The eight Queen's Domain Petrified Garden seals are the puzzle that opens Verdant Hollow. Sipeha statues are seated stone figures, each carrying a seal. You reveal the seal with the Mask of Second Sight and press it, and clearing all eight opens the sealed door in Verdant Hollow.
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The mask and its lenses
The mask has to be equipped as an accessory, not just carried, or the seals stay invisible. Collect its lenses before you go hunting, because at least one seal is behind a lens puzzle.
The four lenses come from four different places, and one of them gates the hardest seal on the list:
- Jigeki's Lens reveals the warding symbols on the rot fountains in the Rotting Cavern. Break them to purify the water and the statue under the waterfalls appears. You get the lens by collecting the three parts of Jigeki's key, solving the tiara puzzle in the ocean area, and returning for it.
- Puwema's Lens comes from Peha, who gives it to you in Deimpo Mausoleum.
- The remaining lenses are picked up around the island.
The puzzle guide has the other lens puzzles.
The Queen's Domain Petrified Garden seals: the eight spots
| Where | What it needs first |
|---|---|
| Underground prison below the Tower of Knowledge | Fight the Black Witch, then press the seal on the back wall among the candles and vessels in the boss room |
| Lower Tower of Knowledge | Fall through the trapdoor under the tower, go right through the door you opened earlier and take a secret wall to the fish egg area; the statue sits in a recessed alcove, and a boss fight waits behind a door on the way to the elevator below |
| Isle of Neasied, first | A hidden room under the teleporter area, reached through a dark tunnel opposite the graveyard save crystal; fight through to the Josami Templar, take the elevator down and go left. The secret wall here only opens from the inside, so loop round rather than hammering it |
| Isle of Neasied, second | A lower passage against a carved wall, reached by crossing the pillar room and dropping toward the prison, then taking the room opposite the Tower of Knowledge; it needs a five dash jump, so most of your Wind Gems |
| Deimpo Mausoleum | Across a wide chasm, reached through a hidden wall on the huge staircase next to the cook, needing the mask equipped to spot the wall and Wind Gem dashes to cross |
| Rotting Cavern | Near the teleporter, under the waterfalls of the snake temple. The statue only appears once the rotten water is turned off, which needs Jigeki's Lens and the warding symbols on the rot fountains. This is the seal that holds most players up |
| Obmuer Temple | Past the first Trident key, jump to the shipwreck, head right into the dark cave, then into the next room where a tree breaks through a statue; it needs a long water jump |
| Record of Sin | A recessed chamber against heavy carved stone, north through the forest from the pylon elevator; there is a maze and three blue orbs placed in the tree by the save crystal, then a jump across a gap in a round room |
The hidden locations guide covers the other secret rooms.
One of the seated stone figures that carries a Sipeha seal.
What the seals open
The door in Verdant Hollow opens into the Temple of Puwema and its purification altar, where the Holy Sword Endu is reforged into the True Holy Sword Akunra, which pops the Blade Bathed in Holy Light achievement.
Two things to have ready. The sword must be fully upgraded, because if it is not the game says the bond is not strong enough and sends you away. And you need the sword shards, which are worth grabbing after the boss fight in Deimpo Mausoleum before you go.
Akunra matters beyond the damage boost: it dashes ten times, it is the weapon tied to the second ending, and it is the usual way into the back route to the memento altar used for the third ending. There is also a Jade Puwema statuette behind a hidden door past the eight seal gate, so search the temple before you leave.
The Holy Sword Endu guide has the full reforge into Akunra.