Echoes of Silenced Bells: Burn the Notes?

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DIRECT ANSWER

What the player needs to know

Reach St. Tyna’s Convent with Anca, collect the Monastery Keys from the groundskeeper’s shed and either trade the Relic of St. Tyna to Brencis’s soldiers or use the bell tower to clear them. For the bell route, ring the infirmary signal and then the church signal. After defeating Leonica, burning or preserving the notes does not block Anca’s romance or the next quest.

Key itemMonastery Keys

Missable pickupSaint’s Tibia

Romance lockoutNeither choice

Coen speaks with a woman beside a fire in an official The Blood of Dawnwalker story scene — St. Tyna’s Convent supports two courtyard routes, a missable Saint’s Tibia and a final decision about whether Anca may continue Leonica’s work.

Get Anca to the library

After meeting Anca and entering the convent, escape the first group of self-reviving nuns and overlook the central courtyard. Before choosing a route, collect the Saint’s Tibia from the corpse below the ladder on the west side. It is used by a later quest and is easy to leave behind once the courtyard objective moves on.

Find the Monastery Keys hanging in the groundskeeper’s wooden shed beside the sacristy. One route is to speak with the trapped soldiers behind the infirmary, use the keys to enter the sacristy, take the Relic of St. Tyna from the dead nun and exchange it for safe passage to the library. The relic is an Epic Amulet, so trading it is a real equipment choice.

Take the Saint’s Tibia below the west ladder.
Loot the Monastery Keys from the shed.
Open the sacristy for the Relic of St. Tyna.
Return to Anca when the route is clear.

Use the bell if you want to keep the relic

Enter the building beside the sacristy and read Campana Loquitur on the floor. It explains that the zombified nuns still answer the convent’s bell routine. Unlock the door below the eastern bell tower, climb to the rope and ring the infirmary signal first; the nuns move to the soldiers’ position.

Ring the church signal second. This moves the nuns away again, letting Coen loot the defeated soldiers and search the courtyard buildings before returning to Anca. The route clears access without handing over the Epic Amulet.

Two courtyard solutions
Route	Key action	Trade-off
Soldier bargain	Exchange the Relic of St. Tyna	Fast access; lose the Epic Amulet
Bell tower	Infirmary signal, then church signal	Keep the relic; soldiers die

Burning the notes does not end Anca’s route

Continue through the crypt and defeat Leonica, She Who Speaks With the Devil. The first angry response to Anca is not the final branch; the meaningful prompt comes afterward, when Coen can burn the research or let Anca attempt to cure the nuns.

Letting Anca use the notes cures the nuns, although she says further unholy bargains were required. Burning them leaves the nuns cursed and upsets her briefly. Both branches still lead to Between the Words, and neither prevents Anca’s romance. Keep a save here for later personal-story differences rather than restarting out of fear of a romance lockout.

The two convent routes and final decision are documented from independent launch-build reporting. Verification will preserve a save before entering the courtyard and another before the notes choice, then carry both branches through Between the Words and Stronger Than Achilles. The current page states only the reported immediate and romance effects; later narrative consequences remain versioned observations rather than universal guarantees.

Continue Anca’s relationship routeSee the shared romance rules and day-zero setup.

Frequently asked questions

Should you burn the notes?

Either choice continues Anca’s questline and romance. Preserve them to cure the nuns; burn them to prevent Anca from making another pact.

What is the bell order?

Ring the infirmary signal first, then ring the church signal.

Where is the Saint’s Tibia?

Loot it from the corpse below the ladder on the west side of the convent courtyard before leaving the area.

REFERENCE RECORD

Sources used for this page

Independent walkthroughPC Gamer Echoes of Silenced Bells walkthrough, published September 2, 2026Independent launch-build route covering both convent approaches, the Saint’s Tibia and the burn-the-notes choice.Independent walkthroughPC Gamer romance guide, published September 2, 2026Independent completed-route guide confirming the three romanceable characters, route structure and ability to pursue all three in one playthrough.

Reach Notorious infamy efficiently and continue Where Loyalty Lies to join the Manumits in The Blood of Dawnwalker.

Dawnwalker Echoes of Silenced Bells Walkthrough