Objectives:
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Dash off in a southerly direction, passing a tumbledown cottage near a large oak tree (if you’re taking the path), then veer off and take down an arachas that might be feeding on the corpses you’re about to inspect. Then inspect the following:
- Wolf corpses—the monster wiped out a whole pack of them.
- The tracks are big, really big. Follow them. The tracks lead up a rocky embankment in a roughly southwesterly direction.
- Climb to the top of the embankment, and follow the tracks a few feet to a large oak tree, and examine it. The beast left a lot of fur when it rubbed against the tree, and the scent is still visible to you.
- Follow the scent trail in a roughly southerly direction around a large hilly mound, until the trail heads up and into a cave entrance that’s too high to reach from your current position.
- Close to the cave opening is an impressively-sized stool of dried out fiend feces. The animal has been active for a while.
Objectives:
- Find a way into the cave.
- Explore the cave using your Witcher Senses.
The trail goes cold for a few moments as you need to manually find a secondary cave entrance. Climb to the hilly area directly above the cave opening with the stench, and search around for a hole in the grassy ground, close to a cluster of old oak trees (as shown). Simply drop into the hole.
You appear on a high ledge inside the Fiend’s Cave. The high opening opposite is the other entrance you couldn’t reach. Drop down onto the cave floor, and inspect the following:
- The corpse of the fiend you thought you were hunting, which died recently. Check the mouth of this creature, which has tufts of differently-colored fur.
- There’s a trail with tracks too small for a fiend, though. Blood pools indicate a vicious fight, and paw prints reveal the fight lasted a while. You now guess you’re hunting a chort which was competing for territory. But the beast isn’t here. It needs to be coaxed to the cave with bait.