What denarii buy in The Blood of Dawnwalker, how to unlock the Silver Trader \u2014 the quest route and the Infamy route \u2014 and the one merchant your own choices can kill.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"blog_tag":[],"class_list":["post-5080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-blood-of-dawnwalker"],"acf":{"redactor":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":"
Money in The Blood of Dawnwalker is called denarii<\/strong>, and the game itself confirms the name: one of its achievements, \u201cSmuggler\u201d, asks you to earn 1,000 denarii selling silver. That single line tells you more about the economy than most of the launch coverage \u2014 it names the currency, names the trade that pays, and puts a number on it.<\/p>\n What follows separates what the game states, what the guides agree on, and what they contradict each other about. The last part matters most, because the disagreement is about the one step that can be lost permanently.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" TL;DR<\/p>\n Denarii \u2014 denarius in the singular, which fits a game set in 14th-century Europe. You spend it on weapons, armour, healing items and the rest of the usual merchant stock.<\/p>\n The achievement list is the only place the game puts a figure on any of this in public: \u201cSmuggler \u2014 Earn 1000 denarii selling silver.\u201d<\/strong> (the game\u2019s own Steam achievement list<\/a>, where it sits next to \u201cMiser \u2014 Accumulate 5000 denarii\u201d.) It is worth reading twice. Not \u201cearn 1,000 denarii\u201d, but earn it selling silver<\/em> \u2014 the game is pointing at the trade it considers the money-maker, and it is the same one every guide converges on.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"Early Game: Sell the Junk, Then Check Trade Goods","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Your inventory fills fast if you loot as you explore, and the game gives you a blunt tool for it: talking to a merchant offers \u201cSell all Junk\u201d<\/strong>, which clears the low-value pile in one action instead of item by item.<\/p>\n The trap is next to it. The Trade Goods tab<\/strong> holds things that look like junk and are tracked separately because they are not \u2014 they carry a higher price. Dumping everything without opening that tab is the most common way to leave denarii on the table in the first hours.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"Mid Game: Silver, and the Buyer Who Can Die","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Silver is the best thing you can pick up early, and it stays the best thing to sell well past that. But ordinary merchants are not the buyer. The Silver Trader lives in Svartrau<\/strong>, and until you have access to him, silver sits in your bags as weight.<\/p>\n Then comes the part that makes this an article rather than a checklist. The Silver Trader can be killed as a consequence of your choices during the story.<\/strong> If that happens, the guides say no other merchant will buy silver for the rest of that playthrough, and nothing in the interface warns you beforehand. Scattered player reports describe other buyers turning up; none of them has held up to checking, so plan as if the Silver Trader is the only one \u2014 the cost of being wrong runs the other way.<\/p>\n In a game already built around a thirty-day clock \u2014 where time spent is the resource you cannot get back \u2014 losing the only silver buyer is the rare mistake that is worse than losing time. It is permanent within the run.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"How to Unlock the Silver Trader","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Two routes lead to him, and they are alternatives rather than steps: either one is enough. Both are described the same way by Game8<\/a> and TheGamer<\/a>, which is why this section names them instead of hedging.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"table","headers":[{"header_text":"Route"},{"header_text":"What it takes"},{"header_text":"When to use it"}],"rows":[{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Complete \u201cInto the Den\u201d"},{"cell_text":"Finish the quest and loot the marked cache \u2014 it holds the Letter With a Tip, which names the trader and points to Svartrau"},{"cell_text":"The route most guides put first: no reputation cost, and it can be done whenever the quest comes up"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Reach Infamy level 4 (Notorious)"},{"cell_text":"Earned through Court Activities. At level 4 the trader recognises Coen and deals with him without the letter"},{"cell_text":"The fallback if the quest has already gone past you \u2014 but Infamy is not free elsewhere"}]},{"cells":[{"cell_text":"Then, either way: say the line"},{"cell_text":"Choose the dialogue option \u201cI know you trade in silver.\u201d"},{"cell_text":"Not optional. Skipping it leaves a merchant who appears to sell nothing"}]}],"size":"default"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Whichever route you take, the shop does not open on sight: you have to pick the dialogue line \u201cI know you trade in silver.\u201d<\/strong> Players who walked up, saw a merchant with nothing to sell and left assumed the unlock had failed \u2014 it had not, they had simply not said the sentence. \u00abInto the Den\u00bb is the route most guides recommend, because Infamy level 4 is earned through Court Activities and drags consequences of its own behind it.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"What Is Still Unknown","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Prices.<\/strong> Beyond the achievement\u2019s 1,000 denarii, no published figure holds up: not what silver sells for, not what gear costs, not what a full upgrade path runs to.<\/p>\n How much you actually need.<\/strong> Nobody has finished the game enough times to say what a playthrough costs, and the thirty-day structure means two players can need very different amounts.<\/p>\n What Infamy level 4 costs you elsewhere.<\/strong> The route is documented; the side effects of being Notorious in the rest of the game are not, and no guide has traced them.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"title","heading":"Our Take: Protect the Buyer, Not the Balance","tag":"h2"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" Our Take<\/p>\n The scarce thing in this economy is not denarii. It is the one merchant who buys silver, and he is killable.<\/p>\n Everything else here is recoverable. Sell the wrong junk and you lose a handful of coin; miss the Trade Goods tab and you lose a little more. Lose the Silver Trader and you have removed the best income in the game from that entire run, in a game that already limits you to thirty days.<\/p>\n So the practical order is: clear junk freely, check Trade Goods before every town exit, hoard silver rather than selling it cheap \u2014 and when the story puts you in a position to make a choice around Svartrau, understand that the trader is a resource, not a character.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text","text":" The publisher has not documented the economy. What follows is where each claim came from, and how far to trust it.<\/p>\n\n
Sources and Confidence<\/h2>\n
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\n \nClaim<\/th>\n Where it comes from<\/th>\n Status<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n The currency is called denarii<\/td>\n The game\u2019s own achievement text \u2014 \u201cSmuggler: Earn 1000 denarii selling silver\u201d<\/td>\n Game data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \u201cSell all Junk\u201d merchant option; Trade Goods tab holds higher-value items<\/td>\n Game8<\/a> and AllThings.How<\/a>, independently<\/td>\n Two sources agree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Silver is the best early loot to sell; the Silver Trader is in Svartrau<\/td>\n The same two guides<\/td>\n Two sources agree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n The Silver Trader can be killed by player choices, ending silver sales for that playthrough<\/td>\n Game8, stated as a warning<\/td>\n Single source, and the highest-stakes claim here \u2014 flagged as such<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n How the trader is unlocked \u2014 \u201cInto the Den\u201d with the Letter With a Tip, or Infamy level 4<\/td>\n Game8<\/a> and TheGamer<\/a>, independently, both naming the \u201cI know you trade in silver.\u201d step<\/td>\n Two sources agree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Prices, totals, how much a playthrough needs<\/td>\n Nobody has published them<\/td>\n Unknown, left unknown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Whether any merchant besides the Silver Trader buys silver<\/td>\n The guides say none does; scattered player reports say otherwise, and none of them could be confirmed<\/td>\n Unresolved \u2014 this page plans for the stricter case<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"faq","items":[{"question":"What is the currency in The Blood of Dawnwalker called?","answer":"Denarii \u2014 denarius in the singular. The game confirms the name in its own achievement list: \u201cSmuggler\u201d asks you to earn 1,000 denarii selling silver."},{"question":"What is the fastest way to make money early?","answer":"Loot as you explore and use the \u201cSell all Junk\u201d option at merchants to clear the pile in one action. Before you leave town, open the Trade Goods tab \u2014 those items look like junk but sell for more, and dumping them with everything else is the usual early mistake."},{"question":"Who buys silver, and where?","answer":"The Silver Trader, in Svartrau. Ordinary merchants are not the buyer, so silver is dead weight in your bags until you have access to him."},{"question":"Can I lose the ability to sell silver?","answer":"Yes, and this is the one irreversible thing in the economy. The Silver Trader can be killed as a consequence of choices you make during the story, and if that happens no other merchant will buy silver for the rest of that playthrough."},{"question":"How do I unlock the Silver Trader?","answer":"Two ways, and either one is enough. Finish the \u201cInto the Den\u201d quest and loot the cache for the Letter With a Tip, which points you at the trader in Svartrau; or raise Coen\u2019s Infamy to level 4 (Notorious) through Court Activities, after which he deals with you on sight. In both cases you then have to choose the dialogue line \u201cI know you trade in silver.\u201d \u2014 without it the shop stays closed."}]}],"bottom":null,"meta_description":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5085,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5080\/revisions\/5085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5080"},{"taxonomy":"blog_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neonsect.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_tag?post=5080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}