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After optionally talking about inter-clan animosities with Folan, set off to the location close to the ruined guard tower where Hjalmar made camp. Use your Witcher Senses to find the tracks showing several men dragging a boat northwards. Follow this trail, but head in a roughly southerly direction, towards the village of Urskar, to a small lake and wooden jetty. Use your Witcher Senses and uncover the following:
- One of Hjalmar’s men who bled to death trying to escape, near the waterfall. Cross the lake, and uncover signs of a battle.
- The men attempted to run to some nearby caves. The giant chased them. There is a trail of blood heading uphill.
- Scuff marks farther up the path to the south, just after the huts, shows that someone tripped and fell, but managed to get away.
- There’s lots of blood patches up the trail. It leads to a slit-like cave opening.
- Large claw marks at the cave entrance indicate the giant couldn’t squeeze into the caves, and gave up the chase.
Head down the sloping cave tunnel. There are more blood pools along the way. The sloping path leads to a gigantic grotto, and no way onwards… except downwards! Dive off the cliff ledge, into the pool below.
Swim northwards out of the pool. There’s blood on the stone shore, and a corpse of one of Hjalmar’s men by a ledge. Examine the corpse, then climb the ledges. Follow the splatters of blood across a small wooden bridge, to more ledge near a second corpse. Climb up, run along a ledge, through a small cave opening on your left, to a large upper promontory above the pool, with an oak tree at the edge of the precipice.
If Folan is with you, expect a few comments on the resolve of his dead comrades, as you progress through this cave system.
There’s evidence of a cave collapse here—crushed Skelligers, two dead harpies, and more blood. Fight some live harpies, find the ladder and climb up the wooden scaffold, up another ladder passing the ore veins, and take a tunnel northward, then to the northeast, battling at least three devourers as you go, all the way to a mountain pass and Clan Tordarroch Forge.