Icthlarin’s Little Helper: Umbral Sands walkthrough

1. Enter Alcarrid Oasis and meet Icthlarin

Sunscorch rapidly drains hydration after prolonged sun exposure. Use shade or shelter and plan travel around dawn or dusk. Quicksand is another reason to choose the route before crossing open ground.

1. Use the desert door in The Bastion after the Titan quest hand-in. Speak to Shangruuh on arrival.
2. Find the Alcarrid camp and speak to Elder Ancamairon beside Icthlarin. Accept the three local tasks.

2. Rogue Trader: Domri’s three Moonstones

These are three quest locations, not a random reward from ordinary gypsum mining.

1. Accept Domri’s task. Head west from Alcarrid to the first rock formation; mine the sealed cave entrance, clear the occupants and mine the gypsum inside.
2. Continue south to the rock platforms. Windstep onto the lower shelf and across to the isolated pillar; mine the second deposit.
3. Travel southwest to the narrow canyon. Clear the Wild Ruby Vine guarding the right-hand cave, then mine the third deposit.
4. Pick up each Moonstone after breaking its deposit. Return all three to Domri for the task hand-in and reputation.

3. The Mirror Crack’d and Rag and Bone Garou

If gathering locally, goats or vultures supply farm meat, kalphites supply shell fragments, and bunny cactuses supply steaks. Return to each NPC with the requested items. After all three Alcarrid tasks, talk to Ancamairon for the clan reward, first lens and Magic Carpet.

4. Reach the Manafem camp

Head south to Manafem Plains. Tribal banners mark the entrance to its underground camp. Speak to Elder Dúshlánach, then accept the tasks from Laguna, Hedric and Manathep. Our suggested order follows the sections below; check all three hand-ins before returning to the elder.

Song of the Ancients: three vault inscriptions

The objective record confirms three transcribed lyrics. The route report begins with some vault doors already open, so use the local mechanisms if your world’s doors differ.

1. Take Laguna’s task and enter the Dragonkin Vault south of camp. After the first stairs, collect the Scarab Staff from the raised platform. Hold it while crossing the scarab-covered floor; fighting drops it.
2. Record the first statue in front of the staff platform. Continue downstairs to the room on the left of the main lever for the second inscription.
3. Pull the lever, clear its ambush and retrieve the staff. Pass through the opened room and follow the glowing floor line.
4. Look above the doorway, to the right of the main pillar, for the third statue. Set the staff down, climb the broken column and Windstep to the ledge. Return the completed song to Laguna in Manafem.

Scaling Difficulties: scouts and Red Dragon

1. Accept Hedric’s task and search east/southeast of Manafem. Clear enemies and inspect both scout bodies, then the scorched rock wall slightly north of them.
2. Follow the updated objective farther east to the Red Dragon. Keep clear of its front, wing attack and fire breath; use terrain for cover when possible.
3. Loot the Radiant Heart after the kill and return to Hedric. Finish his conversation before counting the task as complete.

Beast in the Sand: bring Clean Water

Follow the creature to Efina. A secondary summary says to kill it, but the detailed route’s completion step is the water delivery.

1. Accept Manathep’s task and carry 1 Clean Water. Leave the camp southward into the sandstorm; listen for the Dearg Due’s howling.
2. Approach the creature and follow it to its next stop. Continue east to Efina and give her the water.
3. Return to Manathep with the news. Once all three Manafem tasks are handed in, speak to Dúshlánach for the clan’s Mirror Lens.

5. Find the Uzzer elder

At the eastern Dunes of Uzzer camp, speak to Elder Gaimbín and accept the tasks from Lehran, Laguna and Shangruuh. Bring the spade and pickaxe on this trip.

The Dig Site: four Forbidden Scrolls

Exact gate-switch positions are not established by the sources checked for this edition. Keep the Journal’s search area active rather than following an invented coordinate.

1. Take Lehran’s task and follow the marked area to the southern Garou ruins. Search the buried-chest dig spots with your spade; two scroll locations are behind gates.
2. Collect all four: The Schism, Sun Demon, Old Kingdom and Moon Goddess. Check the quest inventory as well as the counter after each pickup.
3. Return the four scrolls to Lehran. If a gate is still closed, inspect that ruin’s mechanisms before moving to another dig site.

Saga of the Adventurer: finish the fifth inscription

1. Accept Laguna’s task and carry the saga journal. Search the pointed rock formations north of camp.
2. At the first formation, Windstep to the elevated cave, mine its blocked entrance and record the tablet after clearing the occupant.
3. Continue to the exposed second tablet and the third among the creature eggs. Use shade between stops.
4. Record the fourth near the guarded formation, then follow the journal’s final clue to the fifth inscription. The fifth is near the Nightmare Crucible of Humiliation entrance.
5. Return the completed journal to Laguna. The reported reward includes a Crucible Engram of Humiliation.

Mark Day: persuade the three councillors

Take Shangruuh’s task and visit the three marked councillors north of camp. Choose the responses with these meanings, in order; this table paraphrases the dialogue.

After securing all three votes, return to Shangruuh. Finish the other Uzzer hand-ins, then speak to Gaimbín for the final lens.

6. Repair the Mirror Relay

1. Check that all three clan lenses are in your quest inventory. Return to Icthlarin at the Mirror Relay and finish his dialogue.
2. Interact with the three mirrors to install the lenses and complete the relay. Follow the updated quest to the volcanic gateway at The Burning Spire.
3. Prepare supplies for the trial and boss together. Plan to finish the sequence without a banking trip.

7. Clear the ten-wave Trials of Fuzan

Use the podium inside the Fight Cave and select the story trial. It has ten waves; the full thirty-wave activity unlocks after the quest. Death is not a safe practice reset.

Sources disagree on the tenth wave’s exact enemy roster. This guide covers the confirmed ten-wave sequence without presenting a disputed roster as current-build fact.

8. Defeat Fuzan and collect his head

Use shaded edges to reduce heat buildup and keep healing food accessible. These responses combine reported encounters, not a measured damage or phase-threshold test. After the kill, collect Fuzan’s Head and return to Icthlarin at the Mirror Relay.

9. Finish the hand-in; the Fire Cape is a later run

Give Fuzan’s Head to Icthlarin and complete his dialogue. The quest reward record includes the Dragonfire Shield and Tome of Volcano. Check the reward pack and newly unlocked recipes before clearing your inventory.

Completing the story opens the full Fight Cave activity. The Fire Cape route is the subsequent thirty-wave challenge and Fuzan, so do not expect the ten-wave quest trial alone to award the cape. Continue the main story toward Regicide in the Scorned Wilderness.

Missing lens or stuck after Fuzan?

These are diagnostic checks, not a promised bug fix. This walkthrough was source-checked on September 27, 2026; exact dig-site switches, per-wave rosters and platform-specific quest-state bugs still need an installed-build check.

1. For a missing lens, check each clan’s three task hand-ins and speak to its elder again. Visiting an objective is not the same as returning its item.
2. For a stuck finale, check the Mirror Relay objective, the head in your quest inventory and Icthlarin’s remaining dialogue.
3. If the objective still disagrees with your items, save a record of the quest text, platform and build for a bug report. Avoid repeatedly collecting duplicate quest items while inventory space is tight.