The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to Unlock the Smuggler Trophy

Smuggler is one of the 38 bronze trophies in The Blood of Dawnwalker, and it hinges on a single restricted commodity: silver. Ordinary shopkeepers in Vale Sangora will not touch it, which is why plenty of players finish the campaign with a bag full of silver bars and no idea who buys them.

Quick answer: Sell silver until you have earned a cumulative 1,000 denarii from those sales. Normal merchants refuse silver, so you need a trader who deals in it, and those dealings happen at night.

Smuggler trophy requirements

The counter tracks money earned, not the number of items handed over. A single high-value sale and twenty small ones count exactly the same as long as the denarii add up. Nothing about the trophy is missable or tied to a quest, so it can be finished at any point after the prologue opens up the world.

fill — Gameplay screen shows the Guard Captain health bar and Fall Before Dusk quest update while the player fights armored enemies. Image: Rebel Wolves

Detail	Value
Trophy name	Smuggler
Rarity	Bronze
Condition	Earn 1,000 denarii by selling silver
Goods accepted	Silver only — standard vendors refuse it
When to trade	Night, when the silver trader is available
Missable	No

Why regular merchants refuse your silver

Vale Sangora’s economy splits along the same day-night line as the rest of the game. Stalls shutter after dark, NPCs go to bed, and a separate set of vendors opens for business. Silver sits outside what a general store, armourer, or medic will handle at any hour, which is what makes the trophy feel like a dead end at first.

There is exactly one silver trader in the game, and that vendor is the whole solution. Vendor availability is flagged on the map with a sun icon for daytime and a half-moon icon for night, so check the icon before you travel across the valley expecting a shop to be open.

How to sell silver for 1,000 denarii

Hold on to every piece of silver you pick up. It comes out of bandit camps, soldier camps, monster lairs, and chests scattered across the open world, and it has no crafting use worth keeping it for.

Clear a few points of interest to build a stock before you make the trip. Bandit camps and soldier camps are the most reliable earners, and clearing them also feeds progress toward other trophies. Combat here is straightforward once you have Artery Strike or a comparable finisher unlocked.

Guard Captain fight in a castle hall with a 2,706 damage hit registering on the enemy health bar — Clearing camps and guarded interiors is the fastest way to build a silver stock. Image: Rebel Wolves

Advance time until night if you are currently in the day cycle. Time in The Blood of Dawnwalker is spent deliberately rather than ticking forward on its own, so you have to push it forward yourself. The world will confirm the shift with a “HOURS GO BY” prompt.

Find the silver trader and open the trade menu. Sell every silver item in your inventory in one pass rather than trickling it out across visits.

If you fall short of 1,000 denarii, leave, gather more silver, and return. Sales accumulate across separate visits, so nothing you already sold is wasted.

How to confirm the trophy unlocked

Smuggler pops the moment the 1,000th denarius from a silver sale lands. You will see the trophy or achievement notification while the trade screen is still open — there is no delay, no need to close the menu, and no quest step to complete afterwards.

If nothing fires, the cause is almost always one of two things. Either the goods you sold were not silver, or the vendor you used does not buy silver at all and simply took ordinary loot off your hands. Check the sale value in the trade window and keep a running tally if you are unsure how close you are.

Note: The denarii you receive also count toward Miser, the bronze trophy for accumulating 5,000 denarii. Do not spend the silver proceeds immediately if you are still working toward that one.

Do not kill the vendor

With only one silver trader in the game, killing that NPC removes your only route to the trophy on that save. The same caution applies to non-hostile NPCs and quest givers generally — enemies are fair game, everyone else is not. Keep manual saves as you go, since a save made before a mistake is the cleanest way back.

The 30-day story clock does not threaten this trophy either. Side content stays available after the deadline passes, so silver you never got around to selling is still sellable in cleanup.

Smuggler is one of the least demanding entries on a 47-trophy list that runs to 1 platinum, 3 gold, 5 silver, and 38 bronze. Bank your silver as you explore, make one night-time trip to the trader, and it clears itself alongside the money-hoarding trophies you are probably chasing anyway.