Electors’ Square

Electors’ Square is a popular stone square in the middle of Temple Isle, right by the Great Temple of the Eternal Fire, the vast church the locals call the Grand Picket. Paved and open, it is framed by tall stone buildings, and the temple’s spires tower over everything, so you always know whose island you are standing on. Priests, pilgrims and Temple Guards cross it all day long.

The square is named in honour of the Electoral College, the body that chooses a new Hierarch from among its own members. The in-game map tells a friendlier story: it says the name honours a group of Novigrad reformers whose bold changes made the city grow fast, filled plenty of pockets and began its golden age. Both versions can be true; this is Novigrad.

In The Witcher 3

For Geralt the square is mainly a fast travel signpost and the easiest way into the temple district from St. Gregory’s Bridge. It is also home to one of the city’s oddest traders. During the day a priest of the Eternal Fire stands here who is secretly an alchemist, a dangerous hobby in a city that burns people for less. He sells runestones, glyphs and their diagrams, alchemy supplies and formulae, plus the book The Cult of Freya that Geralt needs for Free Spirit. He also plays Gwent with a fairly strong Nilfgaardian deck, proof that even the devout enjoy a little gambling.

A stone’s throw away, in front of the Great Temple, Ciri and Dandelion crash into the Reverend Nathaniel Pastodi at the end of their wild escape in Breakneck Speed.

Quests around Electors’ Square

• Free Spirit
• Ciri’s Story: Breakneck Speed

Good to know

The temple dominates the skyline, but its interior cannot be entered in the game.