Knight for Hire – Witcher 3: Blood and Wine Quest

This guide is a walkthrough of a side quest in the Witcher 3: Blood and Wine DLC. The guide is composed of a map, map legend, and walkthrough to show readers exactly where to go and what to do to complete the quest.

Map Legend

1 – Ducal Camerlengo
2 – Abandoned Site
3 – Knight Errant in Distress
4 – Abandoned Site / Coopers’ Slope
5 – Cutterin Manor
6 – Fox Hollow
7 – Bandit Cave / Hanse Base
8 – Knight Errant in Distress
9 – The Silver Salamander Inn
10 – Hanse Base / Arthach Palace Ruins
11 – Villa Vedette
12 – Abandoned Site / Basane Farm
13 – Hanse Base / Mont Crane Castle
14 – Knight Errant in Distress
15 – Person in Distress
16 – Abandoned Site / Freinte Docks

Background

You’ll trigger this quest by reading the note “Notice from the Ducal Camerlengo,” which you can find on every notice board in Toussaint.

Walkthrough

From the note, you’ll learn that the ducal camerlengo (aka treasurer) in Beauclair is offering “bounteous rewards” to knights errant for certain deeds. When you visit the camerlengo in his office in Beauclair (#1), he’ll give you no less than 15 tasks to complete:

• Defeat a trio of giant centipedes at Hortense Vineyard (#2).
  
• Save a knight errant from bandits (#3).
  
• Defeat a cyclops at Coopers’ Slope (#4).
  
• Defeat archespores at Cutterin Manor (#5).
  
• Free Fox Hollow from bandits (#6).
  
• Clear an underground hanse base of bandits, including their leader Loth Halfbreed (#7).
  
• Save a knight errant from bandits (#8).
  
• Free the Silver Salamander Inn from bandits (#9).
  
• Clear a hanse base of bandits, including their leader Antoin “Starling” Straggen (#10).
  
• Rescue a clerk from bandits at Villa Vedette (#11).
  
• Defeat a werewolf at Basane Farm (#12).
  
• Clear a hanse base of bandits, including their leader Filibert Fourfingers (#13).
  
• Save a knight errant from bandits (#14).
  
• Rescue a merchant from bandits (#15).
  
• Defeat several bandits at Freinte Docks (#16).

Each time you complete a task, the camerlengo will set aside 100 crowns for you. You can pick up your money as you go, or you can wait until the very end and grab all 1500 crowns at once. For completing the quest, you’ll also receive an unnamed Trophy plus 300 xp.