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Warning: This guide contains major spoilers. Read at your own risk!
This guide covers the route I personally chose and the outcomes I was able to confirm. Branches resulting from other choices are currently being tested.
Ambrus’s Cellars: Trouble Brewing Overview
After learning about Ambrus’s blood storage operation, Coen infiltrates one of the facilities to sabotage it.
Deep inside the facility, he discovers a laboratory and an alchemist who had been forced to conduct research there.
Will Coen let him go?
How to Start and Location
The quest begins after reading the orders found at one of Ambrus’s outposts.
The quest itself takes place in the Altenmarkt district of Svartrau.
Time Cost and Deadline
Destroying the barrels of stored blood costs 1 Time Segment, and completing the subsequent investigation costs another 2 Time Segments.
The total cost is 3 Time Segments.
There is no deadline.
Rewards
- 250 XP
- 1 Skill Point
- Increased Infamy
If you spare the alchemist during the final conversation, you can also obtain:
- Lasting Malediction Manual
- Recipe for Revitalising Tonic (This differs from what other sites report, so I’ll check it again on my next playthrough.)
Notable Loot
Search the containers in the laboratory to obtain the Recipe for Potent Regenerative Salve.
Ambrus’s Cellars: Trouble Brewing Walkthrough
- Defeat Brencis’s soldiers and proceed deeper into the facility
- Go through the door—which is quite difficult to spot—and climb the stairs to reach the laboratory
- Speak to the alchemist hiding inside
- Tell the alchemist, “I mean you no harm. You’re free now.”
- Complete the quest
Exploration Tips
This area is extremely dark, so bringing a torch is highly recommended.
The biggest obstacle is finding the door mentioned in Step 2.
The door cannot be detected with Focus Mode, so if you don’t have a torch, your only option may be to do what I did: desperately charge into every wall in sight, one by one, until you finally find the way through.
Talking to the Alchemist
The alchemist explains that Ambrus forced him to research leech saliva in order to prevent blood from clotting.
As his own small act of resistance, however, he deliberately fed Ambrus false information to slow the research down.
You are then given a choice: let him go, or refuse to forgive anyone who has aided the vrakhiri.
As mentioned in the Rewards section, sparing him allows you to obtain a manual and a recipe.
Related Quests
Ambrus’s Cellars: Seeing Red | Time Cost & Rewards
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Brencis’s soldiers
