Fable II Walkthrough

When you're notified of Theresa's arrival, leave your job and go back to the clock tower at the center of the town square. From there, Theresa will lead you down a street and tell you of your future task, to find the abbot in Oakfield. Follow the glowing trail north, heading to Bowerstone Old Town. The trail will lead you straight through the down and out to Rookridge Road.

Early on the road to Rookridge you'll cross paths with a running citizen screaming of bandits ahead. A bit further up the road you'll find Will, pillaging the leftovers in the wake of the bandits, though he himself is not one of the baddies. Continue following the gold trail up the path until Theresa stops you to point out the bandits taking pot shots from afar.

You can take reasonably good cover behind a broken stone structure to the left, a spot from which you can hit most of the bandits to the northeast. Pull out your crossbow and looking for their red auras to show you where they are. Alternatively, you can just fire and your crossbow will usually auto-aim to the clearest target. Keep shooting down the baddies until you see one kill in slow-motion, your sign that there are none left to shoot.

With the road clear, follow the golden trail and look for a path on your right that leads up the hillside to the area where the dead bandits now lie. At the end of the path is a hidden chest with a Civil Ring. There's a second secret further up the road the glowing trail leads you on. Look for another branch, this one to the left, that leads to an island platform with a statue that's obscuring a Silver Key behind it.