Spirit of the Fallen Morning Star in Genshin Impact: How to Find and Defeat

In Genshin Impact“The Spirit of the Fallen Morning Star” is one of the local legends of Natlan, living in the Realm of Night. The enemy can be teleported to via a dark obelisk on a plateau in the western half of the Tezcatepetonco Ridge, south of the Lords of the Night Wind. If all conditions are met, for the battle with this elite ictomisaur you can get three named achievements from the collection “Duelist II“, giving a total of 35 Primogems.

In this guide, we will analyze how to find and defeat the Spirit of the Fallen Morning Star. We will tell you about the legend's moves and squads with which it will be easier to complete the combat “Trial of the Tundra”.

Achievements “Spirit of the Fallen Morning Star”: how to unlock all

For the battle against the “Spirit of the Fallen Morning Star”, you can open three achievements with the following conditions for obtaining:

• 1st achievement (+5 Primogems): kill the “Spirit of the Fallen Morning Star” for the first time;
• 2nd achievement (+10 Primogems): kill the “Spirit of the Fallen Morning Star”, avoiding the torches from thawing;
• 3rd achievement (+20 Primogems): Defeat the “Spirit of the Fallen Morning Star” without taking damage from the arena-icing attack.

Remember that achievements cannot be obtained in one fight, you will have to allocate time for at least three fights.

Where is the local legend “Spirit of the Fallen Morning Star”

The “Obsidian Storm that bends everything” awaits its opponents in the Night Realm, which can be accessed via the dark stone on the cliff behind Manyoya, the Spiritual Path Trainer's platform. Teleport to the teleporter near the flight school south of the Night Wind Lords clan and run along the path towards the beach, then climb the mountain on the left using the Tepetlisaurus skills (as shown in the second screenshot above).

In the battle with this legend, you will face the “Tundra Trial“: you will have to often use the pyro element to quickly break through the Ictomysaurus's cryo resistance bar. In the arena, in addition to the enemy, there are braziers that buff charged moves with fire nearby. Ororon and his fellow tribesmen, who have the ability to scan and materialize graffiti on ice, will be able to use this advantage during the Obsidian Storm move by creating new sources of flame.

Legendary Combat Moves

Compared to most local legends, the Ice Spirit doesn't have many attacks, but his signature move, Obsidian Storm, can quickly take out half your party if his second phase isn't prevented in time. Let's look at what to expect from the Ictomysaur boss:

• Point Damage

The Legend has only one point attack with a cryo pulse, which he uses both on the ground and in flight.

• Area attack

While on the ground, the Ictomysaur is able to create several circular, closely spaced cryo fields that explode and deal cryo damage.

• Obsidian Storm

This is the Spirit's most dangerous and longest attack and has two phases. In phase 1, the boss soars into the air and disappears, moving to the center of the arena. After repeating the jump and remaining in the air, the legend places a bar of icy fortitude on himself, and frost whirlwinds appear around him.

After a while, the whirlwinds disappear, and the entire arena is covered in ice, constantly and very strongly damaging our active character. If the hero dies, and the next member of the squad comes to replace him, you will have a few seconds of invulnerability. The duration of the phase is enough to kill up to two units.

Squads for the “Tundra Test”

Elements such as cryo, geo, hydro and dendro are less effective against the Ice Spirit. Heroes of these elements can realize their combat potential, but on the condition that the squad will have a powerful pyro applicator (the one who will help quickly get rid of the cryo shield). When choosing a team, consider:

• You cannot do without pyro element characters, because the “Obsidian Storm” cannot be survived either by a shield or by the most powerful heal;
• Standing close to the braziers gives you a buff to charged jabs, so it's best to take heroes that play around them;
• It's a good idea for your main damage dealer to have ranged moves, since the Ictomysaurus is often in the air.

Let's look at the following squads to see which heroes are best to take against a buffed Ictomysaurus.

• F2P Teams

Epic characters can be used to assemble squads for two of the most effective tactics:

• Fight through “overload” (pyro + electro)

Cryo Spirit won't be able to stay in the air for long if you attack it with pyro and electro elements. Take a group of ranged pyro DDs like Yan Fei or Ember, and put Fischl, Bennett/Xiangling and Cookie for healing. Since there will be two characters of the same element in the party, you will increase the damage from “overload” and will often prevent the legend from attacking.

• Dispelling the Pyro Element

The second option is a mono pyro squad + an anemo character with effective dispersal. The best damage dealer here is Yan Fei, who constantly hits with fire and plays with charged moves. We put a couple of pyro supports with her (Xiang Ling or Bennett + Toma for protection) and Sukharoz – she will disperse fire not only from teammates' attacks, but also from torches.

• Legendary teams

Here are also some examples of teams with legendary heroes:

1. Overload Reaction

Chaska and Ororon are excellent against this boss, as they are able to stay in the air for a long time and deal a lot of damage from the combined reactions of the squad (with a couple of pyro supports you will get a lot of “overload”). Ororon's additional advantage is the ability to create new torches on the field, taking them from the pictures on the icy braziers and placing them near the enemy. Therefore, the epic will fit perfectly in alternative squads with pyro dispersal, where there is not enough status to knock down the cryo shield.

1. Mono-pyro pack

Dehya is another must-have, as she hits well with fire in a standing position + when hit by Obsidian Storm, she heals herself intensively due to the rapid loss of HP. The swordswoman will be able to hold out better than other heroes and finish off the enemy's shield/ice on the torch if you did not have time in the first phase of the reception. You can put Eimiya with her, or better yet, Lini (since the character is played from charged shots and will be happy with a buff from the brazier) + Shilonen to reduce the boss's resistance to fire and Bennett for healing + bonuses from the ult.

1. Dispersion of the pyro element

With the game through “dispersion”, whoever you take for the role of the damager (for example, Harlequin or Hu Tao), the main boost will be given by Kazuha – form a squad so that the anemo swordsman has something to inflate.

How to defeat the “Spirit of the Fallen Morning Star”

Before the fight, be sure to replenish your dry rations with consumables (healing and resurrection) and activate food bonuses: defense, cryo resistance/bonus to pyro or electric damage, crits and stamina reduction to be able to dodge surprise attacks. The following tips will be useful for this battle:

• Use Night Spirit on torches to break through the cryo shield faster

When the Ice Vortexes appear on the field, all braziers are instantly covered in ice. If there is a hero from the Night Wind Lords in the squad (for example, Ororon), you can use his charged attack to scan the graffiti on the ice, and then hold down E and place a torch under the boss. Fire can be used to disperse the flames or to enhance the damage dealer's charged shots to remove the blue stamina bar. This is not the fastest process, but as an option for conducting combat, it works quite well.

• Knock down the enemy with “overload” to inflict physical damage. fall damage

One of the benefits of using the Overload reaction against the Spirit is the damage while falling. When you knock down the shield bar, the enemy takes a fair amount of physical damage as they fall. But the Ictomysaurus is in the air not only during the special move with whirlwinds, but also during normal attacks. The more Overload it catches throughout the fight, the faster it will be finished.

• Quickly knock down the cryo shield with fire attacks

The last two achievements are related to the Obsidian Storm move: for the second one, you need to interrupt this attack throughout the entire fight until the field freezes, and for the third one, you need to avoid being hit by the swirling vortexes during the first phase. In both cases, the following tactic works: when the enemy makes a fake jump into the air, run to the center to cast all pyro skills in time and knock down the shield before the storms get close to the hero and deal damage (as demonstrated in the video above).

How to repeat the fight with the “Spirit of the Fallen Morning Star”

All local legends that are in the Realm of Night respawn from obsidian totem outside the battlefield (you will be teleported to it after winning, losing, or interrupting the trial). From here you can repeat the fight at any time or leave, returning to the surface.