Choice of Magics Achievement Guide

Simple, spoiler-free, easy-to-follow, playthrough guide. Contains five full playthroughs of the story - one for each school of magic - which together award all achievements. Useful for achievement seekers and people who'd like to read the game as a book, as this guide provides cohesive and well-rounded stories.

Overview

This is a simple, easy-to-follow, spoiler-free guide, designed to provide a path to every achievement whilst enjoying a sense of roleplay and character continuity.

This guide is considered complete, encompassing 98/100 achievements, but there are two achievements not yet woven into the stories; Atheist and Quiet Reposession. These are explained in the comments at the bottom of the guide.

Designed for both first-time and veteran readers, these playthroughs will unlock all achievements quickly and easily by following the prescribed paths; they will also, however, provide an engaging and cohesive story from beginning to end, so this guide can also be used as a way to simply read Choice of Magics as a book, without worrying about hidden stats and the like.

This guide was produced using the Steam version of the game. All paths have been tested thoroughly but if you encounter any issues or have questions or suggestions then please don't hesitate to leave a comment.

Disclaimer: This guide is in no way intended as an exhaustive guide of all possible options in this story. With just over 100,000 lines of code it's a very complex story with many varied possible permutations and outcomes.

Details

This guide is split into five playthroughs, one for each of the five schools of magic. Each of the five has multiple ending achievements that cannot be unlocked together. Therefore each of the five paths must be played multiple times to unlock every achievement. Additionally there are five possible romances in the story too, so we have one for each playthrough.

Please note that the choices must be taken as they're listed here - deviating from the provided path will usually mess something up later on due to many hidden stat checks. I've done my best to note where you can choose alternate options, though, so you have a bit of flexibility; see:

• [Optional] You can choose these choices if you like for extra story - they won't affect your stats.
  
• [Alternate] You can choose these choices instead for the same effect as the one before it.
  
• [Choose] Any of the choices present can be chosen. The story might be different but we'll stay on the same path.

Recall that negation is useful for fights but leaves behind deadly clouds; divination reveals information to you but may also reveal information about yourself to someone else in the process; automation creates magical objects but worsens the ever-present storms; glamour makes you persuasive in the short term but wears away at your health; and vivomancy is the magic of life and often has unexpected long-term consequences.

Automation One: The Lost Academy

Heal Tal's leg so we can keep running to the ancient dueling ground ahead where we can make our stand.

[Choose Any]

I didn't want to see her in pain.

[Achievement: It's Homage, Not Infringement]

"Yell everything I need to know—I'm listening." Charge the inquisitor with the luxgladius.

Kill the inquisitor. If he's alive, he could report back.

Bookish and spectacled.

I dress like a fairy-tale witch: giant black hat, black dress.

[Choose Gender]

My black dress of negation. (+Subtlety, +Negation)

I'm interested in getting romantic attention from anyone.

One of us can use the luxgladius's light to distract the cats.

[Choose First Name]

[Choose Family Name]

"How [First Name] and Tal saved the Kingdom of Eirinia."

Where is the most valuable object in these ruins?

It was my fault Tal lost her eye.

I imagined healing the sky, causing our weather to go back to normal.

Animate Noodles, the stuffed monkey Tal carries around for luck.

It's cute and kind of funny. Why not?

Try a difficult automation spell to permanently rebind the golem to me.

[Achievement: Certere, Dominex]

Let's head to the laboratory.

Let's part the barrier.

Cast a divination to find out more about the specter.

Negate the light curtain on the door.

[Achievement: Liberized]

Look through my book on airships for a relevant spell.

Use automation magic to turn the central airship's mast into a drill.

Automation Two: Home

Encourage Tal to get healing from Saint Ann.

The floor is dominated by a giant map of all the ruins I know about.

[Choose Golem Name]

Automation.

Design a giant negative-energy cannon to disintegrate the Eternal Storm.

Solemnly explain that I have great power now, and things will necessarily change.

Plead with them. This is who I am. I must be a wizard.

"I know what you mean, but no promises."

I want to sell something.

Sell my luxgladius for 300 gold.

I want to sell something.

Sell my dragon egg. (200 gold.)

Yes.

Buy a rare old history book called Via Verita Abraxas, or "True Life of Abraxas," for 250 gold.

Visit Seer Marie, the fortune-teller, for 25 gold.

"I look forward to it."

"Can I interest you in learning…real magic?"

[Achievement: A Bright Future In Magic]

I think my business at the market is done.

I don't want to attract attention. The thief can escape.

Use automation to repair the town's ancient, rusty set of giant fans.

[Achievement: Not On My Watch]

Needs more cowbell.

[Achievement: More Cowbell]

[Choose Eating Preferences]

Offer to help in exchange for half Tal's fee: 200 gold.

I excuse myself to go talk to Mayor Cos.

We sometimes fly kites together on the commons.

I'd like to discreetly let him know I saved the town.

They seem fine here. Head home and read before going to bed.

Defeat the beast in melee with my luxgladius and Tal's experienced swordplay.

I owe the town nothing and will do what I want.

Glamor. Pretend to be a noble and borrow money from rich friends.

Automation Three: Visitors

I stopped going to church when I was old enough to resist my parents.

Cast a divination that reveals a loophole in their orders before answering the door.

Skip town and hide out in nearby Triton.

Purchase a ring with an antiscrying sigil for 70 gold.

Purchase a tome about golems for 150 gold.

I'm done with this market.

Automation Four: Under the Cathedral

Let's slay something!

"So then, why do you need to wear an eye patch?"

[Optional] "What's the best thing about being a shapeshifter?"

[Optional] "Does Cos know?"

[Optional] "Can you change your biological sex?"

[Optional] "Could I see you shift into someone, just to see what it's like?"

I thank Tal for sharing her secret, and tell her mine.

The bookstore.

Church and State. (300 gold.)

Let's shop somewhere else.

The clothing store.

The fanciest outfit I can buy, period.

[Choose Clothing Type and / or Colour]

On second thought, I'm ready to head to the Cathedral.

Convince the guards to let us pass with my natural charm.

"A ring."

Leave for a moment to cast a divination to determine the ring's description.

Pick the lock with automation.

Let's all explore the Cathedral together.

[Optional] "Your parents didn't send me. I'm a mage, like you."

"What's your name?"

[Optional] "Where did all the other mages go?"

[Optional] "Why are you still here?"

[Optional] "What sort of magic got you captured?"

I've asked enough questions. I free Vera from her bonds.

[Achievement: School's Out Forever]

Encourage Vera to come with us as we explore the basement.

"Of course. I have no right to hoard my knowledge when I obtained it freely myself."

Let's go in! I'm not afraid of whatever's in there.

Use automation magic and what I learned from the golem manual in the magic academy to take control of this golem.

[Achievement: An Unusual Ally]

Animate Noodles and have him repaint the room in a more whimsical way.

The painting Noodles makes here is chosen randomly from six options.

[Achievement: An Artistic Triumph]

[Achievement: Hell and Back]

Animate Noodles to repaint this room.

[Achievement: Signed, Noodles]

Proceed through the door under the Eye of Abraxas frieze.

Send a bolt of negative energy flying his way.

[Achievement: Who Watches the Watcher?]

Yes, I'll grab some Watcher eyeballs while nobody's looking.

Deactivate the trap with automation magic.

Find the secret room.

[Achievement: The Statue]

Make sure not to ask the statue a third question - this will trigger very different events.

"Why kill all the mages, if you used automation magic yourself?"

"Do you think the Church should deceive and kill to achieve its aims?"

I have no more questions. I return to the adjacent library.

Wait, I never saw that treasure-chest room. I'll go there.

Blast the chest with a negation spell and see what's left.

Ask Vera to get it.

[Achievement: It's a Wand Now]

Yes, let us steal all the books!

Automation.

Ancient history.

Expensive collector's-item books.

[Choose Method of Escape]

[Achievement: Like A Bandit]

[Achievement: Historian]

[Achievement: How About a Key to the City?]

Automation Five: Returning

My intentions are good. They'll eventually see that.

"There's always time for treasure. Lead the way, Tal."

Finish it off with my luxgladius.

I visit Fruitseller Fran.

Offer Fran 50 gold in exchange for rumors about the Neighbors.

Contact the royal spymaster about the invasion, and warn Mayor Cos that Fran is a spy.

Purchase two gold's worth of fruit and leave.

I visit the fortune-teller.

[Optional] Ask why the merchants didn't listen to her warnings.

I ask for my fortune told.

[Achievement: Choice of Magics]

[Optional] Ask if we could go on a date.

Ask if Marie wants to learn more magic and become my apprentice.

"Just teach me how to channel divination better—you have a knack for it."

I leave the market. (Requires visiting Fran for food.)

[Achievement: The Spy]

Encourage Cos to trust his natural charisma to win back the town.

[Achievement: Cos for Mayor]

The achievement 'A Bright Future In Magic' will pop for the second time here. Doesn't matter.

Show Vera around, and let her know I'm interested in her.

Cast a divination to find out who the mysterious leader of the Twilight Band is.

"We should go to the mayor with this information. Maybe she'll be captured."

Automation Six: The Queen's Court

My fancy [Colour] clothes from the capital. (+++Charisma)

This isn't a mistake, we're intentionally deceiving the Queen.

"No, the magic of the ancients is more powerful."

"Divination. Knowledge is power."

"I'm just taking things one step at a time."

Alternate: "I want to do good, however I can, for as long as I can."

"I serve nobody, but I will ally with you for now."

Let's harness the power of storms, as the Neighbors do.

Tell the queen she needs no glamor; she's already most impressive.

Suggest using divination to communicate with her subjects, building bonds of trust.

"I think I'd be good at it and take pleasure in that skill."

The guard turned into glass, and the guard and princess retreated to the iron castle to live together forever.

[Achievement: The Queen's Riddle]

Use glamors to build bridges between the old guard and new.

Animate Bear Bearson, but save Tal the embarrassment of animating Noodles.

The shapeshifter laws should be repealed! Suggest the queen and Tal meet again to discuss these issues more.

The bookstore.

Kafsi et Kleos Venenum ("Negation Burn and Rot"; 500 gold).

I'll try doing a little of that.

Athanasia Experimenta ("The Immortality Experiment"; 1000 gold).

I really have no desire to be a ghost made of negative energy.

I don't need any more books.

The weapons-and-armor store.

Ask to purchase a negation wand, if they have any, for 1000 gold.

I'm done here.

I'm done shopping.

"That sounds amazing! Let's go!"

"The Shimmering Curtain!"

[Achievement: Tourist]

Ugh, I just need to get out more. I banish those thoughts.

Broadcast the culture of the capital, but without glamors.

I say yes.

Convince Vera's father to let Vera be an adult.

Suggest we drive away the penguins together by brandishing our weapons.

Let's continue to watch the game show.

"The natural world isn't going anywhere. There will always be people who need your protection."

Let's tell the future that even though our world was bleak, we were happy.

"You seem to like her. Just see where it goes."

Take control of the vessel with automation magic.

[Optional] Cast a divination to determine whether to strike first or negotiate.

"I'll do my best to get the Magisterians to desist, Your Majesty."

Automation Seven: Escalation

[Achievement: Pilot]

"I just discovered some books in an ancient library."

Alternate: "I'm just talented, I suppose."

Give him the correct location of the sunken academy.

"I want to bring back the wonders of the ancients."

"Our saints and hierophant all use magic."

"It's all very peaceful magic. Little automation, no negation."

"I have an apprentice."

"Akriton's fortune-teller knows magic now."

"I can't think of anyone else who can use magic."

"I believe the Church teaches what they think they must to keep magic out of evil hands."

"Using negation magic with no limits could end the war before it claims too many lives." (Requires high negation.)

[Achievement: Damned Torpedoes]

Suggest a blitz to the capital before they realize our true strength. (Requires ancient history or known capital location.)

Cast a divination to determine who would be best.

[Optional] "I think Outrider Tal should be the heir."

[Choose Any Heir to the Throne]

"You could work on developing more powerful airships for our forces."

Distribute the decoction but let the soldiers think it's mere herbalism, not magic.

[Achievement: Winning]

Draw my luxgladius and fight.

[Achievement: Not That Different]

Establish magic schools around the kingdom to teach people to use magic responsibly.

[Achievement: Professor V]

Land immediately in the Crown Mountains.

Automation Eight: Downpour

This isn't the end. I'll think of something. I always do.

Choose one of the three choices here to cause one of three ending achievements. Note that the Sky City ending doesn't include the Queen's Knight achievement.

[A Transformative End: The Ancient Stars]

A great cannon to disintegrate the clouds themselves.

[Achievement: Blue Skies]

[A Transformative End: Song of the Cave People (Hypermagical Variant)]

A machine to store the storm's energy for the future, even after we retreat underground.

[Achievement: Energizer]

[A Transformative End: The Sky City]

A machine that sends out a distress call and blueprints for airship arks. (Requires airships.)

[Achievement: Sky City]

From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

[Achievement: Queen's Knight]

Vivomancy One: The Lost Academy

Heal Tal's leg so we can keep running to the ancient dueling ground ahead where we can make our stand.

[Choose Notification Setting]

I didn't want to see her in pain.

[Achievement: It's Homage, Not Infringement]

"Yell everything I need to know—I'm listening." Charge the inquisitor with the luxgladius.

We may as well talk to him. Cast a glamor spell and order him to come back.

Have him sit still so I can practice turning people into tortoises.

[Achievement: Slow and Steady]

Rugged and adventurous.

I've been told I'm quite good-looking.

[Choose Gender]

My black robes. (+Subtlety, +Negation)

I'm interested in getting romantic attention from anyone.

I cast a glamor. Maybe it works on cats, too.

[Choose First Name]

[Choose Family Name]

"How [First Name] and Tal saved the Kingdom of Eirinia."

Where is the most valuable object in these ruins?

It was my fault Tal lost her eye.

I just wanted to be free to pursue whatever whims struck me.

Power one of the flying trays and instruct it to fetch the alchemy set.

Cast a glamor and make the golem follow my instructions.

Let's head to the auditorium.

Cast a divination to learn what's under the rubble.

[Achievement: Lord of the Rings]

These spiders seem to like show business. Cast a glamor.

I use vivomancy to sprout wings and fly up to the crow's nest.

Use vivomancy to grow the wooden tower until it bursts through the ceiling.

Vivomancy Two: Home

Encourage Tal to get healing from Saint Ann.

I use a bunch of quirky ancient junk as furniture.

Vivomancy.

[Choose Pet Details]

[Choose Pet Species Name]

Introduce it into the wild with a partner and see what happens.

Solemnly explain that I have great power now, and things will necessarily change.

Plead with them. This is who I am. I must be a wizard.

"I know what you mean, but no promises."

I want to sell something.

Sell my luxgladius for 300 gold.

I want to sell something.

Sell all but one of the clutch of dragon eggs for 450 gold.

Yes.

I want to sell something.

Sell the actor's golden ring for 400 gold.

Yes.

I want to sell something.

Sell the flying serving tray for 700 gold.

Yes.

Buy a rare old history book called Via Verita Abraxas, or "True Life of Abraxas," for 200 gold.

Buy ingredients for a potion to improve my negation magic for 250 gold. (Requires alchemy set.)

Buy ingredients for a potion to improve my glamor for 200 gold. (Requires alchemy set.)

Donate 1 to 500 gold to restore the copper tree sculpture at the center of the marketplace.

500 gold.

[Achievement: The Giving Tree]

Visit Seer Marie, the fortune-teller, for 25 gold.

"Hit me."

"Can I interest you in learning…real magic?"

[Achievement: A Bright Future in Magic]

Browse some hats.

[Replay: Check this costs money? Think it was free when I first did this.]

Buy a conical hat decorated with stars and moons for 300 gold.

[Achievement: Classic Look]

I think my business at the market is done.

I cast a glamor, then cry out, "Halt!"

[Achievement: Subtle Thief Catcher]

Use divination to find stragglers whom this cloud might kill.

The old man.

Cast a vivomancy spell and grow wings.

[Achievement: Guardian Angel]

The little girl.

Turn the wooden corner beam into a giant wooden slide.

The greathog swineherd.

Use vivomancy to grant the greathogs wings.

[Achievement: When Pigs Fly]

I like the theme of trying to stay cheerful amid sadness.

Needs more cowbell.

[Achievement: More Cowbell]

[Choose Eating Preferences]

Offer to help in exchange for half Tal's fee: 200 gold.

Ask Tal if she wants to see Noodles dance—out of sight of the townsfolk, of course.

Yes. I'd like to be the lover; still working on the gold.

Gonna go all the way tonight!

Defeat the beast in melee with my luxgladius and Tal's experienced swordplay.

Ask Mayor Cos if I can be an official town wizard.

We once worked together replanting after a death cloud came through.

"When we show the Church how much good magic can accomplish, they'll let me continue."

Use divination to find out the identity of the grand cleric.

Run to the bank and silence her somehow before she tells anyone about my divination.

Use vivomancy to turn her into a tortoise. It'll totally work this time!

I agree to a walk around town. And the subtext.

Stay silent and observe as the mayor does the talking.

Politely decline. I need to read up on shapeshifters before I continue this relationship.

[Choose Title]

Use vivomancy to change my appearance and convince them they have the wrong place.

Vivomancy Three: Visitors

The House of Sun. I strive to be better and help the weak.

[Optional] Use divination to find out why this old man is lying for me.

Wait quietly and continue to watch.

Attend Sam's sermon of mercy in the House of Sun.

I nod.

Everyone in this town.

Use divination to find out if anyone needs urgent care.

I upstage Blessed Sam by healing Jerem in front of everyone.

Keep healing people, but accept Blessed Sam's story that it's a miracle.

"Poor dragon!"

Yes, but first I want Sam's help hatching my dragon egg.

[Achievement: It's a Girl!]

[Choose Dragon Name]

[Optional] Ask Sam if he feels sorry for mages imprisoned by the Church.

Offer Sam my introductory tome on vivomancy.

"Like you, I want to go from town to town helping the sick and needy."

[Achievement: Inquisitor Tutor]

Vivomancy Four: Under The Cathedral

"I have things to do. I'll meet you in the capital soon. You can introduce me to other mages then."

"Thank you."

[Note: There are some options you shouldn't choose here so be careful.]

[Optional] "So then, why do you need to wear an eye patch?"

"If you can look like anything, why do you choose to look the way you do?"

[Optional] "Have you ever pretended to be someone else?"

[Optional] "What's the best thing about being a shapeshifter?"

[Optional] "Does Cos know?"

[Optional] "Have you ever wanted to date a shapeshifter instead of me?"

[Optional] "Can you change your biological sex?"

[Optional] "Could I see you shift into someone, just to see what it's like?"

I thank Tal for sharing her secret, and tell her mine.

Yes, I wish to purchase some classier attire.

The fanciest outfit I can buy, period.

[Choose Clothing Type and / or Colour]

The bookstore.

A History of the Neighbors. (150 gold.)

Let's proceed to the Cathedral.

[Optional] "Your parents didn't send me. I'm a mage, like you."

"What's your name?"

[Optional] "Tell me more about where the other mages went."

[Optional] "Why are you still here?"

[Optional] "What sort of magic got you captured?"

[Optional] Consult with Sam about the prospect of freeing Vera.

I've asked enough questions. I free Vera from her bonds.

[Achievement: School's Out Forever]

Encourage Vera to come with us as we explore the basement.

"Of course. I have no right to hoard my knowledge when I obtained it freely myself."

Let's go in! I'm not afraid of whatever's in there.

Let's fight the golem in melee.

[Achievement: See You in Hell]

Animate Noodles and have him repaint the room in a more whimsical way.

[Note: The painting Noodles makes here is chosen randomly from six options.]

[Achievement: An Artistic Triumph]

[Achievement: Hell and Back]

Animate Noodles to repaint this room.

[Achievement: Signed, Noodles]

Proceed through the door under the Eye of Abraxas frieze.

Send a bolt of negative energy flying his way.

[Alternate] Stab the thing to death.

[Achievement: Who Watches the Watcher?]

Yes, I'll grab some Watcher eyeballs while nobody's looking.

Look for books on the design of this Cathedral.

[Achievement: The Statue]

[Note: Make sure not to ask the statue a third question - this will trigger very different events.]

"Why kill all the mages, if you used automation magic yourself?"

Urge Sam to ask a question.

I have no more questions. I return to the adjacent library.

Wait, I never saw that treasure-chest room. I'll go there.

Blast the chest with a negation spell and see what's left.

Ask Vera to get it.

[Achievement: It's a Wand Now]

Yes, let us steal all the books!

Glamor.

Vivomancy.

Expensive collector's-item books.

[Choose Any Escape]

[Achievement: Like a Bandit]

Vivomancy Five: Returning

Use a glamor and tell my pursuers to report me as dead.

My intentions are good. They'll eventually see that.

"There's always time for treasure. Lead the way, Tal."

Finish it off with my luxgladius.

Check out the stall of the new artifact seller in town.

Buy the fateshaper for 1500 gold.

[Achievement: Wheel of (Spending a) Fortune]

The Dragonrider Monkey.

[Optional] Ask the artifact seller whether they're interested in buying anything.

Thank the artifact seller for their time and depart.

Visit Seer Marie, the fortune-teller.

I ask for my fortune told.

[Achievement: Choice of Magics]

[Optional] Ask if we could go on a date.

Ask if Marie wants to learn more magic and become my apprentice.

"Just teach me how to channel divination better—you have a knack for it."

Visit Fruitseller Fran to pick up some food; it's what I came here for.

Offer Fran 50 gold in exchange for rumors about the Neighbors.

Contact the royal spymaster about the invasion, and warn Mayor Cos that Fran is a spy.

Purchase two gold's worth of fruit and leave.

I think my business at the market is done.

[Achievement: The Spy]

Use vivomancy to speed the reproduction of livestock devastated after the last death cloud.

[Achievement: A Walk on the Mild Side]

[Note: The achievement 'A Bright Future In Magic' will pop for the second time here.]

I pass—let's keep our student-teacher boundaries.

Vivomancy Six: The Queen's Court

My fancy [Colour] clothes from the capital. (+++Charisma)

"No, the magic of the ancients is more powerful."

"Vivomancy. The power of life itself is indispensable."

"I want to create something really marvelous."

"I serve nobody, but I will ally with you for now."

[Choose Title]

Let's create beasts of labor that will gain their energy from enhanced foods.

Tell the queen she needs no glamor; she's already most impressive.

Suggest using a glamor, rot and Church be damned.

[Achievement: Glamor Queen]

"No, I think the responsibility would be a heavy burden."

The guard turned into glass, and the guard and princess retreated to the iron castle to live together forever.

[Achievement: The Queen's Riddle]

"That doesn't bother me. People will always be people."

[Alternate] "The Church is just afraid of losing power."

Use glamors to build bridges between the old guard and new.

Animate the two stuffed animals and introduce them to each other.

The shapeshifter laws should be repealed! Suggest the queen and Tal meet again to discuss these issues more.

The new hatmaker in town.

Purchase the big floppy white hat.

[Achievement: Sweet Hat]

I'm done shopping.

"That sounds amazing! Let's go!"

"The Giant Woman!"

[Achievement: Tourist]

I suggest using a shorter name than "terramancy shirt."

I'll just take one as a souvenir.

Ugh, I just need to get out more. I banish those thoughts.

Teach glamors to entertainers, and use divination to spread their influence.

"Yes, of course!"

Have our dragon breathe fire to intimidate the penguins.

Let's continue to watch the game show.

"Monsters may be dangerous, but we've got to defend ourselves from the Neighbors."

Let's tell the future that even though our world was bleak, we were happy.

"I'm a little scared, to be honest, but we'll figure it out."

Blast the airship with negation magic.

I activate my luxgladius and try to cut the guards down.

[Optional] Cast a divination to determine whether to strike first or negotiate.

"I'll do my best to get the Magisterians to desist, Your Majesty."

Vivomancy Seven: Escalation

[Achievement: Dragonrider]

"I just discovered some books in an ancient library."

[Alternate] "I'm just talented, I suppose."

Give him a fake location for the sunken academy.

"We saw your scout ships and wanted to create our own wonders."

"Our saints and hierophant all use magic."

"It's all very peaceful magic. Little automation, no negation."

"I have an apprentice."

"Akriton's fortune-teller knows magic now."

"I can't think of anyone else who can use magic."

"I believe the Church teaches what they think they must to keep magic out of evil hands."

[Achievement: Peace in the Magisterian East]

[Achievement: Who's Best Monkey?]

I want to create the biggest, most amazing creature I've ever created.

[Choose Great Creature Details]

[Choose Great Creature Species Name]

[Choose Great Creature Name]

[Choose Great Creature Title]

[Achievement: Pretty Much My Favorite Animal]

[Choose Any]

Establish magic schools around the kingdom to teach people to use magic responsibly.

[Achievement: Professor V]

[Choose Any]

[Achievement: Shell-Shocked]

Vivomancy Eight: I Shell Have My Revenge

[Achievement: I'm Sorry, Who?]

Astonished. I really didn't expect to see this tortoise again.

[Achievement: Go Forth, My Horde!]

[Optional] Use vivomancy to animate the trees, and have them attack the dragons.

Cast a glamor and command both dragons to stop.

There are five main Vivomancy endings, four of which award unique achievements. Additionally the Mercy ending ('An Uncertain End') will lead the player into the Negation or Glamor Climaxes and allows for further achievement hunting there. However this will be left unexplored in this guide as we have dedicated Negation and Glamor playthroughs already.

[A Transformative End: The Dragon Monarch]

Transform into a Rainbow Dragontortoise and attack my creation.

[Achievement: Dragonfooding]

Whichever way you handle the dragons will cause a different ending to occur. This choice is the only one that will present us with new achievements - the others award only A Complete Story and Triumph.

"From now on, you serve me alone, and we shall rule this kingdom."

[Note: From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.]

[Achievement: Your Majesty]

[Achievement: Loved Ruler]

[A Peaceful End: The Tiny Menagerie]

Shrink the tortoise and its minions to render them harmless.

[Achievement: Cuteification]

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

We decide to adopt a little one, and give the child Noodles.

[Note: From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.]

[Achievement: Little Apprentice]

[An Uncertain End: Also a Beginning]

Turn the tortoise back into a human.

[Achievement: This Tortoise Mercy]

These three choices will lead to alternate climaxes. First to Negation, second to Glamour, and third to defeat and death at the hands of the Magisterians.

Create the negative-energy cannons.

Research the far-reaching glamor.

These magics are too dangerous. Wait and hope for the best.

[A Transformative End: The Tiny Hordes]

Use the energy to grant my horde of [Creature Species Name] ferocity, and order them to attack the tortoise.

We decide to adopt a little one, and give the child Noodles.

[Achievement: Little Apprentice]

[A Methodical End: The Way of the Tortoise]

I blast the tortoise with negation magic.

[Achievement: Call of the Wild]

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

Negation One: The Lost Academy

Sprout wings and carry Tal to a high dorm window, where something's glittering.

[Choose Notification Setting]

"I'm a little disappointed I didn't sprout a third arm or something. But having wings was pretty fun."

I dress all in black.

Black robes that once belonged to an ancient sorcerer.

[Alternate] A long black dress that once belonged to an ancient sorceress.

[Choose Gender]

Have him explore ahead and fight any monsters he encounters.

I'm open to romance with anyone, but Tal is just a good friend right now.

Bulky and conspicuous magical items I won't use? No thanks.

The inquisitor's probably dead already—let's not follow him to his end.

I gain burrowing claws with vivomancy and dig straight down.

Clever. He usefully wore down the nightmare before dying.

Blast the nightmare with negation magic.

[Choose First Name]

[Choose Family Name]

"How [First Name] and Tal started a revolution and took over the Kingdom of Eirinia."

Where is the most valuable object in these ruins?

I reported Tal to Mayor Cos.

I wanted to be able to vanquish anyone I so chose.

Power one of the flying trays and instruct it to fetch the alchemy set.

While the golem's distracted, blast it in the back with negation.

Let's head to the arena.

Fly up with vivomancy wings, blast the harpies with negation magic, then carry Tal up.

I fly up to the crow's nest.

Blast the rock ceiling with negation magic.

Negation Two: Home

Forget healing. Ask Saint Ann how much she knows about our day.

[Alternate] Ask Saint Ann for a vision of my future, ignoring the suggestion of healing.

The floor is dominated by a giant map of all the ruins I know about.

Negation.

Detonate targets in the woods, practicing larger and larger explosions.

Solemnly explain that I have great power now, and things will necessarily change.

Plead with them. This is who I am. I must be a wizard.

"I know what you mean, but no promises."

I want to sell something.

Sell all but one of the clutch of dragon eggs for 350 gold.

Yes.

I want to sell something.

Sell my crystal ball to the fortune-teller for 200 gold.

Yes.

"Yes. I'd be happy to teach you how to use it, if you keep it secret."

[Achievement: A Bright Future in Magic]

I want to sell something.

Sell my ring of camouflage for 100 gold.

Yes.

I want to sell something.

Sell the flying serving tray for 600 gold.

Yes.

Buy a rare old history book called Via Verita Abraxas, or "True Life of Abraxas," for 300 gold.

Buy ingredients for a potion to improve my negation magic for 350 gold. (Requires alchemy set.)

Buy ingredients for a potion to improve my glamor for 300 gold. (Requires alchemy set.)

Visit Seer Marie, the fortune-teller, for 25 gold.

"Couldn't that fortune have applied to anybody, anytime?"

Browse some hats.

Buy a conical hat decorated with stars and moons for 400 gold.

[Achievement: Classic Look]

I think my business at the market is done.

I cast a glamor, then cry out, "Halt!"

Part the cloud with negation magic.

[Achievement: Not On My Watch]

Needs more cowbell.

[Achievement: More Cowbell]

[Choose Eating Preferences]

Offer to help in exchange for half Tal's fee: 200 gold.

I excuse myself to go talk to Mayor Cos.

We sometimes fly kites together on the commons.

I'll ask about the board game he designed.

"Let's dance now, and play games after."

Alternate doing cool moves at each other in a dance-off.

I'm interested. I'd like to give him a discreet kiss.

Focus on winning fair and square.

[Achievement: I Want to Be Ledgerman]

I'll wait for him to make the first move.

[Alternate] Yes, I'll kiss him and see what happens next.

Follow the tracks, blast the beast, bring back the head.

Hold my breath and look for treasure.

I owe the town nothing and will do what I want.

Glamor. Pretend to be a noble and borrow money from rich friends.

What the hell. Blast them with a ball of negative energy.

Negation Three: Visitors

"No."

"No."

"Do you expect me to feel sorry for your dragon while I'm stuck here?"

Yes, but I want to know more first about where captured wizards go.

Now's my chance! I blast through the ceiling.

Negation Four: Under the Cathedral

Chide Tal for sharing other people's secrets.

[Alternate] Promise not to mention Tal's lapse to Cos.

Yes, I wish to purchase some classier attire.

The fanciest outfit I can buy, period.

[Choose Clothing Type and / or Colour]

The bookstore.

A History of the Neighbors. (150 gold.)

Let's proceed to the Cathedral.

[Optional] "Your parents didn't send me. I'm a mage, like you."

"What's your name?"

[Optional] "Where did all the other mages go?"

[Optional] "Why are you still here?"

[Optional] "What sort of magic got you captured?"

I've asked enough questions. I free Vance from his bonds.

[Achievement: School's Out Forever]

Encourage Vance to come with us as we explore the basement.

"Sure. Tell your parents I cost a thousand gold a year."

Let's go in! I'm not afraid of whatever's in there.

Blast the golem with negation magic.

[Achievement: It's Homage, Not Infringement]

[Achievement: See You in Hell]

Animate Noodles and have him repaint the room in a less disturbing way.

[Achievement: An Artistic Triumph]

[Achievement: Hell and Back]

Enter the door with the frieze depicting books.

Look for books on the design of this Cathedral.

[Achievement: The Statue]

"Why kill all the mages, if you used automation magic yourself?"

[Note: Choose two of the following four [Alternate] choices.]

[Alternate] "Did you intend to be worshipped as a god?"

[Alternate] "Do you believe in a higher power yourself?"

[Alternate] "What really happened when you left the world?"

[Alternate] "Did you collaborate at all with the Magisterian Empire?"

[Achievement: Historian]

[Optional] "What about Vance? Can he become a saint, too?"

[Optional] "What exactly is involved in becoming a saint?"

[Optional] "What would you have me do as a saint?"

[Optional] "Why persecute mages when the saints use magic as well?"

[Optional] "Is it true that you spoke to Abraxas himself?"

[Optional] "Who will the next hierophant be, after you?"

[Optional] I propose a truce between us.

Dispel the glamors on the hierophant and the saints.

No more questions. I'm ready to attack the hierophant.

Blast her with negation magic.

Yes, I quickly grab a book of magic.

Automation.

Negation Five: Returning

Blast my pursuers with negation, leaving one to report that I'm not to be trifled with.

Apprehensive. How can we live as enemies of the Church?

"There's always time for treasure. Lead the way, Tal."

I want to sell something.

Sell my luxgladius for 300 gold.

Visit Seer Marie, the fortune-teller.

I ask for my fortune told.

[Achievement: Choice of Magics]

[Optional] Ask if we could go on a date.

Ask if Marie wants to learn more magic and become my apprentice.

"Just teach me how to channel divination better—you have a knack for it."

Visit Fruitseller Fran to pick up some food; it's what I came here for.

Offer Fran 50 gold in exchange for rumors about the Neighbors.

Contact the royal spymaster about the invasion, and warn Mayor Cos that Fran is a spy.

Purchase two gold's worth of fruit and leave.

I think my business at the market is done.

[Achievement: The Spy]

[Note: The achievement 'A Bright Future In Magic' will pop for the second time here.]

I pass—let's keep our student-teacher boundaries.

Cast a divination to learn the Twilight Band's meeting place, then blow it up with negation.

[Achievement: Hierophant Twimsby]

I'd rather sell the pet I create.

[Choose Pet Details]

[Choose Pet Species Name]

Negation Six: The Queen's Court

My fancy [Colour] clothes from the capital. (+++Charisma)

"No, the magic of the ancients is more powerful."

"Negation. I can destroy your enemies if you wish."

"I want power, of course. Power is freedom."

[Alternate] "I find magic fascinating. I just want to learn all I can."

"I serve nobody, but I will ally with you for now."

Let's harness the energy of the dark sun: greater power without damage to the skies.

[Achievement: Perfectly Safe]

Tell the queen she needs no glamor; she's already most impressive.

Suggest using a glamor, rot and Church be damned.

[Achievement: Glamor Queen]

"I would enjoy the freedom to do as I please."

The guard turned into glass, and the guard and princess retreated to the iron castle to live together forever.

[Achievement: The Queen's Riddle]

Sow the seeds of discord among the old guard. (Requires calculation.)

Animate the two stuffed animals and introduce them to each other.

The shapeshifter laws should be repealed! Suggest the queen and Tal meet again to discuss these issues more.

The new hatmaker in town.

Purchase the shadow veil.

[Achievement: Sweet Hat]

The bookstore.

Dracus Monopati ("The Draconian Life Cycle"; 500 gold).

[Achievement: It's a Girl!]

[Choose Dragon Name]

The bookstore.

Athanasia Experimenta ("The Immortality Experiment"; 1000 gold).

Yes, becoming an immortal specter is something I want to do.

I don't need any more books.

The pet store.

I want a unique magical hybrid creature. (100 gold.)

"Serpents."

[Choose Pet Type and Colour]

Yes!

[Choose Pet Name]

[Achievement: Unfamiliar Familiar]

No, let's go to a different store.

The weapons-and-armor store.

Ask to purchase a negation wand, if they have any, for 1000 gold.

I'm done here.

I'm done shopping.

"That sounds amazing! Let's go!"

"The Eternal Rainbow!"

[Achievement: Tourist]

Teach glamors to entertainers, and use divination to spread their influence.

"I accept. I love you, Cos."

Suggest we drive away the penguins together by brandishing our weapons.

Grab both luxgladiuses and direct the penguins across the caldera with them.

I'll just cast a glamor to handle these penguins.

Let's switch to the medical drama.

"Relax. Negation magic is very controllable if you understand it well."

Apologize in advance to the future. I had the best of intentions.

"You seem to like her. Just see where it goes."

Blast the airship with negation magic.

[Optional] Cast a divination to determine whether to strike first or negotiate.

"They won't listen to me, and if I'm captured, all is lost. Let us prepare for war."

Negation Seven: Escalation

[Achievement: Scout]

"Using negation magic with no limits could end the war before it claims too many lives." (Requires high negation.)

[Achievement: Damned Torpedoes]

Suggest a quick offensive to establish bases on their side of the Negative Sea, followed by negotiations from this position of strength.

Cast a divination to determine who would be best.

"I think I should be the heir."

"You could work on something to heal the sky after this is over."

Distribute the decoction but let the soldiers think it's mere herbalism, not magic.

[Achievement: On the Offensive]

Yes, let's march directly to the Magisterian capital.

Cast a glamor and command Sam to explain.

I kill Sam now, with a quick blast of negation.

[Alternate] Let Sam go, but tell the queen about his murder attempt.

[Achievement: The Polychromatic Diamond]

[Achievement: Definitely Honor Roll]

"We've both done what was needed for the kingdom's protection."

Establish magic schools around the kingdom to teach people to use magic responsibly.

[Achievement: Professor V]

Negation Eight: The Dark Sun Awakens

I've written ten endings for the Negation playthrough. As with every path there are many various possibilities, some with achievements and some without, and the paths written below will get as many achievements possible.

At the very start of the chapter we save either Cos or Thecla, which will dictate how things play out in the Epilogue. There are four Cos endings and six for Thecla.

Alongside other possible achievements, saving Cos will usually result in the Your Majesty and Little Apprentice achievements, while saving Thecla will tend to award Queen's Knight.

For Cos' Endings:

I will try to save Cos.

[Choose Any]

[A Contented End: A New Palace, A New Day]

Heal the dark sun without using the negative energy for any additional purpose.

[Achievement: Your Majesty]

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

[Choose New Palace]

[Choose Magisterian Future]

Yes. Use negation to disperse the whole Sea. (Requires negation.)

[Achievement: Reprise]

I do want to have a child myself.

[Achievement: Little Apprentice]

From here make the choices you like in this epilogue. May instead receive the ending [A Dismal End: The Misliked Ruler] depending on how your Epilogue choices affect your Adoration.

[A Transformative End: The New Pantheon]

Heal the world and become an immortal specter in the process.

[Achievement: Immortality]

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

Pretend to be a god, as Abraxas did.

From here make the choices you like in this epilogue. May receive the endings [A Transformative End: The New Abraxas] or [A Transformative End: The War of Ideas] based on your final choices with Abraxas.

[Achievement: The New Pantheon]

[Achievement: Your Majesty]

[An Orderly End: At Your Mercy]

Harness this magic and destroy the Magisterian Empire.

[Achievement: Obliterated]

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

[Choose Any]

[Achievement: Your Majesty]

[Choose Magisterian Future]

Yes. Use negation to disperse the whole Sea. (Requires negation.)

[Achievement: Reprise]

I do want to have a child myself.

[Achievement: Little Apprentice]

From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.

[A Transformative End: Birth of Sidereomancy]

Use this magic to scour the heavens once and for all.

[Achievement: Blue Skies]

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

[Achievement: Your Majesty]

[Choose Magisterian Future]

Yes. Use negation to disperse the whole Sea. (Requires negation.)

[Achievement: Reprise]

I do want to have a child myself.

[Achievement: Little Apprentice]

From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.

For Thecla's Endings:

I will try to save Thecla.

[Choose Any]

[A Legendary End: The Sorceror's Island]

Heal the dark sun without using the negative energy for any additional purpose.

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

Accept banishment as the punishment for my errors.

[Alternate] Try to talk Thecla out of this plan.

From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.

[Achievement: Queen's Knight]

[A Contented End: A New Palace, A New Day]

Heal the dark sun without using the negative energy for any additional purpose.

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

Assassinate Thecla in the hope of seizing control of the kingdom.

[Achievement: Your Majesty]

[Choose New Palace]

[Choose Magisterian Future]

Yes. Use negation to disperse the whole Sea. (Requires negation.)

[Achievement: Reprise]

From here make the choices you like in this epilogue. May instead receive the ending [A Dismal End: The Misliked Ruler] depending on how your Epilogue choices affect your Adoration.

[A Transformative End: The New Pantheon]

Heal the world and become an immortal specter in the process.

[Achievement: Immortality]

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

Pretend to be a god, as Abraxas did.

From here make the choices you like in this epilogue. May receive the endings [A Transformative End: The New Abraxas] or [A Transformative End: The War of Ideas] based on your final choices with Abraxas.

[Achievement: The New Pantheon]

[Achievement: Queen's Knight]

[A Triumphant End: The Immortal Monarch]

Heal the world and become an immortal specter in the process.

[Achievement: Immortality]

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

Assassinate Thecla and intimidate the court into making me the new ruler.

[Achievement: Your Majesty]

From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.

[An Orderly End: At Your Mercy]

Harness this magic and destroy the Magisterian Empire.

[Achievement: Obliterated]

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

[Choose Any]

[Choose Magisterian Future]

Yes. Use negation to disperse the whole Sea. (Requires negation.)

From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.

[Achievement: Reprise]

[Achievement: Queen's Knight]

[A Transformative End: A Star Among Stars]

Use this magic to scour the heavens once and for all.

[Achievement: Blue Skies]

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

[Choose Magisterian Future]

Yes. Use negation to disperse the whole Sea. (Requires negation.)

From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.

[Achievement: Reprise]

[Achievement: Queen's Knight]

Glamour One: The Lost Academy

Heal Tal's leg so we can keep running to the ancient dueling ground ahead where we can make our stand.

[Choose Notification Setting]

I didn't want to see her in pain.

[Achievement: It's Homage, Not Infringement]

"Nope." Give Tal the luxgladius but try to use glamor magic to get the inquisitor to leave peacefully.

Take his stuff, tie him up, and come back for him later.

Never mind, this isn't worth annoying the Church. Let him go.

Bookish and spectacled.

A shimmering cloak.

[Choose Gender]

My duelist uniform. (+Charisma)

I'm interested in getting romantic attention from anyone.

I cast a glamor. Maybe it works on cats, too.

[Choose First Name]

[Choose Family Name]

"How [First Name] and Tal saved the Kingdom of Eirinia."

Is there a potential ally here in these ruins?

It was my fault Tal lost her father.

I wanted to be a peacemaker and get people to lay down their arms.

Lure the golem under a chandelier, then magically disintegrate the rope.

[Achievement: Certere, Dominex]

Let's head to the auditorium.

Cast a divination to learn what's under the rubble.

[Achievement: Lord of the Rings]

Use automation to make a stagehand elevator transport us.

Take the path that leads to the laboratory.

Befriend the specter with glamor magic.

Take the path that leads to the arena.

Let's fight! I gather some negation energy.

Continue up the stairs to the aviary and airdock.

Cast a divination to learn the dragon's weak point.

Use automation magic to turn the central airship's mast into a drill.

Glamour Two: Home

Encourage Tal to get healing from Saint Ann.

It's filled with mementos reminding me of friends and family.

[Choose Golem Name]

Glamor.

Go to the bank and negotiate an excellent loan.

Solemnly explain that I have great power now, and things will necessarily change.

Plead with them. This is who I am. I must be a wizard.

"I know what you mean, but no promises."

I want to sell something.

Sell my luxgladius for 300 gold.

I want to sell something.

Sell my crystal ball to the fortune-teller for 300 gold.

Yes.

"Yes. I'd be happy to teach you how to use it, if you keep it secret."

[Achievement: A Bright Future in Magic]

I want to sell something.

Sell the actor's golden ring for 400 gold.

Yes.

Buy a rare old history book called Via Verita Abraxas, or "True Life of Abraxas," for 200 gold.

Buy ingredients for a potion to improve my negation magic for 250 gold. (Requires alchemy set.)

Buy ingredients for a potion to improve my glamor for 200 gold. (Requires alchemy set.)

Donate 1 to 500 gold to restore the copper tree sculpture at the center of the marketplace.

500 gold.

[Achievement: The Giving Tree]

Visit Seer Marie, the fortune-teller, for 25 gold.

"Thank you very much. I'll consider what you've said."

I think my business at the market is done.

I cast a glamor, then cry out, "Halt!"

[Achievement: Subtle Thief Catcher]

Use divination to find stragglers whom this cloud might kill.

The little girl.

Cast a glamor first to be certain the girl will come along.

Turn the wooden corner beam into a giant wooden slide.

[Achievement: Guardian Angel]

The old man.

Take the time to climb.

The greathog swineherd.

Use automation to turn the swineherd's stick into an electrical prod.

Needs more cowbell.

[Achievement: More Cowbell]

[Choose Eating Preferences]

Offer to help in exchange for half Tal's fee: 200 gold.

I excuse myself to go talk to Mayor Cos.

We once worked together replanting after a death cloud came through.

I'll ask about the board game he designed.

"Let's dance now, and play games after."

Cos will lead.

[Alternate] I will lead.

I'm interested. I'd like to give him a discreet kiss.

Focus on winning fair and square.

[Alternate] Impress him with my banter instead of my play.

[Achievement: I Want to Be Ledgerman]

Let's move things along to the bedroom. That sounds more exciting.

Defeat the beast in melee with our blades of light.

I'd prefer to be a quiet benefactor of the town, subtly helpful.

Repair the town's fans to protect us from the next negative cloud.

Sure. I cast a negation spell to create a test cloud.

I'll do what I think is best. If the mayor likes it, thank-you gifts are appreciated.

Use vivomancy to change my appearance and convince them they have the wrong place.

Glamour Three: Visitors

The House of Sun. I strive to be better and help the weak.

Cast a divination that reveals a loophole in their orders before answering the door.

Attend Sam's sermon of mercy in the House of Sun.

I nod.

The Church.

Discreetly offer the sick woman an alchemical remedy. (Requires alchemy set.)

[Achievement: For the Mage Who Has Everything]

The Hierophant.

Cast a glamor.

Don't open the door, and try not to make a sound.

Ask what happens to mages who are taken to the capital.

Agree to go with the inquisitors to the capital.

"Just the fortune-teller in town."

"Poor dragon!"

Yes, but first I want Sam's help hatching my dragon egg.

[Achievement: It's a Girl!]

[Choose Dragon Name]

[Optional] Ask Sam if he feels sorry for mages imprisoned by the Church.

Offer Sam my introductory tome on vivomancy.

"Like you, I want to go from town to town helping the sick and needy."

[Achievement: Inquisitor Tutor]

Glamour Four: Under the Cathedral

[Choose Any]

"All right. I'll go back to the capital with you."

"I don't really see the difference you're getting at."

Point out that there have been good mages, too.

Create subtle distractions so Sam can practice magic.

Yes, I wish to purchase some classier attire.

The fanciest outfit I can buy, period.

[Choose Clothing Type and / or Colour]

The bookstore.

A History of the Neighbors. (150 gold.)

Let's shop somewhere else.

The pet store.

I want a unique magical hybrid creature. (100 gold.)

"Fliers."

Something that looks as similar to a dragon as possible.

[Alternate] Something that looks like a bird with a lion head.

[Choose Pet Colour]

Yes!

[Choose Pet Name]

[Achievement: Unfamiliar Familiar]

No, let's go to a different store.

The church-supplies store.

Tell Blessed Jacob to stop.

On second thought, I'm ready to head to the Cathedral.

"Were the saints all wizards?"

Sneak down the stairwell while the guards are arguing.

I kiss him.

[Optional] "Your parents didn't send me. I'm a mage, like you."

"What's your name?"

[Optional] "Tell me more about where the other mages went."

[Optional] "Why are you still here?"

[Optional] "What sort of magic got you captured?"

[Optional] Consult with Sam about the prospect of freeing Vance.

I've asked enough questions. I free Vance from his bonds.

[Achievement: School's Out Forever]

Encourage Vance to come with me as I explore the basement.

"Of course. I have no right to hoard my knowledge when I obtained it freely myself."

Let's go in! I'm not afraid of whatever's in there.

Let's fight the golem in melee.

[Achievement: See You in Hell]

[Achievement: Hell and Back]

I take a moment to pray at the ablutionary font.

Exit via the door marked with books.

Look for books on the design of this Cathedral.

[Achievement: The Statue]

"Why kill all the mages, if you used automation magic yourself?"

[Note: Choose two of the following four [Alternate] choices.]

[Alternate] "Did you intend to be worshipped as a god?"

[Alternate] "Do you believe in a higher power yourself?"

[Alternate] "What really happened when you left the world?"

[Alternate] "Did you collaborate at all with the Magisterian Empire?"

[Achievement: Historian]

[Optional] "If Sam knows magic, can he become a saint, too?"

[Optional] "What about Vance? Can he become a saint, too?"

[Optional] "What exactly is involved in becoming a saint?"

[Optional] "What would you have me do as a saint?"

[Optional] "Why persecute mages when the saints use magic as well?"

[Optional] "Is it true that you spoke to Abraxas himself?"

[Optional] "Who will the next hierophant be, after you?"

Dispel the glamors on the hierophant and the saints.

Tell the truth: "No more questions—I'm ready to become a saint."

"Yes, I think Vance could make a fine saint."

[Achievement: Saint]

[Achievement: Lifelong Dream]

[Achievement: Guidance Counselor]

Glamour Five: The Saint

I hope to be worthy of the mantle of sainthood.

There's something special about Sam. Maybe we really could get married someday.

I already buried my magical items to retrieve later.

A hundred gold ought to do.

"Then I suppose we must part ways." Break up with Cos.

"This doesn't have to change anything. We can visit each other."

I would be up for one romantic night together before we become saints.

Let's just try to see each other in person.

My fancy [Colour] clothes from the capital. (+++Charisma)

Use vivomancy to imbue her with extra energy.

Use divination to see which of the parents is a shapeshifter.

Encourage the parents to have faith that things will work out if the girl remains a shapeshifter.

Duck inside the church to cast a glamor.

"Family and friends are more valuable than work. You should stay here."

[Alternate] "This is for you two to decide. I can't settle every argument."

Tell the mayor that Abraxas will be upset if the tree is dismantled.

Advise Vance to keep trying. I believe in him.

Declare young Pir a saint myself, and allow them to become my student.

Travel to Medieton for a bit to study Sam's methods.

Join in the book burning and bring sugar fluffies for people to toast on the fire.

No. I preach that the correct response to insufferable people is love.

Covertly signal that he can do that later.

[Achievement: Blessed Advisor]

Glamour Six: The Blessed Advisor

My fancy [Colour] clothes from the capital. (+++Charisma)

"Yes, but for the good of humanity, this must not become widely known."

"I heal the sick and injured."

"I want to do good, however I can, for as long as I can."

"My highest loyalty is to the Church."

We don't need a magical power source; it'll displace human labor and cause chaos.

Tell the queen she needs no glamor; she's already most impressive.

Suggest using a glamor, rot and Church be damned.

[Achievement: Glamor Queen]

"No, I think the responsibility would be a heavy burden."

The guard turned into glass, and the guard and princess retreated to the iron castle to live together forever.

[Achievement: The Queen's Riddle]

Use glamors to build bridges between the old guard and new.

"Yes, I want to save the Church. The good parts, at least."

Animate Bear Bearson, but save Tal the embarrassment of animating Noodles.

The shapeshifter laws should be repealed! Suggest the queen and Tal meet again to discuss these issues more.

I'm done shopping.

Tell the people to heed the Church: all they need is faith and love.

I say yes.

"We'll beat the Neighbors somehow. I have faith in Eirinia."

"You seem to like her. Just see where it goes."

Use a glamor to demand she stop.

Empowered by my glamor, I demand the airship leave me and Akriton alone.

[Optional] Cast a divination to determine whether to strike first or negotiate.

"I'll do my best to get the Magisterians to desist, Your Majesty."

Glamour Seven: Escalation

"I'm a saint, a chosen of Abraxas who casts miracles in his name."

[Choose Any]

"Our saints and hierophant use miracles, but that's different."

"If any among you in the Senate are sick or injured, I could heal you."

At the risk of botching the spell, cast as subtly as possible, to make it seem like a miracle.

[Achievement: Miracle]

[Achievement: Peace in the Magisterian East]

[Achievement: The Humble Husband]

Find a way to reduce disturbances in the dark sun.

[Achievement: Definitely Honor Roll]

Glamour Eight: Faith

"Is this how all saints die? In a room like this?"

[Achievement: This Very Bed]

"Could you make sure my parents in Akriton know I'm here?"

"I'd also like to see Tal."

"I'd also like to see Vance."

"I have no more requests."

[Choose Any]

[Choose Any]

[Optional] Turn myself into an immortal specter with negation magic.

[Optional] Turn myself into a great beast that's stronger than the rot.

You can choose "Develop a cure with my alchemy set. (Requires alchemy set and potion ingredients.)" here to lead back in to some non-Glamour endings.

I can't think of anything else to try.

"Keep being a valuable ambassador for magic."

"Apology accepted."

[Achievement: Lovely Landscapes]

[Choose Any]

I always knew there was a higher power.

"I'm doing fine today. I'd like to just walk around." (Requires charisma.)

[Optional] Protest. This might kill me before I can do anything else.

For achievement 'What Is Faith Without Love?', choose:

I'm going insane. I should go back to bed.

[Achievement: What Is Faith Without Love?]

For achievements 'Destiny' and 'O Freunde!' instead choose:

I cast the strongest glamor I can.

[Choose Any]

Use divination magic to create bonds of empathy between Eirinians and Magisterians, securing everlasting peace.

[Achievement: Destiny]

[Achievement: O Freunde!]

Whichever choice you made above, it will lead back to here:

[Choose Any]

Tell Sam about the voice, and ask him what it meant.

[Optional] "But why this delusion? Do all saints have this same experience?"

[Optional] "Do you think the saints' beliefs about Abraxas are shaped by similar delusions?"

[Optional] "Do you really think there's no chance that the voice was real?"

There is nothing more I want to ask Sam now.

[Choose Any]

[Choose Any]

[Choose Any]

[Choose Any]

"Yes. I still believe, whether we call it Abraxas or something else."

[Alternate] "Yes, but I think that higher power is not a being. It is love."

[Choose Any]

[An End: Famous Last Words]

I refuse. The hierophant should lead the Church, just—better.

From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.

[Achievement: Famous Last Words]

[A Tragic End: Uncertain Faith]

For achievement 'The Purest Saint' choose:

Accept the miter, but remain a saint instead of becoming hierophant. I can do more good that way.

[Achievement: The Purest Saint]

For achievement 'Hierophant' instead choose:

I accept. I will lead the Church as the next hierophant.

[Achievement: Hierophant]

Whichever choice you made above, it will lead back to here:

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

[Choose Any]

[Choose Magic Laws]

I agree with Sam—we should make a difference in the life of a youth who is in a bad spot.

[Achievement: Little Apprentice]

[Achievement: Queen's Knight]

[Optional] "Is that your only form, or are you…larger?"

[Optional] "Do you want me to die?"

"Yes, Abraxas." I cast an automation spell to clear the skies.

[Achievement: Blue Skies]

Divination One: The Lost Academy

Heal Tal's leg so we can keep running to the ancient dueling ground ahead where we can make our stand.

[Choose Notification Setting]

I thought it would prove useful to have her healed.

[Alternate] I thought she'd be grateful and perhaps repay that gratitude.

[Achievement: It's Homage, Not Infringement]

"Nope." Give Tal the luxgladius but try to use glamor magic to get the inquisitor to leave peacefully.

Have him explore ahead and fight any monsters he encounters.

A snappy dresser, popular about town.

A bright-yellow shirt and a large feathered hat.

[Choose Gender]

My duelist uniform. (+Charisma)

[Alternate] My yellow shirt. (+Charisma)

I'm interested in getting romantic attention from anyone.

I cast a negation bolt above the cats' heads.

[Choose First Name]

[Choose Family Name]

"How [First Name] and Tal saved the Kingdom of Eirinia."

Is there a potential ally here in these ruins?

I reported Tal to Mayor Cos.

I wanted to understand the world and how it got this way.

Use glamor magic to convince the golem I belong here.

[Achievement: Certere, Dominex]

Let's head to the auditorium.

Cast a divination to learn what's under the rubble.

[Achievement: Lord of the Rings]

Blast the spiders with negation magic.

Take the path that leads to the laboratory.

Befriend the specter with glamor magic.

Take the path that leads to the arena.

Let's fight! I gather some negation energy.

Continue up the stairs to the aviary and airdock.

Cast a divination to learn the dragon's weak point.

Use automation magic to turn the central airship's mast into a drill.

Divination Two: Home

Encourage Tal to get healing from Saint Ann.

The floor is dominated by a giant map of all the ruins I know about.

[Choose Golem Name]

Divination.

Try to get a glimpse of the Neighbors beyond the Negative Sea.

Solemnly explain that I have great power now, and things will necessarily change.

Plead with them. This is who I am. I must be a wizard.

"I know what you mean, but no promises."

I want to sell something.

Sell my luxgladius for 300 gold.

I want to sell something.

Sell my crystal ball to the fortune-teller for 300 gold.

Yes.

"Yes. I'd be happy to teach you how to use it, if you keep it secret."

[Achievement: A Bright Future in Magic]

I want to sell something.

Sell the actor's golden ring for 400 gold.

Yes.

Buy a rare old history book called Via Verita Abraxas, or "True Life of Abraxas," for 200 gold.

Donate 1 to 500 gold to restore the copper tree sculpture at the center of the marketplace.

500 gold.

[Achievement: The Giving Tree]

Visit Seer Marie, the fortune-teller, for 25 gold.

"Couldn't that fortune have applied to anybody, anytime?"

I think my business at the market is done.

I cast a glamor, then cry out, "Halt!"

[Achievement: Subtle Thief Catcher]

Part the cloud with negation magic.

[Achievement: Not On My Watch]

Needs more cowbell.

[Achievement: More Cowbell]

[Choose Eating Preferences]

Offer to help in exchange for half Tal's fee: 200 gold.

I excuse myself to go talk to Mayor Cos.

We sometimes fly kites together on the commons.

I'll ask about the board game he designed.

"Let's dance now, and play games after."

Cos will lead.

[Alternate] I will lead.

I'm interested. I'd like to give him a discreet kiss.

Cast a divination that lets me always see the top card of the event deck.

[Achievement: I Want to Be Ledgerman]

Let's move things along to the bedroom. That sounds more exciting.

Defeat the beast in melee with our blades of light.

I'd prefer to be a quiet benefactor of the town, subtly helpful.

I know some thugs are terrorizing the town. I'll find and blow up their base.

Stab him in the back now, while he's distracted.

I'll do what I think is best. If the mayor likes it, thank-you gifts are appreciated.

Divination Three: Visitors

I stopped going to church when I was old enough to resist my parents.

Disguise myself with vivomancy before answering the door.

[Optional] "May I ask what the nature of your visit is?"

[Choose Any]

Attend Sam's sermon of mercy in the House of Sun.

I nod.

The Church.

Use divination to find out if anyone needs urgent care.

Discreetly offer the sick woman an alchemical remedy. (Requires alchemy set.)

[Achievement: For the Mage Who Has Everything]

The Seer.

Cast a glamor.

Don't open the door, and try not to make a sound.

Ask what happens to mages who are taken to the capital.

Agree to go with the inquisitors to the capital.

"Just the fortune-teller in town."

"Could you perhaps get to the point?"

Yes, but first I want Sam's help hatching my dragon egg.

[Achievement: It's a Girl!]

[Choose Dragon Name]

[Optional] Ask Sam if he feels sorry for mages imprisoned by the Church.

Offer Sam my introductory tome on vivomancy.

"I want to start an academy and spread knowledge again."

[Achievement: Inquisitor Tutor]

Divination Four: Under the Cathedral

[Choose Any]

"All right. I'll go back to the capital with you."

"I don't really see the difference you're getting at."

Point out that there have been good mages, too.

Create subtle distractions so Sam can practice magic.

Yes, I wish to purchase some classier attire.

The fanciest outfit I can buy, period.

[Choose Clothing Type and / or Colour]

The pet store.

I want a unique magical hybrid creature. (100 gold.)

"Serpents."

[Choose Pet Type and Colour]

Yes!

[Choose Pet Name]

[Achievement: Unfamiliar Familiar]

No, let's go to a different store.

The church-supplies store.

Join in Blessed Jacob's condemnation of the man.

On second thought, I'm ready to head to the Cathedral.

"Yes, definitely."

[Alternate] "Were the saints all wizards?"

Sneak down the stairwell while the guards are arguing.

I chase him away. He can't be trusted.

[Optional] "Your parents didn't send me. I'm a mage, like you."

"What's your name?"

[Optional] "Where did all the other mages go?"

[Optional] "Why are you still here?"

[Optional] "What sort of magic got you captured?"

I've asked enough questions. I free Vance from his bonds.

[Achievement: School's Out Forever]

Encourage Vance to come with me as I explore the basement.

"Sure. Tell your parents I cost a thousand gold a year."

Let's go in! I'm not afraid of whatever's in there.

Use automation magic and what I learned from the golem manual in the magic academy to take control of this golem.

[Achievement: An Unusual Ally]

[Achievement: Hell and Back]

I wreck this phony place.

Let's proceed to the door with the eye on it.

Send a bolt of negative energy flying his way.

[Achievement: Who Watches the Watcher?]

I'll ask first and offer to share the potion.

[Achievement: Saint Marie]

"I was looking for you! Let's get out of here."

[Alternate] "We're here to rescue mages who don't want to be here."

[Alternate] "To be honest, we're taking whatever treasure we can."

Look for books on the design of this Cathedral.

[Achievement: The Statue]

"Why kill all the mages, if you used automation magic yourself?"

Choose one of the following four [Alternate] choices. Make sure not to ask the statue a third question - this will trigger very different events.

[Alternate] "Did you intend to be worshipped as a god?"

[Alternate] "Do you believe in a higher power yourself?"

[Alternate] "What really happened when you left the world?"

[Alternate] "Did you collaborate at all with the Magisterian Empire?"

I have no more questions. I return to the adjacent library.

Wait, I never saw that treasure-chest room. I'll go there.

Swing my luxgladius down on the chest.

Give the wand back to Vance, since he insists it belongs to him.

[Achievement: It's a Wand Now]

I was hoping to find the hierophant, actually. Take off my ring and let her find me.

[Achievement: Historian]

[Achievement: Trigger Happy]

Use the crystals I took from the Watcher's room to see where the guards are.

Grab as much silver as I can—it's useful in automation.

Divination Five: Returning

Good. She was swindling the good people of the kingdom.

Buy ingredients for a potion to improve my negation magic for 250 gold. (Requires alchemy set.)

Buy ingredients for a potion to improve my glamor for 200 gold. (Requires alchemy set.)

[Optional] Check out the stall of the new artifact seller in town.

Browse some hats.

Buy a conical hat decorated with stars and moons for 300 gold.

[Achievement: Classic Look]

Visit Fruitseller Fran to pick up some food; it's what I came here for.

Offer Fran 50 gold in exchange for rumors about the Neighbors.

Contact the royal spymaster about the invasion, and warn Mayor Cos that Fran is a spy.

Purchase two gold's worth of fruit and leave.

I think my business at the market is done.

[Achievement: The Spy]

I told Vance he could pick a project once he learned the basics of the other schools.

[Achievement: Student Project]

I pass—let's keep our student-teacher boundaries.

Cast a divination to find out who the mysterious leader of the Twilight Band is.

"I want to turn her into a tortoise. You know, for fun."

Cast a divination to find out who the mysterious leader of the Twilight Band is.

"We should kill her. The Band will be in disarray without her."

A bolt of negative energy.

Divination Six: The Queen's Court

My fancy [Colour] clothes from the capital. (+++Charisma)

"No, the magic of the ancients is more powerful."

"Glamor. I prefer the power to impress."

"I want power, of course. Power is freedom."

[Alternate] "I find magic fascinating. I just want to learn all I can."

"I serve nobody, but I will ally with you for now."

[Choose Title]

Let's harness the power of storms, as the Neighbors do.

Tell the queen she needs no glamor; she's already strikingly beautiful. (Flirt.)

Suggest using divination to communicate with her subjects, building bonds of trust.

"No, I think the responsibility would be a heavy burden."

The guard turned into glass, and the guard and princess retreated to the iron castle to live together forever.

[Achievement: The Queen's Riddle]

"I would like that very much."

Sow the seeds of discord among the old guard. (Requires calculation.)

"That doesn't bother me. People will always be people."

[Alternate] "The Church is just afraid of losing power."

Animate Bear Bearson, but save Tal the embarrassment of animating Noodles.

The shapeshifter laws should be repealed! Suggest the queen and Tal meet again to discuss these issues more.

The new hatmaker in town.

Purchase the peacockatrice hat.

[Achievement: Sweet Hat]

The bookstore.

Kafsi et Kleos Venenum ("Negation Burn and Rot"; 500 gold).

I don't know what I'm doing. I'll leave things be.

I don't need any more books.

The weapons-and-armor store.

Ask to purchase a negation wand, if they have any, for 1000 gold.

I'm done here.

I'm done shopping.

"That sounds amazing! Let's go!"

"The Shimmering Curtain!"

[Achievement: Tourist]

Teach glamors to entertainers, and use divination to spread their influence.

Agree to court the queen exclusively from now on.

Suggest we drive away the penguins together by brandishing our weapons.

Grab both luxgladiuses and direct the penguins across the caldera with them.

I'll just cast a glamor to handle these penguins.

Let's switch to the medical drama.

"The natural world isn't going anywhere. There will always be people who need your protection."

[Alternate] "Maybe you should learn to fly an airship and hunt monsters from the sky."

Let's tell the future that even though our world was bleak, we were happy.

"You're my best friend too, you know."

I surrender.

Divination Seven: The Neighbours

[Choose Any]

"I just discovered some books in an ancient library."

[Alternate] "I'm just talented, I suppose."

Give him a fake location for the sunken academy.

"I want to bring back the wonders of the ancients."

"Our saints and hierophant all use magic."

"Enough to destroy you if you displease them."

"I have an apprentice."

"Akriton's fortune-teller knows magic now."

"I can't think of anyone else who can use magic."

[Choose Any]

[Choose Any]

[Optional] "Qa vu profes?" What is your profession?

[Optional] "Qa vu offendakima?" What is your offense?

"Qa vu…subsita…edere?" How long are you staying here?

Put a hand on his back. "We'll get you out somehow." (Requires optimism.)

[Achievement: A Kind of Magic]

We now split into two possible routes:

First, the actual Divination Climax, which branches into three main endings.

Second, the Espar route, which starts by earning the You Go First achievement and leads to peace with the Magisterians and provides the player with a secondary non-divination climax.

Divination Eight: The Palace and Its Treasure

Dash out of the cell and cast quick divination to contact a friend back home while the guards are distracted with Espar. (Requires high divination)

[Achievement: Uber]

[Choose Rescuer]

I face the walk with bravery. There's always a way. (Requires optimism.)

That's strange, but I have other concerns right now.

Wait, this arena is built over an ancient arena. And that means… (Requires ancient history.)

[An Orderly End: A Flattering Test]

Broadcast the corrupt dealings of powerful Magisterians to their people.

[Achievement: Revolution]

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

Yes. Create airships with giant fans to disperse the Sea. (Requires airships and automation.)

[Achievement: Reprise]

[Choose Any]

Yes.

[Note: From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.]

[Achievement: Iron and Glass]

[Achievement: Professor V]

[An Adventurous End: Gather the Party and Venture Forth]

Send the Magisterians' war plans back to Eirinia.

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

Yes. Create airships with giant fans to disperse the Sea. (Requires airships and automation.)

[Achievement: Reprise]

[Choose Any]

Yes.

[Note: From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.]

[Achievement: Iron and Glass]

[Achievement: Professor V]

[A Transformative End: The Happiest Ending]

Create empathetic bonds between Magisterians and Eirinians.

[Choose Any]

[Achievement: O Freunde!]

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

Yes. Create airships with giant fans to disperse the Sea. (Requires airships and automation.)

[Achievement: Reprise]

[Choose Any]

Yes.

[Note: From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.]

[Achievement: Iron and Glass]

[Achievement: Professor V]

Divination Eight: Alternate Endings

This is Espar's chance. Let him take the lead; if anyone's recaptured, it'll be me.

[Achievement: You Go First]

I face the walk with bravery. There's always a way. (Requires optimism.)

Smile at the child. Life is beautiful even here. (Requires empathy.)

Wait, this arena is built over an ancient arena. And that means… (Requires ancient history.)

[Achievement: National Anthem]

[Achievement: Peace in the Magisterian East]

[Note: This leads us back into the Automation Climax.]

Aft, where the ship's battery lies.

[Choose Any]

[A Transformative End: Song of the Cave People (Hypermagical Variant)]

A machine to store the storm's energy for the future, even after we retreat underground.

[Note: From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.]

[Achievement: Energizer]

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

[Achievement: Professor V]

[Achievement: Iron and Glass]

[A Transformative End: A Much-Needed Roll in the Dirt]

A great cannon to disintegrate the clouds themselves.

[Achievement: Blue Skies]

[Achievement: A Complete Story]

[Achievement: Triumph]

[Choose Any]

Yes.

[Note: From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.]

[Achievement: Iron and Glass]

[Achievement: Professor V]

[A Transformative End: The Sky City]

A machine that sends out a distress call and blueprints for airship arks. (Requires airships.)

[Note: From here make the choices you like in this epilogue.]

[Achievement: Sky City]

[bb]

Hey no problem at all! You're very welcome. Enjoy!

[Laëtis89]

@bb Thank you so much for answering me and indicating the main requirements for Sam! X3

[bb]

From memory: Yes, absolutely. I assigned a romance to each school of magic to keep it "simple" and avoid overcomplicating matters.

I've just had a glance at the code (source files three years out-of-date, FYI) and here are the main requirements I could see:

Must:

- Be attracted to men

And one of:

- Have relationship with Sam >= 60
- Taught him magic
- Sam is a Saint and relationship >= 50

Hope this helps - let me know if there's anything specific you're interested in and I can take a look.

[Laëtis89]

In your guide, are magic and romance interchangeable? For example for Glamour the RO is Sam, if I do Divination can I still choose Sam as my RO?

[bb]

Thank you very much indeed! Greatly appreciated.

[Frezman]

I went with glamour path like you've said but instead of becoming a saint I escaped from the cathedral. Throughout the game I tried to pick glamour choices whenever possible so as not to get another ending while also trying to keep my calculation above 50. At the end when the rot set in I chose "I can't think of anything else to try." and when I heard the voice "But I don't have faith. I never have, and I never will." (Requires calculation.)

[bb]

Fantastic! No worries, glad to be of service. If you could leave any tips / guidance from your experience for others to use, that'd be super.

[Frezman]

I got it after a dozen more tries. Thanks for the guide.

[Frezman]

I just can't get the "Atheist" achievement. Any tips besides choosing the glamor path and not being a saint?

[JenkoRun]

Thanks for the handy info, cheers!