The Blood of Dawnwalker: Medicus I Manual Location at Rockfalls Tower

Medicus I is a Witchcraft perk in The Blood of Dawnwalker, and like most Witchcraft and Swordmastery upgrades, it cannot be pushed further with skill points alone. You need a physical Medicus I Manual, and one of the most reliable copies sits in a chest at the top of Rockfalls Tower.

Quick answer: Climb the ruins of Rockfalls Tower using the Clowride ability and open the chest at the top. It contains the Medicus I Manual, which unlocks the Medicus I perk under the Witchcraft tree once you read it from your inventory.

What the Medicus I perk does

Medicus I raises the limit of consumables you can carry in a Quickslot. In practice, that means more healing items and buffs available mid-fight without opening menus. It lives in the Witchcraft branch of the Character screen, alongside perks like Forager, Herbal Remedies, and Aether Flow.

Witchcraft and Swordmastery are the two trees that use manuals. Vampirism skills work differently, since those scale with your Corruption Level, which rises as you drink blood.

Before you go: the Clowride requirement

Rockfalls Tower sits on high rocky ground, and there is no walking path to the loot. You need the Clowride ability to pull yourself up the cliff face and to move between the broken floors inside the tower. Without it, you will reach the base and stall there.

Clowride has a fixed reach. When you aim at a ledge that is too far away, the game marks the anchor point as “Out of range” instead of letting you launch, so the climb is really a sequence of short hops rather than one long ascent.

World map screen with quest markers spread across the region containing Rockfalls Tower — The world map showing the region and its quest markers before you set off. Image: Rebel Wolves

How to reach the chest at Rockfalls Tower

Open the map and place a custom marker on Rockfalls Tower. Fast travel to the closest shrine so you approach from the low ground rather than from the far side of the ridge.

Map cursor hovering over the mountainous area while placing a travel marker — Placing a marker on the mountainous stretch that holds the tower. Image: Rebel Wolves

Follow the quest tracker on foot along the mountain path until the tower silhouette is in front of you. The route runs through loose rock, so stay on the trail rather than cutting across the slope.

Coen running along a dark mountain path with the objective tracker on screen — Following the tracker along the dark mountain path toward the tower. Image: Rebel Wolves

Close the distance until the objective reads a few dozen meters away, then look up and pick out the first climbable ledge on the cliff. Short distances are what you want here, because Clowride works best on nearby anchor points.

Objective marker showing 36 meters remaining as the player approaches the cliffs — The objective counting down as you get within range of the cliff face. Image: Rebel Wolves

Aim Clowride at the ledge. If the prompt shows “Out of range,” reposition sideways or move a few steps closer until the target registers, then pull yourself up and repeat for each tier of rock.

Clowride aimed at a distant anchor point that the game marks as out of range — An anchor point flagged “Out of range” — move closer before trying again. Image: Rebel Wolves

Enter the base of Rockfalls Tower and work your way up the collapsed interior. The floors are broken through, so keep using Clowride on the exposed beams and ledges until you reach the open top level.

Open the chest waiting at the top. The Medicus I Manual is in there along with the rest of the container’s loot.

Everything inside the Rockfalls Tower chest

Item	Type
Medicus I Manual	Witchcraft skill manual
Martin’s Blood Infusion	Consumable
Ring of Fortitude	Accessory
Golden Cross	Valuable

Read the manual to confirm the perk unlocked

Picking up a manual is not enough. Open your inventory, select the Medicus I Manual, and read it. Only then does it count toward the perk.

To verify, open the Character menu and switch to the Witchcraft tab. Medicus I should now be available to invest in rather than locked, and your Quickslot consumable cap goes up once you spend the point. Reading manuals can also trigger a brief jump scare, which is normal and does not mean anything went wrong.

Other places to find a Medicus I Manual

There is no hard cap on how many manuals exist in a playthrough, and more copies drop than you strictly need. If the Rockfalls Tower climb is inconvenient at your current point in the story, these are the alternatives.

Source	Details
St. Tryna’s Grove Tower	In a chest on the tower
Boar’s Back Tower	In a chest on the tower
Vera	Witchcraft vendor in Maragir Wealds
Matriarch	Witchcraft vendor

Beyond fixed spots, manuals show up in chests at Soldier Camps, Bandit Camps, Monster Lairs, and Ancient Circles, as quest rewards, and as random drops from defeated enemies. Buying is the fastest route if you have the coin, though higher-tier manuals can run into thousands of Denarius.

Why the perk still shows as locked

The manual is sitting unread in your inventory. Open it from the inventory screen.
You have no skill points banked. Manuals unlock the upgrade, but you still spend points to take it.
You are looking in the wrong tab. Medicus I is under Witchcraft, not Swordmastery or Vampirism.

Once Medicus I is active, the extra Quickslot capacity pays off immediately during longer fights and night runs, when stopping to dig through the inventory is the last thing you want to do.