.:. Uru: Ages Beyond Myst .:.
- Walkthrough by Coelho Buda (aka Orlando Soares, the.hare@mail.telepac.pt)
- Version 1.5
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--- A. Table of Contents ---
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A. Table of Contents
B. Version history
C. FAQs
D. Walkthrough
1. The Desert Cleft
2. Relto Age
3. Teledahn Age
4. Gahreesen Age
5. Kadish Tolesa Age
6. Eder Gira / Eder Kemo Age
7. Bahro Caves
8. Return to the Desert Cleft
9. Final considerations
E. Short Guide to Journey Cloths
F. Short Guide to Relto Pages
G. Contributors
H. Live features
1. Bahro Stones
2. Relto Pages
3. Great Zero Marker locations
4. Other Goodies
I. Legal Stuff
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--- B. Version history ---
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Version 1.5 - (25.01.04) Added Live Features Section which includes new Bahro
Stones, new Relto Pages, Great Zero Marker locations and some
extra Goodies
Version 1.4 - (01.01.2004) Updated and added an explanation for the third puzzle
in Kadish Tolesa. Added information to FAQ section. Updated
contributors list.
(23.12.2003) Updated Kadish Tolesa and Eder Gira Ages. Corrected
some errors. Added how to reach the Neighborhood in the offline
version to the Final Considerations section. Updated contributors
list and site list.
(16.12.2003) Updated Return to Desert Cleft with the correct way
of solving the final projector sequence. Updated contributors list
and site list.
Version 1.3 - (05.12.03) Added another suggestion for solving the final puzzle
in Return to Desert Cleft. Updated Contributors list.
(03.12.03) Added small corrections to Teledahn (wooden plank and
metal walkway), added suggestion to hexagonal tile puzzle in
Kadish Tolesa, added suggestion to final projection puzzle in
Return to Desert Cleft. Updated contributors list. Switched
names of Eder Kemo and Eder Gira Ages.
(01.12.03) Added a FAQ to the FAQs section, added an alternative
to solving the pressure plate puzzle in Teledahn and added
contributor to Contributor list.
Version 1.2 - (26.11.03) Two submissions to help improve the walkthrough in
Teledahn and Kadish Tolesa. One submission on Return to the
Desert Cleft. Updated contributors list. Updated list of sites
with permission to post this guide.
(25.11.03) Minor update to list of sites with permission to post
this guide.
(21.11.03) Minor update: Explanation for the tile puzzle and the
pillar puzzle in Kadish Tolesa. Updated contributors list.
Version 1.1 - Updated contributors list. Updated FAQ. Added a legend to
Kadish Tolesa Tile puzzle. Updated Final Considerations with
information on seeing Shroomie and new T-Shirt. Updated list of
sites with permission to post this FAQ.
Version 1.0 - Updated contributors list. Updated info on Relto pages.
Finished walkthrough for the remaining areas. Finished both
Short Guides. Corrected a few more mistakes. Added a FAQ
section.
Version 0.6 - Updated bookshelf on Relto Age. Corrected a few grammatical
errors and a few FAQ errors. Added Kadish Tolesa Age. Added
start of Eder Kemo Age. Added Journey Cloth Short Guide and
Relto Pages Short Guide for Kadish Tolesa. Updated list of sites
with permission to post this FAQ.
Version 0.4 - Added Gahreesen Age. Added Journey Cloth Short Guide for Desert
Cleft, Teledahn and Gahreesen Ages. Added Relto Pages Short
Guide for Desert Cleft, Teledahn and Gahreesen Ages. Updated FAQ
with ToC and with some alterations. Corrected a few grammatical
errors. Added list of sites with permission to post this FAQ and
contributors list.
Version 0.3 - First Version. Walkthrough for Desert Cleft, Relto Age and
Teledahn Age.
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--- C. FAQ ---
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Q: How do I save the game?
A: Unfortunately, there is no way for an user to save the game when he wants
to. :p The game automatically saves any change you make to the Ages, and
the Journey Cloths save your position within an Age, enabling you to return
to it by linking from Relto. By default the game always loads to Relto Age.
Q: Uru seems to cause my machine to crash once in a great while, so the
inability to save is a REAL pain.  Worse, when Uru crashes my machine, it
loses track of my game, and I'm forced to start way back at the beginning
of the game, recreating my avatar and everything else. What can I do?
A: In the Uru install directory there's a subdirectory called 'sav'.  Whenever
you quit, make a copy of everything in that directory in another
location.  If you crash, delete whatever is in that directory and then
copy in the stuff you last saved before restarting Uru.  This causes it to
restart with everything as it was when you last started the game.  Still
not great, but FAR better than starting the whole thing over again. (thanks
to Andrew Lowry for this suggestion).
Q: Where is ?
A: See my short guide for Journey Cloths at the end of the walkthrough. That
way you will not read any major spoiler.
Q: Where is ? / What does  do?
A: See my short guide for Relto pages at the end of the walkthrough. That
way you will not read any major spoiler.
Q: Can I change my Avatar's name/sex after I have started a game?
A: No. You are bound to the Avatar you created. If you want a different one,
you will have to start a new game.
Q: Why is it my KI device does not work?
A: It will only be fully functional on the Online version of the game. In the
single player version it controls the blue doors in Gahreesen Age.
Q: I want to return to the beginning of an Age but I can only see the Journey
Cloth marker in the book. What can I do?
A: Look to the bottom left or bottom right corner of the Age's book. There is a
bent corner that you can press to turn the pages. This allows to select
whether to return to the last touched Journey Cloth, the beginning of the
Ages or other places within the Ages.
Q: Due to a bug a puzzle does not work/I want to reset the Age. How do I do it?
A: Link to Relto and go to the bookshelf. Below each book there is a button (it
has a square with a dot in the middle). Press it. You will be asked if you
want do delete the Age. Answer yes. The book disappears and you will have to
go retrieve outside at the corresponding pillar. Resetting an Age resets all
puzzles within the Age but keeps the Journey Cloth progress.
I will post more if I come across any more frequent questions.
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--- D. Walkthrough ---
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Hello. This is my very first walkthrough. I have been to several Uru forums
and I am still playing the game. Throughout the game I have been stuck in many
of the places where people complain they are also stuck, and so I decided
doing this as I way to help out everyone.
That being said, any contributions will be gladly accepted. ^_^
Questions, contributions, corrections and general praise ^_^ can be sent to my
e-mail.
Warning: This walkthrough contains major spoilers. It could seriously affect
your enjoyment of the game. I do not give out hints or nudges. I simply state
how a given puzzle should be solved. That said, read on at your own risk.
So without further ado, on to the game itself.
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1. The Desert Cleft
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After you configure your avatar, you will appear in a desert setting with a
volcano in the distance. Behind you and to your left side there is a metal
plate leaning against a barbed wire fence. Go around the plate, and behind it
you will find your first Journey Cloth. Touch it and then return to your
starting position.
Walk/run towards the trailer. Listen to what Zandi has to say, and when he is
finished, circle towards the back of the trailer. Here is the second Journey
Cloth, so activate it by touching it.
Now you could go down the cleft, which is to your right, but before you do,
let us activate the last of the surface Journey Cloths before going down. Walk
towards the volcano and circle it to the left or to the right. Behind it you
will find the remains of what appears to be the telescope from Riven and a
giant ribcage skeleton from a Whark (one of those whale type sea creatures
from Riven). Walk between the ribs of the skeleton and proceed towards the
head. The third Journey Cloth is on the left mandible, to your right, when
facing the desert or to your left when facing the volcano. Press your hand to
the cloth and then return to the Cleft.
Locate the wooden ladder that leads into the Cleft and climb down. You will be
on a ledge facing two wooden bridges, overlooking a gully. Walk towards the
one on the right, and cross it. It will break, making you fall to the bottom
of the gully. Turn to the right and walk until you locate what is left of
another broken wood bridge. Walk towards it and climb it. You will be on a
ledge with two openings. The one in front of you contains the fourth Journey
Cloth, so enter it and touch the Cloth. The second opening has a letter from
Atrus to Yeesha. You can read it if you want to. When you are finished, walk
outside past the first opening and drop down to a lower ledge.
Cross the bridge made from three wooden planks to the other side. Turn to the
left and again drop down to a lower ledge. Climb up using what is left of
another wooden bridge, and you should arrive at Yeesha's home. Enter the room.
Examine the drawings on the wall to your right, behind a wood plank. Copy
those four symbols as you will need them to operate the machine opposite the
door. But first, you will need to turn on the power.
Inside this room, turn to the left and climb down the stairs. When you arrive
at the first floor, you will see a shaft with a lever and a wheel. Pull the
lever to release the locking mechanism. Nothing will happen for now. Return to
the first floor, and exit it. Fall down to the gully and walk to the end of it,
right to the tree with the hand print on it. This is where you will be exiting
this age, by the way. Now, climb to your right, up a small stairway and you
should be by the outside of the room with the shaft, wheel and lever mechanism.
Cross the gully using the second wooden bridge, the one which is right in
front of the door, being careful not to fall through the gap on the bridge.
Once you are on the other side, climb out of the cleft and circle it.
Go towards the wind fan generator and grab the wooden pole that sticks out
from it. Your avatar will push it and start the generator. Return to the Cleft,
climb down, and cross to Yeesha's home by going the same way as you did before.
When you enter the room, the power will be on.
Touch the blue button by the door to close it. Go to the machine on the other
side of the room, the one with the blue button, not the one with the green
button. If you have not touched the machine until now, you will only need to
adjust one of the buttons, the one on the right, until it looks like an eye
with vertical lines. If not, press the four buttons until they match the ones
on the wall. Press the blue button. Yeesha's message should play. She will
also activate a Journey Cloth, the fifth. After the message has finished
playing, touch the Cloth.
While inside the house, go down to the first floor and open the door by
pressing the blue button. Go outside, fall to the gully and again cross to the
other side as if going to Yeesha's. On the door you closed will be the sixth
Journey Cloth, so touch it. Only one to go.
Fall down to the bottom of the gully, turn to the right and go to the tree.
Turn to the right, climb up, climb the small stairs and cross the first bridge,
being careful not to fall through the gap at the end. Once across, there is a
bucket on a winch and a wooden pedal on the floor. The bucket has the seventh
and last Journey Cloth on it. Press the pedal and it should lower the bucket.
Once again, fall down to the gully. Walk to the bucket and touch the Cloth.
Now you can go to the tree and open the Journey Door. Do so by touching the
hand imprint on the tree.
Enter the tree hole and climb down the wooden ladder. Follow the path to the
end. In this room there will be a pedestal with a book on it. This is your
Relto book and it allows you to link to your personal age, or Relto Age, the
island in the clouds. Say goodbye to the Cleft and touch picture in the book.
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2. Relto Age
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Welcome to the island in the clouds. This Age is a refuge, and the starting
point for the rest of the game. When anything bad happens to you, you will
automatically link to this age. It will also store the several books you will
find throughout the other ages.
The island is not very big. It has a house, four wooden cylinders and sparse
vegetation. You will be able to somewhat customize by finding Relto pages in
the different ages.
Start by going to the house, and opening the door. Inside, you should see a
small lever to your left. Operate it to open the windows and let some light in.
In front of you there is a closet that leads to the customization menu, where
you can alter your appearance. To the left of this closet there is a book case
with a book describing the four ages: Teledahn (the one with the mushrooms),
Gahreesen (the fortresses one), Kadish Tolesa (the one with the "clock"
mechanisms) and Eder Gira / Eder Kemo (Volcano and Garden ages). To the right
of the closet there is another bookcase that will store the different books
that you will find throughout the ages. Once you are done checking the house,
go outside.
Walk towards the cylinders. Touch the handprint on each one once to open them.
Inside each, you will find a linking book. What I did was link to all of them,
one at a time, and upon arriving at an Age I linked back to Relto. That way
all the books will be stored in the bookcase, and you can then select the one
you want to start from. With your back to the house this is their order:
1      3
House
2      4
1 - Eder Gira / Eder Kemo (Green handprint)
2 - Teledahn              (Orange handprint)
3 - Gahreesen             (Cyan handprint)
4 - Kadish Tolesa         (Purple handprint)
I will continue this walkthrough assuming all the books are on the bookcase.
Their order will be like this (these are the books I have at this point, but
there may be more):
Slot #           Book Age
1                Desert Cleft (only appears in the end)
2                Gahreesen and Gahreesen Prison
3                Teledahn and Tree Stump
4                Kadish Tolesa
5                Eder Gira
6                Eder Kemo
7                Douglas Sharper's room; City Balcony view from Gahreesen;
Kadish Gallery; DRC Area
8                Unknown*; City Balcony view from Kadish Tolesa
* See Final Considerations below.
Let us start with Teledahn. Press the book on the third slot and link to the
age.
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3. Teledahn Age
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You will arrive on this age inside a hut. On the floor there is a manhole, but
as there is no power yet, you can not lift it. Go outside, and circle around
the hut. There you will find this Age's first Journey Cloth. Touch it. Go back
to the front of the hut and walk to the intersection. There's an elevator
shaft here and the calling button but it will not work because there's no
power. Walk outside, and keep walking until you see a fork. Take the left side
and go up the ramp.
You should be on a platform with another ramp leading to a dead end as the
ramp is broken and works as a one way return from the final area of this Age.
There is also a sort of balloon, three levers and a button with the D'ni
number three on it. This is a solar powered generator and you will need to
activate it to power up the machines for this Age. To do so, you first need to
press the button three times. This will make the balloon go up. Walk around
the platform to the other side and there should be a periscope. Activate the
periscope. You now have to track the Sun to provide the power. Do so by making
the periscope rotate to the left at the same speed as the sun and with the sun
in the middle of the aiming ring. You can then step away. Of the three levers
only two work, so operate those two. The Age should now be powered.
Go down the ramp to the fork and again take the left side. Walk until you get
to a lever. To the left of the lever is a small stairway leading to a pathway
with a dark patch in front of a big bucket. This is a sort of tram. To
activate it you need to operate the lever which is on a timer. After you
operate it you have about five seconds to get to the bucket and climb inside,
by clicking on it. Once you do you will be taken to the control room and be
unceremoniously dumped on a fan.
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Note: If you miss the bucket, you will have to reset the mechanism. To do it,
you will have to go to the lever and look at the moving buckets. When one of
them going up crosses one of the ones coming down, operate the lever. With
luck, this will make the bucket that is coming down stop in front of the dark
area I referred before. Then you will have to operate the lever again, run to
the bucket and climb aboard.
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The control room has an elevator to your left, a control console to the left
and slightly in front of you, two openings with telescopes to the right and
the second Journey Cloth on the wall between these openings. Touch it to save
your progress. If you want to, you can use the telescopes to enjoy the view of
Teledahn.
Go to the elevator and you should see a pedal to the right of it. Press it to
release the brake. The elevator is now operational. Before you use it though,
go to the console. You will need to unlock the manhole inside the hut and
drain some water from a section of this Age.
The top area of the console shows what is powered, the lever to the left
controls the tram and the switch to the right of this lever determines whether
the tram will function as a "round trip" or "one way" ride. Leave these alone.
What you need to do is operate the middle lever, to drain the section I told
you about and to move the rightmost switch so that the manhole becomes
unlocked.
Now walk to the elevator and press the blue button. The blue button makes the
elevator go up and the yellow button makes it go down. This will take you to
the top floor. This room has another telescope, windows you can open by
operating a lever by one of them, books and papers you should read, a bed and
a fish tank. Copy the diagram with the numbered squares in D'ni from 1 to 7.
You will need it to solve the pressure plate puzzle. There is also the third
Journey Cloth which you should activate. Behind the crate, next to the bed is
the first of the Relto pages. Touch it to append it to your book. This page
allows you to customize the roof of the Hut in Relto. (Thanks to Mark for the
information).
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Note: As I said before, the Relto pages allow you to customize your personal
Age. After the page is in the book, when it is bright green the effect will be
applied to the Age. When it is dull green, the Age will not have that effect
active.
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Anyway, you should now go to the fish tank, and press the top button by the
red light for three seconds. A panel slides down and a linking book appears.
Touch the picture to link to a room with two divisions. The first division has
three paintings and the second division has a desk with some papers and a
diary. It is Douglas Sharper's diary. Read it if you want to learn a bit more
about Teledahn Age. It is quite a long read. This division also has an opening
that leads to yet another telescope. Next to the telescope, on its left, is a
linking stone to a Tree Stump, which is a dead end. Link to it, than link back
to Relto, and then back to Teledahn (thanks to Nolpscpj and Warren Odgers for
the info).
You are now back in the room above the control room. Take the elevator down to
the control room, and down again to the hut at the beginning of the Age. Enter
the hut. The manhole is now unlocked, which means you can pull the lid to open
it. Do so.
Climb down the metal rung ladder until you are at the bottom of the cistern.
Get of the ladder platform, circle to the right until you find another ladder
and climb down this one too. You will be at the bottom of a water pipe. Run up
the pipe and when you get to a level section there should be an opening to
your right. Go through it, and climb the stone steps. You are now in the
pressure plate room.
This room is a sort of a cell. When you enter turn to your right and activate
the fourth Journey Cloth. Now let us deal with the pressure plate puzzle.
There are seven pressure plates in the floor. If you read the diagram in the
office above the control room, you should know the number for each one. I will
try to reproduce the diagram below:
|---|           |---|
|   | 4         |   | 2
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|---|         |---|
|   | 7       |   | 6
|---|         |---|
|---|       |---|
|   | 1     |   | 3
|---|       |---|
|---|
|   | 5
|---|
If you look through the bars of the cell door on the right, you will see a set
of square markers on the wall. Three will be down (light grey) and four will
be up (orange/dark yellow). Each of these markers corresponds to one of the
pressure plates. Assume they are numbered from left to right starting from 1
and going to 7. You need to put weights on the corresponding plates that are
up. So, following the diagram you will need to put weights on pressure plates
two, four, six and seven. This will open both cell doors. Go through one of
them and when you are on the other side, change the position of one of the
markers. This will make the cell doors close and the door out of this room
open. If by any chance you want to return to the prison, remember the marker
you changed so that you know which plate to put/remove weight on/from.
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Note: as an alternative you can do the following, as suggested by Andrew
Lowry: leave pressure plate #2 clear, but put rocks on the other three.  Then
stand on #2, and the door will open.  You can then run through the door before
it closes.  This not only saves you the trouble of moving another stone, but
it also leaves the room set up for later visits.  To go through again you can
leave all the stones as they are, and just run from plate #2 through the
doorway again.
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Walk through the now opened door. Proceed down the hallway. Exit to a wooden
walkway. Go down the stairs to your right to another wooden walkway. At the
end you will find a raised plank and a lever. Do a running jump and slam into
it. The plank will lower a bit. Operate the lever and it will lower completely
allowing you to cross to the other side (thanks to tcgrant for this
correction). Cross the plank and continue forward and up the stone stairs.
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Note: if you operate the lever before slamming it, it will only lower halfway.
It is still usable, and this was how I was doing it before the correction sent
by tcgrant. If you then operate the lever again, the plank will lower
completely. Thanks to Dylan Eaton for pointing this out to me. It did not work
when I first played the game but it seems to be working now.
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You will come to a docking area, with crates on both sides of a door, a raised
platform and the fifth Journey Cloth. Do not worry about it yet. You will
return here in a few moments. For now open the door and go in. This room has a
metal stairway, a few crates, some mushrooms, and a linking stone below the
stairs. Do not touch the picture on it. It links to the second part of the
Gahreesen Age, and you will return here to use it when the time comes. For now,
go up the metal stairs, open the door and go through. This hallway has four
exits corridors. The one you are in leads back to the dock. The one to your
right with the Journey Door, the one in front of you that leads outside to a
metal walkway with a lever and a metal wall that you can raise or lower, and
finally one directly in front of the Journey Door, which is the one you will
now take.
At the beginning of this corridor you will see the sixth Journey Cloth on the
left wall. Activate it. Now proceed down the corridor and exit to a walkway
above the sea. Continue forward until you arrive at a machine. This is a sort
of gun. You will use it to blow some rocks that are holding a ladder up by the
fifth Journey Cloth. The controls for the gun are similar to the ones for the
Solar Generator. The green knob controls the zoom, and the blue button fires.
The other buttons control the movement of the aiming ring. Aim and blow up two
rocks, the ones closest to the ladder on both sides. If you want, you can blow
up the other two. The ladder will fall down.
Before returning to the docking area, make a quick detour. Go the intersection
with the Journey Door and, when facing it, turn left. Go outside and walk on
the metal walkway until you are near the end, and overlooking a fallen
mushroom with another metal walkway that leads to the Solar Generator. Jump on
the walkway to make it lower to the mushroom. This way you now have a complete
path linking all of the Age. (thanks to Dylan Eaton for this information).
Return to the docking area. Climb to the raised platform by using the crates
on the left side of the door. Jump across the gap, and continue to the fifth
Journey Cloth. Activate it. Continue forward and climb the wooden ladder. Once
at the top, you will be in a room with a door that leads down to a secret door
on the room below. The seventh and final Journey Cloth is on a wall. Activate
it.
Now, to leave this age climb down and activate the fifth Journey Cloth again,
so that when you link back here you will arrive at the docking area. This will
help solve the second part of the Gahreesen Age. Enter the room with the metal
stairway, climb up the stairs and go through the door. Proceed towards the
Journey door and activate it, by pressing the hand imprint. Walk through into
the darkness and you should arrive at the Bahro caves.
Listen to Yeesha and wait until the glowing man on the wall stops glowing.
Then activate the hand imprint on the wall so that the totem disappears. To
finish Teledahn, jump into the Void or link back to Relto. Next up, Gahreesen.
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4. Gahreesen Age
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While in Relto, go inside your hut and select the second book from your
bookcase. Click on the picture to link to Gahreesen Age. You will appear in
the middle of a hexagonal room. Walk through the only exit, cross and exit the
next room and then turn right in the hallway.
Go down this hallway, through the next door and continue until you see two
signaling cones. To your right is a door. Go through it. You should be in a
room with some closets on the walls. Some are opened and some are closed. With
your back to the door, turn right and go to the last closet. In here there is
linking stone. Touch it to link to your first view of the City. You will
appear in a balcony and will have to link back to Relto to continue. Do so.
You will also notice that there is a new book on the bookshelf. It corresponds
to the link you just found.
Link to Gahreesen again, and go to the room you just left. This time, with
your back to the door turn left, and exit through the door. This leads to a
room with a KI device dispenser. You must operate it, because you need the KI
device to operate the doors and elevators in this level once you have powered
up the Age. The other functions will only be active for those of you who have
access to the online portion of the game.
Exit this room through the door past the orange cones. This next room has a
crevice in the middle. Before going down there to retrieve your second Relto
page, jump across and climb the debris. Behind it, there is a recess and the
first Journey Cloth for this age is on its left wall. Activate it. Now climb
the debris again, and fall into the crevice. Touch the Relto page to add it to
your book. This page allows rocks and logs to appear in front of the hut.
Again, since this is a dead end, link back to Relto to continue.
Once you are in Relto, link to Gahreesen using the Journey Cloth marker. You
will appear in the crevice room. Climb the debris and exit this room through
the door on your right. Walk along the hallway and through the door. Continue
walking along until you see a crack in the wall. Step through it into the next
room. Climb the wall in front of you. Once at the top, you will see the second
Journey Cloth to your left. Activate it. Now climb down or jump across to the
other side of the room. If you do not make the jump do not worry. You can
climb up using the metal grate on the other side of the room.
Walk along the ledge and climb the fallen stone slab until you reach the
debris. Climb it (three jumps should be enough). Once you are up there, turn
left and walk between the cones. Cross the gap using the wooden plank. Now
exit through the hole in the wall and continue in front, going behind the
protection barrier. Walk to the end of this tunnel and you should see a fast
rotating wall. Keep walking into it. You will enter the hole in the wall and
it will carry you around. When you see a large room, exit as soon as you can.
This room has a huge cogwheel on the floor with two pedals. There are four
buttons with labels in the back wall, and a bit to the left of them, behind a
structure, there is a plate you can step on to power a generator. There are
also to doors. This puzzle will take a bit of effort to solve. I suggest you
lock on running mode, as it is easier if you do so. Familiarize yourself with
the layout of the room and when you are ready, activate the third Journey
Cloth on the left of the four buttons.
Go to the plate and step on it until the column is at the highest it will go.
Now run to the first button (leftmost, nearest to the Journey Cloth, labeled
with three sticks) and pull it. Run back to the plate and step on it until the
column is at the highest point. If you let it come down all the way to the
floor throughout the puzzle, you will have to start over. When ready, run to
one of the cog pedals and operate it. Run back to the plate and let it charge
to the top. Run to the other pedal and operate it. Run back to the plate and
let it charge to the top. Run to the second button from the left (labeled with
a cogwheel) and pull it. You can now let the column reach the floor as the
cogwheel will raise giving power to the doors and elevators. Pull the
remaining two buttons to give power to the elevators outside. The Age is now
powered up.
Exit this room via the door on the left. When you get close to it a blue light
will blink and it will open. Doors with blinking green lights do not open.
Proceed along the hallway. Pass the green blinking door on your right and go
through the door at the end. You are back in the hallway with the tunnel to
the rotating wall on your left and a hole to the room with the plank on your
right. Enter this hole and fall down near the wooden plank. You will be back
in the room with the crevice and the Relto page. Jump across the crevice, go
through the door and you should be on the KI dispenser room. This time use the
door in front of the dispenser to exit this room. In front of you is an
elevator. Press the button on the middle of the door and you will
automatically be taken up.
Once you are outside, take a moment to enjoy the view. You are on the top of
the rotating building. When you are ready, turn to your left (when your back
is to the elevator) and cross the walkway until the end. Wait for the stone
with the fourth Journey Cloth to come into view and jump to it. Activate the
cloth. With your back to the cloth, if you walk slightly to the left, you will
see a stone mesa a bit down. To the right of this mesa, and on a lower level,
is the Journey Door to leave this age. You will be returning here, so do not
forget this place.
Turn towards the other big rotating building and wait for one of the walkways
to line up with the mesa you are on. Jump to the walkway and run across it
until you get to the door. Enter the building.
This first room is empty. Climb the stairs and exit through the door at the
top. You are now in an intersection with a door in front of you, a door behind
you and two open corridors to both sides of you. Go inside the room in front
of you. This building was built for two teams of Maintainers (as you will find
out in a bit). Accordingly, it has two rooms of three different types: control,
locker and conference. Now, depending through which side you entered the
building, you should be in one of these rooms. What you need to find are both
conference rooms. They are on opposite sides of the building.
The conference room has a big round table and chairs in it. The locker room
has a suit as if it was in display. The control room has a chair at the end
and machines to both sides of it. One of the conference rooms has a handbook
about the KI device. The other one has a notebook about Gahreesen and the
fifth Journey Cloth. Find the one with the Journey Cloth and activate it.
After that you will need to make a small detour to Teledahn to continue our
journey. So, link back to Relto, and from there use the Journey marker to
return to the Docking Area in Teledahn. If you are following this guide, you
should appear near the fifth Journey Cloth, in the Docking Area.
Enter the Docking Area room, and find the linking stone I referred earlier. It
is below the metal stairway, behind some crates. Touch the picture to link to
the Prison Area in Gahreesen.
You will appear inside a prison cell. To your left is the sixth Journey Cloth.
Behind you, on the pillow in the cot is the third Relto page. This one adds a
waterfall and lake to the island in the clouds. You can see it behind and to
the right of the hut. After adding the page to your book, activate the Journey
Cloth and then climb down the manhole.
You are now in the cell corridors. Turn around and walk to the inner corridor.
You can now turn left or right and walk towards the green light. You need to
find a recess with a metal ladder leading up. When you do, climb it. At the
top of the ladder, walk around to your left and enter the door. Go to the
middle of this room and climb one of the metal ladders. At the top, you will
again be outside. This is the top of the big rotating building. The last
Journey Cloth, the seventh, is on the back of one of the outer stone pillars.
Find it and activate it. When you do, link back to Relto.
Link back to Gahreesen, by using the main link. You can turn pages in the
linking books, in case you had not found out by now. Anyway, once you are back
in Gahreesen, go to the KI dispenser room. Exit through the door in front of
it, and use the elevator to go to the top of the small rotating building. Once
there, you will need to jump to the middle mesa where the fourth Journey Cloth
is. Press the cloth to save your position in case you fall. Now, with your
back to the Journey Cloth, walk a bit to the left of the raised section in
front of you. You should see a lower stone mesa down there. Do a running jump
to it. With a bit of luck, you should land smack in the middle. Turn to your
right and you should see the Journey Door. Line up with it and do another
running jump.
Once you have landed, walk to the door and touch the hand imprint. Walk into
the darkness and you should automatically link to the Bahro Caves. Listen to
Yeesha's story and wait until the glowing man on the wall stops glowing. Press
the hand imprint on the wall to make the totem disappear. To finish Gahreesen,
jump into the Void or link back to Relto. Next up, Kadish Tolesa.
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5. Kadish Tolesa Age
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While in Relto, go inside your hut and click on the fourth book to open it and
link to Kadish Tolesa Age. This is one of the most difficult Ages to solve. It
is also one of the most beautiful ones, at least in my opinion. Fortunately,
there are a few clues to help you with the puzzles, in a place called Kadish
Gallery. But first things, first.
You arrive on this age on a room with fallen leaves, a huge tree trunk and two
exits. One on the left, through a high arch which is broken, and the other, on
the right, has an arch with a lamp and is also broken. Go through the left one
and walk along the path.
You will arrive at a circular room with a broken walkway all the way around it.
Go around this walkway to the other side of the room. On the back of the last
pillar is the first Journey Cloth. Activate it. Now retrace your steps to the
beginning of the walkway and climb the stairs to the dais. On your left will
be the controls for the clockwork machine and on the right, a linking book to
the Kadish Gallery. Link to it.
You are now in the Kadish Gallery. This room has clues for most of the puzzles
in this age, so I suggest you take a good look around. Also, if you can, do
print screens of the paintings (you can even use Paint for this) or copy them
to paper. It is also important to note all the figures in the rotating
pyramids on the back wall and the corresponding numbers. There is a painting
with rotating numbers, a painting with three blue buttons, a red square and a
path in white, and a painting with three circles each of which with areas
highlighted in white. When you are finished, return to the room with the dais
that you just left, via linking book in the middle of the Gallery.
Go to the machine controls and activate them. If you have the print screen of
the painting with the three circles this will be a lot easier to explain. If
not it will be a bit difficult. You need to get the wheels in the positions
shown on the painting. This one corresponds to the top circle. The three
buttons control each of the wheels. Do not press any button until you have
finished reading this paragraph. The left one controls the outer wheel, the
middle one controls the middle wheel, and the right one, the inner wheel. If
you have not pressed any button, to solve the puzzle press the left button
four times, the middle button one time and the right button five times.
Return to the starting room, and take the right path, through the lit broken
arch. Walk along the way, through the circular opening, and when you arrive at
an intersection, go left. Pass under the large clock like structure and you
should arrive at a room with another dais. Climb the stairs and go around to
the right. Activate the second Journey Cloth. It is on the dais wall.
Afterwards, go around to the left. Near the back wall there is a linking stone.
Touch it. This leads to your second view of the D'ni City. You will need to
link back to Relto, and back to Kadish Tolesa via Journey Marker to continue.
You will appear in the room with the linking stone to the City. This time
climb up the dais to another controlling machine. This one corresponds to the
middle circle in the painting. To align it press the right button three times.
Climb down the dais and return to the intersection. Go straight ahead into a
room with the final controlling machine. This one corresponds to the bottom
circle on the painting. To align it press the left button three times, the
middle button seven times and the right button three times. If all the
machines are aligned correctly, a door will open at the end of this room.
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Note: here are the diagrams submitted by Piha to help you with this puzzle.
/-----------\               /-----------\
/       |       \           /       |       \
/         |         \       / \   /-------\   / \
/           |           \   /    \/           \/    \
|            |            | |       \            \    |
|            |            | |        O            |   |
|           /-\   |       | |           O     |   |   |
|   |---|   | |   |-      | |   |---|    \    |-  |   |
|   |   |   \-/   |       | |   |   |      \  |       |
|   |    \       /        | |   |    \      \/        |
|    \  /  \---/          | |    \  /  \---/  \       |
\     \           /\    /   \     \           /\    /
\     \-------/   \ /       \     \-------/   \ /
\               /           \               /
\-----------/               \-----------/
/-----------\
/       |       \
/ \   /-------\   / \
/    \/           \/    \
|          /---\     \    |
|        /     / \    |   |
|       |   O \   |   |   |
|       |---|\|   |---|   |
|       |   \-/\          |
|        \       \        |
|       /    O    \       |
\    /      |      \    /
\/        |       \ /
\       |       /
\-----------/
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Exit through the now open room. Exit the circular room and turn to your left.
Press the blue button. It will block you from returning to the section you
left, but will reveal the third Journey Cloth inside the circular room.
Activate it. If you need to return to the beginning of the Age, you will need
to realign the clockwork mechanisms.
Continue forward to a balcony overlooking a cylindrical room with a spiraling
downward slope. Proceed down. Near the bottom, there will be a balcony with
five buttons. Assuming the one nearest to where you step off of the spiraling
slope is number one, you need to press buttons number two, three and five.
This will light a pattern equal to the painting with the red square I
described above. Go down the small staircase at the end of this balcony and
walking on the outside of the room, being careful not to step on anything,
walk to the point corresponding to the red square on the painting. You now you
are there when you are facing the balcony. You need to walk the dark path in
front of you to the centre of the room, without touching any lighted parts.
When you do, the path will lower, revealing an exit. Take it. Climb up the
stairs and do not touch the blue button unless you want to solve this puzzle
again when you return to this age.
Continue forward along the winding corridor until you arrive at a large open
area, with a lake. Turn left and proceed towards a small staircase. Before you
climb it and pass through the door, take a look to your right. You should see
a Relto page in the distance. Go and get it by jumping across to the other
side. Touch the page to add it to your book. This one allows the pine trees to
grow on Relto. It has to be used with the rain making one to have any effect,
and even so you will need to wait a while. Mine have not started to grow yet.
Jump across the gap and climb the steps. Enter a room with a large pyramid. Go
around it to the right to find the fourth Journey Cloth hidden on a recess on
the pyramid wall. Activate it. Return to the front of the pyramid and go in.
There is a clue to this puzzle in the Kadish Gallery. It is the painting with a
circle and a cone shining down from above. There is also a tree above it all. It
also has two squares and a circle at the bottom. There have been some
explanations for this puzzle based on the painting, posted on the Uru Live forum.
(thanks to Dylan for reminding me of this painting, and to Sakshale and Derek
for sending me the explanations from the forum and Maztec for coming up with it).
Climb the staircase in front of you and operate the blue button on the balcony
overlooking the room. This will light up the floor. Now wait for one to two
minutes until the floor has charged. Press the blue button again and the floor
will turn to cyan. You will then have to walk a path to the other end of the
room. I will try to reproduce the floor and correct path as best as I can:
E
/-\
|*|
/-\\-//-\
|*|/-\| |
/-\\-/| |\-//-\
| |/-\\-//-\| |
/-\\-/|*|/-\| |\-//-\            Legend:
| |/-\\-/| |\-//-\| |            E   - End
\-/|*|/-\\-//-\| |\-/            S   - Start
/-\\-/| |/-\| |\-//-\            *   - Path to follow
| |/-\\-/|*|\-//-\| |            /-\
\-/|*|/-\\-//-\| |\-/            | | - hexagonal floor tile
/-\\-/|*|/-\|*|\-//-\            \-/
| |/-\\-/| |\-//-\| |
\-/| |/-\\-//-\| |\-/
/-\\-/| |/-\|*|\-//-\
| |/-\\-/| |\-//-\| |
\-/| |   \-/   |*|\-/
\-/         \-/
S
Hope you can make something out of this. Return to the floor and, starting on
the right side of the room, look for a tile that has a picture of a tree. You
will need to cross the floor by stepping only on tree tiles (the tiles marked
above with the *). When you get to the last tile, it should lower taking you
with it to the next section and to the next puzzle.
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Note - my explanation for this puzzle: the theme for this Age seems to be
"What's missing?" but the mood is definitely "Trees". Throughout the game the
symbol associated with Kadish is a tree, you start the age in a tree room with
fallen leaves, trees are what you see most in this Age and the several
representations for tree are present in the paintings of the Gallery and in the
spinning triangle for column one. When I saw the first tile with the tree symbol
and the other ones next to it forming a path, it was a matter of following it to
the end. I agree it was somewhat of a hunch and the solution for this puzzle is
extremely subjective, requiring a degree of lateral thinking that borders on
insanity. You could say I got lucky with this one. ^_^ It compensates for the
time I spent in the pillar room trying random combinations until I got it
right. :p
Now for the explanation, originally posted by Maztec, Uru moderator: "From left
to right you have a closed sphere above a square, a tree above an open lit
sphere above a square, and a closed sphere above a black circle. So, the object
is to start with a closed sphere, open it, walk in the light, find the tree, and
take the circular journey. Now, lets go to the puzzle.
Now, you first arrive at the puzzle with the top closed and nothing very
remarkable about what is in the room. So, your first step as suggested by the
hint is to open the top and let some light in. So you do that. Now, you could
dilly doodle around and do the wait thing, but why bother? Instead, note the
progression of a sphere from open to close. Walk down to the floor and look at
it. Do you see a familiar shape? Follow the path of the sphere from one end of
the room to the other and taking the SAME PATH follow it back again. Now, go up
and press the button again. Walla, the sphere rotates until its closed and
lights turn on. This shows another set of patterns on the floor. Now, remember
when the floor was lit on top of it was a tree. So look down at the floor. Found
the path of trees? Great, walk from one end of it to the other and just hang on.
Works every time.
I've done it both running and walking, doesn't seem to be time sensitive. Hope
that explains something. Oh, and how to know where the path starts? Well, the
first path is on the left because you read the diagram from left to right. The
last is on the right for when things are closed and the lights are on and that's
the symbol on the right."
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Exit the elevator tile, do not press the blue button and proceed forward. To
your right will be the fifth Journey Cloth. Activate it. Continue on to the