Even the most seasoned heroes can benefit from a few insider tips and hidden knowledge. This section compiles advanced strategies, lucrative secrets, and fun easter eggs to enhance your Fable III experience and help you achieve 100% completion.
Mastering the Economy: The Road to 6.5 Million Gold
To achieve the best possible outcome for Albion as its Ruler, you will need to have 6,500,000 Gold in the Royal Treasury before the final attack. This is a monumental task, but easily achievable with a real estate empire. Forget about pie-making; property is the true path to power.
The Real Estate Tycoon Strategy
Passive income from property is the single most effective way to earn money. Follow these steps to become a mogul:
- Start Early: As soon as you can purchase property in Brightwall Village, begin buying every home and stall you can afford.
- Buy, Repair, Repeat: Expand your portfolio across every region you unlock. As soon as you purchase a property, enter the world map and repair it to 100% condition. Damaged properties generate zero income.
- Set the Rent: Interact with the property sign or use the world map to set rent/prices. For maximum Good morality, set prices to 'Lowest'. For maximum Evil morality and the fastest profits, set them to 'Highest'. A neutral setting is a good compromise.
- Let Time Do the Work: You receive a payout every 5 minutes of real-time gameplay. To amass a fortune, you can simply leave your Hero idle in a safe area (like the Sanctuary) for several hours. Your coffers will fill automatically.
Once you are Ruler, transfer your personal wealth into the Royal Treasury by interacting with the ledger in the castle. Do this until the treasury balance reaches the required 6.5 million to save all citizens.
Secrets of Albion: Keys, Doors, and Weapons
Albion is filled with secrets that reward exploration with powerful items and exclusive gear. Here are some of the most notable ones.
Demon Door Locations and Solutions
Demon Doors are ancient, sentient stone faces that offer rewards if you can meet their unique demands.
- Mistpeak Valley: This door requires a co-op partner (or a second controller). You must perform a series of matched expressions, such as hug, kiss, and tickle, to open it. The reward is a cache of gold and the "Demon Door" achievement.
- Mourningwood: This door wants to see a specific weapon. You must have maxed out either your melee or ranged skill tree on the Road to Rule, then show the door a fully-upgraded Legendary Weapon.
- Aurora: This door asks you to be completely Good or completely Evil in your morality. The rewards are cosmetic changes to your Hero and a Legendary Weapon.
Gold Key Locations
Gold Keys unlock chests containing some of the best loot in the game. They are exceptionally well-hidden.
- The Sanctuary: After accumulating 5,000,000 Gold in your personal treasury (not the Royal Treasury), a new room opens behind your gold pile. The Gold Key is inside a chest in this secret vault.
- Bowerstone Castle: After becoming Ruler of Albion, make your way to the castle kitchen and then into the garden. The key is tucked away behind the large statue.
- The Ossuary (Bowerstone Industrial): Requires the "Gone but Not Forgotten" quest. As you traverse The Ossuary, you'll find a locked gate. A switch to open it is located on a high-up crypt wall to the right. The Gold Key is in the room beyond.
Achievements and Missable Trophies
Many achievements require specific, and sometimes obscure, actions. Here's how to secure some of the trickiest ones.
- Coronation Chicken: To get this achievement, you must wear a full chicken suit during your coronation ceremony. The 5 pieces of the suit are found in a 5-Silver-Key Chest in Brightwall Village. You must acquire and equip the full suit before starting the "The Coronation" main quest.
- Gnome Invasion: After completing the "Gnomes are Evil!" quest in Brightwall, you can start finding and shooting 50 escaped gnomes hidden across Albion. Listen for their distinct, insulting taunts to pinpoint their locations. Finding all 50 rewards you with 1,000,000 gold and the "Gnomepocalypse" achievement.
- Tough Love: This co-op achievement requires you to marry another player's Hero, then sacrifice them at the Temple of Shadows or execute them as Ruler. It's a dark deed, but necessary for 100% completion.