Medicus I Manual Location in The Blood of Dawnwalker (Rockfalls Tower)

The Medicus I Manual is one of the Witchcraft skill books in The Blood of Dawnwalker, and the most reliable copy sits in a chest at the top of a ruined tower. Getting it takes a short mountain climb and one vampire traversal ability, and the chest hands over a few extra pieces of loot on the way out.

Quick answer: Climb the mountain path to Rockfalls Tower, use Clawride to scale the platforms inside the ruins, and loot the chest at the top. Then open your inventory and read the Medicus I Manual so the perk becomes available.

What the Medicus I perk does

Medicus I lives in the Witchcraft branch of the character menu. Its effect is short and specific: it increases the limit of Consumables in a Quickslot. That means more healing items or elixirs stacked into a single slot before you have to dip back into the inventory mid-fight.

Witchcraft and Swordmastery upgrades both run on manuals. Vampirism is the exception — those skills scale off Corruption Level, which rises by drinking blood, so no book will help there.

How to reach the Rockfalls Tower chest

Open the map and set a marker on Rockfalls Tower. The tower sits above a stretch of rocky high ground, so approach from the base of the slope rather than trying to cut across the cliffs.

Compass distance marker counting down as the player moves toward the Rockfalls Tower objective — Following the compass marker toward the tower with the active quest objectives tracked on the left. Image: Rebel Wolves / via @GGChannelX

Follow the winding path up the mountain. The route is a straightforward climb with no gating, though hostile camps can sit along the way depending on what you have already cleared in the area.

On-screen Clawride prompt shown while scaling a rocky cliff face — The Clawride prompt appears when a surface can be scaled. Image: Rebel Wolves / via @GGChannelX

Keep pushing uphill until the ruined tower comes into view. The objective marker stays visible through the trees, which makes it easy to correct course if the path forks.

Running uphill along the mountain trail with the objective marker ahead — Running the mountain trail toward the marker on the way to the ruins. Image: Rebel Wolves / via @GGChannelX

Climb the last rocky stretch to the tower entrance and step inside the ruins. The interior is open to the sky, with broken platforms stacked above you.

Player scaling a steep rocky slope on the approach to the ruined tower — The final rocky slope leading up to the tower ruins. Image: Rebel Wolves / via @GGChannelX

Use Clawride to move up the interior platforms. This ability is required — the ledges cannot be reached by normal jumping, so if you have not unlocked it yet, come back once you have.

Open the chest waiting at the top. The Medicus I Manual drops here along with the rest of the container’s contents.

Loot menu open at the tower chest with Golden Cross selected — The loot window at the top of the tower, with Golden Cross highlighted alongside the rest of the chest. Image: Rebel Wolves / via @GGChannelX

Everything inside the Rockfalls Tower chest

Item	Use
Medicus I Manual	Unlocks the Medicus I perk in the Witchcraft tree
Martin’s Blood Infusion	Consumable
Ring of Fortitude	Equipment
Golden Cross	Valuable
A Soldier’s Belly, Part 1	Readable text picked up with the loot

Note: tower chests are a common home for manuals in general. The Aether Flow manual has also turned up in a Rockfalls Tower chest, so it is worth clearing the tower fully rather than grabbing one book and leaving.

Other ways to get a Medicus I Manual

There is no hard cap on how many manuals exist in a playthrough. They drop from defeated enemies, appear in open-world containers, and stock up on vendor shelves, so a missed chest is never a dead end.

Source	Where
Chest	St. Tryna’s Grove Tower
Chest	Boar’s Back Tower
Vendor	Vera, the Witchcraft Vendor in Maragir Wealds
Vendor	Matriarch Witchcraft Vendor
Random loot	Defeated enemies and open-world containers

Buying is the fastest route if you already have coin to spare, though higher-tier manuals climb into the thousands of Denarius. Since the game is on a clock, weigh the travel time against simply picking one up during a route you were already running.

How to confirm the perk unlocked

Picking up the book is only half of it. Open the inventory, select the Medicus I Manual, and read it. Until you do, the manual sits there as an unused item and the perk stays locked.

To verify, open the character menu and look at the Witchcraft tree. Medicus I should now be selectable with its description reading that it increases the limit of Consumables in a Quickslot. If the node is still greyed out, the two usual causes are a manual you carried but never read, or not having a spare skill point to spend on the upgrade.

One small heads-up: reading manuals in this game occasionally triggers a jump scare. It is cosmetic and does not affect whether the perk applies.

With Clawride in hand, the Rockfalls Tower run takes only a couple of minutes and clears three other items out of the same chest. If you are still early enough that vertical traversal is not available, note the tower on your map and swing back through once it is.