The Family Blade

Assault at the Obelisk

Amongst the notices on the board at Kaer Trolde Harbor on Ard Skellig, is one that reads “Contract: Stolen Sword.” A missive from the lead guard Olaf regarding the pilfering of a sword named “Kuliu” from the Kaer Trolde armory. The suspect was seen leaving to the south, which is where you should travel.

Assuming you aren’t foolish enough to trek off the paths, take the path roughly southward out of Kaer Trolde, down to the Crossroads (signpost), then east around the northern shore of the lake towards the Miners’ Camp (signpost). While on the north side of the lake (as shown), you should stop and physically look for the obelisk perched on a cliff towards the northeast.

You may wish to approach the hillside tent camp containing four renegade thieves from the south, heading north, to more easily spot the foes settling in under the cliffside obelisk. They aren’t friendly, so bring cold steel and strike down all four of them. Now search the corpses of each of them. While their camp holds little of value, one of the thieves holds a journal with a clue to read.

The Call Of Kuliu

Check your Inventory menu and read the journal you found. You’re fortunate that the thief listed a possible location where buyers of the sword may be gathering—an old fortress near Fyresdal. Prepare for a bit of a trek (or boating expedition) to the southern coast of the island. From the town of Fyresdal, run up the path of deforested trees, and up towards the wooden fortification nestled below the snowy cliffs.

Enter the fortification via the only entrance, and fight the renegades. The now-familiar pattern of looting a journal note from one of the slain thieves is your next plan. Check your Inventory menu, and careful reading reveals another meeting. This one at the even more remote Whale Cemetery on the northeast coast of Ard Skellig.

It’s a long trek, either by boat around the coast to the Whale Graveyard, or over Arg Skellig to the druid encampment of Gedyneith, and then a northeast bolt down a slippery gravel path towards the ocean. Four swarthy renegades are waiting. As before, all must be put to your blade. Afterwards, the fabled sword can be found along with a journal, on the corpse of the thief leader. Head back to Kaer Trolde, find Olaf on the bridge, and present him with the sword for a small reward, as the quest concludes.