Mirrors of Life are the save rooms in Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse. Each one is a small room with a mirror set between hooded statues, and using one locks in your progress, restores your health, and refills your potions. Activating all of them is what the Narcissus achievement asks for, so this covers where every mirror sits by area and sub-area, along with the Ferryman’s Wharf in each area.
Quick answer: You can find 34 Mirrors of Life in nine areas. Approach each and activate it with INTERACT (R1 on PlayStation or E on PC); activating all 34 awards Narcissus.
What a Mirror of Life does
The prompt on a mirror reads:
“This mirror saves your progress, you heal yourself completely and fill your potions. Upon use, roaming monsters will reappear. If you die, you will resume your adventure at the last mirror you interacted with.”
Using a mirror triggers “MAP UPDATED”. Mirror chambers appear on your map as rooms, so an inactive one is easy to spot: you haven’t entered it yet. In Paris Streets, drop down the well to reach Central Sewer Drain, where you’ll find the first Mirror of Life.
About the Ferryman’s Wharf rooms
Each area has one Ferryman’s Wharf, for a total of 9. There, speak with the Ferryman; the menu displays “CHOOSE A DESTINATION” and lets Rose travel between areas. Rose first reaches a wharf at Collapsed Path of Orpheus, within the Catacombs of Paris, where she meets the Ferryman.
Paris Streets (5 Mirrors of Life)
- Mirror of Life: Burned District
- Mirror of Life: Central Sewer Drain
- Mirror of Life: Gate to the Stone Bridge
- Mirror of Life: Prison Tower
- Mirror of Life: Undercity
Ferryman’s Wharf: Abandoned Sewers.
Holy Innocents’ Cemetery (4 Mirrors of Life)
- Mirror of Life: Ancient Sewers
- Mirror of Life: Cloister
- Mirror of Life: Overgrown Crypt
- Mirror of Life: Pauper’s Grave
Ferryman’s Wharf: Ossuary of the Innocents.
Catacombs of Paris (2 Mirrors of Life)
- Mirror of Life: Quarry Elevator
- Mirror of Life: Realm of Old Night
Ferryman’s Wharf: Collapsed Path of Orpheus.
Main Hall (9 Mirrors of Life)
- Mirror of Life: Archives
- Mirror of Life: Ballrooms
- Mirror of Life: Boudoirs
- Mirror of Life: Elevator Tower
- Mirror of Life: Entrance Corridor
- Mirror of Life: Servants’ Quarters
- Mirror of Life: Storerooms
- Mirror of Life: Torture Chambers
- Mirror of Life: Waterworks
Ferryman’s Wharf: Armoury.
Library (2 Mirrors of Life)
- Mirror of Life: Exhibition Room
- Mirror of Life: Rhetoric Shelves
Ferryman’s Wharf: Bridge of Knowledge.
Clock Tower (3 Mirrors of Life)
- Mirror of Life: Eastern Summit
- Mirror of Life: Foundry Apex
- Mirror of Life: Mechanic’s Ascent
Ferryman’s Wharf: Forgotten Bridge.
Notre-Dame (3 Mirrors of Life)
- Mirror of Life: East Gallery
- Mirror of Life: Notre-Dame Undercroft
- Mirror of Life: West Triforium
Ferryman’s Wharf: East Triforium.
Hall of Mirrors (5 Mirrors of Life)
- Mirror of Life: Familiar Way
- Mirror of Life: Heart of the Maze
- Mirror of Life: Nightmare Atrium
- Mirror of Life: The Descent Into Memory
- Mirror of Life: Threshold of Vision
Ferryman’s Wharf: Delived Level.
Master’s Quarters (1 Mirror of Life)
- Mirror of Life: Sanctuary of Solitude
Ferryman’s Wharf: Sanctuary of Solitude.
Narcissus achievement
Narcissus asks you to “Activate every mirror of life”, and it needs all 34. The totals add up this way: Paris Streets 5, Holy Innocents’ Cemetery 4, Catacombs of Paris 2, Main Hall 9, Library 2, Clock Tower 3, Notre-Dame 3, Hall of Mirrors 5, and Master’s Quarters 1.
