Hub 2: Sacred Grove
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Hexen maps
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Sacred Grove is the secret map from the second hub of Hexen, Shadow Wood. It is accessible via a second portal on the Shadow Wood map, which is unlocked once the puzzle has been solved.
[edit] Strategy
The strategy is very simple. Kill the ettins as fast as possible, otherwise new ones will keep appearing. If you are really long in killing them, eventually a message saying something like "you’ve waited for too long, now you die" will show and instead of ettins, chaos serpents will start appearing in a neverending cycle, making it impossible to ever kill them all and reveal the switch.
[edit] Walkthrough
This is a small, roughly circular map with a single post in the centre. Once you've killed the Ettins, a handful of powerups will spawn and steps will lower downwards towards the post in the centre, revealing a switch. This switch gives the message "a door opened on the Forsaken Outpost", which is a map from Hub 4. The switch opens a door making the secret map (Desolate Garden) of that episode available, and it cannot be reached in any other way if this switch is not found.
[edit] Secrets
- There are 3 Mystic Urns hidden in the walls of this map. Walk through the vines to the north, east, and west to find them.
