Should his breeches fall, so surely would the duchy…or so the tailor charged with crafting Prince Joshua’s belt was told. While certainly pleasant to the eyes, the cloth wrapping is a poor substitute to a set of iron tassets when it comes to stopping a spiked mace to the groin.

While slaying a demon merely returns its soul to the hell whence it came, until such time as it is resummoned to inhabit a new host, taming a demon is a much more effective means of dampening its evil influence on the corporeal plane. By luring and trapping the undying spirit of hellspawn into accoutrements worn on one’s person, one might also harness their power and channel a portion of it as one’s own.

• In a Chest to the northwest of the Royal Meadows in Sanbreque.

Even rarer than platinum, mythril is highly sought after by both engineer and general alike, its aetherial conductivity a boon to the former, its feather-like weight a boon to the latter.

• Head north from the Velkroy Desert Obelisk in Dhalmekia and hug the left wall to find some ruins which houses a chest containing the belt.