The Blood of Dawnwalker: Faith and Punishment Full Quest Walkthrough

Faith and Punishment is one of the short investigation quests tied to the Curious House in Svartrau City. There is no NPC to talk to and no fight to win. You read a notice pinned to a door, find a way onto the roof, and piece together what happened to the person sealed inside the attic.

Quick answer: Read the Proclamation of Treason on the door of the Curious House in southern Svartrau City, climb the wooden scaffolding on the outside of the building to reach the attic, use Focus Mode to inspect the scratch marks, the mattress, the corpse, and the note on the floor, then loot the chest for Wolf Fangs and Broken Scissors to end the quest.

Faith and Punishment quest details

Detail	Value
Location	Curious House, southern Svartrau City
Quest giver	None — started by reading the Proclamation of Treason
Requirement	None
Key objective	Investigate the attic using Focus Mode
Reward	Wolf Fangs, Broken Scissors (attic chest)

The Curious House is a single building that hosts several separate attic quests, including Enshrined Obsession, Working Her Magic, and Weaves of Rebellion. Faith and Punishment is the one triggered by the notice on the front door, so read the door first rather than heading straight for the roof.

How to start Faith and Punishment in Svartrau City

Open the map and find the Curious House marker in the southern part of Svartrau City. Fast travel to the nearest point and follow the yellow marker on the compass until you are standing at the building’s front door.

Coen moving through the streets of Svartrau City with the quest tracker visible on the HUD — Following the compass marker through Svartrau City toward the Curious House. Image: Rebel Wolves

Interact with the note nailed to the door. It is titled PROCLAMATION OF TREASON and opens with “Near Ye, Near Ye,” naming Widow Zlatna as an enemy of the Knyaz. Reading it adds Faith and Punishment to your journal.

The proclamation also carries the name Krysa Brenis and refers to Old Zlatna, which is your only lead before you get inside. The front door itself stays shut, so the entrance is elsewhere on the building.

How to reach the attic

Walk around the outside of the house and look up. There is wooden scaffolding running up the exterior wall, and that framework is the intended route to the top floor.

Looking up at the attic level of the Curious House with the Investigate the attic objective on screen — The quest tracker updates to “Investigate the attic using Focus Mode” once you are lining up the climb. Image: Rebel Wolves

Climb the beams and planks until you reach the opening at the top and drop inside. The objective updates to “Investigate the attic using Focus Mode” as soon as you are in the room.

All four Focus Mode clues in the attic

The attic is dark and cluttered, and the interactive objects are easy to walk past without Focus Mode active. On PC, Focus Mode is held with the right mouse button. Points of interest glow yellow while it is on.

Dark attic interior with the Focus Mode investigation objective still active on the HUD — Inside the attic, with the investigation objective still tracking. Image: Rebel Wolves

Four clues need to be examined before the quest will close out.

Clue	Where it is
Scratch marks	On the attic wall
Dirty mattress	The bed set up on the floor
Starved corpse	The body of a woman in the room
NOTE FROM MOTHER	Lying on the floor near the body

The body itself needs a held interaction prompt rather than a quick tap, so keep the button pressed until the examination finishes.

Hold-button interaction prompt showing while Coen examines the body in the attic — Examining the starved woman’s body is a hold interaction. Image: Rebel Wolves

The NOTE FROM MOTHER is the clue that ties the room together. It confirms the woman was shut in the attic and left to starve by her own mother as punishment for refusing to fall in line religiously and politically, which is what the treason notice downstairs was covering for.

Loot the chest and confirm the quest is complete

Once all four clues are examined, time rolls forward and the world shifts toward midnight. That time-passed notification is your signal that the investigation registered correctly.

On-screen notification that hours have gone by, shown in the dark attic room — The time-passed notification appears once the attic investigation wraps up. Image: Rebel Wolves

Open the chest in the attic to collect Wolf Fangs and Broken Scissors. Faith and Punishment then closes in the journal, and you are free to climb back out.

Note: If the quest will not finish, it is almost always because one of the four Focus Mode objects was missed. Sweep the room again with Focus Mode held down and check the wall behind the mattress, since the scratch marks are the easiest clue to overlook in the dark.

With the attic cleared, the same building still has its other Curious House entries waiting, so it is worth returning to Svartrau City at different points in the day and night to see which of them are available to you.