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[WiP] Conquest Guide: Non-Combat NPCs & Encounters
By deflime
A collection of all non-combat encounters for easy reference during your Conquest runs. Subject to errors or changes when game is patched/balanced.
   
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Category: Characters, Walkthroughs
Languages: English
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8 Jul, 2020 @ 3:13am
25 Jul, 2020 @ 2:09pm
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Guide Index
Overview
Legend 
Items of Interest 
A Lost Soul ❖ ♡ ⟰ 
Ancient Gravestones/Tombstones ➀ ♢ ♡ $ 
A Shimmering Light ➀ 
Allmother's Altar/Shrine ➀ ♡ $ 
Armed Wanderer ➀ ❖ ⚔ 
Blacksmith ⚐ 
Blood Altar ➀ ❖ 
Candlemaker ⚐ 
Confident Priestess ♡ ⚔ ❖ 
Cursed Broch ➀ ⚔ ⚐ 
Erratic Seamstress ⚐ ♡ 
Fallen Knight ➀ ⚠ 
Fat Knight ➀ ⚠ 
Fountain of Health ➀ ♡ 
Hanging Tree ➀ 
Hunter's Grounds/Grove ➀ ❖ ⚔ 
Insane Worshipers ➀ ⚠ ❦ 
Manasse ➀ ⚠ ♡ ♢ $ XP 
Mysterious Witch ➀ ❖ 
Obscure Tavern ♡ 
Old Merchant ⟰ 
Pied Piper 
Run-down Windmill $ ∞ 
Seeking Traveler ➀ 
Tainted Altar ➀ ×1 
Training Grounds ➀ ⚔ $ ❖ 
Comments
Legend
➀ One-time encounter
⚠ Forced encounter (no leave option)
⚐ Villager
⚔ Risk of combat encounter
♡ Provides healing
$ Awards coin
❦ Awards food
♢ Awards Wyrdstone
⟰ Marketplace
❖ Deck-building mechanic (pick/discard)
∞ Can revisit for more encounters after a timeout period
⟳ Recursive (has no effect, returns to options)
➤ Non-recursive (moves encounter forward or leaves)
[☢ Status effect]
?? Untested
Items of Interest
Divine Eyes - awarded from Hanging Tree
  ⤷ Hand in at A Shimmering Light encounter - awards a legendary card ❖
Prisoner's Trinket - awarded from Cursed Broch
  ⤷ Hand it in at the Master-At-Arms ⚐ - adds ($750) mark a card to always be in your starting hand
A Lost Soul ❖ ♡ ⟰
Rest ($100) - ➀ ♡50% of max hp
Meditate and forget skills ($500) - ❖ discard
  ⤷ Last time: Meditate and forget skills ($1000?) - ❖ discard
⟰ Buy supplies
Leave (safe)
Ancient Gravestones/Tombstones ➀ ♢ ♡ $
Walk around - ♢50 / ♡20%
Loot the graves - $50
Feed a cat - ??
Leave (unsafe)
A Shimmering Light ➀
Follow the light
  ⤷ Keep following the light x5 (♡30)
    ⤷ Fight
      ⤷ Doesn't actually trigger combat (visit Hanging Tree)
    ⤷ ?? Wait
    ⤷ Run away (unsafe - character flees)
Leave (safe)
Allmother's Altar/Shrine ➀ ♡ $
➤ Ask to be healed - ♡20
➤ Ask for blessing ($150)
  ⤷ Heal 10% of hp every turn for next 6 turns
➤ Rob the shrine - $500
  ⤷ All healing disabled: Curse -100% Incoming Healing (doesn't stack so rob them all)
Leave (safe)

-- ALTERNATE --
Give her the item (Mantle of Despair)
  ⤷ Restores full health + 1000XP
?? Refuse
Armed Wanderer ➀ ❖ ⚔
Learn ($500) - Mark 1 card as always-in-your-first-hand
  ⤷ Fight (triggers combat ⚔)
    ⤷ ❖ Awards a card: Furious Fight: (2) Legendary Hit 10x targets random enemies.
Leave (safe)
Blacksmith ⚐
Blood Altar ➀ ❖
➤ Pray (make sure you are at full health to pay the costs which scale with Max XP, you cannot return if you proceed to Pray)
  ⤷ Leave (unsafe)
  ⤷ Pray to forget (♡30) - ❖ discard
  ⤷ Pray for the light (♡10) - 5x Wyrdcandles
  ⤷ Pray for life (♡40) - +20 Max HP
Leave (safe)
Candlemaker ⚐
Revisiting awards 1x Wyrdcandle
Confident Priestess ♡ ⚔ ❖
➤ Ask to be healed (risk of combat encounter)
  ⤷ Triggers combat (no heal)
  ⤷ Inquire further (she's busy)
    ⤷ ❖ Awards a card: Allmother's Blessing: (3) Legendary Heal back to full HP.
Leave (safe)
Cursed Broch ➀ ⚔ ⚐
Look for treasure
  ⤷ May reward $
Free the prisoner (continuous loop until they join village)
  ⤷ Joins village
  ⤷ Flees
  ⤷ Triggers combat ⚔ (solo weak enemy)
Check the prisoner's cell
  ⤷ Awards 1 Prisoner's Trinket
Leave (safe)
Erratic Seamstress ⚐ ♡
Ask her to sow your body - ➀ ♡
Invite her to your village ⚐
Leave (unsafe - character flees - will respawn?)
Fallen Knight ➀ ⚠
➤ How can I help?
  ⤷ He wants you to put him out of his misery. NEXT ENCOUNTER:
    ⤷ Sneak up to him
      ⤷ Rewards his armor (junk) and weapon (great)
      ⤷ Lose ♡10
    ⤷ Leave (unsafe - character flees - will respawn)
?? No, I have my own worries
⟳ Invite him to your village
Fat Knight ➀ ⚠
Spoiler tags: ⚔
➤ Kindly refuse to be eaten
  ⤷ Give him food ❦5 - no reward
  ⤷ Leave (unsafe - character flees)
➤ Tell him to bite himself
  ⤷ Triggers combat ⚔ (very, very, very bad idea)
?? Run away
Fountain of Health ➀ ♡
Spoiler tags: ⚔
Drink the holy water - ♡10
  ⤷ ➤ Risk and drink more - ♡25% Max HP
    ⤷ Chance to trigger combat ⚔ - health awarded afterward
  ⤷ Leave (safe)
Leave (safe)

Chance of random encounters:
  ⤷ Awards 5 healing potions
Hanging Tree ➀
➤ Loot the Hanging Tree
  ⤷ Nothing
  ⤷ $100
Leave (safe)

-- OR --
Look for the eyes
  ⤷ Repeat until rewards Divine Eyes
Leave (unsafe)
Hunter's Grounds/Grove ➀ ❖ ⚔
➤ Risk sleeping in this dangerous place
⤷ Forget two skills - ❖ discard 2
⤷ Learn two new skills - ❖ pick 2
⤷ Triggers combat ⚔ (trivial rat pack) - restores health
⤷ Leave (Unsafe?)
Leave (safe)
Insane Worshipers ➀ ⚠ ❦
Spoiler tags: ⚔ $ XP
➤ Bow before the statue - ❦5 [☢ Drunk]
  ⤷ ➤ Ask about their Goddess
  ⤷ Leave
➤ Refuse to bow
  ⤷ Triggers combat ⚔ (5x spawns ~Challenging)
    ⤷ Rewards a decent amount of supplies, XP, $
Manasse ➀ ⚠ ♡ ♢ $ XP
Spoiler tags: ⚔
?? Ask for healing - ♡Full
?? Ask for wealth - $250
➤ Ask for Wyrdstone - ♢100
➤ Ask for experience - 1000XP
?? Ask for nothing
-- OR --
➤ Ask for a blessing
  ⤷ Fight (Option or may automatically trigger combat ⚔ - 5 Wyrm Serpents)
    ⤷ Leads back to the 5 options above
  ⤷ ?? Leave (probably unsafe)
➤ Leave them in peace
Mysterious Witch ➀ ❖
⟳ Ask her to join your village
➤ Ask her to help you hone your skills - ❖ discard
⟳ Ask her about herself
Leave (safe)
Obscure Tavern ♡
Spoiler tags: ⚐
Rest ($100) - ➀ ♡50
Play dice ($100) - coin flip double your money
Drink and be merry ($200) - ➀ [☢ Drunk]
  ⤷ Awards a random weapon
  ⤷ Talk with the ghost ⚐
Leave (safe)
Old Merchant ⟰
⟰ Buy supplies
⟳ Invite him to your village
Leave (safe)
Pied Piper
➤ Why would I need a weird flute?
  ⤷ ➤ Kill him before he summons more rats
    ⤷ Triggers combat ⚔ (3x spawns ~Challenging)
  ⤷ ➤ Ask him to stop
    ⤷ Take the instrument - awards 1 Wooden Flute
    ⤷ ?? Are there any other songs you can play?
➤ You're completely insane
Leave (unsafe - character flees)

-- OR --
➤ Can you teach me any other songs? (wooden flute)
    ⤷ Flute - reduce everyone's armor
    ⤷ Flute - reduce damage from undead
    ⤷ Flute - reduce damage from beasts
    ⤷ Flute - stun a human enemy
    ⤷ Flute - damage all totems
Leave (unsafe - character flees)
Run-down Windmill $ ∞
Awards $20 - resets every few minutes
There appears to be random encounters that show up
  ⤷ ⟳ Druid
Seeking Traveler ➀
Sometimes awards 1 Wyrdcandle
?? Give him a Wyrdcandle
?? Invite him to your village
Leave (unsafe - character flees)
Tainted Altar ➀ ×1
Spoiler tags: ♡ ⚔
➤ Open the sarcophagus
  ⤷ Triggers combat ⚔ (3x+ Weak)
  ⤷ Awards 1 healing potion
  ⤷ Awards Seal of Unfolding
  ⤷ Take the amulet (has no effect)
  ⤷ Leave (Triggers/Awards nothing)
Leave (safe)
Training Grounds ➀ ⚔ $ ❖
➤ I'll fight something easy - $50 ⚔
➤ I want a challenge - $100 ⚔
➤ Hit me with all you've got
  ⤷ I said I'll fight ⚔ 4x Amalgated Deer ~Challenging
    ⤷ Awards rare weapon or armor
  ⤷ I changed my mind (safe)
➤ Pick a card ($100) ❖
Leave (safe)
8 Comments
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Namcy144 7 Jun, 2021 @ 10:58pm 
Marketplace 5,000 gold -> additional items. I was hoping that he join the village, but meh. hahaha
MiniHaloe 7 Jun, 2021 @ 3:11pm 
Anyone know what happens when you give the Marketplace 5,000 gold? Don't know if it's worth it to sink my money into it.
gamephreak13 6 Jun, 2021 @ 7:12pm 
@MSPaintRose - the answer for her is 20-30 and it gives you the option to exchange runestones with her I don't know if there's anything else to the encounter though.
MSPaintRose 31 May, 2021 @ 7:37pm 
Anyone run into a disfigured woman? She asks us to guess how old she is.
deflime  [author] 25 Jul, 2020 @ 3:43am 
@Thomy013, thanks for the info! I'm pretty sure I had that encounter at the Tainted Altar but wasn't paying attention. There was some other one with an amulet but nothing came of it. I have a bad habit of clicking to quickly sometimes through these encounters. I also think I had one other item of interest that I turned in somewhere before I understood that some of the encounters actually evolve over many conquest runs on the same save game. I'll probably start another save game at some point and I can crawl over everything again. Still need to jump in and try the new Druid runs.

I'm actually already in the Discord, I've updated my name to match, if anyone wants to @ me to help add things to the guide.
OlMaltelO 25 Jul, 2020 @ 3:22am 
Also feel free to pop over at the official Discord [discord.gg], we might be able to assist you a bit :)
OlMaltelO 25 Jul, 2020 @ 3:05am 
Great overview :D
Few things: divine eyes are a quest item for encounter in shimmering light, rewarding a legendary card


Graveyard has actually a few random encounters:
you can meet a cat and feed her
You can meet a man crying for help, possibly ending with a fight
And possibly more, cant remember from the top of my head :)

And Tainted altar is missing the best one: the talking skull!! :D


ard_berlin  [developer] 18 Jul, 2020 @ 1:38pm 
Woah, this is amazing :D