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How to beat the Ravenous Bear and complete Into the Den in The Blood of Dawnwalker
Kill this hangry boss and find the flat stone marked with X.
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Fighting the Ravenous Bear is an early combat challenge in Blood of Dawnwalker's prologue, but mainly because you don't have many skills or decent equipment yet, which turns the fight into a slog. After you do defeat it, you'll also have to track down a treasure as part of the Into the Den quest. I'll run through how to do both below.
The Ravenous Bear is the most challenging early boss you can encounter near Laslea. Here are some tips to beat it, plus a video of me fighting the bear above so you can see the strategy in action:
With all that, you should be able to defeat the bear, and then check the mangled corpse behind it to start the Into the Den quest.
Reading the Tattered Letter you find on the corpse will begin Into the Den, giving you a search area to the northwest where you need to look for the stash mentioned in the note. Specifically, you're looking for a "flat stone marked with an X".
You can find this inside in the ramshackle hut with the door on the west side of the search area—it's the only structure with a door, so it's hard to miss. If still confused, follow the nearby shrine west along the road and you'll spot the hut to your left as you pass.
Loot the treasure (which will take one time cycle) to get the very snazzy-looking Artisan's Tunic, the extremely good Rebel's Falchion shortsword, plus a handy note about where to sell any silver you might find later in the game, a substance strictly prohibited by the vamps for obvious reasons.
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