you either check around the campsite to learn of the secret exit and avoid him like aryan said, fight the guards at the other exit (that is before entering the waterway, at the top left of the map, and waves of guards can be removed based on some actions you took around the dungeon), or beat him... the fight ends when his HP drop to 2200.
i am pasting the strategy i wrote in my game guide:
"behir fight: before the battle itself, there are 2 stat checks:
Note: there’s actually no way to reason with him or run away.
Considering it’s the last battle for this escape route, i hope you rested with a bonfire kit at stop 2 or bathed at stop 8 for the x1,5 HP and MP bonuses, and kept 5 (6 if upgraded with fabric given to Witer) HP and MP potions (either from your bag at stops 37-38, which i HIGHLY recommend getting before coming here, as you won’t automatically get the items back after leaving, and/or the infirmary at stops 28-29), also a full flask, see stops 23-25 if you need info on how to refill it, while fire bombs and fuse grenades won’t do much due to his fire resistance, and throwing axes or knives (from the tribes’shops) are pretty weak (the soul solvent shouldn’t be needed, should you still have it). This majestic beast has 3000 HP!... But the battle ends after 800 HP of damage (so at 2200 HP), which is fairly doable, actually, i accidentally won (albeit with a handful of lucky dodges and crits) with no stat points invested! The fight is pretty straightforward, despite his attacks, he won’t stun or paralyze, but just do mid or sometimes decently high damage, nothing else, and a defense on par with the mother spider, the problem arising if you enchanted your sword, as he resists those elements, and the offensive items being pretty much useless (even if the lobber goggles might make throwing axes or knives decent if your sword attacks do little damage, like 20-30), he also can’t dodge, and is (unfortunately~) immune to lust, but doesn’t tease. Since it’s going to be a long fight in which the potions are going to be the best items, the rusted spoon can be a good choice (especially if you can’t bind up much or heals less than around 100 HP), the championship belt is especially good here too. When it comes to the actual moves, normal attacks/throwing axes or knives should be most of your attacks, with bind up used whenever you know no healing is wasted, or a HP potion if it’s on cooldown or you are low on MP, also try to use a MP potion if your HP are high enough and can fully make use of it, the flask is also good whenever you see both HP and MP could use some healing, not necessarily when you are low on them, use leaping slash only if you have MP to spare and preferably later in the battle, for the last 200 HP or so, in order to not be overconfident and run out of MP. It is a battle of attrition, but having potions should honestly make it a favourable matchup even at low stats (i’m also taking into account the failed AGI check to start at lower HP)."
they just asked it a few threads below, so i'm pasting my reply, which refers to my guide:
Well, yes, it is all in my guide with details, but you need to buy the emblem in the auction when you are down there to save Flo, then, after you receive Thane's bloody cloth, just before going with the chief's final plan, visit the dragon in the bull temple's painting until he lets you enter his own painting, the rest should be clear.
it was asked before, but from my guide:
From my guide:
"If you remember, in “the seed gathering run”, a horse marked your sweet fluffy wolf ass with a hoof… the next time you see Horace outside of the tavern (so only during the day), he’ll be convinced that horse is the being he was looking for, and pretty much drag you to it, but he can’t get through the barrier before the mountains (you resisting or giving in doesn’t really matter).
Go ask Jørgen (in his bar) about the horse, he is willing to give her to you, but only after the elections, which means you need to wait 3 days, then show up outside of Einar’s house or in front of the elevator in daytime to go on."
(The seed gathering run is that quest where Frode asks you to find some stuff).
If you have finished Witer's nightmares, it means you went outside to fight the ghost haunting him, had no way to hit it, went inside to have Meko teach you holy fist and out again to defeat it (you then tell Witer it is gone to finish the quest). The only thing i can think of is that you used the fire bombs to defeat that one immediately? Gonna test in a bit.
The castle is technically possible, just get out to refill on bombs, and that line implies you gotta finish the quest, yes.
Edit: i just tested it, seems like Caro changed it to Meko immediately giving you the holy fist after meeting Witer in the basement, so check if you did all that.
Some devs provide something for a smoother job or prefer it being delivered a certain way, i'd join our Discord server and ask Caro himself (i also recall him being one of the devs that encrypted the text files, so might as well make it simpler for you).
Chances are translator++ will be enough, it's my fav, or microsoft visual studio 2022, all free and easy to use, but yeah, talk to him first, you can always poke me on there later as well.
It is all explained there, i'll just fetch thaat part for you and send it below; helping exclusively one or the other doesn't preclude you from going for the neutral ending (as the first line implies).
"Neutral route/good ending: after the battle at the tavern, and seeing the chief (whoever invited you, based on who was less suspicious of you), go check on Thane at the tavern, if you invited him back at the end of part 3 of the war, or at the bull village if you didn’t; he’ll still be weak, but the important thing is receiving his bloody cloth from either Witer or a bull guard. Now you need to visit the painting in the bull temple, and this means you need to have the skull emblem (guaranteed after defeating the skull demon in “the first boss”) AND the soul emblem, which needs to be bought during the auction in “saving the master”, if you didn’t then... sorry, nothing you can do to find the truth now (note: if you don’t have the skull emblem instead, chances are you left it at the pawn shop in the demon city... hope you have enough bevocr to buy it back). If you do have both emblems, jump into the painting (if you haven’t been in there yet, jump in 3 times, so the event triggers), and don’t stop Thane the first time! You can stop him once he reaches the cave, but it is actually possible to click “let Thane go” 14 times to really let him go inside, just be careful, the options will invert to mess with you! This only changes the scene, the dialogue with the dragon a bit, and his painting of Thane won’t get ruined. Finally, go back and check the marked spot (“!”) on the map (...)"
There's even a small tab below that part that specifies what each choice does and the consequences of them, including which quests are altered later on (i tried to make it not too spoilery, still, all there, part 5 of the war, ask again if you need more details).
Well, no. See, Caro originally intended the 3 main chars in the routes to be pursued romantically only in the right route... then he chose to be a bit lenient and made this triangle possible in neutral, but not with Axel, due to his... more demanding personality (besides, a love triangle with Thane would pose obvious problems). That also goes for the sex scenes with Axel, those require to go full bull route, it is by design to incentivize trying all the routes (the added triangle making it so you don't have to go full lizard for Nauxus at least; 3 playthroughs is more doable than 4, if we include Selye's route).
One advantage the neutral route leaning more to Axel has is that you can have Axel taste Thane's dish in his quest where he tests 3 dishes btw, so doing the quest fully is possible without a permanent malus, but yeah, the neutral leaning to Nauxus is generally much better (if you choose to forgive Nauxus, of course).
it's in the game page, discord or in the game in the "about" menu:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HjgBoSAq4659ANHfDyhqaSqqgL9fdVHKBp3hZ2-auUE/...
i don't have a save file to test it (send one if you want), but i found this thread that did something similar when i had to test for someone else some time ago, scroll down to lilly_kat:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RenPy/comments/15ioyvp/save_was_created_in_other_device...
Yeah, that quest log icon is just a placeholder. We just found out recently that viewing my guide on mobile demands you to have Google Docs installed... it is free, just download that real quick and it should open, see if that enlightens you on the quests and the gallery scenes (those are at the bottom, you can ask here for more info if needed). Other routes have... kinda obvious consequences, yes, the game can be enjoyed perfectly fine by picking just one route, of course, even if i like the focus on chars and strong moments the other three offer too.
The gallery wiping after you close the game sounds like a mobile issue, the data for them should be stored in the persistent save, try to save just after you unlock them all, close and open again... idk much about mobile myself, Caro on the discord can likely help. And yes, every scene until the "coming soon" ones can be unlocked by playing (a couple in the bull route only if you date Axel, a couple if you are dating Nauxus, which is possible in neutral too) and the cheat codes include an instant full gallery unlock, if you were referring to that.
I'm... not sure about what you mean with clicking on quest icons, my guide is literally just a long text document with some pics and bookmarks to help you move around, Caro wants to make a proper quest log inside the game, but that has relatively low priority and is hard to code.
The gallery is just there in the main menu or if you pause while playing (press the escape key), cheats are on the Discord server for $5 patrons.
Anyway, quests can be done with a somewhat flexible order, i specify the requirements to unlock each one for every quest, use the bookmarks (or ctrl+F) to navigate through the guide faster, or ask here, or on the Discord server, where people tend to be online and up to help (link in the game page on here or in the actual game's "about" screen).
