Lost Blood

While wandering through a swampy piece of secluded land, I discovered something that caught my attention...

Objectives

  1. 1

    Investigate the cart using Focus Mode

    An abandoned blood transport, a destroyed cart and no sign of the soldiers... Who is responsible for this havoc? Maybe I could take a closer look and try to find out.

  2. 2

    Find the culprit

    Whoever did this can't have gone far. Maybe I could track them down.

  3. 3

    Follow the blood trail using Focus Mode

    I found tracks leading off the road. If I follow them, I may find out what actually happened.

  4. 4

    Kill the monster

    Turns out it wasn't just a regular thief... It was a monster! And even after drinking all that blood, it seems to want to spill mine, as well.

  5. 5

    Kill the monster

    In what seemed to be just a regular cave, I stumbled upon a monster. Now I have to defend myself against it.

  6. 6

    Kill the monster

    Following the blood trail, I stumbled upon a monster. Now I have to defend myself against it.

  7. 7

    Find out what happened

    I stumbled upon a cave, full of signs of recent carnage. What exactly went on here?

  8. 8

    Find out who the monster's victims were

    Judging from what I saw in its lair, the monster had attacked someone recently. Maybe I should find out who it was...

  9. 9

    Investigate the cave using Focus Mode

    If I want to figure out what happened, I should investigate the cave first.

  10. 10

    Follow the blood trail using Focus Mode

    I found some tracks. If I follow them, I may find out where that creature caught its victims.

  11. 11

    Investigate the cart using Focus Mode

    Following the blood trail, I discovered an abandoned cart. I need to take a closer look.

  12. 12

    Find the letter's author in Silberstein

    The monster I killed carried with it a distinctive ring... and in its lair I found a letter from a merchant living in Svartrau's Silberstein district. I should go there and ask around.

  13. 13

    Talk to the Silberstein merchant about what you found

    The monster I killed carried with it a distinctive ring, and in its lair I found a letter. Both clues point to a merchant from Silberstein. I should go and tell him all about it.

  14. 14

    Talk to the Silberstein merchant about what you found

    The monster I killed carried with it a distinctive ring, and in its lair I found a letter. Both clues point to a merchant from Silberstein. I should go and tell him all about it.

  15. 15

    Wait until the merchant reopens his shop

    I told the merchant I had to kill the monster that used to be his son. The man broke down and closed the shop. Maybe I should wait until he returns and talk some more to him then.

  16. 16

    Go back to the merchant

    I told the merchant I had to kill the monster that used to be his son. The man broke down. Maybe I should check if he's back in his shop now and talk some more to him.

  17. 17

    Search the monster's corpse

    That monster seemed unusual. Maybe I should take a closer look at it now...

The journal's own order. It is the order the game hands them to you, which is not always the order you can do them in.

How it can end · 4

The journal records 4 ways this quest can finish. Each one is written after the fact, so each one gives away what you did.

What you get

XP in 3 awards: 100, 75, 100

The game pays these out separately. Some quests award them one after another, and some award one instead of another, so they are shown as the game stores them rather than added together.

What you read along the way

The game files these under this quest's own code. Where that code covers several journal entries, a document listed here may belong to one of the others in the thread below.