Artbook Gallery 2:

Gallery Description: Images from the Official Artbook and information about the Word Map and Saraband City. Special thanks to Jason Walton for allowing me to use them in this site, as well as information from his Shining Force III Compendium.


Saraband City:

The floating city of Saraband features modern technology and is a rich merchant town. Their mobility and being a neutral province makes them unique in the world of Shining Force III.

This image shows sketches for Saraband. Apparently, the city changed a bit during game development, but most of its features and chatacteristics were kept, specially its shape.

Interesting to note in this prototype is Saraband's weaponry. The trees and grass could rotate and reveal powerful defense equipment, as well as some false houses in strategical positions! In the game, however, Saraband's cool battle system seems to be unused or inexistent.

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Saraband City Saraband's key locations:

1. Imperial Camp (bottom left)
2. Saraband Docks (left center)
3. ??
4. Elite Soldiers Barracks
5. ??
6. Tavern (1st floor) and Laundry (2nd floor)
7. Bridge
8. ?? (Penn's egg inside)
9. Trading Center
10. Item Shop
11. Weapons Dealer
12. Flower Stand
13. Soldiers Barracks
14. Pigeon Cage
15. ?? (White house with Mithril inside)
16. Republic Camp (bottom right)
17. Government District Entrance
18. Governor Garvin's Mansion

Saraband's final design is this one: divided into four main districts.

The top center is Business District, where shops are located and the trading is done. The east side is the Eastern District, also called Republican District during the peace conference. Same goes to west side: it's the Western District, also called as Imperial District during the conference.

Finally, the bottom center area is the Government District. There, the actual peace conversations take place and Saraband leaders and Governor General Garvin reside.


World Map:


Click the image for a larger image of the Shining Force III world map, Eastern Parmecia.

This image is not exactly as it is on the Artbook, let me explain: there's a mistake where West and East are in the proper positions on the compass, but North and South aren't. So, Jason fixed it using Photoshop and the scan has not the same mistake as the book.


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