Cedric

Cedric is an elf in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings who, for reasons he never fully explains, chose to live among humans near Flotsam. He works for the townsfolk as a lookout and trapper and is usually found on or near the observation platform in Lobinden. Nobody knows the surrounding forests better, and for the people of Flotsam he is the main and often only source of knowledge about the plants, animals and dangers among the trees.

He is also a former member of the Scoia’tael, and he suffers from visions that he tries to drown in drink. Whether they show the past or the future is never settled, though Triss Merigold suspects the latter.

In The Witcher 2

Cedric is a useful ally in Chapter I. He helps Geralt prepare for The Kayran, telling him where to find ostmurk for the Mongoose potion in The Kayran: Ostmurk, and as a craftsman he sells oil and potion formulas, bombs and a design for a kayran trap. He also starts In the Claws of Madness, telling Geralt about two men who went to a ruined asylum in the forest and never came back.

His end comes in Where is Triss Merigold?. Cedric helps Triss while she uses the megascope, and when the kingslayer Letho arrives, Cedric is gravely wounded. Geralt follows his blood trail into the forest and finds him dying near a waterfall. Cedric tells him what happened and urges him on to Aedirn to recover more of his memories, then dies. The journal calls it a heroic sacrifice, and not a wasted one.

Good to know

• Drinking a Cat potion makes Cedric’s blood trail much easier to follow.