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Missing in action, GreedFall Quest

Walkthrough for the quest Missing in action in the game GreedFall. This page covers all main objectives, key steps, or helpful tips to guide you through the quest 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: Companion Quests

Category: Kurt's quests

You'll be able to start this quest soon after you get to New Sérène. To do this, just talk to Kurt, who will ask you to help him with a certain young recruit.

Missing in action

Related points of interest

Icon of Point of Interest Coin Guard Barracks New Sérène
Icon of Point of Interest Coin Tavern New Sérène

Quest stages of Missing in action

1. Find the Young Recruit in the Barracks

Go to the Coin Guard Barracks and get inside. Soldiers you meet inside, when asked about Reiner, will inform you that you should talk to the quartermaster.

Find the Young Recruit in the Barracks

And the quartermaster will inform you that the recruit you are looking for is dead because he drowned a few days ago.

Find the Young Recruit in the Barracks

2. Investigate the morgue

Get down to the basement, where the morgue entrance is. There you'll meet a medical examiner who can give you some information about the dead man. He will claim that the cause of death was drowning.

Investigate the morgue

You'll have to convince him to let you see the body.

Go to the morgue and approach the body in the middle. If you have the right talent (Science 2), you will be able to check the body thoroughly. Otherwise you will only do a rough examination.

Investigate the morgue

One thing is for sure, the boy didn't drown but was beaten.

3. (Optional) Find evidence of the lie

If you were only able to make a rough examination of the body then you must find evidence that confirms your suspicion of beating. Read the Preliminary autopsy result for that.

(Optional) Find evidence of the lie

4. Confront the doctor with his lies

Go back to the medic and talk to him. Initially he will deny it, but eventually he will admit to falsifying the report because he was forced to do so by two lieutenants he had never seen before.

Confront the doctor with his lies

5. Ask the intendant for his advice

Go back to the quartermaster Manfred and tell him what you discovered. After checking the documents, he'll inform you about the strange re-assignment of the young recruit.

Ask the intendant for his advice

6. Question the lieutenant of the 11th regiment

You'll find him on the ground floor of the barracks. Unfortunately, he doesn't remember a recruit named Reiner.

Question the lieutenant of the 11th regiment

7. Question the lieutenant of the 6th regiment

You'll find him on the second floor of the barracks. Unfortunately, he doesn't remember a recruit named Reiner either.

Question the lieutenant of the 6th regiment

8. Question the lieutenant of the 8th regiment

You'll find her on the second floor of the barracks. She doesn't know Reiner either, but if you can convince her to say something more, then you'll find out about strange cases of young recruits vanishing.

Question the lieutenant of the 8th regiment

9. Investigate at the tavern

Go to the tavern and talk to the recruit there. Offer him a drink (Bottle of brandy) and ask him about Reiner. He'll tell you about the strange behavior of their regiment lieutenant and Reiner's disappearance.

Investigate at the tavern

9.1. Offer the Recruit a drink

You can buy Bottle of brandy from the innkeeper.

Offer the Recruit a drink

10. Confront the lieutenant of the 11th regiment

Return to the 11th regiment lieutenant. He'll be a little more talkative this time. If you came to him during the day, he'll ask you to come back when it gets dark.

Confront the lieutenant of the 11th regiment

10.1. Wait until nightfall to talk discreetly with the lieutenant

When you return to him when it gets dark, he will tell you about the mysterious ghost regiment and that the lieutenant of the sixth regiment should know more about it.

Confront the lieutenant of the 11th regiment

11. Obtain information about the ghost regiment

Go to the lieutenant of the 6th regiment and ask him about the ghost regiment. At first he will deny that he knows something about it, but eventually, when you convince him, he will mention the camp somewhere out of town where the soldiers of this regiment are trained.

Obtain information about the ghost regiment

This will end this quest and next one - Amongst the ghosts, will automatically start. Your reputation with Kurt will rise (+3).

After completing this quest, you will be able to play the quest Amongst the ghosts.