The Blood of Dawnwalker: Medicus I Manual Location

Medicus I sits on the Witchcraft branch of Coen’s character menu, and its top upgrade won’t open until you feed it a physical book. The perk itself is small but genuinely useful — it raises how many consumables you can stuff into a Quickslot, which matters a lot in a game that keeps you on a timer.

Quick answer: Loot the chest at the top of Rockfalls Tower in the southern part of the map for the Medicus I Manual, then read it from your inventory before the upgrade will apply.

Every Medicus I Manual source in Vale Sangora

There is no hard cap on manuals in The Blood of Dawnwalker, and Medicus I is one of the more common ones. Copies sit in fixed chests, hang on vendor stock lists, and occasionally drop off defeated enemies. If you only need one, the tower chests are the fastest guaranteed pickup.

Where	Details
Rockfalls Tower	Chest on the wooden scaffolding inside the ruined tower, southern region of the map
St. Tryna’s Grove Tower	Chest at the tower
Boar’s Back Tower	Chest at the tower
Vera, Witchcraft Vendor	Sold in Maragir Wealds
Matriarch, Witchcraft Vendor	Sold from her stock
Enemy drops	Random loot from killed enemies

Note: buying is the lazy route, but higher-tier manuals run into the thousands of Denarius. Grabbing this one off a tower keeps your coin for gear.

How to reach the Rockfalls Tower chest

Rockfalls Tower sits on top of a steep rock face, and there is no gentle path up. You need Coen’s traversal ability to make the climb, so don’t attempt this before you have it.

Open the map and find Rockfalls Tower in the southern stretch of the region. Drop a waypoint on it so the compass tracks the distance for you.

World map open with quest markers and the player position, showing where Rockfalls Tower sits — The map screen with the tower’s position marked in the southern part of the region. Image: Rebel Wolves

Ride or run toward the marker. The waypoint distance in the HUD counts down as you go, so use it to confirm you’re heading the right way across the open ground.

Coen running uphill in the open world with a 1.9 km waypoint shown on the HUD — The waypoint distance ticking down on the long approach to the tower. Image: Rebel Wolves

Close in until the objective reads under 100 metres. At that point you should be standing at the foot of the rocks with the tower silhouette above you.

Compass objective showing 72 m as the player approaches the base of the cliffs — The compass at 72 metres, marking the base of the climb. Image: Rebel Wolves

Start up the rocky slope. Chain your traversal ability across the ledges rather than trying to walk it — the incline is too steep to run straight up in most spots.

Third-person view of Coen scaling a rocky slope with a 44-metre objective marker ahead — Climbing the cliff face with 44 metres left to the tower. Image: Rebel Wolves

Watch for the Clawride prompt on the vertical rock wall and hold Left Ctrl to pull yourself up it. This is the section that gets you over the last stretch of cliff to the tower entrance.

Clawride prompt on screen with the Left Ctrl input while scaling the rock wall — The Clawride prompt appearing on the vertical rock face. Image: Rebel Wolves

Step inside the ruined tower and look up. The interior is broken open, with wooden scaffolding running across the upper floors — teleport upward from beam to beam until you’re standing on the top platform.

Open the container on that platform. Alongside the Medicus I Manual it holds Martin’s Blood Infusion, a Ring of Fortitude, and a Golden Cross.

Reading the manual and confirming the perk unlocked

Picking up a manual does nothing on its own. Open your inventory, select the Medicus I Manual, and read it — expect the odd jump scare when you do, which is a deliberate quirk of the reading animation.

To verify it worked, open the character menu and go to the Witchcraft branch. Medicus I should now accept the upgrade that was previously locked, and once you spend the skill point the perk raises the consumable limit on a Quickslot.

Why the Medicus I upgrade still won’t apply

The manual is sitting unread in your inventory. It has to be read before the node changes.
You’re looking in the wrong branch. Medicus I is under Witchcraft, not Swordmastery.
You have the manual but no skill points banked to spend on the node.
You’re hunting for a Vampirism manual. Those don’t exist — Vampirism skills scale off Corruption Level, which rises by drinking blood.

If Rockfalls Tower is out of your way or you’ve already emptied that chest, Vera in Maragir Wealds keeps Medicus I on her shelf and the Matriarch stocks it as well. And since manuals drop off enemies at random, there’s a reasonable chance a second copy lands in your bags before you ever go looking for one.