Bellwright Guide | How to Complete the Time Has Come: Blackridgepool

Here’s a guide on how to complete the Time Has Come: Blackridgepool Quest in Bellwright.

Game Guide by Imdeadfrfr on Jun 17, 2026

The size of your great rebellion eventually forces your citizen army to march far beyond the green valleys of the familiar starting lowlands. In the treacherous depths of the Wingman's Pass mountains sits the independent, heavily fortified town of Blackridgepool. Securing this important geographical point is a great victory and marks the final stages of your campaign against the crown.

This mountain area is nothing like the earlier areas you have come across on your journey; it is classified as a brutally punishing Threat Level Four. The normal highway patrols that cruise the high dirt roads are very aggressive and heavily armored with steel plating. Without a full military strategy, any attempt to cross these jagged mountain gaps will result in sudden disaster.

Bellwright How to Obtain Protector Trust Rank

If you are going to challenge Lord Ashbourne’s rule at all, then taking Blackridgepool is not just a possibility for your fledgling rebellion. The village is a massive industrial prize, with direct access to elite blacksmithing skills and advanced tech research trees. But that stranglehold of the crown over the local populace must be broken through the completion of the multi-staged regional milestone The Time Has Come.

How to Obtain the Protector Trust Rank

But first you have to earn the absolute respect of the locals before you can actively whisper ideas of open sedition to them. First things first, you need to establish a baseline relationship. Find the main village elder, a careful man of influence named Marcel Dobbins. Marcel is in mortal fear of an immediate reprisal from the royal garrison, and will not talk to any unrecognized outlaws.

You’ll need to work your way up to the coveted Protector rank, one step at a time, to break through his icy exterior and raise your faction standing. You can’t get to this high-tier reputation level overnight by doing a small task or two for the townspeople. You have to devote a great deal of time to the complex economic and defensive problems of the local community.

The quickest way, by far, to get the required trust points is to sell the town merchants bulk quantities of the expensive luxury goods. Your caravans will benefit from a steady stream of valuable teeth and thick furs by hunting dangerous wolf packs across the frozen northern peaks. Selling these high-end hunting trophies along with old silver coins taken from cleared highwayman outposts will quickly raise your reputation meter.

Why the Belltower is Architecturally Necessary

Once you have established your reputation in the region as being firmly in the Protector bracket, Marcel Dobbins will finally agree to discuss an armed uprising. The tired elder will officially give you the blueprints needed to build a giant wooden Village Belltower within the settlement boundaries. Constructing this vast scaffolding is your formal declaration of war against the royal occupying forces.

Building this towering monument will take a massive logistical effort and will stretch your main settlement's current raw resource production lines to the limit. The architectural design requires a substantial blend of specialized materials, including dozens of copper nails, thick ropes, and heavy granite blocks. You have to set up automated trade routes beforehand so your own inventory isn’t completely crushed under the weight of these supplies.

But, fortunately, once the huge structural plan is officially broken ground, the local townspeople will actively rally to your cause. Dozens of neutral working peasants will immediately pull out their own hammers and run over to help your character with the heavy work. This ad hoc community help can dramatically reduce the time you spend exposed to wandering enemy scouts.

Tier Three Warband Creation (Late Game)

March your forces to a Threat Level 2 Four conflict requires a massive upgrade to the total tactical composition of your standing army. You never want to try to provoke this explosive rebellion with mere copper weaponry or unarmored civilian laborers. Community veterans recommend that before you pull the bell rope, you should build a professional warband of at least twelve or fifteen elite companions.

Every single frontline shock trooper of your active vanguard must be outfitted by hand with heavy iron broadswords and reinforced steel plate armor. These improved metal fences are vital to withstand the devastating overhead strikes from the elite enemy guards. Also, make sure your melee fighters have high durability tower shields to fully negate incoming directional shield-breaking pressure.

Bellwright Nutrition for Optimal Performance

Your critical rear-guard support must be nothing but deadly marksmen with strong yew longbows. These ranged specialists need to be armed with hundreds of specialized iron-tipped arrows, not basic low-tier wooden projectiles. Only a volley of iron arrows, fired at the same moment, can be relied upon to pierce the heavy chainmail jackets of the enemy officers.

Nutrition for optimal performance

Late-game melee combat requires brutal stamina requirements to be survived, and this demands a very strict approach to the overall physical conditioning of your squad. You'll have to go through each companion's inventory bag and manually feed them a high-quality mix of high-tier cooked rations. If you give your soldiers big venison stews, roasted monster meat, and preserved berry jams, they will increase their max health stats a lot.

These high-end kitchenware items offer significant percentage-based multipliers to total energy-recovery speeds, so your men never have to suffer mid-fight exhaustion. A soldier who tries to swing a heavy iron mace on an empty stomach will see their defensive guard smashed to pieces almost immediately. Leave the village borders, and take a moment of silence to check that everyone’s active food buffs are fully refreshed.

It is also highly recommended to carry multiple backup stacks of advanced medicinal bandages evenly distributed among your frontline fighters. These are consumables your friends can use on the fly to quickly treat their bleeding wounds in those brief moments of calm in the chaotic melee. A well-prepared medical force will keep your hard-earned army alive through a long war of attrition without permanent casualties.

Forward Operating Outpost Establishment

It is essential to have proper logistical staging, as the trek through the jagged mountain passes of Blackridgepool is a very long and difficult journey. One of the most destructive errors that many inexperienced commanders make is to force their troops to march all the way across the map and fight immediately upon arrival. This reckless approach means that your army enters the high-threat zone with badly depleted stamina pools and broken formations.

To completely eliminate this travel fatigue, construct a small personal cabin or fortified forward operating outpost just outside the village's borders. This localized base allows your entire warband to sleep comfortably through the freezing nighttime cycle, instead of shivering in open brush piles. Waking up exactly at dawn ensures your troops get the well-rested attribute bonus before marching into battle.

And it makes a great fallback point to safely store backup weapons, extra ammo, and additional food supplies. If your first attack on the town garrison is harder than expected, your surviving forces can retreat behind these reinforced gates with little difficulty. More importantly, it gives you a safety net so that a small tactical error doesn't mean a complete destruction of your faction's advancement.

Ring the bell of rebellion and start the revolt

Now that your elite army is rested, heavily armored, and in close defensive formation, it is time to act. Boldly walk up to the base of the completed belltower, and interact with the heavy hanging rope to ring the alarm. The deafening chime shall echo through the neighboring mountain peaks, forever relegating the Blackridgepool territory to active open rebellion.

This dramatic act rips away the peaceful veneer from the settlement, and brings the hidden crown oppressors to the point of taking up their weapons. When the alarm of revolution is sounded, the local garrison of brigands will be thrown into the utmost confusion and will attack at once. Now you will see a specialized interface tracker filling your screen and the town will officially be in the volatile rebelling status phase.

You have to be perfectly calm in those first few seconds and you don't want to just charge into the center of the village streets blindly. Use the loud clang of the bell to naturally attract the scattered enemy forces to your pre-arranged defensive position. Keep your archers in tight formations to prevent them from being separated and picked off by fast-moving enemy scouts.

The Core Brigand Garrison has been cleared

The first occupying force is usually about 8-10 elite royal guards and they will immediately run to the bell tower. You will at once send your heavy shield bearers to form an impenetrable wall along the main dirt thoroughfare into the town square. This tactical blocking maneuver pushes the charging brigands into a very concentrated chokepoint between the local peasant houses.

Your frontline vanguard is taking the brunt of the enemy's aggressive melee strikes and your archers must be firing continuous ranged volleys. Tell your archers to focus their fire on the uncovered enemy snipers attempting to establish firing positions on the perimeter. Taking out the enemy's ranged capabilities early in the skirmish means your front line troops won't get whittled down from afar.

You should be using a heavy iron mace or two-handed greatsword yourself to make crushing overhead strikes against staggered opponents. Aim at the enemy officers' posture bars to create instant openings for your allied fighters to exploit. Maintain your spatial awareness of this chaotic street brawl and you will not get flanked or accidentally backed into structural geometry.

De-briefing Marcel Dobbins and Turning in the Quest

The moment the last man of the occupying royal garrison falls dead, there will be complete silence in the immediate vicinity. Tell the rest of your soldiers to hold the line and start using their spare bandages to patch up any minor wounds they might have suffered. The political environment of the village is still very unstable so do not relax your guard totally.

Bellwright Blackridgepool Guide

Make your way through the quiet streets to locate Marcel Dobbins, who will typically be hiding safely near the central town square. Formally presenting the cleared streets to the village elder will serve as physical proof of your faction's strength. The elder will gush with a huge mix of relief and amazement that you actually managed to break the iron grip of the garrison.

Finishing this important dialogue will finish the Time Has Come quest line in your journal. You will instantly receive a massive boost of worldwide renown and a large increase in local faction trust. But soon Marcel will deliver a sobering warning that your victory has painted a huge target on the back of the village.

Preparing for the Retaliation after Liberation

This first milestone is a tremendous victory, but it’s only the first act of the real battle for Blackridgepool. The crown will never allow its most precious mountain stronghold to fall into rebel hands without striking back with terrible force. Right after the quest is the regional survival mission, Break Free.

Within a few short minutes, a large, heavily armored royal Reclamation Party will be sent from the remote brigand headquarters. This elite invasion force will march aggressively across the wilderness on a mission to kill Marcel Dobbins and burn your belltower to the ground. You must capitalize on your new momentum right away to strengthen your defensive lines and gear up for a brutal war of attrition.

Use the temporary respite to quickly loot the bodies of the fallen garrison guards for valuable steel scraps. Reform your archers, distribute new iron-tipped ammo and make sure everyone has their food buffs in effect for the coming onslaught. Now the freedom of the people of Blackridgepool must be defended with perfect military precision against the best soldiers of the Crown.

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