Mortal Shell 2 Ruins of Nochte Walkthrough

How to enter

1. Finish Desolate Peak far enough to stand at its Beacon.
2. Use the south Bone Gate. It shows two exits. Look at the right-most gate.
3. Kill the Brigands and Stoners on the landing and loot the camp Ventrium.

You are next to the fortress that holds Prisoners' Domain. Do not walk into the Corrupted Gate yet — Smert and the Duality Stone sit on the same map.

Smert at Prophet's Rest

1. Push to Outskirts of Nochte Beacon and rest.
2. Uphill is Prophet's Rest: three ritual pools. One may already be filled.
3. Fill the remaining pools by killing enemies inside the circles, or by using the blood-offering prompt. An offering knocks you out of your Shell. Do not offer again as a bare Harbinger — that kills you.
4. Inhabit Smert. Memory name: The Convert. When Smert says "Then I will encourage you," attack the Hierarch so the scene can finish.

Full kit notes: Smert location. My Brether pops when the memory completes.

Hag's Path vs the fortress

RPS: backtrack down the slope, take the left-hand path past clustered Lithopods, and you enter Hag's Path — a dense swamp. It is the best Tarspore field in launch write-ups and otherwise mostly empty. Tag the Beacon if you want the map pin, then leave.

The fortress route is the story path:

1. Drop the drawbridge when you see it. Game8 uses that extra path later.
2. Fight through the ruined church / knights to Nochtean Gate Beacon. Cleansing it is the Prisoners' Domain doorstep. KeenGamer lists Vrago / Abandoned Shrine here for Voltaic Crown.
3. Nearby elevator down: Ravaged Tomb and Duality Stone. Take this before the gate if you are on Axe & Dagger or heading toward Axatana.
4. Thieves' Retreat is a one-level drop north of the gate for healing materials. Optional.
5. Walk the opened fortress path into Prisoners' Domain.