How to Prepare Herbs in The Blood of Dawnwalker

Early in the prologue, Coen’s mother Esme falls ill and you must prepare a herbal medicine. The game gives you two preparation choices and no second chance to reread the recipe note — this is the exact combination.

Where to Get the Herbs

• The herbs come from Anca the herbalist, whose hut stands outside the village of Laslea in the Vale Sangora.
• If Anca is not at her hut, use Focus Mode and follow her trail to the riverbank — she does not leave the area.
• She charges 50 denarii. You can haggle to half price, or tell her you cannot pay and settle later — the quest never fails over money.
• She hands you a physical recipe note, “Instructions from Anca”, which lands in your inventory.

The Two Recipe Choices

• Water temperature: use hot water — not boiling, not cold. Hot-but-not-boiling is the correct option.
• Herb amount: add three spoonfuls — not one and not two.

Hot water + 3 spoonfuls of herbs

Giving Esme the Medicine

• When the preparation choices appear on screen you cannot open the recipe note anymore — memorize it beforehand.
• Esme refuses the bitter medicine; choose to tell her a story to get her to drink it.
• Correct medicine: Esme survives the Blood Mass with Brencis — weak, but alive.

What Happens if You Get It Wrong

After the Quest: Time Costs & Page-Turner

• After receiving the herbs, staying with Anca (choosing “Gladly, I’ve missed it too”) triggers the optional Page-Turner quest and costs two time segments.
• Leaving immediately costs one time segment instead.
• Both roads are valid — decide whether two segments are worth the optional quest rewards on your current day count.

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