Assassin's Creed Mirage Book Puzzle Guide In The Serpent's Nest

Toward the end of Assassin's Creed Mirage, a long mission called The Serpent's Nest will ask you to solve a particular book puzzle involving some poetry and a four-pack of metaphors. This can be a bit confusing, especially thanks to one additional detail we'll detail below. For help on the book puzzle, use our guide right here. Note that this guide comes with spoilers, so if you're not in need of the solution right now, you should turn back until you may be stumped later.

Assassin's Creed Mirage book puzzle

Once you arrive in the library during The Serpent's Nest mission, you'll already have collected four books of different colors: black, white, yellow, and blue. A poem you can read in the room seems to allude to four items that correspond to these books: the ocean, the desert, a cobra, and a dove.

Up the stairs, you can place these four books on altars, and doing so in the right order will solve the puzzle and reveal a secret room for you to advance through.

However, these books and their associated metaphors get a little lost in translation. By now you may have already figured out what each book stands for, but here's that part of the puzzle anyway:

• Ocean - blue book
• Desert - yellow book
• Cobra - black book
• Dove - white book

This may be easy enough to deduce, but when you place the books in this order from left to right, nothing happens--and that's where a vital final detail comes into play: Arabic is written and read from right to left, not left to right.

Therefore, at the top of the stairs when looking at the four altars, you should place them in the above order from right to left, meaning the altar closest to the stairway is for the blue book, followed by yellow, then black, then white.

As soon as you perform these steps, a cutscene will play revealing the next part of your mission. If you'd like to dig up more secrets in Assassin's Creed Mirage, don't miss how to "find the hidden place."