How To Complete The Shadow In The Night Quest In Mirthwood
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Players will stumble upon hidden quests in Mirthwood. Shadow In The Night is a quest that can be triggered if you head to the cemetery in Brightoak. The cemetery is on the east side of town. There is a note on a chair, that once read, will initiate this quest.
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Shadow In The Night will lead you on a goose chase, trying to find out what all these strange markings mean. The finale of this quest gives you a chance to earn or lose Morality. Completing side quests like this is a great way to farm Morality points.
Shadow In The Night Walkthrough
Search For Clues
After starting the quest from the Brightoak cemetery, you will have to look for clues of a dangerous monster around Brightoak. These clues will all be found within Murkwater Marsh, south of Brightoak.
Quest objectives are sometimes displayed on the map as a yellow highlighted circle. This is the general location of where to find the next part of a quest.
The first clue is a tattered note next to some ruins. From Brightoak, follow the south path into the marshes and walk straight down until you see a broken-down wagon.
From the wagon, head straight to the right until you find some ruins and a note.
Once you have found the note, the quest will change to Continue Searching. The last clue is claw markings on a tree.
There are some trees in Brightoak that have claw markings on them. You only need to investigate one tree to continue.
Head back to the southbound path. The tree is on the left side of the trail. When you get closer, a magnifying glass icon will appear on the tree.
Find Markus
The last objective is to use the clues you found to reach Markus, who can be found at the yellow highlighted circle on the map. When you meet up with Markus, you find he is a villager native to Brightoak who turns into a werewolf.
There are two decisions you can make here. You can either kill Markus or leave him alone. Leaving Markus alone grants you +5 Morality and the completion of the quest. Killing Markus grants you +5 Renown and a couple of useful items.
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Shadow In The Night Choices |
Outcome |
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Leave Markus |
+5 Morality |
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Kill Markus |
+5 Renown Wolf Liver 38 Gold Markus’ Tooth Markus’ Note |
One of those items is Markus’ Tooth. This is a valuable equippable charm. Even if you don’t want its benefits, you can sell it for decent money at the start of the game.
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Markus’ Tooth |
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Perk |
Additional 5% damage against Wolves and Werewolves. |
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Worth |
100 Gold |
You get better rewards by killing Markus, but it will be almost impossible to kill him by yourself at the beginning of the game. This is an early-game quest, so chances are that you are underprepared for a boss fight.
Markus’ health can be whittled down with a Rusty Iron Sword. The main issue is that he inflicts tons of damage and can kill you easily. We have found that you can lure Markus into town and have the villagers help attack him.
The video attached at the beginning of this article showcases defeating Markus.
