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                Breath of Fire 2 Handbook
                                        written by Ben Siron

                         Maintained by James Greene
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    Breath of Fire 2 (henceforth BoF2) is a classic-style RPG for the SNES,
produced by Capcom.  I am in no way associated with Capcom.  This handbook is
free and not intended for sale.  All that I ask is that you do not remove
these opening paragraphs if you are providing it to others.

    Unfortunately, it is my duty to inform you that Ben Siron has ceased
writing FAQs, as well as abandoned video games.  Please do not contact him,
as he is no longer involved with this FAQ in anyway.  He has given me control
of his FAQs.  If you wish to use this FAQ, feel free to contact me.  If you
explain what you want it for, chances are that I will let you use it.  You
can contact me, James Greene, at sabin_2002@yahoo.com

    This handbook is a text file approximately 7000 lines long, designed to
be read in a fixed-width font capable of diplaying at least 78 characters per
line.  This is the third edition, last updated May 12, 2001.  Now I have a
thank-you list, better character information (includes level-up gains), more
discoveries, and less errors all around.

Thanks go to:

   (irwin.51@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu)
        Jim Irwin - for the detailed township tenant listing.  This
                speeded up my search a lot - and enabled me to make a
                slightly more comprehensive listing.

   (kerris@nucleus.com)
        Rory Mahood - for finding the elusive StarrSD and Octopus items, and
                for greatly expanding my list of battle award items.

   (arcadia@crl.com)
        Arcadia, Esq. (Rocky Kassos)

   (duchess-29@hotmail.com)

   (mattlambo@juno.com)
        Matt Lambo - for listings of items which are battle awards.

   (ragnarok@sci.fi)
        Ragnarok (Heikki Ruuska) - for the secrets file which helped me a lot
                the first time I played BoF2, and gave me lots of things to
                check while compiling this handbook.

   (asanchez@Texas.net)
        Andrew Sanchez - for finding Pechiri.

   (mokona@logicworld.com.au)
                for the info about Akky's kittens and about the
                fact that nothing happens if you clear both tolen boards with
                only 8 tolens.

   (nathanm@znet.net.au)
        Nathan McDonald - for finding the NinjaML item.

   (dm3@tca.net)
        Stephen O'Neal - for finding the use of the SkullBR item.

   (Epametheus@aol.com)
   	Ed, also 'Phoenix' - for finding the Zodiac enemy and with it, the
		9-TailWP.

No thanks go to:

        Ray Greer - and the team responsible for the carelessly inaccurate,
                incomplete, and generally clueless 'Breath of Fire II:
                Authorized Game Secrets' guide.  I can't believe that Capcom
                endorsed this.  I can only guess that it is because Capcom in
                America doesn't know a whole lot about the work that Capcom's
                programmers in Japan do, or they don't care.  Nothing in this
                handbook has been stolen from Mr.Greer's book, I am proud to
                say.


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Barose	   The inn of southern Inheart (you will not be able to return here
		after clearing Memory!) (transient) - Barose can teach 4
		spells, each one to any party member in the lead of the
		walking order when you talk to him - but only if the party
		member has rHP > 2, and rAP > 2.  There are three easy ways
		you can go about reducing rHP to 1:

		1) Easiest: have the character consume Bait

		2) Next easiest: kill the character off in battle and then
			revive that character to 1 HP by using 'Change' at a
			dragon god totem

		3) Still somewhat easy: kill the character off in battle,
			have Rand use Wake on the character, and then run
			from battle

		Which spell he teaches you depends on his mood.  And his mood
		changes based on how you answer his questions:

		If you answer 'No', nothing happens - he will stop
		talking to you

		If you answer 'Yes' when...	his mood changes by...

			rAP > 1				-96
			rAP = 1				+16
			rAP = 0				+32

			rHP > 1				-96
			rHP = 1				+32
			rHP = 0				+16

		If you answered 'Yes' twice and had rAP < 2, and rHP = 1, he
		will teach you a spell based on his mood:

			[mood/64] is...		spell taught...

			    0			   Thunder
			    1			   Freeze
			    2			   Flame
			    3			   Missile

		If you want to better Barose's mood before learning a spell,
		just answer the questions without choosing to learn a spell.
		Barose's mood does not reset between conversations.  Remember
		that whenever a character learns a spell she already knows,
		nothing changes to the spell list.  Barose will only teach 4
		spells even if you wasted some of your picks in this way, so
		don't waste 'em.