Heights of Loneliness

Japanese name	ビタリ山
Rōmaji name	Bitari yama
Type	Dungeon
Game	IX

Heights of Loneliness is a dungeon in Dragon Quest IX. It leads up the mountains near Lonely Plains to Zere Rocks. There is a cottage at the base of the Heights. Many routes in this area are vines- the hero needs to climb along the vines to access another area or platform. Its name may also resemble the fact that a man called Mason, who is a hermit, lives there and is very lonely. Whether this is coincidental or it was purposely called that is unknown.

Monsters in the Area

Enemy entry

Dragon Quest IX (DS)
Enemy	Gold	Exp	Drop Item
#071 Mad moai	120 G	350	Royal soil Flinstone	1/16 1/128
#073 Grinade	86 G	288	Rockbomb shard Flinstone	1/16 1/64
#074 Toxic zombie	100 G	270	Manky mud Boomer briefs	1/16 1/64
#075 Metal slime knight	82 G	305	Light shield Iron helmet	1/64 1/128
#076 Hocus chimaera	126 G	288	Chimaera wing Prayer ring	1/16 1/128
#077 Treeface	102 G	315	Strong medicine Strong antidote	1/32 1/64
#078 Stone golem	126 G	400	Flinstone Resurrock	1/16 1/128

Notable Monsters

#074 - Toxic zombie Zombie Family
	HP	MP	Attack	Defence	Agility
	150	10	82	35	32
	Exp	Gold	Drop	Manky mud Boomer briefs
	270	100 G
	Note: Capable of inflicting poison/envenom status on a single _target. Be sure to have Antidotes at the ready, or have a party member with the Squelch spell, such as Thief, Priest or Ranger.

Quest

Quest #015 - "Collapsus's Call"
Location	Heights of Loneliness - L7
Available at	Upon arriving at Heights of Loneliness
Requested by	Christopher Collapusus
Response to	Christopher Collapusus
Requirement	Special medicine
Reward	Treasure Map - Granite Tunnel of Woe Lv. 1
Detail	An explorer called Christopher Collapsus wants some special medicine to help him out of tight spot at the Height of Loneliness.
Hint for solution	You can alchemise Special medicine before you come here with 2x Strong medicine.

Quest #049 - "Rock On!"
Location	Zere Rocks
Available at	After finishing the main story
Requested by	Rocky
Response to	Rocky
Requirement	Resurrock, Enchanted stone, Agate of evolution
Reward	Rusty shield
Detail	Rock-obsessed Rocky from Zere Rocks wants you to show him a resurrock, an enchanted stone and an agate of evolution.
Hint for solution	See List of alchemy ingredients in Dragon Quest IX for info on where to obtain a resurrock. See List of alchemy recipes in Dragon Quest IX for info on how to alchemise an Enchanted Stone and an Agate of Evolution.

Quest #112 - "Ranger Charger"
Location	Heights of Loneliness - Entrance
Available at	Upon arriving at Heights of Loneliness - Entrance
Requested by	Odval
Response to	Odval
Requirement	Toxic Dagger
Reward	Unlocks the Ranger vocation.
Detail	You have been set a challenge by Odval, the ranger you met at the Heights of Loneliness. She wants you to use Toxic Dagger to envenomate three hocus chimaeras and polish them off with poison alone.
Hint for solution	Travel to the Heights of Loneliness and past the first cave area within. Make sure you have a party member who can use a dagger and has the Toxic Dagger ability. Get into a battle with a hocus chimaera. Have the party member with the Toxic Dagger ability use it on the hocus chimaera until it successfully poisons the enemy while the other party members defend. Once the hocus chimaera is poisoned, defend with all party members until it dies of poison damage. This will take awhile since the hocus chimaera will use Midheal on itself once its HP gets low, but eventually it will run out of MP. It's also possible for the hocus chimaera to get confused by your charm, but this will also wear off.

Quest #113 - "Hoarse Whisper"
Location	Heights of Loneliness - Entrance
Available at	With a level 15 Ranger in your party
Requested by	Odval
Response to	Odval
Requirement	Calm 20 enemies with "Soothe Sayer".
Reward	Nomadic deel
Detail	Odval at the Heights of Loneliness says that a true ranger must be able to talk to the animals. She wants you to attract the attention of twenty beasts by angering them, and then calm them down again with Soothe Sayer.
Hint for solution	Keep hitting monsters until they get angry. Boss monsters are good _targets because they are not as easily to beat as normal monsters, so remember to cast "Soothe Sayer" when they get angry. Alternatively, any player can use Whistle or Eyes on Me to enrage monsters, on which the ranger can use "Soothe Sayer".

Quest #114 - "One-Turn Wonder"
Location	Heights of Loneliness - Entrance
Available at	With a level 40 Ranger in your party
Requested by	Odval
Response to	Odval
Requirement	Kill 5 Drakularges within the first turn.
Reward	'Ranger's Revelations'
Detail	Odval at the Heights of Loneliness says that some monsters must be defeated quickly. She wants you to defeat 5 Drakularges within the first turn.
Hint for solution	A Drakularge needs only to be defeated by the end of the first round; it does not require that it is killed by a single party member or on its first hit.

Layout

Level 1

Level 3

Level 5

Level 7

Level 2

Level 4

Level 6

Level 7 outside

Other languages

Other languages
French	Hauts d'Isolmont
German	Gipfel der Einsamkeit
Spanish	Cumbres Solitarias
Latin American Spanish	Unknown
Italian	Cima Solitudo
Dutch	Unknown
Norwegian	Unknown
Greek	Unknown
Portuguese	Unknown
Russian	Unknown
Chinese	Unknown
Korean	Unknown