Torment: Tides of Numenera has tons of hidden lore and content. Much is easy to miss, since skill checks in dialogue and descriptions often happen passive in the background, so you don’t notice what you miss (most notabely for perception, amnesias, lore but also others). Mind reading is a very interesting ability enhancing many dialogues, but only available for the nano (for a big part of the game, later you can get the ability for classes).
 
 
This guide will show how to create & equip a main character with the skills and equipment necessary to get most content as soon as possible.
 
 

The Beginning

~~ Falling Down ~~
 
 
Read and answer the scenarios however you want, but choose your character yourself afterwards
 
 
Type: Nano
 
Pools: +1 Might, +1 Speed
 
Abilities: Scan Thoughts, Resourceful
 
Exploration Skill: Lore Mystical
 
Descriptor: Charming (+1 Persuasion, +1 Deception, Debuff Wil&Int)
 
 
~~ The Labyrinth ~~
 
 
The Spector (ask him everything)
 
 
Tutorial Battle
 
 
Don’t kill the reflections. If you wait for a while, they will survive (feeling drained) – the
 
escaping monsters will have consequences laster, but those will be interesting.
 
 
Before you go, don’t forget to pick up a “Shimmering Glass” Cypher on the floor!
 
 
 

Reef of the Fallen Worlds

~~Broken Dome~~
 
 
Talk with Aligern & Callistige
 
exhaust all options, say you might be the Changing God for some extra silver tide (if you want)
 
Ask Alighern to take you to the Cult of the Changing God
 
 
Environmental Interactions
 
 
Mechanical Arm (with sparks)
 
Lore (Quick Fingers/Machinery) -> useAlighern: Spray Flesh & ~18 Shins
 
 
Resonance Chamber:
 
Take the “Chrystalline Shard” (melee weapon)
 
 
Box left: 10 shin, Encephalic Rush, Fleetfoot Moss
 
 
Computer: Leave for now (we lack the necessary skill)
 
 
go outside to
 
 
~~ Reef of the Fallen Worlds~~
 
 
Talk to Alighern
 

 
Pickup (next to the hands sculpture): 23 shin, Fleetfoot Moss, Elutriated Force
 

 
Hands: Smashing (Alighern best) for “Eight-fingered Mace”, equip on Alighern
 
(on fail: +1 permanent HP, but i prefer the weapon honestly for early money)
 
 
Obelisk:
 
Use Crystal Shard -> 3 XP, replaced by “Infused Crystalline Shard”
 
 
Dont interact with the dancing cones (yet, lacking skills)
 
 
Tar pit
 
Quick Fingers+Perception (Callistige best) -> “Fresh Vapors” Cypher (5x +10 Int, +1 Int Edge)
 
Look for more objects a few times -> 2 XP, Tar River Globe Oddity (worth 105 shin)
 
 
Orange structure: cannot open for now
 
 
Pickup items north of the sealed orange structure: 16 shin, Elutriated Force, Encephalic Rush
 
 
Go north and meet Quorro & Gang
 
Talk, then tell him (truth) you are it (silver tide) -> choose to fight (silver)
 
Kill everyone but Quorro -> he wants to talk -> ask for compensation (2x Spray Flesh, 29 shins)
 
Let him go (we loose some extra loot, but he has a small role to play later)
 
100 XP, tiny gold tide
 
go with Alighern (for now)
 
Torment: Tides of Numenera has tons of hidden lore and content. Much is easy to miss, since skill checks in dialogue and descriptions often happen passive in the background, so you don’t notice what you miss (most notabely for perception, amnesias, lore but also others). Mind reading is a very interesting ability enhancing and deepening many dialogues, but only available for the nano (for a big part of the game, late you can get the ability for others).
 
 
This guide will show how to create & play a main character that gets the skills and equipment necessary to get most content as soon as possible.
 
 
Loot:
 
White Robed guy: “Thick Air Snare” Cypher, 7 shin, Encephalic Rush, Buzzer (light ranged)
 
Thief: 6 shin, “Bounder” Cypher, “Image Blocker” Cypher, Fleetfoot Moss, Dagger (light melee)
 
Golden armor: 3 shin, Walur Oddity, Elutriated Force, Greatsword (heavy melee)
 
 
 

Getting equipped in Sagus Cliffs

Circus Minor:
 
ignore everything and only go to specific places to get the items we need for our build
 
 
Interaction with rockslide in NE corner (behind a character called “The Genocide”)
 
a1: (mutex a2, a3) Quick fingers & lore: machinery -> random # of shins (i had 47, 55)
 
a2: (mutex a1,a3) Rocks in canister: gold button -> tiny blue tide, Cypher “Conflict Advisor” (89 shin, +30% evasion, +45 attacks for 1 crisis)
 
a3: (mutex a1, a2) Rocks in canister: aqua button -> tiniy blue tide, Cypher “Shade of the Desert Sun” (60 shin, +7 resistance for 1 crisis)
 
b1: fail to smash rocks (STR): Cypher “Predistigator”, use for +1 training Quick Fingers (!!!)
 
b2: succeed to smash rocks (STR): shins
 
Recommend a1 and b1 (a1: we need money, cyphers sell for less. b1: Prestitigator for Quick Fingers training is better than shins)
 
Use Prestitigator for +1 Quick Fingers
 
 
Leave via SE bridge to Cliffs Edge
 
 
Cliffs Edge
 
follow the cliffs to Madelia Glittering (3 globes around head) and ask to see her items
 
Sell enough inventory to get 425+ shins, for me thats everything except “Shimmering Glass”, “Fresh Vapors” and 2 of each stat healing consumables
 
Buy “Scholarch’s Archive” Bonded Item – +1 Lore Machinery, +1 Lore Nature, extra esotery damage, negatives are supressed by our Concentration skill
 
-> equip
 
 
Find Jerenaugh in the north
 
buy the eye implant for 110 shin : +1 Perception (operation inflicts 5 damage)
 
 
Back to Circus Minor
 
 
Circus Minor
 
Cult of the Changing God
 
Talk to Mimeon and Casmeen
 
ask questions, pretend to be the changing god
 
 
Examine the clock
 
Left: Lock in centuries old memory
 
Center: Lock in recent memory
 
Right: Lock in ancient memory
 
+3 XP
 
Interact with clock
 
Talk to the 3 castoffs
 
-> select focus, recommend: “Brandishes a Silver Tongue” (tier 1 ability is decent for social skills, but later are quite useful)
 
100 xp
 
level up: Select skill: Anamnesis (very important to pick this!)
 
 
Talk to the specter and return to Circus Minor via Portal
 
 
Close to the glowing cage in the center, there is a character calles Steristri
 
-> Watch her work -> Lore:Nature notice how she works and tell her about it -> get “Amulet of the Eternal Traveler” > equip for Flex Skill (choose +1 in an exploration/lore/conversation skill)
 
-> use it to get perception+1 (2 total, 1 from flex skill the other from the eye implant)
 
 
And thats it, you can start exploring for real, talk to everyone and enjoy without fear of missing content
 
 
Skills on lvl 1 (Trained):
 
Amnesias, Concentration, Cypher Use, Lore Machinery, Lore Mystical, Lore Natural, Persuasion, Deception, Quick Fingers, Perception
 
 
Flex Skill: -> Perception 2 (recommended)
 
 
Exploration Character after following the guide:
 
 

 
 

 
 
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