The Blood of Dawnwalker: Destroyed Shrines Ticha Riverpass Walkthrough

Ticha Riverpass is one of the shrines Brencis’s soldiers got to first. The idol that makes it work — the shrine’s heart — is gone, so the site is dead on your map until you bring the heart back. Unlike the shrines guarded by a soldier camp or a bear, this one has no fight attached at all. The thief died on his own, and the whole job is a short walk, a drop into a ravine, and a slightly awkward climb back out.

Quick answer: Inspect the broken shrine to start the quest, hold Focus Mode to reveal the yellow footprints, follow them to the ravine, drop in and loot the glowing corpse for the Ticha Riverpass Shrine’s Heart, then walk back up the ravine’s sloped path and interact with the shrine to restore it.

Before you start: Focus Mode and the time cost

Nothing happens until you interact with the damaged shrine itself. Walking past it does not trigger anything. Once Coen inspects it, the journal adds Destroyed Shrines: Ticha Riverpass with the objective to search for clues around the shrine using Focus Mode.

Looks like the shrine’s missing its heart… but maybe I could restore it.

Focus Mode is bound to holding L2 on controller or LT on Xbox pads. It outlines interactive objects in yellow, including footprints and the marks left on tree trunks along the route. Without it, the trail is invisible.

Note: Restoring a destroyed shrine advances the clock by one time segment. With a hard countdown running on rescuing your family, it is worth batching shrine repairs alongside other errands in the same area rather than making a dedicated trip.

Follow the tracks from the shrine to the ravine

Stand next to the shrine and hold Focus Mode. A set of yellow footprints appears leading away from the ruined structure, and the objective changes to “Follow the tracks.”

Walk the trail through the woods. Focus Mode also highlights marked trees along the way, which act as confirmation you have not wandered off the route. Re-trigger Focus Mode whenever the prints fade out.

Coen following the yellow footprint trail through the forest with the Follow the tracks objective active — The yellow marker and the “Follow the tracks” objective guide you away from the ruined shrine and into the woods.

The trail ends at the lip of a ravine. The objective updates to “Search the area using Focus Mode,” and a blood trail runs over the edge. This is the whole story of the quest — the thief lost his footing and went down with the heart still on him.

Blood trail at the edge of the ravine with the Search the area using Focus Mode objective on screen — The blood trail at the ravine edge, where the objective switches to searching the area with Focus Mode.

Drop down into the ravine and look for the corpse glowing yellow at the bottom. Loot it to pick up the Ticha Riverpass Shrine’s Heart along with everything else the man was carrying.

Everything on the body in the ravine

Only the heart matters for the quest, but the corpse carries a small stack of extras. The note is worth reading if you want context on who ordered the shrines torn down.

Item	Use
Ticha Riverpass Shrine’s Heart	Quest item — restores the shrine
Brenna’s Orders – False Idols	Readable note
Dust Well-Fitted Trousers	Armor
Supernumerary’s Bone Brew (1)	Consumable
Canteen of Elderflower Juice (1)	Consumable

Get out of the ravine without wasting time

This is the only part of the quest that trips people up. The ravine walls directly above the body are not climbable, and hammering the jump or climb input against them goes nowhere.

Instead of climbing straight up, follow the floor of the ravine until it narrows into a rocky passage. There is a walkable slope that leads back to the surface.

Coen climbing out of the Ticha Riverpass ravine with the Restore the shrine objective showing — After looting the heart, the objective flips to “Restore the shrine” while you work your way back up out of the ravine.

Squeeze through the narrow gap in the rocks. The sprint prompt stays available here, so you can move through the tight section at speed rather than crawling along the wall looking for handholds.

Character pushing through a tight gap between rock walls with the sprint prompt on screen — The narrow gap in the rocks, with the sprint prompt still active as you push through.

Once you are back on level ground, track the quest and run straight back to the shrine. The return trip is short — the ravine sits close enough that you can see the route back without a marker.

Rocky passage out of the ravine with the Restore the shrine marker pointing back toward the shrine — The rocky exit path back to the surface, with the “Restore the shrine” marker leading you home.

Restore the shrine and confirm the fast travel point is live

Walk up to the broken shrine and interact with it. Coen slots the heart back into place, the quest closes out, and the reward screen shows 25 XP and a skill point. The shrine icon turns from gray to blue on the map, which is the only confirmation that matters — a restored shrine can be used for fast travel, storage, buying skills, and waiting to pass time.

Completion also queues up the next objective, Echoes of Silenced Bells, which sends you to meet Anica at the old inn.

Common reasons the shrine will not restore

You never inspected the shrine, so the quest and its footprint trail were never generated.
You are not holding Focus Mode. The prints and the marked trees are only rendered while it is active.
You reached the ravine but did not drop in. The corpse is at the bottom, not on the rim.
You are trying to scale the ravine wall above the body. Follow the floor to the sloped passage instead.
You looted the body but skipped the return trip. The heart does nothing in your inventory until you interact with the shrine.

Ticha Riverpass is one of 17 destroyed shrines scattered across Vale Sangora, and it is among the cheapest to fix because there is nothing to fight. Most of the others end at a soldier camp, a bandit camp, or a pack of wolves, and a handful start with soldiers already smashing the shrine as you walk up. The pattern is the same every time — inspect, hold Focus Mode, follow the yellow, and bring the heart home.