The Blood of Dawnwalker: Home Sweet Home Secret Ending Route

Among The Blood of Dawnwalker‘s seven endings, Together Forever is the one designed to pull Coen out of the normal finale entirely. It begins in Home Sweet Home, a nightmare side quest inside Aurelius’s Tower, and ends the campaign early if you choose to remain with Coen’s family on the fifth time-loop cycle. The achievement is bronze, but the branch is highly missable: reaching it requires four full loop completions, four insect-boss kills, and a deliberate choice to ignore the normal escape route.

The clean achievement route is to create a backup before opening the tower’s top-floor door, complete the loop boss four times while avoiding the well, select Stay with your family at the start of cycle five, then reload and escape through the well for the regular endgame. Taking Together Forever marks that save as finished and removes access to the full ending paths, their final battles, Griefberg Castle decisions, and the Laslea epilogue route.

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Home Sweet Home: what the secret ending skips

Home Sweet Home takes place in Aurelius’s Tower, also called Silts Tower, on the far southwestern edge of Vale Sangora in The Silts. Open the peculiar door at the very top of the tower to start the quest. Players entering through the ground floor at night may need to clear soldiers and a witch miniboss before reaching the study and its final door.

Opening that door sends Coen into a twisted replay of the village prologue. His normal gear is disabled, he must save his siblings from spectres, and his health persists from one cycle to the next. The loop contains a hidden exit through a well and a church funeral puzzle, but Together Forever requires you to leave that exit untouched long enough for the fifth-cycle family dialogue to appear.

This creates an early-ending branch rather than a variation on the regular finale. Once Coen stays in the dream, he remains with his family in the illusion and never returns to Aurelius’s Tower to continue the campaign. The Together Forever trophy/achievement unlocks when the final cutscene ends, after Coen’s family surrounds him in the loop.

Save setup before entering Aurelius’s Tower

Make the save plan before interacting with the top-floor door. There are 47 trophies/achievements in total and 19 are missable, so Home Sweet Home should be treated as an achievement branch rather than a quest to clear casually on a main progression save.

• Manual backup one: Create a separate save before opening the Home Sweet Home door at the top of Aurelius’s Tower.
• Main ending backup: Keep another save before the final quest if you are also routing The Blood of Dawnwalker, Uphill Battle, The Patricide, The Knyazmaker, or The Folk Hero.
• Loop autosave: Preserve the autosave around the fourth insect-boss encounter. It provides the most efficient branch point for unlocking Together Forever and then returning to the escape route.
• Do not overwrite blindly: Together Forever completes the campaign on that save. Recovery requires loading a save from before the fifth-cycle family decision.

Important: the fourth boss kill is the practical soft point of no return. It does not immediately end the game, but it sets up the fifth-loop dialogue that leads to Together Forever. Keep the fourth-boss autosave intact until the achievement has registered and you have reloaded into a safe progression branch.

The exact Together Forever route: four boss kills, then the fifth-cycle choice

The game’s wording around five loops causes the most confusion. You do not need five insect-boss kills. The correct sequence is four complete loops with four boss kills, followed by a conversation with Coen’s family at the beginning of the fifth loop.

Cycle 1: establish the nightmare route

Enter Home Sweet Home through Aurelius’s Tower. Fight through the first spectre group and rescue Coen’s siblings, then continue to the second enemy group. The normal escape item, the well, sits off to the right in this area. Ignore it and keep moving uphill toward Coen’s father. Finish the route by defeating the insect-like dream boss.

After the boss, the nightmare resets. Coen retains the damage he took, so cycle one is the time to learn the enemy spacing and avoid turning every later loop into a low-health scramble.

Cycles 2 and 3: repeat without touching the well

Follow the same route twice more: rescue the siblings, clear both enemy encounters, walk past the well, head uphill, and kill the insect boss. The well is the route’s defining condition. Interacting with it starts the standard escape sequence and prevents Together Forever on that save unless you reload.

Health carries between every reset and normal equipment remains unavailable. Play the repeated fights for survival rather than speed. Each avoidable hit becomes a problem during the fourth boss encounter, where a weak health bar can turn the autosave branch into an unreliable recovery point.

Cycle 4: secure the autosave branch

Complete the same route a fourth time and defeat the insect boss. An autosave occurs around this encounter, making it the ideal point to branch your achievement route. Once the boss dies, the game starts the fifth cycle with the Together Forever decision available.

Do not use the fourth cycle to test the well. The achievement route needs four uninterrupted boss completions while ignoring it. A manual backup before Home Sweet Home remains the safest fallback if the autosave has been replaced.

Cycle 5: talk to Coen’s family and remain in the dream

At the beginning of the fifth cycle, speak to Coen’s family instead of walking toward the second encounter, the well, or Coen’s father. Select the dialogue choice to stay with your family. The cutscene locks Coen into the nightmare, his family gathers around him, and the Together Forever bronze trophy/achievement unlocks at the end of the sequence.

This is the hard point of no return. The save is now complete through the secret early ending.

What Together Forever locks out

Together Forever is valuable for completionists precisely because it behaves differently from the game’s full endings. It bypasses the remaining story progression instead of resolving it, so it cannot award trophies attached to the final fight, Laslea’s fate, or the main-story conclusion.

Route	Core trigger	Result on that save	Achievement impact
Together Forever	Ignore the well, defeat the loop boss four times, then stay with Coen’s family on cycle five.	Coen remains trapped in the Home Sweet Home illusion. The campaign ends early.	Unlocks the bronze Together Forever trophy/achievement; locks out full-ending final-fight rewards.
A Hero They Deserve	Reach Corruption Level 11, unlock Shadow Dweller level two, cross the broken bridge near Cursed Chasm, and leave Vale Sangora.	Coen abandons the central conflict through a separate early-ending route.	Unlocks its own bronze early-ending reward; also cuts off the normal finale.
Full endings	Continue through the final questline, resolve companion and morality branches, and win the final fight.	Leads into the late-game resolution, including Griefberg Castle outcomes and the Laslea epilogue path.	Required for The Blood of Dawnwalker, Uphill Battle, The Patricide, The Knyazmaker, and The Folk Hero.

The Blood of Dawnwalker is the gold trophy/achievement for finishing the full story. Together Forever does not satisfy that condition. Uphill Battle, another gold reward, specifically requires saving Laslea on Duelist and completing a full ending. The silver trophies The Patricide, The Knyazmaker, and The Folk Hero each require winning the final fight under different ally conditions, which Together Forever skips completely.

The safest completion order is so simple: take Together Forever from the fifth-cycle branch, reload the fourth-boss autosave or your pre-tower backup, escape Home Sweet Home through the well, then continue into the full endgame routes.

How to escape Home Sweet Home after reloading

Reloading after Together Forever lets you resolve the quest correctly and return Coen to Aurelius’s Tower. The first full pass through the nightmare establishes the loop; the well becomes the meaningful exit route on a later run. From the second enemy encounter, turn right instead of continuing uphill toward Coen’s father.

• Clear the first spectre group and rescue the siblings.
• Reach the second enemy group.
• Turn right toward the well rather than heading uphill.
• Use Focus Mode if the well blends into the scene or is hidden by combat clutter.
• Interact with the well to open the route to the church funeral sequence.
• At the funeral, inspect the figures in the required order: Alin in the coffin, then Esme on the right, then Coen as the child on the left.
• Leave the church, inspect the clearing, and head down to the river to conclude the nightmare.

The interaction order in the church matters. Alin → Esme → Coen advances the sequence and returns Coen to reality. The well route preserves access to the normal story, the final battles, and the late-game achievement branches.

Home Sweet Home mistakes that cost the achievement

Escaping through the well too early

The well is easy to choose because the uphill route toward Coen’s father feels like the obvious combat path, while the well looks like optional scenery. For Together Forever, the well must remain unused across all four boss cycles. Once you escape and finish Home Sweet Home, the fifth-loop family choice is gone on that save.

Counting five boss kills instead of four

The requirement is five cycles total, with the fifth cycle used for dialogue. Kill the insect boss on cycles one through four. At the beginning of cycle five, speak to the family and choose to stay. Continuing to farm the loop after that point adds risk without helping the achievement route.

Entering the loop with no backup

Opening Aurelius’s top-floor door does not instantly lock the campaign, but finishing Together Forever does. A pre-door backup protects every later branch. The fourth-boss autosave provides a faster split for players pursuing both the secret ending and the full ending set.

Bleeding too much health across resets

Coen’s health remains damaged between cycles and his regular gear is unavailable in the dream. Avoid unnecessary trades with spectres, give the second enemy group space before committing, and enter the insect boss with enough health to survive a mistake. The fifth cycle itself has no boss requirement, but it only becomes available after four complete combat routes.

Missables checklist for the endgame skip

• Create a manual backup before opening Aurelius’s Tower’s top-floor Home Sweet Home door.
• Keep a separate save before the final quest for the wider set of 19 missable trophies/achievements.
• Ignore the well in the second enemy area during loops one through four.
• Defeat the insect-like dream boss exactly four times.
• Protect the autosave around the fourth boss before taking the fifth-cycle branch.
• On cycle five, speak to Coen’s family immediately and choose to remain with them.
• Confirm the Together Forever bronze trophy/achievement after the family cutscene.
• Reload the fourth-boss autosave or pre-tower backup.
• Use the well, solve the church order as Alin → Esme → Coen, and return to Aurelius’s Tower.
• Continue toward the final fight only after Home Sweet Home has been resolved on the progression save.

Together Forever is the shortest route to an ending in The Blood of Dawnwalker, but it is also a terminal branch. Four boss kills, the fifth-cycle family choice, and a protected save are the full requirement for claiming it without sacrificing the game’s full endgame paths.