Avowed’s Mapping the Living Lands quest will send you on a journey to finding missing cartographers for Sanza. They went out to map the areas but never came back so it is now your job to find and bring them back to Sanza.
Each region in Avowed has one cartographer for you to find. So until you get access to new regions you won’t be able to complete this quest.
Dawnshore Cartographer #1
The first cartographer is in Giermund in Dawnshore. You can find them in a small section of rubble near the stairs of eastern entrance of Paradis. The location is near the God’s Gate fast travel point. He is trapped under a rock so there is no point anymore but you need to pick up his map and send it back to Sanza.
Emerald Stair Cartographer #2
The second time you get a pop up for Mapping the Living Lands quest is when you reach the second main region of Avowed, Emerald Stairs. Here we are looking for Fleccia, the cartographer.
Fleccia is on a ledge that overlooks the sea at the southwest edge of Naku Tedek. She is also dead so pick up her map and send it back to Sanza.
Shatterscarp Cartographer #3
There’s also Wilfrith, yet another missing cartographer, who can be found in Shatterscarp. Visit the bounty board in Thirdborn, pick up the quest “Wilfrith’s Dispatch,” and recover their map.
This will give you a clue as well as send you back to Sanza once you pick up the map, though you can do these steps without the quest.
Wilfrith’s body can be found at a small campsite on a rocky outcrop along the southeast coast of Shatterscarp, beyond Sailor’s Rest.
This very location is just above the second ‘T’ in the word “Shatterscarp” on the bottom right of the map as you can see in the image above.
Galawain’s Tusks Cartographer #4
Renato is a grave-robber, imprisoned in Soreena’s Mercy, the prison just outside Solace Keep.
And unlike every other Cartographer, Renato is actually alive.
Of all Sanza’s cartographers, Renato is the easiest to track down. There’s a hint of where to find him out in the depths of the Ash Forest in Galawain’s Tusks, but it’s not even worth the long journey when you can almost run into him even before you leave this great forest area.
To meet him, go to the prison’s second floor and talk to him. He works for Sanza, something that becomes immediately clear.
There aren’t even any dialogue checks you need to clear to get him released — you just need to tell the guard,
“He’s learned his lesson. Let him out.” and mark with one of the three available answers. If you decide to leave him behind, you may still take his cartography notes and give them to Sanza.
The prison is relatively easy to access. If you don’t know the way, just follow the coastline east from Thirdborn. When you see Sailor’s Rest, you’ll know you’re about halfway there. Continue on until you see a narrow track heading up a rocky pillar — here, you’ll find Wilfrith’s corpse and their map.
