Graveyard
| Graveyard | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Location |
| Open Hours | Always |
The Graveyard is a small fenced plot just west of the Mayor's Manor, and it is one of the few places in Pelican Town that hides a real puzzle rather than a shop. Four gravestones stand inside the gates, and three of them say something when clicked. One carries a name, Mona, and Abigail goes to it. Another is carved in Dwarvish, and once that language can be read it turns into the in-game hint towards the Galaxy Sword. The plot is quiet ground between two busy screens, so most farmers walk through it for years before stopping to read it.
Area
The plot sits on the eastern side of town, west of the Mayor's Manor and on the route most farmers take between Pierre's General Store and the river. It is open at every hour, which matters, because the Dwarvish stone is worth a detour at whatever time the translation finally arrives.
Mona's stone is the middle of the three along the top, and it is the only one with a name on it. The epitaph is short:
"Our Beloved Mona"
The stone immediately to its left has worn away, and clicking it returns only that the writing is old and faded. Mona herself stays a name on a stone, which is part of why players keep theorising about her.
Residents
Abigail is the villager tied to this place. She walks up to the Graveyard on Wednesday evenings in every season and stays until late, and her six-heart scene has her sitting beside Mona's stone. After marriage she keeps the habit: on Mondays she comes back in the early afternoon and stands in front of the same grave. It is the quietest piece of characterisation in Pelican Town, and the game never spells out what the connection is.
Notes
The stone to the right of Mona's is the reason adventurers come here. It is written in Dwarvish, and stays unreadable until the farmer owns the Dwarvish Translation Guide, which comes from donating the Dwarf Scrolls to the Museum. After that the stone reads:
"Stand between the pillars three With gift as precious as the sky: A rainbow forged from land, not sea Then galaxies will heed your cry."
The pillars are the three standing stones in the northeast of the Calico Desert, and the rainbow forged from land rather than sea is a Prismatic Shard. Holding a shard and stepping onto the centre tile between the pillars consumes it and hands over the Galaxy Sword, the strongest blade a farmer can carry out of the desert. The trade works only once, so a second shard will not produce a second sword. Losing the sword is not final either, because Marlon stocks a replacement at the Adventurer's Guild for a heavy price.
The riddle is a hint rather than a lock. A farmer who already knows where the pillars are can make the trade without ever translating the stone, which is why the Graveyard tends to be read after the fact rather than before it.
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