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All Swordmastery ability manual locations in The Blood of Dawnwalker
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Tracking down Swordmastery manuals in Blood of Dawnwalker will give you more abilities to use when fighting in your human form. While the regular skill manuals appear to be random, the actual ability manuals have fixed locations, so you can track them down whenever you want. Below, I've included manual locations for all the Swordmastery abilities in the optimal order for grabbing them.
There are seven Swordmastery abilities in Blood of Dawnwalker. You start with Dirty Trick already unlocked, but you can get the others through certain quests or by finding manuals, usually in Bandit Camps, Soldier Camps, or purchase via Swordmastery trainers. The trainers I know of are:
Complete the Ambrus Prisoners: Lucky Crossing quest north of Svartrau and then head to Ursul's camp.
This Uriashi sword teacher is only unlocked through certain endings in The Heart Wants What The Heart Wants quest in Svartrau.
Unlocked through the Manumit questline that starts with The Firebrand, Shadows in the Woods, and then Where Loyalty Lies.
You'll need additional manuals to upgrade abilities past Level 1, so I've included the different ways you can get more of them. The good news is that you can grab all of these abilities in the initial regions after Laslea, especially in St. Tyna's Grove, which is useful considering you'll likely want to make your way there for Anca's Echoes of Silenced Bells quest.
You get this manual in the prologue by completing the Like Father, Like Son quest. First, you'll have to finish the main quest, Withering Away, so leave yourself plenty of time to make sure you can do this one as well. You don't have to beat your father in the fight to get this reward.
You can get this manual from the chest in the Bandit Camp east up the hill from Laslea, near the Outlaw's Gorge shrine. Though you can do this in the prologue, you can still do it after, so it's a bit more efficient time wise to tackle the camp then instead.
You can loot this manual from the chest in the Bandit Camp in the forest to the northwest of Stoneward Post (the big fort in Briar Sloughs). Briar Sloughs is the region directly to the southwest of Laslea, close to where you start on Day 1.