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

The “Explore the top of the hill” objective in A Pilgrimage for Power: Bear Trouble stalls a lot of players because nothing on the plateau is marked with a big obvious prompt. The quest only advances once Coen has looked at three separate things scattered around the summit, and skipping even one leaves the objective sitting in your journal.

Quick answer: Inspect all three hilltop clues — the dead uriash inside the cave, the engraved standing stone outside it, and the bloody knife lying on the ground — and the objective flips to “Meet with Anca at the old inn”.

Before you can search the hilltop

Bear Trouble is the first leg of A Pilgrimage for Power, and it starts west of the Laslea Gate Shrine, north of Briar Sloughs. You climb by following the sound of windchimes, which are far easier to track with Focus Mode held down, and white chalk markings on the rock confirm the route.

Coen climbing toward the hilltop during the Bear Trouble objective — Making the approach to the summit for A Pilgrimage for Power: Bear Trouble. Image: Rebel Wolves

A Ravenous Bear guards the plateau. Save before you reach the top, because the fight arrives with very little warning and the search objective cannot be finished while the bear is alive. The hilltop search itself works day or night, so there is no need to burn time segments waiting for a particular part of the cycle.

Forest path with the Toggle Active Abilities prompt visible on screen — The route up runs through wooded slopes, with active abilities ready for the bear waiting at the top. Image: Rebel Wolves

The three clues to inspect at the top of the hill

Head into the cave at the summit and find the body lying inside. Loot it to pick up a Quickcast Amulet, a Level 6 accessory that cuts Witchcraft Ability cooldown by 2%, along with a Family Ring that adds 6% Maximum Human Health. Coen notes the gear must have belonged to the uriash.

Inventory screen showing gear picked up from the body in the cave — Checking the inventory after looting the uriash corpse inside the cave. Image: Rebel Wolves

Step back outside and approach the large standing stone near the cave mouth. Inspecting the carved surface hands you a manual, and Coen remarks that the engravings mean nothing to him. This is the same uriashi glyph that later pays out the Ravenous Flock Manual for the quest.

Find the bloody knife on the ground nearby and inspect it. That triggers a close-up inspection scene with voiceover, where Coen works out that the blood is a couple of days old and that the uriash used the blade to cut the marks into his own arm.

Coen examining the bloodied blade in a rocky cavern during the inspection scene — The knife inspection scene, where Coen reads the dried blood and the carved marks. Image: Rebel Wolves

Order does not matter. The objective tracks all three inspections independently, so if you looted the corpse on the way in before fighting the bear, you only need the stone and the knife afterwards.

How to confirm the objective completed

The moment the third clue is inspected, the on-screen quest banner updates and the journal entry for A Pilgrimage for Power: Bear Trouble switches its objective to “Meet with Anca at the old inn”. Open the journal to double-check, since the notification can be missed during the voiceover.

Quest update banner for A Pilgrimage for Power: Bear Trouble on the gameplay HUD — The quest updates on the HUD once all three hilltop clues have been inspected. Image: Rebel Wolves

If the objective still reads “Explore the top of the hill”, one of the three has been missed. The cave interior is the usual culprit, because the body sits back from the entrance and is easy to walk past on the way to the standing stone. The knife is the second most-missed, since it lies flat on the ground rather than propped up.

What the hilltop hands you

Clue	What you get
Body in the cave	Quickcast Amulet (Level 6, -2% Witchcraft Ability Cooldown) and Family Ring (+6% Maximum Human Health)
Engraved standing stone	A manual; interacting with the uriashi glyph costs two time segments
Bloody knife	Inspection dialogue explaining the marks carved into the uriash’s arm

Note: Interacting with the glyph on the sacred stone spends two time segments, which matters when the “Rescue your family” clock is running. Bear Trouble also awards 250 XP and the first Ravenous Flock Manual, the Witchcraft ability that stuns a target and chains extra area attacks.

Once the journal points you to Anca at the old inn, the wider A Pilgrimage for Power quest opens up with its “Find all the sacred stones” objective — three more glyphs scattered across Vale Sangora, each worth another Ravenous Flock Manual.