Tainted Grail Regions Guide: The Real 5 Areas (2026)

This Tainted Grail regions guide exists because a lot of other zone write-ups list areas called Misty Horns, Cuanacht Village, and Frozen Peaks. None of those exist. We checked against the game's own wiki and an independent Steam Community map guide, and the real region list is different enough that following one of those other guides would have you looking for places that aren't on the map.

This guide covers the five real regions, verified against the official Tainted Grail wiki, in the order most players actually progress through them.

TL;DR: Five real regions: Island Asylum (prologue), Horns of the South, Cuanacht, Forlorn Swords, and Sarras (paid DLC). Fast travel works through discoverable gates, not "Menhir Stones," that's an unrelated collectible system. The Corrupted Temple, where you fight the fallen knight Perceval, is in Cuanacht. New Game Plus carries your level and gear but resets world state and applies a cumulative armor penalty per cycle.

What are the real regions in Tainted Grail? (quick answer)

Five: Island Asylum as the prologue, then Horns of the South, Cuanacht, and Forlorn Swords as the base game's three main regions, plus Sarras if you own the Sanctuary of Sarras expansion. Progression isn't hard-gated between them, which is exactly why players wander into a harder region too early and hit a difficulty wall that feels unfair but isn't.

Key takeaways

• Real region order: Island Asylum, Horns of the South, Cuanacht, Forlorn Swords, and Sarras (DLC)
• Fast travel uses discoverable gates, plus a separate Ethereal Cobweb-fueled bonfire system
• The Corrupted Temple, home to the Perceval fight, is in Cuanacht, not an earlier region
• Forlorn Swords is currently the last base-game region, a cold-climate area
• Sarras adds an underwater region and three swappable skill trees (Warrior, Rogue, Mystic)
• Progression isn't hard-gated, so checking your build before pushing into a new region matters

Island Asylum: the prologue

Island Asylum is a prison facility, positioned off the main island, and it's where the game starts. Caradoc, a former Knight of the Round Table now working against Arthur, guides you off the island through a questline the wiki calls "The Great Escape." Several named NPCs populate the facility, including Brother Cassian, Brother Syrius, Daiga, Helge, and Sirja, worth talking to since the prologue closes off once you leave.

Enemies here are Red Death Infected, Red Guards, Red Priests, and other undead, consistent with the facility's history as a plague research center. Two optional bosses live here: the Frantic Berserker, unarmed but reflecting melee damage back at you (ranged or magic only), and the Wailing Effigy. Loot includes Dodge Greaves, Raider's Skirt, Sirja's Cape (boosts loot chance), a Pickaxe, a Superior Bow, and Origin Potions, which let you fully respec your build later.

Neither optional boss is required to finish the prologue, but skipping them means leaving real value behind. The Origin Potions specifically are worth prioritizing, since a full respec option early in the game means any stat mistakes you make while still learning the six-stat system aren't permanent. Given how much confusion exists around what Spirituality and Practicality actually govern, having a free respec banked before you leave the prologue is a genuinely useful safety net.

The Great Escape questline is also where the game establishes its central conflict, Caradoc's motivations against Arthur, without spelling everything out immediately. Players who rush past the NPCs mentioned above tend to find themselves confused by references to this conflict later on, since a lot of that context is delivered through the very side conversations that are easy to skip on a first playthrough.

GODEEPER: Full strategy for both Island Asylum bosses, including the Frantic Berserker's reflect mechanic. Tainted Grail Boss Guide: Key Fights and Strategies →

Horns of the South: the first mainland region

Horns of the South is where the game opens up. Enemies here include Bears, Buggane, Corpse Eaters, Deranged Archers, Flamegobblers, Grindylow, Lost Knights, Marrowghasts, Outlaws, Redcaps, Undead, Wolves, and Wyrdspawn or Wyrdspirit types, a noticeably wider roster than the prologue's undead-only lineup.

The region's lore centers on Merlin's experiments on knights, trying to make Arthur immortal. Sewal's Tomb, in the Sunken Village, ties into this directly, tied to Sewal Firstfoot, the region's founder, believed dead but actually one of Merlin's test subjects. It's also where the Scorching Pathway fire spell is found, in a side-tunnel chest, a spell that shows up constantly in real community build discussion for its scaling burn damage.

No official level range exists for this region, despite what some guides claim with suspicious precision. The honest answer is that the game doesn't hard-gate you here, and going in with a build that hasn't developed any combat proficiency yet is the actual risk, not a specific missed number.

Cuanacht: home to the Corrupted Temple

Cuanacht is reached after a story item obtained during the Horns of the South main quest, which makes Horns of the South a prerequisite even though the Corrupted Temple itself sits in Cuanacht, not the earlier region. This is a common point of confusion in older guides that place the temple incorrectly.

Notable locations include the Cuanacht Main Square (a fast travel point), Farmlands, Plains, Sagremor Castle, Delia's Workshop, the Abyss of Sagremor, Gates of Knowledge, the Corrupted Temple Ruins (a separate area from the Corrupted Temple proper), and several nature-spirit shrines. Bosses here include Queen Sagremor, an undead lich type, Sir Gawain, Sir Bertilak, two bandit leaders named Cindermar the Firebringer and Sanguinor the Crimson, and Perceval, the fallen knight fought at the top of the Corrupted Temple's tallest tower after clearing a legion of tainted priestesses on the way up.

Cuanacht's settlements sit beneath Sagremor Castle, one of the region's key landmarks and the boss Queen Sagremor's namesake.

GODEEPER: Full breakdown of the Perceval fight and Cuanacht's other named bosses. Tainted Grail Boss Guide: Key Fights and Strategies →

Forlorn Swords: the current last region

Forlorn Swords is a snow-covered, cold-climate region, and as of this writing it's the last base-game region before Sarras. Enemies shift again here: Bears, Corpse Eaters, Flamegobblers, Frostbitten Warriors, Ice Weavers, Sleepwalkers, and Wights. Notable locations include the village of Ulfr (with the Seat of the Elders and Hall of the Stonewardens), the house belonging to Vigdis and Egill, an area called Elevator Pass, and fast travel points at Volker Village, Gunnvaldr Village, and the Capital.

Some community discussion flags this region as rougher around the edges than the others, and there's a recurring bit of disappointment that it's the current endpoint rather than a more dramatic final destination, players have specifically asked "where's Camelot?" in Steam discussions. Treat that as genuine community sentiment, not a bug report.

Forlorn Swords brings a full enemy shift, Frostbitten Warriors and Wights replace the undead types seen in earlier regions.

Sarras: the Sanctuary of Sarras expansion

Sarras is separate from the base game's region list, added through the paid Sanctuary of Sarras DLC ($14.99, released December 2025). It's an underwater, Atlantis-style realm with more than 20 dungeons and roughly 15 hours of content, following Nimue and a group of deserters who defied Arthur, tangled up with Merlin's retribution. Enemies scale to your level, and the region locks permanently once its content is finished, though you can freely re-enter before that point.

The DLC's headline mechanical addition is three new skill trees, Warrior, Rogue, and Mystic, unlocked through sacred shrines. Only one is active at a time, but you can swap between them freely. These trees are widely reported to persist through New Game Plus cycles, which makes them a genuine long-term investment rather than a one-off DLC bonus.

Fast travel and progression

Fast travel runs through gates you have to physically find before they're usable, plus a separate system where burning Ethereal Cobwebs at a bonfire lets you travel. Neither is the "Menhir Stones" network some guides describe, Menhir Statues and Figurines are a real but entirely unrelated collectible and ward system.

Region progression isn't hard-gated. Nothing stops you from wandering into Cuanacht or Forlorn Swords underleveled, which is the actual source of most "this game is too hard" complaints, not a hidden mechanic. The practical fix is checking your build's development, not memorizing a specific level number that no official source actually publishes.

New Game Plus carries your level, attribute points, skill points, and full inventory into a new cycle. What resets: world state, quest-based powers including King's Powers, learned recipes, and keys. Each cycle also applies a cumulative armor penalty, confirmed at -50 armor at NG+1, -100 at NG+2, and so on, which is a real tradeoff worth knowing about before committing to a heavy-armor build across multiple cycles.

GODEEPER: Full breakdown of what carries over into NG+ and how the armor penalty math works. Tainted Grail New Game Plus Guide →

Related Reading

• Tainted Grail Fall of Avalon Guide: All 9 Guides Hub: Tainted Grail Fall of Avalon guide hub: real builds, bosses, NG+, regions, and survival tips.
• Tainted Grail Alchemy Guide: Recipes and Stations 2026: recipe book and station locations across the real regions.
• Tainted Grail Tips: 12 Things to Know Before You Start: broader beginner tips covering stat priorities and early mistakes.
• Tainted Grail Survival Guide: Combat, Rest, and Threats: resource management and rest mechanics across every region.

References

• Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon on Steam
• Tainted Grail Fall of Avalon Wiki (wiki.gg)
• Tainted Grail Fall of Avalon Wiki (Fextralife)
• r/TaintedGrail community