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Hogwarts Legacy: How To Solve Central Aranshire Merlin Trial

Central Aranshire Merlin Trial in Hogwarts Legacy

This guide explains how to solve the Central Aranshire Merlin Trial in Hogwarts Legacy.

After months of waiting, Hogwarts Legacy has arrived on PS5, Xbox Series X, and PC. The game is proving to be a massive hit with Potter fans as they eagerly get stuck into life at the legendary school.

In Hogwarts Legacy, players join the eponymous school as a fifth-year student in the 1890s. The game takes place a whole century before the Harry Potter novels and films. And this allows it to tell its own story about “a dangerous journey to uncover a hidden truth of the wizarding world.”

Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive RPG that allows players to experience life as a real student. You can create your own witch or wizard, pick your own wand, and even choose one of Hogwarts’ four houses.

Once you’ve settled into the mythical school of witchcraft and wizardry, you are free to explore, attend classes, learn spells, and discover everything the Wizarding World has to offer.

Location of the trial on the Hogwarts Legacy map
Location of the Central Aranshire Merlin Trial.

Critics and fans have given the game a great reception. It offers many puzzles to solve, challenges to complete, and enemies to defeat.

Hogwarts Legacy has several different types of puzzles, including the mysterious ‘Merlin Trials’.

The Merlin Trials were created by the legendary wizard who was himself a student at Hogwarts.

All the trials can be found outside in the area around the school. Three of them are located around Aranshire: one to the east, one in the middle, and one to the west. The middle or central Merlin Trial is the closest to the hamlet itself.

Let’s go over how to solve the central Aranshire Merlin Trial in Hogwarts Legacy

How To Solve Central Aranshire Merlin Trial in Hogwarts Legacy

Each Merlin Trial begins in the same way: finding a spiral plate embedded in the ground.

After using Mallowsweet to activate the trial, you can start to solve it.

How To Solve Central Aranshire Merlin Trial in Hogwarts Legacy

This is how to solve the central Aranshire Merlin Trial in Hogwarts Legacy: The central Aranshire Merlin Trial has three floor plates that are activated by placing five balls at their centre.

1 – The first set of balls is located north just over the ledge from the swirl. Use Accio to summon them.

How To Solve Central Aranshire Merlin Trial in Hogwarts Legacy

Once you have the balls, take them to the floor plate just south of the swirl.

How To Solve Central Aranshire Merlin Trial in Hogwarts Legacy

2 – Follow the path north from the swirl. There is a left turn to a floor plate while the balls are up the path a short distance.

Hogwarts Legacy How To Solve Central Aranshire Merlin Trial

Use Accio to summon and place them on the floor plate.

Hogwarts Legacy How To Solve Central Aranshire Merlin Trial

3 – The final floor plate is located up the hill to the east of the swirl.

The final floor plate

From here, head south east to a small rock face. The balls are located at the foot of the rock face.

Balls next to the rock face

The Merlin Trial is complete once you have placed all the balls on the three floor plates.

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