Assassin's Creed: Valhalla is one of those types of games where exploration and thinking outside the box is key. The game often doesn't hold your hand when it comes to completing quests and finding clues. You must listen to conversations, read scrolls and clues to find the information you seek! The puzzles that Ivaldi gives you are an example of this!
Assassin's Creed Valhalla Takes Root
Take Root is a quest in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, where Ivaldi gives you a riddle called Potential at It's Peak. You must solve this riddle to collect the root of a mountain, and however, since the quest takes place in Asgard, it becomes possible to do so.
The quest begins with this riddle known as The Peak of Potential:
Cradled in the rock, at the highest height of Asgard, a seed sleeps in the cold grip of Ymir. Warm it up, take it to the water, So that the old bones are reborn.
The clues are quite subtle in the puzzle, but alas, they are there, even if you really have to think outside the box to solve some of them. We will go through it step by step.
At the height of Asgard – this corresponds to the highest peak of Asgard, which luckily for us is a synchronization point. If you haven't unlocked the fast travel waypoint, the highest point may be located in the southwestern part of the southern landmass of Asgard. Head to the sync point, then take a Leap of Faith into the hay below. Then use your Odin Vision and you'll see the seed near the haystack you just jumped into.
However, we need to move on to the next line of the riddle – Warm it up. This is where you need to think outside the box; As for players who haven't used a torch before, you probably never knew that you could equip a torch at any time by holding down the D-pad and then selecting the torch at the very top of that action wheel. Equip the torch, then throw it into the haystack. When the hay burns, it will warm the grass.
Bringing it to the water is the next step to progress. Once the seed has been warmed up, you can now pick it up. If you take it all the way to the edge, you'll notice there's a body of water below. Hold L2/left trigger to aim the seed, so it lands in the water, then R2/right trigger to throw the seed.
Follow the seed to the water and you will see that the seed has grown at the root of the mountain. Pick it up and return to Ivaldi to complete the quest!
There are many quests like this in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, and there are also other quests that prompt the user to choose a choice, such as Where the Stone Falls or Mae the Last Leaf.
