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Saint Mihai
September 11, 2026 at 01:25 AM
Replaced the preview-build framing with the shipped quest chain and added the full sword sequence from the broken blade through the shards and tempering to the Imbued Sword of St. Mihai
Saint Mihai is one of only two saints venerated in Vale Sangora, the other being Saint Tyna. The valley's in-world chronicle, written in the voice of Albertus Taurinus, records that Mihai lived many centuries before the game's 1347 setting and was born a pagan. According to the early chroniclers quoted there, he became a fearless knight and died fighting a horrible monster, and a shrine was raised at the site of his death.
The chronicle's account of a pilgrimage to that shrine is the closest thing to a first-hand description of him that has been published: "As I was praying, I suddenly heard a blood-curdling howl. I told myself it must have been a wolf... Even though deep down, I knew that the truth was different." The legend, in other words, is presented from the start as a story with something unresolved underneath it.
Mihai is also named as the patron saint of the cathedral in Svartrau, the valley's capital. The same chronicle describes Svartrau Cathedral as grand but dark and foreboding, reputed to be haunted, with few willing to walk its long naves after dark. Its archives are where the chronicler spent most of his time in the city.
What was preview material before release is now playable content, and the shape of it held up. The route to Mihai is a quest that sends Coen after a scholar in Svartrau and then into the cathedral, with the crypts outside the building visible long before the game will let him decide which one is the saint's. Published guides print the quest title with its two halves in either order, as A Monk and a Saint and as A Saint and a Monk, and no first-party source settles which is correct.
The two-halves-of-the-day structure documented before release is intact. The cathedral is open to the public in daylight, which is when the questioning and the library research happen, and it is entered by climbing the belltower scaffolding at night. Xanthe is inside on the night route and is dangerous enough that avoiding her is the recommended approach. Studying the frescoes on the interior roof reveals the saint's mark, which is what finally identifies the right crypt.
Mihai himself is found walled up rather than laid to rest, still animate after centuries, and carrying the sword the quest is after. He attacks on sight, shouting the name Tobias at an opponent he seems to mistake Coen for. Who Tobias is, and what Mihai believes was done to him, has not been published. The encounter cannot be avoided if the quest is to be finished.
The blade Mihai was buried with is the reason most players come looking for him. It is silver, which matters because the vrakhiri are vulnerable to the metal, and coverage of the shipped game treats the finished weapon as the strongest sword available. Getting there is a chain rather than a pickup.
Step | What happens |
|---|---|
Defeat Mihai | His coffin yields the broken sword, printed in guides as both The Broken Sword of St. Mihai and St. Mihai's Silver Sword. It is usable in that state but weak for its rarity. A note in the coffin starts the next quest. |
Forge It Anew | Three sword shards are hidden in kobold caves across the valley. Each cave holds markings that map the other two, so only the first has to be found by exploration. One of the three has already been looted and has to be recovered from a vampire lord's camp instead. |
The uriashi smith | A hornless uriashi hermit with a rune-powered forge in the far north-west reforges the blade once all three shards are in hand. She will not discuss it before the quest is active. |
Tempering | She then points Coen to a nearby cave sealed by red growth, where an ancient site guarded by spectral enemies and a mini-boss called an Echoing Anger can temper the reforged weapon. |
The finished blade | The result is a legendary greatsword, the Imbued Sword of St. Mihai, with heavy bonus damage against supernatural enemies, a raised critical rate, and a weapon art built on wide sweeping strikes. Its level scales to Coen's at the point he obtains it. |
Everything in this section comes from guide coverage of the released game rather than from studio material. Two independent sources describe the same chain, which is why it is stated directly here, while the details that only one of them records are left out. See Equipment and Crafting and Quest System.
One further thread runs off this one. Reforging the sword is reported to be what prompts a courier to bring Coen the component list for a legendary armour set, which makes the saint's crypt the starting point for both halves of the best-documented endgame loadout.
Whether Mihai is one of the Dawnwalkers, a vampire, or something with no name yet. Some coverage describes the crypt occupant as a second Dawnwalker and our own pages on the cathedral repeat it; no studio material says so, and the chronicle only calls him a saint. The claim is plausible and widely repeated, which is not the same as confirmed.
Whether reaching him is main-story content or side content. The game draws no such line in general, and nothing published assigns this quest to either category.
Whether the crypt beneath the cathedral is the tomb the legend refers to. The chronicle places his shrine at the site of his death, not in the city.
The correct word order of the quest title, which published guides print both ways.