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The dungeons ofValkyrie Profile: Lennethdon’t often have much story significance. The Lost City of Dipan is a notable exception, not only does it provide some interesting insight into the game’s backstory and another Valkyrie of the Valkyrie trio, it is directly linked to the game’s sequel, Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria.
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It’s quite an involved dungeon, with more than one boss fight and a lot of smaller puzzles to solve. Here’s the rundown.
Lost City Of Dipan Overview
It’s very important to note that this guide is assuming that youtake this dungeon on as soon as you gain access to it- that is, inChapter 6.
If you wait until Chapter 7, there will be no fight against Barbarossa, and you won’t be able to travel to the past or take on the boss fight.
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Has quite high defensive stats and strong combo attacks. Not really as dangerous as other ‘eye’ enemies you’ll find in the game, though.
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These enemies are quite easily taken down - just start a combo with a magic attack, familiar attack, or archer attack and they’ll fall to the ground - from there, your melee attackers can ruin their day.
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Lightning
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Can use Blood Steal to heal themselves and has a very nasty three-hit combo with a high chance of inflicting Faint. Be wary, especially since they’re among the bulkier enemies.
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Very weak for this point in the game. Chaos Blade can be threatening, but a single Lightning Bolt cast from the menu has a good chance of obliterating every Victory onscreen.
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Poison
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Has some very powerful spells that you want to avoid, but is very frail. Take it out as a point of priority.
Life Stealersare the big threats here - consider equipping theJewelled Sword ‘Grimrist’just to deal instant deaths to them.
How To Beat Barbarossa
As soon as you enter this dungeon, you are treated to a boss fight, one of two in this dungeon!
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Barbarossa is an interesting foe - he hasstrong physical attacks, can cast a bunch ofoffensiveandsupport spells, and has alot of health. Unfortunately for him, his tactics are so spread out that he never gets a chance to truly flex on you.
If you let him live long enough, he’ll use his more powerful attacks, such asHellfireandMalice Grudge, which deal unblockable damage. The latter will deal damage to the entire party and cancurseyou.
Use your standard strategy to take Barbarossa down - open combos with powerful magic attacks and wail away at him with PWS attacks if you hit 100 on your combo meter.
Sap Guardcan be used to counter his Guard Reinforce if that’s giving you trouble!
If you struggle with Barbarossa, it may be a sign that you have to retreat and spend the rest of the chapter leveling up, as you actually have to fight Barbarossatwice in a row. Remember, though, if you progress to Chapter 7, Barbarossa will disappear.
Once you beat the undead king a second time, he’ll disappear. Startheading to the leftand Barbarossa will reappear - you can refight him if you wish, but there’s no point. Instead, it’s time toexplore the Lost City of Dipan.
Traveling Into The Past
Move to the left until you canexit to the front- do so.Move to the right until you reach a screen with monsters- deal with them however you wish, and thencontinue on to the right until you reach some stairs to the front. Ignore the path further to the right (it only contains an encounter with an Evil Eye) andtake the stairs down.
Continue down the stairs and press on to the leftuntil you reach a cutscene in which Valkyrie identities a Time Mechanism. After the cutscene, you’ll be in the past.
Exploring The Past
The first thing to do is leave the castle -head to the right, up the stairs, and then all the way as leftas you may go until you reach thesquare, whereupon Valkyrie will spot some humans.
After the cutscene,explore the city,talking to everyoneto find out what happened. It seems like Hrist, another Valkyrie, has attacked the city with Einherjar of her own, slaying the king. The queen, on the other hand, is nowhere to be found.
Make sure you talk to this lady in the first Private Residence- she’s upstairs. Without talking to her, you cannot find thesecret roomin the next section.
With that done,go back into the castle and head right until you reach the screen with two staircases. Use the staircase leadingup to the next levelandfollow this path up to the top of the castle- ignore all the rooms to the front, the only things they contain are dead bodies.Always take the topmost exitwhen you reach a staircase.
When you reach thegrand bedroom, interact with thebookcaseon the left. Continue on to the left to find a secret room and the queen. Watch the cutscene that unfolds.
Looting Dipan Castle
Now, back in the present,head back to the castle and head up the stairs that lead to the queen’s secret room. In the room with thesave point, you’ll find the way to the boss, but we’re going toloot the castle first.
With all the loot collected,head all the way back down to the floor with the save point.
If you jump, you’ll notice a stained glass window on the left wall.Use a crystal to jump up to the top of the doorframe and create a large crystal on it.Burst it with another crystalto create afloating platform, and use that tojump up and smash a hole in the window. Enter it, and thenhead to the left to confront the mageswho got you into this mess.
How To Beat Dallas, Gyne, And Walther
You’re fighting all three mages at once, and they’re pretty tough cookies.
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As you can tell just from that stat block alone, Walther is the main threat in this fight, but shouldn’t be the main target. Each mage has different moves:
As he can cast Invoke Feather,dealing with Gyne first is imperative. Throw everything you have at him.
Having a way toprevent magic damagewill help supremely here. TheMirror of Pleiadesis a fantastic item to equip - you can get one from theClockwork Mansion, and one bytransmutating an Incense Burner of Darlis, which you can get from theGorhia Cult Headquarters.
Reflect Sorceryis a better way to consistently avoid damage - make sure your sorcerer is putting this up whenever possible.The status lasts three turns, so ways to reduce a sorcerer’s charge time, such as by equipping aFairy Ring, are appreciated greatly.
While he’s the obvious first target,Gyne has lots of RDM, meaning you won’t do much damage to him unless you have very high-power weapons equipped. Once he’s taken care of, your next target will likely be Dallas, as Walther is protected by being in the back row. If your sorcerer gets a spare turn where they don’t have to cast Reflect Sorcery, use a spell that hits all enemies to get some damage in on Walter.
Once you have the kill order down, the battle is over quickly.
There aretwo rewardsfor beating the mages.
Rust-Red Circlet
A circlet that protects against holy damage. It can only be equipped by male sorcerers - Gandar and Lezard Valeth. Convert it into Materialize Points.
Dragoon Tyrant
A decent spear with a three-hit combo. Despite its description, it does not slay dragons as the Dragon Slayer does.
To leave the dungeon, leave the castle and head all the way to the left, past the exit to the square.
