Queen's Domain progress route: where to go next

You wake on the beach with no weapon: our Status screen at the start showed no items and nothing equipped. Head north from the beach by the stone path and the clearing beyond it to the Knight's Encampment, a camp with a well, a campfire, a locked chest and a sealed door at the top of the temple stairs. The knight sitting by the fire is Commander Ekonta, and he hands you the Rusted Short Sword: Power 7, Slash, Average speed.

If pressing E does nothing, you are aiming too high. In our first session he didn't respond while we looked at his head; standing right next to him and looking down at him worked.

1. From the beach, follow the stone path north to the camp with the campfire.
2. Stand right next to the seated knight, look down at him and press E, then read through Commander Ekonta's lines.

After Ekonta's lines you are still empty-handed. Open Status & Inventory with Tab, select the Rusted Short Sword, choose Equip and pick one of the three weapon slots; it then shows in your right hand. The in-game Guide adds a Melee Weapons page when you get it.

1. Press Tab and select the Rusted Short Sword in the weapons list.
2. Choose Equip, then pick a weapon slot.

The barricade is the gate of crossed wooden beams on the west side of the clearing next to the camp. Three quick slashes with the Rusted Short Sword didn't break it for us. Holding left mouse for about a second and a half, then letting go, broke it with one charged attack. We didn't test whether the quick hits counted toward it.

1. Walk up to the crossed-beam barricade beside the camp clearing.
2. Hold left mouse to charge, then release into the beams.

Through the ruins past the barricade, beside a column wrapped in rope, stands the first Crystal Monument. Its menu reads Knight's Encampment, Isle of Neasied, and offers Save, Rest and Leave. Rest took our life from 50 back to 100, and the Guide adds a Crystal Monuments page. Save here: nothing before it saves your game.

Rest and save before you climb the narrow stairs just right of the monument: the Ratty Bug waits on the plateau at the top.

How saving works

1. Go through the broken barricade and the ruins to the glowing crystal on the carved stone.
2. Choose Rest to refill your life, then Save.

On the plateau at the top of the narrow stairs beside the monument, a red, spotted, winged Ratty Bug attacks on sight and bites at close range. Its Bestiary entry, which unlocks when you kill one, lists 35 life, Attack Power 10 and 26 EXP, weak to Slash, normal to Impact and resisting Pierce, so the Rusted Short Sword from Ekonta is the right weapon.

It killed us five times before we won. In our first two tries it killed us three times, each within about ten seconds, and sprinting past failed once: it followed us to the sea cliff beyond the bushes and finished us there. What worked was facing it, holding left mouse about a second to a second and a half to charge, releasing as it closed in, then stepping back while the next charge built. On the first try with that rhythm we got its bar down to a sliver and died in the same second, and the Game Over reload undid the fight; on the second it died after about 20 seconds, with roughly half our life left.

We played those last two fights with Kingy’s own screen-reading input helper, because our usual screenshot-by-screenshot play is too slow for real-time melee. The kill added the Ratty Bug to the Bestiary and gave us 26 EXP, with 334 more needed for level 2. Gamer Social Club’s footage (Part 1, around 0:31) simply walks past it.

Read its Bestiary entry

1. Rest at the monument, then climb the narrow stairs beside it.
2. Face the bug, hold left mouse to charge and release as it reaches you.
3. Step back while the next charge builds, and repeat until its bar at the bottom of the screen empties.

Three more pickups give you a weapon of each other kind: a pierce weapon, throwing daggers and your first impact weapon. A Gamer Social Club walkthrough shows all three on launch day; in its footage the spear chest is past the round tower, down a slope and through a meadow with a centipede. Kingy hasn't reached them yet.

Follow the whole route in checked video moments

1. Follow the stone path from the beach to the open wooden chest in the grass and take the Rusted Spear.

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   0:45–0:55 · 10 sThe Rusted Spear in the chest by the stone path

   0:45–0:55The Rusted Spear in the chest by the stone path
2. Look up at the wrecked wooden frame by the beach: the throwing daggers hanging from its rope are the Dagger Belt.

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   kingy.wiki1:14–1:32 · 18 sThe Dagger Belt on the wreck by the beach

   1:14–1:32The Dagger Belt on the wreck by the beach
3. Open the chest in a rocky corner for the Wooden Club, your first impact weapon.

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   kingy.wiki4:50–5:01 · 11 sThe Wooden Club in the chest in a rocky corner

   4:50–5:01The Wooden Club in the chest in a rocky corner

Creators call it the Shrine Key; the game calls it the Endu Shrine Gate Key. It opens a wooden gate marked with a winged diamond emblem, the way to the shrine. Don't drop down the well yet: players warn the area below is much harder this early (see the soft-lock guide).

1. Find the mossy stone altar with a small key on top and take the Endu Shrine Gate Key.

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   7:11–7:24The Endu Shrine Gate Key on the mossy altar
2. Carry it back to the wooden gate with the winged diamond emblem and head on to the shrine.

The Azure Torch is a blue-flame weapon held by a gargoyle statue beside a wooden door. Gamer Social Club's description says you need it to reach the Tower of Knowledge. Gargoyle statues sit on wall ledges around the island; the footage shows each one wrapped in blue flame once the torch is raised at it, though not what lighting them opens. Players on Steam say a hidden door that won't open is opened by burning the gargoyles above it, throwing the torch's charged fireballs at the one out of reach.

1. Follow the cobbled path to the wooden door with a gargoyle statue beside it and take the Azure Torch.

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   0:48–0:57 · 9 sThe Azure Torch at the gargoyle by the wooden door

   0:48–0:57The Azure Torch at the gargoyle by the wooden door
2. Raise the torch at each gargoyle statue on the walls until blue flame covers it.

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   2:44–2:49 · 5 sA second gargoyle under a terrace wall

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   kingy.wiki5:24–5:29 · 5 sA gargoyle in a wall niche

   2:44–2:49A second gargoyle under a terrace wall5:24–5:29A gargoyle in a wall niche

The item's own text says four Triangular Slates open the door to Obmuer Temple. Gamer Social Club calls them Temple Keys. They lie on stone blocks, plinths and ledges around the flooded ruins. Players name two that are easy to miss: one on a round platform with skeletons, reached by jumping and dashing from where you find the Trident, and one tucked between a tower and a wall near where the star lizard was.

One player on Switch 2 thinks they are soft-locked: on October 30 the fourth slate wasn't on its platform next to the torch. No patch note mentions it yet.

1. Search the flooded stone ruins for slates lying on blocks and plinths: each shows a Triangular Slate label when you take it.

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   4:18–4:37 · 19 sA Triangular Slate on a block in the flooded ruins

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   kingy.wiki5:40–5:51 · 11 sA Triangular Slate on a plinth in a dark area

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   kingy.wiki6:38–6:56 · 18 sA Triangular Slate above the flooded ruins

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   1:47:46–1:48:02 · 16 sThe slate in the gap between a tower and a wall

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   kingy.wiki1:50:20–1:50:30 · 10 sThe slate on the islet below the Trident

   4:18–4:37A Triangular Slate on a block in the flooded ruins5:40–5:51A Triangular Slate on a plinth in a dark area6:38–6:56A Triangular Slate above the flooded ruins1:47:46–1:48:02The slate in the gap between a tower and a wall1:50:20–1:50:30The slate on the islet below the Trident
2. Place all four in the door's triangular sockets to open Obmuer Temple.

The temple's inner doors take Trident Keys. In the footage, a Sapphire key lies in the temple's dark flooded halls and a helmeted merchant sells an Amethyst key for 15. Players say the main door needs three and that the shop key covers a shortfall after the Tower of Knowledge boss. All five keys, every door and the Petrified Garden order are on the Trident Keys page.

All five Trident Keys and their doors

1. In the temple's dark flooded halls, take the gold Trident Key - Sapphire from the stone where it lies.

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   kingy.wiki3:48–3:56 · 8 sThe Trident Key - Sapphire in the temple's flooded halls

   3:48–3:56The Trident Key - Sapphire in the temple's flooded halls
2. If you are a key short, check the helmeted merchant's list: it sells a Trident Key - Amethyst for 15.

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   kingy.wiki4:36–4:41 · 5 sThe merchant's Trident Key - Amethyst for 15

   4:36–4:41The merchant's Trident Key - Amethyst for 15
3. Four Trident Keys exist, one each of Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby and Amethyst: the key items list names them, and at each trident-marked door a popup lets you pick one of the four.

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   5:48–6:02 · 14 sThe four Trident Keys in the key items list

   5:48–6:02The four Trident Keys in the key items list

Later, a fenced path has carved slabs with hints for lighting a set of gargoyles; one tells you to take account of all three hints. The footage shows only one hint, so we don't give the full answer here.

1. Read every hint slab along the fenced path before you light the gargoyles.
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   kingy.wiki5:58–6:12 · 14 sA hint slab for the gargoyle puzzle

   5:58–6:12Spoiler clip