The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to Get the Mireleaf Bracers Early

The Mireleaf Bracers are the strongest piece of arm armor you can wear during the opening hours of The Blood of Dawnwalker, and most players walk past them because the tomb that holds them is buried under a hole in the peat bogs. They come from the Deep Down side quest, which is time-sensitive, so grabbing them early means planning your day around it rather than stumbling into it.

Quick answer: Drop into the pit in the bogs northwest of the village, follow the caves into the underground ruins, inspect every mural in the circular chamber and then the sarcophagus at its center, and loot the sarcophagus to receive the Mireleaf Bracers.

Mireleaf Bracers stats and effects

These are rare light bracers that most characters will be wearing with an empty arm slot, so the armor value is a straight upgrade. The Claw Art bonus is the standout, since it feeds Coen a special attack combination that becomes available once the icon fills during a fight.

Property	Value
Type	Master Light Bracers (arms)
Item level	5
Armour	36
Claw Art	+1 (15s cooldown)
Block stamina cost	-7%
Weapon critical hit chance	+2%
Weight / Value	1.20 / 32

When to run Deep Down before it locks out

Deep Down is handed out by Gavril, whose farm sits east of the Anca’s Hut shrine, and it can also start on its own the moment you find the Ancient Ruin. Finding Lazar underground burns a time segment on the Time Bar, so leave at least one pip of daylight spare before you set out.

Two things change depending on how long you wait. If you head down before the Time Bar drops to its last three segments in the prologue, Lazar is still alive and you can walk him back to his brother. Go later, or come back after the prologue is over, and you find his body instead, killed by a blade rather than the fall or the wolves. The quest itself has to be finished before Sacred Covenant, the mission that follows the Blood Mass at nightfall, or it fails outright.

Note: the bracers themselves are not tied to Lazar’s fate. The sarcophagus is still lootable whichever version of the quest you run.

Route to the sarcophagus in Blackwater Hollow

Take the road northwest out of the village, cross the bridge, and continue toward the peat bogs. The entrance area is marked as Blackwater Hollow on the map, sitting northwest of the settlement and near the Northern Foothills shrine.

Map screen with the Blackwater Hollow quest marker selected and ready to track — The map screen with the quest marker for the bogs selected and ready to track. Image: Rebel Wolves

Just past the shrine you will find Lazar’s abandoned two-wheeled cart. Switch on Focus Mode and follow his footprints, which run past a dropped basket surrounded by blood and wolf tracks.

The trail ends at two wolves guarding a deep hole. Kill them or slip past them, then drop down the pit.

At the bottom there is only one way forward. Pick up the sack of food near the guttering torch, take a torch for light, and follow the underground river until you reach a narrow gap you can squeeze through.

Dark cave passage with the Deep down objective to find out who fell underground on screen — The cave stretch after the drop, with the “Find out who fell underground” objective active. Image: Rebel Wolves

Keep tracking the river in the next cavern until you reach Lazar. Talk to him or inspect his body, then head south and uphill through the hole into the underground ruins. First-time visitors also pick up the Antique Aficionado trophy here.

Use Focus Mode inside the ruins and work through the clues, which include the hound skeleton, the scattered footprints, a corpse, and the books and stone tablets along the halls. Loot the jars and shelves while you pass, since they hold sellable valuables.

Underground ruins with the Deep down and Find a way out of the ruins objectives on the HUD — The ruins interior where the clue objects and lootable containers are scattered along the halls. Image: Rebel Wolves

Follow the skeletal footprints deeper until the corridors open into a large circular chamber with a stone sarcophagus in the middle.

Character moving through dark ruins toward the burial chamber with the quest objective active — Following the skeletal tracks through the ruins toward the burial chamber. Image: Rebel Wolves

Walk the wall and inspect every interactive point on the murals until they stop highlighting in yellow. They tell the story of a warrior who hunted the vrakhiri, showing that the creatures die to a blade through the heart or a beheading, and the final panel shows her buried wearing the bracers.

Mural-lined passage in the burial chamber with interactive inspection points highlighted — The mural wall in the burial chamber, where each panel has to be inspected in turn. Image: Rebel Wolves

Inspect the sarcophagus in the center of the room, then loot it. Along with the Mireleaf Bracers you pull out a Ruby Diadem, a Golden Brooch, and Copper Sulfate.

How to confirm the bracers are yours

Open the inventory and check the arms slot. The tooltip reads Master Light Bracers, Mireleaf Bracers, Level 5, with 36 armour and the Claw Art line, plus the description that calls them “oddly nice and soft.” If the slot is still empty, you looted the surrounding urns but not the sarcophagus itself.

Two things stop the pickup. The sarcophagus only becomes interactive after the mural points have been inspected, so a wall panel you skipped is the usual culprit. The other is timing, since letting the day run out before you reach the pit fails the quest along with every other clock-marked objective in the prologue.

Getting out past the Forgotten Guardian

Equip the bracers before you leave the chamber, because the eastern hallway leads to the Forgotten Guardian, an undead swordsman who takes exception to grave robbing. His twin unblockable strike is telegraphed by a glow on both blades, so dodge the moment you see it. Chipping him down with combos rarely works. Perfect block, land one hit, then reset to your guard.

Loot the Undead Warrior’s sword after the fight, climb the ramp back to the surface, and return to Gavril for 250 XP and coin. Telling the elderman about what happened is optional and does not affect the reward, which means the bracers are already banked on your arms before the prologue clock runs out.