Walkthrough for the quest The Witchers' Forge 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: 30
Location: Kaer Morhen
To start this quest you should find the book titled "Monstrum, or A Portrayal of Witchers: Volume 2", which you will find at the base of the tower where Yennefer resides while at Kaer Morhen.
While poking around in the forgotten recesses of Kaer Morhen, Geralt happened across an illusory wall. He removed the illusion and behind it found a copy of the tome "Monstrum, or A Portrayal of Witchers." This tract had caused him no end of trouble and he would have tossed it onto the fire at once - if not for the intriguing handwritten note on the first page...
Monstrum, or A Portrayal of Witchers: Volume 2
Kaer Morhen
Iron Mine
Kaer Morhen
Monstrum, or A Portrayal of Witchers: Volume 2
For it is well known that when a witcher inflicts torment, suffering and death, he experiences a semblance of pleasure and delight, the kind a normal and righteous man only feels when performing his marital duties with his spouse, ibidem cum eiaculatio. From this it clearly follows that the witcher is, in the very matter of his being, a defiler of nature, an immoral and loathsome degenerate, born from the darkest and rankest depths of hell, for only one such as the devil himself can derive pleasure from suffering and torment.
[note in margin]
The book is a key. The mines near Kaer Morhen.
Go to the old Iron Mine which is located south of the castle. Enter the mine and in one of the caves you'll find the earth elemental (30) that you'll have to kill.
Put the book you found in the castle on a small pedestal. This will cause the hidden passage to open.
Enter the mysterious room and examine one of the smiths' bellows you find by the fire.
When the ifrit is "hot", just being near it causes fire damage to you. In this case, use the aard sign to "cool" it down so you can approach it.
When you kill the ifrit, approach the hearth and use the Eye of Nehaleni to see what is hidden behind it. There you will find three chests. In one of them you will find Mastercrafted Wolven armor.
Geralt followed the directions found in the tome's notes and arrived at an old iron mine. After dispatching an earth elemental guardian, he found the tome could be used as a sort of key opening a passageway leading to an old forge. To his great surprise, this forge began speaking to him. Though some might suspect the witcher had merely breathed a bit too much of the musty mine air, he claimed an ifrit, a fire elemental of some kind, had been used ages ago by a mage who created special equipment for the Wolf School witchers. This elemental remained vigilant all these years after the mage's death and thus Geralt had to defeat it in order to get at the secret stash of high-quality gear hidden behind the forge.