Family Matters

Research steps

1. Use your Witcher Senses to locate where the scent is coming from.
2. Follow the baron.
3. Find the pellar's hut.
4. Kill the bandits attacking the pellar.
5. Talk to the pellar.
6. Agree to help find the missing goat to gain the pellar's gratitude.
7. Lead the goat to the pellar.
8. Read the bestiary to learn more about botchlings.
9. Defeat the baron in a fistfight.
10. Save the stable hand and the horses trapped in the burning stable.
11. Open the main gate to stables.
12. Talk to the pellar.
13. Go to the pellar when you are ready to start the ritual.
14. Talk to the pellar about performing the blood ritual.
15. Follow the pellar.
16. Prepare for the ritual and light the fires.
17. Relight the fires in the braziers if they go out during the ritual.
18. Kill the leshen.
19. Find the fisherman Voytek's hut.
20. Follow the lubberkin.
21. Search the area around the smokehouse using your Witcher Senses.
22. Follow the lubberkin.
23. Examine the dead horses.
24. Follow the lubberkin.
25. Talk to the baron about his family.
26. Look around the fisherman's hut.
27. Find Tamara, the baron's daughter, in Oxenfurt.
28. Talk to the baron about Tamara.
29. Find Anna, the baron's wife.
30. Use your Witcher Senses to search the room.
31. Talk to the baron about what you found.
32. Investigate all remaining leads in Velen and find the Baron's wife.
33. Kill the botchling.
34. Talk to the baron.
35. Tell the baron to show you where he buried his child.
36. Follow the baron.
37. Kill the botchling.
38. Follow the baron to the castle's entrance.
39. Protect the baron from wraiths.
40. Use the Axii Sign to calm the botchling.
41. Protect the baron from the wraiths.
42. Use the Axii Sign to calm the botchling.
43. Wait a full day so that you can summon the lubberkin.
44. Summon the lubberkin where the botchling is buried.
45. Talk to the baron about his family.
46. Tell the baron what you've learned about Anna.