Fable 2 Indepth Guide *** Warning Spoilers***

Welcome to the Dungeon Planet Indepth Fable 2 Guide! Please be warned that before reading any further there are Spoilers contained within this post.

The post contains much trivia about the Fable 2 game, a complete list of all the dyes and locations in Fable 2, a complete list of all the artefacts and their descriptions Belle asks you to collect for her as part of the Archaeologist Quest and a little from the original game as well as a tiny titbit of gossip / baseless rumour

Trvialities, Secrets and Miscellaneous

• The Hero of Oakvale (Fable 1) wielded the Sword of Aeons, with which in that game Theresa gave him the choice of casting it into the Abyss or striking her down with it.
• The Temple of Shadows used to be an Old Kingdom Cathedral where darkness has long since dwelt.
• Arthur Dandelion foresaw many things including the return of the last Archon and his City (which he foretold would shake and open the earth and arrive in a most bloody manner) and that perhaps a strange being would turn into a dragon long before that and lay waste to all that live.
• Leo Head first commissioned Fairfax Castle 140 years ago when he became rich after reinventing a Potion of Immortality, his next and last known invention was a Potion of Sex Change. When the authorities forced their way in to demand an unpaid annual tithe all they found was an unidentified old woman’s corpse.
• The Fairfax Family purchased the Fairfax Castle 90 years ago ;50 Years, 50 Silver Keys, 50 Gargoyles!
• There are in fact 51 Silver Keys in total in Fable 2, there is an extra Silver Key in Wraithmarsh
• Lucien’s grandmother supposedly died in childbirth with his father, though rumours persist that she went mad and was locked up to hide the families shame.
• Lucien saw the tragic death of his Sister Ellie and his wife, Helena and daughter, Amelia, were taken from him (died?) by illness.
• The sword used by the Commandant and the others that Lucien creates like him all wield The Maelstrom, you can earn this weapon by sacrificing 2,000 points to the Shadow Temple’s Wheel of Misfortune then executing your wife or husband between 12am and 1am.
• Their are rumours, that a mysterious warrior (triggered by the Limited Collector’s Edition which contained Hal’s Armour and Crystal Sword), is really Master Chief from Halo who crash landed on an uncharted world.
• There are other rumours to suggest that The Shadow Court is really the shadowy remains of the Court of Blades, of which the Jack of Blades was the last member.
• There were 3 dragons in the Court of Blades and 3 Shadow Judges in the Shadow Court, both are responsible for the destruction of Oakvale.
• The Shadow Statues and Shadow Judges Thrones all feature Blades prominently
• The King of Shadows as Theresa calls him when persuading Reaver to join your (her?) cause, actually looks like a shadow of Theresa! However, the game (if you have subtitles turned on) calls the speaking Shadow a Shadow Judge.
• The Shadow Cultists in the See The Future DLC wear Shadow Worshipper Robes.
• A Shadow Judge / Figure is shown clearly with flames lapping at his feet in the study of Fairfax Castle.
• The Dark Seal you hand to the Shadow Judges on behalf of Reaver has a Dragon on it
• The number three is featured many times in Fable 2, from buildings visible from The Last Beacon, 3 Teddy’s, 3 Shadow Judges, 3 marks on an Ancient Scroll, 3 Heroes, 3 tiers on Hero Hill and so on.
• You will find many spots with a robed woman kneeling or holding a wreathe or bowl on an altar in various places, they also have a bottle of wine and a silver cup in front of her and if you look carefully you can see a Teddy with a cup and the same type of bottle of wine underneath The Last Beacon.
• Don’t equip Identical Augments on the same weapon, they Don’t Stack
• You cannot win The Legendary Chopper Axe the first time you go through the Crucible, even though you may get 8 Perfect Rounds, worse still, if you have a Chopper in your inventory subsequent times, the game will refuse to respond to anything but the large X button on your 360 controller.
• The term, 42 probably comes from the best selling author, Douglas Adams books, which have been adapted into a TV series and Movie, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.
• The inhabitants from Knothole Island are originally from Knothole Glade.
• There is an illusionary wall in the Storm Shrine (Knothole Island DLC), where you meet the White Banshee to the right from where you enter.
• One of the shrines in Knothole Island has a similar door to the Chamber of Fate protecting it’s shrine, also opened with a Flit Switch.
• Once you have completed Knothole Island go back into the Storm Shrine and leave where you originally found the Ice Totem (this will of course mean fighting the Troll again!), on leaving the 2 chests you may have come across covered in ice will be de-iced.
• You cannot trade any item from the DLC’s to others, the Bowerstone Gift Stall Trick will not pop any DLC Achiements for others nor will trying to give any achievements to those without the premium version of each DLC.
• All the items, present and past (your child hero earns the 5 gold needed for the first Old Kingdom Artefact he/she uses with Rose) in Murgo’s Shop are 5 Gold Pieces, all of which is confirmed that Theresa is his source for said items.
• Just before you defeat Lucien, on the top of Hero Hill, Hammer asks him what he did with Theresa and he replies only with, “I merely listened”. Whether this was because he dreams of Theresa or Theresa had planned the whole thing with him so he could create the Tattered Spire and then double cross him by using your Hero to defeat him is unknown.

Last but not Least, Fable the 1996 Video Game

Makes you wonder about the similarities Check out the next two links as a starter for information on a game called Fable brought out in 1996 that bears many resemblances to Fable 1 and Fable 2

Fable the 1996 Adventure Game at GameFaq’s
Fable the 1996 Adventure Game at Wikipedia

Enjoy

Complete List of Fable 2 Dyes and Where to Get Them

All of the standard dyes can be purchased from the three dye sellers in Bowerstone Town Market, from the The Beautification Factory (don’t forget the closet in the alcove at the back on the ground floor, for a free dye every now and again), Pants and A Bit of Skirt.

The Apocalyptic Pink Dye can be found in the www.Fable2.com Mini Game, choose all three endings one after the other to earn bonus content for your game, (Xbox LIVE Gold Account needed). For the Apocalyptic Pink Dye you need to choose the 3rd crown. (once the dye is unlocked you will be able to find it almost everywhere that sells dyes, I say almost everywhere because I have yet to see dyes being sold in the Bowerstone Old Town Clothing Merchant).

In total there are 62 dyes in Fable 2, 33 dyes can be found in Bowerstone Market, 8 dyes found on the Clothing Traders in Fairfax Gardens, plus 10 dyes for the Knothole Island DLC, another 10 dyes for See The Future DLC and 1 earned unlocked from the online website www.Fable2.com.

For a list of all the See The Future DLC Dyes and their locations see This Thread at Project Ego (archive). I will add though, that if getting a 1985 score is too tedious after several play throughs, then after you have gained the first and second Teddy as described in the previous link (but do NOT step into the Golden Circle at any time), save and quit then reload your game, when it is loaded you will automatically be given the 3rd AAA Teddy and the Strawberry Blonde Dye.

Bowerstone Town Market Dyes – 33 Dyes

• Banana Pudding
• Barely Blue
• Carotene Orange
• Cloudless Sky
• Compost Brown
• Diver’s
• Fishtankarous
• Freshwater Springs
• Gables Green
• Gangreen
• Greypefruit
• Greypricot
• Impermissable Carmine
• Insatiable Butcher Pink
• Java
• Kangarouge
• Kilowhite
• Leathery Tan
• Mansfield Green
• Moonless Midnight
• Periwinkle
• Piratical Orange
• Pomegreynate
• Red Letter
• Shiner
• Soylent
• Sunshine Yellow
• Sweet Cream
• True Blue
• Valiant Avenger Pink
• Vermillipede
• Viole
• Yellowbelly

Fairfax Gardens Dyes – 8 Dyes

• Aquapus
• Burning Orange
• Envy Green
• Liquid Gold
• Peacock
• Regal Purple
• Scarlet Slime
• Swarthy Revenge Indigo

Knothole Island DLC Dyes – 10 Dyes

• Auburn Hair Dye
• Blonde Hair Dye
• Brown Hair Dye
• Ginger Hair Dye
• Knothole Blue Dye
• Knothole Dark Blue Dye
• Knothole Green Dye
• Knothole Dark Green Dye
• Knothole Red Dye
• Knothole Dark Red Dye

See The Future DLC Dyes – 10 Dyes

Snowglobe Dyes – 5 Dyes

• Well Red
• Performers Blue
• Cursed Grey
• Gory Glory Red
• Jaunty Jaundice

Cursed Skull Dyes – 4 Dyes

• Wisp White
• Balverine Brown
• Nightly Blue
• Ethical Green

The Colosseum Dyes – 1 Dye

• Strawberry Blonde Hair Dye

Misc Dyes – 1 Dye

• Apocalyptic Pink – www.Fable2.com mini game.

Belle’s Archaeologist Quests

The Archaeologist Quests are a good way to earn ever larger amounts of Renown for each artefact recovered and Gold if you choose to hand over the prize at the end which is the Archon’s Dream, (one of 3 Destiny Gems and the only Destiny Gem I have found in the game). Here are the rough locations to all the artefacts plus what is written or drawn on those artefacts. Once in the area listed below, your Dog will lead you to each item, no matter how far away in that area they may be.

Part One
Bowerstone Old Town – A strange Symbol Drawn in the centre of the Ancient Scroll.
Rookridge – Written on the Ancient Scroll are 3 names written in some indecipherable langauage.
Bowerstone Cemetary – A Giant Eye has been painted in the centre of this Ancient Scroll.

Part Two (After the Spire)
Temple of Light – There is a child like drawing depicting a man being zapped by lightning from a small cloud.
Gypsy Camp – The pages seem watermarked with the symbol of a large creature of some kind, a giant duck maybe.
Brightwood Tower – There’s a rather rude picture drawn in the centre.
Bandit Coast – It appears to be blank except for 3 dots in the top right corner.
Westcliffe Camp – Written on it is the recipe for a 3 bean casserole but the ingredients only call for the use 2 of types of beans.
Gemstone Grotto – On it is the picture of a mouse riding a lion using a whip to make it go faster.

Part Three (After Defeating Lucien)
Wraithmarsh – This is not a dream, written on the Old Parchment.
Bloodstone – This Old Parchment seems to contain the musical notation of a long forgotten ballad.
The Guild Cave – A complicated set of symbols adorn the margins
Reaver’s Rear Passage – This Old Parchment reads, “Now just think of the number 42″.