The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to Explore the Top of the Hill (Bear Trouble)

The hilltop leg of “A Pilgrimage for Power: Bear Trouble” is an investigation stop rather than a fight. Coen arrives at a rise scattered with stone cairns, a dead bear, a cave mouth, and the remains of a pilgrim who did not survive the trip. Nothing on the hill is hidden behind a skill check, but the objective only clears once every clue has been examined.

Quick answer: Inspect the bloody knife, the mutilated corpse inside the cave, the uriash glyph on the large stone, and both stone cairns. The corpse gives the Quickcast Amulet, copying the glyph gives the Ravenous Flock Manual, and the quest ends with “Find all the sacred stones” as the new objective.

Every inspection point on the hilltop

Four interactive points sit within a short walk of each other. The knife and the cairns are out in the open near the summit, the body is a few steps inside the cave, and the glyph is carved on the large standing stone. The quest tracker keeps “Explore the top of the hill” listed until they have all been checked, and adds “Inspect the uriash glyph” as a separate line once the stone is found.

Quest tracker showing the Explore the top of the hill objective while Coen walks a rocky passage — The objective stays pinned to the tracker as Coen climbs the rocky path toward the cairns. Image: Rebel Wolves

Inspection point	What Coen finds
Bloody knife	A well-kept blade covered in engravings Coen cannot read
Corpse in the cave	Fresh forearm wound, torn stomach, deep facial gashes, a bead necklace
Large stone	A uriash glyph patterned like the hexes Anca demonstrated
Stone cairns (two)	Days-old dried blood, linking the knife to the marks carved on the dead man’s arm

Order to work through the hilltop clues

Start with the bloody knife lying on the ground beside the cairns. Pick it up and rotate it in the inspection view so Coen comments on the engravings. He notes the blade has been cared for, but the symbols mean nothing to him yet.

Head into the cave a short distance from the knife and approach the body. Use the Inspect prompt on the forearm wound, the ripped stomach, and the face, then take the glass and bone bead necklace to add the Quickcast Amulet to your inventory.

Inspect prompt appearing over the mutilated body inside the cave during Bear Trouble — The Inspect prompt over the body in the cave, where the bead necklace becomes the Quickcast Amulet. Image: Rebel Wolves

Return outside and examine the uriash glyph carved into the large stone. Coen recognises the pattern from Anca’s hexes and offers to copy it, which is the action that grants the Ravenous Flock Manual.

Ravenous Flock Manual reward notification appearing after copying the glyph on the hill — The Ravenous Flock Manual notification after Coen finishes copying the carved glyph. Image: Rebel Wolves

Finish at the two stone cairns. The first sends Coen back to the knife engravings, and the second closes the thread, with the dried blood confirming the uriash cut the marks into his own arm before the bear reached him.

Coen crossing the rocky hillside with the hilltop objective still active in the tracker — The cairns sit out on the open hillside, a few paces from where the knife was dropped. Image: Rebel Wolves

Rewards from the Bear Trouble hilltop

Reward	How it is obtained
Quickcast Amulet	Taking the bead necklace from the corpse in the cave
Ravenous Flock Manual	Copying the uriash glyph from the large stone

Neither reward is optional if you want the full return from the hill. The amulet comes from a clue the objective already asks you to inspect, and the manual is tied to the separate “Inspect the uriash glyph” line rather than to finishing the quest itself.

Copying the glyph moves the clock forward

Copying the carving is not instant. The screen cuts to a “Time Has Passed” transition while Coen works, and the day rolls from Noon into Afternoon before he steps back and confirms the pattern is simple enough to use. If you are managing your remaining daylight segments carefully, do the glyph knowing you will lose a slice of the day to it.

Hours Go By: Time Has Passed transition screen while Coen stands outdoors on the hill — The Time Has Passed screen that plays while Coen copies the glyph onto his own notes. Image: Rebel Wolves

How to confirm the objective is complete

The second cairn is the last piece. Once Coen concludes the knife was used for self-mutilation, a QUEST ENDED banner appears for “A Pilgrimage for Power: Bear Trouble” and the tracker refreshes with a QUEST UPDATED prompt.

The replacement objective is “Find all the sacred stones,” which carries the pilgrimage line forward from the hill. If that line has not appeared, you still have an uninspected clue on the summit, and in almost every case it is one of the two cairns rather than the body or the glyph.

Note: the hill is a daytime-friendly stop with no combat attached, so there is no benefit to waiting for nightfall before you climb it.

Once the sacred stones objective is live, the amulet and the manual are yours to keep regardless of how the rest of the pilgrimage plays out, which makes the hilltop one of the cheapest detours in the early stretch of Vale Sangora.