Level 28: Tyrdall Mountain Range: Vindsvalr Ravines

Summary: Don’t Break the Ice.
Level Time: 13 minutes

Move forward and drop down, through the cavern and left to the rope bridge. Cross the bridge, and watch the DARK VIKING ahead of you jump into a gust of wind to cross the chasm. Move to the point he jumped from, do a Quick Save, and listen for the sound and flurry of snow indicating a new gust of wind. Look at the platform across the chasm, and jump into the gust. Once you land on that platform, go forward and left to another jumping point, wait for the gust, and jump to the platform across the chasm and to your left. Walk across the rope bridge to your right, up past the trees and up to the end of the ledge, face to the left of the pine trees on the other side of the chasm, and jump into another gust of wind to cross back to your left. Kill the GOBLIN, then go forward and right into the cave on your left. Jump down to the right, and continue jumping down until you reach a snowy path, killing GOBLINS as needed.

Follow the snow field down and to the left, through the pine trees, killing a WENDOL. Continue down until you reach a snow wall. Climb over the wall and head forward and to the right, killing more WENDOLS, until you see a cave entrance above and to the right. Go up the ramp and through the cave, to another snow field with two frozen wendol statues. Move forward past the trees, kill a group of GOBLINS, climb up and over and slide down steep slope to the left, and drop down into a pool of water.

Swim through the water just below the ice, and up through a hole to get out of the water. Move forward along the long ledge, then into the cavern on the right where you kill another WENDOL. Follow the cavern to the end, then climb up the ledges to a room with a white glowing plant. Continue up to the right, forward, kill the GOBLINS, and take the path to the right. Jump up into the ice cave ahead, and through the cave, killing more GOBLINS, past a room with large and small white glowing plants, to a ledge with two ice stalactites. Smash the second stalactite to make a hole in the ice below. Then head back the way you came, looking for a platform below and to the right with a RUNE OF LESSER POWER and a SHORT SWORD. Jump down to the platform, then down to the ice. Walk around to the right to get to the hole in the ice made by the falling stalactite. Jump in, and swim through the passage just below the ice, then up through a large hole and get out into the ice field.

Move forward slowly until you hear the ice crack. Now you need to cross the ice field without falling in. If you do fall in, the current will carry you back to the start of the ice field, and you start over. Here’s one way to cross it. If you end up having to try several times, you may find another way across, which is fine too!

Crouch and move forward down the center of the ice field, slowly, until the ice falls away in front of you. Move along the right edge of the hole in the ice, to the right wall, and forward along the wall until another piece of ice falls away on your left. Move along the left edge of the new hole, around and back to the right wall on the other side. Still crouching, move slowly forward again pressed up against the right wall until a piece of ice falls away ahead of you. When it does, jump ahead and forward across the gap to avoid falling in. Then turn around again and jump over the hole along the right wall to the stone platform on the right.

Crouch again and move forward along the right wall. Just past the edge of the stone platform, another piece of ice will fall away ahead of you. Jump across the gap in the ice, staying along the right wall. Crouch down again and move along the wall. Ice will fall away in front of you, leaving only a very narrow ledge against the wall. Jump and move forward several times to edge across the ledge. Another piece of ice will fall away in front of you; use same technique to stay on the narrow ice ledge and jump forward and around to the right, where there is another stone platform with a LEG OF MEAT. From that platform, turn left and use a combination of running and jumping to cross the ice to a stone platform with LIZARDS. Two more pieces of ice will fall away below you as you cross, but the jumps will keep you from falling in.

Now crouch and move forward slowly along the left wall until a big piece of ice falls away in front of you. Run and jump along the narrow ice ledge, still along the left wall, and then crouch again and follow the left wall to a place where the ice gets thicker. Run across the thicker ice to the rock wall ahead, triggering a landslide that breaks away the thicker ice behind you. Then climb up on the boulder, and up into the passageway. Follow it to a room with a large white glowing plant and through and down to an ice bridge. Cross the ice bridge and fight the really big WENDOL, triggering an avalanche. Then return to the bridge, which is now broken, and jump carefully down to the ledge below it. Turn around and enter the ice cave, turn left at the white glowing plants and reach a very, very high cliff. At Odin’s urging, jump off the cliff; enjoy the fall, and when you reach the pool of water swim forward to the snowy slope with trees. Climb out of the water, and watch the cinematic of Ragnar entering a shed to end the level.

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