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: 💎

1. Azure Damascus Ingot

Yellow: Sand jars

• Sand jar 1

Orange: 📜 (Lore items)

1. Scroll. Blessed by the Simurgh
2. Note pinned to a battered talisman

Hyrcanian Forest

Turquoise: 💎

1. Amulet (Wolf Bride)
2. Chest: Time Crystals
3. Chest: Soma Tree Petal. Appears after cutting all the grass
4. Chest: Outfit (Rosy)

White: Xerxes

• Xerxes 1
• Xerxes 2

Yellow: Sand jars

• Sand jar 1
• Sand jar 2

Orange: 📜 (Lore items)

1. The embrace of Athra
2. Tusk of Erlik
3. Botany logs of Cyrus Log 2

Lower City

Turquoise: 💎

1. Chest: Time Crystals
2. Soma Tree Petal
3. Amulet (Arslân's Glory)
4. Azure Damascus Ingot
5. Chest: Amulet Holder
6. Chest: Amulet (Zurvan's Voice). Appears after solving the puzzle (shoot an arrow upwards while standing on the platform)
7. Soma Tree Flower
8. Chest: Amulet (Rukhsana's Gift)
9. Chest: Raw Ore. For Ancient Power Unearthed side quest
10. Chest: Amulet (Gleaming Lion). Needs lost key from the scrapper's shop
11. Soma Tree Petal
12. Soma Tree Petal
13. Chest: Memory Shards
14. Azure Damascus Ingot
15. Chest: Outfit (Lilac). Needs lost key from the scrapper's shop
16. Chest: Amulet (Frost Charm)
17. Amulet (Holy Fire)
18. Amulet Holder
19. Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
20. Chest: Time Crystals
21. Azure Damascus Ingot
22. Soma Tree Petal
23. Chest: Outfit (Radiant)
24. Azure Damascus Ingot
25. Soma Tree Flower
26. 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

• Sand jar 1
• Sand jar 2
• Sand jar 3
• Sand jar 4

Orange: 📜 (Lore items)

1. The hunter and the man-eater
2. Missive 1
3. Artisan tools. carpet weavers
4. The lion and the viper
5. The path of the hero. After completing all of Artaban's tutorials

Old Royal Road

Turquoise: 💎

1. Chest: Outfit (Crimson)

White: Xerxes

• Xerxes 1

Orange: 📜 (Lore items)

1. Message written with trembling hand

Pit of Eternal Sands

Turquoise: 💎

1. Chest: Soma Tree Flower
2. Chest: Amulet Holder
3. Chest: Time Crystals
4. Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
5. Soma Tree Petal
6. Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot. First go to the top left of the room and then go right
7. 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

• Xerxes 1
• Xerxes 2
• Xerxes 3
• Xerxes 4
• Xerxes 5
• Xerxes 6
• Xerxes 7
• Xerxes 8

Yellow: Sand jars

• Sand jar 1
• Sand jar 2
• Sand jar 3

Orange: 📜 (Lore items)

1. Legend from the pit
2. Object found in Azhdaha's lair
3. Clay cylinder
4. Enormous tooth of Azhdaha

Raging Sea

Turquoise: 💎

1. Chest: Time Crystals
2. Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
3. Soma Tree Petal
4. Chest: Time Crystals
5. 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

• Xerxes 1
• Xerxes 2

Yellow: Sand jars

• Sand jar 1

Orange: 📜 (Lore items)

1. The comb of a princess
2. Letter from the King Darius to Captain Iris Kaloxilos

Sacred Archives

Turquoise: 💎

1. Chest: Time Crystals
2. Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
3. Chest: Amulet Holder
4. Chest: Amulet (Will of Rostam)
5. Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
6. Soma Tree Petal
7. Chest: Time Crystals
8. Chest: Amulet Holder. Replicate the pattern from the jailer fight room
9. Soma Tree Petal
10. Chest: Soma Tree Petal. Duck down on the empty spot
11. Chest: Time Crystals

White: Xerxes

• Xerxes 1
• Xerxes 2
• Xerxes 3
• Xerxes 4
• Xerxes 5
• Xerxes 6

Yellow: Sand jars

• Sand jar 1
• Sand jar 2
• Sand jar 3
• Sand jar 4

Orange: 📜 (Lore items)

1. Broken chains
2. Crudely carved statue
3. Note pinned to a rock shaped like an eye
4. Last day at work
5. Alchemist diary entry 1
6. Missive 3
7. Missive 4
8. Missive 2
9. The legend of the snake, the bird and the sands. Can only be reached from Upper City; teleport to Hanging Gardens and go downwards
10. Alchemist diary entry 3
11. Alchemist diary entry 2

Misc

Holy Scholarship Key: From jailer fight

Soma Tree

Turquoise: 💎

1. Chest: Amulet (Elusive Water)
2. Chest: Amulet Holder
3. Azure Damascus Ingot
4. Soma Tree Flower
5. Chest: Memory Shards
6. Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
7. Chest: Time Crystals
8. Soma Tree Petal
9. Amulet (Turning Wind). Talk to Chamrosh after defeating the Forest Queen
10. Chest: Time Crystals

White: Xerxes

• Xerxes 1
• Xerxes 2

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)

1. Botany logs of Cyrus Log 1
2. The fall of the Hyrcanian tribe
3. The crowning of a divine king
4. Cursed object

Sunken Harbor

Turquoise: 💎

1. Chest: Memory Shards. Location has to be approached from Hyrcanian Forest (below 2nd Wak-Wak tree from the left)
2. Chest: Amulet Holder
3. Chest: Time Crystals
4. Chest: Time Crystals
5. Chest: Amulet (White Peacock)
6. Chest: Amulet (Verethragna's Wrath)
7. Chest: Soma Tree Petal. Mimic!
8. Chest: Time Crystals
9. Chest: Outfit (Coral)
10. Soma Tree Petal
11. Chest: Time Crystals
12. Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
13. Chest: Amulet (Thunder Charm)
14. Chest: Amulet (Ard's Fortune). Throw chakram into the top left tic-tac-toe field. Mimic!

White: Xerxes

• Xerxes 1
• Xerxes 2
• Xerxes 3. Appears after finishing the "Treasure of the Seven Seas" side quest

Yellow: Sand jars

• Sand jar 1
• Sand jar 2
• Sand jar 3

Orange: 📜 (Lore items)

1. Proclamation treaty. Cut down the skeleton for the lore item to appear
2. Tarnished coin
3. Pirate sea shanty
4. Rusted hook

The Depths

Turquoise: 💎

1. Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
2. Chest: Memory Shards
3. Chest: Time Crystals
4. Amulet (Agony Amulet)
5. Chest: Amulet (Shockwave)
6. Chest: Time Crystals. Kill the enemies here to open the door
7. Chest: Time Crystals
8. Amulet (Indomitable Spirit)
9. Soma Tree Petal
10. Chest: Amulet (Divine Spear)
11. Chest: Amulet (Ayyar Amulet)
12. Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot

White: Xerxes

• Xerxes 1
• Xerxes 2
• Xerxes 3
• Xerxes 4
• Xerxes 5
• Xerxes 6
• Xerxes 7
• Xerxes 8

Yellow: Sand jars

• Sand jar 1
• Sand jar 2
• Sand jar 3

Orange: 📜 (Lore items)

1. Child's toy
2. Dropped locket
3. Mirror
4. Tiara
5. Persian children's playtime verse
6. Nursery rhyme on a toy

Ahtra

Wind of Sistan

Tower of Silence

Turquoise: 💎

1. Chest: Amulet (Blazing Kestrel)
2. Chest: Time Crystals
3. Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot. Mimic!
4. Chest: Time Crystals
5. Chest: Soma Tree Petal
6. Chest: Time Crystals. Speedrun strat for this one: video
7. Chest: Time Crystals
8. Chest: Time Crystals
9. Soma Tree Flower
10. 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)

1. Sacred object
2. Memory fragment. Aura of loss
3. The commoner and the king
4. The frozen tomb
5. Statuette of God Vayu

Upper City

Turquoise: 💎

1. Chest: Amulet (Four Royal Stars)
2. Chest: Time Crystals. Speedrun strat for this one: video
3. Chest: Amulet (Void Blade)
4. Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
5. Soma Tree Petal
6. Chest: Time Crystals
7. Chest: Azure Damascus Ingot
8. Chest: Memory Shards
9. Chest: Time Crystals
10. Chest: Time Crystals
11. Chest: Time Crystals

Chest 10 & 11 can be reached once the lost warrior has been defeated

12. Soma Tree Petal
13. Chest: Time Crystals
14. Chest: Amulet Holder
15. Chest: Time Crystals
16. Chest: Time Crystals
17. 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

18. Chest: Some Tree Flower (after completing the Architect side quest)

Order of symbols for Architect puzzle:

White: Xerxes

• Xerxes 1
• Xerxes 2
• Xerxes 3
• Xerxes 4

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)

1. Architectural drawings
2. Gilded bracelet
3. Instructions from our master
4. Clay tablet
5. Astronomical mechanism (after completing the Architect side quest)
6. Mathematical formula calculator (after completing the Architect side quest)
7. Official scroll: Royal degree (after completing the Architect side quest)
8. The architect and the king (after completing the Architect side quest)