Alfheim Lore - God of War Ragnarok Guide - IGN (2024)

Lore in God of War: Ragnarok encompasses the various world-building texts you can find in the game world, including Rune Reads, Scrolls, Lore Markers and Treasure Maps, which flesh out the peoples and places you visit throughout the story. This page of IGN’s God of War Ragnarok guide details all the Lore locations in Alfheim, the third realm of the game.

The sections on this page are ordered by when you can visit them earliest in the game.

Use the table below to jump to a specific entry:

The Strond - Lore 1 - Broken History

• Type: Rune Read

Visible directly ahead of you when entering The Strond’s Mystic Gateway, at the base of a large Dark Elf Statue.

The Strond - Lore 2 - The Living Desert

• Type: Lore Marker

This Lore can be found in the early parts of The Strond. From the Mystic Gateway, progress through the level until you get to a campfire outside.

Look down over the cliff here to spot the Lore Marker below: drop down and read it!

Temple of Light - Lore 1 - The Bifrost Bridge

• Type: Scroll

This Artifact can be found in a side-area just after Tyr jumps across some hanging panels to give you a way to cross a gap. Once you’re across, head right into a room with a Hacksilver Chest and a curved staircase.

Partway up this staircase will be a flat area, with a ledge on the left that you can drop down.

At the bottom, turn right to find a fork guarded by four Wretches: head left and down the stairs to find the Scroll at the bottom, in the back-right corner.

Temple of Light - Lore 2 - Limitless

• Type: Rune Read

This Lore is in the main Light of Alfheim chamber with the elevator. This is where you have to use Sonic Arrows to dislodge some Twilight Stone that Tyr rotates into position for you. In this room, there’s actually a second chunk of Soundstone that you can shoot: it’s to the right of the stairs to the elevator, on the side of a giant statue.

When you shoot it, a large hanging pendant will lay slack. It has a grapple point on it, which you can use to cross a gap to a circular platform.

Once you land on it, look to your right to find the Runes on the face of a rock!

The Canyons - Lore 1 - Vulture’s Gold

• Type: Treasure Map

The first Treasure Map of Alfheim, and indeed the game, is found after you complete the Groa’s Secret quest and a way is opened up to the Alfheim desert. Head through the door to the right of the Mystic Gateway and head forward to the collection of dead Dark Elves: the Treasure Map will be among them.

This Treasure Map’s picture depicts The Barrens’ Buried Treasure.

The Canyons - Lore 2 - U-natur-liker

• Type: Lore Marker

This Lore Marker is found in the area after you climb up the cliff, where Sindri’s shop and the Gulon sled can be accessed. It’ll be just to the left of Sindri’s shop, close to where the Gulon sled can be boarded.

The Below - Lore 1 - Patience

• Type: Rune Read

This Rune Read is found early in The Below, the canyonous area you can access via a cave in the South of The Barrens for the Secret of the Sands Favor.

At a certain point you’ll fight some Dark Elves in an enclosed area with lots of Twilight Crystal, and Dark Elf Nest Vines on the right. After defeating the Dark Elves, check the North wall for some handholds you can use to climb up.

Make a U-Turn to the right and you’ll find the angle you need to throw the Axe and cut all three Nest Vines, removing the flesh blocking the way down.

Kick the plate off the ledge, then drop down both ledges to the bottom, where a wooden Coffin is. The Rune Read will be down here on the right-hand wall.

The Barrens - Lore 1 - Lost Page 1

• Type: Lost Page
• Unlocks: Hilt of Angrvadall

This Lost Page Lore is found at the Elf building in the North of the Barrens, and just East of the large Elf gate. The building will be occupied by two Dark Elves and a Dark Elf Lord.

Once they’re defeated, check outside the South-West area of the building: the Lore Scroll will be there, next to a Legendary Chest.

This Lore is tied to The Lost Pages Labor, and unlocks the Hilt of Angrvadall at the workshop. This Relic allows Kratos to slash three waves of light, which deals increased damage against enemies afflicted with Sonic.

The Barrens - Lore 2 - The Tower’s Purpose

• Type: Lore Marker

This piece of Lore is found at the Elf building in the North of the Barrens, and just East of the large Elf gate. The building will be occupied by two Dark Elves and a Dark Elf Lord.

Once they’re defeated, check outside the North-East area of the building: the Lore Marker will be there, next to an Artifact.

The Barrens - Lore 3 - The Desert of Our Ignorance

• Type: Lore Marker

This Lore Marker is found in the giant skeleton in the North-East area of The Barrens. Enter the mouth and then look for a wall you can leap up to, leading you through the skeleton’s mouth.

Inside is a battle area, where you’ll fight many Grims, Cursed Grims, and Wretches. Once they’re all down, look for the Lore Marker in the East part of the room, close to the rock wall you can climb up.

The Barrens - Lore 4 - Gulon Cull

• Prerequisite: Complete the Secret of the Sands Favor
• Type: Lore Marker

The final Lore in The Barrens is in the South-West area of the desert, but it cannot be accessed until you complete the Secret of the Sands Favor.

When you have, look for an arena formed by a ring of statue-like structures, with a single gravestone in the middle.

The Lore Marker will be here, close to the wall that goes around the South-East part of the arena.

The Burrows - Lore 1 - Sacrifice

• Type: Rune Read

This piece of Lore is found in The Burrows, the underground area you explore in The Forbidden Sands to clear up the storm.

At a certain point while exploring, you’ll destroy a Wretch Nest in a hallway, then leap up into a multi-leveled room shaped like a square, where you fight your first Grims of the area, as well as two Light Elves. From the entrance to this area, face North, then drop down the ledge on your left. The Runes will be on the wall directly ahead.

The Forbidden Sands - Lore 1 - Bjarg Stormr

• Prerequisite: Complete the Song of the Sands Favor
• Type: Lore Marker

This Lore is found just West of the dome where you free the Hafgufa: look for a long wooden fence with a ledge behind it. However, you cannot get there until you complete the Song of the Sands Favor to clear up the sand storm.

Once the storm is cleared, slip through the fence on the right-hand side, then leap up the ledge. You’ll arrive in a clearing full of Dark Elf corpses. The Lore Marker will be over on the left-hand side of the clearing.

The Forbidden Sands - Lore 2 - The Enlightened One

• Prerequisite: Complete the Song of the Sands Favor
• Type: Lore Marker

This Lore Marker is found in the North-West area of The Forbidden Sands, and requires completing the Freyr’s Gift Favor. Additionally, you cannot even get there until you clear the sandstorm by completing the Song of the Sands Favor.

Once the storm is cleared away, head down the light bridge, then go right and up the ramp to a Light Crystal Socket. From here, look down to spot some Nest Vines: cut them with the Axe to reveal a Nest Wall below.

Head back down to prepare for the next step. You’ll need to hit the Nest Wall with a Sonic Arrow, then throw your Axe through the Nest Vines on the other side, dropping the Light Crystal.

From the spot where you cut the Nest Vines, head right and look for some pots: smash them to also smash the rocks behind, revealing the path to the Light Crystal you just got.

Pick up the Light Crystal and carry it all the way back to the top of the ramp, then slot it into the Socket. Halfway there!

For the next Socket, head under the light bridge on the left and remove its Light Crystal. This reveals some Twilight Stone that you can use to bounce your Axe off of and cut through the Nest Matter on the other side. Once you’re done, return the Light Crystal to its socket.

Now head back to the pots you smashed earlier and take a right: you’ll find a third Light Crystal here powering the entry light bridge.

Now all you have to do is run up the smaller light bridge and slot the crystal into the Socket.

This will power up the Lore Marker in the central area, allowing you to read it!

The Forbidden Sands - Lore 3 - Rules of the Sanctum

• Type: Lore Marker

This Lore Marker is in the Light Elf ruins in the North-East corner of The Forbidden Sands, where The Elven Sanctum Favor takes place.

It’ll be in the library room that you first arrive in, at the base of the dead tree.

The Forbidden Sands - Lore 4 - An Examination of Temporal Significance

• Type: Scroll

This Lore Marker is in the Light Elf ruins in the North-East corner of The Forbidden Sands, where The Elven Sanctum Favor takes place.

It’ll be in the library room, on a table to the left of the Lore Marker.

The Forbidden Sands - Lore 5 - Lost Page 2

• Type: Lost Page
• Unlocks: Hilt of Dainsleif

This Lost Page is in the Light Elf ruins in the North-East corner of The Forbidden Sands, where The Elven Sanctum Favor takes place.

It’ll be in the main library room, on a table in the back of the room to the left of the dead tree. It’ll be hiding behind a pile of scrolls.

The Lost Page unlocks the Hilt of Dainsleif at Brok and Sindri’s workshops. This has Kratos slam the ground with an explosion of poison, leaving a hazard behind not unlike those made by Cursed Grims.

The Forbidden Sands - Lore 6 - The Arbiters of Knowledge

• Type: Lore Marker

This Lore Marker is in the Light Elf ruins in the North-East corner of The Forbidden Sands, where The Elven Sanctum Favor takes place.

It’ll be in the main library room that you first arrive in: when you enter, turn around to face the entryway, then climb up the left-hand ledge. The Lore Marker will be on your right here.

The Forbidden Sands - Lore 7 - Forgotten Tower

• Type: Treasure Map

This scroll is in the Light Elf ruins in the North-East corner of The Forbidden Sands, where The Elven Sanctum Favor takes place.

It’ll be in the main library room that you first arrive in: turn around to face the entryway, then climb up one of the side ledges and make your way to the back. It’ll be on a shelf to the right of the Legendary Chest.