Guide to G11's Ancient Book Relic System (possible spoilers)

• Yogurticecream wrote on 2010-04-21 15:39
  Spent a considerable amount of time to translate the information. Hopefully it's worth it.
  I thought of bringing this over here, to share about one of my favourite things in G11.
  
  This is an important system, because it is required early in G11S1 quest. In order to gain the Tara Castle librarian, Arzhela's trust, you have to find one of these book relics and then turn in to her.
  
  

  [Image: http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7103/bookrelic1.jpg]

  
  
  Tool of the system, the Monocle
  
  Firstly, you need the monocle that will be given to you by Arzhela for free (during G11 mainstream quest) when she requests for you to donate something to the library (that's the book relic here, any relic/page will do, you do not need the entire puzzle). DO NOT DROP THIS MONOCLE, if you do, you have to buy another from her at a cost of 150,000 gold, which is NOT CHEAP.
  
  

  [Image: http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/6062/bookrelic2.jpg]

  
  
  Tara Castle Missions
  
  There are only 3 Tara Castle Missions at the mission board.
  
  These are:
  
  Spirit of Partholon (1-5 people)
  Formor's Attack (1-5 people)
  The Other Alchemists (1-4 people)
  
  Collecting the Book Relics
  
  In order to get one of these books, just spot for a shining area when in one of the Tara castle shadow missions. Equip the monocle and you will see a drop.
  
  

  [Image: http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/8901/bookrelic4.jpg]

  
  
  The drop should look something like this.
  
  

  [Image: http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/222/bookrelic5.jpg]

  
  
  There are 6 types of book collections. The type that comes out from shadow missions are dependent on the difficulty of the mission (to be explained later). They come in puzzle-like forms (with exception of the Shining Old Book, which come in standard-looking pages instead).
  
  How the puzzle type book relics looks like:
  
  

  [Image: http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/2555/bookrelic6.jpg]

  
  
  Old Meditations Book
  
  

  [Image: http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/638/bookrelic7.jpg]

  
  
  The ancient book fragments can be placed in your pet's inventory, bank. It can also be traded. However, if you have pieced a completed puzzle together, you will not be able to trade/put on pet/put in bank. So make sure you have enough space on your inventory when you do this. You can swap incomplete puzzles with friends to complete your own puzzles.
  
  Ancient book relics will only appear in Tara castle missions, however these will not appear in the mission "summon and collect together the expedition army" (possibly a G11 mission, not too sure on this).
  
  Also, korean players have noticed that it is not possible to complete a book by collecting relics from the same mission. Let's take the Old Meditations book puzzle and label as according to the numbered diagram below:
  
  

  [Image: http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2821/bookrelic8.jpg]

  
  
  The mission "Spirit of Partholon" will possibly yield only numbers 1-3 of the relics, while another mission "Formor's Attack" has numbers 4-5 of the relics.
  
  Therefore, in order to complete the puzzles, you have to do various missions, or you have to do a book relic trade with other players.
  
  Difficulty of missions = Different types of book relics
  
  Beginner level (at least level 1)
  
  Shining Old Book
  Comes in various numbers, but has the same picture (not puzzle-like). Pages of the same number are stackable.
  
  Mysterious Old Book
  
  2X2 puzzle, similar puzzles are not stackable and each take up 1X1 of your inventory space.
  
  

  [Image: http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/8949/bookrelic9.jpg]

  
  
  All missions stated are at Beginner level.
  1st fragment：Spirit of Partholon, Fomor's Attack, The Other Alchemists.
  2nd fragment：Spirit of Partholon, Fomor's Attack.
  3rd fragment：The Other Alchemists.
  4th fragment: The Other Alchemists.
  
  Silent Old Book
  
  2X3 Puzzle.
  
  

  [Image: http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/7448/bookrelic10.jpg]

  
  
  All missions stated are at Beginner level.
  1st fragment: Fomor's Attack
  2nd fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  3rd fragment: Fomor's Attack
  4th fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  5th fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  6th fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  
  Intermediate level (at least level 100)
  
  Ancient Old Book
  
  3X3 Puzzle.
  
  

  [Image: http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/28/bookrelic11.jpg]

  
  
  All missions stated are at intermediate level.
  
  1st fragment: The Other Alchemists, Spirit of Partholon
  2nd fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  3rd fragment: The Other Alchemists, Spirit of Partholon
  4th fragment: Fomor's Attack
  5th fragment: Fomor's Attack
  6th fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  7th fragment: The Other Alchemists, Spirit of Partholon
  8th fragment: Fomor's Attack
  9th fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  
  Advanced level (at least level 300)
  
  Old Book Of Despair
  
  3X4 puzzle.
  
  

  [Image: http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/6393/bookrelic12.jpg]

  
  
  All missions stated are at advanced level.
  
  1st fragment: The Other Alchemists, Spirit of Partholon
  2nd fragment: The Other Alchemists, Spirit of Partholon
  3rd fragment: Fomor's Attack
  4th fragment: The Other Alchemists, Spirit of Partholon
  5th fragment: Spirit of Partholon, Fomor's Attack
  6th fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  7th fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  8th fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  9th fragment: The Other Alchemists
  10th fragment: Fomor's Attack
  11th fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  12th fragment: Fomor's Attack
  
  Had Mode Level (at least level 1000)
  
  Prophetic Old Book
  
  4X4 Puzzle.
  
  

  [Image: http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/2903/bookrelic13.jpg]

  
  
  All missions stated are at hard mode level.
  
  1st fragment: Fomor's Attack
  2nd fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  3rd fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  4th fragment: The Other Alchemists
  5th fragment: The Other Alchemists
  6th fragment: Fomor's Attack
  7th fragment: Fomor's Attack
  8th fragment: Fomor's Attack
  9th fragment: Spirit of Partholon, The Other Alchemists
  10th fragment: Fomor's Attack
  11th fragment: The Other Alchemists
  12th fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  13th fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  14th fragment: The Other Alchemists
  15th fragment: Spirit of Partholon
  16th fragment: The Other Alchemists
  
  Rewards from turning in
  
  Completed puzzle/separate relics can be handed to Arzhela, however you will get less for separate relics.
  
  

  [Image: http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/3134/bookrelic14.jpg]

  
  
  The rewards are not fixed, but are within a certain range for the same type of book puzzle/relic.
  
  The following information is supplied by Korean players:
  
  Mysterious old book
  [Complete]Gold 13680 Exp 27600
  [Complete]Gold 8960 Exp 27840
  
  Silent Old Book
  [Complete]Gold 14280 Exp 42840
  
  Ancient Old Book:
  [Complete]Gold 27000 Exp 55080
  
  Old Book of Despair:
  [Complete]Gold 47700 Exp 99000
  [Single Piece]Gold 1790 Exp 3090
  
  Prophetic Old Book:
  [Complete]Gold 58800 Exp 138600
  
  If you have enough inventory to store the completed books, this is a great way to get extra gold/exp from those mission!
  
  
  Bonus: Cute Princess Dress!
  
  Just like the way you might get a lava cat robe from Belita, you might have a chance at Cute Princess Dress too!
  
  Take note that Cute Princess Dress only comes out from the Advanced level and Hard Mode level books. It will be useless to spam Intermediate/Beginner missions for the puzzles if your sole intention is to get the dress.
  
  

  [Image: http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/1757/bookrelic15.jpg]

  
  
  

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• Phunkie wrote on 2010-04-21 15:55
  Thank you for this! :) I love reading guides about things that are yet to come. It's a good way to prepare yourself in advance, plus this sounds fun.
  
  Yogurt, I'd also love for you to make a guide on those "extra" inventory items you can equip yourself with. I think that's in G12, which you might not have yet. But when it comes, please let us know all about it.
• Yogurticecream wrote on 2010-04-21 16:00

  Quote from Phunkie;13813:

  Thank you for this! :) I love reading guides about things that are yet to come. It's a good way to prepare yourself in advance, plus this sounds fun.
  
  Yogurt, I'd also love for you to make a guide on those "extra" inventory items you can equip yourself with. I think that's in G12, which you might not have yet. But when it comes, please let us know all about it.

  
  I think when it comes out, I'll be puzzled about it.
  I am personally hoping that one of the people in yydzh or someone from the TW server makes a guide for it.
  
  Also, in terms of server progression we are 2 generations faster than NA, and 1 season behind TW, JP and 3 generations behind KR. So I don't mind if anyone beats me to describing that system, as I really want to know about it beforehand as well.
• Zid wrote on 2010-04-21 16:26
  Interesting, but sounds like a hassle, and prone to competition with players in the same mission (Who wouldn't want 138600 EXP?). Unless those G11 Shadow Missions are short and easy to do.
  
  That dress looks wonderful on that Giantess by the way. Sounds much harder to get than Lava Cat Robe.
• Phunkie wrote on 2010-08-10 15:08
  Since G11 is gonna be coming pretty soon, gonna give this a little bump.
  
  Once again, great guide!
• Sora wrote on 2010-08-10 15:37
  This is.. Awesome o 3o..My gf totally wants that dress 8D
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2010-08-10 17:34
  Great guide indeed, especially it has become much more relevant. Hopefully some quick graphic-swap mods can let me see those sparkles better, lol.
• Schezo wrote on 2010-08-10 17:39
  *twinge* The Princess Dress is from this!? (Run guys! Her fashionista senses are out of control!)
• Yogurticecream wrote on 2010-08-11 02:52
  Very rare thing to get though.
  And it is very anti-social behaviour to be snatching off those relics.
  I'm waiting for the day that I can solo these advanced level missions so that I can get a go at this. It's going to be tough at the boss rooms =(
• Flonne wrote on 2010-08-11 08:50

  Quote from Yogurticecream;120644:

  Very rare thing to get though.
  And it is very anti-social behaviour to be snatching off those relics.
  I'm waiting for the day that I can solo these advanced level missions so that I can get a go at this. It's going to be tough at the boss rooms =(

  
  
  I didn't know foreign servers has more high level elitists than NA.
  
  Anywho, I guess you can do basic level and just get any book for the g11 mainstream right?
• Justified wrote on 2010-08-11 08:56
  Sounds like a huge PITA. How many book pieces does a typical mission have?
  
  As for the dress, it looks like a worse version of the fashion contest dress imo. And sounds harder to get, although I haven't participated in a fashion contest yet.
• Jihui wrote on 2010-08-11 09:07
  And now I know how to get the dress. *w* The only thing I don't like about it is that it doesn't cover your feet. x__x Gowns are supposed to do that! D:
• Chihaya wrote on 2010-08-12 17:25
  Epic Guide, thank you for the information <3
  +rep
• Schezo wrote on 2010-08-13 01:45

  Quote from Justified;121167:

  Sounds like a huge PITA. How many book pieces does a typical mission have?
  
  As for the dress, it looks like a worse version of the fashion contest dress imo. And sounds harder to get, although I haven't participated in a fashion contest yet.

  
  Fashion contests requires skill and dexterity with the keyboard. Plus, only five people per week can get the dress.
  In one mission, I reported finding three books in a Basic mission.
  
  @Jihui: Fashionista dress is long enough to cover the feet @_@
• shzukahime wrote on 2010-08-13 17:40
  For the dress, do you have to submit a completed book for a chance or can it be fragments? :s