Quests: Last Rites, Easy Riders, Fortuna, Laboratores (1–4).
Opens: Troskowitz and the whole Trosky region; Combat Training with Tomcat; Mutt; dice; the first side quests.
Watch for: Déjà Vu is in Easy Riders — beat Hans in the practice bout. Decide about Lent before you eat anything.
1. The prologue and the ambush
The letter, the lord who will not open the gate, and the road that ends in a ditch.
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Last Rites
The game opens on Godwin, not Henry: a castle under attack (Suchdol), a crossbow fired through the gaps in the wall, the front gate and a ladder to throw down. The story catches up with it in quest 31, which has the same name.
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Easy Riders
Henry rides with Hans and their escort towards Trosky castle with the letter for Otto von Bergow: the dog, a first game of dice, the practice bout with Hans, a lesson in sneaking, and an ambush that ends the ride. The practice bout is Déjà Vu: win it.
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Fortuna
Henry and Hans come round, badly hurt, at the herbwoman Bozhena’s cottage: bandages, herbs to gather for her and the first potion at her bench.
2. Honest labour
Laboratores is the game telling you what a commoner does.
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Troskowitz
With the castle shut to them, the work in Troskowitz is carrying sacks of flour into the inn’s pantry, and it ends in a village brawl and the pillory. The forge comes later: the first blacksmithing, a horseshoe at Trosky castle, is in For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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Tomcat
Combat Training I and II. The master strike is taught here; nothing you fight before Kuttenberg needs more than what Tomcat gives you.
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Mutt
The side quest that returns the dog. Man’s Best Friend, and a companion for the rest of the game.
3. Fights and trophies
- Hans, practice bout: Déjà Vu. Blocks and stamina, not swings.
- The Trosky bandits: Your first real fights: two-on-one is the danger, so fight in doorways.
4. Before you move on
Cross-checked
Cross-checked on 17 September 2026 against PowerPyx’s main-quest walkthrough and trophy roadmap (the quest order, the two points of no return and the quest-bound trophies) and PCGamesN’s quest list; the route is the guides’, not from a playthrough. What is still unverified is the only thing reading cannot settle — nobody here has played it. Re-checked on 1 October 2026 against EliteGuias and Fextralife.