Walkthrough for the quest Child of the Elder Blood 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: Main Quests
Suggested level: 31
Location: Skellige
You will receive this quest when you talk to Yennefer, Ciri and Philippa during "The Sunstone" quest, after you find out about the cave where the sunstone should be located.
Ciri pulled Geralt aside for a confidential heart-to-heart. She confided to him that Avallac'h had a hidden lair, a secret place that not even Ciri, his star pupil and long-time traveling companion, had been allowed to visit. Intrigued, Geralt decided to enter this secret lair and find out what the Seer was hiding.
The most important part of any conspiracy is for the co-conspirators to trust each other fully, and Ciri's revelation had cast a shadow of suspicion on Avallac'h. Geralt knew light must be shed on this shadow before it proved too late.
The Pali Gap Coast
The Skellige Isles
Travel to the The Pali Gap Coast signpost and enter the ruins that are there. Yennefer and Ciri will already be there.
Yennefer will be trying to open the hidden passageway, which will awaken the golem (28) so you will have to kill it. Once you get rid of the guardian and Yennefer opens the passageway, you will be able to enter the secret headquarters of Avallac'h.
There are many things in the rooms that you can examine, but these are mainly personal belongings of the elf and their examination is unnecessary. The most important thing you need to find is a large genealogical chart in one of the further rooms. When you find it, you, Ciri and Yennefer will talk for a while about your finding.
In the next room you will come across an elven woman who is apparently Avallac's associate. She will tell you a lot of unpleasant things about Ciri, which will make your friend angry when you leave her room.
You will then be able to choose how you want to react to what you have heard.
Go outside and then Ciri will tell you that she wants to visit Hindarsfjall and meet with Skjall. When you tell her that he's dead, she'll want to visit his grave. You can agree to go there with her or say there is no time for that. Agree to go there with her, and you'll get another push towards a "positive" ending. You will then receive a new quest - Skjall's Grave, and you'll be able to go to Hindarsfjall right away, or you can tell her that you'll join her later and go there on your own.
It turned out Avallac'h's well-guarded secret was a hidden laboratory in which he carried out research on Lara Dorren's gene - the gene Ciri bore within her, the cause of her power and her misfortune. Ciri was understandably less than thrilled to see herself through Avallac'h's eyes as a subject in some twisted experiment.
Meanwhile, they also discovered this secret research wasn't the only reason the Seer kept the place hidden. Avallac'h seemed to have been using it as a pleasure alcove for trysts with his elven lover. Who would have thought? It turns out even the wisest of sages is not always driven by pure reason alone.
After completing this quest, you will be able to play the quest Skjall's Grave.