A Lazare Forge Attitude — The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt The Complete Edition eGuide

Related Quests: Scavenger Hunt: Griffin School Gear, Scavenger Hunt: Feline School Gear, Scavenger Hunt: Wolven School Gear, Scavenger Hunt: Ursine School Gear, Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Griffin Gear, Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Feline Gear, Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Wolven Gear, Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Ursine Gear, Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Manticore Gear

Locations: The Gran’Place, Lafargue Armory (Unmarked)

Characters: Lazare Lafargue

Recommended Items: Mastercrafted Witcher Gear (Griffin, Feline, Wolven, Ursine)

Objectives

Locate the Master armorer and take advantage of his services.

How To Start This Quest

Additional lost diagrams of a most potent and incredible nature are said to exist within the vales and caves of Toussaint. Searching for five sets of Grand Master Witcher Gear diagrams is a lengthy but rewarding task. It commences when you’ve completed one of the following options:

1. You explore Toussaint, and stumble upon the location of one or more of the diagrams. There are Feline, Griffin, Wolven, Ursine, and Manticore diagrams to find.

2. You visit a Notice Board, such as the one just south of The Gran’place in Beauclair, and read the notice marked “Contract: Grandmaster Armorer”.

3. You visit Lazare Lafargue (without knowledge of his notice), a noted Grand Master armorer of Beauclair, and discuss the availability of such rare diagrams. This is the quest you are currently reading, and you are encouraged to complete this first, so you can start each of the five Scavenger Hunts all at once, and finish them at your leisure.

Remember! In order to create the Grandmaster gear of each Witcher School (with the exception of the Manticore gear), you require Mastercrafted gear of that school, which you can find by finishing the previous Scavenger Hunts. With four of the five gear diagrams, you can find the gear in any order you like (as all are Grandmaster diagrams). For Manticore equipment, you need only Grandmaster gear.

Beauclair’s best armorer seeks a brave man to help recover some long-lost diagrams. Though the contract is highly dangerous (and isn’t technically a “Witcher Contract”), the reward is said to be lucrative. More details are available at the armorer’s shop, on the corner in Hauteville, one of the poshest parts of town. Step inside, and you’re greeted by Lazare Lafargue, who immediately recognizes you’re from the School of the Wolf.

He tells you that he’s spent years seeking diagrams for Witcher armor of exceptional, grandmaster quality. Though you’ve heard of such equipment, you believed them all lost. Not quite! The holders of the diagrams came to Toussaint, but they perished, and you need to learn where and retrieve the diagrams. In return, Lafargue will forge whatever you fancy. Ask how the diagrams wound up in Toussaint, and Lafargue mentions the legendary elven master armorer Tyen’sail, who Lafargue learned his trade from. You can ask how he ended up apprenticed to an elf, before requesting more information on where to look for the diagrams.

Lafargue knows of five likely fallen Witchers, each from a different school: the Wolf, Griffin, Cat, Bear, and Manticore. Ask about the following School gear:

The Wolf: Witcher Adon was hired as an escort on an archaeological expedition to the elven ruins at Termes.
The Griffin: The Witcher took a contract at Fort Ussar and required better gear
The Cat: Bartolomé de Launay, a ducal armorer, asked to confirm the authenticity of a Witcher diagram; a Witcher had offered it for sale in return for a full set of gear. Soon after, de Launay disappeared.
The Bear: Lafargue remembers a towering Witcher who haggled with Tyen’Sail like a fishwife, and pledged to bring them coin after completing a contract at the Tufo vineyard.
The Manticore: A century past, Witcher Merten visited Tyen’Sail and made a poor impression; stinking like a dwarf and quarreling fiercely. Folk say the Witcher brawled with the Ducal Guard and was arrested and sentenced to Bastoy Prison.

Now you have the five snippets of information, the five Grandmaster Witcher Gear Scavenger Hunts begin, and this quest stalls temporarily.