Meet Ocha and reach the upstairs room at night
Find Ocha and Nora at the Altenmarkt inn on the western side of Svartrau. The quest can also be pointed out during A Mother’s Plea, but PowerPyx lists no mandatory prerequisite for finding Ocha yourself.
Follow the objective to Andrei’s hideout on the north side of the city. At night, use Shadowstep to reach the balcony on the building’s south side. Stay upstairs if you intend to follow the spell route; going downstairs leads toward the confrontation.
Take the ring from the small chest
Use Focus in the upper room. The correct memento is Andrei’s Ring, inside a small chest on a desk. You may find several candidate objects, but choose the ring when Ocha asks which item to use.
PC Gamer identifies the pendant and cleaver as alternatives that fail the spell. Do not treat collecting all three as completing the choice; the object you hand over is what matters.
Once you have the ring, leave by the balcony and speak to Ocha outside. If carrying several mementos, select “The ring. Must be important.” Confirm the conversation advances beyond collecting a memento before proceeding.
What is known about the later window scene
After the ring handoff, PowerPyx describes Ocha’s plan as releasing the pigs to distract a guard, then interacting with Andrei’s window. PC Gamer reports that the resulting spell kills Andrei.
This is not a complete window-hex procedure: the retained sources do not show the exact time/form transition after the night entry, or prove an exception to ordinary daytime witchcraft. Do not infer that a normal Astral Communion cast works at night, or advance time on the assumption that it is required. Keep the pre-handoff save if the window objective is your next task.
The ring choice is therefore not a spare-Andrei or nonviolent ending. The guard, window and later reward are follow-on quest stages, separate from finding the correct memento.
What changes if you confront Andrei directly
If you go downstairs and kill Andrei and his men, Ocha enters and the guard-distraction and window-hex objectives are skipped. The quest continues at the riverside meeting.
PC Gamer reports that giving the wrong memento also leads to combat. Neither route should be described as safely sparing Andrei, and the available evidence does not establish a universal advantage for choosing the direct fight.
Reported reward after the later riverside stage
If you have completed the later Andrei sequence and reached the riverside objective, you may accept Ocha’s meal request and gather three crayfish using Focus. Finish the conversation afterward. Both PowerPyx and PC Gamer list the Broad Swing Manual as a reward.
The dialogue influences whether Ocha returns home or stays away from home. The sources disagree about the final response in the homeward dialogue sequence and whether she can teach Swordmastery in every outcome. This guide therefore does not promise a universal teacher unlock or give an unverified exact homeward answer chain.
If your goal is to compare her destination, preserve the save before this conversation and check the result in your own journal and later meeting.
Related guides
Sources and coverage
- Blood of Dawnwalker The Heart Wants What It Wants Walkthrough — Checked 7 September 2026; game build unverified. Used for: Meet Ocha and reach the upstairs room at night, Take the ring from the small chest, What is known about the later window scene, What changes if you confront Andrei directly, Reported reward after the later riverside stage.
- Blood of Dawnwalker The Heart Wants What It Wants walkthrough | PC Gamer — Used for: Meet Ocha and reach the upstairs room at night, Take the ring from the small chest, What is known about the later window scene, What changes if you confront Andrei directly, Reported reward after the later riverside stage.
- The Blood of Dawnwalker: The Heart Wants What It Wants Quest Guide — Used for: Meet Ocha and reach the upstairs room at night, What is known about the later window scene.
Reviewed September 7, 2026. This guide combines the attributed launch-version walkthroughs and footage; it is not a report of a separate playthrough by this site. Check your current quest journal and action-cost prompts when a patch or choice changes the route.