Heretic + Hexen

Heretic + Hexen

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Heretic: SOFTSR - All Secrets
By blunus
This guide shows how to find secrets in Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders.

Alternatively, you can restore original levels by disabling "Enhanced Levels" setting in the level select. Here's my original guide for this: Heretic - All Secrets
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E1M1: The Docks
#1
In the southeast corner of the starting room, go behind the barrels and press on the brighter wall. You will find a chamber with a Silver Shield.


#2
Immediately after opening the first wooden door, you will see a wall with a demonic face that has a mouthful of skulls. Open it to collect the Gauntlets of the Necromancer and a pair of Wand Crystals.


#3
When you come to the room with the window, check the eastern wall for a panel with an eagle insignia. Pass through it to reach a platform near the docks where you can collect a Tome of Power. Do not drop down to the water, but instead pass the corridor you arrived from and follow another one to find an Ethereal Crossbow. You can also reach these passages via a second eagle insignia wall located in the corridor above the window room.


#4
After pulling the switch that opens the sealed door, backtrack to the window room. You will find that a teleporter has opened that leads to the water outside, where you will find a Bag of Holding.
E1M2: The Dungeons
#1
Past the third wooden door from the central area, there is a wall that looks darker. Open it to access the area behind the fake wall in the next room and collect a Tome of Power.


#2
At the top of the stairs from the fake wall room, you will see a room with black pillars to the west. Make your way around these pillars to find a Torch and a switch. Pulling the switch opens a passage in the yellow key room.

Go through this passage and down the stairs beyond to earn a secret. An ambush will trigger. Continue heading down the stairs and a passage to the central area will open. You will find that the red column in the tower has risen and you can collect the Dragon Claw.


#3
After going through the yellow door, you will see a darker wall to the left of the door that leads to the stairs down. Open it to find a secret chamber containing a Shadowsphere.


#4
When you reach the grey slime area, make a U-turn to the right into a passage that has a darkened wall at the end. Open the wall and pass through to find an area with Timebombs of the Ancients and a Map Scroll.


#5
Inside the above secret, you will see another darkened wall. Open it to find the Gauntlets of the Necromancer and a difficulty-based item.


#6
After collecting the green key, take the route forward. On the stairs, you will see a torch with a flickering light. Open the wall opposite this torch and head in to find a chamber containing the Wings of Wrath.


#7
After collecting the blue key, enter the second ambush chamber with the Bag of Holding and open a wall that's sightly darkened to find a large chamber with items.
E1M3: The Gatehouse
#1
After collecting the yellow key, return to the first pair of doors. The Silver Shield will have lowered.

Pull the switch behind it and head back to the starting area. A secret chamber with a teleporter will have opened.


#2
From the first pair of doors, take a left path to find a "living quarters". One of the beds has a switch in front of a trident symbol wall that you can pull it to open a teleporter near a green key.
Go through it and drop down to reveal a second secret chamber with a teleporter there.


#3
Go through the yellow door and head right. Pull the switch then go to the corridor on the other side, past the green key room. A chamber with the Bag of Holding will have opened.
Pull the switch here and return to the room with the lowering pillars. You will find a new passage opened in the southeast corner. Go through to collect the Tome of Power, then continue south across the water to an island where you will find a stash of ammo. Stepping onto the island grants a secret and triggers an ambush.
E1M4: The Guard Tower
#1
From the starting area, turn left and head towards where the Gauntlets of the Necromancer are. Before you reach them, you will see a wall with an eagle insignia to your left. Press it and it will lower. Drop down into the space that is opened and walk through the teleporter to reach a secret area.
E1M5: The Citadel
#1
Inside the top floor of the northwestern building in the first area, press the wall to the right of the door to open a secret chamber with ammo.


#2
Go to the northeastern tower in the second area and walk on top of the wall bordering the stairs. You will see a building with Timebombs of the Ancients. Dash across the platform and onto this building to collect them as well as a Ring of Invincibility.


#3
There is a niche at ground level in the west side of the building in the second area. Inside you will find a switch.

Pull it and head outside to the north to find a lowered platform. As the platform begins to rise, dash into the niche that contains a Morph Ovum.


#4
Inside the eastern half of the building in the second area, you will find stairs to the basement. Go through the teleport that you find here to reach a secret area. From here, take either teleport to collect the Tomes of Power and a lot of ammo.
E1M6: The Cathedral
#1-2
At the start of the level, turn around and press the left-hand carving of a robed man to reveal a chamber containing the Gauntlets of the Necromancer. (#1)

Enter the second chamber that opens when you get the first secret for another credit. (#2)


#3-5
In the room with many stained glass windows, one of the windows to the north is a fake wall. The sides of it are marked by hanging skulls. Pass through it to collect a Tome of Power. (#3)

To the west of the third secret there is a secret door concealing a Map Scroll. (#4)

In the same room with many stained glass windows, one of the windows to the south is a secret door. The sides of it are also marked by hanging skulls. Pass through to reach an area with Timebombs of the Ancients. (#5)


#6-7
Outside the building in the graveyard area, locate a wall on the west side that is unaligned from the rest. This secret door conceals a Shadowsphere. (#6)

There is also a black demon face door to the northwest of the sixth secret. Open it and pass through the teleporter to collect a Morph Ovum hidden near the starting area. (#7)


#8
Once you get the blue key and drop down, go through the green door again and head to the grey stone corridor to see a new passage in the side wall.

Pass through and head to the south of the area to find a switch. Pull it to open the sealed door nearby and pass through to find the secret exit (leading to E1M9: The Graveyard).
E1M9: The Graveyard
#1
In the chamber containing the yellow key, locate a spinal column wall separate from the others and open it to find a Bag of Holding.


#2
After taking the blue key, go through the passage that opens right in front of you to collect bonuses.
E1M7: The Crypts
#1
Just after passing under the big crusher near the green door, take the left-hand passage and press the wall that appears to be a dead end to open a secret area.


#2-3
In the upper level of the Dragon Claw area, run across the bridge and locate a wall of stone blocks that does not match the others. Open it and go through, then cross the second bridge to a secret area containing a difficulty-based item. (#2)

From the second secret, drop into the southernmost slime pit and follow the stairs up to a Tome of Power. (#3)


#4
After collecting the Dragon Claw, go north through a small passage and hurry up the stairs. Ride the temporarily lowered platform and pass through the teleporter to reach a raised area near the outer green door. If you miss the platform, backtrack until you hear it lower again.

#5
After getting the blue key, go outside and find a new passage opened just to the east of the yellow door. Inside you will find two items and a teleporter to the Dragon Claw platform.


#6
Just before the exit, step up on the brown coffin to open a passage to the south. Head through to reach a chamber containing many bonuses.
E1M8: Hell's Maw
#1-4
There are four hidden chambers in the corners of the pod room, each counting as a secret:

1. In the northwest corner, a Silver Shield;
2. In the northeast corner, a Shadowsphere;
3. In the southwest corner, a Ring of Invincibility;
4. In the southeast corner, a Bag of Holding.
E2M1: The Crater
#1
In the northeast of the weredragon cave, there is a wall that appears lighter. Open it to find a secret chamber containing valuable items.


#2
Before you cross the bridge towards the green door, pull a switch next to a Shadowsphere to open a wall behind you, leading to the weredragon cave. Go through and you will find a secret chamber opened nearby, where you can collect bonuses.

#3
To the right of the green key, a bottom part of the wall looks different. Open it to get a Mystic Urn.


#4
Use the Wings of Wrath to fly into a small alcove at the southeast of the yellow key room, containing a Tome of Power.
E2M2: The Lava Pits
#1
In the room halfway down the stairs in the north-east of the level, the wall section with the bird motif in the northwest corner contains a disciple and the Hellstaff.


#2
In the northeast corner of the room overlooking the lavafalls is a wall section with a blue banner. Open this to find a Tome of Power.


#3
When you press the switch to reveal the exit, it will also raise a wall section in the southeast corner of the same room providing an access to a secret area.

When you head for the south corner of the room, pillars will rise releasing weredragons. Get the Bag of Holding, then open the southmost wall. The teleporter will take you back to the top of the lavafall.


#4
Once you have been on the top of the lavafall, turn around and drop down to reveal a wall in front of you. Get the Shadowsphere there.


#5
Once you have found secret #3, a wall section will open past the lava pool where the Ring of Invincibility was found.

Kill the iron lich, then get the Mystic Urn and the Enchanted Shield.
E2M4: The Ice Grotto
#1
Entering the alcove on the east side of the lava river will open a closet to the north containing fire gargoyles. Enter this closet to find a Crystal Geode and a Tome of Power.


#2
Inside a small weredragon cave at the east side of the southern building walk through a fake wall to the south to find a secret cave with the Bag of Holding.

#3
After getting the blue key, head outside and go to the northeast building to find the now-opened door leading up to a Wings of Wrath.

Take it then return to the blue key location to find an alcove opened nearby. Enter this teleporter to the secret area with the Firemace and its ammo.


Secret exit
Keep the Wings until you enter the eye-shaped area with the iron lich.

Use the Wings to get back to the building where you found the Phoenix Rod; the back walls of southwest and southeast alcoves have opened, leading to dead-end passages with switches that you must press.

Now head to the exit room and you'll see that the left and middle doors have been opened. Take the left, linear path and press a switch at the end to open the second door in the middle path leading to the secret exit (to E2M9: The Glacier).
E2M9: The Glacier
#1
Once you moved down the third flight of stairs in the starting area, a secret wall will lower in the southwestern alcove at the top of the stairs, revealing a disciple that guards a Bag of Holding.


#2
Head for the openings north of the glacier after getting the yellow key. Before taking the teleporter, press a switch then quickly run to the other side to find a floor section lowered temporarily. Go to this passage and through the teleporter to get the Wings of Wrath, the Tome of Power, and the Firemace.

#3-4
Go back to the now-melted glacier and use the Wings to fly to the southwest stained glass windows with a flickering light. Approach it to reveal ammo. (#3)

Also fly to one of the stained glass windows north of the glacier and approach it to reveal more ammo. (#4)


#5
Past the green door, in the large room with a lava pool where you'll find the blue key, approach the northwestern pillar on the western side of the room; press the wall section between the two skull torches to reveal a teleporter.

This will teleport you to a room with a switch that opens the stained glass windows. The spinal column wall to your left leads to a hidden chamber containing the Phoenix Rod.


#6
From the room containing the blue key head down the stairs leading south into a ice room. The wall opposite from the foot of stairs where you enter contains a misaligned section; pressing against it opens up a secret compartment holding a Ring of Invincibility.


#7
At the end of the ice room, there's a rectangle-shaped light on the floor. Approaching it will reveal a secret room containing the Hellstaff.


#8-9
Once you step into the room containing the exit teleporter, the southern wall of the previous room will open and reveal two teleporters. The western one will take you to a secret room overlooking the green key area with the Map Scroll inside it. (#8)
The eastern one leads to a room with a pit separating into two halves. Drop into the pit to land in a small room you could previously see behind a portcullis in front of which you found the blue key. You will find a Mystic Urn and a switch to lower the walls beside you. (#9)
E2M5: The Catacombs
#1
From the ledge behind the yellow key door, drop into the magma below then run to the south-west corner to find an opening in the wall.

Go through and look south-west to get a Ring of Invulnerability, then proceed east to reach a ledge with a Hellstaff plus some runes.

#2
Just before you drop into the water-filled hall on the south side of the map, press a switch on the north wall. It will lower a number of teleporters inside the hall, so enter any of them before they rise again to get to the ledge on the north side of the hall.

You can walk west from here to enter a room with several valuable items.

#3-4
Go through the green key door then head round the corner to see some murals of robed figures on either side of the steps. The center mural on the south wall has a blinking light; open it to find an Inferno Orb. (#3)

From secret #3, continue east to the chamber with the large orange steps then open the mural with the robed figure in the northeast corner to find a teleporter. The teleporter will take you to a Phoenix Rod and an Enchanted Shield. (#4)


#5
From the blue key platform, run northwest to leap into a niche containing two gargoyles and three items.


#6
Return to the start of the level after getting the green key, then head up to the top of the east staircase and follow the water down to the floor below. The silver door here has opened, revealing a staircase guarded by weredragons that leads down to the Tome of Power. Continue east into the neighboring chamber to find several items.
E2M6: The Labyrinth
#1
Go through the northwest door to the labyrinth chamber then step east on to the ice. You will hear a mural open behind you - step through it before it shuts to get Gauntlets of the Necromancer.


#2
Open the mural with the chained man on the east wall of the labyrinth room to find a Morph Ovum and a Silver Shield.


#3
As you walk through the yellow key door you will hear a mural open behind you. Step through it before it shuts to get a Bag of Holding.


#4
As you walk through the green key door you will hear a mural open behind you. Step through it before it shuts to get a Tome of Power.


#5-6
Enter the teleporter next to the blue key to reach the neighboring chamber with weredragons and a Hellstaff. Leave this chamber then return to the green key door and head south - part of the west wall has opened, revealing a cavern with some items. (#5)

In secret #5, walk into the west wall which is slightly brighter than the surrounding walls. The wall will open to reveal disciples guarding a Phoenix Rod. (#6)


#7
As you walk through the blue key door you will hear a mural open behind you. Step through it before it shuts to get a Ring of Invulnerability.
E2M7: The Great Hall
#1
Go to the bottom of the wide staircase near the center of the level, then go back up to the storage room to find that part of the west wall has opened, revealing a passage with sabreclaws and gargoyles. The wooden steps in this passage hold stacks of Mace Spheres and Timebombs of the Ancients.

#2
As you approach the blue key door you will hear two platforms moving behind you. Get on the north platform and let it carry you up to a ledge with a Hellstaff.

If you run off west this ledge you will land on a C-shaped ledge below. Open the mural of the chained man to find a few items.


#3
From secret #2, go back to the platforms by the blue key door and get on the south platform this time. Follow the ledge and go through the wall that opens on your left to enter the square room with the Dragon Claw; entering from this direction will open another wall to the south, behind a Chaos Device. The corridor behind this wall holds some items.


#4
After getting the blue key, return to the previous room and go to the south-west corner to find that a wall has opened revealing a switch. Press the switch to open the north wall, then head down some magma steps to a cavern with weredragons guarding a Phoenix Rod on a small island. From this island, walk east to find an Enchanted Shield and a route back to the start of the level.
E2M8: The Portals of Chaos
#1
On the west side of the map is a brown rock with an Ethereal Crossbow. Take the crossbow then look behind the stone wall in the southwest corner to find that a chamber has opened containing several valuable items.


#2
On the south side of the map is a pit with a Dragon Claw. Take it then go to the east side of the map and look for another stone wall in the northeast corner where a doorway has opened. Go through and run east through some crushers to reach a few items.
E3M1: The Storehouse
#1
Use the Wings of Wrath to get the Ring in the eastern passage. Make sure you are close enough to the top of the pillar to trigger the secret.


#2
Press the wall section between the two braziers to the east in the exit room to get the Hellstaff.
E3M2: The Cesspool
#1
Just before going down the water tunnels after having entered the right yellow door, use the trident banner to open a room with a Bag of Holding and a Silver Shield.


#2
Inside the small vine room at the southwest corner, use the banner to reach one of the two ophidian cages you saw in the start of the level, containing a Phoenix Rod.


#3
In the storage with a lot of items, run towards the Map Scroll and open a skull wall to the second ophidian cage containing a Ring of Invincibility.
E3M3: The Confluence
#1
At the very beginning of the map, use the rocky wall just right of your starting position for a hidden area with two items.


#2
Just opposite you as you enter the yellow door temple, you can see a stone wall with two columns. Press the wall between them to reveal a secret opening containing an Ethereal Crossbow.


#3
When you grab a Quartz Flask in the western corridor unlocked by the green key, a secret area will open right next to the eastern green door below the hangars, containing a Mystic Urn.

#4
From the eastern green door, enter the wooden door nearby and go through another wooden door to the east to reach the small room with two health items. Turn right and open the wall behind a small health item to a hidden room with a Bag of Holding.


#5
Go back to the previous room and this time, walk down the south stairs. You will notice a trident symbol wall on your left. Open it for a Tome of Power and a gargoyle.


#6
In the caged room with the undead warriors and the three switches, press the banner-covered wall between the two switches to open a small room with yet another warrior and the Ethereal Crossbow.


#7
At the western wall of the room with the crusher, open the black demon face door between two yellow banners to reach a secret room with a Tome of Power.


#8
As you go up the third waterfall from the crusher room, notice a wall with a bone-like, different texture from the others. Open it for the Wings of Wrath.


#9
If you follow the eastern corridor to the final room with the exit, you will notice that vine wall is pushed sightly. Use it to open a small room with a Map Scroll and a switch. This switch leads you to secret #1 back.
E3M4: The Azure Fortress
#1
When you step onto the teleporter in the hub chamber, you will return to the starting area. The windows have been lowered to provide a route between the area and the water rooms. Take care of the disciples, then enter the western zone to reach some Crystal Vials and the Wings of Wrath. Enter the eastern zone to get more Crystal Vials and a Tome of Power.


#2
The glass painting in the elongated hall will open when you step onto the bottom of the stairs in the pool. Behind the painting, there is a chamber with a Quartz Flask and a Shadowsphere as well as an ophidian.


#3
As you open the southeastern door of the root-walled cage hall, you will come to a staircase. When you spot two decoration torches, press the wall next to the right torch. You will find a small room that has a Flame Orb and health items.


#4
In the hallway with decorative walls, stop by the pair of green block walls just in front of the wooden door. You can see a symbol on the southern wall. Press it to reveal a room that is connected to the yellow key chamber by a fake window.


#5-7
After picking up the green key, another part of the spiral staircase will become accessible. At the end of the new section, there is a Chaos Device as well as a Hellstaff on its own platform. (#5)
At the platform, there is a four pair of skulls wall. Press it to gain access to a small place that contains several Timebombs and some sabreclaws. (#6)

When you open that said wall, another wall will open in the distance. The wall will reveal more sabreclaws, a few health items and a teleporter. (#7)

Enter the teleporter to reach a new area with an Enchanted Shield. Step onto the other teleporter to discover yet a new room with the Morph Ovum. Press the symbol wall to get back to the southwest corner of the elongated pool hall.

#8
When you have picked up the blue key, you can enter both weredragon hideouts via secret doors. They are located in each wall without a green gemstone on them between the two torches. The southern hideout contain a valuable Bag of Holding.


#9-10
After getting the blue key, northern and southern passages have been opened nearby the Phoenix Rod. The northern one has a skull wall at the end; open it for a switch. (#9)

Press it and return to the place where you got the blue key. A door has opened there. A passage will take you to a hidden exit teleporter (to E3M9: The Aquifer). (#10)
E3M9: The Aquifer
#1
When you have entered the corridor behind the yellow door, proceed until you reach a step with a dark and blinking lighting. The northern wall has a decorative mask on its top. Press the wall to reveal a room with a Chaos Device and a varying amount of Quartz Flasks.


#2
Beyond the right angle, you will find a similar step. Open the western wall to reveal a Ring of Invincibility and a collection of ammo.


#3
In the first room behind the green door, step on any of the pedestals to temporarily make the room with the Dragon Claw accessible.


#4
At the next crossing, you will see a wall with the trident symbol on it. Press the wall to obtain the Gauntlets of the Necromancer.


#5
In the center of the level, use the teleporter with the Wings of Wrath to reach the surrounding water area, along with its goodies and iron liches.

When you are ready to leave, look for a masked alcove in the northeastern wall. It has a door that leads to a room with an Enchanted Shield and a teleporter back to the start of the map.


#6-7
After teleporting to the start you can notice that a door in front of you has opened revealing a secret room with an Inferno Orb and a Mystic Urn. (#6)

As you step onto the elevation with the Mystic Urn, a room with a Silver Shield will open nearby for another secret. (#7)
E3M5: The Ophidian Lair
#1-2
Just before the yellow key is a hall lined with braziers. Press the switch hidden in the southwest column to open the third mural on the south side, revealing sabreclaws guarding a few items. (#1)
Do so for the northwest column to open the second mural on the north side, revealing more sabreclaws guarding a few items. (#2)


#3
Taking the yellow key will open a stained-glass window to the east, revealing disciples guarding a teleporter. The teleporter will send you to the cage northeast of the starting area, which contains many valuable items.

#4
In the stone corridor on the east side of the map, enter the center alcove on the west side to open a wall with a four pair of skulls in front of you. Go up the steps to a ledge with various items.
E3M6: The Halls of Fear
#1
Head back to the starting area after pressing three switches in the gloomy hallway behind the yellow door. A barrier has lowered allowing you to run over a gap to a new zone.

A Phoenix Rod and an Enchanted Shield can be found there. North of the weapon is a passage that can be used to get to a Tome of Power and back to the start. However, a wall will lower in the west while you proceed.

It will reveal a shortcut staircase to the gloomy hallway, but when you enter the familiar area again and face to the east, you will notice that an alcove with a Bag of Holding has become accessible. This place counts as a secret.


#2
When you have the bag, return to the bottom of the aforementioned staircase and go to the Phoenix Rod's location. The doorways around it can now be entered, and you can get a Map Scroll.


#3-4
Another staircase can be accessed near the scroll. Enter the stairs, and when you arrive at the long flat section at the bottom, face to the north and press the wall to lower it as a lift. On the top, there is a room with many items and some nitrogolems. (#3)
Proceed to the eastern end of the staircase and press the back wall to open it. Another door will open behind it revealing ophidians and few items. (#4)


#5
There's a fake wall opposite the switch at the blue door that you can go through to find a room with two ophidians and some items.


#6-7
When you enter the water of the maulotaur yard behind the green door, four wall pillars will open. Two of them are located at the northern staircase on the other side of the green door. These pillars have revealed a chamber with a Shadowsphere. (#6)
The remaining two pillars have given access to another chamber at the southern staircase. The area holds a Tome of Power. (#7)

#8
When you are about to take the blue key, the water level of the maulotaur yard will go down, and a sheltered area will be exposed at the bottom. There are the Wings of Wrath, ammo, and iron liches. Use the wings or the teleporter to return up.
E3M7: The Chasm
#1
Open the horse mural opposite the yellow key door to find ophidians guarding a Tome of Power and a Claw Orb.

Pressing the switch here will lower a teleporter on your right, which leads to a chamber with an energy orb guarded by a sabreclaw. There is another switch behind you that will lower a second teleporter, leading to another chamber with a sabreclaw protecting a dragon claw. Press a third switch behind you to lower another teleporter which leads back to the secret area.

#2
Upon pressing the switch after getting the Firemace, an ambush chamber with a Mystic Urn will open. There's a doorway next to the urn that contains a Bag of Holding.


#3
In the room with four teleporters, enter the northwest teleporter then press the switch on the north wall. When you return to the teleporter room you will see that the southwest teleporter has lowered; this teleporter is fake (it has no teleport glitter), but stepping on it will open the south wall and reveal disciples guarding a Morph Ovum.


#4
From the chamber with the green key, open the misaligned south wall to find ophidians guarding some Timebombs.


#5-6
Next to the blue key is a Wings of Wrath. As soon as you pick it up, activate it then fly west over the sludge pit to a ledge with various ammo pickups. (#5)

From secret #6, fly east over the sludge until you reach another ledge in the southeast corner with more ammo pickups. (#6)


#7-8
Open the sightly-pushed wall next to the brazier at the southwest of the blue door to get the Ring. (#7)

Do so for the one at the southeast of the blue door to get the Enchanted Shield. (#8)


#9
Go back to secret #1 and, using the Wings you got from either secret #5 or #6, fly up high above the switch to claim the Ring and some Timebombs.


#10
Entering the room with the exit switch will reveal two secret alcoves in the previous room containing two health items.
E3M8: D'Sparil's Keep
#1
In the start room, you can notice a wall that is slightly different from the others and that does not scroll. Open it to reveal the room containing some items.


#2-3
When you have flown to the southern ledge in the boss arena, go to the southeast corner of it. Press the wall with a distinctive banner to uncover a room with a Mystic Urn. (#2)
The southwest corner has a similar wall. Press it to reveal a room that holds a Ring of Invincibility. (#3)
E4M1: Catafalque
#1
In the gauntlets room, following the passage behind the second skull walls and returning to the starting room. The bloody side room here contains a Shadowsphere.


#2
In the dark water passage, open a wall between two hanging skulls for a teleporter leading to the elevated ledge.


#3
Past the green door, after hitting the switch, there's the teleporter in the northeastern cubicle that takes you to the upper floor in the next room. This counts as a secret.
E4M3: Ambulatory
#1
In the metallic hall, the section with the fourteenth timebomb is special: instead of becoming darkened, its lighting will start to blink as a signal that there's a secret wall. Enter it to reach a long passage with a room at its end.


#2
After taking the green key and going up the elevator, you will open two secret passages back in the storeroom. The passages lead to a room that, in turn, leads to a staircase. When you go upstairs, you will meet a maulotaur there. The maulotaur's chamber is a cache for a Map Scroll, a Bag of Holding and an Inferno Orb.


#3
The northwestern orthogonal room with the Bag of Holding has a skull on a wall. Press it to reveal more of similar architecture. The uncovered place contains some Mace Spheres and an Energy Orb.


#4
After getting the blue key and returning to the crater, you can see the northeastern orthogonal room has already opened. Open a skull wall here to find a hidden area. Open another skull wall to reveal the secret room with a Ring of Invincibility.


#5
When you go through the south door to get the Phoenix Rod, the southeastern orthogonal room in the crater will open. There's a skull wall on the south that you can press to reveal a secret area with several items.

#6
Each time you open the exit door, a wall in the eastern gray room will open temporarily.

Proceed to the end of the passage. Walk towards the rune door there, and you will end up activating a door after another. Finally, you will open a doorway to the east that contains several items in the secret room.
E4M4: Sepulcher
#1-2
When you press the fourth switch near the sepulcher, a wall will also descend in the eastern nitrogolem room. Enter the narrow corridor beyond the opened wall and you will get behind the windows where the undead warriors could fire at you. (#1)

The mentioned switch has also opened a wall in the opposite nitrogolem room. Collect the Enchanted Shield at the end of the revealed corridor, and you will open a route back to the courtyard. (#2)


#3
In the hall with the ornamental platform, there is a staircase that allows you to reach the structure. The long top step is actually an elevator that can be activated by pressing the switch in its eastern wall. On the bottom of the shaft, there is an underground corridor holding a Phoenix Rod.


#4
The switch in the starting area (available after visiting other rooms at the corners of the area) will lower the high ledge in the center hall giving access to the northern section of the building.

#5-6
There is a fake wall near the iron lich in the secret northern section (see secret #4 above). While it seems that the wall only conceals a room with a Ring of Invincibility, crossing it will also open new areas in the other corridor. (#5)

The western corridor now has an access to two side rooms. One holds the Wings of Wrath while the other contains a Bag of Holding and the entrance to the secret level (E4M9: Mausoleum). (#6)
E4M9: Mausoleum
#1
From the starting area, walk west then press on praying demons on a wall to your left to reveal a secret room with ammo. A switch here allows the Bag of Holding on a pedestal in the middle of a pool to be obtained.


#2
At the east of the yellow key there's a north wall with praying demons on it. Press it to reveal a rectangle room with some items.


#3-4
From the starting area, walk west twice and then south. You will find praying demons on a wall to your left. Press it to reveal the secret room with long stairs. (#3)

Go down the stairs and press a switch there. It will open the northeast wall of this room, so go back and enter the newly-opened wall. Press another switch there and the north door will finally open, leading to the Ring of Invincibility. (#4)

#5-7
The lava lake on the west side of the map has three branches that go to the east, each of which leads to a secret door with undead warriors inside: the further south contains a Shadowsphere. (#5)

The branch of the medium has some Quartz Flasks. (#6)

The northern branch contains ammunition and a Mystic Urn. (#7)


#8
In the eastern room with long stairs, the southeast landing has a blue banner that hides a door to a secret chamber with some items.


#9
After entering to the exit room, and push the switches, go back to the starting area. Go east to the first intersection and then turn south. Enter the door on the right and go to the south corner of the room to find an Enchanted Shield hiding.
E4M5: Great Stair
#1
When you pick up the blue key, you will open many disciple rooms in the north. However, that very same trigger will also open the door near the place you got the Hellstaff. Return there to find a new area.
E4M6: Halls of the Apostate
#1
Go to the exit room, then immediately run out again and head to the chained man lift to the north that has lowered to reveal a passageway. This leads you to the room overlooking the lava bridge area, where you can collect the Phoenix Rod.
E4M7: Ramparts of Perdition
#1
From the starting castle, run off into the lava pit in the northwest direction to where there's a small ledge with a crystal vial. The wall right behind this ledge is pass-through leading you to a secret chamber with a Morph Ovum and a teleporter that takes you to the gibbet.


#2
There's a hidden switch on the back side of one of the gray pillars at the northeast of the gibbet that rises stone steps leading up to a window.

Climb them up and go through the window. A platform with a Mystic Urn will lower temporarily. Get it.


#3
Stepping on the pedestal the yellow key was standing on will reveal two passages inbetween the gold skull wall. Quickly run to either passage before it closes to get a Chaos Device.


#4
In the chapel with stained glass, dash from the bench into the alcove of the D'Sparil window. It opens, and entering grants access to a secret chamber containing a Tome of Power behind you.

#5
In the green key room, step onto the lift, then immediately cross over to the matching lift that lowers when you do so. Ride it up to a secret containing a Ring of Invulnerability. If missed, the access to this secret cannot be re-triggered.


#6
After getting the green key, ambush chambers filled with skulls will open. One of the walls in the north ambush chamber is misaligned; press it to find the Map Scroll. Open a wall behind the scroll to get the Mystic Urn and Inferno Orb.

#7
Do not use the exit switch, instead walk around to find a hidden switch. Press it to reveal a secret area with many Mystic Urns behind you.
E4M8: Shattered Bridge
#1-2
Both secrets are located at west and east elevated side passages where there are barred windows, through a secret door marked with spinal columns.
E5M1: Ochre Cliffs
#1
After you get the green key, or after you enter the room where you found it, quickly jump down into the river to the south. At the east end, you will find that a lift has been lowered, allowing you to drop down into a cave with some items.


Note: Secret #2 is impossible to earn because it was misplaced on low ceiling in secret #1.
E5M2: Rapids
#1
The lava chambers that are revealed as a side area after getting the yellow key. Many items can be found in this area.


#2
Past the yellow door, in the ambush room with the barrels, the north side has a fake wall. Behind it is a Tome of Power and a switch which temporarily lowers a nearby lift.

This lift takes you up to a ledge overlooking the lava chambers, with a Morph Ovum.


#3
A side area off of the rivers beyond the pod room is noticeable by a shadowed overhang. Going here drops a lift leading to an Enchanted Shield.


#4
Across from the switch after the green door, there is a secret door to the left of the hanging skull. A Ring of Invulnerability can be found overlooking the lava chambers.


#5
Near the ledge overlooking the yellow door, there are a couple of secret chambers marked with hanging skulls. One contains a Phoenix Rod, while the opposite contains Wings of Wrath.
E5M3: Quay
#1
When you go to get the Silver Shield, an ambush chamber along the door will open behind you. The ambush chamber counts as a secret.

#2
Open a wall between two braziers, nearby the yellow key, to find a Mystic Urn.


#3-5
In the giant crusher area with the green key, Open a wall to the north of the Tome of Power to reveal a passage (and another passage behind you). Go through and at the end, press a banner on a wall to find a switch. (#3)
The switch opens other wall in the opposite side of the crusher area, so go back and through another passage. You will find another switch inside this secret room. Press it to open a nearby door as well as other two doors somewhere in the map. (#4)
Return to the yellow key location via the nearby teleporter and you will see that door has been opened. Inside is a Tome of Power and some ammo. (#5)

#6-7
Past the north green door, open a spinal column in the southeast corner to get a Map Scroll. (#6)

Still in the same area, open a wall next to Greater Runes to find a Morph Ovum. (#7)


#8
Press the switch just past the south green door to open a wall with a banner behind you temporarily. This secret room contains many Timebombs.


#9
Near the place where you got the Ethereal Crossbow, the door to the south should have opened by the switch in secret #4. Proceed to the throne and step on it to lower a wall leading to E5M9: Skein of D'Sparil.
E5M4: Courtyard
#1
Right behind you, at the start, is a secret door leading to a lift which leads to a small area with a Bag of Holding and a Morph Ovum.


#2
After getting the yellow key, a secret room will open up to the south. It contains ammo and health items.


#3
Behind the yellow bars are a room with stained glass windows. There's also a switch in there; if you push it, the northwest window will change. You can now walk through it to come to a room with four teleporters and a Map Scroll.
E5M5: Hydratyr
#1
A wall lowers when you take the Hellstaff, and entering the area behind it counts as a secret.


#2-3
In the green key room, there's a switch along the side of the area that lowers a section of the outer walkway down to the lava. This reveals a teleport chamber through which you can get behind some of the barred closets on the sides of this area. This also applies to secret #3, at the opposite side.

#4
Atop one of the timebomb lifts past the green door, there's another spinal column wall which opens to a passageway where the Phoenix Rod can be found.


#5
The north one of the six teleporters in the teleport nexus takes you to a balcony over the green key room, which counts as a secret.


Note: There are four extra secrets in secrets #2 and #3, and they, too, all are misplaced. Anyway, they are impossible to earn.
E5M6: Colonnade
#1
In the room with stained glass windows and many banners, press the first switch on the top-middle pillar to lower the floor in front of the third switch temporarily. Quickly enter this teleporter before it closes to the secret area outside the starting area.

#2-3
In the same room press the second switch to open both doors behind fake trident windows nearby the green key. Either go through and you will find two teleporters. Each teleporter takes you to each secret room.

#4-5
Enter the exit chamber to open the secret sector, then backtrack to the silver room, hit the small red-eyed skull wall with any weapon, causing it to open. You can now go straight through and around the bend to get to the lava chamber containing a Mystic Urn. The north side also contains a Ring of Invulnerability for another secret.
E5M7: Foetid Manse
#1
When inside the main wall of the central building, push on the southernmost square fortification, where the texture pattern is broken, to find a Morph Ovum.


#2
After pressing the switch that unlocks the bars leading to the blue key, dash into the cliffs where ammo for the Firemace is found. The weapon itself is a secret.


#3
When you find the blue key, hit the east wall next to the hanging skull to lower a seemingly empty passage. If you walk to the end, the water will drain down leading to a Ring.
3 Comments
blunus  [author] 11 Aug @ 12:23pm 
Updated screenshots, changed paths to old secrets and added new secrets. Only E5M1 and E5M5 have bugged secrets due to being misplaced. This guide is now complete.

Thank you for your understanding.
5M0k1N 9 Aug @ 8:37am 
yup as hokyman said old guides dont always work with the new version
hokyman 8 Aug @ 1:54pm 
Hi there! This is just a reminder that a bunch of these secrets are no longer valid for this newer version of the game. Nightdive changed/added secrets. You'll probably want to update this guide with the changes as you're going to have people wondering why some of the directions for secrets aren't working. E1M3 is a good example of this.