How to unseal the well of Urdr in Asgard, Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla offers an immense amount of content of all sorts of types, from challenging battles, to intriguing exploration and fun mini-games to puzzles. This guide will help you solve the Light Beams Puzzle that is part of the Well-Traveled quest in Asgard, where you need to unseal the well by bringing two beams of light into two receivers, but you only have one light source!

The goal of this puzzle is to bring two lights into the two receivers (pedestals with crystals at the top of their structures). There is only one source of light, though.

It is puzzles like this that make Assassin’s Creed games intriguing. Might and Power Level play no role here. However, this game strives to appeal to everyone and fails. There are certain aspects of AC Valhalla that are not to everyone’s taste and solving puzzles instead of fighting soldiers or Order of the Ancients members is not the most fun part for you, obviously, since you are here to find a solution to this guide! I will do my best to help you unseal the well in Asgard as quickly as possible.

Let’s start! First, a quick introduction to the three types of pedestals in the room with the well.

Rotating Pedestal — Pedestals with a crystal sphere attached to their top cannot be moved, but can be rotated. Interact with them to freely rotate the beam of light that is reflected from the light sphere at the top of the pedestal.

Movable Pedestal — There is only one of these – movable pedestal with a floating light sphere on top. You can only move this object in a small area, limited by wooden beams on the floor around it.

Down near the well there are two of these – Receiver Pedestals. These are the two targets that you need to bring to light to to solve the puzzle with the well in Asgard. These cannot be moved, nor rotated. They are stationary.

There are four pedestals with spheres on top of them in total in the room. You cannot move them, but you can rotate them and point the light freely in any direction you want. There are two “receivers” around the well in the middle of the room. There is also one pedestal that can be moved around.

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I’ll start this guide from the position at the entrance of the room, as you first see it. The light beam start from a pedestal on the opposite side of the room as you enter.

Quick orientation: In the image above Eivor stands below the stone arc and to his right and back is the entrance from where you came in.

I’ll use an imaginary clock graph to describe positions aroudn the well, which is in the middle. The pedestal opposite to the entrance, the one from which the light beam starts, that will be our 12 O’ Clock marker. Let’s call the entrance 6 O’ Clock on that same imaginary clock scale.

Position yourself behind the pedestal at 12 O’ Clock and facing the well in the middle. The light beam is currently pointing down into nothing specific.

If you look across the room from your current position, you will notice a strange metallic romb-shaped module hanging above the arc from which you came in.

Now Interact with the pedestal and turn it to point the light beam directly at the strange figure at the top of the stone arc.

This figure will split up the light into two light beams each heading in a different direction – one to the left and one to the right from where you are standing.

Release the pedestal (shortcut C on PC) and head to your right. Get to the pedestal that sits at roughly 8 O’ Clock. A light beam is now powering the sphere on top if it. But the light that is coming out is pointing to nowhere.

Interact with that pedestal to turn the light beam to your left and point it to the 19 O’ Clock pedestal on your left side (to the one closest to the 12 O’ Clock position).

Move to your left and stand behind the 10 O’ Clock pedestal that you just sent the light beam to. Interact with it and point the light down towards one of the two “receivers” near the well.

Next, go across the room to the pedestal that is at roughly 5 O’ Clock on the imaginary clock graphic we are drawing for this puzzle. Currently the light is reflected to the left into an empty space. Turn the sphere and point the beam down, as shown in the image below.

Now jump down and go to the movable object with the crystal sphere at the top.

You have a limited space in which you can move that object, so you may have to either rely on my video walkthough, the images in this guide or imagine the trajectory of the light beam and figure out where exactly you need to move the pedestal to correctly reflect the beam to where you need it to go.

You need to move it to a precise position so that when the light from the 5 O’ Clock pedestal is reflected from the movable one, it will head right into the second receiver, which will unseal the well and allow you to pass through.

If you need to, jump back up to the 5 O’ Clock pedestal and turn it a little more to the left or right until the light beam hits the movable one downstairs.

This will finish this puzzle and allow you to continue the Well-Traveled quest in Asgard.

From here on now you can take a Leap of Fate and get the water you came for in the first place. Good luck with the rest of your adventures in Asgard and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla in general!

I hope you found this guide to solving the light beams puzzle and unsealing the well. If you have troubles solving the next puzzle down the line, let me help by showing you how to solve Ivaldi’s riddles.

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