The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to Climb the Cathedral Tower in Svartrau City

The Cathedral Tower is the tallest of the three Scouting Towers packed into Svartrau City, and it is the one most players stall on. The cathedral itself dominates the eastern side of the city, and there is no staircase to the top — the route is scaffolding, stained glass, and a rooftop hop that only works once Coen has his vampiric traversal abilities.

Quick answer: Go to the Cathedral Complex at night, circle to the side of the building, climb the scaffolding with Clawride until you reach the roof, then take the prompt to the cross at the peak and survey each highlighted spot. That marks Neustadt, Middens, Gewandhausplatz, and St. Rudel’s cemetery on your map and pays out 100 XP.

Cathedral Tower location and requirements

The tower is the cathedral spire inside the Cathedral Complex, in the eastern part of Svartrau City. It shows up on the world map as a white tower icon, the same marker used for the other ten Scouting Towers across Vale Sangora. The two other city towers, Neustadt and Market, are separate climbs and do not overlap with what this one reveals.

Detail	Cathedral Tower
Area	Cathedral Complex, Svartrau City
When to climb	Night, while Coen is in vampire form
Abilities used	Clawride for scaffolding and walls, Shadowstep for ledges
Chest or manual reward	None at this tower
Scouting XP	+100
Locations revealed	4
Time units consumed	None

The night requirement is not a suggestion. Scouting Towers are built around vampiric movement, and without Shadowstep and wall-walking you cannot reach the ledges that link the scaffolding to the roof. If those skills are not unlocked yet, the climb is simply not available to you, no matter how many angles you try during the day.

Coen moves through a dark cavern with the Ambrus's soldiers objective pinned to the quest tracker — Coen’s active objectives stay tracked on the HUD while he moves at night, when vampiric traversal is available. Image: Rebel Wolves

How to climb the Cathedral Tower

Open the map, set a marker on the Cathedral Tower icon, and travel to the Cathedral Complex. The compass at the top of the screen counts down the distance as you close in, so follow it until the cathedral fills the screen.

Compass marker reads 38 m as the player closes in on the tracked objective in Svartrau City — The compass distance ticking down to 38 m as you approach the marked spot. Image: Rebel Wolves

Do not stop at the main doors. Run around to the side of the building and look for the wooden scaffolding propped against the wall — that is the only entry point for the climb.

Coen stands in front of the Svartrau City cathedral facing the wall where the scaffolding route begins — The cathedral exterior in Svartrau City, where you circle to the side wall to find the scaffolding. Image: Rebel Wolves

Hold the Clawride input and scale the scaffolding. Keep going past the boards and up across the stained glass windows — the ability lets Coen stick to the vertical surfaces the whole way up.

Once you pull yourself onto the rooftop, look toward the spire. A prompt appears to carry Coen up to the cross at the very top, which is where the survey points live.

At the peak, aim at each highlighted point in the distance and press the survey prompt. A short cinematic plays for each one as the camera sweeps out over the city.

Nighttime scouting cinematic plays over Svartrau City with the Skip prompt in the corner — Each survey point triggers a short night cinematic, with a Skip prompt if you want to move on. Image: Rebel Wolves

Use Clawride again to come back down the tower rather than dropping off the edge. The same ability handles the descent safely, and you can ride the north side down into the Cathedral Complex garden if you plan to keep exploring.

What scouting from the Cathedral Tower reveals

Surveying from the cross adds four new places of interest to the world map, all of them inside or bordering Svartrau City:

Neustadt
Middens
Gewandhausplatz
St. Rudel’s cemetery

Gewandhausplatz scouting cinematic with objectives still shown on the right side of the screen — Gewandhausplatz being scouted from the peak, one of four spots the tower adds to the map. Image: Rebel Wolves

Beyond the named districts, tagging towers is how the open world fills in generally. Points of interest appear as question mark icons across the map, and those unresolved markers are what lead you to Sacred Stones, Ancient Circles, Haunted Sites, and the rest of the city’s activities.

How to confirm the tower registered

Two things tell you the climb counted. You get a +100 XP notification on screen after surveying, and when you open the map the four new location names are printed where there was previously blank city. If the map still looks empty, you missed one or more of the survey prompts at the peak — go back up and sweep the camera across every highlighted direction before descending.

The most common reasons the climb does not work are straightforward. Attempting it during daylight leaves you without the traversal abilities the route depends on. Starting from the front doors instead of the side scaffolding gives you nothing to Clawride onto. And skipping the final prompt to the cross means you never reach the survey points, even though you are technically on the cathedral roof.

Why the Cathedral Tower is worth doing early

Coen has 30 days and nights to save his family, and most quests eat time units off that clock. Scouting Towers do not. Climbing them costs you nothing but real-world minutes, which makes them the cheapest way to expand what you can see on the map — and there is nothing stopping you from clearing several in a single night.

The Cathedral Tower does not hide a chest or a skill manual the way the countryside towers do, so the map reveal and the XP are the whole payout here. It is also one of the eleven towers tied to the Bird’s-Eye View trophy and achievement, which unlocks once every tower in Vale Sangora has been climbed and scouted. Since you are already standing in the Cathedral Complex, the Neustadt and Market towers elsewhere in the city are the natural next two to knock out on the same night.