Spotted Wight

Spotted Wight

Species	Necrophages
DLC	Blood and Wine
Oil	Necrophage Oil
Signs	Igni Yrden Axii
Location	Toussaint

The Spotted Wight is a Necrophage, a larger kind of Wight. Only one is left alive, in the ruins of the Trastamara estate near Beauclair in Toussaint. It is met in La Cage au Fou, a level 39 main quest of the Blood and Wine expansion. That puts it in the late game.

Lore

Spotted wights were a subspecies of wight. Witchers were said to have wiped them out. They were larger than their unspotted cousins. Their name comes from the many blotches and oozing patches on their bodies.

When witchers swear they have wiped out a species, and someone then sees one alive and well, a curse is usually to blame. This rule of thumb proved true at the Trastamara estate. The spotted wight living there was really a woman named Marlene. A curse had turned her into a monster many years earlier. It was her punishment for refusing food and shelter to a wandering beggar.

Roderick Giligan wrote a treatise on spotted wights. The treatise gives simple advice for meeting one: stay calm and leave it alone.

Behaviour

Spotted wights lived in run-down cemeteries and empty wilderness. Some moved into abandoned houses. There they enjoyed their greatest passion: brewing from their own bodily fluids.

The Trastamara wight keeps a large cauldron in the old house, and spoons lie everywhere around the ruins. The words of the curse are scratched into the walls. A spotted wight left alone is not aggressive. Threatened, it becomes very dangerous. In the cold months it sinks into a sluggish state that makes it an easy target.

Weaknesses

Coat the silver sword with Necrophage Oil before the fight. Witcher lore says that careful casting of the Yrden Sign is a sure way to beat a spotted wight, so keep the Sign ready.

A fight is only one way to deal with the Trastamara wight. Learning enough about the curse opens a peaceful path instead.

Spotted Wight Map Location and Quest Guide

Meet Regis at Mère-Lachaiselongue Cemetery and find a way into the crypt.
Ride to the wight's lair at the old Trastamara estate.
Search the house with the Witcher Senses, including the writings on the walls and the dining table.
Find the wight's cauldron and look into it.
Hide in the wardrobe across the room from the cauldron.
Choose to try to lift the curse, then choose to eat without the spoons.
Follow the stench of the wight's brew to find Marlene.
Report back to Regis at the cemetery.

Map credit by Map Genie.

Contracts and Quests

Quest	Quest Giver	Location	Reward
La Cage au Fou	Regis	Mère-Lachaiselongue Cemetery, Toussaint	Wight Trophy, Tesham Mutna Armor Set

The Spotted Wight is part of La Cage au Fou, a main quest in Toussaint. Regis, an old friend of the witcher and a higher vampire, plans to brew a potion called Resonance to help find Dettlaff. One of its rare ingredients is the saliva of a spotted wight, a species thought long extinct. Yet one specimen remains alive in its lair near Beauclair.

The lair is the old house at the abandoned estate. A search with the Witcher Senses turns up the writings on the walls, the dining table and finally the wight's cauldron. The witcher then hides in a wardrobe across the room and waits for the wight to come back. If the search turned up enough clues, there is a timed choice: attack the monster or try to lift the curse.

Attacking means chasing the wight, killing it and taking its saliva glands. The kill also yields a Wight Trophy. Trying to lift the curse leads to a meal at the dining table. The right answer is to eat without the spoons. The wight's saliva is already in the brew in its cauldron, so the ingredient is collected either way. Following the stench of the brew afterward leads to Marlene in human form, and the witcher takes her to Corvo Bianco. That path later opens the secondary quest The Hunger Game. A Spoon Key in the house also starts the treasure hunt Spoontaneous Profits!.

Drops

Name	Image
Disgusting Wight Key	-
Fork
Monster Heart
Monster Liver
Wight Ear
Wight Hair
Wight Saliva Gland	-
Wight Trophy
Greater Green Mutagen
Greater Triglav Runestone
Monster Blood
Monster Bone	-
Monster Brain
Monster Claw
Monster Saliva
Monster Stomach
Monster Tongue
Greater Tiglav Runestone	-
Green Mutagen

All Monster Categories

All Necrophages

Name	Image	Variant of	Oil	Signs	Bombs	Location	DLC
Abaya		Water Hag	Necrophage Oil	Quen Igni	Northern Wind	Skellige	Base game
Alghoul		-	Necrophage Oil	Axii	-	-	Base game
Devourer	-	-	Necrophage Oil	-	-	Skellige Velen	Base game
Drowned Dead	-	Drowner	Necrophage Oil	Igni	-	Velen Novigrad Skellige Kaer Morhen White Orchard	Base game
Drowner		-	Necrophage Oil	Igni Aard	-	Skellige White Orchard	Base game
Foglet		-	Necrophage Oil	Quen	Moon Dust	Velen Novigrad Skellige Kaer Morhen Toussaint Isle of Mists	Base game
Ghoul		-	Necrophage Oil	-	-	White Orchard Velen	Base game
Grave Hag		-	Necrophage Oil	Yrden Quen	-	Velen Skellige	Base game
Ignis Fatuus		Foglet	Necrophage Oil	Quen	Moon Dust	Velen	Base game
Mourntart		Grave Hag	Necrophage Oil	Yrden Quen	-	-	Base game
Mucknixer	-	-	Necrophage Oil	Igni	-	Skellige Velen	Base game
Rotfiend		-	Necrophage Oil	Igni	-	Velen White Orchard Skellige Toussaint	Base game
Scurver		-	Necrophage Oil	-	-	Toussaint	Blood and Wine
Spotted Wight		-	Necrophage Oil	Igni Yrden Axii	-	Toussaint	Blood and Wine
Water Hag		-	Necrophage Oil	Quen Igni	Northern Wind	White Orchard	Base game
Wight		-	Necrophage Oil	Axii	-	Toussaint	Blood and Wine