Most of the StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 for CS2 is already behind us. The tournament has reached the final playoff stage with eight teams remaining — all of them ranked inside Valve's current top 10 — which makes this one of the most unpredictable majors we've seen in the past six months.

The Russian studio Fire & Frost clearly aimed to capture the spirit of old-school RPGs like Gothic when they made Of Ash and Steel. The game favors non-obvious quests where you rely on dialogue clues and your quest log rather than markers. Large story objectives are often deliberately broad and must be achieved by completing a chain of smaller missions, each with its own complications. In the second-chapter main quest “The Impregnable Fort,” the protagonist Tristan is tasked with evicting members of the Moon Children sect from an abandoned fort without using physical force. To succeed you will need to locate several important items and characters. Below is a full English walkthrough explaining where to find the alchemist Korodelius, how to obtain the crown, where to take it, how to rescue Marta, and how to finish the main quest.

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