Chapter 7 – Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace (Walkthrough)

Guide Chapter 7: Tendrils of Witchcraft | Arkham Horror: Mother’s Embrace

Objective: Find the clues about Professor Tillinghast’s presence

I would suggest exploring the first floor first to start the secondary objective.

- Investigate the noise on the second floor: You need to go to the second floor. Objective complete automatically.

- Find the “other passage” to the office: Initially, as the game started, you find a locked door behind the stairs. Now the gate is unlocked once the above objective over. Enter into the room and complete this objective.
- Solve the Capricornus puzzle:
  - Light the correct candles: You need to light five candles. There are more than five candles in the building but. You need to light five (correct) candles only.

Candle #1: You can find a candle kept on a chest in the same room.
Candle #2: It is in the bedroom. A candle is on a bedside table.
Candle #3: Light the candle kept on a shelf near the stairs.
Candle #4: You can find the candle in the kitchen.
Candle #5: It is in the dining room. You can find the candle on a shelf near a wall.

- Explore the secret rooms: Now explore the secrets rooms behind the bookshelf.
  - Read the documents: Examine all the documents in the Secret Room.

Secondary Objective: Close the holes

You will get this objective in the dining room after fighting with creatures.

- Find a hammer: You can find a hammer inside the wooden crate in the kitchen kept below the table.
- Find some nails: You can find nails in the second room behind the stairs.
- Close the hole in the dining room: Once you have a hammer and nails, interact with the hole in the dining room to close it.
- Close the hole in the living room: You need to first defeat all the creatures in the living room. Interact with the hole to close it.
- Close the hole in the collapsed room: This is the second room on the second floor. Defeat creatures and close the hole to complete the objective.