Border Post
The Border Post is a small fortified Redanian camp on Halver Isle, a little island stuck in the middle of the Pontar’s current, northwest of the Hanged Man’s Tree. It guards the main road between Velen and Novigrad: a bridge from the Velen bank, a gate, soldiers who check everyone’s papers, and a camp full of red-and-white Redanian uniforms. Before the war, the island was best known as an ideal place for bleaching cloth. Now it is the frontier of King Radovid‘s realm, and nobody gets through without a pass.
In The Witcher 3
Radovid has closed the borders of Redania, so the guard on the bridge turns Geralt away at first. Thou Shalt Not Pass sorts that out for the witcher himself, while plenty of people on the Velen side are desperate for papers of their own. A shady merchant offers a less official way around that in Fake Papers, and right across the road from him stands a second merchant who only shows up after Geralt frees him from a cage to the southeast. According to a letter by his cage, he is actually a Nilfgaardian who barely speaks Common.
Just south-southeast of the post lies an old battlefield, where Albin Hart and his men are looting the dead and need someone to keep the ghouls and rotfiends off them. The Border Post’s captain has a job too: something is killing Redanian caravans on the main roads, and he will throw in a letter of safe conduct for the trouble. Later, Dijkstra sends Geralt here to meet Gregor, a disillusioned Redanian soldier, and from him on to a wrecked wagon north of the Hanged Man’s Tree.
Quests at the Border Post
- Thou Shalt Not Pass
- Fake Papers
- Bitter Harvest
- Contract: Woodland Beast
- A Deadly Plot
- Contract: Missing Brother (the mine southwest of the post)
Good to know
- The Border Post has a fast travel signpost and a notice board.
- Getting the caged merchant’s key can be tricky once A Deadly Plot has started, so free him early.
- The other guarded way into Redanian territory is the Western Gate of Oxenfurt. On the Novigrad side, St. Gregory’s Bridge is close by.
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