As part of The Dawning 2021 event, the quest involves for you to gather ingredients to cook a specific recipe, as well as looking for key items. By the end of it, you’ll be able to unlock a new emblem. This page details how to start Rite of Dawning, as well as the steps in detail to complete it fast. On this page: If you’re interested in knowing how the quest works in detail, jump to our following sections. Once there, head over to the Tower, specifically the Courtyard, to find Eva Levante. Talk to her and follow her indications in the introductory quest. This will only take a couple minutes. At one point she will offer you Rite of Dawning, as well as The Pigeon Provides quests, and you’ll be all set. Now, let’s see what each step entails. As such, we’re starting with a brief chat with Zavala, who can be found at the Tower, close to the Courtyard. Zavala asks us to head over to the EDZ and track down the festive intel from Firebase Hades. For this, head to the destinations tab, select the nearest travel point and head over to the firebase using your sparrow. While tracking the quest will pinpoint the location, it didn’t become visible for us until we were very close to it. The exact spot is against the western wall, slightly to the south of the base. If you’re looking at the map, it’s on the same ’line’ as the area’s name. We still have a while to go, so jump to our next section to for all the details. First, still in Firebase Hades, head over to the Pathfinder’s Crash Lost Sector. This is found on the southeastern side of the area, so it’s really hard to miss. It’s a straightforward enough battle - as you defeat Cabal combatants they will drop the Ritual Schematics. You’ll need 25 of these, so if you don’t manage to gather them all, just hunt a few more enemies outside. The Ceremonial Cup is retrieved from the chest at the end of the Lost Sector. Getting closer to the end - let’s see what’s next. Now, you’ll have to gather ingredients in order to bake three Dark Chocolate Motes. The Dawning 2021 recipe for it requires 1 Cabal Oil (obtained from defeating powerful Cabal enemies), 3 Null Taste (obtained from inflicting Void damage) and the usual 15 Essence of Dawning. Note that Null Taste is a fairly rare drop - it took us a long while until we got to see just one of them. Thankfully, the drop was more frequent (but still somewhat elusive) afterwards. We recommend switching to Void energy, as well as equipping two Void-based weapons if possible, to increase the chances even further. A good place to farm kills for Null Taste is the Bay of Drowned Wishes in the Dreaming City (thanks to WoW Quests on YouTube for the suggestion) due to the sheer amount of enemies. It’s a fairly quick Lost Sector, too, which makes for a great method. Repeat it a couple times and Null Taste is bound to appear soon. Afterwards, go ahead and craft three Dark Chocolate Motes (not to be confused with Chocolate Ship Cookies… speaking from experience). Once ready, head to the Tower and give them to the Drifter. The next step involves for you to complete the Proving Grounds strike, which can be found on Nessus. Bear in mind that if you haven’t been up to date with the Season of the Chosen questline, you will need to complete A Challenger Rises first to access the strike. From here it’s all rather straightforward. Once done, head over to the tower for another quick chat with Zavala and Eva Levante, respectively. If you’d like to see what the rewards for this quest are, jump to our final section below. It’s December, which means the return of The Dawning and Moments of Triumph 2022! Elsewhere, the Season of the Seraph is here alongside More than a Weapon, Seraph Key Codes and Resonate Stems and the addition of Rose in Crucible. We’ve also seen a new dungeon, Spire of the Watcher, with has a chance of Hierarchy of Needs dropping upon completion. Earliear this year we had the arrival of King’s Fall and King’s Fall challenges, plus weapons including Doom of Chelchis and Touch of Malice. For The Witch Queen, learn how to get Dead Messenger and Parasite.
Malibeaux Bronze Shader: Granted by Zavala on step 7 of the quest
From the Ashes Emblem: Granted by Eva Levante after completing the quest
Best of luck with Rite of Dawning!
