Talk:A Troublesome Tome/@comment-151.151.16.18-20131214024206/@comment-5166842-20131214033126

You'd have to progress quite a ways before it would cancel. Another option is to run by those bandits. They're pretty tough until you're leveled up some. If you try to run past them (into the castle) you may lose a pawn or two, so save first if you want to keep your pawns alive. Or just do like you said, do some of the other quests to level up first, just don't choose the quest to meet the Duke till you've finished this quest.