Seven Cats Inn

The Seven Cats Inn stands just outside Novigrad‘s southeastern walls, at the far end of the bridge leading to the Southern Gate, where the city gives way to the farmland of the Gustfields. It is a weathered roadside tavern with a notice board out front, a smoky common room and the kind of guests who prefer to sit with their backs to the wall. The map calls it a dank establishment with a shady clientele, and nobody has ever disagreed. The name, at least, is honest: seven different cats roam the grounds, and they may be the only residents with a clear conscience.

Where to find the Seven Cats Inn

Open the Velen & Novigrad map and look at the southeastern edge of Novigrad. The inn sits right outside the city walls, across the bridge from the Southern Gate, so it is technically not inside Novigrad at all. The quickest way there is the Seven Cats Inn fast travel signpost next to the building. Coming from the city on foot or on Roach, leave through the Southern Gate, cross the bridge and the inn is the first building you reach on the other side.

• Region: Velen & Novigrad map, just outside Novigrad’s southeastern walls
• Nearest gate: the Southern Gate, across the bridge
• Fast travel: Seven Cats Inn signpost, right next to the inn
• Nearby: the farmland of the Gustfields to the south

In The Witcher 3

The innkeep is a blonde Redanian woman who sells food and drink and plays gwent with a Northern Realms deck. The inn is a meeting point for several stories. Rosa var Attre runs here after her fencing duel and gets cornered by two drunks who do not like Nilfgaardians. Lambert waits here to tell Geralt about the assassin he is hunting, which leads to a tense meeting with Vienne. After A Deadly Plot, Thaler settles in here, and his wagon parks by the notice board if Geralt saved him from the trolls. A note on the board also makes it clear that Odrin is no longer welcome after an earlier visit.

The road east of the inn is where Zoltan sets up the ambush to free Dandelion from his prison convoy. For Hearts of Stone owners the notice board matters most: a stranger pins up the contract that starts Evil’s Soft First Touches and leads to Olgierd von Everec, and another notice points to an Ofieri runewright who has just arrived in the region.

Quests at the Seven Cats Inn

• Fencing Lessons
• Following the Thread
• Gwent: Old Pals
• Gwent: Playing Thaler
• A Poet Under Pressure
• Evil’s Soft First Touches
• Enchanting: Start-up Costs

Good to know

• The inn is a fast travel signpost, handy for both the Novigrad and Hearts of Stone storylines.
• Play Thaler at gwent before Reason of State, because he can die in that quest. He has the Geralt of Rivia card.
• Talking to Lambert here in Following the Thread locks out the Skellige quest Flesh for Sale.