Six Feet Under

Six Feet Under is a secondary quest in Act III of The Witcher, starting with Siegfried of the Order of the Flaming Rose in Vizima’s Temple Quarter. People have been disappearing from the cemetery, and the Order wants a witcher to find out why.

The trail leads to Vetala, a ghoul who can actually talk and is busy snacking on a corpse when Geralt finds him. He swears he only eats the dead and offers to name the real culprits if he is spared. What Geralt does with Vetala, and later with the fleeing Scoia’tael and their captives, decides how happy Siegfried is at the end and how many orens change hands.

Walkthrough

Talk to Siegfried in the Temple Quarter about the people vanishing from the cemetery.
Go to the cemetery and find Vetala, the talking ghoul, feeding on a corpse.
Either attack Vetala (he summons undead to help, so bring your silver sword and use the Group style) or hear him out. He blames the Scoia’tael camped near the crypt to the north.
If you spared him, head to the crypt. The Scoia’tael flee as you approach.
Choose: chase the elves (one waits by the gate and drops the Deithwen Dagger) or enter the crypt and kill the ghouls and alghouls about to eat the captives in the easternmost room.
Return to Siegfried and report what happened.

Quest Consequences & Choices

Kill Vetala: Siegfried pays 200 orens.
Spare Vetala and save the captives in the crypt: the best outcome, with 400 orens from Siegfried.
Spare Vetala and chase the Scoia’tael: you get the Deithwen Dagger, but Siegfried is angry you left the prisoners and pays nothing.
A spared Vetala turns up again later in the game.
If you have already completed A Posh Reception, this quest and Yaevinn’s Echoes of Yesterday can no longer be finished.