The Price of Magic: Ritual, Bracelet and Henrik

Plan the ritual and Henrik visit as separate steps

The reward has both equipment effects and a story consequence. If you want Henrik's conversation about Marcus, collect the Pendant, finish your investigation and visit his bookshop before equipping the Mysterious Bracelet. You can earn the reward and leave it in your inventory while making that visit.

This order preserves the conversation while letting you compare the two bracelets first. Trying the new reward on your character is already an equipment choice; reading its stats in the armour catalogue lets you assess the upgrade without making that choice in the game.

• Henrik: Pendant conversation
• Bracelet comparison

Find the stone circle and investigate during the day

Travel southwest from The Swamp Menhirs Shrine in The Silts to the unfinished ritual site. Approach the body and central stone pillar, then use Focus to inspect the scene.

Both Compel Soul and the ritual interaction use your daytime Witchcraft abilities. If you discover the site at night, keep track of what you collected and return during the day to question the body and finish the ritual. A missing daytime action does not mean you need a different set of objects.

• The Swamp Menhirs Shrine
• The Price of Magic ritual area
• Compel Soul: daytime use

Match each object to the clue used with Compel Soul

Search around the central pillar before questioning the body in front of it. Several collected objects give you a catalyst with a different name. Use the catalyst names below to recognise the available memory topics.

The note behind the pillar and the half-burnt torch are separate finds. The Torn Out Page supplies missing ritual instructions; the Discarded Torch is a Compel Soul clue. Picking up one does not complete the other task.

• Use Compel Soul on the body and work through the available memory topics. The Golden Chain belongs to the Pendant investigation; it is not the keepsake you show Henrik.
• The Bracelet collected here is ordinary wearable equipment. The Mysterious Bracelet is the enchanted reward at the end of the ritual.

• Bookmark
• Golden Chain
• Gift Box
• Discarded Torch

Bring the book and loose page together, then defend yourself

You need both De Vocatione et Ligatione and the Torn Out Page. The journal can send you to find the page or to find the book, depending on which one you picked up first. Check the named missing object instead of restarting your search around the entire circle.

The book describes the protective charm Marcus intended to make, and the loose page provides its spoken ending. Marcus's Journal explains his reason for trying it: he wanted to protect Henrik from people connected to his past.

1. Find the book to the right of the pillar and the loose page behind it, then finish reading the instructions.
2. Prepare for combat before interacting with the central pillar. Use Astral Communion there during the day to complete the ritual.
3. Defeat the spectres that appear. Clearing the encounter completes the quest and gives 100 XP and the Mysterious Bracelet.
4. Leave the reward unequipped if you still want to show Henrik the Pendant. Completing the combat does not require testing the new bracers.

• De Vocatione et Ligatione
• Torn Out Page
• Marcus's Journal
• Astral Communion

Compare the upgrade before accepting its story consequence

Both bracelets occupy the Hands slot and use Light armour. At their base values, the completed reward adds four armour and several bonuses, but equipping it also matters to Henrik. Compare the benefits before replacing the ordinary version.

• The magic-damage-reduction difference is one percentage point. It applies only to magic damage, not to every attack.
• The extra magic-damage bonus is useful to compare for a casting build. If you mainly deal weapon damage, weigh the armour and mortal-target bonus against the effects on your current hand armour.
• If the conversation is your priority, postpone equipping the reward until after the bookshop visit. Finishing the quest and choosing to wear its reward are separate decisions.

• Bracelet: ordinary version
• Mysterious Bracelet: completed reward

Show the Pendant to Henrik at his bookshop

Go to Henrik's bookshop near Altenmarkt Square in Svartrau while he is still available. Keep the Pendant in your inventory and select ‘Do you recognise this pendant?’ The dedication links it to Marcus, and Coen can tell Henrik what happened.

You can say ‘He really cared about you’ or ‘He was a fool’. Both responses reach Henrik's closing thanks. ‘I found a book, too’ opens a question about De Vocatione et Ligatione, then returns to the same conversation choices.

Ask about the book before finishing the conversation if you want the extra background. Then choose the response that fits how you want Coen to speak to Henrik.

• Henrik's bookshop location
• Pendant: the keepsake to show Henrik

Recognise what changes after equipping the reward

After the ritual is complete, equipping the Mysterious Bracelet starts the follow-up in which Henrik dies. The equipment decision comes before the scene at his shop; reaching the shop while still wearing it is not the only condition to plan around.

On returning to the bookshop, red Anachora moths cover the door. Speak with the old woman outside. She describes runes cut into his body and says it was taken to the cemetery.

If your aim is to hear Henrik's own response to the Pendant, make that visit before trying on the completed bracelet. The ordinary Bracelet, the Gift Box clue and simply carrying the enchanted reward are distinct from equipping the Mysterious Bracelet after the ritual.

Use the current objective to find the missing step

The investigation uses object names, catalyst names and two bracelet versions. Match the stage first so you do not keep searching for an item you already have under a different role.