Therion 3 Character Notes

Preface

This route is a 3 character route for Therion.
The route is generally straightforward - Orlick and Gareth are relatively scripted as long as Therion goes before the merchants on the first turn and does not die.
You have ~16,000 to use on the 3% steal rests in Chapter 4 before needing to reload your save.
Darius is scripted past T1 - you need to break him before his turn and you will win.

Chapter 1

Proceed through the cutscenes.

Steal all 4 soulstones Fire, Ice, Wind, Shadow from the merchant on your left.

When you end up at Ravus Manor, do the cutscene, then loot the purple chest for Iron Helm.

After downstairs scene, before stealing from the man, go to the weapon shop.

Buy an Arcane Knife, optimize Therion in equipment menu (equips both Arcane Knife and Iron Helm)

Run/Break all encounters as you make your way through Ravus Manor.

Heathcote

You may need healing sometimes if you have a bad turn order (if you heal, it's probably on T3-T4).
Other than that, the fight is primarily scripted.

T1-T4: Throw all 4 soulstones (They will always be at the bottom of your item menu).
T5: Wildfire x4
T6: Wildfire
T7: Wildfire x4

Head over to the Quarrycrest area.
Save at the save point (you may want to walk a little bit there if you want to be safe), and throw yourself at the encounter.

Whether or not you die and reload, or escape, head over to Derelict Mine, get the Wind L and teleport back to Boulderfall.

Make your way to Atlasdam, breaking and/or fleeing from encounters on the way.
If you find a cait, kill it with the Wind L, and press the cait button to see the route, which diverges from the noncait route.

Cyrus Ch. 1

Once in Atlasdam, recruit Cyrus and head into the Subterranean Study.
Kill 1-2 encounters on the way to Russell, breaking them with either Cyrus Staff or Therion Sword, and use Therion's Wildfire x3.

Russell

Kill Russell with the Wind L.

Scrutinize the Light M from the little girl, and leave.
Once you have enough JP:

Grind encounters on the way to Whistlewood, kill the Whistlewood encounter with the Light M, and kill encounters as needed until Cyrus has 100 JP.

Teach Cyrus Blizzard, and give him Evasive Manuevers.

Tag Noblecourt, start Therion 2 and immediately leave.

Get the Light M on the way to the Wispermill area.

Head over to Forest of Purgation and get the Light L, Forbidden Dagger, and $20000.

Teleport to Atlasdam and head to Rippletide to recruit Tressa.

Tressa Ch. 1

Kill the encounter using either an M stone or Cyrus's Lightning Blast x2.

Mikk and Makk

Light L + Light MOR Therion HP Thief Makk & Cyrus Lightning Blast x2

Exploration

Head over to Stonegard area, while getting the $1200 chest on the way.

Get the Warrior Shrine.
Head over to Moonstruck Coast, S+Q there, and get the Merchant Shrine.

TP Noblecourt.

Therion Ch.2 Pt.2

Optionally, Scrutinize the lady at the entrance for Thunder L. If you lose reputation, restore it at the Tavern after the cutscene.

• If you are close to losing reputation after getting the Scrutinize, you can consider going for Thieving Tips & Tricks and Curious Antique
  Scrutinizes now so you can restore reputation along the way.

Continue the story, up until you go to the Tavern. If you need to, restore reputation.
If you didn't get the Thunder L, TP Rippletide and Scrutinize Tony's Mom for one.

After the Tavern cutscene, TP Bolderfall and head over to the Northreach area.
At the Northreach area, head into Maw of the Ice Dragon, loot the $30000 chest and head out.

You'll get 2x Lizards on the way to Northreach.
Break them with HHB x2, then use a Thunder L to kill.
Use Therion's Incite if he is first as needed.

Sometimes you win this battle with people dead at the end. You might need to make some adjustments.
Therion: Nourishing S + Iron Helm lets him survive Darius. GL with Ch.3 8%s :)
Cyrus: With Cait route no Blizzard for Orlick?
Tressa: Needs Nourish S + Defend to survive crit.

Enter Northreach, TP Noblecourt.

Therion Ch. 2 Pt.3

• Scrutinize Green Merchant man for Thieving Tips + Tricks
• Purchase Empowering Bracelet
• Scrutinize the blue merchant for Curious Antique
• Steal Empowering Ring from guy guarding house.
• Pick Curious Antique.
• Steal 3 M Stones in Tavern.

Continue the story until you do the 2nd Steal (Wyvern Scale).
TP Rippletide.

Head over to the Wellspring area to tag Wellspring, then head to the Marsalim area.

In the Marsalim area, grab 20k + Thunder L, and head inside Marsalim Catacombs.

Get the Viper Dagger inside Marsalim Catacombs and exit out.

Head to Marsalim.
Buy 2x Pom L from the man near the equipment shop to the right.
Head to the palace, get the Tempest Amulet, and buy all 3 Soulstone L from the guard on the right.
Head to the room to the right side and grab the Enchanted Circlet, High Horse Armor, and $25000.

TP Noblecourt.

Therion Ch.3 Finale

Finish story stuff.
You can choose to S+Q in the second screen or try to make it through without an encounter.

You can do this menu anytime before Orlick.

Orlick

There is a chance Therion or someone can die on T3 if you get unlucky with Magic Missile. If so, olive the dead person and repeat T3/T4 (breaking Orlick) as needed.

Turn 1

• Therion: Incite
• Cyrus: Blizzard
• Tressa: HHM x2

Turn 2

• Therion: AC x2
• Tressa: Shadow L
• Cyrus: Thunder L

Turn 3

• Therion: Thousand Spears (If you get many hits and Cyrus is last, Tressa can break on her next action and turn it into a 3T fight)
• Tressa: Attacks to break / Defend
• Cyrus: Spear x4 Orlick OR HHV x4 if broken

Turn 4

• Tressa/Cyrus: HHV x3

Chapter 3

Proceed through the story and do the steals.
When you steal from the tavern person, you'll have infinite tries.

For the encounter before Gareth, kill them using Light M + HHB or Light S.

Heal Therion as needed, and begin the fight with Gareth.

Gareth

This fight is scripted, except if Therion dies to crit slices (not posssible with a cait), or if Therion is not first and his adds kill someone before Therion can use Incite.

Turn 1

• Therion: Incite
• Cyrus: Blizzard
• Tressa: Defend

Turn 2

• Tressa: HHV x3
• Therion: Armor Corrosive
• Cyrus: Defend

If Therion dies before his action on T2, you'll need Cyrus to Olive and hope Therion is before him.
If not, you'll need to throw a Soulstone M to make up the damage.
If he revives after Cyrus, you'll need to throw 2 L Stones to make up the damage. It's also a range, might need a bit more.

Turn 3

• Cyrus: HHV x4
• Therion: HP Thief x4

Chapter 4

After the cutscene, get Master's Longbow. Heal Therion if needed before the forced encounter.

Kill the forced encounter here.
Use Therion's Incite if he is first, and have both merchants use HHM x2 to break.
Use 1L 1M or 3M to kill the encounter.

Proceed through the cutscenes.
Before attempting the 3%, head to the NPC near the provisioner shop.

Steal the Fool's Gold Ore, Scrutinize him (you'll pick it up later at the tavern), and purchase the Curious Antique.

Afterwards, trigger the 3% cutscene and do the steal.
Each reputation restore costs 1k, and assuming you did no reputation resets, you'll have roughly 15k worth of resets you can do before having to reload.
Good luck!

Afterwards, perform the following menu:

At the equipment shop, sell all items for ~$88,300.

Heal everyone to full, proceed through the dungeon (Get the Ice M chest before entering the Cathedral if you don't have any M stones), and save before Darius.

Darius

You need to break him before he gets his action.
Afterwards, the fight is scripted (unless you have the second scenario below and you're not on Cait Route).

This fight either needs 1L (used when broken), or 1L 1M (if the Wind L is used to to help break Darius)

Standard Fight (Therion or Therion + any merchant before Darius)

Turn 1

• Therion: Thousand Spears
• Tressa: Pom L Cyrus or Wind L or Spear (if before Darius)
• Cyrus: Pom L Self or wind L or Spear (if before Darius)

Turn 2

• Tressa: Defend
• Cyrus: Sidestep x3
• Therion: Shackle Foe

Turn 3

• Therion: Armor Corrosive x2
• Cyrus: Collect x4
• Tressa: Tradewinds

Turn 4

• Therion: Defend
• Cyrus: Pom L Self
• Tressa: Tradewinds

Turn 5

• Therion: Dagger x4
• Cyrus + Tressa: HHV x4

Turn 6

• Therion: Soulstone L or M if needed
• Cyrus + Tressa: HHV x3

2 Merchants before Darius Fight

Requires a Pom M if noncait, and you risk Tressa dying to crit.

Turn 1

• Therion: Pom L Cyrus
• Tressa: Spear x2
• Cyrus: Blizzard

Turn 2

• Tressa: Pom M Self
• Cyrus: Sidestep x3
• Therion: Shackle Foe

Turn 3

• Therion: Armor Corrosive x2
• Cyrus: Collect x4
• Tressa: Tradewinds

Turn 4

• Therion: Defend
• Cyrus: Pom L Self
• Tressa: Tradewinds

Turn 5

• Therion: Dagger x4
• Cyrus + Tressa: HHV x4

Turn 6

• Therion: Soulstone L or M if needed
• Cyrus + Tressa: HHV x3