With Flickering Heart

With Flickering Heart is a side quest in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, available in Chapter 2 on Iorveth’s path. The elf Ele’yas tells Geralt that young elves and humans are being murdered in Vergen; the bodies turn up near a burned village at the mouth of the gully and are buried in the dwarven catacombs outside town.

A smell of sulfur at the village and the state of the bodies point to a succubus. One victim carries a stolen book of Dandelion’s poetry, so Geralt and Dandelion meet in the burned village at midnight, where Dandelion’s verses draw the succubus out. She claims that Ele’yas, a jealous lover, is the killer, while he denies it, and Geralt has to decide whom to believe with little hard evidence either way.

Walkthrough

  1. Talk to Ele’yas about the murders.
  2. Visit the burned village and inspect the victims’ bodies in the dwarven catacombs (in either order).
  3. Talk to Dandelion about the book of poetry found on a victim.
  4. At midnight, join Dandelion at the burned village to lure out the succubus.
  5. Talk to Ele’yas.
  6. Either accuse Ele’yas in front of Iorveth or kill the succubus.
  7. Talk to the succubus or Ele’yas to close the case.

Quest Consequences & Choices

Accusing Ele’yas before Iorveth leads him to flee; Geralt can also end up fighting and killing him. Either way the succubus lives and rewards Geralt.

Killing the succubus ends the case on Ele’yas’ side, and he pays Geralt. The real killer is never proven.

The quest fails if Iorveth’s Scoia’tael leave Vergen before it is resolved, or if Dandelion fails to lure the succubus out.

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