Suspect: Thorak

Suspect: Thorak is a secondary quest in Chapter 2 of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. It is available on Iorveth's path.

Even if it is not necessary to successfully complete it, or leave it uncompleted (the quest will automatically fail at the end of the Chapter), it is connected with a primary quest, Royal Blood.

Walkthrough
This quest is a sub-quest of Royal Blood.

It can be triggered after the initial confrontation with the lynch mob in front of Stennis' room by asking three dwarves at the end of the hall about their suspicions. One of them (Zevro Hayek) mentions that the goblet that poisoned Saskia may have been crafted by Thorak. You don't get much more from him. The map will then indicate Thorak's whereabouts (his forge is next to Cecil Burdon's house).

If you slew Thorak at the end of Baltimore's Nightmare and took the key from his corpse, you will be able to unlock a small chest in his home that contains evidence proving Olcan's guilt.

If Thorak is still alive he will simply deny having made the goblet, leaving Geralt none the wiser about who poisoned Saskia.

This quest remains in the journal until Baltimore's Nightmare has been completed.

Journal entry

 * After talking to the creator of the goblet – which had been a gift from the fold of Vergen to Saskia – Geralt decided to visit Thorak. He suspected that the original goblet had been replaced with another, containing the poison. Thorak was the only artisan in Vergen capable of replicating the original and thus producing the goblet used to poison the Dragonslayer.


 * Thorak insisted he had in no way contributed to making the replica. The criticism he leveled at the gift goblet could have indicated a genuine aversion, for one is never as honest as when in the grip of envy. Geralt had no idea what to do next, so he decided to drop this part of the investigation and focus on questioning the onlookers in front of Stennis' house.


 * If, dear reader, you have not lost your way in the tangled but interesting tale of Geralt's stay in Vergen, you may remember Thorak, a dwarf who died by the witcher's hand. Geralt searched his corpse and found a key. And where there's a key, there's a chest. As it turned out, the contents of Thorak's chest was of import to the investigation of Saskia's poisoning.


 * In Thorak's chest, Geralt found a note confirming receipt of an ornate item. Another man might have ignored the scribbles, but during his life our hero had read so many abandoned letters, notes and secret documents, that he could easily have become an archivist. Effortlessly, he recognized that the receipt had been penned by Olcan, and the item in question was a replica of Saskia's goblet used to commit the crime.

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