Welcome

This site is dedicated to collecting video, audio and textual materials of the game The Talos Principle in order to interpret the game’s intermedial relations with other cultural objects, and to interpret its narratological depth. This site will be updated accordingly.

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The Worlds

  • The Prologue: Logic check
  • World A: Greek ruins (Temple hub, Uriel’s tomb)
  • World B: Egyptian ruins (Pyramid hub, Barachiel’s tomb)
  • World C: European ruins (Cathedral hub, S3L4phiel’s tomb)
  • World T: The Tower
  • The Endings

All Worlds include hubs, Messenger Islands, and Star Worlds (bonus levels).

Summaries

  • Milton Library Assistant: interaction
  • Milton Library Assistant: various texts (ready)
    • Basic Story
    • Fragments from Philosophy, Literature, and Science
    • Athena Reborn (connected to World A)
    • Osiris (connected to World B)
    • The Apocrypha of Saint Eadwald (connected to World C)
  • Child programs (ready)
  • QR codes (ready)
  • Time capsules (ready)
  • Easter eggs

Terminology

  • Soma or Talos: the project to create the ‘perfect’ A.I.
  • Archive: the project to store as much data as possible
  • IAN: Institute of Applied Noematics (institute)
  • EL: Extended Lifespan (super computer)
  • HIM: Holistic Integration Manager (A.I.)
  • MLA: Milton Library Assistant (A.I.)
  • EL0: server 0 of EL, dedicated to the Talos project
  • EL1: server 1 of EL, dedicated to the Archive project

Abbriviations

  • A(1): the levels of the 3 regular worlds.
  • T(1): the Tower levels.
  • M(A): the Messenger Islands.
  • S(A): Star Worlds.

Sigils

  • Green sigils: accesses Worlds A, B and C.
  • Yellow sigils: unlocks items.
  • Red sigils: unlock Tower levels.
  • Blue sigils: used on the Messenger Islands.
  • Yellow sigils: unlock Star Worlds.
  • Grey sigils: unlock 6th floor of the Tower.

Green, yellow, and red sigils are found throughout regular Worlds A, B, and C by solving the regular puzzles. Blue sigils are given to the player. Yellow sigils are found by collecting stars in the reguar Worlds. Grey sigils are found in the Star Worlds.