The Night of Horrors Quest Guide: Lacra, the Mandrake, and Her Romance

Lacra’s humor is a trap — “discard common sense, follow Lacra” is literally the trophy description, and The Night of Horrors is the quest that earns it. This guide covers what the sources document: the unlock window, the mandrake objective, and how the quest threads into Lacra’s romance and her ending.

Where and When Does It Start?

The quest sits in the Rockfalls region per Fextralife’s quest index, on Lacra’s optional line. TheGamer’s romance walkthrough pins the window: it unlocks after you have dealt with Isbrand and stays available until you face Brencis — the final stretch of the story closes it.

That makes it missable in the strict sense: PowerPyx’s trophy guide counts Misery Loves Company among the game’s 18 missable trophies. If trophy cleanup matters to you, do it before the endgame; the endings guide maps which story beats are safe to play past.

What Do You Actually Do?

The objective, straight from the trophy text: follow Lacra and find the mandrake. Community walkthroughs describe the quest as Lacra leading you somewhere unreasonable — the joke and the danger arrive together. Neither PowerPyx nor Fextralife documents a step-by-step walkthrough yet, so this page will not invent one; what is verified is the shape:

• It is a follow-and-find quest with Lacra as the guide.
• Completing it fires Misery Loves Company (“Discard common sense, follow Lacra, and find the mandrake”).
• The same quest “will lead you down the path to unlock this achievement and her romance scene” (TheGamer).

Romance and the Bigger Picture

The Blood of Dawnwalker has three romance lines — Anca, Lacra, and Crake — and each is threaded through that character’s quest chain. The Night of Horrors is Lacra’s scene.

It also feeds the endgame choice. Lacra is one of the companion routes into the castle assault:

• With Lacra → The Patricide (defeat Brencis together with her)
• With Crake → The Knyazmaker
• Alone → The Folk Hero

These are mutually exclusive per TheGamer — one save sees one of them, so trophy hunters keep a manual save before the final quest (the routine PowerPyx’s roadmap is built on). The 30-day time system adds the quiet pressure: every optional detour spends segments, and Rockfalls is a crossing away from the endgame regions.