The Bits

The Bits is the poorest and most crowded district in Novigrad, squeezed into the eastern corner of the city between the walls to the east and south, Gildorf to the northwest and Hierarch Square to the west. Tenements are stacked shoulder to shoulder over narrow, muddy alleys, laundry and rubbish compete for space, and some buildings have given up on standing straight altogether. The most famous of them is the crooked house, which sank sideways after two would-be bank robbers next door dug a tunnel under it towards the Vivaldi Bank and the tunnel caved in on them.

Two gangs share the streets, the Cutups and the Blindeyes, and between them nobody walks around here with a fat purse for long. Yet the Bits also has a shabby kind of warmth. Nonhumans live here, children learn their letters at Marabella’s School for Tots, the Vilmerius Hospital treats whoever it can, and the Nowhere Inn is popular with local “entrepreneurs” precisely because the staff never ask questions.

In The Witcher 3

When the witch hunts drove her out of her townhouse, Triss Merigold went to ground in the crooked house, and Geralt visits her there at the start of A Matter of Life and Death. In Broken Flowers he looks for Dandelion’s acquaintance Marabella at her school, and may have to answer the pupils’ questions before she will talk.

The district is also Whoreson Junior‘s turf. His illegal casino stands here, and his fighting pit, Junior’s Arena, lies in the sewers below. If Geralt spares Junior in Get Junior, the crime boss later ends up begging on these same streets.

A contract from the Hierarch Square notice board about a monster in the Bits leads Geralt to Lambert, who is already busy fighting an ekimmara.

Quests in The Bits

• Following the Thread
• Now or Never
• Never Trust Children
• Hidden Messages of the Nilfgaardian Kind
• Contract: An Elusive Thief

Good to know

The Bits has no signpost of its own; Hierarch Square is the closest fast travel point.