After The Escape

After the Escape

Melitele's Heart

If you saved Newboy’s life earlier, then stepping out of the dungeon triggers a cutscene with him. If you ask him about the Scoia’tael ambush, he gives you the book About Dragons. When you need to move on, Newboy offers to distract the sentries. He goes up the stairs and leads them away from the docks. If you already have Newboy’s talisman, you can simply let him go and head down to the boat. If you saved Newboy’s life but didn’t take his amulet, you need to fight and kill Newboy before he departs, then loot Newboy’s talisman off his corpse in order to progress Melitele’s Heart in a later chapter. If you let Newboy die, you may stumble across his body somewhere on the docks.

If you didn’t trigger the Melitele’s Heart side quest earlier in the game (or if you let Newboy die), you’re going to have to fight your way from the dungeon’s exit to the boat, where Triss and Roche are waiting for you. Note that if you escaped with Aryan dead, you emerge to the left of the docks. If Aryan is alive, you emerge to the right. Make sure you equip the sword you found just before leaving the dungeon. Head up the stairway near Geralt when you’re ready to proceed. Triss joins in the fight with you, so you may want to have Quen up to help prevent her from accidentally setting you on fire.

You should have little trouble taking out the guards, even as poorly equipped as you are in this battle. Focus on using light attacks and dodging, so you can get out of the way when Triss joins in. Once the guards are defeated, follow Triss down to the boat to sail away from La Valette castle and trigger the Prologue’s end-of-chapter cutscene. At the beginning of Chapter 1, the game gives back to you all the items you acquired earlier in addition to letting you keep all the loot you found in the dungeons.