Marcello picks up the Sceptre, but manages to resist Lord Rhapthorne's evil influence.

Meanwhile, Marcello (the new abbot, and Angelo's half-brother) enters, and frames the party for attempting to assassinate the Lord High Priest, and has them exiled to Purgatory Island. The Lord High Priest goes into shock, and faints. After putting down the possessed Sir Leopold, he loses his grip on the Sceptre, and dies. Enlisting the aid of the legendary godbird Empyrea, the party tracks Sir Leopold down to the Lord High Priest's mansion and engage him. He manages to kill her, and flies away to find the last living heir. Holding her son Marek hostage, Sir Leopold forces Marta to come out and face him. An old woman named Marta, who happens to be the one of the two remaining heirs, lives in the wintry countryside.Īfter running an errand for Marta and finding her son Marek, the party comes back to Marta's house only to see it set ablaze by Sir Leopold. With only two heirs left to kill, the possessed Sir Leopold absconds to the snowy mountain valley of the north. After Rhapthorne flees, David utteres his final words, as a repentant and grieving Dominico laments over him. They rush over to Dominico's estate, only to see that Rhapthorne has succeeded in mortally wounding David after taking control of Dominico's dog Sir Leopold as his next host. At that point, the party realizes the Sceptre is missing. His soul had previously been imprisoned inside the Sceptre by the Seven Sages, and he plots to remove the seals by killing their heirs as soon as possible. After the battle, Dominico's barrier is able to release Jessica from her possession.Īfter recovery, Jessica reveals what her possessor had planned, as well as giving it a name - Rhapthorne, The Lord of Darkness. While he prepares the incantation to erect the barrier, the party engages Jessica outside in an attempt to stall her, discovering in the process that her true objective is David, an heir of one of the seven great sages.

Once the party return with the jewels, Dominico uses them to create a more effective barrier against Jessica. After chastising David, his young servant, Dominico sends the party to find the Kran Spinels to aid in warding off Jessica. While searching for her, the party enters a town called Arcadia, arriving just in time to save a magician named Dominico from an apparently-possessed Jessica wielding the Sceptre. The next morning, the Hero and the others find to their surprise that Jessica is missing. Concluding that something else must be maintaining the curse, they leave the ruins, with Jessica picking up Dhoulmagus' sceptre as they exit. Much to their surprise, however, they find that even with his defeat, the curse still has not been lifted. However, even with his new powers, he is no match for the might of the party.

Dhoulmagus then uses his menacing power to change into a hideous creature. After his defeat, he tries to curse the party with his sceptre, but the Hero is again unaffected by the curse, blocking the blast and sparing the other party members. The party finally tracks down Dhoulmagus to the Dark Ruins, where they find him recuperating, and finally face off against him. Individuals slain by Dhoulmagus include Alistair ( Jessica's brother) and Abbot Francisco, who is head of the abbey where Angelo lives. A couple of these encounters involve Dhoulmagus killing someone beloved by members of the Hero's party. During their travels, the party runs into Dhoulmagus several times. The Hero is eventually joined on his quest by three companions: a scarred, inarticulate bandit named Yangus, a wand-waving tomboy named Jessica Albert, and Angelo, a rapier-wielding Templar Knight and self-proclaimed ladies' man. Accompanying the cursed king and princess, he hunts Dhoulmagus, in hopes of restoring Trodain to its former glory. The Hero, a young Trodain guardsman, is the only resident to remain uncursed. With this powerful sceptre, he transforms the inhabitants of Trodain into plant-like statues, as well as changing the king into a toad-like monster and the princess into a horse, while covering the majority of the castle in large, green magical thorns. Yangus, Medea, Trode, Munchie and the Heroĭragon Quest VIII begins when the evil jester Dhoulmagus steals a magical sceptre from Trodain Castle. It was also later released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2015. Dragon Quest VIII ( ドラゴンクエストVIII 空と海と大地と呪われし姫君, Dragon Quest VIII Sora to Umi to Daichi to Norowareshi Himegimi, Dragon Quest VIII: The Sky, the Ocean, the Earth, and the Cursed Princess) is the eighth installment in the Dragon Quest series, developed by Level-5 and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2 video game console.

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