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Anca is a village healer in Vale Sangora whose knowledge of herbs and magic makes her one of Coen's key allies, though she keeps her own secrets.
The Blood of Dawnwalker's quest system removes the main/side quest distinction and offers dual day-night paths for many objectives.
Lacra is an old vampire in The Blood of Dawnwalker who wants Brencis gone for reasons of her own, and one of the characters Coen can grow close to.
Rune carving is the magic system in The Blood of Dawnwalker, where Coen etches runes into his flesh to channel occult Hex abilities at the cost of HP.
The notoriety system tracks Coen's actions against Brencis on a ranked infamy track, triggering edicts, curfews and lockdowns while opening the rebel factions to him.
Marat, called Crake in the shipped game, leads the Manumits rebellion against Brencis in Vale Sangora and is one of the allies Coen can seek out.
The Blood of Dawnwalker runs on an undisclosed Unreal Engine 5 sub-version with Nanite, Lumen, heavy custom code, and post-launch work on shader compilation and frame pacing.
Saint Mihai, venerated as patron of Svartrau's cathedral, is found walled up alive in its crypt, where he calls himself a dawnwalker before he dies and leaves Coen the sword behind the game's best weapon chain.
Greifberg is the castle overlooking Svartrau in Vale Sangora, seat of the vampire lord Brencis and the player's ultimate objective in The Blood of Dawnwalker.
The uriashi are towering mountain folk who live high above Vale Sangora, hunted to near-extinction in a previous age and only recently drawn back into the valley's affairs.
Murohni are failed vampires, created when a vrakhiri fang lodges somewhere other than the victim's heart. The singular is murohn.
The Blood of Dawnwalker has three skill trees: Swordmastery, Witchcraft, and Vampirism, reflecting Coen's dual nature as a Dawnwalker. All three draw on one shared pool of skill points, and Coen's level caps at 50.
Equipment in The Blood of Dawnwalker includes weapons, armor types, magical accessories, and an alchemy-focused crafting system for tinctures and concoctions.
Lunka is Coen's sister, whose plague cure by vampire blood set the events of The Blood of Dawnwalker into motion. She may be aging slower than normal due to the vampire blood in her system.
Xanthe is the oldest of the Vrakhiri, a former Greek priestess who hears voices from beyond the pale and is the one who stripped the Blood Guards of their humanity.
Ambrus is the youngest of the Vrakhiri, a charming and deceptive vampire lord who rose from humble origins and now serves Brencis in Vale Sangora.
Peregrini Aurorae, meaning Dawn's Pilgrim, is the long sword Coen carries through daytime combat in The Blood of Dawnwalker.
Konrad Tomaszkiewicz is the co-founder, CEO and Game Director of Rebel Wolves, formerly the Game Director of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at CD Projekt Red.
Official PC system requirements for The Blood of Dawnwalker at the minimum and recommended tiers, plus the shipped console graphics modes for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
Sanzhana are small winged creatures in Vale Sangora who harvest teeth from the dead, and whose five encounters return a day to the 30-day clock.
The Svartrau Cathedral is a foreboding structure in the capital of Vale Sangora, containing underground crypts and the tomb of Saint Mihai.
Bakir is one of the Vrakhiri vampire lords, a former Central Asian warlord who thirsted for blood even before he was turned.
The Carpathian Mountains and the year 1347 are the real-world setting and period behind The Blood of Dawnwalker, with the Black Death as the lever that put vampires in power.
Laslea is Coen's home village, a secluded settlement in the hills of Vale Sangora where his parents and three siblings still live under the rule of Skender Dragosti.
At night, Coen transforms into a vampire with claw-based combat, traversal abilities like Shadowstep and Planeshift, and a blood craving system.
Skender Dragosti was the tyrannical human ruler of Vale Sangora before Brencis and the Vrakhiri vampires seized control.
Day-one console graphics modes, PC hotfixes and Steam Update 1.1 changes, including ability resets, difficulty options, equipment changes and quest fixes.
The Dawnwalker Saga is the multi-game series Rebel Wolves is building around Coen, with The Blood of Dawnwalker as its self-contained first chapter.
Zdislav is the alderman of Laslea, a village elder whose diary records a warning for future generations and whose folklore stories map onto the valley's real creatures.
The nine Ultimate Perks, their unlock requirements and effects, one-per-tree choices and the limits of confirmed ability reset behavior.
Players have 30 in-game days and 30 nights to save Coen's family in The Blood of Dawnwalker, with only quests advancing the clock.
Bandai Namco Entertainment signed a global publishing deal with Rebel Wolves for The Blood of Dawnwalker in October 2024.
The Blood of Dawnwalker uses a 'narrative sandbox' design philosophy that maximizes player agency while delivering structured stories.
The Blood of Dawnwalker has 46 achievements on PC, all named on Steam, covering combat, progression, exploration and the story's endings, plus a reported 47 PlayStation 5 trophies including a platinum.
Activation Charges are a combat resource in The Blood of Dawnwalker, earned through skillful fighting and spent on powerful Hex abilities.
The Blood of Dawnwalker has a four-way omni-directional sword combat system where players manually choose swing direction to exploit enemy defenses.
Albertus Taurinus is the in-character chronicler whose sixteen-part account of Vale Sangora was published as a lore series through 2025.
The silver mines of Vale Sangora are central to both the region's economy and protagonist Coen's origin as a Dawnwalker in The Blood of Dawnwalker.
A roster of quest names documented in The Blood of Dawnwalker, marking which are confirmed first party and which are reported in coverage of the shipped game.
Vale Sangora's network of more than 100 shrines is the only fast-travel system in The Blood of Dawnwalker and the only place to spend skill points on perks.
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