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Savior of the World: Most of the unlockable in the game require you to have a high reputation and a main lord with high ALI. With that in mind plus the fact that it's way easier to tank your reputation/ALI than raise it, most of the game need to be played with a good aligned lord. Liberate towns with high ALI units, choose the benevolent answer to questions and try to only fight higher level enemies with your lord. Check the notes on Reputation and Alignment/Charisma for more info on how to manipulate it.

When you begin the game, your choice of answer to the quiz will net you one of 4 lords archetype. Thanks to nicely coded achievement your gender doesn’t matter so chose what you want (male is the canon choice if you care about those things). I would recommend getting the IceCloud or Iainuki lord as they have the highest starting ALI. I personally started with the IceCloud male lord for the global hit attack and the extra starting clerics.

Castle of Warren

  • Beginning (Big Happy Family 1/18)
  • Sharom's Finest (BHF 2/18)

Sharom Border

  • Rally
  • You are a true hero…maybe?

-After Stage-

  • Gold Nugget

Sharom District

  • Revolution
  • Moon Rose
  • Wings of Victory (BHF 3/18)
  • Recruit Gilbert (See Big Happy Family, BHF 4/18)

Lake Jansenia

  • Full Moon
  • Fight the boss during the day for an easier fight
  • The Rune Axe you get is White attribute

Deneb's Garden

  • Glass Pumpkin
  • Defeat Deneb but forgive her. No recruitment for now. Your reputation will decrease a bit, your lord ALI will raise.

Pogrom's Forest

  • Undead such as Ghost and Skeleton can only get killed by characters using White attacks. This early in the game it should mainly be your Clerics, a front facing main lord if you have the IceCloud one or any character with a White weapon (such as the axe you got in Lake Jansenia or a mace you can obtain in this map). This is a good place to grind a bit if you want to raise ALI/CHA of some units.
  • Advance

-After Stage-

  • Silver Bullet

Slums of Zenobia

  • Days Long Gone
  • World's Greatest Beast Tamer (BHF 5/18)
  • The Old General (BHF 6/18)
  • Use the TERMITES item to destroy the wall and attack the boss with non-flying unit. Not mandatory, it's up to you if you can kill him without using it.
  • Don’t be dumb and surrender to the boss, you WILL lose the unit for good.

-After Stage-

  • Revisit Kal Robst to get the Key of Destiny (required later to recruit Tristan).

Island Avalon

  • Black Knight
  • Holy Sister (BHF 7/18)

Diaspola

  • Crimes
  • I Think of Demons…For You
  • Recruit Norn (See Big Happy Family, BHF 8/18)

Kastoliatian Sea

  • Legend
  • Holy Sword > One of the 3 Sacred treasures necessary for a bunch of endings. With it, you can now activate Chaos Gate for unlocking secret maps. Also needed to recruit Galf later on.

Balmorian Ruins

  • The Wizard
  • Stoned Mage (BHF 9/18)

-After Stage-

  • Olympic Winner

Organa > Chaos Gate from Balmorian Ruins

  • The Lost Knight (BHF 10/18)

-After Stage-

  • Box of Salvation

Muspelm > Chaos Gate from Organa

  • The Paladin (BHF 11/18)

-After Stage-

  • One of the book for "Practice Necromancy"
  • Pagent Winner

Valley of Kastro

  • Thunderstorm
  • The runaway bride (BHF 12/18)

City of Malano

  • The Prince
  • The Prodigal Son (BHF 13/18)

-After Stage-

  • Second book for "Practice Necromancy"
  • Go back to the Slums of Xenobia for "The Good Book"

Shangrila

  • The Cloud City
  • Biggest Diva (BHF 14/18)

Kalbi Peninsula

  • Snow Fields
  • Kalbia's Gift

Antalia

  • Imprisonment
  • Holy Contract (BHF 15/18)

The Tundra

  • White Nights

-After Stage-

  • Relief from the Tundra

/!\ DO A BACKUP SAVE HERE Saga Achievement /!\

Fort Allamoot

  • Reduce your reputation to less than 1/2 (see Reputation for more info on how to manip it)
  • Quest for the Saga
  • Chrono Trigger?

Reload backup save Saga Achievement

Fort Allamoot

  • The Empire
  • Star Bees?

-After Stage-

  • Beautiful Statue
  • Lottery Winnings

Dalmuhd Desert

  • The Assassin

Fort Shulamana

  • Separation
  • Seal of Fire > Get the Notos
  • After killing the boss you will get the Mystic Armband from Tristan, the second of the 3 Sacred treasures necessary for a bunch of endings.

The Ryhan Sea

  • Final Paradise

-After Stage-

  • Live by the Coin or by the Sword

Shrine of Kulyn

  • Grail
  • Seal of Fire > Get the Boleas

-After Stage-

  • Don’t get the Grail yet, it is the last of the 3 sacred treasures and we want to be able to manipulate which ending we get later on.

/!\ DO A BACKUP SAVE HERE Seal of Fire Achievement /!\

By following this you should have 2 of the 4 required weapons for the Fire Crest, the Boleas and the Notos. Euros is a random drop that you can get via enemy drop or hidden treasure. If you don’t have it yet you should do the hidden treasure manip until you find it.

Shiguld / Ruined City

  • Beat the map, do not recruit the boss. (Need to lower reputation gauge to 2/3 or less)

-After Stage-

  • Revisit Shiggult to get the Zepyulos, you now have the 4 weapons needed
  • Seal of Fire

Reload backup save Seal of Fire Achievement

Shiguld / Ruined City

  • The Dragon Rider (BHF 16/18)

-After Stage-

  • Everybody is a Winner

City of Xanadu

  • The End Nears

Zeteginea

  • Ogre Battle

-After Stage-

  • Mythological Tome

/!\ DO A BACKUP SAVE HERE Endgame /!\

Final stretch ! You will have to reload this save quite a lot, so if you are paranoid like me you should do multiple copy of the backup just in case.

Go through previous map and make sure you found all the Chaos Gate if not already done.

  • Return from Nothing

Antanjyl

  • Angel

-After Stage-

  • Pandoras Box

Three Sacred Treasures

  • Monty Python

The Zodiac Brave Story

  • Golden Orb
  • Gem of Truth
  • Holy Tablet
  • Keeper of the Zodiac

Temple Shalina

  • Black Knight's Last Breath
  • Evil Mage's Last Breath
  • Black God
  • Save the World (Ending 1/10)

Grind for endings begin !

Reload backup save Endgame

  • Go get the Grail (Monty Python Achievement)
  • Beat the final stage
  • Benevolent Overlord (Ending 2/10)

Reload backup save Endgame

  • Beat the final stage
  • Holy Ruler (Ending 3/10)

Reload backup save Endgame

  • Delete Rauny (for male Lord, female Lord version probably need to delete Tristan instead)
  • Beat the final stage
  • As the World Turns (Ending 4/10)

Reload backup save Endgame

  • Reduce your Reputation to medium level (half the gauge)
  • Manipulate your lord ALI to be around half, CHA above 60
  • Beat the final stage
  • Ben Hur (Ending 5/10)

Reload backup save Endgame

  • Reduce your Reputation to medium level (half the gauge)
  • Manipulate your lord ALI to be around half, CHA above 60
  • Delete Tristan (There should be no Lord gender impact this time)
  • Beat the final stage
  • Swinging in the Wind (Ending 6/10)

Reload backup save Endgame

  • Reduce your Reputation to low level (1/3 the gauge or less)
  • Manipulate your lord CHA to be between 30 and 60 by the end of game (see Alignment/Charisma)
  • Beat the final stage
  • Don’t Fear the Reaper (Ending 7/10)

Reload backup save Endgame

  • Reduce your Reputation to low level (1/3 the gauge or less)
  • Manipulate your lord CHA to be less than 30 by the end of game (see Alignment/Charisma)
  • Beat the final stage
  • The Dark Tower (Ending 8/10)

Reload backup save Endgame

Reduce your Reputation to low level (1/3 the gauge or less)

Time to finally get everyone !

  • She's the Witch (BHF 17/18)
  • Go back to Dalmuhd Desert for "Orc Fur"

Antanjyl

  • I'm the Devil (BHF 18/18)
  • Big Happy Family

-After Stage-

  • Friends of Demons

/!\ DO A BACKUP SAVE HERE Necronomicon/!\

  • Delete Galf
  • Necronomicon

Reload backup save Necronomicon

  • Beat the final stage FOR THE LAST TIME
  • Prime Mover (Ending 9/10)

But wait, what do you mean 9/10 ? For the last ending you need to do begin a new game and put FIRESEAL as your Lord name. This will bring you to the bonus map (which is canonically speaking a battle taking place after Balmorian Ruins and see you play the legendary hero Lexar as he goes to defeat a reincarnation of Albeleo.)

  • Fireseal
  • Fortunate Victory (Ending 10/10)

Misc Achievement

  • Mr Popular
    • Should pop-up on it's own at some point (Diaspola for me).
  • LOSER!
    • When lowering reputation for one of the ending go all the way to 0.
  • Angelic Force
    • Should pop-up on it's own at some point. If not see Alignment/Charisma for manipulation advice.
  • Here to do the Devils work
    • Grind it down during one of the Low ALI ending phase. See Alignment/Charisma for manipulation advice.
  • Gothillinare
    • Either sell all your items if you are near the 2mil mark or otherwise go back to the Endgame backup save, get the 12 Zodiac stones and exchange them in Muspelm for a 99 stack of Dream Crown. Selling those will get you the necessary money.
  • Forceful Leader
    • Obtained by farming the last map infinite reinforcement if not gotten before.