Overview
- The encounter appears in The Gilded Gauntlet quest and can be linked to the Bittersweet Toast side quest that offers a poisoning route through Lulian Codric.
- If the player drains and drinks Ambrus’s blood they unlock the Scarlet Shield ability that heals on a Perfect Block and also gain several levels of Corruption.
- After drinking his blood the player can choose to invite Ambrus in, which merges his presence into the protagonist as a persistent inner voice that offers comments and can slightly aid or hinder the final boss.
- Killing Ambrus instead denies the vampiric ability but yields his sword and legendary armour and raises infamy, which ties into other quests such as Where Loyalty Lies.
- Recent playthrough guides from PC Gamer and PCGamesN report these mechanics and the poison tradeoffs but note the coverage is based on played examples and could change with future patches or different player states.