The Blood of Dawnwalker — Full Chronological Roadmap

Six linked story quests that end with “Smoke and Ashes”, teaching the human/vampire split before the valley opens up. Nothing here is timed yet, so take it slow.

The prologue's one gate everyone trips on: to cure your mother Esme during “Withering Away” you must brew the correct medicine — hot water plus three spoonfuls of herbs. Get the mix right and the story moves on; the rest of the prologue is linear.

You'll pick up Compel Soul naturally during the prologue's finale, “Smoke and Ashes” — it's required there, so this trophy can never be missed.

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Dead Man Talkin' — Use the Compel Soul witchcraft ability for the first time — the game walks you through it during the main quest ‘Smoke and Ashes’. Story-required, can't be missed.

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A Dawnwalker is Born — Finish the prologue and reach the open world during ‘Smoke and Ashes’. Automatic story unlock.

The moment Vale Sangora opens, do this housekeeping before touching the main story. Remember: exploring, climbing and fighting cost zero in-game time — only story beats, big decisions and skill upgrades burn days.

Climb and activate all 11 towers to unfog the regions and drop fast-travel and activity icons across the map — the single best time investment early on. Shadowstep/Shapeshift up the sides rather than hunting for stairs.

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Bird's-Eye View — Climb all 11 towers across the map — use Shadowstep and Planeshift at night to scale them, and each climb reveals nearby map points of interest. Full list in our tower-locations guide.

Fast-travel and roam to tick off the location trophies as you reveal the map — they pop just for arriving:

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Big-City Living — Visit Svartrau City for the first time — travel to the central city and it registers automatically.

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Realmwalker — Enter Anachora (the afterlife realm) for the first time. Guaranteed in the second phase of the final Brencis fight, but you can trigger it earlier via Lacra's questline or by drinking a defeated boss's blood.

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Tour Guide Training — Visit all 8 villages/settlements — each is its own map marker, so just travel to each to register it.

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Antique Aficionado — Discover ancient ruins — available as early as the prologue's ‘Deep Down’ quest, or during Xanthe's excavation court activities.

While exploring, wreck your nemesis's supply lines and propaganda. Vrakhiri transports are the blood-cart convoys on the roads; Flags are Brencis's banners planted around the valley. Clearing both also feeds your Infamy (see Part 6).

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Delivery Delay — Destroy 8 of the 10 Vrakhiri Transports (enemy supply groups). They appear during certain Court Activities and stay unmarked until you're close, so watch for them as you roam.

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Capture the Flag — Tear down all 5 of Brencis's banners across Vale Sangora — exact positions are in our collectibles guide.

Shadow Roamer counts distance moved with Vampiric Abilities — with Shapeshift/Shadowstep as your default way to cross the map, 1000 m accrues on its own within the first couple of hours.

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Shadow Roamer — Travel 1,000 m total using Shadowstep, Planeshift or wolf-form Shapeshift. Shapeshift covers ground fastest; this racks up naturally as you explore.

Knock these out on trash mobs and roadside camps while you grind toward Level 20. None are missable, but setting them up deliberately beats leaving them to chance.

Combat is directional — attacks and blocks come from four directions and you match the enemy's to parry. For Untouchable, bait a single weak enemy and time five parries in a row; a slow, predictable foe on lower difficulty makes the streak far easier.

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Untouchable — Land 5 perfect blocks in a row. On Duelist, read the enemy's swing direction; on Story a shield indicator shows the timing. (Don't drop difficulty if you're on an Uphill Battle run.)

Set up the two combo feats on a hexed target: cast Burning Blood, then finish with an Artery Strike beheading for one, and use any Active Ability that pops an enemy for the other.

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Better Safe than Sorry — Behead an enemy with Artery Strike while they're hexed with Burning Blood. Unlock/upgrade Artery Strike from its manuals, build 3 ability charges, then apply Burning Blood and follow with Artery Strike.

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Make It Rain — Trigger the Blood Surge active ability on a non-boss enemy for the explosion effect. You get Blood Surge by consuming Xanthe's blood (during/after her fight) or from the cathedral treasury.

As soon as you have three Passive Abilities unlocked, slot all three at once. For the feeding feats, drink whenever your health is low, and let Blood Hunger build until you lose control and drain an NPC outside of combat for Feral Hunger.

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Absolutely Insatiable — Have 3 passive abilities equipped at once. Mercurial Fervour and Shapeshift take passive slots — unlock one more passive to hit three.

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Balanced Diet — Drink blood to heal 10 times (only counts while you're missing health). Use Voracious Bite in combat, or bite animals at night, to build the count.

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Feral Hunger — At night with health critically low (one segment or less), lose control and drain an NPC outside combat — keep talking to innkeepers/tavern NPCs until the involuntary drain triggers. It unlocks the Closing Wounds perk.

The campaign is three boss questlines you can tackle in any order. Each opens by grinding that boss's Court Activities until enough “anger” accumulates to trigger their quest — you only need roughly 75% of a court's activities, not every last one.

Ambrus's court runs on Blood Transports, Prisoner Processing Camps, Leech Collectors, Prisoner Transports, Blood Cellars and his Dungeons. Clear enough and you're handed “The Gilded Gauntlet”, which leads into “The Bittersweet Toast” and the duel.

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The Right Fist of the Knyaz — Defeat Ambrus in his duel — the first of the three main bosses. Full patterns in our boss guide; beating the trio drives your Infamy toward Throne of Thorns.

Bakir's activities are Rebel Hunters, Payoff Transports, Distilleries and Pillories. Enough of them triggers “The Lunar Game”, which flows into “The Ring” — his arena fight during the games.

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The Mad Khan — Defeat Bakir during the games — the second main boss. Tactics in our boss guide.

Xanthe's court spans Blood Guard Recruiters, Ancient Digsites, Abducted Girls transports, Artifact Transports, Blood Guard Mentors and Gargoyle Manufacture. These build to “The Cycle of Love” and the confrontation with Xanthe.

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The Dark Mistress — Neutralise Xanthe, the third main boss. Beating her (and drinking her blood) also grants the Blood Surge used for Make It Rain — see the boss guide.

The richest, most missable content: self-contained character chains that each end in a trophy. Keep a manual save before big decisions in case a choice kills off a quest-giver.

Crake's full arc (beginning with “The Firebrand”) runs seven quests deep and unravels all of his secrets. Seeing it through earns The Manumit — and sets up the Knyazmaker ending, where Crake fights Brencis at your side.

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The Manumit — MISSABLE — In Crake's questline, finish the optional ‘Distant Shadows’ and ‘A Closer Look’ before his ending quest ‘Rise at Dawn’. Start the chain with ‘The Firebrand’.

Lacra's chain (from “A Friend Like This”) has you chase down the mandrake and follow her increasingly reckless plan. Completing it earns Misery Loves Company and unlocks the Patricide ending, where Lacra joins the final fight.

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Misery Loves Company — MISSABLE — In Lacra's questline, complete the optional ‘The Night of Horrors’ before her ending quest ‘Midnight Reckoning’. Her chain starts with ‘A Friend Like This’ (a note near Svartrau's northeast wall).

Round out the human stories: escort Anca to the Font of Life, uncover the truth about Vicho, help Ocha to a new life, and clear every job handed out by the sanzhani (the vampire-court envoys).

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Sins of the Past — MISSABLE — Complete all of Anca's quests — ‘Echoes of Silenced Bells’, ‘Between the Words’, ‘Where Old Devils Lie’, ‘Stronger Than Achilles’. Available right after the prologue at the Crossroads Inn.

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The Unquenchable Thirst — MISSABLE — Complete Vicho's quests: ‘A Study in Crimson’ (at his house or via Lacra), then ‘The Good Samaritan’. Pops after the second.

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The Outcast — MISSABLE — Complete ‘The Heart Wants What It Wants’ by speaking to Ocha at the corner table of the tavern in the middle of Svartrau City — unlocks regardless of the outcome.

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The Tsarina's Favourite Human — MISSABLE — Complete all 5 Sanzhani quests — ‘Good Home’ (must be first), then ‘Come Hither’, ‘Burrow Sorrows’, ‘Pearly and Precious’ and ‘Tiny Dancer’.

Restore St Mihai's sword to full power, then gather every piece of the Arbiter's armour set (via “A Bulwark Against Darkness”) and unlock the set bonus — a strong build for the endgame fights.

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Arbiter's Blade — Complete the ‘Forge It Anew’ chain: finish ‘Night Terrors’ and ‘A Monk and a Saint’ to get the Broken Sword + 3 Sword Shards, take them to the Briar Sloughs blacksmith, then temper the sword in a cave for the legendary greatsword.

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Arbiter's Regalia — Complete ‘A Bulwark Against Darkness’ (after Infamy Level 4). Gather Large Lizard Moult (cave south of the Witchcraft vendor), an Amulet Relic (St. Tyna or St. Dasius), Flask of Quicksilver (top of Silts Tower after ‘Home Sweet Home’) and Silk Threads (6,500 coins from the Sanzhani Merchant after ‘Pearly and Precious’), then return to the Briar Sloughs blacksmith.

Two things must happen inside the 30-day window. After the timer expires the world stays open for cleanup, so front-load anything time-gated now.

You have 30 in-game days (16 time-blocks a day) to finish the three courts and reach the finale. Because only story beats and upgrades spend time, a focused player clears the bosses and reaches an ending well before the deadline — aim to be at the final quest by roughly day 22.

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In the Nick of Time — MISSABLE — Reach any of the four main endings within 30 in-game days. Main quests only need ~7–10 days, so prioritise the story and you'll have a big buffer.

All that transport-wrecking, flag-tearing and court-raiding drives your Infamy up; push it to the top of the meter for Throne of Thorns. High Infamy is also a prerequisite for the Turncoat ending, so it dovetails with the next part.

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Throne of Thorns — Reach Infamy Level 9 (max) — builds automatically through Court Activities and defeating the three main bosses (Ambrus, Bakir, Xanthe).

After all three bosses fall, skip time to the next day to trigger the Infamy Edicts cutscene and receive the final quest, “A Deal with the Devil”. This is the save-scum point for every ending trophy.

You should already be on Duelist from the start of the run. Take the Turncoat path here: it betrays your allies and cuts a deal with Brencis, which skips the final boss — by far the easiest ending to clear on Duelist, and it satisfies Uphill Battle (finish the game saving Laslea on Duelist).

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Uphill Battle — MISSABLE — Finish the game (saving the people of Laslea) on the Duelist difficulty preset without ever changing a difficulty setting — any tweak turns it into ‘Custom’ and voids the trophy. Start on Duelist and never touch the sliders.

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The Turncoat — MISSABLE — An ending. In the final quest ‘A Deal with the Devil’, agree to Brencis's deal — it skips the final boss, making it the easy ending to grab first (ideal on a Duelist run).

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The Blood of Dawnwalker — Finish the story with any ending — pops the moment your first ending sequence completes.

Reload the pre-finale save and drop the difficulty to Story. Now the three fight-Brencis endings are quick. Which ally joins you depends on whose questline you finished: Lacra for Patricide, Crake for Knyazmaker, or neither for the solo Folk Hero ending (pick “Enough. Time to end this.”).

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The Patricide — MISSABLE — An ending. Complete Lacra's questline (‘A Friend Like This’ → ‘Midnight Reckoning’), then defeat Brencis alongside her in the final battle.

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The Knyazmaker — MISSABLE — An ending. Complete Crake's questline (‘The Firebrand’ → ‘Rise at Dawn’), then beat Brencis with him as your ally.

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The Folk Hero — Defeat Brencis entirely solo in the final battle — no ally assistance.

Two hidden endings need specific triggers before the finale. Together Forever — take the Silts Tower door and clear its combat loops to stay with your family (do this on Story, it's brutal on Duelist). A Hero They Deserve — reach the broken bridge in West Briar Sloughs, near the Coward's Path Shrine, to simply escape the valley.

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Together Forever — MISSABLE — An ending. In Silts Tower (far south), interact with the top-floor door and choose ‘[open the door]’; clear two enemy groups + a gargoyle boss, repeat the cycle 4 times, then speak to the family on the 5th cycle to trigger it.

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A Hero They Deserve — On the west side of the map in Briar Sloughs, find the broken bridge with an open gate at night; use Planeshift and Shadowstep to climb the canyon walls to it, then pick ‘[leave the valley forever]’.