The Blood of Dawnwalker: Destroyed Shrines Crossroads Inn Guide

The shrine at Crossroads Inn sits broken until you find the heart that was taken from it. It is one of the damaged shrines scattered across Vale Sangora, and until Coen puts the missing idol back, the site gives you nothing — no fast travel, no storage, no perk screen, no waiting.

Quick answer: Inspect the shrine south of Stuga Marshes to start the quest, hold Focus Mode (L2/LT on controller, right mouse button on PC) and follow the yellow footprints past the riverbank to the soldier camp to the northwest, loot the chest inside the main tent for the shrine’s heart, then return and interact with the shrine to restore it.

Crossroads Inn destroyed shrine location and quest details

The damaged shrine stands in Svartbro Forest, on the path south of Stuga Marshes and close to Anka’s Hut. Walking up to it and inspecting it starts the activity “Destroyed Shrines: Crossroads Inn” and sets the first objective, “Search for clues around the shrine using Focus Mode.”

Detail	Value
Quest name	Destroyed Shrines: Crossroads Inn
Shrine location	Svartbro Forest, south of Stuga Marshes, near Anka’s Hut
Heart location	Chest inside the tent at the soldier camp northwest of the shrine
Tool required	Focus Mode (hold L2/LT, or right mouse button on PC)
Time cost	1 time segment on restoration
Unlocks	Fast travel, storage, waiting, perk management

How to find the stolen shrine heart

Approach the broken shrine and press the inspect prompt. That interaction is what registers the quest, so nothing else on this trail will appear until you do it.

Inspect prompt showing at the ruined Crossroads Inn shrine in Focus Mode — The inspect prompt at the ruined shrine, which begins the search for clues in Focus Mode.

Hold Focus Mode while standing beside the shrine. Yellow footprints light up on the ground and mark the route the thieves took away from the site.

Yellow footprints picked out by Focus Mode with an inspect prompt on screen — Focus Mode picks out the yellow footprints left behind by whoever took the shrine’s heart.

Follow the prints downhill to the riverbank. A backpack sits by the water, and inspecting it keeps the trail moving forward.

Coen examining the abandoned backpack found at the riverbank clue — The backpack on the riverbank, the second clue on the trail out of Svartbro Forest.

Keep tracking the footprints away from the water. They lead northwest to a soldier camp, which is where the idol ended up.

Enter the main tent in the camp and open the chest inside. It holds the shrine’s heart along with a document titled “Brennix’s Orders – Old Shrines Must Be Destroyed”, which explains why the shrines in the region are being torn apart.

Coen stepping into the soldier camp tent that holds the chest with the shrine's heart — The tent at the soldier camp northwest of the shrine, where the chest holds the missing idol.

Tip: if the trail goes cold anywhere between the river and the camp, hold Focus Mode again from where you are standing. The markings refresh and point out the next clue or the container carrying the idol.

Restore the shrine and confirm it worked

Head back to the shrine with the heart in your inventory. The objective updates to “Restore the shrine” once you are carrying it, so check the journal if you are unsure whether you picked it up.

Quest update for the Crossroads Inn shrine appearing while running back through the forest — The quest tracker updating on the run back through Svartbro Forest, with the journal prompt on screen.

Interact with the shrine to place the idol. The site comes back to life immediately and starts working like any intact shrine in Vale Sangora.

Open the map and look at the icon. A gray marker means the shrine is still inactive; a blue marker confirms the restoration went through. If it stays gray, interact with the shrine once more to finish placing the heart.

Why the shrine may refuse to restore

There are only a couple of reasons the option to repair the shrine does not appear. Almost always, the heart is simply not in your inventory yet — walking back without it will not complete anything.

You reached the soldier camp but never opened the chest inside the tent.
You lost the trail and stopped short of the camp; re-enter Focus Mode near the last clue to pick the footprints back up.
You placed the idol but did not check the map afterward, so the restoration looks unconfirmed.

The time cost of repairing a shrine

Restoring the Crossroads Inn shrine advances the in-game clock by one time segment, which matters because the main story runs on a countdown to rescue Coen’s family. If a quest you are on has a hard deadline or a fixed window, finish that first and come back for the shrine.

The payoff is that the site becomes a permanent hub. You can fast travel to and from it, reach your storage, wait to shift the time of day, and spend points on perks — and fast travel itself does not burn any in-game time, so a repaired shrine tends to earn back the segment it cost as soon as you start moving between distant objectives.

The same tracking loop covers every damaged shrine in the region. Inspect, hold Focus Mode, follow the yellow trail to whoever took the idol, and bring it back — the only thing that changes is whether the heart is sitting in a chest, on a corpse, or guarded by wolves.