Azetyth Town Guide

The early beginnings can be difficult. There's so much to explore in the realm during your first days here, so feel free to go at your pace and explore or just focus on the tutorial quests as you find your way around. You can spend as little as 5 minutes here to an hour or more a day. Hopefully this guide will help you find your way in the Grail Realm. If you have any questions or in need of anything please contact one of the Azetyth Town Council. If they can't help you, they should at least be able to point you in the right direction.


The Basics:

Stamina: Stamina is your energy to do actions, like feeding the chickens or building a bed. In turn, spending stamina will raise your skills ( Ploughing and Mining). Stamina refreshes every 24 hours, so make sure you spend all of your stamina every day. 
The amount of stamina you receive at the reset increases by:
- having a bed (when in any town) or sleeping bag (when out of town) equipped at the reset. Higher grades give more stamina and are definitely worth the investment!
- having a positive mood: over 500 mood you have a chance of receiving 15 extra stamina, over 1000 mood this chance is 100%.
- your learning skill: each point of learning adds 1 stamina at the reset. Your learning skill automatically increases every day you have logged in.
- your honor: each point adds 1 stamina at the reset. Honor can be earned in events, through contests or as a special reward, but is very rare to receive.

Hunger: You have to eat every day, or you’ll get hungry and your skill levels will plummet! As a new Seeker, you can find bread in your town’s restaurant in the soup kitchen. No seeker need go hungry! This will be available every day for free for 100 days. After 100 days, it may cost you a small amount of reputation to eat bread there.


-Bread will fill you up (and is the only food you can eat out of town!), but you will need actual meals and/or soups to increase your personal stats. 
-Soups will <b>double</b> the stats gained from any ingredient compared to cooking regular meals out of them. Soups do not fill your appetite, you will still need to eat a meal or bread in order to fill yourself up.

-Preparing soups yourself requires you to have a cooking skill of 25 and reading the book "Livre de Potage" in the library. You also need to have a cauldron equipped.

- Keeping animals in your ranch is a great source of food that requires only a small stamina investment. Growing crops yourself is the other main source of food and is better suited if you are dedicated to farming as it requires more stamina and time (for bigger yields). The final option is of course buying food directly from the market or the restaurant. 



Logging In: You’ll want to log in to eat a meal and spend your stamina every day. Also, you’ll receive a bonus every day just for logging in.

Tavern: The tavern is where you can chat with other Seekers. There are plenty of helpful people here, and this is the best place to ask for advice, and to drink some beer! You may even make a few friends along the way.

Mood: Keeping your mood high above 1000 always gives you a small stamina boost at reset, A mood lower then 1000 gives you varying chances at getting a stamina boost...or penalty if low enough. Drinking beer in the tavern is one of the easiest ways to boost your mood.

Life points: Keep your life points above 50 by reset if you can. If your life points are below 50 at reset time you will have a stamina penalty. Using a potion or the hospital is a good way to gain life points. Regen is an important skill to help recover life points each day.

Some quick advice for a good start:

Focus on completing a portion of tutorial quests during your first few days.  They will give you a feel for the game and some of the different skills and give you some rewards (such as tools) that will make life a lot easier.


Making money
There are a lot of ways to make money: pretty much any skill can be used for an income in some way, but especially early on some things are a lot more profitable than others.


For all of these goes: it is most profitable to specialize in one or two skills early on and make those your main source of income. Just getting a skill to 25 can already give you 50% more income from that skill.


Gathering Resources: Gathering different resources is an easy way to make a good wage with little to no skill. The resource related skills (mining, wood chopping and herbalism) are also among some of the fastest to raise, so you'll progress more quickly and earn more money as you go! You will have to leave town to gather resources: gathering herbs and chopping wood can be done close to town so you can return home to sleep in your own bed, for mining you should prepare to spend at least a few days outdoors to make the trip worth it. Mining and wood chopping are also good ways to work towards upgrading your ranch.


Make sure you hire the related followers in the Grail Castle! They make their wages back multiple times with the skillboost they provide.


Crafting: You can train your crafting skills for a wage inthe Labourhall  but you can also craft your own items. As you can only make cheap items (lowest grade) when starting out they can be relatively hard to sell. If you have your heart set on crafting your own items you should join the Guild of the skill you want to train.


Then sign up as an apprentice, see if there are any Masters (the Master also has to live in Azetyth) available in the Guild and apply to become their apprentice in the Guild. This will allow you to make high grade items (grand master or grail depending on your masters' skill level) in your own workshop!


Ranch and Fields: For more info on the ranch see the following Animal section. Every animal will have a good return on investment at some point: chickens and cows immediately and at every skill level, sheep are better left to aspiring tailors and pigs and horses are generally not the best choice for a new Seeker. 


Fields are incredibly stamina intensive until you reach a high skill level in all the farming related skills, if you want to be a farmer it will require persistence and dedication!


Keeping Animals


1: To buy animals you have to visit the Ranch building in the Town screen while you are in your home town. Below your listed Animal Attitude skill levels is a link "Buy a new Animal". This opens your towns Animal price list where you can buy animals to keep in your own ranch slots. 


Citizens of the towns have to breed these animals themselves: if your animal of choice is not in stock you may want to lend a hand to your towns breeding program in the Labourhall or ask the local Council member responsible for animals listed right above the link to Buy new Animals.


2: You can have up to 9 ranch spots and keep 1 animal per ranch spot. Upgrading your personal ranch requires iron nails and wood, for exact amounts see: https://the-grail-lords.wikia.com/wiki/Town_Ranch


3: All your animals require 1 stamina daily just to keep alive (feeding). You can hire Porkard the Pig Tenderer as a follower in the Labourhall to take over this task. 


4: The easiest animals to keep are:


Chickens - produce 2 eggs every 3 days and a 30 day maximum age. When slaughtered they give Poultry.


Cows - produce 4 milk every 3 days and a 70 day maximum age. When slaughtered they give Meat and Leather Squares.


Sheep - produce 6 wool every 3 days and a 50 day maximum age. When slaughtered they give Meat and Leather Squares.


5: Chickens and Cows are generally the best choice for a new seeker: eggs are an easy source of food once you can no longer eat for free in the Restaurant and milk increases your Physical Resistance or can be made into cheese.


6: Sheep are better suited for seekers with ambitions in the Tailor workshop as they will have a use for the large amounts of wool.


7: Horses are very expensive for a town to breed and therefore for seekers to buy. The only function for a horse is to be trained into a Warhorse, it provides no resources. Training a horse requires a daily stamina investment of 50 stamina (this cost decreases with higher Horse Attitude skill) for a total of 100 days (does not have to be in a row). 


A Warhorse reduces travel cost on the map with 1 stamina on every land tile. Horses have no maximum age and a Warhorse cannot die and requires no more food. A good but very expensive long term investment. There are seekers that specialize in training horses that can sell you a trained horse, if you can afford this option just ask your Mayor or some of the helpful tavern patrons and they should be able to point you in the right direction.


8: Pigs produce meat and writable skins, but only when slaughtered: the only extra action available for pigs is fattening them with corn (max of 1 per day). The amount of meat and skins received depends on its weight when slaughtered (best to slaughter when they are at their maximum weight) and your Pig Attitude skill. 


See the Help file for the exact amounts of meat and skins when slaughtering at different weights and Pig Attitude skill: https://thegraillords.net/help.php#72


9: Increasing your Pigs' weight requires corn or Pig Boosting potions (they can also gain weight through regular feeding, but this is quite rare).


Pig Boosting potions will increase the weight of a random number of your pigs for the next 5 resets after drinking and they have a chance to kill the pig (the higher quality the potion, the lower the chance of pig explosions). Pig Boosting potions are best used when you have a large amount of pigs in your Ranch and it is generally best not to use low grade Pig Boosting potions on heavier pigs because of the chance to lose them. Corn is usually the better option to fatten a lower amount of pigs (up to about 5-6)


The need for corn or potions makes pigs not the best suited for brand new seekers, but they are a great source of larger amounts of meat if you are well prepared.


Leaving Town for the first time: 


Before you leave:
 -Pay your town taxes, otherwise the Guards will stop you.
 -Have bread: one for each day that you will be gone (bread magically follows you on the road, everything else needs to be in your backpack, or on your person).  
-Hire any followers you will need, since you must be in town to hire them.  
-Make sure that any tools you will need are equipped.  You cannot equip tools once you are outside of town.  
 -Feed your animals, and hire Porkard the Follower to feed your animal if you will be gone more than one reset.  
 -A sleeping bag acts like a bed when spending reset outside of town. 




Stamina costs (for walking) on the map are:



road/city square: 3 stamina

field square: 4 stamina

forest square: 5 stamina

water square: 6 stamina



Combat Guide

 Framer Ted's  forum post: Beginners Tips for Combat  

Cpt Coot's  forum post: Combat Events Guide



 Some useful links:


Map of the Realm


Pan's Beginner Guide


Help File





Feel free to add comments with advice that you have found useful!  Feel free to ask questions!