Contents

Background 3
Installation 4
Options 4
General 4
Controls 5
Audio 5
Video 5
Key Assignment 6
Display Elements 7
Ex�loration Mode 7
Combat Mode 7
Combat 9
Types of Damage 10
Menus 10
Character Management 11
Combat Att�ibutes 11
Advent�re Att�ibutes 12
Combat Moves 12
Giſt Spells 13
Talents 13
My�hs and Legends 13
Plant Lore 14
Treat Wounds 14
Perception 14
Fast Talk 14
Haggling 14
Pick Locks 14
Blacksmith 14
Items 15
Merchants 15
Limited SOFTWARE WARRANTY AND LICENSE AGREEMENt 16
Technical support and customer service 22
Credits 23

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 Background

Demonicon takes you to the darkest region of Aventuria,

the world of The Dark Eye.

In the Dark Lands you will encounter living corpses and

demons from the depths of the Nether Hells. Even in the
city of Warunk, recently liberated from a necromantic
reign of terror, people are bitter, selfish, and marked by
years of slavery and oppression.

Bravely, the deonts of the Goddess of War Rondra try

establish a balance of power in the city, but the corrupt
city guard and a smuggling cartel are locked in a bitter
struggle for supremacy. And in the midst of this conflict a
mysterious plague rages, a plague that devours its victims‘
bodies from inside.

The Dark Lands long for a hero capable of momentous

decisions and stemming the tide of horror. You are Cairon,
the son of a mercenary. But can your mysterious gift make
you that hero?

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 Installation
Please insert the DVD “The Dark Eye - Demonicon” into your DVD-ROM
drive. Installation should start automatically with the Windows “Auto Play”
feature enabled. If this is not the case, please double-click the DVD drive
icon via My Computer. Afterwards, please follow the on-screen instructions
which will guide you through the game installation and setup. You may be
prompted to install additionally required software such as DirectX, please
confirm this.

Options

The Options Menu lets you change various game settings.

General

Difficulty: Switches the level of difficulty. At higher difficulty levels enemies

attack more often and do more damage. Some achievements can only be
unlocked at higher difficulty levels.

Vibration: Enables or disables the vibration on any connected gamepad.

Subtitles: Enables or disables subtitles.

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 Controls
Parry/Dodge: Changes trigger configuration for parry and dodge on the
Microsoft XBOX 360 controller

Use Combat Move/Use Gift: Changes trigger configuration to use

combat moves and gifts on the Microsoft XBOX 360 controller

Camera X-axis: Switches movement along the camera’s X-axis between

“Normal” and “Inverted”.

Camera Y-axis: Switches movement along the camera’s Y-axis between

“Normal” and “Inverted”.

Camera Speed: Determines the speed at which the camera can be moved.

Key Assignment: Here the individual actions can be assigned to

different keys.

Audio
Here the volumes of the different sound sources can be adjusted.

Video
The settings can be adjusted for video output. If DEMONICON is not running
smoothly on your computer, it can help to reduce your settings here.

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 Key Assignment
Run forward: W
Run to the left: A
Run backwards: S
Run to the right: D
Potion quick change: Shift (hold) + 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
Inventory: I
Map: M
Character Management: C
Questlog: L
Codex: K
Alchemy: B
Main Menu: Esc

Exploration Mode

Interact: Left Mouse Button

Skip Dialogue: Right Mouse Button

Combat Mode

Attack: Left Mouse Button

Ranged Attack: E
Parry: Q
Counter: Left Mouse Button (during parry &
chance to counter)
Evade: Space (hold) + W / A / S / D
Quick Strike: Left Mouse Button (during evade
facing enemy, requires skill)
Combat Moves: 1/2/3/4
Gift Spells: Right Mouse Button (hold)
+1/2/3/4

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 Display Elements
A variety of displays provide you with additional information in the
game screen.

Ex�loration Mode
Quest Compass: The quest compass at the top of the screen indicates the
direction in which your current mission is taking you. It shows the direction
of the main quest and side quests.

main quest side quest

Combat Mode
Item Quickslots: Use equipped items directly in combat by simply
pressing a key.

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 Combat Move Slots Gift Spell Slots

Combat Move & Gift Spell Slots: Use combat moves and gift spells in
combat at the quick press of a key.

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1. Vitality Bar (red): Your vitality. If it drops to zero, you die and the game
ends. It regenerates after each fight and when you use healing potions.

2. Endurance Bar (green): Your endurance. It allows you to perform

combat moves. It slowly regenerates during combat.

3. Essence Bar (blue): Available essence. Your gift transforms vitality you
steal from enemies through normal attacks and combat moves into magic.
You can use it to cast gift spells.

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 Combat
In the armed struggle against the horrors of the Dark Lands you can choose
from a variety of actions.

Normal Attack: Normal attacks can be strung together into a fluid

sequence by repeatedly pressing the attack button.

Chain of Blows: Each successful hit generates essence, with which spells
can be cast. The longer the chain of blows, the more essence is stored up.
The chain of blows is broken when you get hit, or when the attack button is
pressed too often during a series of normal attacks (more than 1 time during
an attack).

Dodge: You can avoid enemy attacks with a dodge roll.

Quick Strike: If you have learned a combat move from the Dodge category,
you can perform a quick strike from a dodge roll towards your enemy. Just
press the button displayed on the screen.

Block: You can ward off enemy attacks by holding the block button. But
be careful: If an enemy begins to glow, they are preparing an attack which
cannot be blocked. You have to use a combat move or spell to interrupt this
kind of attack or avoid it with a dodge roll.

Counter: Whenever you block an enemy attack there is a chance that you
may be able launch a counter. The counter is successful when you press the
button displayed at the right moment. Your Counter probability is dependent
upon your parry value and your agility. The Master Parry, Counterattack and
Windmill combat moves improve your counter probability and the damage
the counter does.

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 Types of Damage
Wounds: Certain abilities, such as Strike of Wrath or Mortal Blow, can cause
wounds. A wound causes damage over time to either you or your opponent.
Furthermore, wounds also reduce your attribute values, while wounds that
you inflict upon opponents generate additional essence.

Poisoning: Poisoning causes damage over time. You can suffer it from traps
and enemy attacks. Applying poisons to your weapons lets you also inflict
painful additive effects on opponents in addition to poisoning them.

Burns: Same as wounds.

Menus
The pause menu gives you access to different submenus.

Character Management: You can increase attributes and

talents and learn new combat moves and gift spells. For the
increase you used AP (Adventure Points) that you get on your
travels through a variety of actions and Gift Points (GP) that you
earn in battle by using your magical gift. See below.

Inventory: The inventory provides overview of your

possessions. Here you can change equipment, view quest items,
identify magical artifacts, assign potions to quickslots and apply
poisons to weapons.

Potion Bag: Takes you directly to the Potion Bag tab in

the inventory.

Quest Book: Here you will find an overview of current and

completed quests, and the Codex contains details about people
you meet on your journey, hints about your opponents and
other information about Aventuria and the Dark Lands.

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 Alchemy: Here you can brew potions with learned recipes.
You will learn recipes when you increase your “Plant Lore” and
“Myths and Legends” talents.

Map: Here you can see your current position, current quest goals
and merchants.

Character Management
The Character Management has four tabs.

Combat Att�ibutes

Combat Attributes increase your skill in combat. The attributes which can
be increased are strength, agility, constitution and courage. In addition to
your combat attributes, you can also increase your bladed and blunt weapons
talents as well as your vitality, endurance and essence.

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 Each attribute has two associated sub-values. Most are influenced by changes
in the combat attribute, but some you need to improve yourself. Detailed
information about these values can be found in the game menu itself.

Advent�re Att�ibutes
Adventure attributes open you several possibilities for interaction outside
of battle. The attributes which can be increased are cleverness, intuition,
charisma and dexterity. They automatically improve your skills in different
talents (see below).

Combat Moves
Combat moves are special abilities that you can use in battle to give yourself
an advantage. Combat moves consume endurance. Increase your endurance
value so you can use combat moves more often and regenerate endurance
more quickly.
Combat moves must be learned individually and build on one another. Each
combat move has two additional specs you can learn.

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You can also assign combat moves to specific keys in the combat moves
sub-menu.

Note that some combat moves can only be performed with blunt weapons,
and others only with bladed weapons.

Giſt Spells
You can use gifts spell in combat exactly the same way you would use comabt
moves. They consume essence that you steal from your opponents through
normal attacks.

Each spell can be learned on four different levels, and just like combat moves
each spell has two available specs.
You can also assign gift spells to specific keys in the gift spell sub-menu.

Talents
Various talents will prove helpful on your journey through the Dark Lands.
Each is dependent upon an attribute. You can improve every talent and every
adventure attribute using adventure points (AP). To gain mastery in a talent,
but you have to increase both the talent value and the associated adventure
attribute: talent value and attribute value both affect the rank, which is
queried in the game whenever you use a talent.

My�hs and Legends

Through Myths and Legends you can get more information about
the Dark Lands and your opponents‘ weaknesses in particular. In
addition, you can identify magic items, learn potion recipes and
can flaunt your knowledge in dialogues.

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 Plant Lore
Plant Lore teaches you which plants are suitable for alchemical
formulas and how to harvest them. In addition, you learn recipes
for powerful healing potions and weapon poisons.

Treat Wounds
This talent allows you to improve the effectiveness of healing
potions and even treat your own wounds. Treat wounds helps
your vitality regenerate faster after combat. This talent also lets
you help others who are injured.

Perception
Perception helps you discover hidden traps that would otherwise
wound you severely. You can also find hidden treasures, which are
spread throughout the dark Lands.

Fast Talk
Fast Talk lets you can turn conversations in your favor. You can
sell people lies as truth, convince them of your good intentions
and negotiate special rewards.

Haggling
Whoever haggles beats greedy merchants at their own game.
This talent lets you buy items at lower prices and sell them at
higher prices.

Pick Locks
Pick locks opens paths for you blocked for others. You can use it to
open locked doors and locked chests.

Blacksmith
As a blacksmith you are a gifted artisan. You can disarm traps,
improve your weapons and armor and use switches and levers that
open new paths for you.

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 Items
Different types of items will help you in your adventures.

Armor Sets: You can wear torso and leg armor, plus armor on your arm.
Heavier armor provides better protection, but increases encumbrance and
makes it harder to hit enemies.

Bladed Weapons: Bladed weapons do less damage than blunt weapons, but
they have a higher chance of counterattack and facilitate essence generation.

Blunt Weapons: Blunt weapons weapons are slower than swords and have
a lower counterattack chance, but the they do enormous damage.

Glyphs: Purchased from merchants, glyphs are applied to armor to improve

its properties.

Potions: These alchemical compounds either temporarily increase your

values or heal you. Potions regenerate your vitality, salves heal wounds and
antidotes cure poisoning.

Weapon Poisons: Poisons can be applied to weapons and have additional

effects on your enemies for a limited time. Magical beings such as undead or
demons are resistant to most poisons.

Quest Items: These items serve a specific purpose in the plot and therefore
cannot be sold.

Merchants
You will often encounter merchants offering goods and services in the Dark
Lands. Buy new equipment such as weapons, armor, or jewelery from them,
refill your stocks of potions and poisons or sell looted items for thalers
and ducats.

Merchants can also identify objects and improve weapons and armor for
you. But take heed that you always invest enough money in one or more
healing potions.

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 Credits

KALYPSO MEDIA GROUP

MANAGING DIRECTORS VIDEO CUTTER

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PR DEPARTMENT
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PRODUCER Mark Allen
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ART DEPARTMENT Ted Brockwood
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Anna Owtschinnikow KALYPSO MEDIA DIGITAL
Jonathan Hales
HEAD OF QA & SUBMISSION Andrew McKerrow
Roman Eich

QA & SUBMISSION MANAGERS

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