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Thjorgard
  • 1 of 8: There's lots to do here, so it's a good thing you have three days to do it all in. Start by exploring the city and doing all the usual stuff.
  • 2 of 8: NOTE: When you talk to Jarl Sven about his alliance-joining quests, be sure not to mention getting Thjorad if it's still in your inventory. Sell it to a shop first, then buy it back after reporting success to Sven. (If you need more money, remember that you can always "make" some at the bank thanks to Edina A'Mor being with you.)
  • 3 of 8: After you're through in the city, go do the Initiate to Scholar promotion quest and get all four of your guys promoted to scholars. Then go find the expert trainers for Disarm Trap, Learning, Merchant, Perception, and anything else you want to make your guys expert in. (Dark Magic and Meditation will have to wait until you're back in Guberland.)
  • 4 of 8: After you get your scholar promo, talk to the guy who gives the mage promo quest to get it. You won't be able to finish it yet, but you can turn in Verhoffin's silver diary now and get the key you need for the house in Drangheim City. We'll be visiting it soon, but not before doing a few other essential things. (NOTE: You might want to volunteer all four of your scholars for mage promotion if you're not partial to liches. The lich promo is much harder to get done, and the sooner you get all four of your characters fully promoted, the better.)
  • 5 of 8: You should still have plenty of time left after that, so why not head out to the Training Hall and nab some artifacts? Since you can't cast Lloyd's Beacon yet, you'll have to enter the hall through its secret entrance and run through it quickly, visiting the black chest as you go.
  • 6 of 8: Also, why not do Jarl Sven's "Find out why the Elemental Thjorad production has stopped" quest? It'll get you some more treasure and experience, and you'll have one fewer main line quest to do later.
  • 7 of 8: Use any time you have left over to exploit the little glitch in the city's Arena that allows you to get lots of easy gold, XP, and treasure. See the Thjorgard City Notes and Extras for details on that.
  • 8 of 8: Sometime on the 28th, set sail for the Isle of Ashes. It's time to pick up the artifact item you left there before and to get Verhoffin's silver diary if you didn't before. (Note that you could skip this for now, since the black chest in the Verhoffin Ruins never regenerates, and you'll therefore never "lose" its artifact.)