On Death's Bed Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Quest
Suggested level: 2
Group: Secondary Quests
Location: White Orchard
You can acquire this quest when during your visit to the herbalist Tomira you ask her about the sick girl she is taking care of. You will visit Tomira in search of herbs needed to lure a griffin in The Beast of White Orchard quest.
Once again Geralt had a near impossible choice to make - a choice between a greater and lesser evil. While preparing to hunt the griffin, he had come across one of the beast's victims - a simple peasant woman named Lena. She had been on her way to meet her lover when the griffin attacked. The beast had mortally wounded her. A witcher's potion could save her life… or cause her to perish in agony.
Related points of interest
Tomira
White Orchard
Quest stages of On Death's Bed
1. Brew a dose of the Swallow potion.
To brew a dose of the Swallow potion you need:
- 1 × Dwarven spirit - It can be purchased from the tavern keeper in White Orchard or crafted.
- 1 × Drowner brain - It can be looted from the drops of the drowners.
- 5 × Celandine - Yellow flowers that grow in many of the fields surrounding White Orchard. It also can be bough from alchemists.
Drowner brain
Celandine
2. Take the potion to the herbalist.
Go back to Tomira and tell her that you have a potion for Lena. Tomira will give you 50 crowns, 2 x Venom extract, Manuscript page: Cursed oil, and Of Sweat and Blood book.
The witcher decided to help Lena. Geralt then left White Orchard before he could learn the results of the risky treatment he applied. Soon afterwards, while visiting the Nilfgaardian garrison in Velen, he learned the woman had survived. The imperial infantryman with whom she was to meet the ill-fated evening of the griffin's attack had brought her to a nearby village. Sadly, none of this denoted a happy ending. Though the wounds on Lena's body had healed, the toxins in the witcher's brew had melted her mind. This was not the first time a cure had proven worse than the disease.
If you don't deliver the potion and leave the White Orchard, then the quest will fail.
They say witchers do not feel as humans do. That they are stripped of emotion, untroubled by doubts and dilemmas. This might be true for some of the caste - Lambert possibly being a case in point. But there is no doubt Geralt was different. He honestly debated what to do with Lena, considered what would be the lesser evil, and did so for so long that the woman finally succumbed to her wounds.