The Health Icons
These locations are in order by abilities necessary to get them.
No abilities necessary.
1) Human Village-when you first arrive in the town square, head left to the little waterfall. It is up there. To get up there, hop on a light pole in a corner and before you fall off, jump to a ledge. Hop from ledge to ledge to get it. I was told that if you have the climb ability, you can scale the wall that the water is falling down, but my way you get it now instead of much later.
Pass ability necessary for these.
2) Training area-in the room where you were trained to first fight the Sloughs, there is a brick, a spike, and some sunlight in the room. It is in the water behind a gate.
3) Gates-just outside of Raziel's castle courtyard, there is a gate that you cannot get through until you kill two fledgling vampires. At the gate, look left at the movable rock and look right at the high up gate. It is in the gate and you need the rock as a platform to pass through the gate.
4) Human Village-once you get inside at the forked ramp, head behind the water tower to the door. Head for the moat and jump across and twist the knob on the left wall. The moat will drain. Follow the moat to a room, move the blocks and pass through the gate for a fight for your 4th piece.
5) Malchia's moat-at the lake with the pillars in it, fall into the water. There are two tunnels, one goes to a climbable wall, the other to two gates. Behind one gate is your 5th piece.
6) Kain's Lair-when you first exited the training ground its behind the gate on the way to your first encounter with Kain in the Nosgoth castle.
7) Silenced Chapel-by the glass you shattered near the first bell, there is a crank. When you pull it, the door opens by the second bell. Once you enter the door, head left and through the door. Jump over the bell and through another door. Kill the spider vampires. There is a big gem with the 7th piece in it. To open it, pass through the gate and solve the puzzle inside.
Climb ability necessary for these.
8) Stonehenge-right during the training area where you first get out of the spiritual realm, you are in a stonehenge looking room. There is a climbable wall. Go up it and get your piece.
9) Malchia's moat-when you are jumping from pillar to pillar to keep out of the water, look left. There is a climbable wall you can leap to. Go for it for your 9th piece.
Force ability needed for this one.
10) Stone Glyph area-at the Malchia's moat, go down the tunnel with the climbable wall. Go up and through the skull like you should have already done. Jump out of the cathedral and to the flame like before. From here if you look out across the chasm, you can see the 10th piece, and maybe you have tried to climb or jump to it before. Now run down almost to the entrance to the Stone Glyph temple and look over to the brick that has always blocked you path to get up there. Use your force power to push it back into an unseen hole in the wall behind it. Now you can go back up to the fire and jump across. You can land below it along the wall where the warp gate is and scale up from there. You can even scale up from the floor below if you miss.
Swim ability needed for these.
11) Human village-this one was tricky. Go to the water glyph area. I bet you were so happy when you got the water glyph that you jumped right back into the water and swam away. Actually you should jump across the water and onto the wall on the other side. Follow it for your 11th piece. While you are in the human village, notice there are TONS of climbable walls. They all lead to Eldrich refills. You can even get all the way up to the top of the water tower if you have a keen eye and can find the scalable wall.
12) Outside Silenced Cathedral-bet you saw this one before too. To get it, swim in the moat to the ledge and climb up the scalable wall to get it.
Constrict needed for these hard to find pieces.
13) Dumah's Castle-you just gained the ability so use it right away. Did you notice the room that had nothing in it except a small statue. Constrict that puppy and open up some of those doors. Just remember you will have to fight some baddies in each room and to constrict in the same direction each time so you don't repeat any rooms.
14) Malchia's Drawbridge-another tricky one. Remember that room near the beginning of the game that had a round building in the middle and a staircase to climb up the side of it. You hit a switch and the drawbridge came crashing down. Well, constrict that little thing in the middle of the room and then throw the switch for each of the drawbridges. You will get your 14th piece as well as one of the elusive Eldrich cubes.
15) Rahab's screw-ah, this was a very sneaky one too. On route to Rahab, there is a green room which looks like it splits four ways with a screw in the middle. If you are like me, you explored the water in the room and saw some movable bricks down there. Then you forgot about them. Well, constrict the screw in the middle of the room and it will pull up a drain. Now jump down and pull out the two movable bricks. One is full of Eldrich refills, the other, your final 15th piece. Yeah.
All Eldrich cubes.
Climb ability needed for this one.
1) Human Village-go to the town square again. Remember the trick above how to jump on to the light posts. Well, do this near the wall that leads to the warp gate or climb the wall under the waterfall. Once up top, look to the center of the town square and you will see a deeper ledge. Jump over and pull the switch. The gate below you just opened. Go in and scale the wall on the left. Jump across and find the room guarded by two humans and there is your first cube. Yeah.
Force ability needed for this one.
2) Silenced Cathedral-in the room of 4 pipes where you seal up the two bellows. Go along the scaffolding you were on and along the wall you will find a scalable part. Go up until you see a stain glass window to the right. Shatter it and go to the other side. Look down right for your second cube. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
Swim ability needed for this one.
3) Rahab's Boat-When you see the boat, jump in the water. Swim all the way to the left, into the tunnel and to your 3rd cube. Yeah.
Constrict needed for this one.
4) Malchia's Drawbridge-dude, read #14 above, ok!
Possession of Soul Reaver needed for the final piece.
5) At Malchia's mote where you jump from pillar to pillar, go across the lake and through the gate on the other side. Inside are three coffins and a couple baddies. Take out the baddies and strike the lower coffin with your Soul Reaver. Jump inside and go down the path. Strike the wall with the crossed swords on it to get your final Eldrich Cube.
Hope you enjoyed this little faq. It was produced entirely by moi with nobody helping me. This game took me about 18 hours to finish and countless hours to go back and find all these goodies. If I helped even one person with this faq, then I have done my duty. Enjoy. By the way, no one copy any bit of this as I hate it when people take the credit for my work. This belongs to jfabisch@alphawire.com and phoenix5@bellatlantic.net and was submitted to http://vgstrategies.about.com only. If there are any errors, contact me and I will correct it asap. Again, don't copy any part of this except in its entirety and giving me full credit. Now go pummel this game into oblivion, soldier! I would like to thank the two people that emailed to me the location of the 5th Eldrich cube. Funny thing is, that was the only area I never went back to. Figures!