Ramsmeat

Ramsmeat is the crime boss of Vizima’s Temple Quarter in Act II of The Witcher. He calls himself a king and runs his rackets with a crowd of thugs who get replaced about as fast as they get killed. He does most of his business from the back room of the Hairy Bear and also keeps a house in the slums, guarded by two henchmen at the door.

In The Witcher

Ramsmeat lands on Geralt’s list during The Crown Witness. While Geralt is trying to question the wounded witness at St. Lebioda’s hospital, Ramsmeat’s men storm the place, and it is anyone’s guess whether they came for the witness, the witcher or something else. That makes him one of the suspects in Vizima Confidential, the investigation Geralt runs with Raymond Maarloeve into who is working for Salamandra.

In Suspect: Ramsmeat, Geralt can confront him directly. Ramsmeat shrugs off the hospital fight as a misunderstanding and claims his men were only there to bring back one of their own. Talk alone will not clear him. The proof comes from the evidence gathered in A Gravedigger’s Gratitude and Anatomy of a Crime, which expose the real culprit.

Geralt can clear Ramsmeat, in which case the journal admits the suspicions were wrong and that he is not Salamandra’s leader, or he can kill him and the gang leader dies by the witcher’s hand.

Good to know

• Getting into his slum house costs 20 orens each time. Killing the two bouncers instead gets Geralt a key, but new guards turn up the next day.
• In the official adventure Side Effects, he introduces himself as Jeremiah Trick, a man working for the underworld boss Mr. Glover while planning to take over. Geralt suggests a nickname, and “Ramsmeat” sticks. In the main game he does not seem to recognize the witcher.