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1. ----- General information                            [GNIF]
2. ----- Weapons of the first walkthrough               [1WLK]
  2a –-- Nowe’s Short words                             [1NS]
         - Nowe’s Sword                       [1NS01]
         - Oror’s Falconblade                 [1NS02]
         - Oror’s Lionblade                   [1NS03]
         - Savior Blade                       [1NS04]
         - Sealknife: Calamitous Strings      [1NS05]
         - Mage’s Promise                     [1NS06]
         - Kingsblood                         [1NS07]
         - Carrion Maker                      [1NS08]
         - Deathdance                         [1NS09]
         - Maiden Kris                        [1NS10]
         - Glory’s Bane                       [1NS11]
         - Hunter’s Joy                       [1NS12]
         - Flamberge                          [1NS13]
         - Scream                             [1NS14]
  2b --- Nowe’s Long swords                             [1NL]
         - Nowe’s Long Sword                  [1NL01]
         - Calf-carver                        [1NL02]
         - Bloody Fang                        [1NL03]
         - Silver Butterfly                   [1NL04]
         - Sealblade: Calamitous Verse        [1NL05]
         - Union                              [1NL06]
         - Injustice                          [1NL07]
         - Caim’s Sword                       [1NL08]
         - Takamasa                           [1NL09]
         - Skald’s Song                       [1NL10]
         - Nobuyoshi                          [1NL11]
         - Slaughterism                       [1NL12]
         - Soldier’s Sword                    [1NL13]
         - Guard’s Sword                      [1NL14]
         - Inuart’s Long Sword                [1NL15]
  2c –-- Eris’s Spears                                  [1E]
         - Eris’s Spear                       [1E01]
         - Sealspear: Calamitous Dance        [1E02]
         - Hanch’s Spear                      [1E03]
         - Robber King                        [1E04]
         - Victor’s Spoil                     [1E05]
         - Apostate’s Misery                  [1E06]
         - Sorrowborn                         [1E07]
         - Ozymandia’s Might                  [1E08]
         - Tower of Warning                   [1E09]
  2d –-- Manah’s Staves                                 [1M]
         - Manah’s Staff                      [1M01]
         - Knights of the Seal’s Curse Staff  [1M02]
         - Sealstaff: Calamitous Sonnet       [1M03]
         - Northern Siren                     [1M04]
         - Dream Blossom                      [1M05]
         - Wisdom                             [1M06]
         - Magi’s Sorrow                      [1M07]
         - Edacious                           [1M08]
         - Philosopher’s Staff                [1M09]
  2e --- Urick’s Axes                                   [1U]
         - Urick’s Axe                        [1U01]
         - Crimson Hood                       [1U02]
         - Executioner’s Song                 [1U03]
         - Foul Blade                         [1U04]
         - Mourning Thorn                     [1U05]
3. ----- Weapons of the second walkthrough              [2WLK]
  3a –-- Nowe’s Short words                             [2NS]
         - Evil’s Bronze Blade                [2NS01]
         - Moonlit Beauty                     [2NS02]
         - Thief’s Secret                     [2NS03]
  3b --- Nowe’s Long swords                             [2NL]
         - Captured Goddess                   [2NL01]
         - Pitch Black                        [2NL02]
         - Sealblade: Calamitous Melody       [2NL03]
  3c –-- Eris’s Spears                                  [2E]
         - Falcon’s Pinion                    [2E01]
  3d –-- Manah’s Staves                                 [2M]
         - Phoenix Curse                      [2M01]
         - Yaha’s Staff                       [2M02]
  3e --- Urick’s Axes                                   [2U]
         - Broken Iron                        [2U01]
         - Zhangpo’s Axe                      [2U02]
         - Sealaxe: Calamitous Rhythm         [2U03]
4. ----- Weapons of the third walkthrough               [3WLK]
  4a –-- Nowe’s Short words                             [3NS]
         - Hero’s Knife                       [3NS01]
  4b --- Nowe’s Long swords                             [3NL]
         - Moonfire                           [3NL01]
  4d –-- Manah’s Staves                                 [3M]
         - Monk’s Red Staff                   [3M01]
5. ----- “Code needing weapons”                         [CNWP]
         - Writheheart                        [CNW1]
         - Sealaxe: Calamitous Rhythm         [CNW2]
         - Poisontongue                       [CNW3]
         - Widow’s Death                      [CNW4]
6. ----- Version History and updates                    [VERH]
7. ----- Legal information                              [LEGI]
8. ----- Contact Information                            [CONT]
9. ----- Credits and thanks                             [CRED]



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Thanks for reading my guide ^_^

This guide is based on the English version of Drakengard 2.
Includes the weapon history for all the weapons, attack and guard break
information for the different levels.

At this moment the guide does not include the information of the place and time
you can obtain the weapons.

Also the experience points needed to level up and the range of the weapons
are not included, I'm thinking about including these later.

Please note, that the order of the weapons is based on the order they are
in the game, when you equip them on the Grand Wheel. It isn't the order you
acquire them.



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In the first walkthrough you can obtain 52 weapons:
29 Swords for Nowe ( 14 Short and 15 Long Sword), 9 Spears for Eris,
9 Staves for Manah and 5 Axes for Urick

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| 2a. Nowe’s Short Swords                              [1NS]                  |
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1) Nowe’s Sword                       [1NS01]
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  Attack power:  20 / 22 / 24 / 26
  Guard break:   18 / 18 / 20 / 24

  Level 1.
  This sword belonged to a hero
  called Iron Dragon of the Two
  Swords. It was a gift from a
  female knight who trained
  him for his first battle.
  It saved the lives of many,
  including the Iron Dragon. He
  cherished it as though is was
  his own body.

  Level 2.
  One day, Iron Dragon entered
  hidden land, lead by a priest’s
  divine guidance. There, he met a
  dragon who spoke the words of
  men and a child who spoke the
  words of dragons. Iron Dragon
  knew right away that this must
  be the legendary savior, and
  asked for custody of the boy.
  But the dragon sneered...

  Level 3.
  “What right have you to take this
  child from his father? What could
  you possibly offer him?” And Iron
  Dragon replied, “I shall become the
  child’s father. Without knowledge of
  human ways, this child would grow
  to become a wingless dragon – a
  pointless creature. I vow to raise
  him to be a fine knight. So it is
  a future that I offer to the child.”

  Level 4.
  Amused the dragon said, “Fine.
  You shall take the child, but I
  shall come with him, for only I can
  teach him the ways of dragons.”
  Iron Dragon agreed, and presented
  his sword as a token of his pledge.
  The dragon sneered at the foolish
  human gesture, and threw the sword
  into his lair – the only world his
  child had ever known until then.


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2) Oror’s Falconblade                 [1NS02]
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  Attack power:  65 / 74 / 82 / 90
  Guard break:   46 / 52 / 58 / 64

  Level 1.
  Once, one of Sir Gismor’s men was
  caught attempting to steal General
  Oror’s sword. When he was brought
  before his master, Sir Gismor
  harshly reprimanded the knight, and
  threatened to execute him. The
  knight pleaded, “I only wished to be
  more like General Oror.” When
  Oror heard this, he interrupted
  Sir Gismor, and began to speak...

  Level 2.
  “This sword was crafted after the
  elfin myth of two brothers who
  become the gods of destruction.
  The older one was called Falcon,
  and possessed the gift of knowledge.
  The younger one was called Lion,
  and possesses the gift of might.
  They fought in a war between
  humans and elves.

  Level 3.
  “Using their gifts, Falcon and Lion
  brought mankind to its knees.
  But with the end of the war, there
  was no one left to test their skills
  against, so they continued
  their quest for knowledge and
  power. Eventually, Flacon gained
  the knowledge of the universe and
  Lion cracked open the earth and
  sky with his fists.

  Level 4.
  “The brothers had become the gods
  of destruction, and the elves had no
  choice but to seal them in “Hero’s
  Time”, using the lives and souls of
  millions. Your crime is the same as
  the brothers’. But in the name of my
  sword, Gismor, I beg you: spare this
  man.” And so the knight was spared.
  But I never forgot the darkness I
  saw in Gismor’s eyes that day.


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3) Oror’s Lionblade                   [1NS03]
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  Attack power:  54 / 60 / 68 / 78
  Guard break:   40 / 45 / 48 / 50

  Level 1.
  Violence. Death. Ruin.
  Eighteen years ago, Oror was a
  general in the army of the Union,
  and led his forces against the
  armies of the Empire. During one
  fateful battle, a catastrophe befell
  the world and lightning rained
  down from the skies killing Oror’s
  men where they stood.

  Level 2.
  Loss. Starvation. Disease.
  The heroes saved the world from
  chaos and the was ended quickly,
  but the wounds caused by
  catastrophe were felt by mankind
  for many years to come.

  During that time, Oror traveled the
  world trying to bring hope to the
  people. Their pitiful plight broke
  his heart.

  Level 3.
  Flags. Armor. Spears.
  Oror had learned that the heroes had
  formed a band of knight, sealed
  the “fire”, and were now working
  to save the needy. Knowing that
  he could not save humanity alone,
  Oror willingly joined the knight.
  With knights under his command,
  he dedicated his life to saving
  as many people as possible.

  Level 4.
  Death. Love. Hate.
  Caught up in the internal politics
  of the heroes, Oror lost his life.
  Gismor was the culprit.

  However, Oror did not hate Gismor.
  for his crime. His love for
  humanity would not permit such
  hatred, ever for his murder.
  And so Oror remained true to
  His was of life, until death.


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4) Savior Blade                       [1NS04]
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  Attack power:  20 / 24 / 28 / 32
  Guard break:    2 /  4 /  8 / 12

  Level 1.
  Once upon a time, a land faced
  Destruction due to the deception that
  corrupted people’s heart.

  Level 2.
  Mourning the state of his realm, the
  king passed a new law sentencing
  to death anyone who spread false
  hope among his people, with lies
  that the country was being rebuilt.

  Level 3.
  It was then that a merchant
  appeared before the king with a
  sword that only killed liars. The king
  rejoiced, and paid a good sum of
  gold to purchase the sword.

  Level 4.
  Eager to test his miraculous
  acquisition, the king swung the
  sword at the merchant and
  clove him clean in two.

  The king mourned once again...


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5) Sealknife: Calamitous Strings      [1NS05]
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  Attack power:  5 / 6 / 8 / 70
  Guard break:   4 / 4 / 6 / 46

  Level 1.
  A master blacksmith, embittered
  by the god’s maltreatment of the
  world, vowed to forge a weapon
  with which to destroy them.

  Level 2.
  The power of the seal negates
  the power of the gods, and the
  seal derives its power from the
  goddess...

  So the blacksmith sealed the power
  of the goddess into his creation.

  Level 3.
  The goddess lived for her love. She
  gave her body for the sake of her
  beloved. She was a fiery goddess.

  Level 4.
  Sealed inside was the fire, the spirit
  that nurtures the life of the red
  earth...


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6) Mage’s Promise                     [1NS06]
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  Attack power:   52 /  62 /  74 /  86
  Guard break:   112 / 126 / 140 / 154

  Level 1.
  There once was a man, strong of
  limb, who lived in a poor village.
  A caring fellow, he decided to join
  the army and earn a better life for
  his fellow villagers. Grateful for his
  gesture, they presented him with a
  silver club before his departure.

  Level 2.
  To the kind-hearted man, the
  battlefield was hell itself. Stunned
  by the gruesome reality of war, he
  ran away before even swinging
  his club. Dejected, he returned to
  the village.

  Level 3.
  He retuned to the village to find
  It burned down to the ground; his people
  massacred. Despairing, he cursed
  the heavens, cursed his weakness,
  and pleaded with the devil
  for more strength.

  Level 4.
  Back on the battlefield, he swung
  with the blind fury of a
  wild animal. In the end, he split
  his own head open with the it, and
  only the cursed club remained.


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7) Kingsblood                         [1NS07]
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  Attack power:  75 / 82 / 88 / 94
  Guard break:   68 / 74 / 79 / 84

  Level 1.
  Once, there lived two generals.
  One possessed supreme bravery
  and the other possessed supreme
  intellect. The two men admired
  each other and trained together
  to become better soldiers, until
  one day, their hearts were stolen
  by this ancient sword, Kingsblood.
  They fought to decide who should
  own it.

  Level 2.
  The battle for Kingsblood led to
  war. The brave general fought using
  what he called “ Iron Guard”
  formation – a strategy dependent on
  sheer effort and hardship. It had
  served him well throughout his
  glittering military career. The astute
  general meanwhile, used srategies
  never before seen in the battlefield.
  No on knew who would prevail.

  Level 3.
  The brave general’s direct approach
  dominated at first, but as time
  passed, the astute general’s ever-
  changing strategies began to turn
  the battle to his favor. So the brave
  general’s army held on with dogged
  determination, and managed, at
  length to cancel out the astute
  general’s advantage.
  The was had reached a stalemate.

  Level 4.
  After the war, a villager visited the
  battlefield and said: ” They were
  both great generals. If only their
  talents had not been polarized...
  If only they had possessed a
  balance of might and intellect,
  we would have been spared the
  tragedies of war.”


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8) Carrion Maker                      [1NS08]
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  Attack power:  32 / 35 / 38 / 45
  Guard break:   64 / 70 / 76 / 90

  Level 1.
  The iron club was placed at the
  corner of the torture chamber.
  After prisoners had been
  subjects to every conceivable
  form of torture, it would make
  an appearance.

  Level 2.
  With their bodies in mutilated
  ruins, victims longed for the iron
  club’s fatal blow, and an end to
  the pain.

  Level 3.
  From toothless mouths, they would
  wail, “The club! The club! Please,
  show me the club!” And, like a
  bloody angel, the iron club would
  come to answer their prayer.

  Level 4.
  The weapon turned its victim into
  meat with a single crushing blow,
  then waited in silence for the next
  prayer.

  Caked in flesh and blood, it came
  to resemble the bodies it violated.


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9) Deathdance                         [1NS09]
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  Attack power:  28 / 30 / 32 / 36
  Guard break:   16 / 16 / 20 / 30

  Level 1.
  Long ago, in a war-torn region
  where a small nation constantly
  fought for supremacy, one country
  thrived under the leadership of a
  great hero. In time, he became an
  emperor and his armies conquered
  the neighboring lands. Exhausted
  by years of war, the conquered
  subjects of this new emperor
  welcomed his rule.

  Level 2.
  The emperor held a feast from time
  to time. It was the one luxury he
  allowed himself. Disregarding the
  advice of his council, he would even
  entertain guests from enemy
  nations. That day, he had invited a
  beautiful dancer to perform for him.
  She hailed from a country which
  had resisted his conquest for
  several years.

  Level 3.
  The dancer possessed such beauty
  and grace, she stole the emperor’s
  heart in an instant. At the end of
  her performance, he applauded
  generously and ordered her to
  approach his throne so that he
  might reward her. As he reached out
  to hand her a priceless ring, she
  stabbed him through the heart with
  the sword she’s used in her dance.

  Level 4.
  Bereft of its emperor, the empire
  soon crumbled, and the flames of
  war engulfed the region once again.
  War brought suffering and death to
  the people of every nation.

  The assassin’s sword was lost, but
  its story and cruel legacy remains.


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10) Maiden Kris                       [1NS10]
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  Attack power:  65 / 72 / 79 /  85
  Guard break:   52 / 72 / 95 / 114

  Level 1.
  A short sword lay, at the corner of
  the altar in the shrine. During its
  construction, the sword was
  used to take the lives of sacrificial
  maidens, whose blood was offered
  to earn the blessing of the gods.

  Level 2.
  The number of maidens sacrificed
  is the number of the pillars.
  Each of the maidens, who died
  against their will, cursed the
  sword with their last breath.

  Level 3.
  Soon after the shrine’s completion,
  the priests fell victim to disease
  and misfortune. One by one their
  order dwindled and the shrine was
  eventually abandoned in the wake
  of the war.

  Level 4.
  Several hundred years later, the
  shrine still stood. Resting on its
  forgotten altar, the cursed sword
  remained, casting an eerie light
  around the murdered maidens’
  tomb.


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11) Glory’s Bane                      [1NS11]
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  Attack power:  25 / 25 / 25 / 28
  Guard break:    1 /  1 /  1 /  2

  Level 1.
  Once upon a time, on a warm spring
  day, an evil dragon attacked a
  palace. He killed the royal family,
  the palace guard, and even the
  court jester, just because he felt
  like it. Satisfied with his work, the
  dragon settled down for a nap in the
  throne room, and it was then that a
  little girl walked in, holding a sword.
  She shook the dragon awake.

  Level 2.
  She asked, “Could you tell me
  where the king is, please? I have to
  kill him.” Rather taken back, the
  dragon replies, “I’ve already eaten
  him.” Hearing this, the little girl
  bow politely and said “Thank
  you very much!” Puzzled by her
  appreciation, the dragon asked,
  “Why do you thank me, little girl?”

  Level 3.
  The girl replied, “The king you ate
  was not the true king. My dead
  mummy told me that he took the
  palace from my daddy. That’s why
  I had to kill him – to get my palace
  back!” The little girl wasn’t lying
  either. She really was the rightful
  heir t the throne.

  Level 4.
  The girl continued, “Now I’m Queen,
  I’m going to kill all the people who
  let my daddy die!” The dragon
  laughed and said,” Very well, little
  Queen. Then I shall bestow my
  power upon you and your sword.”
  So they exchanged their beating
  hearts. Then the little girl took her
  sword, slaughtered everyone, and
  lived happily aver after.


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12) Hunter’s Joy                      [1NS12]
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  Attack power:  18 / 20 / 22 / 24
  Guard break:   27 / 30 / 34 / 38

  Level 1.
  A lord with a penchant for hunting
  once owned this sword. With it at
  his side, he would ride out into the
  forest and not return until he had
  slaughtered all the animals he
  could find. Several decades later,
  when the lord’s grandson inherited
  the title, he also inherited this
  sword.

  Level 2.
  The new lord was a gentle soul, and
  wasn’t fond of hunting – until the
  day he found this sword among his
  grandfather’s possessions. From
  then on, his interest grew and he
  began to make frequent hunting
  trips.

  Level 3.
  As the months passed, the young
  lord’s behavior became more and more
  eccentric. He would lick the
  food off his plate and was
  sometimes seen walking on all
  fours around the castle. Then
  one day he disappeared.

  Level 4.
  No one knew what had become
  of him - only that a beastly roaring
  could be heard echoing from deep
  within the castle dungeons. It is
  said that it can still be heard
  to this day.


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13) Flamberge                         [1NS13]
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  Attack power:  92 / 95 / 97 / 98
  Guard break:   74 / 75 / 76 / 76

  Level 1.
  The dragon faced certain death,
  he lamented: why had he tried to
  save the life of a wretched human
  child, only to fly straight into the
  trap of dragon hunters? With his
  consciousness fading, the dragon
  thought he saw a man fighting.
  When he awoke, the man was
  treating his wounds.

  Level 2.
  The man who saved the dragon’s
  life aspired to become king. The
  dragon was not interested in such
  matters, but he thought that he would
  make a fine ruler. Suddenly, an
  arrow pierced the man’s chest.
  The dragon hunters had called in
  reinforcements. Critically injured,
  he groaned and fell to his knees.

  Level 3.
  Struggling to his feet, the man
  fought back bravely, but his wound
  was slowing him down. Just as
  it seemed he was about to be
  overwhelmed, the sound of tearing
  flesh filled the air. The dragon had
  torned out its own tongue! When the
  man pierced the tongue with his
  sword, a wall of flame spilled out
  burning the dragon hunters to ash.

  Level 4.
  “I’d hate to sacrifice myself for a
  mere human, but I do not wish to
  live with your death on my
  conscience.” Said the dragon, as he
  closed his eyes. At that moment,
  a bond that transcended species
  was forged. With Flamberge in his
  hand, the man later became king.


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14) Scream                            [1NS14]
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  Attack power:  47 / 48 / 50 / 54
  Guard break:   28 / 28 / 30 / 32

  Level 1.
  The young man lived to trick young
  girls. Gleefully he stole their hearts
  and wealth. But in time, the women
  he’d scorned banded together and
  sought the help of the faerie king,
  who sealed the young man’s spirit
  in a sword. Trapped inside the cold
  blade, he came to regret his sins.
  Then time passed, the women grew
  old, and one by one they died.

  Level 2.
  With each women’s death, time,
  Which had been halted, returned to
  the man who had never known old
  age within the blade. As it did so,
  his hatred for the women who had
  imprisoned him grew. When the last
  of the women died, the curse was
  finally broken, and he regained his
  physical form.

  Level 3.
  Once the young man’s body had
  been restored, his desire knew no
  bounds. He tricked one woman
  after another, stole hearts and
  wealth – until one day, he met a
  beautiful young woman, and fell in
  love for the very first time. He gave
  her all his live and wealth, but she
  felt nothing for him, and left town
  with another man.

  Level 4.
  The young woman committed then
  same crime as the young man
  and, in time, the men she’s scorned
  tried to seal her spirit into this
  sword. Just as they were about to
  cast the sealing spell, the young
  man pushed his beloved out of the
  way and took her place inside the
  blade, which was turned red by his
  passion. There he remains.



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| 2b. Nowe’s Long Swords                              [1NL]                   |
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1) Nowe’s Long Sword                  [1NL01]
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  Attack power:  10 / 12 / 14 / 16
  Guard break:   10 / 10 / 12 / 14

  Level 1.
  A gift from the previous general.
  Nowe received this sword on the
  day he joined the knights as a
  trainee.

  Since taking him in from the wild,
  General Oror had been Nowe’s
  human father, teaching him the
  ways of men.

  Level 2.
  Oror was a strong and generous
  man whose skills with the sword was
  without equal. He was Nowe’s
  hero. Mocked by some as a wild
  beast, Nowe dreamed of one day
  becoming  as strong and generous
  a human being as his adoptive
  father. Cherishing that dream, he
  trained every day with his sword
  and lived the life of a knight.

  Level 3.
  During Nowe’s first battle, Oror
  saved his life. The cruel reality of
  wall, all noise and blood and death
  was too much for the young Nowe
  to take in. He stood transfixed
  frozen with fear.

  Seeing this, Oror rushed to his
  son’s side and commanded Nowe
  to listen carefully to his words.

  Level 4.
  “The sword takes life, but is also
  saves the lives of your friends.
  What matters is the will of the
  one who holds the sword.”

  So... would Nowe use this sword to
  Take life or save ir? Neither the
  sword nor Oror could answer that
  question.


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2) Calf-carver                        [1NL02]
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  Attack power:  45 / 48 / 54 /  68
  Guard break:   90 / 92 / 96 / 124

  Level 1.
  There once was an extremely
  valiant and intelligent general.
  Tales of his bravery spread far
  and wide, and the streets echoed
  with his name.

  Level 2.
  The king felt threatened by his
  general’s popularity. He arrested
  the general without reason, and
  threw him into a dungeon deep
  inside the castle. The dungeon was
  known to drive its captive insane
  within three days.

  Level 3.
  Three years later, the king visited
  the dungeon. There he saw the
  general, both of his legs rotted
  away, glaring back at him with
  unchanged intensity. The general’s
  stare enraged the king, and,
  wandering why he hadn’t done so
  three years before, he drew his
  sword and prepared to deal the
  finishing blow.

  Level 4.
  Just before the point of the king’s
  sword could pierce the general’s
  heart, he produced a sword from
  the pile of rags behind him and
  stabbed the tyrant, killing him
  instantly. He had fashioned the
  sword from the bones of his own
  legs, which he had amputated for
  the purpose. The general went on
  to become a noble and just king.


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3) Bloody Fang                        [1NL03]
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  Attack power:  42 / 45 / 48 / 55
  Guard break:   34 / 36 / 38 / 45

  Level 1.
  The sword smith longed to create a
  perfect sword – a sword that would
  tear through a limb with one slash,
  and impale organs with a single
  thrust. A sword that would make
  its victims suffer right up to their
  dying breath.

  Level 2.
  In search of the cruelest of agonies,
  the sword smith worked night and
  day. After months of toil, it was
  complete – a sword that would deal
  unending pain to its victims.
  All that remained was to test its
  abilities.

  Level 3.
  The sword smith took the weapon
  to his king, and told him that even
  the most courageous man would
  tell its wielder anything he wanted
  to know.

  When the king tested his claim,
  he found the sword smith’s words
  to be true: prisoners divulged
  their secrets without hesitation.

  Level 4.
  Elated with the sword, the king
  demanded to know how it was
  forged, but the sword smith refused
  to reveal his methods, fearing his
  masterpiece would be copied.
  As a result, he got to experience
  his work first hand. He shed tears
  of joy at the quality of his creation.


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4) Silver Butterfly                   [1NL04]
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  Attack power:  10 / 10 / 10 / 140
  Guard break:   10 / 10 / 10 / 100

  Level 1.
  A lady was married off at a young
  Age to a count in a nearby land. She
  was blessed with a kind husband
  and servants, but her life was a
  bore. She confided her malcontent
  to her husband, who suggested that
  she go on a journey. There were
  many things she needed to learn as
  a countess, he said. She appreciated
  her husband’s understanding.

  Level 2.
  She heard many riveting tales
  From other travelers. There were
  Stories of farmers whose lives
  changed with the seasons; of
  children surviving without their
  parents; of the betrayal and
  treachery of kings in foreign lands.
  After two eventful years on the
  road, the countess began the
  voyage home as she had promised.

  Level 3.
  When she returned, the countess
  found her husband confused and
  weak. The mansion was in ruins,
  deserted apart from her husband
  and his favorite servant. Suddenly
  she realized that her journey had
  been the servant’s idea, a part of
  his scheme to take over the estate.
  “But surely a loving wife would
  notice such a plot?” he smirked.

  Level 4.
  The servant was arrested and
  executed, but the count never
  regained his health. He died quietly,
  leaving the devastated countess to
  mourn. She had his body cremated,
  and his ashes encased in a large
  sword. The butterfly engraved on
  the blasé was based on a mask the
  countess had brought as a gift for
  her husband during her travels.


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5) Sealblade: Calamitous Verse        [1NL05]
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  Attack power:  96 / 97 / 98 /  98
  Guard break:   90 / 92 / 96 / 104

  Level 1.
  A master blacksmith, embittered
  by the god’s maltreatment of the
  world, vowed to forge a weapon
  with which to destroy them.

  Level 2.
  So the power of the seal negated
  the power of the gods? ...And the
  seal derived its power from the
  goddess?

  ...and this master blacksmith sealed
  the power of the goddess into some
  kind of weapon?

  Level 3.
  A trainee blacksmith heard these
  rumors, and decided he could make
  a tidy profit if he made a weapon
  like the one in the legends.

  Level 4.
  After many months of hard work,
  the blacksmith finally completed
  the weapon, but no one knows what
  became of him after that.

  Some said he had been attacked
  by a thief who desired the sword,
  others said it was the curse of the
  goddess, but no one knew for sure.


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6) Union                              [1NL06]
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  Attack power:  28 / 28 / 28 / 30
  Guard break:   14 / 15 / 16 / 18

  Level 1.
  In his instructions to the royal sword
  smith, the king demanded that his
  new sword should combine the
  fang of a behemoth, the beak of a
  gryphon, the talon of a dragon, and
  iron from the eastern lands.

  Though he knew the task would be
  long and arduous, the faithful smith
  vowed to make the weapon and set
  out to find the materials right away.

  Level 2.
  Clearly, the smith needed help, but
  no traveling companion could be
  found. Nor was it any surprise that
  no one rose to the challenge; it was
  because the kingdom was weak
  that the king had searched the
  library to find a sword powerful
  enough to protect his subjects.
  This was no mere whim, the smith
  knew – he had to find a way.

  Level 3.
  So, the sword smith traveled alone,
  But two months passed without any
  progress. Navigating the monster
  infested wilderness was proving
  to be difficult and he was close to
  despair. It was then that a hero of
  the time happened to pass by, and,
  after listening to the smith’s tale,
  he agreed to lend a much needed
  hand. The two fought on together.

  Level 4.
  After countless adventure, the
  faithful smith forged the king’s
  sword. Sadly, it did not possess as
  much power as the kind had hoped,
  but he was still elated with it.

  Using the power of the sword, the
  king kept the monsters at bay and
  continued to rule the land. The
  smith was duly knighted and served
  his king for many happy years.


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7) Injustice                          [1NL07]
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  Attack power:  38 / 40 / 43 / 46
  Guard break:   30 / 32 / 34 / 36

  Level 1.
  Generation of heroes carried
  this sword as the symbol of freedom.
  To carry this sword, and to win
  acclaim as heroes, they had to shed
  much blood.

  Level 2.
  With this sword in hand, the heroes
  invaded foreign lands in the name
  of freedom.
  Their soldiers looted the lands
  and many innocent people
  died.

  Level 3.
  The sword was later stolen by a
  bandit and sold to a warmongering
  general. Subsequently, he too
  invaded neighboring kingdoms is
  the name of freedom, his soldiers
  looted the lands, and many
  innocent people died.

  Level 4.
  After each war, the sword changed
  hands. To this day, no one could find
  a hero wielding in the name of
  freedom.


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8) Caim’s Sword                       [1NL08]
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  Attack power:  100 / 110 / 120 / 128
  Guard break:    92 / 108 / 124 / 124

  Level 1.
  Eighteen years ago, when the world
  faced destruction, a human and a
  dragon dared to fight the gods. In
  the end, the dragon gave her life to
  save the world. Left behind, the
  man wandered the desolate lands,
  his heart full of sorrow.

  Accompanying him on his journey
  was the very same girl who brought
  mankind to the brink of extinction.

  Level 2.
  Betraying the alliance he’s formed
  during the war, the old hierarch
  altered the seal to increase the
  dragon’s burden. When the
  wandering man felt the dragon’s
  agony, the girl sensed his distress
  and made her escape. Alone again,
  his mind was consumed by thoughts
  of vengeance and his hollow soul
  burned with bloodlust once more.

  Level 3.
  Caim hunted down the treacherous
  hierarch. Ignoring his pleas for
  mercy, he killed him with a single
  blow. However, Caim’s efforts were
  in vain: the seal was permanently
  altered. The burden was tearing the
  dragon’s mind apart, so the world’s
  former savior faced a similar
  choice... But this time, Caim would
  choose the dragon over the world.

  Level 4.
  Caim and Angelus were finally
  reunited, when all the keys to the
  seal had been broken. Once more,
  the world faced destruction, but at
  least they were together – complete.
  They vowed then never to part
  again – a vow they kept until the
  end.

  After that, only Caim’s sword
  Remained in the doomed world.


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9) Takamasa                           [1NL09]
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  Attack power:  136 / 136 / 136 / 138
  Guard break:     2 /  12 /  28 /  64

  Level 1.
  After a lengthy war, the warrior
  finally captured Takamasa from his
  enemy, a mere fugitive.

  Level 2.
  The fugitive’s skills were no match
  for his own, but as soon as their
  swords crossed, the warrior’s blade
  broke in two. Risking his life, the
  warrior allowed the fugitive to
  plunge Takamasa into his shoulder.
  Inching agonizingly down its blade,
  He advanced and stabbed his
  enemy to death with the broken
  sword.

  Level 3.
  “Let him cut my flesh and I shall
  break his bones.” Takamasa
  responded well to the warrior’s
  philosophy. Armed with the
  legendary blade, he became a
  renowned hero.

  One day, he was ordered to kill a
  demon with the strength of one
  hundred men and a body like steel.

  Level 4.
  Showing no sign of fear, the warrior
  approached the demon and
  challenged it to strike him. Laughing
  at this folly, it shattered his body
  with a single mighty punch - but
  even as it did so, Takamasa pierced
  its scaly throat, killing it instantly.
  "Let him break my bones, and I
  shall take his life." The warrior's
  spirit lived on inside the sword.


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10) Skald’s Song                      [1NL10]
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  Attack power:  26 / 26 / 28 / 32
  Guard break:   16 / 19 / 20 / 26

  Level 1.
  In a cold land to the north, there
  lived two sisters who loved each
  other very much. They made their
  living as blacksmith and owned a
  little workshop in the village. One
  day, they were working hard as
  usual when a villager ran in, and
  told them that their mother - who
  had been missing since they were
  little – had been found!

  Level 2.
  The sister’s mother was trapped
  inside a glacier on the top of a
  mountain, as beautiful as the day
  she disappeared. The sisters tried
  to destroy the glacier, but none of
  their smithing tools could make
  any impression on the iron-hard
  glacial ice.

  Level 3.
  When nothing else showed any sign
  of working, one of the sisters said,
  “Sister, what about one of our
  swords?” So they too their finest
  creation, Skald’s Song, and swung
  it at the glacier. As the blade
  touched the ice, there was a mighty
  explosion and the sisters found
  themselves in the loving arms
  of their long lost mother.

  Level 4.
  “How you’re both grown!’
  Their mother had survived inside
  the glacier for all that time. The
  sisters cried tears of joy and talked
  so their mother for days on end.

  When they finally got up to leave,
  their mother made no attempt to
  stop them. They were, after all,
  smiths who commanded fire.


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11) Nobuyoshi                         [1NL11]
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  Attack power:  80 / 40 / 10 / 100
  Guard break:   60 / 20 /  5 / 145

  Level 1.
  In an eastern land, a poet, who
  made his living singing songs, grew
  weary of his trade, when he realized
  he’d reached the limits of his talents.
  While contemplating what else he
  might do with his life, he saw a
  beautiful sword in the window of a
  pawnshop. Enchanted by its
  crimson blade, he bought the sword
  and took it home.

  Level 2.
  That night he slept with the sword
  by his side. As he began to dream,
  an imp appeared and demanded a
  trade. He said that if the poet
  gave up his name, the imp would
  gave him talent in return.

  Level 3.
  The poet gave his name to the imp
  without a second thought. In return,
  he received a beautiful body and
  an exquisite talent for songs
  overnight.

  Level 4.
  But without a name, the beautiful
  poet lost more and more of his
  humanity as the days went by.
  One faithful morning, he awoke to
   find that he'd been turned into an imp!

  Fearing to be seen in the world
  of men, he fled and was never
  seen again. He left behind the
  beautiful sword, now granted
  a name.


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12) Slaughterism                      [1NL12]
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  Attack power:  96 / 98 / 102 / 108
  Guard break:   70 / 85 /  96 / 110

  Level 1.
  What has happened to me?
  Every time I wield this sword -
  every time I see blood pour
  out of my victim’s neck – I’m
  overwhelmed with unspeakable
  joy.

  Level 2.
  Crimson blood paints the street
  red. It stains my pale body scarlet.
  Its vivid hue is burned into my
  eyes and won’t leave my mind...
  Blood, blood, blood, blood.

  Level 3.
  The blood gushes out with a happy
  splash!

  When it’s all gone, I’m sad, so I find
  new flesh and tear it up! It’s best
  when it’s warm, but I like it cold too!

  When it’s dry, it’s not so red, which
  isn’t much fun, but it’s still blood,
  so I still like it very, very much!
  Blood, blood, blood, blood !

  Level 4.
  BlOody, bLoOdY, BLooDY, bLOod!!
  CRiMsOn BLOOD!! BLoODy RED!!
  ReD, CrImSOn, SCaRLeT!!!


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13) Soldier’s Sword                   [1NL13]
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  Attack power:  15 / 16 / 18 / 20
  Guard break:   10 / 12 / 14 / 15

  Level 1.
  This sword was forged by a tribe
  using a closely guarded secret
  technique. In order to maintain
  secrecy, a daughter of the tribe
  was forced to kill her lover,
  whom the elders suspected of
  spying for a neighboring tribe.
  She committed suicide soon after.

  Level 2.
  The tribe secrecy was maintained
  but it came at a high price.
  Paranoia gradually spread, and the
  tribe began to punish and torture
  its own. They blackmailed each
  other and soon, all order was lost.

  Level 3.
  The torture methods were cruel.
  Some died of having melted iron
  poured into their mouth, and
  others simply lost their minds
  from the trauma of the ordeal.

  Level 4.
  Then all trust was lost within the
  tribe, they began to murder one
  another, and in a matter of days
  they had wiped themselves out.
  And so their technique
  remained a secret for all times,
  just as they had wished.


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14) Guard’s Sword                     [1NL14]
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  Attack power:  36 / 42 / 48 / 56
  Guard break:   54 / 57 / 60 / 64

  Level 1.
  The man who wielded this sword
  used to belong to the Knights of
  the Seal. His rank placed him
  directly above the one they called
  “dragon child.”

  Level 2.
  The knight challenged the dragon
  child to a duel, scheming to halt
  the young knight’s stratospheric
  rise through the ranks and earn
  himself a reputation in the
  bargain. However, the dragon
  child easily defeated the knight.
  Humiliated, he trained night and
  day and won promotion to platoon
  commander.

  Level 3.
  While he was on duty with his
  platoon, a traitor known as “the
  one-eyed man” attacked them and
  massacred half of their numbers
  without breaking a sweat. Terrified,
  the knight fled from the battle,
  abandoning his friends to their fate.

  Level 4.
  He could never return to the order
  after deserting them in their time
  of need. Stripped of his rank, and
  having even lost his sword, he
  wandered into the wilderness and
  was never seen again.


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15) Inuart’s Long Sword               [1NL15]
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  Attack power:  46 / 49 / 55 / 68
  Guard break:   50 / 54 / 60 / 68

  Level 1.
  In a solitary confinement somewhere
  In the desert, a man was tied to a
  stake. He had fought to protect
  the one he loved, but lacked the
  strength to save her, and stood on
  the brink of despair. He could
  remember her smile... but her smiles
  were directed at her brother.

  Level 2.
  Drifting in and out of consciousness,
  he was about to accept his fate
  when a girl appeared before him.
  Her eyes were a deep crimson and
  glistened like rubies. She smiled
  like the pretty little girl that she
  was, but spoke in a strange voice...
  It was the voice of neither a child
  nor an adult.

  Level 3.
  “If I only had more strength...”

  Her crimson eyes peered into the
  Weak man’s mind. He became the
  girl’s servant. Beyond that, he
  could remember nothing...

  The only thing he could remember
  was seeing his beloved kill herself
  in front of him... Then, standing
  before the Seed of Destruction...

  Level 4.
  Eighteen years later...

  The man’s long sword now belonged
  to a boy raised by a dragon. The
  sword was used to fight his lover’s
  brother, the one-eyed man.

  Standing beside the boy was the
  girl with crimson eyes, now a grown
  woman. Their tale of life, death
  and tangled relation was told for
  generations.



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| 2c. Eris’s Spears                                   [1E]                    |
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1) Eris’s Spear                        [1E01]
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  Attack power:  14 / 16 / 18 / 24
  Guard break:   14 / 14 / 15 / 18

  Level 1.
  Once, there was a man called the
  Iron Dragon of the Two Swords,
  famed for his dignity and countless
  acts of heroism. The owner of this
  appear was a female knight who
  trained him. Whether because of its
  uncommon quality or because it as
  a gift from Iron Dragon, she always
  left for battle with this spear in her
  hands.

  Level 2.
  During a mission she faced a
  terrible choice. Ordered to retreat,
  she stood between countless enemy
  troops, and a defenseless village.
  Ignoring her orders, she stayed and
  fought to death. The enemy
  paraded her violated remains, then
  burned the village to ash, while her
  former allies sullied her name with
  the charge of subordination.

  Level 2.
  When the Iron Dragon found out what
  had happened, he charged into
  enemy territory and retrieved his
  beloved mentor’s remains and her
  spear. Cradling her broken body in
  his arms, he swore to win back her
  good name, to become as noble a
  knight as she had been, and to raise
  knights who would give their lives
  to protect the people.

  Level 4.
  Eris inherited the spear, a memento
  of these two noble heroes.

  One can only wander about what
  she thinks and for whom she fights,
  but the fallen knights can rest
  in peace knowing that their
  magnanimity of spirit lives on
  in her.


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2) Sealspear: Calamitous Dance         [1E02]
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  Attack power:  128 / 134 / 138 / 156
  Guard break:   102 / 128 / 144 / 158

  Level 1.
  A master blacksmith, embittered
  by the god’s maltreatment of the
  world, vowed to forge a weapon
  with which to destroy them.

  Level 2.
  The power of the seal negates
  the power of the gods, and the
  seal derives its power from the
  goddess...

  So the blacksmith sealed the power
  of the goddess into his creation.

  Level 3.
  The goddess was a noble knight,
  Determined to carry out her mission.
  She was a noble goddess.

  Level 4.
  Sealed inside was light,
  the power to illuminate.


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3) Hanch’s Spear                       [1E03]
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  Attack power:  112 / 112 / 112 / 114
  Guard break:   140 / 140 / 140 / 148

  Level 1.
  The chaser in the fortress city to
  the west was a master of his craft.
  The nobles had him decorate their
  armor. However, he wouldn’t let
  anyone into his shop, and went out
  at night without telling a soul where
  he was going. In time, his wife grew
  suspicious and tried to follow him,
  but lost him in a cemetery
  near the outskirts of the city.

  Level 2.
  One night, the chaser’s wife decided
  to wait for her husband in the
  cemetery. Sure enough, the chaser
  arrived soon afterwards and began
  to dig up a freshly buried coffin.
  Horrified, his wife ran away without
  saying a word. Once she’s collected
  her thoughts, she decided that it
  was high time she had a look inside
  her husband’s shop.

  Level 3.
  What she was there were corpses
  dressed in armor and matching
  accessories, and her husband
  dancing naked among them. The
  chased had brought back dead
  bodies and clothed them in his
  richly decorated creations.

  Level 4.
  Maddened by disgust and despair,
  she lunged at her husband, impaling
  herself and him on a spear held by
  one of the grotesque mannequins.

  Several days later, the couple was
  Discovered, skewered together and
  surrounded by corpses. The
  offending spear, notable for its
  exquisite chasing, eventually found
  its way into the hands of Hanch.


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4) Robber King                         [1E04]
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  Attack power:  16/ 18 / 20 / 26
  Guard break:   16/ 18 / 20 / 24

  Level 1.
  At the end of a long battle, the
  rebel leader finally pierced the
  tyrannical king’s heart with his
  spear. As he drew his last breath,
  the army of the revolution poured
  into the castle. Now the land would
  be free of corruption, and peace
  would return. The victorious rebel
  smiled at the thought, but his
  smile was short-lived.

  Level 2.
  The last battle perplexed him.
  The king offered no resistance - it
  almost seemed as if he gave his
  life willingly. But would a corrupt
  king do that? While he pondered
  over this, his allied called for him
  to come to the dead king’s chamber.

  Level 3.
  There he found the princess, bound
  and gagged. His allies quickly
  explained that they had found her
  like this. Feeling rather bemused,
  he removed the her gag and heard the
  truth: she had been taken hostage
  by a spy from a nearby land, and
  used as a leverage to force her father
  to sabotage his own kingdom.
  “ He was no tyrant!” she cried.

  Level 4.
  Moving as if to free her from her
  bonds, the rebel drew his knife and
  then slit the princess’s throat.
  Whether or not her father had been
  a tyrant did not matter now. All
  that mattered was that the angry
  masses had risen up to remove a
  corrupt king. The truth was buried
  with the princess’s body and her
  murderer was crowned that day.


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5) Victor’s Spoil                      [1E05]
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  Attack power:  40 / 42 / 44 / 85
  Guard break:   32 / 38 / 45 / 54

  Level 1.
  Once, there lived two princes. One
  studied the martial art of bravery,
  and the other studied the martial
  art of adaptability. The two trained
  constantly to refine each other’s
  skills.

  Level 2.
  The brothers asked their master,
  “Which school is more effective?”
  The master handed a spear to
  the brothers.

  Level 3.
  Smiling, he explained, “ A good spear
  has a hard, sharp blade and a staff
  as flexible as a willow. What matters
  is that the two schools fight together,
  not against each other.”

  Level 4.
  The master eventually died of old
  age. The princes buried him with
  the spear that had taught them so
  much, cowing that they would work
  together for the rest of their lives.
  Their kingdom flourished.


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6) Apostate’s Misery                   [1E06]
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  Attack power:  20 / 22 / 25 / 29
  Guard break:   22 / 24 / 26 / 26

  Level 1.
  The young man was popular with
  everyone in the village. He had the
  ability to control the wind, and was
  often seen flying over rivers and
  valleys. He was a cheerful boy,
  though he always seemed be
  troubled by something.

  Level 2.
  Several years later, his father
  passed away. Before he died, he
  told his son about the young man’s
  mother, whom his son had learned
  never to mention in his presence.

  Level 3.
  “Go to the place marked on the
  map.” said his father. As if guided
  by a spirit, the young man took up
  his scythe and left, carried by the
  wind.

  How long had he been traveling?
  Over the forests, oceans and mountain
  Ranges he flew. Exhausted and frail,
  He came at last to a village.

  Level 4.
  The chief of the village welcomed
  the young man and told him that the
  scythe he was carrying had once
  belonged to the village. Just then,
  a beautiful woman entered the
  room. The young man knew at once
  that she was his mother. From that
  day forth, he helped keep peace
  between humans and wind spirits.
  The scythe was never used again.


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7) Sorrowborn                          [1E07]
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  Attack power:   84 / 108 / 120 / 126
  Guard break:   100 / 124 / 132 / 136

  Level 1.
  There was a small pond near a
  small village. This pond was said to
  have been created by the tears of
  young lovers torn apart.

  One such lover, a boy left behind in
  the village when his lover’s family
  moved away, longed to see the
  one he sighed for just once more

  Level 2.
  One day a spirit of the pond
  appeared before the boy, and made
  a wager. If the boy could bring back
  some spiderwort that only grows in
  the far northwest mountains, it
  would bring the girl back. The boy
  left the village in search of the
  spiderwort and found a village in
  the northern lands. There, he also
  found his lost lover.

  Level 3.
  Reunited, the two lovers shed tears
  of joy. Sitting together in the small
  village, next to the small river, they
  talked until the sun set and made
  a solemn vow to marry each other.
  As night fell, the boy smiled
  Contentedly, his dreams fulfilled.
  But it was only an illusion created
  By the treacherous fog of the forest.
  The boy died, alone in the darkness.

  Level 4.
  The spirit of the pond mourned
  for the boy’s unrequited love.
  It sealed the lovers’ tears into
  this spear, praying for their
  happiness in the afterlife.


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8) Ozymandia’s Might                   [1E08]
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  Attack power:  135 / 136 / 138 / 142
  Guard break:   108 / 108 / 110 / 114

  Level 1.
  This holy spear would demand to
  know if its owner was worthy of
  becoming a ruler. It had been
  passed down by a generation of
  soldiers who desired to rule.
  Long ago, one such soldier – who
  sought to rule above all – held this
  spear.

  Level 2.
  The spear asked of its owner,
  “When should a ruler use force?”
  The soldier could not answer. He
  managed to conquer and rule a
  small kingdom with the power of
  the spear, but it was too weak to
  repel the invading army of a
  neighboring kingdom and fell
  within a decade.

  Level 3.
  As the soldier’s kingdom collapsed,
  one of his generals escaped with
  the spear, the invading army hot at
  his heels.

  They caught up with him soon
  enough, but just as they surrounded
  him, the spear asked the general the
  same question. He answered,
  “There are seven circumstances.
  The first – “

  Level 4.
  Before he could finish, the spear
  enveloped his body in lightning and
  slaughtered all of his assailants.
  Using the power of the spear, the
  general went on to become the
  emperor of a grand empire. It
  flourished for over one thousand
  years.


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9) Tower of Warning                    [1E09]
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  Attack power:   75 /  80 /  90 / 110
  Guard break:   112 / 120 / 135 / 165

  Level 1.
  This spear belonged to e gentle and
  mild-mannered man. He lived in
  shame for a certain antisocial
  tendency, so he avoided the
  company of strangers, and lived
  deep inside the forest with his
  brothers.

  Level 2.
  He led a quiet life until one day,
  the Empire attacked his land,
  slaughtered his brothers, and
  torched his house. In despair, he
  tried to commit suicide. But just
  as he was about to die, a malicious
  faeie came to him and forced him
  into a pact, saving his life.

  Level 3.
  As the price of his pact, he lost his
  sight. But with his newfound power,
  he rose up against the Imperial
  forces and fought to save the world
  from the tyranny of the Empire.

  Level 4.
  Alongside the voiceless savior, he
  prevented the end on the world.
  Though he was now a hero, his
  shameful tendencies remained, so
  he returned to his life of solitude,
  a vilified exile.



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| 2d. Manah’s Staves                                  [1E]                    |
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1) Manah’s Staff                       [1M01]
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  Attack power:  20 / 20 / 20 / 24
  Guard break:   24 / 24 / 24 / 26

  Level 1.
  Eighteen years ago...

  The girl stood alone in the dark
  forest. Abandoned by her mother,
  her longing to be loved soon
  turned into madness. The gods,
  charmed by her insanity, chose
  her as a tool to rule the world.
  Her eyes began to glow red in
  the darkness.

  Level 2.
  The girl with crimson eyes sent the
  world spiraling into chaos. The sight
  of the world collapsing soothed her.
  But the order was restored by a silent
  man with a sword. He took her on a
  journey to atone for her sins.
  Though she tried to look away, he
  forced her to face the suffering she
  has caused.

  Level 3.
  One day the man looked up to the
  sky and hatred filled his eyes. The
  girl wandered what had happened
  to make her captor so angry.
  Spying her opportunity, she stabbed
  with a knife she had hidden in
  her robe and threw herself into a
  nearby gorge...

  Level 4.
  Several years later, the girl had lost
  all memory of her crimes and lived
  in a poor village. She learned about
  the Knight of the Seal, who
  oppressed the villagers. In a strange
  twist of fate, the girl who brought
  chaos to the world took up this
  staff, and began to destroy the
  seals once more...


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2) Knights of the Seal’s Curse Staff   [1M02]
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  Attack power:  54 / 57 / 59 / 60
  Guard break:   81 / 85 / 88 / 90

  Level 1.
  Back when General Oror still lived,
  there was a magician who was
  assigned to protect the District of
  Soul Flame. He possessed the
  ability to control fire.

  Level 2.
  The magician was a good friend
  and a confident of General Oror.
  He used his power to cleanse
  the land of Soul Flame.

  Level 3.
  After Oror was killed by an enemy,
  the magician left the knights. He
  did not take kindly the new
  general’s methods. Acutely aware
  of the plight of his former wards,
  he returned to the district to ease
  the suffering of the oppressed.

  Level 4.
  The magician sold everything in his
  possession to feed the hungry.
  He even sold weapons which were
  crucial to his use of magic. When
  all of his wealth and power had
  been exhausted, he starved to
  death.


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3) Sealstaff: Calamitous Sonnet        [1M03]
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  Attack power:   8 / 10 / 14 /  86
  Guard break:   12 / 14 / 21 / 144

  Level 1.
  A master blacksmith, embittered
  by the god’s maltreatment of the
  world, vowed to forge a weapon
  with which to destroy them.

  Level 2.
  The power of the seal negates
  the power of the gods, and the
  seal derives its power from the
  goddess...

  So the blacksmith sealed the power
  of the goddess into his creation.

  Level 3.
  She was a goddess who lived for
  her depraved love, and was fated
  to die for it.

  She was a noble goddess.

  Level 4.
  Sealed inside was water,
  the power to make life.


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4) Northern Siren                      [1M04]
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  Attack power:   74 /  74 /  74 /  78
  Guard break:   110 / 110 / 110 / 118

  Level 1.
  To a tiny pub in a northern port,
  A pretty young girl visited.
  Beautiful skin, alluring voice,
  All the men fell in love.
  She only carried with her a staff.
  She said she would sing.

  Level 2.
  Men gathered to see the girl.
  Squeezed into the tiny pub.
  The girl sang songs of the ocean.
  The men listened to her voice.
  They all tried to win her heart.
  But she would say: “No, not you.”

  Level 3.
  One month later a traveler visited
  The pub where the girl now worked.
  Innocent eyes, handsome face.
  His smile was so charming.
  She knew what she had to do.
  She told him that he was the one.

  Level 4.
  Next day, the girl left with the boy.
  Leaving only her staff and a letter.
  The staff was a token of thanks.
  The letter said: ”I’m an ocean spirit
  and it was time I went home.”
  Men sang: “You could have said.”


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5) Dream Blossom                       [1M05]
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  Attack power:  38 / 40 / 43 / 47
  Guard break:   58 / 60 / 64 / 70

  Level 1.
  In a far-eastern land, there lived a
  king, who made a pact with a spirit
  to acquire the strength he needed
  to protect him kingdom. He would be
  absent for months, defending the
  borders of his realm against demonic
  incursions. He spent so little time in
  the capital, in fact, that many of his
  subjects did not even know his face.

  Level 2.
  One such subject was a renowned
  female warrior, whose heroic
  exploits were famous throughout the
  kingdom. During the season of spring
  blossom, she demonstrated her skills
  with a staff before the king. Though
  each had heard stories about the
  other before that day, they had
  never actually met.

  Level 3.
  It was love at first sight. In the
  space of a moment, the two heroes
  were under each other’s spell. The
  warrior exchanged the ring that
  adorned her staff – a priceless
  heirloom that had been in her family
  for generation – for the king’s
  ornate blade, and they vowed to
  fight, side by side, to protect the
  kingdom.

  Level 4.
  Despite their effort, the
  demons gained ground in the years
  that followed. Town and villages
  were destroyed and eventually the
  capital fell. The lovers fought on
  until the very end, but when the
  dust of the final battle settled, all
  that remained was a staff bearing
  the words: “If we should part, we’ll
  meet again, beneath the blossom.”

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6) Wisdom                              [1M06]
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  Attack power:  45 / 45 / 45 / 64
  Guard break:   68 / 68 / 68 / 95

  Level 1.
  During his journey south, a priest
  stopped off at a poor, nameless
  village far from civilization. Though
  he was famous for his wisdom, and
  could see for a thousand miles, he
  was just another traveler to the
  people of the remote settlement.

  Level 2.
  But nonetheless, the village gave
  the traveling priest a very warm
  welcome. Moved by their heartfelt
  hospitality, he presented them
  with a staff as a toke of hi
  appreciation.

  Level 3.
  The staff held miraculous powers.
  As the priest watched the villagers’
  face light up at the gift, he prayed
  that their lives would be filled with
  happiness.

  Level 4.
  However, the villagers gave the staff
  to a traveler with a bad back. when
  the priest heard word of this, he
  realized that the villagers lives were
  already as happy as they could be.
  Their contentment was a greater gift
  than even his staff.


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7) Magi’s Sorrow                       [1M07]
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  Attack power:  18 / 18 / 20 / 24
  Guard break:   27 / 28 / 30 / 36

  Level 1.
  The stone set In this staff
  possesses the soul of a gifted
  young magician. An ordinary human
  life did not interest this boy. In
  search of a higher spiritual place,
  he summoned all of his strength
  and turned himself into a stone,
  wishing to live in this world forever.

  Level 2.
  One day he learned that his owner
  was a beautiful stateswoman. He
  loved her so, but as time has passed
  she grew old and died. Even the
  streets and houses and trees that
  he loved inevitable grew old too
  and turned to dust.

  Sorrow consumed him

  Level 3.
  As a stone, the young magician
  could watch people’s happiness
  as well as their misfortune.
  But as a stone, he could not share
  in their joy or lend them a helping
  hand. All he could do was mourn
  alone.

  Level 4.
  Will the boy ever be released from
  the burden of his rashly garnered
  immortality?

  Will time heal the wounds of an
  immortal to whom time is a
  stranger?

  Or will you, perhaps, lead him into
  the light?


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8) Edacious                            [1M08]
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  Attack power:  24 / 25 / 26 / 28
  Guard break:   36 / 40 / 42 / 45

  Level 1.
  This staff was created with the skin
  and bones of a gaunt magician.
  The magician was a famous man
  with many disciples. When he grew
  old, he asked his disciples to select
  one of their own number to be his
  successor.

  Level 2.
  One of the magician’s disciples was
  a talented young man with eyes as
  sharp as an eagle. The old magician
  named him his successor, and
  taught him everything he knew.
  The young man mastered every
  known spell within half a year.
  Thrilled by his progress, the old
  magician asked him to help train
  other disciples.

  Level 3.
  During training, the young man
  began to invent new spells. Soon
  the other disciples began to train
  directly under him, rather than their
  former master. The old magician
  knew that his time passed, and
  asked him protege to take his place.
  But the young man refused. He said
  he wanted to travel the world and
  seek out new magic.

  Level 4.
  Stung by the young man’s refusal,
  the magician’s emotions, pent up
  until now, exploded...
  Jealousy. Hatred. Love...
  He unleashed every spell he knew,
  but the young man calmly reflected
  each of his curses back at him.
  Caught in a maelstrom of his own
  magic, the old man’s flash melted
  leaving nothing but skins and bones.


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9) Philosopher’s Staff                 [1M09]
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  Attack power:  28 / 30 / 32 / 35
  Guard break:   38 / 39 / 40 / 40

  Level 1.
  The magician had no friend. It was
  not that he disliked people - quite
  the contrary – nor was he a bad
  person to be around ( though he
  could be a little pedantic), yet
  anyone who met him seemed to
  hurry away as soon as they could.
  The poor man was at a loss to
  Understand why.

  Level 2.
  One day, the magician was struck
  by a mysterious illness. Fever high,
  heart pounding, limbs shaking,
  he could hardly walk. He tried
  casting spells, but when they didn’t
  help, he took up his favorite staff
  and headed for the medicine man.

  Level 3.
  After a trying journey, he explained
  His conditions to the medicine man.
  “The various symptoms afflicting
  my corporeal form are quite beyond
  the treatment of a layman unversed
  in the science of diagnosis - even
  one so familiar with the arcane –“
  But before he could finish, the
  medicine man muttered something
  about being busy and fled.

  Level 4.
  Having failed to obtain any
  medicine, the magician’s conditions
  worsened and he died.

  If only he’s realized that knowledge
  was not for flaunting, but for
  sharing in words that everyone
  could understand...

  If only he’s been aware of this
  simple truth... perhaps he wouldn’t
  have died of food poisoning.


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| 2e. Urick’s Axes                                    [1U]                    |
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1) Urick’s Axe                         [1U01]
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  Attack power:   47 /  48 /  50 / 55
  Guard break:   112 / 116 / 120 /125

  Level 1.
  A king who mad offering to the
  reaper, hoping to live forever,
  commissioned this axe to act as
  an instrument of the gods. Its
  purpose: to sever the necks of
  beautiful young men and drink their
  blood in the reaper’s honor. It has
  tasted the blood of many hundreds,
  and the reaper has prospered from
  these tributes.

  Level 2.
  For the first ceremony, the king
  chose two men and ordered one to
  execute the other. Every subsequent
  month, he would choose a new
  executioner to sacrifice the last.
  So it continued, year after year,
  executioner becoming sacrifice, until
  the month of the kings one hundred
  and fiftieth birthday.

  Level 3.
  The pair involved in the ceremony
  this month were best friends. When
  one had sacrificed the other, he
  turned to the king, crying and said:
  “I shall give my own life to the reaper. I
  shall walk the road to Hades with
  my friend.” The he cut off his own
  head and the axe pierced the altar
  so deeply that none could remove it.
  The king’s long life was at an end.

  Level 4.
  The axe finally found its way into
  the hands of Urick, where it once
  more provides sacrifices to the
  reaper.

  The cycle of blood which curses it
  cannot be halted – a secret known
  only by the reaper himself.


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2) Crimson Hood                        [1U02]
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  Attack power:   50 /  55 /  60 /  65
  Guard break:   112 / 116 / 120 / 125

  Level 1.
  “Not enough! I haven’t had enough!”
  The magician awoke with a start.
  The axe... had it spoke to him?
  Or had he been dreaming?

  Level 2.
  Since that night, the magician’s
  face, recognized throughout the
  kingdom, slowly seemed to change.
  After several months, he began to
  resemble in infamous thief who
  had terrorized the lands decades
  before.

  Level 3.
  The thief’s soul had resided within
  the axe for years, waiting for the
  perfect moment to seize a new
  body. Though the magician tried
  to resist, the thief eventually
  conquered his mind and stole his
  life.

  Level 4.
  The nobles of the kingdom did not
  think to question what he did them.
  How could they have known that he
  was no longer his true self?

  And so they all met a disastrous
  end, while the magician lived on...


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3) Executioner’s Song                  [1U03]
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  Attack power:  54 / 55 /  56 /  58
  Guard break:   92 / 99 / 106 /116

  Level 1.
  The axe thought to itself,
  “How many heads have I cut off?”
  Over the many years it had executed
  criminals, traitors, revolutionaries,
  politicians, even innocent, but
  it could not remember any of their
  faces, save for one – a peculiar boy.

  Level 2.
  The boy showed no fear as he
  placed his head on the block. Even
  the bravest men harbor a desperate
  hope at the moment of their death.
  The axe could feel the rush of their
  Emotions even as it took their life.

  Level 3.
  Not this boy – he was different.
  His spirit was filled to the brim
  with hope. It wasn’t the false hope
  of a devout believer, but rather, the
  knowledge that he was there by
  choice. His spirit was so pure that
  it made the axe want to scream.

  Level 4.
  The boy’s execution was carried out.
  Among the crowd that gathered to
  witness the event, a group of young
  men shed tears. The axe did not
  understand what it meant. All it
  knew was that the young men would
  speak of the boy’s high hopes for
  the world’s future for generations
  to come.


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4) Foul Blade                          [1U04]
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  Attack power:   86 /  90 /  96
  Guard break:   138 / 144 / 154

  Level 1.
  A twisted magician sealed a fire
  lizard into this axe. It would whisper
  words of hatred for others, and
  drive its owner to madness.

  Level 2.
  A thief who stole this axe soon
  extended his territory to beyond
  the neighboring mountains, and
  became the chief of a large
  group of bandits.

  Level 3.
  A page who acquired this axe
  became an infamous soldier,
  and was made lieutenant in
  an order of knights.


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5) Mourning Thorn                      [1U05]
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  Attack power:   80 /  84 /  88 /  90
  Guard break:   144 / 151 / 158 / 162

  Level 1.
  “I’m so hungry...”

  The hobgoblin decided to help his
  boss as he always did. Usually he
  had to get food by helping out with
  various odd jobs, but today he
  would get a meal without having to
  do anything at all. An attack on a
  human village was planned for the
  following evening, and a hearty
  meal was provided in a preparation.

  Level 2.
  So they charged into battle,
  expecting a swift victory. But the
  humans repelled their attack with
  great determination, and the fight
  raged on. In the midst of the
  carnage, the hobgoblin fell into a
  shallow well. There he found a
  magnificent scythe. It was the
  failed creation of a demented
  magician.

  Level 3.
  The scythe was designed to
  Increase its wielder’s desire to win.
  In reality, however, it brought out
  Other uncontrollable desires in its
  Wielder. Deemed useless, it had
  Been thrown into the well. The
  hobgoblin climbed out of the well
  with the scythe in his hands. Hungry
  for food and blood , he began to kill
  humans left and right.

  Level 4.
  But the scythe’s power soon began
  to overwhelm the hobgoblin. When
  all of the humans were dead, he
  began to bite and maim the other
  goblins. Even murdering and eating
  the entire of his own tribe failed
  to satiate his appetite, and finally
  he slit his own throat with the
  scythe. It was later found by a
  beautiful elf.



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In the second walkthrough you can obtain 12 weapons:
6 Swords for Nowe ( 3 Short and 3 Long Sword), 1 Spears for Eris,
2 Staves for Manah and 3 Axes for Urick


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1) Evil’s Bronze Blade                [2NS01]
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  Attack power:  84 / 85 / 86 / 86
  Guard break:   96 / 97 / 98 / 98

  Level 1.
  In ancient times, there was a
  realm ruled under magic.

  Level 2.
  The realm performed a ceremony
  each year to restore the magical
  protection. There a shrine maiden
  would dance with this bronze blade.

  Level 3.
  The bronze blade glowed with
  more radiance each year.
  A haunting purple light emanated
  from it whenever the shrine
  maiden danced.

  Strangely, the maiden’s beauty did
  not fade with years, but rather, it
  intensified with age.

  Level 4.
  The princess of the realm wondered
  if the bronze blade was the secret
  of the shrine maiden’s preservation.
  In a fit of jealousy, she took the
  blade for herself and killed the
  maiden. And so the princess gained
  everlasting beauty. But without the
  maiden’s magical protection, the
  land faded within a year, and the
  princess took her own life.


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2) Moonlit Beauty                     [2NS02]
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  Attack power: 118 / 119 / 120 / 124
  Guard break:    8 /  16 /  32 /  48

  Level 1.
  Once upon a time, there lived a
  Pedigreed gentleman whose
  Excellence with the sword had
  Won him as many duels as his
  Handsome face had the hearts
  Of the young ladies.

  Level 2.
  One night, during an evening walk,
  he came upon the most beautiful
  woman he had ever seen, standing
  in the moonlight beside a lake.

  Level 3.
  Lost in her beauty, he stood there
  entranced and time seemed to him
  to stand still. Then suddenly, the
  woman let out a gasp and cried:
  “Why!?”
  Her beautiful bosom was stained
  red with blood. Following her
  horrified gaze, the gentleman saw
  that his own sword was buried to
  the hilt in her chest.

  Level 4.
  The lake reflected the gentleman’s
  smiling face. In his ears, he heard
  the echoes of his own voice whisper,
  “Now there is n one fairer than
  you in this world.”
  The next day, the gentleman’s body
  was found next to the lake. He
  had pierced his own heart
  with his sword.


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3) Thief’s Secret                     [2NS03]
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  Attack power:  62 / 64 / 65 / 70
  Guard break:   60 / 62 / 64 / 68

  Level 1.
  Many years ago, there was a
  mighty gang of bandits, who made
  their living by doing dirty deeds for
  the rich and powerful. On of the
  founding members was a man
  named Left Eye. He was a valued
  lieutenant who specialized in
  intelligence gathering and other
  clandestine undertakings.

  Level 2.
  Left Eye did not participate in
  battle. No one ever saw him draw
  his sword. It was a magic sword
  that brought riches to its owner.
  And Left Eye was indeed affluent.
  Being a lieutenant with unique
  talents, he was paid handsomely
  for his work and had amassed
  a sizeable fortune over the years.

  Level 3.
  One day, some of the younger
  bandits surrounded Left Eye. They
  told him that they were unhappy
  about the size of his share
  compared to theirs. In truth,
  however, they were after more than
  just their fare share; they were after
  old Left Eye’s fortune. Reading their
  intentions, Left Eye finally drew his
  sword...

  Level 4.
  Gone was the reserved man they all
  knew. Standing in his place, a
  bandit as fearsome as the ruthless
  young man who had founded the
  gang year before. It was over in a
  second. Left Eye walked away from
  the youngsters’ bodies and told his
  old friend that he was leaving.
  Though they begged him to stay, he
  Disappeared into the desert.



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1) Captured Goddess                   [2NL01]
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  Attack power:  76 /  85 /  95 / 106
  Guard break:   98 / 110 / 124 / 138

  Level 1.
  A long, long time ago... A young
  girl regained consciousness in a
  small, dark space, thick with the
  stench of blood. She couldn’t move
  her arms, her legs, or even her
  mouth. The only thing she could do
  was stare into the darkness with
  wide open eyes.

  Level 2.
  The last light the girl had seen was
  the fire that burned with people as
  its fuel. Its awful glow had
  illuminated the hand crawling all
  over her... After that, she had felt
  something cold pierce her body
  many, many times. And then...
  blackness. That was all she could
  remember.

  “What am I...?”

  Level 3.
  Suddenly the girl was freed from
  the darkness. The starry sky opened
  before her dazzled view, its faint
  light too bright. Desperately, she
  moved her eyes, searching to see
  herself, but the familiar lines of her
  body were gone; in their place, a
  ruined mass of blood and quivering
  flesh.

  Level 4.
  The girl let out a voiceless scream.
  as she did so, a black shadow
  obscured the stars. A monster with
  long fangs was kneeling over her,
  lowering its gruesome maw towards
  her face. In a moment of white
  agony, her ruined flesh contorted
  into a sword and lunged at the
  monster’s head, stabbing it
  between the eyes.


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2) Pitch Black                        [2NL02]
---------------------------------------------

  Attack power:  164 / 176 / 188 / 220
  Guard break:    84 /  96 / 108 / 120

  Level 1.
  There once lived a man to whom
  killing was as essential to life as
  breathing. There was no special
  reason why he murdered. He was
  not driven by bloodlust. It was only
  that murder was all he knew.

  Level 2.
  One day, he encountered a group
  of thugs who had surrounded a
  helpless girl. As usual, he murdered
  every las one them without
  hesitation.

  Level 3.
  When he turned to kill the girl, he
  found her thanking him with tears
  in her eyes. It was the first time
  that anyone had ever thanked him
  for what he had done. As he looked
  at her, he finally realized that his
  actions had meaning and purpose.

  Level 4.
  Smiling, with happiness in his heart,
  he brought his sword down on the
  young girl’s head.

  With kindness in his eyes, he
  paused for a moment to watch the
  pool of blood expanding around her
  crumpled form, before leaving the
  scene feeling greatly fulfilled.


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3) Sealblade: Calamitous Melody       [2NL03]
---------------------------------------------

  Attack power:  145 / 148 / 154 / 168
  Guard break:   124 / 128 / 134 / 145

  Level 1.
  A master blacksmith, embittered
  by the god’s maltreatment of the
  world, vowed to forge a weapon
  with which to destroy them.
  Level 2.
  The power of the seal negates
  the power of the gods, and the
  seal derives its power from the
  goddess...

  So the blacksmith sealed the power
  of the goddess into his creation.

  Level 3.
  She was a goddess whose heart
  concealed a forbidden love.
  She was a pure goddess.

  Level 4.
  Sealed inside was life.



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1) Falcon’s Pinion                     [2E01]
---------------------------------------------

  Attack power:  130 / 138 / 144 / 148
  Guard break:   104 / 110 / 115 / 118

  Level 1.
  I awoke on a rainy day and looked
  up to see my brothers still in the
  nest from whence I’d fallen. It was a
  small nest, and I’d guessed that it
  would only be a matter of time
  before something like this happened.
  I was only two months old. “Well, that’s
  life,” I thought, just as my parents
  flew back. They looked down at me,
  but they began to feed my brothers.

  Level 2.
  I tried chirping, but they ignored me.
  “That’s it for me, I suppose.” I
  thought, when a lightning bolt
  struck the tree, setting it alight.
  I flapped my wings in a desperate
  attempt to get away. Once I’d
  scrabbled to a safe distance, I turned
  to see the nest in flames, my
  brothers’ burning bodies illuminating
  the forest.

  Level 3.
  You can never tell what’s going to
  happen in life. Cowering there in the
  wet grass, a human who’d come to
  investigate the fire saw me and
  scooped me up. One year later, I
  was an adult falcon and sat on his
  arm. He was middle-aged, poor, and
  drank a lot. That was all I knew
  about my savior.

  Level 4.
  After two years together, we parted
  ways when my companion sold me
  to buy alcohol. The human who
  brought me butchered, cooked and
  served me to another human whose
  belly I paused in en route to the
  privy. My feathers were used to
  decorate a spear which was sold to
  a fool at an exorbitant price. What
  a ridiculous waste of money and life.



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1) Phoenix Curse                       [2M01]
---------------------------------------------

  Attack power:  118 / 124 / 130
  Guard break:    94 /  99 / 104

  Level 1.
  Back, when magic flourished,
  magicians played an integral role on
  the battlefield. The potency of their
  magic was derived in large part
  from the power of their staffs.
  Indeed, wars were fought over the
  ownership of powerful staffs -
  especially the staffs of the ancients
  magicians, which contained mighty
  spells, long forgotten.

  Level 2.
  At around that time, a magician
  found a staff buried in some ancient
  ruins. Though he wasn’t especially
  gifted, using the staff’s power, he
  was capable of unimaginable feats
  and soared up through the ranks of
  his army. Within a year, he sat at
  the general’s right hand.

  Level 3.
  The magician’s powers knew no
  bounds on the battlefield and he
  became very influential. The one
  day, an identical staff was found
  in the same ruins, with
  hundreds more like it... In a matter
  of months, every kingdom had
  acquired one, and the war raged on
  with renewed ferocity.


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2) Yaha’s Staff                        [2M02]
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  Attack power:   92 / 100 / 108 / 120
  Guard break:   112 / 120 / 130 / 144

  Level 1.
  A bureaucrat was accused of
  treachery and executed by his
  distrustful king. His family
  followed his fate, but the
  executioner took pity upon his
  youngest son. He let the boy go
  and told the king that the job
  was done.

  Level 2.
  The bureaucrat’s son grew up to
  be a beautiful young man. He made
  his living as a thief, stealing goods
  from the bazaar. Sometimes, he
  would be caught and beaten, but
  the pain was nothing to him
  compared to the joy of revenge would
  bring. In time, he used the money
  he’d saved to bribe his way into a
  job at the king’s castle.

  Level 3.
  The boy’s androgynous beauty
  caught the king’s eye right away
  and soon enough, he became one
  of then King’s “special” companions.

  Late one night, he decided that the
  time had finally come to exact
  vengeance, so he headed to the
  king’s bedchamber armed with his
  father’s staff, an elegant weapon
  tipped with a deadly blade.

  Level 4.
  However, the king became
  suspicious when he was beads of
  sweat on the boy’s brow, and called
  for his guards. As they converged
  on him, the boy cut his own throat
  to the tune of the king’s victorious
  laughter. Perhaps it was fate that
  Lieutenant Yaha, whose own beauty
  had shaped his twisted destiny,
  would eventually own this staff.



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1) Broken Iron                         [2U01]
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  Attack power:  140 / 160 / 180 / 200
  Guard break:   280 / 300 / 320 / 340

  Level 1.
  What was once hailed as the largest
  blade in the world, striking fear into
  the hearts of men, now bore no
  trace of its former glory. Only a
  shattered heap of iron remained.

  Level 2.
  Back when this heap was still a
  sword, its owner had tried to fuse
  it with unimaginable variety of
  objects. His mania for modifying
  the weapon had seen its titanic
  form incorporate armor, other
  swords and even the bones of the
  dead. Mighty though it already was
  he was obsessed by the idea that
  it could be made yet stronger.

  Level 3.
  The blade slowly began to change
  color, turning crimson towards its
  edge. The gradation seemed to
  symbolize its place on the boundary
  between this world and the next.
  Certainly, it had been the difference
  between life and death to many a
  friend and foe in the past. But
  when its owner tried to fuse it with
  a baby, its blade finally shattered.

  Level 4.
  Discarded as a failed experiment,
  the sword longed for the days, when
  it had terrified men with its
  fearsome form...

  So it searched for an owner who
  could forge its blade afresh.


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2) Zhangpo’s Axe                       [2U02]
---------------------------------------------

  Attack power:  128 / 138 / 148 / 158
  Guard break:   218 / 248 / 266 / 284

  Level 1.
  In a small village, a man lived with
  his pet mouse in a shack. He was a
  kindly soul, but the other villagers
  mistrusted him because his face
  had been disfigured since birth.
  In spite of their prejudice, he
  harbored no bitterness towards
  them, smiling even when children
  threw stones at him.

  Level 2.
  Secretly the villagers schemed to
  drive their unsightly neighbor away.
  So they claimed that his mouse
  damaged their crops, and captured
  it one day. While he wandered the
  forest searching for his little
  companion, they cut off its head,
  and laid its body on his doorstep.

  Level 3.
  When the poor man returned to his
  shack, he saw that his only friend in
  the world had been murdered. With
  a howl of despairing rage, he took
  his axe and decapitated each of the
  villagers in turn, piling their heads
  in the center of the common. To add
  another to the pile, he then cut off
  his own, and the axe tumbled from
  his lifeless grasp.

  Level 4.
  When it was finally retrieved from
  its grizzly resting place, the axe’s
  blade had been dried red by the
  villagers’ blood. Lieutenant
  Zhangpo, whose pact cost him the
  pleasure of eating, may have tried
  to replace the los sensation with
  the joy of butchering foes with this
  axe.


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3) Sealaxe: Calamitous Rhythm          [2U03]
---------------------------------------------

  Attack power:  130 / 142 / 154 / 168
  Guard break:   234 / 255 / 277 / 302

  Level 1.
  A master blacksmith, embittered
  by the god’s maltreatment of the
  world, vowed to forge a weapon
  with which to destroy them.

  Level 2.
  The power of the seal negates
  the power of the gods, and the
  seal derives its power from the
  goddess...

  So the blacksmith sealed the power
  of the goddess into his creation.

  Level 3.
  She was a legendary goddess who
  held the seeds within her body and
  saved mankind from ruin.

  Level 4.
  Sealed inside was time,
  the conqueror of space and
  all dimensions.



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In the third walkthrough you can obtain 3 weapons:
2 swords for Nowe ( 1 Short and 1 Long Sword) and 1 Stave for Manah.

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1) Hero's Knife                       [3NS01]
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Attack Power    135 / 135 / 135 / 145
Guard Break             150 / 160 / 170 / 180

  Level 1.
  A couple was elated by the news
  that they were to have a child. As
  this was their first, their friends
  held a feast the next day to
  celebrate. Many came to the
  party - among them, a prophet
  dressed in a richly embroidered
  clerical gown.

  Level 2.
  The prophet presented the couple
  with a short sword, and said,
  "This blade will make a master
  swordsman of the wielder. Use
  it to protect your children."
  When the husband grasped its hilt,
  he felt its power coursing through
  his boy, making him stronger.
  This was no ordinary sword.

  Level 3.
  "The child who will be born is a
  child of heaven. The child who will
  be born is child of man. Should
  the child bring disaster upon
  mankind, kill it with this sword."
  The couple's faces paled, and the
  husband raised the sword to strike
  the prophet, but he had already
  disappeared.

  Level 4.
  After the day of the feast, the wife
  unable to forget the prophet’s
  words, grew ever more gloomy. The
  husband used the power of the
  sword to become a soldier and
  returned home ever more
  infrequently. Eventually, their child
  was born – or rather, a pair of
  twins was born: a beautiful boy
  and girl.



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1) Moonfire                           [3NL01]
---------------------------------------------

Attack Power    146/ 146 / 146 / 148
Guard Break             120/ 120 / 120 / 180

  Level 1.
  The sword made of marble emits
  a fierce chill and quietly awaits its
  owner.

  Level 2.
  The legend told that the marble
  sword could freeze even its
  owner’s age.

  It continues to wait patiently.

  Level 3.
  The marble sword continued
  to wait. So long it waited -
  long enough to freeze time.

  Level 4.
  The sword had waited for so long
  that surely even the warmth of
  human blood could not awaken it
  now.

  The only thing what could be said
  for sure is that the frozen face of
  its wielder would be reflected in
  its blade.



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1) Monk's Red Staff                    [3M01]
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Attack Power    145 / 150 / 155 / 160
Guard Break             218 / 225 / 232 / 240

  Level 1.
  Once, a high-ranking priest traveled
  to the western lands with three
  companions. He was to receive a
  sacred book.

  Level 2.
  On the was there, he performed
  Acts of charity in the villages he
  Passed through, and his companions
  Cleansed the lands of monsters
  Who threatened the people.

  Level 3.
  Slaying the monsters was the specialty
  of one of the priest's traveling
  companions. It was he who wielded
  this staff. In his skilful hands, it
  protected the priest and ensures
  their safe passage to the western
  land.

  Level 4.
  When the party arrived at their
  destination, the sacred book was
  placed in the priest's care as
  promised. With their quest at an
  end, the priest thanked his
  companions and honored each
  of them with a fitting "name".



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There are 4 weapons, 1 Long Sword and a Short Sword for Nowe, 1 Spear for Eris
and 1 Axe for Urick.
These weapons can only be obtained using some kind of “cheating device”:
ARMAX, GAMESHARK or CODEBREAKER.

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1) Writheheart                         [CNW1]
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This weapon is one of Nowe’s Short Sword’s.

  Attack power:  19 / 21 / 24 / 26
  Guard break:   13 / 15 / 17 / 18

  Level 1.
  Once, there live a girl, fair and
  pure. Born into a life of poverty,
  she was sent to word as a maid
  in the home of a noble family.
  There, she was treated like an
  animal. After months of hard labor
  and abuse, her mind and body
  began to fail her.

  Level 2.
  The only one who treated the girl
  with any kindness was her lord’s
  youngest son. He comforted her,
  and soon they began an illicit
  affair. The doting girl lived for the
  short midnight meetings, alone with
  her lover

  Level 3.
  Late one evening, she made her way
  to the meeting place at the usual
  time and found her love waiting for
  her. But he was not alone. With him
  were all of his brothers and sisters.
  Smiling like demons, they encircled
  her and forced her to the ground.
  She lost consciousness when she
  caught sight of the cruel grin on
  her lover’s face...

  Level 4.
  The next morning, the girl limped
  back to the mansion. In her hands
  she held a beautiful sword. When
  she caught sight of her lover, she
  lunged for him without a word,
  and pierced his and her own
  heart. Steeped in their life blood,
  the fatal weapon took up the
  scorned girl’s bitter hatred and
  had been cursed ever since.



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2) Sealaxe: Calamitous Rhythm          [CNW2]
---------------------------------------------

This weapon, in spite of its name, is one of Nowe’s Long Sword’s.

  Attack power:   97 /  98 /  99 / 150
  Guard break:   194 / 196 / 198 / 300

  Level 1.
  A master blacksmith, embittered
  by the god’s maltreatment of the
  world, vowed to forge a weapon
  with which to destroy them.

  Level 2.
  The power of the seal negates
  the power of the gods, and the
  seal derives its power from the
  goddess...

  So the blacksmith sealed the power
  of the goddess into his creation.

  Level 3.
  She was a legendary goddess who
  held the seeds within her body and
  saved mankind from ruin.

  Level 4.
  Sealed inside was time,
  the conqueror of space and
  all dimensions.



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3) Poisontongue                        [CNW3]
---------------------------------------------

This weapon is one of Urick’s Axes.

  Attack power:  24 / 25 / 26 / 28
  Guard break:   48 / 50 / 52 / 56

  Level 1.
  Long ago there was a vast kingdom
  surrounded with water end enclosed
  by mighty walls. Blessed with the
  gift of water, the people lived a life
  of happiness. An altar to the water
  goddess stood at the center of the
  kingdom. On it lay an axe, which
  radiated a calm blue light. Legends
  told that the goddess used the axe
  to slay the demon king of drought.

  Level 2.
  Beyond its walls, other nations
  schemed to steal the prosperous
  kingdom’s wealth. Under the
  command of their king, the citizens
  fought bravely, but the peace-loving
  people of the water kingdom were
  no match for the invaders. Soon,
  their mighty walls lay in ruins and
  the war was on their doorstep.

  Level 3.
  When the flames of war reached
  the water goddess’s altar, the
  axe came to life. Floating above its
  resting place, its blade give off a
  blinding flash of light. The next
  moment, a tidal wave washed over
  the invading armies and continued
  past the kingdom’s borders,
  drowning the land of the enemy.

  Level 4.
  Having served its purpose, the
  axe lost its luster and the waters
  subsided. Now, the ancient weapon
  looked as drained and lifeless as
  the desert.



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4) Widow’s Death                       [CNW4]
---------------------------------------------

This weapon is one of Eris’s Spears.

  Attack power:  19 / 21 / 24 / 26
  Guard break:   13 / 15 / 17 / 18

  Level 1.
  Neustria’s King Chilperich I ended
  the long confrontation with Astracia
  by agreeing to the marriage of his
  second son, Alfonstein, to
  Fonpadel, the third daughter of
  Sigibert I, king of Austracia.

  Level 2.
  All was peaceful between Neustria
  and Austracia until Sigibert I’s heir
  Almabar, missing since his tour of
  the Western Gothic land of
  Aunatras, returned to claim the
  throne.

  Level 3.
  Almabar killed his mother,
  Brunhilda, then confronted King
  Chilperich’s widow, Fredegunde, who
  had planned to assassinate him,
  and claimed that Fonpadel and
  Alsonstein’s marriage was
  illegitimate. He then declared war
  against Fredegunde’s eldest son,
  King Clotair II of Neustria.

  Level 4.
  The battle began in the northern
  Austracian land of Vyomar. Almabar
  led his Austracian army to victory
  over the Neustrians.

  Fredegunde was captured at the
  castle, and executed by the same
  axe used to behead Brunhilde.



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- 01.June 2006 - Started typing in the guide... Finished 58% of Nowe’s
                 Short Sword’s, and 75% of the Long Sword.
                 No weapons of Eris, Manah or Urick, yet.
- 02.June 2006 – Added some of Eris’s weapons ( 58 % finished)
- 06.June 2006 – After spending a whole weekend with my Drakengard 2 ^_^,
                 so I added a few things like Nowe’s SS ( 76%), LS ( 78%)
                 and Eris’s Spears ( 72 %)
                 Still no Manah and Urick... yet.
- 07.June 2006 – Added Manah’s weapons ( 91%)
- 08.June 2006 – Added a few of Nowe SS ( 89%), Eris’s spears ( 86 %)
                 Finished Manah’s staff and added Urick’s axes ( 95%)
- 12.June 2006 – Another weekend spent with... errr, no, wrong guess.
                 I was playing with Magna Carta :)
                 But I did finish Urick’s weapons.
                 And added a few of Nowe’s Weapons: SS ( 96%)
- 13.June 2006 – Nowe SS ( 98%), LS ( 91 %), Eris ( 94%)
                 Also corrected a few things...
- 19.June 2006 – I’ve been a goooood girl :)))))
                 Now, let us see what that means, shall we?
                 Finished Nowe’s SS, LS (96%).
                 Also started to add the weapons for the second walkthrough.
                 Added a totally new part for the weapons that can be
                 obtained by using codes...
- 22.June 2006 – Finished Eris’s Spears. All of them :(
                 Finished Nowe’s SS for the second walkthrough.
                 Added 3 code weapons.
- 26.June 2006 – Being so close to the end of the game I did not sleep the
                 weekend... well, to be honest, it was because of the weather.
                 Having 33 C in the evening who could sleep???
                 Added a few things here and there, finished Manah’s weapons.
- 03.July 2006 – FINISHED!!! YES !!!! FINISHED THE WHOLE THING!!!!
                 71 weapons, all on Level 4., more than 83 hours and a
                 few dozen dead brain cells...
                 That’s the result of the game :)
- 29.Aug. 2006 – Made a few corrections here and there.


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- You for reading this guide ^_^
- Me for writing it :)
- Meru Wingly – for sending the Level 4 details of Nobuyoshi and Takamasa
- Cavia / SquareEnix / Ubisoft for making it possible to go on a
 killing spree again :)
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