Enshrouded: How to Complete Look Around Cinder’s Ascent in Land Of The Sky Islands

Land Of The Sky Islands sends you deep into Cinder’s Cradle to confront a threat the Flame senses approaching. The third objective, Look Around Cinder’s Ascent, drops you on an inactive platform with no obvious way up to the floating isles. What you are actually looking for is the soul of an Ancient researcher waiting nearby.

Quick answer: Search the Cinder’s Ascent chamber and collect the soul of Loraine Crim. That completes the step and switches the objective to summoning her at a Flame Altar.

Where the objective starts and what you need

This step begins once you have cleared the earlier objectives, Reach The Ancient Gate and Reach The Heart Of Cinders. The quest is given by The Flame, runs four steps in total, and pays 3,200 XP plus Loraine Crim as a recruitable craftsperson. The route crosses lava hazards and hostile mechanical constructs, so a glider is essential and combat-ready gear is strongly advised.

Everything takes place inside the Cinder’s Cradle region. The Ancient Gate is your entry point into the shrouded interior, and Cinder’s Ascent sits near the centre of the Ancient kingdom.

Route to Cinder’s Ascent

Fast travel to the high altar overlooking the region near the Ancient Gate. From this elevated position you have a clear line toward the gate marker below.

Fast travel to altar — Fast travelling to the high altar gives you the height needed to glide straight toward the Ancient Gate. Shown at 00:23 in RIFAS’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Jump off and open the glider, then ride the drop across the volcanic chasm toward the Ancient Gate marker. Keep your altitude and aim directly for the shrouded doorway.

Gliding toward Ancient Gate — Glide across the chasm and line up with the Ancient Gate marker before you lose height. Shown at 00:46 in RIFAS’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Glide down into the gate and enter the Battlegrounds. The location-discovery banner confirms you have crossed into the interior ruins.

Entering the Shroud at Ancient Gate — Passing through the gate charts the Battlegrounds and drops you into the shrouded ruins. Shown at 01:19 in RIFAS’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Cross the ruins and damaged bridges amid the lava flows. The molten channels are instant hazards, so stay on the stone walkways.

Traversing lava chasms — The broken bridges over lava are the main traversal hazard inside the Battlegrounds. Shown at 01:44 in RIFAS’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Find the ancient flame updraft pad and step onto it to launch yourself up the volcanic cliffs. These lift mechanisms are how you gain height when there is no path upward.

Updraft and launch pad — The glowing launch pad throws you up the cliffs so you can glide onward. Shown at 02:43 in RIFAS’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Reach the charted Mine and board the mechanized elevator track moving upward. Expect mechanical arachnid constructs here, which drop Archaic Shards and Gold Ore and unlock the Archaic Lockpick recipe when you loot them.

Discovering Mine & mechanized track — The mechanized track inside the Mine carries you up toward the higher ruins. Shown at 03:56 in RIFAS’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Continue past the Mine along the stone roads, through Andromeda’s Eye, and along the lantern-lit corridors through the Shroud. Follow the illuminated path up the monumental stone stairs that lead to the Cinder’s Ascent fortress structure.

The lantern-lined route through the Shroud is deliberate. When visibility drops, follow the lights rather than cutting across open ground, and keep moving to limit exposure to enemy fire.

Finding Loraine Crim’s soul at Cinder’s Ascent

Once you reach the platform, the Look Around Cinder’s Ascent prompt appears. The platform itself is empty and inactive, but a lost soul is nearby. Head into the chamber inside the structure and interact with the soul to Collect Soul. This is Loraine Crim, an Ancient researcher.

Collecting the soul immediately advances the quest to its final step, Summon The Ancient Researcher And Speak To Them. A lore book, the Field Notes dated Day 26 of Yearwake, 509 D.A., sits in the same chamber and hints that the platform may function as a teleporter to the isles above, which sets up later objectives in the chain.

Summon Loraine Crim at your base

Open the map and fast travel back to a Flame Altar base of your own. You cannot summon the researcher out at Cinder’s Ascent.

Equip the Summoning Staff at the base. This tool places rescued survivors around a Flame Altar.

Select Loraine Crim under the Craftspeople list, place her in the settlement, and talk to her. Her first lines confirm the rescue worked, and she joins as an Ancient Researcher with a roaming range of 10m.

How to confirm the step is complete

The Look Around Cinder’s Ascent objective is marked done the moment the Soul Discovered prompt fires and you collect Loraine Crim. The journal then shows Summon The Ancient Researcher And Speak To Them as the active step. Speaking to her after summoning closes out Land Of The Sky Islands, pays the 3,200 XP, and registers Loraine Crim as a base craftsperson.

Once she is settled, she makes 15 recipes, including the Ancient Workbench, the Infusion Altar, a placeable Gem Forge, and the Vorgoth’s Soulbound armour pieces. She also opens follow-up quests such as Activating The Gate To The Stars and Cinders Of The End.

Character with an axe stands in a dark forest at night, with a quest tracker and hotbar visible. — A shirtless character holding an Axe stands in a dark forest with the prompts Cut tree and Block, while the quest tracker reads Craft Or Obtain A Workbench.

Items and crafting values you pick up along the way

The run to Cinder’s Ascent hands you two materials and a recipe worth knowing before you fight the constructs. Archaic Shards are the key reward, since they unlock and feed the Archaic Lockpick that opens Ancient structures and dungeons.

Item	Rarity	Item level	Stack	Source
Archaic Shards	Common	45	250	Cinder’s Cradle, Ancient Constructs
Gold Ore	Common	40	250	Veilwater Basin, Underwater
Archaic Lockpick	Rare	—	50	Crafted by the Ancient Researcher

The Archaic Lockpick is crafted one at a time from 1 Archaic Shards. Its recipe unlocks at Flame level 9 or higher, and is learned automatically the first time you pick up Archaic Shards. These lockpicks are used only on the Ancients’ own locks, so hold onto a stack of Shards for the dungeons that open up once Loraine Crim is settled.