Damaged shrines dot Vale Sangora because Brencis ordered them wrecked, and soldiers pried out the idols, called hearts, that keep them running. Until you return a shrine’s heart, that shrine cannot be used for fast travel, storage, waiting, or managing perks. Finding the missing heart and placing it back is the only way to bring each one online.
Quick answer: Inspect a damaged shrine to start its quest, hold Focus Mode (L2/LT on controller, right mouse on PC) to reveal the thief’s footprints, follow them to a camp, corpse, or animal, loot the heart, then return to the shrine and interact with it to restore it.
How restoring a destroyed shrine works
A destroyed shrine shows up broken when you reach it. Approaching and inspecting it triggers the matching restoration quest, after which you can track down the heart. The idol itself looks like a small statue that slots into the shrine’s window or plinth.
Note: Restoring a shrine advances time by one unit in almost every case. If you are running a quest with a deadline or a fixed time window, factor that cost in before you repair one.
Destroyed shrine heart locations
Each destroyed shrine sends you a short distance from the site to recover its heart. Use the table to see where each shrine sits and where its idol ends up.
| Shrine | Where it is | Where the heart is |
|---|---|---|
| Bear’s Maw | Southeast of Laslea | On a corpse just southwest of the shrine, at the end of the footprint trail |
| Western Slopes | Southwest of Stelian’s Redoubt, past the forest | In a bandit camp northeast of the shrine; defeat the bandits and search their containers |
| Small Bridge | At the shrine itself | Soldiers are attacking on arrival and the quest starts automatically; loot the Vrakhiri Banneret’s corpse |
| Lupila Riverpass | Southeast of Parlita | In a soldier camp northeast of the shrine; defeat the soldiers |
| Prince’s Crossing | Southeast of Svartrau Northern Crossroads | In a clearing northeast; kill the wolves, then loot the human corpses |
| Maragir Wealds | Southeast of Maragir | In a chest inside the tent at a soldier camp north of the shrine |
| Crossroads Inn | South of Stuga Marshes | In a chest inside the tent at a soldier camp northwest of the shrine |
What a restored shrine gives you
Once the heart is back, the shrine behaves like every intact one across Vale Sangora. You can fast travel to it from any other shrine you have already visited, open your storage, spend time waiting, and manage your perks. Fast travel itself does not consume in-game time, so repaired shrines cut down on long treks between locations.
Two shrine designs exist in the world, one shaped like a small chapel with a window for the heart and one resembling a rune-carved boulder. They function identically and share the same map icon, so the difference is purely visual.
If a shrine won’t restore
If the interact prompt to repair does not appear, you are missing the heart. You must have the idol in your inventory before the shrine accepts the restoration. When the footprint trail runs cold, hold Focus Mode again near the camp or the last bodies to pinpoint who is carrying it, then loot that specific target.
After you place the heart, watch the map. A gray shrine icon means it is still locked, while a blue icon confirms the repair worked and the shrine is available as a travel point. If the icon stays gray, return to the shrine and interact with it once more to finish the placement.
Clearing these repairs early pays off, since every restored shrine expands your fast travel network and shortens the walk back to quests, vendors, and storage across the map.
