Sea of Trees

**Sea of Trees** is the first main location after the tutorial in *Thymesia*.

* Go left and smash through the wooden obstacles to find a Collection of Memories Lv1 at the end.
* Return to the top of the bridge and take the other bridge ahead.
* Go around the wall ahead to the right and smash through the barrels. Around the corner, keep smashing barrels to find Village Elder's Manuscript 01.
* Return to the top of the bridge and read the Tattered Twilight Circus Recruitment Ad posted on the wall to the left.
* Go up the ladder around the corner to the left.
* To the right is a handaxe elite.
* Once safe, go right, read the Twilight Circus Poster, and take the bridge to the right.
* Follow the path and drop down.
* Go ahead and read Note from an Unknown Hopeless 01.
* Follow the path ahead back to the second bridge crossed earlier. Retrace steps back to the Twilight Poster.
* In the building to the left, break through the wooden half-wall.
* Cross the bridge, follow the path around, read Tree Blessed's Manuscript, and go down the ladder a few steps back.
* Open the door here for a shortcut to the beacon chair.
* Return to the building and take the bridge to the right just outside.
* Go left and deal with the knife elite here, and then go left around the wall to find Notes on Hermes Life: Sea of Trees 01.
* Read the Twilight Circus Recruitment Ad ahead.
* Further ahead to the left, destroy the poison cyst here with feather attacks or by dashing in and using saber attacks.
* Destroy the barrel to the right for a Collection of Memories Lv1.
* Go up the nearby ladder.
* Go left and cut through the wooden half-wall ahead.
* Open the door, defeat the handaxe elite outside, and head to the right.
* Cross the bridge for another orange mist area.
* Feather attacks can lure the enemies out and, once they're dealt with, destroy the poison cyst.
* Destroy the wooden barrels to the left to find a ladder.
* Climb up the ladder and destroy the poison cyst up here. Read Village Elder's Manuscript 02.
* Drop down back and climb up the ladder to the left.
* Go around to the left for another ladder.
* Climb up here. There is a beacon chair directly ahead.

#### Second beacon

* Light up the beacon chair.
* From the beacon chair, go around the wall into the tent to engage a hammer miniboss.
* Defeating him should provide an Alchemy Enhancer and Key to the Side of the Tent, needed for the door next to the beacon chair.
* Destroy barrels inside the tent to find Hammer skill shards.
* Exit the tent, open the door near the beacon chair, and cross the bridge going left.
* Turn left, read the Market Announcement on the wall, and take the path around right to find Notes on Hermes Life: Circus 01.
* Go back around and head past the Market Announcement.
* Go into the room to the right and turn right.
* Take the ladder ahead.
* Go right and take the other ladder up.
* Go left and break through barrels and half-walls ahead, then drop down.
* Break the crate and read Note From a Royal Guard.
* Open the door behind to the left. Go back up the ladders.
* Go right and continue on to more yellow mist.
* Don't go in. Instead, go around to the left.
* To make a shortcut, interact with the ladder here that isn't connected to a higher floor. It will fall, connecting with the ladder below.
* Take the ladder up that leads to a higher floor. Take the Collection of Memories Lv1 at the top.
* Defeat the halberd elite up here ahead in the orange mist.
* Destroy the poison cyst here with feather attacks or by dashing in and using saber attacks.
* Go ahead and around right to find a Collection of Memories Lv1.
* Go back around and drop back down to the floor below via the gap in the wall.
* Turn left and go around up the stairs.
* Take the ladder to the right down.
* Follow the path ahead and break barrels to find Fennel.
* Behind this area, there is a ladder going down into a blocked off section of the lower floor.
* Break a box ahead to find and read Notes on Hermes Life: Sea of Trees 02.
* Go back up the ladder, and then back up the previous ladder.
* Go back down the short set of stairs to the left.
* Go around right taking the path behind to the bridge.
* There is a halberd miniboss across the bridge. Defeating him provides an Alchemy Enhancer and Key to the Market's Secret Room.
	+ Emerald is in the Market's Secret Room, but there isn't anything to show her yet. Optionally backtrack to check out the room and return here.
* Take a left from the short bridge.
* There's a knife elite here.
* Take the left and drop down to the left. Be ready for a halberd elite.
* Pick up the Collection of Memories Lv1 and drop down again.
* A fist miniboss here will likely drop from a level above. Defeating him provides an alchemy enhancer.
* Go left and around from the drop-in point to find and read Note From an Unknown Hopeless 02.
* Turn around and follow the wooden path into a hallway.
* Go left and smash the wooden objects at the end here to find and read Village Elder's Manuscript 03.
* Turn around and exit the hallway.
* Go right to a set of stairs going up by a sign with a lantern.
* Take the stairs up and go up the ladder and take the Collection of Memories Lv1.
* Go forward and then right to the beacon chair ahead.

#### Third beacon

* Light up the beacon chair.
* To the right of the beacon chair, there is a passage to the right blocked by a half-wall.
* Smash through and smash the wooden objects at the end for a Collection of Memories Lv1.
* Return to the chair.
* Also to the right of the beacon chair, there is another passage blocked by wooden objects to the left.
* Smash through and follow the passage up the curving stairs and the straight stairs.
* To the left ahead, smash the wooden objects and take the stairs up to find and read Notes on Hermes Life: Circus 02.
* Go back down the stairs and into the tent a little to the right for a fight with a flying dagger miniboss.
* The miniboss drops an Alchemy Enhancer and skill shards.
* Return to the beacon chair.
* Interact with the elevator door by the beacon chair to be taken elsewhere.
* Follow the path around to another elevator door. Interact with it to go another place.
* Head forward to fight the first boss, Odur.
* Defeating him provides Odur's Core, an Alchemy Enhancer, Forgotten Feather, and 2,500 Memories. He'll also drop Miasma skill shards.
* Back at Philosopher's Hill, Transformation Experiment Report 01 can now be found on the other side of the archway.

### Sub Quest 1

#### First beacon

* Go right to light up the Beacon Chair.
* Return to the starting point, go ahead, and into the tent to the left.
* There are four weaker axe-wielding enemies in here and a flying dagger miniboss at the other tent exit, who drops a Alchemy Enhancer.
* Outside the other entrance, go right and smash objects in the way to find and read Odur's Vile Blood Research Notebook.
* Return to the tent, exit the tent from the earlier entrance, and go down the ladder to the left.
* Go right to the other ladder. Destroy the poison cyst below with feather attacks.
* Go down the ladder. There is a halberd elite here.
* Go ahead and cross the bridge.
* There is a poison cloud just ahead. A knife elite will likely be in the way. Deal with her and destroy the poison cyst with feather attacks.
* Go ahead, open the door to the left, and proceed through to a ladder leading down.
* Go down the ladder to find and read Note from an Unknown Hopeless 04.
* Go right from the ladder and take the left to a beacon chair.

#### Second beacon

* Light up the beacon chair.
* There is a halberd elite to the right in the poison cloud.
* Destroy the poison cyst there with feather attacks.
* Proceed outside to the small building ahead to find and read Legend of Four Thieves Vinegar 01.
* There is a knife elite in the passage to the bridge behind.
* Go to the right of the passage leading to the bridge and smash barrels to find a Clove.
* Go to the bridge and cross it to find another poison cloud, a halberd elite, and two others.
* Destroy the poison cyst as usual and find Note from an Unknown Hopeless 05 to the left.
* Smash barrels behind to find a Collection of Memories Lv1.
* Turn around and take the bridge right to find another Collection of Memories Lv1.
* Go right and down the ladder at the end to find a handaxe elite.
* Ahead is Manuscript of a Hopeless Prophet to read.
* Go down the ladder ahead and take the bridge right.
* It may not be possible to hit this poison cyst with feather attacks. Instead, go in quickly and destroy it with saber attacks, and then deal with the handaxe elite and the two others.
* Smash wooden barrels to find a Collection of Memories Lv1.
* Turn around, go through the door ahead to the left, and climb the ladder.
* Go up the stairs and take the bridge across into a small building to find Whistleblower Records to the left.
* Return down the ladder and back across the bridge below.
* Take the bridge to the right to the poison cloud area. Carefully enter and destroy the poison cyst with feather attacks.
* The hammer miniboss here will drop an Alchemy Enhancer when defeated.
* Going around the building to the right from the bridge, Note from an Unknown Hopeless 03 can be found and read.

### Sub Quest 2

#### First beacon

* Light up the Beacon Chair.
* Proceed ahead and around the corner to the right.
* Cut across the poison cloud, going right.
* There is a halberd elite here to deal with, and a second one in the poison mist that might join in.
	+ There are many normal enemies here too, so fights here can be very crowded.
* There is a Collection of Memories Lv1 to pick up to the right.
* Turn around from the pickup and proceed ahead to go up the stairs. Watch out for ambushes both at the bottom and top of the stairs.
* Take the ladder up and follow the passage around to a fight with a halberd miniboss who drops an Alchemy Enhancer.
	+ This is an especially aggressive enemy who chains his attacks together frequently, sometimes performing critical attacks one immediately after the other.
* Take the path to the right and pick up the Collection of Memories Lv1 here.
* Go down the ramp and defeat the halberd elite here.
* Read the Experiences of a Hopeless Builder 01 on the path to the right.
* Go up the stairs to the left. On the next level, watch out for an ambush at the bottom of the stairs to the left.
* Go up this set of stairs. Behind, in the passage to the left, there is a knife elite.
* Deal with the enemy and go through the passage.
* Turn left, and then take the first right to the top of the ladder.
* Destroy the poison cyst below with feather attacks before taking the ladder down.
* There is a handaxe elite here with his back turned, along with a Collection of Memories Lv1 on the deck.
* Drop down into the previously poisoned area near the beacon chair.
* Go ahead and to the left. The halberd elite will be here if not previously defeated since the last rest.
* Find and read Legend of Four Thieves Vinegar 02.
* Return to the passage where the knife elite was, taking the original route as it's not possible to go back the other way.
* Go left from the passage and past the first right.
* Take the second right and break the barrel here for a Collection of Memories Lv1.
* Back a few steps, take the ladder down for another Collection of Memories Lv1. Open the door for a shortcut, but go back up the ladder and turn right.
* Go across the bridge to the right.
* Go right and then left to encounter an aggressive twin sword miniboss who will drop an Alchemy Enhancer and the Key to Sea of Trees Market.
	+ This fight is complicated by the four regular sword-wielders in the vicinity.
* Once the fight is over, go to the right and release the ladder here, but don't go down.
* Turn around, go up the short set of stairs to the right, and take the ladder down.
* Follow the path around. Beware of the halberd-wielder that will ambush with a critical attack.
* Break the barrels here to find Tales of Folk Potions 04.
* Turn around and go back to a ladder leading down just before the right turn. Drop down here to find Sea of Trees: Record of a Mysterious Event.
* Return up both ladders, turn left, and go straight from the stairs.
* Take the right into the building and drop down two levels to find a Beacon Chair.

#### Second beacon

* Go back from the Beacon Chair, retracing steps to find a bridge going down to the right to a circus tent.
* Go into the tent to fight a greatsword miniboss. Defeat him for an Alchemy Enhancer.
* Return to the beacon chair.
* From the beacon chair, go right and open the door. Go through and pick up the Collection of Memories Lv1 here and open the door to the right.
* Through this door, go left, deal with the enemy, and smash the barrels to find Thyme.
* Turn around and go across the bridge for a katar miniboss who drops an Alchemy Enhancer.
* Continue ahead and open the door to the right.
* Deal with the halberd elite on the other side.
* Continue ahead to the next door and open it. This leads back to the first beacon chair.
* Go back through the previous door.
* Take the left ahead underneath the staircase to find Notes on Hermes Life: Circus 03 to the left at the end of this corridor.
* Exit the corridor take the stairs to left. After two flights, there is a halberd elite.
* Continue up the stairs and ladder to find Transformation Experiment Report 02.
* Return down the ladder, and go down the corridor where the enemy was. Smash a barrel in this small room for a Collection of Memories Lv1.
* Go up the stairs, dashing through the poison, and take the first right up the stairs to a wooden door.
* Open the door and follow the hallway to the stairs at the end. Go down to open the iron door for a shortcut, but don't go through.
* Instead, drop down below and smash barrels to find Experiences of a Hopeless Builder 03.
* Return to the wooden door in the poison cloud room. Dash around the wall to the right to find Odur's Construction Notebook on the other side of two regular enemies.

### God of the Fools

#### First beacon

* Light up the beacon chair ahead.
* Drop down to the platform below.
* Go left for the fight to begin. This quest involves climbing up while avoiding attacks from the God of the Fools.
* Break the wooden fences ahead and destroy the huge poison cyst ahead quickly. Dashing ahead and using saber attacks is one way to do this.
* Take the first left ahead to find a Collection of Memories Lv1. Areas not on the main circular paths around the boss are safe from his attacks.
* There is a handaxe elite at the end of a short corridor. A fight with him is easily avoided if preferred.
* Return to the main path, going left quickly.
* In the poison cloud, dash left a few times to reach an unclouded area. There are a couple enemies here, plus a knife elite likely to join in.
* Destroy the poison cyst before continuing left and up the ladder on the left wall, which is in a handaxe elite's patrol route.
* Continue ahead and then left. This is back into attack range of the boss.
* Continue right where a knife elite is likely patrolling.
* Take the right ahead for an area out of range of the boss's attacks. There is a Collection of Memories Lv1 here.
* The timing for this next part is very tight. Wait for the boss to swipe, then return back onto the main path the moment it's safe, quickly go right, and go right through the poison cloud to the safe area.
	+ Trying to destroy the poison cyst at this point often results in being caught in one of the boss's poison gas attacks, which typically means death.
* A knife elite will be waiting in the poison cloud ahead. Use a feather attack to pull her and defeat her or, alternatively, ignore her.
* Dash through the poison cloud to the other side, where a handaxe elite is patrolling.
* Go quickly right, where another handaxe elite is patrolling, and into the safe area to the right ahead to find Note from an Unknown Hopeless 06.
	+ Stay back farther here, as the boss's fist slams reach a little further out here.
* When safe, hurry to the right, destroy the poison cyst, and take the path to the right.
* There is a flying dagger miniboss here who drops an alchemy enhancer. Consider going past her first to take out the regular enemy at the far corner first, and then fighting if desired.
* Break up the wooden objects blocking the way left and take out the two regular enemies here. Take the left turn ahead and go to the right turn. Break the wooden barricades on the bridge and wait.
* Allow the boss to use his poison gas attack, and as soon as it clears, dash across right to the right turn.
* Dash through the poison cloud to get to the poison cyst at the right and destroy it.
* There is a hammer miniboss here that drops an Alchemy Enhancer.
* Go all the way to the end of the path to find Experiences of a Hopeless Builder 02.
* Return to the area where the flying dagger miniboss was.
* Go up the ladder on the left wall.
* There is an knife elite in the poison cloud. Deal with her as desired and destroy the poison cyst. Beware of the hidden regular enemy near the cyst.
* Break the barrels on the other side to find Fennel.
* Go right and continue to the ladder.
* Go up the ladder and wait by the fence ahead for the boss to use the poison gas attack.
* This rush is very tight, as it's necessary to avoid falling down the holes. To get as much time as possible, start dashing through the moment the poison gas starts to fade. A dodge at the end may make the difference.
* Continue left and perform an execution on the boss to win the battle and receive an Alchemy Enhancer, Fool God's Core, a Forgotten Feather, and some Fool's Punch skill shards.

### Mutated Odur

#### First beacon

* Light up the beacon chair ahead.
* Go up the elevator for a boss fight with Mutated Odur.
* Defeat him for 6400 Memory Shards, Mutated Odur's Core, an Alchemy Enhancer, a Forgotten Feather, and Mutated Tentacle shards.