Nightfall Sanctum Delve Guide: Location, Boss Strategies, and Trash
This page will cover everything you need to know about the Nightfall Sanctum Delve in the War Within Expansion, including strategies for events, trash, and bosses.
Getting into Nightfall Sanctum
Nightfall Sanctum is a Delve located on the West side of Hallowfall, Khaz Algar.

This guide will providing the all the specifics you need to complete Nightfall Sanctum across all tiers of difficulties (from Tier 1 to Tier 11). We will cover delve events, optional bosses (rares), as well as, end of the dungeon boss and their abilities. If you like to learn about the rest of the Delves in Season 1, please see our overviews linked below.
Nightfall Sanctum Layout

Events in Nightfall Sanctum
Event #1 — 0/5 Captives rescued
Defeat the mobs in the surrounding areas before rescuing any captives. Beware of the ground-circles as they will begin a rapid fire on you in case of contact.
Trash Mobs in this Area
- Nightfall Initiate does only auto-attacks.
- Nightfall Executor will channel
Stab on you.
- Interrupt Nightfall Hopestealer's
Shadow Bolt.
- Nightfall Lookout will only cast
Shoot on you and otherwise, be harmless.
- Interrupt Nightfall Shadeguard's
Blessing of Dusk.
- Devouring Shade is the only mini-boss in this Delve, with an
incredibly dangerous
Shadow Strike tank-buster hit and a frontal that you can easily avoid
Umbral Slam.
Event #2 — 0/7 Stolen relics recovered
Recover 0/7 Stolen relics (picture below) to continue to the final boss of the Delve Speaker Davenruth.

Trash Mobs in this Area
- Interrupt Weeping Shade's
Death Bolt.
Speaker Davenruth Boss Guide

After defeating Speaker Davenruth, it will enter Phase 2 and transform into Reformed Fury. More information, down below:
- Avoid the Speaker Davenruth's
Shadow Sweep frontal.
- Interrupt Speaker Davenruth's
Blessing of Dusk at all costs.
- Interrupt Reformed Fury's
Darkfire Volley, this is a priority.
- Interrupt Reformed Fury's
Inflict Death with any spare kicks.
Changelog
- 21 Feb. 2025: Reviewed and Updated for Season 2.
- 03 Aug. 2024: Page added.
This guide has been written by Petko, one of the top Mythic players of all time. He has accomplished several Europe- and World #1 Team and Solo Seasonal rankings with multiple specialization and classes. Moreover, he competes in the MDI and streams his runs live on Twitch, and shares his personal opinions on YouTube and Twitter.
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