It's true that the manuals aren't the more accurate material : alot of errors are printed (but the errors can also be found into the games...

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About Dark Force in Phantasy Star I, Fogeltje tends to be right BUT the japanese story isn't very far from the english one : see the text :
"It seemed that the nobles of the ruling class had become possessed with heathenism, and that LaShiec, who had been possessed the strongest, had traded away Algol in exchange for eternal life." (Go see it HERE :
smspower.org/uploads/Translations/Phant ... EN-manual/ It's a translation of the japanese manual of the first PS.
(TILINELSON : even if I now know that you look at instruction manuals with a "distant eye"

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