Walkthrough

!!!WARNING SPOILERS!!!

PART I - Hero Duncan

-use retaliation strike to win early battles
-on the starting island, find the abandoned mine which will take you an underground cave
-you will be attacked by a manticore; move your priest to the corner and use retaliation strike
-the boots of leviation can be acquired from the skeleton in the cave
-move to the second island in the corner of the map and get the footmen to join
-move to the third island to the west of the second island (you can see it from the first island)
-go to the quest hut and find the green mushroom in the cave to learn eldritch arrow
-defeat the skeletons using eldritch arrow
-move to the mainland after visiting the tower
-rescue the druid and get him to join
-go to the well and learn deflect missile
-move west to the hill fort and upgrade the footman to a squire and the druid to a druid elder
-defeat the marksman using the squire and spells
-sell the boots of levitation at the trading post and use the money to pay the bandits
-approach the leprechaun to get a side quest (see Quest I)
-move to the hill just north of the first farm to find a treant that will join
-move through the second farm to find a garrison
-defeat it using the treant's take root ability while hiding your other creature behind the treant
-visit the santuary to receive new objectives
-look at the spells in the arcane library
-go to the town to the south, visit the various buildings, sell resources/artifacts for gold
-inside the town, train your troops into cavaliers
-go to the tavern to the northwest to meet the dwarf hero (see PART II)
-continue north along the river until you find a crossing
-scale the mountain to the cave, defeat the dragon, collect the treasure, and town portal back to the town
-you now can hire some creatures each week which you can train and upgrade
-attack neutrals and collect resources and artifacts to trade for gold
-remember to buy spells from the arcane library specifically teleport and resurrection
-once strong enough, travel west towards the elf town
-at a witch hut you will receive a side quest (see Quest II)
-just outside the elf town, a stack of elves will give you a quest
-when strong enough defeat the warlock hero in the southwest corner of the map
-go to the elf town then return to the sanctuary
-see PART III

PART II - Hero Erling
-stand next to the boulder above the cyclops to push it onto him
-find dwarven creatures to join
-get rune of charge to defeat crossbowmen
-travel through the tunnel and back into the mountains
-from the stables, head northwest and get fireball spell from the shrine
-if you kill the mages, the summoned creatures will disappear
-enter tunnel near the stables and melt the barrier with fireball
-reach the dwarven temple then head back underground and go north towards the dwarven town
-attack neutrals in order to level up and gain resources
-get a quest at the dwarven treasury just southwest of the town (see Quest III)
-get a quest from the elemental tomes near the magma shrines (see Quest IV)
-three pieces of the dwarven artifact set can be found: 1 above ground, 1 in the northwest corner above ground, 1 in the northwest corner underground
-return to the dwarven town when hero is level 25
-see PART IV

PART III - Hero Duncan
-assuming Part II is completed
-gather army of at least 20-30 cavaliers
-get resurrection and teleport spells from arcane library
-get on boat to the east
-sail toward the northeast corner of the map and find place to land (optional)
-attack garrison and find troops that join (optional)
-find sphinx nearby (optional)
-return to boat, sail to tomb, and go to outpost
-see Part VI

PART IV - Hero Erling
-assuming Part I is completed
-get creatures from garrison and exit through tunnel into the desert
-kill wandering blue hero to get fourth piece of dwarven artifact set
-get various bonuses scattered around desert before attacking stronghold
-during stronghold battle, use fire resistant creatures and armageddon
-go to outpost
-when necromancer hero attacks, use armageddon to win battle

PART V - Hero Gilraen
-after Parts I and II have been completed
-in eleven town, set favorite enemies to the four types of undead creatures
-head east and collect evercold icicle and equip it
-buy a boat and sail towards the tomb location
-defeat blue hero (he is resistant to spells but circle of winter will slow his creatures)
-visit eldritch well, go to outpost
-when necromancer hero attacks, use imbue arrow with deep freeze and rain of arrows
-use druids channeling ability to increase hero's spellpower

PART VI - Hero Duncan
-assuming Parts IV and V are complete
-enter tomb and defeat guards
-in first trial room, do not touch the treasure
-visit the temple and barrier will be removed
-in second room, visit the tome
-message gives directions and distances to move in order to cross the abyss
-the directions are 3S-5E-5S-8W-4N-4W-8S-4E-2N-3E-5S
-in third room, simply attack the stack of monsters
-get artifact from tomb and exit through portal
-head back towards boat
-when Zoltan attacks, defeat him with summoned angels and resurrect any killed troops
-follow Zoltan north and go through teleporter
-equip mask of equity if you have it
-attack the castle
-immediately move stack of angels next to liches
-use another stack to prevent enemy creatures from exiting through the gate
-try to neutralize the skeleton archers quickly
-use ressurect to keep your troops alive (angels are only summoned creatures)
-you can also protect a stack of your creatures by teleporting then inside the castle later in the battle



OPTIONAL QUESTS

QUEST I - Leprechaun
-find the leprechaun 4 times around the bottom portion of the map
-reward is gold and a level up

QUEST II - Witch
-find the purple mushroom near the southwest corner of the swamp
-find a griffin egg on the hill north of the witch hut
-find beehives just north of the elf town

QUEST III - Treasury
-all the sulfur you need can be found in the northwest corner of the underground
-reward is the phoenix feather cloak

QUEST IV - Elemental Tomes
-the four tomes near the magma shrine each represent an element
-near the northwest corner of the underground is a shrine that lists these elements
-visit the four tomes in the correct order
-reward a level up and access to another magma shrine with rune of resurrection just to the west