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Pan Pipes
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Location
Raquia Maze
Map
Map of the Raquia Maze. The location of the Pan Pipes is marked on the lower right corner.
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The Pan Pipes are one of the items that are necessary to solve the riddles surrounding the acquisition of the Key of Tears from inside Raysiel's Tower. They consist of seven hollow reeds and are inscribed with the following instruction:

My voice, unheard, no openings make; but only play, the barriers break.

The instrument can be located inside the Raquia Maze and is used to play the little fanfare that's carved into the wooden door of the Music Room, from which we gather the curiously designed Spectacles2 Opticals of True Sight and a OilFlask2 Flask of Oil.

Apparently, the sound of the Pan Pipes is gentle enough not to perturb Raysiel in his sleep. It's also a very fitting object to find in his realm, as Raquia's general theme is sound (birds, bells, squeaky doors and floors).

Mythology[]

According to ancient mythology, the flute was crafted by the Greek God of Nature, Pan:

Syrinx was a lovely wood-nymph of Arcadia, daughter of Landon, the river-god. As she was returning from the hunt one day, Pan met her. To escape from his importunities, the fair nymph ran away and didn't stop to hear his compliments. He pursued [her] from Mount Lycaeum until she came to her sisters who immediately changed her into a reed. When the air blew through the reeds, it produced a plaintive melody. The god, still infatuated, took some of the reeds, because he could not identify which reed she became, and cut seven pieces (or according to some versions, nine), joined them side by side in gradually decreasing lengths, and formed the musical instrument bearing the name of his beloved Syrinx. Henceforth Pan was seldom seen without it.

Script[]

Adam: Seems to be a set of pan pipes. They've got something written on them. 'My voice, unheard, no openings make; but only play, the barriers break.'
Rebecca: Sounds like an instruction to me.

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