How to use this guide
In the following, all 12 areas of the game (and, of course, all collectibles found therein) are listed alphabetically. First, the map of the respective area is shown with differently colored numbers on them. Each color represents a different type of collectible (turquoise: what the game calls 💎 on the map = mostly chests, yellow = sand jars, white = Xerxes coin, orange = lore items). Open the map in a new tab to see it in full size.
Underneath the map is a list which provides more detail for each number; for example, a turquoise number "7" on the map corresponds to the seventh entry of the "Turquoise: 💎" list right below the image, and said list entry also details what item this number corresponds to. In addition, each entry has a screenshot linked with it (accessible by clicking on the list entry) which depicts the precise in-game location of the item. Note that sometimes there's additional info after a list entry in case the item can only be approached from one side, if the corresponding chest is a mimic, etc.
If you spot a mistake or found something to be unclear please let me know; either in the Prince of Persia speedrun discord or message me directly here on speedrun.com or over on Discord (my username there is also just "toca").
Hidden Village
Turquoise: 💎
Yellow: Sand jars
Orange: 📜 (Lore items)
Hyrcanian Forest
Turquoise: 💎
- Amulet (Wolf Bride)
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Soma Tree Petal. Appears after cutting all the grass
- Chest: Outfit (Rosy)
White: Xerxes
Yellow: Sand jars
Orange: 📜 (Lore items)
Lower City
Turquoise: 💎
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Soma Tree Petal
- Amulet (Arslân's Glory)
- Azure Damascus Ingot
- Chest: Amulet Holder
- Chest: Amulet (Zurvan's Voice). Appears after solving the puzzle (shoot an arrow upwards while standing on the platform)
- Soma Tree Flower
- Chest: Amulet (Rukhsana's Gift)
- Chest: Raw Ore. For Ancient Power Unearthed side quest
- Chest: Amulet (Gleaming Lion). Needs lost key from the scrapper's shop
- Soma Tree Petal
- Soma Tree Petal
- Chest: Memory Shards
- Azure Damascus Ingot
- Chest: Outfit (Lilac). Needs lost key from the scrapper's shop
- Chest: Amulet (Frost Charm)
- Amulet (Holy Fire)
- Amulet Holder
- Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Azure Damascus Ingot
- Soma Tree Petal
- Chest: Outfit (Radiant)
- Azure Damascus Ingot
- Soma Tree Flower
- Soma Tree Petal. After completing the Lost Warriors quest
White: Xerxes
- Xerxes 1
- Xerxes 2
- Xerxes 3
- Xerxes 4. Only appears after beating Ardashir & completing the Lost Warriors quest
Yellow: Sand jars
Orange: 📜 (Lore items)
- The hunter and the man-eater
- Missive 1
- Artisan tools. carpet weavers
- The lion and the viper
- The path of the hero. After completing all of Artaban's tutorials
Old Royal Road
Turquoise: 💎
White: Xerxes
Orange: 📜 (Lore items)
Pit of Eternal Sands
Turquoise: 💎
- Chest: Soma Tree Flower
- Chest: Amulet Holder
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
- Soma Tree Petal
- Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot. First go to the top left of the room and then go right
- Chest: Soma Tree Petal. Bring stone statue enemy into this room using the dimension claw. For example, teleport to Night Temple---in the bottom left of the room there should be such an enemy
White: Xerxes
Yellow: Sand jars
Orange: 📜 (Lore items)
Raging Sea
Turquoise: 💎
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
- Soma Tree Petal
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Soma Tree Petal
Note that chests 4 & 5 are accessible only throught Hidden Village (right of Soma Tree, then fall down into Raging Sea)
White: Xerxes
Yellow: Sand jars
Orange: 📜 (Lore items)
Sacred Archives
Turquoise: 💎
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
- Chest: Amulet Holder
- Chest: Amulet (Will of Rostam)
- Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
- Soma Tree Petal
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Amulet Holder. Replicate the pattern from the jailer fight room
- Soma Tree Petal
- Chest: Soma Tree Petal. Duck down on the empty spot
- Chest: Time Crystals
White: Xerxes
Yellow: Sand jars
Orange: 📜 (Lore items)
- Broken chains
- Crudely carved statue
- Note pinned to a rock shaped like an eye
- Last day at work
- Alchemist diary entry 1
- Missive 3
- Missive 4
- Missive 2
- The legend of the snake, the bird and the sands. Can only be reached from Upper City; teleport to Hanging Gardens and go downwards
- Alchemist diary entry 3
- Alchemist diary entry 2
Misc
Holy Scholarship Key: From jailer fight
Soma Tree
Turquoise: 💎
- Chest: Amulet (Elusive Water)
- Chest: Amulet Holder
- Azure Damascus Ingot
- Soma Tree Flower
- Chest: Memory Shards
- Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Soma Tree Petal
- Amulet (Turning Wind). Talk to Chamrosh after defeating the Forest Queen
- Chest: Time Crystals
White: Xerxes
Yellow: Sand jars
- Sand jar 1
- Sand jar 2. Has to be reached from below due to a one-way gate
- Sand jar 3
Orange: 📜 (Lore items)
- Botany logs of Cyrus Log 1
- The fall of the Hyrcanian tribe
- The crowning of a divine king
- Cursed object
Sunken Harbor
Turquoise: 💎
- Chest: Memory Shards. Location has to be approached from Hyrcanian Forest (below 2nd Wak-Wak tree from the left)
- Chest: Amulet Holder
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Amulet (White Peacock)
- Chest: Amulet (Verethragna's Wrath)
- Chest: Soma Tree Petal. Mimic!
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Outfit (Coral)
- Soma Tree Petal
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
- Chest: Amulet (Thunder Charm)
- Chest: Amulet (Ard's Fortune). Throw chakram into the top left tic-tac-toe field. Mimic!
White: Xerxes
Yellow: Sand jars
Orange: 📜 (Lore items)
- Proclamation treaty. Cut down the skeleton for the lore item to appear
- Tarnished coin
- Pirate sea shanty
- Rusted hook
The Depths
Turquoise: 💎
- Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
- Chest: Memory Shards
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Amulet (Agony Amulet)
- Chest: Amulet (Shockwave)
- Chest: Time Crystals. Kill the enemies here to open the door
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Amulet (Indomitable Spirit)
- Soma Tree Petal
- Chest: Amulet (Divine Spear)
- Chest: Amulet (Ayyar Amulet)
- Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
White: Xerxes
Yellow: Sand jars
Orange: 📜 (Lore items)
Ahtra
Tower of Silence
Turquoise: 💎
- Chest: Amulet (Blazing Kestrel)
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot. Mimic!
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Soma Tree Petal
- Chest: Time Crystals. Speedrun strat for this one: video
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Soma Tree Flower
- Soma Tree Petal
White: Xerxes
- Xerxes 1
- Xerxes 2. In area behind hidden wall
- Xerxes 3
- Xerxes 4
- Xerxes 5. Has to be approached from the top due to a one-way
Yellow: Sand jars
- Sand jar 1
- Sand jar 2
- Sand jar 3. Speedrun strat for this one: video
Orange: 📜 (Lore items)
- Sacred object
- Memory fragment. Aura of loss
- The commoner and the king
- The frozen tomb
- Statuette of God Vayu
Upper City
Turquoise: 💎
- Chest: Amulet (Four Royal Stars)
- Chest: Time Crystals. Speedrun strat for this one: video
- Chest: Amulet (Void Blade)
- Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
- Soma Tree Petal
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
- Chest: Memory Shards
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Time Crystals
Chest 10 & 11 can be reached once the lost warrior has been defeated
- Soma Tree Petal
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Amulet Holder
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Time Crystals
- Chest: Soma Tree Petal. Mimic!
Chests 15, 16, and 17 have to be approached from the top-right of lower city due to a one-way
- Chest: Some Tree Flower (after completing the Architect side quest)
Order of symbols for Architect puzzle:
White: Xerxes
Yellow: Sand jars
- Sand jar 1
- Sand jar 2. The doors open once the two levers on the far left and far right of the room have been activated
- Sand jar 3
Orange: 📜 (Lore items)
- Architectural drawings
- Gilded bracelet
- Instructions from our master
- Clay tablet
- Astronomical mechanism (after completing the Architect side quest)
- Mathematical formula calculator (after completing the Architect side quest)
- Official scroll: Royal degree (after completing the Architect side quest)
- The architect and the king (after completing the Architect side quest)
Due to some dialogues being unskippable in the game, it has been decided to implement an automatic masher for the enter key on PC.
It is the only tool that will be allowed and no other key can be bound this way.
You can find the tool by clicking [here](
