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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