One of the most frustrating quests inDragon’s Dogma 2 is Shadowed Prayers, which tasks you with picking an assassin out of a crowd to save Empress Nadinia. To ensure you don’t make a huge mistake, here’s how to apprehend the assassin in theDragon’s Dogma 2Shadowed Prayers quest.
How to Apprehend the Assassin in Dragon’s Dogma 2
To start the Shadowed Prayers quest, you need to visit the Flamebearer Palace in the morning.If you need to skip time, just Doze Off on a bench until it is morning. When it’s time, head over to the Flamebearer Palace.This is atime-sensitive quest, go straight there.You’ll automatically start talking to Menella and she’ll tell you that your mission is to find an assassin before they kill Empress Nadinia.
You’ll be handed aBandit Bill of Arrest, a seemingly innocuous piece of paper that iscrucialto completing this quest successfully. Once you get it, immediatelyopen your inventoryandread its description. The target is aman who wears his hair tied upand had hisright arm injuredin a previous attempt on the Empress’ life.
Now that you have his description, start walking around the crowd and looking for the target. Make sure to turn on your lantern to get a better look at everybody. Once you’re confident you know who the assassin is,go behind them and grab them. If you grab the right person, the assassination attempt will be thwarted and you’ll complete the quest.
If you’d rather not look for them yourself, then the assassin is located on theright side of the crowd near the middle. He’s a man namedHerman. He’s wearing adark robewith hisright shoulder exposed. You’ll know you’ve got the right guy if he says “Who’re ye s’posed to be!? Fie! Are they on to me!?” Once he’s apprehended, the quest will end and Empress Nadinia will be safe.
If you don’t save Empress Nadinia in time, the assassin will make his move and take her life. That’s right. If you don’t catch the perpetrator in time or grab the wrong person,the Empress of Bakbattahl will die.Thankfully, you can revive her with aWakestoneif it comes to that. Just head to Bakbattahl’sMorgue. Shemay not show up there immediately, so just give it some time and check back later if you don’t find her.
Once you revive her, things don’t go completely back to normal, though. She’ll give you aletterto deliver toMenellasince it’s too dangerous for her to return to the palace. Menella won’t be back at the Flamebearer Palace, however. After the assassination, you have to visit theVolcanic Island Campsoutheast of Bakbattahl.
To get there at this point in the game you’ll have tohead west out of Bakbattahlandfollow the roads southuntil you reach a largecavejust past Wyrmsblood Forest. Continue through that cave to reach the Volcanic Island Camp.
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From his early days of blog-style music, movie, and game reviews to working as the Esports Writer at Coastline Community College, Noah Nelson now works fulltime as a Staff Writer for Attack of the Fanboy and PC Invasion. He has been helping gamers everywhere with Destiny 2 god rolls, Warzone 2 DMZ missions, and collectibles in any indie game for over a year and a half. His Bachelor’s Degree in English Rhetoric and Composition with a minor in Journalism from CSULB has shaped him to be a strong writer and editor. His fondest gaming memory is playing Sly Cooper 2 after begging his mom (for hours) to play it before his birthday and he still cries myself to sleep remembering the time he accidentally saved over his 99% completion save file in Kingdom Hearts 2.
