Toussaint Knight’s Steel Sword

The Toussaint Knight’s Steel Sword is the blade of Toussaint’s knights, and in Blood and Wine it exists in three qualities. The crafted relic version is one of the strongest steel swords in the expansion: at level 48 it gives +300 armor piercing, +30% Quen intensity, +100% critical hit damage, +20% critical hit chance and a 15% chance to cause burning. The magic and master versions are much weaker, but they are easy to pick up early in Toussaint.

The relic diagram is tied to Knight for Hire. It lies in the Arthach Palace Ruins, the bandit base led by Antoine Straggen that Geralt can clear as part of the quest. Take the diagram to a grandmaster blacksmith, and bring leather straps, dark steel ingots, a ruby, amber and monster saliva.

The cheaper versions turn up all over the duchy. Filibert von Wittan drops one, more copies can be found during Pomp and Strange Circumstance, Equine Phantoms and Wine is Sacred, and most Toussaint blacksmiths sell them. Pair the crafted sword with a crit-focused build and the burning chance does the rest.

Stats & effects

Crafted version:
+300 Armor piercing
+30% Quen Sign intensity
+100% Critical hit damage bonus
+20% Critical hit chance
+15% Chance to cause burning

Dismantle result

1-2 × Leather straps
1-2 × Dark steel ingot
1 × Ruby
1-2 × Amber dust

Crafting materials

3 × Leather straps
2 × Dark steel ingot
1 × Ruby
1 × Amber
2 × Monster saliva

How to obtain

CraftLoot / treasureMerchantQuest reward

Crafted (relic): made by a grandmaster blacksmith from its diagram, level 48.

Magic: dropped by Filibert von Wittan; in a chest under a tree at Cutterin Manor, where a spriggan is fought in Knight for Hire; and in a chest near the kitchen of Beauclair Palace during Pomp and Strange Circumstance.

Master: on the corpse at the Olive Grove guarded treasure; on Marcello Clerici’s grave during Equine Phantoms; and on the bandits’ cart after the fight at Fort Astre Ruins in Wine is Sacred.

The magic and master versions are also sold by every blacksmith in Toussaint except the one at Ardaiso Quarry.

In the books & earlier games

Diagram location

In the Arthach Palace Ruins in Toussaint, the bandit base led by Antoine Straggen that Geralt can clear during Knight for Hire. Guides place it in a chest on the top floor of the ruins.