The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to Send the Second Letter to Lunka

Letters to Lunka is the one quest chain in The Blood of Dawnwalker that pays out in the game’s scarcest resource, and the second letter is where the loop becomes routine. Coen doesn’t write it himself. He walks back into a burrow under the Outskirts and tells a moth-sized fairy what to say.

Quick answer: Read “Answer from Lunka: Rescue” in the Quest Items tab of your inventory, then travel to the Yawning Burrow in the Svartrau Outskirts and speak to the Sanzhani Tsarina to choose what the second letter asks.

What has to be done before the second letter unlocks

The objective doesn’t appear on its own. Three things gate it, and they happen in a fixed order.

Requirement	Why it matters
Finish the Good Home quest	It introduces the Sanzhani Tsarina in the Yawning Burrow and starts Letters to Lunka. No sanzhani are visible on the map before this.
Send the first letter	The Tsarina only carries one message at a time, and each completed sanzhani quest earns another.
Wait one day-night transition, then read the reply	Lunka’s answer is delivered as a quest item. The “Read Lunka’s letter” objective must be cleared before “Send the second letter to Lunka” becomes active.

Sending the letter itself costs 0 Time Segments, so the trip back to the burrow doesn’t eat into the countdown to Brencis’ coronation.

Getting back to the Sanzhani Tsarina in the Yawning Burrow

Open your inventory and switch to the Quest Items tab. Read “Answer from Lunka: Rescue” — the reply where she describes her nightmare about Branis and says she just wants to come home. Clearing this read prompt is what flips the quest to the next objective.

Reading Lunka's reply letter in the Quest Items tab before the next objective unlocks — Lunka’s reply sits in the Quest Items tab and must be read first. Image: Rebel Wolves

Open the world map and find your current position. The Letters to Lunka marker sits in Vale Sangora, in the Svartrau Outskirts, so you may need to pan the map away from wherever the main story left you.

World map open with the Current Position marker highlighted before setting a route — Start from your Current Position marker on the map. Image: Rebel Wolves

Highlight the golden quest marker over the Outskirts and set it as your tracked objective. Fast travel to the nearest shrine if one is unlocked, then follow the compass distance readout on foot.

Map centered on the Outskirts with the golden Letters to Lunka quest marker selected — The golden marker over the Outskirts is the Yawning Burrow. Image: Rebel Wolves

Follow the rocky path downhill until the compass marker reads under 40 meters. The burrow entrance is a low opening in the rock, ringed by clusters of red mushrooms on the ground outside — that mushroom patch is the reliable visual cue if the marker overlaps the terrain.

Approaching the burrow entrance with the compass objective marker showing 34 meters — The cave mouth sits at the end of the path, roughly 34 meters from the marker. Image: Rebel Wolves

Crouch and crawl through the narrow tunnel. It’s a short, dark, lantern-lit passage with no combat and no branching paths, so keep moving until the objective distance drops to around 10 meters.

Crouching through the lantern-lit burrow tunnel with the objective 10 meters ahead — Crouch-walk the tunnel until the tracker reads 10 meters. Image: Rebel Wolves

Talk to the Sanzhani Tsarina at the end of the burrow and pick the subject of the letter. The dialogue is the delivery — there’s no item to hand over.

What you can ask Lunka in the second letter

The Tsarina offers a set of subjects, and each one you choose becomes its own wait-and-read objective. You aren’t locked out of the others, since every additional sanzhani you help earns another message, up to five in total.

Subject	What the reply covers
Pieter	How Coen and Lunka’s father is holding up in captivity.
Greifberg’s defences	Anything Lunka can see or overhear about how Castle Greifberg is guarded.
Brencis	What Brencis is doing inside the castle and whether the family features in his plans.
A gift for her	Something Lunka would like, asked so Coen can bring it when he comes.

How to confirm the letter was sent

As soon as the conversation ends, the journal entry swaps from “Send the second letter to Lunka” to a matching “Wait for Lunka’s answer” objective naming the subject you picked. That swap is the confirmation.

The reply needs one full day-night transition to arrive. When it does, the objective becomes a “Read Lunka’s answer” prompt and the letter appears in the Quest Items tab, exactly like the first one. You do not have to sit in the burrow waiting — go do something else and come back.

If the send option isn’t there, it’s almost always one of three things. You haven’t read the previous reply yet, a day-night transition hasn’t passed since the last message, or you’re standing in front of a sanzhani you helped rather than the Tsarina herself. Only the Tsarina in the Yawning Burrow takes letters.

Why the letters are worth the detour

Five sanzhani exist across Vale Sangora, and each one you rescue or assist buys another letter. Working through all of them and reporting back to the Tsarina hands Coen an extra day before the coronation — eight daytime segments and eight nighttime segments added to the clock — along with The Tsarina’s Favorite Human achievement.

Note: individual sanzhani quests do cost roughly 2 Time Segments each to complete, so the net gain comes from finishing the whole set rather than any single rescue.

The chain also has an alternative ending. Coen can drop the correspondence entirely and put everything into reaching his family, which closes out the quest without the exchange. If you want the extra day, though, keep making the walk back down to the mushrooms.