The Blood of Dawnwalker: Chief Jailor Choice and Fallen Tree Treasure

The Chief Jailor is the last thing standing between you and the payout hidden inside Ambrus’s Dungeons: Evil and Convenience. He is cornered in a locked cabin at a blood-draining camp in Briar Sloughs, he begs for his life, and whatever you decide to do with him, he ends up handing over the same treasure map. What changes is how much extra loot you walk away with and whether you take any Corruption doing it.

Quick answer: Choose Pay me and you walk to receive the Treasure Map: Hidden Stash without a fight, then leave through the palisade gate and open the chest buried at the base of the fallen tree to clear the “Look for the fallen tree” objective.

Chief Jailor location in Briar Sloughs

The camp sits in Briar Sloughs, just north of the Borescu Commons Shrine, on the western edge of Ambrus’s domain. Fast travel to that shrine and head north until the palisade comes into view. The soldiers inside treat Coen as a trespasser and attack the moment you step through the gate, so there is no stealth approach to plan around.

Approaching the fortified blood-draining camp in Briar Sloughs — The palisade camp north of the Borescu Commons Shrine, where the Evil and Convenience activity begins. Image: Rebel Wolves

Morning is the better window. A dead guard’s soul in the torture chamber can be compelled during the day for extra context on what the soldiers were doing, and that interaction does not require night abilities you may not have unlocked yet. The activity itself can be started at any hour and costs 3 Time Segments either way.

Map screen showing the Investigate the camp objective panel with tracking options — The “Investigate the camp” objective on the map screen, with the option to track it or open it in the journal. Image: Rebel Wolves

Unlock the cabin: clear the camp and take the Brass Key

The cabin door stays locked until you have worked through the camp, so the Chief Jailor cannot be reached early.

Kill the four soldiers patrolling inside the palisade, then loot every body. One of them carries Directives from Ambrus, a note laying out how the victims are to be drained and telling the guards to stop watering down the barrels.

Sweep the camp in Focus Mode, which highlights interactable objects in gold. Inspect the blood barrels, the corpse pit beside the gate, the wagons, and the hay piles stacked against the buildings. Grab the Torn Banner near the pit and the instrument of torture in the shack across from the gate.

Follow the blood trail to the torture chamber and use the items you just picked up to compel the dead guard’s soul. Then head into the barn beside the gate, read the Reprimand from Ambrus on the table, and take the Brass Key sitting next to it.

Trace the footprints from the barn to the cabin across the yard and unlock the door with the Brass Key. The Chief Jailor is inside, alone, and immediately starts pleading.

Chief Jailor dialogue options: spare, fight, or feed

Three replies are available, and all three end with the Treasure Map: Hidden Stash in your inventory. The map’s contents are identical whether he hands it over or you pull it off his corpse.

Dialogue option	Outcome
Pay me and you walk.	No fight. He explains where he buried his stash and hands you the map, then leaves.
You’re not going anywhere.	Starts a miniboss fight. Loot his body for the Treasure Map: Hidden Stash plus Brencis Soldier Patch, Strong Spirits, and Golden Earrings. Awards combat XP.
[give in to the hunger]	Coen feeds on him, killing him without combat. Same body loot, no combat XP, and you gain Corruption.

The Chief Jailor pleading for his life inside the locked cabin — The Chief Jailor begging for mercy in the cabin, where the three dialogue options appear. Image: Rebel Wolves

If you fight him, he is not a serious threat. He mixes overhead and backhand slashes with spins, weaves, and sidestep stabs, and everything he throws can be parried or blocked. He can be interrupted, so a parry followed by an aggressive chain shuts the fight down quickly. Keep the pressure on rather than backing off, since he throws projectiles at range.

Once he is dealt with, read the Ledger on the desk in the same room. It shows Ambrus’s own men have been skimming blood barrels and shipping them elsewhere, which sets up what the treasure chest confirms later.

Quest updated notification for Ambrus's Dungeons: Evil and Convenience with the Treasure Map: Hidden Stash acquired — Picking up the Treasure Map: Hidden Stash triggers a quest update for Ambrus’s Dungeons: Evil and Convenience. Image: Rebel Wolves

Fallen tree treasure location and chest contents

Reading the Treasure Map: Hidden Stash adds a “Look for the fallen tree” objective and drops a marker on your map automatically. Track it from the map or journal screen so the waypoint stays on your compass.

Map screen with the Look for the fallen tree objective and the Show in Journal prompt highlighted — The “Look for the fallen tree” objective panel, with SHOW IN JOURNAL (J) highlighted. Image: Rebel Wolves

Leave the camp through the palisade gate, turn left, and follow the outside of the wall. The fallen tree is a short walk from the camp boundary and the buried chest sits right at its base. Approach the trunk and the loot prompt appears.

The chest holds an Amulet of Endurance, a Recipe for Minor Keen-Eye Potion, 60 Denarius, and the Letter from Bakir. That letter is the payoff for the Ledger you read in the cabin, confirming the missing blood barrels were being routed to Bakir behind Ambrus’s back.

How to confirm Evil and Convenience is complete

Looting the chest clears the “Look for the fallen tree” objective and closes out the activity, paying 250 XP and 1 Skill Point. Once the map is in your inventory, that chest becomes the completion condition, so heading off to do something else leaves the objective open in your journal.

There is one alternate ending worth knowing. If you never obtained the map, reading the Ledger on the cabin desk completes the activity on its own for the same 250 XP and Skill Point. The reward does not change based on which route you take, and if you finish via the Ledger you can still go dig up the chest afterwards for the items inside.

Note: the whole activity consumes 3 Time Segments regardless of how you resolve the Chief Jailor, and it feeds Ambrus’s Anger meter. Clearing his Court Activities is what eventually opens The Gilded Gauntlet boss quest, so Evil and Convenience is a reasonably efficient one to knock out early given it also hands you a bonus treasure hunt on top of the standard reward.