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Prologue priorities and missable decisions

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Resolve your chosen daylight tasks before advancing to Sacred Covenant. For this route, prioritise the medicine, an early visit to the peat bogs, and the stolen-banner investigation. Optional scenes compete for time.

Checked 12 Sep 2026 · before patch 1.1 (22 Oct 2026)What changed

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Coverage: Released · Update 1.1 (October 22, PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S) latest detailed patch · October 26 award-vote notice · official sources checked October 27, 2026 UTC · installed console build unknown. Research checked 12 Sep 2026. Updated 14 Oct 2026

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  1. 0:23–0:44Taking Anca’s herbs back homeA practical order through Laslea · SolveBase

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“How To Prepare Anca's Recipe in The Blood of Dawnwalker (Withering Away)” by SolveBase · Sep 3, 2026 · Uploaded Sep 3, 2026 (launch week); build and difficulty not shown

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Before you start

  • Complete All Good Things
  • Read time costs at each interaction
  • Use the individual guides for solutions
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A practical order through Laslea

  1. At the family home, start Withering Away and decide whether to help Yanna on the road. Playing tag is optional and consumes additional time.
  2. Visit Anca for the herbs. Choose whether the optional Page-Turner scene fits the playthrough you want, then return to complete the medicine.

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    0:23–0:44 · 21 sTaking Anca’s herbs back home

    On screen: The Laslea map with the Withering Away objective "Bring the herbs back to Pieter and read the recipe from Anca", then the inventory screen with a paper item card selected (its name is too small to read).

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    0:23–0:44Taking Anca’s herbs back home
  3. Accept Gavril’s lead and make the peat-bog trip early. Follow the Deep Down guide before committing the remaining daylight elsewhere.
  4. Return to Laslea for Gremla’s banner. Finish the investigation and report back, rather than stopping as soon as you identify a suspect.
  5. Before following the main story onward, check the journal for any accepted tasks you still want to finish.
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The decisions this route protects

Reveal solution / story details
DecisionConsequence to consider
Medicine preparationThe brew affects Esme at the later mass
Time of entering Deep DownLazar’s condition depends on arrival time
Returning the bannerThe banner decision affects Gremla at the mass
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Keep optional content optional

This is an early-priority route, not a complete prologue schedule. Other tasks and roleplaying scenes remain valid choices. A guide’s preferred order is not proof that the game requires it.

Keep a save before the story transition. After the opening sequence, use the Court progression guide to choose a campaign direction.

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Sources · 7Walkthrough · checked 8 Oct 2026 · Research checked 12 Sep 2026
Prologue walkthrough and quest order ↗Reported early-rescue branch, clock icons and suggested route. Quest totals conflict with other reports; no fixed global schedule copied. Manual review: the live article falls beyond the automated monitor’s bounded response size; the truncated response does not contain the quest evidence.Walkthrough ·
Withering Away walkthrough ↗Objective sequence, payment choices and medicine. Its whole-quest time total is not treated as authoritative.Walkthrough ·
Withering Away: medicine and consequences ↗Corroborates recipe, location clues and delayed story consequence; time totals remain disputed.Walkthrough ·
Live Bait route cross-check ↗Independent rod and bait route; treats optional tag as worthwhile for story. No media reused.Walkthrough ·
Deep Down early-arrival route ↗Independently finds Lazar alive; corroborates landmarks and sarcophagus. No media reused. Equipment numbers differ from other sources.Walkthrough ·
Blasphemy walkthrough ↗Investigation clues, confession trigger, banner choices and hand-in.Walkthrough ·
Quest and Court progression directory ↗Court route and boss sequence, treated as one campaign route rather than the only ending path. Blanket missability claims are not reused.Walkthrough ·

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