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Alrighty, now for Romancing.
Important Item: Arisen's Bond (not necessary, but very cool to use plot-wise)
Revisit the gravestone after the "Witch Hunt" quest, gotten after meeting with the duke and from overhearing a crowd talking in the middle of the capital square, just in front of the inn. -Must have done the Quina quest earlier in the game where you go through the Witch Wood.
-Pick up the slate there and bring it to the Dragonforged for a scene and for the item
Aelinore (the Troubled Duchess) Route
1. Meet her in the garden after meeting with the duke
2. Talk to her until you give her your hat automatically
3. Get the quest to meet her in the night from her handmaiden. Don't let her die. Intervene!
Optional: Give her the Arisen's Bond post-quest
4. Take up the next quest of hers from the handmaiden, who will be sobbing in front of the castle. If you can only get it once you start the quest that cancels others (involving the Great Wall), you don't need to worry.
...She'll show up.
Madeleine (the Flighty Merchant) Route
DO NOT DO ANY OF THE NUMBERS IN "Aelinore's Route"
If you talked to the Duchess already, then fine, but don't do any quests with her.
1. After the pawns see you as the Arisen officially at the beginning of the game, go back to the inn in Cassardis and speak to Madeleine
2. Escort her to the stronghold
3. Give her the 1000 gold she asks for
4. Continue to interact with her, and do the Mason-given quest involving following/stalking someone at night
5. When she gives you the quest, give her the Golden Idol (obtained through hanging with Fournaval's daughter for a day and letting her win the race at the end. Speak to her after completing the quest and she rewards you the idol for doing as she said all day).
Optional: Give her the Arisen's Bond
6. Keep talking to her. Not too important, but she does say things about the events that you witnessed on that stalking quest
Mercedes (the Princess Knight) Route
As before: Do not do ANY of the other numbers in the other routes. Don't even talk to the duchess.
1. Talk to her and give her "cloudwine" until she likes you
2. When given the quest to hunt the griffen from Aldous, talk to her. Save as many men as you can. Come back and talk to her again
3. Give her a lot more cloudwine (in my game she was happy with me, but lost affection for some reason, so give her more crunk)
4. In "Pride Before the Fall", do not intervene and just watch
Optional: Give her the Arisen's bond (I made a copy of it at Black Cat in the capital and gave her one before the quest and one after the quest before I went to leave and talk to Aldous about what happened)
That's what I've confirmed so far. I'll help out more as I experiment and look around.
Adding on to this on who I just got last night - Selene.
1. Do the Quina quest where she visits the Witchwood.
2. When the quest about the Witch Hunt appears, do that quest and Selene will show affection for you. She'll go to the village you first start at and live in your home.
3. Give her items until her affinity is maxed. (I gave her whatever like some herbs, meat, foreign knives, lol).
Well, that's what I did. Not sure if it'll work, but it's something.
Very nice, mate! Can't believe I left her out.
Selene is easy to get as a sort of surrogate daughter, but not so much as a lover. How tall/mature was your protagonist? I heard she can only become the true love if your protagonist is a kid/midget (the game distinguishes age by height and wrinkles).
I know that for Quina there's a quest after the first Witch Wood quest with her where you have to save her from bandits or something. Never got it myself, but then again I rarely checked back in with Cassardis during the game.
For Quina, the quest after Witch Wood was an escort quest to Prayer falls near the abbey. Where ------
she joins a church of nuns, in order to research your wound. I haven't visited her yet, as I've just defended against the cockatrice.
On a side note, I hit level 50 today! Also Asalam finally respawned! He died during an escort quest so I was stuck as a Mystic Archer, and my pawn as a warrior for a massive amount of time.
My pawn currently has 48k Discipline points to spend. She's completed Fighter and warrior 100%, she's 7 levels into strider. I've finished Strider, Mystic Archer, Ranger, and am 7 levels into Warrior.
Oh right! I totally forgot about that quest with her! Nice call, mate. I told you Ass Slam would respawn eventually (I think I did, unless I had just read your post about a dead innkeeper and didn't reply, then my bad). Didn't think it would take THAT long, though. At least you're a beast with the Mystic Bow.
Also, congratulations! You're officially ready to beat the game, at least level-wise.
I just beat the Ur-Dragon after an all day battle. My thumb is killing me from mashing the button for my assassin's "Dire Gouge" skill. Also managed to
finally get Mercedes, the character I was friggin aiming for. You have no idea how happy I am I got my black French woman. lol
Fucking took long enough. Madeleine was really good, though. A close second.
In other news: There's a pawn level 106 that costs 2 million+ RC to contract. Can you imagine someone actually contracting with that? First of all, there is not one point in the game you need to be 106. Secondly, who the hell would pay 2 grand for one pawn that will die just as easy as the rest when you can get two 50+ level pawns for cheap by the end of the game and finish in style? Summoning that pawn is like buying spinning rims to go for a drive in the countryside.
SeriousSAM wrote...
What does every element do?
All I mostly use is fire because everything is weak to fire. Then holy at the end
Nothing much. It pretty much goes as you've got it, man:
Pre-Final Sequence = Fire Enchantment
Final Sequence = Holy Enchantment
Don't know what the other ones do. Pretty sure ice freezes the enemies, but it doesn't even matter. It's good there's variety, but there's no need to stray from the Fire and/or Holy enchantments at any point.