The scout investigation in Where Loyalty Lies stalls for a lot of players at one specific point, the moment Coen is told to search a house in Svartrau City and the game stops holding your hand. There is no combat here and no puzzle. The objective is a short set of interactions inside one attic, and it only closes once you have touched every part of it.
Quick answer: Enter the pink-faced house marked by the quest, climb to the attic, inspect the scattered arrows and debris on the floor, pick up the Crumpled Note, then interact with the window. The objective flips to “Take a closer look of the blood trace” as soon as the window cutscene plays.
How the house objective unlocks
Where Loyalty Lies does not start from a quest giver you can walk up to. You need your notoriety pushed to Notorious or higher first, which you build by clearing Ambrus’s guards around the valley and then moving on to Bakir’s men. The Court tab tracks that progress.
Once you hit that level, travel to Svartrau City during the day and walk near the Plaza. Sara intercepts Coen in a cutscene and leads him to the manumit base, where Crake lays out the job of finding two missing scouts. Work through the conversation with these picks:
- I’m ready.
- Who is he?
- Fine, let’s talk details.
- What was the scout’s mission?
- All clear. I’m on it.
Head upstairs to leave the base. The journal now reads “Find out what happened to the missing scouts – 1 / 2” with the active step listed as “Search for clues inside the house.”
House location in Svartrau City
The building sits in the Neustadt part of Svartrau City, over on the western side of the map with the West Gate as the closest landmark. Open the map and the yellow objective marker sits directly on it, so you do not have to guess between the rows of similar buildings.
On foot, look for the house with the pink facade. It is abandoned, the door is open, and there are no enemies inside to deal with. Nothing on the ground floor counts toward the objective, so go straight for the stairs.
Search for clues in the attic
What the Crumpled Note says
The note is written by whoever was watching the wall from this attic, and it lines up with what Crake told you about the two missing scouts. Reading it is not required to advance, but it is the only in-game explanation of what happened here.
| Entry | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| evening – two guards – not regular patrol – sending B and Z after them | The two scouts were sent to tail guards who were not on a normal patrol route. |
| midnight – large shape spotted on walls – what the hell was it? | Something large was seen moving on the city walls the same night. |
| B and Z still not back… | Neither scout returned, which is what pulls Coen into the investigation. |
How to confirm the objective completed
The moment the window cutscene ends, the tracker in the top corner swaps from the attic clue objective to “Take a closer look of the blood trace.” That text change is the only confirmation you need. If it still reads “Search for clues in the attic,” you have missed one of the floor interactions or have not used the window yet, so sweep the room again with Focus Mode on.
Note: nothing in this part of the quest is timed, so you can read the note, check the map, or leave the building without losing progress.
Where the blood trail goes next
Head back down the stairs and out to the street. The blood you spotted from the window is right there next to the cart, and inspecting it starts the trail proper.
From there the marks run north and then out of the city through the western pathway, where a broken cart is waiting to be inspected. Keep tracking the blood west into the next village and it dead-ends at a locked warehouse, which is where the rest of Where Loyalty Lies plays out. Focus Mode makes the marks far easier to pick up between waypoints.
