The short answer
Follow the chores at Coen’s house, find Anca near her hut’s river path, then return with the herbs and prepare the medicine before Sacred Covenant. The exact recipe and its consequence are below the reveal control.
Before you start
- Complete All Good Things
- Collect and equip the Training Sword
- Keep a save before preparing the brew
From the family home to Anca
- Take clothing from the bedroom chest if needed. Split the firewood in the yard and add it to the stove. After breakfast, collect the sword from the next room.
- Go to Anca’s hut. If nobody answers, use Focus Mode on the half-watered vegetable patch and empty barrel. Follow the nearby path to the river.
- Speak with Anca and follow her inside. Obtain both the herbs and her written instructions; keep the recipe available for the return trip.
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Payment and the optional lesson
Anca asks for 50 Denarius. The reported alternatives let you offer 25 or promise payment later, so lack of the full asking price does not require abandoning the medicine.
Staying for the Latin lesson leads into Page-Turner. Read the displayed time cost before choosing to stay. Published whole-quest totals differ; this page does not promise a single total that covers every branch.
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Prepare the brew and understand the outcome Reveal solution / story details
Completing the correct medicine before Sacred Covenant is the reported route that keeps Esme alive through the mass. If you want to change the preparation, use a save from before the brew choice.
- Return to Pieter and complete the conversation outside the house. Prepare the herbs at the stove.
- Choose hot water and three spoonfuls of herbs. Boiling water is a different option; follow the recipe precisely.
- Finish administering the medicine. The move into Like Father, Like Son confirms the quest has advanced.
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Research checked 2026-09-12. This is a source-based guide; Kingy has not independently play-tested these steps. Evidence and coverage.