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King's Field (1994) Maps/Walkthrough
By Renka
King's Field (1994) was released only in Japan with a fan translation done in the early times of internet, meaning it's a little hard to get due to dead links of the patch and such, but what is harder to found, is any kind of guide or community for it.
During 2004, Martin Ramirez and his (at the time) 9 year old daughter sketched some maps for the first Kings Field, listing all the items on it.
Sadly, the page died in 2013 and the only way to get these images back is through the waybackmachine, which is why I decided to make a guide with them + the original descriptions that were attached to them.

This guide is a recreation of said page with upscaled images thanks to an AI
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Category: Gameplay Basics, Loot, Maps or Levels, Secrets, Walkthroughs
Languages: English
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Guide Index
Overview
=~= Story Summary =~= 
== FLOOR 1 == 
== FLOOR 2 == 
== FLOOR 3 == 
== FLOOR 4 == 
== FLOOR 5 == 
~ Credits ~ 
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=~= Story Summary =~=
(Taken from the pages of "The CHRONICLES of VERDITE")
After several centuries, Vallad's champion was finally born! The Royal Family of Verdite had long been a clan of evil magic, no doubt the embodiment of ancient evil which lay recovering and biding its time beneath Verdite. However one descendent of the line, Zoela Reinhardt, had been so removed from the pure blood that she had no malice within her. She did, however, carry the magic of the clan within her blood. It was this fact that bore into the world a son to Zoela and Houser Forester. A son which allowed Vallad to witness the birth of light into the world! John Alfred Forester was born with the magical power of light. The first and only line of Valicia to posses this power. Vallad watched over John Alfred carefully as he grew from a baby into the eager boy whose only desire, it seemed, was to learn from his father, Swordmaster Houser, the art of swordsplay. This delighted Vallad beyond imagination! He continued to watch as John Alfred grew to surpass even his father's skill as a master swordsman. Too young to join the garrison, John Alfred had been forced to watch his father leave to fight the forces of evil within the Royal Cemetery in Verdite. The ancient evil had grown tired of waiting for its kings to take over the world and had begun issuing forth terrible beasts into the land of Verdite to feed on the souls of the citizens. As these creatures fed on the blood and souls of the people, the ancient evil grew more and more powerful. No one had yet returned from the cemetery alive!

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That night, John Alfred Forester was awakened by a voice. A sweet beckoning voice was calling to him from a great distance and it knew him by name!
As if under some kind of spell, all John Alfred could do was to follow that voice all the way through the channels of Melanat Island and into the forests. Until he reached an ancient, abandoned cemetery which seemed, had not been used for centuries.
John Alfred walked for what seemed like days before he was finally brought into a gigantic clearing where a pair of doors, reaching easily 200 feet brought him to a stand still. Awestricken, he took a few steps back before a voice from within summoned him by name...
"John Alfred Forester, son of Houser, you have been chosen...ENTER..."
With nothing left in him even resembling courage, John Alfred forced himself towards the towering doors in front of him. With a single word, "open..." the immense doors seemed all to glad to glide open for the tiny man in front of them. As the door opened, John Alfred was brought to his knees by a bright blue light shinning from within the room.

"John Forester, you have been chosen to champion my will. You have been born with the power of light and a pure heart; I have been waiting your arrival for nearly two thousand years! Now receive my gift and fulfill your destiny."

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Fearing for his father, Houser Forester, John hurried back to his homeland hoping that he would not be too late. He then heard that though Captain Houser had initially returned alive, he had gone back to the cemetery to save his men who had not yet returned.

John, not yet an official soldier, gladly joined the reserve troops. He wanted to enter the royal tombs and search for his father, who had not returned; and of course, there was the matter of an untested gift from the gods to be dealt with.

John Alfred Forester moved through the Royal Cemetery like an angry god punishing the evil for its very existence. The springs were dry and reeked with the stench of death. He moved methodically down through the levels of carnage and death; deeper and deeper into the heart of the darkness which had enveloped his father. The first underground level, burial grounds for commoners, was certainly not new to him, he had been here before with his childhood friends to tell ghost stories and such. The second level also didn't produce his father. But John was stopped by a gasping chasm before the third level. He was forced first to the dungeons before he could continue; There, he met something, almost like someone, but definitely not human. As she finished talking, she flew off far above, leaving John momentarily stunned.

Upon exiting the dungeon, to search for a way into the deeper recesses of the Royal Cemetery, John found a Dragon Crystal, a rare fruit said to cure all illness and ailments. Remembering Heinz Ruhart, whom he met on his way, he decided to take the fruit with him back to the chasm, near where he had met Heinz. Heinz Ruhart was the chief poet of the court, and was sent with the army, by royal decree, to write a poem about the battle in the tomb. He had sustained physical and psychological injuries though, which had rendered him blind. He traded John Alfred his harp for the Dragon Crystal.
When John strummed the harp, a bridge appeared over the chasm just long enough for him to cross. Thus continuing his onslaught against the powers of evil.

It was finally in the fourth or fifth level that John finally found his father...he had fallen after killing a Black Knight in a duel. Both lay dead on the floor in front of him. John Alfred Forester's rage was complete. Through the last remaining levels of the cemetery, John's blazing sword could hardly be stopped, even by the solid walls that opposed him.

In the depths of the Saturn Temple, the Dark Wizard awaited his bold confrontation...
"Though he died doing so, I never thought any man could kill the Black Knight. I was extremely impressed, and made your father's grave myself...if you are anywhere nearly as skilled as he, I shall dig yours for you as well..."

This was the force John had been waiting to reckon with. With the fire of a thousand dragons in his eyes, John Alfred Forester slew the menacing form of the Dark Wizard, thus disempowering the ancient evil once again.

Rising triumphant over the flames and acrid stench of burnt flesh, John Alfred Forester was raised by the citizens of Verdite. Never before had such a man been in their midst. With the death of the Royal Family of Verdite dies centuries of oppression and evil. John Forester was crowned as the new king...the Holy King of Light, protector of Verdite.
== FLOOR 1 ==
OBJECTIVES
  • 1) Find the GOLDEN CHALICE and activate the fountain.
  • 2) Switch off arrows to get to second floor.
  • 3) Purchase a GOLDEN CROSS (1800 gold) from item shop 2 and exchange it for STAR KEY.
== FLOOR 2 ==
OBJECTIVES
  • 1) Find the WATER and EARTH CRYSTALS, STONE KEY and DRAGON STAFF.
  • 2) EXCHANGE a Dragon Crystal for Heinz Ruhart's HARP (play it in front of a chasm to get across)
  • 3) The wise man will teach you WATER MAGIC in exchange for the TRUTH MIRROR
== FLOOR 3 ==
OBJECTIVES
  • 1) Find WIND and FIRE crystals. (take them, and the crystals from level 2, to the pedestal rooms and place them in the correct pedestal to gain access to 4th floor)
  • 2) Learn FIRE MAGIC
== FLOOR 4 ==
OBJECTIVES
  • 1) Find WIND and FIRE crystals. (take them, and the crystals from level 2, to the pedestal rooms and place them in the correct pedestal to gain access to 4th floor)
  • 2) Learn FIRE MAGIC
== FLOOR 5 ==
OBJECTIVES
  • 1) Get the MOONLIGHT SWORD repaired and receive access to DRAGON DOORS
~ Credits ~
18 Comments
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benjamin hoe 4 Jun @ 9:59am 
MY GOD! Thank you so much! Skipped Miria, most of the dragon crystals, etc. Nearly dropped the game. Thank you, this is a lifesaver :lunar2019piginablanket:
PainKiller98 21 Mar @ 7:34am 
Holy Dragon, what a wonderful experience I had with this game! And a big part of it was thanks to this guide and the maps, so well presented here. I wanted to express my immense gratitude to the original creators (Martin) of this material and also to Renka for uploading it here on Steam and preserving such valuable information. King’s Field is a beautiful game—I enjoyed it to the fullest, and it blew my mind to discover so many mechanics, enemies, and items that were already present in FromSoftware’s very first game, later shaping what would become Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls. Incredible and marvelous! As a lover, believer, and worshipper of FromSoftware, this experience was truly unique and fascinating :D:steamhappy:
Hereditary 16 Jan @ 8:49pm 
@Luna where abouts IS that grave? Like proximity to a unique floor 1 item and will I know it when I see it? So far I haven't found it yet but I feel like I've walked every inch and killed everything on the floor many times over.
doll_in_spell 15 Jan @ 9:25pm 
this is incredible thank you queen
Renka  [author] 22 Dec, 2024 @ 2:48pm 
Oh my god, hello! I'm so happy you were able to find this
Can I add you as a collaborator for the guide? Being fully honest, I would straight up would like to just transfer the guide to you (but afaik steam doesn't allow me to do that) because you deserve all these steam points a lot more than I do
d_archangel 22 Dec, 2024 @ 2:41pm 
I appreciate you keeping this alive, I am Martin, the creator. I still have access to the web shell page where all the information was stored if you ever need anymore. I'm in the process of transferring everything into a hard drive, but it's a slow process.
SebTheSamMarten 29 Nov, 2024 @ 1:10am 
There also seem to be a good few Verdite on the maps here that don't appear at all in-game for me. Most of them are on floor 5. Unsure if they're meant to drop from enemies? Even though I've cleared every room, multiple times. The last one listed where the statue is before the bridge to the boss is actually across the pit next to one of the fireball shooting statues instead of by the king's statue like the map would otherwise lead me to believe. s:
6 out of the 9 on floor 5 are just entirely missing, or seemingly unreachable (if you don't count the one I stated across the pit. Unsure if you can walk an invisible bridge to it or what, didn't want to die to test it.)
SebTheSamMarten 29 Nov, 2024 @ 12:15am 
Only the Dragon Door on floor 5 opens at Swordmaster, the rest don't open until you repair the Moonlight Sword. :P
Ketzerfreund 8 May, 2024 @ 12:14am 
Just placed the chalice where it belongs. And now I can't find my way back to the fountain... :blasbaby:
hcp 12 Oct, 2023 @ 2:08pm 
Just finished my first playthrough ever. Looked this guide up to make sure i find the Moonlight Greatsword. This is a very solid guide. Nice job to you!