A Monk and a Saint in The Blood of Dawnwalker (Full Walkthrough)

A Monk and a Saint is the middle chapter of the Night Terrors questline in The Blood of Dawnwalker, and it ends with Coen holding the Broken Sword of St. Mihai. The quest hides its real obstacle behind a vague objective marker, since the courtyard graves cannot be opened until Coen has learned which sigil belongs to Mihai.

Quick answer: Write the five correct answers on Albertus’s wall in the Middens, learn Mihai’s scale sigil from the fresco on the far-left scaffold inside Svartrau Cathedral, open the second grave from the right in the courtyard, then break the highlighted wall in the crypt and defeat Mihai to receive the Broken Sword of St. Mihai.

Requirements, rewards, and time cost

The quest begins on its own inside the Night Terrors chain, and Albertus’s whereabouts come from an earlier conversation in that questline. There is no fail state, so nothing here is missable, but the crypt fight at the end is a hard stop if Coen is underlevelled.

Detail	Value
Type	Side quest, part of the Night Terrors questline
Region	Svartrau City and the Middens
Recommended level	25+ for the boss fight
Time cost	Several individual actions cost 1 Time Segment each
Rewards	Broken Sword of St. Mihai, 1,000 XP, 1 Skill Point
Leads into	Forge It Anew

Find Albertus in the Middens and answer the wall puzzle

Travel to the Middens, the slum district on the western edge of Svartrau City. Undead dogs and small groups of thugs patrol the streets, so expect a fight or two on the way north.

Coen running through the Middens toward the highlighted quest marker with the tracker on screen — The objective marker points Coen toward Albertus in the northern Middens. Image: Rebel Wolves

Hold Focus Mode (L2/LT) as you move through the far north of the district. Albertus’s house is the one covered from roof to floor in yellow-highlighted scribbles, and the door can be opened directly.

Speak to Albertus. He is too far gone for ordinary conversation, so the exchange happens through charcoal on the wall, and Coen has to prove he knows the legend of St. Mihai before the monk gives up the sword’s location.

Coen asking the muttering monk Albertus to confirm his name inside the graffiti-covered house — Albertus responds only through the writing on his walls. Image: Rebel Wolves

Write the answers below in order. A wrong choice does not end the quest, but the correct set is the fastest way through.

#	Answer to write in charcoal
1	Abelard the Sorrowful
2	Svartrau plaza
3	…his penance, the place of his redemption.
4	…never once set foot inside it
5	St. Mihai, a great warrior, arrived at Vale Sangora…

Albertus then confirms that Mihai’s sword lies in the crypt beneath Svartrau Cathedral. Before leaving, sweep the room for loot, including the book “Saint Mihai: The God’s Warrior”, a Rotten Book, and the Herbal Remedies I manual sitting in the discarded pile.

Loot menu showing the book Saint Mihai: The God's Warrior with its item description — The book “Saint Mihai: The God’s Warrior” is worth grabbing before you leave Albertus. Image: Rebel Wolves

Learn Mihai’s sigil inside Svartrau Cathedral

The cathedral sits in the eastern part of Svartrau City and is easy to spot by its tower. Coen cannot open any grave until he knows what Mihai’s symbol looks like, and there are two ways to learn it depending on when you arrive.

At night: climb the tower and check the frescoes

Every ground-floor door is locked after dark, so the open tower is the only entrance. Use Shadowstep (R2/RT) to scale the exterior wall, then drop down inside onto the balcony.

Inspect the ceiling, the altar, and the book when the prompts appear. Boyaress Xanthe and her guards are active below, so keep to the upper level and avoid line of sight.

Climb the left-hand scaffolding and examine the three frescoes. Only the one furthest to the left matters, and the sigil you need is painted on Mihai’s armour in that panel.

During the day: the Caretaker’s key and the library

Walk in and question the Deacon at the podium and the Craftsman in the right-hand corner. Both point you toward the missing Caretaker.

Cross the courtyard to the almshouse behind the well and pay the resident 100 Denarii to mark the abandoned upstairs wing. Use Focus Mode there to spot scratches on the floor and shift the bookcase, which costs 1 Time Segment.

Head down the stairs, kill the enemy waiting below to take the Caretaker’s Key, and compel the nearby corpse for the full story.

Unlock the Caretaker’s Shed, collect the Glass Shards, and hand them to the Craftsman so he can restore the glass window. The Deacon then gives up the Library Key.

Read the correct bookcase in the upstairs library, again located with Focus Mode. Between the book and the repaired window, Coen learns which grave in the courtyard belongs to Mihai.

Open Saint Mihai’s grave in the courtyard

Return to the courtyard on the north side of the cathedral, where Focus Mode highlights five graves. Blood Guards patrol this area at night, and clearing them can drop a Beastmaster’s Ring and Darksteel Bracers.

Facing the cathedral, the correct memorial stone is the second from the right, marked with the scale sigil from the fresco. Inspect the symbol and Coen shifts the stone himself, exposing the underground entrance. If the interaction does not appear, you have not yet studied the fresco or the library clue.

Note: an optional route through the courtyard well leads to a corpse that also reveals the memorial stone. Investigating the well and the corpse each costs 1 Time Segment, and you have to push a boulder aside to get back out.

Explore the crypt and break the sealed wall

Restock and repair before you drop in, because the crypt ends in a boss fight with no exit prompt. Take the first door on the left and follow the passage to the dead end, looting the Wilboar Hauberk and a Flute along the way.

Quest tracker showing the Explore the crypt objective while Coen moves through the underground passage — The tracker switches to “Explore the crypt” once Coen is underground. Image: Rebel Wolves

Scanning the left wall in Focus Mode picks out the source of the scratching noise as a yellow-highlighted section of weak stone. Interacting digs it open for 1 Time Segment and triggers the cutscene. Mihai has been sealed inside the wall the whole time.

Beat Mihai, Patron of the Cathedral

Mihai mistakes Coen for Tobias, the man who betrayed him, and attacks immediately. He fights with a sword and has a deep health pool, so the fight is long rather than tricky.

Boss health bar for Mihai, Patron Saint of the Cathedral during the crypt fight — Mihai, Patron Saint of the Cathedral, is the quest’s only boss encounter. Image: Rebel Wolves

Three things define the encounter. His lunges are fast and unblockable, so dodge rather than parry them. He floods the room with thick fog that ruins visibility, and he teleports out of it, often behind you, so reposition instead of standing still after he vanishes.

When he falls, two timed dialogue choices appear. Neither changes the outcome. Mihai recognises Coen as a fellow dawnwalker, explains that Tobias denounced him as a pagan warlock, and reveals that the khoboldin shattered his blade before directing you to the uriashi blacksmith.

Loot the boss room and compel Mihai’s soul

Take the Broken Sword of St. Mihai first, then use Focus Mode to find the two quest items glowing yellow in the same room, the Broken Chains and the Worn Sheath. Both act as catalysts for compelling Mihai’s soul, which fills in what actually happened to him. Compelling him requires daytime, so if you cleared the crypt at night you will need to come back.

How to confirm the quest is finished

The completion banner marks both A Monk and a Saint and Night Terrors as done, and Forge It Anew appears in the quest log straight away. Check your inventory for the Broken Sword of St. Mihai and the 1 Skill Point added to your character sheet alongside the 1,000 XP.

The sword itself is close to useless in its broken state. Forge It Anew is where it becomes worthwhile, since collecting Sword Shards and taking them to the uriashi blacksmith turns it into the Imbued Sword of St. Mihai and unlocks the Arbiter’s Blade trophy.