The Blood of Dawnwalker: Bear Trouble Walkthrough and Ravenous Flock Manual Location

A Pilgrimage for Power: Bear Trouble is the easiest of the four uriashi pilgrimages in The Blood of Dawnwalker to stumble into, and it is usually the first Ravenous Flock Manual players pick up. There is no quest marker guiding you up the mountain. The game expects you to chase a sound, follow a trail of cairns and windchimes, and survive a bear at the top.

Quick answer: Follow the windchimes up the mountain north of Briar Sloughs, kill the Ravenous Bear at the summit clearing, then inspect and copy the glyph carved into the large stone. That single interaction awards the Ravenous Flock Manual, 1 Skill Point, and 250 XP.

Bear Trouble quest requirements and start location

The pilgrimage becomes available once you have finished “Smoke and Ashes” and scouted the Briar Sloughs Tower, which is one of the first things you do after leaving Laslea Glen. Cross the river to the northwest of that tower and head into the hills between Briar Sloughs and Laslea Glen. When windchimes start ringing loudly around you, you are in the right place and the quest starts on its own.

Detail	Value
Quest name	A Pilgrimage for Power: Bear Trouble
Region	Briar Sloughs, north of the tower across the river
Quest giver	Wind chimes (no NPC)
Requirement	Complete “Smoke and Ashes”
Time cost	2 time segments (spent on the glyph)
Rewards	Ravenous Flock Manual, 1 Skill Point, 250 XP

Note: the two time segments are only consumed when you copy the glyph, not by the climb or the fight. If you are managing the 15-day timer tightly, do the climb first and save the inspection for a moment that suits your schedule.

Follow the windchimes up the mountain

Walk toward the ringing until the objective “Follow the windchimes” appears, then switch on Focus Mode. The route is marked by hanging chimes, white chalk markings on the rock, and cairns wrapped in yellow fabric, all of which glow clearly in Focus.

Quest HUD showing the Follow the windchimes objective with a 24 metre compass marker — The compass marker counts down the distance to the next set of chimes. Image: Rebel Wolves

Climb the marked ledges and inspect the glowing waystone at the top of the first ascent. Coen notes that the trail continues past it, which confirms you are on the correct path rather than a random climbing route.

Coen scaling a cliff with the climbable handholds highlighted in gold — Highlighted handholds mark the climb up to the waystone. Image: Rebel Wolves

Shoot the hanging bell target blocking the way forward with a projectile. The path opens once it rings, and the chimes continue further up the slope.

Keep climbing past the abandoned camp with rotten food scattered around it. Use Focus Mode to pick up the footprints and then the bear tracks, which lead into a wide open clearing at the top of the hill.

How to beat the Ravenous Bear

The Ravenous Bear resting in the clearing is the same enemy type you may have already fought at Outlaw’s Gorge, and it fights identically. It is slow, which is what makes it manageable even on higher difficulties, but two of its attacks cannot be blocked.

Attack	Tell	Response
Charge	Bear lowers its head and runs straight at you	Dodge sideways; blocking knocks you down
Ground slam	Bear rears up on its hind legs	Dodge laterally, then counterattack on a perfect dodge

Stay off its centre line, punish the recovery after each unblockable, and it goes down without much drama. Loot the corpse afterwards for Bear Fur, Bear Meat, Bear Liver, and Animal Bones — all useful crafting and cooking materials.

Loot window open on the dead bear with Bear Liver highlighted in the item list — The bear’s loot window with Bear Liver selected. Image: Rebel Wolves

Ravenous Flock Manual location: inspect the uriashi glyph

The manual is not dropped by the bear and it is not in a chest. It comes from copying the glyph carved into the large stone at the centre of the clearing, the one circled by fireflies. Everything else in the area is evidence that explains what happened here.

Head to the western side of the clearing, toward the rocky overhang, and find the mauled uriash body. Inspect all four points on it — the glass and bone beads, the gashes across the face, the torn-open stomach, and the fresh wound on the forearm. The beads hand you a Quickcast Amulet.

Coen examining the mauled corpse while the objective tracker reads Inspect the uriashi glyph — The objective tracker points to the glyph while Coen works through the body’s wounds. Image: Rebel Wolves

Return to the centre of the stone circle and inspect the glyph on the large stone. Coen recognises the pattern as close to the hexes Anca showed him and copies it down, spending two time segments. The Ravenous Flock Manual, 1 Skill Point, and 250 XP land immediately.

Inspect the bloody knife stuck in the small rock in front of the glyph. The dried blood on it is a couple of days old, and it is what the uriash used to carve the symbol into his own arm.

Coen delivering his closing lines in the rocky alcove with the skip prompt shown — Coen’s closing monologue pieces the scene together and ends the quest. Image: Rebel Wolves

With the body, the glyph, and the knife all examined, Coen pieces the scene together out loud. The uriash carved the hex into his arm, the bear came for the food or the smell of fresh blood, and the hex either failed or came too late.

How to confirm the quest completed

A “QUEST ENDED” banner for A Pilgrimage for Power: Bear Trouble appears on screen after the final deduction. Open your inventory and the Ravenous Flock Manual should be sitting there as a readable item. Read it to apply the power rather than leaving it in your bag, since the scroll is what actually unlocks the next level of Ravenous Flock.

If the quest is still open, the usual cause is a missed inspection point. The corpse has four separate prompts on it, and the knife sits apart from the body on its own small rock. Sweep the clearing in Focus Mode and finish any prompt that still pulses.

What the Ravenous Flock ability does

Ravenous Flock is a witchcraft ability that hits an area and stuns whatever it catches. Once a target is marked, hitting it triggers extra area attacks, so the damage stacks up as you keep swinging. Casting it costs 2 Activation Charges and 40 percent of your Health, which makes it a burst tool rather than something to spam.

One manual is not the finished ability. Each of the four pilgrimages awards a Ravenous Flock Manual, and the power only reaches its full form once all four are read. Fully unlocked, it deals 470 Area Damage and persists for four hits or 20 seconds.

Pilgrimage	Where to find it	Fight
Bear Trouble	North of Briar Sloughs, south of Laslea Glen	Ravenous Bear
Dark-Thing	East of Svartrau, north of the Westridge Outpost shrine	Essence of Grief
The Ritual	Mountains south of Tantari Woods	Witch of Barren Peaks
Fanatics	Southwest of Tyna’s Grove	None

The order does not matter, and none of the four are gated behind the others. Bear Trouble is simply the one that sits closest to where the game first sets you loose, which is why it tends to be the manual players walk away with first.