Drakan: Order of the Flame Walkthrough

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Drakan: Order of the Flame
FAQ/Walkthrough
April 18, 2009
Version 1.5
Written by:  Dan Simpson
Email:  dsimpson.faqs@gmail.com
If emailing me, use this subject:  Drakan v 1.5
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If you see any mistakes, or have anything that you want to add
please email me!  I will, of course, give you full credit for
your addition, and be eternally grateful to you.  Email addresses
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you want it to be.
Notes
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The most recent version of this FAQ can be found at:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/
I am now finished writing the Walkthrough!  Yay!  Any update after this is
most likely to be fixing an mistakes that I find.  Hehe.  Or maybe
discussing this new patch that is out now (if you don't have it yet, go get
it!  See below for more info).  But I am finally through the game!
If you are a webmaster and wish to post this on your web page, please email
me first.  And if you do post this FAQ on your site, please make an attempt
to keep it up to date.  There is nothing worse than getting emails from
people who saw an old version asking about things that are already in the
newer versions.  Well, maybe there are worse things, but it IS annoying!
The patch to Drakan was released!  You can download it here:
http://www.planetdrakan.com/
For a list of what has changed hop down to the "Patch Changes" section which
is located just before the "Final Words" section.
This FAQ looks smashing in Courier New at about 9 points.  (If you look up
directly under the word "notes" above and see something other than a
straight line, then you might need to change your font!)
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What's New in 1.5:
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Moved the miscellaneous tips section to before the walkthrough, and added
a new tip from Andreas "Cyberfrag" Fischer. Some other small changes.
For a complete Version History, check out the Final Words Section at the end
of the FAQ.
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Table of Contents:
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Miscellaneous Tips
Walkthrough
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1. The Beginning of the Game, Ruined Village
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Get the Mithril Short Sword
Tavern Key
Find the Rusty Chainmail
Priest Book
Find the Soul Crystal
Awaken Arokh
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2. Wartok Canyons Area
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Find the Grimstone Mines Part One
Clean out the Spider Caves
Get the Short Sword of Flame
Find the Grimstone Mines Part Two
Find Key to Troll Caves
Troll Caves
Find the Grimstone Mines Part Three
Find the Secret Entrance
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3. The Wartok Mines
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Inside the Mines
Find the Hider
Destroy the Mines
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4. Grotto
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Get the Sword of Ice
Find the Entrance to the Eastern Archipelago
Find the Banded Mail
Exit the Area
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5. Islands
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Find Rimril
Get the Bell Hammer
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6. Ruins Of Alwarren
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Retrieve Tuiri's Soul Crystal
Collect all 6 Magic Barrier Runes and Place in City Seal
Extra Treasure
Find the Bellhammer of Alwarren
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Retrieve Elemental Amulet from Goblin Base
Recover the Rift Crystal
Pass Tests of Flame Fortress
Get the Rift Crystal
Find a Way into Succubus Lair
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8. Succubus Lair
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Rescue Arokh
Find Magic Mirror in Bathing Chamber
Find Throne Room
Find Grimstone Shipping Docks
Rescue Arokh
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9. Volcano
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Retrieve Rune Cage Key from Queen Shilla
Find the Dragon Armor Rune
Get the Dragon Armor
Find the Rune Blade
Find the Lava Rune
Get the Rune Blade
Enter the Rift
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10. Rift World
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Kill Navaros
Cheating
Oddities
Items
Weapons
Armors
Misc
Enemies
Standard Enemies
Dragons
Bosses
Patch Changes
Final Words...
Online Resources (Links)
Version History
Credits
Stinger
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Miscellaneous Tips
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Save it at the beginning of each level, NOT a quicksave.  Keep these saves in
case you forget something and want to get it later.
In addition to dodging attacks by moving around, you can duck attacks
(R-CTRL) and also block attacks (press 1 on the number pad).
Some weapons have "Secondary" attacks.  Weapons such as the Flaming Sword, or
Vykruta's Axe.  Use these weapons by pressing 1 on the number pad.
Also when on Arokh each of his breath attacks has a secondary attack accessed
the same way as normal weapons, that is, pressing 1 on the number pad.
Save your arrows for the later stages when you REALLY need them!  Don't kill
things like Wartoks with arrows, wait until you have to kill Dark Knights,
Mummy Mages, and Succubi.
The best keyboard mouse combination that I have found is to use my left hand
on the "E, S, D, F" movement keys, and use my right hand for the mouse.  This
way I can also easily use the L-SHIFT Sneak Command.
If you are using the keyboard, to make life easier for yourself, you should
add some keyboard commands for "Turn Left" and "Turn Right".  I chose W for
Left and R for Right to put them near the other keyboard commands for
movement.
If you have a Scroll Wheel on your mouse you can use it to cycle through your
weapons.
Save often!  Use the Quick Save 'Q' and the Quick Load 'L'.  But don't just
use the Quick Save, in that you could get yourself into really sticky
situations.  Also have a "Safety Save" in an area that you know is safe.
Save this one the "normal" way by hitting ESC then clicking on SAVE.
To skip any of the Cutscenes press the ENTER key.
Andreas "Cyberfrag" Fischer sent me this:
I found the secondary attack of the basic dragon weapon (Arokh breathing
fire) to be probably the deadliest weapon in the game. It will take out
nearly all enemies in the game, who have contact with the flame, in less
than a second - including giants, dragons and even bosses like the old
giant in Alwarren (who hadn't even a chance to _start_ throwing anything
at me). Dragons are a bit hard to hit, as you have to be close, getting
into a hectic dogfight, but anything moving on the ground is an easy
target. Ballistas can also be easy fodder, if you can manage to come
from below and blow a stream of fire upwards, before getting into their
view. The Skeletal Dragons in "volcano" are also for the most part no
problem with this trick - you can often take them out before they start
shooting.
Another nice property of this weapon is, that, unlike all other dragon
weapons, it enters small doors - that is: doors that only Rynn can
enter. This allows for nice "coward"-tactics: entering a door with Rynn,
luring the enemies to the door and then getting out again, jumping onto
the dragon and firing a short breath into the door.
As for the "nearly" above: the only enemy that took more than a second
was Navaros - he took about 2-3 seconds for each head (two "breaths"
each). Piece o' cake, compared to the problems I had at that point, when
I played this game first.
This all holds true for easy difficulty in version 444 (445 wouldn't
install) - I suppose enemies take more damage on harder difficulties.
I'd still expect this weapon to be quite effective, though.
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Walkthrough:
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This is mostly a step-by-step walkthrough similar to the walkthrough I wrote
for The Legend of Zelda (NES).  I think this format works well for this game.
Also note that this was written using the Normal difficulty setting.
However, since the only difference between the difficulty settings is how
much damage you take (-25% for easy, +28% for hard), this shouldn't have any
effect at all on the Walkthrough.  Also once you get the patch (see Notes
above, or Patch Changes just before Final Words) there is a new setting,
Nightmare, which creates faster, smarter, more evil enemies.
Also note that I don't use the "proper" names for most of the creatures.  I
usually call them what they look like.  This is because the manual doesn't
actually list all the monsters, so I had to make up new names for them.  If
you want to see the "proper" names you can check down at the Enemies section
below.
If you find any mistakes or errors in the Walkthrough, please don't hesitate
to email me about it!  dsimpson.faqs@gmail.com
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1. The Beginning of the Game, Ruined Village
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Get the Mithril Short Sword
Hint: Do a Quick-Save (simply press 'Q') after you win every Battle.  But
don't just use the Quick-Save.  Every once in awhile (say, after you
do something significant, like get the Dragon Armor), you should make
a "Safety Save", that is save it normally with the intention of keeping
that save forever.  This way if you find that you missed something, you
can simply reload and keep going.  Beats redoing a level...
- Be careful when you first start out, a Wartok will try to sneak up on you.
Don't forget to equip your sword!  (use the mouse wheel, or press '[')
- Go north and then east.  There is a Wartok here.  Go into the house to get
a Health Elixir.
- Now go all the way west.  You will see a ruined house there, but don't
bother going inside.  Instead go north and slide down to the beach.  A
little to the Northwest is some treasure: a Mithril Short Sword, and 3
Health Elixirs.
- Now swim along a little to the west (make sure to come up for air!) and
then go back on shore and head south to get Duncan's Battle Axe (durability
15/150).
- Go back to where you got the Mithril Short Sword, and there is a little
cave just to the south of that.  Go in there.  There are some Spiders in
there so be cautious.
Spiders: Killing them is pretty easy, just crouch (R-CTRL) and attack if they
get too close.  No strategy involved, really.  These enemies are
weak enough that you only need to use Atimar's Blade.
- You will find yourself at an underground lake.  Swim across it to a new
small room that has a pool.
- Dive into the pool, and swim through to a new area.
- Get out of the water and find the passage (hard in the dark) and go down
it.  There will be some spiders here.
- Eventually you will reach the end of the passage, and then you flip the
lever to get into the Tavern Basement.  You start at the last step in the
next part, Tavern Key.  So immediately you can get the Key.
Tavern Key
- The Tavern is just to the south of where the Man died.
- In one of the rooms upstairs is a Life Potion.
- On the back of the stairs, open a door to the cellar.
- Smash any barrels you find for Health Elixirs.
- Jump onto the boxes to get onto the ledge, to get the Mace.
Hint: The sword that you start with is the only item (until you get the Mourn
Bringer or Rune Blade, but that will be awhile!) that does not get
damaged over time, all the other weapons/armors/etc. will.  So if you
don't need to use the Mace, DON'T!  For example if you see a Barrel
that you want to smash, use your original Short Sword on it.
- Flip the lever (ENTER) to open the portcullis.
- Use the crouch attack on the Spiders.
- On a table to the left (from where you entered) is a key, use ENTER to get
it.
Find the Rusty Chainmail
- From the dead Man, go West until you get to the Area with the Scavengers in
it.
Scavenger: Sneak up to it, then let it come to you, crouch and attack with
the Mace.  It should only take about 3 attacks.
- There is a little cave further to the west that has the Chain Mail in it
(15/100 durability).
Hint: After you get a new item like the Chain Mail armor, you need to open up
your inventory (press 'I') and equip it. (double click it)
- Go out of the cave and up the ledge that leads southward.  There will be
another Scavenger up here.
- Jump into the river and swim westwards until you get to where you can stand
up in the water, then head north.  There will be a Wartok here.  Kill him
to get the Invisibility Potion.  Go into the shed (or is that an outhouse?)
to get 2 Health Elixirs.
- Climb up the ledge to the South West, and then slide down the other side to
get back to the area where we found the Chainmail.
- From here go back to the Tavern.
Priest Book
- Head south past the tavern to get to the Priests house.
- Beware there is a scavenger (fast bugger!) along the path.
Scavenger: Sneak up to it, then let it come to you, crouch and attack with
the Mace.  It should only take about 3 attacks.
- Further along the path you will find a Wartok killing a human.
Wartok: Sneak up to it, then attack as much as you can!
- Head south and cross the river.
- Atimar's (the Priests) house is not the one immediately across the river,
his is the house just to the east of that.  There is another Scavenger
between the houses.
- Go up to the door and use your key (ENTER) then enter to house.
- The Book is just on the table inside.
Find Soul Crystal
- As you exit there will be two Wartoks.
Hint: If it looks to you like a Wartok is yelling and flailing his arms
around that means that he is calling for his other Wartok buddies to
come and help him kill you.
- Head back north across the bridge.
- Go East, there should be about 3 Wartocks along here.
- As the path curves, go north.  There will be a larger Wartok here with a
Potion of Life.
- Head north across the bridge and into the temple.
- Use the book (ENTER) on the pedestal which is on the temple (you must do
this while standing on the north side of the temple).
- Step onto the steps and the Game will take over and show you some
interesting exposition.
- Go down into the pit.
- After you go through a little tunnel you will emerge into a room with many
Swinging Axe Blades.  Walk right up to each blade, wait for it to go by,
then run past it.  Careful!  Each blade goes at a different speed.  You may
want to save it after you pass each one.  Also be careful that you stay on
the path, it bends to the right, then bends back (sort of like a crescent
moon).
- Walk through the tunnel into a Domed Chamber.
- At the opposite end of the dome you will find a Statue and a Floor Switch.
Push the statue onto the switch.
- Now on the two sides of the chamber are two more Floor Switches, go over to
those and step on them.  The lights should go out leaving only a purplish
color in the center of the room.  Also the pit in the center of the dome
will be filled.
- Go into the center of the room, and get Heron's Crystal off of the front
(that is, facing the entrance) of the weird Purple thing.
- Now the pit will reopen, but now as a Staircase, go down it.
- Finally step onto the platform at the end of the tunnel, and it will raise
you to a new cave.
Awaken Arokh
- Exit the cave and cross the suspension bridge.  Your map will be updated
(which is what that flashing map icon means).
- On the other side you will find a Wartok. (or two)
- Head east, and then south.  You should arrive at a place with a few stacked
boxes and a torch.  From there take the new path to the north.
- There should be about 3 Wartoks here (on mine they appeared to have killed
a fourth one).  Don't attack their barrels, as they are explosives!
- Before moving on, backtrack on the trail a bit, walk off the path south
towards the rocks.  There a cave with a scavenger just inside and a life
potion and iron hammer at the rear exit.  Go out the way you came or slide
down the rock face, you can usually get to the bottom without damage.
Return to the wartok camp. (Skabee99)
- Continue north to the Giant Bare Tree Thingie (whatever), and push it over.
If you are lucky, it will fall on the Wartock on the other side and kill
him. (well that's what happened to me!)
- Right before you get to the tree thingie there are 2 boulders next to the
edge of the ravine that can be pushed over.  Look down to see explosive
barrels and 2 wartoks, with a third wartok running over to join his pals.
Aim boulders at barrels and/or wartoks & push.  You can get all 3 with a
bit o'luck. (Skabee99)
- Jump onto your new bridge, and CAREFULLY cross it.
- Head north.  There will be another Wartok here.
- Go into the cave, there are about 2 Wartoks in here.  Go through the cave.
Hint: Don't try to run away from Wartoks, they are much faster than you!
This is true for most enemies, they simply are faster than you!
- Once through the cave there is another Wartok.
- Head east through the northern path, and you'll get to see a broken
suspension bridge.
- Careful while crossing this bridge, as you may have noticed, it is quite
broken.
- There will be a Wartok immediately off of the bridge, and there are several
others camped out close by.
- These are the wartoks you tossed the boulders at so some/all may already be
dead. (Skabee99)
Hint: The Thrust (Tap Forward, Attack) makes an excellent first attack
against Wartoks, it can remove their weapons (or limbs) and slightly
stuns them as well!
Hint: If Wartoks hear something, they will go out to investigate, whether
they know you are there or not.  So if you stay still they may wander
around then head back to their camp, and go back to sleep.  Very
useful.  Then you can sneak up on them and attack.
- Go to the East Bridge and cross it (you'll know it because there is a
skeleton skewered by it).
- Before crossing the bridge there is a grass path to the east leading up to
a fence.  Go through gate and after a bit you will see gravestones and a
cave entrance.
- Before turning towards cave, keep going straight, uphill, towards the large
tree, there is a skeleton and health elixer and a sword.
- The cave enrance is a door to some ruins.  At the first intersection are
statues to the left and right.  Get the life potion from the statue on the
right.
- Continue on to the ruin exit, as soon as you get out you'll need to fight a
scavenger, get the fire crystal on the broken column.
- Retrace your steps, exiting the ruins where you came in.  There is a big
scavenger to fight before making your way back to cross the east bridge.
(Skabee99)
- Now go north, drop off the little cliff and then go up the side of the
mountain to the East.  There is a Wartok here.
Hint: If you are having trouble going up a mountain-side try doing a little
jump.
- Head east to the next bridge.  There will be about 2 Wartoks around.  Do
NOT attack the 3 barrels there, one of them is an explosive!
- Cross the Bridge.  Careful, this bridge isn't completed either.
- Now go North-East.  A Wartok here will push a boulder in an attempt to kill
you, but on my game he merely managed to kill another Wartok.  Notice the
pretty waterfall.  Ooh... Pretty.
- The path we want to follow is close to the river, and heads south.  It's
very dark and hard to see, but this path leads to another bridge.
- Cross this bridge as well, and once again there's a big hole in it.  You'd
think that the people here would have taken better care of their bridges!
- There is a Scavenger to the right after you get off the bridge.
- Further to the West (right of the bridge) is a Cave and inside is another
Scavenger who has killed a man who had a Health Elixir and a Worn Chain
Mail.  Cool.
- Go back out of the Cave and head up and east.
- You will soon see a Red Cave that looks very suspicious.  There are quite a
few Scavengers around here.
- Walk through the little stream and over to the RED Cave.
- Before entering the red cave head north.  There is a dark cave entrance
right before the waterfall.  Go through, kill the scavanger, on the other
side is a wartock camp.  Kill the wartoks and break the barrels and crates
for 2 health elixers. (Skabee99)
- Backtrack to the red cave.
- Go inside.  Your map will be immediately updated to show this cave.
- In the hallway just past the Main Hallway will be a trap near the floor.
Just as soon as the axe moves out of the wall and away from you, run after
it.  Then when you get about halfway you will need to jump because the axe
will swing back out.
- Now the hall will turn, and the next hallway has 2 such axes.  One on the
floor and one higher.  Pick up the 2 Elixers and get as close to it as you
can get (use the Sneak) before making your move.  After the low one has
passed run out about halfway and crouch, let the one move above you, then
run out again and jump to get over the low one.
- For the next hallway, it is actually safe to stand in the corner of the
hallway that connects to this hall (NOT the corner near the Axe!).  This
allows you to look and see what you need to do.  This time there are again
2 traps, and again one high and one low.  However, this time they swing at
the same time.  Again run past the first trap, and then quickly crouch+run
on the second trap.  It should pass harmlessly overhead.  Then stay
crouched and do a few rolls forward to the end of the hall, and a roll left
to get to safety.
- You will now be in a weird Reddish room with blocks missing from the floor.
Did I mention that if you fall down into that pit you die?  What you have
to do is to jump across the pit to get to the other side.  There are some
blocks left that you can use to jump across, but they will fall down if you
wait too long.  Once across, IMMEDIATELY turn to the right and run into the
cave, if you wait even for a second the blocks will all fall down and you
will die!
- Run into the next chamber, but don't jump down the cliff.  You will be in a
room with the statue of a large Dragon.  Follow the path to the right of
the entrance to the chamber to reach the bottom of the room.
- Walk up to the Thingie in the Center of the room, and watch the little
cutscene.  Congratulations you now have a Dragon!
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Find the Grimstone Mines Part One
- You are now in a small cave, leave the cave and it will be daylight and
raining, there will be two Wartoks out here.
Hint: When fighting on the back of your Dragon, realize that Arokh does not
automatically move his head around as you move the mouse (while Rynn
does).  To move his head to hit the enemies better, use the Right Mouse
Button.  Also realize that the amount of life you have is shared, so
if you have a sliver of life while on the Dragon, you both have a
sliver of life.  Finally the meter on the right is for your
Dragon-Flame, and naturally replenishes itself.
- To the south, across the river, is a small ruin that has a Health Elixir.
There will be about two Wartocks around this.
- Go a little to the east to the small cabin there, get off your Dragon and
go inside.  There's a man there who managed to avoid the Wartoks, and he
will get you a better sword, IF you clear out a mine full of spiders, which
is just a little to the south.
- If you fly across the river, and head due north of the mans house, partway
up the mountain there is a small valley that leads to a large boulder on
the ground at the end.  Push the boulder out of the way and enter cave,
kill scavenger and get "john the monster's axe", low durability and short
range but 25 damage. (Skabee99)
- Back across the river by the man's house...
- A little further east you will find three big Wartoks (well...technically
this is a normal Wartok, and all the smaller ones are called Orcs, but
since they are related, I call them both Wartoks!), and another ruin.
Big Wartok: Attack first with a slicing motion (the normal attack works fine)
with your Sword.  You do this to try to get rid of their weapons
or a shield if they have one.  If you can try to kill them on
your Dragon, but realize that it will take two shots of flame to
kill them.  Plus they tend to run for cover when you start
shooting at them.
Hint: Careful!  There is a Giant Cannon Thing just to the north of this area,
and it will start shooting at you if you get too near it. (and there is
yet another one to the east of that first one)
- Check out the ruins for another Health Elixir. (there is a small cave
nearby which is the exit from the Spider Cave, and no you can't go very far
in it)
Clean Out Spider Caves
- Check your map to see where the Spider Cave is.  It isn't all that high up
on the mountain.  Fly there, get off of your dragon and go inside. (use
ENTER to unlock the door)
- Once inside just wander around and kill Spiders.  You'll know there are
Spiders because you can see the Reds of their eyes.
- Walk out onto a ledge, then push that big Post Thingie down, and cross it
like a bridge.
- Kill the spiders here, and then head south into the dark.  There will be
some more spiders.  And a Bow!  Make sure to secure the area (i.e. kill all
the spiders) before trying to grab the bow (ENTER), because you are
vulnerable while you grab things.  Don't forget to take the Arrows too.
- Head east into more spider killing fun. (the Spiders Nest!)
Hint: Be very careful in this area.  Just when you think there are no more
Spiders around, they will drop on their Spiderline from the Ceiling to
kill you.  Also you can kill that weird moving thing on the wall.
- Continue through the cave (to the south) until you get to the barrels.
Secure the area.  Smash the barrels to find two Health Elixirs.  Continue
up the passage, killing all the spiders that you find.
- You will find yourself in a nicely lit room that is also conveniently
located above the Nest.  Move to the other end of the room to find yourself
a new Chain Mail.
- Jump onto the low box, from there to the higher box, and from there to the
very convenient board with the explosive at the other end.  The Explosive
will fly up and blast the ceiling killing the spiders.
- Now head down the SE passage.  There will be a set of boxes here and a
ledge.  Jump onto the boxes to get onto the ledge.  This leads to the cave
by the Man's Cavern (you know... the guy who sent you up here!).  Leave the
cave and go West to the man's cabin.
- You get a Rune of Stone, and an updated map.  You have to use the Rune on
a certain ledge to find out where the Sword is. (it's to the north)
Get the Short Sword of Flame
- After coming out from the Cabin, I was attacked by a Crow Dragon.
Crow Dragon: These nasty creatures fly around and shoot you with Green Fire.
Get on your Dragon quickly and blast them away. (just hold down
the Attack key)  Crow Dragons firing range is ever so much
shorter than yours, but don't let them get too close, or they'll
blast you away!
- Fly up to the ledge which should now be indicated on your map (it's to the
north in any case).  Use your Rune of Stone in the center of the monoliths
where there is a little indentation for it, and a cave will open up.  Go
inside.
- The cave will wind its way for a little while (don't worry, you won't get
attacked until a little later).
Hint: NEVER roll up to a Scavenger!  Or any other enemy for that matter.
Scavengers will tend to swipe at you when you are still rolling.
- When you reach a small hallway with a torch, the wall crumbles and out pops
a Scavenger.  Now you can go either left or right from here, it doesn't
really matter as they end out in the same place in the end.  Although the
right passage has a trap to get by.  (if you take the left passage, that is
the one that the Scavenger popped out of, you will pass another room on
your way to the room with the Big Green Crystals)
- In the next room there will be 2 more Scavengers.
- Near the Big Green Crystals will be a skeleton, who just happens to have a
Health Elixir.
- Take the passage to the West (this is where the Left passage came from) and
go into the little room on the right.  Step on the little Plate here and a
Secret Door will open.
- Take the passage down.  There will be a Scavenger here.  Now you have two
more choices.  There is the door that is in front of you, and one that
curves back behind you. (it's to the north)
- Take the north path.  You will see a narrow path suspended over what
appears to be a bottomless pit with two giant axe traps to each side.  Run
down the path to get to the Short Sword of Flame.  The path will collapse
behind you and the Axes will start swinging.  Getting out is the fun part!
Walk to the end of the ledge, wait for the right moment and jump back.
Hint: To use the Short Sword of Flame's fire attack use the Attack Alternate
button, which is either the middle mouse button, or '1' on the number
pad.  But remember that you only get 5 of those!  Also the Short Sword
of Flame works well as a torch.
Note: When you fight Knights later on, they have a similar version of the
Short Sword of Flame, so if you lose this one, don't worry too much.
- Go back to where you had the two choices of where to go.
- Go down the little passage, and hop down into the room.  There will a
couple Scavengers in here (or more).  There is also a Health Elixir here if
you want it.  Where you want to go are the Two Big Blocks.  Use them to get
up to a ledge.
- Go down the little passage.  You will find two sleeping Scavengers here,
sneak up to them and kill them.
- Continue down the passage to the Cave Exit (which, again, you can't go back
up!)
- When you exit you will find two big Wartoks here.  Also Arokh will fly down
from the high ledge.
Note: If you're wondering if you can go back to the Man and talk to him about
your newfound Sword, well you can't.  Sorry.
Find the Grimstone Mines Part Two
- We're going to continue East along the River.  Watch out for any Cannons,
Wartoks, Crow Dragons along the way.  Make sure to check the bodies of any
Wartoks that you kill for Health Elixirs.
- As you travel along the river you will come to the first stone bridge
linking the two sides of the river valley.  There is a canon on each side
of the river valley here.  If you land and dive into the water, you can
swim into a cave and get a mithril sword and some armour. (Skabee99)
- When you get close to the Gate Mine (well that's what it looks like on the
map) it will start to snow.  Get off your Dragon and go towards the door.
It's locked and you need a key.
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