Dragon Quest IX

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Platform:
NintendoDS (first, Lite, DSi only)
Note: Other games in the series play on different platforms.

Posts about: (note: may have some spoilers)

• Last file, includes good tips
• Log #8 / A New Log
• Finally!!
• The Final Bosses Arrive

Areas visited so far: (* = where fyggs are)

• Angel Falls - a sweet little town that prizes its water that has healing abilities.
• Stornway - a large kingdom ruled by a benevolent king.
• Zere - a small town to the north of Stornway. Prizes its giant apple tree.
• Brigadoom - off map
• Coffinwell - ruled by a slightly contempt mayor, but a friendly place.
• Alltrades Abbey - the place to change your vocation, looked over by the good natured Jack Abbott.
• *Tower of Alltrades - off map
• *Porth Llaffan - a small fishing town that wants something bigger than fish. Be careful what you wish for.
• Quarry Slay - Small port town off of Porth Llaffan
• Dourbridge - A ruggad, patched up town with no government
• *Zere Rocks - an uninhabited place at the top of the Heights of Loneliness. 
• Bloomingdale - a large port town greatly influenced by generous, rich Marion Bloom.
• *The Bad Cave - off map
• *Gleeba - a desert kingdom ruled by a sanctimonious queen.
• *Batsureg - a pleasant group of people governed by a wise man.
• *Swingdimples Academy - a carefree academy that "offers the best education."
• Wormwood Creek - a little town that hates foreigners. Joy. 
• The Bowhole - off map
• Upover - small city in the middle of a mountain, a maze to get there. Quite a cheer after Wormwood. 
• Gortress - The upstate prison of the Gittish Empire. What's in the secret dungeons? 

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Gallery:

Some of the main NPC's met

World map

The Quester's Rest - inn at Stornway

Changing vocations - Alltrades Abbey

The streets of Stornway

Characters: current attributes
Eir - main character
Vocation: martial artist
Weapon: staff (training)
Subcategory(s): Litheness (mistrel)

Talen
Vocation: warrior
Weapon: sword (training)
Subcategory(s): none

Levi
Vocation: priest
Weapon: wand (training)
Subcategory(s): none

Kole
Vocation: mage
Weapon: whip (not training)
Subcategory(s): spellcraft (mage)

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The story begins...

   You're a being called a Celestian, and your job is to watch over the small town of Angel Falls, solving peoples problems, and collecting Benevolence (the crystallization of mortal gratitude). At the end of the day you return to the Observatory, the city in the sky you call your home where all Celestians reside, and offer the benevolence to the World Tree, Yggdrasil.
   One night you return, and at last your Celestian duty is fulfilled, Yggdrasil as born fruit at long last! Now the Celestians can board the Celestial Carriage and travel to the Realm of the Almighty.
   Suddenly, blasts of purple light explode from below, from the mortal land. The Observatory shakes, and a mighty wind arises. You feel your feet being lifted off the ground. The Celestial Carriage is hit and falls, and the fruits fly from the tree, also falling.
   With another great sweep of wind, your hand, which had been clinging to the roots of Yggdrasil, is ripped away, and you're flying high into the sky, then falling. You fall and fall, a shooting star to all who see you below. A mighty earthquake shakes the land just as the sun rises. Your fall ends in the pond of Angel Falls.

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Morag - boss

Part One: Upon meeting Stella, the captain of the Starflight Express, she helps you save town after town to "regain" your Celestian powers (which you seem to partially lost from your fall). After helping out a great number of people, the golden train is flying, and again you're off the to Observatory.

Part Two: Apus Major, the head of the Observatory, as conducted you to return to the Protectorate, the mortal realm, in search of the lost golden fruits. You also acquire the useful spell Zoom. From each fruit you gather back, you not only make friends, but you solve some form of both internal and external conflict that plagued the area. A lesson is learned and all is well.

Fright Knight - monster

Part Three: The fyggs are stolen from you, now you must get them back? Once you do, you venture to the Realm of the Almighty, but what havoc has taken place here? Is this the work of the Gittish Empire? But how? Now you face the Triumgorate, and after them, King Godwyn himself. However there is one last player in this plot, and he might be the one pulling the strings from the very beginning. The epic plot concludes.

Part Four: getting closer-ish