Order of the Sinking Star Dragon Puzzle Help

Identify the arrangement before choosing a solution

The main route starts inside the matched three-part stage. For broader world orientation, use the world and region index; the opening walkthrough is a different bounded route.

Sources: Hardcore Gamer — Adam Beck, Heroes and Mirrors Part 5 · r/OrderOfTheSinkingStar — Am I right that this monster must survive?

Treat fire as a puzzle rule

Move and reflect the dragon rather than looking for an attack command. PlayStation's official hands-on report describes a game without fighting: goblins threaten adjacent characters, while fire-breathing creatures threaten things along their line of sight.

In the covered stamp stage, the Warrior pushes dragons and mirrors. Reflection can put a dragon on another square and change the direction it faces. Compare the reflected position before activating the mirror; each room depends on where the breath will go after that transfer.

Directions below use the original overhead view: up is toward the top of the screen. Begin from the matching room's initial arrangement. The first room's displacement counts belong to that arrangement; they are not a universal code for every dragon puzzle.

Sources: PlayStation Blog — official PS5 hands-on report · Hardcore Gamer — Adam Beck, Heroes and Mirrors Part 5

Part 1 — send a south-facing dragon into the pond

This first board has a tiled waterfront, a movable mirror and a goblin stranded on the little island below. Its solution uses the dragon's final shot as it falls into water. Start by keeping the Warrior out of the dragon's current fire line.

1. Reflect the Warrior across the gap

   Use the room's mirror to cross the gap without walking into the dragon's breath. You need to reach the side where you can push the dragon and reposition the mirror.

2. Set up the dragon's southern reflection

   Move the mirror above the dragon. Maneuver the dragon to a position four squares left and two squares down from its initial square, as described for this arrangement. Route it around the intervening geometry rather than trying to perform all four leftward pushes first. Use the mirror reflection to make the dragon face down toward the water.

3. Shift the mirror to the right wall

   Push the mirror right until the wall stops it. Check that the dragon's reflected position is in the pond and that its downward fire line points at the goblin's island.

4. Reflect the dragon into the water

   Activate the mirror to transfer the dragon to that position.

   Completion signal: The falling dragon fires at the island goblin. The two threats blocking this segment are removed, allowing the stage to continue to its next board.

Sources: Hardcore Gamer — Adam Beck, Heroes and Mirrors Part 5

Part 2 — leave room beside the mirror

The next board has two mirrors at the right, a dragon in the central open space and a goblin on the ledge across the water to the left. The critical position is beside the mirror, where you can get behind the dragon for its final leftward push. Sending it against the wall too early removes that access.

1. Reach the upper side

   Stand below the dragon and use the right-hand mirror to reflect the Warrior into the upper part of the board.

2. Open access behind the dragon

   Push the dragon down two squares. Walk into the space this creates behind it so you can push it right and then up toward the mirror arrangement.

3. Reflect it beside the mirror

   Use the mirrors to place the dragon in the upper-right area where the Warrior arrived. Stop with the dragon next to the mirror, leaving it accessible; do not place it tight against the wall.

4. Bring it through the mirror passage

   Push the dragon down through the gap between the two mirrors. Get to its right side and push it left across the open board, keeping its head facing the goblin across the water.

5. Make the final push into water

   Push the left-facing dragon off the board's left edge.

   Completion signal: Its fire reaches the goblin on the opposite ledge as it falls. Continue to the last board after these blocking creatures have been removed.

Sources: Hardcore Gamer — Adam Beck, Heroes and Mirrors Part 5

Part 3 — reflect the breath back toward the left

Identify the caged dragon at the upper left, facing right across the top lane. A goblin stands below that lane, and the pink barrier protects a blue exit at the left. The mirrors let the breath travel right from the dragon, then return left along the row beneath it.

The first target is the goblin. Removing it and removing the dragon are two different steps; the dragon must remain alive long enough to fire again.

1. Put one mirror below the goblin

   Move the initially upper-right mirror directly beneath the goblin. You will use this mirror to push the goblin upward into the returning fire line.

2. Make the paired reflection

   Keep the mirror beneath the goblin available for the next step. Arrange the right-hand mirror pair on one column in adjacent rows, with their reflective faces opposing each other. Push the pair up into place: the upper reflection follows the dragon's row, and the lower reflection runs along the row immediately below it.

3. Push the goblin into the lower fire line

   Get beneath the mirror under the goblin and push it up. It pushes the goblin into the leftward returning breath.

   Completion signal: The goblin is killed by the reflected flame. The dragon remains behind the bars at this point.

4. Return the fire to the dragon

   Move that same mirror left, then up one square. This redirects the reflection onto the dragon's own position.

   Completion signal: The dragon is hit by its own fire. The pink barrier at the left becomes passable.

5. Reach the blue exit

   Walk through the cleared left-hand barrier to the blue exit marker.

   Completion signal: You have cleared the creatures and reached the endpoint of the covered three-part stamp stage. The original guide identifies this stage as contributing to stamps; this page does not assign an unsupported trophy, stamp count or later story reward.

Sources: Hardcore Gamer — Adam Beck, Heroes and Mirrors Part 5

Historical two-hero board — the lower-left goblin must survive

Keep the lower-left goblin alive because it holds the yellow gate open. The goblin immediately left of the heroes must be removed so they can pass. The community solution controls the fire with the block instead of trying to haul the dragon out of the way between two shots.

1. Line up the first target and the blocking object

   Position the dragon's fire line toward the goblin obstructing the heroes. Keep the movable block in that line until the Thief is beside it, with the block directly behind her and the Warrior positioned to push her back toward the block.

2. Pull the block out of the fire line

   Move the Thief away from the block so she pulls it off the dragon's firing row. This exposes the obstructing goblin to the shot. Keep the lower-left button goblin in place.

3. Put the block back on the very next move

   Switch to the Warrior and push the Thief toward the block. The Warrior pushes both her and the block together, returning the block to the firing row before the dragon's next shot can reach the button goblin. Switching the selected hero is preparation for that push; do not insert an unrelated movement between the two actions.

   Completion signal: The near goblin is dead, while the lower-left goblin remains alive on the yellow button and the yellow gate remains open.

4. Open the blue gate

   Move the purple crystal onto the blue pressure plate, as specified in the original reply. This opens the other gate on the way to the exits.

5. Bring both heroes to the exits

   Move the Warrior and Thief through the cleared path onto the two escape squares at the upper right.

   Completion signal: Both heroes occupy their escape squares; the lower-left goblin is still holding the yellow button. The original questioner confirmed that the coordinated push solved the problem.

If the lower-left goblin dies, undo to before the exposed fire line and prepare the coordinated pull-and-push again. The original thread's claim that recovering the dragon takes at least seven moves is part of the questioner's failed approach, not an instruction to follow or a fixed requirement of the solution.

Sources: r/OrderOfTheSinkingStar — Am I right that this monster must survive?

Check the arrangement when the sequence stops working

The supplied Torc recording by Postmode covers beam rotation and the SxB gold-room route. It is not a demonstration of these dragon boards. Likewise, a Heroes and Water recording should not be substituted for a Heroes and Mirrors solution merely because both show monsters.

Sources: Hardcore Gamer — Adam Beck, Heroes and Mirrors Part 5 · r/OrderOfTheSinkingStar — Am I right that this monster must survive? · Postmode — Torc walkthrough