Tracking Your Quarry

Travel south from Novigrad, through northern Velen to the Border Post signpost at Halver Isle, just before reaching the bridge to the island on the shore of the Pontar river. Bring Roach to a canter and find a shifty-looking Redanian guard. Gregor has been expecting you, and you both take a walk. He motions to the hanging corpses; killed over trumped-up charges using rules from the king. That’s Gregor’s motive for helping you. Talk turns to the cobbler, who came through here on a wagon. A patrol reported it abandoned soon after. You’re then given a Transit Pass (if you don’t have one already), and allowed access southwards, across Halver Isle.

Cross the river, galloping southward, and take a narrower track off the main road, and into the woodland close to the battlefields. Expect a small pack of wolves to attack as you reach a small, green wagon. With your Witcher Senses, stoop and find the following:

• There are signs of a scuffle, and someone was knocked out and dragged off. You discover a strewn boot. There are also shoes on a faint woodland trail heading southeast.

Follow the scattered shoes carefully, until you find a rough wagon trail and a rock troll farther upslope. Prepare something approaching a conversation with the troll (named Rogg), who is collecting the shoes. He tries to hide the fact that his friends (Ogg and Pogg) have someone in their cave. They haven’t eaten him, but want him to make them more shoes.