The Blood of Dawnwalker: In the Name of the Father Walkthrough

In the Name of the Father is the Svartrau City quest that decides whether Father Florin becomes an ally or a corpse. It runs entirely inside the city, ends in a sermon held in tunnels under a house, and feeds directly into A Hero’s End. It is also missable, so it is worth knowing exactly how it opens before you burn time segments wandering the cathedral district.

Quick answer: Enter Svartrau Cathedral during the day, agree to Father Florin’s confession, confess wrath, envy, and gluttony, then pick “Tell me more.” Head to the house he names on the west side of the city, drop through the floor into the tunnels, and hear out his offer to finish the quest and unlock A Hero’s End.

In the Name of the Father quest facts

Detail	Value
Starting location	Svartrau Cathedral, Svartrau City
Quest giver	Father Florin
How to start	Take confession during the day, or break into his hideout
Time available	Day and night
Time cost	4 segments (confession itself costs 1)
Missable	Yes
Rewards	250 XP, 1 SP
Follow-up quest	A Hero’s End

How to start In the Name of the Father

There are two openings. The clean one is a conversation. The messy one is a break-in that skips the dialogue entirely and hands you a fight instead.

Confession route at Svartrau Cathedral

Walk into Svartrau Cathedral during daylight. The first visit triggers a cutscene of Father Florin baptizing a child, after which he approaches Coen and offers to hear his confession.

Pick “Very well.” to accept. This spends one time segment, so make the call knowing the cost. Refusing does not lock you out, but it removes the quest marker and forces you to find the hideout yourself.

Confess all three sins — wrath, envy, and gluttony. Skipping one will not carry the conversation far enough.

When Florin offers extra guidance, answer “Tell me more.” That line is what actually opens In the Name of the Father and marks the building he wants you to visit.

Investigation route through the cathedral complex

Inside the cathedral complex, look for the bell tower door. An acolyte is standing watch, and he will trade access for help shifting a stack of heavy boxes. Agree, move them, and the room opens.

Coen asks about the locked room during a dialogue cutscene, with his line shown in subtitles — Coen asks about the room behind the door before agreeing to help. Image: Rebel Wolves

Loot the chest in the room, then use Focus Mode on the desk to spot the ledger. Turn the book over and take the Treasury Key attached to its spine.

The HUD shows a Treasury Key pickup notification as Coen crouches by the desk — The Treasury Key pickup confirmation appears in the corner of the HUD. Image: Rebel Wolves

Use the Treasury Key on the treasury at the northern end of the complex. On the first floor, Focus Mode highlights a shelf that can be pushed aside to expose a hidden passage.

Follow the passage into Florin’s private office. Reading the map on the desk starts the quest and drops a marker on the district he has been visiting. A note and a Stone Key are also worth taking before you leave.

Getting inside the house on the west side of Svartrau City

The marker points west, along the road north of the West Gate. If you came from the confession, a beggar at the front door waves you through and nothing turns hostile. If you found the place on your own, expect the opposite reception.

Track the marked building on the city map and cross town to it. Approaching the front triggers a short scene with a beggar posted at the gate, who warns Coen off the people inside.

Quest tracker visible on the HUD while Coen moves through Svartrau City toward the objective — The tracker keeps the current objective pinned on the HUD as you cross the city. Image: Rebel Wolves

Circle around to the back door and knock. Without Florin’s invitation, the beggars and guards you spoke to surround you. Dialogue does not save the situation here — they attack regardless of which line you pick, so fight.

Coen squares up against an armed opponent outside the house as the autosave indicator appears — The autosave indicator fires as the fight outside the back door begins. Image: Rebel Wolves

Loot the bodies for the door key and let yourself in. The rooms inside are worth a sweep with Focus Mode — a blood-stained bed and assorted supplies fill in what the group has been doing here.

Take the door beside the stairs, then drop through the trapdoor in the floor of that room. That single action closes out the investigation objective.

Search the ruins under the house

The underground stretch is linear and hard to get lost in. Follow the corridor to a ladder, climb down, and take the stairs on the left. Cross the large chamber ahead and use the door to the left of the stone statue. From there, a candlelit path leads straight to Florin, mid-sermon, with his congregation gathered around him.

Tip: sweep the chests and containers along the way. The route holds food, balms, and crafting recipes that are easy to walk past while chasing the marker.

The congregation spots Coen and moves on him, but Florin calls them off before it turns into a fight. He then explains his position — Brencis is an abomination, and he wants him destroyed — and offers Coen a way to make that happen.

Father Florin’s offer: All three choices compared

Choice	Immediate result	Ancient key
Accept his offer	He sets you an ancient trial and advises preparing first. Speak to him again afterward to receive the key.	Handed to you
Refuse and leave	He is disappointed but does not turn hostile. You can return later and accept.	On a barrel beside the ruins door
Attack him	Coen stabs Florin to death, then has to kill every beggar in the chamber.	Loot it from his body

Note: the trial itself is not gated behind the friendly answer. All three outcomes leave a route to the ancient key, so A Hero’s End can begin either way. What killing Florin removes is the alliance — and the perk that comes with it.

How to confirm the quest is complete

The confirmation is unmissable. Once the conversation in the sanctuary resolves, In the Name of the Father is marked complete and A Hero’s End appears in its place, alongside 250 XP and 1 SP. Using the ancient key on the northern door hands the transition over formally and starts the trial in the ruins beyond it.

If the quest never appeared in your log in the first place, the cause is almost always one of two things. Either the confession was cut short — the trigger only fires after all three sins and the “Tell me more.” follow-up — or you approached the house before speaking to Florin, in which case there is no marker and no invitation, only the back door and a fight.

What siding with Father Florin unlocks later

An alliance with Florin is worth more than the quest reward suggests, and you can form it before or after the trial. He gives Coen a secret knock for a side door into Greifberg Castle, which skips the heavy defenses at the main entrance and drops you close to the interior. That shortcut leads into A Lone Wolf’s Hunt and the final confrontation with Brencis.

The trial in the ruins is not trivial. Level 15 or higher is a reasonable benchmark, and the shrine in the same room lets you spend skill points and shift the time of day before you commit. Beating Rigoz, The Betrayed Hero at the end of it yields the Ancient Hero’s Armour, a golden brooch, and the recipe for Potent Balm of Fortitude, with Hands of Fate and Erkas’s Sword sitting further along the same thread.

Killing Florin still gets you into the trial, and other allies can open other doors into the castle. But it closes the cheapest route to Brencis in a game where every spent time segment counts, which makes hearing him out the lower-risk answer even if you have no intention of trusting him.