Genshin Impact On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Tomb World Quest Guide

What is This World Quest in Genshin Impact?

Genshin Impact On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Tomb is a Version 7.0 World Quest Series set in White Birch Snowgrave, Snezhnaya. It is not a single errand. It is two linked missions that take you under the Tsar’s White Birch, through a prototype train, into a memory of Hvergelmir, and finally into Pale Crown Palace itself.

The series exists because the Eye of Graeae is missing three fragments of its body. The other two live in In the Dwelling of Life and Hesperides of Love and Hate. This chain is fragment three. Finish all three and you can start Her Palace Collapses Into the Blizzard, the climax quest that sends you after Aksinya and the Primordial Human.

For each piece, you get:

Piece	Quest series	What you get
Fragment 1	In the Dwelling of Life	First Eye of Graeae piece
Fragment 2	Hesperides of Love and Hate	Second piece
Fragment 3	On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Tomb	Final piece + Pebble of Crystalline Essence
Finale	Her Palace Collapses Into the Blizzard	Aksinya fight, Primordial Human, late-game achievement

How to Unlock Genshin Impact On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Tomb?

There are two reliable ways to start On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Tomb Genshin content. Use whichever matches how far you have already pushed Snezhnaya.

Method 1: Finish the Other Two Fragment Series

Complete In the Dwelling of Life and Hesperides of Love and Hate. After both are done, the third chain often appears automatically in your World Quest list. Talk to the Eye of Graeae in the train carriage at Snezhnograd Central Station to lock it in.

Method 2: Walk into White Birch Snowgrave yourself

You can trigger it early if you already have free roam after boarding the train in the Great Deeds on the Tundra Archon Quest. Track the Statue of the Seven in the Pilgrimage to the Sacred Gorge / White Birch Snowgrave. The fastest early route is gliding down from The Korolevskiy Theater onto the railway tracks that run northeast, unlocking the chapel waypoint, then walking to the statue.

If the train never shows after the statue is unlocked, teleport back to the White Birch Statue of the Seven and read the wooden sign to the left of the statue, near the edge. Players have used that interactable to force the palace route when the hidden tracks refused to spawn.

On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Tomb Location

The On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Tomb location is the southern / northeastern stretch of White Birch Snowgrave, behind the direction of Zapolyarny Palace, where the Tsar’s White Birch grows. Pale Crown Palace sits under that birch. You do not walk there on foot from the city in a straight line. You summon hidden tracks, board a prototype train the Eye operates, and get dumped into a strange space first. Only after that memory sequence do you arrive at the snow-covered palace gates.

Landmarks you will actually use are:

• Snezhnograd Central Station (Eye of Graeae, train carriage)
• White Birch Snowgrave Statue of the Seven
• Hidden-track console above the statue area
• Pale Crown Palace gates and royal hall
• Suspended Tower
• Hvergelmir (final fragment room)

On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Tomb Length

You can expect 60 to 90 minutes for the full On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Tomb quest Genshin chain if you already know the statue puzzles. First-time players who stop for chests, lore notes, and the cat room usually land closer to 90 minutes. Video full clears sit around 40–60 minutes of raw footage; real play is slower because the royal-hall statues and the Suspended Tower are easy to mis-push.

Budget extra time if this is also your first serious use of Prime Ice Constructs and Prototype Kresnik torches. Those two tools are the entire language of this dungeon.

Quest Structure at a Glance

The On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Tomb World Quest Genshin Impact chain has two subquests.

Order	Subquest	What it covers
1	To Gaze Upon the Dreaming Pale Crown	Mountain path, hidden tracks, train, Hvergelmir memory, Lara the cat, arrival at Pale Crown Palace
2	The Stone Beasts, Like Ghouls Seated	Palace gates, torch shooting, royal-hall statues, Suspended Tower, Zver, final Eye fragment

To Gaze Upon the Dreaming Pale Crown Walkthrough

This is the first half of the On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Tomb walkthrough. Follow the Eye, then survive the room that pretends you are a ghost in someone else’s lab.

Talk to the Eye and Reach the Mountains

1. Find the Eye of Graeae in the Central Station train carriage.
2. Follow the marker into Snowgrave until you hit a wall of ice.
3. Open the Prime Ice Construct menu and remove the blockade.
4. Push through the snowstorm to the Statue of the Seven.

Optional fights along this road drop Exquisite and Precious Chests, including the recipe for Rimecurrant Ice Cream if you clear the Winged Soarer Knights.

Summon the Hidden Tracks

After the statue, the objective becomes find the mechanism for the hidden tracks.

• Follow the Seelie beside the statue, or climb the stairs past the statue if no Seelie is out.
• Clear the ice, glide to the elevator on the left, ride it, then climb the tower to the console.
• Take the Precious Chest.
• Place the Eye of Graeae on the console.

The tracks rise out of the snow. Board the prototype train. You will not stay with Paimon.

Investigate the Strange Space

You load into a memory of Hvergelmir here. Researchers Izmaylov and Azazel cannot see you. They are arguing about the Proto-Man in an egg, the new Tsaritsa, and whether bio-alchemy should continue. Your job is not to win that argument. Your job is to move rooms until the memory lets you go.

Investigate the office:

• Interact with the board in the open office.
• Follow the arrow to the food bowl and inspect it.

Investigate the next room:

• Use the Snegovik Laboratory Key on the nearby door.
• Inspect the Prime Ice on the table and read the sealed notes.
• Shake the mountain painting on the wall until a hidden passage opens.
• Follow the hall. You will get locked in.

Find the Source of the Cat Cries and Escape

Pavlina left a note asking someone to feed her cat, Lara. Lara is starving and will only eat from her own bowl.

Inside the locked lab:

• Read the blue board (Unnamed Potion Formula).
• Use the scales. Individual objects fail on purpose. The riddle is combination, not selection.
• Grind the yellow crystal and Kresnik Kristall into powder and put them in the reagent bottle.
• Claim the Precious Chest when the apparatus answers you.
• Leave the inner room, put cat food in the bowl by the door, and let Lara drop a bottle. The shock opens the door from the other side.

Then go to the second floor, search, talk to Paimon when she snaps back into the scene, and follow the marker to the snow-covered palace. Unlock the Teleport Waypoint on the stairs. That waypoint is the seam between the two subquests.

The Stone Beasts, Like Ghouls Seated Walkthrough

The second half is why people search Genshin Impact On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Tomb guide with such a hurry. Pale Crown Palace is a statue-and-torch dungeon wearing royal architecture.

Enter the Palace and Open the Gates

The front door is iced shut. Do not stare at it. Follow the Eye along the wall until you find a side opening blocked by Prime Ice. Remove it, enter the yard, climb the stairs, and push through the first door.

The Cemetery Guardian statue puzzle is the real gate:

• Destroy only the Cube Prime Ice Construct directly behind the statue.
• Stand in front of the statue and push it onto its square. Do not shove it sideways.
• If it wedges, build cubes to block the wrong lanes, or teleport out and log back in to reset the statue.

Shoot the Prototype Kresnik’s Torch

Inside the hall, look up. Shoot the hanging Prototype Kresnik’s Torch into Heat State. Ice melts, enemies spawn, and you clear them. Walk to the throne, place the Eye of Graeae on the port, and pick up the Firearm Blueprint / Gunsight from the giant chair. You need that shooting kit for every torch after this.

Find a Way to Open the Door to the Royal Hall

Two side rooms, two statues, one pair of floor squares.

Room A:

• Switch the torch to Cold.
• Melt the ice holding the statue with a Basic Heat Source, then remove the construct.
• Build a cube path to the opening, delete the default cubes that block you, push the statue onto your cube, then into the hole.

Room B:

• Cross the bridge from A to B.
• Melt the ice spout holding a platform, remove the construct.
• Push the statue to the bookshelf, then onto the platform’s former spot.
• Flick the torch Heat, then Cold again.
• Climb, push the statue to the second floor, into the corner, then down the slope into its hole.

Push both statues onto their marked squares. The royal-hall door opens. If a statue tips on its side or vanishes, leave the hall, log out, log in, and walk back to the giant torch until the cutscene retriggers. Do not keep ramming a fallen statue.

Suspended Tower

The bridge past the throne collapses. Use the blue sparkle to reach the upper path, take the elevator, clear the bridge enemies, and ride the next lift.

To pass the tower:

1. Rotate the Suspended Tower.
2. Shoot the torch to Heat State.
3. When the door switch is frozen underwater, build a Cube Prime Ice Construct on the leaking pipe to plug it so heat can finish the melt.
4. Open the door and take the lift higher.

For the last gate, rotate until the heat pipe melts the blocking ice, rotate again so the pipe leaves but the obstacle ice does not return, then push the statue onto its pedestal. Ride the elevator up.

Fight Zver and Claim the Fragment

Zver is the palace guardian you will encounter. Treat it like a proper boss: bring a built on-field DPS, a healer, and enough interruption resistance to survive the arena. This is the moment a Version 7.0 roster actually matters. If your Snezhnaya team is still on leftover Natlan artifacts, topping up through Enjoygm and putting those Genesis Crystals into Odette or the current rate-up is a cleaner fix than slamming Zver with an underleveled carry.

After the fight, use the Link Mechanism into Hvergelmir, take the last piece of the Eye of Graeae’s body, and talk to the Eye. That closes The Stone Beasts, Like Ghouls Seated and the entire On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Tomb World Quest.

Rewards, Chests, and What Comes Next

Series rewards for On One Side a Palace, On the Other a Tomb:

Reward	Amount
Adventure EXP	350
Primogems	90
Mora	30,000
Hero’s Wit	9
Mystic Enhancement Ore	8
Pebble of Crystalline Essence	1

You also pick up multiple chests during the mountain approach and the lab sequence, the Stay a While, You Are So Beautiful Wonders of the World achievement, and the Snow-Entombed Crownlands viewpoint.

Those 90 Primogems are only the quest box. Snezhnaya exploration on top of the three fragment series is where the real pull count lives. If you want a clean breakdown of how 7.0 quests, statues, and map chests stack into free wishes, you can follow through our Genshin Impact 7.0 Pulls Count Guide after you leave the palace.

Her Palace Collapses into the Blizzard

Do not treat the palace chain as the ending. Her Palace Collapses Into the Blizzard starts once all three Eye fragments are in hand. You return to the ruined Hvergelmir, open the White Birch, chase Aksinya, and fight the Primordial Human in a multi-phase encounter. That finale is a no-return room, so finish resin, food, and team setup before you open the Court of Bliss door.

If you came to Snezhnaya from Nod-Krai and still have Frost Moon offering systems unfinished, Genshin Impact Frost Moon Quest Guide is the order-and-rewards companion for that earlier sky map. Clear it when you want another structured world-quest route instead of wandering the birch graves on empty stamina.

Conclusion

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