Field Guide/Bestiary for Baten Kaitos Origins

Field Guide/Bestiary for Baten Kaitos Origins
by Sister ([email protected])
Copyright November, 2006 by Sister (C. Minguez)

Version 1.2 - includes tiny update fixing mistakes

This is another faq that I didn't originally intend to write, but it goes
hand-in-hand with my others for this game, so I thought I might as well since
I already had all of the information. I don't list all of the enemy stats,
etc. I just give you what you need to fill out the field guide, which includes
items should you need to farm particular ones. I also cross-reference the
field guide to the Coliseum so that if you missed an enemy somewhere, you can
get another crack at it.

Thanks to all the people at the board who have helped me. Many thanks to
markinct for proofing the guide for me.

Copyright and contact stuff: This is my work. You're welcome to use it as long
as you're not selling it. Gamefaqs is the only place I will be submitting it.
If you want to post it on your site, I don't mind, but I'd appreciate it if
you'd let me know. Feel free to contact me with any info I may have missed
or mistakes you find at [email protected].

Spoilers: Since this guide lists every monster/enemy in the game, naturally,
there are spoilers. Enter at your own risk if you've haven't finished the
game at least once.

You can get the Field Guide the first time you visit Sheratan. Talk to the
doctor in his house, and he'll ask you to do it for him. He's lost the one he
had, and he's too old to do it again. Once the Field Guide is in your
possession, it's your job to fill in all the entries. Every enemy is listed
in the field guide plus their special skills and items dropped. You must fill
in every section of every entry to receive the 100% completed reward.

Tip #1: Make sure to get all special skills.

It can be easy to overlook a special skill. There are two possibilities:

No unique skills = there are no specials; this one's done.
Details unknown = you're still missing this skill; go find that enemy.

If you have the first skill, make sure there's not a "Details unknown" under
it; there are no lines to separate them, so it's very easy to miss.

Several enemies have healing abilities. If you want them to use them, beat
them up a bit first. This is true of almost all soldiers. When they get tired,
they will use Gashprin Salve. So, beat on them until they droop then just
wait. Mites all use Mitochondria (on themselves or the monsters with them).
Some machina use Self-Repair. These are the easiest skills to miss.

Don't worry about bosses. Their field guide entries automatically fill in
completely. I've gone ahead and listed them, but you don't have to worry about
missing anything there.

One other thing to remember - in a fight, the title of a special skill will
always be displayed when a monster uses it. If you're waiting for a skill,
look for those titles. No matter how fancy an attack a monster does, if no
words pop up, that's not one of the skills you're looking for.

Tip #2: Getting items

When you're after drop items, take a few Treasure Lowdowns along. They improve
your chances for a drop, and they stack (up to a point - five or six is
plenty).

Kill the monster that has your item last. I didn't figure this out until I
was trying to get a drop item from Vodnik at the Celestial River. I had
received forty-five (yes, 45) Sword of Tears from the mites that show up with
Vodnik. Out of curiosity, I changed the order and left Vodnik until last to
kill and voila - a Whitecap Shield! I did this three times and received three
shields. I haven't tested it further since Vodnik was the last one I needed,
but keep it in mind if you're having trouble finding an item you need.

Tip #3: Temporary areas

A few areas in the game are temporary. In other words, you won't get a
crack at the enemies there again unless they can be found in the arena. These
temporary enemies are the main reason I list the Coliseum battles in the
next section. Many of the "missable" enemies can be found there. In fact,
I think that the only genuinely missable enemy is the Ballet Dancer at the
Vega Building Site. I've never seen him anywhere else, so be sure to fill in
his section in the field guide completely while you're there. I try to get
them all as I go along, but you can always fall back on the Coliseum for
everything except that Ballet Dancer.

Temporary areas:

Dark Service Headquarters/Emperor's Residence - later there will be different
enemies or none at all at these locations.
Mintaka while Sagi is trying to escape town - this is a temporary situation
that ends when you escape on the liner to Hassaleh.
Nunki Valley before the fire - the enemies all change after the fire.
Rodolfo's Estate - the enemies all leave afer you defeat Giacomo and you
finish the scene with Rodolfo/Heughes.
Nashira while it's occupied by Empire troops.
Vega Building Site - the chests here can be picked up in Vega later, but
the enemies will be gone.

Keep in mind that you cannot finish the Field Guide the first time through.
Well, technically you can. I guess I should say that you can't claim your
reward for it until you get back to Sheratan on your second playthrough. Since
the final bosses have entries, you cannot get 100% until they're gone.

Also remember that Nasca, Heughes, and Valara each have more than one entry.
To complete the guide, you cannot let them go on Disc 2 when given the
opportunity; you must finish them off to get their last entries. Letting them
go, however, contributes to the best/longest ending of the game, so it's up
to you which you'd rather do. If you only plan on playing once, the field
guide probably doesn't matter anyway.

Rewards: Hermit's Cane, Fate Idol, Poison Ashes, Berserker Drink, Harp of
Slumber, Tarot Card: Death, Hero's Crest, Purest Gold

Just drop by Sheratan from time to time, and Doc will give you prizes as you
progress. I don't know the exact requirements for each prize except for Purest
Gold (100%) and Hero's Crest (filling in all the pictures - enemy names and
items), so just check back once and again.

To complete your gathering list, you must finish the field guide. Many of
Doc's rewards are unique; I haven't found them anywhere else.

I list the locations exactly as they are in the guide's index; there's overlap
in some areas though. If you have empty slots and can't find an enemy in a
given location, chances are that you need to come back later. For example,
you'll be asked to go check out a problem at Dark Service HQ on Disc 2, and
the enemies are different from the ones at the beginning of the game, but
they're still listed together. So, entry 001 is your first fight in the game.
You can't find entry 002 until well into Disc 2, so don't panic if you're
missing slots; they don't fill in chronologically.

Organization: I list the monster/enemy, skills (number of skills), items
(number of items). I include the number only if there's more than one.
I also include where in the Coliseum different enemies can be found; some
enemies can be found in several places in the Coliseum and be easy to find
elsewhere, as well (the Shawra, for instance), so I won't list every battle
in the Coliseum for all of them.

Good luck. :)

Alfard
Dark Service Headquarters

001 Dark Service Peon
No Unique Skills
Item: None
Coliseum: Rank 2, The Brittle Bunch

002 Fallen Serviceman
Skills (2): Slumber Shot and Gashprin Salve
Item: Taunt
Coliseum: Championship Fight

003 Upgraded Paramachina
Skills (2): Saber Hand and Rampage Chop
Item: Wickedwing Revels

Emperor's Residence

004 Alpha Paramachina
No Unique Skills
Item: Low Potion
Coliseum: Rank 3, The Imperial Battalion

005 Dark Serviceman
Skills: Gashprin Salve
Item: Low Potion
Coliseum: Rank 3, The Imperial Battalion

006 Imperial Battle Machina
Skills: Self-Repair
Item: None
Coliseum: Rank 1, The Reinforcements

007 Hideous Beast
Skills: Mountainmaker
Item: Flame Sword

Mintaka

008 Empire Grunt
No Unique Skills
Item: Punk Knife
Coliseum: Rank 1, The Reinforcements

009 Imperial Swordsman
No Unique Skills
Item: Flash Dagger
Coliseum: Rank 1, The Reinforcements

010 Giacomo
Skills: Thashingale
Items (2): Fulgadrum and Escape

Nihal Desert

011 Doomer
Skills: Flaming Powder
Items (2): Ice Fan and Fire Element
Coliseum: Rank 2, The Fiery Spirits

012 Devil Claws
Skills: Carcass of Power
Items (2): Emerald Thrush and Flame Sword
Coliseum: Rank 2, The Human Wave

013 Gigim
Skills: Armadillo Attack
Item: Ray of Truth

Lava Caves

014 Magma Beast
Skills: Inferno
Items: Sedna Toadstones 1
Coliseum: Rank 2, The Fiery Spirits

015 Ceratobus
Skills (2): Dynamite Rush and Fuzzy-Wuzzy Coat
Items: Crimson Love
Coliseum: Rank 2, The Fiery Spirits

016 Foytow
Skills: Bloodsucker Blaze
Items: None
Coliseum: Rank 2, The Sadist Squad and The Fiery Spirits

017 Phoelix
Skills (2): Incendiary Voice and Insanity's Song
Items: Mars Sophia
Coliseum: Rank 2, The Fiery Spirits

018 Lord of the Lava Caves
Skills: Molten Lunge
Items (3): Arabesque, Empyreal Wildfire, and Sedna House 1
Coliseum: Advanced Battles, Living Fossil

019 Umbra
Skills (2): Mountainmaker and Hellian Eye
Items: Sword of Thirst

Hassaleh
Nusakan Thornwood

020 Shawra
No Unique Skills
Items: Wooden Club
Coliseum: Rank 1, Flappers 'n' Floppers, The Hard Punchers
Shawras are in every Rank except Rank 5

021 Balloona
No Unique Skills
Items (2): Sorcery Sophia and Potion
Coliseum: Rank 1, The Hard Punchers

Lake Botein Ruins

022 Mite
Skills: Mitochondria
Items: Mars Sophia
Coliseum: Rank 1, Flappers 'n' Floppers
Rank 2, The Icy Stares

023 Pul-Puk
Skills: Healing Droplets
Items: Cliffsunder
Coliseum: Rank 2, The Icy Stares

024 Ogopogo
No Unique Skills
Items (2): Swallowtail and Azure Lotus
Coliseum: Rank 1, The Hard Punchers

025 Hideous Beast
Skills: Icy Death
Items: Sevenstar Dust

Sheratan Village

026 Machina Arma: Razer
Skills: Arma Cannon
Items: Levinsnake's Rise

Diadem
Celestial River/Cloud Passage

027 Cancerite
No Unique Skills
Items: Cancerite Booze
Coliseum: Rank 3, The Snare

028 Armored Cancerite
No Unique Skills
Items: Kappa Helmet

029 Ray-Moo
Skills (2): Electro Crash and Mucky-Yucky Mucus
Items: Pegasus Jump
Coliseum: Rank 3, The Rear Guard and Danger: High Voltage!

030 Bar-Mool
Skills: Healing Droplets
Items (2): Scension and Sedna Bluefruit Tree

031 Fogg
Skills: Overheat
Items: True Verdure
Coliseum: Rank 3, The Snare

032 Vodnik (remember - kill him last to get his item)
Skills (2): Armadillo Attack and Armored Dillo
Items: Whitecap Shield

033 Magician Mite
Skills (2): Ice Rubble and Mitochondria
Items: Sword of Tears
Coliseum: Rank 3, The Rear Guard and Danger: High Voltage!

034 Giacomo
Skills: Thrashingale Redux
Items (2): Glimmer and Escape

035 Dark Service Swordsman
Skills (2): Fryercracker and Gashprin Salve
Items: Red Padma
Coliseum: Rank 3, Carelessness Kills

036 Imperial Elite
No Unique Skills
Items: Chain Mail
Coliseum: Rank 3, The Snare

Nashira

037 Autonomous Batle Machina
Skills (2): Force Ring Alpha and Self-Repair
Items: Bandages
Coliseum: Rank 3, The Snare and The Imperial Battalion

Cloud Vents

038 Cloud Cancerite
Skills: Collar Lop
Items (2): Ray of Truth and Cancerite Booze

039 Shadow Claws
Skills (2): Carcass of Power and Jitterjinx
Items (2): Ascension and Murderous Joker
Coliseum: Rank 3, Carelessness Kills

040 Valara
Skills (2): Machina Formation and Deathdealer
Items: Rime Blade

041 Heughes
Skills: Machina
Items: None

042 Nasca
Skills (2): Stun Grenade and Gashprin Salve
Items: None

043 Machina Arma: Marauder
Skills: Plasma Cannon
Items: None

044 Machina Arma: Marauder
Skills (2): Plasma Cannon and Self-Repair
Items: None

045 Nasca
Skills (2): Stun Grenade and Gashprin Salve
Items: Hades Sophia

Sadal Suud
Nunki Valley

046 Unuk
No Unique Skills
Items (2): Violet Taboo and Battle Shield
Coliseum: Rank 4, T.A.N.K.

047 Striper
No Unique Skills
Items: Canyon Wind

048 Blood Leaf
Skills: Enervating Waves
Items (2): Red Padman and Thunder Hat
Coliseum: Rank 4, Bats Beat Birds

049 Gormer
Skills (2): Flamethrower and Flaming Powder
Items: Citrine Arc

050 Armored Baloona
Skills: Overheat
Items: Luciferous Stave
Coliseum: Rank 5, Unbeatable Armor

051 Mobile Turret
No Unique Skills
Items: Hidden Sophia
Coliseum: Rank 5, Nukerz and Fantabaloney!

052 Elite Swordsman
Skills (2): Shock Bomb and Gasphrin Salve
Items: None

053 Malpercio's Afterling
Skills: Feral Death
Items: Wickedwing Revels

054 Promachina Heughes
Skills (2): Charge and Burning Harken
Items: None

055 Promachina Heughes
Skills (2): Charge and Burning Harken
Items: None

056 Heughes
Skills: Machina Fist
Items: Cold Queen

057 Dark Service Swordmaster
Skills (2): Shock Bomb and Gashprin Salve
Items: Whitecap Shield
Coliseum: Rank 5, Extreme Chaos and Nukerz

Rodolfo's Estate

058 Dark Service Officer
Skills (2): Slumber Shot and Gashprin Salve
Items: Battle Shield
Coliseum: Rank 4, T.A.N.K. and Hell's Haralds (*note - in the
Coliseum, one Dark Service Officer will appear with
four Beta Paramachina; you might get easier drops at
Rodolfo's)

059 Beta Paramachina
Skills: Saber Hand
Items (2): Diamond Drop and Light Element
Coliseum: Rank 4, T.A.N.K. and Hell's Harald's

060 Giacomo
Skills (3): Thrashingale Redux, Liquid Mettle, and Energy Injection
Items (2): Marvelous Sword and Escape

Anuenue
Holoholo Jungle

061 Spell Shellfish
Skills (2): Water of Life and Adamant Shell
Items: Sedna Ebonstone Sculpture

062 Undead Swordsman
Skills: Nether Whistle
Items: Chalice of Freedom

063 Mirabilis
No Unique Skills
Items: Scale Mail

064 Acheron
No Unique Skills
Items: Scale Mail

065 Lesser Caracal
No Unique Skills
Items: Canyon Wind

066 Vata
Skills (3): Predation, Hover Strike, and Earsplitting Whoop
Items (2): Rising Condor and Siren Sword

067 Alraune
Skills: Poison Breath
Items: Taunt

068 Holoholo Chick
Skills: Angelic Song
Items: None

069 Holoholobird
Skills (2): Wingflail and Egg
Items: Heavenlapse and Armor of Tonitrus
Coliseum: Advanced Battles, Ruler of the Skies

Celestial Tree Veinroots

070 Badwin
Skills: Toxic Waves
Items: Mirage Turn

071 Mad Cancerite
Skills (2): Headhunter Chop and Ice Cold Swig
Items (2): Versed Shield and Cancerite Booze

072 Ghost Claws
Skills (2): Carcass of Power and Jitterjinx
Items: Ebon Slash
Coliseum: Rank 5, Extreme Chaos

073 Imperial Guard
Skills (2): Electro Shot and Gashprin Salve
Items: Force
Coliseum: Rank 5, Extreme Chaos

074 Machina Ballerina
Skills: Self-Destruct
Items: None
Coliseum: Rank 5, Nukerz

075 Wizard Mite
Skills (2): Thunderbolt and Mitochondria
Items: Herb Flower
Coliseum: Rank 5, Awakening

076 Malpercio's Afterling
Skills (2): Dark Spawn and Veinroots' Pulse
Items (2): Transcension and Lightendrake's Drop

077 Machina Arma: Razer
Skills (2): Arma Cannon and Hurricane Punch
Items: None

078 Machina Arma: Razer
Skills (2): Arma Cannon and Hurricane Punch
Items: None

079 Valara
Skills: Deathdealer
Items: Arondite

Duhr
Seginus

080 Zelmer
Skills (2): Foxfire and Seafire
Items: Wickedwing Revels

081 Magic Shellfish
Skills (2): Water of Life and Adamant Shell
Items (2): Zeniver Cascade and Twin Ice Auger
Coliseum: Rank 5, Unbeatable Armor

082 Larva Golem
Skills: White Breath
Items (2): Empyreal Wildfire and Lightendrake's Drop
Coliseum: Rank 5, Awakening and Fantabaloney!

083 Nebulos
Skills: Devil Thunder
Items: Spirilight Quiver
Coliseum: Rank 5, Awakening

084 Seginus
Skills (2): Heavenlapse and Shadowflame Engine
Items: Fellstar Gleam

Tarazed
Vega

085 Ballet Dancer (only location - get its item now)
No Unique Skills
Items: Rabbit Dash

086 Elite Imperial guard
Skills (2): Binder Shot and Gashprin Salve
Items (2): Thunderer's Shield and Force
Coliseum: Rank 5, Extreme Chaos

087 Promachina Shanath
Skills: Machina Sweep
Items (2): Phoenix Dive and Ravensbrood

Tarazed

088 Baelheit
Skills (2): Hellfire and Seraphim Soul
Items (2): Prominence Sword and Fate's Kiss

089 Imperial Swordguard
Skills (2): Fryercracker and Gashpring Salve
Items: None

090 Masterless Battle Machina
Skills (2): Force Ring Beta and Barrier & Self-Repair
Items: None

091 Hercules Dragon
Skills (4): Hercules Laser, Storing Energy, Self-Repair, and Barrier
Items: Apocalypse Sword
Coliseum: Championship Battle and Advanced Battles, Looming Danger

092 Dance King
Skills: Ring-Around-the-Rosy
Items: Transcension

093 Prima Queen
Skills: Self-Destruct
Items: Ghostarrow

094 High-Mobility Cannon
Skills: Fusillade
Items: Phoenix Dive
Coliseum: Advanced Battles, The Wicked Gawd

095 Cicada Golem
Skills (2): Beam Barrage and White Breath
Items: Cross Pendant
Coliseum: Champsionship Battle

096 Ahriman
Skills (2): Knife Parade and Crystal Cryomancy
Items: None
Coliseum: Championship Battle

097 Lycaon
Skills: Electro Horn
Items: None
Coliseum: Championship Battle and Looming Danger

098 Machinanguis A
Skills: Berserk Tech
Items: None

099 Machinanguis B
Skills (2): Hyperslaught Mode and Berserk Tech
Items: None

100 Verus
Skills (2): Death by Stomping and Tentacle Recharge
Items: None

101 Verus-Wiseman
Skills (2): Magnus of Life and Cast Away Your Carnal Robes
Items: None

Age of the Gods
Albali Sandhollow

102 Caracal
No Unique Skills
Items: None
Coliseum: Rank 1, Fab Forest Friends

103 Goat Chimera
Skills: Supersonic Voice
Items: None
Coliseum: Rank 1, Fab Forest Friends and Other Worldly Ilk

Sandfeeder's Nest

104 Albireo
Skills: Mucky-Yucky Mucus
Items: Heat Club
Coliseum: Rank 1, Other Worldly Ilk

105 Orvata
Skills: Hover Strike
Items: None
Coliseum: Rank 1, Other Worldly Ilk

106 Sandfeeder
Skills (2): Paralysis Quills and Lunchtime
Items (2): Icebloom and Sedna Bridge
Coliseum: Advanced Battles, Peril of the Sands

Zaurak Keep

107 Filler
Skills: Snooze Waves
Items (2): Levinsnake's Rise and Dark Element
Coliseum: Rank 4, T.A.N.K. and Hell's Haralds

108 Skeleton Warrior
No Unique Skills
Items: Trigon Band
Coliseum: Rank 4, Blackest Night

109 Goulish Skirmisher
Skills: Blinding Rancor
Items: Classic Cudgel

110 Rulug
Skills: Bloodsucker
Items: Ascension
Coliseum: Championship Battle

111 Shadow Caracal
Skills: Uber Cat Kick
Items: None

112 Devil's Doll
No Unique Skills
Items: Pegasus Jump
Coliseum: Rank 4, Blackest Night, The Attackers, and Hell's Haralds

113 Juggler
Skills: Pyromancy
Items (2): Rime Blade and Luciferous Stave
Coliseum: Rank 4, The Attackers and Hell's Haralds

114 Master Juggler
Skills (2): Cryomancy and Animal Hypnotism
Items: None
Coliseum: Rank 4, Nukerz and Fantabaloney!

115 Geryon
Skills: Evil Thunder
Items: Crystal Helm

116 Monoceros
No Unique Skills
Items: Demon Cudgel

117 Rudra
Skills (2): Heathen Melody and Feral Proof
Items: Shadowflame Engine

Battlefields of Atria

118 Alma
Skills: Foxfire
Items: None

119 Medium
Skills: Numinous Wings
Items: Twin Ice Auger

120 Shaman
Skills: Numinous Wings
Items: Mourning Dress

121 Dragon
Skills (2): Conflagrant Breath and Skywrenching Roar
Items (2): Dragon Claw and Salamander Tongue

122 Guillo
Skills (2): Heavenlapse and Fellstar Gleam
Items: Zeniver Cascade

123 Wiseman
Skills (2): Illusory Chaos and Cast Away Your Carnal Robes
Items: Aphelion Dustwake

124 Black Dragon
Skills: Crimson Catharsis
Items: Apocalypse Sword
Coliseum: Advanced Battle, Relive the Nightmare

Matar Highlands

125 Lanocaulis
No Unique Skills
Items: Sedna Well

126 Maw-Maw-Goo
Skills: Shell Spin
Items (2): Red Padma and Heavenfall

127 King Caracal
Skills (2): Uber Cat Kick and Kitty SOS
Items: Saint's Armor
Coliseum: Rank 5, Unbeatable Armor

128 Nixie Chimera
Skills (2): Supersonic Voice and Chilling Voice
Items: Ascension

129 Hearteater
Skills: Ovulate
Items: Blast Tooth
Coliseum: Advanced Battle, Peril of the Sands

Other
Coliseum

130 Arma Prototype M
Skills (2): Sinistral Chop and X-Bluster
Items: None

Nekkar Quietlands

131 Armored Mite
Skills (2): All-or-Nothing Thunder and Mitochrondia
Items: Emerald Thrush
Coliseum: Rank 5, Fantabaloney!

132 Queen Alraune
Skills (2): Poison Breath and Beastprodder
Items: Rising Condor
Coliseum: Championship Battle

133 Slave Baloona
Skills: Overheat
Items: Arabesque

134 Mange-Roches
Skills (2): Wingflail and Trample
Items: Open Your Eyes
Coliseum: Advanced Battles, Terror of the Skies

135 Saber Dragon
Skills: Crimson Hail
Items (2): Saber Dragon Horn and Phoenix Dive

Other
Party Members

136 Sagi

-Special Attacks-

Scension Heavenfall
Cliffsunder Ascension
Red Padma Icebloom
Transcension Blast Tooth
Rime Blade The Golding's Rapture

137 Milly

-Special Abilities-

Mirage Turn Pegasus Jump
Canyon Wind Rabbit Dash

-Special Attacks-

Swallowtail Emerald Thrush
Sevenstar Dust Arabesque
Diamond Drop Rising Condor
Phoenix Dive Open Your Eyes

138 Guillo

-Special Attacks-

Firewheel Icefan
Fulgadrum Ghostarrow
Sigil Cry Twin Ice Auger
Levinsnake's Rise Spirilight Quiver
Wickedwing Revels Heavenlapse
Empyreal Wildfire Zeniver Cascade
Lightendrake's Drop Fellstar Gleam
Shadowflame Engine Aphelion Dustwake