Thanks Raze. Areana entering the castle at 5 then then the gong at 12 is amazing. Gives me something to work for. As it is, I'm going to have to get the last two council members without fighting much, it just makes my xp go up too fast. Which makes me wonder how it would go doing the majority of the game using Shadows/fade from sight.

I bought my Dragon Breastplate back my last time through because it was indeed better. I'll have to check into the Holy Amulet, I already have the three other good amulets in the game, but who knows, maybe I can get some really good stats.

About Zandalor, I just wondered because sometimes in this game it seems like if you miss something in a quest chain, the rest of the quest doesn't trigger either. It would be interesting to try. I'm sure it will still work. I was surprised the game dialogue was different if Lanilor stayed in Aleroth (and got killed), so surely they thought of someone not accepting Zandalor's first quest.