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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt The Complete Edition eGuide Secondary Quests Defender Of The Faith (I)

Blasphemers! Should All Be Flogged!

Locations: Blackbough, Duen Hen, Byways

Characters: Peasant, Master Friedrich of Oxenfurt

Enemies: Students (Vandals)

Objectives

  • Fix the damaged shrines (3).
  • (Optional) Defeat the vandals.
  • Nearest Signpost: Blackbough
Shrine to Vernia the Merciful

Approach a ranting peasant woman on the hill known as Duen Hen, and listen to her diatribe.It seems blasphemers (pox take them) profaned a shrine to Verna the Merciful. Agree to “fix” these shrines (by lifting the effigy of an old woman carved in wood to an upright position). There are three to find (in any order.

  • The first (if you started this quest in The Mire) is atop a small hill known as Duen Hen in the southwest of this province.
  • The second (if you started this quest in Crow Perch) is at the junction of the road leading eastwards from Blackbough.
  • The third shrine is in the very southwestern parts of Velen, southeast of the Byways signpost.

When you reach the last shrine (in any order), it is being desicrated by a group of vandals lead by a flouncing philosopher. He firmly believes that religion is the opiate of the masses, and insists on vandalizing shrines. You can:

  • Agree to leave him to his stand against the old ways and intolerance. The quest then concludes.
  • Disagree with the dandy’s methods, and tackle him and his three vandal cohorts. The quest then concludes.