Altar Puzzle - Sorran
The altar stood at the heart of the Sunken Temple, its obsidian surface veined with silver light that pulsed like a slow heartbeat. Sorran knelt before it, the damp chill of the stone floor seeping through his robes. Behind him, the temple’s entrance had sealed with a grinding crash—no exit now but the puzzle before him.
Sorran studied the rings. The outer ring depicted jagged mountains; the middle, swirling clouds; the inner, rolling waves. Small empty slots lined each ring—three per ring, nine in total. Scattered across the altar’s base were nine small vials: three filled with dark red soil (blood of the earth), three with shimmering air caught in glass (breath of the sky), and three with condensed droplets (tears of the sea). sorran altar puzzle
For an hour he experimented, his fingers trembling with cold and focus. He noted that adding a soil vial rotated the outer ring clockwise by 120 degrees, the middle ring counterclockwise by 60, and the inner ring not at all. Air vials rotated middle clockwise 120, inner counterclockwise 60, outer none. Sea vials rotated inner clockwise 120, outer counterclockwise 60, middle none. The altar stood at the heart of the