The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to Find Out What Ambrus’s Soldiers Need Leeches For

Ambrus runs a blood-trafficking operation across Vale Sangora, and one of its stranger branches involves soldiers harvesting leeches out of the marshes. The objective asking you to work out why sits in a small camp in the wetlands, and it resolves the moment you read one specific document off one specific corpse.

Quick answer: Travel to the soldier camp in the wetlands between the Rhon Swamps and the Sinnabar Wetlands, kill the guards, then loot the body highlighted in yellow by your scan ability and read “Instructions from Boyar Ambrus” — the leeches are used to store blood for feeding boyars and knyazes.

Where the soldier camp is located

The camp sits in the marshland between the Rhon Swamps and the Sinnabar Wetlands, marked on your map as a cluster of tents behind a wooden bridge. There is no dialogue trigger and no NPC to talk to first. The entire objective is contained inside that one encampment, so travelling there is the only prerequisite.

Stepping across the bridge flags the area as TRESPASSING. That warning turns the soldiers hostile on sight, and there is no stealth or persuasion route that avoids the fight.

How to complete the leech objective

Open the map and set a marker on the encampment in the wetlands. It is a short ride, and you do not need to arrive at any particular time of day.

Cross the wooden bridge into the camp. The trespassing warning appears immediately and the guards begin closing in on you.

Player walking into the tented soldier camp with the leech objective tracked on the HUD — Crossing into the camp flags the area as trespassing and turns the guards hostile. Image: Rebel Wolves

Kill every soldier in the camp. They attack in a loose group rather than all at once, so pulling back toward the bridge keeps you from being surrounded.

Melee exchange with a marked camp guard, enemy health bar visible at the top of the screen — Locking onto one guard at a time keeps the camp fight manageable. Image: Rebel Wolves

Clear out any stragglers that ran off between the tents. The camp needs to be empty before you can search it without being interrupted.

Coen striking the last remaining soldier as the enemy health bar drops — The camp must be fully cleared before the search phase becomes practical. Image: Rebel Wolves

Use your scan ability from the middle of the camp. One body lights up in yellow — that is the soldier carrying the paperwork, and it is easy to walk past without scanning.

Active objective text about Ambrus's soldiers and leeches shown while searching the cleared camp — The objective stays tracked on screen until the document is read. Image: Rebel Wolves

Loot the highlighted body. It yields Instructions from Ambrus along with a Vial of Human Blood.

Open your inventory and read the document. The objective only closes once the text is actually displayed, not when the item enters your bags.

The open Instructions from Boyar Ambrus document showing the leech-collection order — Reading “Instructions from Boyar Ambrus” is what completes the objective. Image: Rebel Wolves

What the leeches are actually for

The document is a standing order signed by Boyar Ambrus. The leeches are being collected as living storage vessels — they hold blood drawn from the local population so it can be kept and later fed to boyars and knyazes. It reframes the leech farms scattered around Ambrus’s territory as part of the same supply chain as his blood cellars, rather than an unrelated bit of peasant labour.

Note: the Vial of Human Blood that drops alongside the document is a usable healing item in vampire form, so hold onto it rather than selling it off.

Loot the remaining bodies to unlock three collector quests

Once the objective ticks over, do not leave the camp yet. Searching the other corpses opens three separate side quests in the Ambrus’s Collectors chain, each of which feeds his anger meter when completed.

Unlocked quest	How it unlocks
Ambrus’s Collectors: Wetland Helpers	Loot a non-highlighted body in the camp
Ambrus’s Collectors: Unsavory Solutions	Loot a non-highlighted body in the camp
Ambrus’s Collectors: Bounty of the Mire	Loot a non-highlighted body in the camp

The rest of the camp’s contents are ordinary gear and consumables, but a few are worth grabbing before you ride out.

Item	Type
Instructions from Ambrus	Quest document
Vial of Human Blood	Consumable
Weathered Longsword	Weapon
Cowhide Strapped Shoes	Armour
Bremis Soldier Patch	Miscellaneous
Demirius	Miscellaneous
Transylvanian White Wine	Consumable
Chanterelle	Ingredient
Linseed Oil	Ingredient

How to confirm the objective completed

The tracked objective line disappears from the HUD the instant the document text is on screen, and the quest log advances. If it has not updated, one of two things is usually the cause. Either you picked up the Instructions from Ambrus but never opened them, or you looted several bodies without scanning and missed the yellow-highlighted soldier entirely.

Clearing this camp also nudges Ambrus’s anger level in the Court tab, which is the meter that eventually unlocks The Gilded Gauntlet and the duel with him. Wiping out his leech-pickers alongside his blood cellars and prisoner holds is what pushes that gauge to its maximum.