Follow our comprehensive guide to complete the 'Questing the Embrace: Proving Your Worth' mission in Horizon Zero Dawn. Includes tips for hunting, climbing, and combat.
Walkthrough
- 1Odd Grata: Return to the Strider Site northwest of Mother's Cradle. Head north to a Campfire, then west along the road to another Campfire near a bridge. Encounter Striders and Watchers. Ignore the man calling for help for now.
- 2Cross the bridge west and defeat three Watchers. Continue uphill past directional stones to find Grata's camp.
- 3Talk to Grata. She will ask you to catch five pieces of meat from wild animals and recover her Prayer Beads. Use your spear to hunt animals and harvest meat.
- 4To recover the Prayer Beads, head to the eastern overlook (north of the Campfire north of the Strider Site).
- 5Follow the path, defeating any Watchers. Climb the slope and use yellow ropes and white-crusted ledges to ascend. Jump across gaps and climb cliffs.
- 6Use a zipline to descend to the overlook. Find Grata's Prayer Beads in a Supply Crate on a bench.
- 7Return to Grata to complete her request.
- 8In Her Mother's Footsteps: Make your way back east to the Campfire. Find the man calling for help to the north; this is Thok.
- 9Talk to Thok. His daughter, Arana, went to hunt a Scrapper and he wants you to find her.
- 10Head east down the road, turn south at the fork, and cross a river by leaping over logs. Save at a Campfire.
- 11Find Arana in a tree south of the Campfire, surrounded by four Watchers. Defeat the Watchers using Silent Strike and Lure Call or other methods.
- 12Talk to Arana. She will ask you to retrieve her mother's spear from the Scrapper she was hunting.
- 13Activate your Focus (R3) and scan for purple triangles and ghostly images on the ground to find Arana's trail. Follow it southeast until it goes cold.
- 14Scan again with your Focus to find the Scrapper's trail and follow it further southeast past Mother's Cradle to a river.
- 15Cross the river, scan to regain the Scrapper's tracks, and follow them past a Campfire to their source in the southeast corner of the area.
- 16Locate the Scrapper on top of a cliff. Be cautious of two roaming Watchers and two other Scrappers in the vicinity.
Tips
- Use your spear to hunt animals for meat to conserve ammo.
- Focus (R3) is essential for tracking animals and enemy trails.
- Yellow ropes and white-crusted ledges are climbable/jumpable surfaces.
- Press [X] to jump and [Left Analog] to maneuver. Longer leaps require aiming with [Left Analog] and pressing [X].
- Press [Triangle] to rappel down using ropes.
- Silent Strike and Lure Call are effective for dealing with Watchers.
- For appeasing Odd Grata: 1,000 XP
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