Tower Shard Trial - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Guide - IGN (2025)

This page contains the guide to the seventh part of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and one of the four Trials of Odin - The Tower Shard Trial.

From the tree, turn left and drop down the platform to the metal runestone in left corner close to the entryway. Approach it, and focus on the runestone to get lost in your reflection. When at last you look away, you’ll find yourself somewhere else entirely.

Walkthrough

Video Guide: Tower Shard Trial

In this area, you’ll be at a large ruined tower far away from the tree. At the base, you can see the glow of Dillion’s figure entering. Trying to exit the boardwalk and you’ll find the bridge it out - but there is a way to the right if you lower the other bridge to the rock here. Up top you’ll find a creepy giant mask - but with no other options - look through it.

Doing so will transport you to the tower as it was in the past, during relatively nicer times. This means the place isn’t crumbling, and the bridge that was previously gone has been restored. Head back down and up the stairs to get to the tower. There’s a gate here you can’t open yet - but there is a Lorestone to be read to the right of it.

Further up, the entrance to the tower is blocked by a Rune Door, and you’ll need to find a rune that looks like an F.

Since the other gate past the door is also locked, we may need to go back to the present, but before you do, walk down the other boardwalk and knock the other bridge down back to the mask, and look through this other mask to warp back.

Back in the present, both of the iron gates are now down on either side of the tower. Head over through the one on the right to find the gate to Dillion blocked by roots - but a new mask is here that will send you to the past. Unfortunately, Dillion isn’t in this version of the world, but we can enter the tower anyway. Inside you can find a Lorestone sitting next to a dining table.

As you move to the floor above, look back towards the front door to spot a shaft of light hitting the wall near the crates on the right to form the F you seek.

Before heading back to the Dark World, be sure to leave through the barred door on the right, and unbar the door back to the front area as well. You can also start walking under the bridge to the edge of this place to see your mother’s face in the fog under the bridge and speak with her.

Return to the present, and open the Rune Door with the rune you now have (you can also open it in the past and it will already be opened in the present. Inside the ruined tower, there’s a new Lorestone to find, but the way up is shattered and you’ll need to stand to the side of the doorway to see the stairs properly and focus to rebuild them.

Heading to the second floor, Dillion disappears behind a new Rune Door - this one with three runes: ↑, M, and J. Before we try out the mask in this room, note that stairs lead to a third floor. You can also find a new Lorestone up on the second floor in the present.

Up here, you can push a bridge down to yet another mask up here, and a door at the far end can be unlocked to enter a balcony looking down at the bridge Dillion is on. Here you can align beams and rope on the bridge to form the M rune.

Return to the second floor and use the mask to enter the past.

In the nicer looking second floor, there are signs the ↑ Rune is near. Look to the left of the stairs up to see a broken window, and move left and back until the wooden planks align to form the ↑ Rune.

Now move up to the third floor, where you’ll find the door at the far end to the balcony is still open, but now there’s a walkway here with a Lorestone, as well as a path to the other metal door you can unlock to the balcony.

Sadly, the last door leading to the opposite balcony and the bridge to the mask still cannot be reached. Return to the mask on the third floor by the stairway, and go to the present.

In the present, you can now pass along the balcony through both opened doors to reach the other balcony on the far end, leading to the bridge you can knock down back on the platform with the mask. Warping to the past, you can see the J symbol right in front of you - but it’s backwards. Head out onto the balcony via the path you opened to focus on it from the other side.

Before leaving, grab the last Lorestone out here before heading back down to the second floor and back to the present.

Back in the present, head through the unlocked Rune Door and carefully navigate the narrow plank to reach Dillion, and end the trial.

If you haven't already, there are three other trials to face:

• The Labyrinth Shard Trial, located to the right of the tree.
• The Swamp Shard Trial, located at the top left side of the tree.
• The Blindness Shard Trial, located at the bottom right entrance to the area with the tree.