Family Matters
| Family Matters | |
|---|---|
| Type | Main Quest |
| Region | Velen |
| Quest Giver | Phillip Strenger |
| Suggested Level | 6 |
| Reward | 1,000 XP; Letter of Safe Conduct |
| Previous Quest | Ciri's Story: The King of the Wolves |
| Next Quest | Ciri's Story: The Race |
Family Matters is one of the biggest main quests in Velen. The Bloody Baron, Phillip Strenger, will say more about Ciri only after Geralt finds his missing wife and daughter. Both women vanished from Crow's Perch one night. The search takes Geralt across Velen and into Oxenfurt. It brings to light the baron's drinking, his abuse and a buried child that has become a botchling.
Family Matters Map Location and Quest Guide
Family Matters map location:
- Follow the baron upstairs to the bedrooms.
- Search the baron's chamber with Witcher Senses.
- Follow the scent of wine down the stairs and find a talisman under a floorboard.
- Show the talisman to the baron.
- Ride to the Pellar's hut near Blackbough.
- Deal with the baron's men outside the hut.
- Talk to the Pellar and agree to find his goat in A Princess in Distress.
- Bring the goat back and listen to the Pellar's reading.
- Ride back to Crow's Perch, where the stables are on fire.
- Climb the ladder into the stable loft and open the stable door from outside to free the stablehand.
- Confront the baron, and win the fistfight if he attacks.
- Follow the baron to his child's grave at midnight.
- Choose to lift the curse on the botchling or to kill it.
- To lift the curse, guard the baron on the way back to the castle and cast Axii on the botchling after each wraith attack.
- Follow the lubberkin to the smokehouse and search it with Witcher Senses.
- Follow the lubberkin to the dead horse and examine it.
- Talk to the people in the fisherman's hut.
- Return to the baron and tell him what was found.
- Ride to Oxenfurt and talk to Tamara.
- Bring the baron news of Anna after Ladies of the Wood.
Map credit by Map Genie.
Choices
Geralt meets the baron's men outside the Pellar's hut. With the Delusion skill, Geralt can use Axii to send them away. Otherwise the meeting can end in a fight. The stablehand trapped in the burning stable can be saved or left. Saving him earns a small reward later at Crow's Perch.
The biggest choice comes at the grave. Geralt can lift the curse or kill the botchling. Lifting the curse means guarding the baron as he carries the creature home. Wraiths attack on the way, and Axii must calm the botchling after each attack. At the threshold the baron names the child, and it rises as a lubberkin. This friendly household spirit then leads Geralt along the trail of the two women. Killing the botchling is the other path. Geralt then collects its blood for an old ritual that also points to the women's trail.
Geralt can talk to the baron before he looks for Tamara. In that case the baron hands him a cloth doll for her as he leaves.
Characters
The characters who take part in the quest.
| Character | Image |
|---|---|
| Phillip Strenger | 
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| The Pellar | 
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| Tamara Strenger | 
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Monsters
The monsters fought during the quest.
| Monster | Image | Species |
|---|---|---|
| Botchling | 
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Cursed Ones |
| Wraith | 
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Specters |
Notes
- A Princess in Distress starts and ends inside this quest.
- Ciri's Story: The Race plays when Geralt returns to the baron with news of his family.
- The baron also hands over a pass that makes the trip to Oxenfurt easier.
All Main Quests
Every main quest in story order, with the region it takes place in and its suggested level.
