Dawnwalker Manumit Hideout: Where Loyalty Lies Route

Spoiler-light route at a glance

This walkthrough names locations and objectives but keeps the scout's discovery and later Manumit story consequence out of the quick route. The final warehouse conversation contains story spoilers, so make a manual save before entering if you want to experience it unprompted.

Where Loyalty Lies follows Shadows in the Woods. It costs five time segments, must be progressed during the day and leads directly into the next Crake quests.

Reach Notorious infamy first

Open the Court tab and check the rank label. The requirement is Notorious, the fourth tier, rather than a partly filled lower segment. Soldier camps are the safest repeatable source because clearing them also advances regional advantages.

For a faster push, mix camps with operations belonging to the same court member. Angering and defeating a boyar gives a larger increase, but you do not need to force a difficult duel if another region offers safer activities.

• Finish The Firebrand and Shadows in the Woods
• Check that the Court rank explicitly reads Notorious / IV
• Clear soldier camps while collecting regional benefits
• Use court operations to finish the remaining infamy
• Keep a save before entering Svartrau Plaza

Meet Sara in Svartrau during the day

Once the rank is Notorious, travel to the central Svartrau Plaza in daylight. Sara approaches automatically and leads Coen to the Manumit hideout; this quest step is day-only. Older advice to wait for night applies to other hideout access contexts, not this Where Loyalty Lies meeting.

Complete the conversation with Crake to be accepted and receive the missing-scout assignment. Speaking with Vladimir during the hideout sequence can also add the optional Old Friends, New Friends quest when its character condition is available.

Manumit hideout location: visiting versus marking

The hideout is in Svartrau, but reaching the city is not enough. Progress through The Firebrand, Shadows in the Woods and Where Loyalty Lies until you are brought inside. For this first visit, follow Sara from the plaza during the day after meeting the Notorious infamy requirement.

A Deal with the Devil uses a different interaction: after discovering the hideout, return at night and mark its exterior wall for Brencis. Save before doing this if you are preserving alternative ending routes. A missing daytime marking prompt does not mean the hideout location is wrong.

Search the pink house attic

After Crake's briefing, head to Neustadt in the southern part of Svartrau and look for the house with the pink facade. Enter it and go upstairs to the attic; the useful investigation points are above the living floor.

Use Focus Mode to inspect the arrows and other highlighted clues, pick up the crumpled note, then examine the trace at the attic window. That window clue advances the journal from searching the house to following the scouts' blood trail.

• The pink facade identifies the correct street house
• Climb to the attic before sweeping every room
• Use Focus Mode on the floor clues
• Collect the crumpled note
• Inspect the attic window last to reveal the trail

Follow the blood trail into the Middens

Leave the house and inspect the blood beside the wooden cart to anchor the trail. Keep Focus Mode active and follow the marks west through the streets, out of the city and toward the Middens. Inspect the damaged or overturned cart outside, then continue north with the trail.

If Svartrau's west gate is closed because of very high infamy, use another open city exit and loop back to the outside section of the trail. At night, vampire traversal may provide a wall route, but changing to night is not required for the quest itself.

Enter the locked warehouse and finish

The trail ends at a warehouse or house marked by a bloody handprint. The front door is locked. Move along the left exterior, climb to the upper opening and drop through the roof instead of searching for a key.

Inspect the bodies inside, pass into the courtyard and speak with the scout near the barrels. After the conversation, soldiers enter and attack. Defeat them to complete the investigation and preserve the Manumit route. The next main faction step is What Hunts the Night.

• Use the left side of the building
• Climb and enter through the roof opening
• Inspect the bodies before moving to the courtyard
• Speak to the scout by the barrels
• Defeat the ambushing soldiers before leaving

Rewards, failure states and what joining changes

Published walkthroughs agree on the five-segment day route and a completion reward around the final scout sequence, although databases currently disagree on whether the total displayed XP is 75 or 150. Treat 75 XP as the directly observed quest-completion value and the higher figure as possibly including an earlier objective reward.

Failing or abandoning the Manumit story later can close this alliance path. Completing Where Loyalty Lies opens What Hunts the Night and the later Crake sequence used by his romance and Manumit ending material. Keep a branch save before the final warehouse sequence if those outcomes matter to your run.