Beyond bosses and chests, each chapter hides Meditation Spots — quiet places that reward you for simply finding and sitting at them. They are pure exploration currency and easy to walk past for an entire chapter.
What to find
- Meditation Spots — quiet vantage points that reward exploration and lore.
- Gourds, Drinks and Soaks — expand and improve your healing.
- Boss drops — craft new staves and armour sets.
- Use the Keeper's Shrine map and revisit chapters to mop up anything missed.
Sweeping a chapter
- Fast-travel between shrines and clear outward from each to cover the whole map.
- Meditation Spots are usually on ledges and scenic overlooks — look up and off-path.
- Grab gourd and drink upgrades early in a chapter so they help with its boss.
- Return in New Game+ for anything gated behind late abilities or questlines.
Why bother
- Meditation Spots reward exploration with lore, materials and sometimes upgrades.
- Gourd, Drink and Soak upgrades from side areas directly raise your survivability.
- Boss drops let you craft the newest staff and armour ahead of the curve.
- They also count toward 100%, so sweeping them saves an NG+ backtrack.
What to know
- They are marked by the scenery, not by the map — look for a deliberate, still composition.
- They tend to sit just off the main path, usually at a viewpoint.
- Sitting is the whole interaction; there is no fight and nothing to fail.
- They are worth a detour: the reward compounds over a full playthrough.
Twenty-four, and where they sit
- Twenty-four in total, spread across five of the game's regions.
- Chapter 1 hides three. Chapter 2 has six, Chapter 4 another six, and the last four are in Chapter 5.
- Each one is a single Spark, and a Spark is a skill point: you spend them at any Keeper's Shrine, in the Self Advance menu, on new spells and abilities.
- That accounts for nineteen; the remaining five are in Chapter 3, confirmed directly rather than by subtraction (see the note below).
- Twenty-four Sparks is a meaningful chunk of a build, which is the real argument for the detours.
Cross-checked
Cross-checked on 5 September 2026 against the meditation-spot walkthroughs of Sportskeeda and GamerGuides: 24 in total, split 3 / 6 / 5 / 6 / 4 across Chapters 1 through 5 (none in Chapter 6). What is still unverified is the only thing reading cannot settle — nobody here has played it, so exactly what finding one grants beyond a Spark remains to confirm.