Dawnwalker Skill Books and Manuals: Locations and Teachers

Check the container or finish the named activity

At soldier and bandit camps, search the chest or container named in the directory. For Ancient Circles, Haunted sites and Will-o-the-Wisps, finish the activity and check its reward. A nearby map label alone does not collect the book.

For shop routes, check both access and current stock. A possible seller may be unavailable because of a quest choice or may not offer every associated book at once.

• Check teacher and shop requirements

Why a shop may not have the manual you want

Possible sellers identify shops whose selections can include a manual. Story progress can affect access, and some groups of books are selected as part of changing stock. Finding Vera, Ocha or the Matriarch does not ensure that every book associated with that shop is available at once.

In particular, check Vera’s current selection for Aether Flow, Frugal Witchcraft and Unnatural Resilience; Ocha’s for Endless Effort, Fleet of Foot and Vigour; and the Matriarch’s for Aether Flow and Unnatural Resilience. Check the available quantity before buying. If a book is absent, use another listed source instead of relying on a fixed restock time.

Some passive effects still need an active slot

Adrenaline Rush, Swiftness, Walking Fortress, Cycle of Ruin and Unholy Vitality act passively while equipped in the Active Abilities panel. Learning one does not remove its slot requirement. Mercurial Fervour is a utility ability and uses no common active slot.

Swordmastery abilities work in either form; Witchcraft abilities are used during the day. Vampirism has its own blood and Corruption unlocks, outside this manual directory.

• Check an ability bar with your planned equipment

Some skills need books only for later ranks

Check the next locked rank before spending money on a manual. A skill can be available early while its later upgrades still require a book. The comparison below highlights several common cases; the main directory lists every manual-gated rank and its individual cost.

• Second Skin I: medium armour
• Second Skin II: heavy armour

Life Lock and Silas’s book

The Life Lock reward associated with finding Silas’s book in Who Pulls the Strings can both unlock the ability and grant rank 1. If that reward has already given you the first rank, count only the further ranks you still want to learn.

Mevasser’s Life Lock Manual is a separate, story-dependent shop offer tied to finding the book. Check which upgrade the current offer opens before buying; later ranks still have their listed learning costs.

Ravenous Flock at the Bear Trouble glyph

Start A Pilgrimage for Power: Bear Trouble southwest of Laslea Glen. Use Focus to find the wind chime, follow the trail uphill and defeat the bear. At the top, inspect the knife beside the large glyph-covered rock and the Uriashi corpse in the cave.

Choose to study the glyph to receive Ravenous Flock Manual. Studying it costs 2 time segments. That is the acquisition choice at the site; the separate SP and time costs in the directory are for learning skill ranks. Dark-Thing and Fanatics provide additional Pilgrimage reward routes for this manual.