1666: Amsterdam Inquisitive Crane — Name & Seal Walkthrough

This route belongs to Esbat of the Crane Moon. The name document, the private residence containing the seal, and the university room where you confront the professor are separate stops.

1. Possess a Scholar in the university courtyard, listen to the three-person conversation, then possess a Loafer for the corner tavern lead. Read the upstairs medical diploma there.
2. Return to the university area and locate the residence with the red skull-and-blade sign.
3. Climb to the attic dissection room and take the Inquisitive Crane’s Seal beside the candles.
4. Bring Noa to the professor in the university teaching laboratory; cast Nominem and use Aaron to scratch him.
5. Progress to night, trigger the university courtyard confrontation, defeat the Amalgam and collect its NUX.

If you have found the seal but still do not know the Inquisitive Crane’s name, start with the university courtyard investigation. The seal pickup does not replace the original-name evidence in the tavern.

1. Go to the university courtyard and possess a Scholar.
2. Listen to the three people talking. Their conversation reveals that the professor invited Loafers.
3. Find a Loafer and possess him to learn about the pub on a street corner.
4. Follow that lead to the tavern, then complete the upstairs document interaction described below.

The university investigation points to Loafers delivering corpses to a professor. The quest hint names their meeting place as De Overolle Kroes on Moriaene Steegen; another location banner spells the tavern De Overvolle Kroes.

1. Go upstairs in the tavern. Use Aaron to possess a Loafer in the restricted rooms and bring Noa through with him, as shown in Graciefaceplays’ 41:20–42:20 sequence.
2. Find the long cloth-covered table beneath the sloping roof, beside the windows. It holds an open book, candles and a framed document.
3. Read the medical diploma. Aaron identifies the Scuola Medica Salernitana document; Noa then explicitly confirms the original name Adam Lauderman.

The in-game clue places university professors’ residences on Voorburgwal, near Athenaeum Illustre. Look for the red sign showing a skull and a white blade beside a red-brown wooden door, with plant pots nearby. This is the private house you need for the seal.

1. Return to the streets beside the university and match the skull-and-blade sign shown below.
2. Check the front door. Graciefaceplays opens it as Noa at 43:30–43:34, then switches to Aaron and enters.
3. Follow the interior wooden stairs upward, past ordinary living and dining rooms, to the attic with anatomical diagrams and a skeleton.

The community answer places the skull-and-scalpel house on the same street as the Athenaeum. Use that landmark when the tavern investigation is complete but you are still searching for the residence.

For the related clue, check the two second-floor rooms beneath the professor’s laboratory. The reply points to one of those rooms without identifying which, so inspect both. These rooms are a clue-search area; the seal pickup itself is in the private attic described next.

At the top, look for the private dissection room: a sloping roof, anatomical pictures, a skeleton, bloodied work surfaces and surgical equipment. The seal interaction is on the low cabinet beside the candles, next to the bloodied bed or operating surface.

1. Approach the candle-side cabinet against the sloping wall. Look for the special interaction shown in the screenshot, rather than stopping after ordinary Search loot.
2. Interact and check for the item notification Inquisitive Crane’s Seal.
3. Listen for Noa’s confirmation. Once the investigation is ready, she says she can now cast Nominem on the target.

Return to the upper teaching laboratory in Athenaeum Illustre, where the professor addresses students around a dissection table. This is a different room from the private attic where you collected the seal.

1. Bring Noa to the teaching room. The playthroughs show Scholar possession for access, and a cat route through upper windows and roof edges; the roof route is not established as the only entrance.
2. Cast Nominem on Adam Lauderman with Noa.
3. Use Aaron to scratch the target and complete the breach. Check for Aaron’s confirmation that you can fight Adam Lauderman tonight.

Follow the main quest into the night phase. Crane Moon also involves the Benevolent Crane: completing this one investigation is not the same as completing the whole Esbat.

1. At night, return to the university courtyard and find the Adam confrontation point.
2. Use its interaction prompt to trigger the encounter. Defeat the Inquisitive Crane’s Amalgam.
3. Complete the NUX collection after the fight, then follow the remaining Crane Moon objectives.

The original poster later reported being unable to cast Nominem even after obtaining the name and described it as a bug. The discussion gives no resolution or affected game version. The name, seal and target-location checks above help distinguish missing investigation steps from this reported symptom; they are not a verified bug fix.

This is the other Crane investigation discussed in the thread. Go to the prison courtyard and look for the latched door. Reaching the other side opens up another wing of the building to search; do not limit your search to the rooms you have already explored.

A follow-up player confirmed that this hint helped. The reply does not explain the route around the door or the exact seal pickup, so use it as the next exploration lead for Benevolent Crane.