It took me fairly some time to work out all The Blood of Dawnwalker endings. Just like The Witcher 3, there are a good few completely different choices, every with a variety of variables that may change primarily based in your decisions. There are additionally some secret endings to find.
Clearly, this information will include spoilers for almost every little thing, you’ve got been warned. Here is every ending, how they work, plus a brief explainer concerning the epilogue and its completely different outcomes.
All Blood of Dawnwalker endings
There are seven attainable endings to Blood of Dawnwalker.
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- 4 contain assaulting Griefberg Fort, both with allies, or by your self.
- One entails making a cope with Brencis.
- The ultimate two endings are secret and completed earlier than the others.
Additionally two further notes:
- The post-credit cutscene performs in each ending.
- Lunka’s destiny is identical in each ending.
All endings, apart from one of many secret ones, contain an epilogue sequence which runs by means of selections you made all through the sport—and there are some large variations, however I am going to clarify all of these within the epilogue part on the finish should you’re curious. Aspect word, make sure that to have 800 Denarius available for any ending involving the epilogue, because the church will ask for a donation and you may give your sister Yanna a dowry.
Assaulting Griefberg Fort
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4 of the sport’s endings start with assaulting Griefberg Fort, and in each model, your assault modifications primarily based on a number of key variables:
- If Ambrus or Bakir are nonetheless alive you may need to combat them as bosses in the course of the fortress assault, with Ambrus within the entrance corridor and Bakir within the dungeon. Bakir can even pressure you to combat a number of the prisoners if he is current.
- For those who killed Xanthe, you will not face her as a boss within the throneroom, however you may have to finish her trap sequence, which entails further fight and puzzling.
- In case your 30 day timer has run out, your loved ones is lifeless, however you’ll have realised that by the cutscene that performs whenever you run out of time. After this level, you possibly can preserve taking part in the sport and not using a timer, however the absence of your loved ones impacts facets of the epilogue.
Beneath, I am going to run by means of every variation of the fortress assault.
A Lone Wolf’s Hunt
Coen takes the fight to Brencis by himself.
Unlock conditions
- Shadow Step over the wall of Griefberg Castle at nighttime.
- Find Father Florin’s secret hideout in Svartrau cathedral and complete A Hero’s End, which unlocks the ability to enter the castle in the day using a password at a sidedoor.
This ending sees Coen assault Griefberg Castle by himself at either day or night, depending on which of the above you approach. If you do fight Ambrus, Bakir, or Xanthe, you won’t be able to drink their Vrakhir blood and acquire their skills if it is daytime, or invite them in, and can as an alternative simply kill them.
First off, you at all times need to combat the Unblinking Blasphemy boss, even should you accomplished the Who Pulls the Strings quest for the Manumits. You battle by means of the fortress, free some prisoners by unlocking their cells, and ultimately confront Brencis within the dungeon depths, simply in time to avoid wasting your loved ones.
You may both combat Brencis right here, or make a cope with him should you comply with bow and quit both Crake and the Manumits, or Lacra, although if it is the previous, you may need to go their hideout and mark it, as within the A Deal With the Satan ending (I am going to clarify that one in its devoted part under).
If not, you’ll fight and defeat Brencis, and choose whether to invite him in, or leave him in Anachora (vampire hell) to have his soul devoured. After this, the epilogue sequence in Laslea will begin.
This is genuinely one of my favorite endings—Vale Sangora becomes independent and there’s some degree of lawlessness, but the Manumits protect the valley from the worst enterprising ruffians. You can read a proclamation on a tree in Laslea explaining that Svatrau city council plans to petition Bohemia, Hungary, or Poland to join their realms in the spring.
Since there are no more Vrakhiri, the plague returns, the Uriashi return to their villages, but Christianity also returns, the cathedral is restored, and Father Florin becomes a saint. I’m sure you’re thinking “That’s a good ending??” but just wait until I explain the others.
Rise At Dawn
Coen helps Crake and the Manumits restore Catalin Dragosti to power.
Unlock conditions
- Join the Manumits via The Firebrand, Shadows in the Woods, and Where Loyalty Lies, after which observe the questline till you full Who Pulls the Strings.
On this ending, Crake explains that Catalin Dragosti (the son of Vale Sangora’s former tyrant) is ready outdoors the valley with a military, and also you assault Eastridge Outpost to let him in.
Unsurprisingly, Catalin Dragosti is as bloodthirsty as his father and instantly executes some defenceless prisoners, although it can save you at the least two of them should you object. After Rise at Daybreak, you assault Griefberg Fort in Fall Earlier than Nightfall, infiltrating by means of the tunnels under and battling some Kobolds.
The important thing variations listed here are that you just will not save any of the prisoners, since Brencis knew you have been coming. Vlad can even get a load of Manumits killed by speeding the gate should you save him in the intro, and encourage his recklessness within the Outdated Buddies, New Buddies quest the place you discuss to him within the Manumit hideout.
Lastly, you may attain the throne room, the place Brencis will attempt to homicide Catalin Dragosti.
- For those who let Brencis attempt to kill Catalin, Crake will rush ahead as an alternative and die defending him.
- For those who save Catalin, each he and Crake will reside.
After this, you may proceed to the banquet corridor, with or with out Crake, and can combat Brencis in a room with your loved ones tied to chairs. Not like the A Lone Wolf’s Hunt ending, you possibly can’t make a cope with Brencis at this level, since you possibly can’t cease Catalin and his military. You may combat and defeat Brencis, invite him in, or depart him in hell, and the epilogue in Laslea will play.
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This is likely one of the worst endings in my view. Catalin Dragosti undertakes a marketing campaign of retribution towards anybody he sees as having helped the Vrakhiri, burning whole districts of Svartrau and filling the fortress dungeons. As you see in a word on a tree in Laslea, he additionally imposes a big tax and encourages folks to tell on one another. The epilogue additionally mentions his mercenary military loots and pillages cities every time it feels prefer it.
Maybe essentially the most heartbreaking a part of this ending is it reveals who Crake actually is—a toady for Catalin. Underneath Dragosti’s orders, he undertakes a genocide of the Uriashi, seeing them as monsters identical to the Vrakhiri. The plague additionally returns, as does Christianity, however there’s a slight silver lining in that that is the one epilogue the place you possibly can discuss to Crake in Laslea.
Midnight Reckoning
Coen helps Lacra end Brencis’ sinister scheme.
Unlock conditions
- Meet Lacra during the A Friend Like This quest, which you most likely get via the note on Ambrus’s body in The Gilded Gauntlet, after which observe her questline till you unlock Midnight Reckoning.
Alongside Lacra, you enter the Griefberg Fort dungeons by way of the traditional ruins under and destroy Brencis’s ritual, earlier than ascending by means of the fortress to face Brencis himself. The important thing variables listed here are that in smashing the ritual, Lacra unleashes hell on the fortress. Corpses begin coming again to life, big chunks of the fortress are ripped up into the air, and the prisoners lose their minds.
If you lastly attain the throne room, your loved ones might be overgrown within the crimson roots (however nonetheless alive). Brencis will seem to confront you and Lacra.
- For those who betray Lacra and select your loved ones, she’ll combat Brencis, however he’ll win and drink her blood. The result right here is identical because the A Deal With The Satan ending (defined under).
- For those who combat Brencis with Lacra, you possibly can nonetheless save your loved ones. I have never performed this variant to substantiate, however there is a cutscene midfight that suggests Lacra dies should you did not full her optionally available The Evening of Horrors quest and eat the Mandrake together with her.
As with the opposite endings, you may defeat Brencis in Anachora, and might determine whether or not to ask him in, or let him be consumed by hell. Nonetheless, he’ll additionally reveal extra on this ending about his plan—that he needed to simply accept and harness the curse of Anachora that each one vampires harbor as an alternative of making an attempt to withstand it.
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This ending is not a very good one—as with A Lone Wolf’s Hunt, Vale Sangora turns into unbiased for a time, the Manumits defend it, and each Christianity and the plague return. The destructive right here is mainly everybody within the fortress dies and it stays a cursed hellscape.
Lacra additionally would not belief you sufficient to inform you that this was going to occur and will’ve killed your loved ones, which is a tragic realisation about her character and targets. Lacra will seem briefly within the epilogue, however she seems in virtually each epilogue offered you full her questline. Taking this path to the ending additionally would not change her ending within the epilogue.
A Deal With The Satan
Coen makes a deal with Brencis for the freedom of Laslea.
Unlock conditions
- Reach max level infamy (by killing Ambrus, Bakir, and Xanthe).
In this ending, you meet Brencis at Shrike’s Crag, the haunted site of a mass atrocity committed by Skender Dragosti (the valley’s former tyrant). After meeting your father, who Brencis brings, he’ll offer you a deal: He’ll return your family and the villagers, and you can live in Laslea, exempt from the blood tax, if you find and mark the Manumit hideout.
You can also choose to kill Brencis here, though spilling any blood summons the dead, and you’ll have to fight him with a million ghosts trying to get in the way. The impact of this ending would be the same as A Lone Wolf’s Hunt above. Before you can agree, your father picks the absolute worst moment to trip over and hurt himself, summoning a legion of ghosts you have to fight through with Brencis to escape.
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All you have to do to complete this ending is head to the Manumit hideout and mark the door. Brencis swoops in, murders the Manumits, drags Crake out into the street, drinks his blood, and then disappears with him—not a great outcome for Crake, obviously. However, the epilogue in Laslea will play out.
This ending is obviously not great. While it’s made clear that Brencis’s regime does eventually fall thanks to the Arbiters, bad stuff happens to Lacra and Father Florin, and Brencis continues to rule with an iron fist, slowly bleeding the valley for his scheme. The upsides are that the plague doesn’t return, the Uriashi stick around, and Laslea gets to practice Christianity as an exception.
Secret endings
Leaving Vale Sangora
Coen leaves the valley to its fate.
Unlock conditions
- Reach Corruption Level 11 and unlock the second level of Shadow Dweller in the vampirism tree.
This is probably my favorite ending for Blood of Dawnwalker. You can do it anytime after the prologue provided you reach Level 11 Corruption and unlock the second level of Shadow Dweller in the vampirism skill tree, increasing the max distance of Shadow Step. Head to the Cursed Chasm in northwest Briar Sloughs, following the road that looks like it leads out of Vale Sangora.
Use the max level Shadow Step to get across the gap and follow the road to the still open pass. You’ll be given the choice to leave the valley forever or stay. That’s it. There isn’t even an epilogue (besides the post-credit cutscene), so it really is a disavowal of everything in Vale Sangora, as Coen leaves with his newfound vampirism to make a new life.
Killing Brencis in the prologue
Coen thwarts Brencis scheme without leaving Laslea.
Unlock conditions:
- Defeat Brencis when you fight him at the end of the prologue and then defeat Brencis, Grotesque Ascendent.
As many of you likely guessed, saw, or experienced yourself, if you manage to beat Brencis’s first stage in the prologue, you possibly can defeat him there and finish the sport. I will be frank—it isn’t value it. Defeating each the Brencis fights within the prologue is extremely exhausting, even on the bottom problem, and the ending is not that a lot completely different from A Lone Wolf’s Hunt.
The primary distinction is that the epilogue is, understandably, quick as hell since you did not do something within the sport.
The Blood of Dawnwalker’s epilogue defined
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The epilogue in Laslea has a number of completely different variables relying on the ending you selected:
- Sure characters displaying up within the city.
- The characters who seem within the scene with Lunka on the finish are completely different.
- The notices on the tree within the city sq. can change, however invariably tackle who guidelines Vale Sangora, whether or not Christianity returned, and whether or not you killed the Murohn in Svartrau Cathedral’s Almshouse.
Beneath I am going to run by means of the epilogue part post-Laslea, which reveals you a collection of tableaus you possibly can look at. These clarify the outcomes of assorted quests and decisions you made:
Your loved ones
- Your mom might be absent should you did not make Anca’s medicine appropriately and he or she was killed within the prologue.
- Your loved ones might be lifeless and absent should you do not save them in 30 days.
- Lunka might be corrupted by Brencis—her and Coen at all times depart the valley on the finish after assembly Neberu.
Svartrau, The Plague, and the Uriashi
- The town will both be unbiased and considerably lawless, nonetheless managed by the Vrakhiri, or burned and sacked in retribution by Catalin Skender.
- The Uriashi will both retreat to the mountain or keep.
- The plague will return or stay absent primarily based on whether or not Brencis stays in energy.
Anca
- For those who did not let Anca use The Font, she disappears from Laslea searching for a unique treatment.
- For those who did, she stays in Laslea and is accepted by the villagers.
Crake and the Manumits
- Defend the newly unbiased Vale Sangora from ruffians if Coen defeated Brencis himself or with Lacra.
- Kill all the Uriashi underneath Catalin Skender’s orders if Coen lets the military in.
- Are lifeless, as a result of Brencis killed them after Coen made a cope with him.
Lacra
- Strikes on and continues her travels and adventures.
- Is killed and despatched to Anachora by Brencis and his courtroom.
- For those who full Lacra’s questline, she’ll seem within the epilogue offered Brencis is not in energy.
Father Florin
- Is canonized and made a saint. This may solely occur should you full his A Hero’s Finish quest.
- Is publicly burned alive if Brencis stays in energy.
St. Tyna’s Convent
- Has its curse lifted however its zombie nuns get lost into the woods.
- Stays cursed and stuffed with undead.
A Research in Crimson
- You discovered the proper killer and the Svartrau murders ceased.
- You caught the flawed offender and so they proceed.
- Vicho can even seem within the epilogue taking care of Lunka should you befriended him.
Hive and Search
- You killed the Kobold hive in Lacra’s quest. I have never seen the opposite end result, however I assume it pertains to sparing them.
Xanthe and Chariklea
- This tableau solely reveals up should you spared Xanthe throughout her The Cycle of Love quest (which you get by angering her). It mainly explains how Xanthe retains murdering girls to maintain Chariklea alive.
Hi, I’m Rishab. I’m a passionate pc gamer and an avid video game content writer. I have been involved with video games for over 2 decades now, and even today, after playing an astronomical number of games over the years, I’m still eager for more. In my free time, you will find me enjoying a hot cup of coffee and playing my favorite relaxing fishing game, Dave the Diver.
