Caleb Menge

The fanatical commander of Novigrad’s Temple Guard and leader of the witch hunters, who burns mages and nonhumans on public pyres.

Caleb Menge is the commander of the Temple Guard of the Church of the Eternal Fire and the leader of the witch hunters in Novigrad. In a city choked by the smoke of a hundred pyres, fake conspiracies, mass arrests and show trials were the perfect way for an ambitious fanatic to get ahead, and Menge made full use of them. His big moment came when he unmasked his own superior, the former Temple Guard commander Chappelle, as a doppler in disguise. He is paranoid as well as cruel, and never leaves his fortified headquarters without a crowd of armed guards.

Caleb Menge in The Witcher 3
Geralt first sees him in Pyres of Novigrad, lighting the pyre in Hierarch Square where the doppler posing as Chappelle and a woman named Felicia Cori are burned. Soon afterwards Menge catches looters at Triss’s old house, has them arrested, and makes it plain that witchers are not welcome in his city. He would be glad to see Geralt slip up and end on a pyre like the mages.

His real part in the story comes in Count Reuven’s Treasure. A letter left by Dudu reveals that Menge’s men caught Dandelion, and Dijkstra wants to know what the witch hunter knows about his stolen gold. Since the headquarters can’t be sneaked into or stormed, Triss puts on fake dimeritium shackles and lets Geralt hand her over as a prisoner, while he claims to have information on Philippa Eilhart. Face to face, Menge turns out to be every bit as brutal as Geralt had feared.

What happens to Caleb Menge?
Menge always dies in this quest. Only the person who kills him changes. If Geralt plays along calmly and doesn’t bring up the treasure, Triss stabs Menge herself when he goes to check on the torture room. If Geralt starts a fight or asks about the treasure, Menge turns on him and dies by the witcher’s blade. Either way, Triss finds the key to Dijkstra’s treasury on his body. If it comes to a fight, Menge’s desk also yields a letter from a spy called Yamurlak and Menge’s Holy Tome, which together point Geralt towards Dandelion. Triss then sets the headquarters on fire as they escape.