top right hand quadrant of the city and see the man
about the book. He'll tell you to go to the bottom centre quadrant
of the city, but before you do that take a visit to the cemetery
on the left hand side of the city. Go over the small square
structure in the bottom left hand part of it and enter.  Explore
and pick up as much treasure as possible, fighting all the
monsters and, finally, picking up the dead body.

Don't worry about going back to the city and sleeping as the
monsters don't move around the map, so you will be safe.

Once you've got the dead body go back the temple in the city (top
right hand section) and deliver the body there to get 100GP. Now
go to the central bottom square and enter the square, burnt-out
hut at the bottom of the screen. If you need to come out for a
rest there is an Inn at the top of this screen which only charges
18GP.

Explore both levels of the dungeon and watch out for the rats -
they are easy to kill, but some can give you disease. Once you've
been everywhere search the first floor for secret doors - this may
take some while. You'll find a few but one will lead you into a
relatively large new section of the dungeon. In here will be the
Bandit Leader and the painting, which is hanging on the wall of
his room. Take the painting and go back to the man in the city you
spoke with earlier.

He'll now tell you to find a monastery and ask the monks for the
book. Go around the city and enter the temple, mages and crafts
guild and increase your mage, rogue, Peral's and Lucina's levels.
Then exit the city and go north, visiting the first large city you
come to called Drensea. In the bottom right of the city are two
guilds - one will train your Paladin and one will train Kasalah.
Also here is where you must take the book when you've found it -
someone in the north of the city will help.

Exit the city and continue north, following the road until you
come to a town on some crossroads, take the north branch and enter
the mountains. Go towards the small structure and speak with the
dragon, asking about the Book Of Prophecies.

Enter his lair and then go through it systematically, destroying
all of the monsters. There are three useful weapons here - two
swords and an elven bow, as well as Joshua's Bridge, all of which
you should find with ease. Once you've killed all of the monsters
exit from the lair.  If you need to keep on coming out of the lair
after every battle to rest and before you face the Dark Elves at
the North-East part of the lair go back to the guilds and train up
your characters another level, as well as getting some better
armour.

Once you've cleaned out the lair speak with the dragon and he'll
give you the Book as well as a resurrect scroll. Got back to
Drensea and deliver the book. Well done, you've completed this
chapter!

One word of warning - I found a great sword and it was cursed, so
if you find it don't equip it otherwise you'll have a poor fighter
on your hands.

Save often and don't worry about getting characters killed - just
reload and try the fights again. Always wear new and better
armour, as well as replacing weapons with ones which do the most
damage.

In a fight always pick off the magic users first and a general
rule of thumb is that the bigger the monster, the nastier it is,
so once the mages have died concentrate on them.




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