Greatwood Caves

Discover how to unlock the Demon Door in Fable's Greatwood Caves, including strategies for achieving a high Combat Multiplier and the reward: the Cutlass Bluetane.

This small area has two passages, one to Darkwood, and the other to the Hobbe Caves. Both of these are important parts of quests.

Demon Door #3

• Location: Greatwood Caves
• Method: Have a Combat Multiplier above 14
• Reward: Cutlass Bluetane

If you reached this point early on in the game like I did, it may be hard to get a high enough multiplier. In order to do it, you NEED the Physical Shield spell. Don't try to be a bad-ass and do it without it because you're only going to waste your time and get pissed off. What I did was sprint back and forth between the Greatwood Caves and the Hobbe Caves, killing everything in sight. The Physical Shield spell made sure I didn't lose any Combat Multipliers when I got hit, which happened a lot because I ran right into the center of a group of them and starting slashing all of them. The main problem with this technique is that during the (frequent and heinous) load times, your Combat Multiplier decreases. This pissed me off to no end. It didn't seem fair at all. To raise the Multiplier, you need to be controlling your character and killing things. How can you do that when the game pauses the action so it can load the next area? It really doesn't seem fair at all. But you can still do it, as long as you're quick enough with the kills and running. You'll need a Multiplier of at least 20 or higher to even last you the run back to the Demon Door, at which point it might just barely be at 14 when you reach it. If you can do it, though, I think the prize is worth it. I got maybe around 690 kills with the Bluetane, just because it's so cool looking.

But here's an incredibly easier and less frustrating way to do it brought to my attention by Justin Thibodeau. Basically what you do is wait until the part of the game where you have to the Arena. When you come to this area then there will be an Earth Troll. Pull out your bow, hide from it so it can't hit you or dodge its attacks, and hold down X for about two minutes. Once you let go and hit him with the arrow you should get a 25+ multiplier right there. I really wish I had known about that the first time I played this game.