The Blood of Dawnwalker: All Manumit Caches Locations in Svartrau City

The Manumit caches are one of the quietest secrets in The Blood of Dawnwalker. Nothing pops up in your journal when you loot the first one, no marker appears, and the notes inside read like ordinary flavor text. They are actually two linked puzzles, and finishing both hands Coen a legendary amulet, epic armor, a pile of silver valuables, and a recipe.

Quick answer: Loot the eight “From Life of St.” notes hidden in caches around Svartrau City, pull the numbered word from each one to spell “North of Svartrau Into Waterfall by Great Bridge,” then loot the cave behind that waterfall. Separately, place the notes in the marked tree at St. Rudel’s Cemetery and return the following day for a second reward.

What you need before hunting Manumit caches

The hunt starts with a green book called Searching for Manumit Caches. It is a random drop from soldiers, and city guards are the most reliable place to pick it up. The book confirms that the rebels have stashed material across Svartrau City and gives you the list of notes to collect.

There is also a Map of the Manumits’s Caches, a quest-tier writing that sits inside the Manumit Hideout in Vale Sangora. Getting into the hideout means clearing the side quest chain The Firebrand, then Shadows in the Woods, then Where Loyalty Lies, and the hideout entrance can only be marked at night by interacting with the wall outside it.

Once you are actually in the streets, Focus Mode does most of the work. The caches read as yellow containers tucked under rocks, behind barrels, inside wall tiles, and in carts, and the rebel symbol is often painted nearby.

A yellow Manumit cache glows in a Svartrau City street with Active Abilities toggled on — Active Abilities make the yellow cache containers stand out from the street clutter. Image: Rebel Wolves

All eight saint notes in Svartrau City

Eleven Manumit caches are scattered around the city, but only eight of them hold the writings you need. The rest carry loot such as silver plates and chalices, coin, consumables, spare clothing, and the occasional accessory like the Bloodsucker’s Amulet. You can collect the notes in any order.

Note	Where to find it
From Life of St. Benezet	Southwest of Silberstein, inside a crate ringed by potted plants.
From Life of St. Cuthbert	By the Cathedral Complex entrance, beside a staircase. The cache sits under a rock below a rebel symbol painted on the wall.
From Life of St. Tobias	Altenmarkt, heading south toward the Medic shop. Hidden inside one of the wall tiles.
From Life of St. Mihai	Just north of Altenmarkt near the blacksmith, tucked into a small alcove.
From Life of St. Gregory	Southwest of the North West Gate. Climb the short staircase and check under the rock.
From Life of St. Teotim	Continue southwest from the St. Gregory cache. It sits near a group of thugs.
From Life of St. Tyna	West of Neustadt, at the very end of an alley.
From Life of St. Anthony	North of Svartrau West Shrine, stashed in a hay cart.

Marking each spot with a custom map pin before you set off saves a lot of backtracking, since several of these sit in narrow alleys that are hard to line up from the street.

The open Map screen in The Blood of Dawnwalker showing Svartrau City locations and objective markers — The Map screen, where custom markers make each cache run far quicker. Image: Rebel Wolves

A handful of caches are wedged against timber-framed houses rather than in the open, so check the bushes and barrels pressed up against exterior walls.

Coen standing in front of a timber-framed house in Svartrau City while searching for a cache — Several caches hide against the walls of timber-framed houses. Image: Rebel Wolves

Where the Mysterious Instruction and Initial Instructions turn up

Two extra papers drive the puzzle. Initial Instructions appears randomly in one of the city caches and tells Coen to gather every message and hide it in the hollow tree at St. Rudel’s Cemetery near the North Gate.

The Mysterious Instruction is the cipher key, and it can show up in more than one place, so the exact spot varies between playthroughs. You might pull it from one of the caches, from the northern side of Svartrau City at a point flagged with the Curious House symbol, or from a stash east of Neustadt. For that last one, start at the Silberstein Shrine, head west until a ledge opens up to the southwest, drop down, and search the container below.

Map screen with the Current Position marker highlighted to orient the player in Svartrau — Checking Current Position on the map before dropping to the ledge stash. Image: Rebel Wolves

Decoding the Mysterious Instruction word by word

The cipher points to one specific word in each saint text. Count carefully, because two of the entries count backward from the end of the note rather than forward from the start.

Note	Which word	Result
St. Cuthbert	13th	North
St. Tyna	9th	Of
St. Mihai	2nd from the end	Svartrau
St. Tobias	12th	Into
St. Teotim	22nd from the end	Waterfall
St. Anthony	31st	By
St. Gregory	7th	Great
St. Benezet	15th	Bridge

Strung together, the words read North of Svartrau Into Waterfall by Great Bridge. You do not have to solve it manually if you would rather not count, but you do need the notes themselves to reach the reward.

Finding the waterfall stash north of Svartrau

Fast travel to the Sandy Gorge Shrine. This puts you closest to the stretch of river the clue describes, in the Boar’s Back area north of the city.

Head northwest until you hit the river, then turn west and follow the water toward the waterfall near the bridge.

Move to the edge of the cliff above the falls and drop down onto the ledge below. The cave mouth is tucked behind the curtain of water, so you will not see it from the top.

Head inside and loot the chest next to the skeleton. The haul includes the legendary Arbiter’s Medallion, epic-quality armor, rare consumables, and a heap of silver valuables such as platters, chalices, brooches, and bowls that sell to the Silver Trader in Svartrau City for thousands of Denarii.

Handing in the notes at St. Rudel’s Cemetery

Travel to St. Rudel’s Cemetery, just outside Svartrau City near the North Gate, and go through the gates into the grounds.

Switch on Focus Mode and look for the tree carrying the Manumit symbol. The correct one glows gold, which matters because the cemetery is full of similar trees.

Interact with the tree to stash the collected papers. Coen receives Final Instructions along with a chunk of XP, which is usually enough to trigger a level-up on its own.

Let the clock advance and come back to the same tree the next day. The rebels leave behind coin, more silver valuables, and a recipe. Potent Keen Eye Potion is one of the recipes that can turn up here.

Final Instructions also delivers a small joke at your expense. It tells Coen he never needed to decode the Mysterious Instruction at all, since the Manumits were going to pay him anyway. The waterfall cave is a separate stash, though, so solving the cipher is still worth doing.

Quest tracker showing Rescue your family while Coen moves through a stone passage in Svartrau — The cache chain never takes over the quest tracker, which keeps running your main objectives. Image: Rebel Wolves

How to confirm it worked, and what commonly goes wrong

Two moments confirm progress. The tree interaction is the first, since it only fires when you have the papers on you and it immediately places Final Instructions in your inventory. The second is the chest inside the waterfall cave, which drops the Arbiter’s Medallion.

If the chain stalls, it is almost always one of these:

You are missing one of the eight saint notes and have not covered every district, including Altenmarkt, Neustadt, and the Cathedral Complex approach.
You are searching the cemetery without Focus Mode, so the marked tree looks identical to the rest.
You returned to the tree the same day. The second reward only appears after the day rolls over.
You are looking for the waterfall from above. The entrance sits behind the falling water and requires a drop onto the ledge.

Nothing in this chain is gated behind a main quest, so you can knock it out whenever you next pass through Svartrau City. The silver alone makes the round trip worthwhile early on, and the legendary amulet behind the waterfall is a genuine upgrade long before the game starts handing out endgame gear.