The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to Get the Tatzelwurm Gland

The Tatzelwurm Gland is a Legendary ingredient in The Blood of Dawnwalker, and it only enters your inventory one reliable way: you kill the beast that carries it. The item description is blunt about what it is — “Venomous gland extracted from a dead lizard. Still deadly.” It weighs 0.14, sells for 45 denarii, and is used to craft the Razkovniche Elixir.

Quick answer: Travel to Tatzelwurm’s Lair, across the river northwest of Rock-Hollow, kill the Great Bog Wurm waiting along the riverbank, and loot its corpse. The gland drops directly from the body.

Tatzelwurm Gland stats and crafting use

Before you spend the travel time, here is what the ingredient is worth once you have it.

Property	Value
Category	Ingredient (Material)
Rarity	Legendary
Weight	0.14
Sell value	45 denarii
Buy cost	278 denarii
Used to craft	Razkovniche Elixir
Primary source	Tatzelwurm enemy drop

Merchants do stock it. General stores and alchemists in Rockfalls and Svartrau City carry a unit or two at roughly 278 denarii, and Vera sells it in the Briar Sloughs. Buying is the fallback if you have coin but no time. Killing a Tatzelwurm is the cheaper route, and Tatzelwurm spawns are scattered widely across the valley — Boar’s Back, Briar Sloughs, Maragir Wealds, Rockfalls, St. Tyna’s Grove, Svartrau City, Tantari Woods and The Silts all have recorded encounters.

Tatzelwurm’s Lair location and the route in

Open the world map and set a marker on Tatzelwurm’s Lair. The point of interest carries the warning “A deadly beast lives here,” which confirms you have the right marker before you commit to the trip.

Head across the river, northwest of Rock-Hollow. The approach runs through swampy, rocky ground and a shallow pond, so expect slow footing rather than a clean road.

Coen crossing a shallow pond on the approach to the lair with the ability toggle prompt on screen — The approach to the lair crosses open water, with the R1 Toggle Active Abilities prompt visible. Image: Rebel Wolves

Search the skeleton near the water on your way in. It holds the Letter from Parlita Elder, addressed to the Captain of the Svartrau Guard and signed by Staroslav, village elder of Parlita, describing villagers who went missing. A Bowl and Ribwort Plantain sit alongside it.

Loot window open on the riverside skeleton with the Letter from Parlita Elder selected — The riverside skeleton’s loot window, with the Letter from Parlita Elder highlighted. Image: Rebel Wolves

Drop into the small hollow inside the cave before you push on. The nest there contains the Loop of Vitality, a Master ring, plus Chanterelle and Golden Earrings. It is easy to walk past, and there is no reason to come back for it later.

Follow the riverbank until the Great Bog Wurm surfaces. That encounter is the gate on the gland.

How the Great Bog Wurm fight works

The wurm is a Supernatural type with Poison on its attack effect, so damage keeps ticking after a hit lands. Its signature move is burrowing — it disappears underground, then resurfaces either in melee range or at distance to spit.

Combat against the wurm with the enemy health bar and combat HUD active — The wurm fight in progress, with the enemy health bar tracking damage. Image: Rebel Wolves

Three patterns cover most of the fight. Dodge sideways through the unblockable spit rather than backwards, since the projectile tracks forward. Back away when it winds up an unblockable ground slam — there is no defensive answer to that one. Its slower bite is the opening you want, because a Perfect Block on the bite buys you a counterattack window.

Sword strikes plus active abilities carry the damage. Charge does 701 damage at Level 1 on a 20-second cooldown, and Dirty Trick does 231 at Level 1 on a 30-second cooldown. Both are worth spending as soon as they refresh, since the burrow phases give you natural gaps to reposition.

Confirming you got the gland

Two things happen when the beast dies. A new Tatzelwurm entry unlocks in your glossary under Monsters, which is the fastest visual confirmation that the kill registered. Then loot the corpse — the Tatzelwurm Gland appears in the loot window alongside Cowhide Loafers, a Witch’s Pendant and Animal Bones.

Glossary open on the Monsters tab with the Tatzelwurm entry and its artwork shown — The Tatzelwurm glossary entry unlocks under Monsters once the beast is dead. Image: Rebel Wolves

Note: the corpse loot is the only step that matters. Killing the wurm alone does not put the gland in your bag, and there is no auto-pickup on the drop.

Two more skeletons sit inside the cave with minor loot — a Razor, a Wooden Horse and some Denarius coins. Clear them before you leave rather than making a return trip.

Quest tracker showing the next objective as the character leaves the lair area — Leaving the lair with the next objective already tracked. Image: Rebel Wolves

The gland in The Bittersweet Toast and Iulian’s fate

The gland also shows up as an optional ingredient during The Bittersweet Toast, where Coen and Iulian Codrin poison Iulian’s blood so Ambrus weakens himself by feeding before the duel. Vera’s Lizard Note, found near her body along the trail of blood and slime through the bog, explains that the gland could let Iulian’s own body resist the toxin. It has to be mixed in shortly before he drinks.

Following that trail leads to a cave holding the Pale Ravager, a large Tatzelwurm that fights on the same rules as the bog encounter. Killing it awards XP, and recovering the gland costs another Time Segment.

Choice	What happens
Add the Tatzelwurm Gland	Iulian survives the poison and lives through the confrontation with Ambrus. He later questions Coen about whether the mixture was altered.
Finish the brew without it	The poison stays fatal to Iulian, matching what he asked Coen to do.

Neither option decides whether the plan against Ambrus works. As long as the ritual is completed and the pre-duel scene is handled correctly, Iulian’s blood poisons the boyar either way. The gland does not make the toxin stronger and does not make The Gilded Gauntlet fight easier.

It also does not save him permanently. Iulian tells Coen directly not to use the ingredient — he sees the poisoning as a suicide mission and wants his death to count against Ambrus. Add the gland and he survives the duel, then returns home and takes his own life afterwards. There is no branch where he lives past the storyline. What the gland buys you is the Pale Ravager encounter, the XP, more context for Vera’s death, and the extra post-duel dialogue.