Einbroch

Einbroch is a polluted industrial city in the Republic of Schwarzwald. You cannot teleport into it: you have to arrive by Airship or on foot, and the easiest way in is the Kafra employee in Juno, who sends you here. Inside the town, teleporting and Fly Wings do not work either, so movement speed buffs such as Increase AGI are a real help.

Schwarzwald has always been proud of its scientists, and the most honored of them is Strahlenstein, the great champion of the steam engine. His research found the minerals that fuel the engines and opened the republic's Industrial Age. As engines spread across the country, merchants poured money into Einbech, a small mining town southwest of Juno near rich mineral deposits, and it grew into a large city.

Strahlenstein later built stronger engines that could reach metals no one had been able to mine before. Investors then built factories on empty land near Einbech to refine those minerals and make new products, a wide railroad network followed the growing population, and the small settlement quickly became the city of Einbroch.

Einbroch's people live at the two extremes of wealth. The rich hold the power and oversee the many workers who keep the machines and city services running; some workers try to climb higher, while others can only keep laboring to survive. The town guide suggests talking to the citizens of Einbroch and Einbech to learn about their lives.

Most quests here follow the lives of those citizens and reward items and experience. Examples include:

• Acting as matchmaker for two star-crossed lovers.
• Finding Uwe Kliene, a famous chef, and learning the secret of his cooking.
• Reuniting Kain Himere, an Airship crewman, with the daughter he lost touch with.
• Helping a poor man and his sick wife.

A few maps from Einbroch stands the factory of K.H. Corporation. It began as a small Einbroch workshop and, after 32 years, became a huge company that researches Guardians and builds household robots such as maids; only the Rekenber Corporation is bigger. Today it is run by the young business genius Kiel Hyre and is famous for its welfare work, but he hides secrets of his own.

The dungeon is full of robot-like monsters and exploding bombs. Its master waits on level 2: Kiel, the spirit of the factory owner's son, apparently possessed by a demon. A stronger, more robotic and lighter-colored form called Kiel D-01 also lives here; it is a 2-hour MVP on Kiel Dungeon 2. You unlock the dungeon through the Kiel Hyre Quest.