Walkthrough for the quest Rose on a Red Field 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 (Hearts of Stone)
Suggested level: 32
Location: Novigrad
You will receive this quest during the "Evil's Soft First Touches" quest. When you leave the residence after the first conversation with Olgierd, you will be hooked by Adela, one of the members of the Olgierd's Wild Ones. She will ask you to help her find out what happened to her friend.
"The White Wolf", "the Butcher of Blaviken" – Geralt gathered many sobriquets on his Path, one of which was the colorful and, I dare say, apt, appellation of "Puss Peepers." This he gained during his adventure with Olgierd, when a cheeky young woman in Olgierd's company pinned him as the man best able to track down the scoundrel who killed her friend, Kluivert.
Garin Estate
Velen / Novigrad
Bowdon
Velen / Novigrad
Fallen Knights
Velen / Novigrad
Fallen Knights' Lab
Velen / Novigrad
The Alchemy
Velen / Novigrad
Go to Bowdon and kill the ghouls (32) who took over the village. Then use your witcher senses in the central part of the village and you should smell a scent that you can follow.
The smell will take you to one of the huts in the village. Examine the device you will find there,...
...and the footprints on the bed.
Near the window you should find plenty of traces you can follow.
The tracks will lead you to the bushes. When you examine them, you'll be able to move on.
Following the traces, you'll reach a corpse lying in the field. Examine it. It's a dead Kluivert who was shot by someone.
Kluivert had indeed been killed. Though much time had passed since the murder, the witcher hoped he could still find enough evidence to establish who was responsible.
Find the footprints of the man who shot the bolt near the fence.
Follow the killer's footsteps and they will lead you back to the village where you will find the tracks of the horse he got on.
Follow the horse's tracks, and you'll eventually reach the Fallen Knights camp. Kill the fallen knights (33) you meet there, and find the Orders to attack Bowdon lying on the wagon.
It turned out Kluivert's death was not the work of common bandits or deserters, but knights of the recently dissolved Order of the Flaming Rose. Geralt realized the brethren who had killed Kluivert were but part of a much larger contingent. To prevent any further such murders and fully avenge Kluivert, he would have to find the knights' leader.
Orders to attack Bowdon
I've heard rumors the abandoned village of Bowdon's abandoned no more. A pack of common bandits have moved in and made it into their own little fisstech manufactory.
We cannot allow this. I'm issuing the order to attack the village and exterminate the vermin. We'll make an example, strike some terror in everyone's hearts. Haul any equipment and supplies to our lab northwest of Brunwich. Destroy everything else.
- Ulrich
Read the orders to discover the location of the knights' hideout.
The orders Geralt found on the knights he defeated not only shed light on their activities – they'd given up defending the defenseless and switched to brewing narcotics – but revealed the location of their hideout. Geralt decided to take a short break from monster hunting to pay their Grand Master a courtesy call.
There will be two fallen knights (32) outside. To get inside you can kill them ("Don't like your tone. Change it." or "Wanna fight? Fine by me.") and loot a rusty key from the corpse of one of them, use Delusion (2) or pay them 1000 crowns.
Inside you will meet Ulrich (32), who no matter what you say will recognize you as Jacques de Aldersberg's killer and will order to kill you. You will have to kill him and about ten other fallen knights (32).
The witcher and the Grand Master did not take a liking to each other. After a short talk about the Order's past and mission, they moved on to armed combat. This fight could clearly have only one outcome – Ulrich met the same fate as his infamous predecessor, Jacques de Aldersberg.
Go back to Adela. You'll find her at The Alchemy Inn in Oxenfurt. You'll get 200 crowns from her.
With this Geralt of Rivia, alias "Puss Peepers," avenged Kluivert and completed the task allotted him. He collected his promised reward and set off on his Path.