Avowed: Skaen Totem Piece Locations in Emerald Stair

The seven pieces of Skaen’s The Schemer’s Offering Totem are scattered across Emerald Stair, the second region in the Living Lands, each piece can give you a powerful combat buff in Avowed.

What are Totems in Avowed?

A Totem is comprised of 7 pieces you can find scattered across a singular region of the Living Lands. You can assemble the Totem pieces to make an altar at your camp.

You can also buy a Quest Item from a Merchant in each region that gives you a hint about the location of each fragment of the Totem and keep track of which ones you’ve collected, but it’s not necessary to complete the Totem.

Each Totem is dedicated to one of the gods of Eora, and, when assembled and activated, each piece provides a unique combat buff themed around what the Eoran god represents.

There are 4 Totems you can assemble and each synergizes with a specific skill tree—Fighter, Ranger, Wizard, or Companions.

Since you can only have 1 Totem active at a time, you can’t mix and match buffs from different Totems. The gods will only help their devout, so it’s beneficial to find and assemble all 7 pieces, at least for your build.

You can’t begin assembling a given Totem at your camp until you get the Totem’s base, which is located at a shrine dedicated to the associated god in each region.

Skaen Totem Piece Locations

The Fragments of the Offering comprise a Totem is dedicated to Skaen. Its pieces are located in Emerald Stair, the second region you’ll visit in the Living Lands.

If you prefer clues instead of exact locations, purchase the Fragments of the Offering from Llusia Melcer at the Farmer’s Market in Maxim’s Claim. You can follow the instructions in this guide without purchasing the notes.

Skaen is the god of defiance, violent rebellion, secret hatred, covert plots, resentment, and envy. Anyone with an axe to grind and a score to settle looks to Skaen.

The Schemer’s Offering (Base)

You can loot The Schemer’s Offering from the Shrine to Skaen in The Delemgan Glade of Emerald Stair.

The Schemer’s Offering is the base of Skaen’s Totem, so you’ll need to pick it up before you can assemble any of the other pieces at your camp and begin benefitting from the buffs.

Effigy Necklace

You can find the Effigy Necklace inside Naku Tedek. You cannot access this area until you are sent there on the Main Story quest “Ancient Soil”. This will likely be the last piece of Skaen’s Totem that you collect.

Idol of Covert Plots

You can loot the Idol of Covert Plots from a defaced altar of Hylea in the church outside the Infested Camp in the Grim Wetlands.

To get inside, you’ll either need to drop down through the non-existent roof or use a secret passage on the west side of the building. The button to open the door is in the statue’s lantern, just like the one for the door to the Ring of Slow Essence.

Idol of Secret Hatred

You can find the Idol of Secret Hatred next to Maxim Vidarro’s corpse in the Ancient Grotto across the western river from Naku Tedek Grounds.

Near one of the two exits from the Ancient Grotto, you’ll find a small tunnel illuminated by some pink plants you can crawl through.

Idol of Violent Rebellion

You’ll find the Idol of Violent Rebellion sticking out of a wooden crate at the top of the Ranger Headquarters east of Fior in the Rolling Crags.

Obsidian Prayer Beads

You can find the Obsidian Prayer Beads next to a corpse overlooking the courtyard outside the Delemgan Queen’s throne room at the western edge of The Delemgan Glade.

Sacrificial Dagger

You can dislodge the Sacrificial Dagger holding a piece of paper to a boarded-up door at the Abandoned Farms in the Rolling Crags. You’ll also need to go here for the Xaurip Bounty.

Skaen Totem Buffs

Skaen’s Totem offers a series of buffs that synergize best with Ranger builds, including increasing your damage dealt against unaware enemies, causing critical hits to deal high Poison Accumulation, and making Second Wind cast Flurry of Blows.

All Other Items

We have detailed guides for the other three Totems in Avowed, located in the other regions: