Oxenfurt Sewers

Beneath the cobbles of Oxenfurt runs a network of old brick tunnels, reached through a well on the market square. Narrow walkways follow channels of dark, stinking water, arched vaults drip overhead, and iron grates split the system into sections. There are two levels: a higher one, and a lower one that has been closed for years and is every bit as unpleasant as that suggests. Rats are the least of your problems down here.

In The Witcher 3

In Hearts of Stone, Olgierd von Everec sends Geralt into the sewers after a monster that killed his cook. Something new has been living in the lower level, fouling the water and making Redanian soldiers sick, and King Radovid has already sent a squad under Captain Vern Pallack, with the field medic Shani, to get a sample of the creature’s saliva for a cure. By the time Geralt climbs down, most of the soldiers are dead, killed by drowners and worse. Shani survived, and she guides Geralt deeper until they find the key to the sealed gates on one of the fallen soldiers.

The trail ends in the lair of the Toad Prince, a huge venom-spitting toad with a taste for alcohol. Geralt lures it out by dousing a corpse in liquor, and the fight that follows is famous for setting the difficulty of the whole expansion. When the beast falls, it turns out the fairy-tale part was true: it really was a prince, and his Ofieri escort is not pleased.

The tunnels matter in the base game too. In The Great Escape, Geralt and Yennefer reach Deireadh prison through a blocked-off well, old ruins and these sewers to rescue Margarita Laux-Antille, and the secret passage Geralt may have found while hunting Whoreson Junior gives him a way back out.

Quests in the Oxenfurt Sewers

• Evil’s Soft First Touches
• The Great Escape
• Get Junior
• Scavenger Hunt: Cat School Gear (part 2)

Good to know

• Bring Golden Oriole and Yrden for the Toad Prince. You can drop straight down a hole to the lower level, but then you miss Shani’s conversations and some loot.
• The katakan of Oxenfurt, Gael, hunts in the streets above, not in the sewers.