Avernum Gazetteer

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This gazetteer describes the towns of Avernum, and what you can expect to find there. This geographical arrangement is the way I keep my notes as I go along.
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Almaria

Services in Almaria

Identification (5 gold).
Training.
Decent armour and weapons [expensive].
Food shop [slightly expensive].
Inn (15 gold/night).
Wine shop [very reasonable].
Potion shop [slightly expensive].
Fletchery shop (bows, arrows, crossbows, bolts) [slightly expensive].
Supplies (lockpicks, fine first aid kits, etc) [slightly expensive].

Where’s the nearest...?

Healer: at The Castle [slightly expensive].

Missions and Plot Information in and around Almaria

Mission (from Bevan, the Mayor): clear out a nest of basilisks along the south wall of the Great Cave.
Mission (from Dexter): steal a ring from Blosk.
Info: Talk to the soldier in the inn: he says the Sliths have a major sacred temple in their fort in the swamp. Also the big Slith leader (Sss-Thsss) lives in a Castle on an island in the middle of a big lake. It may help to talk to a man called Chuck, who has been to this island.
Living statue: teaches you unlock doors (L3), but doesn’t help you find any brooches.

Lair of Athron

Athron will tell you a syllable of the exit password, and teach you the spell slow (L3).

Fort Avernum

Here you can learn smite (L3) if your group’s combined rune reading skill is at least 30.
There is a room in the fort where you can rest. You can also leave PCs here if you get fed up with them.
After you’ve talked to Adam in Patrick’s tower, you can find a summon beast mind crystal.

Bargha

Services in Bargha

Training.
Identification (5 gold).
Healer [slightly expensive].
Food shop [exorbitant].
Fletchery shop (bows, arrows, crossbows, bolts) [expensive].
Inn (5 gold/night).

Where’s the nearest...?

Place to trade items: in Spire.
Shop for lockpicks: in Spire [utterly ridiculous].

Missions and Plot Information in and around Bargha

Mission (for the Mayor): clobber the giants in their fort to the east. There’s no reward, but the giants do have a lot of treasure (including a pathfinder mind crystal). Outdoors, south of the giant fort, you can find far sight (L3).
Mission (for the Scimitar): destroy the seeing orb in the secret empire installation in the gremlin cave north of Fort Emerald. This will allow you to join the Scimitar.
Mission (for the Scimitar): find the exit out of Avernum to the surface world. For assistance, talk to Erika. The exit is guarded by Sulfras.
Info: if you ask Calder (innkeeper) about the Scimitar, he will tell you the password to get into the base underneath Bargha.
Info: a dragon lives in the tunnels to the east. (This is Pyrog.)
Herbs: east of Bargha and south of the giant fort, there is a patch of mandrake.

Blosk

Services in Blosk

Decent weapons and armour [slightly expensive].
Fletchery shop (bows, arrows, crossbows, bolts) [slightly expensive].
Training.
Identification (5 gold).
Supplies: magic lockpicks, elixirs, etc. [slightly expensive].
Food: Demel sells mushroom meal [extremely cheap].
Inn (10 gold/night).

Where’s the nearest...?

Healer: in Gnass [slightly expensive] or The Castle [slightly expensive].

Missions and Plot Information in and around Blosk

Mission: bring ore to Jonnhalyn. She will pay 25 gold/sack.
Mission: Leith would like you to take a message to Shaynee, who runs the outdoors bazaar west of Dharmon. If you do so, she will reward you with mass curing (L3).
Info: Royce has heard of your exploits and suggest you may want to join a secret society called the Scimitar. He says to talk to Calder, who lives in Bargha.
Living Statue: it tells you that a man called Eldin in Dharmon may have a brooch.

The Castle

Healer [slightly expensive].
Room for resting.
Silverlocke the witch, who lives on the Fumarole Plateau just west of The Castle, will sell great potions [expensive].
Mission (for Benth): bring historical scrolls.
Mission: King Micah wants you to kill the Slith Chief ‘Sss-Thsss’ and bring him his head. He lives in an island fort in the middle of a lake north of Fort Emerald. In his fort you can learn control foes (L3) and find a blademaster mind crystal.
Mission: Rone the court wizard thinks you should go to Grah-Hoth’s fortress, let him out of his bottle (using the Blessed Athame, which you get from the Tower of Magi) and then kill him. He says no one else will believe him, but Grah-Hoth is still a threat. He is proved right -- and the mission becomes official backed by the King’s authority -- when Grah-Hoth manifests himself and destroys Fort Remote. Reward from King Micah, for slaying Grah-Hoth: arcane summon (L3) and divine warrior (L3).
Info: to learn healing spells, go to Dharmon and talk to the high priest, Malville.
Info: Commander Frankel, from The Castle, has gone raiding. He is trying to get into the big Slith Castle (on an island in the middle of a big lake).
In one of the cells in The Castle, you can obtain the gold key to Akhronath. To learn the secret passphrase, talk to Patrick.

Cotra

Services in Cotra

Boat (250 gold).
Inn (5 gold/night).
Potion shop [expensive].
Okay weapons and armour [Expensive].
Food [slightly expensive].

Where’s the nearest...?

Training: in Silvar.
Identification: in Duvno (5 gold).
Fletchery shop: in Duvno [slightly expensive].
Shop for lockpicks: in Duvno [slightly expensive].
Healer: in Duvno [slightly expensive].

Missions and Plot Information in and around Cotra

Mission: rescue the prisoners from the Nepharim underground fort by the lake to the north. In this fort you can find the pommel of Demonslayer. You can also learn curing (L3).
Mission: Jenny (the alchemist) wants to know where Erika’s tower is.
Info: Once you’ve spoken to Scab, Asp will tell you how to bypass the traps surrounding the mayor’s circlet in Spire.
Konig (in the inn) will teach you call beast (L3), after you’ve been to the Tower of Magi.

Dharmon

Services in Dharmon

Great weapons--includes steel greatsword and steel halberd [slightly expensive].
Inn (5 gold/night).
Healer [expensive].
Hestia sells fine meal [slightly expensive, i.e. 37 gold/sack].
In the mountains just north of Dharmon there is a blacksmith, selling great armour [pretty average].
Mage spells [expensive]: summon aid, beast ceremony, fireblast.
Priest spells [expensive]: sanctuary, divine fire, control foes.
Alchemy recipes [expensive]: energy elixir, strength elixir, protection brew, heroic brew.

Where’s the nearest...?

Training: in Blosk.
Identification: in Blosk (5 gold).
Fletchery shop: in Blosk [slightly expensive].
Shop for lockpicks: in Blosk [slightly expensive].

Missions and Plot Information in and around Dharmon

Mission: the witch would like you to find a copy of a book called the ‘Valorim Bestiary’--you won’t find it in the Tower of Magi or in Patrick’s Tower, you’ll have to visit Erika’s library. She will reward you with ice lances (L3).
Mission (for the mayor): find out who is leading the bandits who operate north of Fort Saffron.
Info: a curious woman called Malka, in the inn, says if you want to strike a blow against the Empire, then you should go to Blosk and ask Royce about the ‘Scimitar’.
Info: the priest tells you it is possible to learn the spell return life from a monastery north of Fort Dranlon. Also, there is a source of graymold in that region.
Info: if you pay the beggar, then he will tell you that there’s a guy called Eldin in the town jail, who claims to have stolen some jewelry. If you talk to Eldin, he’ll tell you that his friend Bertraud is in possession of a valuable brooch.
Herbs: if you pay the witch, she will tell you (a) about the energetic herbs east of Almaria and (b) roughly where to find a patch of mandrake. The mandrake grows south of the giant fort, east of Bargha.
To the west of Dharmon is Shaynee’s bazaar selling useful items [slightly expensive]. If you bring her Leith’s message from Blosk, she will reward you with mass curing (L3).
Living Statue: it tells you that the local bandits have a secret warehouse in the north of the city. Also a man in the jail (i.e. Eldin) might know something about a brooch.
To the south of Dharmon (and west of Fort Remote) is ‘gremlin gold’--recover the royal messenger’s scroll and collect lots of gold and a resistance mind crystal.

Fort Draco

Services in Fort Draco

Boat (300 gold).
Supplies: potions, lockpicks [slightly expensive].
Decent weapons and okay armour [expensive]. Includes some arrows and bolts.
Food shop [slightly expensive].
From Carlos you can learn cave lore skill (110 gold/level).
Inn (5 gold/night).
Alchemy recipe [slightly expensive]: healing elixir.
To the west of Fort Draco, across the bridge and north of Grahk’s peninsular, is a crystal shop [pretty average], situated outdoors in a mine.

Where’s the nearest...?

Training: in Formello.
Healer: in Formello [slightly expensive] or Fort Dranlon [slightly expensive].
Identification: in Formello (10 gold) or Fort Dranlon (20 gold).

Missions and Plot Information in and around Fort Draco

Mission: fetch aranea fangs for Aife.
Mission: fetch cheap wine for Bill, in the foundry.
Mission: Go and ask the chief of the friendly spiders (whose name is ‘Spider’, naturally) for a mission; they ask you to rescue their friend from the nearby aranea city. As a reward you are given access to the malachite brooch, and you can find a defensive glow mind crystal in the aranea city.
Info: Boutell the blacksmith can repair weapons (i.e. Demonslayer, if you find all three pieces).
To the south-west of Fort Draco, across the bridge, is a small outdoors hut. If you read the scrolls here you can learn the recipe for graymold salve.

Fort Dranlon

Services in Fort Dranlon

Supplies: torches, lockpicks, etc [expensive].
Identification (20 gold).
Healer [slightly expensive].
Room for resting.

Where’s the nearest...?

Training: in Formello or Silvar.
Fletchery shop: in Duvno [slightly expensive]. Also, Boutell sells some bolts and arrows in Fort Draco [expensive].
Food shop: in Cotra [slightly expensive].

Missions and Plot Information in and around Fort Dranlon

Mission: Mairwen, the mage, would like you to steal a rare tome from the Sliths’ fort in the swamp. In swamp city itself you can learn repel spirit (L3). As a reward for returning her the book, Mairwen will sell you dispel barrier [extremely cheap].
Mission: Captain Rosie will reward you if you kill the chief of the sliths in the fort on the small island to the south of Dranlon.
Mission: Captain Rosie wants you to find evidence of what the Slith plans are, for a reward of a lucky bracelet. In the slith island fort west of Dranlon (but north of Sss-Thsss’s fort) you can learn sanctuary (L3).
West of Dranlon and north of Sss-Thsss’s fort, is the foul cavern. This place really is foul and full of undead. Here you can learn bind foe (L3) and obtain an anatomy mind crystal.
North of Dranlon (west of the river) in the aranea cave, you can learn fireblast (L3), if you have dispel barrier.
Far west of Dranlon, in the centre of the waterfall warren, is a cave full of basilisks, gremlins, and eye beasts. Here you can find the orb of thralnai, an artifact that allows you to fly short distances. In addition, in the Lich’s lair are two spellbooks, which teach you the first seven mage and priest spells at level 2.

Crypt of Drath

To enter, you need the stone key from Motrax.
Here’s where you get the tip of Demonslayer.
You can learn safe travel (L3) here.

Duvno

Services in Duvno

Inn (5 gold/night).
Healer [slightly expensive].
Basic weapons and armour [slightly expensive].
Fletchery shop: arrows, javelins [slightly expensive].
Tool shop [slightly expensive].
Identification (5 gold).
Food shop [slightly expensive].
Alchemy recipes [slightly expensive]: haste potion, energy potion.
If your reputation is high enough, then JR (the fletcher) will teach you bows skill (150 gold/level).

Where’s the nearest...?

Training: in Silvar.

Missions and Plot Information in and around Duvno

Mission (from Johnson): kill the chief of the new (really half-built) Nephilim fort to the north.
Mission (from Johnson): kill the chief of the bandits from the hillfort to the west. In this fort you can learn light (L3).
Info: talk to the priest Caius. He says to mention his name to Mother Claudette in Formello, and she will offer you help.
In the bat cave to the north, you can learn divine fire (L3).

Fort Emerald

Services in Fort Emerald

From Eleanor you can learn gymnastics skill (1500 gold/level).
Meditation at the Emerald shrine restores your spell energy.
Room for resting.

Where’s the nearest...?

Healer: in Gnass [slightly expensive] or The Castle [slightly expensive].
Training: in Blosk.
Identification: in Gnass (10 gold) or Blosk (5 gold).
Shops: in Blosk [slightly expensive].

Missions and Plot Information in and around Fort Emerald

Mission (for Hodgson): fetch some aranea fangs.
Mission (for Matthias): take a message to Elizabeth, who lives ‘near Silvar’ (i.e. in Cotra).
Info: if you want to learn the spell dispel barrier, it may help to talk to the mage in Fort Dranlon.
Info: inside the ruins of Grah-Hoth’s old fortress there is a Royal Seal (from the first expedition). (This will enable you to reach the teleportation augmenter. However, to enter the fortress you need to get the gold key--talk to Patrick.)
Herbs: there is a small patch of Graymold at the headwaters of the river that runs into the big lake - follow the river from Cotra far, far to the north.
North of Fort Emerald in the scree pits is a gremlin cave. Inside you can find lightning spray (L3).

Erika’s Tower

Erika will teach mage spells [slightly expensive]: summon aid, beast ceremony, fireblast, arcane summon, arcane shield, arcane blow.
Mission: kill the Emperor, Hawthorne. For this you need to learn about the traps from Aydin, learn a ritual from Khoth, obtain a royal seal (from Akhronath--key from Patrick) and collect the five brooches (from Mertis, the spiral pit, the friendly spiders, Motrax and Pyrog). Then you can teleport to Empire lands and carry out the assassination. Erika rewards you with arcane blow (L3) and divine host (L3).
Info: Erika has placed living statues in major cities around Avernum (Silvar, Formello, Almaria, Blosk, Dharmon and Sulfras’s Tower). These are her spies, and she tells you the password to use for talking to them.
Info: to reach the last exit from Avernum to the surface world, you will need a four-part password. Erika will tell you one part, the other parts are known by Aimee, Patrick and the dragon Athron. The exit is guarded by the dragon Sulfras. After you have found the exit, and assuming you don’t use it to leave Avernum altogether, Erika will reward you with arcane shield (L3) and divine restoration (L3).
To the north of Erika’s Tower, past the lava, is a secret house. In here you can learn create illusions (L3).

Formello

Services in Formello

Identification (10 gold).
Training.
Potions [slightly expensive].
Basic weapons and armour [slightly expensive].
Food shop [utterly ridiculous] & mission: bring mushroom meal from the great cave to Formello.
Inn (5 gold or 15 gold, per night).
Healer [slightly expensive].
Mage spells [slightly expensive]: bolt of fire, light, call beast, bind foe, haste, slow, ice lances.
Priest spells [exorbitant]: healing, curing, battle rage, shielding, repel spirit, smite.
Alchemy recipe [slightly expensive]: strength potion.

Where’s the nearest...?

Shop for lockpicks: in Fort Draco [slightly expensive].
Fletchery shop: some arrows and bolts are sold by Boutell in Fort Draco [expensive].

Missions and Plot Information in and around Formello

Mission: Claudette wants you to locate a scroll of history. You have to visit the dragon Khoth. As a reward, Claudette will teach you the spell unshackle mind (L3).
Mission: recover the Mayor’s necklace from the Nephilim fort to the west. Get the Bronze Key from the New Fort (north of Duvno). The necklace is in the locked room on the upper floor of the main floor. Kill Anastasia and you can learn bolt of fire (L3). If you ransack the rest of the fort you will also find healing (L3). Upon completion of this mission you are rewarded with a Crown Token, which will give you access to The Castle.
In the crypt to the north of Formello (which you can enter on the 1st day of any month) you can learn mass healing (L3).
Living Statue: tells you Motrax knows about a stone key. Nothing about brooches.

Gnass

Services in Gnass

Slith spear shop [exorbitant].
Identification (10 gold).
Potions and scrolls [slightly expensive].
Healer [slightly expensive].
Praying at the altar restores your health.

Where’s the nearest...?

Training: in Blosk.
Food shop: in Blosk [extremely cheap].
Shop for lockpicks: in Blosk [slightly expensive].
Fletchery shop: in Blosk [slightly expensive].

Missions and Plot Information in and around Gnass

Mission: kill the chief of the dark sliths in the fortifications to the north east. Your reward includes a ring of health. In the fortifications themselves you will find some icy chain mail.
Info: to gain entry to the throne room in the Castle of Sss-Thsss you will need an Onyx Key - from one of the other slith forts.
Info: the dark sliths have a piece of broken sword in their swamp temple, on the altar. (This is the blade of Demonslayer; while you’re there you can also learn return life (L3)--do a thorough search of the south wall in the upper level.)
After you have killed Sss-Thsss, the friendly sliths will teach you blademaster skill (4500 gold/level).

Lair of Khoth

Mission: the Empire has stolen one of Khoth’s scrolls and he wants it back. After you restore it he will teach you a ritual you need to reach the teleportation augmenter, and he will permit you to learn magery skill (1500 gold/level).
Inside Khoth’s library you can learn beast ceremony (L3).

Mertis

Services in Mertis

Inn (15 gold/night).
Healer [slightly expensive].
Basic weapons [slightly expensive].
Basic armour [slightly expensive].
Supplies: torches, first aid kits, etc [exorbitant].

Where’s the nearest...?

Training: in Silvar.
Food shop: in Silvar.
Identification: in the Tower of Magi (5 gold).
Fletchery shop: in Duvno [slightly expensive].
Shop for lockpicks: in Duvno [slightly expensive].

Missions and Plot Information in and around Mertis

Mission: the priest wants you to fetch him some items.
1. Energetic herbs. Reward: invulnerability potion.
2. Toadstools. Reward: lightning spray scroll.
3. Graymold. Reward: one level of find herbs skill for each PC.
4. Mandrake. Reward: recipe for restoration brew.
Info: hiding behind the temple is a guy called Bertraud. He says he is frightened of a colleague called Eldin in Dharmon. It turns out he is a thief, and he is willing to sell you the platinum brooch for 100 gold.
Info: Gypsy (in the inn) says a dragon (Athron) lives in the tunnels near Mertis.
In the spiral pit to the north of Mertis, you can obtain the pearl brooch.

Motrax’s Cave

Info: Motrax (the old dragon) will give you the low-down on his dragon siblings: Khoth (the one with the library), Pyrog (the one who will try and kill you), Sulfras (the one who guards the exit) and Athron (the one who wants to be left alone).
Info: if you listen to his story about the first expedition, Motrax will tell you where to find the stone key.
If you search the passage to the west of Motrax’s chamber, you will find the ivory brooch.
Info (from Leith): the orb of thralnai (an artifact that allows you to fly) is located in the waterfall maze west of Fort Dranlon.
North-west of Motrax’s cave is a natural hot spring.

Patrick’s Tower

Alchemy recipes [slightly expensive]: energy elixir, strength elixir.
In the library is a book which teaches your mages the first six mage spells.
Info (from Adam): there is a mind crystal hidden at the base of a statue in Fort Avernum.
Mission: find some graymold salve, with which to treat Patrick’s wife, who is sick. The recipe is near Fort Draco, and a source of the herb graymold can be found on the river, west and then north from Fort Dranlon (you will need a boat). Once you’ve helped him, Patrick will tell you a special phrase. This phrase can be used in The Castle to obtain the gold key--which you will need to obtain the royal seal.
Once you’ve visited Erika, Patrick will tell you one of the syllables of the password for the last exit to the surface.

Pyrog’s Cave

Pyrog has lots of treasure in his cave. This includes the chalcedony brooch.
To the north of Pyrog’s cave, on the lake, is the home of an empire deserter called Aydin. Here you can find out about how to reach the Emperor Hawthorne. You can also learn the spell dispel barrier (L3).
Also north of Pyrog’s cave, also on the lake, is the home of a mage called Aimee. She will tell you one of the syllables of the exit password.

Saffron

In the bandit fort to the north of Saffron, you can learn summon shade (L3). In the same fort is a book which is so damp, you can’t read it--maybe someone can tell you how to restore it?

Silvar

Services in Silvar

Inn (5 gold/night).
Boat (350 gold).
Food shop [slightly expensive].
Basic armour [slightly expensive].
Basic weapons [slightly expensive].
Training.
You can learn barter skill (150 gold/level) here.

Where’s the nearest...?

Identification: in Duvno (5 gold).
Fletchery shop: in Duvno [slightly expensive].
Healer: in Duvno [slightly expensive] or Mertis [slightly expensive].
Shop for lockpicks: in Duvno [slightly expensive].

Missions and Plot Information in and around Silvar

Mission (for Gary the innkeeper): find a natural hot spring.
Info: Anastasia lives here. Her sister Warrick in Fort Avernum is looking for her.
Info: Chuck says that Sss-Thsss’s castle has a secret entrance to the South.
Living Statue: tells you nothing whatsoever.
Herbs: if you take some wine to the gremlins in the grove to the north of Silvar, you will gain access to a regular supply of toadstools.

Solberg’s Tower

Here you can learn battle rage (L3).
Solberg will give you the crystal key, so that you can kill the haakai lord in the Tower of Magi.
After you kill the Adze-Haakai, Solberg is prepared to teach you mage spell skill for 150 gold/level. As with all the other sellers of skills, you can only learn up to level 5.

Spire

Services in Spire

Inn (choice of nice room for 15 gold/night or common room for 5 gold/night).
Decent weapons [exorbitant].
Identification (25 gold).
Supplies: crystals, first aid kits, lockpicks [utterly ridiculous].
Potion shop [expensive].
Food shop [exorbitant].

Where’s the nearest...?

Training: in Bargha.
Healer: in Bargha [slightly expensive].
Fletchery shop: in Bargha [slightly expensive].

Missions and Plot Information in and around Spire

Mission: bring cheap wine for Eustace. He will pay 35 gold/jug.
Mission: There is a wizard living outdoors to the north-west of Spire who is looking for a black drake fang. If you take him one, he will reward you by teaching you summon aid (L3).
Info: the man in the tool shop says to ask Scab about stealing the mayor’s circlet. This circlet is wanted by Sulfras the dragon, before s/he will let you use the exit.
Info: Scab is in the stands overlooking the arena. Before he will help you to steal the circlet, you have to go through the arena several times to prove your competence. For increasing rewards of gold, you have to fight four monsters of increasing difficulty. After that, Scab tells you two things. First, to get the circlet you will need a key, which is hidden in a cave not far to the west of Spire. Second, you will also need to talk to a man called Asp, tell him Scab’s name and ask about the circlet.

Tower of Sulfras

Sulfras guards the last exit from Avernum. Before s/he will let you use it, you must obtain the onyx scepter from the Adze-Haakai in the Tower of Magi and the circlet from the mayor in Spire. You will also need to talk to Erika about the four-part password.
Living statue: tells you that the trap on the South-East treasure chest in Sulfras’s tower doesn't work. It contains some coins, a blademaster mind crystal and a dragonskin cloak.

The Tower of Magi

Services in the Tower of Magi

Room for resting.
Identification (5 gold)
Potions and scrolls [slightly expensive].
Miscellaneous items: jewels, papyrus, etc [exorbitant].
To the south-west of the Tower (outdoors) is a magic items salesman [pretty average].
Alchemy recipes [slightly expensive]: balm of life, hasting elixir.
Mage spells from Ambrin [slightly expensive]: bolt of fire, light, call beast, bind foe, haste, slow, ice lances, unlock doors, create illusions, far sight, lightning spray.
‘X’ will teach mage spells, but only after you have visited Bargha. The spells he teaches are [expensive]: summon aid, beast ceremony, fireblast, arcane summon, arcane shield, arcane blow.
Priest spells [slightly expensive]: healing, curing, battle rage, shielding, repel spirit, smite, summon shade, safe travel, unshackle mind, mass healing, mass curing.
After you have visited Boutell’s forge in Fort Draco, and when your reputation is high enough (21 is enough) then Thrandell will also teach the following priest spells [exorbitant]: divine warrior, divine restoration, divine host.

Where’s the nearest...?

Training: in Almaria or Silvar.
Shop for lockpicks: Almaria [slightly expensive].
Fletchery shop: Almaria [slightly expensive].
Healer: in Mertis [slightly expensive].
Food shop: camping merchants north of the lava pools to the west [pretty average].

Missions and Plot Information in and around the Tower of Magi

Mission (for Ambrin): kill the ogre mage to the north. In the ogre cave you can learn far sight (L3) and there is also some rogue's leather and a beserk mind crystal. Your reward back in the Tower of Magi is shielding (L3).
Info: in order to get some Graymold, ask Phyllea in Draco about Cortath, who went on a trip to find some.
Info: The Tower is ruled by three very powerful magi. These are Linda, Solberg and ‘X’. Linda, seeking further power, has summoned a haakai lord to the Tower, which will ultimately prove to be just one of a series of demon-related misjudgements. Solberg, having quarrelled with Linda, has wisely gone off to live in his own tower (south of Formello). And ‘X’ is very keen to develop a spell that will allow him to drop an anvil on someone’s head--someone like Linda, perhaps?
Once you have dispel barrier, you will be able to gain access to learn haste (L3) within the Tower.
After you kill the Adze-Haakai, ‘X’ will teach you anatomy skill (3000 gold/level).
Herbs: to the west of the Tower (north of the lava) there is a patch of energetic herbs. To the north of the Tower (east of Mertis) there is a patch of spiritual herbs.

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