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Might and Magic IX Hints
Black Chest Locations
Each of the following areas has one or more black chests. If an area name is preceded by a hyphen (-), then the black chest(s) in that area never regenerate. A star (*) means they regenerate in 30 days, and an ampersand (&) means they regenerate every time you exit and reenter the area. (Note that the four special black chests never regenerate, including the one in the Dook's Castle.)
- Verhoffin Ruins (Isle of Ashes)
* Drangheim Prison (Drangheim)
- Chasm of the Dead (Drangheim)
- Kluso's House (Drangheim City) -- always has Black's Heart
* Dook's Castle (Guberland) -- 2 chests, one of which always has Everstrike
& Training Hall (Thjorgard)
* Yanmir's Fort (Frosgard)
- Inventa Storca (Thronheim) -- always has Gungnir
- Connecting Tunnels (Thronheim and Yorwick) -- always has Spencer's Obedience
& Dragon's Lair (Lindisfarne) -- 2 chests
& Lich Lab (Yorwick)
- Bathhouse (Arslegard City)
& Thousand Terrors (Arslegard City) -- lots of chests, but only 6 can have artifacts
