Shadow Hearts: Covenant - Spoiler-Free Item Guide Part 1, Apoina to Southampton

I enjoy finding my way through a game by myself, and I also hate not knowing I've found all the items and completed all the side-quests.  This is the sort of guide I want to have.

Ring Soul
Character Abilities/Ultimate Weapons or Armour
Lottery Members
Crests

Apoina Tower

- Thera Leaf: Up small circular stairway, top right of first room.
- Talisman of Luck: Up small circular stairway, top right of first room.
- Mana Leaf: Second room, after stairs. Lower left.
- Hit Area Expand: Second room, after stairs.  Top right.
Ring Soul: Attack Boost, automatic.
- Pure Leaf: Right of first pentagram.
- Tent: in corner near save point.

Domremy

Domremy

- Mana Leaf: left path from entrance.
- Thera Leaf: second area, right path.
- Hit Area Expand: second area, leftmost path, near Newly Promoted Fafhrd.
- Talisman of Luck: in hut left of village entrance.
- Strike Expand: In village, right path after bridge.
- Tent: between houses on right.
- Thera Seed: left of Calm Hess.
- Pure Leaf: round the back of the houses, after the well.

Ardennes

Crests - Focalur, Andres, Furfur: automatic.

When you leave the camping area with the save point, take the first right.

- Thera Leaf: take every left path - you'll find it in a dead end.
- Soul Benediction:  Hug the left wall from the Thera Leaf and you'll loop round to it.

From the Soul Benediction, back track to the last split and go right.  You'll come to a bridge, with a save point just beyond it.  Save, then go back to the camping area with the save point, take the first left.

- Mana Leaf: From the beginning of this area, go left.
- Barbatos: From the beginning of this area, go right then right.
- Battery: From beginning of this area, go right, then left, and it's an alcove along the path.
- Pure Leaf: at the start of the long grey path to the lift.
- Soul Benediction: Just before the lift, near the silver box on the wall.

Ride the lift to the top (you may have to try a few times).

- Tent: end of path near lift.
- Leather Cap: inside cave near lift.

Paris

- Nibelung Prelude: automatic.
- Mr Sommelier: automatic.
- Mr Matador: gained automatically only if you have a Shadow Hearts savefile on your memory card, or obtained later in Florence.

Champs-Elysees

- Thera Leaf: Gepetto's office, Paris apartment.
- Crocell: main room, Paris apartment.
- Hit Area Expand: After exiting the train station, head right to the top of the stairs.
- Wolf Bout 1: automatic.
- Point Card: automatic.
- P-Defend Down 1: After exiting the subway station in Champs Elysses, run around to the left of the stairs.
- Thera Leaf: near street lamp.
- Haures: chest near savepoint in hotel.
- Tent: in Dr Gaultier's room.

Paris Tunnels 

- Strike Expand: chest on right side, where tracks split into three.
- Shell Bracelet: on left side, where tracks split into three.

Take the leftmost path first.


- Pure Leaf: on the left, right before the path splits into two.
- Ring Soul: take the right path from the split and follow it all the way north.
- SP-Defend Down 1: take the left path just before where you met the Ring Soul.  When you hit the path, it's in the southern dead end.

From the SP-Defend Down 1, go north to the save point, and flip the switch nearby.  Then go back to the three paths and take the rightmost one this time.  If you're interested, the middle path just joins onto the east-most side of the left path.


- Pocket Watch: when the right path splits into two, take the left path first. Then go back to the split and go right.

On the rightmost path, take the first left.  When you can't go left any more, keep going north.


- Phoenix Tail:  You'll find the Phoenix Tail in one of the northern dead ends along here, and a Talisman of Luck in another further west.
- Talisman of Luck: the north-west most deadend along this path.

Once you have those two items, go all the way right/east, until you can't go any further in that direction, then go north.  Take the last left before the dead end, then go north..

- Amy: In the northern dead end, before taking a right for the exit.

Notre Dame

- Soul Benediction: near the entrance to the junk shop, south of the save point.
- Fuse: From junk shop owner.

Le Havre

Camille Pissarro's painting of Le Havre harbour, 1903.

- Seal of Force: left corner, near Gerard.
- Pure Leaf: side of house, down steps from Gerard.
- Ring Soul: most south-eastern corner of Le Havre.
- Thera Seed: chest north of Ring Soul.
- Lottery 16: automatic.
- Wool Coat: treasure chest in alleyway.
- Tent: left of treasure chest, end of alleyway.
- Hit Area Expand: Mayor's front garden, right side.
- Strike Expand: shed in Mayor's garden, left side.
- Star Brooch: shed in Mayor's garden, chest.
- Lottery Ticket: near head of bear rug, Mayor's house.
- Thera Leaf: top of stairs under portrait, Mayor's house.
- Mana Leaf: Behind the bar in the store.

Le Havre today - it was heavily rebuilt after the war.

Wine Cellar

- Seal of Wisdom: from the entrance, go forward hugging the left wall.  The Seal of Wisdom is in a chest in the first big room full of junk. 
- Bhodi Bracelet: go through the big room full of junk.  It's in the second room of junk.

Keep hugging the left wall, until you come to another room of junk.

- Thera Seed: first room of junk.
- Silver Bracelet: second room of junk.

Keep hugging the left wall until you come to a save point.  Turn around, and go back into the tunnels.  Go right, round the corner, and right again (you're still hugging the left wall!).

- Mana Seed: first room of junk.
- Lottery Ticket: second room of junk.

Go back to the save point.  After hitting all the switches, go through the door under the stairs.

- Pure Seed: first room of junk.
- Raum: second room of junk.

After the boss battle:

- Mr. Chef: beat Lucky Chest's minigame in room where Bhodi Bracelet was.
- Wolf Bout 2: Where you fought the boss (hint: pocket watch).

Le Havre

- Solomon's Key: in shop, after wine cellar.  You can complete the first area immediately.

Port of Southampton

Southampton Wall Today

- Hit Area Expand: chest in pub.
- Mr. Detective: chest upstairs in pub.
- Lottery Ticket: northeast corner of main square.
- Lottery 15: northeast corner of main square. 
- Leonardo's Bear: top of stairs, to the right.
- Nibelung Scene 4: man in square. 
- Strike Expand: statue, main square.
- Dried Straw: top of wall, from Straw Merchant. Start of Straw Millionaire sidequest.
- Seal of Aura: chest near wrestling ring.
- Locker: near wrestling ring.
- Fight Great Gama in Wrestling Ring (hint: Leonardo's Bear).

Part 2