Last Rites Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Quest
Suggested level: 9
Group: Secondary Quests
Location: Velen
To be able to get this quest, you must first complete the "Defender of the Faith" quest then, when it's night time, go to the bridge just north of Blackbough. There you should find the Old Woman. She will tell you about the ghost of her husband who is haunting her and ask you for help.
Note: Meditating at the bridge won't make her appear. You must first run away a bit, meditate and then return to the bridge.
The old woman looked much like the many other widows of Velen, though her eyes seemed to have seen even more hardship than usual. Perhaps that was because she was haunted by the ghost of her husband, who had died at war years ago. The ghost had asked the woman to bring her wedding ring to his grave. The cemetery was too far-off for an elderly woman to journey to, however, so she asked Geralt if he could make the trip for her. The witcher took pity and decided to grant her this somewhat unusual request.
Related points of interest
Old Woman
Velen / Novigrad
Old Woman's Husband's Grave
Velen / Novigrad
Quest stages of Last Rites
1. Find the old woman's husband's grave using your Witcher Senses. / Place the ring on the grave.
You can visit the grave at any time of day. Go to the area marked on your map, find the Old Woman's Husband's Grave and place the ring on it.
When you do this, an icon will appear on the map suggesting that you can use the lamp you received from Keira in "An Invitation from Keira Metz" quest. Do this and you will see a short conversation between the two ghosts and you will receive an additional XP.
2. Return to the old woman for a reward.
Go back to Blackbough and talk to Lessy, who you will find near one of the huts. You will hear from her that her grandmother has been dead for many years and that she did not want to be buried with her husband because he had many lovers. Geralt will come to the conclusion that the woman he was talking to on the bridge must have been a ghost and that she apparently changed her mind after her death and decided to reconcile with her husband. As a reward for helping her grandmother reunite with her husband, you will receive 20 crowns from Lessy.
Geralt took the old woman's ring to her husband's grave. Yet when he returned for his reward, she was nowhere to be found. Her did find her granddaughter, who informed him her grandmother had died years earlier and paid him for his trouble.