Chapter 7: The Magic Chisel 1

When you’re ready to continue with the mission, sail past the Mason’s channel until you reach a small beach. You need to operate the gear wheel nearby to lower the gate to the tunnel. In this same beach, talk to the lake spirit nearby to trigger the favor “The Anatomy of Hope”. Operate the gear wheel to lower the gate. As soon as you do, an ogre and a couple of dark elves will attack you.

After getting rid of them, head back to your boat and follow the straightforward path to the icy beaches of Thamur’s Corpse. After disembarking from the boat, take out the wulvers. Approach the hidden chamber’s entrance to register it on your map. Once done, move the large shatter crystal on the ring towards the direction of the coffin behind a wall of ice. Shoot the crystal with a shock arrow to blow up the obstacle. Loot the Solid Svartalfheim Steel and Symbol of Perseverance from it.

Grab the crystal again them move it all the way to the left this time. Detonate it to clear the path. Head inside and climb down. Find the ledge you can climb on then continue until you see a chain dangling from the cliff. Don’t grab the chain yet; continue forth instead and you’ll find a coffin at the end of the path. Loot the Runic Wyrmskin Pauldron from it. Backtrack to the chain and climb up.

Before continuing forth towards Thamur’s head, there’s still a lot of things you can do here. Take out the wulvers first then loot the wooden chest and the coffin (contains Plated Runeweaver Bracers) in the middle of the area. Next, have Atreus read the lore marker by the ruins with a light crystal trapped in sap.

Next, there’s a gate locked by rune symbols. Similar to nornir chests, you’ll have to find all the seal contraptions and turn them to display the correct symbol. If a symbol is indeed correct, the rune on the gate will dim out. The first seal is found to the left of the gate. Hit the plate with your axe until it displays the rune as shown below:

The other spinner is found to the right of the gate, after an ice mound. There’s a wooden chest nearby as well. The spinner is initially covered with sap so grab the shatter crystal from the pod near the ice ancient and use it to clear the sap. Hit the plates again to match the rune as shown below:

Finally, in the ruins with the light crystal and lore marker, there’s a contraption where you have to hit the wooden board with your axe to lift the spinner. Since you also need to use your axe to hit the spinner’s plate, you have to hit the board as far as it can go then quickly hit the plates until it displays the symbol below. Once the gate is opened, head inside and pick up the hacksilver pouch and open the Mark of the Ranger (legendary enchantment).

The strange lump of ice beside the rooftop in the middle of the area is actually an ice ancient. You can wake it up by throwing a shatter crystal near it and detonating it. Defeat it to obtain a Frost Sigil of Defense, Ancient’s Heart, Ancient’s Rubble, and Solid Svartalfheim Steel x5.

There’s also a hidden realm tear here. First, get the shatter crystal from the pod near the ice ancient and throw it at the light crystal above the lore marker you saw earlier. Once freed, carry the crystal past the shatter crystal pod to find the base by a ruined wall. Install it there then activate it with a light arrow. There are no enemies that will emerge from this realm tear so just interact with it to loot the Dust of Realms inside.

Continue forth towards Thamur’s head then Kill off the nightmares that will appear. Lift the fallen stone pillar and continue forth for a short cutscene. Shortly after, fend off several waves of draugrs and a couple of ogres. Concentrate on taking out the ranged draugrs first since they tend to die easily. Once the ogres appear, focus fire on one ogre so you can stun and mount it to easily take out the other draugrs and heavily damage the other ogre. After defeating all enemies, loot their drops and approach the ledge where Sindri is to trigger a cutscene.

Sindri’s shop will be automatically added to the map. During this scene, Sindri will upgrade your Leviathan axe once again and gain a Mark of the Dwarves. Check his shop as necessary. Consider checking if you can unlock new skills with the exp you’ve gained so far before continuing.

Once ready, aim for the plate in the middle of Thamur’s beard. You have to order Atreus to shoot the shatter crystal as soon as you hit the plate since it will spin back to position. When done correctly, the blast will clear the ledge where you can jump across.

Jump across the gap and continue forth. Loot the wooden chest along the way and open the door to the next room. There’s a traveler waiting for you here. It will be invulnerable once it displays its shield on his back so keep your distance and wait for him to attack so you can evade and counterattack. Be careful since he has a wide and long reach with his two-handed sword. Watch out for the ranged enemies that will appear on the ledges above. Take them out first while also keeping an eye for the traveler’s aggressive attacks. Make sure to pummel the traveler with shock arrows as well whenever it’s vulnerable for additional damage and stun chance.

After defeating the traveler, loot the Traveler’s Armor Shard and Traveler’s Grisly Trophy. These can be used for Crafting the Traveler armor set. There’s a legendary chest as well on the high ledge behind the hanging gigantic wooden sword. Hit the right plate with your axe then pull the nearby stone block close enough to the wooden sword so you can climb on it and jump on the sword.

Climb on the sword and move to the right while looking at the ledge to get a prompt to jump down. Do so and loot the Blessings of the Forst heavy axe runic attack.

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