Endings

There are three endings in Valkyrie Profile. A is the best and "true" ending, B is the normal ending. C is the worst ending, and it can be triggered any time during game play. The next few explanations detail how to view each one, and I tried to make it as spoiler-free as possible. I hope things work out for you! The options available for you are as follows:

Easy Mode: B * C- Most of the Seraphic Gate
Normal Mode: A * B * C- Most of the Seraphic Gate
Hard Mode: A * B * C- All of the Seraphic Gate

"A" Ending

To get the best ending, you must lower your Seal Rating, which can be viewed in Valkyrie's status screen. It starts at 100, and will lower and raise during certain events. Your Seal Rating MUST be at 37 or below, by the time the end of Chapter 6 rolls around. It can be a bit difficult to keep low if you don't complete certain events in order. These are the events that effect your Seal Rating:

Recruiting an Einherjar: -2
Not wearing the Nibelungen Ring during Sacred Phases: -2
Going to Brahm's castle anytime prior to Chapter 6: -10
Going to Weeping Lily Meadow any time prior to Chapter 6: -15
Going to Lezard's tower in Chapter 4 and DEFEATING him: -15
Recruiting Mystina in Chapter 5 after defeating Lezard: -15
Going to Gerabellum anytime before Chapter 5 officially starts: -15
Recruiting Lucian in Chapter 5: -20
Wearing Nibelungen Ring during Sacred Phases: +2
Sending an Einherjar to Valhalla: +12

Alright. This is my little method of doing things: Don't do ANYTHING prior to Chapter 4. Don't visit Lucian, don't go to Brahm's castle, nothing. Just continue recruiting Einherjar, which will lower your Seal Rating a bit, but it doesn't matter anyway, since you'll be sending them up later on, effectively boosting you back up to 100 in no time. Once Chapter 4 hits, do as you usually do, but following my method, you're going to cheat. Actually it's just common sense, really.

Begin Spiritual Concentration. You will probably pick up an Einherjar right away. Train them, and send them up right away (you'll need some stocked Event EXP for this). If you have someone else idling over, send that person up too. Just make sure to have 2 Einherjar prepared very early on, and get rid of them. Now continue with your game and go wherever you have to. The Tower of Lezard Valeth should be your LAST official activity in the chapter. If it's not, well then, do Spiritual Concentration again to skip these events, and complete the others beforehand. Your Seal Rating will be at 100 after completing everything else and having sent two Einherjar to Valhalla.

Enter the Tower and beat Lezard. Do NOT leave the Tower at any time, because Lezard will leave, and you won't lose those precious 15 Seal Rating points. To get them lowered, Lezard has to be defeated. So navigate this wonderful, wonderful dungeon and kick his ass. Doing so will lower your Seal Rating which is what you want. Now it should be down to 85. This marks the beginning of your side quest. Now head to Brahms' castle and navigate though it. When you meet him do NOT choose to fight him. You'll lose anyways, and your rating wont be lowered. (Side note: apparently, it doesn't matter whether you challenge him or not.) So don't fight, and when you are kicked out of the castle, your Seal Rating will be down to 75.

Chapter 4 is finished. Before you go to Chapter 4-5 Sacred Phase, take the Nibelungen Ring OFF. On to Chapter 5. Seal Rating now equals 73.

Now, before you do anything, go straight to Gerabellum (you can actually do this at the end of Chapter 4 too). Don't do Spiritual Concentration or anything. Just go there, and meet up with Lucian and his band of thieves. You WON'T recruit him this time around. You will just watch. Afterwards, you will leave Gerabellum. This means your Seal Rating is down to 53. Now, go to Weeping Lily Meadow and watch the scene there. This reduces your Seal Rating to 38. Remember, you are still not doing Spiritual Concentration. Make sure you are saving your game while you are doing all of this...

Now begin Spiritual Concentration. You may pick up Lucian, or Badrach/Jayle/Grey (only two of the latter though). You won't pick up Lucian first- it will be one or two of the above. This is where your game could take a different path than mine, and your total may be a couple points off due to this variance. With two normal Einherjar, yourSeal Rating lowers by 4 (34). Only send ONE to Valhalla. Yes, you can send one Einherjar during Chapter 5 and 6 each, and you'll still be okay. Hey, you need to impress Freya even a little bit. This will raise your rating to 46-ish. Don't worry. Continue playing till you recruit Lucian. This will lower you back down to 26-ish. Now, you will finally recruit Mystina. This puts you down to 11-ish. If you get Mystina at the very beginning of the chapter, do the same thing as I advised with Lucian-skip her until everything else is done and then go back for her. If you want to play your own order, well, go ahead, but you can follow mine for organization. Just acknowledge the differences in our Seal Ratings, which will be reversed during the chapter, but when you have completed the chapter, your Seal Rating and mine should still be the same, or very close to it. Keep in mind, the amount of Einherjar you and I pick up may be different- I got Mystina, Lucian, Badrach and Grey, during this chapter, in that order, this time around, but I left Lucian and Mystina for last. That should lower your Seal Rating by 39 or so points this chapter, so remember that. You'll get Lucian and Mystina for sure, but the other two/one Einherjar will be random. Either way, you should lose close to 39 points.

Chapter 5-6 Sacred Phase will begin. Make sure your ring is still unequipped. (9-11 points remaining).

You will probably lose 4 points due to the recruitment of Shiho/Grey/Jayle (only two of those will be up for recruitment), which is what you want. That puts you to 11-13 Seal Rating Points. You may only be able to afford to send 1 Einherjar up this Chapter if you did some things incorrectly, and one HAS to be Lucian. Lucian has to be sent in Chapter 6 (or 5, but well, that's not my Method of Operation.) to get the A ending. If your Seal Rating is 11-13, you CAN SEND UP TWO EINHERJAR. However, if it is 14 and above, you can only send ONE. When Lucian is sent, your rating will go up to roughly 23 or 25 for his transfer alone; or to 35 or 37 (ohh, calling it close!) if you send Lucian and someone else; the rating must be 37 or under, remember). Now you will watch a scene involving he and Valkyrie.

Play out the rest of the chapter if you haven't already, and then go to Sacred Phase 6-7. If you were successful, then you will watch a scene involving Lucian and Frei. This is your confirmation of whether you did things right or not. If you see this scene, you'll definitely get the A ending. If not, well...don't blame me.

After this scene, you are free to send two Einherjar up every chapter, and whatnot. Seal Rating monitoring sessions are over. During Sacred Phase 7-8, you'll watch more scenes, centering around Lucian and Loki. In Chapter 8, after a Spiritual Concentration, you will be sent back to Weeping Lily Valley. This scene only occurs if you have done everything correctly. If you see this, pat yourself on the back and enjoy the A ending.

"B" Ending

"C" Ending