Field Guide/Bestiary for Baten Kaitos Origins by Sister (sis-cindy@hotmail.com) Copyright November, 2006 by Sister (C. Minguez) Version 1.2 - includes tiny update fixing mistakes This is another faq that I didn't originally intend to write, but it goes hand-in-hand with my others for this game, so I thought I might as well since I already had all of the information. I don't list all of the enemy stats, etc. I just give you what you need to fill out the field guide, which includes items should you need to farm particular ones. I also cross-reference the field guide to the Coliseum so that if you missed an enemy somewhere, you can get another crack at it. Thanks to all the people at the board who have helped me. Many thanks to markinct for proofing the guide for me. Copyright and contact stuff: This is my work. You're welcome to use it as long as you're not selling it. Gamefaqs is the only place I will be submitting it. If you want to post it on your site, I don't mind, but I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know. Feel free to contact me with any info I may have missed or mistakes you find at sis_cindy@hotmail.com. Spoilers: Since this guide lists every monster/enemy in the game, naturally, there are spoilers. Enter at your own risk if you've haven't finished the game at least once. You can get the Field Guide the first time you visit Sheratan. Talk to the doctor in his house, and he'll ask you to do it for him. He's lost the one he had, and he's too old to do it again. Once the Field Guide is in your possession, it's your job to fill in all the entries. Every enemy is listed in the field guide plus their special skills and items dropped. You must fill in every section of every entry to receive the 100% completed reward. Tip #1: Make sure to get all special skills. It can be easy to overlook a special skill. There are two possibilities: No unique skills = there are no specials; this one's done. Details unknown = you're still missing this skill; go find that enemy. If you have the first skill, make sure there's not a "Details unknown" under it; there are no lines to separate them, so it's very easy to miss. Several enemies have healing abilities. If you want them to use them, beat them up a bit first. This is true of almost all soldiers. When they get tired, they will use Gashprin Salve. So, beat on them until they droop then just wait. Mites all use Mitochondria (on themselves or the monsters with them). Some machina use Self-Repair. These are the easiest skills to miss. Don't worry about bosses. Their field guide entries automatically fill in completely. I've gone ahead and listed them, but you don't have to worry about missing anything there. One other thing to remember - in a fight, the title of a special skill will always be displayed when a monster uses it. If you're waiting for a skill, look for those titles. No matter how fancy an attack a monster does, if no words pop up, that's not one of the skills you're looking for. Tip #2: Getting items When you're after drop items, take a few Treasure Lowdowns along. They improve your chances for a drop, and they stack (up to a point - five or six is plenty). Kill the monster that has your item last. I didn't figure this out until I was trying to get a drop item from Vodnik at the Celestial River. I had received forty-five (yes, 45) Sword of Tears from the mites that show up with Vodnik. Out of curiosity, I changed the order and left Vodnik until last to kill and voila - a Whitecap Shield! I did this three times and received three shields. I haven't tested it further since Vodnik was the last one I needed, but keep it in mind if you're having trouble finding an item you need. Tip #3: Temporary areas A few areas in the game are temporary. In other words, you won't get a crack at the enemies there again unless they can be found in the arena. These temporary enemies are the main reason I list the Coliseum battles in the next section. Many of the "missable" enemies can be found there. In fact, I think that the only genuinely missable enemy is the Ballet Dancer at the Vega Building Site. I've never seen him anywhere else, so be sure to fill in his section in the field guide completely while you're there. I try to get them all as I go along, but you can always fall back on the Coliseum for everything except that Ballet Dancer. Temporary areas: Dark Service Headquarters/Emperor's Residence - later there will be different enemies or none at all at these locations. Mintaka while Sagi is trying to escape town - this is a temporary situation that ends when you escape on the liner to Hassaleh. Nunki Valley before the fire - the enemies all change after the fire. Rodolfo's Estate - the enemies all leave afer you defeat Giacomo and you finish the scene with Rodolfo/Heughes. Nashira while it's occupied by Empire troops. Vega Building Site - the chests here can be picked up in Vega later, but the enemies will be gone. Keep in mind that you cannot finish the Field Guide the first time through. Well, technically you can. I guess I should say that you can't claim your reward for it until you get back to Sheratan on your second playthrough. Since the final bosses have entries, you cannot get 100% until they're gone. Also remember that Nasca, Heughes, and Valara each have more than one entry. To complete the guide, you cannot let them go on Disc 2 when given the opportunity; you must finish them off to get their last entries. Letting them go, however, contributes to the best/longest ending of the game, so it's up to you which you'd rather do. If you only plan on playing once, the field guide probably doesn't matter anyway. Rewards: Hermit's Cane, Fate Idol, Poison Ashes, Berserker Drink, Harp of Slumber, Tarot Card: Death, Hero's Crest, Purest Gold Just drop by Sheratan from time to time, and Doc will give you prizes as you progress. I don't know the exact requirements for each prize except for Purest Gold (100%) and Hero's Crest (filling in all the pictures - enemy names and items), so just check back once and again. To complete your gathering list, you must finish the field guide. Many of Doc's rewards are unique; I haven't found them anywhere else. I list the locations exactly as they are in the guide's index; there's overlap in some areas though. If you have empty slots and can't find an enemy in a given location, chances are that you need to come back later. For example, you'll be asked to go check out a problem at Dark Service HQ on Disc 2, and the enemies are different from the ones at the beginning of the game, but they're still listed together. So, entry 001 is your first fight in the game. You can't find entry 002 until well into Disc 2, so don't panic if you're missing slots; they don't fill in chronologically. Organization: I list the monster/enemy, skills (number of skills), items (number of items). I include the number only if there's more than one. I also include where in the Coliseum different enemies can be found; some enemies can be found in several places in the Coliseum and be easy to find elsewhere, as well (the Shawra, for instance), so I won't list every battle in the Coliseum for all of them. Good luck. :) Alfard Dark Service Headquarters 001 Dark Service Peon No Unique Skills Item: None Coliseum: Rank 2, The Brittle Bunch 002 Fallen Serviceman Skills (2): Slumber Shot and Gashprin Salve Item: Taunt Coliseum: Championship Fight 003 Upgraded Paramachina Skills (2): Saber Hand and Rampage Chop Item: Wickedwing Revels Emperor's Residence 004 Alpha Paramachina No Unique Skills Item: Low Potion Coliseum: Rank 3, The Imperial Battalion 005 Dark Serviceman Skills: Gashprin Salve Item: Low Potion Coliseum: Rank 3, The Imperial Battalion 006 Imperial Battle Machina Skills: Self-Repair Item: None Coliseum: Rank 1, The Reinforcements 007 Hideous Beast Skills: Mountainmaker Item: Flame Sword Mintaka 008 Empire Grunt No Unique Skills Item: Punk Knife Coliseum: Rank 1, The Reinforcements 009 Imperial Swordsman No Unique Skills Item: Flash Dagger Coliseum: Rank 1, The Reinforcements 010 Giacomo Skills: Thashingale Items (2): Fulgadrum and Escape Nihal Desert 011 Doomer Skills: Flaming Powder Items (2): Ice Fan and Fire Element Coliseum: Rank 2, The Fiery Spirits 012 Devil Claws Skills: Carcass of Power Items (2): Emerald Thrush and Flame Sword Coliseum: Rank 2, The Human Wave 013 Gigim Skills: Armadillo Attack Item: Ray of Truth Lava Caves 014 Magma Beast Skills: Inferno Items: Sedna Toadstones 1 Coliseum: Rank 2, The Fiery Spirits 015 Ceratobus Skills (2): Dynamite Rush and Fuzzy-Wuzzy Coat Items: Crimson Love Coliseum: Rank 2, The Fiery Spirits 016 Foytow Skills: Bloodsucker Blaze Items: None Coliseum: Rank 2, The Sadist Squad and The Fiery Spirits 017 Phoelix Skills (2): Incendiary Voice and Insanity's Song Items: Mars Sophia Coliseum: Rank 2, The Fiery Spirits 018 Lord of the Lava Caves Skills: Molten Lunge Items (3): Arabesque, Empyreal Wildfire, and Sedna House 1 Coliseum: Advanced Battles, Living Fossil 019 Umbra Skills (2): Mountainmaker and Hellian Eye Items: Sword of Thirst Hassaleh Nusakan Thornwood 020 Shawra No Unique Skills Items: Wooden Club Coliseum: Rank 1, Flappers 'n' Floppers, The Hard Punchers Shawras are in every Rank except Rank 5 021 Balloona No Unique Skills Items (2): Sorcery Sophia and Potion Coliseum: Rank 1, The Hard Punchers Lake Botein Ruins 022 Mite Skills: Mitochondria Items: Mars Sophia Coliseum: Rank 1, Flappers 'n' Floppers Rank 2, The Icy Stares 023 Pul-Puk Skills: Healing Droplets Items: Cliffsunder Coliseum: Rank 2, The Icy Stares 024 Ogopogo No Unique Skills Items (2): Swallowtail and Azure Lotus Coliseum: Rank 1, The Hard Punchers 025 Hideous Beast Skills: Icy Death Items: Sevenstar Dust Sheratan Village 026 Machina Arma: Razer Skills: Arma Cannon Items: Levinsnake's Rise Diadem Celestial River/Cloud Passage 027 Cancerite No Unique Skills Items: Cancerite Booze Coliseum: Rank 3, The Snare 028 Armored Cancerite No Unique Skills Items: Kappa Helmet 029 Ray-Moo Skills (2): Electro Crash and Mucky-Yucky Mucus Items: Pegasus Jump Coliseum: Rank 3, The Rear Guard and Danger: High Voltage! 030 Bar-Mool Skills: Healing Droplets Items (2): Scension and Sedna Bluefruit Tree 031 Fogg Skills: Overheat Items: True Verdure Coliseum: Rank 3, The Snare 032 Vodnik (remember - kill him last to get his item) Skills (2): Armadillo Attack and Armored Dillo Items: Whitecap Shield 033 Magician Mite Skills (2): Ice Rubble and Mitochondria Items: Sword of Tears Coliseum: Rank 3, The Rear Guard and Danger: High Voltage! 034 Giacomo Skills: Thrashingale Redux Items (2): Glimmer and Escape 035 Dark Service Swordsman Skills (2): Fryercracker and Gashprin Salve Items: Red Padma Coliseum: Rank 3, Carelessness Kills 036 Imperial Elite No Unique Skills Items: Chain Mail Coliseum: Rank 3, The Snare Nashira 037 Autonomous Batle Machina Skills (2): Force Ring Alpha and Self-Repair Items: Bandages Coliseum: Rank 3, The Snare and The Imperial Battalion Cloud Vents 038 Cloud Cancerite Skills: Collar Lop Items (2): Ray of Truth and Cancerite Booze 039 Shadow Claws Skills (2): Carcass of Power and Jitterjinx Items (2): Ascension and Murderous Joker Coliseum: Rank 3, Carelessness Kills 040 Valara Skills (2): Machina Formation and Deathdealer Items: Rime Blade 041 Heughes Skills: Machina Items: None 042 Nasca Skills (2): Stun Grenade and Gashprin Salve Items: None 043 Machina Arma: Marauder Skills: Plasma Cannon Items: None 044 Machina Arma: Marauder Skills (2): Plasma Cannon and Self-Repair Items: None 045 Nasca Skills (2): Stun Grenade and Gashprin Salve Items: Hades Sophia Sadal Suud Nunki Valley 046 Unuk No Unique Skills Items (2): Violet Taboo and Battle Shield Coliseum: Rank 4, T.A.N.K. 047 Striper No Unique Skills Items: Canyon Wind 048 Blood Leaf Skills: Enervating Waves Items (2): Red Padman and Thunder Hat Coliseum: Rank 4, Bats Beat Birds 049 Gormer Skills (2): Flamethrower and Flaming Powder Items: Citrine Arc 050 Armored Baloona Skills: Overheat Items: Luciferous Stave Coliseum: Rank 5, Unbeatable Armor 051 Mobile Turret No Unique Skills Items: Hidden Sophia Coliseum: Rank 5, Nukerz and Fantabaloney! 052 Elite Swordsman Skills (2): Shock Bomb and Gasphrin Salve Items: None 053 Malpercio's Afterling Skills: Feral Death Items: Wickedwing Revels 054 Promachina Heughes Skills (2): Charge and Burning Harken Items: None 055 Promachina Heughes Skills (2): Charge and Burning Harken Items: None 056 Heughes Skills: Machina Fist Items: Cold Queen 057 Dark Service Swordmaster Skills (2): Shock Bomb and Gashprin Salve Items: Whitecap Shield Coliseum: Rank 5, Extreme Chaos and Nukerz Rodolfo's Estate 058 Dark Service Officer Skills (2): Slumber Shot and Gashprin Salve Items: Battle Shield Coliseum: Rank 4, T.A.N.K. and Hell's Haralds (*note - in the Coliseum, one Dark Service Officer will appear with four Beta Paramachina; you might get easier drops at Rodolfo's) 059 Beta Paramachina Skills: Saber Hand Items (2): Diamond Drop and Light Element Coliseum: Rank 4, T.A.N.K. and Hell's Harald's 060 Giacomo Skills (3): Thrashingale Redux, Liquid Mettle, and Energy Injection Items (2): Marvelous Sword and Escape Anuenue Holoholo Jungle 061 Spell Shellfish Skills (2): Water of Life and Adamant Shell Items: Sedna Ebonstone Sculpture 062 Undead Swordsman Skills: Nether Whistle Items: Chalice of Freedom 063 Mirabilis No Unique Skills Items: Scale Mail 064 Acheron No Unique Skills Items: Scale Mail 065 Lesser Caracal No Unique Skills Items: Canyon Wind 066 Vata Skills (3): Predation, Hover Strike, and Earsplitting Whoop Items (2): Rising Condor and Siren Sword 067 Alraune Skills: Poison Breath Items: Taunt 068 Holoholo Chick Skills: Angelic Song Items: None 069 Holoholobird Skills (2): Wingflail and Egg Items: Heavenlapse and Armor of Tonitrus Coliseum: Advanced Battles, Ruler of the Skies Celestial Tree Veinroots 070 Badwin Skills: Toxic Waves Items: Mirage Turn 071 Mad Cancerite Skills (2): Headhunter Chop and Ice Cold Swig Items (2): Versed Shield and Cancerite Booze 072 Ghost Claws Skills (2): Carcass of Power and Jitterjinx Items: Ebon Slash Coliseum: Rank 5, Extreme Chaos 073 Imperial Guard Skills (2): Electro Shot and Gashprin Salve Items: Force Coliseum: Rank 5, Extreme Chaos 074 Machina Ballerina Skills: Self-Destruct Items: None Coliseum: Rank 5, Nukerz 075 Wizard Mite Skills (2): Thunderbolt and Mitochondria Items: Herb Flower Coliseum: Rank 5, Awakening 076 Malpercio's Afterling Skills (2): Dark Spawn and Veinroots' Pulse Items (2): Transcension and Lightendrake's Drop 077 Machina Arma: Razer Skills (2): Arma Cannon and Hurricane Punch Items: None 078 Machina Arma: Razer Skills (2): Arma Cannon and Hurricane Punch Items: None 079 Valara Skills: Deathdealer Items: Arondite Duhr Seginus 080 Zelmer Skills (2): Foxfire and Seafire Items: Wickedwing Revels 081 Magic Shellfish Skills (2): Water of Life and Adamant Shell Items (2): Zeniver Cascade and Twin Ice Auger Coliseum: Rank 5, Unbeatable Armor 082 Larva Golem Skills: White Breath Items (2): Empyreal Wildfire and Lightendrake's Drop Coliseum: Rank 5, Awakening and Fantabaloney! 083 Nebulos Skills: Devil Thunder Items: Spirilight Quiver Coliseum: Rank 5, Awakening 084 Seginus Skills (2): Heavenlapse and Shadowflame Engine Items: Fellstar Gleam Tarazed Vega 085 Ballet Dancer (only location - get its item now) No Unique Skills Items: Rabbit Dash 086 Elite Imperial guard Skills (2): Binder Shot and Gashprin Salve Items (2): Thunderer's Shield and Force Coliseum: Rank 5, Extreme Chaos 087 Promachina Shanath Skills: Machina Sweep Items (2): Phoenix Dive and Ravensbrood Tarazed 088 Baelheit Skills (2): Hellfire and Seraphim Soul Items (2): Prominence Sword and Fate's Kiss 089 Imperial Swordguard Skills (2): Fryercracker and Gashpring Salve Items: None 090 Masterless Battle Machina Skills (2): Force Ring Beta and Barrier & Self-Repair Items: None 091 Hercules Dragon Skills (4): Hercules Laser, Storing Energy, Self-Repair, and Barrier Items: Apocalypse Sword Coliseum: Championship Battle and Advanced Battles, Looming Danger 092 Dance King Skills: Ring-Around-the-Rosy Items: Transcension 093 Prima Queen Skills: Self-Destruct Items: Ghostarrow 094 High-Mobility Cannon Skills: Fusillade Items: Phoenix Dive Coliseum: Advanced Battles, The Wicked Gawd 095 Cicada Golem Skills (2): Beam Barrage and White Breath Items: Cross Pendant Coliseum: Champsionship Battle 096 Ahriman Skills (2): Knife Parade and Crystal Cryomancy Items: None Coliseum: Championship Battle 097 Lycaon Skills: Electro Horn Items: None Coliseum: Championship Battle and Looming Danger 098 Machinanguis A Skills: Berserk Tech Items: None 099 Machinanguis B Skills (2): Hyperslaught Mode and Berserk Tech Items: None 100 Verus Skills (2): Death by Stomping and Tentacle Recharge Items: None 101 Verus-Wiseman Skills (2): Magnus of Life and Cast Away Your Carnal Robes Items: None Age of the Gods Albali Sandhollow 102 Caracal No Unique Skills Items: None Coliseum: Rank 1, Fab Forest Friends 103 Goat Chimera Skills: Supersonic Voice Items: None Coliseum: Rank 1, Fab Forest Friends and Other Worldly Ilk Sandfeeder's Nest 104 Albireo Skills: Mucky-Yucky Mucus Items: Heat Club Coliseum: Rank 1, Other Worldly Ilk 105 Orvata Skills: Hover Strike Items: None Coliseum: Rank 1, Other Worldly Ilk 106 Sandfeeder Skills (2): Paralysis Quills and Lunchtime Items (2): Icebloom and Sedna Bridge Coliseum: Advanced Battles, Peril of the Sands Zaurak Keep 107 Filler Skills: Snooze Waves Items (2): Levinsnake's Rise and Dark Element Coliseum: Rank 4, T.A.N.K. and Hell's Haralds 108 Skeleton Warrior No Unique Skills Items: Trigon Band Coliseum: Rank 4, Blackest Night 109 Goulish Skirmisher Skills: Blinding Rancor Items: Classic Cudgel 110 Rulug Skills: Bloodsucker Items: Ascension Coliseum: Championship Battle 111 Shadow Caracal Skills: Uber Cat Kick Items: None 112 Devil's Doll No Unique Skills Items: Pegasus Jump Coliseum: Rank 4, Blackest Night, The Attackers, and Hell's Haralds 113 Juggler Skills: Pyromancy Items (2): Rime Blade and Luciferous Stave Coliseum: Rank 4, The Attackers and Hell's Haralds 114 Master Juggler Skills (2): Cryomancy and Animal Hypnotism Items: None Coliseum: Rank 4, Nukerz and Fantabaloney! 115 Geryon Skills: Evil Thunder Items: Crystal Helm 116 Monoceros No Unique Skills Items: Demon Cudgel 117 Rudra Skills (2): Heathen Melody and Feral Proof Items: Shadowflame Engine Battlefields of Atria 118 Alma Skills: Foxfire Items: None 119 Medium Skills: Numinous Wings Items: Twin Ice Auger 120 Shaman Skills: Numinous Wings Items: Mourning Dress 121 Dragon Skills (2): Conflagrant Breath and Skywrenching Roar Items (2): Dragon Claw and Salamander Tongue 122 Guillo Skills (2): Heavenlapse and Fellstar Gleam Items: Zeniver Cascade 123 Wiseman Skills (2): Illusory Chaos and Cast Away Your Carnal Robes Items: Aphelion Dustwake 124 Black Dragon Skills: Crimson Catharsis Items: Apocalypse Sword Coliseum: Advanced Battle, Relive the Nightmare Matar Highlands 125 Lanocaulis No Unique Skills Items: Sedna Well 126 Maw-Maw-Goo Skills: Shell Spin Items (2): Red Padma and Heavenfall 127 King Caracal Skills (2): Uber Cat Kick and Kitty SOS Items: Saint's Armor Coliseum: Rank 5, Unbeatable Armor 128 Nixie Chimera Skills (2): Supersonic Voice and Chilling Voice Items: Ascension 129 Hearteater Skills: Ovulate Items: Blast Tooth Coliseum: Advanced Battle, Peril of the Sands Other Coliseum 130 Arma Prototype M Skills (2): Sinistral Chop and X-Bluster Items: None Nekkar Quietlands 131 Armored Mite Skills (2): All-or-Nothing Thunder and Mitochrondia Items: Emerald Thrush Coliseum: Rank 5, Fantabaloney! 132 Queen Alraune Skills (2): Poison Breath and Beastprodder Items: Rising Condor Coliseum: Championship Battle 133 Slave Baloona Skills: Overheat Items: Arabesque 134 Mange-Roches Skills (2): Wingflail and Trample Items: Open Your Eyes Coliseum: Advanced Battles, Terror of the Skies 135 Saber Dragon Skills: Crimson Hail Items (2): Saber Dragon Horn and Phoenix Dive Other Party Members 136 Sagi -Special Attacks- Scension Heavenfall Cliffsunder Ascension Red Padma Icebloom Transcension Blast Tooth Rime Blade The Golding's Rapture 137 Milly -Special Abilities- Mirage Turn Pegasus Jump Canyon Wind Rabbit Dash -Special Attacks- Swallowtail Emerald Thrush Sevenstar Dust Arabesque Diamond Drop Rising Condor Phoenix Dive Open Your Eyes 138 Guillo -Special Attacks- Firewheel Icefan Fulgadrum Ghostarrow Sigil Cry Twin Ice Auger Levinsnake's Rise Spirilight Quiver Wickedwing Revels Heavenlapse Empyreal Wildfire Zeniver Cascade Lightendrake's Drop Fellstar Gleam Shadowflame Engine Aphelion Dustwake