Hogwarts Legacy has countless challenges and side-quests to complete alongside its main story. Fellow witches and wizards throughout Hogwarts and the wider Wizarding World are in need of your magical expertise to help find items, locations, and loved ones.
Many side-quests are relatively short and take just minutes to complete, but others are surprisingly in-depth. One such quest is The Tale of Rowland Oakes.
This particular side-quest is fairly lengthy and is full of exploration and combat. Here, we guide players through the entire Tale of Rowland Oakes side-quest – including how to follow his map.
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To unlock this quest, players must have completed The Helm of Urtkot main story quest. After this, Hufflepuff student Adelaide Oakes will appear in the Transfiguration Courtyard with a quest for you.
She will ask the player to search for her uncle Rowland Oakes, who has been doing business with Ranrok’s goblins. Rowland’s letters to Adelaide have stopped, and she suspects he is in danger.
First, she wants you to search for a camp where Rowland was last seen. The camp will be marked on your map, and once you reach it you will have to defeat several goblins.
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After you’ve cleared the camp, cast Revelio to find Rowland’s journal and a map. The journal is resting on the ground while the map is on top of a nearby crate.
Rowland’s hand-drawn map shows several landmarks – a rock formation, a crooked tree, and a ruined tower – along a river that lead to a ruined castle. The player will have to follow the clues to find exactly where Rowland has been taken.
To find him, first open the world map and look to the west of where you fought the goblins and found Rowland’s map. Players will see a river leading west to a bandit castle in the corner of the North Hogwarts region.
By heading west, following the path by the river and past the landmarks on Rowland’s map, you will come to a castle occupied by goblins. Once inside the castle, climb a ladder to the upper floor, defeat the goblins, and you will find the entrance to Korrow Ruins behind a metal gate.
The Korrow Ruins are also occupied by goblins, while Rowland is locked up deep within its dungeons. Follow the quest marker on the map until you reach a room with a staircase on each side, a large metal door, and more goblins.
Clear out the room and continue following the quest marker to reach the lowest level of the area, where Rowland is trapped behind a locked door guarded by goblins. Players can interact with him and he will ask you to find his wand.
Return to the room with the large door and head up two flights of stairs and around the room to find a large, silver boiler. Light the fire underneath the boiler using either Incendio or Confringo to open the metal door and reveal the next area.
Here you will be faced with even more goblins, including the boss Pergit. After you clear the room, head into the room on the right side and you will find Rowland’s wand on a desk.
Return to Rowland, interact with him to give him the wand, and complete the quest. You cannot fast travel out of this area, so to leave the ruins you will need to retrace your steps and return to its entrance.
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