Silver in The Blood of Dawnwalker: Contraband, the Black Market & Saint Mihai

Silver in The Blood of Dawnwalker is banned contraband, not a damage type: the black-market trader, the Smuggler award, and Saint Mihai's blessed blade.

9/2/2026 1.0.0 Last updated: 9/12/2026 7 min read

FAQ

Can silver weapons deal extra damage to vampires in The Blood of Dawnwalker?

There is no silver weapon category and no documented silver or holy damage multiplier. Weapon cards measure Armor, DPS, stamina cost, activation charge, Damage against Mortals and Damage against Supernatural — the supernatural bonus is the anti-vampire axis, not silver. Lore-wise the Vrakhiri hate and fear silver, and Brencis has banned it across Vale Sangora.

How do you sell silver in The Blood of Dawnwalker?

Silver has to go through the black market. The Silver Trader, camped west of Svartrau, is the documented buyer; his service unlocks once you reach Infamy 4 or complete Into the Den. Selling silver worth 1,000 Denarii in total awards the Smuggler achievement.

Why is Coen able to walk in daylight?

Because the silver in his system interrupted his turning. Coen was poisoned by silver while being changed, the conversion never completed, and he ended up a Dawnwalker: half human, half vampire, able to move under the sun. Silver here is a story device, not a damage modifier.

Is there a blessed silver sword in the game?

One, in lore: the sword of St. Mihai, a silver blade in the saint's tradition. You recover it broken during the cathedral riddle chain and have it reforged and imbued through the Forge It Anew questline, ending with the Imbued Sword of St. Mihai.

Is There a Silver Sword Weapon Class in The Blood of Dawnwalker?

No — and this is the single most common carry-over assumption from other monster-hunting RPGs. The Blood of Dawnwalker has no weapon category split into “steel for humans, silver for monsters”, no silver blade tier list, and no documented holy damage multiplier of any kind. Anti-vampire damage on this game’s weapons is expressed as Damage against Supernatural, printed on the item card next to Damage against Mortals.

What silver is in this game: a banned metal, a black-market commodity, and the reason the protagonist is what he is. That makes it a lore-and-economy thread rather than a weapon line, and this page documents it as one.

Why Is Silver Banned In Vale Sangora?

The vampire kind of this valley call themselves the Vrakhiri, and they loathe and fear silver. Because of that, Knyaz Brencis has outlawed silver across Vale Sangora — the ban is enforced in a region where the Boyars’ edicts already shape daily life. It is not a damage rule; it is a law, and like most laws under Brencis it mostly creates a market.

The prohibition is stated in the game itself: the silver trade item’s tooltip spells out that owning silver is illegal in Vale Sangora, which is exactly why you cannot hand it to an ordinary shopkeeper.

How Do You Sell Silver To The Silver Trader?

One fence, out west, buys it all. Everything documented about him:

Item	Documented detail (patch 1.0.0)
Who	The Silver Trader, a black-market silver dealer
Where	West of Svartrau
Unlock	Reach Infamy 4, or complete Into the Den
Function	Buys (and deals in) silver — the outlet for the contraband you pick up in the world
Award	Smuggler — sell silver worth 1,000 Denarii in total
Related pickup	Map: Silver Cache, a readable map marking silver caches out in the valley

Two practical notes. First, the same fence is the deepest-purse junk vendor in the valley, so route your whole sell-train through him — the money side is covered in /guides/denarius-farming/, which also documents a cave-note clue chain that leads you to him. Second, silver piles up from treasure digs and the cathedral treasury, so hold big silver batches until the trader is unlocked rather than dumping them at ordinary merchants.

Why Did Silver Turn Coen Into A Dawnwalker?

This is where silver actually drives the plot, and it inverts the folklore on purpose. In most fantasy settings silver kills vampires; in The Blood of Dawnwalker, silver poisoning is what stopped Coen’s conversion from finishing. The change took half, so he woke up as a Dawnwalker — neither human nor full vampire, able to walk in daylight, keep his own will, and still reach for vampire power at night.

That reframes the whole element: silver is not your weapon against the Vrakhiri, it is the wound that made you one of the few things they cannot control. It also explains Brencis’s ban — a metal his kind recoils from is too dangerous to leave in circulation, not because it is a damage buff but because it is a destabilizing substance in a valley run by vampires.

What Is The Imbued Sword of St. Mihai?

The one place “silver” and “sword” legitimately meet is lore. Saint Mihai — a warrior who came to Vale Sangora — carries a sword described in the silver-blade tradition, and recovering it is the longest weapon quest chain in the game.

The chain, short version:

A Monk and a Saint — answer Albertus’s riddle lines in Svartrau to locate St. Mihai’s crypt.
The tomb fight — beat St. Mihai himself and take his sword broken (rare quality). Do not discard it.
Forge It Anew — the hermit blacksmith Uriashi restores the blade to epic quality; you then hunt three sword shards and bring them back.
The imbuing altar — a trial fight, then the altar, which spends in-game hours to raise the sword to legendary as the Imbued Sword of St. Mihai, with heavy bonuses to Damage against Supernatural plus dodge and attack stamina cost reductions.

Full shard locations and riddle answers are on /items/legendary-weapons/. Restoring the saint’s sword is also trophy-tracked in the official list, so it is a platinum requirement rather than an optional flourish.

What Stats Do Weapon Cards Actually Show?

If you want to compare blades, read these axes — this is what the equipment card prints, and no silver or holy column appears anywhere on it:

Card stat	What it measures
Armor	The armor value printed on that card
DPS	Damage per second — the headline offense number
Stamina cost	Stamina drained by attacks and blocks (often split into separate attack/block lines)
Activation charge	The charge resource special weapon/ability attacks run on
Damage against Mortals	Bonus vs human and beast enemies
Damage against Supernatural	Bonus vs vampires and other supernatural foes — the real “monster damage” stat

Which of those matter most depends on your build: see /guides/skill-trees/ and the starter assumptions in /guides/beginner-guide/.

Sources & Verification

IGN Wiki — The Blood of Dawnwalker: How to Sell Silver — the Silver Trader west of Svartrau, the Infamy 4 / Into the Den unlock gate, the 1,000 Denarii Smuggler condition and Map: Silver Cache.
PC Gamer — Where to find Sword Shards for Forge It Anew — the St. Mihai reforging chain, Uriashi as the hermit blacksmith, and the Vrakhiri aversion to silver behind the ban.
games.gg — How to upgrade weapons and armor — confirms gear has no material/silver-coating pipeline; upgrades are vendor services bought with denarius.
Bandai Namco Europe — The Blood of Dawnwalker official site — world and protagonist framing (Vale Sangora, Brencis, the Dawnwalker condition).
psnine — The Blood of Dawnwalker trophy list — trophy entries covering the St. Mihai sword restoration.

Coverage and honesty note: the earlier revision of this page listed a five-blade silver weapon tier with base damage, holy percentages and forging material chains. None of that exists in the sources above; it was template demo content and it has been deleted, not rescaled. Still not documented by official or wiki sources as of this revision: any silver or holy damage multiplier, any silver-coating or blade-oil mechanic, exact Denarii values per silver item, and the full cache contents behind Map: Silver Cache. Verified against gameVersion 1.0.0, last verified 2026-09-12.

More The Blood of Dawnwalker Item Guides

Weapons that really exist, with locations: /items/legendary-weapons/
Why there is no material grind behind your gear: /items/forging-materials-guide/
The armor side of the loadout: /items/emberforged-armor-set/
Everything in this category: /items/