The Blood of Dawnwalker: Medicus II Manual Location

Crafting in The Blood of Dawnwalker is slow until you stop making potions one at a time. The Medicus II perk is what fixes that, and the perk only opens up once Coen reads a Medicus II Manual. One sits in a chest at the top of Boar’s Back Tower, a ruined climbable landmark west of Svartrau City.

Quick answer: Travel to Boar’s Back Tower, west of Svartrau City, climb to the wooden platform at the very top, and open the white chest there. Read the Medicus II Manual from your inventory to unlock the perk.

What the Medicus II perk does

Medicus II sits in the Witchcraft perk tree and controls batch crafting. Each upgrade tier raises how many items you can produce in a single pass, and the final tier hands you a free craft every in-game day.

Upgrade	Effect
Tier 1	Craft 2 items at once.
Tier 2	Craft 3 items at once.
Tier 3	At the start of each Day, craft 1 item for free from unlocked Recipes (excluding Quest Recipes).

Boar’s Back Tower location and route to the chest

The tower is a ruined stone shell in the Boar’s Back region, sitting directly west of Svartrau City on the world map. The climb is the whole challenge here; there is no gate, quest requirement, or boss guarding the top.

Open the world map and pan west of Svartrau City until Boar’s Back Tower appears. Selecting the marker brings up the tower’s description panel.

World map with Boar's Back Tower selected and its description panel open — Boar’s Back Tower highlighted on the map screen with its location details. Image: Rebel Wolves

Use the Track action on the marker so the tower stays pinned while you ride over. Fast travel to the nearest shrine first if you have one unlocked in the area.

Map marker for Boar's Back Tower showing the Track option before travelling — Tracking Boar’s Back Tower from the map keeps the objective pinned during the ride over. Image: Rebel Wolves

Enter through the stone archway at ground level. A small bag just inside holds basic loot, so grab it before you start climbing.

Parts of the interior are blocked by rubble and boarded openings. Use your witchcraft to blow the obstruction apart, then cancel the aiming mode with Left Ctrl on PC once the path is clear.

Aiming a spell at a highlighted blocked doorway inside the dark tower interior — Targeting a blocked doorway inside the tower to clear the route upward. Image: Rebel Wolves

Work your way up the wooden ladders and platforms bolted into the ruined walls. Keep circling the interior; the route spirals rather than running straight up.

Coen climbing a wooden ladder up a dark passage inside the ruined tower — Climbing the internal wooden ladders toward the upper levels of the tower.

The final wooden platform overlooks the valley and holds a white chest. Open it to collect the manual along with the rest of the stash.

Chest contents at the top of the tower

Item	Type
Medicus II Manual	Master Character Development
Beastmaster’s Ring	Master Ring (Level 12)
Chanterelle	Master Ingredient
Razor Claw Vial	Master Consumable

The Beastmaster’s Ring is worth equipping on the way back down if you spend time hunting wildlife. It carries +16.7% damage against animals, a 12.6% reduction to dodge stamina cost, and +10% physical damage reduction.

Note: chest contents at towers are not always identical between playthroughs, and this same tower can also yield a Medicus I Manual. If the chest gives you the first-tier book instead, the vendor route below still gets you Medicus II.

How to confirm the perk unlocked

Picking the manual up does nothing on its own. Open the inventory, select the Medicus II Manual, and read it. Coen reads a lore entry titled “Be Your Own Healer, Part 1”, which is the confirmation that the book has been consumed.

Inventory screen with the Medicus II Manual selected and its crafting effect described — The Medicus II Manual in the inventory, showing the batch-crafting upgrade it unlocks. Image: Rebel Wolves

Then open the Witchcraft tree in the Character menu. Medicus II should now show its upgrade node as available for a skill point, with the tooltip reading “Craft more items in a single batch.” If the node is still locked, the manual is sitting unread in your bags.

Buying a Medicus II Manual instead

Skill manuals are not limited to fixed spawns. They turn up in chests at soldier camps, bandit camps and monster lairs, drop from defeated enemies, and are sold by vendors, so there is no cap on how many you can gather.

Source	Where
Boar’s Back Tower chest	Top platform, west of Svartrau City
Vera, Witchcraft Vendor	Maragir Wealds
Matriarch Witchcraft Vendor	Witchcraft vendor stock

Higher-tier manuals are expensive, running into thousands of Denarius, so the tower chest is the cheaper option if you are early in the run and short on coin.

Once the third tier is bought, every new day hands you a free craft from any unlocked recipe outside of quest recipes, which quietly pays for itself over a full playthrough of potion-heavy fights.