Prologue Walkthrough: One Perfect Day in Laslea Glen

1. All Good Things (tutorial dream)

The game opens on a nightmare: Lunka wanders into the forest, Coen follows, and a crawlspace with a blood trail leads into the combat tutorial. You will fight the Blood Guards, be fatally stabbed, and drink Lunka's blood — your first transformation.

• Learn hand-to-hand basics, then vampiric combat: dodge, and Voracious Bite.
• Chase Lunka through the forest using Shadowstep, a traversal ability that crosses distant platforms.
• Reach the church, the dream ends, and you wake at home into Withering Away.

2. Withering Away (morning — the clock starts)

Back home, Pieter wakes you. Before anything else, loot Coen's room:

• Chest: Recipe for Minor Mending Ointment, Comfortable Tunic, Trousers with Wrappings, Grey Loafers, Excerpts from Fabulae
• Dining room chest: Parasol Mushroom, Clay Cup, Fruit Juice
• Training Sword — equip it immediately from the inventory menu

Chop wood outside (+250 XP, 1 Firewood), feed the stove, and sit through the breakfast scene. When Pieter force-feeds Esme, either choice works; the segment pays 250 XP and 25 Denarius either way.

Pick up Live Bait — but don't do it yet

Down the slope outside, Yanna, Lunka and Mirto are heading fishing. Talking to Yanna starts Live Bait. You can decline to help for now — the quest registers either way. Defer it.

Anca's hut — and the prologue's most important choice

Head southwest to Anca's hut for Esme's medicine. She is out; use Focus Mode on the vegetable patch and barrel to track her (loot the supplies: Hammer, Mountain Cider, Yellow Sweet Clover, Millet). When she asks Coen to stay and practice Latin:

Choose “I really have to go” — it costs 1 time segment instead of 2. This single choice buys you an extra side quest before sundown. (Staying is the first flirt opportunity with Anca — it does not affect your romance chances later, so take the discount.)

3. The efficient loop (this is the part that saves the day)

1. Walk back from Anca's hut and talk to Gavril by the eastern fields → picks up Deep Down.
2. Head northwest toward the peat bogs. The ruined house along the path triggers Enter Not — grab the figurine inside and move on.
3. Finish Deep Down at the bogs. It is the best early XP in the game and pays unique gear: Mireleaf Bracers and the Undead Warrior's Sword. Do not leave the bogs without completing it.
4. Return home, deliver the medicine, and train with Pieter → reward: Charge Manual (unlocks the Charge ability).
5. Laslea Church: give the figurine to Father Florin → completes Enter Not.
6. Cemetery next to the church: if the sun hasn't reached the final segments, Crina offers Disturbed.
7. Slot Live Bait, Someone Needs a Lesson, Blasphemy and On the Run into the gaps. They are short; the order above protects the two longest (Deep Down, Enter Not) first.

4. Sundown: Sacred Covenant → Bad Blood → Smoke and Ashes

When sundown arrives the game takes over: attend the Blood Mass, then play through Sacred Covenant, Bad Blood (your first, unwinnable-feeling clash with Brencis — there are two scripted outcomes) and Smoke and Ashes. These teach the core vampire kit and unlock witchcraft. Nothing here is missable by choice; just play them through.

5. After the prologue: From Above

Once Smoke and Ashes completes, return to town. If it is night, climb the Laslea church tower to scout the region and complete From Above. Then the open world — and the real 30-day clock — begins.

Prologue checklist

Next: Court activities and the recommended kill order →