Hauteville

Hauteville, literally “Upper Town”, is the walled quarter that makes up the largest and wealthiest part of Beauclair, the capital of Toussaint. It sits on a high plain above the lake Seidhe Llygad and, by the official count, holds four gates, four squares, two cemeteries, two taverns, an embassy and a bank. Artists and merchants live here alongside some of the best craftsmen in the duchy.

The walls turned out to be less of a limit than the city’s builders expected. As San Sebastian and the Port District grew below, the townsfolk cut an extra passage through them, the Harbor Gate, and some argued the walls could go altogether, since Beauclair was already guarded by the bravest knights-errant the world had ever known.

In The Witcher 3

Most of Beauclair’s shopping, banking and courtly side stories happen in Hauteville. Places worth knowing include:

• The Gran’place – the city’s great market square.
• The Pheasantry – the tavern where Count Monnier runs Gwent: To Everything – Turn, Turn, Tournament!
• Cianfanelli Bank – exchanges florens and orens for crowns and plays a part in Paperchase.
• Lazare Lafargue’s workshop – home of the grandmaster craftsman Lazare Lafargue and the quest Master Master Master Master!
• Lady Orianna‘s estate – where Blood Simple begins.
• The statue of Reginald d’Aubry – the art curator’s pride and joy, and the centre of Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls of Granite!
• Orlémurs Cemetery, the Metinna and Dulevant Gates, Mountebank Alley and the squares Knights Dormant, Lolivier and Henris Gras.

Good to know

• Shops: the quarter has the Adder and Jewels Winery, a herb store, a perfumery selling glyphs, runes and diagrams, a tailor, Dupont & Sons Emporium with paintings for Corvo Bianco, and the ducal camerlengo, who sells books.
• Gwent: most of these merchants play for up to 50 crowns, so Hauteville is a good place to build up the Skellige deck.
• See the district on the Toussaint interactive map.