A Final Kindness is a short, sad main quest in The Witcher 3 that only appears if things went badly for Keira Metz. Hoping to save herself, Keira went to King Radovid with what she knew, and the witch-hunting king had her impaled in Hierarch Square in Novigrad. Triss wants to give her friend a proper farewell.
How to start A Final Kindness
The quest only exists if you did not finish Keira’s storyline, or if you let her leave to bargain with Radovid at the end of For the Advancement of Learning. It comes up when you talk to Triss during Final Preparations, either before or after Blindingly Obvious. It is a level 26 quest worth 200 XP.
At midnight in the square
Meet Triss at Hierarch Square around midnight (from about 9 pm works too). She cannot show her face to the guards, so Geralt has to get rid of them: use Axii (Delusion level 3) to send them away, or fight and kill them. With the square clear, Triss takes Keira’s body down, and the quest ends with a quiet scene.
How to avoid this quest
If you want Keira to live, finish her four quests in Velen and convince her to go to Kaer Morhen. See Brothers in Arms: Velen.
Tips
- Triss waits near the dwarven banker Vimme Vivaldi but will not act during the day.
- You can delay the quest until the meeting between Ciri and the Lodge, but it has to be done before Final Preparations can end.
