The Iron Hand Guild is a side quest in Assassin’s Creed Shadows. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of the The Iron Hand Guild side mission. This quest wants you to locate and defeat all 5 members of the Iron Hand Guild, but defeating the leader will suffice.
- Region: Izumi Settsu > Sakai > Sakai Firearm District
- Questboard Category: People of Settsu > Imai Sokun > The Iron Hand Guild
- Quest Giver: Imai Sokun
- Requirement: Unlocked automatically during Act 2 from story progress
- Reward: 5500XP, Legendary Trinket for Naoe “Fujin’s Tempest”, Gold (Crafting Material), Legendary Engraving “Damage for Alerted Provinces”, “Zashiki” building needed for
Suture Self - Quest Description: A secret merchant syndicate seeks to take over the business interests of the Imai clan throughout Settsu. Defeat the Iron Hand members.
Starting Location: The Iron Hand Guild
The quest starts by talking to Imai Sokun in Izumi Settsu > Sakai. It will be marked by a “!” icon on the map.
Afterward the quest can be tracked under People of Settsu > Imai Sokun. This will unlock “The Iron Hand Guild” questboard with all 5 Iron Guild members on it. You can track them from their own questboard. All 5 must be defeated, then you must return to the quest giver. To track the location of the leader “Iron Hand” you must at least defeat the first member “Merchant Tamao” who drops a quest item. Note that to finish the quest you only have to defeat the leader “Iron Hand” who is in Tamba > Fukuchiyama > Fukuchiyama Castle. Therefore, it’s possible to shorten the quest and ignore killing the other members, if you kill the leader right away everyone else is spared. It doesn’t matter if you kill everyone or only the leader, the quest completes either way. If you kill everyone you get some extra XP, money and item rewards from each one you defeat.
Iron Hand Guild Member 1: Merchant Tamao
Location: Yamashiro > Kyoto > Honpoji Temple
Merchant Tamao has locked himself inside a building that you can’t enter. When you approach, Naoe/Yasuke will make a comment that you should destroy his wares to lure him out. Destroy all the big pots and destructible objects around the house, then he comes running. He will complain to you while you destroy his stuff, just keep at it until he comes out.
He drops the quest item “Letter regarding Kyoto”. If you want to spare members 2-4 you can now track the leader “Iron Hand” (see member 5).
Iron Hand Guild Member 2: Merchant Kin-no-suke
From the objectives board track the “person icon” on Merchant Kin-no-suke.
Location: Wakasa > Obama > Trading Port
Kin-no-suke stands at the east end of the Trading Port area. Even though he’s not hostile, you’ll have to kill him to get his quest item “Letter Regarding Obama”. Optionally, you could do his 2 sub-quests “Dirty Dealing” (obtain intel on Kin-no-suke) & “Trading Pass” (give the letter to the merchant in Obama). However, these sub-quests are completely optional and can be skipped. You can head straight for his location and kill him immediately. Or skip him entirely and head straight for the Iron Hand leader.
Iron Hand Guild Member 3: Merchant Ginroku
Location: Tamba > Miyazu Bay > Miyazu Castle
He will stand outside the west entrance of Miyazu Castle, assassinate him to get his quest item “Letter regarding Tamba”.
Iron Hand Guild Member 4: Merchant Kanta
Location: Omi > Mouth of Seta > Otsu Upper District
He’s in a house in Otsu Upper District. Kill him for the quest item “Letter regarding Otsu Port”. He does have another optional sub-quest on the objectives board called “Missing Ship” (find and inspect the missing ship) but this can be skipped and you can go straight to his location.
Iron Hand Guild Member 5: Iron Hand
Location: Tamba > Fukuchiyama > Fukuchiyama Castle
Iron Hand will stand around Fukuchiyama Castle surrounded by other enemies (usually in the south-east corner of the castle grounds). You can run up and assassinate him from behind.
He drops “Letter from Iron Hand” quest item. Note: if you kill him immediately before killing the other members, everyone else is spared and marked yellow on the objective board. You can still complete the quest regardless. Additionally, he has an optional sub-quest “Dark Tea Ceremony” which unlocks if you defeated the other members to get their letter quest items but this is also not mandatory.
Return to Imai Sokun
After defeating the “Iron Hand” leader simply return to the quest giver in Sakai (in objectives track People of Settsu > Imai Sokun). You get 5500XP, a legendary Naoe Trinket, a legendary engraving “Damage for Alerted Provinces”, and a Gold Nugget (used to improve legendary armor). It also unlocks the “Zashiki” building needed for 
Suture Self.
This finishes The Iron Hand Guild side quest in Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
For all other Quests refer to Assassin’s Creed Shadows Walkthrough.
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