The Rotfiend Contract

The Rotfiend Contract is a monster contract in Chapter 2 of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, available on Vernon Roche’s path from the notice board in front of the cantina in King Henselt’s camp. Rotfiends are feasting on the war dead around the camp, and they are a danger to the soldiers both as monsters and as carriers of disease.

Killing a few is not enough. These necrophages live off corpses, so Geralt has to burn the unburied bodies around the camp to starve the swarm out. Be ready to jump back when a rotfiend dies, since they burst in a cloud of poison. Proximo pays out once the job is done.

Walkthrough

  1. Take the contract from the notice board in front of the cantina in the Kaedweni camp.
  2. Optional: buy The Horrors of War: Rotfiends from Sambor at the camp followers’ tents to max out your rotfiend knowledge.
  3. Burn the three bodies in the ravine.
  4. Burn the wrecked caravan with three bodies; expect two to four rotfiends.
  5. Burn the last group of three bodies; another two to four rotfiends show up.
  6. Return to camp and collect the reward from Proximo at the arena ring or the campfire next to it.

Quest Consequences & Choices

Involved characters

Henselt in The Witcher 2
Henselt
Proximo in The Witcher 2
Proximo

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Quest rewards

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XP: 100
Gold: 200
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