Chapter Summaries

Lynn, Geralt, Regis, and Maksymilian crossed Rivendell Valley and the Amell Mountains to reach Theodula Pass in Toussaint. There, they reunited with Captain Damien de la Tour, who learned that Maksymilian had brought three witchers and Regis with him.

• Regis repeatedly guided the party through Rivendell Valley, using his mist form to scout their route.
• After five days in the wilderness, the party emerged from Rivendell and began crossing the Amell Mountains toward Mount Gorgon.
• They rode through the beech and spruce forests, followed the Neve and Sansretour rivers, and reached Theodula Pass.
• Captain Damien de la Tour welcomed Maksymilian and met Geralt, Lynn, and Regis.

Damien de la Tour asked Lynn and Geralt to investigate the disappearances plaguing Toussaint, and the witchers discovered scavengers disturbing a crime scene. The scavengers revealed they had fled from Nazair, leaving Maksymilian to recognize the likely cause of their hardship.

• Damien de la Tour explained that hundreds had gone missing in Toussaint and asked Lynn and Geralt to inspect a recent crime scene.
• Lynn and Geralt noticed the site had not been guarded and charged ahead with their steel swords.
• The witchers found scavengers rummaging through a covered wagon and its cargo, and Damien ordered his soldiers to pursue them.
• Damien accused the captured scavengers of being outsiders, and Maksymilian warned them they could be hanged as bandits if they refused to answer.
• The scavengers' leader said they had fled from Nazair, and Maksymilian recognized the name as a conquered province of Nilfgaard.

Maksymilian recognized the scent on a scrap of cloth from the attack as rose wine made only at Castel Ravello Vineyard, connecting the trail to Philibert Witten. He decided to gather nearby knights and confront him at the vineyard.

• Maksymilian recognized the scavengers as surviving members of Nazair’s Grand National Army, and urged Damien not to kill them.
• Lynn and Geralt found a scrap of knightly cloth on the wagon and detected the scent of wine on it.
• Lynn asked Maksymilian and Damien to find a professional wine taster to identify the wine.
• Maksymilian recognized the scent as rose wine from Castel Ravello Vineyard, once owned by the Macklin family and now held by Philibert Witten.
• Maksymilian told Damien he would summon nearby knights and go with them to Castel Ravello Vineyard to demand an accounting.

Maksymilian's brother knights joined the group at Theodula Pass, and the knights and ducal guards traveled to Castel Ravello Vineyard to confront Sir Filibert Witten. After the knights disagreed over whether to attack or offer Witten a chance to surrender, Lynn proposed a two-sided approach and set out with Geralt to circle behind the estate.

• Palmerin de Launfal, Milton de Peyrac-Peyran, and Renauld de Bois-Fresnes arrived at Theodula Pass and explained that Earl Raymond had sent them to find Lebioda's holy remains to save Duchess Caroberta.
• Maksymilian asked Lynn and Geralt to help with the raid, and Geralt agreed.
• The knights-errant and Damien's ducal guards traveled under cover of darkness to Castel Ravello Vineyard.
• Maksymilian and Palmerin argued that Sir Filibert Witten should be given a chance to defend himself, while Damien insisted that Witten's crimes could not be excused.
• Lynn proposed that Damien call on Witten from the front while Lynn and Geralt circled around to attack from behind if negotiations failed.

Maksymilian and Damien confronted Philibert at Castel Ravello Vineyard over the disappearances, but Philibert denied the accusations and refused a search. He demanded a trial by combat against Maksymilian.

• Bandits at Philibert’s vineyard learned that a large force had arrived and feared the knights-errant had uncovered their crimes.
• Philibert ordered his men to hide with crossbows and prepare an ambush, then rode out to meet the visitors.
• Maksymilian showed Philibert a rose-wine-stained scrap of cloth found on an attacked wagon, but Philibert dismissed it and accused Maksymilian of ingratitude.
• Palmerin asked to search the estate, and Damien asserted his authority under Earl Raymond’s orders when Philibert refused.
• Philibert invoked his loyalty to the duchess and demanded a trial by combat, naming Maksymilian as his opponent.

Maksymilian defeated Philibert in a trial by combat, but Philibert’s bandits ambushed the group before Lynn and the others killed them and rescued the captives. After the survivors learned Philibert had sold people into slavery to fund his pursuit of Luciana, the group celebrated their victory and mourned their dead, while Milton asked to speak privately with Lynn.

• Maksymilian won the trial by combat, spared Philibert’s life, and ordered him to leave Toussaint.
• Philibert ordered his bandits to attack, but Lynn and the others killed the bandits and Lynn shot Philibert as he tried to flee.
• The group found the missing people in the wine cellar, brought them food and blankets, and discovered Philibert’s diary explaining his kidnappings and slave trading.
• Palmerin led the knights-errant, squires, and ducal guards in a toast to the witchers and the victory, while they mourned two soldiers who died from their wounds.
• Milton approached Lynn and asked to speak with him in private.

Lynn reassured Sir Milton about his recurring dream by telling him Supideo’s tragic story, while privately recognizing that Milton’s dream foretold real events. He left the hall and went to a guarded cell, intending to prevent the tragedies he had come to Toussaint to stop.

• Sir Milton told Lynn that he repeatedly dreamed of being unable to protect a little girl from abuse by fellow knights.
• Lynn told Sir Milton the story of Supideo, whose attempt to escape a prophecy helped bring it about, and urged him not to dwell on fate.
• Sir Milton thanked Lynn and walked away, while Lynn privately acknowledged that the dream reflected atrocities from another worldline.
• Lynn decided that those future events would not happen in Toussaint and continued away from the hall to a guarded cell.
• The guard recognized Lynn as he approached the cell and apologized for not recognizing him sooner.

Lynn persuaded Francis Drake and her fellow Nazair refugees to work for him, arguing that their defeated resistance could not win independence while they struggled to survive in Toussaint. Drake accepted his offer, and Lynn learned that the group were agents of Nazair’s Syndicate, which Drake led.

• Lynn sent the guard away, then gave the hungry prisoners food and water before offering them work.
• Lynn told the prisoners that the Nazair Grand National Army had been crushed and challenged them to explain how they could continue their fight from Toussaint.
• Francis Drake identified herself as the prisoners’ leader and explained that she was a half-elf who had sworn to repay the people who raised her.
• Lynn invited Drake’s group to test his claims and gave her a pouch containing at least a hundred crowns as proof of his sincerity.
• Drake agreed to follow Lynn and see what he planned to do, and Lynn discovered that the refugees were Syndicate agents led by Drake.

Lynn revealed that he knew Regis was a higher vampire and reassured him that he would not attack him because he abstained from blood. As the group traveled toward Beauclair, Regis confessed his identity to Geralt, and Lynn tried to smooth over Geralt’s anger.

• Lynn confronted Regis about being a higher vampire, explaining that he had noticed Regis cast no shadow.
• Lynn told Regis about Orianna and Dettlaff in Beauclair and urged him to tell Geralt the truth.
• Palmerin, Milton, and Renauld departed for Novigrad in separate groups, while Lynn and the others continued toward Beauclair with Maksymilian.
• Regis told Geralt his true identity during a stop, and the two returned after arguing in a grove.
• Lynn reminded Geralt that Regis abstained from blood and teased him for getting angry, leaving Geralt to wonder how he had become the one receiving a lecture.

Lynn, Geralt, and Regis arrived in Beauclair to offer their help with Duchess Calobert’s illness. At the duchess’s sickroom, Fringilla Vigo revealed that another witcher had already come to see her.

• Lynn admired Beauclair and ordered fashionable Toussaint clothes for Triss.
• The group went to the palace, where Earl Raymond agreed to let Lynn, Geralt, and Regis examine the duchess.
• Fringilla Vigo told them that another witcher had visited the sickroom and that his medallion showed he belonged to a different school.
• Lynn introduced himself, Geralt of Rivia, and Emiel Regis to Fringilla.

Lynn and his companions examined Duchess Caroberta and Regis determined that a demon’s power caused her affliction. They left Beauclair to investigate, while Regis revealed that he had once resisted a tempting offer from Gaunter O’Dimm.

• Lynn suspected the unnamed witcher who had visited the duchess was from the School of the Viper, whose stronghold had been destroyed by Nilfgaard’s usurper emperor.
• Lynn, Geralt, and Regis examined Duchess Caroberta, and Regis concluded that a demon’s power had caused her condition.
• Earl Raymond learned that the visitors had left and struck a servant who speculated about who might rule if the duchess died.
• Lynn and his companions rode away from Beauclair as Lynn asked Regis about demons.
• Regis said that he had once met Gaunter O’Dimm, who had offered him tempting terms that Regis had managed to refuse.

Lynn summoned Fringilla’s illusion at camp and claimed he knew how to save Duchess Caroberta. At Lac Célavy, he called upon the Lady of the Lake for healing holy water, but she refused to interfere, so Lynn asked the others to leave while he spoke with her privately.

• Lynn spoke with Fringilla’s illusion and denied discovering anything suspicious, but said he had learned how to save Duchess Caroberta.
• Lynn asked Fringilla to remain at court and promised to request the information she had withheld when he returned.
• Lynn’s group reached Lac Célavy, where the Lady of the Lake rose from the water in response to his greeting.
• Lynn asked the Lady of the Lake for holy water to cure Duchess Caroberta, citing Maksymilian and Toussaint’s knights-errant.
• The Lady of the Lake said she could not interfere with mortal life and death, and Lynn asked Geralt, Regis, and Maksymilian to leave so he could speak with her privately.

Lynn persuaded the Lady of the Lake to grant holy water to save Duchess Caroberta, agreeing to retrieve a desecrated sacred relic from the cultists of Dagon. At the edge of the dangerous swamp, Lynn used a scroll to dispel the fog and reveal the village.

• Maksymilian, Regis, and Geralt waited outside Lac Célavy while Lynn negotiated with the Lady of the Lake.
• Lynn promised to spread the Lady of the Lake’s faith in Toussaint, and she agreed to help if he passed her trial.
• The Lady of the Lake sent Lynn to purge the cultists of Dagon in Innsmouth and retrieve their sacred relic.
• Lynn told Geralt, Regis, and Maksymilian that the relic would let the goddess save Duchess Caroberta.
• Several days later, the group reached a fog-shrouded swamp, and Maksymilian warned that knights and court mage Artorius Vigo had feared entering it.
• Lynn opened a scroll that dispelled the fog and revealed a village in the swamp.

Lynn, Geralt, Maksymilian, and Regis crossed a trap-filled swamp and found a decaying village tied to Dagon’s cult. After discovering tracks leading to a cave, they encountered villagers with fishlike features guarding its entrance.

• Lynn demonstrated the swamp’s hidden spike traps, and Maksymilian agreed to follow the witchers’ lead.
• Lynn found a corroded locket that Maksymilian identified as belonging to Thorin Oakenshield, a missing former captain of the Ducal Guard.
• The party reached a damp, deserted village covered in barnacles, where no animals or insects could be heard.
• Regis found webbed footprints leading toward the mountain, and the group followed them to a cave beside the swamp.
• The party saw hunchbacked villagers with bulging eyes, quivering jaws, and webbed feet guarding the cave with pitchforks.

Lynn, Geralt, Regis, and Maksymilian fought their way into the cave where the Innsmouth cultists had gathered. After Regis scouted a submerged passage, the group surfaced in the cult’s assembly hall and was spotted, triggering an alarm.

• Lynn refused Maksymilian’s request to join the fight at the cave entrance and prepared potions with Geralt.
• Lynn and Geralt quickly killed the cultists guarding the entrance, then entered the cave with Maksymilian and Regis.
• Regis turned into mist, scouted the underwater passage, and reported that cultists were gathered beyond it.
• Lynn, Geralt, and Maksymilian followed Regis through the icy water, with the witchers guiding the nearly blind Maksymilian.
• The group surfaced in a vast assembly hall and saw dozens of cultists worshipping a towering, faceless sea creature portrait.
• A cultist priest spotted them, and his shrill hiss alerted the entire assembly.

Lynn, Geralt, Maksymilian, and Regis fought off the Dagon cultists while the cultist priest transformed into a monstrous fish-like warrior. Lynn killed the priest with his silver sword and an Aard Sign, ending the battle against the monster.

• Lynn and the others held back the cultists as the witcher medallion warned him of danger.
• Lynn spotted the priest performing a ritual, during which the priest absorbed the elite cultists and mutated into a fish-headed monster.
• Maksymilian killed a cultist who had attacked him, while Regis distracted the monster with his mist form.
• Lynn blasted a path through the cultists and wounded the monster’s knee and palm with his sword and bombs.
• Lynn climbed onto the monster’s back and drove his sword into its neck, then used Aard to force the blade through its bone and kill it.

After killing the cultists, Lynn resisted Dagon’s mental attack but discovered that the evil god had marked him. As the group traveled back toward Lac Célavy, Lynn reassured Maksymilian about Regis and revealed that Regis was a higher vampire.

• Lynn used Heliotrop Signs to dispel Dagon’s illusion, then found a new Mark of the Deep Sea on his status panel.
• Lynn told Geralt and Regis he was fine and decided he could ask the Lady of the Lake to remove the mark when he turned in the quest.
• The group left the swamp after setting fire to the ruined village and headed back toward Lac Célavy.
• Maksymilian privately asked Lynn whether Regis was dangerous, and Lynn argued that Regis had helped save the duchess and had not harmed them.
• Lynn told Maksymilian that Regis was a powerful higher vampire, and Maksymilian reflexively checked his neck for bite marks.

Lynn and his companions returned to Lac Célavy, where the Lady of the Lake destroyed Dagon’s portrait, removed Lynn’s Mark of the Deep Sea, and gave him a one-use grail of holy water. Fringilla used the holy water to cleanse Duchess Caroberta of demonic power, though the duchess remained unconscious, and Earl Raymond rewarded the group while they awaited her recovery.

• Lynn explained Regis’s abstinence from blood to Maksymilian and persuaded him to swear an oath never to reveal Regis’s identity.
• Lynn presented the Lady of the Lake with the cultists’ portrait of Dagon, which she destroyed with white light.
• The Lady of the Lake removed Lynn’s Mark of the Deep Sea, granted him the Detect Evil feat, and gave him a one-use grail of holy water.
• Fringilla gave the holy water to Duchess Caroberta and confirmed that the demonic power in her body had been completely removed, although she had not awakened.
• Earl Raymond thanked Lynn, Geralt, Regis, and Maksymilian and paid each of them 450 Florins, promising further rewards if the duchess recovered.

Lynn investigated the attempt on Duchess Caroberta’s life and discussed how Earl Raymond could have benefited from her death. Fringilla revealed she shared Lynn’s suspicions, but Lynn rejected the theory and hinted that the truth was different.

• Lynn stayed at the palace with Geralt, Regis, and Maksymilian, and asked Triss to intercept Palmerin, Milton, Renauld, and their companions.
• Lynn questioned Maksymilian about the assassination attempt and learned that the duchess and her maid had been found in an underground collection room with only one exit.
• Fringilla helped Lynn gain access to the collection room by persuading its guards that she could mention their conduct to the recovering duchess.
• Lynn reasoned that Earl Raymond might have arranged the attack to seize power in Toussaint and marry his son to one of the duchess’s daughters.
• Fringilla agreed with Lynn’s theory, but Lynn said it was wrong and that the truth was different.

Lynn ruled out Earl Raymond as the person who poisoned the duchess and learned that a Viper School witcher had taken a contract from Orianna. In the collection room, Lynn began reenacting a thousand-year-old assassination, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Lynn argued that Earl Raymond could not have poisoned the duchess because he had not tried to stop them or keep them from the sickroom.
• Fringilla described the Viper School witcher as a bald, imposing man and said he had taken a contract to find the missing elven smith Tyensail for Orianna.
• Lynn examined the collection room and noticed three lifelike elven statues that seemed to have been made with petrification magic.
• Lynn asked Fringilla to arrange torches, elven food, wine, a sword, and a shield, then had her wear the ducal signet ring and sit in an ornate chair.
• Lynn recited the story of Tivethas inviting the first Duke of Toussaint into his palace as he began the reenactment.