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"Without a Trace"

Details
Type	Secondary quest
Suggested level	32
Location(s)	Herbalist's Hut Deadwight Wood Erde
Region(s)	Novigrad
Source	Verily
Reward	42 / ??

Without a Trace is one of the quests available in Hearts of Stone.

Journal entry

"Witcher" has become a synonym for "monster slayer" in many minds. While accurate as far as it goes, this does not encompass the whole truth, for witchers take on a broad variety of other tasks besides the slaying of monsters. For example, they sometimes use their superhuman senses to find missing persons. Such a lost individual was the subject of the notice hung by a certain Otto Bamber, an herbalist residing near Oxenfurt.

Otto told Geralt his apprentice, Folkert, had not returned from an herb-gathering excursion to the Deadwight Wood. Though this was not at all on Geralt's way, he decided to help the desperate herbalist. Something tells me this was not merely on account of the reward on offer – though those knowing only Geralt's surface from ballads and rumors might find this hard to believe, deep down, he was really a softy.

If Geralt chooses to kill the old couple:

Geralt found Folkert -- carefully gutted and salted and hanging in a larder belonging to an elderly couple living near the woods. The couple swore they hadn't killed the young halfling, but the witcher did not see that this absolved them of their crime and reached for his sword.

If Geralt choose to let the old couple live:

Geralt found Folkert -- carefully gutted and salted and hanging in a larder belonging to an elderly couple living near the woods. The couple swore they hadn't killed the young halfling and had been forced into cannibalism by famine. Though Geralt condemned their actions, he decided punishing cannibals was not his duty and walked away.

Walkthrough

Talk to the herbalist
Look for Folkert's tracks in the Deadwight Wood using your Witcher Senses
Follow the blood track
Ask the inhabitants of the village about Folkert
Follow the scent to its source using your Witcher Senses
Search the room
Interrogate the peasant couple
Kill the peasants
Report back to the herbalist

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 | type     = Secondary HoS
 | level    = 32
-| location = [[Herbalist's Hut]]<br>[[Deadwight Wood]]<br>[[Eder]]
+| location = [[Herbalist's Hut]]<br>[[Deadwight Wood]]<br>[[Erde]]
 | region   = [[Novigrad]]
 | given by = [[Verily]]