These notes are pretty rough, I recommend using Xazu's Notes if you want something more detailed. I don't think the routes match up exactly but should be fairly close.

Route

Start Temenos

Pick Shadow S.
Coerce Vados, Holy Light x2

Pick Light S.
Run from Skeletons.

For safety, can heal if you got hit more than T1 hit from Vados. You will want to use a Plum, and replace Temenos's heal turn with Heal Wounds instead of Grape.

Pick $600.
Get Osvald.

Tag Abandoned Village.
Tag New Delsta Anchorage.
Tag New Delsta.

TP New Delsta: Anchorage. Take boats to Canalbrine.

Canalbrine

Start Temenos Ch.2
Talk to NPCs in Square.
Get Castti.

Inquire NPC in Item Shop for Slumber Sage.

Buy Lilies?

Go to house, do Sherlock stuff. TP New Delsta.

New Delsta

Switch to Night, start Throne recruitment.

Steal Ice S, Wind S, Light S.
Steal Antique Coin. Steal Pom S.
Soothe Aggravated Woman to complete Utterly Exhausted! quest.
Steal Rare Cog.
TP Abandoned Village.

Abandoned Village

Pick Herb of Serenity.

If you get Concoct Materials at Black Market, buy 1 Bluserbloom 2 Lily of the Light

TP Beasting Bay: Anchorage.

Beasting Bay: Anchorage

Will probably want to kill 2 battles here.

• Fierce Fly, Motley Slug: Ice S + Light S. Or break Fly with Sword & Slug with Sword/Axe.
• Fierce Fly, Island Froggen II: Same as above, except break with Dagger/Axe for Froggen.
• Island Froggen I x2, Island Froggen II: Ice S + Dagger Axe on Froggen II. Or break 1st and any S.
• Island Froggen II x2 : Ice S + 31 damage
• Lloris x2, Long-Eared Lloris: Break LLoris with Sword/Axe/Staff, S Stone + 140 damage
• Island Froggen I x2, Motley Slug: Break Slug with Sword/Axe/Staff and S Stone.

Tropu'hopu: Kill with Light M

Nameless Village Traverse: Run to save, S&Q, walk to Nameless Village.

Nameless Village

TP New Delsta: Anchorage. Take boat to Crackridge Harbor Anchorage.

Crackridge Harbor Anchorage

Head towards Crackridge.

Southern Crackridge Wilds

Switch to night near top of steps.
Kill battle with 2 Light M or break Armor Eater + 1 Light M.
Pick $6400.

Western Crackridge Wilds

Switch to night around 1st intersection. Kill battle with 2 Light M or break Armor Eater + 1 Light M.
Pick $8400. Pick Thunder M.
Mug Merchant to reset steps. Get Merchant License. Go to Crackridge.

Crackridge

TP Flamechurch. Head to Stormhail.

Kill Bolderfall and Montwise battles with Fire Ms.

Northern Montwise Pass

Fight at Night. HHG x2, Big Monkey Thunder M as well (range, needs HHG crits).

Southern Stormhail Snows

Switch to night at stairs. Kill battle with HHG x2 (Reptalios throw a M Stone too).

Cait & Puff Differences

If you kill any, you now break Wandering Wood battle instead of killing
Cait: Only one that still does 2x Stormhail battle.
Puff: Skip Stormhail stuff.
Cultured Cait: Skip Stormhail stuff.
Queen Puff: Skip Stormhail stuff.

Caits can either tank/skip Cubaryi Collect with $30000 fight, or skip Jade Staff + Knight's Armor
Regular Puff should get a small item, maybe Traveler's Bow

Switch back to day, pick $15000. Go to Ice L, switch to night bit before reaching it. Pick Ice L. Kill 2nd battle the same way. Switch back to day.

If you got the battle after going down the last ladder, can run rest. Otherwise walk a bit.
Steal Pom M.

Stormhail

Go to Weapon Shop, Mug guy for weapons (M Stone).

TP Canalbrine.

Canalbrine

Head towards Tavern.
Steal Forget-me-do, optionally Wind M.
If no drop, Steal Sticky Flower and/or Cleansing Leaf.

Go to Tavern, Coerce Vados.

Go to Sacred Guard Ship.

Sacred Guard Ship

Pick $5600.
If no Caits/Puffs, can kill battle here. In that case, run whole screen. Else, walk after entering door. Killing the battle isn't recommended as it only gives about 30JP. Kill is Sweeping Cleave x3 (Day)

These can be done in either order. I think Stormhail 1st is generally better since it gives you a better idea of what money & JP you need. The primary reason to go Crackridge 1st is if you need to Steal the Shadow M in Stormhail and aren't LVL16 yet. Notes will assume Stormhail 1st.

TP Stormhail.

Stormhail

If no Throne LP, stay at inn.
Pick Knight's Armor.

If no L Stone, can pick Light L after Guide sequence with Crick. Costs 15s.

Forbidden Shrine

Kill battle at night with HHG x3. Walk rest of screen.
Pick $15000. Enter boss fight DURING DAY.

If your JP is bad, you can try to kill 2 battles here and do HHB Cubaryi. Generally not recommended as Ambush & death rate is high. Does have the benefit of letting you run the screen though.

TP Crackridge.

Crackridge

Go to Inn. Guide Reiza.

Abandoned Road

Switch to Night around steps. Kill battle, WATCH JP AFTER

After Abandoned Road, lowest JP character needs
884 With Wandering Wood Battle, 873 if you get 1T bonus.
1000 Without Wandering Wood
If short, kill battle in Fellsun Ruins

Pick $9200.

Fellsun Ruins

Pick Pom L. Pick Jade Staff.

TP Nameless Village.

Nameless Village

Go to Item Shop.

Guide Shirlutto.

Wandering Wood

Switch to night before battle. Break with Attacks/Spears if fleeing, kill with HHG x3 if taking.
Walk rest of screen.

Rifted Rock

Walk screen, reset steps with Travel Banter.

Addendum

Kaldena

There are a lot of ways to play this fight, based on turn orders and what she does. I will try to list out your options here, but I recommend reading this and just practicing the fight yourself. Kaldena appears scary, but the success rate is actually fairly high if played correctly.

First off, Kaldena will always do 2 attacks T1, an AoE dark that can blind, and a single target physical that takes 1BP off whoever it hits. Thanks to the blind from Temenos' Talent, the single target only has a 50% chance to hit. If she does it first and misses, you don't need to heal. Another thing to note is that thanks to Throne's Talent, Kaldena's 2nd action will always be last T1.

Sticky Flower

Sticky Flower is INCREDIBLY useful in this fight. It does 3 things:

1. It reduces Kaldena's speed, increasing the crit rate of Hired Help from 17% to 61.5%. This reduces the amount of stones you need on average greatly, and let's you kill without a L Stone most of the time.
2. It reduces her Evasion. This increases your parties accuracy to 100%, 50% if not blinded. Even if not blinded, Osvald and Temenos can still miss normally.
3. It moves her turns back T2. For every Sticky Flower used, it moves her turns back 1 slot T2. So if order is Kaldena > Kaldena > Osvald > Throne, if you Sticky Flower x2 you can skip Osvald Defending, as he'll end up 1st T2.

You generally want to have Sticky Flower active T1&T2, and ideally use HHB x7 T2 for the increased crit rate. You'll ideally combo it with Blusterblooms, but if you don't have any Sticky x3 + Forget-me-do is a viable opening. Castti isn't guaranteed to get hit before her turn T1, it's very nice if you can go into this fight with her LP filled.

Diffusing + Pom Leaf

If you don't have a Blusterbloom, you can opt into Stealing a Pom Leaf in Nameless Village inn and buying a Diffusing at the General Store. You can also Steal a Cleansing Leaf in Canalbrine along with the Sticky Flower in Canalbrine, or buy both a Cleansing Leaf and a Grape Leaf in Canalbrine General Store. The issue with buying them early is that they're often not needed if you get a Blusterbloom. If you do this strat, you need to save 3k to afford the Diffusing Serum. I recommend doing HHB Cubaryi and skipping the Jade Staff.

Ideally you have LP for the fight, and if Castti is before Kaldena blind Diffusing + Pom Leaf x3 is pretty good. It really shines if she's after the blind attack, since you can do Diffusing + Pom Leaf + Pom Leaf/Grape Leaf + Cleansing Leaf to remove the Blind and give people BP.

Changelog

3/13/24

• Initial upload