Reardon Manor

Reardon Manor is a run-down family estate in eastern Velen, in the Descent, north of Downwarren. It is less a palace than a farmstead with airs: a main house, a large barn and a few smaller buildings and huts, all gone grey and ragged after years without an owner. The Reardons were once a prominent family and even relatives of the royal La Louve dynasty, and a painting of the Reardon twins and an old diary still hint at better days. Behind the barn a hidden stairway leads down into a cellar, where one wall is not quite as solid as it looks.

In The Witcher 3

The estate belongs to Dolores Reardon, who grew up here with her twin brother Humbert. She left after marrying a man named Roderick and spent most of her life with him in Gors Velen. When he died she came home to find the manor overrun by monsters, and now she lingers in Lindenvale, looking for someone to clear it. As payment she hands Geralt the key to a lockbox hidden in the main house.

What Geralt finds depends on The Witcher 2. If Letho was killed, the estate is crawling with wraiths. If he was spared, the wraiths are gone, the grounds are rigged with traps, and the Viper witcher is hiding in the barn loft from Nilfgaardian hitmen and bounty hunters. Bounty hunters soon arrive, and Letho sets out to find the friend who sold him out, with Geralt along for the ride if he wants. Help him and Letho can even turn up later for the Battle of Kaer Morhen.

The cellar holds the estate’s darkest secret: a skeleton and some loose scraps of paper that reveal Humbert’s fate. Dolores’s husband had killed her brother. Once the manor is cleared, Dolores moves back in, sad but happy to be restoring her family home. Underground, the “hog hut” cave from Fools’ Gold also ends right beneath the manor.

Quests at Reardon Manor

• The Fall of the House of Reardon
• Ghosts of the Past (only if Letho lives)
• Fools’ Gold (the hog hut cave ends below the manor)
• Hazardous Goods (between the manor and Benek)

Good to know

• The manor has a fast travel signpost. Benek lies further east.
• The sturdy barn key is in a chest in the northwesternmost house. In the main building, red writing visible with Witcher Senses marks the lockbox.
• The Fall of the House of Reardon and Ghosts of the Past fail if they are not done before The Isle of Mists.