What the achievement asks
Locate all eleven lore books in Hallowfall. Five points, account-wide.
They are objects you click and read. Nothing guards them, nothing is on a timer, and you can delete the books afterwards without losing credit.
The eleven, in a sensible order
| Book | Coordinates | Where exactly |
|---|---|---|
| 500 Dishes Using Cave Fish and Mushrooms | 43.91 49.95 | In the house on the right |
| The Big Book of Arathi Idioms | 48.11 39.56 | In the house on the left |
| Palawltar's Codex of Dimensional Structure | 48.75 64.71 | |
| Lightspark Grade Book | 52.64 60.01 | |
| Beledar- The Emperor's Vision | 56.56 65.18 | In the captain's room aboard the ship |
| From the Depths They Come | 57.79 51.77 | On the ground near the water |
| Shadow Curfew Journal | 59.81 22.11 | In the ruined house |
| Shadow Curfew Guidelines | 64.21 28.09 | In the house, near the wall by the carrot |
| Light's Gambit Playbook | 68.69 41.42 | On the bridge |
| Care and Feeding of the Imperial Lynx | 69.36 43.98 | In the stables |
| The Song of Renilash | 70.21 56.85 | In the large tent |
The order above runs west to east rather than following the achievement's own list, which zigzags across the whole zone. Followed as written it is one continuous flight.
The books stay in your bags after reading. They are safe to delete: the achievement counts the reading, not the carrying.
Six of them unlock a treasure
Six of these books are also the answers to Ryfus Sacredpyr's riddles, which is the Arathi Loremaster treasure in Treasures of Hallowfall. You can only answer a riddle once you have read its book.
Those six are Palawltar's Codex of Dimensional Structure, Care and Feeding of the Imperial Lynx, Shadow Curfew Guidelines, Beledar- The Emperor's Vision, The Song of Renilash and The Big Book of Arathi Idioms.
Since you are collecting all eleven anyway, do this achievement first and the treasure becomes a conversation rather than a hunt.
One widely copied list places Palawltar's Codex on the bridge at 68.68 41.59, which is where the Light's Gambit Playbook is. That is a transcription error in the original: the Codex is at 48.75 64.71, confirmed by a separate source with video. If you have the Playbook and the Codex will not appear, that is why.
Where it fits
One of the pieces of You Xal Not Pass, which rewards the Shadow of Doubt mount and is part of Worldsoul-Searching, the War Within meta.