Dawnwalker characters

Albertus Taurinus

Albertus Taurinus is the in-world author of The Secret History of Vale Sangora, the lore series Rebel Wolves posted before launch. Read it if you want the valley's backstory before you start playing.

Alin

Alin is Coen's younger brother, who drowned as a child after falling through cracked ice. You never play alongside him, but his death shapes Coen, his mother Esme and the quest Home Sweet Home.

Ambrus

Ambrus is the youngest of Brencis's three vampire Boyars, the Right Fist of the Knyaz. He rules the north of Vale Sangora and runs the bleeding, transport and storage of human blood.

Anca

Anca is a former nun and herbalist living near Laslea. She taught Coen to read Latin, and after Laslea falls she teaches him blood magic, starting with the hex Compel Soul.

Andrei

Andrei is a silver trader in Svartrau who works out of a hideout behind a butcher's shop. He is the man Ocha wants dealt with in The Heart Wants What It Wants, and how you handle him shapes her ending.

Ascar

Ascar is a beekeeper who lives in a hut on the south side of Tantari. Crake has you tail him in the optional quest Distant Shadows, and what you find out explains a lot about Crake.

Bakir

Bakir, the Mad Khan, is one of Brencis's three vampire Boyars. He rules the southwest of Vale Sangora through fear, and his Lunar Game is one of the big set pieces you can work toward.

Baltzer

Baltzer is an old swordsman locked in the Old Hand pillory in front of Lunar Manor, one of Bakir's Pillories. Free him and his story leads to a Swordmastery teacher for Coen.

Brencis

Brencis is the vampire Knyaz who seized Vale Sangora two years before the story, and the main villain. He is the one who tries and fails to turn Coen, and you have 30 days to beat him to your family.

Coen

Coen is the main character you play. A young farmer from Laslea, he becomes a Dawnwalker, human by day and vampire by night, and has 30 days to save his captive family from Brencis.

Crake

Crake leads the Manumits, the rebels fighting Brencis, and his chain is the longest optional storyline in the game. He is also a romance option, but he won't trust Coen until your Infamy is high.

Danylo

Danylo is a smith's apprentice you can free from one of Ambrus's prisoner transports. Visit him afterwards in Svartrau and he thanks Coen with a piece of armour.

Drogos

Drogos is one of Crake's lieutenants in the Manumits, alongside Sara. He is around when you first meet the rebels, and he points you to Crake after the Ascar business in Distant Shadows.

Esme

Esme is Coen's mother. Grief and illness have left her barely able to eat or leave her bed, and getting her through the next Blood Mass is what drives the prologue.

Farkas

Farkas is the man who brings Coen the invitation to Bakir's Lunar Game. He turns up once you have disrupted enough of Bakir's operations, and meeting him tells you when the games begin.

Florin

Father Florin is the priest of Brencis's church, the Blood Covenant. He was once the old Knyaz's confessor and now explains away every vampire atrocity to his flock.

Gremla

Gremla is Coen's neighbour in Laslea, who is weaving a church banner for the Blood Mass. In the prologue side quest Blasphemy the banner is stolen, and how you help her decides her fate.

Helvia

Helvia was Brencis's human wife in ancient Rome. You only see her through Isbrand's memories, but her death explains a lot about the cold Knyaz Brencis became.

Iorgu

Iorgu is a Laslea villager whose pig has run off, which starts the prologue side quest On the Run. Bring her back and you decide whether she ends up as sausages.

Isbrand

Isbrand is the ancient vampire who turned Brencis. A strict keeper of the old vrakhiri laws, he wanted their kind kept hidden, and Lacra believes he knows how to hurt Brencis.

Kallias

Kallias was an ancient vampire who lived in a crypt hidden in the swamps. Legend says Saint Mihai fought him, and the corruption he left behind still marks the bog.

Lacra

Lacra is a vampire who says she was sent to get rid of Brencis. She can become one of Coen's closest allies and a romance option, but she follows her own agenda.

Lunka

Lunka is Coen's youngest sister and the one he is closest to. Brencis takes her and the rest of the family to Greifberg Castle, and she writes to Coen from inside.

Marat

Marat leads the Manumits, the rebels fighting the vrakhiri. He is brave and well liked but trusts almost no one, so Coen has to prove himself before the rebels let him in.