This document contains the complete hints-file's contents in their original form. They were written by and are the responsibility of the developers (Real World Software). All I did was type them up as I found them within the game's hints-file named help.bat. Wendy

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

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

In-Game Hints

This information has been typed out word-for-word from the hints file that is included with the Armaeth game. The original hints file is a hierarchical structure, i.e. drills down through several levels for each hint.

If you need more then this hints file then try the Armaeth: The Lost Kingdom Walkthrough.




Characters

• Killian: the character you will be playing in the game, he is an adventurer, looking for the secret entrance to Dol Armaeth
• Menankar: evil master of dark forces and evil creatures; covets Armaeth's wealth.  The people hid from him in a secret kingdom called Dol Armaeth.
• Armaeth: the King of the dwarf people, a very wise man.
• Prytwen: an enemy of the dwarfs and a coveter / robber of valuable things
• Minas: a witch
• Dwarves, Elves and Humans
• The Sarhuls: in the pit of Sarhul
• Segomir: in Segomir's lair
• Erin Huviel: a magician / wizard





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




BEAR

What is the bear for?

• to add some action
• to 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

How to stay away from the bear:

• simply run faster than him
• he only attacks when he is hungry, in which case you will see him walking upright, otherwise he is not to be frightened of.
• Climb a tree or a wall, or cross a river, he won’t be able to follow you.

How to kill the bear:

• he 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?




MAGPIE

What is the magpie for?

• to add some animation
• it can steal the gold key and so make it difficult to get it back

How to catch the magpie:

• it is impossible for you!

How to eliminate the magpie:

• it is impossible for you!




FIRE

Where is the fire?

• in the dell, in its centre

What is the fire for?

• to light something
• to light the dell at night
• to light your torches

How to revive the fire:

• put some wood in it
• put your torches in it because they are made of wood
• find some wood or torches, stand next to the fire, and type "revive the fire".

How to re-light the fire:

• it is impossible without cheating
• you need to add wood regularly so it does not die out
• you can let it die out if you always keep at least one torch lit
• you may cheat as follows:

  get rid of all your objects near the fire then walk in it, your character will be lost but the fire will be revived.  Then restore your character back to life (command F4).  (Then pick up your objects again)




TORCHES

What are the torches for?

• to give you light everywhere it is dark
• to 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 lighted on.

Where to find a torch:

• go into the clearing in the middle of the forest
• take a look at 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 some wood". If the answer is "you are too far away", simply move a bit to the front end of the pile to slightly change your position.

How to light a torch:

• with the fire that is in the dell

  type "light the torch with the fire"

• from another torch already lit

  type "light the torch with the torch"

• from any candelabrum
• any fire with visible flames can light a torch




SECRET ENTRY

Where is the secret passage?

• look near the dolmen
• ask questions about the dolmen and about all the details mentioned in its description, as well as about all of the visible elements in the image
• take a look at the thorns
• you should remove the thorns to uncover the stone underneath
  • place yourself on the thorns and type "pull away thorns"

How to open the secret passage:

Stele:

• The stele isn’t visible through the greenery
• Consult the menu: where is the secret passage
• To open the stele, you have to use the lock

Lock:

Where is the lock?

At the left end of the rear wall along the stele

Where is the key for the lock?

• It is the gold key.
• The gold key is on the ground, somewhere, unless...
• Have you visited the small garden?

  • One has 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 (garden) is to the right, across a rock gorge.

• It may be that the magpie has taken the gold key
  • Have a look in the magpie nest
  • Go into the forest and climb the trees
  • Only the largest of the oak trees can be scaled
  • The magpie's nest is the highest of those that are at the top of the oak tree.

How to open the stele:

• Find the gold key
• Find the steel lever
• Place yourself behind the rear wall of the stele near the lock and type "open the stele".
• Place yourself in front of the stele (on its left of the screen) and type "push the stele with the lever".

Mechanism:

• The mechanism begins to function as soon as one tries to open the stele with the help of the key
• The mechanism only blocks up at the first try opening
• You only need to push the stele to unblock the mechanism
• You need an appropriate object to push the heavy stele
• Look for the steel lever
• Visit the bear's cavern

  The bear's cavern is at the end of the ravine to the left

• Try to push the stele with the lever
• Place yourself in front of the stele (to the left of your screen) and then type "push the stele with the lever"
• The stele won’t function as long as an object or a character steps on it




GAME LEVEL 1:  Prytwen, Prytwen' Chest, The Secret Entrance




Prytwen

What does Prytwen do?

• 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

What to do with Prytwen:

• try to put him out of action

  • wait until he approaches you, then type "knock Prytwen".
  • You can provoke a fight with Prytwen by speaking to him
  • That makes him come towards you, and you may then attack him as soon as he is near you
  • 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.

• when Prytwen is knocked out, search him.

  Place yourself near Prytwen and type "search Prytwen". Then knowing his possessions, type "take xxx from Prytwen".

• If you succeed in getting his key, then go and see his chest

How to eliminate Prytwen:

• Prytwen puts action into the game. If you eliminate him, you may deprive yourself of certain action scenes
• His 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 him in a room
• The normal place for a thief is in a 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
    • Carry Prytwen into the jail
    • You can only carry Prytwen by leaving almost everything that you carry
    • Place yourself near Prytwen, knocked out. Get rid of all non-essential objects, then type "take Prytwen".



PRYTWEN'S CHEST

What is Prytwen's chest for?

• Prytwen accumulates all valuable objects he finds, in his chest
• If Prytwen robs you, you may recover your objects in his chest
• Let’s be logical; 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 ...

How to open Prytwen's chest:

• with the key!
• Prytwen has the key for his chest (at least at the beginning of the game).
• You should knock Prytwen out if you want to take his key

Where is Prytwen's chest

• in his lair

  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 fountain.




THE SECRET ENTRANCE

• explore the jail, ask for the description of everything that you see there
• look at the walls of the jail
• look at the inscriptions
• you must ask to read the inscriptions

  • one of the inscriptions is not like the others
  • look at the inscription that is on the wall where the bars are, at the right.
  • You must clean the inscription in order to read it
  • The inscription says that you must pull the torch which is nearby the throne to open the secret passage.




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




THE DWARFS

What do the dwarfs do?

• they thoroughly search this kingdom looking for intruders

How to stay away from the dwarfs:

• just impossible, the dwarfs explore all nooks and crannies
• the more you leave passages open, the more they will explore, and the less you will see them.

How to eliminate the dwarfs:

• a fight without any weapons leaves you little luck, nevertheless it is possible that you overcome him
• a good weapon would increase your chances of winning
• a good defense would be to effectively protect you

  • Have you thought about the shield?

• If you don’t succeed in eliminating the dwarfs, it is perhaps better so, they add action to the game and 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.




THE SHIELD

Where is the shield?

• The shield is in a humid place
• the shield is in a vertical place
• have you explored the well?

  • Go to the entrance which is underneath the dolmen and take the left-hand entrance
  • Place yourself against the well and type "down" or hit the plus key (+).

• The shield is in the nook in the middle of the well

  • You can't open the nook with bare hands
  • The nook's door has not been open for a long time
  • You should force the nook's door

    • You need a solid object
    • You need the axe
    • Place yourself against the door and type "break the door with the axe"
    • Take the shield in the nook



THE STONE PORTCULLIS

Where is the portcullis?

• in the entrance dome, just below the throne room

What does the portcullis protect?

• the portcullis closes off access to the secret mine of Suhl Aenath

How to open the portcullis:

• the stone portcullis opens and closes by magic spells

  • another adventurer had already discovered this secret a long time ago, but he could never use it
  • this other adventurer had left the magic spell on a piece of parchment
  • find out the parchment and type "read the parchment".
  • Haven't you run into Segomir?
  • Consult the menu: "Segomir’s Lair".




SEGOMIR'S LAIR

• Explore the underground river
• You will have to wet your feet
• You will even have to wet yourself completely
• you should swim underneath the stone bridge
• 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.
• Segomir's lair is out of the dwarfs' access
• Segomir rested in a nook
• Look in the chaos room
• The entrance to the lair is in the room with a boulder chaos to the right and a wall to the left
• 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 (-).





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




THE DWARFS GUARDS

What do the dwarf guards do?

• they guard the mine of Suhl Aenath, their pantry, and a mysterious steel door

How to keep away from the dwarf guards:

• simple! 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 dwarf 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).

How to eliminate the dwarf guards:

• Is it necessary to eliminate the dwarf guards?

  • Yes!
  • No doubt!
  • I keep telling you!

  How to eliminate the dwarf guards:

  • With the whip? Ludicrous!
  • The dagger is ineffective
  • The axe? By incredible luck, maybe!
  • You will need a good defense to increase your chances
  • You will need an exceptional weapon with magic virtues, to defeat their almost-invincible warriors
  • What is long, metallic, shiny and hard-wearing?
  • No, it’s not the steel lever!
  • Find the Orichalque sword.




MINAS THYL: THE WITCH

What does the witch do?

• Hee hee hee! Lets go human, come close to Minas Thyl, hee hee hee, Minas Tyhl will explain everything to you, just come closer!
• For sure she doesn't like the dwarfs.  No one else does either.  Maybe the Sarhuls a bit.
• If she recovers her full powers, you will understand quickly!
• She has an object that is essential for you, Erin Huviel's talisman.

What to do with the witch:

• Don't systematically run away from her. You must have some courage!
• Let her approach you
• If she can approach you, she will offer you a pact
• Accept the pact.  Find her magic wand.
• Try to offer her another object in exchange
• It is necessary to bring her the wand if you want to easily get the object she has and that you are interested in
• If you give back the wand to the witch, you had better be well armed.
• Perhaps you should try to use the wand before giving it back to Minas Thyl
• The witch will give you the talisman from Erin Huviel in exchange for her wand.  This talisman also becomes accessible if the witch is eliminated.

How to eliminate the witch

• she is immortal, you cannot kill her
• as you cannot kill her, you should try to make her disappear
• use 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

  • Every trap needs a bait
  • 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 philtre 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.




THE SARHULS

What do the Sarhuls do?

they prohibit access to the double steel door

How to stay away from the Sarhuls:

• open the doors and run away, the Sarhuls only ask to leave. However, you will find them everywhere afterwards.
• observe the geography of their cage
• the Sarhuls cave has compartments. There are only two compartments that you obligatorily must cross.
• How to lock up the Sarhuls:

  • 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 food
  • You must put the ham 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...

How to eliminate the Sarhuls:

it is impossible for you




ORICHALQUE'S SWORD

What is the Orichalque sword for?

• for combat

  would you have believed it?

• the sword is the ideal weapon to vanquish the dwarf guards
• the sword is feared by Minas Thyl because it is magic, which will give you relative security

Where is the Orichalque sword?

• hidden in a crevasse (at least at the beginning of the game)
• the crevasse opens on an inaccessible rocky platform
• the rocky platform overhangs a precipice to which you can access by the mines of Suhl Aenath
• how to access the platform

  • 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
  • abandon all your useless objects on the platform to the left
  • it's impossible to jump from one platform to another
  • put something across the pit
  • find the board, place yourself at the edge of the platform, and type "place the board".

• Place yourself near the crevasse and type "look in the hole", and then type "take xxx in the hole".




THE MAGIC WAND

What is the wand for?

• to give the power to use magic
• to cast spells
• to incite Minas Thyl to give you something in exchange
• to read the 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"

• to transform the hydromel into a magic potion that protects from fire

  take the bottle of hydromel and the wand of Minas Thyl then call the spirit of fire "Tehrehanan".

• for the rest ask Minas Thyl

Where is the wand?

• in a steel case
• the case is in a very humid place
• the case is at the bottom of the well
• 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
• the floodgate is in the inside of the dwarfs' pantry
• the pantry key is (at the beginning) in the possession of one of the dwarf guards




THE SPELL-BOOK

• the spell-book is at Addanc
• the spell-book keeps magic spells for wizards' use
• you must first of all open the spell-book if you want to read the inside pages
• the spell-book can only be read by magicians / wizards
• as you are not yourself a wizard, try to become one
• get the magic wand from the witch to try to read the spell-book
• there are several pages to read in the spellbook




THE TALISMAN

Where is the talisman?

Erin Huviel's talisman is (at the beginning) in the possession of Minas Thyl

What is the talisman for?

• 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




INVISIBILITY

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
• refer to the menu "spell-book"
• refer to the menu "magic wand"
• once you have the flask of invisibility, type "drink the flask"

How to 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