Enshrouded: How to Find the Hunter in the Ancient Vault

The Hunter, Athalan Skree, is one of the craftspeople you recover from an Ancient Vault in Enshrouded. Recruiting her opens up fur-based armor, the Drying Rack, and stronger arrows, so she is worth collecting early. She is sealed in the Ancient Vault – Hunter, located east of Braelyn Bridge, and you free her by awakening her pod and then summoning her back at your base.

Quick answer: Commune with the Flame Altar to start Hunter Becomes The Hunted, travel to the Ancient Vault – Hunter east of Braelyn Bridge, awaken her pod inside, then place a Summoning Staff in an enclosed room at your base to spawn her.

What you need before you go

Two tools make the trip possible. The Glider carries you across the ravines between your base and the vault, and the Grappling Hook gets you over a lava pit inside the structure. Both are rewards from earlier Blacksmith quests and are crafted at the Workbench.

Tool	Rarity	Key stat
Glider	Uncommon	Range 100%, Speed 10, Stamina per Second 4
Grappling Hook	Uncommon	Stamina Cost 40

The quest itself begins at the Flame Altar in any of your bases. The trigger can fire at different times, but it commonly appears after you reach the top of the spire during The Ancient Spires. Once it is available, an exclamation mark sits over the altar.

Reach the Ancient Vault – Hunter

Walk up to the Flame Altar at your base and commune with the Flame. It tells you that a Hunter and an Alchemist are still waiting inside the Ancient Vaults, which adds the quest Hunter Becomes The Hunted to your journal.

Interactive map Ancient Vault — Hunter location Zoom in and tap a marker for its exact spot.

Communing with the Flame starts the quest to recover the Hunter and the Alchemist. Shown at 00:07 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Open the world map and find the Ancient Vault – Hunter to the east, roughly northeast of Braelyn Bridge and directly west of the Springlands Ancient Spire. Select it and set it as a waypoint so you have a marker to follow.

Setting Waypoint — Pin the Ancient Vault – Hunter on the map so the objective marker guides you east. Shown at 00:28 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Head east toward the marker across the open fields and woodland. The fastest line is to clear the Springlands Ancient Spire first, fast travel to its top, and glide off toward the vault, then follow the grassy plateau the rest of the way. Watch for scavengers and wolves along the route.

Overland Travel — Follow the path east, keeping the waypoint marker in view as you cross the valley. Shown at 00:44 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Use the Glider at cliff edges to drop into the valley corridors safely and keep your momentum. Keep moving uphill through the grass until the ancient stone ruins come into view ahead.

Approaching the Vault Grounds — The ruins of the Ancient Vault – Hunter sit at the top of the hill once you clear the valley. Shown at 02:16 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Clear the courtyard and get inside

Enter the courtyard and deal with the bear-like beasts guarding the grounds, including a level 3 beast by the steps. Their swings are slow and predictable, so parry or dodge and strike between attacks. The fallen beast drops Animal Fur, Raw Lean Meat, and Twigs.

Vault Courtyard & Beast Fight — A level 3 beast blocks the exterior steps; its slow swings are easy to punish. Shown at 02:39 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

With the courtyard clear, climb the stone steps to the main entrance of the vault.

Exterior Stairs — The exterior stairs lead straight to the vault doorway once the beasts are dealt with. Shown at 02:51 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: Keen Games GmbH

Inside the entrance corridor, blue electric orbs fire from the walls. They move fast and hurt badly on contact, so time your run and dash straight through rather than lingering.

Up the next flight of stairs you reach a lava pit. Aim your Grappling Hook at the point on the ceiling and swing across to the platform on the far side. There is a locked side door here that needs three buttons pressed if you want the chest, but you do not need it to reach the Hunter.

Climb the stairs through the corridor, then open the large circular stone door. Athalan Skree is inside the glowing pink pod among the capsules. Interact with the pod to wake the survivor.

Awakening her immediately unlocks the Dried Fur recipe at the Drying Rack, confirmed by the on-screen prompts “SOUL DISCOVERED! ATHALAN SKREE” and “RECIPE UNLOCKED! Dried Fur at Drying Rack”.

Summon the Hunter at your base to finish the quest

Waking the pod does not complete the quest on its own. The journal updates to say the Hunter must be summoned at your base to walk the plane again, and that requires a Summoning Staff, which summons rescued survivors around a Flame Altar.

Travel back to your base and build a small enclosed room for her. The space needs walls, a roof, and a door. Place the Summoning Staff and spawn Athalan Skree inside that room, the same way you set up the Blacksmith earlier. Once she is summoned and settled, Hunter Becomes The Hunted completes and pays out its reward of 1500 XP.

You will know it worked when she appears as an active craftsperson at your base and your Craftspeople counter ticks up on the Flame readout. From then on you can talk to her to start her own follow-up quests, including Growing Stronger Together and later The Hunter’s Hand Spindle.

What Athalan Skree crafts once she is home

As the Hunter, Athalan Skree carries 275 recipes and specializes in ranged combat and survival gear. Her blueprints lean on Fur Patch and Animal Fur, and she brings the stations that process those materials. Expect the Drying Rack, Tanning Station, Loom, Spinning Wheel, and Hand Spindle, plus a wide range of arrows and the Ranger, Scout, and other ranged armor sets.

The fur materials she unlocks are the backbone of that gear. Animal Fur is a common drop from beasts, while Dried Fur is what you get after processing it on the Drying Rack for longer durability.

Material	Item level	Rarity	Stack size
Animal Fur	5	Common	250
Dried Fur	5	Common	250

Dried Fur is crafted at the Drying Rack from Animal Fur, the recipe she hands you the moment you wake her pod. With her set up at your base, every fur you strip off the beasts guarding the vault, and everywhere else in the Springlands, becomes usable armor and arrow stock.