Temptation

Temptation is a secondary quest in Act IV of The Witcher, set in the Village and the surrounding Fields. Ask the blacksmith’s wife about work and she will tell you, with some feeling, that her husband has been spending his nights frolicking with a succubus. She wants the creature driven off and needs nine handfuls of shimmering dust, which comes from the noonwraiths haunting the fields, to do it.

The moment Geralt steps out of the house, the blacksmith catches him with a counteroffer. He knows a folk spell that will put the succubus to sleep and convince his wife she is gone, and for that he needs nine handfuls of shadow dust from devourers. Whose side Geralt takes is entirely up to him, and the experience is the same either way.

Walkthrough

  1. Talk to the blacksmith’s wife at the blacksmith’s house in the Village and ask about work.
  2. Leave the house and listen to the blacksmith’s counteroffer.
  3. For the wife: kill noonwraiths in the Fields during the day and collect nine handfuls of shimmering dust.
  4. For the blacksmith: kill devourers at night in the Fields or in Murky Waters, south of the Village, and collect nine handfuls of shadow dust.
  5. Bring the dust to whichever spouse you decided to help and collect your reward.

Quest Consequences & Choices

  • Help the wife: she gives you the book Plants of Barren Lands.
  • Help the blacksmith: choose between a red meteorite and 500 orens.
  • You can switch sides before handing anything in, and the blacksmith does not hold a refusal against you.

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Quest rewards

Quest Type:
Game:
XP: 8,000 XP
Gold: 500 orens (blacksmith’s path, instead of the meteorite)
Loot: Plants of Barren Lands (wife’s path) or Red meteorite (blacksmith’s path)
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