Vinson Traut

Vinson Traut is a Kaedweni officer plotting against King Henselt in The Witcher 2, hiding in a secret base beneath the camp brothel with Seltkirk’s Armor.

Vinson Traut is an officer in King Henselt‘s army in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and one of the conspirators plotting against the king’s life. He also owns Seltkirk’s Armor, a magical armour said to carry the essence of courage, which makes him important to Geralt for more than one reason.

In The Witcher 2

Traut is met in Chapter 2 on Vernon Roche‘s path, in the Kaedweni Military Camp. He is the man at the end of Conspiracy Theory, the investigation the sorcerer Dethmold asks Geralt to carry out.

There are two ways to pick up his trail. In In Cervisia Veritas, the drunken soldier Odrin, found outside the camp’s western gate, names Traut as one of the plotters and points Geralt to the camp followers’ tents. Alternatively, after The Butcher of Cidaris, Manfred and his son Sven pass on the same information. Either way, Geralt pays with a square coin, asks for “Whistling Wendy” and gives her the password, then drops through a trapdoor into the conspirators’ secret underground base.

Traut and his men are waiting there, and the fight is a hard one to take on alone. If Geralt reports to Dethmold first, the sorcerer sends four soldiers who burst in through the other doors to help. Traut does not survive the fight.

Good to know

Loot Traut’s body for Seltkirk’s Armor. It completes Courage Symbolized, one of the Battle Relics needed to lift the curse on the battlefield.
Dethmold offers 300 orens when the conspiracy is dealt with, and Geralt can turn the money down.