Journey to Vedrfell | Chapter 1 The Banner Saga Guide

Introductory notes

On this and the following pages of the guide regarding the caravan, all moments associated with various types of journey breaks will be described in two separate chapters:

• Chapter "Most important moments of the journey" - In this chapter you'll find only descriptions of most important events, encounters and fights, which can't be omitted and which are connected with main story plot.
• Chapter "Additional events" - In this chapter you'll find descriptions of side events available during the caravan journey. Those events have no influence on the main game plot, allowing you in many cases to gather additional resources, increase caravan members morale or better know particular team characters.

Important note: Do not worry if a particular side event didn't happen in your case or didn't happen at the first possible moment, because it might occur later in the journey (I suggest reading descriptions of additional events, also from the chapter adjacent to the current one). What's more, some of events are activated only if you have some particular characters in your team or you made some particular decisions earlier in the gameplay.

Most important moments of the journey

You could advance one of your heroes to the next level

Later on when traveling to Vedrfell giants will decide to make a camp. After listening to the first part of the conversation between Ubin, Vognir, Hakon and prince Ludin, you'll be able to take a look at World Map. Close the map after you've studied it carefully unlocking the access to other activities connected with the camp. First of all I recommend visiting Heroes tent and that is because you'll probably be able to advance Gunnulf to the next experience level.

It is worth to look at the dependency on the order of movements of team members in future fights, which coincides with the visible list of heroes (from left to right). You can change the suggested order by moving team members pictures to other slots. It would be good if in every battle most powerful giants do their actions first, followed by "normal" warriors and archers at the end.

Rest tent can be ignored for the moment, because in such early stage of the game increasing warriors' morale by spending supplies is not needed. Training tent will allow you to play optional sparrings and in first of them you'll see two giants and one female archer. Personally I do not recommend wasting time on such fights because you won't get any new Renown points. After dealing with all issues Leave the camp resuming the journey. The caravan soon will reach Vedrfell village.

Note - More information on caravans, camps and character development can be found in other part of this guide.

Additional events

Soon after leaving the Strand town you should see and additional event connected with gift received from Mogr - a honey barrel. You can act in three ways:

• Drink a little.
• Drink a lot.
• Toast to Vognir. This is definitely best option. An advantage of this variant is that you'll be able to talk to Vognir (Chat with Vognir) and you'll improve your contacts with this giants thanks to that. What's more, regardless of the chosen behavior variant you won't lose any supplies.