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During the main story ofRune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma, you’ll constantly meet new faces that will get added to the profiles section of your main menu. These villagers can help you out during tough battles, but you can also increase your bond with a few of them to have a potential marriage down the line.
Murasameis one of the candidates that you can romance in the game, and he unlocks fairly early during the main story. However, you’ll have to wait quite a long time before you can finish some of his bond quests and ask him out.
Birthday
Spring 4th
As you go through the prologue of Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma, you’ll already unlock a few bondable characters, but Murasame won’t be one of them. To unlock him, you’ll have to progress the story until you have to head outside the Spring Villageand take part in the game’s combat for the first time.
At the end of this combat journey, you’ll be taken to the Abandoned Shrine where you’ll battle your first boss. Murasame will appear after you defeat this boss,arriving at the Spring Village after a small cutsceneand becoming available for bonding. You can find his house on the southern side of Spring Village’s mapto the left of the Spring God Shrine.
Murasame willcommonly be found training outside his houseduring the early game while you don’t have his bond quests done.
Initially, since no other villages are unlocked, you’ll find Murasame in the Spring Village itself. He willeither be outside his home, at the Spring God Shrine, or at Iroha’s Restaurant. However, once you unlock the Summer and Winter villages, he also likes to journey to these often, especially the latter after you finish his bond quests.
You can find his icon on thetop right side of your screenas you open a village’s map, if he’s there.
Best Gifts And Hangouts For Murasame
Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azuma is unique in a way as it gives youa ton of opportunities to increase the bond with your favorite character, with a lot of them not requiring you to gift them something. These include talking to the character, hanging out with them during a festival, and various other things.
However, the mechanic that gives you the highest bond value is the hangout that you cantrigger daily by talking to the character as long as they’re not lockedby the story or their bond quest. Here are the best gifts and hangouts you can use here for Murasame:
Loves
Sticky Chestnut Rice (Best)
This is one of the two loved gifts for Murasame, which makes it thebest one to give him as soon as you acquire it. You can find the recipe for this item on the bottom right side of Autumn Village while looking at the map.
You’ll need to climb the towers on the edge of the blight zone here to get in and then remove the blight slowly.The Frog Statue with this recipe is near the giant tower here.
Likes
Onigiri (Best)
This is the first cooking recipe that youautomatically unlock during the main story, and it serves as the best gift for Murasame until you get the above. You can get the rice for this by progressing through the Jizo Statue quest.
Salmon Onigiri
You can find this recipe in a secludedbuilding to the north of the White Wolf Mountain areathat you visit during the Winter Village story. However, you’ll have to catch a Salmon and grill it to make this.
Grilled Onigiri
Grilled Onigiri is another easy item to get, and its recipe is also unlocked quite early in the game. However,it gives you the same bond as the normal Onigiri, and might not be worth it.
Grilled Miso Onigiri
You canunlock all these Ongirias you visit different parts of the world, but none of them are worth cooking for Murasame as he likes the normal Onigiri just as much.
Bonito Flake Onigiri
Chestnut Jelly
These recipes are unlocked from thesame Frog Statue as the one for Sticky Chestnut Riceabove.
Chestnut Mochi
Red Beans & Chestnut Soup
This recipe unlocks quite late in the game, and it might not be worth making at that pointsince you’ll already get Murasame’s loved gift.
Chestnut
Finally, if you’re running out of Onigiri, you can start giving Chestnut to Murasame as you canplant its trees in your Autumn Villageand harvest a ton of them.
Best Murasame Hangouts
Outside of giving gifts to Murasame every day and during his birthday,you may also trigger various hangout events to gain his trustand increase your bond. He loves the “Talk about Weapons” event, but also dislikes “Invite out to the waterfall”, “Reminisce about the past”, and “Tell a joke” events. You have to be careful while picking a hangout with Murasame.
How Murasame Works In Combat
As a swordsman himself who trained a lot in his life to become the best, Murasame is one of theperfect candidates to take out to battle once you increase his bond level. You can do that by heading over to the party section and selecting him. However, sometimes the game forces other characters in your team during the story.
Murasame is an attacker-type teammate,which means he excels at dealing damage to enemies. Here are the buffs that you can get for him with your bond levels to make him even stronger:
Effect Unlocked
1
Unlocks the Sweeping Slash skill, which deals a ton of damage.
2
Unlocks the Exorcism skill, which deals veryhigh damage to spirit-type enemies, which are commonly found in villages at nighttime.
3
Unlocks the Focus Stance skill, which letsMurasame increase his Crit Rateby 40 percent.
4
You can craft Murasame’s Pauldron by reaching this level, which is a decent early-game armor.
5
Unlocks the Earth Blade skill, which deals heavy Earth damage.
6
You can craftMurasame’s Sword after reaching this level, which can be a good early-game sword.
7
Unlocks the Armor Crusher skill, which deals damage to the enemy andlowers their DEF, allowing you to deal more damage.
8
Unlocks the Rising Dragon skill, whichdeals even higher damageusing his sword.
9
10
Increases Murasame’s Crit Rate.
Murasame can be a good teammate for both overworld battles and single-target boss enemies.
He especially shines at the lattersince he can reduce the target’s DEF, essentially buffing his entire team.
Murasame Marriage Guide
Even though he’s unlocked early, Murasame is still one of the hardest characters to romance in Rune Factory: Guardians Of Azumasince a lot of his quests are gated by the main storysince you need to unlock specific areas and parts of the quest. However, you can finally move forwardonce you reach bond ten with him.
You have to finish all his bond stories till level nine including the three dates after level six,which will let you ask him to the Fateweaver Shrine. This willtrigger your marriage the next day. Five days after marriage, you can start the process of having a kid with Murasame, which will take another ten days after accepting.
The child-bearing process is different depending on whether you’re playing as Kaguya or Subaru, but the end result is the same and happens after ten days.
You can continue the secret part of the main story a few days after your first kid is born. Also, various days after that,Murasame will ask you if you’d like a second one.
