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It doesn’t take long forEiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroesto open up and give the player room to explore a little. In fact, rather early in the game, you will be tasked with recruiting new members to the watch. While these characters are dispersed throughout the Grum County region, there is one place that keeps factoring into their recruitment: the Redthroat Cliffs.
There are four characters who will require you to interact with the cliffs. One of them can only be obtained once you have worked your way through this dungeon in its entirety. We’ll help point you in the direction of all the goodies you can find here, as well as help you locate all the important recruitment-specific elements.
Before you enter the Redthroat Ridge, make sure you have already spoken toKuroto in Alterverdenand have encounteredMellore in Eltiweiss. You may as well recruit both characters at once, so initiate both quests before starting your excursion. Ideally,you should recruit Francescaas well, as her healing will be extremely helpful.
Notable Enemies
There are two enemies you are going to want to look out for during your romp through the ridge. The first is theWild Boar. You will need to hunt three of these down if you want to recruit Kuroto. You will also encounter an enemy named aShell Egg. These creatures are giant eggs with feet poking out the bottom. Defeating one gives you that chance of obtaining an egg. Later down the road, you will need five eggs to recruit Paquia. So, it isn’t aterribleidea to collect them now while you are here.
Redthroat Ridge Resources
There are a number of gathering points located around the Redthroat Ridge area.These will provide you with one of two resources: iron ore or stone.These gathering points are typically found next to the treasure chests, so if you follow our guie to those chests, you will also encounter them.
Later on, you will encounter a recruit who will specifically request iron. This is one of the places where you’re able to go to get it for them.
Redthroat Ridge Treasures
There isn’t anything particularly special waiting for you in this dungeon treasure-wise. However, there is some decent early-game equipment that may as well snag. TheThick Robeis the first treasure chest you will encounter. Just stick to the right and you will cross over a rope bridge and run into it. The robewill work on either Lian, Mellore, or Francesca.
After backtracking a little, you’ll run into a tiny fork in the road where you can head west or go north. There is a treasure chest withtwo Magical Dropsif you gonorth.
Double back and head west this time. You will now run into a bridge heading north. Go west instead to cross over another bridge and grab aTricorne Hat. Now, head back to the main path, travel northeast, and you will run right past a resource gathering point. Once you hit the bridge traveling east, there will be a treasure chest below youcontaining six herbs.
After spending a little more time on the main path, you will cross over a bridge heading west. Dip to the south after crossing the bridge to find another chest containing600 Bacqua.The only thing left do from here is to head north. You will hit your final fork in the road. Here we want to head west once again so that we can cross another bridge and get the final chest that holds aRune of Magic. Now simply head east and confront the Redthroat Ridge’s boss…
Nerthus - Boss Fight
Nerthus will only appear if you are accompanying Mellore.
Nerthus is a pretty simple boss with a pretty simple gimmick. You will have two grimoires that you will be able to interact with. When Nerthus dives into the ground, you need to try to predict which side of the screen they will pop up on. If you get it right, the grimoire will summon a hammer that will smack Nerthus and potentially stun them.There is no “right” way to do this. There is a 50/50 chance you select the correct Grimoire.
Nerthus has two attacks: he’ll swipe at a single party member or toss a boulder at a single party member. Both attacks count as physical, the Water Veil spell would be a waste of MP.
Once you have substantially injured Nerthus (taken him down to about half-health), he’ll transform. This next form of Nerthus gets a single new attack: a ground slam.Unfortunately for you, this attack injures all party members.You are going to want to stay on top of your heals once he has this attack. Utilize the Recovery Wave spell, or prepare to down a lot of herbs. Thankfully, he won’t enter into this state until he is pretty hurt, so you won’t have to last too much longer before he goes down.
While Water Veil spell doesn’t do anything to diminish the damage of Nerthus’s swiping attack or boulder drop, itdoesdiminish the ground pound attack’s damage.
Once Nerthus is defeated you will recruit Mellore and the game will be kind enough to send you back to the entrance. No Rune of Return needed!
