Stars as Raiment is the fourth volume of the Hidden Mountain Jianghu Legacy in Where Winds Meet, a quiet story quest built around an old stargazer and a rickety flying machine. It trades combat for atmosphere, sending you above the clouds on a mechanical wooden eagle while a meteor cascade falls across the sky. The whole chapter is set at Alkaid Pool in Heaven’s Threshold, and it closes out Volume IV of the legacy once the flight ends and you hand its elderly star back to her family.
Quick answer: It is a Hidden Mountain Jianghu Legacy quest at Alkaid Pool that triggers on arrival, requires reaching Granny Yun during You Hour (17:00–19:00), and ends with a scripted eagle flight through a meteor shower.
Where Stars as Raiment takes place and how it starts
The quest sits in Heaven’s Threshold within the Hidden Mountain region, at a water basin called Alkaid Pool near the Stellated Rocks. Reaching the pool is enough to add the quest to your log on its own. Once it triggers, the objective points you to the pool during You Hour, the in-game window between 17:00 and 19:00, which is when Granny Yun appears on the water to fish and wait for the meteor cascade.
If you arrive outside that window, the time wheel in the menu lets you advance the clock to You Hour so she shows up. Her log entry frames the moment in old astronomical language, noting a star that appeared in the Heavenly Market Enclosure and marking Alkaid Pool as a fitting place to watch the night sky.
Granny Yun, the Lord of Clouds
Granny Yun is the heart of the chapter. You first find her sitting on a wooden dock with a fishing line, muttering to herself about the phases of the moon. The opening conversation turns on a self-given title, “Lord of Clouds,” which she wants you to validate, and agreeing to it keeps the story moving.
After the first exchange, you sit beside her on the pier and share a round of Zhongshan wine called Thousand-Day Drunk while she talks about wanting to go up into the skies. It is a slow, deliberate beat that sets up the flight to come rather than a puzzle to solve.
The wooden eagle and the flight sequence
The contraption at the center of the quest is a mechanical “Flight” wooden eagle resting on the pond shore. You inspect its three parts, the Left Wing, the Tail, and the Right Wing, and the game is blunt about the state it is in, describing weathered wings that look like a couple more shakes would knock them loose. After a short talk with Granny Yun about whether the thing can actually fly, night descends and the meteor shower begins.
Once the stars start falling, you board the eagle, take the pilot seat with Granny Yun secured behind you, and launch into the air.
The flight itself is a guided ride across a sea of clouds toward distant mountain gates, following falling stars along a marked path. Blue lights line the route, and passing through them grants a Sparkling buff that raises the eagle’s movement speed. The flight is built for sightseeing and story rather than challenge. There are no missable items along the way, and bumping into the environment does no damage to the eagle, so the path cannot be failed.
From there the route threads through rock arches, canyons, towering ruins, and floating stone pillars, climbing toward a grand pavilion on the highest peak as meteors streak overhead. Throughout the ascent, voiced memories recount Granny Yun’s past studies, touching on star charts, precession, and journeys made with her family and peers.
Achievements and knowledge entries unlocked during the flight
The aerial sequence hands out three achievements as you progress. “High Spirits” and “A Stellar Start” unlock as the flight begins, and “Written in the Heavens” unlocks while climbing through the sky ruins toward the summit.
The quest also fills in several compendium knowledge entries drawn from its astronomy theme:
- Dameng Calendar
- Precession
- Dunhuang Star Chart
- Spiritual Constitution
- Book of Documents – Canon of Yao
How the quest ends: Zhan Yuelu
After the flight lands, you return to ground level at night and find Granny Yun resting against a mossy rock, worn out from the climb and holding a star she caught. Her granddaughter, Zhan Yuelu, then arrives with ginger soup to walk her home, explaining that Granny’s memory is fading and recalling her grandfather’s writings about the Lord of Clouds. Speaking with Zhan Yuelu closes the chapter.
You know it worked when the completion banner reads “VOLUME IV: STARS AS RAIMENT Completed” and the rewards populate on screen in the field.
Stars as Raiment rewards
Completing the volume pays out currency, experience, exploration progress, and a set of consumables and materials. The unique reward is Falling Star, tied to the story of the meteor cascade, and finishing also advances the Wandering Tale “Reach for the Stars.”
| Reward | Amount |
|---|---|
| Echo Jade | 20 |
| Coin | 22,500 |
| Character EXP | 22,500 |
| Hidden Mountain Exploration | 30 |
| Jade Fish | 90 |
| Falling Star | 1 |
| Elegance | +2 |
Alongside those, you pick up Ebon Iron: Forge Ahead, Lingering Melody, Mystic Insight Pill, and Medicinal Tales, plus Enlightenment Point and Exploration Mastery progress. The exact consumable quantities can shift slightly between drops, but the headline currency, EXP, and the Falling Star reward stay constant.
