In the Heart of the Woods

Witcher ContractSkellige

Fayrlund's supposed guardian turned out to be a leshen - a rare and dangerous monster that can force animals, plants and, as soon became clear, even people to do its bidding. For generations the villagers had worshipped it and offered it sacrifices, and all the while it leeched off their life force, a parasite masquerading as a guardian. A band of young warriors led by Sven questioned the old order and asked Geralt to take care of the monster in the manner of witchers. Geralt agreed. While he was away tracking the leshen in the nearby woods, Sven decided to usher in the new era himself by murdering all the village elders. When Geralt arrived back in the settlement it was too late to save it from fratricidal bloodshed. He thus collected his reward from a man who had killed more people in one afternoon than the monster had in years and walked away from the village without a backwards glance.

Fixing a softlock

Enable the debug console, then look for a fact under Gates the quest checks — one the quest is actively waiting on. If that flag never got written, addfact it to the value shown and the gate clears.

Setting a Set these to advance fact only marks a step done — it won't run the step or skip the quest forward, and it can't fix a softlock caused by a scene that never played or an NPC that didn't spawn (reload an earlier save for those). Save before forcing any fact.

Quest facts (24)

Set these to advance

16 facts

Completion flags this step writes — they record a step as done but won't run it or skip the quest forward on their own.

Completed

sq204_completed

In phase: Dealing With Lessog

Elders killed

sq204_elders_killed

In phase: Dealing With Lessog

Hilde is chosen

sq204_hilde_is_chosen

>= 1

Add sq204_hilde_is_chosen

All totems destroyed

sq204_all_totems_destroyed

In phase: Dealing With Lessog

Comm hilde gone

sq204_comm_hilde_gone

In phase: Dealing With Lessog

Community switch off

sq204_community_switch_off

Add sq204_community_switch_off

Despawn comm guards

sq204_despawn_comm_guards

In phase: Dealing With Lessog

Get hearts

sq204_get_hearts

In phase: Helping Leshy

Sven killed harald

sq204_sven_killed_harald

In phase: Dealing With Lessog

204t1 destroyed

204t1_destroyed

>= 1

In phase: Dealing With Lessog

204t2 destroyed

204t2_destroyed

>= 1

In phase: Dealing With Lessog

204t3 destroyed

204t3_destroyed

>= 1

In phase: Dealing With Lessog

Change weather

sq204_change_weather

>= 1

Add sq204_change_weather

Defend harald

sq204_defend_harald

>= 1

In phase: Dealing With Lessog, Forest Spirit

Helped leshy

sq204_helped_leshy

>= 1

Add sq204_helped_leshy

Leshy fight started

sq204_leshy_fight_started

>= 1

In phase: Dealing With Lessog, Killing Leshy

Gates the quest checks

8 facts

Hilde killed

sq204_hilde_killed

>= 1

Gates: Dealing With Lessog

Leshy victim claws

mh205_leshy_victim_claws

>= 1

Gates: Investigation

Leshy victim suffocated

mh205_leshy_victim_suffocated

>= 1

Gates: Investigation

Tree claw marks

mh205_tree_claw_marks

>= 1

Gates: Investigation

Bandits take harald

sq204_bandits_take_harald

>= 1

Gates: Dealing With Lessog

Got contract

sq204_got_contract

>= 1

Gates: Forest Spirit

Hilda start walking

sq204_hilda_start_walking

>= 1

Gates: Dealing With Lessog

Leshy footprints found

sq204_leshy_footprints_found

>= 1

Gates: Investigation

Objectives

1.Find out what happened to Bjorn's brother.
2.Examine the tracks in the woods using your Witcher Senses and find out what's killing the villagers of Fayrlund.
3.Learn more about the Woodland Spirit by reading the Bestiary.
4.Talk to Sven about the contract on the Woodland Spirit.
5.Check what happened.
6.Disarm the traps in the woods.
7.Collect your reward from Harald.
8.Kill Sven and his supporters.
9.Collect your reward from Sven.
10.Talk to Sven about the leshen.
11.Find the person marked by the leshen by using your Witcher Senses.
12.Talk to Sven about Hilde.
13.Find the leshen by using your Witcher Senses to follow the sounds it makes.
14.Destroy the leshen's totems.
15.Kill the leshen.
16.Collect your trophy.
17.Take the leshen's medallion.
18.Talk to Harald about the leshen.
19.Collect wolf hearts.
20.Place the offerings on the altar.
21.Burn the offerings to renew the covenant.
22.Approach the altar.
23.Kill the wolves.

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

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