Ciri's Story: The King of the Wolves Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Quest
Suggested level: 5
Group: Main Quests
Location: Velen
You will be able to play this quest after you reach the baron in the Bloody Baron quest, and he will start telling you about his meeting with Ciri. This is the first time you're gonna control Ciri. Quest starts when Ciri running away from the monsters from the forest falls into the deep riverbed of a dried-up river.
Fleeing the monsters of Crookback Bog, Ciri arrived at a dried-up branch of the Pontar.
Prior quests
To begin Ciri's Story: The King of the Wolves you must first complete Bloody Baron.
Quest stages of Ciri's Story: The King of the Wolves
1. Follow the riverbed and find help. / Kill the wolves.
Follow the riverbed. Soon, you'll come across some wolves and a little girl sitting on a tree branch. Kill the wolves to save the girl.
The girl's name is Gretka and she's very scared. She'll tell you about the wolf king who's around somewhere. Ciri will offer to escort her to her house.
2. Follow Gretka. / Protect Gretka from the wolves.
Keep going forward with Gretka. When another group of wolves attack you, kill them all. At some point, you'll come across the remains of a boat and a torn-up corpse of a man. Ciri will examine the corpse and conclude that he must have been attacked by a werewolf. So she'll decide to prepare a special oil that will help her fight the werewolf.
2.1. (Optional) Acquire dog tallow. / Acquire wolf's liver. / Gather fool's parsley. / Gather wolfsbane.
You will need the right ingredients to prepare the oil. You can collect herbs along the road, and you will find the rest in the remains of killed wolves. You need:
- dog tallow x 1
- wolf's liver x 1
- fool's parsley x 2
- wolfsbane x 3
When you collect all the ingredients before you reach the cave, Ciri will prepare a special oil to help her fight the werewolf.
Keep moving forward. On your way, you'll be attacked by another group of wolves that you'll have to kill. You'll finally reach the cave and when you get inside, you'll meet a werewolf there trying to kill another villager.
3. Kill the werewolf.
Kill the werewolf.
After the fight, the saved villager will take you to the baron's castle where you will be warmly welcomed by him.
This is where this quest will end and you will return to the conversation between Geralt and the baron which will start the next main quest - Family Matters.
While trekking up the former riverbed, Ciri came across a girl named Gretka. The child spoke in a quivering voice of the fearsome Wolf King, who, in a twist straight out of a spine-tingling ballad, prowled the very path they needed to travel.
The Wolf King, it turned out, was in truth a common werewolf. Ciri slew it, but sustained a wound in the battle. A villager whom the werewolf had been threatening just before Ciri intervened thanked her for saving his life and offered to take her and Gretka to Crow's Perch, where the baron would feed them and tend to their wounds.
After completing Ciri's Story: The King of the Wolves you will get or will be able to get Family Matters and Ciri's Room.