Spirit of the North Walkthrough and 100% achievement guide

Straightforward as fast as possible video walkthrough, timestamps for collectibles (spirits, shamans and their staffs), screenshots, info and guide for achievements.

General Information

Please dont forget to:

100% perfection time, difficulty:

My completion time was 13hours, but that included a second full playthrough for video recording, not just chapters where I missed something. Spirit of the North could be perfected in 6-10hours, depending on how many hints you get from videos/guides.

It is quite easy to get the game to 100%. You can replay chapters, even subchapters so you can get back to collectibles/parts you missed. Because of this, it is highly recommended to play first without any hints/guides. You can't miss anything permanently!

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Video walkthrough

This walkthrough tries to be as fast as possible, without wandering away so you can find fast for parts where you stuck or find missed shamans, achievements easily with the timestamps I share in this guide. Please keep in mind some parts of the PC version different than the console version. For example, few staffs for shaman spirits located at different locations. If you need help with those you might want to check a video about the PC version.

Shamans

Awaken
Awaken 5 Shaman Spirits


Old Companion
Awaken 12 Shaman Spirits


None Forgotten
Awaken all 28 Shaman Spirits


All location on the video. Here are the timestamps for every single shaman spirit. Please keep in mind that the timer for picking up the staffs, which then need to be delivered to the shaman corpse. In same cases it is better to start the vid few seconds earlier so it might be more clear to you how to get to the staff,
Chapter 1:
1/28: 3:35
2/28: 9:10
3/28: 13:00
Chapter 2:
4/28: 17:45
5/28: 20:30
Chapter 3:
6/28: 27:15
7/28: 28:50 (pick it up before flooding else you can't pick it up anymore)
8/28: 35:50
Chapter 4:
9/28: 44:55
10/28: 46:00
11/28: 53:05
12/28: 58:15
13/28: 1:03:25
14/28: 1:05:30
15/28: 1:09:50
Chapter 5:
16/28: 1:18:20
17/28: 1:25:10
18/28: 1:28:45
19/28: 1:32:50
20/28: 1:37:40
21/28: 1:39:45
22/28: 1:43:10
23/28: 1:53:35
24/28: 1:58:25
Chapter 6:
25/28: 2:00:35
26/28: 2:03:05
27/28: 2:06:10
28/28: 2:07:30

Storyline achievements

These achievements should unlock while playing the game, some because it belongs to the storyline, some because impossible to finish the game without using abilities/destroying something with less required amount than the amount the achievements ask.

A Gaurdian Forgotten
Awaken the Spirit of the North


Infused with Light
Become Infused with Pure Ancient Energy


Spirit Bark
Unlock Spirit Bark Ability


Eradicate
Destroy 3 Plague Tethers


Uprooting Darkness
Destroy 8 Plague Tethers


Plague Doctor
Destroy 18 Plague Tethers


Plague Tethers are objects you can destroy once unlocked Spirit Bark ability. These usually block your path so impossible to finish the game without getting these achievements.


Blooms of Light
Collect 25 Spirit Bloom


Garden of Light
Collect 50 Spirit Bloom


If you not infused go to blue flowers and use Q button to bark. That will make your companion interact with the flower and you will be infused with its power. I doubt you can finish the game without getting both achievements.

Spirit Form
Unlock Spirit Form Ability


Best Friends
Cause the Wisp chirp 100 times


IF you bark, the wisp will chirp. It will unlock before the end of the game without focusing on this achievement.

Written In Stone
Infuse 30 Standing Stones


Spirit Dash
Unlock Spirit Dash Ability


Spirited Away
Make it out of the Spirit World


Match Maker
Match 12 sets of Revolving Matching Glyphs


These are stones you need to turn with barking, when all related stones on their proper position then it usually opens a door, unlock a portal, etc. A set does not always include multiple stones, some puzzle has only one stone. I doubt you can finish the game without getting this.

Trivial, but missable achievements

Fetch
Carry a Shaman Staff for 3 minutes


Just go AFK while there is a shaman staff in the mouth of your fox.

Foxin' Around
Stand still for 3 minutes


Just go AFK for 3 minutes.

Kindred Spirits

Kindred Spirits
Locate and greet all Spirits in the Spirit World


Probably the "hardest" or most annoying achievement. During chapter 7 you need to find all 28 spirits, move to the front of them. If you see an animation that is like praying, then they greet you. All 28 found on the video walkthrough. The whole area is a big forest, easy to get lost, many areas look similar so a screenshot guide not really possible.

Chapter 7 on the video: 2:11:53-2:28:40

You should get the achievement once you get close to these 3 dudes:


If you replay the chapter you need to find only the spirits you missed previously, you don't need to find all 28 in a single run/session.

Fox? Or Flying Squirrel?

Fox? Or Flying Squirrel?
Stay airborn for more than 8 seconds using jump-gates or geysers

In Chapter 5, Part 6, there is a chain of jump gates so you will be in the air for a few seconds. It is not enough tho, so you need to dash back into them before landing. I earned the achievement while recording so it is recorded what should you do.

Timestamp: 1:42:04

Weightless

Weightless
While in Spirit Form; step on a pressure plate, an unstable platform, and walk on water


Do what the description says. It is important to mention that you need to do each once in spirit form, you don't need to do all of them during one spirit form session. This makes the achievement very easy.

Northern Lights

Northern Lights
Fill the night sky with Aurora Borealis


Once the game finished you can run around on the sky. Do that while the credits rolling, push E, SHIFT and you will create some polar lights, which unlocks the achievement.

Ancient History

Ancient History
Find and light all 8 types of carved Ancient Murals


You can light up Ancient Murals if you infused and you push the button E when you is close to them. Here are the 8 required:

Chapter 3:
The timestamp on video: 26:25

Chapter 4:
The timestamp on video: 49:03

The timestamp on video: 1:01:15

The timestamp on video: 1:07:20

Chapter 5:
The timestamp on video: 1:22:00

The timestamp on video: 1:30:10

The timestamp on video: 1:30:55

The timestamp on video: 1:33:23

[Silvashadow]

I was to finish the game with only 2 achievements left to unlock (None Forgotten + Kindred Spirits) and then had to use this guide to complete those last 2.
Don't worry about progress being lost, you won't lose anything. You will have whatever skills you would've collected prior to that point/part of the game chapter. If you need a skill and are missing it, just load into the next part of that chapter and backtrack. You won't have skills from the end game as the skills are chapter/part# dependant. Loading into whatever chapter will give you the required skills needed.

Thanks for a great guide!

[Ꮤ𐋅𐌉𐌕𐌄 𐌅ꝋ𐋄]

🦊 Thanks for the Ancient History Guide It helped me very much! 🦊

[Ayyynchen]

Thanks for the great guide

[Caspian Roach]

Would be cool if you added a note to the "destroy 18 tethers" and "do the 12 revolving matching glyphs" in that you do not need to do it in a single playthrough. In fact, for the 12 puzzle things, you do not even need to do it to different puzzles! I accidentally reset a solved puzzle for that achievement and rotated it 2 more times to solve it again and got the achievement early for solving the same puzzle twice. And yeah, I completed the game without getting the plague tether achievement, so while I was doing chapter select for the shamans I missed I destroyed one more tether and got the achievement for the full lot.

[Flair]

@innate omnivore I confirmed this myself. You do not need to find all 8 murals in 1 run. You can use Chapter Select and simply lighting them a mural once counts. Like the "Kindred Spirits" achievement and the Shaman achievements, progress is saved so as long as you do not click on "Start New Game". Perhaps you are miscounting which ones you have or have not light up.

[damage receiver]

Do I need to find all 8 Murals in 1 run? I lighed them up using main menu (I was picking chapters from guide), but it didn't help, achievment still unlocked. Someone said that picking chapter from main menu will reset all your progress, i guess he was right. In that case - it's super stupid game mechanic :(

[Death]

thanks for the guide

[Double Dark]

Kindred Spirits is full blown cancer and aids.

[Lewis]

Thank you for the guide. I love this game, but I always easily get lost in this kind of games lol.

[Techbusted]

i read somewhere that the story or the playthough resets when you pick a chapter. did i understand that correctly? If i select an earlier chapter, collect whats missing and then go to a later chapter, will my missed collections carry to the later chapter?