Blood of Dawnwalker: Find Isbrand’s Plate (All Quests in Order)

Isbrand’s Plate is one of the few legendary chestpieces in The Blood of Dawnwalker that you cannot buy, farm, or stumble into. It only appears in a single chest, in a single room, at the tail end of a long chain of night quests tied to the vampiress Lacra. Miss the room and the piece is gone with it.

Quick answer: Finish Vicho’s questline in Svartrau, track down Lacra, travel with her to the hidden Uriash village, then loot the chest on the right side of the boss room at the end of Hive and Seek before you leave the area.

Requirements before you start the chain

Every quest in this chain runs at night. Coen needs his vampiric abilities for the rooftop traversal and the fights, and several of the NPCs involved simply are not available during the day. If a marker looks dead, advance time to night and check again.

The chestpiece is medium armour. Without medium armour proficiency, its stats are cut by 30 percent, so the raw numbers you see on the tooltip may not be what you actually get.

Quest order for Isbrand’s Plate

Order	Quest	What it unlocks
1	Vicho’s questline (Vicho’s Emporium, Svartrau)	The lead on Lacra
2	A Friend Like This	Meeting Lacra and earning her trust
3	Song of the Mountain	Access to the hidden Uriash village
4	Hive and Seek	The cave boss room and the chest

Start Vicho’s questline in Svartrau

Head to Vicho’s Emporium in Svartrau after dark. The shop sits inside the city proper, and you need to walk in rather than talk to anyone at the door.

Speak to Vicho and pick “Very well. Tell me more.” Follow it with “Yes, I’m ready.” to agree to help him, which puts the questline in motion.

Coen talking to Vicho inside Vicho's Emporium with the dialogue wheel open — Talking to Vicho inside his emporium to open the dialogue options that start his questline. Image: Rebel Wolves

Chase Vicho across the Svartrau rooftops, then finish the fight at the end of his questline. Completing it is what gives Coen a name to chase, Lacra.

Quest tracker reading Follow Vicho across the rooftops during the night chase in Svartrau — The rooftop chase objective, “Follow Vicho across the rooftops,” active while crossing Svartrau at night. Image: Rebel Wolves

Track Lacra in A Friend Like This

Go to the alley on the edge of the city and switch on Focus Mode. The trail only shows up while Focus Mode is active, and it points you toward the rooftops above.

Climb up and find Lacra. Work through her dialogue with the trust-building answers, including “Do you know Vicho?”, “Gladly. But we will actually talk.”, “I cannot let this go, because of my family.”, “You have my word.” and “I promise.”

Ask her how to reach her village with “I need to know how to get to your village.” That closes the conversation out and sets the Crown Rock meeting.

Reach the Uriash village in Song of the Mountain

Travel to Crown Rock and meet Lacra there at night. The objective is explicit about the time of day, so daytime arrivals get you nothing.

Map screen showing the objective Meet Lacra near the Crown Rock at night — The map marker for “Meet Lacra near the Crown Rock at night,” with the journal entry available. Image: Rebel Wolves

Move through the cave system with Lacra and climb the mountain past the rockfalls. It is a guided traversal section, so stay with her rather than exploring off-path.

Defuse the Uriash guards and the Matriarch instead of fighting. De-escalating lines such as “Lacra, calm down.”, “Nobody needs to die!”, “Can we stop with the hostilities?”, “We’ve already proven it.” and “What more proof do you need?” keep the encounter peaceful, and when the Matriarch tests you, “[do nothing]” is the correct response.

Time to Decide dialogue menu during the standoff with the Uriash Guard — The timed “Time to Decide” prompt during the standoff with the Uriash Guard outside the village. Image: Rebel Wolves

Follow the Elder into the village. Once inside, advance time until night again and talk to Lacra to trigger Hive and Seek.

Hive and Seek quest panel on screen while crossing a snowy mountain path — The Hive and Seek quest panel appearing on the snowy mountain path once the quest is active. Image: Rebel Wolves

Where the Isbrand’s Plate chest is in Hive and Seek

Follow Lacra down into the caves and inspect the murals she points out along the way. They gate progress toward the lower chamber.

Clear the arena at the bottom. The fight throws waves of kobolds and their larger kin at you before the room settles.

With the room clear, turn to the right side of the arena, the same room where Isbrand is found, and open the chest there. Isbrand’s Plate is inside.

You know it worked when the legendary chestpiece lands in your inventory with the flavour line “As you run your fingers over the leather, you can feel the familiar tingle of corruption.” Loot it before you leave, because the story moves Coen and Lacra out of the caves with Isbrand immediately afterwards.

Isbrand’s Plate stats and effects

Armour value and effect strength both scale with the level the piece rolls at, so two players can pick up very different versions of the same chestpiece. Base weight is 6.40, and it sells for 244 with a buy value of 1,464 at level 1.

Stat	Level 1	Level 24	Level 50
Armour	75	226	516
Maximum Vampiric Health	+13%	+18.7%	+39%
Claw Critical Hit Chance	+4%	+5.8%	+12%
Claw Critical Hit Damage	+6%	+8.6%	+18%
Blood Drinking Restoration	+15%	+21.6%	+45%

Note: the effect list leans entirely into claw damage and blood sustain, which makes it a night-form piece first and a defensive piece second.

Why the chest or the quest won’t trigger

It is daytime. Vicho, the alley trail, the Crown Rock meeting, and the conversation with Lacra inside the village all require night.
Vicho’s questline is unfinished. Without the boss fight at the end of it, Lacra never becomes a lead and A Friend Like This will not start.
Focus Mode is off in the alley. The tracking clues on the city’s edge are invisible otherwise.
You left the boss room too early. The chest is in the room where Isbrand is, and the quest moves you on once you exit.

Because The Blood of Dawnwalker pushes the clock forward every time you take on a quest, this whole chain costs real time in a run where time is the scarce resource. If you plan to build around claws and blood drinking, it is worth the nights. If you do not, at least walk out of the cave with the chest looted, since there is no second chance at it.