RPG Review FAQ

Gregminster
Back to Kraze at the imperial palace of Gregminster. Kraze has a mission for you; reach Lady Leknaat the Seer to get the Astral Conclusions. The Dragon Knight is by the barn to transport you. Leave the castle and go east to meet Futch and Black. They take you northeast to the Black Forest.

Black Forest
Weakest monsters in the game are here. If you went outside Gregminster to level up you should have no problem, even without that you should be fine.

North through the first area, then look west for a Medicine before continuing northward. When you get to a fork, take the east route going north for a Leather Coat.

The other path north leads to an enemy. Luc the magician uses his Wind Rune to summon a Golem. If you leveled up at all this Golem should be easy. Just attack with every character besides Pahn and Gremio, who should do Unite Attacks. A few turns should do this foe in, your reward is 1500 bits.

This Luc character is evidently with Leknaat. Follow him north and up a few flights of stairs. Speak with the beautiful Seer Leknaat, Windy's sister. Follow her to get the Astral Conclusions and she will take a closer look at you and notice that you have a heavy burden upon you. You do not know about it yet but you will find out later as this fortune teller assures you.

Before you leave, Leknaat rewards Cleo with the Fire Crystal. Then you are off back to Gregminster with Futch.

Gregminster
Return to Kraze, who continues to be a jerk and says you were late. Now Kanaan is with him. Give Kraze the Astral Conclusions.

Kraze then tells you about Rockland and Mayor Grady who won't pay taxes. Kanaan will go with you to make sure everything goes okay.

Rockland
Rock Rockland. Chances are you have already been here, but if not just head east of Gregminster. You will find the village of Rockland.

Rest and save if you like, and you will see a unique character named Marco by the Inn. She plays that pick 'em game (choose middle for the 1st correct answer, left for the 2nd correct answer, quit, startup, repeat). Once you get to 10000 bits you can really make a haul.

Anyway, buy some stuff and head to the north mansion. Kanaan calls for Grady, who tells a story about the Mt Seifu bandits that rob the villagers making taxes impossible to pay. It seems you must go and take them out.

Mt. Seifu
East of Rockland is a trail that leads to Mt. Seifu. Enter the nearby cave after Kanaan makes his way to the back of the party.

Keep heading northeast in the first part of the cave for some Medicine and a pair of Boots. Back to the west path going north, and take this until you reach a huge fork.

Plenty of paths to take here. Start with the second one from the east edge, for a Defense Rune Piece. Use this on a character to increase defense. Then take the west-most path going southwest for an Antique / ? Pot. Back to the four paths going north and take the nearest one from that southwest exit. This takes you to 1000 Bits. Now take the path just east of here to exit to the north.

North a bit and then you will be in another area with several forks to take. West quick for a Medicine, east for a Leggings. Take the western path going north for an Escape Talisman, then follow the north path.

You will see a huge Queen Ant. You get in a fight with her so just beat up the Soldier Ants. Queen Ant will use Quake on you for 20 damage to all. After three turns, Ted takes over. He uses a strange rune that just banishes the Queen Ant. Kanaan makes note of this strange rune.

Continue north on the path and it will take you east, by a Thunder Rune Piece. The south route leads out of the cavernous area and near a save crystal.

Just ahead are the main bandits, Varkas the Whirlwind Axe and Marksman Sydonia. They sic a bunch of bandits on you, they are easy to trounce. Next though, Varkas and Sydonia attack. Sydonia has few hit points while Varkas can take a few hits. Might want to gang up on Sydonia and use your Unite to take him out quickly. Varkas is much easier by himself. You get a decent amount of EXP and 700 Bits. Not to mention Kanaan and the group take the bandits with them to Grady at Rockland.

Rockland
Thankfully, you do not have to backtrack out of Mt Seifu yourself. The game does it for you. Back in Rockland, go east to find the little kid literally getting a shoe in his backside from the Empire Soldier. Choose to fight them and maul those soldiers. The kids thank you.

Talk to Grady in the north, and he takes away Varkas and Sydonia. Then he feels compelled to give Kanaan 10000 bits.

Gregminster
Everyone rejoices about the mission being over. Unfortunately Kanaan tells Ted to come with him to the palace.

Go back to Teo's house and the party gets ready for dinner. It is raining at night. When you get a minute, go downstairs to find a passed-out Ted.

Turns out Ted has a magic wound. He relives what happened with Lady Windy, Kanaan and Kraze. You learn more about the Cursed Rune, the Soul Eater. Pahn wants to tell the guards but is convinced not to do so. Speak with Pahn when you get the chance and he'll look for some medicine.

Then speak with Ted. He asks the hero to take off his glove, the Cursed Rune Soul Eater. Take the rune off his hand and you now have the Soul Eater at your disposal.

Just as this happens, Pahn, Kraze and Kanaan burst in through the front door. Ted just goes and surrenders himself since the empire thinks he still has the rune. Escape through the back by the kitchen with Gremio and Cleo.

Every place is locked, besides the Inn. Marie will help you out here. Next morning, try to exit but you will come across some imperials. Thankfully some Viktor guy bails you out and you leave the Inn.

Once you are outside of the Inn, go find Viktor to the north. He has an idea as to how to escape Gregminster. In fact, Viktor just gives the guard some money from Gremio's wallet and the party is out! Viktor wants you to meet someone at Lenankamp.

Lenankamp
As you enter, Viktor runs off but says to meet his friend later. If you haven't affixed the Fire Crystal / Fire Rune to Cleo, do so here. Also there is a Blacksmith in Lenankamp. You may have noticed you do not buy weapons in Suikoden, but rather you sharpen your current weapon. As it reaches different levels it transforms into a more powerful weapon (look for a weapon name change). If you made several 10,000 bits from Marco in Rockland, you should have no problem getting everyone maxed to level 5. Weapons can be sharpened to level 16 in Suikoden but certain blacksmiths can only go up to arbitrary levels (like 5 for this one).

Head to the Inn. In the back is a guy who lost his life savings because someone robbed his hotel room. Hmm. Talk to the person at the Inn and save, then stay. A special room is prepared for you thanks to Viktor.

During the night the party questions what to do next. But soon enough the empire breaks into the Inn. A mysterious voice calls you to the clock, so go down the secret staircase.

Liberation Army Hideout
Meet Odessa and the rest of the Liberation Army. They fight the imperials, but are weak and have this humble secret base at the Inn.

Odessa Silverburg is the leader of the Liberation Army. Sanchez, Flik, and Humphrey are the other members you have not met. Speak with them, but Gremio says you probably should not join the Rebel Army! You can show interest yourself though.

After you are done speaking, go north to find a bandit near the entrance! How did he find this place. Anyway, he tells about how Grady of Rockland is going to starve Varkas and Sydonia without giving them a trial. Speak up, since you captured them. The party of three plus Viktor decides to go free them.

Rockland
You know where Grady's mansion is. The guard stops you but Viktor gets the house on fire and thus a way in.

Take the left path once inside, the one you couldn't take earlier. Empire Soldiers rush out, kill them and take the Medicine. More soldiers in the north area, then three paths in that hallway south of you. The northmost one looking east has a Brass Armor and more soldiers, while the left path has soldiers and no treasure. Southeast path has a ? Ornament and the final path before the western soldiers has 700 and 1000 bits.

With the empire group there is another captain who is a bit more dangerous. Use Firestorm by Cleo if you have it. Go outside and talk to Varkas to set him free, and they'll join you for a second. Walk out and Grady is here to stop you at his entrance. He eventually runs from the bandits, and the party escapes.

Lenankamp
Back in Lenankamp you are praised, and Odessa wants to go with you to Sarady to deliver blueprints for the Fire Spear. Viktor comes with. You probably don't need to buy anything for Odessa.

Mt Tigerwolf
Just northwest of Lenankamp is a bridge going west, and north of there for Mt Tigerwolf. This is a longer path with some tougher enemies, but nothing your party can't handle if you sharpened your weapons to 5 at Lenankamp.

Once at Mt Tigerwolf, just head north the first few screens for a Circlet, Medicine and Gloves. Circlet is nice for Odessa. Once you get to a north / west split, go west for a Wind Rune Piece and then north to exit. Continue this way until you meet Ledon.

Whether you like it or not you'll be staying with Ledon. And you have to sip his special tea...which of course poisons you. Just as he is finished robbing you, Kessler comes in to tell him that this is Odessa. They are friends of the Liberation Army and prepare the antidote for you. Rest and Save.

Further north, get the ? Pot in the northeast and continue on. When you see a treasure next, grab the Medicine, then go northeast for a Clone Rune. This should be affixed to Viktor when you get back to Lenankamp. It does near 2x damage but makes Viktor unbalanced for a turn. North to exit Mt Tigerwolf.

Sarady
Sarady is to the north. Check out the Water Rune at the Item Shop, if you did the Rockland bits trick you should be able to get at least one of these. Might be useful for someone without a rune like Gremio just for a heal spell or two. Rest at the Inn.

Talk to Odessa at night, and then Kage comes to get the Fire Spear blueprint. Go back to sleep and head to Lenankamp the next morning.

Lenankamp
Affix that Clone Crystal to Viktor first, then talk to the soldier by the Inn. Turns out the hideout has been discovered! As you enter the Innkeeper is down and a kid screams. There goes Odessa.

At the hideout take the west paths as you go south to encounter Empire Soldiers. The southern-most one has more soldiers and a screaming Odessa. After the battle you will hear her requests. You are to bring the Earring she gives you to a fellow named Mathiu in Seika village, and with that the party is off. The Soul Eater gains power.