I also bought a potion that permanently increased my strength. Tethe himself wasn't the shadow of the prophecy but merely the high priest of Abraxus's cult.ДЄfter I left the Granite Keep and sold my excess equipment, I finally had enough money to purchase 'acrobatics' training from Chester the Great and increase my agility. The torture chamber held a set of 'evil accoutrements,' which turned out to grant me access to the temple of Abraxus in the city of Malice. She is played by an actress enigmatically named only 'Kelly.' The young princess, looking a little worse for the wear.

All NPCs reacted to her name as if she was still missing and as if Tethe was still alive. It's worth pointing out at this time that the game world is not dynamic, and after Elspeth left, she was nowhere to be found. Elspeth gave me a key (that she'd palmed) to Tethe's torture chamber, then fled to reclaim her throne. I thought this would be the end of the game, but I realized I'd forgotten about the city of Malice. The copper key opened the door in the dungeon, which released Princess Elspeth. When Tethe died, he dropped a copper key and his ebon ax-a magic axe that returns when thrown. It's worth mentioning that I had a 'Time Stop' scroll that you're almost certainly supposed to use in this fight, but I had forgotten about it.

To defeat him, I had to 'door scum': enter, attack him a few times, leave to rest and heal, save, and enter again. He attacked as soon as I entered, and he killed me with his 'ebon ax' in about three hits. Eventually, I found a servant sympathetic to the Resistance who gave me a key to Cam Tethe's chambers, one of the doors on the second level. There were multiple levels to the castle, including a dungeon with a large locked door as well as two locked doors on the second level. If the penalty for everything is death, then you leave me with no incentive not to kill you. I had to rest frequently and gulp as often as possible from my 'Everfull Flask,' a healing potion that regenerates every five minutes or so. The entire castle was very hard, with enemies whacking away 25 hit points per blow, and I began to wonder if there wasn't some armor I might have missed. Using my Death Warrant got me inside, and I had to kill two guards right next to the entrance, a fight that occasioned about five reloads.

The keep's front door had blocked me in the past, but some NPC had hinted at a side door, and sure enough, I soon discovered one. I next headed for Granite Keep because I didn't want to deal with the eye tyrants up near Malice. I went back and tried to cast it on Larkin's grave, but I got a message stating that I didn't have a powerful enough catalyst. I spent much of the rest of the game wondering what I would do with a resurrection spell since the game is single-player. With these ingredients, she soon learned the 'Respirare' spell and then immediately attacked me. I give the ingredients to Esme, who looks like a young Anne Ramsey. Fortunately, I had already picked up all the ingredients on her list: the fruit of the Desert Pango, the tongue of a Torlok chieftain, some spider venom, and a vial of acid, which apparently every 'black potion' is. She had an immediate reaction to Larf's head, saying that if she could assemble the ingredients for a potion of 'Necrotelecomicon,' she could learn from him the secret of the resurrection spell. It was occupied by a powerful witch named Esme who said that she'd killed Tethe's mage hunters.ДЄs by now I was wont to do, I tried giving her my various objects. Following paths of these squares, I reached a hut at the center of the area. I probably forgot to mention in previous entries that if you walk into a swamp in this game, you don't get very far before an animation shows you drowning.ДЇor that reason, I had been circumventing the Fell Swamp, but I decided it must be there for some reason, so I took the time to experiment and soon realized that you could walk through the swamp on squares that depicted foliage. I don't think a single NPC had anything new to say. The City of Jade was mysteriously purposeless-just another city with a few services at the southeastern tip of the continent. I visited them in roughly this order, albeit with a bit of backtracking.

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