Halt! Who Goes There?! — The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt The Complete Edition eGuide

Converging Quests: Main Quest: The Nilfgaardian Connection; Main Quest: The Bloody Baron; Main Quest: Witch Hunt

Location: Crow’s Perch

Characters: “Bloody” Baron Phillip Strenger, Sergeant Ardal, Old Peasant, Baron’s Guard (you met at the Crossroads), Baron’s Guard (Gatekeeper)

Enemies: Water Hag, Baron’s Guards

QUESTING DECISIONS

This quest starts automatically once Main Quest: The Nilfgaardian Connection concludes. However, your previous decisions affect this quest. Did you:

Meet the Baron’s men in the Inn at the Crossroads while completing The Nilfgaardian connection? If you did or didn’t; you have minor conversation changes when attempting to enter Crow’s Perch.

Meet the Baron’s men in the Inn at the Crossroads, and then buy them a drink? If you did, the soldiers aren’t hostile, and you can enter Crow’s Perch peacefully.

Meet the Baron’s men in the Inn at the Crossroads, and then kill them? If you did, the remaining soldiers are hostile, and you must find an alternate route into Crow’s Perch.

Avoid the Inn at the Crossroads entirely, and not run into the Baron’s men? Then expect them not to trust you, leaving only crowns as payment for the method to gain entry (or the alternate way).

Objectives:

Go to the Baron’s castle.
Find the Baron.

Locate the wooden fortification on a marshy tract of land known as Crow’s Perch, and enter via the rickety bridge (or jump the gap of the adjacent, even more rickety bridge). Pass through into the small village behind the outer walls. Turn right (east), and head along the main thoroughfare to a large brick gate. Push open the doors, race up the hill and stop at the main gate and portcullis, where the signpost is. What follows is a conversation with the Baron’s men:

If you bought the Baron’s men a drink, one of them is standing outside of this gate. Choose pleasant conversations, and you’re let through into the inner courtyard, and you’re told to follow the sergeant.

If you weren’t violent towards the Baron’s men at the Inn at the Crossroads, or never met the Baron’s men previously, four faces are guarding the outside of this gate. Choose pleasant conversations, and you’re let through only after paying a bribe of 15 crowns. Then you’re told to follow the sergeant.

If you killed the Baron’s men at the Inn at the Crossroads, two unfamiliar faces are guarding the portcullis from the inside. They know what you did, and aren’t about to let you into this castle. You now need to find an alternate way to enter this place.