The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to Get a Bundle of Silk Threads

A bundle of Silk Threads is one of the four components Coen needs for the A Bulwark Against Darkness quest, the side chain that ends with the Enhanced Arbiter armour set. It is not lying in a chest somewhere, and it is not sold by ordinary traders. The item is locked behind the Sanzhani questline, and there are two very different ways to walk out with it.

Quick answer: Finish the Come Hither Sanzhani quest, kill the Murohn, and pick the Silk Threads up off the floor of its burrow for free. If you have already skipped that, complete Pearly and Precious instead and buy the bundle from the Sanzhana merchant south of the Small Bridge shrine for roughly 5,000 to 6,500 denarii.

What the Silk Threads objective actually asks for

Once the mysterious letter and the list of armour components are in your inventory, the journal lists “Find a bundle of silk threads” alongside the relic of a saint, the flask of quicksilver and the moult of a large lizard. Only one bundle is needed. The item behaves like a normal quest item, so it sits in your inventory with the orange quest-item background until you hand it over.

Journal screen with the objective Find a bundle of silk threads highlighted among the quest steps — The journal entry listing “Find a bundle of silk threads” among the armour objectives. Image: Rebel Wolves

You do not need the quest active to collect the material. The component list never changes, so anything you picked up earlier in the playthrough still counts once the letter arrives.

Free route: The Come Hither quest and the Murohn

This is the cheapest option and the one worth taking if the Sanzhani chain is still open to you. It costs nothing but a fight.

Complete the Good Home side quest in the Svartrau Outskirts first. It is the entry point for the whole Sanzhani chain, and Come Hither will not be available until it is done.

Travel to the area east of the Silty Mug Inn shrine, south of Svartrau. Keep moving until you hear the sound that draws you in and the quest marker appears, which triggers Come Hither.

Follow the quest into the burrow and defeat the Murohn waiting inside. It is the only real obstacle on this route.

Sweep the floor of the lair after the fight. The bundle of Silk Threads is a ground pickup in the Murohn’s den, so grab it before you leave the cave.

Paid route: Unlock the Sanzhana merchant and buy the bundle

The merchant route works at any point once you have the money, but the shop stays empty until her personal quest is finished. Expect to clear three linked side quests before her stock opens.

Complete Good Home, then work through Letters to Lunka. The letter exchange involves asking the Sanzhana about Lunka’s father, and the letters themselves sit in your inventory as quest items while the chain runs.

Inventory screen showing an item's stats and preview panel while sorting through carried gear — Quest items and letters from the Sanzhani chain live in the same inventory menu as your gear. Image: Rebel Wolves

Fast travel to the Small Bridge shrine, the ruined shrine south of the soldiers’ outpost where Mert is locked up. The merchant sits directly south of that point.

World map with the Small Bridge fast-travel point selected and the track option highlighted — The Small Bridge fast-travel point on the map, with the merchant a short walk to the south. Image: Rebel Wolves

Head south from the shrine and follow the trail of blood along the swampy path. It leads to a Sanzhana pulling teeth from corpses, and talking to her starts Pearly and Precious.

Gameplay view on the marshy path with the silk threads objective tracked on screen — The swampy trail south of Small Bridge, with the silk threads objective still tracked. Image: Rebel Wolves

Finish Pearly and Precious. Completing it is what unlocks her trade inventory, and nothing you say beforehand will open the shop early.

Open her shop and buy the Silk Threads. The listed price falls between 5,000 and 6,500 denarii, so carry at least 6,500 to be safe.

Sanzhana's shop inventory open with an item selected in the details panel before buying — The Sanzhana merchant’s stock, which only appears after Pearly and Precious is complete. Image: Rebel Wolves

Note: a Sanzhani in Tsarina’s burrow also stocks Silk Threads once you have cleared the Sanzhani tasks, so a second seller exists if you finish that content.

Free pickup vs merchant purchase

Route	Prerequisite	Cost	Where you get it
Come Hither	Good Home	Free	Ground pickup in the Murohn’s burrow after the fight
Sanzhana merchant	Good Home, Letters to Lunka, Pearly and Precious	About 5,000–6,500 denarii	Shop inventory south of the Small Bridge shrine

How to confirm the Silk Threads counted

The bundle registers the moment it enters your inventory. Open the journal and check A Bulwark Against Darkness, and the “Find a bundle of silk threads” objective should be ticked off. Once all four components are ticked, the tracker switches to “Return to the uriashi blacksmith”.

From there, travel to the Uriash Hermitage shrine in the northwest corner of the map and hand the materials to the blacksmith. She starts the ritual, enemies spawn, and surviving that fight gives you the full Enhanced Arbiter armour set along with the Arbiter’s Regalia trophy.

Why the merchant has no Silk Threads to sell

Pearly and Precious is still active or untouched. Her trade inventory stays locked until that quest is finished.
Good Home has not been completed, which keeps the rest of the Sanzhani chain, including Letters to Lunka and Come Hither, from appearing.
You are short on denarii. The bundle is priced at several thousand coins, and the shop simply refuses the sale.

If you are still early in the Sanzhani chain, take Come Hither first and keep the denarii for gear repairs and levelling your armour at a blacksmith later. The merchant route exists as a fallback for anyone who has already blown past that quest.