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"The lesson will be taught in due time, Aloy. Until then, we wait."
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"Blood spilled calls for blood spilled! If the ground is cursed, then let our vengeance sanctify it!"
Varl

The War-Chief's Trail is the eighth main quest in Horizon Zero Dawn. After talking with Varl at the gates of Mother's Watch, Aloy learns of the failed war party led by War-Chief Sona that has gone missing. As the son of Sona, Varl pleads with Aloy to find her.

Synopsis[]

Aloy makes her way to the battlefield where the Nora war party was last spotted. The field is littered with the corpses of machines and Nora Braves. A stampede of Corrupted machines ran down the slope and clashed with them. The war party was able to kill a Corruptor in the ensuing battle. During her search, Aloy comes across Dran, a wounded Nora Brave. He tells her that the dead and wounded have been cleared away. War-Chief Sona sent him back to report on the situation. The war party was on the trail of the killers, but Corrupted machines threw them off their trail. Dran tells her that he last saw Sona at the metal tower southeast of the runs of Devil's Thirst.

Aloy makes her way to the rise within the Devil's Thirst and finds a recently-used camp. The campsite is filled with spent medical supplies as well as a bow and arrowheads left behind. She uses her Focus to discover a blood trail that leads up onto a ridge overlooking the Devil's Thirst. She reaches the top of the ridge and finds an inactive Corrupted Sawtooth. After pulling an arrow from the machine, another Sawtooth sneaks up on her. Before she can react, an arrow strikes the Sawtooth and forces it off a cliff. The arrow came from Sona and the remnants of her war party.

Sona tells Aloy that she has tracked the killers to a nearby camp. Aloy spots barrels of Blaze throughout the camp and suggests that they ignite them to turn the tide. Aloy, Sona and the Nora party dispatch the camp. Varl appears and tells her that he wishes to rain vengeance on the killers. By examining a datapoint, Aloy discovers that the remaining killers are camped inside the Ring of Metal. Sona tells Aloy that it's located in the Devil's Grief.

Objectives[]

  1. Go to the Massacre Site where the War Party was ambushed.
  2. Investigate the Battlefield for a lead on Sona's whereabouts.
    1. Examine the Food Scraps
    2. Examine a Corrupted Watcher Corpse
    3. Examine the Destroyed Corruptor
  3. Talk to the Survivor
  4. Go to Sona’s Last Known Location
  5. Investigate the Area for a lead on Sona's whereabouts.
    1. Examine the Arrowheads
    2. Examine the Food Scraps
    3. Examine the Bow
    4. Examine the Bandages
    5. Examine the Campfire
  6. Follow the Tracks and see if they lead to Sona.
  7. Examine the Sawtooth
  8. Follow Sona
  9. Kill the Cultists and Corrupted machines to take out the enemy camp.
    1. Destroy the Blaze Containers (Optional)
  10. Talk to Sona
  11. Investigate the Dig Site for information about the location of other Cultists.
    1. Follow the Trail of Blaze
    2. Listen to the Datapoint
  12. Talk to Sona and Varl

Walkthrough[]

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The War Chief's Trail - Very Hard - No Damage - Video Guide

Trivia[]

  • The War Party will begin attacking all-out should Player kill half of the resident enemy, regardless if Aloy's cover is blown or not.
Horizon Zero Dawn Quests
Main Quest A Gift from the Past - Lessons of the Wild - The Point of the Spear - Mother's Heart - The Proving - The Womb of the Mountain - A Seeker at the Gates - The War-Chief's Trail - Revenge of the Nora - The City of the Sun - The Field of the Fallen - Into the Borderlands - The Sun Shall Fall - Maker's End - The Grave-Hoard - To Curse the Darkness - Deep Secrets of the Earth - The Terror of the Sun - The Heart of the Nora - The Mountain That Fell - The Looming Shadow - The Face of Extinction
Side Quests A Daughter's Vengeance - A Moment's Peace - Acquired Taste - Ancient Armory - Blood on Stone - Cause for Concern - Farewell - Death from the Skies - Fatal Inheritance - Heap of Trouble - Honor The Fallen - Hunters' Blind - In Her Mother's Footsteps - Insult to Injury - Queen's Gambit - Redmaw - Robbing the Rich - Sun and Shadow - Sunstone Rock - The Forgotten - Traitor's Bounty - Underequipped - Weapons of the Lodge
Errands A Curious Proposal - Collateral - Deadliest Game - Demand and Supply - Hammer and Steel - Healer's Oath - Hunting for the Lodge - In Foreign Lands - Luck of the Hunt - Odd Grata - Sanctuary - Shortage of Supplies - Sun's Judgment - To Old Acquaintance
Activities Bandit Camps Blackwing Snag - Devil's Thirst - Gatelands - Hollow Fort - Shattered Kiln - Two-Teeth
Cauldrons Cauldron RHO - Cauldron SIGMA - Cauldron XI - Cauldron ZETA
Corrupted Zones Corrupted Zones
Hunting Grounds Greatrun - Nora - Spurflints - Sun Furrows - Valleymeet
Tallnecks Copper Deeps - Devil's Thirst - Rustwash - Spearshafts - Sun-Steps
Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds Quests
Side Quests Firebreak - For the Werak - Frontier Justice - Into the Frozen Wilds - The Forge of Winter - The Hunters Three - The Shaman's Path - The Survivor - Waterlogged
Errands A Secret Shared - Ikrie's Challenge - Geared Up: Forgefire - Geared Up: Icerail - Geared Up: Stormslinger - Out of the Forge - The Claws Beneath
Activities Tallneck: Frostfigures - Snowchants Hunting Grounds - Stone Yield Bandit Camp
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