E2M9: The Glacier (Heretic)
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| The Ossuary |
| The Stagnant Demesne |
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| This level has a remastered version |
E2M9: The Glacier is the secret map in Hell's Maw episode of Heretic, and can be accessed from E2M4. It uses the music track "Olkin" by Kevin Schilder.
Contents
Walkthrough[edit]
Essentials[edit]
You begin at the top of the staircase in the center of the map. Blow up the pods in front of you to clear the staircase then go down to the stained-glass windows on the bottom level, watching out for sabreclaws on the way down. Go west or east to drop into the room with the titular glacier, fight off any waiting gargoyles then climb up to the top of the glacier (move slowly to avoid slipping off the ice) to find the yellow key along with Gauntlets of the Necromancer.
Enter the teleporter east of the key to go back to the bottom level of the staircase, go west to a pair of yellow doors and open them to enter an icy hallway with weredragons, then go south along the hallway and look at the doorways to your right. Go through the middle doorway and follow the passage round to the green key, turn around and kill the two weredragons (or disciples on bringest them oneth skill level or higher) that are released behind you, then go back to the bottom of the staircase and open the green doors on the east side.
Kill some waiting gargoyles then go south up the steps and look left at the top to see stairs leading down to a hall with a lava pool. Blow up the pods on the east side of the hall to clear a path to the blue key, collect it then go back to the staircase and open the blue door at the top to face some disciples. Press the switch on the east wall to open the exit door next to it and reveal one more disciple protecting the exit teleporter.
Other points of interest[edit]
If the firemace has appeared, you can have it at one of four different locations. In order of appearance, the places are:
- the eastern side of the glacier room, where the weapon has been placed on the floor at a corner of two blue walls;
- the secret area behind the southwestern stained glass window in the glacier room (see secret #7);
- the southern end of the yellow door hallway;
- the exit chamber.
If the weapon did not appear, the next chance to get it is on E2M6: The Labyrinth.
Secrets[edit]
- Once you move down the third flight of stairs in the opening room, a secret wall will lower in the southwestern alcove at the top of the stairs, revealing a disciple of D'Sparil that guards a Bag of Holding. (sector 170)
- Once you drop down into the central chamber containing the giant glacier, approaching any of the stained glass windows in front of it will lower them. You will find several items, including the Tome of Power, a torch, and the dragon claw, inside. (sector 97)
- Once you acquire the yellow key on top of the glacier, passages east and west of secret #2 will open. Inside press the switch in the southeast corner. A floor section will lower in the northwest corner. Jump down and go through the teleporter at the end of the passage, which will teleport you to a secret room filled with several enemies as well as the Wings of Wrath and a Tome of Power. (sector 93)
- Use the Wings of Wrath to fly up to the ledge below the stained glass window on the eastern side of the central chamber containing the giant glacier. The window will lower to reveal a secret compartment behind it with an iron lich or disciple of D'Sparil (on lower difficulties) inside it. (sector 68) This secret can also be reached by a careful running jump from sector 73.
- Past the green door, in the large room with a lava pool where you will find the blue key, approach the northeastern pillar on the western side of the room; press the wall section between the two skull torches to reveal a teleporter. This will teleport you to a room with two hidden doors behind some skeletal textures. The one directly behind you leads to a hidden chamber containing the phoenix rod. (sector 64)
- From the room containing the blue key (see secret #5), head down the stairs leading south into a room filled with several golems and an undead warrior. The wall opposite the foot of stairs where you enter contains a misaligned section; pressing against it opens up a secret compartment holding a Ring of Invincibility. (sector 162)
- Following the passage further down from the previous secret will lead to a undead warrior ghost guarding a mystic urn. At the northeastern corner of this room, a section of the wall has a misaligned texture, pressing it opens a secret room containing the hellstaff. (sector 33)
- Once you step into the room containing the exit teleporter, the southern wall of the previous room will open and reveal two teleporters. The western one will take you to a secret room overlooking the yellow key area with the map scroll and some ammo inside it. (sector 145)
- The eastern teleporter mentioned in secret #8 leads to a ledge with a pit separating into two halves. Drop into the pit to land in a small room you could previously see behind a portcullis in front of which you found the blue key. You will find a mystic urn and a switch to lower the walls beside you. (sector 134)
Areas / screenshots[edit]
The hall
The yellow key is nearby.
Weredragons roam this area.
Lava pool
Speedrunning[edit]
Routes and tricks[edit]
Current records[edit]
The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:
| Run | Time | Player | Date | File | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SM speed | 0:40.91 | Ks4 | 2024-12-13 | h2s9-4091.zip | Cross-listed from Pacifist |
| SM max | 4:37.63 | Insomnia | 2023-04-13 | h2m9-437.zip | |
| BP speed | 0:51.40 | Natalya Shilyaeva (QWERTY) | 2002-10-26 | h2b9-051.zip | |
| BP max | 4:33.31 | Doomniel | 2023-05-22 | h2f9-433.zip | |
| NM speed | 0:48.63 | Doomniel | 2025-07-22 | E2M9-4863.zip | |
| NM 100S | 1:46.71 | Doomniel | 2025-07-22 | E2M9-14671.zip | |
| Tyson | 16:14.63 | Doomniel | 2025-07-11 | E2M9-1614.zip | |
| Pacifist | 0:40.91 | Ks4 | 2024-12-13 | h2s9-4091.zip | |
| NoMo | 0:37.57 | Ks4 | 2023-05-05 | h2o93757.zip | |
| NoMo 100S | 1:50.94 | El Tom | 2023-03-28 | o2s9-150.zip | |
| Stroller | 1:23.20 | Doomniel | 2025-07-20 | E2M9-12320.zip |
The data was last verified in its entirety on October 31, 2025.
Deathmatch[edit]
Player spawns[edit]
This level contains five spawn points:
- facing north. (thing 35)
- facing east. (thing 36)
- facing north. (thing 37)
- facing north. (thing 38)
- facing north. (thing 499)
Statistics[edit]
Map data[edit]
| Things | 504 |
| Vertices | 930* |
| Linedefs | 996 |
| Sidedefs | 1351 |
| Sectors | 189 |
* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 798.
Things[edit]
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:
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