Avernum 3 Gazetteer

Notes

• This gazetteer describes the towns of Upper Avernum and Valorim, 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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Contents

[ Agate Tower | Aminro | Anama | Angel’s Rest | Bavner | Bengaro | Blackcrag Fortress | Black Halberd | Bolton | Bremerton | Calloc | Defiled Crypt | Delan | Delis | Dellston | Dorngas | Drakos | Fort Emergence | Erika | Ernest | Erox | Farport | Fenris Port | First Expedition | Gale | Ghikra | Gidrik | Golddale | Gorst | Greendale | Hectar | Herbs | Holy Valley | Inn of Blades | Khoth | Krizsan | Kuper | Lennus | Libras | Lorelei | Lost Isle | Malloc | Marish | Mernia | Monastery of Madness | Moon | New Cotra | New Formello | Pergies | Portal Fortress | Port Townsend | Poulsbo | Sharimik | Shayder | Silvar | Softport | Southpoint Lighthouse | Spineridge | Squiggus | Stone Circles | Storm Port | Strange Cave | Tevrono | Torria | Tower of Magi | Castle Troglo | Ursagi Lair | Tomb of Vahkohs | Wainscotting | Wyrm Pit | Zalifar | Tower of Zkal ]

Agate Tower

• Forcecage (L3).
• Here you learn the location of the slimes’ lair.

Aminro

• Inn (5 gold/night).
• Mission (from the mayor): kill King Vothkaro, king of the Troglodytes. Don’t do this till you’ve finished the diplomatic mission from Sharimik.

The Anama

• The Anama are a religious denomination who believe that magi magic is harmful. They suppress mages and promote the power of prayer (i.e., priest spells). They are based in Shayder.
• It can be fun to play the game as a member of the Anama - but that means no mage spells, remember, in particular no haste, no unlock doors, no far sight and no dispel barrier. You’ll have to get by with elixirs, crystals and scrolls. There are useful shops selling some of these items in Shayder (Anama-only), in the mountains north of Sharimik (Anama-only), in Greendale, in Bremerton, in Squiggus and at the Southpoint Lighthouse. There is also an Anama-only herb shop in the temple in Lorelei.
• When you join the Anama all your mage spells skill is taken away (assuming you had any), but all your PCs gain two levels of priest spells skill. You are also given access to spell books in Shayder which teach you for free the following spells at level 2: healing, curing, war blessing, terror, repel spirit, smite, summon shade, safe travel, unshackle mind and move mountains. You can also learn divine fire (L3) and divine restoration (L3) in Shayder.

Angel’s Rest

• Inn (8 gold/night).
• Tool shop: lockpicks, etc [expensive].
• Weapons shop [expensive].
• Armor shop [expensive].
• Mission (from Shaphur): meet the Empress Prazac. Once you’ve visited Blackcrag fortress, she’ll boost your reputation.
• Info: A soldier called Masok is in the inn here. After you speak to the innkeeper at Sharimik, Masok sells a map (2000 gold) which will allow you to get the Black Halberd.

Appleton

Bavner

• Inn (3 gold/night).
• Training.
• Judith, a wandering healer [exorbitant], is sometimes found in Bavner. She’ll sell the location of the Fury Crossbow.
• Mission (from Mother Loomis): visit Point Contemplation. This is in the far southwest corner of Bigail, and it is infested with cockroaches. It’s worth a visit as you can pick up a pilgrim’s cloak: blocks 1 damage, +2 pathfinder, +20% resist mental effects.

Bengaro

• Weapons shop [expensive].
• Tool shop: lockpicks, etc [expensive].
• Potion merchant [slightly expensive].
• Sometimes Foxfire is here. She will sell you the key to the Monastery of Madness.

Blackcrag Fortress

• To gain access to Blackcrag Fortress, talk to the Thieves’ guild in Lorelei.
• Identification (40 gold).
• Magical item shop: wands and crystals [utterly ridiculous].
• Items improvement platform (5000 gold).
• Weapons shop [utterly ridiculous].
• Mage spells [utterly ridiculous]: summon aid, forcecage, fireblast, arcane summon, arcane shield, arcane blow.
• Alchemy recipes [utterly ridiculous]: hasting potion, energy potion strength potion, graymold salve, strength elixir, heroic brew.
• Empress Prazac will give you a diplomacy mission to Fort Emergence. Once you complete it, she will give you permission to enter Footracer province.
• Mission from mage: get a golem diadem (torc). Reward: boots of speed.
• Cloud of blades (L3).

Black Halberd

• Buy bourbon from the innkeeper in Sharimik, and pay an extra 100 gold, for the tip off.
• Buy the map (2000 gold) from Masok, who is in the inn at Angel’s Rest.
• Here’s where you learn repel spirit (L3). Hint: it would be useful to come here before day 160, if your party is tough enough.
• Major artifact: black halberd, does 6-48 damage + 1-8/level, +1 strength, +1 dexterity, +1 parry, +30% magic resistance. Nice weapon(!)

Bolton

• Weapons shop [slightly expensive].
• Armor shop [slightly expensive].
• Food shop [slightly expensive].
• Identification (15 gold).
• Inn (10 gold/night).

Bremerton

• Inn (10 gold/night).
• Horses (750 gold).
• Crystal shop [exorbitant].
• Tool shop: lockpicks, lamps [expensive].
• Food shop [expensive].
• Vagro says to mention his name to Abruzzo.
• Some wandering merchants near Bremerton sell miscellaneous items, including horns (for when you need to make a loud noise).

Calloc

• Inn (12 gold/night).
• Food shop [exorbitant].
• Tool shop: lockpicks, torches [exorbitant].
• Mage spells [exorbitant]: bolt of fire, light, call beast, spray acid, haste, slow.
• Mission: stop the raiders; reward: 500 gold.

Defiled Crypt

• Mission (from vahnatai shaper): clear out the undead from the crypt. Reward: +1 vahnatai lore skill each PC.
• Radiant shield (L3).
• If you stare into one of the crystals inside the crypt, you can get another +1 vahnatai lore skill each PC.

Delan

• Fletchery shop: bows and arrows, crossbows and bolts, javelins [expensive].
• Clothes shop.
• Food shop [expensive].
• Inn (5 gold/night).
• Horses (500 gold).

Delis

• Food shop [exorbitant].
• Inn (5 gold/night).
• Healer [exorbitant].
• Tool shop: torches, lockpicks, first aid kits [exorbitant].

Dellston

• Armor shop [exorbitant].
• Inn (5 gold/night).
• Mage spells [utterly ridiculous]: bolt of fire, light, call beast, spray acid, haste, slow, ice lances, unlock doors, create illusions.

Dorngas

• Inn (3 gold/night).
• Map of Footracer Province [extremely cheap].
• Fletchery shop: steel and blessed arrows and bolts [expensive].
• Identification (50 gold).
• Food shop [expensive].
• Info: Zik is here.
• Info: there are dragons near Dorngas.

Lair of Drakos

• Learn the location of Lair of Drakos from the library in Gale.
• Learn arcane shield (L3) here.
• Blessed Greatsword.
• Priest’s Bracelet.
• Major artifact: Pachtar’s plate: blocks 1-60 damage + 1-7/level, 35% encumbrance, +1 action points, +20% resist elements or magic.

Fort Emergence

• Anaximander lives here. Report back to him regularly.
• Levy will identify items (cost 25 gold) and hands out an allowance of 25 gold per day.
• Habecker will identify items (cost 10 gold).
• Training.
• Mission: kill bandit leader to the north.
• Mazumdar will allow you to learn far sight (level 2) and move mountains (level 2), once you’ve completed the slimes mission.

Erika’s Tower

• Erika will offer you an amulet - accept it, if you want to win the game!
• Erika sells mage spells [exorbitant]: bolt of fire, light, call beast, spray acid, haste, slow, ice lances, unlock doors, create illusions, far sight, lightning spray, summon aid.
• Erika sells magery skill (5600 gold/level).
• One of the spell books lying around near Erika teaches haste (L3).
• If you sneak into Erika’s tower at the back, you can learn safe travel (L3).

Ernest

• Teleportation to one of the following 5 destinations: Krizsan, Shayder, Sharimik, Lorelei, Gale.
• If you steal the book for Ivanova, the next time you use a portal Ernest will send you to the fiery pit (full of drakes) near Golddale. The pit contains a couple of interesting bits of treasure: an assassin’s band and spellshards for mass curing and mass healing (usable once a day).

Erox

• This place is full of rakshasas: don’t eat the food or try and rest. When you enter the back room in the eastern house, they’ll ambush you -- so be ready!
• Create illusions (L3).
• A little to the northeast of Erox, by the mountains is a camp of travellers who have run away from Lorelei. If you have finished the giants/troglos mission, you can tell them to go home and it boosts your reputation.
• Far to the north of Erox, in the northwest corner of Valorim, there is a Drake lord who offers to ‘bless’ you for 10,000 gold. The ‘blessing’ gives you one level of blademaster skill, each PC. You need the Orb of Thralnai to reach it.

Execa

• Potion making charm.

Farport

• Inn (5 gold/night).
• Identification (10 gold).
• Magic scrolls shop [expensive].
• Food shop [expensive].
• Weapon shop [expensive]. Includes some bolts and arrows.
• Ferry to Port Townsend (10 gold).
• Ferry to Sharimik (10 gold).
• Mission (from Nell): go to Nell’s house in Shayder and kill the cockroaches there. Reward: +2 levels of arcane lore skill each.

Fenris Port

• Ferry to Softport (10 gold).
• Alchemy recipes [utterly ridiculous]: balm of life, healing elixir, energy elixir, rogue’s elixir.
• Identification (8 gold).
• Inn (10 gold/night).
• Weapons shop [expensive].
• Info: to join the Anama, just talk to every priest on the Isle of Bigail, and always agree with what they say.
• Info: to make some money, talk to a man in the inn at Shayder about a courier job.
• Southwest of Fenris Port, outdoors, is a mage who sells scrolls [slightly expensive]. But he won’t serve you if you have Anama rings.

First Expedition

The first expedition consisted of four adventurers who were sent up to the surface, before your party. They weren’t very successful.

• Elsner. His body can be found in the Filth Factory (on the Isle of Bigail).
• Tucker. He is wounded and hiding out in the inn in Softport.
• Erin. Her body is in the Slime Pit (in Krizsan Province).
• Gwost. His body is in the Golddale mines.

Gale

(In Monroe Province.)

• Food shop [utterly ridiculous].
• Training.
• Identification (40 gold).
• Inn (20 gold/night).
• Healer [pretty average].
• Armor shop [exorbitant].
• Weapons shop [utterly ridiculous].
• Fletchery shop: arrows, bolts [pretty average].
• Skribbane herb shops [pretty average]/[very reasonable].
• Boat to Maddock Isle (100 gold).
• Alchemy recipes [extremely cheap]: rogue’s elixir, bliss elixir, strength elixir, restoration brew.
• Mage spells [exorbitant]: summon aid, forcecage, fireblast, arcane summon, arcane shield, arcane blow.
• Priest spells [pretty average]: radiant shield, divine fire, control foes, return life, divine retribution, divine restoration, divine host.
• Library (5000 gold for key): directions to find Pachtar’s plate, move mountains (L3), bolt of fire (level 1), recipe for heroic brew.

Ghikra

• Kyhar sells alchemy recipes [very reasonable]: haste potion, energy potion, strength potion.
• Tekora-Tel sells mage spells [pretty average]: capture soul, simalcrum.
• Mission: recover crystal statue. Reward: a soul crystal (enabling you to cast the spells capture soul and simalcrum).
• One of the Crystal Souls teaches vahnatai lore skill (900 gold/level).
• Once you have enough vahnatai lore skill, and if you enter Ghikra by boat, you can learn capture soul (L3) and simalcrum (L3).

Gidrik

• Potion shop [slightly expensive].
• Armor shop [slightly expensive].
• Weapons shop [slightly expensive].
• Inn (10 gold/night).
• Horses (500 gold).

Golddale

• Weapon shop [expensive].
• Identification (10 gold).
• Training.
• Food shop [expensive].
• Inn (15 gold/night).
• Mission (from the company president): clear out the sliths in the mine.
• Second mission (from president): clear out the ursagi from their lair.
• Mission (from Ivanova, the sage): steal a book from Ernest. If you do this, Ernest will be angry. If you read the book before giving it to Ivanova, it teaches you dispel barrier (L3). If you hand it to Ivanova, you get -1 reputation and +2 levels resistance skill each PC.
• A wandering tinker near Golddale sells miscellaneous items, including horns (for when you need to make a loud noise).
• Info: the body of Gwost is in the mines.

Gorst

• This place is full of hostile undead. Nonetheless, there’s a crazy priest here running a herb shop.

Gorvifal’s Crypt

• Divine retribution (L3).
• Humanskin gloves: blocks 1-1 + 4 damage, +1 assassination, +2 damage to humanoids.
• Prismatic torc: +10% resist fire, cold, illness, acid.

Greendale

• A wizard here sells magic items: crystals and wands [exorbitant].

Hectar

• Clothes shop.
• Fletchery shop: arrows, bolts [exorbitant].
• Food shop [exorbitant].
• Meena, a healer [very reasonable], is sometimes here. If you complete a mission for Jed, she also sells pathfinder skill (200 gold/level).
• Judith, a wandering healer [exorbitant], is sometimes found in Hectar. She’ll sell the location of the Fury Crossbow.

Herb Locations Outdoors

• Healing herbs: (a) west of Fort Emergence and northeast of Pergies; (b) in Upper Avernum, north of Portal Fortress, across the river; (c) immediately west of Blackcrag Fortress.
• Energetic herbs: on Isle of Bigail, just south of Hectar.
• Spiritual herbs: (a) in Upper Avernum, west of Erika’s Tower and north of Ghikra; (b) far northeast corner of Valorim, north-northwest of Tevrono.
• Toadstools: (a) on Isle of Bigail, north of Fenris Port; (b) on a little island northeast of Tevrono; (c) southwest of Golddale and south of, across the river from, Porter’s Retreat.
• Graymold: (a) at the head of a river south of Mernia and east of Dellston, on the west side of the mountains; (b) Alakas colony, which is southeast of Calloc and south of the dragons; (c) in the great northwest fen, due north of Wainscotting; (d) in the mountains north of Sharimik and east of Southport.
• Mandrake Root: (a) on the Remote Island south of Lost Isle; (b) in the Land of the Guild, east of Blackcrag and due north of the golem spire; (c) in Footracer Province, north of Manara.

Holy Valley

• If you do not have Anama rings, at this outdoors encounter you will be offered the opportunity to join the Church of the Divine Lucre. You pay 5000 gold, and in return you get 1 level of magery skill for each PC, plus you learn move mountains (level 2), control foes (level 2), cloud of blades (level 2) and return life (level 2). Your reputation decreases by 1.
• South of the Holy Valley are some travellers who’ve run away from the golems. Once you’ve cleared out the golem factory, you can tell them to go home and it boosts your reputation.

The House on the Hill

• Unlock doors (L3).

Inn of Blades

• Inn.
• Arion sells mage spells [expensive]: bolt of fire, light, call beast, spray acid, haste, slow, ice lances.
• Mission (from Arion): fetch him some metal lumps from the east side of the river. When you go and get them, you’ll be attacked by a few brigands and a mage. Either you can give the metal lumps to Arion (reward: slow (L3)), or you can take them to Lennus and get yourself a mithral blade.
• A man living in a hut southeast of the Inn of Blades will sell the recipes for hasting potion and hasting elixir.

Lair of Khoth

• If you talk to Sulfras, then Khoth and Athron, and then Sulfras again, you will eventually be able to get Beastslayer: does 4-28 damage + 1-7/level, +30 damage to alien beasts, +2 parry.
• Khoth sells mage spells [utterly ridiculous]: forcecage, arcane summon, arcane shield, arcane blow.
• In Khoth’s library you can find divine retribution (level 1), control foes (level 1) and the recipe for protection brew.
• If you talk to Khoth, having gained access to Footracer Province, he will teach you arcane summon (L3).
• To the north of the dragons’ lairs, are some dark wyrms. If you fight them, you can get a jade halberd: does 4-28 damage + 1-7/level, +6 hardiness, +2 defense.

Kneece

• The wizard living here will give you a phoenix egg, which you can use to destroy the roaches’ lair.

Krizsan

• Inn (15 gold/night); alternative inn (3 gold/night).
• Identification (10 gold).
• Lucky charms [slightly expensive].
• Jobs dispatcher.
• Weapons shop [slightly expensive].
• Armor shop [exorbitant].
• Food shop [expensive].
• Healer [slightly expensive].
• Mission (from Agrod): kill unicorns and bring the horns.
• Mission (from Fellows): recover his gold ring.
• Mission (from Benedict): find Dominique (she is in New Formello).
• Mission (from the mayor): kill the slimes. Reward: 1500 gold, invulnerability elixir from Levy in Fort Emergence, ice lances (L3) from Solberg in the Tower of Magi. In the slime pit you can learn lightning spray (level 2) and summon aid (level 2) and find a radiant robe: blocks 1-8 damage, +30% melee protection, +20% magic protection, +20% acid resistance.

Kuper

• Ferry to Kneece (30 gold).
• Mission (from the priest): find a missing acolyte called Mundt, who has probably gone northeast. You’ll find him in charge of the Anama temple in Lorelei. Reward: Xian coins.
• Sometimes Meena, a healer [very reasonable], is here.

Lennus

• Bed and breakfast (i.e., an inn, 5 gold/night).
• If you bring him some metal lumps, then the blacksmith will make you a mithral sword: does 4-28 damage + 1-7/level, +10 damage to undead, +1 action points, +2 strength, +2 parry.

Libras

• Trading: buy goods here to sell in Squiggus (fine clothes - cost 60 gold each, weight 7 pounds each), or sell items bought in Squiggus (savory herbs - sell for 100 gold each).
• Fletchery shop: arrows, bolts [expensive].
• Tool shop: lockpicks, etc [expensive].
• Inn (8 gold/night).
• Ferry to Lost Isle (15 gold).
• Herb shop [slightly expensive].

Lorelei

• Training.
• Jobs dispatcher.
• Identification (15 gold).
• Maps of Midori Province [utterly ridiculous].
• Horses (600 gold).
• Food shop [slightly expensive].
• Inn (4 gold/night).
• Gloves shop [exorbitant].
• Armor shop [exorbitant].
• Miscellaneous items shop [expensive].
• Alchemy recipes [expensive]: strength elixir, bliss elixir, restoration brew.
• Weapons shop (run by the church of the divine lucre) [slightly expensive].
• Father Carson sells barter skill (440 gold/level).
• Thieves’ guild tool shop: lockpicks, etc [exorbitant]. They also sell fake anama rings (2500 gold) or a way to enter Blackcrag (3000 gold).
• In Hawke’s manse: alien blade (always poisoned), slow (L3), lightning spray (L3), capture soul (L3).
• Mission: rescue captured soldiers from the giants, and recover deceased soldiers’ personal possessions for their families. Reward: money.
• Mission: start a war between the giants and the troglodytes. In order to do this you first need a map from the giants’ fortress. If you cross the lava in the northeast corner of the main part of fortress, there is a ladder down to a treasure chamber where you can learn mass healing (L3), and obtain a key to the vault the map is in. Other rewards, when the whole mission is complete: return life (L3) from the librarian in Lorelei, chill charm from Levy in Fort Emergence, fireblast (L3) from X in the Tower of Magi.
• Info: Winterhouse (the innkeeper) says Randall (the item salesman) knows something about a recipe. Randall says to ask Lyle (of internal affairs). Lyle says to ask a wandering person called Foxfire (she moves between Softport, Malloc and Bengaro).

Lost Isle

• Herb shop.
• Food shop.

Malloc

• Inn (10 gold/night).
• Tool shop: lockpicks, etc [exorbitant].
• Training.
• Mission: Mia wants someone to recover the silver ring that was lost on Lake Tomor along with her dead son.
• Info: sometimes Foxfire is here. She will sell you the key to the Monastery of Madness.

Marish

• Junk shop: random items [exorbitant].
• Inn (10 gold/night).
• Ferry to Shayder (10 gold).
• Mission (from the mayor): find and eliminate the source of the undead and drakes. This involves killing a couple of Nagas in a cavern to the north. In the cavern you find a divine aid mind crystal, a knowledge charm (+5 rune reading, +2 potion making), a magery charm (+1 magery), a warmth charm (+20% cold resistance) and a resistance ring (+10% resistance elements, magic). You can also learn summon shade (L3). Your reward from Marish is a blessed steel helmet.

Mernia

• Armor shop [slightly expensive].
• Healer [pretty average].
• Priest spells [pretty average]: healing, curing, mass healing, mass curing, return life, divine restoration.

Monastery of Madness

• To get in, you need a key. After you’ve spoken to the innkeeper in Lorelei, you can buy the key from Foxfire, who is in Softport/Malloc/Bengaro.
• Recipe for knowledge brew.
• Unshackle mind (L3).
• A bookshelf on the ground floor will teach you one level of gymnastics skill each PC.

Moon

• Food shop [expensive].
• Inn (10 gold/night).
• Identification (25 gold).
• Library (costs 4000 gold to enter): recipe for protection brew, bolt of fire (level 2), spray acid (level 2), haste (level 2), slow (level 2), move mountains (level 2), cloud of blades (level 2).
• Mission (from librarian): fetch a book on demonology from Blackcrag Fortress. Reward: divine host (L3).
• Info: Zang is here. He will teach you 500 experience for 5000 gold. Or, you could kill him, which would please the trainer in Sharimik.

New Cotra

• Weapons shop [slightly expensive].
• Inn (10 gold/night).
• Food shop [pretty average].
• Potion shop [slightly expensive].
• Boat (500 gold).
• Mission (from Crisper): kill an ice pudding.
• Info: in the bunker you can get a weapon to use against the perpetrators of the monster plague, if you remember. Talk to Sandra in Sharimik and then to Captain Johnson in Fort Emergence.

New Formello

Northpoint Lighthouse

Pergies

• Food shop [slightly expensive].
• Inn (8 gold/night).
• Tool shop: Lockpicks, torches, first aid kits [slightly expensive].
• Priest spells [slightly expensive]: healing, curing, war blessing, terror, repel spirit, smite, summon shade.
• Mission (from Paulo): recover a package of drugs from Delis.
• There is a patch of healing herbs to the northeast of Pergies.
• Just north of Pergies, in one of the mines, you can buy metal bars [extremely cheap].

Portal Fortress

• Portal to the Tower of Magi.
• Identification (10 gold).
• Alchemy recipes: hasting potion, energy potion, strength potion.
• Item improvement platform (can use twice): +10% cold resistance.
• Light (L3).

Porter’s Retreat

• Inn (5 gold/night).
• Kendrick sells maps (Karnold Province, Midori Province, Isle of Bigail) [slightly expensive].

Port Townsend

• Ferry to Farport (10 gold).
• Weapons shop [exorbitant].

Poulsbo

• Food shop [slightly expensive].
• Tool shop: lockpicks, etc [slightly expensive].
• Inn (10 gold/night).
• Healer [very reasonable].
• Mission: find 3 giant spies. Reward: +1 anatomy skill for each PC.

Sharimik

• Ferry to Farport (15 gold).
• Tool shop: lockpicks, torches [slightly expensive].
• Food shop [pretty average].
• Inn (10 gold/night).
• Armor shop (see Ehrenfeld in the inn) [slightly expensive].
• Fletchery shop: arrows, bolts, javelins [pretty average].
• Improvements to items (1000 gold).
• Weapons shop [expensive].
• Identification (15 gold).
• Healer [pretty average].
• Training.
• Maps of Karnold province [utterly ridiculous].
• Jobs dispatcher.
• Mage spells [expensive]: unlock doors, create illusions, far sight, lightning spray, summon aid, forcecage, fireblast.
• Priest spells [pretty average]: healing, curing, mass healing, mass curing, radiant shield, return life.
• Alchemy recipes [pretty average]: healing elixir, hasting elixir, energy elixir, rogue’s elixir.
• Info (from the innkeeper): a man called Masok knows about the Black Halberd.
• Info (from Sandra): Captain Johnson in Fort Emergence knows about the bunker.
• Mission (from the trainer): find and kill Zang. Reward: far sight (L3).
• Mission (from the captain): go and destroy the troglodytes’ altar. For this you need the ritual of sanctification - go and ask at Softport.
• Mission (from mayor): go and talk to the troglodyte king at Castle Troglo. When you get there, the king asks you to kill his head priest, Elhioc. Reward for doing so, back in Sharimik: dispel barrier (level 2).

Shayder

(On Isle of Bigail.)

• Bohman’s potions [pretty average].
• Identification (20 gold).
• Weapons shop [slightly expensive].
• Armor shop [utterly ridiculous].
• Food shop [slightly expensive].
• Inn (10 gold/night).
• Healer [expensive].
• Jobs dispatcher.
• Maps of Bigail [very reasonable].
• Ferry to Marish (10 gold).
• Curing (L3).
• Bolt of fire (L3) - read the book bricked up in the sewers.
• Priest spells [pretty average]: healing, curing, war blessing, terror, repel spirit, smite, summon shade, safe travel, unshackle mind, move mountains, mass healing, mass curing.
• Info: Ahonar (the top priest) can lift a dread curse. However, it would be better to reconsider what you did to obtain one in the first place.
• Mage spells [pretty average]: bolt of fire, light, call beast, spray acid, haste, slow, ice lances, unlock doors, create illusions, far sight, lightning spray.
• Mission from Jed (the healer): fetch him some graymold salve. Once this mission has been completed, Meena (sometimes in the temple at Shayder, sometimes in Hectar, sometimes in Kuper) will sell pathfinder skill (200 gold/level).
• Info: Judith, a wandering healer [exorbitant], is sometimes found in Shayder. She’ll sell the location of the Fury Crossbow.
• Mission (for the mayor): eliminate the plague of roaches. This involves obtaining a phoenix egg from the wizard in Kneece and placing it at the lowest level of the filth factory. To find out the location of the filth factory talk to the talking spiders, who will send you to the friendly roaches, who have a map showing the location in their lair. Once inside the filth factory use the control room to temporarily deactiviate the laser beams, then dash through the duct to gain access to the lower level. On your way you will find the body of Elsner. Finally work your way to the centre of the trash pit, but make sure you look for the dragon scales (south of the centre) before placing the egg, which triggers quickfire and destroys the filth factory. Rewards: firewalker band, ring of skill from Levy in Fort Emergence, lightning spray (L3) from Solberg in the Tower of Magi.

Silvar

• Inn (3 gold/night).
• Weapons shop [exorbitant].
• Food shop [exorbitant].
• Tool shop: lockpicks, torches, first aid kits [exorbitant].
• Priest spells [utterly ridiculous]: healing, curing, war blessing, terror, repel spirit, smite, summon sade, safe travel, unshackle mind.

Softport

• Ferry to Fenris Port (10 gold).
• Healer [expensive].
• Fletchery shop [exorbitant].
• Armor shop [exorbitant].
• Inn (10 gold/night).
• Info (from the priest, but she won’t tell you until you have a tip off from the commander in Sharimik): you can learn the ritual of sanctification from a hermit in the mountains to the north.
• Info: there’s a river crossing near Malloc, allowing you to get into Lorelei without being searched.
• Info: Tucker is in Softport (hiding in the inn).
• Sometimes Foxfire is here. She will sell you the key to the Monastery of Madness.
• Mission (from the mayor): find Zik, a murderer from Softport who ran away north.

Southpoint Lighthouse

• Tool shop: lockpicks, first aid kits, etc.
• Piercing crystals, unshackling crystals, recall crystals.

Spineridge

• Fletchery shop: arrows, bolts [exorbitant].
• Jobs dispatcher.
• Supply shop: food, first aid kits, torches [utterly ridiculous].
• Identification (100 gold).
• Inn (2 gold/night).

Squiggus

• Crystal shop [exorbitant].
• Food shop [slightly expensive].
• Trading: buy items to take to Libras (savory herbs - cost 30 gold each, weight 3 pounds each) or sell items bought in Libras or Storm Port (fine clothes - sell for 100 gold each).
• If you fight the gremlins and spawned fungi in the secret room behind the food shop, you can learn divine fire (L3).

Stone Circles

1. Curing (L3).
2. War blessing (L3).
3. Move mountains (L3), and +1 to dexterity skill each PC.
4. Divine fire (L3).
5. Divine host (L3).

Storm Port

• Trading: buy goods here to sell at Squiggus (fine clothes - cost 28 gold each, weight 7 pounds each).
• Ferry to Lost Isle (10 gold).
• Ferry to Gebra (12 gold).
• Armor shop [slightly expensive].
• Miscellaneous items shop [slightly expensive].
• Food shop [slightly expensive].
• Mission: deal with the undead to the north. Reward: healing (L3).
• If you go to the northeast of Storm Port, just off the east coast there is an island - which you must fly to reach - with a shop selling mandrake root [exorbitant].

Tevrono

• Weapons/Armor shop [utterly ridiculous].
• Mission (from Baziron): deal with the golems watching the bridge on the road to Gale - find out what they’re up to, and kill them.
• Once you’ve helped Baziron, the blacksmith will sell parry skill (5600 gold/level).
• Second mission (from General Baziron): end the plague of golems. Reward: he will let you take all his supplies, and as usual you get a boost to experience and reputation. Other rewards you get for this mission: Nimble boots from Levy in Fort Emergence; mind crystals for gymnastics/pathfinder/restore energy in the golem spire; all of Delakros’s treasure if you didn’t already kill him for it; and arcane blow (L3) from X in the Tower of Magi.
• To the north of Tevrono, and northwest into the mountains, there’s a patch of spiritual herbs.
• To the north of Tevrono and right by the coast is a gremlin. Before you destroy the golems, he runs away. After the golems are destroyed, he offers to sell the party gymnastics skill for 10000 gold.
• Even more north of Tevrono and right by the coast, there’s a spell book. If you have a horn you can use it to summon up a couple of bunches of monsters. Having defeated the monsters you can read the book, which teaches you divine restoration (L3).

Torria

• Here you can learn smite (L3).
• In the cemetery outside town you can learn divine retribution level 2.

The Tower of Magi

• Don’t plan any shopping trips to the Tower of Magi after day 160.
• Priest spells [pretty average]: healing, curing, war blessing, terror, repel spirit, smite, summon shade, safe travel, unshackle mind, move mountains, mass healing, mass curing.
• The first time you pray at the temple altar, you get +1 intelligence skill each PC.
• Alchemy recipes [average]: healing elixir, graymold salve, hasting elixir, balm of life.
• If you don’t mind being deranged, you can learn arcane summon up to level 2 from the unidentified tomes area. There’s also a mind crystal, but it’s an energy pulse, i.e., harmful.
• Mission (from Mahdavi): read Erika’s notes on the vahnatai. When you read them, you gain +1 vahnatai lore skill each PC. Reward from Mahdavi is a further +1 vahnatai lore skill each PC.
• ‘X’ and Solberg are here: one of them gives you a reward each time you end a monster plague. The four plagues they reward are slimes, cockroaches, troglodytes/giants, golems. After day 160 these two will hang about in Fort Emergence instead.
• Mission (for Carrie): recover her lab notes. Reward: archer's cloak.

Castle Troglo

• Control foes (L3).
• If you read one of the books you can learn +1 levels of vahnatai lore skill for each PC.

Ursagi Lair

• Gymnastics charm.
• Call beast (L3).
• Blessed longsword.

Tomb of Vahkohs

• Terror (L3).
• Thinking cap.

Vila

• Unshackle mind spellshard.
• Once you have the tip-off from the deserter, you can find a ruby helmet: blocks 1-5 damage +1-3/level, +20% fire resistance, resist petrification.

Wainscotting

• Inn (20 gold/night -- or free if you’ve cleared out the bandits to the north).
• When you mention Vagro’s name to Abruzzo, he tells you that there is some treasure under a statue in Greendale. This turns out to be a quicksilver ring: +1 to dexterity, +4 to luck, but cursed (healers can uncurse it, it’ll then be worth 2000 gold).
• There’s a potion shop outdoors to the northeast of Wainscotting [pretty average].
• Info: If you pay him 1000 gold, an army deserter outdoors to the north of Wainscotting tells you that there’s loot hidden in the back room of the inn at Vila.

Pit of the Wyrm

• Get the location from Judith, a wandering healer on the Isle of Bigail (Shayder / Bavner / Hectar).
• Mass curing (L3).
• Major artifact: Fury crossbow: does 7-42 damage + 1-6/level, +1 action points, +10% chance to missile hit, +20% resist elements or magic.

Zalifar’s Remote Aerie

• You need the Orb of Thralnai in order to reach this.
• Zalifar will teach the recipe for balm of life [extremely cheap].
• Mission: Talk to the drake lord Delakros, south of Greendale, and persuade him to stop attacking Zalifar. You have a choice: either Delakros takes all your food, or you kill him. If you kill him, you can pinch all his treasure. If you don’t kill him, he agrees not to attack Zalifar, providing you promise to destroy the golems. Then, when you complete the golem mission, you can come back to Delakros and he’ll give you all his treasure. Whichever route you go down to complete this mission, Zalifar will reveal the location of the golem spire.

Tower of Zkal

• Buy the location from the wandering wizard in Krizsan/Delan.
• Your spell energy is constantly drained in this dungeon. Pity, that.
• To solve the portal puzzle, have a good look at the mushrooms on the floor (they change location!).
• Here you can learn spray acid (L3) and Summon Aid (L3).
• Major artifact: ring of endless magery: +2 magery, +10% protection from all damage, +80 spell points usable once a day.