King’s Quest VIII: The Mask of Eternity

The Frozen Reaches

Save your game. On this level are mundane monsters, frost demons, gryphs and ice 
orcs. Kill all of these from long range with your bow. When you get damaged, use 
the healing crystals. Special monsters on this level are the invisible snow-mane 
and a two-headed dragon. Cross your way to the ice palace and click on the ice 
queen. Give the ice scepter to the ice queen. The queen will inform you that the 
scepter controls the ice dragon found in the east which can carry you across the 
ice-lake. The queen will tell you to keep the scepter and implores you to save 
the king of the gryphs from the icelord who has imprisoned him in the keep. Go 
left just a bit and you will find a gryph who has grabbed an ice maiden. An 
animated sequence will ensue followed by a battle with the gryph. Next to the 
gryph is a portal to the previous realms. Go left and you will find the ice 
dragon, but the switch to the shutters is broken. Push the ice block under the 
broken chain on the roof and jump on the block. Once on top of the block, pull 
the chain to open the door. Use the ice scepter on the ice dragon. The dragon 
will fly you over the ice lake where it will remain until you need passage back. 
Turn right and go forward. Work your way to the far north of the map. On your 
way there, you will be attacked by frost demons. Shoot them with your fire bow 
and continue forward. You will be attacked by the invisible snow-mane. Use a 
reveal potion and kill the beast with your sword. Once the beast is dead, go 
forward to the ice-lake. Use your rock on the ice three times to crack it up. 
Then take the fire ruby and click it on the ice. Click on the flaming sword and 
it will replace the sword in your inventory. Go east until you find a tower 
guarded by two ice orcs. Kill them from the distance with your fire bow. Climb 
the tower with your grapnel and go through the other opening. Click on the lever 
on your left and go though the trap floor. Break the barrels with your fire bow 
and take the healing stuff on the ground and in the chest. Click on the lever on 
the door and go down the path from the tower. Another tower is guarded by two 
more ice orcs. Go down the path on your left and go through the right path on 
your right. Kill the frost demons with your fire bow. Now go forward a bit and 
you will see another ramp on your right. Go up that snow ramp in front until you 
reach the second tower. Kill the two ice orcs with your sword. Enter the tower 
on the right and take more healing stuff after breaking the barrels with your 
sword. Leave the tower and go down the path and go up the second snow ramp on 
your left. This is the icelord's fortress behind a lake. While you are here kill 
both of the two ice orcs with your fire bow. Go in the small room on your right 
and get more healing stuff after breaking the barrels with your sword. Leave and 
go around the lake to the fortress sticking to the wall. Work your way around 
the right side of the fortress and use your grapnel to climb up to the roof. 
Click on the grating in the roof and an animated cut-scene will begin showing 
lucreto ordering the icelord to kill you and the icelord ordering his general to 
go out and find you. Go forward to the cells and meet the gryph king. Go to the 
front of the castle and go off on top of the ice orc who has now moved to 
protect the front of the fortress. Get the key that the ice orc dropped and go 
around the right side and climb up to the roof again and free the gryph king. 
Save your game. As you walk out of the cell, an animated cut-scene will start. 
An ice orc will jump on you from above and knock both of you through the grating 
into the throne room. You will confront the icelord and when control returns, 
you will battle him to the death. The chest next to the icelord's throne 
contains a blue medallion that helps decipher ancient writing. Pick up the large 
ice rod that is on the floor near the grating. Go to the front door and pick up 
the rock on your left as you past by. Go to the door and click on it. Click on 
the gap between the door floor. Put the ice rod down in the gap. Use the sword 
to melt the ice rod into a pool of water and pick up your new ice crossbow. Use 
the ice crossbow to freeze the water into a long thin rod. Pick up the rod and 
return to the throne. Save your game. Put the rod into the slot of the locked 
jail door. Enter the small room and another cut-scene will show you hitting the 
statue. You open the chest to find the next mask piece. Then the pieces of the 
broken ice statue reform into one of lucreto's henchmen who attack's you. Kill 
the henchman. Once the henchman is dead, go back to the ice dragon and fly back 
to the south side of the lake. Go all the way to the north and speak with the 
gryph king 2X in his palace. The gryph king will give you a blue adamant 
gemstone. Return to the icelord's fortress and go on the right side and climb 
the wall of the building to get on the roof. Enter the cell room. Place the 
basilisk tongue, the blue adamant and the golden mushroom slice on the chair and 
activate the controls to the left of the chair. This will activate a permanent 
spell of strength that will increase your attack, damage and your defense 
strength. Climb down the fortress with your grapnel and go around to the right 
and kill the ice orc with your sword. Go right through the mountain path killing 
6 ice orcs with your sword. When you're down the snow ramp, go a sharp right and 
kill a frost demon with your ice crossbow. Use your blue amulet on the 
gravestone. Keep going down the road killing more frost demons with your ice 
crossbow. When you reach a wall, use your grapnel to climb the wall and save 
your game. You now face the two-headed dragon. Equip the flaming sword and fight 
the dragon by cutting off his two heads. Continue to the back of the chamber and 
go down through the hole onto the blocks and move forward into the next realm.

Paradise Lost

This area is very simple and has no monsters. Walk north until you get to the 
temple with a pyramid like structure in the center. Place the clear pyramid on 
this pedestal and you will get a vision from the chief archon. He will teleport 
you to the realm of the sun.

The Realm of the Sun: Level 1 Feather of Truth

Save your game. Once in the realm of the sun there is no turning back. When you 
see a vase break them with your weapon. Always keep your weapon handy. When 
you're in a battle, only take a healing crystal when you get damage. When you 
see different panels on the floor, try to get past them or you will get into a 
battle with a shadow demon. There are water snakes, henchmen and shadow demons. 
The henchmen's guard nearly every corner of the hallways. Kill the water snake 
with your sword in the water room to the left of your entrance. Go to the corner 
of the room and use your grapnel to climb into a small room above the ceiling. 
Shoot the vase with your ice crossbow and look down to find the mask medallion. 
Pick up the medallion and climb down with your grapnel. Kill the shadow demon 
with your sword. Leave the water room and go left. Kill the henchmen with your 
sword and go up through the top doorway and kill two henchmen's with your sword. 
Click on the two wall panels on your left and get two potion bottles. Leave on 
your left and kill two water snakes with your sword. Continue on and go through 
the first left doorway then through the other left doorway with a room full of 
archons and a tablet on the holy sun altar. Listen to the whispering of the 
archons to get more clues and click on one statue. Take the holy tablet of 
knowledge. Leave the room and go left through two doorways. Kill the henchmen 
with your ice crossbow and go through the right doorway. Kill the henchmen with 
your sword and go left killing another henchmen with your sword. Go right and 
kill another henchmen with your sword and a bit further on kill two water snakes 
with your sword. Click on the pillar panels to get more potions. Click on the 
archon and he will let you into the hall of truth. The hall of truth has three 
doors on each. Walk in the left door and you will see a monster floating on thin 
air. Keep walking into the void and up to the monster and he will turn into a 
key. Take the key and leave the rooms. Go forward to the other room and go a 
little right to find a door with a keyhole. Use the key to open the door. 
Inside, take the temple sword and another animated cut-scene will show your 
tablet hit by a lightning bolt that inscribes the meaning of truth. Leave the 
room and go left through the doorway. Go right and go through the top doorway. 
Go right and keep going forward and go through the second doorway on your left 
after killing a henchmen with your sword. Go through the left doorway and go 
right through the doorway. Keep strait on until you reach the magic door. Click 
the tablet on the door and go to the next level. 

The Realm of the Sun: level 2 Hall of Light

Save your game. Leave the room to the hallway and kill the first henchmen with 
your ice crossbow. Kill the other two with your sword. Go right and kill another 
henchmen with your sword. Go through the long hallway and kill another henchmen 
with your sword. Go right and kill another henchmen with your sword. Continue 
forward and kill another henchmen with your sword. Go through the long hallway 
and kill another henchmen with your sword. Go forward and click on the archon. 
Enter the next room and push the pedestal to the center of the light and a key 
will appear. Take the key. Go back where you iced the henchmen and unlock the 
door on your right. Enter the room and take the temple armor. Your tablet will 
be inscribed with the passage of light. Leave the room and go right. Kill the 
henchmen with your sword. Break all the pots in this room and kill the two 
henchmen with your sword. Take the healing crystals and push the panel on the 
wall. Leave through the other doorway and click on the unlit candle on the wall. 
Turn around and go back to where you iced the henchmen. Go right and enter the 
room. Beyond the door is another chest with another mask piece. You now have the 
entire mask. Leave the room and kill the two henchmen with your sword. Go right 
and go left. Now go straight on through the long hallway and go right and left. 
Kill the henchmen with your sword and enter the cauldron room. This is the room 
where lucreto is using the cauldron to make his henchmen's. Wait for the cut 
scene and then use the mask medallion on the cauldron to purify it. The cauldron 
becomes a healing pool. Leave the room and go right. Kill the two henchmen with 
your sword and go left to the magic door. Use the tablet on the door and go to 
the third level.

The Realm of the Sun: level 3 Hall of Order

Save your game. This level is organized like a diamond with the rooms at the 
north center, south center and west center edges of the map. You arrive on the 
level at the west center edge of the map. Make your way to the WN center 
following the winding corridor. Click on the archon and he will let you in. 
There are nine stones with a graphic of mask pieces on the top. Be the camera 
and you may need to change the camera angle with your mouse. The pieces are all 
mixed up. Push the nine mask pieces around until they form an entire mask. The 
mask must be in the center of the depression in the middle of the room and fully 
cover the grid shown under the stone pieces there. When you get the mask 
finished the door opens. Be connor's eyes. Step through and get the golden key. 
Make your way WN through the winding corridor to the large room on the east 
center edge of the map. Save your game. This room has two zombies, two skeletal 
archers and an archer captain. Kill them all with your sword. Once killed move 
to the back of the room and open the door with the key. Get the chalice and your 
tablet inscribes with the last important message. Go to the magic door on the 
WN and click the tablet on the door. Go through to the next level.

The Realm of the Sun: level 4 Altar Room

Save your game. Once you click on the archon, you will go though the door and be 
in the last battle with lucreto. Here's the thing. He will start spraying fire 
with his magic staff all around you. When you're in battle with him, fight him. 
Then when he disappears quickly press the 1 to 9 buttons to take your potions. 
Go to the altar and place a mask piece on it. Do the same routine until all the 
mask pieces are placed on the altar. When you've placed the last one, a portal 
behind lucreto will open. Fight him until he gets sucked in.

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