Walkthrough for the quest For the Advancement of Learning 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: 8
Location: Velen
Prerequisites: To play this quest, you must first complete the quest A Favor for a Friend.
You will receive this quest automatically after you spend the night with Keira and complete A Favor for a Friend quest. Whether or not you had sex with the sorceress doesn't matter.
Nothing about sorceresses should be taken at face value. Their faces least of all - those perfect, ever youthful visages have as little to do with nature as Hierarch Hemmelfart has with charity. If anyone should have learned to think twice when dealing with them, it was Geralt, and yet still he accepted Keira's dinner invitation.
During what Geralt naively thought to be innocent conversation between friends, Keira tricked him into revealing information about the mage Alexander's laboratory and then, when he was least expecting it, sent him to sleep with a spell so he could not stop her from carrying out her nefarious plans...
Go to the tower on the Fyke Island. When you get there, you will meet Keira leaving the tower with the results of the research done by the mage Alexander.
Keira will tell you that she intends to go to Radovid and use this research as a bargaining chip when talking to him. Depending on how your conversation with her goes, three different endings of this quest are possible.
You can convince Keira to take shelter in Kaer Morhen by choosing the following dialogue options:
Before Keira heads off to Kaer Morhen you can ask her to give you the Alexander's notes. She'll do it.
Note: You have to choose this ending if you're aiming for the Full Crew achievement.
Geralt caught Keira red-handed as she was leaving the tower with the results of Alexander's research on the Catriona plague. She was convinced these notes could be used to find a cure for this decimating disease. What's more, she hoped that the prospect of obtaining such a cure would convince King Radovid to let bygones be bygones and host Keira at his court. I doubt Radovid would have proven so broad-minded - luckily, Geralt convinced Keira to abandon these foolish hopes and give Oxenfurt a miss, seeking shelter at Kaer Morhen instead.
Just let her leave with the research results, for example by choosing the following dialogue options:
Keira will summon the portal and set off to Radovid.
Note: If this quest ends this way, then you will be able to do A Final Kindness quest later on.
Geralt caught Keira red-handed as she was leaving the tower with the results of Alexander's research on the Catriona plague. Although he feared the sorceress would use these notes for nefarious purposes, Geralt decided to let her go. Whether it was because he ultimately believed her assurances that no one would suffer as a result of her actions, or because he wanted to avoid a potentially bloody conflict - difficult to tell. Geralt is a man of many secrets, including ones he keeps even from me.
If you fail to convince Keira to go to Kaer Morhen and do not let her take the results to Radovid, then you will have to kill her. After the fight, Geralt will take the results from Keira's body and burn them.
Yet Geralt did not allow Keira to triumph. He sensed she wanted Alexander's notes on the Catriona plague for her own immoral ends and so stopped her from leaving Velen. This led to a fight during which Geralt was forced to take Keira's life. And so, in this most unfortunate and disheartening way, their stormy relationship came to an end.