Bakir is drowning Vale Sangora in cheap liquor so nobody sober enough is left to resist the vrakhiri, and the distillery raids are your way of turning off the tap. Three of them sit in the Court menu under Bakir’s activities, and each one follows the same shape: clear the guards, decide what to do with the person running the still, then wreck the equipment.
Quick answer: There are three distillery activities — Ends and Means near Parlag, Coercion and Duress inside Svartrau City, and Offshoot in the woods west of the city. Kill the guards, resolve the dialogue with the NPC, then interact with the still to sabotage it. Each one costs three time segments and pays 19 XP, 1 skill point, and 250 coins.
How to unlock the Bakir’s Distilleries quests
Bakir’s territory is tuned for level 20 and up, and none of his Court activities are pinned to your map by default — they all sit there as “Unknown Activity” until you stumble across them or read something that points you at them.
Two of the three are handed to you by a document. Clear the soldiers at one of the Bakir’s Pillories activities and loot a body for the Letter of Reprimand. Reading it opens both Ends and Means and Coercion and Duress on the map at once. Offshoot is not tied to that letter — you have to walk up to the distillery site west of Svartrau City, north of the river, to trigger it.
Tip: climbing the region’s towers first paints white question marks over nearby activities, which saves a lot of aimless riding when you are hunting for the Offshoot camp.
All three distillery locations, time cost, and rewards
| Quest | Where it starts | Cost and payout |
|---|---|---|
| Bakir’s Distilleries: Ends and Means | Farmstead near Parlag; fight in the yard, still is inside the barn | 3 time segments — 19 XP, 1 skill point, 250 coins |
| Bakir’s Distilleries: Coercion and Duress | Inside Svartrau City | 3 time segments — 19 XP, 1 skill point, 250 coins |
| Bakir’s Distilleries: Offshoot | Forest west of Svartrau City, north of the river; still is in a cave | 3 time segments — 19 XP, 1 skill point, 250 coins |
All three share the same objective line in the journal, and it is worth reading literally: killing the guards is not enough, you have to sabotage the equipment. Walking away after a clean fight leaves the activity open.
Ends and Means: the Parlag distillery and the poisoning choice
Coercion and Duress: the Svartrau City still
Offshoot: the corrupt soldiers’ distillery west of Svartrau City
Offshoot is the odd one out. The operation is not officially Bakir’s at all — it is a side business run by corrupt soldiers skimming for themselves, and the quest gives you the option to profit from it instead of shutting it down.
Choice outcomes recorded in the journal
| Quest | Choice | Logged result |
|---|---|---|
| Ends and Means | Refuse the poison plan, sabotage the still | Distillery shut down for business |
| Ends and Means | Let the worker poison the batch | Operation keeps running with poisoned liquor |
| Coercion and Duress | Spare or kill the distiller, then sabotage | Distillery shut down for business |
| Offshoot | Refuse the deal, sabotage the still | Independent operation shut down for good |
| Offshoot | Accept the profit-sharing deal | Still keeps running; return after a day to collect your cut |
| Any of the three | Leave to fight Brencis | Activity is abandoned unresolved |
Note: taking the Offshoot deal is the only outcome that leaves a distillery physically standing and gives you something to come back for later. Everything else ends with broken equipment.
How to confirm each distillery is finished
Completion is unmistakable. The sabotage interaction plays out, the activity clears from the tracker, and the reward panel pops with 19 XP, one skill point, and 250 coins. The journal then swaps the objective line for the outcome text describing what you did to the place.
If nothing fires, the cause is almost always one of two things. Either you cleared the guards but never interacted with the still itself, or you took a branch that keeps the operation alive — the poisoned batch in Ends and Means, or the profit-sharing deal in Offshoot. Neither counts as a shutdown, though both still resolve the activity.
Each distillery you wreck pushes Bakir’s anger level closer to the point where he agrees to a duel, and the three of them together burn nine time segments out of your 30 in-game days. You do not have to hit every Court activity in his region to draw him out, so if you are budgeting time, the distilleries are a compact cluster — two of them practically hand themselves to you off a single looted letter.
