Quests
Hourglass jobs in Vale Sangora, organized by route, phase, cost, and the rewards worth planning around.
Story routes and prologue plans →Spend the clock with a plan
Exploration is free, but marked jobs consume segments. Group nearby errands, leave room for night travel, and keep a save before a major choice.
Quest Planner →Prologue
- Withering Away1–2 segments · see conditions · Day · Laslea GlenCollect Anca’s herbs, return home and prepare the exact recipe before Mass.
- Live Bait1–2 segments · see conditions · Day · Laslea GlenEscort the siblings, set up four rods and bait the hooks; tag is an extra activity.
- Dead Drop0 segments · Day · Laslea GlenFollow fresh grave-side tracks to a marked fallen tree and its hidden stash.
- Blasphemy1 segment · Day · Laslea CentreInvestigate the damaged loom, identify the banner thief and resolve the return with Gremla.
- Deep Down1 segment · Day · Laslea Gate fieldsFind Lazar early, inspect the tomb murals, recover the bracers and leave through the guardian’s hall.
- Enter Not0 segments · Day · Northwest forest houseEnter the boarded house through its roof, collect the figurine and return it to the church.
- On the Run1–2 segments · see conditions · Day · South of Laslea CentreTrack Iorgu’s escaped pig, take it back from Kuno and return it with an apple or a chase.
- Someone Needs a Lesson1 segment · Day · LasleaCatch Vasil and decide how to respond when his father intervenes.
- Like Father, Like Son1 segment · Day · LasleaFollow Pieter to the practice yard and keep the option to finish errands afterward.
- If a Tree Falls in a Forest0 segments · Day · Laslea woodsFollow a fallen tree’s patrol trail, collect the orders and report to the elderman.
- Into the Den1 segment · Day or night · LasleaFind the bear-den letter, then excavate the marked stone inside the logging hut.
- Page-Turner1 segment · Day · LasleaStay for Anca’s Latin lesson and help retrieve the herbs damaged by the storm.
- All Good ThingsTotal cost unknown · Phase not verified · Laslea GlenFollow Lunka through the opening traversal and combat tutorials.
- Sacred CovenantTotal cost unknown · Phase not verified · LasleaFinish daytime errands before committing to the Blood Mass and its scripted transition.
- Bad Blood3–4 segments · see conditions · Night · Laslea / MassFollow the mine trail, learn the escape abilities and return toward Laslea.
- Disturbed1–2 segments · see conditions · Day · Laslea churchInvestigate Crina’s disturbed grave, trace the soil to Kostel and resolve the missing crucifix.
Main
- Smoke and AshesLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day · Laslea / valleyDay 1 spine after the prologue. IGN: 150 XP plus Burning Blood and Astral Communication spells. This is the first retail-month hex unlock most players see.
- A Lone Wolf's HuntLegacy estimate: 4 segments · Day or night · Greifberg CastleAn independent finale approach. Prepare equipment and preserve an open-world save.
- A Monk and a SaintTotal cost unknown · Day or night · The Middens / SvartrauInvestigate the cathedral, identify the correct grave and recover the missing sword piece.
- A Friend Like ThisLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day · SvartrauSomething unusual in Svartrau that could spell trouble for Brencis. 21 objectives. Long city thread.
- A Dubious GiftLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day · Svartrau CathedralFind cathedral caretaker Radu for library access. Cathedral is walk-in by day, hostile climb by night.
- Echoes of Silenced Bells6–8 segments · see conditions · Phase not verified · Inn near St. Tyna'sMeet Anca at the inn, open a safe path through the convent and investigate its hidden library.
- Between the WordsLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day · Anca's booksReading with Anca. Fextralife: offer to make tea, "It's my pleasure," then push the faith/feeling line.
- Where Old Devils LieLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · Anca's secretGameRant: Anca confesses. GameSpot lists it on the Anca arc before Stronger Than Achilles.
- Stronger Than AchillesLegacy estimate: 4 segments · Day or night · Ancient ruins / Font of LifeAnca's close. Tell her you love her at the chasm. Font choice: she drinks (happiest close), you drink (Font of Life skill), or destroy it (Ancient Greaves). Romance scene is back at the inn.
- Song of the MountainLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · Lacra / mountainsSecond Lacra beat after A Friend Like This. GameSpot also names Heart of the Mountain in the same sequence.
- Hive and SeekLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · LacraThird Lacra beat. PowerPyx and GameSpot both list it between Song of the Mountain and Our Rotten Roots.
- Our Rotten RootsLegacy estimate: 4 segments · Day or night · Lacra / IsbrantDefeat Isbrant. Fextralife: start saying you want to keep helping. GameRant: give Lacra a day.
- The Night of HorrorsLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Night · Ancient vrakhiri lairLacra’s optional personal quest. Finish it before accepting her departure if you want this scene.
- Midnight ReckoningLegacy estimate: 4 segments · Night · Greifberg approachLacra’s departure quest. Finish desired open-world work and keep a manual save before accepting.
- The FirebrandLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day or night · Briar Sloughs military campCrake chain opener. PowerPyx: starts in the Briar Sloughs military camp. GameSpot covers saving Mert as Under Watchful Eyes on the same rebellion door.
- Shadows in the WoodsLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · Manumit woodsAuto-starts after Firebrand. Second of three jobs that earn the hideout invite.
- Where Loyalty LiesLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · Manumit hideoutFollow the Manumit invitation to their hideout. Check your active commitments before entering.
- What Hunts the NightLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Night · ManumitSportskeeda / PowerPyx Crake list after the hideout invite.
- What Moves the DeadLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · ManumitMid Crake chain. Keep going; Rise at Dawn is the door, not this.
- Who Pulls the StringsLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · ManumitLast required Crake beat before the optional pair and Rise at Dawn.
- Rise at DawnLegacy estimate: 4 segments · Day or night · Greifberg / ManumitThe Manumit departure quest. Review the journal and save before committing.
- Fall Before DuskLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · GreifbergContinue the Manumit departure sequence. Review the current objective before advancing.
- Forge It Anew14 segments · Day or night · Maragir / uriash smithRecover three shards and a broken sword, then restore and temper the weapon in two distinct stages.
- A Bulwark Against DarknessTotal cost unknown · Phase not verified · Arbiter armourCollect four kinds of material, commission the armour and complete its separate binding ritual.
Court
- A Deal with the DevilLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · Shrike's CragA late Court invitation with consequential choices. Keep a separate save before the meeting.
- The Guilded GauntletLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · Ambrus operationsFill Ambrus's anger by hitting camps and blood drives. Method.gg: 12 of 15 possible Ambrus quests unlocks a duel. Drinking his blood can grant Scarlet Shield.
- Defeat Bakir's HeadhuntersLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · Bakir campsPolygon's clock example: a 3-segment camp clear on day 11 night with 4 pips left leaves 1 pip before day 12. Bakir is the Warmonger officer.
- A Hero's EndLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day or night · Svartrau Carpenter RowAbandoned building on Carpenter Row, ancient ruins underneath. DawnwalkerDB: 6 objectives. GameSpot also has a Father Florin "Hero's End" guide.
- A Mother's PleaLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day or night · Uriash / Bakr clanThe Bakr clan elder asks Coen to look into private affairs. Ties to Ocha (Bakr-Ocha), an uriash who would rather brawl than inherit.
- Home Sweet Home4 segments · Day or night · Silts TowerInvestigate the upper room in Silts Tower. Keep a save outside before committing to its four-segment encounter.
- Ambrus's Collectors: Wetland HelpersLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day or night · Eastern swamp campIGN Day 1: 250 XP and 5 Blood Leeches. Court meter food.
- Ambrus's Transports: Roadside SurpriseLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day or night · Road out of StonewardIGN Day 2: 250 XP and a Kobold's Blood potion. Counts for Delivery Delay.
- Ambrus's Dungeons: Evil and ConvenienceLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · Ambrus dungeonIGN Day 2: 250 XP, Amulet of Endurance, recipe for Minor Keen Eye Potion, 60 denarii.
- Ambrus's Prisoners: Fate's MercyLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day or night · North Briar SloughsIGN: intercept the transport. 250 XP and 1 skill point.
- Ambrus's Collectors: Unsavoury SolutionsLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day or night · Ambrus collectorsIGN Day 3: 250 XP, 11 Blood Leeches, 1 skill point.
- Ambrus's Transports: Bloody BusinessLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day or night · Ambrus roadIGN Day 3: 250 XP and 1 skill point.
- The Lunar GameLegacy estimate: 4 segments · Day or night · Lunar ManorBakir's boss quest. PowerPyx: Vrakhiric Bracers in the treasury after the fight. Trophy: The Man Khan.
- The Cycle of LoveLegacy estimate: 4 segments · Day or night · Xanthe's manorXanthe boss quest. PowerPyx: Relic of St. Dasius in a lantern room, top-right courtyard after you have the other lanterns. Trophy: The Dark Mistress.
Side
- A Good Deed Is Its Own RewardLegacy estimate: 1 segments · Day or night · SvartrauFree Danylo, a smith's apprentice, from one of Ambrus's transports. He asks you to visit him in Svartrau for a reward.
- Under Watchful EyesLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day or night · Stoneward PostFree Mert without alerting all of Stoneward Post. PC Gamer quest hub. GameSpot has a dedicated "How to Save Mert / The Firebrand" guide.
- Distant ShadowsLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day or night · ManumitOptional. PowerPyx: do this and A Closer Look before Rise at Dawn for The Manumit trophy.
- A Closer LookLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day or night · ManumitOptional closer for The Manumit. Completing it awards the trophy. Must be before Rise at Dawn.
- Champion of OldLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · Svartrau ruinsGameSpot: mural under Svartrau after Florin work. Kill Erkas the Repenter for Erkas' Sword.
- In the Name of the FatherLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · Curious House, SvartrauPowerPyx: balcony north of Svartrau West Gate into Florin's ruins. Agree to work together for the Greifberg side door. You can refuse first and come back if he is alive.
- Study in CrimsonLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day · SvartrauGameSpot: do Vicho's chain until he mentions another vrakhiri in Svartrau. That starts A Friend Like This.
- The Bittersweet ToastLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day or night · Ambrus operationsMethod.gg: Erdene's invitation on the Ambrus / Guilded Gauntlet path. Optional.
- Taking Back What's MineLegacy estimate: 1 segments · Day · Stoneward PostIGN Day 2: get your weapons back after the Stoneward gate takes them. Method.gg: daytime entry asks you to part with weapons.
- The Cursed Chasm2 segments · Day or night · Chasm / silver cacheTrace a broken bridge’s wreckage to Durandal. Use the hillside descent and budget the actual sword pickup.
- The Heart Wants What It WantsLegacy estimate: 3 segments · Day or night · Uriash / OchaPC Gamer quest list: help Ocha and Nora. Trophy The Outcast: help Ocha find her new destiny.
- Tiny DancerLegacy estimate: 2 segments · Day or night · SanzhanaPowerPyx: Coat of Darkened Scales in a chest on the upper floor. Part of The Tsarina's Favourite Human.
POI
- From AboveLegacy estimate: 1 segments · Night · Briar SloughsUnlocks Briar Sloughs points of interest. Climbing scouting towers is night-gated: you need Shadowstep / Planeshift.
- A Pilgrimage for PowerLegacy estimate: 1 segments · Day or night · Mountains / uriashi glyphsGlyphs at uriashi sacred places. Variants include Bear Trouble, Dark-Thing, Fanatics, The Ritual. IGN Day 1 already points at a Briar Sloughs pilgrimage stone.
- A Pilgrimage for Power: Bear TroubleLegacy estimate: 1 segments · Day or night · West of Laslea Gate ShrineIGN Day 1: 75 XP, Ravenous Flock Manual, Quickcast Amulet. First pilgrimage most players actually loot.