Overview
This guide will show you where to find all the codex lore entries in the game. There are 32 in total.
Catacombs
At the beginning of the game you will find a circle key to open a red coloured door and behind it you will encounter a Feral Warrior, Shieldbearer and Hurler. Behind them is a lore tablet on the wall left of the exit.
The Well
After picking up the luminous phial on the pedestal the next room contains a fountain. Behind the fountain is a lore tablet.
Refuge
When you find the Ancient Spear look to your right to find a lore tablet in the corner.
The Fire Pit
To proceed beyond the lava caves you need to use the Coffer Hammer which is behind a locked red coloured door. When you find the circle key required to unlock the door go through the entrance and look down the edge to see a lore tablet on your left.
Last Escape
When you pick up the Coffer Hammer the portcullis on the left will raise and a lore tablet can be found behind a Feral Shieldbearer.
Despair
As you reach the final climb to the yellow coloured door while avoiding massive boulders, head left to find a lore tablet.
Eternal Stillness
After leaving the lava caves you will come across a fountain. In the next room hidden behind a yellow circle key and coffin is a lore tablet.
The Contraptions
Shortly after finding the Commander Sickles you will come across this room. When you have pulled the two levers to raise the portcullis at the top go through and look to your right to find a lore tablet.
Oblivion
Make your way down the left corridor and open the essence chest. You will get ambushed, and parts of the wall will collapse. Look right of the essence chest to find a lore tablet behind a Feral Warrior.
Halls of the Dead
You will make your way through a flooded hallway filled with Drowners. If you head forward instead of turning right you will find a lore tablet in a room behind a Feral Hurler.
Bones
While on your pilgrimage you will need to find three crystal skulls to open a triangle door. You will come across this room during your search down a narrow corridor. Break the wall and go inside to find a lore tablet on your left.
Skull Bridge
As you approach the entrance to the city of Jurmum, head in the opposite direction and jump over the collapsed section of the bridge. The lore tablet is on your right near the portcullis.
At the Gates
This lore tablet is right before the chamber with Janus.
City of Jurmum
Before you enter the arena section of Jurmum, head right of the stairs and look left for a lore tablet.
Arena
From the middle of Jurmum head towards the Slum entrance, but instead of going in head left and go up the stairs. A lore tablet will be on your left underneath what was a wooden stall.
The Disease
Go through the Slum entrance and turn right to the green banner on the wall. Where it reaches the bottom you will find a lore tablet.
The Mean Streets
On the eastern side of the Slums a lore tablet can be found behind some stairs.
The Slums
On the western side of the Slums a lore tablet can be found on a rooftop opposite the western tower.
Slums Tower
At the top of the western tower is where you will find a lore tablet.
Garrison
This lore tablet is found in the western garrison behind a Shieldbearer in a room just below where the Golden Cleaver weapon can be found.
Flooded Garrison
One side of the eastern garrison has crumbled and near the wooden planks acting as a bridge you can find a lore tablet close to the edge. Be careful not to fall off!
No Man’s Tower
At the top of the northern tower is where you will find a lore tablet.
The Clergy
On the western side of the Noble District a lore tablet can be found near the northern tower and the bridge that is created after you have activated the device at the bottom of the western garrison.
Memory of Comfort
This lore tablet is only a couple rooftops from the previous one.
Chronicler’s Home
On the eastern side of the Noble District on a rooftop near the eastern tower is a lore tablet with an Assassin and Firestarter nearby.
Delusion of Safety
Near the bath house in the Noble District you can find a lore tablet on a rooftop.
Due Punishment
Like the previous lore tablet, this one is also near the bath house in the Noble District. Standing in front of the lore tablet is a Stalker and an Assassin.
The City Baths
In the bath house head northeast from the pool in the middle of the ground floor to find a lore tablet. Next to it is a Leper.
Blood in the Baths
Follow the yellow tube in the bath house up the stairs until you reach the second floor. When the tube turns a corner head to the stairs on your right and behind them is a lore tablet.
Golden Tower
On the other side of the entrance to the eastern tower you will find a lore tablet.
The Demon’s Mouth
This lore entry is automatically added to your codex as you approach the final part of ELDERBORN and is impossible to miss.
Essence Conduits
This lore entry is automatically added to your codex when you kill an Essence Conduit enemy that only appears in New Game+ Mode. To access this mode simply complete the game and load your saved game again after the credits.