Farkas in The Blood of Dawnwalker: The Jester's Plot & The Ring Choice

Farkas smiles a lot. That is the first thing you notice about him. The second thing is that the smile never reaches his eyes.

He is Bakir’s jester — the Mad Khan’s personal entertainment, the one who capers and jokes and makes the court laugh while the games go on. He is very good at it. He has had years of practice. And every smile, every joke, every moment of performed loyalty is a mask for something he has been planning for a very long time.

Who Is Farkas?

From Coen’s journal: “Farkas pretends to be Bakir’s loyal servant, but he’s secretly devised a plan to kill his master. He needs an accomplice — and that’s why we met. He seems awfully determined. Let’s hope it isn’t a trap — or that he doesn’t get cold feet.”

That is the truth of him. Farkas is not a victim. He is not a spy working for someone else. He is a man who has decided that Bakir must die, and who has spent years positioning himself to make that happen. The jester act is not submission. It is camouflage.

His motivation is personal. Bakir gravely abused Farkas’s younger brother. The details are not stated outright — the game lets you infer them from Farkas’s urgency, from the way his voice changes when he speaks of family, from the ring.

The Ring: Farkas’s Quest

The Ring is a follow-up quest to The Lunar Game — the boss fight where you kill Bakir. After angering Bakir through his court activities and completing the games, Farkas approaches you with a request.

He wants a ring. Specifically, the Ring with the Purple Eye — an amethyst family heirloom that sits in Bakir’s treasure room. If you can enter the treasure room during the Lunar Game and retrieve it, Farkas believes it might be the only thing that can reverse his brother’s condition.

The problem: the ring has demonic runes inscribed on it. Farkas has absolutely no knowledge of arcane rituals. Giving it to him is a risk.

The Choice: Give Farkas the Ring or Not?

This is one of the game’s cleanest examples of a choice with delayed consequences. You will not see the outcome immediately. You will see it at the end of the game, in the epilogue, when you learn what happened to Farkas and his brother.

If you give Farkas the ring: Things do not go well. The demonic runes are not a healing magic. Farkas’s attempt to use them has consequences that play out in the epilogue — and they are not the redemption he hoped for.

If you do not give Farkas the ring: The quest shifts. You must find someone else who can take the ring — someone who understands what it actually is. The game offers three alternatives, each with different rewards:

Recipient	Requirement	Reward
Anca	Complete her questline to a certain point	Her analysis of the ring’s true nature
Bakr-Erga, the Uriash Matriarch	Discover the Hidden Uriash Village in Song of the Mountain	Vrakhir’s Endurance — epic amulet with physical damage reduction, magical damage reduction, and blood drinking restoration
Sanzhani Tsarina	Access to the Tsarina’s court	Alternative reward; vendor access

Note that giving the ring to any of these recipients costs 2x Time Segments. The choice is not free.

What Happens at the End of the Game

The consequences of your ring choice play out in the epilogue, specifically in the Character Fates montage that follows the ending. This is where you learn what happened to Farkas, his brother, and the ring itself.

The specifics depend on who received it. If Farkas received it, the outcome is tragic. If the Uriash Matriarch received it, you gain a powerful item and Farkas’s story ends differently. The choices guide has the full branch structure.

Spoiler policy: The exact epilogue text is not quoted here. What matters is that the choice is real, the consequences are permanent, and the game remembers.

How Farkas Fits Your Run

Farkas’s quest is optional. It does not gate any ending, does not affect Infamy, and does not change the final boss. What it does is give the world texture — a reminder that not every story in Vale Sangora is about Coen, and not every victim is waiting to be saved.

If you are completionist, do the quest for the rewards and the story. If you are role-playing, do it because Farkas asked you to trust him, and deciding whether to trust him is the kind of choice The Blood of Dawnwalker is built around.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you refuse to help Farkas at all? Yes. You can decline the quest when he approaches you. The consequence is that you never learn what the ring is, and Farkas’s story ends unresolved.

Does giving Farkas the ring affect any ending? No. It affects the epilogue — what you see after the ending — but not which ending you reach or how the final boss plays out.

Is the Ring with the Purple Eye a legendary item? It is a quest item with unique properties. If you give it to the Uriash Matriarch, you receive the Vrakhir’s Endurance amulet in exchange, which is an epic-tier equipment piece.

What happens to Farkas if you never do his quest? He remains Bakir’s jester. If Bakir dies — which he does if you complete the Lunar Game — Farkas’s fate is determined by whether you helped him or not. Without your help, his plan fails quietly, off-screen.