Your first session in Vale Sangora
A practical starting plan: equipment, time prompts, early quests and a recoverable save.
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How time, deadlines and day/night work
Read the clock before committing to a quest, conversation or upgrade.
Quest routes
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Prologue priorities and missable decisions
Choose a route through Laslea without turning optional scenes into mandatory steps.
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Withering Away: Anca, the herbs and the medicine
Find Anca, finish the household objectives and make the correct brew.
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Live Bait: fishing rods, tag and the river scene
Find all four rods, recognise the time-cost prompt and finish Yanna’s quest.
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Deep Down: route, deadline and cave exit
Follow Lazar’s trail, prepare for the ruins and avoid outdated cave-blocker advice.
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Blasphemy: investigate the stolen banner
Follow the evidence, resolve the banner choice and remember the hand-in.
Quests and trading
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Into the Den and the Silver Trader: find the letter and sell silver
Follow the bear-den clue to the marked cache, distinguish its two letters, and check the reported silver-trader unlock routes.
Combat & progression
Combat basics: blocks, openings and control options
Choose an input style and practise a defensive response before building long combinations.
Skills, armour proficiency and Second Skin manuals
Match Second Skin to medium or heavy armour, find reported manuals, and check training costs before buying.
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After the prologue: choose a Court objective
Follow a supported campaign direction and keep faction progress separate from boss anger.
Faction quests
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Where Loyalty Lies: meet Sara, follow the blood trail and enter the warehouse
Check the faction prerequisite and daylight meeting, then follow the reported scout-investigation route through the locked building.
Updates & troubleshooting
Hotfixes, saving help and October update status
Update 1.1 (October 22): new Story mode, skill reset potion, subtitle options, crash and quest fixes, the FrameGen known issue, and earlier hotfixes.