Remnant Incense Guide – Fellfrost Peak: How to Get All 3 and Open the Shadow Realm Treasure Vault

The Remnant Incense Guide – Fellfrost Peak is a 4-star Adventure Item from Genshin Impact 7.0: three of them unseal the Shadow Realm Treasure Vault in Fellfrost Peak, Snezhnaya, and each one has a chance to drop from any Precious or Luxurious Chest in the area. The drop rule is WoW Quests’ on-screen note for the first chapters of the video: “Remnant Incense Guide has a chance to drop from any Precious or Luxurious Chest in the area.”

The item’s own text, read from the inventory at 54:28: “Gathering three pieces of the Remnant Incense Guide – Fellfrost Peak allows you to unseal the vault of Shadow Realm at the Fellfrost Peak.” The lore goes on: early squads exploring the Shadow Realm left treasures they could not carry out, and marked them with a “scent trail” that only the pieced-together incense can follow.

Every Snezhnaya area added in 7.0 works the same way. The achievement Bounty of the Shadow Realm: Snow Blanketed Nation (I) asks you to unlock all Shadow Realm treasure vaults in Everfrozen Earth, Volkodlak Tundra, Flamefeather Valley, White Birch Snowgrave and Fellfrost Peak, three vaults in all, for 10 Primogems. It is listed on our Snezhnaya achievements page.

There is no fixed spot for any of the three pieces: open Precious and Luxurious Chests in Fellfrost Peak until you hold three. Common and Exquisite Chests do not count. Because each drop is a chance and not a guarantee, the number of chests you need depends on your luck; WoW Quests holds three by the time the vault chapter starts at 54:24, after a route of more than twenty big chests.

That makes this video a route for opening the most big chests in the least time, not a list of three spots. It also means that a player who has already explored Fellfrost Peak may have the pieces in their bag already. Check Precious Items (the bag’s key tab) before you start: the inventory frame shows three different incense burner icons side by side, one for each Snezhnaya area’s guide.

If you are short, the fastest chests to farm are the ones that ask for a puzzle rather than a quest: the challenges in the next sections take a minute or two each. Quest-gated chests (the Hesperides of Love and Hate line, For an Ice Mirror Fragment, Ever Beneath the Waves) take longer but are worth doing anyway for the quest rewards.

WoW Quests’ run opens the Precious and Luxurious Chests of Fellfrost Peak in 22 chapters, then opens the vault in the 23rd. The chapter numbers below are the video’s own (they skip 3 and 4 and count some pairs as one chapter). Each chapter starts from a teleport on the map.

The first half of the route stays in and around the House of Hesperides, the mansion in Fellfrost Peak, where five hidden paintings unlock a Luxurious Chest and two challenges give Precious Chests. The note for chapters 1, 2, 6, 8 and 9 reads “Find 5 paintings to unlock luxurious chest”.

Vershina’s challenge in chapter 5 is a memory test. She asks you to watch the Jack Frosts in the room, then answers questions about them, with a timer on screen: “Observe the number of Jack Frosts wearing ‘some sort’ of hat”, then “Observe the number of Jack Frosts doing ‘a certain thing’”, then “Observe the Jack Frosts’ actions”. WoW Quests puts the answers on screen: 3 for the first question, 5 for the second, and any answer for the third, then Red Beet.

Chapter 7 is the VIP Pass Precious Chest. A VIP Lounge Guard stops you at the door (“Apologies, but this is the VIP Lounge. It is not open to ordinary guests…”), and the chapter is a short errand among the guests, Abuzova, Zlatov, Iskelina and Koshakova, before the chest at 11:30.

Chapters 10 and 11 hand the five paintings in: one Luxurious Chest and one Precious Chest at 18:18. The second chapter 11 is an Elemental Monument outside, lit with three Cryoculus, which opens a Precious Chest worth 10 Primogems and 1,457 Mora.

Three chapters in the middle of the run are timed challenges, each worth a Precious Chest: rolling barrels in the House of Hesperides, Lukov’s hot tea temperature run, and four animal blueprint setups. They are the quickest chests to redo if you are still short of a Remnant Incense Guide.

The barrel challenge (chapter 12) asks you to hit the rolling barrels “so that they end up in the racking area”, with a counter for regular barrels and explosive ones (3 of 6 and 1 of 4 at 26:00).

Lukov’s challenge (chapter 13) is a run across the snow with a “Tea Temperature” gauge at the top of the screen for the whole run. The chest opens at 30:45, next to Lukov’s camp.

Chapter 14 asks for four animal blueprint setups in a snow camp. Each one is built with the construct bar at the top right, with a timer (2:48 at the start) and a “Setups completed” counter. The Precious Chest stands among the Jack Frosts once the fourth is placed.

The second half of the run collects the chests that only appear after a quest: the Hesperides of Love and Hate world quest line, Jack Frost Village, For an Ice Mirror Fragment, Ever Beneath the Waves, The Sunken Ship Sailed Past, Ringing No Bells, and In the Tranquility of Cycles.

Chapters 15 to 17 are three chests that open once the Hesperides of Love and Hate line is done; WoW Quests teleports straight to them. Chapters 18 and 19 are a Luxurious and a Precious Chest in Jack Frost Village.

For an Ice Mirror Fragment (chapter 20) starts from notes left by someone lost in the snowy mountains. The quest leads into an icy cave, where you carry heat sources back to lanterns and then drift on a glacier until you reach the shore, under attack. The Luxurious Chest waits at the end.

Ever Beneath the Waves (chapter 21) is a prerequisite rather than a chest. A voice calls from under the ice, and you bring a wooden cabin to shore with the grappling construct. The chapter title calls it the prerequisite for a Luxurious Chest, and the quest completes at 48:45.

The Sunken Ship Sailed Past, Ringing No Bells (chapter 22) has you collect reinforcement materials from the boxes floating near a wrecked ship for a Precious Chest. In the Tranquility of Cycles (chapter 23) sends you back to the cabin on the ice, now almost sunk; Chulkaturin’s last lines play out, and the Luxurious Chest appears on the jetty at 54:00.

The Fellfrost Peak Shadow Realm Treasure Vault is in the walled town inside the circular railway loop, north of the Fellfrost Peak label on the map; the vault icon sits at the south edge of the town. The map panel calls it “a Shadow Realm space housing buried treasures”.

Our interactive map has the vault on its own layer: the link opens it with only the five Shadow Realm Treasure Vaults showing, so you can see where Fellfrost Peak’s sits next to the other Snezhnaya areas.

From the teleport waypoint in the town, WoW Quests glides down through the scaffolding to the vault entrance and uses the three pieces at the prompt. Inside, a sign marks “There is a chest nearby”, and the vault is a short corridor of crates with glowing pick-ups.

The vault’s pick-ups are 5-star artifacts from two 7.0 sets: [Heart of the Furnace](/artifacts/heart-of-the-furnace) and [Scarlet Proof](/artifacts/scarlet-proof). The names on screen match the pieces in our artifact data: Foundryman’s Conjecture, Magnanimity, Observation, Calculus and Legacy are Heart of the Furnace; Glory to Your Legacy, Time Gifted Unto You, Testament to Your Faith and Chalice of Your Blood and Sorrow are Scarlet Proof.

Heart of the Furnace is a Stellar Glimmer set: 2-piece ATK +18%, 4-piece ATK +12% for the wearer and +50% Stellar Glimmer reaction DMG for the party. Our data lists Valeriy, the Tsaritsa and Danica as its best users. Scarlet Proof is the Stellar Swirl set, with Vesna as its best user.

The substats are random like any artifact, so treat the vault as a starter set rather than an endgame one. The party that does the whole route is Flins, Columbina, Durin and Xianyun, with Furina in the first chapters; nothing on the route asks for a particular element. For other 7.0 to 7.2 exploration, see the Crystal-Tree Grotto chests and the Fairy Wormwood route.