Hub 1: Guardian of Fire

Guardian of fire is the fourth map in HeXen. It is considered somewhat easy and shorter than other maps. the level uses some very interesting scripting at times.

Walkthrough
Again, working on it so please be patient...

This map has a lot of damaging floors and some particularly deadly pitfalls. Beating it requires vigilance.

First visit

Walk into the first room. Be ready for the scripted event (some efreeti and lava appear... as it often happens in this quite fiery level). When it’s over, go to the room to your right. There you have stairs running on both sides of a small lava pool. There is a switch in the middle of one of those stairs. Pull it, along with the two in the Guardian of Steel, they open a new gate in the Seven Portals. In the room with the lava pillar, there is a wall with a mask on it (the first one to your left). Open it, it will reveal a bridge. Stepping on it makes it crumble so run as fast as possible. The door at the end of it will close, however, so you will have to jump on the small ledge that’s on a wall on one side of the room and walk along it carefully until you reach a niche that leads back to the room you came from. There is also a switch in that niche, opening the door that closed on the end of the bridge. Pull it, walk back along the ledge, jump back on the bridge and get the Fire mask. That’s pretty much all you can do for now so just go back to the Seven Portals now.

Second visit

secrets and tricks
- instead of raving the long set of jumping across pillars to get the fire mask, there is a secret door in the Lava fountain room that leads to an alcove that connects to a small ledge, run across the ledge (note, in some source ports this doesn't work)