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Questing the Embrace: Proving Your Worth
Horizon Zero Dawn

Questing the Embrace: Proving Your Worth

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.

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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
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    Odd 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.
  2. 2
    Cross the bridge west and defeat three Watchers. Continue uphill past directional stones to find Grata's camp.
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    Talk 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.
  4. 4
    To recover the Prayer Beads, head to the eastern overlook (north of the Campfire north of the Strider Site).
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    Follow the path, defeating any Watchers. Climb the slope and use yellow ropes and white-crusted ledges to ascend. Jump across gaps and climb cliffs.
  6. 6
    Use a zipline to descend to the overlook. Find Grata's Prayer Beads in a Supply Crate on a bench.
  7. 7
    Return to Grata to complete her request.
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    In Her Mother's Footsteps: Make your way back east to the Campfire. Find the man calling for help to the north; this is Thok.
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    Talk to Thok. His daughter, Arana, went to hunt a Scrapper and he wants you to find her.
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    Head east down the road, turn south at the fork, and cross a river by leaping over logs. Save at a Campfire.
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    Find Arana in a tree south of the Campfire, surrounded by four Watchers. Defeat the Watchers using Silent Strike and Lure Call or other methods.
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    Talk to Arana. She will ask you to retrieve her mother's spear from the Scrapper she was hunting.
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    Activate 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.
  14. 14
    Scan again with your Focus to find the Scrapper's trail and follow it further southeast past Mother's Cradle to a river.
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    Cross 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.
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    Locate 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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