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The Beast of White Orchard

Main questWhite Orchard

The commander of the Nilfgaardian garrison in White Orchard knew where Yennefer had gone. Shrewdly, he was unwilling to share this information for free. A man with substantial experience, he knew full well Geralt would do anything to find the sorceress. As luck would have it, there was a griffin about, a beast the commander's soldiers had been unable to hunt down. The commander could demand but one thing: the monster's head in exchange for his help.

Map

Map of the The Beast of White Orchard objectives around Broken Bridge, Woesong Bridge, Sawmill

Pin numbers match the objectives below. Open it on the interactive map →

Objectives

16
  1. 1Ask the hunter where he found the bodies.Broken Bridge
  2. 2Ask the herbalist about buckthorn.Sawmill
  3. 3Use your Witcher Senses to find the hunter.Broken Bridge
  4. 4Kill the wild dogs.Woesong Bridge
  5. 5Examine the site of the Nilfgaardian soldiers' death using your Witcher Senses.Broken Bridge
  6. 6Search the griffin's nest using your Witcher Senses.Broken Bridge
  7. 7Find some buckthorn on the riverbed using your Witcher Senses.Mill
  8. 8Talk to Vesemir.Kaer Morhen
  9. 9Follow the hunter.Broken Bridge
  10. 10Talk to the hunter.Broken Bridge
  11. 11Follow the Nilfgaardian soldiers' tracks using your Witcher Senses.Broken Bridge
  12. 12Meet Vesemir in the field where you plan to ambush the griffin.Woesong Bridge
  13. 13Kill the griffin.Woesong Bridge
  14. 14Collect your reward from the Nilfgaardians.Nilfgaardian Garrison
  15. 15Take a trophy from the griffin's corpse.On the map
  16. 16Prepare to fight the griffin.

Journal

The witcher investigated and learned that the griffin he had encountered along the high road outside of White Orchard had good reason to prey on the local populace. The soldiers the Nilfgaardian commander had sent out to scout had, in fact, killed the griffin's brooding mate. Griffins are known to mate for life, and Geralt thus felt a pang of pity for the beast. But, ever the professional, he could not let his feelings interfere with his work.

Once it came to ambushing the feathery widower, Geralt turned to Vesemir for help. With two witchers lunging at its throat, the griffin of White Orchard proved a lamb for the slaughter. As is the way of his order, Geralt took the beast's head as his trophy and delivered it to the Nilfgaardian garrison for his reward, which, as you might remember, was to be information about Yennefer.