The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to Escape the Home Sweet Home Time Loop

Ambrosius Tower looks like every other Scouting Tower in The Blood of Dawnwalker until you open the door at the top. Behind it is a ritual, and behind the ritual is Home Sweet Home — a quest that drops Coen back into his family’s home in Laslea and forces him to watch it fall apart on repeat. Play it wrong and you can loop yourself into a bad ending. Play it right and you walk out with a legendary ring.

Quick answer: Finish one complete run of the loop. On the second run, after you beat the Vidmo Specters and send Lunka, Yanna, and Mirto to the church, stop. Do not walk toward the Gargoyle fight. Enter Focus Mode, look at the well in the yard, and interact with it — that is the only exit.

Where the Home Sweet Home time loop starts

The quest begins inside Ambrosius Tower, in The Silts along the southern edge of the map. It is off the main path, and nothing on the map flags it as a story location. Climb the exterior using Planeshift and Shadowstep, the same way you’d handle any tower.

Inside you’ll run into a group of soldiers and a Witch-archetype miniboss called Svetlana, the Dark Prodigy. Clear them, keep climbing, and you’ll reach a door you can peek through. On the other side is a man preparing a ritual.

Save your game before you open that door. Opening it costs 4x Time Segments and immediately starts the quest — there is no backing out once you’re through.

What the loop takes away from you

The moment you step through, Coen is back at the very start of the game. Your abilities and perks carry over, but your gear does not. Everything on Coen is common grey equipment, which makes this noticeably harder than the level you’re used to fighting at.

Healing is the bigger problem. You get a handful of food items like sausages and whatever crafting ingredients you can scavenge along the way. Loot every container and pick up consumables as you pass them, because there is no restock between attempts.

The three combat areas in each run

Every pass through the memory follows the same shape. You wake in the cabin, Pieter asks you to split logs for firewood — optional, you can skip it — and then you talk to Esme. That conversation triggers a Gargoyle that snatches the whole family, and the objective flips to “Rescue your family.”

Quest marker pointing to Talk to your family inside the Laslea hut, 10 meters away — The “Talk to your family” objective inside the hut is what sets the loop in motion. Image: Rebel Wolves

Area	Who you find	What you fight
First	Esme	Spectral Skeletons
Second	Lunka, Yanna, Mirto	Vidmo Specters
Third	Pieter	Keeper of Nightmares (Gargoyle miniboss)

After each rescue you tell the family member to head for the church. Once the Keeper of Nightmares is down, Pieter turns on Coen and blames him for everything. Then you enter the church, the family is killed in front of you, and you wake up in the cabin again.

Rescue your family objective marker at 59 meters while running through the foggy forest — The “Rescue your family” marker leads you from the forest toward the village gates. Image: Rebel Wolves

Pieter confronting Coen outside the church after the Keeper of Nightmares fight — Pieter blames Coen once the Gargoyle miniboss is dead, right before the church resets the loop. Image: Rebel Wolves

That first full run is mandatory. You cannot reach the well on run one — the exit only opens up afterward.

How to break the loop and finish Home Sweet Home

Play the second run exactly like the first. Talk to Pieter, talk to Esme in the cabin, then head out after the collapse and clear the Spectral Skeletons to reach your mother. Send her to the church as normal.

Red-tinted cutscene of an ornate coffin with a SKIP prompt in the corner — The red-tinted cutscenes between loops can be skipped with the on-screen prompt. Image: Rebel Wolves

Continue to the village and defeat the Vidmo Specters in the second area. Find Lunka, Yanna, and Mirto and tell them to go to the church.

Stop here. Do not follow the marker toward the Gargoyle fight. Turn to the yard, activate Focus Mode, and look at the well. A voice will call out to you. Save your game at this point if you also want to see the alternate outcome later.

Interact with the well. Coen is pulled somewhere else and comes face to face with a shadow version of himself. When the dialogue prompts you, answer Alin — that is your dead brother’s name, and naming him is what actually breaks the loop’s hold.

Coen shouting his dead brother's name during the shadow confrontation at the well — Choosing “Alin” at the well is the dialogue option that lets Coen out. Image: Rebel Wolves

Once you regain control, use Planeshift and Shadowstep to cross the ledges, then pass through the portal at the end.

You land in a funeral memory where a priest needs help with his sermon. There are three prompts, and the correct answers in order are Alin, then Esme, then Coen.

Run to the last area and slide down the edge of the cliff. Alin is waiting at the bottom. The memory Coen has been suppressing plays out — Alin drowned in the icy river while the two of them were playing — and you choose to forgive yourself. Coen wakes up in the real world.

Together Forever: What happens if you stay in the loop

Ignoring the well has its own payoff, and it is not a pleasant one. Keep repeating the loop instead of escaping and the family dies in the church again on the fourth run. You wake up in the house for a fifth time, and this time when you talk to Esme she tells Coen he is staying with them forever.

The cutscene closes with the family smiling and crowding around him, and it unlocks the Together Forever achievement. This counts as one of the game’s bad endings, so only do it from a save you can reload — the one you made before touching the well.

Home Sweet Home rewards and how to confirm you’re out

You know it worked when Coen wakes up inside Ambrosius Tower and the astrologer running the ritual reacts badly to it. Control returns to you in the real world, the quest completes, and you’re free to loot everything.

Reward	Where to get it
Astrologer’s Ring (legendary, Level 17)	Loot from Ambrosius
Recipe for Supernatural’s Blood Infusion	Loot from Ambrosius
Flask of Quicksilver	Top floor of the tower
Unnatural Resilience Manual	Chest on the tower balcony
500 XP and 1 Skill Point	Quest completion

The Astrologer’s Ring buffs witchcraft ability damage, cuts witchcraft cooldowns, and improves AC restoration both on actions and passively, which makes it worth grabbing even if you’re not running a witchcraft-heavy build. Before you leave, climb to the top and use the windwave to scout the area — Ambrosius Tower still functions as a normal Scouting Tower and will reveal points of interest across the region.

If you reached the second run and the well did nothing, two things are usually to blame. Either you hadn’t yet defeated the Vidmo Specters and sent all three siblings to the church, or you weren’t in Focus Mode when you looked at it. The well only responds after the second area is fully resolved, and it will not appear on your objective marker.