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=== S4 Crypt ===
==== Puzzle 1 ====
===== Hint 1 =====
To bridge the chasm, one requires the element of stability. Binding life first demands the flesh - all energies require a conduit. '''Matter is the starting point''' that shelters all of creation and is the ''medium that allows life to grow and prosper''.
===== Hint 2 =====
Activate the glyphs in order to spell out 'EARTH'.
===== Solution =====
North-west glyph, south glyph, south-east glyph, north-east glyph, south-west glyph.
==== Puzzle 2 ====
===== Hint 1 =====
Beyond the flesh, what else is needed for life? The mind and soul? The essence? The bridge between the inanimate and the sentient is brought about by the aspects. Sentience is formed from the combination of the elements, but '''only special souls are possessed of essence itself'''.
Esther: Looks like something '''related to us. Matching our 'essence'''', is that what it is?
===== Hint 2 =====
Each of the Fae (Aryel, Yumi, Esther) represents an aspect of creation. Move them to one of the 6 hexes that represents their aspect.
===== Solution =====
Aryel - blood/life -> tree
Esther - fire -> fire
Yumi -> shadow/darkness -> dark chasm
=== S12 Iron Crescent ===
You are given text/information are supposed to move to the related objects (in order of them being mentioned).
==== Puzzle 1 ====
===== Hint =====
'''They kept her locked in a small room''', in utter isolation. It was considered an act of kindness, given that it would have been much easier to just kill her.
===== Solution =====
Move to the key.
==== Puzzle 2 ====
===== Hint 1 =====
'''Through the glassy pane, she could see a flower garden a little ways away.''' Their petals bloomed everlasting through sunlight and rain, fire and snow, bright colors illuminating the monochromatic limbo of her prison.
'''Not too far off, there was a windmill where they milled bread''' to be served to the demon lord and the other inhabitants of his stronghold. This was also the only thing they ever gave to her to eat.
===== Solution =====
Move to the flower, then to the grain (it somewhat looks like hay/wooden logs).
==== Puzzle 3 ====
===== Hint =====
'''She prayed''' to the Guardians to set her free, but they could not, would not help her. She wept at the door, crying for her sisters to free her, but they '''turned a blind eye''' to her plight. Shunned and tormented by all, she could only '''wait as time went by''' in endless isolation.
===== Solution =====
Move to the altar, the eye, then the hourglass.
==== Puzzle 4 ====
===== Hint =====
Rise, rise and drive the '''spear of vengeance''' through their bodies. '''Raze your prison to the ground'''. I will grant you the power to do whatever you desire, as long as you pledge yourself to me. '''Listen to your heart'''. You can trust me.
===== Solution =====
Move to the spear, the brazier (representing fire), and then to the heart.
==== Puzzle 5 ====
===== Hint 1 =====
Outside, in the sky, the moon irradiated its faded hue onto the ashen world below. It was a pale reflection of the golden warmth of day, '''a mirror casting its illusory glow into the night'''.
Ivory light cascaded onto '''azure flowers, soft petals''' wilted slightly with the onset of snow. She clasped her hands around the charm adorning her neck - a cheap, metallic thing that had been '''the only trinket her sisters had given her''' - and murmured a quiet, mourning song.
'''You hold the key to your own fate'''. I shall not make the decision for you. I only ask that you look into yourself and find what you truly desire. You may loathe the idea of willingly selling yourself to me as a servant, but surely you don't believe that it can be worse than the state you are in now, hmm?
===== Solution =====
Move to the mirror, the flower, the trinket/amulett, and then the key.
==== Puzzle 6 ====
===== Hint 1 =====
This time, you are supposed to spell out a word.
===== Hint 2 =====
She made up her mind. '''No matter the price,''' living like this wasn't worth living. Anything would have been better, she thought. Still, her hands trembled as she gripped the mirror.
Each glyph names a price she paid for her choice. Which price is missing? What was never said, what identifies her?
Spell it out.
===== Solution =====
Spell out 'NAME'.
=== S13 Silent Night ===
==== Hint 1 ====
Hearing her pleas, it granted her wish. In a '''rising''' arpeggio of plucked strings, the '''climbing''' strum of the harp broke the eerie darkness. And, like a mirror, the spell was shattered.
==== Hint 2 ====
Dark color = low note, bright color = high note
==== Solution ====
Trigger the crystals in order of dark/low to bright/high.
north-east, south-west, south-east, north-west, south, north
=== S15b Ashen Heart II ===
Move Yumi to the deep water.
=== S17 Twilight Vision ===
==== Puzzle 1 ====
"Huh, interesting. '''Looks like I need to make a fire here?'''"
You have a fireplace underwater. You can see lava, hay, and some flat/earth.
===== Solution =====
Pick up earth, move it to the fireplace, then hay, then the lava.
==== Puzzle 2 ====
"I think I need to '''bring that tree back to life'''."
The marked place is frozen over. You can see a dead tree, water, fire, blood.
===== Hint =====
Blood represents life.
===== Solution =====
Pick up the fire, and move it to the marked place. Then the tree, the water, the blood/life.
==== Puzzle 3 ====
"I wonder why the trees are all different around here."
===== Hint 1 =====
Some trees look healthier, some more dead.
===== Hint 2 =====
Order them from healthiest, to dead.
===== Solution =====
south, north, sout-east, north-east, south-west, north-west
=== Ashen Heart III ===
==== Hint ====
"Her voice wept in a lonely melody. It started '''low''', in a muted tone, then '''rose''' to a brittle, crystalline note. She breathed and her song '''dropped, just a little lower''', before finally returning to its '''original tone'''. She hummed the four note sequence over and over, crying it out into the darkness."
Check Hint 2 in silent night if you've forgotten about it.
==== Solution ====
right - dark, middle - bright, left - less bright, right - dark

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 ==== [https://youtu.be/jI_W8EXlwpg?t=351 Puzzle 2] ====
 ===== Hint 1 =====
-Beyond the flesh, what else is needed for life? The mind and soul? The essence? The bridge between the inanimate and the sentient is brought about by the aspects. Sentience is formed from the combination of the elements, but '''only special souls are possessed of essence itself'''.
+Beyond the flesh, what else is needed for life? The mind and soul? The essence? The bridge between the inanimate and the sentient is brought about by the aspects. Sentience is formed from the combination of the elements, but '''only special souls are possessed of essence itself'''.<br>
 Esther: Looks like something '''related to us. Matching our 'essence'''', is that what it is?
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 Esther - fire -> fire
 Yumi -> shadow/darkness -> dark chasm
 === [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_W8EXlwpg&t=580s S12 Iron Crescent] ===
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 ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_W8EXlwpg&t=630s Puzzle 2] ====
 ===== Hint 1 =====
-'''Through the glassy pane, she could see a flower garden a little ways away.''' Their petals bloomed everlasting through sunlight and rain, fire and snow, bright colors illuminating the monochromatic limbo of her prison.
+'''Through the glassy pane, she could see a flower garden a little ways away.''' Their petals bloomed everlasting through sunlight and rain, fire and snow, bright colors illuminating the monochromatic limbo of her prison.<br>
 '''Not too far off, there was a windmill where they milled bread''' to be served to the demon lord and the other inhabitants of his stronghold. This was also the only thing they ever gave to her to eat.
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 ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_W8EXlwpg&t=930s Puzzle 5] ====
 ===== Hint 1 =====
-Outside, in the sky, the moon irradiated its faded hue onto the ashen world below. It was a pale reflection of the golden warmth of day, '''a mirror casting its illusory glow into the night'''.
+Outside, in the sky, the moon irradiated its faded hue onto the ashen world below. It was a pale reflection of the golden warmth of day, '''a mirror casting its illusory glow into the night'''.<br>
-Ivory light cascaded onto '''azure flowers, soft petals''' wilted slightly with the onset of snow. She clasped her hands around the charm adorning her neck - a cheap, metallic thing that had been '''the only trinket her sisters had given her''' - and murmured a quiet, mourning song.
+Ivory light cascaded onto '''azure flowers, soft petals''' wilted slightly with the onset of snow. She clasped her hands around the charm adorning her neck - a cheap, metallic thing that had been '''the only trinket her sisters had given her''' - and murmured a quiet, mourning song.<br>
 '''You hold the key to your own fate'''. I shall not make the decision for you. I only ask that you look into yourself and find what you truly desire. You may loathe the idea of willingly selling yourself to me as a servant, but surely you don't believe that it can be worse than the state you are in now, hmm?
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 ===== Hint 2 =====
-She made up her mind. '''No matter the price,''' living like this wasn't worth living. Anything would have been better, she thought. Still, her hands trembled as she gripped the mirror.
+She made up her mind. '''No matter the price,''' living like this wasn't worth living. Anything would have been better, she thought. Still, her hands trembled as she gripped the mirror.<br>
-Each glyph names a price she paid for her choice. Which price is missing? What was never said, what identifies her?
+Each glyph names a price she paid for her choice. Which price is missing? What was never said, what identifies her?<br>
 Spell it out.
 ===== Solution =====
 Spell out 'NAME'.
 === [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_W8EXlwpg&t=1350s S13 Silent Night] ===
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 ==== Solution ====
-Trigger the crystals in order of dark/low to bright/high.
+Trigger the crystals in order of dark/low to bright/high.<br>
 north-east, south-west, south-east, north-west, south, north
 === [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_W8EXlwpg&t=1585s S15b Ashen Heart II] ===
 Move Yumi into the deep water.
 === [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_W8EXlwpg&t=1660s S17 Twilight Vision] ===
 ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_W8EXlwpg&t=1660s Puzzle 1] ====
-"Huh, interesting. '''Looks like I need to make a fire here?'''"
+"Huh, interesting. '''Looks like I need to make a fire here?'''"<br>
 You have a fireplace underwater. You can see lava, hay, and some flat/earth.
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 ==== [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_W8EXlwpg&t=1720s Puzzle 2] ====
-"I think I need to '''bring that tree back to life'''."
+"I think I need to '''bring that tree back to life'''."<br>
 The marked place is frozen over. You can see a dead tree, water, fire, blood.
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 ===== Solution =====
 south, north, sout-east, north-east, south-west, north-west
 === [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_W8EXlwpg&t=1950s Ashen Heart III] ===
 ==== Hint ====
-"Her voice wept in a lonely melody. It started '''low''', in a muted tone, then '''rose''' to a brittle, crystalline note. She breathed and her song '''dropped, just a little lower''', before finally returning to its '''original tone'''. She hummed the four note sequence over and over, crying it out into the darkness."
+"Her voice wept in a lonely melody. It started '''low''', in a muted tone, then '''rose''' to a brittle, crystalline note. She breathed and her song '''dropped, just a little lower''', before finally returning to its '''original tone'''. She hummed the four note sequence over and over, crying it out into the darkness."<br>
 Check Hint 2 in silent night if you've forgotten about it.
 ==== Solution ====
 right - dark, middle - bright, left - less bright, right - dark

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 ==== Puzzle 1 ====
 ===== Hint 1 =====
-To bridge the chasm, one requires the element of stability. Binding life first demands the flesh - all energies require a conduit. '''Matter is the starting point''' that shelters all of creation and is the ''medium that allows life to grow and prosper''.
+<details>To bridge the chasm, one requires the element of stability. Binding life first demands the flesh - all energies require a conduit. '''Matter is the starting point''' that shelters all of creation and is the ''medium that allows life to grow and prosper''.<details>
 ===== Hint 2 =====
 Activate the glyphs in order to spell out 'EARTH'.