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Ladies of the Wood

Objectives follow journal display order. Some depend on your choices; follow the active objective in the game.

Research steps

Read "The Ladies of the Wood."
Find the Crones of Crookback Bog.
Use your Witcher Senses to find the shrine that marks the start of the Trail of Treats.
Follow the Trail of Treats using your Witcher Senses.
Ask the children in the swamp village about Ciri.
Go to the hut and talk to the boy.
Find a way to lure Gran away from the hut.
Ask the children in the swamp village about Johnny.
Find the hidden children using your Witcher Senses.
Talk to the children.
Give the children some tasty treats.
Look for Johnny in the swamp using your Witcher Senses.
Find Johnny's footprints.
Follow Johnny's footprints using your Witcher Senses.
Lure Johnny out of his burrow.
Follow Johnny.
Defeat the monsters.
Follow Johnny.
Defeat the monsters.
Follow Johnny.
Search the raven nest.
Give the bottle to Johnny.
Follow Johnny to the swamp village.
Defeat the monsters.
Follow Johnny to the swamp village.
Talk to the ealdorman of Downwarren about the village's problem.
Find out what's killing villagers from Downwarren.
Find a passage leading under the hill using your Witcher Senses.
Explore the cave.
Solve Downwarren's problem.
Tell the ealdorman of Downwarren you took care of the problem.
Put the ealdorman's payment on the stone.

Direct answer

Objectives follow journal display order. Some depend on your choices; follow the active objective in the game.

Result

Information found in the home of Hendrik, the Nilfgaardian agent, indicated Ciri had entered into conflict with some witch in Velen. At first Geralt thought this "witch" was Keira Metz, but he later learned Hendrik had meant a different individual, one who dwelt in Crookback Bog. So the witcher ventured into the swamps, determined to find this bog-dwelling witch and ask her about Ciri.

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