Hello and welcome to this guide! I decided to post this to give people a way to learn where some hidden items were in the game. This will not tell you the exact location in most cases, but will tell you in what dungeon or area you can find certain things.
The guide will have small spoilers due to the nature of the locations listed.
Ultimate Spells and Skills Locations
In The Book of Shadows, starting with Chapter 8 you can find the ultimate skill or spell for each character. Below are locations where you can find those spells or skills. To learn the skill or spell, use the book you find that contains it, it will then be automatically added to your list of learned spells or skills.
Here is the detailed list. Be advised there are minor spoilers in the location list.
Fire (Nova): Found on a body in the Caves of Chimar, Chapter 9.
Water (Frozen Slash): Automatically learned at the start of Chapter 9.
Air (Air Phasing): Found on Floor 5 of the Tower of Storms
Earth (Ultra Wall): Old cave South side of Esteron. Requires the Ship to access.
Energy (Energy Wrack): Located in the Mana Stream, guarded by a powerful monster. You’ll need to either defeat it or slip past it to get this.
Mind (Mind Tap): Located in the Tower of Elyon.
Life (Divine Aid): Floor 2 of Amelia’s Hideaway, guarded by many Angels.
Death (Restoration): Elmwood, in The Pit. It is on the other side of the Mage Warded door, you will have to defeat the Undead Guardian to acquire it.
Thief (Concealment): Locked up in the vault in Clearwind Magic School. You’ll have to find the passcode to get to it, the code is 41368.
Protector (Ultra Shield): Located in Secret Room 37, by Winterglen.
Reporter (Krotrium Sword): Given by Whitebeard in Clearwind once you have found 45 or more of the 50 Secret Rooms.
Cheers (Pep Rally!): Located in Secret Room 48. You’ll need the ship to access the cave the Secret Room is located in.
Chemist (Cleanse All): Automatically learned at the start of Chapter 9.
Archer (Arrow Rain): Automatically learned at the start of Chapter 9.
Gladiator (Groundbreaker): Complete the challenge on Thundermeadow Beach in Chapter 9 to earn this.
Merchant ($$$$$): Located at the bottom of the Aviary.
Scientist (Equalizer): Located in North Vrylilum Woods, where the party fought the Hare of Darkness in Chapter 7. Return there in Chapter 9 and this will be on a body in that area.
Strategist (Medic): Return the Art of War Volumes 1 – 6 to Tiatha’s Archives to get this spell
Ultimate Weapons, Armor, and Necklace Locations
The best armors and weapons of the game can be found starting with Chapter 8. They can be found in the following dungeons.
Sword: Eastwood Sewers
Axe: For sale at Zabbas in Tir Koraz in Chapter 9
Fist: Blackmire Mushroom Caves
Halberd: Monster Pit.
Staff: Crossroads. Can trade GP for it in Chapters 8 or 9.
Daggers: Tower of Elyon
Pom-Poms: Secret Room 40, in Silvanos. Not the docks area though!
Megaphone: Win the Battle Arena on impossible mode in Chapters 8 or 9
Bow: Thundermeadow Peaks. Warning:
You will be jumped by a boss when you grab it. To defeat the boss use Earth spells as it resists anything else Book: The Church Temple North of Silverdale, in Chapter 9.
Rapier: Old Elmwood Mansion, Top Floor.
Clothing: One of the caves on the ocean. It is the one you cannot land at due to no landing point, to reach it you have to find a warp in the Mana Stream which will teleport you inside the cave.
Leather Armor: Krythaelia Wetlands, Chapter 9.
Heavy Armor: Dragon’s Horde Bank, Elmwood. You will need to exchange the wardstone you find in the Pantheon of Sirath to the clerk for it.
Robes: There are two of these. The first is found in the chest in Riverdale with all of the skeletons near it. The second is in the caves below Tir Koraz where the Mage Warded Door was.
Cloak: There are two of these. The first is in secret Room 39. The second is at Dragonblast. You’ll need to use a warp from the Mana Stream to get there in Chapter 9 due to the barricades at Northpass.
Shoes: These are dropped by a mandatory plot boss in Chapter 9 and cannot be missed.
Shield: Secret Room 43.
Helmet and Hairpin. Both of these are at the end of Beardwhack Fortress.
Star Necklaces. There is one for each stat. They can be found as follows:
Star Health Necklace: find 3 Abyss Worm Tails in Dragonblast and bring them to Winterglen.
Star Mana Necklace: Secret Room 44
Star Strength Necklace: Secret Room 34.
Star Defense Necklace: Eastwood Training Caves, Level 2.
Star Magic Necklace. One of the caves you can access with the sailboat once you get it has this.
Star Protection Necklace: The deserted Island has this.
Star Speed Necklace: Get a score of 100 or higher on every level of the Minotaur Maze at the Crossroads
Star Luck: Located on a body in the Clearwind Magic School.
Secret Rooms
In The Book of Shadows, there are 50 Secret Rooms to find. Here we will list in what dungeon the secret room is. More precise directions are stated if there are two in the same dungeon.
Note that no secret rooms exist in dungeons that cannot be returned to in Chapter 9. So if y ou miss one it is still possible to return to it later on.
For reference here is a list of the first Chapter in which you can access each Secret Room.
Chapter 1: Rooms 1 – 4
Chapter 2: Rooms 5 – 12
Chapter 3: Rooms 13 – 16
Chapter 4: Rooms 17 – 22
Chapter 5: Rooms 23 – 26
Chapter 6: Rooms 27 – 29
Chapter 7: Rooms 30 and 31
Chapter 8: Rooms 32 – 34
Chapter 9: Rooms 35 – 50
Scroll down for more details on which area each room is located in.
Secret Room 1: Sarah marks this on the map in Chapter 1. Its in the Elmwood East Caves
Secret Room 2: Elmwood Central Caves
Secret Room 3: The Pit. This is one of two rooms in the Pit, this one is near the Undead Town
Secret Room 4: The Pit. Northern side of the map.
Secret Room 5: Elmwood South Forest, Northern Side of the map.
Secret Room 6: Elmwood South Forest, Southern side of the map.
Secret Room 7: Silas Rest Lighthhouse
Secret Room 8: Silas Rest Tomb
Secret Room 9: Aurora Beach
Secret Room 10: Winter Island
Secret Room 11: Blackmire Marsh
Secret Room 12: Blackmire Mushroom Caves
Secret Room 13: Underwater
Secret Room 14: Tir Koraz Clearing
Secret Room 15: Tir Koraz Ice Caves
Secret Room 16: Tir Koraz Caves
Secret Room 17: Red Dwarf Tower Approach
Secret Room 18: Deserted Island
Secret Room 19: Las Vegas Mall
Secret Room 20: Military Base Approach
Secret Room 21: Its the map called ??? which is under the military base
Secret Room 22: Minneapolis, Outside.
Secret Room 23: Thundermeadow Peaks
Secret Room 24: Under Elmwood
Secret Room 25: Eastern Forest
Secret Room 26: Old Mansion, Ground Floor
Secret Room 27: West Elmwood Earth Caves
Secret Room 28: Thundermeadow Beach
Secret Room 29: Silverdale Walls
Secret Room 30: Krythaela Wetlands
Secret Room 31: South Vrylilum Woods
Secret Room 32: Old Cave
Secret Room 33: Darkspyre
Secret Room 34: Raindew
Secret Room 35: Amelia’s Hideaway, First Floor
Secret Room 36: Eastwood Forest
Secret Room 37: Winterglen
Secret Room 38: Silvanos Woods
Secret Room 39: Silvanos Sewers. North Side
Secret Room 40: Silvanos. Note this is in the city proper, and not the docks area that you access separately.
Secret Room 41: Tall Oak Clearning
Secret Room 42: Slime Caves, Level 3
Secret Room 43: Icetop Fortress
Secret Room 44: The Pit. It will be in that part you could not access before in Chapter 1, behind the door you had no way to open before.
Secret Room 45: Old Mansion
Secret Room 46: Tiatha’s Archives
Secret Room 47: Caverns of Cimhar
Secret Room 48: Old Cave. Its one of the caves you can access once you get the sailboat
Secret Room 49: Clearwind
Secret Room 50: Clearwind Magic School, Floor 2
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