Destroyed Shrines: Hidden & Safe Walkthrough in The Blood of Dawnwalker

Most destroyed shrines in Vale Sangora are simple to fix. Inspect the wreckage, follow the footprints in Focus Mode, kill whoever took the idol, and put the heart back. Three of them don’t work that way. The hearts for Pilgrim’s Bridge, Vedera Marsh, and Burner’s Clearing were never dumped in a soldier camp nearby, and the trail at each shrine goes cold. They all end up in the same place, and the quest that leads you there is Destroyed Shrines: Hidden & Safe.

Quick answer: Inspect the desecrated shrine in the Svartrau Outskirts and take the letter, climb into the attic of the Curious House in Neustadt (southern Svartrau City) and copy the maps on the desk, then loot the altar inside the cave east of Svartrau City to collect all three missing shrine hearts.

What the quest actually gives you

The payoff is three shrine hearts in one trip, not one. Shrines are the fast travel points in The Blood of Dawnwalker, and they’re also where you buy perks, open your storage, and pass time. Brencis ordered them torn down, so soldiers pulled the idols out. A destroyed shrine stays dead on the map until its heart goes back in.

Detail	Specifics
Quest name	Destroyed Shrines: Hidden & Safe
Where it starts	Desecrated shrine in the Svartrau Outskirts
Hearts recovered	Pilgrim’s Bridge, Vedera Marsh, Burner’s Clearing
Stash location	Cave east of Svartrau City
Person responsible	David Breslauer
Time cost	Placing each heart back advances time by one unit

Note: because each restoration eats a time segment, collecting all three hearts and immediately running to all three shrines will burn three units. If you have a quest running on a deadline, bank the hearts and place them when the clock allows.

Before you go: night form and Focus Mode

Two things make this quest painless. The first is Focus Mode, held on L2/LT, which outlines the objects you’re meant to inspect in yellow. You’ll need it twice, once in the attic and once inside the cave.

The second is your vampire kit. Breslauer’s attic is reached from above, so the climb is far easier at night with Vrakhiri movement abilities. Shapeshift also cuts down the travel time between the Outskirts, the city, and the cave, which matters when every detour costs you clock.

Start the quest at the Svartrau Outskirts shrine

Open the map and head to the destroyed shrine marked in the Svartrau Outskirts. Destroyed shrines show as greyed-out icons rather than the blue ones you can fast travel between.

Interact with the ruined shrine to inspect it. Instead of the usual footprint trail leading to a nearby camp, you’ll find a letter, the Lost Request, sitting in the rubble.

Pick up and read the letter. That starts Destroyed Shrines: Hidden & Safe and points you at a house in the city. Track the quest in your journal so the marker stays on your compass.

Journal entry for Destroyed Shrines: Hidden & Safe showing the Find Breslauer's house objective — The journal entry with the active objective, Find Breslauer’s house. Image: Rebel Wolves

Get into Breslauer’s attic in Svartrau City

The building is labelled Curious House on your map, in the Neustadt district in the south of Svartrau City. The ground floor door won’t help you. The way in is over the top.

Travel to the Curious House marker and look up at the building rather than at the street door. You’re aiming for the roof line and the balcony above it.

Climb up onto the roof. At night your vampire mobility handles this in one go; during the day you’ll need to work the ledges and crates around the building.

Enter the attic through the open doorway at the top. The door is already open, so there’s no lock to pick and nothing to break.

Hold Focus Mode and sweep the room. Loot the piles around the attic while you’re in there, including the stash beside the bed, then move to the desk covered in maps.

Loot prompt appearing over a pile of belongings next to a bed inside the attic — The Loot prompt over the pile beside the bed in Breslauer’s attic. Image: Rebel Wolves

Inspect the maps on the desk. Coen copies the shrine locations down, which is what actually advances the quest. The papers name Svartrau, Neustadt, and Vale Sangora’s ruined places, and they belong to David Breslauer, whose shrine fixation also feeds the Curious House quest Enshrined Obsession.

Once the maps are copied, the objective flips to finding the stash and a new marker drops onto your map. If the objective doesn’t change, you inspected something else in the attic, so go back to the desk specifically.

Quest tracker on the HUD updated to the Find the stash objective during gameplay — The tracker updates to Find the stash after the maps are copied. Image: Rebel Wolves

Find the stash in the cave east of Svartrau City

Open the map and check the new marker. The cave sits east of Svartrau City, across the river, so fast travel to the closest shrine you’ve already unlocked on that side and cover the rest on foot.

Regional map screen open on the Map tab with quest markers visible around Svartrau — The regional map, used to line up the stash marker east of Svartrau City. Image: Rebel Wolves

Head into the cave mouth and follow the passage inward. It’s a short, linear route, and Focus Mode will pick out the path if the interior is too dark to read.

At the end you’ll reach a makeshift altar with the stolen goods laid out on it. Take everything. That’s where Breslauer hid the Pilgrim’s Bridge Shrine’s heart, the Vedera Marsh Shrine’s heart, and the Burner’s Clearing heart.

Loot prompt over a chest at the hidden altar deep inside the cave — Looting the hidden stash at the end of the cave. Image: Rebel Wolves

How to confirm the quest is done

Destroyed Shrines: Hidden & Safe closes the moment you take the hearts from the altar. You’ll see the quest completion prompt on screen and the entry moves out of your active journal list.

The hearts themselves sit in your inventory under their own names, one per shrine. Restoring the shrines is separate work. Walk to each of the three destroyed shrines, place its matching heart, and watch the map icon change from grey to blue. Only then can you fast travel to it, buy perks there, or reach your storage.

Reasons the quest stalls

You never picked up the letter. Inspecting the Outskirts shrine alone isn’t enough. The Lost Request has to be collected for the quest to appear in your journal.
You searched the attic but skipped the desk. The trigger is copying the maps, not looting the room.
You’re trying the front door. The Curious House is entered from the roof through the open upper doorway, and the climb is much simpler in your night form.
You’re looking for footprints. These three shrines have no trail to a nearby camp. The maps in the attic are the only lead.

Vale Sangora holds 111 shrines in total, 94 working ones and 17 destroyed, and none of them are tied to trophies. They exist to save you time, which is the resource this game is stingiest with. Clearing this one quest early unlocks three fast travel points across the south of the map in a single run, which is worth more than the time segments it costs to plant the hearts.