A Murky Delve: Trials At The Hidden Chapel

Along the western shores of Lake Seidhe Llygad, in the Gorgon Foothills south of the Palace Gardens in Beauclair, and just north of the Seidhe Llygad Ampitheater, is an unassuming cave mouth, the Hidden Chapel the Beggar made reference to. The entrance to the Hidden Chapel has another name now, Murky Delve, but was once known as the Cave of Tribulations. Swim through the cave opening, and climb up onto more solid ground inside this cave tunnel. You surmise the chapel Merten visited must be in this cave.

First Trial: Battling Temptation

As you walk further into the cave, you are almost overcome by a strange purple haze of mist. No potions seem to negate the coughing, though you recover immediately afterward. The mist seems to grant you strange hallucinations; venture forward to spy two naked women in a cave grotto ahead of you. If you approach them, they soon transform into screaming Bruxae, and must be fought in combat. If you keep your distance and go through the other tunnel, you won’t have to fight them.

Second Trial: Alms For The Poor

After the fight, there are two possible tunnels to climb up and around, and both lead to a strange sight, a group of five beggars pleading for help. Step to each one, and drop some coin at their outstretched hands. After you give alms, the beggar disappears in a puff of purple mist. Progress continues further into the tunnel, heading slightly upward in a northeasterly direction. If you don’t share the wealth, an Archespore attacks you, and in order to proceed you will have to kill it.

Third Trial: Selfless Acts Of Protection

You must venture through another purple mist, into a chamber where a man is being worried by a cluster of Kikimores. Slay all three of them, and the man disappears in a cloud of violet fog. Though you may be tempted to loot a sword sticking out of pile of gold, don’t do it. Grabbing it will fail the test and the sword, gold pile, and man will disappear while you’re attacked by a group of Kikimores. The tunnel continues with some natural steps up, to the northwest. Climb them to a collapsed tunnel, and remove the rubble with a blast of Aard.

Fourth Trial: Honor At The Hidden Chapel

Step through the hole you made, and peer down into a shallow pool of deep purple water. Ignore that, and make your way around the higher ledge, to an alcove with a fissure of light streaming down from behind it, and a strange Mystery Man who rises to his feet to greet you. He appears to look exactly like the Prophet Lebioda, and disappears a moment later. There must have been some powerful hallucinogens in that purple haze! The disappearing man leaves behind some bones to examine (are these the remains of Lebioda himself?) and a small chest to loot. Merten’s notes, when read, reveal the last station on the ex-Witcher’s pilgrimage.