Talk:King's Gambit/@comment-108.214.170.223-20151028110300/@comment-47.20.137.147-20180716230343

If you choose to help Hjalmar, he'll go off to search the Vildkaaris village in Fornhala. Geralt talks to Hjalmar about these people and learns that he suspects that they can transform into bears. Hjalmar wants blood and wants to kill them all. Geralt can point out that leaving one live might prove wise. Hjalmar won't have any of it.

While exploring the area, Hjalmar finds a corpse near a candle-lit shrine. Then more dead bodies, blood stains, massacred corpses -- all men, no women or children are in the village. The shrine has clothing from six different men. There's a corpse that's not of a man from the village and also a bowl with something sweet smelling like incense or bear bait. The shrine is covered in runes in an ancient language of the Skelligers. It's a dedication to Svalblod, a deity who demanded human sacrifices.

Another scent from above, and there's evidence of blood and bile up some steps, as well as a stumped body with a broken neck and a body that's still warm. The trail ends at a longhouse on a hill. Inside are dried mushrooms called psilocybe. And a trapdoor under a bearskin.

Down the ladder, there's a cave that opens into a larger cavern and a very large Skelligernamed Halgrim. He confirms they were behind the massacre at Kaer Trolde denies any guilt for the act. Hjalmar attacks him and during the fight, he transforms into a bear and is finally killed by Geralt.

Going deeper into the cavern takes you to a second cavern where you watch three Vildkaaris eat a mushroom and transform. Speak to Artis the druid and it ends up in a fight. Kill Artis and any bears that he summons. Then find a letter on the druid's body. It reveals that this Artis was to become advisor to the new king of Ard Skellig. But the letter isn't signed.

Hjalmar draws his own conclusions, blaming the Vildkaaris for the attack. Madman Lugos doesn't accept it but Geralt vouches for him. That, along with the letter, is proof enough of a conspiracy. Birna Bran insists that the real culprits haven't been identified but Jarl Donar is satisfied and the an Craite's name is cleared.

Having supported Hjalmar, he becomes kingduring the Coronation quest.