Talk:A Mysterious Passenger/@comment-70.66.201.62-20190716050437/@comment-33746573-20190729134354

That's maybe because all Skellige-related content is way too overleveled compared to your level when you finish the Imperial Audience quest, meaning it's impossible for a new player to force his way though foes that are over 10 levels above him.

That's possible (although a bit hard) on post-Blood and Wine NG+ (opening the ehnanced mutations before NG+ and unlocking Euphoria helps a lot), I'm doing some kind of playthrough right now - I started the Keira questline first in Velen (to level up + level up my Aerondight), went to Skellige, finished the questline, triggered this quest and then went back to Velen to finish Crones and Baron's questline