This document retains as much as possible of the game-file's hints in the original spirit, so as not to spoil the "atmosphere". It also incorporates hints from Abandonia's Armaeth forum (www.abandonia.com), plus my own experience. Therefore, most of the credit must be given to the original hints file and to the Abandonia forum.

Created by  Real World Software  and published by  Grandslam Video Ltd.  ©  1993

Introduction:

THIS WALKTHROUGH IS NOW ALMOST COMPLETE (still missing: 40 game-points (action-points) and 300 treasure / fortune points).  See the table at the end of this walkthrough for all the points found.  If anyone discovers any of the missing points and values, please advise Mr. Bill of the details, via his website.

If you don't feel you need a complete walkthrough then try the Armaeth: The Lost Kingdom Hints File.




Running the Game:

Armaeth will deceptively seem to work fine on a modern PC, but you will come to places which are impossible, due to "timer" problems (e.g. climbing down the well) so if you have a very old PC you should play Armaeth on it. Otherwise, on a modern PC using Windows 2000, XP or Vista use DOSBox, it works.

If you are using an old PC (e.g. Pentium 200 or thereabouts): Install under C:\Armaeth, otherwise saved games will not work (it will appear to save, but when you re-start your PC next time and try to load the saved games, they will not load).

Saved games are named using SVG (for SaVed Game) followed by 3 numeric characters (number of the individual save) and then an extension beginning with the dot (period, if you will) followed by 3 letter characters (e.g. SVG008.BEN or SVG160.AAA).

WARNING:  In this game, you can die often, so save frequently!!!

Starting the Game:

Use the DOSBox instructions on modern computers.

Hit the Enter key to bypass the "Numerical array control" / number window, the Introduction will begin.

In order to watch all of the introduction, keep hitting the Enter key to advance to the next dialogue window.

Icons and Controls:

F1 = game controls

Use arrow-keys (or walk-icon with mouse) to move. Use arrow-keys (not walk-icon) to leave screen.

Left click = make the clicked icon active – it will appear in the box in the middle of the row of icons, signifying it is now the active icon.

Right click = toggle the icon’s function (if it can toggle)

Blonde girl on left of row of icons: left click on her to display a description of the current screen.

Old man on right of row of icons: left click on him to cycle through the different rows of icons. There are 3 rows of icons (some icons stay the same in more than one row).

FIRST ROW OF ICONS (STARTING ROW):  T (below) = Toggle

Blond Girl;   Look / Read (T);   Pick Up / Drop (T);   Open / Lock (Close) (T);   Light / Extinguish torch (T);   Push / Pull (T);   Currently Active Icon (in center of row);   Talk;   Weapon (ball and chain / sword) (T);   Heart (what for?);   Climb / Step Up / Down (T);   Walk;   Old Man

SECOND ROW OF ICONS:

Blond Girl;   Look / Read (T);   Pick Up / Drop (T);   Open / Close (T);   Eat / Drink (T);   Give;   Currently Active Icon (in center of row);   Hammer / Hit / Demolish;   Talk / Greet;   Wash / Scrub / Rub;   Climb / Step Up / Down (T);   Walk;   Old Man

THIRD ROW OF ICONS:

This row contains the Control and Resuscitate / Revive icons:

Blond Girl;   Restore / Load Game;   Resuscitate / Revive Yourself;   Save Game;   Restart Game From Beginning;   Exit Game;   Currently Active Icon (in center of row);   Summary of Situation + Score + Aim / Objectives;   Extended / Additional Music On / Off (T);   Music On / Off (T);   Walk Faster / Slower (T);   Pause Game;   Old Man

INVENTORY (F10 Key):

New info: in this walkthrough, I mention having to drop items if you are carrying too many items. However, I have now realized that the inventory seems to limit the weight you can carry, not the number of items. If you have more than 12 items, the older ones disappear off screen to the right, of the visible inventory slots, but you can still use the items even though you cannot see them. We could not find a way of “seeing” the items, not even when using F10 = look at inventory listing.

The Story:

Armaeth was the King of the Dwarf Kingdom. The dwarves and elves were allies. Menankar, Master of dark forces and evil creatures, coveted Armaeth’s wealth and sent an invading army of evil creatures to conquer Armaeth’s kingdom, but was eventually defeated by the dwarves and elves. The dwarves and elves hid to recover in a secret kingdom, Dol Armaeth.

You are Killian, an adventurer looking for glory (and loot?). Hence, you are looking for the secret entrance to the coveted kingdom of Dol Armaeth.

WARNING AGAIN:  In this game, Killian can die often, so save frequently!!!

Playing The Game:

GAME LEVEL 0:  Bear, Magpie, Fire, Torches, Secret Entry

Objectives for Level 0:

• avoid being killed by the bear
• avoid having the key stolen by the magpie
• find out how to access the woodpile to get wood
• find out how to use torches, and how to keep the fire lit
• find the goodies in the shed
• find the key (find the secret garden)
• find the steel lever
• find and open the secret entry.

Helpful Information for Level 0:

The bear only attacks when he is hungry, in which case you will see him walking upright. He will also kill you if you get in his way. Otherwise he is not to be frightened of. Run away, climb a tree or a wall, or cross a river, he won’t be able to follow you. (Or leave the screen).

The bear can devour and therefore eliminate the other game characters that are captured. Its fur is of great value, but it is impossible to get it until the bear is dead. The bear can only die of hunger. You may only try to prevent the bear to meet anybody (including you) so that it cannot eat (although it might still eat honey) and it dies of hunger. But, is it desirable?

The magpie can steal the gold key and so make it difficult to get it back. You cannot catch or eliminate the magpie.

The fire in the centre of the dell (which is west then north of the start-screen) is used to light the dell at night and/or to light your torches. To revive the fire find some wood or torches, stand next to the fire, and type “revive the fire”. You need to add wood regularly so it does not die out, however you can let it die out if you always keep at least one torch lit in your inventory.

To re-light the fire (it is impossible without cheating per the game's hints-file).  You may cheat as follows:

• get rid of (Drop) all your objects near the fire (also drop a couple pieces of wood)
• then walk into the fire still carrying two pieces of wood (your character will be lost, but the fire will be revived)
• then restore your character back to life (F₄ or click on the "Revive" Icon).  Anything he was carrying will be gone (that is why you drop them first).  Then pick up your objects again.

To light a torch:

• with the fire that is in the dell, type "light wood with fire"
• from another torch already lit, type "light wood with torch"
• from any candelabrum
• any fire with visible flames can light a torch

Use the torches to give you light everywhere it is dark or light another torch. It is useful to leave the torches here and there in the caves, in case of...  It might be even better to leave them lit.

Walkthrough for Level 0:

First, wander around and make a map.  Use arrows to show which side of which screen takes you to what screen.  The game is not designed according to logical geography!  Note the dark bear cave in the ravine, you cannot see inside.  Note the dolmen.

Here is a Map of Level 0  in case you have difficulty making one for yourself.

1. To find a torch (wood), go into the clearing in the middle of the forest (from start-screen, go left, up, left, climb cliff at the right-hand edge (right side of screen).

   To climb the cliff, walk up to the right-hand joint of the cliff and rocks, stand with left shoulder just touching the violet-colour flowers, click the climb icon (ladder up), click again to climb up, click climb-icon again to stop climbing when your feet get just above the level of the cliff, then hit the left-arrow key on your keyboard to traverse left.  You should arrive on top of the cliff (and probably fall on top of it.  (This can be quite difficult).

   Now walk up (north), and you will arrive at the LEFT of the woodpile.

   {Alternative route to the woodpile (more difficult, in my opinion):  instead of climbing the cliff at the purple flowers, you could instead exit this screen to the south (at bottom-centre of screen) and then climb the lone tree (on the screen below the cliff screen).  Then go left along the horizontal branch that lies over the green grassy platform on the southwest of the screen.  Climb off the branch onto the grassy platform, and walk carefully down the grass (it is slippery) and exit the screen at the south-west corner.  This exits onto the northern part of the woodpile screen, to the left of the woodpile, so walk down to the woodpile's lowest point}.

2. Take a few pieces of wood from the pile of wood.  Every piece of wood constitutes a torch.  The wood pile is endless.  Go to the front end of the woodpile and type "take wood" or use pick-up-icon.  If the answer is "you are too far away", simply move a bit at the front end of the pile to slightly change your position.

3. Now walk up the woodpile to the dwarves casket "a safe protection for objects of value" but you cannot open it, because it is locked.  Use the pick-up icon to take it and automatically put it in your inventory (I should imagine you will need it later).

4. Walk to the fire in the woods, leave all your goodies near the fire, except for two pieces of wood.  Despite the hints-file saying you have to cheat to revive the fire, you actually CAN do it without cheating.  Just stand as close as you can to the small flame / embers and type "put wood in embers" or "put wood in fire".  Save your game.  Now light one or two of the pieces of wood to make torches by typing "light wood with fire".  (see "Helpful Information for Level 0" above).  Now pick up your dropped items.

   NOTE: the fire has 3 fundamental states:

   1. the fire is lit; you can see the flames; you can light a torch (wood) in the fire, as above
   2. the fire is only embers; you see a small glow, and if you use the eye-icon on it, the description mentions embers; you can revive the fire, as above
   3. the fire is dead (from lack of feeding it with wood periodically); you cannot see a glow or flames, and if you use the eye-icon on the fire, it says the fire is dead; you cannot revive the fire at all (however, you can light a torch at the dwarves’ forge instead, if you have access to the forge, provided there is enough light to get there).

5. The secret passage / entry, is near the dolmen (the huge horizontal stone on two upright stones).  However, to open the secret passageway, you first need to find the key and the steel lever.

6. The key for the lock to the secret passageway near the dolmen, is a gold key, which is on the ground, somewhere, unless...

   Look in the small garden for the key, which one can access from the headland (the headland is at the place where one can make out the cabin from afar).  The exit from the headland towards the park (secret garden) is to the top right of the screen, across a rock gorge).

   To get to the secret garden, go up the centre of the "headland screen" (you can use the walk-icon at key points in the following route, for easier navigation, rather than the arrow-keys on your keyboard which is more finicky).  Now kink left to avoid the two trees, go up and around behind them, and continue up slightly and then to the right between the smaller rocks and the big one at the edge.  Work your way along the edge of the precipice (tricky!) going up  [along the north edge, down at the rock towards the slightly lower rock, along slightly up to the precipice, then to the right along the edge]  (the part between the brackets [ ] is shaped like an old-fashioned crank to start a Model-T Ford car).  Just past / behind the tree come down almost level with the same lower rock, then go right.  You will go off the screen at the top / right between the rocks to the secret garden.

   At the secret garden, take the key on the ground.  If the key is not there, it may be that the magpie has taken the gold key.   If so, have a look in the magpie nest which is in the forest.  Before climbing, ensure you have a lighted torch because it is dark up the tree.  Climb the largest of the oak trees, and the magpie's nest is the highest of those that are at the top of the oak tree.

   The gold key is used later to unlock the slab / stele at the dolmen.  However, it is ALSO the key to the dwarves' casket you found at the woodpile and took.  Now you can open it: type "open casket with key", then type "look in casket", but there is nothing inside.

7. Once you have the gold key, you must find the steel lever.  Go back by re-crossing the headland, then visit the bear's cavern, it is at the end of the ravine to the left / bottom of the ravine screen (you must be carrying a lighted torch in your inventory to give you light).  The lever is on the left-hand side of the inside of the bear's cave

8. Go to the hut and collect the goodies there: holey bucket, whip, shovel on floor, coins on table, red key in chest.  Unlock the chest (use unlock / padlock icon) and then look at it "look in chest" (not sure you need to do this at this stage).  Look at key with the eye-icon: this is the key to the oak chest (i.e. it is the key to the chest you find it in) in this hut.  It is not the key to the chest at the woodpile.  You may need to leave / drop some items in this chest if you are carrying a lot.  Re-lock the chest: "close chest" then "lock chest with key".

9. Now, to find the secret passage / entry, go back to the dolmen screen and look around near the dolmen (the huge horizontal stone on two upright stones).

   Ask questions about the dolmen and about all the details mentioned in its description (using blonde girl icon at the top left of the screen for the description of the screen-scene, plus use the eye icon on all of the visible elements in the image / screen.

   Take a look at the thorns on the horizontal slab to the left of the big dolmen. Remove the thorns to uncover the slab underneath, by placing yourself on the thorns and type "remove thorns". (i.e. walk onto the slab from its left-hand side, and immediately you are on the slab, stop walking and type "remove thorns").

10. Now to open the secret passage, you must open the slab (stele), by using the yellow lock at the left end of the rear wall along the slab.  You can only see this lock after removing the thorns.  Standing on the left side of the slab, place yourself to the immediate left of the yellow lock on the rear wall of the stele, and type "unlock lock with key" (this will use the gold key to unlock the stele).

    Then place yourself on the ground at top left side of slab, and type "push slab with lever". The slab / stele won’t function as long as an object or a character steps on it.

    Now enter the secret passageway.




GAME LEVEL 1:  Prytwen, Prytwen’s Chest, The Secret Entrance

Objectives for Level 1:

• avoid getting robbed by Prytwen
• " take care of " Prytwen.
• get Prytwen's key
• find and open Prytwen's chest
• find the well, and note where it is (for later)
• find and open the (second) secret entrance

Helpful Information for Level 1:

Prytwen tries to take all objects of value that he finds and puts them in his chest.  Prytwen is a merciless enemy of the dwarfs, he tries to eliminate them whenever they meet.  Prytwen may attack you to rob your valuable goodies.

Beware: Prytwen accumulates all valuable objects he finds and places them in his chest.  So, if Prytwen robs you anywhere in the underground area, you may recover your objects in his chest.  Prytwen can put his plunder in his chest only when he returns to his room and if he can open it. If you go back there before he does, or if he cannot open his chest, then...

Prytwen's enemies are also yours, let him fight with his enemies, maybe they will be able to eliminate him.  You may leave some passages open, the farther he will go, the less you will meet him.

You may try to lock Prytwen in the jail.  The jail is trapped.  Leave the jail bars open, maybe Prytwen will fall into the trap.  Try to have Prytwen follow you into the jail, leave some treasure there just to interest him.  Try to haul Prytwen off to the jail:  knock out Prytwen, then carry Prytwen into the jail, but you can only carry Prytwen by leaving almost everything that you carry.

NOTE:  Do not "knock Prytwen" near a narrow place, otherwise you cannot get past him or past the items you have to drop at that time.




Walkthrough for Level 1:

Again, wander around and make a map.  Use arrows to show which side of which screen takes you to what screen.  Again, the game is not designed according to logical geography!

Map of Level 1  in case you have difficulty making one for yourself.

1. Go down the stairs.  This is the secret entrance to Dol Armaeth, the old royal apartments, etc.  You discover that the dwarves had de-camped to a shelter in another place that is even harder to find.  However, Prytwen wanders around here, trying to find the other entrance.  He will rob you if he can get near you, so walk away from him as soon as you see him.

2. Lock the entrance behind you, by standing in front of the yellow key-hole half-way down the stairs, and type "lock slab with key".

3. Explore this secret underground area, and map it, avoiding Prytwen as you go.  Take particular note of the well and the jail.

4. Prytwen's lair stands at the end of the galleries.  The entrance of the galleries is to the left or to the right of the small underground (bear-shaped?) fountain.

   Well, actually, his lair's entrance is the wooden door in the room to the left of the fountain.

   Type "open door" to enter Prytwen's room. In Prytwen's room go to the cabinet and type "open cabinet" then "look in cabinet".  Use the pickup icon to take the bottle of hydromel.

   Also go to the chest and try to "unlock chest", but you do not have the appropriate object.

5. Go into the "boulder" room (below / south of Prytwen's door) and type "take keys" (red keys at the foot of the boulder).  These are the keys to the prison cell.

   At some stage, you may be carrying too much, in which case, you can drop some of them in a convenient place (e.g. the armour room), but only drop non-valuable items, otherwise Prytwen will take them.  ("drop nnnnn" where nnnnn is the name of the item to drop).

6. To find the secret entrance, you have to explore the jail, so go there and type "open gate with keys" to open the prison cell.  Beware of the trick slab between the gate and the nugget of gold that re-locks the cell, trapping you in the cell.  To avoid being trapped in the jail, you can "take keys" after opening the jail gate, but before actually entering it so that if you get locked in the jail, you can "unlock jail with keys" when finished looking around in the jail.

   If you try to take the gold nugget, the game will probably tell you that you are carrying too much.  I eventually discovered that there is a clever solution.  Remember when you looked at the casket at the top of the woodpile and the game said that the casket has magical properties. Well, drop a lot of heavy items (not the casket!) so you can pick up the nugget.  Then type "put nugget in casket".  Hooray, the magic casket allows you to carry the nugget inside without feeling heavy!.  Now pick up all the items you just dropped.

   Ask for the description (blonde woman icon and / or eye icon) of everything that you see in the jail.  Look at the inscriptions on the walls of the jail.  You must ask to read the inscriptions, one of the inscriptions is not like the others.  Look at the mould on the wall (to right of the gate / bars).  You must clean off the mould in order to read the inscription.

   Use the wash / rub icon on the mould and the inscription then becomes legible:

   "S—ret p-s—ge under th- th-on-, pu-l t-e can—lab—m."

   • Try to work out the clue above, otherwise read below for answer:

   • Secret passage under the throne, pull the candelabrum.

   Therefore, the inscription says that you must pull the torch which is nearby the throne to open the secret passage.  But first...

7. Try to put Prytwen out of action:

   Provoke a fight with Prytwen by speaking to him.  That makes him come towards you.  You may then attack him as soon as he is near you.  Wait until he approaches close to you, then type "knock Prytwen".  Prytwen is very strong, you will need luck to defeat him.  In any case, after several fights that he will win, he will become weaker and therefore easier to vanquish, but only for a short time.  After you fight Prytwen, you will lie on the floor, knocked out.  Take note of where Prytwen exits the room, and when you recover (after several long seconds) you must follow him, and go through the whole knock / fight sequence again, and repeat for about 4 times, until at last you manage to knock him out.

8. When Prytwen is knocked out, place yourself near Prytwen and type "search Prytwen".  Now you know his possessions, so type "take xxx from Prytwen" to take each one, where "xxx" is the name of the item you want to take next.  Read the following, but do not delay too long otherwise Prytwen will awaken too soon.

   Prytwen has the key for his chest (at least at the beginning of the game).  If you succeed in getting his key, then you will need to go later, not now, to where his chest is and open Prytwen's chest with the key.

9. Now you must lock Prytwen in the jail.  You can only carry Prytwen by leaving almost everything that you carry, so place yourself near Prytwen who is knocked out, and get rid of all non-essential objects ("drop nnn" where nnn is the name of the item to be dropped), otherwise he will be too heavy to carry.  Next type "take Prytwen" carry him into the jail and lock him in, before he awakens.  Now go back to pick up all the items you dropped before carrying Prytwen.

10. Go back to Prytwen's chest in his lair and open it up with his key and take out a silver candlestick and a gold chain.  If the gold chain is not there, you will find it lying on the ground somewhere e.g. at the well or in the dwarves refectory (see later) or elsewhere.

11. If you have not yet found it, find the well, for use later. You also may need to drop some items if you are carrying too much (I dropped them in the Throne Room against the side wall).

12. Go to the Throne Room and pull the left candelabrum behind the throne by using the "pull-icon" on the candelabrum.  This opens up a slab at the front / bottom of the throne steps.  When you go down, you are in a passageway with a gap in it, and if you fall down into it you will die.  Save your game here before trying to get across the gap (game level 2 explains how to get across).  Also, look carefully at this screen, it has a vital object you need in the start of Game Level 2.

    The game warns that "you must explore all corners and holes of the kingdom to find defense and attack weapons, otherwise your survival chances will be next to zero" (because you have discovered the dwarves hidden world and they will try to kill you, to keep their secret).




GAME LEVEL 2:  The Dwarfs, The Shield, The Stone Portcullis, Segomir’s Lair

Objectives for Level 2:

• find the axe
• find the shield
• find the stone portcullis
• find the parchment with magic spell to open portcullis
• find Segomir's lair for the parchment

Helpful Information for Level 2 (provided by the developer):

The dwarfs thoroughly search this kingdom looking for intruders.

It is just impossible to stay away from the dwarfs, the dwarfs explore all nooks and crannies.  However, the more you leave passages open, the more they will explore, and the less you will see them.  I really think this point about leaving passages open, belongs to level 3 (it is certainly not applicable in level 2).

To eliminate the dwarfs, you need a good weapon to increase your chances of winning, and a good defense to effectively protect you (look for the defense item per this walkthrough for this level, and look for the weapon per this walkthrough for Level 3).

If you don't succeed in eliminating the dwarfs, it is perhaps better so, they can attack your enemies if it is in their interest.  The dwarfs have other enemies besides you.  Facilitating their encounters may be a way to eliminate one or the other (I think this is only relevant for level 3).

The stone portcullis is in the entrance dome, just below the throne room.  The portcullis protects / closes off access to the secret mine of Suhl Aenath.

The stone portcullis opens and closes by magic spells.  Look for the magic spell on a piece of parchment left by a previous adventurer.

Walkthrough for Level 2:

Again, wander around and make a map.  Use arrows to show which side of which screen takes you to what screen.  Again, the game is not designed according to logical geography!

Map of Level 2  in case you have difficulty making one for yourself.

You are at the stairway / ramp which goes down to the Portcullis, and there is also an archway under the ramp.  First task is to get across the gap in the ramp.  There are one or more dwarves that appear on this (and nearby) screens.

1. Cross the gap by climbing.  Start at the edge of the gap, where the rock wall has markings.  Climb up until only your feet are showing, then traverse right till you almost reach the torch on the other side.  If you fall onto the ledge on the other side of the gap, do not worry, the dwarf (if any) will ignore you while you recover, but will then home in on you when you move.  If the dwarfs catch you, you will almost certainly lose the fight, in which case restore and try again.  You do not have a defense yet, you need the axe to be able to get the necessary defense.

2. Take the axe from this side of the chasm / gap in the stairway / ramp at this (second) secret entrance.  Go back across the gap, and out to the Throne Room.  Pull the candelabrum to close the secret entrance, so that dwarves do not get up to the throne-room and steal your valuable items you dropped (if you dropped them).

   Late newsflash: someone on the Adandonia forum discovered that later in the game a dwarf was walking around with the bear fur, so you might want to leave the 2 secret entrances OPEN (by the throne and by the dolmen) so that this will happen.  Also, the bear fur has been found at various places at the “outside world” e.g. near the lone tree with long overhanging branch, or near the beehive by the pool, or amongst the big oak trees.

3. At some stage, you will get a message on-screen saying that your torch is consuming itself, so it is a good idea to go get some more wood (remember to lock the slab when going out and after coming back in) and leave the wood at a handy place for when you need some.  I put several pieces of wood at the side wall of the throne room, and I kept a spare in my inventory, plus made sure I still had the hydromel and the axe in inventory.  Beware of the bear while getting more wood, he will be hungry by now and walking on his hind legs, which means he will pursue you actively and rapidly.

4. Now you have the axe (and more wood), you need some defense! So you need to find the shield.

   Per the game’s hints-file, the shield is in the well.  To get the shield go to the entrance-room which is underneath the dolmen and take the left-hand entrance.  Save your game here!  Place yourself against the well and type "down" or hit the plus key (+) or use the "ladder down" icon.  The shield is in the nook in the middle of the well.  You should force the nook's door with the axe.  Place yourself against the door and type "break the door with the axe".  Take the shield in the nook.

   Here is my own description of how to get the shield.  Go to the well, and at the north of the well, stand slightly to right-of-centre above the well's ladder and click the down-ladder icon.  You will step into the well, grasping the inside-top of the well ladder.  Click the down-ladder icon again to start climbing down, and click it again quickly when you are level with the hatch in the left sidewall of the well, to stop climbing.  (Very finicky here, so be persistent if you fall and die).

   Use the eye icon to look at the hatch.  The description says it is a postern and that the hole behind the postern is a nook.  Type "hit postern with axe" then type "look in nook".  The shield will appear as an icon below the centre of the row of icons at top of the screen.  Click on the pick-up icon to take the shield.  It will then appear in your inventory.  Use the up-ladder icon to climb out of the well.  Again, Save your game here! 

5. Now that you are equipped to fight the dwarves that guard the greater area outside the Portcullis / entrance screen, you should go back inside and across the gap, and pull the candelabrum on the right of the gap if you want to close the slab (this toggles the slab open / closed) and go and down the ramp.  Then explore the area and map some of it, looking for the parchment as you go.

   If a dwarf defeats you, you are dead, so restore your game.

   If you defeat a dwarf, one of 2 things will happen:

   (A) the dwarf will be unconscious and will revive after a short while and pursue you again, unless you kill him while he is unconscious "kill dwarf with axe".     OR

   (B) the dwarf will die, in which case his body will disappear after a short while (useful if his body is blocking your path).

6. To find the parchment explore the underground river (near the waterfall).  Swim underneath the stone bridge (per the hints-file, explore the bed of the underground river from one end to the other?). The underground river escapes to the right under a rock embankment.  This exit is also useable for you.  In this screen as you emerge from the river (chaos rocks room), you will see a huge long oval boulder.  Walk up and around the north of it, and down the right side.  Approx half-way down the right side of the boulder, walk left (underneath), down, left, down and left (very tricky, because you cannot see where you are, underneath the boulder) to emerge from under the west / lower side of the boulder, i.e towards the centre of the bottom of the screen, onto the path.  Go south off the screen.

7. Segomir's lair is out of the dwarfs' access, so you should be safe here.  Look in this southerly-room, which the description says is a (chaos) / earthquake / fault room.  The entrance to the lair is in this room, with a boulder chaos to the right and a wall to the left.

   Per the game’s hint-file, Segomir's lair is in the nook, the entrance of which is mid-height in the left wall.  Place yourself at the bottom of the wall and type "up" or "scale" or hit the minus button (-).

   To be precise, place yourself exactly in front of the lowest red flower, and climb vertically up quite far, then traverse left to above the patch of sand, which actually leads off to the left to Segomir's lair-screen.

8. Look for the parchment in Segomir's lair (poor Segomir!), and take it (also take the diamonds, I do not know if you need them).  Type "read the parchment" (or wait till you get to an area with more light).  The parchment contains the clues to tell you how to open the portcullis.

   Now go all the way back to the dwarves forge, and go to the right, into the little jail, and take the pitcher.  Then go left twice, to get to the portcullis and save your game here.

9. Open the stone portcullis.

   To open the portcullis, use the clues from the parchment.  Try it yourself before reading further.

   Remember the gentlemanly rule of "ladies first".

   Oh, okay: The password to open the portcullis is "Tinhuel" and to close it is "Armaeth".

   You need to open the portcullis in order to be able to get more information, so carefully read the descriptions that come onto the screen when you enter the portcullis-room (this room is the dwarves' guard-room and pantry, plus there is a steel door, plus the entrance to the Suhl Aenath mines).  You will no doubt die unless you quickly exit this room after reading the descriptions, because the dwarves in here wear helmets so your axe can't defeat them (so obviously you need a better weapon!).

   However, now you have the info you need, so restore if you died, and after exiting the room, type "Armaeth" to close the portcullis behind you.

   Then you can proceed to Level 3.

   For easy reference, here is the main info you get from the descriptions in the above room:

   This room is the start of Suhl Aenath: the dwarves guardroom, pantry, secret mines, and the room also has a steel door. You are advised to consider:

   • where is Armaeth’s Royal Crown?
   • where is the King’s Magic Sword?
   • where is the witches magic wand?  (the witch is called Minas Thyl)
   • what magic spells you should know?
   • what will you do with Minas Thyl?

     It says that these questions will only make sense if you survive passing this huge door, which is far from being done.

   You may be able to conclude a secret pact with Minas Thyl, who knows essential secrets about the dwarves.  However, she threatens the Kingdom that may be yours one day.




GAME LEVEL 3:  The Dwarfs Guards, Minas Thyl The Witch, The Sarhuls, Orichalque’s Sword, The Magic Wand, The Spellbook, The Talisman, Invisibility.




Objectives for Level 3:

• avoid being killed by the dwarfs guards
• eliminate the dwarfs
• find the plank
• go into the mine of Suhl Aenath
• find the crevasse (the correct one!)
• find the Orichalque sword (the King’s magic sword)
• find the emerald
• find the dwarfs’ pantry key
• find the ham
• find Addanc
• find the witches wand (witch = Minas Thyl)
• get the spellbook from/at Addanc
• find the dragon’s blood flask
• you will need the bottle of hydromel
• find the philter of invisibility
• obtain the magic philter (Spirit of fire)
• obtain the talisman of Erin Huviel
• eliminate the witch
• go into the steel door
• avoid being killed by the Sarhuls
• trap the Sarhuls
• open the double stone doors
• recover the crown of the Lost Kingdom




Helpful Information for Level 3:

• The dwarf guards guard the mine of Suhl Aenath, their dwarfs pantry, and a mysterious steel door.  To keep away from the dwarfs guards, don’t go to see them!  Their duty forgives them from leaving the guards’ room (at least for those who are there to guard).  The dwarfs guards in the guard room will not follow you out of this room.  Those who guard the bars or the steel door will not move out as long as at least another guard will be present and alive.  The dwarfs that are not on duty in front of the bars or steel door often nap, when they don’t sleep their wine off.  Unless you are exceptionally lucky, it is almost impossible to leave through the steel door as long as a dwarf guard stays present and alive.  Come into the guards room and run as fast as you can towards the mine (exit at the door to the right).

• Minas Thyl the witch:  She doesn’t like the dwarfs.  Maybe the Sarhuls like the dwarfs a bit.  She has lost her wand which gives her full powers.  She has Erin Huviel’s talisman, which is essential to your quest.

• Erin Huviel’s talisman is (at the beginning) in the possession of Minas Thyl.  Erin Huviel made the talisman.  He who possesses the talisman is protected against the enchantment of Erin Huviel.  The talisman is the only possibility to pass Erin Huviel’s enchantment.  The talisman is magic, it can be used to throw or break some spells conceived by Erin Huviel.  You need the talisman to recover the crown of the Lost Kingdom.

• How to get the talisman:  Minas Thyl has (at the beginning) the talisman.  Minas Thyl will not give you the talisman.  If Minas Thyl disappears perhaps you will be able to get the talisman.  Minas Thyl will exchange the talisman for her magic wand.




Walkthrough for Level 3:

At the start of level 3, you have 2 alternatives:  You can either enter the portcullis room and run fast towards and through the door to the right, to go to explore the mine (which is very confusing), only to discover that you need a plank to get across a drop;  or else, you can save yourself some frustration and first look for the plank, which is what this walkthrough will do.

Here are Level 3 Maps  (three of them) in case you have difficulty making them for yourself.

By the way, at times you may find you are carrying too much, so at one or more stages you will need to drop some of the items in a safe place where you can get them again and where they will not get stolen.  I left my items at the sides of the throne room (hence the need to keep closing the slab when going in and out the 2nd secret entrance hereafter) and at a later stage I put the valuable items into the casket (you get points for the first time you do that) and then I put the casket plus the gold nugget you acquire later, into the dwarves pantry and locked them in there.




GETTING THE SWORD

1. To eliminate the dwarf guards you will need a good "defense" (i.e. better weapon) to increase your chances, an exceptional weapon with magic virtues, to defeat their almost-invincible warriors, so you will need to find the Orichalque sword. The Orichalque sword is used for combat, and is the ideal weapon to vanquish the dwarf guards. The sword is also feared by Minas Thyl because it is magic, which will give you relative security from her. You must first however, find the board which you will need later to cross a drop.

2. Find the board (then the Orichalque Sword later):

   To find the board, go as follows (my screen-names should be descriptive enough to give you the idea that you are on the right screen), and keep saving as you go:

   Starting from entrance-dome / portcullis room: go right (under entrance-ramp) to the forge-room.  By the way, you can also light a torch in the forge, whenever you are in that vicinity.  Just walk up to the forge (I approached from the south side) with wood in your inventory, and type "light torch with fire".  You will now have a newly-lit torch.

   Now go south out of the forge-room, to the waterfall / river cavern and across the bridge, and on the same screen turn left, and exit into the wooden-bridges room and save, then cross the wooden bridges and out at left, into the grotto-room with bats, then left into the small room with a "glow" up north.  Ensure you save here on two different save-numbers, for safety!!!

   The board you need is in the room to your north, where the glow is.  Before you try to cross the lava-bed, you must figure out the answer to a "problem" you encounter as you enter the room!!!  Do not waste time trying to cross the lava-bed until you figure out and use the solution to this "problem"! I did cross first, and cursed like hell when I got back because I had to revert to an older save, find the solution to the "problem" and use it, and then had to repeat the whole painful crossing to the board and back!

   When you enter the lava-bed room, you are told that the draft has blown out your torch.  Please note, if you do not solve this problem before crossing the lava-bed to the board and back, when you emerge from this room, it is pitch black with no idea where you are and no way (that I know of) to re-light your torch so you can see.

   Therefore, find the solution to the torch problem. Try it yourself first.

   Oh, okay, it is very simple!  Restore your game and drop a lighted torch before you enter the lava-bed room!

   Save several times in the lava-bed room while crossing the board and back!!!  Note that you will die from erupting geysers or from staying in the toxic fumes for too long.

   You need to avoid the geysers that periodically spout lava and rock into the air.  Get your timing right, and go to fetch the board (from the entrance to this screen, skirt around the big lava-pool on the left, "timing" past the geyser which is on the right, then kink left, then go straight up to the board while "timing" past the next geyser on the right.  Take the board (save your game!), and come back using the same route, and out the lava-bed room.

   Some people, including myself, have experienced freezing in this area, so  Saved Games are available here  to help if you have the same problem.

   Pick up the lighted torch (the one you dropped before entering the lava-bed room).  Save your game again.  Then go back to the entrance-dome / portcullis room, to attempt the mines!  But see below first.

3. A tip re the guardroom / mine-dwarves: the results of the fights with these (stronger) dwarves seem to be random, so if you save when you see a dwarf, then if you lose the fight, just restore the game and try again.  After more than one / several fight-die-restore attempts, you will kill the dwarf, or will knock him unconscious, in which case type "kill dwarf with axe" (very unsporting, but essential!).  After a few seconds, the dead body will evaporate, leaving the way clear if the body was blocking your path.  The dwarves in the past-portcullis area (guardroom, mines) are much stronger (because they wear helmets), so the random-win does not come up so readily, however I did twice succeed in killing the stronger dwarf without having the Orichalque sword yet.

4. By the way, the hints-file says one of the dwarves in the guard-room has got the key to the pantry, so when you kill one of these dwarves, make sure you look / search the body for the key.  If you don't have time to search the body at this moment, the key will apparently remain where dropped when he dies.  In this case, one must remember the spot if there is no time to pick it up (it is a red-and-fawn key) and go back for it when you can.

5. Now you can attempt to find your way through the mines.

   Come into the guards room and run as fast as you can towards the mine (exit at the door to the right).

   Note: when going through the mines, you will come across a dwarf, and if you kill him, you will see a pile of 15 gold coins after his body has evaporated.  Pick them up ("take coins").  If you do not find them in this way, you will find them being carried by another dwarf, or lying on the floor somewhere (e.g. in the refectory, etc).

   When you enter the first mine-screen (they are all identical, to confuse you!), you come in from the left.  Now go out to the south.  You will re-emerge from the right (believe me) and you must now go out to the south again.  You will re-emerge from the left, and must now go out to the right.

6. Hooray, you should now be at the "wooden bridge and cliffs" (crevasses) screen, where there is a central rock-platform.  Use the eye-icon on the cliffs, at one area it will tell you that "the walls go sheer down, some have crumbled at points.  The one to the right has a large hole".

7. Now to get to the sword:  The only access to the platform to the right is by the centre platform.  To go through the bridge, you must carry as little as possible, so abandon all your useless objects ("drop xxx" where xxx is the name of the object to drop) on the platform to the left (keep the board and a lit torch).  It is impossible to jump from one platform to another.  Walk carefully across the wooden gangway onto the central platform.

   You need to put something across the pit, so how about the board (which hopefully you fetched earlier).  Place yourself at the edge of the platform, and type "place the board" (or "use board").  Walk across to the right side, and keep walking straight.  You will stop at the right near the edge of the screen.  Use the eye-icon, directly to the right of your knee, and two treasures will appear below the icon-row at top of screen.  Use the eye-icon to get a description of each, then use the pick-up icon to take each one.  They will then automatically go into your inventory.  (Alternatively, type "look in the hole", and then type "take xxx in the hole").

   Hooray, you now have the Orichalque sword and an emerald (keep the emerald on you, you will need it later).  Go back across the screen via the board and wooden gangway (leave the board where it is, otherwise you will be too heavy) and back to the left side of the screen, and pick up all your items.  If you want to, for completeness sake, drop the sword and the emerald here on the ledge and save your game, then go back to the left edge of the board.  Stand with your toes at the board, and type "pick up board" then go back to the left of the screen and pick up all your items you dropped previously, including the sword and the emerald.

8. If you get a warning that "your torch is slowly consuming itself", light another torch by dropping the lit torch plus a piece of wood in the same place, and type "light torch with torch".  Pick up the two torches (you cannot see which is which on the ground.  You will want to drop the old torch (you can see in inventory that it is visibly shorter) so experiment by dropping them apart on the ground (do not fall off the platform) and pick one up to see if it is the short or the long one.  Pick up the long one, and now you have saved space in your inventory by leaving behind the almost-expired torch.

9. Now to go back to the dwarves guard-room:  From the crevasses screen, where you have just picked up all your items, exit left, then in the mine-screen exit left (i.e. walk left and out), you will re-emerge from the south so go left to exit.  You will re-emerge from the north so go left to exit, then directly left again into the dwarves guardroom and quickly save your game because you will be attacked.

10. Kill all the dwarves in the guardroom, and if you do not already have it, pick up the red-and-fawn key one of them will drop.  Use the eye-icon to look at the pantry (click it on the upper part of the barred window). You are told "The dwarves have put a strange water floodgate here, protected by the bars", plus that they have put food in here (in the pantry).

11. In the game's hints-file, it says that the bear's fur is very valuable, and also that the bear can die of starvation.  Right near the end of the game, I went back above ground to find the bear, and I found his carcass (skeleton) lying on the ground at the screen below the "climbable" cliff, near the lone tree with big horizontal branch.

    The game's hints-file says "the bear can only die of hunger".  So, if you have killed all the dwarves and not found the fur on one of them, you may want to leave the slab for the secret entrance (at the dolmen-screen) open in the hopes that the bear falls in and dies of its own accord (or of hunger), in which case you can get its fur.  Someone else at Abandonia forum reported finding his fur here (see later in this walkthrough), but I am not sure at what stage you should leave it open.  Too soon and the body and fur will probably rot away, leaving only a worthless skeleton which I found lying by the lone tree overhanging the small green plateau.

DEALING WITH THE WITCH

1. Next, you will need the spellbook which is at Addanc, per the game's hints-file. So go to the witch's lair which is to the left, then north of the room below the lava-bed room.  Try to get a chance to look at the witch's lair.  The screen description says the witch's lair is called Addanc.  Click on the lady-icon at top left of the screen as soon as you enter the witch's lair, to read the description of the lair.  There are several interesting and useful things in this room, but the witch just wants to eat you!!!  The witch's name is Minas Thyl.

   Well, look at your game-icons (top of screen), what do you have that could interest her?  Actually, she does ask if you have a present for her, before she tries to eat you.

   You need something to distract the witch!!!

   So, click on the "gift" icon before you enter her lair, to attach it to your cursor, then enter the lair and as she comes towards you, click the gift-icon on her.  She will freeze, allowing you to get past her (to left of the cauldron) and up into the room.  (N. B. I think this "gift" trick will only work once).

   Go right up, and she should wander out after a shortish time.  Save your game (in case she comes back too soon). Quickly examine the bench along the left of the witch's lair. Take the dragon's blood flask, and the gold ingot.

   Now quickly look at the rest of her lair.  There is a spellbook at top left.  So look at it (eye icon).  You cannot however, pick up the spellbook "Minas Thyl's spellbook belongs to Addanc, you cannot take it away".

   You must therefore, first of all open the spellbook if you want to read the inside pages.  So type "open spellbook".  Then use the read icon on it (the eye-icon, but toggle it to the "read" aspect), but it says you cannot read it because you are not a wizard.  The spell-book keeps magic spells only for magicians' / wizards' use.  The spell-book can therefore only be read by magicians / wizards.  As you are not yourself a wizard, try to become one.  So how can you fool the spellbook into "thinking" you are a wizard?  I will tell you in a short while, but first save your game and lets quickly get out of this lair.

   Then, Per the game's hints-file, Let the witch approach you, so that she will offer you a pact.  Accept the pact to find her magic wand.  Try to offer her an other object in exchange.  It is necessary to bring her the wand if you want to easily get the talisman (BUT beware, you need to use the wand so do not just give it to her).

   So, you are also supposed to make a pact with the witch, but if there is a "correct" way, I did not discover it.   What I did was to save in her vicinity while she wandered outside her room, then kept restoring until she made a long speech about wanting to make an alliance with you to find her wand.  It seems to occur randomly: most of the time she kills you, and some times she offers a pact.  I could not figure out how to accept, but it seemed to work fine if I immediately walked away from her and out the room she was in.

2. Well, to return to an earlier question, how do you enable yourself to read the spellbook, seeing that you are not a wizard? That's right, you need to get the witch's magic wand, to try to read the spell-book.  (There are several pages to read in the spellbook).

   The wand is in a steel case at the bottom of the well (per the game's hints-file). You must first of all empty the well before going down there.  This well is in fact a reservoir which is filled and emptied by a floodgate.  Did you examine the inside of the dwarves' pantry?  No, not yet!!!  The floodgate is actually in the inside of the dwarfs' pantry.  The pantry key is (at the beginning) in the possession of one of the dwarf guards.

   So, go all the way back to the dwarves' guardroom, and kill any remaining guards, and pick up the pantry key which one of them drops (if you do not already have it from earlier killing a guard and picking it up).  The key is red-and-fawn.  Stand in front of the pantry gate and type "Open gate with key". Go inside and use the eye-icon to look around.  Take the ham (below the table behind the barred window).  Stand in front of the floodgate control-wheel and type "open floodgate" to drain the well.  Now go to the well (on the way, open and close the slab by means of the candelabra on the walls, use the pull icon), and climb down into the well all the way to the bottom.  Look at the steel chest.  Try to open it.  "Unlock chest with key".  It will only open if you are carrying the correct key.

   The correct key is on the key-ring (of 2 keys) you used previously to open the jail (where the writing was on the wall and where you locked Prytwen away).  When you have unlocked the chest (and opened it), look inside it by using the eye-icon on it, then use the pick-up icon to take the witch's wand (into your inventory).  Hooray!!!

   Per the game's hints-file: The magic wand is used for many purposes.  It gives the power to use magic, and to cast spells.  It is used to read the spell-book.  It is used to obtain protection from fire, and to obtain invisibility.  It is used later to incite Minas Thyl to give you something in exchange.  If you give back the wand to the witch, you had better be well armed.  You should also use the wand before giving it back to Minas Thyl to get the talisman.  This talisman also becomes accessible if the witch is eliminated.

   Now climb out of well, and go back to the entrance-dome / portcullis room (on the way, open and close the slab by means of the candelabra on the walls – use the pull icon).

3. Now, you need to read the spellbook at last, without the witch killing you.  So, go all the way back to the vicinity of the witch's lair.  She wanders around in the vicinity of her lair.  You now have the sword (which she is scared of, but not enough) and her wand, which makes her zoom-in on you even more).

4. She senses you have her wand, "I feel the presence of my magic wand on you... put away that maleficent sword... I will give you a priceless talisman...", and she then tries to get it from you.  Use the sword-icon on her when she gets near.  She will strangle you despite the sword, and you will take a while to die.  So obviously, there is something you can do while you are choking, but I could not discover what.  If you use the sword on her again, the game says "Not Now" or "interesting idea, just come closer", but I could not get it right.

   So all I did, was to save before entering the area, and keep trying until I got into her lair without bumping into her.  Once in the witch's lair, go to the spellbook and use the read-icon on it.  Tah-dah!  Now you can read it because you are carrying the wand.  Read it at least twice, making sure you read the 2 spells carefully.

5. The magic spells are described in the spellbook as follows, for your ease of reference:

   • "Invisibility elixir:  Take dragon's blood, not too much, but just enough, then, while stirring it with the wand, recite the magic formula "Ezhrimanoth". That sounds easy."

   • "The power to walk over lava:  To gather the malefic lava, which gushes in the middle of the crater, you must walk on the melting rock.  Take a pint of Hydromel, and summon Tehrehanan, the evil fire spirit.  If you have the power, the Hydromel will change into a potion which will protect you.  That's all.  The message is not quite clear."

6. Now to deal with the witch and to get the talisman.

   Per the game's hints-file:

   "To eliminate the witch Minas Thyl, you should try to make her disappear, by using her greed.  There is an object that she covets above everything.  Have you read the description of the objects you have found?  Minas Thyl would risk everything to get her hands on the emerald."

   "Did you ask for the description of the lava craters?  Set a trap for the witch on the crater.  The trap is the crater itself, the bait is the emerald.  Put the emerald in the large crater, on the central island.  By this way, Minas Thyl will have to walk on the lava to get it and so will trap herself.  You guessed it!  You should know yourself how to walk on the lava."

   "Find the magic philter (of the spirit of fire) to walk on the lava.  Have you read the spellbook well?  Have you found the bottle of hydromel.  To change the hydromel into the magic philtre, you have to hold the magic wand and the bottle of hydromel, and to invoke the Spirit of Fire by typing "Tehrehanan".  Drink the philtre of Tehrehanan (type "drink the bottle") and you will be protected from attacks by fire for a short time."

   "It will be sufficient to place the emerald on the island in the crater and go back.  (The lava near the geysers could also eliminate Minas Tyhl, but this is more improbable because it is possible to pass around it.  If Minas Thyl has already acquired the emerald, then she will leave it now or later at Addanc."

   So how do we do the above?   You actually already have hydromel, the knowledge of the spell, and the wand.

   So, Walk out of the witch's lair and go to the north of the big crater to left / below her entrance.  You will see that the wall of the crater is low on the north side, so stand there ready to enter the crater.  Type "Tehrehanan"  The hydromel becomes cloudy.  Save your game.  Wait for the witch to appear.  Immediately she has entered the room, type "drink hydromel" or "drink the bottle" and walk onto the crater and go to just past the middle of the crater.  Type "drop emerald" and immediately walk back north off the crater and then to the west of the crater out of the witch's way.

   The witch will go to retrieve the emerald and will burn up, dropping the talisman where she died in the crater.  Use the eye-icon on the talisman, then save your game.  Quickly try to walk onto the crater and pick up the talisman and the emerald, and get off the crater to the north again.  If you die because the potion wore off, try again.  Or, drink more potion before re-entering the crater and then pick up the talisman and the emerald, and quickly walk off the crater.  (Be warned, there are only 2 doses of the potion!!!).  Save Your Game Here!

   Now go all the way back to the portcullis / entrance dome, and by going left (below the middle of the left side of the screen) walk into the concealed refectory (bedroom and mess).  Take the dwarves gold dishes from the table, take the dagger, and also take the gold coins if they are perhaps here.  You need to check carefully behind the front walls and arch because sometimes the dagger and coins can be out of sight here.  (The dagger moves its location randomly within the refectory).




DEALING WITH THE SARHULS

Now go to the "dwarves' guardroom and pantry" screen, and unlock the single steel door "unlock door with key" or "open door with key".  The correct key you should be carrying is the dwarves' pantry-key.  It is the red-and-fawn one you acquired earlier.  Go through the doorway.

Note!  Some people's game crashes back to the desktop here and I have not yet found a solution to this problem.  I managed to get 2 saved-games from Sal to get past this point.  Sal has been kind enough to share these saved-games with you as well.  Thank You Sal!

Saved Games before and after opening the steel door  ( prior to and after crash point )

You will now be in a room divided into 3 sections (compartments): the entrance-section with a wall on the right, a pen on the other side (to the right) of the wall, and the main section with a doorway to the north with a green cross on the door and a crown above it (you later will realize the door is actually a double stone door).

Per the games hints-file:

"The Sarhuls prohibit access to the double stone door.

To stay away from the Sarhuls, you could open the doors and run away, the Sarhuls only ask to leave. However, you will find them everywhere afterwards.  So rather observe the geography of their cage.  The Sarhuls cave has compartments.  There are only two compartments that you obligatorily must cross.

You must lock up the Sarhuls in the pen.  The pen is the compartment at the bottom to the right in their cage.  (It is possible that the Sarhuls will go at the same time into the pen at their own will.  With some patience...).

Attract the Sarhuls into the pen with ham which you must put into the pen yourself.  It is virtually impossible to go by the Sarhuls without magic because they observe you and will attack you as soon as the bars are open.  The problem is that the Sarhuls spot you at first sight.  Obviously, if they can't see you anymore..."

"Use the philtre of invisibility.  Remember, however, that even if you cannot be seen, they smell you and if they touch you...  (It is impossible for you to eliminate the Sarhuls).

How to become invisible: magic is all-powerful. Only magicians and wizards have such a secret. The wizards often keep their magic spells in a spell-book.

To transform the dragon's blood into the philtre of invisibility, take the dragon's blood flask and the wand of Minas Thyl, then pronounce the magic spell "Ezhrimanoth".

Once you have created the philtre of invisibility, type "drink the flask".  You can use invisibility...

• When and where you wish, without restrictions
• When and where you get advantage from not being spotted
• To go through a zone that is defended by vigilant and dangerous guards
• A good choice (not exclusive) is to go through the pit of the Sarhuls"

Try to do all the above yourself before reading further.

Stuck?  Okay, the following is a method that works, but it needs good timing and a little luck.

First, some observations:

When you enter the 3-section room where the Sarhuls are, use the eye icon to look at everything, and use the lady-icon at top left of the screen to get a description of the screen. The room is divided into 3 sections: the entrance-section, the pen on the right, and the main section with the doorway to the north.  Observe how the Sarhuls walk around, can you see a bit of a pattern?  Notice particularly that at one stage in their roaming, they all walk away from the barred gate in front of you.

This gate is a sliding bars-gate, so when it is closed in front of you the pen is open, and when the gate is open in front of you the pen is closed.  There is a key-hole at the left of the gate (You need / should have the red-and-fawn dwarves-pantry key for this gate).  You want to get all the Sarhuls to be in the pen at the same time, with you standing in front of the sliding-bars-gate's lock INSIDE the main section so you can quickly lock them in the pen.  Also observe, that if you go into the main section, one or more Sarhuls will tend to walk south to the entrance section, and once in there they seem reluctant to go north back into the main section and hence will not go into the pen.

So a method to solve this is as follows:

You will need to move quickly out of the way whenever any Sarhul comes near you, during the following sequences.  Stand near the keyhole of the sliding bars-gate, and type "Ezhrimanoth" then type "drink the flask" to become invisible.  (The invisibility lasts a fair time, but not unlimited time).  Wait for the Sarhuls to start to move away from the gate, and type "open bars with key" and as soon as you can move, go through the opened gateway and slightly left, turn around (face south) by the other side of the keyhole and quickly type "close bars with key" before a Sarhul can walk through the gate to the entrance-section.

Now you have all 4 Sarhuls in the main section / pen area.  Go into the pen moving out of the way of the Sarhuls as they move around, and wait for a couple to come into the pen, then quickly drop a ham a little to the right (type "drop ham"), and exit the pen quickly dodging Sarhuls as you go.  Go to the gate’s keyhole and as soon as all 4 Sarhuls are in the pen, quickly type "open bars with key".  Hooray, you have trapped all 4 Sarhuls and they can no longer chase you and kill you.  Save your game!

If you do not trap all 4 Sarhuls, the "un-trapped" one/s will be a real nuisance, wandering all over the place and killing you whenever you meet them.  Well OK, here is a   Saved Game after the 4 Sarhuls are trapped in the pen..




FINDING THE ROYAL CROWN

Okay, now you have sorted the Sarhuls out, you can attempt to open the door to the north in the main section of the room.

However, if you did not get the bear's fur earlier, and if you happened to leave the first secret entrance (at the dolmen) open, then if you go back to the stairs / ramp leading up to the first secret entrance, and use the eye-icon to search the top of the stairs / ramp just below the exit, you may find the bear's fur there, just below the exit but out of sight behind the exit-wall.

Afterwards return here, to open the door (portcullis) to the north of the Sarhuls area / screen.

Use the eye-icon on the door.  It is a portcullis, per the description. Type "open portcullis with key" (It opens with the gold key).  The portcullis is actually a double stone door (it opens by means of each side sliding sideways).  Go in.  Use the eye-icon to look at everything. You are now in a magical room containing a magically-protected kiosk constructed by Erin Huviel.  Use the eye-icon on the contents of the kiosk.  There is a crystal ball resting on a cushion.  You need to break the enchantment and penetrate the kiosk.

According to the screen-description (use lady-icon), and the description of the items you click on: "Erin Huviel the great Wiseman of the elves created the two crystal balls of inestimable value, one of which the elves kept, and one was given to Armaeth, the dwarf king of that time (i.e. long ago).  The magic crystals have the power to communicate with each other, at any time, in any place".  The crystal ball (in the kiosk) is on a "small red velvet cushion, neither soft nor hard".  The magic aura around the kiosk prevents any access.

However, remember, we got Erin Huviel's talisman from the witch, so, simply walk into the kiosk (automatically protected by the talisman). Type "take ball" then "take cushion".

Now you have to figure out what to do with the crystal ball.  Think and try for yourself before reading further.

Well, how does a gypsy use a crystal ball?  Think hard, and very basic.

Try "look at ball".  Hmm, no that does not work.  What do you do when you look at a crystal ball in order to read it?

Oh, okay then, it is all in the logic and the wording: "look into ball".

You will be told that "you see a bucket, and yourself lifting it and pronouncing a magic word "Sillerynn", and it changing into a crown".

So where did you leave that bucket?  You will have to fetch it, if you do not have it in your inventory.  Fetch the bucket, "take bucket", then type "Sillerynn".  The bucket will change into a crown in your inventory.  Use the eye-icon to look at it.

Well, what next?  What does someone usually do with a crown?

Type "wear crown".

You will be teleported into the throne room, wearing the crown and kingly robes.  Then you will go to the throne and become the king.  Read the finale, including your final score-table, and thereafter a message comes up saying that it may be worthwhile looking for the wealth you have not retrieved or conquered (i.e. your missing scores), before you crowned yourself.

The message thereafter says that there are many future challenges to you and your kingdom.  It looks as if the game producers were maybe intending to write a sequel!

1. If you drop an item, your points are unchanged but your fortune / merchandise value goes down by that item’s value. If you pick it up again, you regain that value.
2. The items in this table are in approximately the same sequence (as far as possible) as in the walkthrough above.