The Artifact 1a Room - Defiance - Legacy of Kain: The Lost Worlds

The Artifact 1a Room

Artifact 1a is a debugging room similar in purpose to The Push and Test Rooms from Soul Reaver. It contains every artifact used in Defiance as a puzzle/quest item (including one that was cut from the game), as well as the three chalices from Adventure for the Atari 2600 which were used as placeholder test items while the game was in development (allegedly the corresponding dragons were also used as monsters).

Selecting the unused item in the inventory screen causes the game to crash. Its object name ("vd_key_cd") implies that it would have been used in Vorador's Mansion, as "vd_key_a" and "vd_key_b" are the two pieces of his crest used in another puzzle. However, it may also have been one design for Raziel's deleted Shield item (see A Shield for Raziel).

All of the Reaver upgrades are also present in this room, although picking them up puts them in their inventory instead of giving them the ability to select them as a weapon.

A savegame which can be used to explore this room is present at the end of this article. It is also possible to warp to the room using The Debug Menu. However, any items which have been collected legitimately in the game at that time will not be present in Artifact 1a if this method is used.