Potions: A Curious Tale – Walkthrough

The Temple of Time is your second major dungeon in Potions: A Curious Tale. It consists of three parts:

Journey to the West

This mission begins after you complete The True True and return to Granny’s house. When you exit the house you’ll see Prince Charming harassing a visitor.

The visitor is Sun Wukong and he needs your help to find his master Tang Sanzang. Return to Granny’s house to continue the discussion.

Granny will instruct you to meet Sun Wukong at the Fairy Forest.

Sun Wukong had mentioned picking peaches, so you’ll want to fast travel to the Great Peach Tree area of the Fairy Forest.

Helios will mention there is a nearby spirit you can follow. Follow the spirit around towards the southeastern part of the map.

Eventually you’ll reach Tang Sanzang, who is stuck in a fairy circle.

Helios and Luna will discuss, and you’ll receive a hint about blowing Tang Sanzang out of the circle. Equip a wind potion and throw it at Tang Sanzang.

The group will discuss and request that you find their horse in the swamp. You’ll now have a new area – Swamp – unlocked in your world map.

Head to the swamp and wander north until you see a horse.

Helios will warn you about kelpies and hint that the fake horse will “slip up”. The fake ones will say they are “one of the four companions of Tang Sanzang and I protect him on his journey.”

The real horse is to the northeast after passing under a vine gate. The giveaway is that it will say it’s “one of the for companions and we protect him on his journey.”

Return to Granny’s house to complete the mission. Tang Sanzang will instruct you to head towards the Temple of Time. You will also receive the Fire Spear potion.

Well, It’s About Time

Fast travel to the Temple of Time, which is the last area of the Tundra. If you haven’t unlocked the fast travel then you will need to travel from the Great Willow Tree east through the Ice Fields until you reach the Temple of Time area. The temple itself is east of the entrance to the area.

You will need to solve another dice puzzle. The solution is Right, Middle, Left, Right. (Or you could do Right, Middle, Right, Left).

Enter the temple and melt the ice block to proceed north.

You can explore the ice puzzles on the east path to find treasure chests with good materials. You can’t progress to the rest of the temple from here, so backtrack to the central area.

The west path has a moveable block on ice. Clear the path with a fire potion, then travel on the ice path to push the block north. You may have to go back and forth a few times to move the ice block out of the way entirely.

In the next section is another ice maze puzzle. You can solve it by going north, east, south, west, then north.

In the next section stay north and circle around to a moveable block. Push it south in a way that it traps the Icehog. Return to the western side and use the ice to slide over and down.

Head east to fight a giant silver golem. I defeat it using 3 Fire Spear potions.

Heal up before continuing south to the Siren of Time boss battle.

Siren of Time (Boss Battle)

The Siren will take all your potions for the fight, so you’ll have to rely entirely on the environment. It has three types of attacks:

An all-area attack that damages everywhere the purple light touches – Hide behind the pillars to avoid the attack
A gravity attack indicated by music notes that pulls you towards it – Use your broom to fly away from the center
A claw attack where a claw spawns around the edge of the map and swipes towards you – Dodge before it swipes

Stand near the chains in between attacks to bait the claw attacks to swipe at the chain. After two hits on each chain the chandelier will fall and defeat the Siren of Time.

Reclaim your potions and then head north to read the book.

In realms of sand and sea and stone,
Once stood a mighty, ancient throne,
They harnessed night to serve the day,
In shadows’ grasp, their glory lay.

A powerful force, in chains they cast,
In the fairy’s forest, a spell to last.
Listen well, in these halls of stone,
Beware the darkness overthrown.

Power pulsing, the night confined,
Their empire shone, in daylight blind,
Yet beneath the luster, a truth unkind,
In seeking light, darkness they find.

Balance broken, a scale unweighed,
In blindness’ pride, the light betrayed,
Their might, their glory, the tale has shown,
To the abyss, their realm was throne.
Temple of Time – Potions: A Curious Tale