The Blood of Dawnwalker: Herbal Remedies II Manual Location

The Herbal Remedies II perk stays greyed out in the development tree until Coen reads its manual, and the earliest reliable copy is sitting in the open, guarded by a handful of kobolds. You do not need to enter a cave, solve anything, or finish a quest to get it.

Quick answer: Loot the yellow chest outside the Kobold’s Nest cave entrance, west of Svartdag City and south of Rockfall (southeast of the Laslea Gate Shrine). Kill the small pack of kobolds at the mouth of the cave first, then open the chest next to the cart of bodies.

Kobold’s Nest location on the map

Open the world map and look at the stretch of land west of Svartdag City, below Rockfall. The marker you want is labelled Kobold’s Nest, and hovering it shows the warning “A deadly beast lives here.” Set it as your tracked destination so the on-screen marker leads you in.

Note: the map has more than one Kobold’s Nest. Other nests sit east of the Southern Swampside Shrine and north of the Maragir Wealds Watchtower Shrine, and those hold different manuals. The Herbal Remedies II copy is specifically the nest near Rockfall, southeast of the Laslea Gate Shrine.

How to get the Herbal Remedies II Manual

Fast travel to the closest shrine and ride toward the tracked Kobold’s Nest marker. The approach ends at a rocky cave mouth set into a hillside, with the “Enter the cave” prompt appearing as you get near.

Coen walking up to the rocky Kobold's Nest cave mouth with the Enter the cave prompt showing — The rocky entrance to the Kobold’s Nest, with the “Enter the cave” objective flagged on screen.

Clear the small pack of kobolds patrolling the entrance. They are the little green enemies that swarm in a group, and they die quickly to normal sword attacks, but they will interrupt looting if you leave any alive.

Coen striking a locked-on kobold outside the nest during combat — Clearing the kobold pack guarding the entrance before the chest can be safely opened.

Stay outside. The chest is not inside the nest, so you can ignore the “Enter the cave” objective entirely and skip whatever is waiting deeper in. Look to the side of the entrance for a cart loaded with bodies.

Night-time view of the cave mouth with the Enter the cave objective still active as Coen searches outside — The manual sits outside the nest, so the cave objective can be left alone.

Open the yellow chest beside the cart. The loot window pops up with several items stacked in it, including the manual itself.

Loot window showing Isbrand's Greaves with 107 armour and an equip option — Isbrand’s Greaves, the Level 12 legendary trousers included in the same chest.

Use Loot All rather than picking items individually, then read the manual from your inventory. Reading it is what makes the perk purchasable — carrying it does nothing on its own.

Loot menu with the Ruby Brooch highlighted and the loot all option available — The Ruby Brooch in the same haul; Loot All clears the chest in one press.

Everything in the Kobold’s Nest chest

Item	Details
Herbal Remedies II Manual	x1 — unlocks the perk for purchase
Isbrand’s Greaves	Legendary Medium Trousers, Level 12, 107 Armour (+27)
Wicked Falchion	Superior Shortsword, Level 11, 125 DPS (+22)
Perilla	x2 crafting herb
Ruby Brooch	x1

The armour and shortsword are both level 11 to 12 gear, so this chest is worth the detour even if you already own the manual from a vendor.

What Herbal Remedies II does

Herbal Remedies II is a Witchcraft perk that can be used anytime. It adds an instant heal on top of whatever you drink or eat, triggering from all consumables rather than a specific potion type. It has three ranks, and each rank raises the size of that bonus heal.

Rank	Additional instant Heal
Level 1	5% Health
Level 2	10% Health
Level 3	15% Health

Buying the manual from a vendor instead

Skill manuals are not limited to a single copy, so a missed chest is not a dead end. Witchcraft vendors stock this one, and extra copies also drop from defeated enemies.

Source	Where
Chest	Kobold’s Nest, west of Svartdag City / southeast of Laslea Gate Shrine
Vera, Witchcraft Vendor	Maragir Wealds
Matriarch Witchcraft Vendor	Sells the manual as stock

How to confirm the perk unlocked

Open the character development tree and find Herbal Remedies II under the Witchcraft perks. Before you read the manual it shows the requirement line “Find or buy the Herbal Remedies II Manual to make this available” and cannot be bought. After reading, that requirement disappears and the perk becomes purchasable with skill points, with its counter still sitting at 0 ranks until you actually buy the first level.

If the perk is still locked, the usual cause is that the manual is sitting unread in your inventory. Reading it is a separate action from looting it, and buying rank 1 is a third step after that.

Once rank 1 is active, every consumable you use adds a 5% health top-up on top of its normal effect, which stacks up quickly during longer fights where you are already burning through potions and food.