Thieves’ Camp.

About halfway along Crimson Forest, across a huge wooden bridge, Thieves’ Camp offers a bell point and a set of caves. Plenty of side content gathers here: a healer’s apprentice requests aid, the Gentle Thief puts questions to you, and Quick Hand Zhang has a hideout in a cave close to the bell.

Defeating Bai Chilian, Lady of the Twin Serpents, at the region's end causes a number of tales that begin or conclude at the camp to fail.

Mop-up trip using Bastion

After obtaining the Bastion Phantom Edge, go back to the dungeon and descend to its lower level. With the Bastion Shield you can get over an arrow trap and reach a chest containing the Brass Chest Guard accessory. Ascend the ladder and pass a second arrow trap to enter a new zone, where a Memory Flower lies in the field beside a mounted enemy on a horse.

People and tales

Yu’er with A Healer’s Mercy

Yu’er is standing by the bell. Talking to her begins A Healer’s Mercy, a tale where four injured thieves need treatment, and only the fourth lies inside the camp. The steps are below.

Completing it additionally unlocks the sequel tale A Healer’s Legacy.

Gentle Thief with Honor Among Thieves

The tale called Honor Among Thieves starts near Outlaw Trap: kill the foe at the campfire to get a letter, then deliver it to the Gentle Thief. He asks three questions, and he takes these replies: “Stole a landowner’s jade belt”, “Butterfly” and “The letter never said. His fate is unknown.” Completing it earns the Silent Wrap accessory.

Thieves’ Camp Dungeon

East of the camp stands the dungeon, which is sealed. A visit to Cliffside Lodge must come first, because the Thieves’ Camp Dungeon Key unlocks it. Inside is A Healer’s Mercy’s last patient, the fourth thief injured; face away from him and you spot a chest in a corner with the Ancient Crossbow.

A Memory Flower, part 3 of On Perfect Transcension, is on the cliff beyond the dungeon.

Following the boss

Bai Chilian’s death transforms both the camp and Outlaw Trap, and any story left unfinished around here becomes impossible. Further on, the quest Leave None Alive returns you to the camp to examine the aftermath, and to pick up a thief’s relic meant for the friend who outlived him.

How to arrive

Straight on, over the giant wooden bridge, is the bell. In front of the bridge Lanlan can be spoken to, and she begins Secrets of the Baishan Sect. Take the tale before Bai Chilian dies, since afterwards it is no longer available.

Later mop-up trips involve the bridge too. Once Village of Lu has been reached, beating the enemy on the giant wooden bridge, in front of the bell, rewards the Seal of Dugu accessory. Defeating the enemy at the entrance of Quick Hand Zhang’s hideout supplies A Thief’s Manual.

Yu’er with A Healer’s Mercy

1. Speak to Yu’er by the bell.
2. Heal the first thief, who lies in the little cave by the Outlaw Trap Bell.
3. Tend to the second thief, who rests against a wall in the bigger of the two caves by the chest in Outlaw Trap.
4. On Cliffside Lodge’s upper balcony is the Cellar Crank; fetch it, open the cellar, then go through the tunnel until the third thief appears. You pick up the Thieves’ Camp Dungeon Key as you go.
5. Go back to the camp, open the dungeon, and heal the fourth thief.
6. Reporting in to Yu’er, who is by the bell, earns you an accessory: the Calming Gourd.

Recommended route

1. Talk with Lanlan out on the bridge.
2. Activate the bell, then speak with Yu’er.
3. Go to the hideout of Quick Hand Zhang.
4. Double back to the caves of Outlaw Trap to meet thieves one and two.
5. Cliffside Lodge is next: it holds the dungeon key plus thief number three.
6. Come back, unlock the dungeon, heal the fourth thief and pick up the Ancient Crossbow.
7. Let Yu’er know first, after which Zhang gets the treasures from you.