An Encrypted Manuscript

An Encrypted Manuscript is a quest in Chapter III of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.

Walkthrough
You will need the following items to complete this quest:


 * Warrior nekker blood
 * Queen endrega pheromones
 * Bullvore brain
 * Harpy egg (or Rotfiend tongue)

There are Bullvores and Rotfiends in the sewers beneath Loc Muinne, and Harpies on a ledge, but you would be well prepared to have all these items prior to finishing Act II, especially the Nekker Blood and the Pheromone (Do not sell those items or accidentally use them in Alchemy).

Journal Entry

 * In one of the ruined passages in Loc Muinne, Geralt found a manuscript written in a strange language. He could not understand a thing of it, so he decided to find a professional who would help him decipher the document.


 * This professional was Bras of Ban Ard, a sorcerer enamored of antiques. He decided that the book is encrypted with a spell, but that it could be broken. He needed ingredients for the counter spell: the pheromones of an endrega queen, the blood of a nekker warrior, the brain of a bullvore (a rare thing!) and a harpy egg, though a rotfiend's rongue would serve as a cheap substitute for the egg. With no other choice, the witcher started looking for the ingredients.

Quest fails if Geralt follow Triss along "A Summit of Mages"


 * Geralt never learned the contents of the manuscript, however. When the sorcerers started dying at Loc Muinne, they had no time or inclination to study the wisdom of treaties.