The Nousdex & Museum

The Nousdex is your catalogue of artworks that changed the world: more than 400 sculptures, paintings, reliefs and monuments, from the ice-age Lion Man to Bosch and Turner. You meet them on your travels, learn their stories, collect them, and show them in the museum aboard your ship.

Meeting and collecting pieces

Artworks stand in the cities’ parks and in the towers’ halls, and they guard the towers’ storeys. Walk up to one and press E to read its story: that meets the piece. Answer its question and it is collected into your Nousdex. Your first piece, the Lion Man, is collected during your first steps aboard.

The Nousdex

Open the Nousdex at the great bookwheel in the palace museum, or from the menu.

• Collected pieces show in colour with a green tick; pieces you have met but not collected have a gold dot; pieces you have not met yet are dark silhouettes.
• Mine shows the pieces you have met; All shows the whole catalogue. The kind buttons (Sculptures, Wall art, Monuments) narrow it, and the magnifier searches by title, kind or date.
• Choose a piece to see it turn, read its story, and see what you can do with it. Its dates, maker, place and rights are under Details.

Showing pieces in the museum

Choose Place in the museum on a collected piece. A map of the gallery shows its places where they really stand: pedestals for sculptures, walls for paintings and reliefs, projection tables for monuments. Free places pulse in gold; taken ones show their piece. Tap a free place, or choose Place on the first free pedestal. Tap a taken place to put your piece there instead, or to take a piece down. The same piece can stand in several places.

Then choose Go and see it: a gold marker appears over the place and a light trail leads you there.

Portraits of scholars

Portraits of great scholars hang aboard the ship. Press E at one to read the scholar’s card: who they were and the ideas they are remembered for.