Genshin Impact: Sparks Converging Upon the Tundra Walkthrough (7.1)

In Genshin Impact, Sparks Converging Upon the Tundra serves as the second subquest of White Night, Like A Dream Upon Waking, the Chapter 7 Act 3 Archon Quest. The Snezhnaya storyline shifts here from a private discussion in a rented room to a public effort to gather Seals of Life, concluding with a nighttime train trip to the capital.

Quick answer: Finish Light and Shadow, Intertwined, rest in your Podvorye Restaurant room, skip in-game time forward two days, then follow the plaza, Northland Bank, and Svetloledovka objectives in order.

Unlock requirement and quest length

The quest becomes available only after Light and Shadow, Intertwined, the first part of the same Archon Quest chain, is complete. There is no separate unlock condition beyond that, and no combat gate to clear.

Detail	Value
Chain	White Night, Like A Dream Upon Waking
Position	Second subquest, Chapter 7 Act 3
Prerequisite	Light and Shadow, Intertwined
Speedrun time	20–25 minutes
Full dialogue time	30–35 minutes
Follow-up quest	One Move Left to Make

Walkthrough: from your room to the plaza

Open the map in Snezhnograd and set a marker on Podvorye Restaurant. Run to the entrance stairs and interact with the door to go inside, then take the curved staircase up to the guest floor.

Snezhnograd City Navigation — The Snezhnograd map showing the Podvorye Restaurant marker. Shown at 00:14 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: HoYoverse, footage by @Flins

Danica waits at the door on the upper landing. Talk to her, sit through the scene where she tidies the room and serves hot milk, and hear her out on her family’s service to the Tsaritsa and her mercenary years.

Once Danica leaves, the objective changes to waiting. Open the in-game clock and set the time forward to 07:00 two days later, then talk to Paimon and leave the room.

Waiting Two Days — The in-game clock menu, with the wait time set to 07:00. Shown at 05:32 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: HoYoverse, footage by @Flins

Advancing the clock is the only way to progress here. Nothing triggers if you simply walk out of the room at the current time.

You wake to noise outside. Look over the interior balcony to catch the patrons discussing Seals of Life, then head down and out onto the street toward the crowd.

The plaza gathering and the palace announcement

Outside the restaurant, the quest marker covers the entire plaza, which makes it look like there is far more to do than there is. Most of the NPC clusters are optional flavour. Only the assembly at the foot of the Zapolyarny Palace steps advances the story.

Two optional stops are worth the detour if you want context. Odette and Vodyanitsa are performing in the open plaza and will talk through the public reaction to the Seals of Life. Alyosha stands near Katheryne by the Adventurers’ Guild staircase and points you toward the palace.

Meeting Vodyanitsa and Odette — Odette and Vodyanitsa performing for a crowd in the plaza. Shown at 08:04 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: HoYoverse, footage by @Flins

Move to the palace steps to trigger the main scene. Councilor Belozersky fields questions from the townsfolk about extracting and donating Seals of Life, and Regrator Pantalone then takes the steps to announce that Northland Bank will handle official donations, with interest promised on them. Afterwards, Alyosha, Odette, and Vodyanitsa talk over their own decision to contribute.

If you already spoke to Alyosha near Katheryne, he will not appear again at the palace cutscene — only Odette and Vodyanitsa join you there.

Northland Bank: submitting the Seal of Life

Teleport to the nearest city waypoint and run up the stairs into Northland Bank. The lobby is packed with citizens queuing to donate.

Heading to Northland Bank — Heading through the city toward the Northland Bank objective marker. Shown at 13:20 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: HoYoverse, footage by @Flins

Watch the extraction sequence. Teller Zmeina guides Odette as she sets her hand on the lamp apparatus, after which the group talks about the individual memories shown in the luminous spheres.

Vesna and Danica arrive in the lobby. Vesna explains the power she inherited to draw out Seals of Life and how Sandrone engineered the lamp beacons that make the process work at scale.

Vesna Explains Her Power — Vesna explaining her inherited power and Sandrone's lamp beacons. Shown at 16:04 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: HoYoverse, footage by @Flins

Pevtsova approaches to thank the party for the earlier rescue at Svetloledovka and offers to help gather seals there. Vesna proposes the trip, and the objective updates to Go to Svetloledovka.

Svetloledovka: collecting Seals of Life

Open the map and teleport straight to the Svetloledovka waypoint. There is no need to ride the train out; fast travel drops you at the station platform where Vesna is waiting.

Journey to Svetloledovka — The world map showing Svetloledovka and its teleport waypoint. Shown at 20:34 in WoW Quests’s video. Image: HoYoverse, footage by @Flins

Follow Vesna down the stairs toward the collection booth. Optional interaction points line the route, but the trigger is reaching the bottom, which starts the cutscene where Vesna and Odette organise the villagers into lines. Chagin’s extraction leads to a comic argument with Tumanova over old romantic memories, and the session wraps as evening falls.

Danica then points out the problem that ends the trip. Everyone willing has donated, but the scheduled train cannot carry the volume of seals collected, so Paimon offers your private train instead.

Summoning your train with the Eye of Graeae

Open your inventory and equip the Eye of Graeae gadget, then activate it on the platform.

Bring up the gadget menu, then choose the “Call Train” button toward the bottom. The locomotive arrives along the platform tracks.

Say goodbye to the Svetloledovka residents and board. Paimon runs the systems diagnostic through the Eye of Graeae mechanism to finish the pre-departure checks.

The ride back consists of one long conversation. Vesna and Danica dispute who should take the controls, then Danica makes coffee and discusses her mercenary work in Sumeru, Fontaine, Natlan, Liyue, and Inazuma. They also look back on their training under Capitano. Vesna reflects on protecting the Seals of Life before dozing off on the sofa. As the train nears its destination, the Traveler spots a strange golden beam moving past the carriage window.

How the quest ends and how to confirm completion

The train arrives at Snezhnograd station at night. Vesna and Danica break off to finish official duties, and as the rest of the group discusses getting food, theatre staff member Lesnaya rushes up to Odette with urgent news. Odette asks everyone to move to the usual spot to talk privately, and the quest completes there.

You will know it worked when the quest closes out and One Move Left to Make unlocks as the next entry in the chain.

Rewards and where to claim them

Reward	Amount
Mystic Enhancement Ore	9
Mora	60,450
Hero’s Wit	5

These rewards are not handed out automatically. Open the Snezhnaya Adventure Journal, found beside the minimap directly under the Paimon menu, and claim them manually.

Budget around half an hour if you read everything, or closer to 20 minutes if you skip dialogue. The only real pacing risk is the two-day time skip early on, so handle that first and the rest of the quest runs straight through without backtracking.