Baldur's Gate 3

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Taking Blood

Taking Blood

Steal the Blood of Lathander from underneath Rosymorn Monastery.

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How to unlock the Taking Blood achievement in Baldur's Gate 3 - Definitive Guide

The developers of Baldur’s Gate 3 designed most questlines so that they may be completed in multiple ways. Thus, giving the players more freedom in how they approach situations. This guide represents one method that is confirmed to unlock this achievement.

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Rosymorn Monastery
Bring Lae’zel with you to the Rosymorn Monastery. When you reach the monastery, collect 3 ceremonial weapons (details below). Place/throw the weapons on the pedestals that match their owners (examine the stained glass floor for clues).

Here are the weapons in order from left to right as you enter the room.
  • Dawnmaster Vaseid – Ceremonial Battleaxe – 2nd floor Guardian
  • Dawnmaster Welkinglory – Ceremonial Longsword (already in position)
  • Dawnmaster Seed – Ceremonial Warhammer – Rooftop Eagle Nest
  • Dawnmaster Stockhold – Ceremonial Mace – 1st floor Kobolds
After placing the weapons, collect the Dawnmaster’s Crest from the revealed bag. Now, head down to the Creche in the basement. Once there, navigate the halls toward the northeast corner and talk to the commander. Either tell her about the artifact or pickpocket the key from her (use on the pedestal beside the energy door). Follow the pathway toward the inquisitor and agree to help him.

When you reach the astral plane, talk with the Dream Visitor and agree to help her. Then, share what you saw with Lae’zel so she doesn’t leave the party. Take the portal back to the inquisitor’s room and be prepared for a fight. Focus the inquisitor down immediately to simplify the battle. Next, walk into the alcove on the west side of the room and turn the statues with one facing the direction you came and the other facing the wall. Use someone with high strength to move them.

Secret Chamber
Take the newly opened pathway to the Secret Chamber. Once there, destroy the Energy Source crystals and disarm the Dawnbreakers to proceed. You will need to move off the primary pathway to reach the crystals. When you reach the main objective, place the Dawnmaster’s Crest in the Crest Panel, releasing the Blood of Lathander, and unlocking the achievement.

The Blood of Lathander may also be grabbed if you have a way to get outside the traps that spring. As soon as you grab the mace (if you didn’t use the Dawnmaster’s Crest) a force field will surround you. Using something like Dimension Door can help get out of the initial trap.
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14 Dec 2023 05:30

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By LSK ArcAziel on 19 Oct 2024 09:11
Just fyi if you don't have someone with enough strength to move the statue you can throw a grease bottle on the floor of the statue and you should be able to move it
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By Fellipe B T on 31 Jan 2024 23:47
You can skip a huge chunk of this if you have someone with high lockpicking, don't even need to get any of the ceremonial weapons.
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By Reelbiggerfish on 03 Apr 2024 01:26
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There are three puzzles within the Rosymorn Monastery that will prevent you from getting this trophy. So, this helpful solution will fill in the blanks and give you the bare basics you'll need to complete this quest!

Step #1
Above and around the surface and higher levels of the monastery, you'll find magic-allergic rats, drunken ratkin, and possessive, snarky birds. Upon the second-to-highest floor, there is an alcove with a glowing weapon on a slab of stone. Reading the plaques and looking at the stained glass depiction on the floor, you'll sense a theme about the former masters of the monastery. The first weapon placed, the Ceremonial Longsword, requires companions to be placed alongside it in order to unlock a key item for later. One of them can be found not far from this alcove, behind a protected door. You can either unlock the door or go around it, following the right hall until it wraps around to an outdoor location. Here, you can find a wall to destroy to get in and find a spell still active over the weapon. Picking it up will start combat with the spell, which is quite unfair in its counters. Once the character falls to it, the spell will disperse, allowing you to come in and recover if necessary.

The third ceremonial weapon can be found on the top level of the monastery in the nest of some large birds. Unfortunately, I was unable to talk to them before they became hostile (due to accidentally stepping into their nest) so I am unsure if there is another option, but you must claim the weapon from the nest either way.

The last weapon doesn't appear to be an actual ceremonial weapon. I've read some sources saying any weapon will suffice, but my experience with it showed that only one weapon worked: there is a rusty mace you can collect in a collapsed hallway near a skeleton. I tried using a githyanki crossbow and a rusty dagger but was met with mud being thrown upon me, but using the rusty mace fulfilled the condition, unlocked the secret wall, and had my character state that any weapon would suffice for that one.

Step #2
Deep within the depths of the monastery, the githyanki have taken up residence. You can pursue the creche questline with Lae'zel here. In the deepest chamber where the creche leader exists is a small hall where several treasure chests have been pooled along with a false lead on the Blood of Lathander. The two statues here can be rotated, though one is a bit rusted. You can attempt a strength check using your characters to see if you can rotate it, or you can lube it up with water to get it to move as well. Whichever choice you make, fulfill the condition of the two plaques underneath the statues to reveal another secret wall and the true vault of the monastery.

Step #3
With the item you obtained from the Dawnmaster alcove and having revealed the vault, make your way through the several radiant traps to the prime piece of the vault, where the true Blood of Lathander shines brightly. I wouldn't necessarily suggest trying to mess around with pulling it out, though I'm sure some could with their checks, but to safely unlock the mechanism and free your legendary weapon from it, insert the seal in the crest pedestal and you will obtain this weapon.
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07 Sep 2023 18:13

Act 2
Quest line with Githyanki Manger

We arrive in Rosimorne, as we move through the fortress we find a room with 4 pedestals, on one of them a glowing sword. You need to find and place 3 weapons on the remaining pedestals.
1. On the roof in the eagle's nest
2. On the same floor behind a door closed by magic (the guard cannot attack outside the circle, we just shoot from the corner)
3. In the grave a level lower, at the very edge of the map (you need to leave the castle through the passage opposite the talking statue)
We take the coat of arms.

Later we find ourselves in the inquisitor's room, ignore him, go left from the entrance, there are 2 statues.
- turn right to the east
- left to the west (you need to hit with a blunt weapon if you fail the athletics test)

We enter the doors
- We break the crystal, thereby turning off the magic door
- Defuse the trap, or quickly run to the left over the stones
- Shoot the crystal on the wall and clear another trap
- Shoot the crystal at the bottom of the cliff, on the opposite side of the trap
- We insert the coat of arms into the pedestal, we get a trophy
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08 Sep 2023 01:28

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To get the coat of arms, you just need to pass the test and see the hidden wall in the room with the stained glass window, which is opened by hacking.
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By kneesocks on 23 Nov 2023 15:50