Walkthrough for the quest Bitter Harvest in the game Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. This page covers all main objectives, key steps, or helpful tips to guide you through the quest smoothly. Whenever possible, the guide points out locations for key items and details interactions with NPCs, among other tips. To ensure maximum clarity, in-game screenshots are included for easy-to-follow visual guidance.
Quest Group: Secondary Quests
Suggested level: 9
Location: Velen
To start this quest, talk to Albin Hart, who is on the battlefield not far from the Border Post signpost. This is a kind of support quest for the Fake Papers quest. If you complete this quest and Albin survives, then you will be able to buy a pass from the Shady merchant to cross the border for only 25 coins.
The Nilfgaardian and Redanian forces had fought many bloody yet indecisive battles in Velen from which both sides had to retreat without collecting their dead. On one such field Geralt encountered a group of looters robbing the corpses of the fallen. In another time and place he might have merely grit his teeth and continued on his way. Yet conditions in Velen were harsh and other sources of sustenance few - so he decided to swallow his revulsion and defend these desparate men from the monsters stalking the battlefield.
Albin Hart
Velen / Novigrad
You'll have to defeat four waves of monsters. Usually it will be three ghouls, except for the third wave when two ghouls and one rotfiend will attack you.
If Albin survives, then after the final wave go back and talk to him. He will pay you 50 crowns. If Albin dies, then one of his men who survived will give you 20 coins after you kill the last ghoul.
Hiring a witcher was one of the best ideas the looters' leader had ever hit upon. Geralt dutifully kept the monsters at bay while they completed their grim harvest.