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Story

• The Gate of Summer
• The Gate of Winter

Gameplay

• Hanafuda System
• Quests
  • Summoned Spirits
  • Max Karma Guide
• Hidden Village
  • Harem & Blade
  • March
  • Heroes
    • Skills
    • Artifacts
  • Heroines

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Just a bare-bones list of details on each available area's types and difficulties, including info on when events trigger an update. The areas will be listed clockwise from the top.

Quest Itinerary

All 5+ star Hunt areas will have a random Combat encounter. Win or lose, the Hunt area will drop to 4 star or less for the rest of the chapter, even if the area switches to Search. The only exception to this is when a Boss or Enemy occupies the area, which will set a new star rating before and after their encounter.

Before questing, try to cook meals that restore 7 Life each (see hints below for ways to optimize cooking.) If you have the ingredients to waste, it may be worthwhile to exit the quest and retry for the best results. Every Hunt/Search/Combat attempt requires 1 Life, so maximizing available Life for a Max Karma run is necessary.

Prologue Event wakens Serpent Boss, which remains until defeated, then changes to 7-star Hunt. Optional Combat remains until confronted, then changes to 4-star Hunt. 3-star 6-star Random Opponent, AT/DEF varies 2-star 1-star Most the karma on this Quest is in Hunts, and enough Skeletons will be sufficient if you follow the Event chain to receive the Sword. Conserve Life until you can handle the 6-star Hunt, conserve Pow for Combat. You don't have to challenge the 6-star until receiving the Sword, but the sooner you can beat it, the sooner you can farm 4-star Karma and better quality animals for offerings and ingredients. / 3-star 12-star! AT 12/DEF 3, 60-point quota Quest Challenge: Defeat Serpent before getting Black Sword, and without Camp, for 1 storage tome. 6-star Combat or 4-star Hunt 2-star 1-star All Areas remain the same through Event progression, then advance after 3 animals are sacrificed. / / Area Event turns back to 1-star Hunt. Equip Mirror to advance. 3-star 12-star Combat or 7-star Hunt 7-star version of Snake can be encountered 6-star Combat or 4-star Hunt 2-star 1-star / / Maud disappears after this Event; last chance to Cook food and reminisce on sexy times 3-star 12-star or 7-star Hunt Last chance to complete Quest Challenge 6-star Combat or 4-star Hunt 2-star 1-star You don't have to challenge the 12-star serpent until receiving the Sword, but if you equip it you'll only get one chance to beat it. / / Whether the Challenge was completed or not, Serpent appears as a 7-star Combat 3-star 7-star or 4-star Hunt 6-star Combat or 4-star Hunt 2-star 1-star / / 3-star 7-star or 4-star Hunt 6-star Combat or 4-star Hunt 2-star 1-star Boss fight: AT 8/DEF 18 without sword equipped, 40 point quota Defeat to finish Epilogue
Chapter 1: A Song of Magic Any choice will progress to next, for 2 Events in a row. 5-star 6-star 7-star 4-star 4-star 1 Event Most the Karma is in Searches, and summoning the minions to handle them will make the 4-star boss easy. Hunts are optional if you prepared your offering animals in advance, and though you may gain extra Karma from bounties, stacking your graveyard for Combat takes away slots for +Search minions. Completing Search advances 5-star 6-star 7-star 4-star 4-star / 5-star 6-star Equipping the key will turn this from Hunt to Search 7-star 4-star 4-star Only appears after equipping the key 5-star 6-star 7-star 4-star 4-star Any Event advances, for 2 Events / 5-star 6-star 7-star 4-star Changes to Search after equipping Chucky 4-star 1 Event, then equip Chucky for another Defeating Boss advances 5-star 6-star 7-star 4-star 4-star AT 8/DEF 18 5-star 6-star 7-star 4-star 4-star Event begins Battle which finishes Chapter. Quest Challenge: Defeat 1000 to gain a storage tome
Chapter 2: The Queen's Fang 4-star 5-star 5-star 4-star 3-star Summon enough +Search for the mandatory 4-star searches and prepare for 7-Star Combat with the rest, taking advantage of 5-star Hunting along the way. 4-star 5-star 5-star 4-star 3-star 5 Events to advance 4-star 5-star 5-star 4-star 3-star 4-star 5-star 5-star 4-star 3-star If you can bring your Search minions this far, you won't need more for the Quest. This would be a good point to start summoning Combat minions, and test them against the 5-star bounty here. 4-star 5-star 5-star 4-star 3-star 4-star 5-star 5-star 4-star 3-star 4-star 5-star 5-star 4-star 3-star 5-star 5-star 5-star 5-star 4-star AT 25/DEF 18, 20-point quota 5-star 4-star 5-star 5-star 5-star Random Encounter: 5-star version of previous Boss 5-star 4-star 5-star 5-star 5-star 2 Events Defeat Boss to complete Chapter 7-star AT 14/DEF 7, 35-point quota 5-star 5-star 5-star 5-star This will be 5-star even if you encountered previous 5-star bounty.
Chapter 3: Island of the Gods 4-star 6-star 6-star 3-star 3-star Filling your graveyard with enough Combat support will require farming Karma/Leaf from 4-star Searches. The more Hunt and Combat your charm provides, the fewer Searches you'll need. If your charm is low on these, you may gain more Karma from focusing on enough +Search for the 6-star Searches later. 4-star 6-star 4-star 3-star 3-star 4-star AT 10/DEF 0, Quota 20 6-star 3-star 3-star 3-star Event deploys March, difficulty 70. Depending on Success, the next map change may vary. 4-star 5-star 7-star 3-star 3-star 4-star 5-star 7-star 3-star 3-star Event deploys March, difficulty 90. Depending on Success, the next map may vary. Quest Challenge: Complete the Route to win 1 storage tome 4-star 5-star 7-star 3-star 3-star 4-star 5-star 7-star 3-star 3-star Boss battle immediately follows Search Event AT 18/DEF 8, Quota 30 Defeat Boss to finish Chapter 4-star 5-star 7-star 3-star 3-star
Chapter 4: Old Man Dies All Hunt and Search is optional this Chapter, and there are no Boss battles 6-star 7-star 7-star 4-star 4-star 6-star 7-star 7-star 4-star 4-star 6-star 7-star 7-star 4-star 4-star 6-star 7-star 7-star 4-star 4-star 6-star 7-star 7-star 4-star 4-star 6-star 7-star 7-star 4-star 4-star Event deploys March, 160 difficulty Quest Challenge: Complete the route to gain 1 storage tome 6-star 7-star 7-star 4-star 4-star Event completes Chapter 6-star 7-star 7-star 4-star 4-star
Chapter 6: The Priestess of Swords All Hunt and Search is optional this Chapter, and there are no Boss battles. Hunt Encounters reduce Area to 4-stars for the rest of the Chapter. 6-star 7-star 7-star Earth Encounter 4-star 4-star 7 Events to advance 6-star 7-star 7-star 4-star 4-star 6-star 7-star 7-star 4-star 4-star 3 Events to advance 6-star 7-star 7-star 4-star 4-star This Event completes the Chapter Roll credits 6-star 7-star 7-star 4-star 4-star

Tips for Max Karma

Preparation:

Charms:

• You shouldn't consider any charm with less than +5 Life. There hasn't been any confirmed benefits for amounts over that; there might be, but I wouldn't recommend trading away other valuable stats for excess Life.
• Your Questing charm doesn't have to be optimized for Harem and Heroes, as the only useful Enchants on Quests are Cooking. Whether that really needs to be maximized depends on the Cooking ability of the Camp XO you prefer and the quality of your food ingredients.
• The higher Hunt and Search ability, the less your graveyard build needs to compensate for the difficulty levels, so you can select spirits based on other abilities, especially Combat support. Most of the quests have a higher Karma yield in Search areas first, so that's a little more valuable, but most Combats take place in Hunt areas, so you should be able to handle their difficulty until you find a bounty.
• Combat capability isn't as high priority; +Attack/Def and good weapons are helpful (and sexy!) but you'll always need more. The less Karma you have to invest on early Karma-farming, the more Karma you can spend putting together a good army.

Camp XO: These provide many benefits aside from Cooking, stat boosts and unrevealed bonuses. In the Epilogue your only choice is Maud, but through the Gate of Winter any Heroine who holds the Top Score in the Harem will be Camp XO on distant missions. If there are no scores in the Harem, Haine will be selected by default. You may wish to keep her a virgin, as virgin White Witches provide considerably greater benefits (+50 Fortune, [Enlight] attribute.)

• Some Heroine Classes provide much useful support, but aren't very good cooks, such as Crystal Gazer and Bookworm. For these you would want to keep high quality ingredients, Blessed Sheep with the maximum Cooking bonus, and a charm loaded with Cooking-oriented enchants.
• Dedicated Cooks, like the 3-star and 5-star Chefs and Patisserie, have culinary skill almost too good for the field, but not many other benefits. But if you need to use food stock sparingly, or don't have any to spare at all, they can make great meals from practically nothing.
• Many knowledge-based (Scholar and Ortlinde,) magic-based (Blood Mage and Fairy Ring) and combat-based (Shieldmaiden and Iris' Guardian) Heroine classes provide Search/Hunt/Combat bonuses and also have good Cooking skills.
• Unfortunately Heroes aren't permitted to cook. Then we would rule the world!

Inventory:

• Sheep, preferably Blessed and +10 to Cooking, but no more than 1 row of them. If you need more Cooking, it's better to have that compacted into a charm and XO than to gobble more inventory space that could be catching better charms and scrolls of Blessing and Enchantment.
• Scrolls of Identify and Scrolls of Remove Curse are both useful and disposable; Identify to find out if you have caught something worth keeping, and Remove Curse if you wish to blind-test items to conserve Identify.
• Other scrolls useful for Quests, Fortune and Accuracy, should be read as soon as they're found. Elemental scrolls are good for summoning Shadow Heroes, but that should be done in a different Quest run than a Max Karma run.