*CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED*
-See each hint if you want to see where the screenshots were! I used some of my favorite submissions for the answers!-
Greetings Secret Worlders!
The anniversary of Secret World Legends is upon us again! It’s a special time of year to celebrate the origins of a game we all love! To commemorate the SWL anniversary event for 2026, I have put together a little game! There will be riddles, prizes, and lots of fun!
The Screenshot Scavenger Hunt will begin when the Anniversary Event kicks off in SWL on June 25th. There are a few rules we have to go over before we can get to the fun though! Please read the rules carefully!
Rules:
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This is a screenshot scavenger hunt based on clues that will be given by YukiAya during the event. Contestants must work ALONE.
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For the first nine days of the Anniversary Event, one hint will be given every day a few hours after the key reset (June 25, 2026 1:00 PM→July 3, 2026 1:00 PM) until they are all revealed. You must check back here every day to see the new hint.
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Qualifying screenshots must either be sent to YukiAya as a message in the Funcom forum or in a direct message on Discord to username yukiya_ayase. You MUST send me your in-game nickname with the screenshots. Some of the scavenger hunt screenshots will require missions and proof of mission completion to qualify by showing the mission on cooldown (CD). YukiAya will specify those.
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A ‘qualifying’ screenshot means being in the right place and having the appropriate mission CD or mission item in your inventory if required.
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If proof of a CD is required, it can be done through showing the mission on CD in the finished missions tab in the screenshot.
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Screenshots that require a mission or proof of a CD will be detailed when the hint for that day is revealed.
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Take lots of screenshots! There are some that require missions and if you don’t quite get it with the first screenshot, then you have to wait for the mission to be off CD to try again! As long as the requirements are met, there is no limit to how many screenshots can be submitted to get a qualifying one!
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Your toon MUST be visible in the screenshot
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This is an event long scavenger hunt (June 25, 2026 1:00 PM→July 16, 2026 1:00 PM) and submissions can be made until the end of the Anniversary event on July 16th. All participants who send in at least one qualifying screenshot will receive a participation reward of the Celebration T-shirt.
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There will be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners for the first three people to complete the entire scavenger hunt and send in all 9 qualifying screenshots.
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To fully participate, you must be able to travel to Kaidan.
EDIT: The event started earlier than I anticipated in SWL so while I was planning to reveal the hints starting on the 25th, with the event active I will start revealing them at June 20, 2026 1:00 PM
Prizes:
The first three people to complete the scavenger hunt will be given a Weapon Anima Imbuer!
Everyone who submits at least one qualifying screenshot will receive the Celebration T-Shirt.
YukiAya will track all participants and rewards will be given at the end of the anniversary event in July once everything is done and the participant list is finalized and relayed to the Stationmaster.
I MUST have your nickname in game for the rewards to be properly given at the end of the event so make sure it is properly spelled!
HINTS
Day 1: (Kingsmouth) Graves of many, of family and more, of the rich and the poor. All together and made of bones, yet here I lie all alone.
(Expected parameters: Screenshot to be taken at a specific location. Remember, your toon MUST be visible in the screenshot! Send me the screenshot either in a private message on the forum or in discord to yukiya_ayase.)
Solution: The Black Gravestone in Kingsmouth
Day 2: (Savage Coast): If you wish your enemies dead, you must first make ward of Red. Once complete your destination is far from the seas. Go harness the ward among the trees.
(Expected parameters: Screenshot at a specific location and with or while using an item from a mission AND proof of the mission CD)
Solution: Doing The Light That Binds mission and taking the completed ward to the Ak’ab forest/treehouse
Day 3: (Blue Mountain): Scattered stones and a ward that’s dull, gather the pieces and make them whole.
(Expected parameters: Screenshot with an item received from a mission - Either a screenshot of the mission when you turn it in or a screenshot of the completed mission with a CD)
Solution: Complete the Picking up the Pieces mission in the lair in BM
Day 4: (Scorched Desert): Near the end it is seen, a strange box glowing green. A nefarious heist far down the tracks, find the artifact and take it back.
(Expected parameters: Screenshot in a specific place during a mission)
Solution: Take a photo with the green box at the end of the Last Train to Cairo mission
Day 5: (City of the Sun God): You have come so far and the darkness beneath is dense. Pause and take a breath at the ledge just before the labyrinth.
(Expected parameters: Screenshot at a specific place during a mission)
Solution: Take a screenshot before the maze in the pyramid during the In the Dusty Dark mission
Day 6: (Besieged Farmlands): The cost of magic is ever high, you’ll find the herbs where a legend lies.
(Expected parameters: Screenshot in a specific place during a mission)
Solution: During The Cost of Magic, take a screenshot at the top of the jumping puzzle where the herbs are for the mission
Day 7: (Shadowy Forest): A coin once lost has now been found, you must bring it to the wishing ground. This wishing well is not so clear, of stone it lacks but on paper it is near.
(Expected parameters: Screenshot at a specific location with a specific mission item in your mission items)
Solution: Pick up the coin from the mission The Abandoned and take the coin to the water plant, which looks like a water well (aka a wishing well) on the map
Day 8: (Carpathian Fangs): Look at the pictures and see what they tell you, then follow the ravens to banish the undead with voodoo.
(Expected parameters: Screenshot in a specific place during a special instance in the mission)
Solution: Do the mission They Mostly Come at Night and take a screenshot in the special instance at the end
Day 9: (Kaidan): You must cleanse the filth and renew her sight, be ever wary of suddenly taking flight. Shh, be quiet whatever you do, or they’ll see you from a birds-eye view.
(Expected parameters: Screenshot in a specific place during a mission and including a specific element)
Solution: Do The All-Seeing Kawaii mission and take a screenshot when the bird takes you to its nest
Happy hunting!
Special Thanks
Special thanks to the Stationmaster and Vomher for their input helping me pull this event together and making it possible!