The Hermit is a side quest in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of The Hermit side mission.
- Starting Location: Trosky Region > Tachov
- Quest Giver: Blacksmith Radovan
- Requirement: If you choose to do the Blacksmith’s questline to get into the wedding then this will be his third quest after The Jaunt (didn’t to Miller questline). If you did the Miller’s questline to get into the wedding, then the blacksmith will give it as his second quest after The Blacksmith’s Son.
- Reward: 45 Groschen
- Quest Type: Side Quest
- Quest Description: Blacksmith Radovan wants to forge an unbendable blade made from Damascus Steel. But he’s missing the required material. He sends you to get the material from the Hermit in the woods of Apollonia.
Objectives:
- Find out more about the Hermit
- Find out the truth about the devil (Optional)
- Find another clue
- Read the diary you found
- Find the hermit’s grave
- Get the Hermit’s Sword
- Take the sword to the blacksmith
- Forge and hand over the sword
- Take the sword to Tomcat (Only if you did the Miller’s Questline to get to Wedding)
Starting Location: The Hermit
The Hermit starts from Blacksmith Radovan in Tachov. This will be either his 2nd or 3rd quest depending on whether you help the Blacksmith or the Miller to get into the wedding during Main Quest 5: Wedding Crashers. If you do the Blacksmith’s questline for the wedding, then it will be his 3rd quest after The Jaunt. If you did the Miller’s questline, then The Jaunt will be skipped and you instead get this as the blacksmith’s second quest.
Find out more about the Hermit
The blacksmith told us that the womenfolk in Troskowitz know where to find the Hermit. Go to the tavern and talk to Innkeeper Betty. She’ll walk around the tavern area. She might also give another side quest “Invaders” but ignore that for now.
Say this: “I need advice on the hermit“. She mentions men with knives came by the inn and were looking for the hermit. It will mark the objective on the map, in the woods northeast of Troskowitz. The exact point where you find the hermit is in the west of the yellow search area, reachable by following the small roads. He’s at a hut there.
Hermit Location:
He will refuse to talk to you. Continue with the next objective.
Find out the truth about the devil (Optional) / Find another clue
The Hermit holds a book called Diary of Knight Konrad. You must obtain this from him and read it. There are two methods: you can pickpocket the hermit, or you can kill him and loot it.
The non-violent outcome is to pickpocket him, easier done while he sleeps. It’s best to make a manual save beforehand (Save & Exit to Menu). If you’re noticed you can reload the save to try again.
- Method #1 Pickpocketing: First, leave the hermit’s area and advance time till 24:00 midnight so he’s asleep (press Touchpad to skip time). Sleeping people are easier to pickpocket. Aim at his pouch so the “Rob” prompt appears. Hold
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on the pouch. The lunette will fill up, if it’s red you’re nearing detection. The longer you let it fill up, the more time you have later to steal items. Let it fill up as long as possible just before reaching detection (listen to the sound, it gets louder when near detection). Then the second phase starts, you can select an item to reveal, then click it to confirm you want to steal it, select the top slot at 12 o’ clock to successfully steal it before time runs out. When done successfully, he won’t notice you. Pickpocket the item that looks like a brown book (he has two books, the correct one will update the objective).
- Method #2 Kill and loot him: Kill him, loot the Diary of Knight Konrad from him.
Read the diary you found
Open your inventory and from the Lore Books section read Diary of Knight Konrad. Then skip through all pages. This will trigger the next objective. It’s revealed that the guy posing as the hermit isn’t the real hermit at all. He buried the real hermit. We must head to the true hermit’s grave.
Find the hermit’s grave / Get the Hermit’s Sword
The Hermit’s Grave location is near the middle of the search area, slightly north of where the “E” objective marker is on the map. It’s under a beech tree. Loot Amrbose’s broken sword that sticks out of the grave.
Digging up the grave would require a Spade, but isn’t necessary. His corpse doesn’t have anything to loot anyway. You only need the sword that sticks out of the ground.
Take the sword to the blacksmith
Fast travel back to the blacksmith (click blue flag icon on map to fast travel there).
Say “I got the hermit’s sword“. He then wants you to forge the sword. It’s best to make another save here, in case you mess up the sword you can reload to recraft it.
Forge and hand over the sword
Interact with the anvil and select “The Hermit’s Sword” recipe from the Longswords tab. It requires Ambrose’s broken sword, 1x Frankfurt steel, 2x Scrap metal.
Then craft it just like you did the sword in the previous quest.
- Hold
to blow the bellows and move the left stick up/down until the entire sword glows white.
- Put sword on anvil and hammer it evenly from both sides. Hit each side 6 times, each hit evenly spread apart from the previous one (don’t hit same spot repeatedly). Rinse and repeat.
- When sword cools down, heat it up again and continue to hit it evenly from both sides.
When it’s done Henry will automatically hold up the sword and you can quench it. This forges the Toledo steel sword. Give it to the smithy afterward, say “I forged the sword”.
Take the sword to Tomcat (Only if you did the Miller’s Questline to get to Wedding)
If you already went to the wedding through the Miller’s Questline then you get this extra objective. Normally, you’d bring the forged sword to the wedding as a gift for the groom. But if you already finished the wedding you bring it to Tomcat instead.
Tomcat is in the Nomda’s Camp, in the southwest of the map. If you’ve been there before you can fast travel, if not you’ll have to go there yourself. His exact location in the camp varies by time of day, so check your compass marker.
Tell him “The blacksmith won the bet (hand over the sword)“. He wants to see the sword in action during a fight. It doesn’t matter if you say “let’s fight” or “Sod fighting”, either way Henry will admit he forged the sword and Tomcat will reward you without a fight.
You get 45 Groschen. Tomcat also gives another side quest “Combat Training 1“.
This finishes The Hermit side quest in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.
For all other Quests refer to Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Walkthrough.
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