All 8 Shell Locations in Mortal Shell 2 and How to Unlock Them

All eight Shells have a verified pickup marker on LootMap’s Mortal Shell 2 world map: five in the northern half players call Fainweald, three in the south toward the Ruins of Mammon. Steam’s Shell Seeker achievement for the full set stood at 5.5% one day after release, and the five Shells with their own unlock achievement run from 29.2% down to 8.1% (figures from 2026-08-21).

How shells appear on the map

The shells layer carries one marker per Shell, placed at the pickup. The Shell Interactions layer adds twelve more. Seven Locked Shell markers cluster within a few steps of each other inside the Marrow Keep; four Shell Unlock markers sit on or beside the Smert, Eredrim, Tiel and Lazlo pickups, on the pickup itself at three of them and a step northwest of it at Tiel; a single Claim Shell marker sits on Gragu’s spot. The locked cluster is an interaction point inside the hub, not a pickup.

The in-game map sells Shell locations, and Balance Patch 1 on 2026-08-20 changed the price: they now cost Gloom instead of Glimpses, with the refunded Glimpses placed as a pickup in the Shell Keeper’s alcove in Blackmarrow. The markers on this page were verified on LootMap’s map, so they work whether or not you spend the Gloom.

How to unlock all 8 shells fast

The five northern Shells spread west to east across Fainweald, so take them in that order:

1. Smert, in the western pocket of Offering interactions and Devout’s Chalice pickups
2. Eredrim, north of there, beside a Map Station in the northwestern forest clearing
3. Proxima, the northernmost Shell, a short walk southeast of the Veteran’s Battle Axe
4. Tiel, northeast of the Marrow Keep, a few steps from a marked dungeon entrance
5. Gragu, at the far eastern end, beside the Troubadour’s Lute

One region view holds all five with their unlock markers.

The three southern pickups are too far apart to chain, so order them by walking distance from the Marrow Keep: Genessa is the nearest, a long haul southeast of the hub; Lazlo lies further out to the southwest; and Sariel, deepest of the three in the far south, is the longest walk on the layer.

The five northern shells

Smert, Eredrim, Proxima, Tiel and Gragu form a rough west-to-east arc north of the Marrow Keep.

Smert

Smert sits at the western end of the arc inside a dense pocket of markers: three Offering interactions and two Devout’s Chalice pickups surround it, and its unlock marker sits on the same spot. 20.8% of players have it.

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Eredrim

Eredrim sits in the northwest beside a Map Station and a Healing Power Chalice pickup, with the unlock marker on the spot. At 29.2% it is the most commonly unlocked Shell on Steam.

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Proxima

Proxima is the northernmost Shell, with the Veteran’s Battle Axe pickup a short walk northwest.

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Tiel

Tiel sits northeast of the Marrow Keep, with its Shell Unlock marker a step northwest and a marked dungeon entrance a few steps away.

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Gragu

Gragu holds the far eastern end of the arc and is the only Shell claimed through a Claim Shell marker. The Troubadour’s Lute pickup sits a few steps east. Steam puts Gragu at 23.4%.

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The three southern shells

The southern pickups are nowhere near each other, so plan three separate trips.

Genessa, the shell the in-game map skips

Genessa’s pickup sits southeast of the hub at the spot where the map groups its Sester Genessa checkpoint markers. This is the exception: guides and player reports agree the in-game map will not point you to Genessa’s Shell, and the route to it runs through a quest around the Sester’s Censer. If you have been searching for “Sister Genessa”, that is the same character; the game spells it Sester. The marker gives you the destination either way.

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Lazlo

Lazlo sits in the southwest, the westernmost Shell on the layer, past a band of Stone Gate markers, with the unlock marker on the spot. At 8.1% it is the rarest Shell unlock on Steam.

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Sariel

Sariel is the southernmost marker on the layer. A Secret Pipe hidden-path marker sits right on the pickup, the Caged Hystrix a short walk south, and the Clockwork Scythe a little beyond that. Steam has Sariel at 9.9%.

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