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Songs of Glimmerwick Flute Types: Crystal, Acorn, Spark, Dew

Understand Songs of Glimmerwick flute types, match Bristlecone’s dialogue choices to your preferred instrument, and learn when to collect your flute.

Flute Choices

Crystal or Spark can give Ghost Pine, Ochrebark, or Rusted Oak; Acorn or Dew can give Cobalt Juniper, Elder Rosemary, or Wenge. Songs of Glimmerwick flute types depend on the full answer combination. Crystal, Acorn, Spark, and Dew are first-question choices, not finished flute names. Crystal – Pickled – Sea – 1000 gives Ghost Pine; the tables below use 1,000 years for the final answer unless noted.

Which Answers Give Each Flute?

Bristlecone asks about resonance, flavor, water sound, and time, in that order. The first answer alone does not determine your flute.

Bristlecone asks which of crystal, acorn, spark, and dew you most resonate with

Sea means “the crash of the sea,” Waterfall means “a roaring waterfall,” Rain means “pattering rain,” and Brook means “a babbling brook.” After selecting Crystal, Acorn, Spark, or Dew, choose one flavor and one water sound from the same row, then 1,000 years.

Crystal

Choose Crystal for Ghost Pine, Ochrebark, or Rusted Oak:

Flavor answerWater sound answerFinished flute
Pickled or SpicedSea or WaterfallGhost Pine
Salted, Pickled, Spiced, or HoneyedRain or BrookOchrebark
Salted or HoneyedSea or WaterfallRusted Oak

Acorn

Choose Acorn for Cobalt Juniper, Elder Rosemary, or Wenge:

Flavor answerWater sound answerFinished flute
Salted or HoneyedSea or WaterfallCobalt Juniper
Pickled or SpicedRain or BrookCobalt Juniper
Pickled or SpicedSea or WaterfallElder Rosemary
Salted or HoneyedRain or BrookWenge

Acorn – Honeyed – Brook – 1000 gives Wenge.

Spark

Spark can give Ghost Pine, Ochrebark, or Rusted Oak. Spark – Pickled – Sea – 1000 gives Ghost Pine.

Flavor answerWater sound answerFinished flute
Pickled or SpicedSea or WaterfallGhost Pine
Salted, Pickled, Spiced, or HoneyedRain or BrookOchrebark
Salted or HoneyedSeaRusted Oak
SaltedWaterfallRusted Oak

Spark – Honeyed – Waterfall is also listed for Rusted Oak, but its final time answer is not confirmed yet. For a complete Rusted Oak combination starting with Spark, choose Spark – Salted – Sea – 1000.

Dew

Choose Dew for Cobalt Juniper, Elder Rosemary, or Wenge:

Flavor answerWater sound answerFinished flute
Salted or HoneyedSea or WaterfallCobalt Juniper
Pickled or SpicedRain or BrookCobalt Juniper
Pickled or SpicedSea or WaterfallElder Rosemary
Salted or HoneyedRain or BrookWenge

Dew – Honeyed – Brook – 1000 gives Wenge.

Which Time Answer Should You Use, and When Is the Flute Ready?

Use 1,000 years to match the complete combinations above. Whether One week produces the same flute is not confirmed yet.

1,000 years is a time answer, not a price. Bristlecone’s instruction to return in 1,000 years is a joke. He tells you to return after picking up your school supplies from town, to the east.

  1. Finish Bristlecone’s four questions using your chosen combination.
  2. Pick up your school supplies in town, to the east.
  3. Return to Bristlecone to collect your flute.

For Ghost Pine, the collection dialogue describes the finished flute as carved from ancient ghost pine.

Bristlecone describes the completed flute carved from ancient ghost pine

For the broader topic, see Songs of Glimmerwick flutes and songs.