The Sacred Grove | The Bard's Tale 4 Main Quest Walkthrough The Bard's Tale 4 Guide and Walkthrough
Last update: 21 September 2018
This page contains walkthrough for The Sacred Grove available in The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep. In this quest you will have to solve numerous puzzles involving fairies and green totems. You will also encounter new ones such as geodes and glyph stones.
Locate Mathan's Glade
Speak with Lioslaith - she can be found next to the leader. After that she will join the party.
Go to the place presented in the picture below.
Once you get there, Lioslaith will learn a new song called "Heavenly Grandfather". It will remove vines from your path. Prepare to face a group of enemies.
The majority of the enemies in the forest has armor level between 5 and 14, and a lot of health points. Lioslaith has an ability that lowers armor - when it is broken, your rogue can deal a deadly strike.
After that you have to complete two puzzles with a fairy. Place the totems in the following way:
A puzzle with a green totem can be found near the bridge. Solve it to lower the bridge.
This unlocks a shortcut to the village in the wood. The next puzzle requires you to place stone glyphs on the correct pedestals.
Next, you have to solve a fairy puzzle. Place the first totem in the following way:
First, rotate the second totem like this:
The third:
When the fairy reaches the third totem, you must rotate the second:
Pull the lever to open the next door. The totem below the bridge should be like this:
Turn right and enter Skyhenge. Defeat the enemies. You will find a skeleton. Use "What the river takes" song. Move forward. You reach a room with another puzzle.
To solve this puzzle, you have to pull the levers on the left in this order: left, down, right, down, left, down, right, down, left, down, right, right.
Go up the ladder. Pick up the key and the book. Push the nearby ladders down and go back to the forest. Light up the crystals on the geode to open the portal to Mathan's Glade:
You must solve another puzzle - place the stone glyphs on the correct pedestals. The solution can be found below:
Don't let the stones touch each other. Be patient. Think before you decide to use Crux's - in this puzzle you will always find a way out of a problematic situation. Place the stones one after another.
Move forward. Use your grappling hook on the platform above you.
You come across another platform. Use your grappling hook again. Climb up. Vines are standing in your way. Sing the newly learned song.
Speak with priestess Alise. She asks you to find priestess Nuna.
Purify the Glade of Mathan
You can find Nuna right after you go down the stairs.
She asks you to capture four checkpoints. You shouldn't have problems with killing with groups of enemies around the three checkpoints. However, the one near the checkpoint on Nuna's right is very difficult to defeat (the group's level is 176).
Your characters claim that this fight will only lead to death. However, you should take the risk and face the enemies (remember to save your game!). Having a good defender is important (a warrior with a shield, a one-handed weapon and armor-related abilities). If that character has high armor and good equipment, you should be able to win this fight.
Bryan, the winner of my fight, can be found in Baeddian Lowlands:
If you play as the default character - the bard called Melody, then you can replace the second bard (Fiona or Melody) with another warrior. One support character is plenty enough.
Fichti's and Bryan's passive abilities increase your chances at winning a fight. Thanks to Fichti's passive ability your party won't receive any fatal damage (happens once per battle). Bryan's passive ability allows him to revive himself with one health point. Besides that, Bryan can also block critical damage with his shield. Thanks to that he can survive a lot of turns without taking any damage!
Speak with Nuna after you defeat the enemies and secure the checkpoints. Follow her to receive a bear's blessing.
Go back to Naina, Fichti's commander. You can get there by going through Skyhenge. Speak with her to complete this quest. The woman gives you a key to the nearby chest.