Contract: Missing Son Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Quest
Suggested level: 29
Group: Witcher Contracts
Location: Skellige
This quest can be started in different ways. You can read the contract posted on the Rannvaig Notice Board, talk directly to Odhen or run into a fiend - Morvudd, while exploring.
While riding through the village nestled at the base of Kaer Trolde, Geralt spotted a notice posted by a certain Odhen of Rannvaig promising a bounty for information about his missing son. It seemed like a job for a witcher, and since Geralt was, as usual, hard up for coin, he decided to look into it.
...or, if quest started by talking to Odhen:
As Geralt passed through the village of Rannvaig, a man by the name of Odhen stopped him and asked for help in finding his missing son. The witcher, hearing honest fatherly despair in the man's voice and, no less importantly, feeling the lightness of his own purse, decided to look into the matter.
...or, if quest started by finding Morvudd:
The restless soul that he is, Geralt is incapable of remaining stationary for long. Things were no different on Ard Skellig. While galavanting about the isle, Geralt happened on a fiend. Unlucky beast, for the witcher sliced it into ribbons. As it turned out, the fiend had done some shredding of its own prior to its demise. One of its recent victims - a young man who proved to be the offpsring of one Odhen from the village of Rannvaig. Odhen had been seeking his son for some time - alas, it need be said, fruitlessly.
Related points of interest
Rannvaig Notice Board
The Skellige Isles
Odhen
The Skellige Isles
Morvudd
The Skellige Isles
Quest stages of Contract: Missing Son
1. Talk to Odhen of Rannvaig.
When you talk to Odhen, he will tell you that his son, Olve, went with some other boys to investigate the ruins of the old castle and has not returned yet. You will agree to look for his son, who you will recognize by the yellow tunic he was wearing. You will be able to haggle with him about the amount of money - 273+ crowns.
2. Examine the castle ruins using your Witcher Senses. / Kill the fiend.
Head to the castle ruins. You can examine the corpse you find there, but the most important is the fiend - Morvudd that you encounter there. Attack it. As you get it close to its death, it will use one of its skills and flee the fight.
It turned out that Odhen's son and his friends had not just gone missing, but had been murdered, torn to pieces by a fiend. Geralt arrived too late to save the boys - but just in time to face the beast who had killed them. Sensing that it stood no chance in this fight, the beast fled - but there's no hiding from a witcher...
3. Find the fiend's lair using your Witcher Senses.
Look around and you'll find traces that will show you which way the monster fled.
The tracks will lead you to the river. On the other side of the river, you'll find its further footprints.
You'll eventually get to the other ruins where the monster has hidden itself.
4. Kill the fiend. / Collect a trophy from the fiend.
Attack the monster. This time it won't run away and you'll be able to kill it. In its corpse you will find a Fiend trophy and a relic steel sword - Longclaw.
5. Search the fiend's lair using your Witcher Senses.
If you talked to Odhen about his son, search the camp and you'll find the man's body wearing a yellow tunic.
6. (Optional) Check the Rannvaig notice board. / Collect your reward from Odhen.
Go back to Odhen and tell him the sad news. He will pay you a negotiated amount of money.
Geralt tracked down and killed the fiend - avenging the death of Odhen's son and making sure no more Skelligers would share the boy's fate.