Walkthrough for the quest Contract: The Griffin from the Highlands 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: Witcher Contracts
Suggested level: 24
Location: Velen
You can find this contract on the Crow's Perch Notice Board but only after you bring Yoana the tools from Undvik, which is an objective of the "Master Armorers" quest. If you don't take the contract from the notice board, this quest will appear in your journal when you kill the Archgriffin.
A true master armorer is a rare bird indeed, so we can honestly speak of delight sparking in Geralt's heart when he first met Yoana. Yet before she could forge him new armor, she was in need of some assistance. The witcher would have to hunt down an archgriffin and extract from it some ingredients required for the forging of the finest armors.
Crow's Perch Notice Board
Velen / Novigrad
Archgriffin
Velen / Novigrad
Crow's Perch Quartermaster
Velen / Novigrad
Go to the place marked on the map and there you will find the remains of griffin victims...
...or its feathers.
His nest and the Archgriffin (26) itself can be found on a nearby hill. Kill him and take the Archgriffin trophy. In the corpse you will also find the item you need to complete the "Master Armorers" quest.
Take the archgriffin trophy to the Crow's Perch Quartermaster, and you will receive 25 crowns and tracker's trousers diagram from him.
An archgriffin is not a foe to be taken lightly, a fact Geralt knew full well. Yet in the end he was able to defeat the beast and took from it not just the ingredients for the armorer, but also a trophy he could turn in to the quartermaster of Crow's Perch for a reward.