Many of the most useful items you can get in Remnant 2 require one or more crafting materials to be made such as the Shining Essence Echo, for example.
You must complete the Souls Sparks Storyline in the N’Erud world. During this questline, you must find and defeat the boss Tal’Ratha. There will be a choice involved when you meet the boss but you will get the echo regardless of your choice.
1. Find and meet the Custodian
The Shining Essence Echo is associated with a big quest that belongs to the Souls Sparks Storyline in Remnant 2. To obtain the Echo, you must first have access to the N’Erud world.
Once inside the N’Erud World, you must find and meet with the Custodian next to the Phantom Wasteland’s Ascension Spire Waypoint.
He is an interesting NPC who is assigned the role of the world’s protector. He will also tell you to seek out Tal’Ratha to get your hands on the Shining Essence Echo.
2. Get the Soul Spark Cylinder
Note that to find Tal’Ratha in Remnant 2, you have access to the Forgotten Prison, which is the Soul Sparks storyline’s starting location. However, you must first find the Soul Sparks Cylinder before fighting with the boss.
This item can be found inside a strange mine illuminated with yellow light. Since this world is randomly generated, finding this item on your own would take a little effort.
3. Defeat Tal’Ratha
Once you get the Soul Sparks Cylinder, you can head to the Forgotten Prison to interact with Tal’Ratha.
Tal’Ratha makes a strange request from the players – to eat them, literally. Whether you choose to be eaten or fight Tal’Ratha in Remnant 2 is your choice. Regardless of your choice, a fight with Tal’Ratha begins – with only a few differences between the two choices.
Regardless of your choice, you will still get the Shining Essence Echo, so feel free to choose whatever as it doesn’t impact the item we need.
The other rewards for defeating Tal’Ratha vary, though, along with what version of it you face. If you choose to get eaten, you face the Tal’Ratha (Metaphysical) version. If not, then you fight the normal version.
All in all, after you emerge victorious from the fight against the Tal’Ratha boss, you are rewarded with the Shining Essence Echo, a sphere that echoes Tal’Ratha’s thoughts within.
How to use the Shining Essence Echo?
The Shining Essence Echo is a crafting material that can be used to craft two things. You can choose whichever item you want, but you can only obtain one of them in a single playthrough.
Firstly, you can hand the Shining Essence Echo over to the Custodian, who rewards you with the Siphon Heart Relic in exchange. This Relic grants you the Lifesteal effect for a short while.
Secondly, you can use the Shining Essence Echo at the Drzyr Replicator to craft the Void Idol Amulet, which increases your Reload Speed to some extent.
