Keepsake – Trial 2 Solution Guide

This guide aims to assist players in tackling Trial 2 within Keepsake, refraining from outright disclosing the puzzle answers. Instead, it offers a step-by-step breakdown of the puzzle’s logic, empowering players to unravel the solution independently.

Levers To Trial 2

Okay, so here’s the deal with Trial 2. If you’re expecting a straightforward answer in this guide, you’re out of luck. This guide aims to nudge you towards the solution by shedding light on the puzzle’s underlying logic.

Before diving into the puzzle, let’s address the levers and the potential crash hiccup.

During your attempts to reach Trial 2, you might encounter a crash. This crash isn’t part of the trial per se; it’s more of an annoyance. It seems to stem from an unhooked Steam achievement, causing the game to crash when it tries to award it to you.

The crash tends to occur after pulling 2 or 3 wrong levers in succession. Unfortunately, there’s no surefire way to bypass it except by pulling the levers in a nearly perfect sequence. You could opt for trial and error to find the optimal path on the shifting stairs, or seek out guides offering the exact lever sequence to avoid crashes. I managed to push through despite the crashes, so rest assured, it’s doable, albeit a tad frustrating.

All in all, consider this crash-ridden preamble as just the warm-up before diving into the real meat of Trial 2.

How to Work the Puzzle

Alright, let’s break down Trial 2, which essentially revolves around four riddles. To tackle this puzzle, you’ve got two levers and two buttons at your disposal.

The left lever controls the base of the puzzle, flipping between the four riddles. On the other hand, the right lever spins the top of the puzzle, cycling through eight different Rune books. Now, onto the buttons: the top one selects which Rune corresponds to the current riddle, while the bottom button resets everything back to square one.

To crack the Trial, you’ll need to match each riddle with the appropriate Rune book at the top. Once done correctly, a video sequence will kick in, and you won’t need to press any buttons.

But here’s the kicker: how do you solve those pesky riddles?

The Riddles

Now, brace yourself, some of these riddles aren’t flawlessly translated into English, harboring a few grammatical hiccups that might throw you off. Nevertheless, they mostly hint at elements from the natural world, like whispers in the night, hardness akin to stone, or softness akin to moss, and so forth.

A few of these riddles might ring a bell, drawing inspiration from classic works found in famous fantasy novels or other games featuring riddle challenges.

Here’s the rub: you won’t find these riddles or any hints for them elsewhere in the game. Moreover, only a handful of Runes are used in different places for other puzzles before hitting Trial 2. There’s no correlation between how the Runes were used in the Garden, for instance, and their role in this Trial.

The crux of this Trial lies in identifying which Runes to use. To simplify matters, it’s best to trim down the options from eight Runes to four.

Narrowing Down the Runes

Alright, let’s simplify the Rune selection process for Trial 2. You’ve got eight Runes to choose from, but here’s the catch: each Rune has a partner, making four pairs in total.

Picture the top of the Trial as an octagon. As you rotate around, you’ll notice that each Rune has a counterpart located directly across from it on the opposite side of the octagon.

Here’s the lineup:

• Slund, the Spiritual Rune
• Undar, the Water Rune
• Aetern, the Celestial Rune
• Dria, the Nature Rune
• Gradion, the Energy Rune
• Kyros, the Fire Rune
• Nexan, the Movement Rune
• Orlos, the Earth Rune

So, Slund is matched with Gradion, Undar with Kyros, and so forth. Now, each riddle only requires one Rune from each set of pairs. Armed with this knowledge, take a closer look at the riddles to determine which Runes might fit. Some riddles are more straightforward than others; for some, you might need to test both Runes of the pair to pinpoint the correct one the game seeks.

This breakdown should hopefully streamline your approach to Trial 2, alleviating some of the confusion or frustration you might encounter while attempting to crack this puzzle.