Eastshade

Eastshade

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Playing the Game Efficiently
By Altbert
Just another Eastshade walkthrough
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Introduction
This walkthrough is my attempt to play the game as efficient as possible without having to walk, run, bike or sail there and back that often. Sure, you have to return to Nava several times to turn in your commissions, as you can only accept four commissions at a time. Also, various quests depend on quests to be updated in other regions. I’ve already done several playthroughs, one to learn playing the game, one to get all achievements, one to learn about the console commands, and now found it time to learn about the most efficient playthrough. This doesn’t mean I wanted to finish the game in the shortest possible time, but merely not traveling there and back so much and spend more time to enjoy the beautiful scenery.

If you have enough canvases, create paintings for yourself. These paintings will decorate your home on the mainland, once you have left Eastshade. I have no clue how many paintings can be used for decoration (in my last playthrough 16 out of 31). If you can’t craft any more canvases, you can also buy these from the Art Dealer in Nava, although more than enough boards and fabric can be found.

Collect as many items as you can find. You may need these later in the game. Surplus items can be sold to Osha, the One Glowstone Guy in Nava, near the end of the game at 1 glowstone each, although you can’t sell him all the items in your inventory. There’s no limit to the number of items you can have in your inventory.

For more indepth information see:
Comprehensive Tea & Herb Guide
Guide for Candle Thieves
Locations for Adventurer’s Spirit
Eastshade’s Locations and Points of Interest
Inspiration
INSPIRATION POINTS

You may receive inspiration points (ip) in various ways, by discovering locations, drinking teas, completing some quests, reading books, fulfilling Mother's wishes, and other. In many cases the exact number of received ip's have been found, but for locations, quests and miscellaneous only an approximate value had to be taken from the inspiration icon showing up in the bottom right corner of the screen (give or take 0.05 ip).

Discovering Locations
  • Blackpaw Beach: 0.40 ip
  • Excavation Site: 0.50 ip
  • Great Shade: 3.50 ip
  • Greywing Cove: 0.80 ip
  • Howlingverns: 0.40 ip
  • Kestrel's Aerie: 0.80 ip
  • Lyndow: 3.30 ip
  • Nava: 2.20 ip
  • Old Lyndow: 1.00 ip
  • Restless Reach: 0.40 ip
  • Roshanara's House: 0.60 ip
  • Seltspring Wreck: 0.70 ip
  • Sinkwood Falls: 0.80 ip
  • Sinkwood Inn: 0.50 ip
  • Tiem's Obelisk: 0.60 ip
  • Tiffmoor Bluffs: 2.20 ip
  • Tiffmoor Gorge: 1.30 ip
  • Tiffmoor Ruins: 0.80 ip
  • Vilmar's Arch: 0.80 ip
  • Westspring Bluffs: 0.80 ip
  • all other locations: 0.30 ip

Quests
  • A Bitter Fish: 1.10 ip
  • A Marketplace Romance: 0.80 ip
  • The Airballoon: 1.20 ip (only the first flight)
  • Chorus in the Night: 1.80 ip
  • Dormant in the Ice: 1.80 ip
  • Gazebo quest: 0.80 ip (first time experiencing the eclipse)
  • Locked Box: 0.90 ip (delivering the box to Viktar and the empty box to Kestrel's Aerie)
  • Mother's Wishes: 2.50 ip (for each accepted painting)
  • Toma's Apples: 0.60 ip
  • Toxic Tubers: 0.40 ip

Drinking Tea (exact values)
  • Bloomsac Tea: 0.15 ip
  • Earthroot Tea: 0.15 ip
  • Hydrathistle: 0.21 ip (Black thistle)
  • Kai's Hydrathistle: 0.15 ip
  • Lyndowian Brew: 0.23 ip
  • Meadowspice Mead: 0.19 ip
  • Mystery Blend: 0.08 ip
  • Netherleaf Tea: 0.15 ip
  • Scrag Tea: 0.15 ip
  • Sesha Tea: 0.15 ip

Miscellaneous
  • Bard Song: 0.45 ip (Music show in The Tarnished Teapot; 1 music show)
  • Dream sequences: 0.75 ip (Blue and Silver Dream Tea in the Roots Club)
  • Listen to Vanu's song: 0.40 ip (musician near Seltspring Coast)
  • Monologues: 0.45 ip (Stories in The Tarnished Teapot; 3 monologues)
  • Playing the tubular bells: 0.35 ip (Clara's song)
  • Reading books: 0.22 ip (not letters)
  • Reading Shadian Post newsletters: 0.22 ip (5 newsletters: teas, airballoon, dream teas, potion seller, elixir)
  • Sitting in a hotspring: 0.20 ip
  • Sitting on a stool in The Tarnished Teapot: 0.20 ip (during a monologue or music show)

Loosing inspiration points
  • Creating a painting: -1.00 ip
  • Drinking Mudwillow's Tincture: -0.01 ip (per second/minute game time?)
  • Working for Nava's pea farmer: -1.00 ip
Characters who can be interacted with
Following is an overview of all characters in the game who can be interacted with. Those characters appear in game with a text balloon above their heads. It's important to speak to everyone of those characters as thouroughly as possible or needed, to receive quests, receive gifts, available buying or selling, and, more important, the order in which you have to complete quests. When speaking to characters, you might not be able to advance or complete quests right away. It may take some time and it will not always be very obvious. Also read books, that is ... READ the books!

Out on the ocean, on the Annabelle
Clara (old woman), Mishka

Port of Lyndow
Aliyyah, Azad (architect), Doruk (dockworker), Ehsan (jug guy), Emerik (pompous patron), Emine (soap lady), Ilona (captain of the Annabelle) Lenny (bird boy), Najm (fisherman), Nika (innkeeper), Sanja (kid artist),Tifa (carriage driver), Yunus (feather hunter)

The Great Shade
Anika (cobhouse), Bojan (raft man), Cartographer, Nadir (innkeeper), Onur (twine man), Roshanara (big tree), Vasu (musician), Viktar (park ranger)

Seltspring Coast
Helem (Roots leader)

Nava
Art Dealer, Blacksmith, Book Seller, Efe (guard/detective), Emil (innkeeper), Evelina (bread seller), Fish Seller, Guard (university top floor), Horf (poisoned guy), Ilham (pea farmer), Jarrik (pea farmer), Junk Trader, Lady Samira, Leela (librarian), Leilani (spice seller), Melek (elixir seller), Ohsa (one glowstone guy), Pipa, Shadian Post Volunteer, Sheriff, Tailor, Tam (vegetable seller), Tea Seller, Woodworker, Yevheniy (painter), Zahra (researcher)

Quickhoof Coast
Nessa (balloon pilot)

Blushwood Forest
Alejo (night drummer), Aysun, Fynn (pea farmer), Kaelen (apothecarian), Kai (apothecarian), Mudwillow, Ranya (Fynn's wife?)

Sinkwood Lake
Amir (musician), Belinda, Helena (thief), Kevork (innkeeper), Nikol (student), Omiros (historian), Radmila, Reiley (musician), Vadim (business man)

Westerey Woodlands
Cili (Toma's daughter), Girl (one of the lost children), Old Man (hotspring), Tamik (father of the children), Toma (farmer)

Tiffmoor Bluffs
Samiya (at Tiem's Obelisk)

Ocean's Last Breath
Fedir (expedition member), Liliana (expedition leader), Meira (expedition member)
Requirements to craft equipment
  • Canvas (recyclable): 2 boards and 2 fabric
  • Fire Pit: 4 sticks
  • Raft: 1 sealant, 1 stick, 2 twine and 10 white bloomsacs
  • Reed Boat: 10 heavy reeds, 1 stick and 4 twine
  • Rope: 4 twine
  • Tent: 4 fabric, 6 sticks and 5 twine
  • Twine: 4 roots
Buying goods and services
Various goods can be bought from merchants:
  • In Lyndow: Nika at the Lyndow Inn.
  • In Blushwood Forest: Kai at K&K Apothecary.
  • At the market place north of the market hall in Nava: Blacksmith, Fish Seller and Tailor.
  • At the market south of the market hall in Nava: Woodworker and Tea Seller.
  • Inside the market hall in Nava: Art Dealer, Book Seller and Melek.

The innkeepers of Kestrel’s Aerie and the Inn under the Tarnished Teapot provide lodging for 2 glowstones.

  • Books (Book Seller): 10 glowstones
  • Coat (Tailor): 80 glowstones
  • Canvas (Art Dealer): 5 glowstones
  • Drymouthed Sandfish (Fish Seller): 20 glowstones
  • Elixir of Life (Melek): 10 glowstones
  • Fabric (Art Dealer): 3 glowstones
  • Fishing Pole (Fish Seller): 40 glowstones
  • Hydrathistle (Kai): 3 glowstones
  • Lyndowian Brew (Nika): 1 glowstone
  • Meadowspice Mead (Nika, Tea Seller): 6 glowstones
  • Mountainwort Tea (Tea Seller): 3 glowstones
  • Tea Kettle (Blacksmith): 20 glowstones
  • Thunder Trout (Fish Seller): 15 glowstones
  • Ultramarine Minnow (Fish Seller): 8 glowstones
  • Wooden Bicycle (Woodworker): 80 glowstones
  • Zip Trolley (Blacksmith): 70 glowstones
Selling goods
  • Drymouthed Sandfish (Fish Seller): 16 glowstones
  • Feathers (Yunus in the Port of Lyndow): first 3 for 10 glowstones, next 1 glowstone each
  • Elixir of Life (Zahra on the 3rd floor of the University in Nava): 20 glowstones (only once)
  • Scragweed (Roshanara in the Great Shade): first 5 for 20 glowstones, next 3 glowstones each
  • Thunder Trout (Fish Seller): 9 glowstones
  • Ultramarine Minnow (Fish Seller): 4 glowstones
  • Various (Osha, the One Glowstone Guy, in Nava): various goods, 1 glowstone per item
Brewing tea
Two recipe books can be found ingame. Classic Shadian Teas can be bought from the Book Seller in the market hall in Nava. Ancient Teas can be a reward for the quest Tiem’s Command. Teas can be brewed at any time, provided you have a campfire, a tea kettle and sufficient ingredients.

  • Bloomsac Tea: 3 white bloomsacs
  • Earthroot Tea: 2 roots, 1 inky cap
  • Hydrathistle: 2 black thistle, 1 inky cap (not needed for Achievement #3)
  • Lyndowian Brew: 1 root, 2 white bloomsacs
  • Mountainwort Tea: 3 mountainworts
  • Netherleaf Tea: 1 mountainwort, 1 scragweed, 1 white bloomsac
  • Scragweed Tea: 3 scragweeds
  • Sesha Tea: 2 heavy reeds, 1 root
  • Mystery Blend: any combination of 3 plants/herbs not used as in the above recipes
Finding items
  • Blackthistle (Great Shade) DO NOT PICK!
  • Boards (around and inside houses and other buildings, caves, zip trolley lines)
  • Drymouthed Sandfish (Sinkwood Lake)
  • Fabric (around and inside houses and other buildings, caves)
  • Feathers (Port of Lyndow)
  • Fooxitar Eggs (Great Shade, Blushwood Forest)
  • Heavy Reed (East Coast, Seltspring Coast, along the river near K&K Apothecary, around the two pools in the Tiffmoor Bluffs
  • Inky Caps (Great Shade, Blushwood Forest)
  • Mountainwort (Westerey Woodlands, Tiffmoor Bluffs)
  • Roots (all over Eastshade where there are trees)
  • Sticks (all over Eastshade where there are trees)
  • Thunder Trout (Fellstream River south of Sinkwood Falls, Sinkwood Lake)
  • Ultramarine Minnow (Fellstream River, Sinkwood Lake)
  • Wax/Candles (inside houses, rooms and inns)
  • White Bloomsac (Port of Lyndow, Westerey Woodlands)
Commissions
  1. A Simple Chicken (Nava)
  2. A Watermill (Nava)
  3. A Portrait of Despair (Horf, Nava)
  4. A Cobhouse in the Country (Great Shade, Anika’s House or Onur's House)
  5. A Lonely Tower (any tower, if not the East Tower)
  6. A Small Stone Bridge (Great Shade)
  7. A Natural Arch (near Quickhoof Coast or Vilmar’s Arch)
  8. A Mountainous Snowscape (Restless Reach)
  9. A Windmill (Tiffmoor Bluffs)
  10. The Tiffmoor Ruins (Tiffmoor Bluffs)
  11. A Starry Cavern (Tiffmoor Bluffs)
  12. A Cave of Ice (Ocean’s Last Breath excavation site)
Achievements
  1. Landed (wash up in Ingov’s cave)
  2. Carpenter (craft 15 canvases)
  3. Master Brewer (brew every type of tea: 8)
  4. Well-to-do (buy Osha’s sealant for 500 glowstones)
  5. Detective (correctly identify the thief of Sinkwood Inn)
  6. Adventurer’s Spirit (discover every location on Eastshade: 42)
  7. Go-getter (complete every quest: 37)
  8. Candle Thief (collect all the candles: 31)
  9. Prolific Artist (accept and complete every commission: 12)
  10. There and Back (leave Eastshade)
  11. Clara’s Song (play the tubelar bells)
  12. Keeper of the Forest (don’t pick any blackthistle)
  13. A Perfect Campsite (build your first tent)
  14. Highest Peak (reach the highest peak at Restless Reach)
  15. Northern Reaches (sail Ocean’s Last Breath and visit Blackpaw Beach)
  16. Friend of the First Folk (become friends with Alejo and visit his home)
  17. Family Reunited (reunite the lost children with their father Tamik)
  18. Fisherfolk (catch at least 10 fish)
Quests
Out on the ocean & Port of Lyndow:
  • Help an Old Woman
  • Mother's Last Wishes
  • An Artist in Training
  • A Prank of Pastries
  • Stuck in a Jug
  • An Unsuitable Parent
  • The Abandoned Tower
  • The Architect of Lyndow
  • A Pompous Patron
  • Feathers for Quills
  • Art for a Fisherman
  • Leaving Eastshade

The Great Shade:
  • A Raft from Bloomsac
  • A Wounded Waterfox
  • Admission to Nava
  • A Rare Bird
  • Cartographer's Ink
  • A Strange Fortune

Seltspring Coast:
  • An Exclusive Club

Nava:
  • A Marketplace Romance
  • Toxic Tubers
  • Tiem's Command
  • Locked Box
  • An Artist for Hire
  • Sealant
  • An Elixir of Life
  • The Top of Nava

Quickhoof Coast:
  • The Air Balloon

Blushwood Forest:
  • The Little Mice
  • Chorus in the Night
  • Mudwillow's Riddle
  • Second Chances

Sinkwood Lake:
  • A Bitter Fish
  • The Thief of Sinkwood Inn

Westerey Woodlands:
  • Toma's Apples
  • Sheltered from the Wind

Ocean's Last Breath:
  • Dormant in the Ice
Out on the ocean
  • Talk to the old woman (Clara) and fetch her book “Great Voyages”: Help and Old Woman
  • Talk to Mishka and when you are finished talking to him, the ship (Annabella) will hit the rocks and sink
  • When it gets dark (loosing your conciousness/near dying) you will see the memories of your conversation with your mother, in which she asked you to make 4 paintings for her: Mother’s Last Wishes
Port of Lyndow
  • Talk to Ingov when you wake up in his cave, take your easel and head for Lyndow (Achievement #1)
  • Optional: Talk to Aliyyah near the town hall and receive a Lyndowian Brew
  • Optional: Talk to Lenny, the flying boy, and praise him for flying or discourage him
  • Talk to Sanja and learn her to make canvas: An Artist in Training
  • Talk to Ennio in the storage hall and accept to prank his brother: A Prank of Pastries (completed in Nava); NOTE: you will have to accept Ennio’s prank now as you won’t get it after refusal and you will not receive Achievement #7
  • Optional: Give Sanja a canvas
  • Show your painting skills to Sanja; make a painting of the (upcoming) eclipse
  • Talk to Nika in the Lyndow Inn
  • Go to Ehsan’s house and talk to him: Stuck in a Jug
  • Get Nika to help Ehsan (she will now buy the painting of the (upcoming) eclipse; 20 glowstones)
  • Go to Emine to get soap and ask her about Ehsan: An Unsuitable Parent (completed in Nava, 15 glowstones)
  • Go to the gazebo to watch the eclipse and talk to Nika and she will provide free lodging in the inn
  • Go to the 2nd floor of the Lyndow Inn and read the book on the window sill: The Abandoned Tower, The Architect of Lyndow (see Lyndow at the end of this guide)
  • Talk to Emerik in the inn and make a painting of him: A Pompous Patron (25 glowstones)
  • Talk to Yunus to sell him feathers: Feathers for Quils (10 glowstones for the first 3; next 1 glowstone for each feather)
  • Talk to Najm near the toll bridge and make a painting for him: Art for a Fisherman (25 glowstones)
  • Pay 60 glowstones to cross the toll bridge
Great Shade (1)
  • Talk to Bojan and become friends with him to receive the raft schematics
  • Talk to Onur about learning to make twine: A Raft from Bloomsac
  • Talk to Viktar, the park ranger: A Wounded Waterfox
  • Talk to Efe, the guard at the bridge to Nava about entrance: Admission to Nava
  • On the road back to Viktar, visit his house on the first path to your right, just past the carriage driver of Nava; reading one of the books will teach you how to make a camp fire
  • Find at least 1 egg and 4 inky caps
  • Go to the Waterfox Den (behind Viktar), put an egg in the trap box and get somewhat out of sight; as soon as the waterfox is trapped, Viktar will barge in and help the waterfox; Viktar teaches you how to make a tent
  • Ask Viktar for recommendation #1
  • Go to Kestrel’s Aerie and talk to the Cartographer (up the stairs, first door on the right); she will give you a map for 4 inky caps: Cartographer's Ink
  • Ask the Cartographer for recommendation #2
Seltspring Coast (1)
  • Talk to Helem, the Roots guy, who has lost his amulet: An Exclusive Club
  • Make a painting of the beach (may include the shipwreck)
Great Shade (2)
  • Return to Onur, give him the painting of the beach and receive the twine schematics
  • Ask Onur for recommendation #3
  • Talk to Anika and accept to create a painting of an owl: A Rare Bird
  • Make a painting of the giant tree, one of mother’s last wishes
  • Make a painting of the owl north of the giant tree for Anika
  • Go to Efe and show her the 3 recommendations
  • Enter Nava
Nava (1)
  • Talk to Evelina: A Marketplace Romance
  • Talk to Tam: Toxic Tubers
  • Talk to Pipa about the tubers; she will return one tuber
  • Talk to Horf sitting on the floor next to the market hall
  • Read a poster (“Save our Goddess”) inside the market hall: Tiem’s Command
  • Talk to Melek in the market hall and buy one Elixir of Life (10 glowstones): An Elixir of Life
  • Talk to Leilani in the market hall and ask about her favorite place and the tubers
  • Talk to the Art Dealer and be sure to have at least one painting
  • Talk to the Sheriff to report Eshan
  • Visit the rooms at the university on the 3rd floor
  • Talk to Lady Samira: Locked Box
  • Talk to Zahra and sell her the elixir (20 glowstones): An Elixir of Life
  • Talk to Yevheniy: An Artist for Hire
  • Talk to Zahra again after one hour and accept her request to gather samples from the hotsprings
  • Talk to Jarrik about the tubers next to the exit to the pea fields and near the watermill; you can work for the pea farmer several times (10 glowstones for each job), but it will cost you inspiration points for each job done
  • Ask Osha about sealant: Sealant
  • Talk to the Art Dealer again and accept your first four commissions from the ledger
  • Make the first three paintings in Nava: a simple chicken, Horf (despair) and the watermill (Commission #1, #2 and #3)
  • Tell Evelina about Leilani’s favorite place
  • Report Tam about the toxic tubers
  • Turn in your commissions (50 glowstones in total) and accept 3 new commissions
  • Buy a coat from the Tailor on the market for 80 glowstones
  • Buy a fishing pole from the Fish Seller on the market for 20 glowstones
Blushwood Forest (1)
  • Talk to Fynn at his farm and give him 7 sticks to repair the fence: The Little Mice
  • Go inside the house and talk to Ranya: Chorus in the Night
  • Go to the tubelar bells slightly west of Ranya’s House and play the bells (5-6-5-3-4-5-4-2-3, Achievement #11)
  • Walk along the lake until you meet Aysun and talk to her: A Bitter Fish
  • Make a painting of a full eclipse at the northernmost point of the peninsula through the statue, making it look like an “eye”
  • Go to Mudwillow’s Mirror and read the riddle (between Aysun and Ranya’s House); use two mirrors to direct the beam of light, that will appear after the eclipse, to the receiver with the trapdoor and stand on the trapdoor: Mudwillow’s Riddle
  • You will fall down the trapdoor and meet Mudwillow; giving her the painting of the “eye” you will receive Mudwillow’s Tincture
  • Return to Fynn at his farm the next day and he will ask you to get poison from K&K Apothecary, because repairing the fence didn’t help
  • Overhearing Kai and Kaelen you will receive your next quest: Second Chances
  • Kai will ask you to see Anika for a loan
  • Return to and talk with Fynn (10 glowstones)
Great Shade (3)
  • Go and see Anika about Kai’s request and sell her the painting of the owl (30 glowstones)
  • Make a painting of Anika’s or Onur's House (cobhouse; Commission #4)
Seltspring Coast (2)
  • Go to Helem and use Mudwillow’s Tincture to retrieve his amulet; drink a zip of water after you have picked up the amulet
  • Bring the amulet to Helem and you will receive the password for the Roots club
  • Go to the Southlands Hotspring to fill an empty vessel
Blushwood Forest (2)
  • Go see Kai at the apothecary and tell him what people think of his potion
  • Accept his request to have the potion tested by Zahra at the University
  • Go out fishing in the river catch at least 10 fish (Achievement #18)
Nava (2)
  • Talk to Evelina to complete her quest
  • Bring Kai’s Hydrathistle to Zahra to have it tested
  • Go to Osha, the One Glowstone Guy, to receive 5 sealants for delivering him the password of the Roots club
  • Turn in Commission #4 (15 glowstones) and accept 1 new commission
Quickhoof Coast (1)
  • Make a painting of the air balloon and show it to Nessa, the pilot: The Air Balloon
  • Make another painting of the air balloon when it is airborne
  • Nessa will make a poster out of the painting for you to stick the poster on a wall
  • Go down the path to Quickhoof Coast to make a painting of a natural arch (Commission #7)
Nava (3)
  • Turn in Commission #7 (20 glowstones) and accept 1 new commission
  • Stick the poster at the wall opposite the Art Dealer or any other crowded place
Blushwood Forest (3)
  • You may want to set up camp near the sandy shore of Sinkwood Lake (Achievement #13)
  • Sail with a raft to the island in the lake
  • Enter Sinkwood Inn and talk to Kevork, the innkeeper: The Thief of Sinkwood Inn
  • Solve the thievery (40 glowstones): Helena is the thief
  • Go outside and talk to historian to receive the reed boat schematics
  • Walk as far into the water as possible and use the raft or reed boat to get off the island
  • Go fishing for Old Pops, preferably in a reed boat
  • Go see Aysun to return the wedding ring and Old Pops if you have him (30 glowstones)
  • Around midnight, try to approach the Night Drummers
  • Talk to Ranya inside the farmhouse about the Night Drummers (credit: Alex)
Quickhoof Coast & Restless Reach
  • Go see Nessa with her air balloon and she will tell you business is booming
  • Take the flight to Restless Reach
  • Fill an empty vessel in the Mountain Hotspring
  • Make a painting of the highest peak of Eastshade, one of mother’s last wishes
  • Make a painting of a mountainous snowscape (Commission #8)
  • Take the flight back to the East Coast
Great Shade (4)
  • Make a painting of the small stone bridge near Viktar (Commission #6)
  • Make a painting of the giant tree, one of mother’s last wishes
  • Make a painting of the Mid Tower (Commission #5)
  • Use the zip trolley to visit Roshanara about your future: A Strange Fortune
  • Sell her any scragweed that you may have (20 glowstones for the first 5, 3 glowstone for any following scragweed)
Nava (4)
  • Turn in the commissions that you have accomplished: Commission #5 (15 glowstones), Commission #6 (15 glowstones), Commission #8 (35 flowstones)
  • Accept the last four commissions
  • Take Kai’s potion to Zahra to be tested
  • Talk to the librarian in the University’s Library and ask about the night drummers
  • Read the book the librarian points out to you (book shelf C)
  • Read the note from Alejo
  • Make a painting of Nava’s skyline
Blushwood Forest (4)
  • Meet Alejo at Mudwillow’s Mirror around midnight
  • Offer him the painting of Nava’s skyline
  • Follow him blindfolded to his home and receive 70 glowstones for the painting (Achievement #16)
  • Bring Kai in the apothecary the results of the tests of his potion
  • Use a raft or reed boat to cross the river to the Westerey Woodlands
Westerey Woodlands (1)
  • Visit the Gazebo Hotspring and fill an empty vessel
  • Visit Toma’s Farm and talk to Toma: Toma’s Apples
  • Follow the trail of apple(core)s to find two children
  • Return to Toma to tell him about the children (20 glowstones)
Blushwood Forest (5)
  • Return to Kai at his apothecary to hear about his business (30 glowstones)
Tiffmoor Bluffs (1)
  • Find the Obelisk (west of Sinkwood Falls), talk to Samiya and receive the antidote
  • Walk towards the west coast until you see the Tiffmoor Ruins and make a painting of the ruins (Commisson #10)
  • A little further to the north, make a painting of a windmill (Commision #9)
  • Make another painting anywhere on the Tiffmoor Bluffs, one of mother’s last wishes
  • Follow the western coastline until you see a zip trolly line and use it to get to Westspring Bluff
  • Fill an empty vessel at the Tiffmoor Hotspring
  • Use the other zip trolley line to get back to the Tiffmoor Bluffs
  • Walk northeast up to Vilmar’s Arch and pass the arch from north to south
  • Take the first path left to Tiffmoor Gorge and use the zip trolley to reach a lengthy cave
  • In the largest area of the cave, fill the last empty vessel with water from the Cave Hotspring
  • Make a painting of the “starry cavern” (Commission #11)
  • Walk towards the end of the cave to find the “locked box”
  • Leave the cave using the stairs
Westerey Woodlands (2)
  • Return to Toma to hear that he has taken care of the children who took his apples
  • Talk to the little girl: Sheltered from the Wind
  • Go to the West Tower
  • Go to the beach south of the West Tower, Sandysnouth Beach
  • Take the reed boat to sail north; just past the Tiffmoor Ruins you will find a small bay, Hidden Cove
  • Navigate carefully through the rocks towards the beach
  • Talk to Tamik and he will teach you how to make a rope
  • Sail back to Sandysnouth Beach and follow the coastline to the north
  • Attach a rope at the top of the wooden bridge
  • Tell Tamik about his children being taken care of by Toma (Achievement #17)
  • Return to Sandysnouth Beach and take the reed boot to sail north
Ocean's Last Breath
  • Follow the coastline to the north and later the east, and visit Blackpaw Beach (Achievement #15)
  • Follow the coastline further east until you pass a shipwreck
  • Somewhere to your left (north) you may see a campsite
  • Talk to Liliane, commander of the expedition: Dormant in the Ice
  • Talk to other expedition members until you can get inside the cave
  • Solve the problems several members are experiencing
  • Make a painting of the cave, once those problems have been solved (Commission #12)
  • You can sail further east to pass through an icy cave to sail to Quickhoof Coast and return to Nava
Nava (5)
  • Turn in your last commissions: Commission #9 (25 glowstones), Commission #10 (35 glowstones), Commission #11 (30 glowstones) and Commission #12 (50 glowstones)
  • Bring the vessels with the water of the hotsprings to Zahra
  • Talk to the guard in the center of the 3rd floor to get access to the top: The Top of Nava
  • Return to Zahra for the results of the tests and ask for a university pass
  • Go top the Top of Nava and make a painting from the view, one of mother’s last wishes
  • Accept the paintings for your mother’s last wishes, if you haven’t already done so (you can also do this in Lyndow)
  • You will be approached by an agent of North Seas Shipping and receive a free pass to board any ship back to the mainland: Leaving Eastshade
  • Go to the Roots club either to administer the antidote (you will have to return to Samiya, 30 glowstones) or tell the Roots leader all about Samiya’s scheme (you will receive the book Ancient Teas)
  • Go see Osha, the One Glowstone Guy, to sell all your surplus goods and if you have enough glowstones buy sealant for 500 glowstones (Achievement #4)
  • Optional: Buy canvases from the Art Dealer if you want make paintings for your mainland home
  • You can stay in Nava for a couple of days to hear the Teahouse Stories in the Tarnished Teahouse (in the evening at 7pm)
Great Shade (5)
  • Go to Viktar and give him the locked box
  • Bring the locked box to the innkeeper of Kestrel’s Aerie
Seltspring Coast (3)
  • Be sure to have visited the East Tower, but you don’t have to use the zip trolley
  • Sail with a reed boat around the south side of Eastshade to Lyndow (visit the shipwreck, the other ruined part of Old Lyndow on the beach and Greywing Cove); the best place to get ashore is the beach near Ingov’s cave
Lyndow & your home on the mainland
  • Go to the Abandoned Tower by night when the lights in the tower are on
  • Try to open the door, Ingov will show up behind you and will leave the door open
  • Go to the top of the tower and meet Azad, the Architect of Lyndow
  • Talk to him about the book in the Lyndow Inn
  • Meet Azad the following morning in the Town Hall
  • Make a painting for him of the Lyndow Inn, the Gazebo and the Town Hall (40 glowstones)
  • Go see the agent at the end of the docks near the ship to return to the mainland (Achievement #10)
  • Any paintings that you have in your inventory will be displayed in your house on the mainland
  • Read the various letters from your friends on Eastshade (the screen seems to turn black for a few times but lasts only for some 5 to 10 seconds)
  • Open the door in your home to finish the game
14 Comments
Altbert  [author] 17 May, 2021 @ 2:01pm 
@mmx:

That's when you're inside the roots club after accepting Samiya's quest. Probably a bug when he's still on the beach at Seltspring Coast.
mmx 17 May, 2021 @ 1:51pm 
@Altbert:

"tell the Roots leader all about Samiya’s scheme (you will receive the book Ancient Teas)"
Altbert  [author] 17 May, 2021 @ 1:08pm 
@mmx:

Thanks! I have looked through all my notes on Eastshade, but imo there is no need to find the roots leader and talk to him again. You only need to find his amulet and receive the password to be able to receive the sealant from the One Glowstone guy and to enter the Roots Club. It has been a while since I played the game, but there's no other quest attached to the roots leader.
mmx 17 May, 2021 @ 9:04am 
@Altbert:

Yes, thanks. I've done all that. Finally found him amidst the tall grass at the same beach, just a bit further away from the shore. It didn't help with the quest though, the character was stuck on his previous lines and i left the quest unfinished.

P.s. I've finished this game twice before, got all achievements too, but this recent playthrough seemed to be full of bugs. Great guide, btw. Thank you!
Altbert  [author] 16 May, 2021 @ 4:28am 
@mmx:

Have you talked to Samiya at the Obelisk? See Tiffmoor Bluffs (1). After that go to the Roots Club. See Nava (5).
mmx 15 May, 2021 @ 11:18am 
Does anybody know where to find the Roots leader, after finding his amulet and getting a password? He's no longer at the beach, and i can't find him anywhere else
eisa.alamiri 25 Aug, 2020 @ 3:55am 
Don't know if it will help anyone, but if you brew an empty potion (no ingredients) you can obtain "a mysterious brew" which can be sold for one glowstone each. Can be spammed.
Altbert  [author] 26 Jun, 2020 @ 4:55pm 
@Alex:

Thanks! Added it to "Blushwood Forest (3)".
Alex 26 Jun, 2020 @ 3:47pm 
You have to talk to Ranya after you see the night drummers before you can talk to the librarian about it
GAD 23 Apr, 2020 @ 4:50pm 
Thank you.