Berthold


Berthold is probably the most important of the three merchants/craftsmen you can deal with in this chapter. He does business from noon to dusk, so don’t show up looking for him at dawn. Berthold sells diagrams that let you make runes and manufacture the three types of meteorite ore. He also sells silver ore you’ll probably need to purchase whenever you want to make a new silver sword. Perhaps most important of all, Berthold sells the diagram for the jagged blade, which is the most powerful steel sword you can obtain in this chapter.

Whenever you approach Berthold’s smithy, you may see a conversation play out between him and a human representative from the Blacksmiths’ Guild. This looks an awful lot like it should trigger some sort of quest, but it doesn’t. Geralt can interrupt the conversation by speaking with Berthold, but can’t really interfere in the situation at all. It’s mostly meant as flavor to help establish the lowly position nonhumans are forced into in Flotsam.