Royal Palace
ZODIAC SPEAR ALERT - Do not open the treasure chest in the furthest southeast corner of the Cellars, the room just above the one where you start. You will notice that two treasure chests are located in the southeast corner, and while you should technically be able to open the one on the right (right when FACING THE CAMERA SOUTH) without consequence, it has nothing special so I would suggest you not touch either one to be on the safe side. Note that if you open one and receive an Elixir, it means you blew it. Reset the game.
Save your game and take the map from the urn. Feel free to collect the rest of the chests in the Cellars room for some half decent items. As you approach the north end it will trigger a short scene. Attempt to climb the stairs (which you are forbidden from doing) then speak to the Palace Servant nearest the stairs. He'll help you get past.
Press the square button while standing where you are to call the guard. Fortunately for you, the guard seems to be lacking in both intelligence and peripheral vision, so "sneak" by him by running in an extremely conspicuous circle along the wall and up the stairs.
There is a relatively simple puzzle here which gives you the ability to press square and call the guards, gradually moving them from place to place so that you don't actually have to come into contact with them. Make a right at the first fork, run to the east side and call the guards to the north down toward where you are standing. Now run back west toward where you entered.
At the first fork, press square to call the guards down, then run right. The Hawk Signet here will not react with your Crescent Stone, so you need to keep looking. Head east, make a left, then another left to find the Lion Signet. Use your Crescent Stone here to lit the path to the secret chamber.
Proceed west to the fork and call the guard to the north down to where you are. Run back east to the opposite side, then up, and finally left to safely reach the hidden chamber. Approach the wall and press X to reveal the room.
There is a hidden switch on the wall at the far west end. After pressing it, examine the suspicious wall to reveal yet another passageway. After a quick scene Vaan receives the GODDESS'S MAGICITE. From this point all that is necessary of you is to climb an additional set of stairs to trigger quite a magnificent cutscene.
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