Romancing Monarchy Full Walkthrough

This guide shall be your red thread through this game. No story spoilers but recommeded levels and battle tipps.

First Steps

Archaea

Choose your class.
You start in the castle obtaining 1.000 Gold and the World Map.
In the left room you will find the Bestiary.

Items castle: Agility Seed and Small Medal (Thief's Key needed)
Items town: Ticket, Small Medal (blinking tile)

Get a party with a priest, a mage and a fighter. Those should be male and female.
Buy some weapons, leave the town and save on the world map.
Grind until your mage has learned fire or you have earned some Fire Crystals.
Restock/heal/save, then head into the well to fight a Mimic, which is weak to fire. You will get a Magical Ring.

Note:

• In the beginning you should use your money to get equipment or resting at the inn.
  
• You are revived automatically during your resting at inns.
  
• You can only save on the world map. Later you can obtain the Visiphone during an optional sidequest, which allows you to save anytime.
  
• Stick with the party members classes until they reach level 20, then switch to another one. You learn many (passive) skills that way. Learn the basic classes before you choose advanced classes.
  
• The recommended levels are set for easy mode, you should at least add 5 more level per grade of difficulty.
  
• This game has two endings. I will inform you what to do (or not do) to get each.
  
• Optional content will be in italics.
  
• The first continent is linear and opens to an semi open world.

North Eastern Continent - The Thief's Key

Head south, west and then north of Achaea.

Midian

Items: Ticket x2, Small Medal (behind a tree to the farthest south of the map); Small Medal and 4 Speed Stones (Thief's Key needed)

Another town to buy equipment.

Midian Cave

Go 2x downstairs and then take the western stairs up to reach 1.000 Gold. Return to the intersection and go south. Grap the Short Sword and step onto the magic circle.

Thief's Tower

You can leave the tower to the south or dropping from the floors for saving or a fast retreat to restock.
Take the western stairs up to get a Thorn Whip, which hits all enemies. Take the eastern stairs up next.
Find the Small Medal. The western stairs lead to a Buckler. Go further up.
The last floor has a mimic protecting a Lucky Stone and the Thief's Key.

Return via the magic circle and don't forget to loot Achaea and Midian.

Use the teleporter at the shrine west of Midian.

North Eastern Continent - The Ship

Álfheimr

Look for a weird tree to the west of the shrine.

Next to the vendor you can find a Small Medal.
Once you have the Shapeshifter's Staff, the elves will be much more talkable.
You will have to buy a Magic Harp (and at least 2 Miracle Medicine for sidequests later).

Choose, if you will visit the port town or the tower first.

Shapeshifter’s Tower

Items: 500 Gold x2, Magic Water, Wooden Bangle, Leather Cap, 600 Gold, Bagh Naga

Go upstairs and take the left stairs first to reach 2 chests. Return and take the southern stairs.
First take all stairs down to gather more treasures. Behind the pillars to the west near the southern stairs hides a Small Medal.
Ignore the most NW stairs but take the eastern one upstairs.
The southern one leads to Quetzalcoatl.
Boss Quetzalcoatl: Poison him and use your strongest skills and ice/slash.

Get the Shapeshifter’s Staff.

Parthia

Items town: Small Medal
Items castle: Ticket x2 and Small Medal (Magic Key needed)

Release the dog with the Shapeshifter's Staff to obtain a Small Medal.

Talk to the king. You need a Magic Harp from Alfheimr and you obtain the Letter of Permission.
Show it to the guard at the dock to receive your ship.

Your first 2 stopps with the ship

Temple of Fafnir

Pick up the Small Medal and investigate the dragon egg.
You will need all 6 Dragon Orbs to awaken Fafnir.

Outside you can encounter Steel Slimes.

Steel Cave

little island south of Achaea (the eastern one)

In there you can find the Small Medal Trader and a spot to encounter Steel Slimes.
Note Steel Slimes: The escape really fast and attack with a strong fire spell. You just have to hit them and you get 7.500 EXP per kill. The best place to grind early in game.

North Western Continent - Ruby, Sapphire & Peridot Orb & Excalibur

Recommended Level: 10+

Tyre

A small village in the western centre of the continent.
Items: Small Medal, Ticket x2

The accessory vendor only opens with the Membership Card.

During your adventure, the pirate will offer you 3 items. Buy the Hikou Feather!

Item	Gold
Hikou Feather	5.000
Mirror of Veracity	10.000
Peridot Orb	30.000

Ouroboros' Fortress

East of Tyre
Items: Ticket x3, Small Medal, Elixir

Use the crystals to open/close passages in the fortress.
On the roof you meet the boss.

Boss Ouroboros: Weak to ??? and drops the Visiophone.

Tyre Cave

Items: Reviving Feather, 3.000 Gold, Lycian Crown

The last chest triggers a fight against Odin. He is weak to dark.

Phrygia

Village in the snowy region
Items: Small Medal x2 (one near a tree behind the weapon vendor), Ticket x2

Lycian Passage

Near Phrygia
Items: Guard Ring, Magic Wand, Long Bow, Small Medal, 1000 Gold

Ignore the first ladder upstairs. The second will lead to the exit but get the items and take the NW ladder first.

Near the exit waits the Behemoth. It is weak to fire and drops the Ruby Orb.

Lycia

Items: Membership Card (well, Hikou Feather needed), Ticket, Small Medal (behind inn), Ticket x2 and Small Medal (Magic Key needed)

Deliver the Lycian Crown to the king to obtain the Sapphire Orb.

Tower of Excalibur

South of Lycia
Items: Gold Circlet, Bardiche, Full Potion, 2000 Gold, Resistance Seed, Agility Seed, Small Medal, Iron Breastplate, Small Medal x2 (hidden), Reviving Feather

Items (Hikou Feather): Life Seed, Defense Seed, Magic Seed, Excalibur, Wisdom Seed (hidden), Power Seed, Luck Seed (hidden)

The lighter tiles are teleporters. Some of them and even some chests are hidden by the arcs.
Your goal is the Excalibur.

North Western Continent - Magic Key & Emerald Orb

Recommended Level 20+

Bethsaida

Items: Small Medal

Remember, the accessory vendor opens only with the Membership Card.

Pyramid of Jericho

This is a maze. When you go left and up, you drop down. As well near the other stairs.

Items basement: Small Medal, Mithril Claw, Panacea
Use a Panacea on the petrified NPC to get a Small Medal.

Items ground floor: Small Medal, 1200 Gold, Elixir
Ignore the western stairs and take the eastern up.

Items 1st floor: Morning Star
NW stairs: Reduma Stone

Ignore the NE stairs and take the southern one up. Prepare.

Boss Undeath Pharaoh: weak to light and poison. He can cast sudden death!

Get the Magic Key.
With the key open the gate in the basement to find a Raskovnik Herb.

Jericho

Items: Small Medal x2, Emerald Orb (Magic Key)

The woman in the tent needs an Yggdrasil Leaf, Raskovnik Herb and Posidonia. Reward: Expotion.

Talk to the woman in the church as an elf to receive Thisbe’s Letter. Deliver it to her elven friend in Alfheimr and then tell her his answer. You obtain an Yggdrasil Leaf.

In the castle a book was stolen by pirates. Reward: Small Medal.

You can play a card game for tickets.

Pirate Hideout

House on island next to Medal Cave. Enter with the Magic Key.
Items: Ticket, Small Medal

For 30.000 Gold you can “buy” the stolen book back.
Have a Marineer in your party or use the Shapeshifter's Staff until you are a pirate and talk to the Leader to obtain a Small Medal.

Southern Continent - Amethyst, Opal Orb and Flaming Sword

Recommended Level 20+

Berea

Southern part near whirlpool
Items: Small Medal x2, Ticket x2

Berean Cave

Items Map 1: Small Medal, Mithril Whip
Items Map 2: Summoning Horn, Miracle Drop

On Map 3 you need Posidonia to dive.

With the Summoning Horn call Leviathan at the whirlpool near Berea. It is weak to thunder but has an attack that applies sudden death. Poison it!

It drops the Amethyst Orb.
Get your 10.000 Gold reward from the mayor.

Note: You can find the Posidonia east of Berea. You need at least 2!

Underwater

Items: Luck Seed, Agility Seed, Posidonia, Mimicry Orb

Boss Mimeister: Poison and Silence will be your best friends. When it uses Mimic, guard. Refresh Silence regularly.

Whirlpool in the north, west of Lycia

Boss Kraken: weak to thunder and drops a Small Medal.

Cana

Village south of the volcano
Items: Small Medal (between western houses)

To help the family you need another Miracle Medicine from the elves. Reward: Small Medal.

Recommended Level 30+

Golgotha

Items: Ticket, Small Medal (tree near inn), Ticket (Magic Key), Small Medal (Magic Key)

In the well hides a Malicious Mimic protecting a Small Medal (weak to fire!).

A knight in the castle needs a Miracle Medicine (to buy at Alfheimr) and rewards you with a Small Medal and the Lance of Longinus.

Once you have the Magic Key, go downstairs in the castle and free the soldier for a Small Medal.

Show the Mirror of Veracity to the King and Queen.

Boss Asura and Lakshmi: Once Lakshmi is down it gets easier. Most of the time you need two healer – when they are not healing cast the strongest death spell for high damage. Poison and Blind are helpful, too.

Now Princess Camilla will join your party and you obtain the Opal Orb.

Recommended Level 40+

Volcano

When you go north at the first intersection, you can drop the Excalibur Sword into the lava. At the end of this path you find a Small Medal.

Boss Bahamut: Weak to Pierce. Careful: he attacks twice and uses Armageddon. Reflect Magic is your best friend here. You obtain the Flaming Sword.

At the next intersection ignore the first cave. The next leads to a Small Medal. That’s all to find.

Flying to new countries - A decision

Schwarzwald

Big forest surrounded by mountains. Recommendet Level: 45+

Go left then right to find a Small Medal. Head north!
On the next map go east until you reach another Small Medal. Head further north!
Go east until you reach the golden chest containing Solomon's Ring. Note: Don't open the golden chest when you want to achieve the bad ending!
If you go north at the last instersection and continue to go east you reach the third Small Medal.
Return to the beginning of the map and head NW to find a gate.

Talk to the fairies, Titania and Oberon. If you have obtained Solomon's Ring, both will join your party.

Behind the stalagmite to the left you can find a Small Medal.

Flying to new countries - The Tower of Babel

Tower south of Schwarzwald. Recommended Level: 50+

Enter either from the front or the back.

1st floor

Items: Gáe Bolga, Divine Staff, Small Medal, Divine Flail, Divine Axe

The next floor can only be reached by using the backdoor.

2nd floor

Going north and west leads to the Divine Breastplate and Elemental Cloak.

Going south leads to a Master Circlet and a Small Medal.

When you north and east you can reach those:
You can battle a Ryuu in the NE corner and steal its egg. Going south of this room and following the outer wall you will reach the Divine Shield.
The next stairs are in the SE corner directly south of the room.

Note: Poison is still your friend against bosses.

3rd floor

Follow the only possible path to an teleporter. Get the Divine Claw and take the next teleporter. Get the Divine Bow and go further. Get the Divine Dagger before you step on the 2nd next teleporter. This time you can find an Elixir and Tiamat's Egg.
Take the next teleporter lead to the last Small Medal. Go further until you reach the next floor.

4th floor

Go west and then north to reach the next floor.

5th floor

Ignore the maze, go south, west, north.

6th floor

The next stairs is in the south.

7th floor

The stairs are south, then east.

8th floor

The stairs are north, east and then south.

9th floor

To the NW you can find the Divine Armor. In the SW the Dragon Tail Whip. In the SE a Mental Guard +.

Both teleporters warp you to the centre, where you habe to place the Eggs.

Heaven

Depending on your recruiting of Oberon or not, you are greeted by God or

Boss Satanael: If you have both magic books and learned their spells to anyone, use the first round to fully buff your party and debuff the boss. Poison and other status effects should be applied in the next round but one should start healing. The death spells are very effective for damage.

You obtain the Mandate of Heaven.