Family Matters

Main StoryVelen

The baron turned out to be a tough negotiator who knew the full value of the information he possessed. He agreed to tell Geralt about Ciri on one condition: Geralt had to find his wife and daughter first. The women had mysteriously disappeared a short time before. Though the baron had moved heaven and earth to find them, all his efforts had proved fruitless.

Choices & consequences

Closes out the Bloody Baron. His ending is set by the Whispering Hillock choice; Tamara's reconciliation is yours to broker.

What happens to the Baron and Anna?

You killed the Whispering Hillock spirit
Anna lives (though sickened). The Baron leaves Velen to take her to a healer in the Blue Mountains — both survive.
You freed the spirit
Anna is found as a deranged hag and dies; the grief-stricken Baron hangs himself.

Tamara and the witch hunters

Reconcile the Baron with Tamara
Father and daughter make a fragile peace before he leaves.
Storm Crookback Bog with the witch hunters
Tamara brings armed hunters — a bloodier raid that can wipe out the Crones' thralls.

Objectives

1.Find the pellar's hut.
2.Talk to the baron about his family.
3.Search the area around the smokehouse using your Witcher Senses.
4.Examine the dead horses.
5.Follow the lubberkin.
6.Look around the fisherman's hut.
7.Follow the baron.
8.Talk to the pellar about performing the blood ritual.
9.Follow the pellar.
10.Relight the fires in the braziers if they go out during the ritual.
11.Find the fisherman Voytek's hut.
12.Find Tamara, the baron's daughter, in Oxenfurt.
13.Prepare for the ritual and light the fires.
14.Kill the leshen.
15.Save the stable hand and the horses trapped in the burning stable.
16.Kill the bandits attacking the pellar.
17.Talk to the pellar.
18.Defeat the baron in a fistfight.
19.Read the bestiary to learn more about botchlings.
20.Talk to the baron about Tamara.
21.Use your Witcher Senses to locate where the scent is coming from.
22.Lead the goat to the pellar.
23.Go to the pellar when you are ready to start the ritual.
24.Agree to help find the missing goat to gain the pellar's gratitude.
25.Open the main gate to stables.
26.Tell the baron what you've learned about Anna.
27.Kill the botchling.
28.Talk to the baron.
29.Tell the baron to show you where he buried his child.
30.Follow the baron to the castle's entrance.

Objectives a quest can show, in roughly the order they appear; some are optional or mutually exclusive branches.

Advanced: quest facts and console commands (121)

These are script references, not a tested repair sequence. Keep a separate save before changing quest state.

Quest facts (121)

Flags written by quest scripts

79 facts

These flags record script state. Setting one does not run the associated objective or reliably advance the quest.

Baron dd start

baron_dd_start

Also used by Return to Crookback Bog

Baron dd stop

baron_dd_stop

Also used by Return to Crookback Bog

Doll given

q103_doll_given

Add q103_doll_given

Baron carries botch

q103_baron_carries_botch

>= 1

Also used by Contract: The Griffin from the Highlands

Buried botch

q103_buried_botch

>= 1

Also used by Contract: The Griffin from the Highlands

Daughter found

q103_daughter_found

== 1, > 1, >= 1

Also used by Forefathers' Eve

Family found

q103_family_found

>= 1

Also used by Wandering in the Dark

Guslar saved

q103_guslar_saved

>= 1

Add q103_guslar_saved

Killed botch

q103_killed_botch

>= 1

Also used by Contract: The Griffin from the Highlands

Nml part1 ciri

q103_nml_part1_ciri

>= 1

Also used by The Calm Before the Storm

Prophecy one done

q103_prophecy_one_done

>= 1

Add q103_prophecy_one_done

Prophecy two done

q103_prophecy_two_done

>= 1

Add q103_prophecy_two_done

Stablemaster saved

q103_stablemaster_saved

>= 1

Add q103_stablemaster_saved

Activity examine body closely

q103_activity_examine_body_closely

In phase: Daughter

Activity examine body closely end

q103_activity_examine_body_closely_end

In phase: Daughter

Botch tries to bite

q103_botch_tries_to_bite

Add q103_botch_tries_to_bite

Brazzier 1 start

q103_brazzier_1_start

Add q103_brazzier_1_start

Brazzier 2 start

q103_brazzier_2_start

Add q103_brazzier_2_start

Brazzier 3 start

q103_brazzier_3_start

Add q103_brazzier_3_start

Candleholder important

q103_candleholder_important

Add q103_candleholder_important

Candlesticks seen

q103_candlesticks_seen

Add q103_candlesticks_seen

Fdb fisherman released

q103_fdb_fisherman_released

Add q103_fdb_fisherman_released

Fisherman stolen from ff102

q103_fisherman_stolen_from_ff102

Add q103_fisherman_stolen_from_ff102

Look around remove

q103_look_around_remove

Add q103_look_around_remove

Margaret to village

q103_margaret_to_village

Add q103_margaret_to_village

Oil against relics

q103_oil_against_relics

Add q103_oil_against_relics

Stable fire immune

q103_stable_fire_immune

Add q103_stable_fire_immune

Start burning stables com run

q103_start_burning_stables_com_run

Add q103_start_burning_stables_com_run

Wine scent checked

q103_wine_scent_checked

Add q103_wine_scent_checked

Tamara eqp mount

tamara_eqp_mount

Add tamara_eqp_mount

Tamara eqp unmount

tamara_eqp_unmount

Add tamara_eqp_unmount

Activate wine trace

q103_activate_wine_trace

>= 1

Add q103_activate_wine_trace

Baron at default

q103_baron_at_default

== 1

Add q103_baron_at_default

Baron confession

q103_baron_confession

== 1, >= 1

Add q103_baron_confession

Baron met

q103_baron_met

>= 1

Add q103_baron_met

Bell already used

q103_bell_already_used

>= 1

Add q103_bell_already_used

Bell already used 2

q103_bell_already_used_2

>= 1

Add q103_bell_already_used_2

Bell already used 3

q103_bell_already_used_3

>= 1

Add q103_bell_already_used_3

Bell already used 4

q103_bell_already_used_4

>= 1

Add q103_bell_already_used_4

Birtchling sequence on

q103_birtchling_sequence_on

<= 1, >= 1

Add q103_birtchling_sequence_on

Brazzier 1 stop

q103_brazzier_1_stop

>= 1

Add q103_brazzier_1_stop

Brazzier 2 stop

q103_brazzier_2_stop

>= 1

Add q103_brazzier_2_stop

Brazzier 3 stop

q103_brazzier_3_stop

>= 1

Add q103_brazzier_3_stop

Brazzier on

q103_brazzier_on

>= 3

Add q103_brazzier_on -1

Checked ciri clothes

q103_checked_ciri_clothes

>= 1

Add q103_checked_ciri_clothes

Daughter visited

q103_daughter_visited

>= 1

Add q103_daughter_visited

Doll

q103_doll

>= 1

Add q103_doll

Enable ciris room

q103_enable_ciris_room

>= 1

Add q103_enable_ciris_room

Fight botch main yard

q103_fight_botch_main_yard

>= 1

Add q103_fight_botch_main_yard

Fight botch spot 1

q103_fight_botch_spot_1

>= 1

Add q103_fight_botch_spot_1

Fight botch spot 2

q103_fight_botch_spot_2

>= 1

Add q103_fight_botch_spot_2

First replacer played

q103_first_replacer_played

>= 1

Add q103_first_replacer_played

Found eternal shrine

q103_found_eternal_shrine

>= 1

Add q103_found_eternal_shrine

Geralt goat speaking

q103_geralt_goat_speaking

<= 1, >= 1

If q103_geralt_goat_speaking

Geralt sent to guslar

q103_geralt_sent_to_guslar

>= 1

Add q103_geralt_sent_to_guslar

Graden met

q103_graden_met

>= 1

Add q103_graden_met

Guslar divination

q103_guslar_divination

> 1, >= 1

Add q103_guslar_divination

Hungry specters comment

q103_hungry_specters_comment

>= 1

Add q103_hungry_specters_comment

Lock burning stables

q103_lock_burning_stables

>= 1

Add q103_lock_burning_stables

Made oil

q103_made_oil

>= 1

Add q103_made_oil

Margaret in cave

q103_margaret_in_cave

>= 1

Add q103_margaret_in_cave

Margaret not left behind

q103_margaret_not_left_behind

>= 1

Add q103_margaret_not_left_behind

Margaret to cave

q103_margaret_to_cave

>= 1

Add q103_margaret_to_cave

Oil against lycanthropes

q103_oil_against_lycanthropes

>= 1

Add q103_oil_against_lycanthropes

Prophecy one started

q103_prophecy_one_started

>= 1

Add q103_prophecy_one_started

Prophecy two started

q103_prophecy_two_started

>= 1

Add q103_prophecy_two_started

Race started

q103_race_started

>= 1

Add q103_race_started

Refused guslar

q103_refused_guslar

>= 1

Add q103_refused_guslar

Ritual ends

q103_ritual_ends

>= 1

Add q103_ritual_ends

Save brother

q103_save_brother

>= 1

Add q103_save_brother

Start burning stables

q103_start_burning_stables

== 1, >= 1

Add q103_start_burning_stables

Start oneliners

q103_start_oneliners

>= 1

Add q103_start_oneliners

Stop baron rutine

q103_stop_baron_rutine

>= 1

Add q103_stop_baron_rutine

Stop burning

q103_stop_burning

>= 1

Add q103_stop_burning

Stop oneliners

q103_stop_oneliners

>= 1

Add q103_stop_oneliners

Talked to goat

q103_talked_to_goat

>= 1

Add q103_talked_to_goat

Werewolf confrontation

q103_werewolf_confrontation

>= 1

Add q103_werewolf_confrontation

Wife room active

q103_wife_room_active

>= 1

Add q103_wife_room_active

Wine scent focused

q103_wine_scent_focused

>= 1

Add q103_wine_scent_focused

Gates the quest checks

42 facts

Get uma

q103_get_uma

== 1, > 1

Also used by To Bait a Forktail...

Completed

q104_completed

>= 1

Also used by A Greedy God, Contract: Swamp Thing, Wandering in the Dark

Met keira

q104_met_keira

>= 1

Also used by Wandering in the Dark

Wife found

q105_wife_found

>= 1

Also used by Ciri's Story: Fleeing the Bog

Escort completed

q402_escort_completed

>= 1

Also used by A Dangerous Game, A Deadly Plot, A Favor for a Friend +10 more

Activate give doll scene

q103_activate_give_doll_scene

>= 1

Gates: Daughter, Race

Bell used

q103_bell_used

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Blood ritual ends

q103_blood_ritual_ends

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Brazzier 1 on

q103_brazzier_1_on

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Brazzier 2 on

q103_brazzier_2_on

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Brazzier 3 on

q103_brazzier_3_on

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Change attitude

q103_change_attitude

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Change guslar appearance

q103_change_guslar_appearance

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Ciri fireplace timelapse

q103_ciri_fireplace_timelapse

>= 1

Gates: Race

Ciri race timelapse

q103_ciri_race_timelapse

>= 1

Gates: Race

Confrontation music

q103_confrontation_music

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Crying music

q103_crying_music

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Daughter reported

q103_daughter_reported

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Doll given daughter reported

q103_doll_given_daughter_reported

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Enable knocking

q103_enable_knocking

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Fisherman about signs

q103_fisherman_about_signs

>= 1

Gates: Character Journal Entries

Guslar after ritual

q103_guslar_after_ritual

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Guslar ritual timelapse

q103_guslar_ritual_timelapse

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Load grave

q103_load_grave

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Lubberkin timelapse

q103_lubberkin_timelapse

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Margaret about toy

q103_margaret_about_toy

>= 1

Gates: Ciris Room

Move painting

q103_move_painting

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Open gate

q103_open_gate

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Open wardrobe

q103_open_wardrobe

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Peregrination starts

q103_peregrination_starts

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Poroniec music

q103_poroniec_music

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Show chalk drawing

q103_show_chalk_drawing

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Stable door opened 1

q103_stable_door_opened_1

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Stable door opened 2

q103_stable_door_opened_2

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Stable door opened 3

q103_stable_door_opened_3

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Stable door opened 4

q103_stable_door_opened_4

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Stable door opened 5

q103_stable_door_opened_5

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Start ritual effects

q103_start_ritual_effects

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Succeed talk to baron

q103_succeed_talk_to_baron

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

Werewolf combat

q103_werewolf_combat

>= 1

Gates: Daughter

White bridge

q103_white_bridge

>= 1

Gates: Daughter, Race, Tamara In Wilkowyjce

Wife reported

q103_wife_reported

>= 1

Gates: Character Journal Entries, Daughter

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Show on map (2)

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Community map location
Shopkeeper
Community map location

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