How to complete the ward puzzle in Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning - Smuggler's Run quest

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The Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning Fatesworn DLC takes place in a new region of the Faelands known as Mithros. It adds roughly six hours of additional story content forth with the expected side quests and armor sets. Information technology's forth this main story path that some of you may find yourselves stumped by a detail puzzle in the Smuggler's Run quest. Our guide below is aimed at helping you solve the ward puzzle in question.

Inside the get-go two hours of mainlining Fatesworn's main questline, you'll come up across the Smuggler's Run quest. After finding Orella in the Smuggler's Bolthole, you'll either have to kill her or convince her to run abroad. Regardless of your conclusion, you'll end upwards acquiring Orella'southward notes. To begin the next function of the quest, you'll take to read it by opening it from the items submenu inside the inventory screen.

Solving the ward puzzle

Reading Orella's notes highlights the side by side location on the map. In gild to gain entry to the Cinderpit, you'll need to activate the blocks at the archway in the proper lodge. Interacting with a block lights upwardly a corner. Every interaction lights up another corner. Later iv interactions, it resets to ane corner. The corporeality of lit-up corners corresponds to the number assigned to each cake or element.

This is where Orella's notes from before come in handy. If you scroll further downwards, y'all'll see a body of text with elements and numbers emphasized within the text. Puzzles of this type didn't come in the principal game's story so you'd be forgiven for forgetting to bank check your inventory. According to the notation, this is the proper order in which the blocks should be lit upwards:

Water – First
Air – Second
Globe – 3rd
Fire – 4th

The earth and water blocks are distinct. Earth is represented past a leaf, meanwhile, water is represented by three lines resembling a modest wave. Nevertheless, the deviation between what the game registers every bit wind or fire may confuse some. The block pictured below is the wind block. It has two of its corners lit up to correspond to the number ii equally seen in Orella's notes. After all the blocks are lit in the proper order, you lot'll be able to enter the Cinderpit and go on the questline.