Keira Metz Cottage

Keira Metz’s cottage stands alone in the woods northeast of Midcopse, at the end of a narrow trail that leaves the road near a pond and a tall boulder. From the outside it is a plain wooden peasant hut, and that is the whole point: the village witch who treats aching backs is really a sorceress of the Lodge lying low. Inside there are just two rooms and a small cellar, crammed with books, candles, ointments, robes, a chalk pentagram and a skull covered in strange symbols. Touch the skull and a portal opens onto Keira’s private hideaway, an underground cavern full of grass, trees and rabbits, with a small building in the middle where she bathes in peace.

In The Witcher 3

Geralt comes looking for the local “witch” after asking around Midcopse. He arrives as Keira is sending a crowd of villagers home, finds the hut empty and follows her through the portal. She tells him about an elven mage asking after Ciri, which leads to the Elven Ruins and Wandering in the Dark.

Back home, Keira tries out the magic lamp from the ruins, gives Geralt a xenovox to keep in touch, and asks him to lift the curse on Fyke Isle. She lends him her boat, moored on the shore of Lake Wyndamer, for the trip. Afterwards she sends him after a missing delivery, which ends with an evening out by the water and her slipping away to the island at dawn, where her fate is decided in For the Advancement of Learning.

Others come by too. The Pellar may wait outside the hut to ask for help with Forefathers’ Eve, and if Gaetan, the witcher behind the massacre in Honorton, was spared, his hidden stash lies just to the north. While Keira lives here she also trades, and she is one of the few sellers of greater runes this early in the game.

Quests at Keira’s cottage

• Hunting a Witch
• An Invitation from Keira Metz (leads to A Towerful of Mice)
• A Favor for a Friend
• Forefathers’ Eve (if the botchling part of Family Matters is not done yet)
• Take What You Want (just north of the hut)

Good to know

• All of Keira’s quests fail if they are not finished before The Isle of Mists.
• Look on the table opposite the door for a recipe for black eyeliner, and on her bed for a letter to Alexander.
• Starting A Favor for a Friend makes Lynch Mob impossible, so help that poor man first.