AETHERFOLD II
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Elowen looks out across a stone abbey path and a mountain valley.

A four-dimensional adventure by Oana Rinaldi

Aetherfold II

The Inkbound Realms

Walk through eight dreamlike realms. Find the paths hidden in a fourth direction.

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08Realms to explore

136Chambers to restore

04Spatial dimensions

01 / The Celestial Stair

A staircase between worlds.

Follow Elowen through a marble arch in the Astral Concord. Move in the fourth direction and a staircase comes into view.

Actual gameplay · Chamber 127Full walkthrough ↗

01 / W = 0

Approach the arch.

At the arrival depth, the path ends at the arch. The upper landing is visible, but the stairs are outside this slice.

02 / Move along W

Find the staircase.

Hold C to travel along W. At W +3, the staircase enters the part of the chamber you can see and walk through.

03 / W = +3

Walk to the upper mark.

Climb the stairs while they share your slice. The fourth direction gives you a way to reach the upper landing.

Try a 4D slice yourself

02 / The world

Eight realms.
Eight ways to see.

From the Vernal Abbey to the Astral Concord, each realm has its own keepers, weather and architecture. Elowen’s clothes and gear change with the journey.

Field photographs from the game

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03 / The screening room

Walk a chamber before you play.

Short gameplay scenes play as you scroll. Open a film to follow the full rite with captions and controls.

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04 / The 4D field notes

What is a fourth direction?

01

See a slice

Drag a slider along W and see a passage enter the visible world.

 02

Turn in 4D

Rotate a tesseract in XW and ZW. See what each plane changes.

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Try it in the game

Follow three filmed puzzles and learn when to move, turn and interact.

05 / The score

Listen to the realms.

Hear the winter score, the tide, the foundries, the luminous roots and the night sky.

The Celestial Stair in the Astral Concord

29-second excerpts from the Aetherfold II score.

Fantasy portrait of Oana Rinaldi in an indigo and plum gown beneath a carved mountain abbey arch.
Oana Rinaldi · A fantasy portrait for The Inkbound Realms

06 / Meet the creator

Drawing the unseen.

Oana Rinaldi brings painting, architecture and computer science together in Aetherfold. In The Inkbound Realms, each courtyard, staircase and arch is part of a place that extends in a direction we can only see one slice at a time.

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07 / Two editions by Oana Rinaldi

Choose your journey.

Gameplay

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