Ghost of Tsushima The Impact of Loss Walkthrough

The Impact of Loss is a side tale in Ghost of Tsushima – Iki Island DLC Expansion. This walkthrough will guide you through all objectives of The Impact of Loss Side Quest.

Side Tale: The Impact of Loss
Region: Iki Island
Quest Giver: Peasant
Requirement: Locate this tale in the open world
Rewards: Minor Legend Increase, Minor Ranged Charm, +10 Linen
Mission Info: I heard distant crying near a lake. I should find out what happened.

Objectives:

• Find Hotoke
• Travel with Hotoke to find the rescue party
• Investigate the battle site
• Follow the trail of rice
• Defeat the Mongols
• Look for the captured monk and husband
• Choose which hostage to save

Starting Location: The Impact of Loss

Find Hotoke

Hotoke is found at the same camp as the quest giver. She’s up the little slope, when facing the quest giver it’s to the right. She’s a woman with blue dress, green skirt, black hairs. She’s kneeling down on the floor by a small tent. See the image of her below.

Travel with Hotoke to find the rescue party

Follow Hotoke, she will show you the way.

Investigate the battle site

Hotoke will stop at a battle site where a dead body is on the ground. Follow the trail of dead bodies until you come to a bag of rice on the small muddy path (3rd image below). It will say Examine when looking at it. Do this and you’ll get a new objective to follow the trail of rice.

Follow the trail of rice

Follow the white trail of rice along the small muddy path. There are also footprints in the mud to show you the way. Below is the map location of where you need to go, in case you get lost (it’s on the shore of a lake).

Defeat the Mongols

Once you arrive there, defeat the Mongols at the shore.

Look for the captured monk and husband

Now press at the survey point and then look to the right and to the left to spot the hostages and press to scout out their surroundings. A white ring on the screen will show you the direction to look in.

Choose which hostage to save

Now you have a choice to make – you can only save one of the two hostages. There is no way to save both. Once you go to one of them, the other dies automatically, no way around this.

On the right side you have Hotoke’s Husband. On the left side you have the Monk who you originally went looking for.

If you save the husband on the right, Hotoke will be happy with your choice. If you save the Monk on the left, Hotoke will be upset with you because you let her husband die and her child will grow up without a father.

Other than the lines of dialogue at the end of the quest, there is no far-reaching impact of your choice. It doesn’t affect anything else and also doesn’t affect your quest reward. So choose what you want, it doesn’t matter.

Once you go to your chosen hostage, you still need to defeat the enemies at the shore. You can do a stealth chain kill on the first few, shoot the shaman with arrows and defeat the rest with melee attacks. They will also try to kill your remaining hostage, indicated by the red icon above the enemy’s head. When you see this icon, kill that enemy right away or else they will kill the hostage after a few seconds.

After the Mongols are defeated the cutscene will play out where the saved hostage thanks you, the other lying dead on the beach, and Hotoke reacting to your choice.

This finishes The Impact of Loss quest in Ghost of Tsushima Iki Island.

For all other Quest Walkthroughs, check out our complete Ghost of Tsushima Walkthrough (All Tales).