Early on in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous players will need to escape an underground area through the Shield Maze, a complex space with a number of puzzles that will need to be passed through to move on. One of these is the Rune Puzzle in the back northwest of the dungeon, which is marked by four colored gemstones on the wall. It's clear that each of them can be pressed and that there's some secret to solve Pathfinder's Shield Maze puzzle, but there's no indication in the room of what to do.
The solution to this Wrath of the Righteous rune puzzle is located in another room in the Shield Maze, one with a number of paintings on the back wall. The order and color of these paintings reveal exactly what players need to do to solve the rune puzzle in the other room. Trying to do the puzzle randomly typically won't work without a lot of luck. Therefore, the best way to solve the Shield Maze rune puzzle in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is to make the connection between the colored paintings and the runes.
How to Solve the Shield Maze Rune Puzzle
The actual puzzle is located at the far northwestern edge of the Shield Maze in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Once there, players will find four colored runes on a wall, one each of red, blue, green, and yellow. Four runes need to be pressed, but there's no indication of which ones or in which order. Like many of the puzzles in WotR players can also press the same rune more than once, so there's a very high number of possible combinations.
Thankfully, this rune puzzle in Pathfinder isn't as complicated as it first appears. The paintings on the wall mentioned above indicate the order players need to activate the runes from left to right by color. For anyone who did not find the room with Pathfinder's puzzle solution, or for people who just want to solve Wrath of the Righteous' Shield Maze puzzle quickly, the order is:
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1 |
Yellow |
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2 |
Blue |
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3 |
Red |
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4 |
Yellow |
Afterward, a hidden door will open in the wall, and the Pathfinder party members can head through. Seelah will run into the room beyond, noticing the sword Radiance resting on a table in the back. As a paladin, she'll exclaim about its importance and her surprise at finding it, and players now have this unique and powerful artifact to take on their adventures through Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous' massive world.
Still having trouble navigating the Shield Maze puzzle in Pathfinder: WotR? Check out the video walkthrough from KpShamino below, which shows where the Shield Maze key is and how to open the maze's end door!