Honor Bound Walkthrough

Prologue

There’s not a lot to do in this section while you maneuver around the inside crowd of the longhouse, but there’s still some stuff to break up the simplicity of just walking forward.

First, you can dance.

Second, you can choose to play, which is just you tossing a ball up and down. Yes, it’s as riveting as you’d imagine, but kids didn’t have nerf guns back in the viking era.

That’s it for interactions.

After you’ve spoken with Styrbjorn and given the gift, you’ll be able to move again, and the only place you can go toward is the door leading out to the battle.

At some point, you’ll have to choose your character’s gender. It’s male or female, as per usual, however you can also let the ANIMUS choose for you. I’m unsure what this actually means, if the ANIMUS is going to let you switch genders throughout the game during different points, which would be a bit jarring to me.

Or if it just picks one for you so you don’t have to have the stress of deciding.

Find and rescue your crew

Take the snowy path upwards after you’ve taken care of your berry-picking and destructive urges. When you come across a split, take the left path, as the right one doesn’t lead anywhere.

Take this time to climb up the peak in order to get the synchronization point. This will allow you to see most everything in your vicinity on the map, plus you can now fast travel here if it helps you get around.

North from the sync point you can see a campfire. There’s an enemy stationed there.

At this point in time, you cannot do a stealth kill. If you sneak up behind an enemy they’re going to get the sneaking suspicion someone is behind them, then notice you there if you’ve not attacked yet.

Feel free to do explorations of the areas you can get to if you don’t want to do the main quest right away. Your crew aren’t going anywhere.

For those of you who want to rescue those who are important to us…continue to the quest point.

Once you’re close enough to the quest marker, you’ll hear battling and come across Dag.

You can now equip your gear and not feel so naked for the upcoming battles.

Once better prepared, you can send your raven into the area to find the location of where you need to go. The location isn’t going to be pinpointed into a specific spot. Instead, you’ve got a rather large blue area highlighted, and where you need to go is somewhere within.

In the biggest building, where there are blue outlines for your crew when you use your sight, climb all the way to the top. On the roof, there’s a cupola that you can climb into from either side.

Drop all the way down.

Kill Rikiwulf

You can lock onto the enemy to keep him in your line of sight. If he does a red attack, you’ll need to dodge out of the way. There’s no dodge rolling here, just a normal side or back-step dodge, depending on which direction you’re moving in the process.

You’ve got a normal attack and heavy attack to deal damage, just know a heavy attack takes extra time to swing, so make sure he’s not in the process of a red attack.

There’s also a stamina bar in this game.

Meaning you can’t just spam attack and rolls all willy-nilly. There will be moments from here on where you’ll need to just back off and let the stamina fill up before going all in.

There are stagger bars for some enemies. Clearing it all will cause the enemy to stagger for a decent amount of time.

Also, if you’re using your bow, there are weak points on enemies that you can shoot for maximum damage.

After Rikiwulf is dead, walk through the doorway.

Free your crew

Free the prisoner Rikiwulf had been harassing. Open the cage that your crew are stuck in.

Reach your longship

Have fun killing everyone you haven’t already done in at this point, just for extra loot and experience. Once you’re finished here, hop into your longboat and take command.

Sail home to Fornburg

You’ll want to open the sail in order to go faster, otherwise you’ll be rowing the whole way. Just keep to the path of where the quest marker is. If you don’t like the quietness of sailing, just ask for a song.

Dock at Fornburg.

Speak to Randvi

Randvi is right off the docks.