Old Parchments And Old Friends — The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt The Complete Edition eGuide

Related Quests: Main Quest: Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Griffin Gear

Locations: Lebioda’s Gate, Orelemurs Cemetery (Unmarked), Valley of the Nine (Unmarked), Ruins of Dol Naev’de (Unmarked)

Characters: Postboy, Yennefer of Vengerberg, (or Triss, depending on your relationship in The Witcher 3), Professor Moreau, Jerome Moreau

Enemies: Drowners, Guardian Panthers, Gargoyles, Pale Widow Centipedes

Required Items: Crossbow (you can use bombs instead)

Objectives

Search for Moreau’s grave at Orlemurs Cemetery using your Witcher Senses.

QUESTING DECISIONS

This quest is brought to your attention during your first visit to Beauclair, where you receive a missive from Yennefer of Vengerberg (or Triss. There are three possible letters based on player’s actions in TW3. Romancing Yen gives a letter from Yen, romancing Triss a letter from Triss, and romancing both or neither provides a letter from Yen, but less amicable than the first one). During Main Quest: The Night of Long Fangs, this quest stalls, and a new objective, “Before continuing with Professor Moreau, fight off the vampire attacks,” prevents you from continuing this quest until after the completion of Main Quest: Tesham Mutna. (Only the cemetery part in Beauclair, you can proceed with the quest if you have the objective “Search for the entrance to the professor’s laboratory in the flooded ruins of the Valley of the Nine.”)

While on your adventures, usually when entering one of the town squares or courtyards in Beauclair for the first time (such as the wonderful stone wishing well close to the Pheasantry Inn just north of the Nilfgaardian Embassy), you are stopped by an urgent missive carried by a small child. Shoo him away or pay him five crowns for his troubles. The letter is from your old friend Yennefer or Triss, who has discovered references to a “Professor Moreau of Beauclair” who conducted research into Witcher mutations. It seems his journal, which was laid with the Professor’s remains in his tomb, makes mention of a secret laboratory! Furthermore, Yennefer or Triss has provided a partly-legible map with which to begin your search.

The old cemetery just north of Lebioda’s Gate is where the Professor’s grave is located. Find it at the foot of the sprawling oak tree, close to a weeping woman named Vivienne (if Main Quest: The Night of Long Fangs has been completed) who mourns her slain knight Guillaume the Hapless. She isn’t relevant to this quest. Examine the open grave to her left. The headstone is carved with Elder Speech, but his journal has been stolen, and the professor is in no shape to help you (after you examine his skeletal remains).

Objectives

Use your Witcher Senses to follow the grave robber’s trail.
Check the location of Naev-de on the map Yennefer sent you.

Use your Witcher Senses to discover a set of shallow footprints leading away from the grave, but the trail is lost when you reach the road. Only the map can further your progress, while the headstone referenced “Aelirenn” and “Dol Naev’de,” as well as “Valley of the Nine.” After checking the map, it seems the Sansretour River flows through the area where the Valley of the Nine once lay.