Riven Walkthrough
Temple Island: The Gate Room
Temple Island: The Temple
Jungle Island: Of Sunners and Submarines
Jungle Island: The Submarine Circuit
Jungle Island: Gateway to Moiety
Crater Island: Of Books and Frogs
Plateau Island: Of Mountains and Maps
The Moiety Age: The Rebel Stronghold
Gehn's World: Mystery and Madness
Catherine's Prison: Free the Princess
The End: Or Is It
PLATEAU ISLAND: Of Mountains and Maps
Ride the tram to Plateau Island. When you arrive note the door on the opposite side of the tram from the tram's entrance, but don't do anything about it now. Leave the tram, go out the passageway and climb the steps. Follow the path through some huge monolithic stones. Approach the titanic building and go up the steps into the portal. Pass the huge, stone plateaus that rise on either side from the surface of the pond. Continue through the crevice in the rock face and enter an elevator. Go up and walk forward to the map viewing area. The huge plateaus you saw earlier are in the shape of Riven's 5 Islands. Click on an island, turn around and walk into the Map Room. Press the button and watch a huge 3D dimensional relief map pop up. You can use this to pinpoint the position of each of the Fire Marble Domes on each of the islands. Once you have noted down the relative positions for the fire Marbles, leave the Map room and go to the junction of catwalks, turning right. Investigate the dome in the cleft. Note the highlighted symbol of a circle with a horizontal line. Go back around the catwalk and follow it's curvature counter clockwise. As you walk, observe the wahrk totems rising from the lake and note their colours. Use the kinetoscope to open the dome. Return to the elevator and ride it down to the plateau. Walk along the path, noting the 3 dimensional water mountains still rising above the last island you examined.
Return to the tram. Rotate the tram and get out of it. You are now on the other side. Walk down an orange-lit passageway. Note the handle with yellow stipes on the left just before the hexagonal shaped pool. Throw the lever to raise a golden elevator cage. Go inside. Turn around and push the button to close the elevator and descend beneath the surface of the water. Emerge from the elevator and follow the passageway through the caverns and tunnels. Go to the main passage and turn left. Follow it through a portal and up a long flight of stairs to enter Gehn's underwater Survey Room. Sit in the throne. Push the bottom on the control panel to the right to rotate and elevate the throne. Lower the right-hand lever in front of you to bring down the Colour Wheel. Look down at the wheel. Note the symbols some of which are the same as the symbols you've been noting on each of the fire marble Domes. Click on either the symbols or the tabs with finger holes to rotate the wheel. Click on the bottom position to turn on an underwater light. Go through all of the symbols to connect a specific symbol with a colour. The lights are located on the underwater portions of the wahrk totems you noticed earlier. One light, the one symbolised by a circle with a vertically aligned slit pupil is red. When you click on red, your view shifts up. The red light is visible through the glass of the Viewing Chamber. Wait a few moments to see and hear a live wahrk. Apparently he's trained to get food when the light is on. Raise the colour wheel. Pull the lever to lower the left hand viewer. This one has only two buttons and six tabs with finger holes. Press the button on the left to see a spy camera view of Catherine in her prison. When this view is active, the finger hole tabs do nothing. Press the rightmost button to get a camera's view from Village Lake on Jungle Island. Use the tabs to rotate the view. Note one view that looks like the silhouette of a fish created by a rock cavern and its reflection in the water, which gives the shape of a triangular-shaped configuration. Note a white speck at the pointed end and surmise that the white speck is the silhouette's wooden Eye. Leave the throne and go down the stairs to the tram car room and take the Tram ride back to Jungle Island.
