Rumor: The Beast Fang Ridge Research Notes I in Aniimo (Full Walkthrough)

Sayn is a Polaris Institute researcher with a habit of losing his own work. His Aniimo field notes have been scattered across Idyll by one accident after another, and the Beast Fang Ridge batch is the one that sends you climbing around a level 30–35 stretch of Breezy Plains. The collection itself is quick. What slows people down is that two of the three pickups are locked behind traversal rather than combat.

Quick answer: Collect all three Bonesky Family Research Reports in Beast Fang Ridge, then hand “Research on the Bonesky Species” to Sayn at the Outpost (-1519, 0829). The reward is 10x Glimmer.

What you need before collecting the Bonesky notes

Beast Fang Ridge sits at levels 30–35, so a team built for that band is enough to survive the roamers. The gating is elsewhere. One report is behind a wall of ice, another is at the bottom of a crater with no climbable walls, and both problems need a specific answer.

Burn open the ice blocking the Echoback Landing cave with a Fire attack.
A flying Aniimo you can summon and glide with.
Transporters unlocked near Frigid Waters, the Scorchhowl point, and the Outpost.
A party suited to level 30–35 content.

This ridge naturally supplies Fire options. Scorchhowl appears here as a Fire-element Aniimo, and an Aniimo from the Emberpup family will handle the ice barrier without sending you elsewhere.

All three Bonesky Family Research Report locations

Report	Map pin	Access
Report III	-1413, 1398	Melt the ice at the Echoback Landing cave
Report II	-1295, 1374	Glide into the sinkhole
Report I	-1332, 1353	Grassy slope past Alpha Scorchhowl

Those numbers are custom pins you drop on the map to warp in nearby, not the exact tile each report rests on. The order below runs from the western end of the ridge back toward the Scorchhowl transporter, which cuts the travel time down to a few minutes.

Report III: The ice cave at Echoback Landing

Use the map to set a custom marker at -1413, 1398, immediately beyond Frigid Waters. Warp to the nearest transporter, then travel to Echoback Landing on foot or mounted.

Make your way through the purple-flower field to the cave entrance. Ice blocks the opening, and you cannot take another path around it.

Use a Fire skill on the ice to shatter the seal, then enter the cave. Bonesky Family Research Report III lies a short distance inside, beneath a glowing pickup prompt on the floor.

Report II: Gliding into the sinkhole

Return to the map, set -1295, 1374 as your marker beside the Scorchhowl label, and press the Teleport button to arrive there.

Keep running toward the cliff until the terrain falls into a deep crater. Avoid attempting to descend by scrambling along its walls.

Call forth a flying Aniimo and glide down to the sinkhole floor. At the bottom, the report rests on a rock surrounded by shallow water.

Report I: The slope near Alpha Scorchhowl

Set -1332, 1353 as your marker, then warp back to the Scorchhowl point. From that transporter, the final report is only a short sprint away.

Use the waypoint to climb the grassy incline. An Alpha Scorchhowl patrols this area, but you can pass it without stopping because the quest does not require any combat.

Scorchhowl is the stage-three member of the Emberpup family and the reason this ridge is dotted with scorch marks. It is a Fire DPS with 119 attack and 119 magic attack, and the Alpha variant on this slope hits considerably harder than the standard spawn. At level 30 the run-past is simply the faster option.

Retrieve Bonesky Family Research Report I on the hillside. Once it is collected, the objective counter should read 3/3.

Finding Report I — The last report sits in the open grass above the Scorchhowl transporter. Shown at 02:34 in RIFAS’s video. Image: Pawprint Studio

Hand the notes to Sayn at the Outpost

Keep the quest tracked until its waypoint changes to the delivery target. Then teleport to the Outpost at -1519, 0829.

Tracking Sayn in Outpost — Selecting the Outpost on the Breezy Plains map before teleporting to Sayn. Shown at 01:25 in RIFAS’s video. Image: Pawprint Studio

Locate Sayn, identified as Seated Researcher, and begin the conversation. Select the dialogue choice to give over “Research on the Bonesky Species.”

Confirm the turn-in. The reward screen pays out 10x Glimmer and the quest clears out of your Log.

The Inferlupa research notes on Beast Fang Ridge

Sayn’s losses do not stop at the Bonesky file. A second rumor sends you back to the same ridge for the Inferlupa research notes, and this one is a single pickup with no ice and no gliding involved.

Open the Breezy Plains map, zoom into Beast Fang Ridge, and drop a tracking pin near -1145, 1340.

Fast travel using the Rising Flame node, which puts you closest to the pin. From there, mount up and ride across the plains toward the marker.

Look for a large boulder among the trees. Interacting with the Inferlupa Research Notes prompt on it gives you the “Anonymous Research Notes” item.

Locating Research Notes — The Inferlupa Research Notes prompt appears on a boulder tucked between the trees. Shown at 01:08 in RIFAS’s video. Image: Pawprint Studio

Track the delivery objective, teleport back to the Outpost, and talk to Sayn again. Hand over the Anonymous Research Notes to close the rumor out.

Delivering Notes to Sayn — The hand-in menu with the Anonymous Research Notes ready to confirm. Shown at 01:43 in RIFAS’s video. Image: Pawprint Studio

How to check your progress in the Log

The Log menu under Journey tracks the first objective as “Find the Bonesky research notes in Beast Fang Ridge” with a running count next to it. That count only rolls over to the delivery step once all three reports are in your inventory, so a stalled counter is the clearest signal that something is still out there.

After completing the sinkhole and slope locations, a 2/3 tracker means Report III is still behind the Echoback Landing ice barrier. Take a Fire skill there, break through, and the objective completes immediately.