Contract: Devil by the Well
Malicious beings usually haunt the ruins of castles, fortresses or, as a last resort, towers. The wraith of White Orchard, however, chose a much more quotidian site for its haunting: a well. A White Orchard peasant by the name of Odolan wanted someone to chase off the phantom and Geralt accepted the job.
Map
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Objectives
22- 1Find a way out of the cave.Abandoned Village
- 2Find a way to return to the surface.
- 3Leave the cave.Abandoned Village
- 4Return to Odolan for a reward.Woesong Bridge
- 5Check if there's a noonwraith contract on the White Orchard notice board.Woesong Bridge
- 6Find the spirit that haunts the well.Abandoned Village
- 7Defeat the noonwraith.Abandoned Village
- 8Take a trophy from the noonwraith.On the map
- 9Ask Odolan about the contract.Woesong Bridge
- 10Defeat the noonwraith.Abandoned Village
- 11Go down the well and look for something that belonged to the dead woman using your Witcher Senses.Abandoned Village
- 12Light a fire to destroy the noonwraith's bones and bracelet.Abandoned Village
- 13Prepare to fight the noonwraith and light a fire near the well.Abandoned Village
- 14Read the diary from the ruined house.
- 15Follow the drag marks using your Witcher Senses.Abandoned Village
- 16Use your Witcher Senses to examine the well.Abandoned Village
- 17Inspect the well.Abandoned Village
- 18Read the entry about noonwraiths in the Bestiary.
- 19Find out what binds the noonwraith to the ruined village.Abandoned Village
- 20Retrieve the body from the well.Abandoned Village
- 21Find out what binds the noonwraith to the well.Abandoned Village
- 22Find evidence of the spirit's presence using your Witcher Senses.Abandoned Village
Journal
Though Geralt had rid the village of the noonwraith, he could not stop thinking about the unfortunate woman the phantom had once been. Who was responsible for her untimely death? What had she done to bring this upon herself? Just who was she? Thanks to the dedication inscribed on the bracelet he found in the cave, Geralt was able to get answers to these questions from White Orchard's herbalist. She recounted to him the story of the area's troubled past.
It turned out the devil haunting the well was a noonwraith: the ghost of a young woman who had died a sudden and cruel death. The witcher found her body hanging from the well's bucket rope and, nearby, a bracelet that must have belonged to her while she lived. Destroying this object broke the tie binding the poor woman's ghost to this world and allowed Geralt to chase it off once and for all.
In White Orchard Geralt happened across a notice posted by a certain Odolan residing in the village. The man wanted someone to take out the monster who was haunting the area around an old well - and doing so required a professional. This was as typical of witcher work as they come, so Geralt decided to talk to the man.
Sadly, the girl who was gripped by fever died before Geralt could get rid of the ghost keeping her from receiving the well's clean waters. All Geralt could do then was convey his condolences.
Malicious beings usually haunt the ruins of castles, fortresses or, as a last resort, towers. The wraith of White Orchard, however, chose a much more everyday site for her haunting: a well. Geralt decided to drive this being off - perhaps to prevent it from harming anyone dwelling nearby, or perhaps in hope that someone would pay him for his trouble.
Geralt found the body of the woman who had turned into the noonwraith hanging from the well's bucket rope and, nearby, a bracelet that had once belonged to her. Destroying this object broke the tie binding the poor woman's ghost to this world and allowed Geralt to chase it off once and for all. After he did this, he was pleased to learn there was a contract out for the monster's eradication, a bounty he collected with a sense of having performed his duties well.