All Is Gloom. What Beings In The Darkess Loom?

Cut the three witch hunters down so the ritual may continue. Alas, blood has been spilt on this hallowed ground, and the pellar is worried other malicious entities may appear. He’s correct—prepare to defeat three incoming wraiths.

Afterwards, it is clear the pellar is afraid of his father’s ghost (especially as the wraiths referred to the death of Ambros as patricide). Agree to find the corpse of Ambros, and destroy this bond it has to the wraiths and the land of the living.

Swim or take a boat across the lake towards the marshes, and scout the edge of the bog, west of the Orphan Village. The corpse is in remarkably good condition (you can see where the pellar smashed in his father’s skull). Defeat any rotfiends roaming the area, use Igni to set the corpse ablaze, and dismiss the patriarchal specter homing in on the pellar.