Hub 1: Seven Portals (map)

The first hub map in Hexen. it starts with the player in a room with a Korax-faced-wall in front of them.

walkthrough
Okay, I’ll try to work this walkthough out as I proceed through the hubs of HeXen... this might take some time so please be patient while it’s still incomplete... and feel free to add all the things I missed (most of the secrets, I guess...)

This map is visited multiple times and its walkthrough is thus closely related to walkthroughs of all remaining maps of the hub (exept, of course, the prologue one...).

First Visit (start)

The wall starts flaming, says some things and disappears. Go just outside, stand on the ledge, it will go down. You get down to the main area of the map, there are some monsters there, depending on the difficulty (mostly ettins and efreeti). They are going to appear some more now and then as you proceed through the map, so I won’t mention the "kill all the monsters there" anymore. Anyway, there is a bull-head switch on a wall at the left side of the area, where three of the seven doors (and portals) are. Switching it will open the middle door. At the end of that room, you have to jump on the wooden ledge and pass through the window into the icy hall and through the portal into the Guardian of Ice (north wing).

Second visit

walk out of the ice portal room, before going to the Fire Guardian level, go find the L2 weapon, it is out in the open on a raised pillar that has recently been lowered. pick it up and continue. some new doors should be opened, go to the fiery one, do the normal portal opening routine, go through the portal. Guardian of Fire

Secrets

 * Bright Crucible, reached ONLY at the end.
 * At the large battlefield with the cliff at the end, go to the far Left of the cliff and jump onto the ledge, Kill thee chaos serpents as you make your way up. grab the Wings of wrath.  (NOTE: it is recommended that you kill all of the monsters before you do this.)