🤑 Villagers- Tainted Grail: Conquest

The Village is the place where you will always return to since it is filled with really important NPCs. In there you will be able to purchase all different types of upgrades, buy runes, cards, and even gamble. I will talk about every interaction you can have with the NPCs in the village, and tell you exactly what each one of them does. So if you’re still a little lost when walking around the village, well, then this will for sure help you.

A Lost Soul

So let’s talk about every single NPCs that can be found in the village, and what exactly they have to offer. We will first start with A Lost Soul. His services can be used right at the start, and he has a shop where you can trade Wyrdstones for Healing Mixture, and you can upgrade how effective the Healing Mixture is. He upgrades how much it heals, and also the number of healing mixtures that you can buy per run. These upgrades are permanent, so they will carry over to your other runs. You can also ask for him to heal you for 50% of your health. This can also be upgraded, increasing the heal from 50% to 100%, and you can also increase your resting options from one time to two.

You also can get to pick one out of three randomized quest cards. These Quests cards can be good, but first you have to feed them. An overview of the Quest Cards can be found in our Guide.

And lastly, if you complete the Conscious Darkness quest, you will be able to summon your wolf. Not useful but cute.

Blacksmith

Now let’s talk about the Blacksmith. When coming across him in the Wyrdness, be sure to talk with him, and eventually, a dialog option to invite him to your village will appear. He offers all types of services that involve Runestones. You can buy Runestones from him, and also upgrade the amount of common, rare, and mythical Runestones available in the shop. To buy these upgrades you need to have enough Runestone dust. You can also exchange one of your Runestones, for another random one of the same rarity. He can also transmute runes, where you exchange three of your rune stones into one of the same rarity.

But one of the most important things that the blacksmith can do, is his ability to unlock an extra Runestone slot for your armor and weapon. He also adds up to four additional items slots, and you can also get an upgrade that improves the chances of Runestones dropping after combat.

The Special Card from the Blacksmith is ok. Its called Hard Steel. You offer 25% Damage and instead gain 75 Armor for 3 turns.

Scientist

While traveling through the Wyrdness, you will find a scientist. When talking to her, she will offer you three potions, but you can only buy one. After that, you will have a dialogue telling her to join your village, since it is safer in there. In her shop, you can buy all types of items, and restock her shop with random items. You can also upgrade the number of items that she has available up to 7 in total.

You can increase the drop chance of items as a reward after combat by a total of 125%. Get this as early as possible. After the Drop Chance upgrade our main point is go get upgrades for the items. Like the Acid Bomb, in tier three it will reduce the armor of all enemies by 50 for five turns. The other items that can be upgraded are the Acid Flask, Consecrated Oil, Smoke Bomb, Talking Skull, Throwing Knife, Tome Of Knowledge, Warding Lore, and Wayfarer Leaves, and all of them can be upgraded to tier 3.

The most important of these are the Talking Skull and the Tome of Knowledge. Draw is power. With the Talking skull at max you can draw up to 5 cards with cost reduced by one. The Tome of Knowledge lets you draw up till 4 cards. Really good for offence and defense.

With her be sure to upgrade her items drop chance first.

The Special Card for the Scientist is called Third Eye. You gain 10% damage for each enemy alive for 3 turns. Kinda meh for the price.

Candlemaker

In the Wyrdness, you will also come across the Candlemaker, and after some dialogue, you will be able to ask him to join your village. At his shop, you are able to buy and upgrade Wyrdcandles. You can upgrade the duration of them by 70%, you can also increase how many Wyrdcandles you start your run with up to 9 candles in total, and you can also increase the number of candles you get after defeating a boss up to four. He also upgrades milestones for healing, damage boost, and armor boost. Healing can be increased up to 25 HP max, damage can increase to 80% max and armor to +60 max. The Candlemaker can also reveal all the NPCs on the map, and all the locations on the map for a certain price. Increasing the milestones upgrades will help you survive in the Wyrdness.

The Special Card is Burning Light which reduces Armor of All enemies by 10 for each Wyrdcandle bar lit. Can be useful, but mostly not.

Master-At-Arms

After freeing the Master-At-Arms from a private prison, you will be able to offer him shelter in the village. His shop allows you to buy cards, and you can also upgrade the number of cards he has available. At max level, you can choose one from 10 available cards. He also will remove cards from your deck, he can mark a card so that you always start combat with it in hand, and one of the best thing he has to offer is that he can upgrade the number of cards that you can draw in the first turn of combat. At tier 3, you can draw three extra cards, and he can also increase the number of cards you draw each turn, allowing you to draw six cards each turn.

But all of these are miniscule because he also gives you access to his Special Card. That Special card is the Tactic Mastery which lets you discard your hand and redraw with cost reduced by 1. This Special Card can only be once a fight but that is enough to call this card overpowered.

Ghost

You will first come across the Ghost in the Obscure Cavern. After meeting and gambling with him, you will be able to find him in the village, where you’ll gamble with him up to three times in total. The bet is very simple, you can bet 100 gold coins, and win an extra 100, or lose 100 coins. This is something risky to do, but if you do it at the start of your run, you might have the chance of starting with some extra gold.

If you should go for it and gamble away all your money depends on you and our Gambling Guide.

The Special Card from the Ghost is called Mystic Gamble where you can gain 30% damage or 25 Armor for 3 turns. 50/50 chance and I think its not worth it.

Seamstress

And the last member of the village is the Seamstress. You will also find her in the Wyrdness, and you will be able to ask her to join your village. She is one of the most important NPC’s, as she offers the best upgrades. She can permanently upgrade your health, armor, damage, Wyrdstone gain, wealth gain, and XP gain. She can also remove curses, and you can also buy random passives from her.

All of her upgrades cost blood, but they’re permanent and will carry over to your future runs. XP gain and wealth gain are extremely good, but to be honest, all of her services are great. Make sure to get Armor and Damage first.

Her Special Card ist called Blood Fabric which is absolutely useless. You pay first 10 Health and then get 2 Barrier for each 5 HP missing from your Total Health. That’s way too less to be useful.

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