Chapter 15: Glacial Peak, Torment Peak and the Mossy Cache

Checklist

Glacial Peak: the climb

1. Climb the right side and grapple across to the left: berries and a save point. Cross the rope to the left and, on the next screen, pick more berries and meet the Rochecrossidere enemies — snowball creatures that roll or bounce into you. Their charged moves are easy to break.
2. Keep left and jump the bridge. The glyph on the left lets you shine light on the ice and melt it. Also use the Mistral Bracelet to slide the ice block down the path; it gets you to a chest with Music Sheet #5.
3. Climb the wall and follow the path right and up. There are berries to the north and two more bushes to the northwest, next to a campsite. Use it after the fight to the right.

4. Further right is a puzzle you can’t touch yet: the rocks won’t break and the light won’t move. Take the berries and continue right to an ice block you can blow around and use to climb higher.
5. Two Boulder Douches wait up there, and a little further on the music changes for another one with smaller enemies around it. Kill the small ones first; their quick attacks add up fast.
6. You’ll see a chest below that you can’t reach yet. Go left and jump from platform to platform — there’s no way back this way — then climb and go right. Near the summit, beat the snowball creatures, pick the berries and note the items frozen under the ice.
7. Climb the wall to the top, go right and jump: you end up under the ice. Go left, win the fight and use the save point. Make sure you have good food before going north. A grapple later, a familiar portal appears.

Boss: Two & Four

1. Go after Two first: he has the party-wide attack, the big charged hit and the heal, while Four only ever smashes one person.
2. Stop every Group Heal, heal your own party when needed and finish them one at a time. It isn’t a hard fight once Two is gone.

The Solstice Amulet and the way down

1. The path past the fight is straightforward, with some fun jumps. At the summit, a short scene gives you the Solstice Amulet: you can now change the time of day with a button, without standing on a Celestial Rune, whenever you’re close to a light source.

2. You have to use it right away: shine the light to melt the ice to the south. Keep pointing it at rocks and ice to clear the way; one rock hides a switch that lets more light out and opens the exit south.
3. Head back down to the save point and camp. Further south, the light melts some ice. Push the block carrying the light south off the cliff: it smashes the blocks around the chest you saw under the ice earlier. It holds the Signet of Clarity, which makes skills cost 1 MP less.
4. The big puzzle area further south:
   1. Shine the light on both glyphs, the right one first and then the left. The block holding the light is freed and can now be pushed.
   2. Push it right and break the rock to the right. Push the ice cube down, melt it and open the chest: Sapphire Ore.
   3. Push the light over to the rocks and break both. Take the upper right path, push the icicle there south and melt it for a scroll: Garl and Serai learn the combo skill Item Roulette.
   4. Push the light northwest and melt the huge ice wall in front of the ladder.

5. Descend the ladder. Kick a shortcut ladder down to the south, then head west, hook your way over the pit and walk to the very end for a chest with a Rainbow Conch.
6. Use that shortcut to get down and out. The portal returns you to the Archives.
7. In the scenes there, you’re given a new task: fetch the Vial of Time. You also receive Chained Mind potions, and learn that the road leads through Torment Peak, where a Dweller lives. Take the left portal back to the lake, go north to the world map and continue north.

Torment Peak: the first half

1. Pick the mushrooms on the right and solve the light puzzle at the entrance (it’s there to stop you coming too early). With the light moved, you can push the statues aside and go in.
2. Inside there’s a save point. North, a very creepy enemy starts a fight on contact.

3. Keep north, picking mushrooms on the right, and jump the gap to the northwest into a fight with a Tsiclop. Afterwards, hit the crystal to light the area. The crystals throughout the peak work the same way.
4. The stepping stones:
   1. To the right are stepping stones. First go north to a small area with a button that brings out more of them.
   2. Come back, go right, then north as soon as you can. The path leads down some vines into a cave with no other exit and a chest holding the Phantom Daggers.
   3. You’ll be attacked on the way back.
5. At the fork, go south to a patch of land with another crystal, hop right to the next island and win the fight to the southeast. More crystals and jumping take you north and northeast to another sealed door.
6. The two buttons:
   1. Button one sits a few steps right of the door.
   2. For the second, go left: jump up the northern wall twice, shimmy left, carry on a good way and come back down to a crystal and the switch.
7. Go through. Collect the mushrooms and use the campsite and save point right inside.

Torment Peak: the second half

1. Cross the next room (its crystal is optional; there’s nothing else here) and go south into a very dark room. Win the fight and light the crystal on the right.
2. Before heading south, go left and climb down the vines to a cave below with a chest holding a Rainbow Conch.
3. Climb back up and go south. Hop left into another fight, then go north and wind counter-clockwise downwards past a crystal. Enter the cave to the northeast.
4. The fight inside throws every enemy type at you at once. Hit-all skills like Moonerang work best, and it gives good experience. Then press the switch: something lights up in the previous room, and you can now cross to the left there.
5. Go over to the vines. Climb all the way to the top first for a chest with a Green Leaf (+15 HP). Then climb back and take the vines to the left.
6. Light the area, hop onwards and climb the cliffs to another crystal, then continue left into the next room. A series of scenes explains why help never came — and why that potion mattered.
7. Heal and save. The upper-left stone is a shortcut to the dungeon entrance if you need it; for the boss, follow the western path, which brings more scenes first.

Boss: Dweller of Torment

1. For the first few rounds you can’t hurt it. Don’t waste MP on skills (Lunar Shield aside): build boost orbs and stay healthy. After a couple of rounds, a scene plays and Serai rejoins the party once the eclipse you caused bathes the Dweller.
2. The real fight is about the two arms. Destroy the Left Arm and Right Arm (2,125 HP each) and the Dweller is down for about 5 moves. It can bring the arms back, and destroying an arm also cancels a charged move in progress.
3. Like other creations of the Fleshmancer, it only takes real damage from skills and boosted sun or moon attacks.
4. A setup that works:
   1. Save your combo gauge for Moon Shiv (Valere and Serai) and use it while the Dweller is down — it deals huge damage.
   2. Serai and Garl alternate healing and attacking to generate boost orbs.
   3. Zale uses boosted attacks and skills whenever possible.
   4. Valere casts Lunar Shield from time to time, or attacks with skills when she isn’t rebuilding MP.
   5. Use HP and MP items on anyone who needs them.
5. The new ultimate attack does little damage here, though its scene is worth seeing once. It’s a long fight: keep healed and keep cycling the arms.
6. After the fight, several people are rescued, and the Matriarch offers her help.

The Mossy Cache and Resh’an

1. Back on the world map, turn the light here so it points right, towards the path that seems to lead nowhere. That reveals the Mossy Cache.
2. Inside is a picture puzzle. Hit each square this many times:

3. Once through, search the west side: a Rainbow Conch sits in a chest there. The Vial of Time itself is up ahead.

4. Bring it to the Archives — the little island off the east shore of Lake Docarria. A long run of scenes ends with Resh’an, the Immortal Alchemist, joining the party.
5. The story goes on at Mesa Island to the northeast, but this is a good moment to tour the world first: Chapter 16.