Alwa’s Legacy – 100% Achievements with videos – Pacifist Walkthrough & Secrets [ENG]

 
Conjuror 
Fully upgrade all magic gemstones 
Requires all 99 Orbs, which you can then spend with the Wizard. Most of them are fairly straight forward – if you can’t work it out, try getting a new ability or switching around your gem upgrades before coming back to try again. 
 
Some general tips: 

• The Wizard can re-spec at any time for free! This allows you to spec into an ability, warp around and use it to collect some Orbs, then return to switch back again 
• Complete Alice’s quest in the Grand Library to unlock the Old Melody Box. This item plays a short jingle whenever you enter a screen containing a secret pa*sage, and is extremely useful for some of the less obvious pa*sageways (especially the ones with Orbs completely concealed within them). 
• Pay attention to cracked walls, as well as the colour of any buttons you find. Blue button on the floor? Use the ability to pa*s through a bubble and stand on it. Two green buttons? Same again, but this time place the bubble inside a block before pa*sing through it. Bubble not lasting long enough / reaching high enough? You likely need the final upgrade! 
• The annotated map guide by Demajen and the eldenpixels.com – https://eldenpixels.com/alwas-legacy-maps/ are also helpful for locating Orbs.

 
Don’t hesitate to ask in the comments if there’s any specific items you need help with! 
 
 
A Hard Day’s Knight 
Help a Knight realize her true mission in life 
You’ll first encounter Gwen the knight in Central Alwa, and will then bump into her a further three times as you process through the game as follows. Note that you must complete these steps in order to enable her to show up in later locations. 

1. Central Alwa (unavoidable – initial meeting) 
2. Monk’s Mire (unavoidable) 
3. Eydie’s Keep – top right, by the Tombstone and the walkway into Valley of Reprisal. The area is the intended way out after beating Queen Eydie (note: not the only way out, making her missable), but can be reached before ever having entered Eydie’s Keep by simply climbing up in Valley of Reprisal 
4. Arcane Halls – use Umbra to head as far right as possible from the first warp point. She’s by the Tombstone again, and will give you a Petal and the achievement will unlock.

 
 
A Tear for Wellness 
Transform every Save Point into a Warp Point 
There are enough Tears for every save point in the game. This is a desirable thing to be working towards anyway in order to minimise backtracking time, just be careful not to get carried away and spend all your tears before you unlock Equilibrium! (see ‘Achievements – Missable’) 
 
A few tips (again, please ask if stuck!): 

• Lincoln in the Syvlan Temple has a Tear that he will give you after returning to Boyd’s Farm, which is obtainable regardless of whether you save him or not – see ‘Family Matters’ below 
• Outside in the lower area of Monk’s Mire, there’s a ruined house on the water line with a Tear on top – press down on the chimney Mario-style to enter and you’ll find a hidden save point. 
• Mary (the child) is holding a Tear to ransom in the house in Valley of Reprisal until you somehow figure out her ‘game’ and get her to give it to you… pa*s through a green bubble and talk to her. 
• An NPC named Ghost in a hidden area in Arcane Halls wants you to beat her to the very top of the map, and rewards you with a Tear. You have 90 seconds with which to do this, and may not use save/warp points at all. See video for route:

 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DlNwQpqwEM”>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DlNwQpqwEM 

 
Just Like Kieran 
Finish Pacifist Mode 
Pacfisit is an entirely separate game mode, and is unlocked by acquiring the Harmony’s Rose from Jean-Baptiste in the Castle Gardens in exchange for 12 Petals scattered around the world. Given you’ve already beaten the game to unlock this mode, I will not use spoiler tags from here on out. 

• You may hit enemies, but you may not kill them – if you do, you will immediately lose and the game will turn into a Standard mode run with no other differences 
• Bosses, Guardians and some minibosses can be removed by activating Tombstones with the Rose, which allows you to pa*s through without combat. These are usually either en-route or require a small amount of exploration. Note: there is no Tombstone for The Architect nor The Collector, so the Incantation of Orbis & Upgraded Staff (as well as the Old Melody Box) are unobtainable on Pacifist mode 
• Any enemy that suicides without player intervention, either by design or by accident, does not break the run 
• Hitting enemies with more than 1 HP will grant a brief period of invincibility, which you can use to pa*s through them if you become cornered

 
Biggest watch-outs are accidental deaths caused by blocks/bubbles: 

• Accidently pushing a block off a ledge onto an enemy below 
• Pushing a spikey block (be especially cautious around the red flower enemies in Castle Gardens!) 
• The multi-directional projectile burst from the bubble upgrade. The ceiling dwelling Slimes in Monk’s Mire / Eydie’s Keep like to die unexpectedly to these… For this reason, I recommend delaying this & all subsequent Blue Gemstone upgrades until late-game when you have enough Orbs to get them all at once

 
So long as the run is intact there will be a Harmony’s Rose icon on the HUD, and an alive rose in your inventory – see below. When you fail, a distinctive sound will play, the HUD rose vanishes and the inventory rose permanently wilts. 
 
 
 
 

Pacifist – Safeguards

 
Accidental failure is common and the game is quite long – fortunately there are 3 methods available for backing up your progress if the worst happens: 

1. Use the ‘Copy File’ functionality on the ‘File Select’ to periodically back up your main Pacifist run file to a different slot 
    
2. Alternatively, you can physically create a backup of the save files in Explorer, located as below. This is useful given the game only gives you 3 file slots. 
    
   …\AppData\LocalLow\EldenPixels\Alwa’s Legacy

    

3. Immediately Alt+F4! Although the game constantly logs your progress, it seems it only physically writes the progress to the save file when you either ‘attack’ or select ‘Save Game’ from a save point, or quit via the menu. Warping is not enough. This means if you immediately Alt+F4 upon failure, you can salvage the run and return to the last point you did one of the above actions (might be quite far if you’re not conscious tagging those save points, so be careful!)

 
Remember: so long as the rose is on the HUD, you’re still in business. 
 
 

Pacifist – Walkthrough pt.1

 
On Pacifist mode, having more than 3 health is an absolute must, whilst dash allows you avoid many obstacles/enemies altogether. The high-level route will therefore focus on acquiring health & movement upgrades ASAP. 
 
Following the linear section of the game (i.e. Chapter I), we’ll be spending a lot of time in ‘hub-like’ areas (Central Alwa, Ancient Catacombs & Eastern Highlands) to unlock abilities and gather Orbs to progress movement skills, and then we’ll tackle the remaining dungeons in the order: Eydie’s Keep > Abandoned Ruins > Sylvan Temple. The latter map has some nasty bits on Pacifist (and can even result in a softlock at time of writing), so we want to prep as best as possible before heading there. 

1. Start out as usual heading through Valley, Town and Gardens, keeping your eye out for Orbs that you’ve hopefully remembered from your previous 100% run (e.g. the hidden one on the screen next to the Green Gemstone in Castle Gardens). 
    
2. The part below is Rose Castle is quite tricky with only 3 health and no dash. Jump towards the platform as the Skeleton approaches, and hit it once to avoid damage. Stand and create a block (you’ll take 1 HP damage), then from the top of the block create a bubble and jump to the next platform. Repeat, and jump to the final ledge. If you fail, remember to at least dip on to the screen below for a second to replenish the enemies’ health, and fall to the save point below for your own health if needed. 
    
    
    
3. Head across Kloki’s Bridge and through the Grand Library. Immediately below the Yellow Gemstone you’ll reach a room with an impossible switch in Pacifist mode, given there’s a purple skeleton blocking it. Instead, head back up to the gemstone room and use the secret pa*sage to the left, per the screenshot below. 
    
    
    
4. Back in Town of Westwood, spec into green upgrades as much as possible, as yellow is pretty much useless to us, and we want to avoid getting bubble-projectiles for now as mentioned earlier. 
    
5. Explore Central Alwa – hit the Tombstone in the top left, get the Gold Bullion and deliver it to Beth in town, and drop through to get the Ember’s Nest (i.e. night vision). Use Tears in strategic places to set up a small warp network, which you can then use to switch abilities to get more collectibles. The ability to create ledges by hitting green blocks into the wall can get you surprisingly far! Prioritise collecting Petals whenever you get a new upgrade/ability, but if you need Equilibrium don’t purchase the second health upgrade (i.e. to 5 health) until after you’ve unlocked it! 
    
6. Get the Letter of Recommendation from Dourif in the Ancient Catacombs; warp up to the Village of Mila to exchange for the key, then warp back again and get the Norse Belt to enable breaking stone walls. Make sure you grab the Petal to the far west. 
    
7. Pick up Letharic’s Bell from Beth if you haven’t already, then re-spec with the Wizard to get the infinite bubble, reducing your green upgrades to 2. Go to the Eastern Highlands. 
   The bit below requires some creativity given we can’t go through the water without the increased lung capacity. Place a block & stand on it, then jump straight upwards and create another block mid-air & knock it across into the higher part of the opposite wall. Next, stand as close off the edge as you can, create a bubble and ride it to almost the top of the screen, then jump onto the block from earlier. You can create another bubble from here to reach the ledge. 
    
    
    
8. Continue onwards & upwards to get the dash ability

 
 
 

Pacifist – Walkthrough pt.2

 
(cont.) 

1. Warp back and proceed to Eydie’s Keep. As detailed in the Equilibrium section (see ‘Achievements – Missable’ above), remember that we won’t need to use the two keys collected in Eydie’s Keep, so we can use them to unlock Equilibrium and also to take shortcuts in the Arcane Halls. You’ll need to hunt out 4 Tombstones in this area (3x miniboss and the main boss) – this is quite easy with a bit of exploration. Don’t leave without the Petal! 
    
2. Go to Abandoned Ruins. Providing you heeded the warning on Tears from earlier, you should unlock Equilibrium when you collect the first key in this area. Complete the map as normal. 
    
3. Collect any remaining Petals, and cash in the upgrade to 5 health at the Castle Gardens. 
    
4. It’s time for Sylvan Temple. I advise creating a backup at the entrance using one of the methods explained in the ‘Safeguards’ section above. 
    
5. Remember, you must save Lincoln in a Pacifist run! This means hitting both switches and talking to him before hitting any save points of equal/higher level. If you open the doors but forget to talk to him, as I once did, he will drown on the spot anyway just to spite you… See the section on Family Matters above for a refresher. After saving Lincoln and hitting the save point behind him, remember to get the Petal on the west of the map before raising the water level again. 
    
6. Complete your ascent, get the Elixir (lung capacity) and start heading down the east side of the map. There’s a tricky part in the lower right corner of the map with almost-impossible-to-dodge fish that will make you appreciate your 5 health & dash. Continue to the left and you’ll eventually reach the Tombstone… 
    
    
    
   The Tombstone can be activated once and once only to remove the boss, but it also lowers the water level to the very bottom of the map. If you die and load after this point the water level will be restored to just below the Tombstone, making the section that follows all but impossible (the devs have confirmed this is a softlock, and is on their to-do list to fix). 
    
   However, we’ve prepared for this! Firstly, don’t die…! Secondly, if you do die, with your shiny 5 health and dash ability you should be able to make it though, albeit still with quite a lot of difficulty. Good luck! 
    
7. Back to the Grand Library again; use Umbra to pick up any last items you want (e.g. the Petal in Abandoned Ruins), then over to the Arcane Halls. You should ideally have green & blue gemstones maxed out at this point, but don’t worry too much about green if you’re a bit short. 
    
8. Once you reach the first save point, head east to meet Gwen, hit the Tombstone and receive the last Petal. Warp to Castle Gardens to receive your final health upgrade (and the Rose that you already have?!) 
    
9. Back at the first Arcane Halls save point, climb the ladder. There’s no reason on Pacifist to go left, so go straight through the door to the right using a spare key from Eydie’s Keep. If you didn’t hold a key back, there’s a secret pa*sage from the room up 1 & left 1 that leads down to the key. 
    
    
    
10. Follow the route around to the right and up, and again go through the door with your second spare key to bypa*s a large section. Above the door, go right and use the infinite bubble to take a shortcut. Head outside, deactivate the forcefields and loop back around to the upper-central save point. 
     
11. Home stretch now! Go left from the save point and head straight to the room with the bat miniboss. There’s a secret pa*sage to bypa*s it but it takes quite a lot of screens to reach… Instead, we can do a double-Umbra to teleport through the wall from an infinite bubble, which I demonstrate just after the 1-minute mark in the ‘Ghost Race‘ video embedded in the ‘Achievements – Full Completion’ section above. 
     
12. Reach Vicar’s tower to grab the book and win the game – congrats!

 
 
 

Gloomy Cellar Shortcut

 
There’s a skip right at the beginning Gloomy Cellar – I’m not aware of anyone else posting this to-date and it only requires the Incantation of Umbra to pull off, which is needed to access the area in the first place. 
 
This method doesn’t miss any Orbs, items or characters, nor any content you haven’t already seen elsewhere, so this shortcut is useful if you’re not a fan of upside-down / insta-death spike shenanigans and would just like to finish the boss for the reward. 
 

 
You can still play the level normally afterwards (as I did), if you so choose. 
 
 

Secrets & Easter Eggs

 
This section is a WIP… there’s an extremely well-hidden endgame puzzle in the prequel to this game Alwa’s Awakening – these links show https://steamcommunity.com/app/549260/discussions/0/135508031954077801/ and a https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2470687352 if you’re curious. There’s reason to believe there might be something similar in Alwa’s Legacy… 
 
I will update this section with what we know so far. 
 
 
 
 

Thanks!

 
Thanks for reading – hope this guide is helpful and let me know any comments/suggestions! 😊 
 
You can also check out my Alwa’s Awakening guide for 100% Achievements, Full Detail Map & Secrets – I recommend this prequel if you enjoyed Alwa’s Legacy but didn’t think it was hard enough…! 
 

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