The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to Get the Treasury Key in A Monk and a Saint

The Treasury sitting in the Cathedral Complex garden in Svartrau is locked, and the key that opens it is not stored anywhere near it. It sits in a separate room inside the cathedral itself, tucked into a ledger, and reaching that room is the whole task. During A Monk and a Saint, the optional objective “Find the key to the treasury” points you at that room, and the payoff is worth the detour.

Quick answer: Enter Svartrau Cathedral during the day, take the first room on the left, get past the Acolyte guarding it by paying 25 denara, then interact with the Treasury Ledger on the table and inspect the key hooked inside the back of the book. Exit the inspection screen and the Treasury Key lands in your inventory.

Treasury Key location and Treasury location in Svartrau

Two different spots inside the Cathedral Complex matter here, and mixing them up wastes in-game time. The key lives in the northwestern part of the complex, in the storage room by the Belltower. The Treasury itself is a separate building out in the northeastern garden.

What	Where
Treasury Key	First room on the left once you are inside the cathedral, in the northwestern Belltower section — hooked into the Treasury Ledger on the table
Treasury building	Northeastern garden of the Cathedral Complex, reachable by walking out through the complex during the day
Guard	An Acolyte blocks the storage room door during the day
Bribe cost	25 denara
Free alternative	Help the kid stack boxes for one in-game hour

How to get the Treasury Key during the day

Daytime is the safe route. The complex doors are unlocked, nobody hostile is waiting, and the only obstacle is a conversation.

Travel to Svartrau City in the morning and make your way to the cathedral. Any daylight hour works, so if you are arriving at night, rest or spend time elsewhere first.

Coen sprinting across the cathedral courtyard in daylight with the Haste prompt on screen — The morning approach across the cathedral grounds. Image: Rebel Wolves

Go through the cathedral doors and take the left-hand path immediately. The storage room is the first door on that side, and an Acolyte is standing in front of it.

Cathedral interior with the objective to search for Saint Mihai's symbol on the grounds tracked on screen — Inside the cathedral, with the Saint Mihai symbol objective still active. Image: Rebel Wolves

Talk to the Acolyte and pick “Could you let me take a look inside?” He will not simply wave you through, so the next choice decides how much time this costs you.

Quest tracker showing the Rescue your family objective while walking through the cathedral — The main objective stays tracked while you handle the cathedral detour. Image: Rebel Wolves

Choose “How about some denara? (25)” to pay him off and open the door instantly. If you would rather keep the coin, pick “Maybe I could help you!” instead and spend one in-game hour stacking boxes with the kid, which gets you the same access.

Step into the room once the Acolyte unlocks it. The desk against the wall holds the book you need, labelled TREASURY LEDGER.

The storage room interior after the Acolyte unlocks the door, with an optional key objective listed — The storage room opens up once the Acolyte steps aside. Image: Rebel Wolves

Interact with the ledger and flip through it. The entries describe what the Treasury holds, and the key itself is hooked into the back of the book. Inspect it, then back out of the inspection screen to pick it up.

The Treasury Ledger open on the desk with the find the key to the treasury objective tracked — The open Treasury Ledger, where the key is hidden. Image: Rebel Wolves

The chests sitting in that same room can be opened with the key right away. They hold a Golden Chalice, a Goblet, a Weathered Longsword, The Savior, and 21 Denarius, which roughly covers the bribe you just paid.

How to get the Treasury Key at night

After dark, most of the complex doors are locked and Xanthe is in the area. Walking in through the front risks triggering an early boss fight against the Vrakhiri, which is rough at low levels. The workaround is climbing instead of walking.

Approach the Cathedral Complex from the southeastern tower rather than the main entrance. This keeps you away from Xanthe’s position on the ground.

Use Shadowstep to reach the roof, then Clawride along the structure toward the Belltower room in the northwest. The goal is to get inside without being spotted.

Interact with the ledger inside, inspect the key, and exit the inspection screen to add it to your inventory. It is the same pickup as the daytime route.

If you are already strong enough and want the fight, beating Xanthe also clears the way to the same room and the same ledger.

Confirming you actually picked up the Treasury Key

Reading the ledger alone does not give you anything. The key only transfers when you inspect it and then close the inspection view, at which point Treasury Key (1) appears among your keys. Check the inventory before leaving the room, because the optional objective will not tick over otherwise.

Two things account for most failed attempts. Backing out of the ledger without inspecting the key leaves it behind, and arriving at night without Shadowstep and Clawride simply leaves you outside locked doors.

Opening the Treasury and finding the hidden room

Leave the cathedral and head into the northeastern garden. During the day you can walk straight out through the unlocked doors; at night you will need Shadowstep to get onto the roof and Clawride to drop safely into the garden. Use the key on the Treasury door.

Do not stop at the first chest. Search the bookshelves for silver valuables, then head downstairs and use Focus Mode. One bookshelf down there can be pushed aside, and behind it is a secret room.

Inside that room, interact with the table to bring up a goblet. Rotate it until Saint Mihai’s symbol comes into view. That is the clue you need to identify the correct crypt tablet out in the cathedral courtyard, which is the step that actually pushes A Monk and a Saint forward.

Treasury rewards worth taking

Item	What it does
Phial of Xanthe’s Blood	Drink it to unlock the Blood Surge ability in the Vampirism Skill Tree
Stone Key	Needed later to claim a legendary sword during A Hero’s End
Golden Chalice and Goblet	Valuables; the goblet in the hidden room reveals Saint Mihai’s symbol
Weathered Longsword, The Savior	Weapons found in the chests
Denarius and silver valuables	Coin from the chests, plus more scattered across the bookshelves

The Stone Key is the one that matters far beyond this building, so grab it even if you are not building into Coen’s vampiric skills. Between a 25 denara bribe and a single in-game hour of box stacking, the daytime route costs almost nothing, and it hands you both the symbol clue and a legendary sword requirement in one trip.