Getting Started
Explore and get used to the castle layout, including the second floor.
At the beginning of the game, the most important areas are the chapel
and the library. Read the books, take notes and copy the pictures;
they contain explicit hints for puzzles. Grab the pages from the back
of the book, and take them each (one by one) to the witch in the
chapel for some general hints.
Notes:
o Don't worry about the courtyard well and the door behind it;
the well's use will become apparent later.
o Inside the castle, you will pass between two doors you can't
open. Leave them alone for now.
o Find the fireplace on the ground floor and set fire to it
with the Eternal Light (candle).
o In the upstairs dining hall, talk to Valkuria (the general in
the painting).
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Getting the Ring and Freeing Valkuria
Hints:
In a book in the library is a picture of the ring Valkuria needs. The
picture is surrounded by a knife and fork...
The cutlery indicates food...
Food is found in a kitchen...
Have you found anything out-of-the ordinary in the kitchen?
SOLUTION:
Returning from the second floor, if you turn to the kitchen table you
will see a scroll materialize. Click on the scroll and you'll activate
a trap. You have to click on the pots and pans that fly towards you.
If you miss too many you die; if you hit enough you'll uncover the
ring.
Once you have the ring, give it to Valkuria and follow her
instructions.
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Getting the Light of Strength (Copper skull)
Hints:
Read the book with on its cover - have you seen something similar to
these shields in your exploration?
From the second floor stairwell, turn right and enter the room with
three shields. To move a sword to a new position, click and drag it
over another sword, then hold it there until it clicks into place.
SPOILERS:
The swords hanging on the shield consist of three pairs: two long-
swords (straight blade), rapiers (thin blade) and sabers (curved blade)
You need to move each pair of swords to the appropriate shield. The
book in the library comes in helpful here.
SOLUTION:
Move both longswords to the shield with this insignia:
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Move both rapiers to the shield with this insignia:
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Move both sabers to the shield with this insignia:
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Getting the Mars key
Hints:
Look through the book with on its cover. You'll see a chandelier -
have you seen something similar in your exploration?
Take the page of this book to the witch to get it translated.
SPOILERS:
On the second floor, go through the dining hall to a smaller room.
Turn left and take a step forward. Turn right and you'll see a three-
pronged candleholder float across the room.
SOLUTION:
Set fire to the candleholder with your candle.
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Exploring the Bell Tower
From the castle entrance, unlock the left door with the Mars key.
There are four floors to the tower. A book in the library provides
some hints about solving the puzzles in this area.
Level One
Click on the fountainheads to reveal six buttons. They should look
familiar from the book in the library.
Hints:
Which ones to push? Take a closer look at the book in the library. Are
some marked a particular way?
SOLUTION:
Click these three buttons:
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Level Two
Around the pot seem to be all the ingredients for some sort of brew.
But explore this room thoroughly...
Hints:
The ingredients should look familiar from the library - have you tried
dragging them into the pot?
There's a hard way of solving this puzzle and an easy way. You could
try each recipe, one after the other. One of them's bound to work...
Have you noticed that each recipe in the book is marked a certain way?
Take a closer look around the room. Maybe somebody's left a hint
somewhere...
SPOILERS:
On a wall near the entrance is this sign:
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SOLUTION:
Go to the library. Search the books for a recipe marked with the above
sign. Put the ingredients from that recipe into the pot.
Level Three
Go to the desk with the tarot cards, and play around with them for
awhile... Looks like you had to copy down all those pictures from the
book in the library.
Hints:
Once you've uncovered all the cards, and know their positions, then
you can solve this one.
The two pages in the library book are two separate hints.
You have to uncover the cards twice.
SOLUTION:
Once you know where the cards are, uncover in order: the top left, top
right and bottom cards depicted on the left page of the book. This
will give you the key to unlock the door to the dungeon.
The cards will then be shuffled. After you've uncovered all the cards
again to find where they are, click on the top left, top right and
bottom cards from the right page in the book.
Level Four
A hint to solve this puzzle is found in the library book. Take the
page to the witch for another hint.
Hints:
Tried ringing the bell? Just once...?
SOLUTION
Ring the bell thirteen times. Then hold the candle to it. Voila: the
silver skull.
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The Dungeons
Throughout the dungeons are wandering goblins and demons, all of whom
will kill you upon sight unless you have the ring (located in the
kitchen). Drag the ring over the monsters to banish them.
Dungeon Maps
Key
# door
Down a level
* Secret door
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2 Combat Training
3 Garden
4 Insects and spiders
5 Suits of Armor
6 Beam (transport to well in castle keep)
7 Cemetery
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