Walkthrough for the tale The Cost of Fear in the game Ghost of Tsushima. This page covers all main objectives, key steps, or helpful tips to guide you through the tale smoothly. Whenever possible, the guide points out locations for key items and details interactions with NPCs, among other tips. To ensure maximum clarity, in-game screenshots are included for easy-to-follow visual guidance.
Quest Group: Tales of Tsushima
Location: Kamiagata
This tale will be unlocked when you get to Kamiagata. To start it, find a sick man standing by the roadside in the southern part of Jogaku Prefecture.
l thought I heard someone coughing and crying out for help. I should look into it.
The Cost of Fear
Kamiagata
Poisoned Family
Kamiagata
High Point Guard Post
Kamiagata
The man will state that he was poisoned and that you will not be able to help him. He will ask you to help his family, which you will find in a hut located up the hill, by the cliffs.
I found a man dying in the snow of Jogaku. Not from the cold, but from poison. Likely the same poison I put in the hands of our enemy. As he died, the man said his family was also poisoned at their nearby home. I can't let them suffer the same fate.
Take the road up the hill until you reach the cottage where the man's family is staying.
Come closer and check the barricaded door. When the man's wife hears who you are, she will not want to let you in as she will claim you are guilty of them being poisoned. You decide to visit a nearby Mongol camp and get them some medicine and food to prove that you have no bad intentions.
Head to High Point Guard Post. If you've already liberated it, you can simply get in to pick up what you need.
Note: Perhaps even if you haven't liberated it yet, the camp will be empty for the time of this tale, as Jin mentions something about the camp being empty because its inhabitants probably went hunting (?).
Once you have gathered all the supplies, go back to the cabin where the man's family was barricaded. The cabin will be on fire...
...and there will be several Mongols around it, which of course you have to get rid of.
A fatally wounded woman will lie outside the hut. She will regret not letting you in before.
You will bury the woman and the other family members and this story will end.
