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ADVENT CALENDAR 2004 - ICE PALACE
Level By Tifa Nazah
Walkthrough by Anurag
The level starts with Lara standing on a cliff. Use the SKATEBOARD in front of
you & grab the ledge ahead at the end. Climb up go forward & cross the
ice bridge. Hang off the ledge in front of it, drop and grab
another ledge & climb up. Pick up the ICE ROSE, this is SECRET #1, now jump up to the
upper ledge & cross the ice bridge, turn right at the end & observe some blocks. Get down on the first
one in the South-west direction, then jump to another block, then a third
block, from here safety-drop to the ground. Go in West direction & you’ll
find AROKH’S
SOUL CRYSTAL near the ice slopes. Then turn right
& go to the opening in the Northeast.
Crawl in all the way, you will encounter an ice wall at the end; there
is a crawlspace just at the left of this wall. Follow the crawlspace all the
way for an ICE
ROSE; this is SECRET #2. Drop down on the
other side & pick up the MOURNBRINGER (crowbar) from the pedestal,
the boulder besides it is inactive. Drop down the ice slopes & crawl out to
the open area. Go to the three blocks, the wall near the third block has turned
into a ladder (white one). Climb up & then go across another ice bridge, to
come to the entrance of an ice palace.
Use the MOURNBRINGER on two levers there to open two doors besides the
castle entrance. First go to the left one (NE direction), jump over there go
through a tree & pick up the LEFT ICE WING kept in an alcove at the end. Return back
to the castle entrance & now go for the right one (SE direction), shoot
some crystal shards (known as Grimstone in Drakan) there to retrieve the RIGHT ICE WING.
Now go back to the castle entrance & use both the ICE WINGS in the 2 key
slots. This unlocks the castle entrance; enter the castle to trigger a
cut-scene that gives a panoramic inside view of the castle.
Lara: “I always thought that this
would be easier somehow.“
Observe the 2 dragon receptacles & the passages blocked by ice.
After the cut-scene place the AROKH’S SOUL CRYSTAL on the left dragon head receptacle at the
wall, this opens a door at right. Approach the passage & the fire dies
down. Climb down the stairs.
Lara: “I thought that everyone
would help me.”
Climb all the way down to enter a prison area.
First press the BUTTON in room 3, then the one in room 11. Now press the
button in room 9, this opens room 1 press the button here. Room 4 gets opened;
press the button here. Room 7 gets opened; press the button here. This opens
Room 5 pick up the LIFE POTION here, this is SECRET #3, now press the
button here. (Don’t save & reload in the prison area, otherwise you won’t
be able to pick up the secret). You can observe that room 10 is open press the
button there. Room 2 gets opened; now press the button here. Room 8 gets
opened; press the button here. This opens the white gate at the end of the
passage. (Don’t bother about room 6 you can’t access it anyways).
Continue through it & climb down the stairs to reach a second prison
area.
Lara: “I’ve been trying so hard.”
Initially room 10 is open so press the button here. This opens room 4,
now press the button here. Room 9 gets opened, now press the button here. Room
5 opens, press the button here. This opens room 1 & room 3, press the
buttons here. Room 8 is now open, go there & press the button. This opens
room 6; now press the button here & shoot the crystal shards behind you, to
reveal SECRET
#4, an ICE ROSE. Room 2 gets opened;
press the button here. Room 7 gets opened; now press the button here. Room 11
gets opened, press the button & pick up WEROKH’S SOUL CRYSTAL
from there. Now backtrack up to the castle hall & place WEROKH’S SOUL CRYSTAL on the right dragon receptacle.
The left passage gets opened, climb up the stairs to end up in a room
with 2 blocked passages & a yellow receptacle.
Lara: “I wasn’t sad.”
Shoot the 2 crystal shards here. Again go down to where you found WEROKH’S SOUL CRYSTAL. Observe the now opened white door. Climb down to end up in a room. A
cut-scene takes over, which gives a view of the prison area.
Lara reads: “A long time ago a summoner called Shiva was destined to obtain the final aeon in order to defeat the bad mistress Artemisia. Shiva,
the goddess of ice, faced Artemisia in a last, adamant fight. She succeeded in
attaining the final aeon. Artemisia was defeated, but
before a sorceress can die she has to confer her forces on a new soul and so,
Shiva received the bad forces. For defeating Artemisia she paid a big price.
Shiva, the goddess of ice, was sealed in her own ice in this ice palace - for
eternity.”
Climb back up the stairs. A cut-scene shows that a block has lowered
somewhere. Follow the passage up to the room where you broke 2 crystal shards
& observe the newly passage there. Go through it into a room full of ice
slopes. First take the SECRET #5, an ICE ROSE. Return to the
beginning. Now finish this part. (There is another way to collect this secret,
which will be described later on).
End up at a ledge after the ice slopes. Go in & pick up the LIGHT CRYSTAL & then continue upwards, until you reach an opening. At the end you
will be at the starting of an ice pathway. Continue through the pathway (Drop
down to the Secret if you haven’t taken it yet, then again do the ice slopes
thing) you will end up in the room where you shot the 2 crystals. Use the LIGHT CRYSTAL in the yellow receptacle. The passage besides it gets opened. Now see
the textures on the wall in the main room & enter the passage. Now use the
levers that have the same textures, as of outside, a block will be lowered in
the 3rd room. (1st one on the right side in first room, both the levers on
right & 1st one on left in 2nd room. Left one in third room).
Go inside & shoot the 4 blue pillars there, this triggers
a cut-scene, which shows that a room has emerged behind the dragon receptacles.
Now backtrack to the main room & then climb down the stairs to the castle
hall.
Go behind the dragon receptacles into the new room. There is an archer
statue & the trapped Goddess (Shiva). Push pull the archer on the 4
differently textured floor blocks; this will lighten up a torch, after this
place the archer on the differently textured block so that the torch is in
between the archer & the trapped Goddess. A cut-scene shows us that the
archer fires an arrow that hits the fire of the torch & then the ice. This
melts the ice & Goddess Shiva gets liberated.
She asks us; "Well, what
about after the game?"