Umbral Foundry sits inside the Windspear region and anchors a key stretch of the “His Vile Sanctum” story mission that culminates with Vile Lictor. There are only two collectibles to track here, and they’re both Vault Symbols. The layout is largely linear, but each symbol is tucked just out of sight — one on a mid-route ledge, the other behind a single-battery door.

Find both Umbral Foundry Vault Symbols (locations)

The facility repeats a few visual anchors — floating platforms over pits and bright, orange energy spheres — that help you confirm you’re in the right spaces. Use the directions below to reach each symbol efficiently.

Collectible Where to look Notable cues Reward
Vault Symbol 1 About a quarter of the way in, in the large cave-like room with the glowing orange sphere in the northeast. Grapple up to the floating platform over a pit, stand west of the sphere facing east, then turn around to face west and climb the short bank of electronics. Look down to a small wall-mounted platform ahead; the symbol is on the wall below. 5 SDU
Vault Symbol 2 Deeper inside, in the big room you enter from the northwest with another orange sphere to the south and a central raised platform with a massive pillar. Grapple onto the central platform, go beneath the large pillar, turn north, and hop through the broken triangular window. Continue north, then into an east room bathed in red light. Ignore the nearby left-hand door; instead, head southeast up the stairs, take the battery from the far table, then bring it northeast to the locked door with a battery slot to the left. Deposit and enter; the symbol is on the right wall. 5 SDU
Tip: If you’re unsure you’re in the second symbol’s wing, the sequence of cues is consistent — northwest entry, orange sphere south, central pillar, broken triangular window, red-lit room, then the single battery gating the correct door.

Get back to Umbral Foundry (new character, solo, or cleanup)

Revisiting Umbral Foundry can be confusing if its Waypoint isn’t unlocked on your own save or if you first cleared it in co‑op as a client. These paths work:

  • Replay “His Vile Sanctum.” This reliably re-opens the route through Windspear into Umbral Foundry and lets you reclaim the area Waypoint on your profile.
  • Use the Windspear rifts/portals chain. Start at the power substation route you took during the mission and follow the linked portals again; this leads back up to the Foundry even if the local fast travel hasn’t been claimed.
  • If you’re blocked at the fortress wall elevator, progressing the mission or triggering the rift route from the building west of the Foundry can surface the Waypoint without fully replaying everything.
Note: To reach Vile Lictor himself on a fresh profile or solo save, you may need to push the mission beats that activate doors/elevators inside the facility. The navigation portals can get you in, but boss access follows the mission’s progression switches.

Region notes and mission context

Umbral Foundry is a Windspear facility visited during “His Vile Sanctum.” The area’s internal navigation leans on grapples, broken windows that double as shortcuts, and single-use power canisters to open specific doors. Vile Lictor is the marquee encounter tied to this location.

Rewards and tracking quirks

  • Each Umbral Foundry Vault Symbol grants 5 SDU when activated.
  • The in‑region tracker may show only one Vault Symbol at certain points, but there are two to collect in total.

If you’re wrapping up collectibles, grab both symbols while you’re on the “His Vile Sanctum” path — you’ll pass near each naturally. Returning later is doable through the mission replay or the Windspear rift chain, but claiming the area Waypoint on your own save makes repeat farming and cleanup much faster.