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salt-and-vynegar · 1 year

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Vault Notes & Explanation

The Vault has a variety of puzzles. There’s references to the Ink Study rooms, the mechanics from the Labyrinth Pavilion make a comeback, and then they also use a different mechanic in the last two vault rooms.

Once you’re able to get the collectibles from the 1st Try, 2nd Try, and 3rd Try rooms, you will be able to unlock the Labyrinth Pavilion’s final challenge: The Insatiable Journey.

No Easter Eggs for this part of the room again, but I personally like the varied opening dialogue for each of the rooms. For the 1st Try Room in particular, each of Rosa’s partners has something different to say. I found it kinda fun to see how they comment on certain things.

This post will contain spoilers for some of the puzzles in the Vault.

So, some notes regarding the types of puzzles you will see in each room:

1st Try - The room is similar to the Ink Study Puzzle rooms

I would recommend paying close attention to the conversations between Rosa and her partner. There may be some really valuable information.

2nd Try & 3rd Try - The rooms are very similar to the Labyrinth Pavilion, and uses mechanics from that area.

For 2nd Try, remember that the layout of the rooms have centrosymmetry. If you get lost, remember that unused switches are colored red, while used switches are blue.

For 3rd Try, remember to read the piece of paper on the desk near Rosa’s side at the beginning. There’s a hint they give you that will help you later on, especially if you’re trying to get the collectibles. Also, those yellow altars will not protect you from flashlights. Tread carefully.

4th Try & Final Try - The rooms utilize a different, yet very simple mechanic. The goal of these rooms is to get to the end with your partner.

For both rooms, make sure to look ahead. How you move will affect your partner, and your movements are tied to your partner’s range.

Since the 4th Try and Final Try rooms are pretty self-explanatory, I will be going over some of the things I’ve noticed by going through the other 3 vault rooms. Under the cut will be spoilers.

1st Try

Puzzle: Guqin, Chess, Book, and Painting

The 1st Try room is a callback to the rooms in the Ink Study.

While most of the room can be done without looking back, the biggest piece of information that you need to know from the Ink Study is that one of the pieces uses information from the Chinese Philosophy, Wuxing. The particular reference can be found in the Ink Study room: Wuxuan. I’ll explain why as I go through the puzzle.

When you enter the room, Rosa’s partner makes the comment that there’s something that catches his eye. By examining the altar, it is revealed that there are four particular items that need to be examined: A Guquin, a Chessboard, a Book, and a Painting. Rosa’s partner will comment on the image of the painting and states that it has a sword. Rosa has a sword on her side.

The altar shows what particular objects have to be examined and in what order, it also shows that each object will have an artifact that can be found on Rosa’s side and can be tied to the puzzle.

Guquin

When the Guquin is examined, Rosa’s partner will make an observation that there is a picture of a monk ringing the bell underneath the moon.

As Rosa, when you examine the bell, Rosa will make the observation that the words Wu Yi are written on the bell. Rosa will also make the observation that the third month of Autumn corresponds to Wu Yi, and that Wu Yi represents the number 9.

So the number associated with the Guquin is 9.

Chess

When the Chessboard is examined, Rosa’s partner will make an observation that there is a number located on the chessboard. The number 2.

The number associated with Chess is 2.

Book

There are two bookshelves on Rosa’s partner’s side. By examining the bookshelves, Rosa’s partner makes the comment that there is a fan mark on the book covers, and that there is a diagram of five elements with a specific line of text.

For one bookshelf, the line reads: “In the relation cycle, Earth is one, Wood is five, in a cycle of restriction and resentment.” Rosa will comment that it is mainly about contradiction. (Contradiction meaning, which element beats what.)

For the other bookshelf, the line reads: “In the relation cycle, water is one, gold is five, in endless cycles.”

These lines are references to the elemental cycle based on the Chinese Philosophy, Wuxing. To help, the Ink Study room Wuxuan explains how to draw the elemental cycle.

By following the cycle of destruction/contradiction, the cycle should look as follows: Earth (1) -> Water -> Fire -> Metal -> Wood (5)

The second line, with the term, endless cycles, refers to birth. I.e. Which element births another. By following the cycle of birth, the cycle should look as follows: Water (1) -> Wood -> Fire -> Earth -> Metal (5)

Now that we have both cycles, the next thing to figure out is which one needs to be used. Since depending on the cycle used, the number associated with it will be different.

When examining the antique fan, Rosa makes a comment that the picture on it means rebirth from the fire.

This means that the cycle that will be used to determine the number will come from the cycle of rebirth, and that the number has to correspond to fire. Through the cycle of rebirth, if Water = 1, and Wood = 2, this means that Fire = 3.

Since the elemental cycle puzzle came from the books, this means that the number for Books is 3.

Painting

After examining the yellow altar, Rosa’s partner will make a comment that there is a painting with a sword. By examining the sword on Rosa’s side and solving the pathmaking puzzle associated with it, it is revealed that the number associated with the sword is 3.

Since the sword is associated with the painting, the number associated with the Painting is 3.

Final Puzzle Code: 9233 (Guqin, Chess, Book, and Painting)

Some additional notes: @vynegar has also let me know that there are references to The Four Symbols in Chinese, specifically the Azure Dragon and Rosefinch/Vermillion bird.

In addition, unlike the Ink Study, this room has a major red herring. To put it bluntly, the star names that are mentioned as part of the Big Dipper are red herrings. They are mentioned, but it is not necessary to figure out the star placements to open the room. However, to get the prompt to open the door, everything has to be examined, including all the artifacts on Rosa’s side.

2nd Try

The 2nd Try room isn’t too bad, but I recommend activating Rosa’s side switches first, switching to her partner, then back to Rosa, and then finishing with her partner. It’s a lot of switching, but I do it this way so that way each room is searched for the collectibles.

Here’s the route I took to get all of the collectibles.

(If you’re using the app, highlight and copy the link, then paste it in an internet browser. The video should pop up.)

3rd Try

This room is particularly tricky. If you examine the table on Rosa’s side in the beginning of the room, it states that the inner sanctum of the vault on this floor has cameras, but that the cameras do not work. This comes in handy later.

For me, when I did this, I prefer to start and end with Rosa. When I do this, I find that it’s easier to keep track of what was collected.

Here’s the route I took to get all of the collectibles.

(If you’re using the app, highlight and copy the link, then paste it in an internet browser. The video should pop up.)

#Tears of Themis #ToT: Blizzardous Threads of Red Event

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grimreaper-9972 · 4 years

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Tunneling phenomenon is one of the most remarkable and

unique consequences of the wave nature of particles in

quantum mechanics, where a particle can penetrate

through classically forbidden regions. In solids, the quantum

mechanical wavefunctions of electrons form the band structure

separated by the energy gaps, and the tunneling can occur

between these bands when an electric field is applied. This is

called Zener tunneling through the energy gap and has been

actively studied1–13. A concise formula, i.e., Landau–Zener

formula1,2, has been obtained for a model Hamiltonian describing

the two-band system as

H ¼ v_k δ

δ -

v_k

; ð1Þ

where ±vℏk are the energy dispersions and 2δ is the energy gap.

Under an external electric field E, the wavenumber k is acceler-

ated as __

k ¼ -

eE as shown in Fig. 1. The transition probability

from the lower band to the upper band reads

P ¼ exp -

πδ2

e_Ev ; ð2Þ

which is essentially singular with respect to E showing the non-

perturbative nature of the quantum tunneling.

At a pn-junction of semiconductors, the tunneling shows an

asymmetric behavior, which is utilized as a tunneling diode for

rectifying devices14. Because of the broken inversion symmetry,

the tunneling probability, and hence, the I–V characteristics

depend strongly on the direction of the electric field E. For the

uniform bulk crystal, however, the asymmetry in the Zener

tunneling probability is a highly nontrivial issue even when the

crystal lacks the inversion symmetry. This can be seen in the band

dispersion εn(k) (n: band index); the relation εn(k) = εn(−k) holds

due to the time-reversal symmetry even in the absence of the

spatial inversion symmetry. Therefore, the inversion symmetry is

rather hidden in wave mechanics15. Intuitively, the extended wave

state is rather insensitive to the broken inversion symmetry

compared with the localized wave packet. Therefore, a funda-

mental question is how the nonreciprocal behavior, i.e., the

asymmetry between the opposite direction of the electric field E,

is realized in the tunneling processes of the bulk crystals,

reflecting the wave nature of the electrons. This is also an

important issue in terms of device applications; Ferroelectric

random access memory utilizes nonreciprocal current response at

the time of read-out operations of recorded polarization direc-

tion16, while its working mechanism has not been fully under-

stood so far.

The nonreciprocal phenomena in noncentrosymmetric crystals

have been extensively studied in these days, including both the dc

transport17–22 and photo-excited current23–33. In particular, the

no-go theorem has been proposed for the nonreciprocal transport

of independent particles induced by the static electric field, in

terms of a perturbative expansion with respect to E34. Thus

nonreciprocal dc transport requires some sort of interaction

effects in the perturbative regime. On the other hand, this theo-

rem does not apply for the photocurrent induced by the light

irradiation that induces the inter-band transitions, which is called

shift current. The shift current is formulated in terms of the Berry

connection of the Bloch wavefunctions, which correspond to the

intracell coordinates of the electrons30–33,35. The optical transi-

tion causes the shift in the intracell coordinates, i.e., shift vector,

since intracell coordinates are generally different for the valence

and conduction bands in noncentrosymmetric crystals. The

steady pumping of polarization of photoexcited electron–hole

pairs results in the dc photocurrent. Therefore, it is concluded

that the wavefunctions encode the information of the non-

centrosymmetry in sharp contrast to the energy dispersion. In

fact, the Berry phase becomes zero (or trivial) when the system

preserves both the inversion and time-reversal symmetries.

As discussed above, the tunneling is a nonperturbative effect,

and cannot be captured by the perturbative expansion with

respect to E. Hence, it is possible that the nonreciprocal nature

appears in the Landau–Zener tunneling even in the independent

particle approximation. In this paper, we show that this is indeed

the case by deriving the generalized Landau–Zener formula

including the shift vector, i.e., the information of the Bloch

wavefunctions. The generalized Landau–Zener formula shows

that nonreciprocal tunneling generally appears in inversion bro-

ken systems, even in the presence of the time-reversal symmetry.

The nonreciprocity has a geometric origin, dominated by the

Berry connection difference between the valence and conduction

bands. We also give a demonstration of nonreciporcal tunneling

by applying the obtained formula to the Rice–Mele model, an

archetypal one-dimensional model of a ferroelectrics.

Results

Tunneling formula with a shift vector. Let us consider a time

evolution of a system under a slow change of parameters. In

particular, here we focus on a change of momentum k under a

DC electric field, k → k(t) = k − eEt/ℏ. It is well known that the

solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation in the

adiabatic limit is given by snapshot eigenstates

HðtÞj i n; kðtÞ ¼ εnðtÞj i n; kðtÞ ð3Þ

multiplied by dynamical and Berry phase factors [see Eq. (4)].

The diabatic correction is derived from the transition dipole

matrix elements. To see this, let us expand a state vector j i Ψ by

the adiabatic solutions as

j i Ψ ¼ X

anðtÞe

R t

dt1½εnðt1ÞþeEAnnðt1Þ=_

j i n; kðtÞ ; ð4Þ

where AnmðtÞ ¼ i nh j ; kðtÞ ∂kj i m; kðtÞ is the Berry connection. (We

note that the “off-diagonal” Berry connections for n ≠ m corre-

spond to transition dipole matrix elements.) With paying atten-

tion in dealing with the Berry phase factor, we can reduce the

time-dependent Schrödinger equation i_∂tj i¼ Ψ HðtÞj i Ψ to

i∂tanðtÞ ¼ eE

m≠n

jAnmðtÞje

R t

dt1½εn-

εmþeERnm=_þi argAnmðt0Þ

amðtÞ;

ð5Þ

with

Rnm ¼ Ann -

Amm -

∂k arg Anm: ð6Þ

See “Methods” for details. Here we have used ℏ∂t = −eE∂k for j i n; kðtÞ and arg AnmðtÞ. Rnm is so called shift vector which is a

gauge-invariant object describing the polarization difference

between two bands n, m30–33,35,36. Specifically, the shift vector

can be interpreted as the spatial shift of the wave packets between

the valence and conduction bands, since the Berry connections

Ann correspond to the intracell coordinates of the Bloch electrons.

It is known that the shift vector plays an important role in bulk

photogalvanic effect in noncentrosymmetric crystals, so called

shift current. The fact that Rnm appears in Eq. (5) is usually

overlooked since Ann = 0 is assumed in many cases. A similar

geometric contribution has also been discussed as the quantum

geometric potential37,38, in the context of the adiabatic condition.

Let us focus on a tunneling process between two bands, n = ±

with a−(t0) = 1, a+(t0) = 0. Our goal is to derive the tunneling

probability P = ∣a+(t)∣

2 after one cycle of the Bloch oscillation.

For simplicity, we consider only the first-order correction w.r.t.

∣A+−∣ here. By integrating Eq. (5) and using it recursively, we

obtain

aþðtÞ ¼ iei arg Aþ-

ðt0Þ

Z kðtÞ

dk1 Aþ-

exp -

Z k1

dk2

εþ -

ε-

eE þ Rþ-

" #

ð7Þ

with k0 = k(t0), as we detail in “Methods”.

A two-band Hamiltonian can be represented as H = d(k) ⋅ σ

with σ being Pauli matrices (when we subtract a constant energy

shift). The quantities necessary for the evaluation of the tunneling

amplitude are given as

εþ -

ε-

¼ 2

ffiffiffiffiffi

d2 p

; ð8Þ

jAþ-

j ¼

ffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi

ðd ´ ∂kdÞ

2d2 ; ð9Þ

Rþ-

¼ ðd ´ ∂kdÞð∂2

kdÞ

ðd ´ ∂kdÞ

ffiffiffiffiffi

d2 p

: ð10Þ

In order to evaluate the integral in an asymptotic manner, we

employ the Dykhne–Davis–Pechukas (DDP) method3,4 in

accordance with Ref. 3. Namely, we perform the integral by

means of contour integration in the complex plane. The contour

of the integral, which is originally the real axis [blue lines in

Fig. 2], can be deformed within an analytic region, thanks to the

Cauchy’s integral theorem4,39.

This treatment is advantageous since one can utilize a

(complex) branching point kc, where the energy gap vanishes

dðkcÞ

2 ¼ 0 [Such a point is indeed a branching point when the

Hamiltonian is analytic, as εþ -

ε-

/ ðk -

kcÞ

1=2 in the vicinity

of kc]. This point essentially governs the tunneling process

between the two bands: since the prefactor ∣A+−∣ diverges as we

approach kc [see Eq. (9)], only this divergent part contributes to

the asymptotic value of the integral, when the integration path is

deformed to pass through the vicinity of the branching point kc.

We show the integration path by magenta lines in Fig. 2. The

main part of the contour is one along which the absolute value of

the exponential factor is constant (i.e., the imaginary part of the

k2 integral in Eq. (7) is constant). This contour passes through the

branching point kc, but we make a detour around it since kc itself

is a singular point of the integrand. Due to the divergence

mentioned above, this detoured part contributes dominantly

against the main part. While the branching points appear in a

pairwise manner ðkc; k

cÞ, we need to choose one of them such

that the exponential factor becomes smaller than unity in

accordance with the detailed derivation given in “Methods”. We

note that the integral on the first and last vertical lines have finite

but small contributions in general. They share the same absolute

value (that is perturbative in E) but their phases are different. This

leads to a small oscillation in the tunneling amplitude with

respect to E, on top of the nonperturbative contribution from the

branching point kc. Since we are interested in the nonperturbative

contribution, we neglect those perturbative corrections in the

following.

In a generic situation, one can assume that the leading

order term of d2, ð∂kdÞ

2 and ðd ´ ∂kdÞð∂2

kdÞ in the expansion

around kc is given as d2 ~ iα(k − kc), ð∂kdÞ

2 β, and

ðd ´ ∂kdÞð∂2

kdÞ η, respectively. By evaluating the detoured

part of the integral [circular arc around kc in Fig. 2] with these

expanded forms, we arrive at

P exp 2 Im Z kc

dk2 my most recent read lol

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technato · 6 years

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Scientists Find Strange New Effect for Future Solar Cells: Flexo-photovoltaics

Poking something sharp into a plain silicon crystal turns it into a solar cell that might shoot past today’s efficiency limits

Illustration: Mark Garlick/University of Warwick

Scientists at the University of Warwick report that they’ve discovered a new kind of photovoltaic effect. What they dub “flexo-photovoltaics” is really the realization that ordinary crystals—including silicon—and other materials can be made to exhibit a long-known, but underutilized type of energy conversion. The key is to poke the material, hard and with something sharp.

Today’s solar cells are typically made from silicon, into which a built-in electric field has been engineered. That field comes from a p-n junction, the spot where a region with excess positive charge carriers (holes) meets a region with excess negative charge carriers (electrons). When a photon is absorbed it becomes an electron and a hole. Because of the p-n junction, the pair is naturally separated to produce a voltage. Such solar cells have an inherent ceiling to the efficiency they can possibly reach. Called the Shockley-Queisser limit, it slams the door on efficiencies higher than 33.7 percent.

Photo: University of Warwick

Marin Alexe, a professor at the Univerity of Warwick, recently described a new kind of photovoltaic effect.

But a different effect has no such limit. Called the bulk photovoltaic effect, it only occurs in materials whose crystal structure lacks what’s called centrosymmetry, explains Marin Alexe, the physics professor who led the research at Warwick in the U.K. Having centrosymmetry means that you can rotate a crystal’s unit structure around the center and wind up with the same structure. Materials that lack centrosymmetry, such as barium titanate, can display the bulk photovoltaic effect—you can get some current out despite the lack of a p-n junction—but they don’t make good solar cells for other reasons.

Alexe, along with his student Ming-Min Yang and post-doctoral researcher Dong Jik Kim, set out to see if they could cause a centrosymmetric material that’s pretty good as a solar cell—silicon, for example—to exhibit bulk photovoltaic effect.

They did this through the microscopic version of brute force: they mashed an atomic-force-microscope tip into the crystal. The result was a strain in the crystal so severe that it was no longer centrosymmetric, and “that automatically kicks in the alternative photovoltaic effect,” says Alexe. The effect should work in many types of crystal; they tested strontium titanate, titanium oxide, and silicon. And even better: “This effect has no thermodynamic limits, because it’s not p-n junction-based,” he says.

But was it more efficient than an ordinary solar cell? “We cannot say anything about efficiency,” says Alexe. Those experiments will have to come once they’ve more fully characterized the effect. “What we can actually say is that nothing prevents us, principally, to use both effects in the same device.”

Alexe imagines an array of micro-spikes pressed atop a conventional silicon solar cell. “That’s the easiest way; not necessarily cheapest way or smartest way,” says Alexe. Another solution might be to engineer strain-inducing defects into the silicon. (The type of engineered strain used to speed transistors in microprocessors doesn’t work for this effect.) “This is a completely new range of research, which can be opened—engineering this type of effect,” he says.

Alexe and his colleagues reported their results last week in Science Advances .

Scientists Find Strange New Effect for Future Solar Cells: Flexo-photovoltaics syndicated from https://jiohowweb.blogspot.com

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salt-and-vynegar · 1 year

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Ink Study Puzzles Explanation

I like a good puzzle, and I like trying to figure out the rationale behind why a puzzle has a certain answer. So since I’ve been making notes on the puzzles and using them to solve the clues, I wanted to write this down for me.

This post will contain spoilers for some of the puzzles in the Ink Study.

There are certain puzzles that I find it hard to craft an explanation for, like the two kinds of path making ones, so I will not be going over them.

Fengya (Recommended Character: Luke)

Puzzle: Guqin, Chess, Book, and Painting

Guqin

I’ve touched on Guqin a bit here, but let me go into detail. For this puzzle to make sense, you need to have the context from Rosa and the information provided by Luke. The Guqin itself isn’t the puzzle, but the words on the bamboo pipes that Rosa finds are.

Rosa makes the comment that the words Lin Zhong are written and that it’s mentioned in the “The Book of Rites - Proceedings of the Government in the Different Months.” Luke can find that book on his end, and then proceeds to tell the reader that Lin Zhong is a reference to the third month of summer, June.

In a Gregorian Calendar, June is the 6th month of the year,

So the number associated with Lin Zhong is 6.

Chess

Luke finds the number 5 carved in the chessboard.

Book

Rosa can find this on a bookshelf. It leads to a path making puzzle. Once solved, it gives the number 1.

Painting

Luke can find this painting hanging in his side of the room near the door. Once solved, it gives the number 5.

Final Puzzle Code: 1565 (Book, Painting, Guqin, and Chess)

A dialogue easter egg can be obtained by examining the book on Rosa’s side with Luke on the other.

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Quiankun (Recommended character: Artem)

Artem’s puzzle is based on the Eight Trigrams or Bagua in Chinese. Due to this mechanic, this puzzle also utilizes centrosymmetry in the form of two 3x3 grids.

Puzzle: Eight Trigrams and 9 Palaces

To solve this requires two 3x3 grids.

1 chart for the locations, and 1 chart for the numbers. These two grids will correspond with each other.

Here are the given hints:

Via Artem:

Nine is on the top, one at the bottom, three at left, and seven at the right.

Kun Palace represents two.

Li Palace is at the bottom of an Eight Trigrams mirror.

Besides Li Palace, there are seven other trigrams: Qian, Kun, Kan, Zhen, Gen, Xun, and Dui.

Two and Four are shoulders; six and eight are feet; five is the core.

Xun is at the top left corner.

After solving the pathmaking puzzle on Rosa’s side, Zhen is in the leftmost grid of the second row.

Via Rosa:

Qian Palace is in the bottom right corner of the 3x3 grid.

Kan represents one, Kun two, Zhen three, and Xun four.

Add every three numbers that are on the same row or column, and you will always get 15.

Gen Palace is eight.

After solving the pathmaking puzzle on Artem’s side, Dui is in the right most grid of the second row.

After solving the pathmaking puzzle on Artem’s side, three is at the left, seven at the right... five is the core.

After solving the pathmaking puzzle on Artem’s side, Dui represents seven.

When you put all the hints together, you should end up with two 3x3 grids that look like this:

Now, you may be asking why there’s nothing in the center for locations. That’s on purpose.

One of the most important hints that is given is that 5 is the Core. This is where the Eight Trigram Influence comes in. For the Trigrams, they are usually written outside of a central point. In this particular case, the 5 you get from solving the magic square numbers is the central point - the Core, from which the other locations are situated around.

In addition, there’s a bit of a tricky hint in Artem’s side. He mentions that he finds an Eight Trigrams mirror and that Li Palace is on the bottom of the 3x3 grid. But on my grid, it’s on the top. The key for finding where Li goes is to remember that it’s mirrored. Because Li was written on the bottom of the mirror, if you mirror it/flip it, this means that Li is actually located on the top.

Artem’s Puzzle Lock: 7294 (Dui, Kun, Li, and Xun)

Rosa’s Puzzle Lock: 6183 (Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen)

A dialogue Easter egg can be obtained by examining the umbrella on Rosa’s side with Artem on the other.

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Wuxuan (Recommended character: Marius)

Marius’s puzzle is based on the Chinese Philosophy Wuxing.

Puzzle: Elemental Pillars

To solve this puzzle, you need to figure out which of the elements correspond to each pillar.

Here are the given hints:

Via Rosa:

When you examine the pillar, you find out that the pillar has a wave mark.

It also gives the quote, “Everything in this world births and contradicts one another. My mother gives birth to me, and I give birth to my offspring.” The births are labeled as a bright red, and there is a drawing of a dragon facing to the right at the end of the sentence.

Wood trumps Earth; Earth trumps Water; Water trumps Fire; Fire trumps Metal; and Metal trumps Wood.

There is a pattern of a circle with a five-point star in it. An element is written at each point.

Fire element presides over propriety, making you impatient but respectful. It tastes bitter and looks red.

Wood births Fire; Fire births Earth; Earth births Metal; Metal births Water; and Water births Wood.

So the key to this one is noticing that there are 2 patterns going on.

First, is the five pointed star with the elements. For the pillars, each element can only be used once, and certain elements trump each other.

Second, the five pointed star is enclosed in a circle meaning that there’s another reaction going on. Based on the puzzle context, the circle connects the elements and shows that the circle shows who gives birth to who.

Furthermore, it’s also important to know that there is a drawing of a dragon facing to the right after examining the wave puzzle. It shows the order that the elements need to be selected.

From there, it’s easy to make the diagram listed in the puzzle. A completed diagram should look similar to the one on the Wuxing Wikipedia page.

With Rosa, if you move to the right room from the water pillar, if you fill out the star based on the patterns given, the next element that is located clockwise to water is wood. This makes the pillar in that room wood.

However, before Rosa can move to the left room, Marius has to also fill out his pillar. Clockwise to water, the next element is Fire.

Marius continues and does the element clockwise to Fire, which is Earth for his left pillar.

Rosa’s last left side pillar is the element clockwise to Earth, which is Metal.

In short, the elements go clockwise, while Marius and Rosa’s pillars have to be done counter clockwise, starting with Rosa.

Answers:

(with Rosa) Right Room with Dragon Pattern: Wood

Reasoning: Wood is birthed from water according to the puzzle.

(with Rosa) Right Room Tea Cup: Water

Reasoning: The tea cups shows that Earth beat/trumped an element. The element that beats Earth is Water.

(with Rosa) Left Room with Pillar: Metal

Reasoning: The element is located clockwise after Fire.

(with Rosa) Left Room Tea Cup: Water

Reasoning: The tea cups shows that Water was birthed from an element. The element that Water came from is from Metal.

(with Marius) Right Pillar: Fire

Reasoning: The element located clockwise to Wood is Fire.

(with Marius) Left Room with Pillar: Earth

Reasoning: The element located clockwise to Fire is Earth.

A dialogue Easter egg can be obtained by examining the painting on Rosa’s side with Marius on the other.

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Tianxing (Recommended character: Vyn)

Vyn’s puzzle is based on Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.

Puzzle: Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches (December, June, September, April)

This puzzle comes in 3 separate parts that have to be fully figured out before starting the process to get the answer.

So the first step to figure out is the Months.

In talking with Vyn by examining the Guqin, it is revealed that different flowers represent different months. The Wintersweet flowers are for December, Apricot flowers are for February, Peach flowers are for March, Lotus flowers represent June, Chrysanthemum’s represent September, and Roses represent April.

Right below the Guqin, there are 4 flower patterns on each of the cups: Wintersweet, Lotus, Chrysanthemum, and Rose, respectively.

The Wintersweet is for December, the Lotus is for June, the Chrysanthemum is for September, and Rose is for April.

This shows the code’s order.

The second step that is needed is to figure out the Earthly Branches.

By having Vyn examine the scroll painting on the desk, there are 3 distinct images. A crescent moon, a cloud, and a pile of dirt. The crescent moon has the number one written by it, the cloud has number two written by it, and the pile of dirt has number three written by it.

This clue makes more sense once Rosa examines the scroll on her side. The scroll shows that it has the drawings of a crescent moon and a pile of dirt on it. It also reveals that each month has a specific word associated with it. Rosa makes the comment that there are 12 Earthly Branches that correspond to the months.

So each month, has one specific Earthly Branch word associated with it.

The last step is to figure out the Heavenly Stems.

By having Vyn examine the table, it is revealed what the Heavenly Stems are. The Heavenly Stems are ten numbers, and they can correspond with the Earthly Branches.

But in order to get the Heavenly Stems, you have to figure out what they are first from the Earthly Branches. By having Vyn examine the bookshelves, each animal is matched with a specific Earthly Branch and he makes the comment that the way this information is presented combines the Chinese Zodiac with the Earthly Branches.

Lastly, examining the teacups with Rosa reveals that the Chinese Zodiac animals can be matched with a Heavenly Stem. This is important because in order to get the right numbers, you need to make sure you have the correct month, the correct Earthly Branch, the correct Chinese Zodiac Animal, and then finally, the correct Heavenly Stem.

So starting from the first month that was listed: December.

December has to be matched with its correct Earthly Branch, Chou. From there, we need to figure out which Chinese Zodiac animal Chou corresponds to, and it’s an Ox. Underneath the Ox teacup, it corresponds to the Heavenly Stem Xin. Based on the order of the Heavenly Stems, Xin is eighth. So, in the puzzle, December = 8.

The same has to be done to get the correct Heavenly Stems for June, September, and April.

Final Puzzle: 8472 (December, June, September, April)

A dialogue Easter egg can be obtained by examining the White Scale on Rosa’s side with Vyn on the other.

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To unlock the challenge room for the Ink Study section, Yiban, you need to get the collectibles from the Way of Adversity and Way of Truth rooms in the Labyrinth Pavilion area.

To see the answer to the Yiban room, as well as my rationale and thoughts on the puzzle presented in the final challenge, I’ve linked it here. I wanted to make Yiban a standalone post, since it occurs only after unlocking quite a bit of the other areas.

#Tears of Themis #My Analysis #ToT: Blizzardous Threads of Red Event

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