Mourntart portrait from The Witcher 3

Mourntart

Mourntart is a grave hag who haunts the cemetery at Lindenvale in Velen. Most grave hags are content to feed on rotting corpses, digging up graves to suck the marrow from old bones with their long tongues. Mourntart went further. She started creeping into huts to steal children and kill the elderly.

She is unusually fast, quicker even than a witcher’s reflexes, and her claws smash through any block or parry. Like other grave hags, she can lash out with a long, poisonous tongue.

You hunt her in Contract: The Merry Widow, from the Lindenvale notice board. The gravedigger says something has been digging up bodies, and now a child is missing. After clearing rabid dogs out of the churchyard, you follow the stench of cadaverine to her hut, where a pile of skulls gives her away. Bring the skulls back to the church and wait for nightfall, and Mourntart will come for them. She drops a grave hag trophy, a grave hag mutagen and the sword Addan Deith.

Combat strategy

Mourntart is all about speed. Don’t try to trade blows or parry her claws. Dodge, hit once or twice, and get out again. Yrden is the key to this fight because it slows her enough to let you land your hits. Watch for the tongue: if you counter it at the right moment, you can cut it off and stop the poison.

  • Coat your silver sword with necrophage oil.
  • Cast Yrden and fight her inside the circle.
  • Keep Quen up as a safety net.
  • Drink Black Blood to punish her bites.
  • Counterattack the tongue to sever it and stop her poison.

Where to find it

Appears in quests

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