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DragonSword: Awakening: How to Unlock Kalien’s Secret Vestment of the Great Spirit

Cook two stamina foods, take a deep-diving familiar to the water northeast of Firefly Forest, and open the sunken chest for free.

Cook two stamina foods, take a deep-diving familiar to the water northeast of Firefly Forest, and open the sunken chest for free.

Kalien has one costume in DragonSword: Awakening that never shows up in the store. The Vestment of the Great Spirit is a free reward sitting in a treasure chest on the ocean floor, and equipping it swaps her color scheme to a mostly white, purple, and hot pink look. The catch is that the chest sits far deeper than your stamina bar normally allows, so you have to prepare before you dive.

Quick answer: Cook Egg Renew and Assorted Rice Bowls, take a familiar with the deep-dive ability to the water northeast of Firefly Forest (south of the Trench of Secrets label), eat one Assorted Rice Bowl, dive straight down without dashing, drop through the hole in the seafloor, and press F on the chest in the ruins to add the Vestment of the Great Spirit to your collection.


What the Vestment of the Great Spirit does

The Vestment of the Great Spirit is Kalien’s ceremonial robe, a purely cosmetic outfit that recolors her without changing any combat stats or abilities. It costs nothing once you find it, and it slots straight into your wardrobe the moment you open the chest. You can grab the chest with any character, but the outfit only becomes usable after Kalien is on your roster.


What you need before diving

Reaching the chest with a normal descent is impossible because your stamina empties long before you touch the seafloor. Two things solve that. First, a familiar with the deep-dive ability, since a standard mount cannot take you deep enough. Second, a pair of stamina foods that stretch and refill the bar while you sink.

FoodIngredients (Slicing)Effect
Egg RenewEggs x3Instantly restores 25% stamina
Assorted Rice BowlsMeat x1, Fish x1, Rice x1Cuts how fast stamina drains while active

Cook several of each. Egg Renew is your emergency refill for when the bar nearly empties, and Assorted Rice Bowls slow the drain so you can keep moving down for much longer.

Note: The deep-dive familiar is the real gate on this run. If you do not have a mount capable of diving that deep, sort that out first, because the stamina foods alone will not get you to the bottom.


Where the chest is located

The dive point is out in open water northeast of Firefly Forest, near the Endless Summoning Ground dungeon. Head east from the dungeon toward a small island with a boat resting on its coast, then look to the water south of the Trench of Secrets label on your map. You do not need to unlock the wider region first to reach the treasure.

Map location of the dive point south of the Trench of Secrets in DragonSword: Awakening
Line up beneath the Trench of Secrets label to find the dive point. Image: Hound13 Inc.

How to reach and open the chest

Ride your deep-dive familiar to the dive spot in the water, lining up roughly beneath the “of” in the Trench of Secrets map label. This is your entry point before you go under.
Eat one Assorted Rice Bowl right before you start diving so the reduced stamina drain is already active. This single step is what makes the depth reachable.
Dive straight down and move slowly. Do not dash, because dashing burns stamina fast and you will not make it to the bottom. Sip an Egg Renew whenever the bar drops close to empty to top it back up.
Watch for a hole in the seafloor as you descend. Drop through it and keep heading toward the bottom. You may need to readjust the camera angle here so you stay pointed straight down through the gap.
At the bottom you reach a set of ruins with a treasure chest in the center. Move close, wait for the interact prompt, and press F to collect the Vestment of the Great Spirit.
The treasure chest in the center of the underwater ruins in DragonSword: Awakening
The chest sits in the middle of the sunken ruins. Image: Hound13 Inc.

How to confirm it worked and why the chest may fail to open

You know the pickup registered when the interact prompt clears and the Vestment of the Great Spirit is added to your collection. If the chest will not open, the usual reason is running out of stamina before you reach it. That happens when you dashed on the way down, skipped the Assorted Rice Bowl buff, or ran out of Egg Renew refills partway through the dive.


How to equip the outfit on Kalien

Press ESC on keyboard or the menu button on a gamepad to open the Main Menu, then choose the Hero menu.
Select Kalien, then pick the hanger-shaped icon in the bottom left.
Choose the Vestment of the Great Spirit and equip it. Her color scheme switches to the white, purple, and pink look right away.

Kalien is one of the characters you can obtain for free by completing quests or by trading a Fate’s Invitation in the Exchange shop, so the costume becomes fully usable as soon as she joins your roster. Grab the chest early if you like, then hold the outfit until she is unlocked.