Ave Henselt! is a Chapter 2 side quest in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings on the Roche path, set in the arena of King Henselt’s Kaedweni camp. Once The Butcher of Cidaris is done, Proximo, who runs the arena, invites Geralt to fight in a tournament for the king’s entertainment. The bouts are not to the death, but they are fought with real blades and only held between noon and 20:00.
Geralt works through three Kaedweni fighters: the fencer Gwydion, the shield-bearing Rendang and Borin with his long two-handed blade. With no challengers left, Henselt grumbles that nobody can beat the witcher, and that is when Ves of the Blue Stripes steps into the ring. Take her seriously: she has no patience for anyone who goes easy on her, and how the duel ends shapes what happens when Geralt visits her tent afterwards.
