Funeral Pyres Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Quest
Suggested level: 3
Group: Secondary Quests
Location: Velen
You'll get this job when you talk to the Priest of Eternal Fire. He wants you to burn the corpses of those who died on the battlefield in order to give them a proper burial. He'll give you the holy oil you should pour on the bodies and then set them on fire.
In No Man's Land Geralt was given a contract by an Eternal Fire priest. His task: to burn the bodies of soldiers who had fallen during the recent battle in order to keep necrophages from eating them.
Related points of interest
Priest of Eternal Fire
Velen / Novigrad
Quest stages of Funeral Pyres
1. Find and burn the bodies lying in pits on the battle field. 0/3
There will be three places marked on the map that you should visit. You can do it in whatever order you want.
Kill the monsters in the area, come to the corpses, pour them with the holy oil you received from the priest and use the igni sign to set them on fire.
In the third, last place you visit, you will encounter a man (Titus Gielas) fighting monsters. Quickly help him kill the monsters so he doesn't die. If he survives, he can give you some information about the priest who hired you. Say "We still talking about a priest of the Eternal Fire?" and he'll tell you about the ambush the priest and his men set up on him. You'll also get some extra experience points.
When you've done talking with him, burn the last corpse to complete this objective.
2. Return to the priest of the Eternal Fire.
Go back to the priest who will be waiting for you in a new place located further north.
1. If Titus died or you didn't question him about the priest then the priest will give you 20 crowns and this quest will end.
2. If Titus told you what the priest did, then the priest will try to bribe you to keep this information secret. If you accept the bribe, you will receive 60 coins.
Though his contract giver had proven to be a hypocrite and a drug dealer, Geralt accepted his coin. As the ancient proverb says, pecunia non olet.
3. If you don't accept the bribe then you'll have to kill the priest and his two bodyguards, but in the priest's corpse you will find 200 crowns.
The witcher followed the priest's directions and went to burn the bodies. Doing so revealed the clergyman's true motivations: lighting the fire he had requested would also burn evidence of the priest's involvement in the fisstech trade..