AION 2 Empyrean Traces Feathers Guide

AION 2 Empyrean Traces Quick Summary:

• Empyrean Traces are the glowing Feathers scattered around AION 2 maps
• The Empyrean Monolith system is introduced during Episode 2 around level 16
• Regional Monoliths have 30 levels each
• Monolith rewards include Revelation Amulet Enhance Scrolls, permanent attributes, titles, Hidden Cube Keys, Soul Codex Resets, and Amplify Stone Fragments.
• Reshanta has its own separate Ereshkigal Monolith focused on PvP progression.

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AION 2 Empyrean Traces

Empyrean Traces are glowing collectibles scattered across AION 2’s open-world zones. Pretty much everyone and their mother calls them Feathers because that’s what they look like, and “Empyrean Trace” is a mouthful, especially when you say it out loud multiple times. You collect them while exploring and use the accumulated Traces to increase the level of a regional Monolith, which unlocks permanent character rewards. Though many players think that these are just collectibles, they’re not. This system progresses your account with skill points and other stuff. Here’s how the main Trace types are split:

Empyrean Trace	Faction	Region	Monolith	Main Focus
Verteron	Elyos	Verteron	Verteron Monolith	PvE progression
Altgard	Asmodian	Altgard	Altgard Monolith	PvE progression
Reshanta	Both	Abyss	Ereshkigal Monolith	PvP progression

So both factions' feathers help you advance in PvE, while the Abyss’s ones help you with PvP progress. Note that you cannot collect both Verteron and Altgard Feathers on the same character due to how the game works. Your choice of faction automatically locks you out of the other faction’s regions, so you really want to eventually create a character for the opposing faction, since, as I said before, the progression is account-wide. Another important thing is that every region tags Traces as a separate currency, so your Verteron Traces won’t progress the Reshanta’s ones and vice versa.

How to Unlock Empyrean Traces and Monolith Resonance

You face the Empyrean Monolith quite early in the story, so this isn’t an endgame system even though finishing it becomes more relevant around endgame. The quest that introduces you to the system is in Episode 2, with a level 10 requirement and a recommended level of roughly 16. The quest teaches you everything important in about thirty seconds: find a Feather, collect it, return to the Monolith, and resonate with it to receive a reward. Rinse and repeat. The unlock is slightly different depending on your faction:

Faction	Region	Quest	Monolith NPC/Area
Elyos	Verteron	Empyrean Monolith	Jackson at Dawn Legion Base
Asmodian	Altgard	Empyrean Monolith	Ollen at Safe Haven

The very first resonance gives you a Revelation Amulet Enhance Scroll, which is a pretty good hint that the purpose of the system is permanent equipment and character progression. If you’re following our AION 2 Leveling Guide, don’t stop leveling just to start a Feather sweep at this point. If you have them on your way to a quest, grab them. If not, you've got better stuff to do.

How AION 2 Monolith Resonance Works

Monolith Resonance is a permanent reward list that you progress by finding Empyrean Traces. A Monolith has 30 levels, with later levels requiring progressively more cumulative Trace points. Every new level gives something useful. Minor rewards include Revelation Amulet Enhance Scrolls and Empyrean Lord attributes, while larger rewards grant titles and other materials. There is no RNG involved here: you collect enough Traces - you get a specific reward. The current Trace progression looks like this. Note that these are not all the rewards, but only notable ones:

Monolith Level	Required Trace Points	Reward
2	1	Revelation Amulet Enhance Scroll + Hidden Cube Key
5	20	Scroll + Hidden Cube Key + attributes
10	70	Inquirer title
15	140	Scrolls, Soul Codex Resets, attributes
20	235	Guardian of Verteron/Altgard title
25	375	Scrolls + Unique Amplify Stone Fragments
30	560	2 Amulet Scrolls + Saint of Verteron/Altgard title

One thing I want to make clear here is that 560 refers to Trace points. Current Feathers use the reduced collection system where a node provides multiple Traces, which is why you can also see others saying that you need 140 Feathers to complete level 30. Both numbers are correct, they’re just measuring different things.

How Many Empyrean Traces Do You Need?

I’ll put it simply. You get 140 Feathers, you unlock the full Monolith list of rewards. Currently, one Feather counts as four points. In previous versions, you had to find all 560 Traces cause they gave a one-to-one amount of points. There are still 560 Feathers scattered around the map, but now you don’t need to get them all, which makes it far more tolerable and less of a grind. You do still need 560 Trace points, however, but you don’t have to collect 560 Feathers. Hopefully this clears the confusion. Bottom line, there are far more Feather locations available around Verteron and Altgard than you need for progression. That’s good news, because the thought of me looking for a final feather #560 by painstakingly sweeping the entire map over and over again is excruciating. Now I only have to find whatever 140 Traces are on my way.

AION 2 Empyrean Trace Rewards

The reason why you don’t want to ignore Feathers is that the Monolith rewards are permanent. Your leveling chestpiece will be obsolete sooner or later, but the Monolith attributes and titles continue contributing to your character. The Global version also changed the rewards compared to Korea and Taiwan. There, Feathers rewarded you with a big amount of Skill Points, iirc you got 112 by getting them. It had a whole other connection to Wisdom Stones and stuff you don’t have to worry about right now cause it does not work that way on Global. AION 2 Empyrean Trace rewards include:

• Revelation Amulet Enhance Scrolls: Used to enhance your permanent Revelation Amulet
• Hidden Cube Keys: Allow you to open Hidden Cubes found during exploration
• Soul Codex: Reset: Lets you redo Soul Binding-related progression choices
• Amplify Stone Fragments (Unique): Used for later gear Amplification
• Empyrean Lord Attributes: Permanent Life, Destiny, Time, Space, Justice, Destruction, Freedom, Death, Illusion, and Wisdom increases
• Titles: Special titles at major Monolith milestones
• Permanent title collection stats: Remain useful even when you equip another title

The three big title milestones are Monolith levels 10, 20, and 30. The final Saint of Verteron/Saint of Altgard title is Unique-grade, and the Altgard version, for example, gives you strong defensive stats including Defense Bonus, Damage Tolerance, and Block alongside its other effects.

AION 2 Revelation Amulet and Feathers

The Revelation Amulet is the #1 reason Empyrean Traces stay relevant beyond exploration completion. Monolith continuously rewards you with Revelation Amulet Enhance Scrolls, and those Scrolls are specifically used to upgrade this accessory through its enhancement. The Revelation Amulet gets such useful combat stats as Weapon Damage Boost and Penetration, and each +1 increases its Penetration further. Unlike random dungeon jewelry, this is an item built to follow you through multiple progression stages, kinda leveling up with you, so you can safely invest your materials in it. Here’s how you want to work with the AION 2 Revelation Amulet:

1. Obtain the Revelation Amulet through the early MSQ
2. Collect Empyrean Traces in Verteron or Altgard
3. Increase your Monolith level
4. Claim Revelation Amulet Enhance Scrolls
5. Enhance the Amulet to +10
6. Use Substance Morph to move it into the next grade
7. Repeat the enhancement process as more Scrolls become available

You get 30 Revelation Amulet Enhance Scrolls along with other Monolith rewards. This is an extremely useful piece of gear cause it stays relevant even in endgame and beyond. Don’t sleep on it.

 

 

How to Find Empyrean Traces Fast

While some people like to rush through the story and do the side content later, this is not the case in AION 2. First of all, Empyrean Traces are not side content, they’re directly tied to your account progression. The worst possible way to collect Feathers is to reach level 45 with practically zero of them, open a 560-marker interactive map, and set on a quest to get all of them and do nothing else while you’re on it. If you don’t wanna see glowing feathers when you go to bed, there’s a better way to do it. Collect them passively while doing the Main Story, Regional Quests, Sealed Dungeons, Strongholds, and other activities. Verteron and Altgard have hundreds of known Feather positions, so there is no need to follow one extremely strict route just to get the needed 140 Feathers. I recommend collecting them like this:

1. Pick up every Feather directly on your quest route: Five seconds now saves you dedicated farming later.
2. Don’t make huge detours while leveling: A Feather a minute away from you is fine, and one on the opposite side of the zone can wait
3. Finish exploration region by region: Once you want to farm them properly, divide Verteron or Altgard into smaller areas rather than zigzagging across the entire map
4. Use an interactive map for cleanup: Mark each Feather as completed so you don’t revisit the same location. I recommend this one personally, and it’s not an ad, just a genuinely convenient map
5. Stop when the Monolith is finished: You do not need to 100% the feathers unless you’re a completionist

Something that makes some Feathers a bit more confusing to get is that there’s no indication if the Feather is above you or below. The marker can look like you’re standing directly on top of a Feather when it is actually fifty meters above you, which is not that big of a deal cause then you just fly up, but the worse thing is that when it’s hidden in a cave or a dungeon below.

 

 

AION 2 Abyss Feathers and Ereshkigal Monolith

Reshanta has a completely separate Empyrean Trace track tied to the Ereshkigal Monolith. These Abyss Feathers do not level your Verteron or Altgard Monolith, and the rewards are much more PvP-focused. The current Global client contains 20 Ereshkigal Monolith levels, compared with 30 for the faction Monoliths, with the full ladder requiring 300 Reshanta Trace points. The reward differences are pretty obvious:

Monolith	Max Level	Main Rewards
Verteron/Altgard	30	Revelation Amulet Scrolls, attributes, Keys, Soul Codex Resets, Amplify materials
Ereshkigal	20	Daevanion Crystal: Azphel, PvP stats, Amplify materials, titles

The Ereshkigal track rewards you with permanent PvP Attack, PvP Defense, Accuracy, Evasion, and Block bonuses as you progress. It also rewards Daevanion Crystal: Azphel at practically every level, with titles of Guardian of Ereshkigal at level 10 and Saint of Ereshkigal at level 20. To max out the Ereshkigal Monolith, you need 300 cumulative Trace points at level 20. Unlike the main region’s Feathers, these give 1 point per Feather collected. The funniest part is that you can only gather 200 of them right now, cause the central part of the Abyss called Core isn’t open yet, but when it opens, you’ll get another 100 Feathers to get. While you can focus on getting them all immediately, I don’t recommend it. Your time in the AION 2 Abyss is already limited to just 7-8 hours a week. Do you really want to spend a good chunk of it just looking for them instead of actually playing the game? The recommendation is still the same: grab only the Feathers that are on your way or not far from you.

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