The Blood of Dawnwalker: Uriashi Blacksmith Location in Forge It Anew

Forge It Anew hands you a broken legendary weapon and then leaves you to work out who can actually put it back together. The answer is a single exiled smith, and the game never marks her on your map until you either ask the right person or wander into the far corner of Vale Sangora yourself.

Quick answer: Travel to the Uriashi Hermitage shrine in the northwestern corner of the map, near the Briar Sloughs region, and approach the stone hut to trigger the conversation. Bring all three sword shards and the Broken Sword of St. Mihai before you talk to her, or she has nothing to work with.

What you need before talking to the Uriashi blacksmith

Finding her is the easy half. She will only reforge the blade once you are carrying every piece of it, which means finishing three shard hunts and a separate Svartrau questline first.

Item	Where it comes from
Sword Shard 1	Forge It Anew: Do Not Disturb — kobold cave in the Maragir Wealds, north of the Upper Maragir shrine
Sword Shard 2	Forge It Anew: Hostile Takeover — hidden cave near Shrike’s Crag, guarded by the Munch-Munch miniboss
Sword Shard 3	Forge It Anew: Executive Order — looted from a tent in Xanthe’s soldier camp near Tantari after the cave turns up empty
Broken Sword of St. Mihai (the hilt)	Reward for A Monk and a Saint in Svartrau, which follows on from Night Terrors

Note: each shard pickup burns three hours of in-game time, and the full questline runs to roughly 14 time segments once you count the hilt and the closing ritual. Plan it around the main story clock rather than squeezing it in late.

Asking the Matriarch in Uriash Village for the blacksmith

Mihai’s Journal tells you to search for an Uriash blacksmith, and the in-world way to narrow that down is to ask the uriash themselves. This step is optional, but it puts a marker on your map instead of leaving you to guess.

Open the map and fast travel to Uriash Village. The Matriarch stands near the settlement’s witchcraft vendor and will talk to you without any prior setup.

Start the conversation and pick the line asking whether the village has a skilled blacksmith. Coen phrases it directly, and it is the only option that moves the objective forward.

Dialogue wheel open in conversation, with the highlighted response ready to select — The dialogue menu during the exchange in Uriash Village. Image: Rebel Wolves

Listen to her reply. The Matriarch confirms there is a smith, but that she was banished from the clan, and points you toward the human village she pronounces “Pahr-lee-tah” — Parlita.

The Matriarch mid-conversation, questioning why Coen wants a blacksmith — The Matriarch pushes back before revealing that the smith was banished. Image: Rebel Wolves

Close the dialogue and open your map. The objective updates to “Find the uriash blacksmith,” with Coen noting she lives alone somewhere north of Parlita, closer to the mountains.

World map showing the refreshed Forge It Anew objective marker for the blacksmith — The quest marker for the blacksmith after the Matriarch’s hint. Image: Rebel Wolves

You can skip all of this. The hermitage exists whether or not you have spoken to anyone, and one of Xanthe’s soldiers also leaves a letter in the ransacked Tantari cave that gives away the same location.

Reaching the Uriashi Hermitage

The hermitage sits at the northwestern edge of the world, in the Briar Sloughs area, well past Mert’s Mill and the military camp. There is no road that leads straight to it, so the fastest approach is a fast travel hop followed by a short run through the woods.

Open the map and fast travel to the nearest unlocked point in the northwest. Uriashi Hermitage appears as its own shrine once you have discovered it, which makes every later visit a single loading screen.

Map tab open on the world map while choosing a fast travel point in the northwest — Picking a northwestern fast travel point from the map screen. Image: Rebel Wolves

Run to the small stone hut at the marker. Getting close enough updates the objective to “Talk to the uriashi blacksmith” and starts a cutscene automatically, so make sure your inventory is sorted before you close the last few metres.

Coen approaching the blacksmith's stone dwelling as the Forge It Anew objective updates on screen — The objective flips over as Coen walks up to the hermitage. Image: Rebel Wolves

When she asks why you want the sword repaired, say you intend to kill Brencis. That answer is what convinces her to take the job.

How to confirm the reforge worked

Hand over the three shards and the Broken Sword of St. Mihai, and the smith returns the Restored Sword of St. Mihai. That item appearing in your inventory is the confirmation — the quest then rolls straight into a new objective pointing at a cave a short way northwest of her home.

Inside that cave you clear out undead, follow the glowing green mushrooms up to a ritual room, and interact with a red orb that summons three waves of enemies. Surviving them tempers the blade into the Imbued Sword of St. Mihai, a level 21 Legendary greatsword with 331 DPS, and unlocks the Arbiter’s Blade trophy.

Tip: the hermitage doubles as a merchant stop once discovered, and the same smith handles the legendary armor at the end of A Bulwark Against Darkness. It is worth keeping the fast travel point on your list.

Why the blacksmith dialogue does not progress

Two things stall this step, and neither of them means a shard has vanished from the world.

You are missing a piece. All three shards plus the hilt need to be in your inventory. If Forge It Anew never became active in the first place, reload to before the St. Mihai fight and confirm you read the note in his coffin.
You are on an older build. Rebel Wolves shipped a fix for Uriashi holy-sword crafting in Hotfix 1.0.2. If the crafting option refuses to work with everything in hand, update the game and speak to her again.

Make a manual save before you walk up to the hut. It costs nothing, and it gives you a clean point to return to if the handover behaves oddly on your build.