Midcopse

Midcopse is a farming village in the Spitfire Bluff area of western Velen, and one of the larger settlements in that corner of the province. The fighting mostly passed it by, so the timber cottages still have their roofs and the fields around them are still tilled, but famine has arrived all the same. Houses with plank walls and straw roofs huddle around a village well where the local women gather to gossip, a notice board stands by the road, and beyond the last huts open fields run toward the woods. The people are tight-lipped with strangers, which is fair enough given who usually rides through.

In The Witcher 3

Geralt comes here in the main quest Hunting a Witch. The notes of the murdered Nilfgaardian agent Hendrik mention a witch near Midcopse, and the villagers, once persuaded, point toward a hut in the woods to the northeast. The witch turns out to be the sorceress Keira Metz, who has been passing herself off as a village healer and lives in her cottage outside the village.

The fields around Midcopse are haunted after dusk by Jenny o’ the Woods, a nightwraith born from a murdered young woman named Zula. Her contract hangs on the village notice board, and the ealdorman, Bolko, sends Geralt to Agneta, a local woman who ran the moment the ghost appeared.

The village also has an armorer who sells gear and maps but, despite his loud advertising, no crossbows, and a merchant with a famously feeble monster deck. Both play gwent, and so does Haddy, a young boy who turns out to be one of the best card players in Velen.

Quests in Midcopse

Good to know

Midcopse has a fast travel signpost, which makes it the easiest way to reach Keira’s cottage.
Don’t underestimate Haddy at the gwent table. He plays a Northern Realms deck and holds a unique card.
The Jenny o’ the Woods contract is tougher than its suggested level, so come prepared with specter oil and Yrden.