Homecoming walkthrough: patrol, escape and final encounter

The opening Patrol the City objective asks you to bring roses to the terrace and keep both heroes alive. The recording also completes a cart-wheel errand during this phase. At 5:14 the game confirms that errand and explains that equipment is equipped through the Backpack.

1. Follow the patrol objective to the terrace with the roses. Check the quest list when a conversation adds a task so you do not leave an active patrol step behind.
2. Check newly acquired equipment in the Backpack when the tutorial prompts you. The evidence confirms the equipment interface, not a particular required item build.
3. After the patrol completes, bring Garek and Landen to the palace entrance together. The explicit entrance hint appears at 8:45. If one hero is still elsewhere, regroup them before trying the entrance again.

At 16:30 the active quest is The Death of Lordaeron. Its immediate requirement is to escape the palace while keeping Garek and Landen alive. The recording proceeds through the interior corridors before returning to the devastated city.

1. Finish the palace encounters and dialogue until the escape objective appears. Follow the opened corridor route rather than returning to completed patrol errands.
2. Move the force through the palace together. Kingy recommends pulling a badly injured hero behind the guards before the next engagement; that is a conservative tactic, not a tested difficulty-specific build.
3. When the escape moves outside, follow the city route toward the bridge. The dialogue points toward the sewers, but the bridge and its final encounter still come first.

The recorded route reaches the bridge at 23:35. At 24:25 the quest list marks both the palace escape and bridge crossing complete. This is a useful checkpoint if the city route has become confusing.

1. Bring the heroes and surviving force across the bridge, clearing enemies along the crossing. Keep checking the hero portraits rather than allowing a wounded hero to lead the group.
2. Confirm the crossing is marked complete in the quest list. Reaching the bridge does not by itself finish Homecoming.
3. Regroup before advancing into the encounter beyond the crossing. Preserve a save before this fight if you want to retry it without repeating the whole route.

At 25:15 the quest explicitly adds the Abomination as the remaining target. Garek and Landen must still survive. A rune countdown is visible during the fight; the recording does not establish the effects or timing rules needed for a rune-based strategy.

1. Engage the Abomination with your surviving force and monitor both heroes. Use the abilities and consumables described by your current tooltips; no particular talent allocation is required by this guide.
2. If a hero is close to dying, move that hero out of immediate danger and recover before committing again. For another attempt, review equipment and health before changing difficulty or discarding progress.
3. After the target falls, allow the ending sequence to finish and continue to Treachery when the game offers it. The source shows the post-fight cinematic at 25:55.