THE FIELD GUIDE

Letters to Lunka Walkthrough: Help the Sanzhani

Finish Good Home, then help the Sanzhani with Come Hither, Burrow Sorrows, Pearly and Precious and Tiny Dancer in any order. Return to the Tsarina in Yawning Burrow after each request to send five letters, wait 16 segments for each answer and read it from your inventory.

Updated 2026-10-17Independent game guide

Complete Good Home before helping the Sanzhani

Letters to Lunka starts after Good Home. The Sanzhani Tsarina is in Yawning Burrow, and the other four requests become available together: Come Hither, Burrow Sorrows, Pearly and Precious and Tiny Dancer. Complete them in any order; their recommended listing is not a required sequence.

Good Home's three Shiny Teeth objective is a separate branch. It can finish that earlier quest when you choose to let Heile leave with Tonis, but it is not the same as Letters to Lunka's journal objective to help the Sanzhani.

Send five letters through the Tsarina

After Good Home, return to the Tsarina in Yawning Burrow to send the first letter. Each completed Sanzhani request opens another letter opportunity, for five in total: the first after Good Home and one after each of the four requests.

The five topics recorded in the journal are a message that you are still alive and fighting, your father Pieter, Greifberg Castle's defences, Brencis's plans and a gift for Lunka. Choose them in any order when the dialogue is available.

Finish Good Home and speak with the Tsarina in Yawning Burrow.
Send the first letter, then complete any one of the four requests below.
Return to the Tsarina after each request to send another letter; repeat until all four are complete and all five letters have been sent.

Choose a convenient Sanzhani request

All four requests open after Good Home. Use this index to pick a nearby start; each map link opens the reviewed search or encounter area, not an exact item pickup or a route line. Time costs below are the objectives' recorded costs and do not include every travel or optional action.

Choose a convenient Sanzhani request
Request	Starting clue
Come Hither	North of Verda Marsh Guardpost Shrine; follow the curious sound.
Burrow Sorrows	North of Boar's Back Trail Shrine in the Rockfalls woods.
Pearly and Precious	At the abandoned camp south of Small Bridge Shrine; look for drag marks.
Tiny Dancer	At the townhouse in central Svartrau; enter at ground level or use the back balcony.

Come Hither: follow the sound into the burrow

Start north of Verda Marsh Guardpost Shrine and investigate the curious sound on the path. Follow the Sanzhani to the nearby burrow, drop into the cave and defeat the Murohn miniboss. Return outside and speak with the Sanzhani to finish the request. It costs 2 time segments and rewards 100 XP and 1 Skill Point.

Burrow Sorrows: retrieve the charm

Approach the area north of Boar's Back Trail Shrine and speak with the Sanzhani west of the approach. Crouch into the burrow, defeat the Kobolds, take the charm from the wooden pillar and return it to the Sanzhani. The nearby chest is optional; it is not required to finish the request. The objective costs 2 segments and the reward is 100 XP and Sunbringer's Pendant.

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Pearly and Precious: follow the drag marks

At the abandoned camp south of Small Bridge Shrine, use Focus to inspect the drag marks. Follow them south or southwest to the Sanzhani, then use the footprints to find the bandits. Defeat the group and return to the Sanzhani to complete the request and unlock trading. The merchant later moves to Yawning Burrow, so you can return there if you do not trade immediately. The objective costs 1 segment and the reward is 100 XP and 1 Skill Point.

Tiny Dancer: free the Sanzhani and find the silver

Go to the townhouse in central Svartrau and investigate the suspicious sound. The ground-floor entrance works at night; a back balcony is another route. Pick up the Storekeep's Letter, use the lute to obtain the Merchant's Key, then unlock the upstairs door. Interact with the cage, take the Cage Key from the table and use it to free the Sanzhani.

In the next room, loot the chest and use Focus on the boards to the left. Taking the silver under the boards completes the request. It costs 2 segments and rewards 100 XP.

Wait for the journal's reply objective, then read the letter

When the journal asks you to wait for Lunka's answer, allow one full in-game day: 16 time segments. Open the delivered letter from your inventory to read the reply. The journal distinguishes the wait and read steps for the available topics, so follow its current objective instead of assuming every answer arrives at once.

Plan waiting, daytime and nighttime segments

Claim the extra day before the family deadline

Once Good Home and the four follow-up requests are complete, ask the Tsarina about the special reward. It restores one day, or 16 segments, to the family-rescue clock. Claim it before the 30-day rescue deadline if you still need the time; it does not undo a deadline that has already passed.

The request locations are optional route choices, but the family deadline remains active while you complete them. Check your current clock before spending time on detours or waiting for a reply.

Good Home owns the Heile and Tonis choice; this guide covers the four follow-up requests, the letter cycle and the extra-day decision. Return to the map to pick a convenient request and use Good Home if the journal is still asking for Shiny Teeth.

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Yawning Burrow

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Letters to Lunka

Complete Good Home, send the first letter through the Tsarina, then return to her after each of the four unlocked Sanzhani requests for the remaining letters. Each reply arrives after one in-game day, or 16 time segments, and is read in your inventory.

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Pearly and Precious

After Good Home, inspect the blood trail at the abandoned camp south of Stoneward Post in Briar Sloughs. Completing the request opens the Sanzhani merchant in Yawning Burrow, where Silk Threads can be purchased.

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