#Quern free#

If you were wanting to attempt some puzzles yourself, I have catered the walkthrough to that.

#Quern free#

This game includes various letters which you are free to pick up and read for more of a narrative into the story, but I will not be telling you to pick them up. But don't worry about that last part, I'll try my best to keep that from happening. However, with this walkthrough, you should be able to get a fairly easy 1000G, whilst having your brain feel like it's about to spontaneously combust. The only slight issue with the game is there is little no guidance on what you're actually meant to be doing. One can spend centuries there and not age a day while hardly any time passes elsewhere.Quern - Undying Thoughts is essentially a small, open world, adventure, puzzle game.

Year Inside, Hour Outside: How time works in Quern.

She says you will have to live with the knowledge that you have destroyed countless worlds and wonders how she could have trusted you.

What the Hell, Hero?: If you do what Maythorn wants, Gamana becomes furious with you.

What Happened to the Mouse?: Gamana never says what happened to her friends Rhoren and Tiador after their people, the Dulmar, were wiped out by civil war.

She appears in the form of green light since she has long since left her corporeal form behind.

The Voice: Gamana, the mysterious woman who follows you around.

Gamana thanks you and wishes you a safe journey home. This means that no one else can stumble across Quern and its power. In the second, you follow Gamana's advice and destroy the gateway. Gamana feels betrayed and you step through Maythorn's makeshift portal to meet him in person (or so he says). In the first, you do what Maythorn tells you to and unlock the gateway. Multiple Endings: The game has two possible endings.This is appropriate given that several puzzles involve grinding crystals and plants into powder. Meaningful Name: A quern-stone is a tool for grinding.In his letters, he often talks about how incredible his inventions are and how only a genius would be capable of figuring out how they work. Insufferable Genius: Maythorn can come across as this.Gamana helps you across by giving you the ability to float in midair. Deus ex Machina: At one point, you find yourself on a bridge that has a section missing.Given that time is essentially meaningless in Quern, he could have rigged the gateway so that it would bring you there well after his departure. Also, the calculations to unlock the gateway took centuries and Maythorn left Quern long before they were finished. This strongly suggests that the voice you hear at the end is a recording and Maythorn is long dead. However, if you use the red crystal instead of the green crystal, the message starts to break down and gets cut off. The same message plays regardless of which choice you make. Dead Man Writing: The good ending implies this may be the case with Maythorn.Cryptic Background Reference: Maythorn's journal mentions 'Oshwald, the capital world of the United Empire' but does not provide much in the way of information about it beyond its six ancient gateways.Chekhov's Armory: Virtually every puzzle in the game sets up a later one, or has been set up by one already solved.Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Gamana did this after spending centuries meditating on Quern and accepting that she had lost everything that mattered in the physical world.A God Am I: How Gamana felt after experiencing the power of Quer'nelok (the original name for Quern).