The Witcher 3 secondary quests

Secondary quests in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are not contracts or treasure hunts and can be as simple as talking to someone or in-depth as running around hunting down clues and people in multiple locations.

In most circumstances you are able to leave and resume secondary quests at any time but make sure to read a quest's page for any restrictions or time constraints.

For more information on the various quests in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, see the following:

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• Main quests

• Contracts

• Treasure hunts

• Hearts of Stone quests

• Blood and Wine quests

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Multiple Regions

Quest Name	Unmarked	Cutoff Point	Level	Location(s)	Enemies
Black Pearl	No	n/a	13	The Golden Sturgeon North of Arinbjorn	Sirens Drowners
Collect 'Em All	No	n/a	n/a	Various places	n/a
Following the Thread	No	Ugly Baby	11	Novigrad Water mill near Arette Seven Cats Inn Faroe	Ekimmara Temple Guards Vienne (optional) Elves (optional) Dagr pirates Hammond Jad Karadin (optional)
Gwent: Old Pals	No	n/a	n/a	Seven Cats Inn Temerian Partisan Hideout Rosemary and Thyme The Nowhere Inn Kaer Morhen	n/a
Master Armorers	No	n/a	24	Crow's Perch Undvik	n/a
Never Trust Children	Yes	n/a	n/a	The Bits Road between Arinbjorn and Sund	Bandits Thugs

White Orchard

Quest Name	Unmarked	Cutoff Point	Level	Location(s)	Enemies
A Frying Pan, Spick and Span	No	Imperial Audience	n/a	Riverside northwest of White Orchard	n/a
Faithful Friend	No	n/a	30	Woesong Bridge	n/a
Missing in Action	No	Imperial Audience	n/a	Battlefield	Ghouls
On Death's Bed	No	Imperial Audience	2		n/a
Precious Cargo	No	Imperial Audience	n/a		Drowners Bandits (optional)
Twisted Firestarter	No	Imperial Audience	n/a	Willis' forge White Orchard village	Drowners

Velen

Quest Name	Unmarked	Cutoff Point	Level	Location(s)	Enemies
A Dog's Life	No	n/a	5	Drudge	Wolves Bandits
A Favor for a Friend	No	The Isle of Mists	6	Keira Metz's hut	Drowners Water hag Rotfiend (optional)
A Greedy God	No	n/a	7	South of Wastrel Manor	Allgod (optional)
A Towerful of Mice	No	The Isle of Mists	6	Fyke Isle Oreton	Pesta
An Invitation from Keira Metz	No	The Isle of Mists	6	Keira Metz's hut	n/a
At the Mercy of Strangers	Yes	n/a	n/a	West of Mulbrydale	Drowners Bandits (optional)
Bitter Harvest	No	n/a	9	Battlefield south-southeast of the Border Post	Ghouls Rotfiend Bandits (optional)
Blood Ties	No	n/a	12	Nilfgaardian Army Group 'Center' Camp	Ghouls
Caravan Attack	Yes	n/a	n/a	Northwest of Marauders' Bridge	Bandits
Ciri's Room	No	The Isle of Mists	5	Crow's Perch	n/a
Deadly Crossing	Yes	n/a	n/a	Troll Bridge Boatmakers' Hut North of Lindenvale West of Dragonslayer's Grotto	Bandits
Death By Fire	No	n/a	10	On the road west of Codgers' Quarry	Bandits
Defender of the Faith	No	n/a	10	East of Blackbough Duén Hen Along the road between Byways and Frischlow	Endrega warrior (dependent) Wolves (dependent) Students (optional)
Face Me if You Dare!	Yes	n/a	n/a	South of Crow's Perch Southeast of Tretogor Gate Northwest of The Golden Sturgeon	Ronvid of the Small Marsh Thugs (optional)
Fake Papers	No	n/a	n/a	South of the Border Post	n/a
Fists of Fury: Velen	No	n/a	11	Inn at the Crossroads Blackbough Crow's Perch Lindenvale	Stan Fishgulper Jonah Smithy Sergeant Ardal
Fools' Gold	No	n/a	6	Lurtch	Bandits Nekkers Ghouls Wolves
For the Advancement of Learning	No	The Isle of Mists	8	Fyke Isle	Ghouls (optional) Keira Metz (optional)
Forefathers' Eve	No	n/a	7	Fyke Isle	Water hag Drowners Drowned dead Witch hunters (optional) Wraiths (dependent) Rotfiends (dependent)
Funeral Pyres	No	n/a	3	West of Mulbrydale	Rabid dogs Ghouls Rotfiends Bandits (optional)
Ghosts of the Past	No	The Isle of Mists	6	Reardon Manor Lindenvale	Bounty hunters Louis (optional) Arnout Vester (optional)
Gwent: Velen Players	No	n/a	n/a	Benek Midcopse Oreton Crow's Perch	n/a
Harassing a Troll	Yes	n/a	n/a	Far north and west of Inn at the Crossroads	Nekkers
Hazardous Goods	No	Ghosts of the Past (if started, must be completed before continuing)	n/a	Northwest of Lurtch Between Reardon Manor and Benek	Ghouls
Highway Robbery	Yes	n/a	n/a	Between Crow's Perch and Boatmakers' Hut	Bandits
Highwayman's Cache	Yes	n/a	n/a	East of Boatmakers' Hut	Bandits (optional)
Last Rites	No	n/a	9	Blackbough	Ghouls (optional)
Looters	Yes	n/a	n/a	Heatherton Wolven Glade Toderas Codgers' Quarry	Peasants Alghouls
Love's Cruel Snares	No	n/a	10	Abandoned site north of Condyle	Wild dogs
Lynch Mob	No	A Favor for a Friend	7	Hangman's Alley	Peasants
Magic Lamp	No	The Isle of Mists	6	The Mire	Wraiths (optional) Golem (optional)
Man's Best Friend	Yes	n/a	n/a	Northwest of Mulbrydale	Wild dog
Races: Crow's Perch	No	n/a	n/a	Crossroads west of Crow's Perch	n/a
Return to Crookback Bog	No	The Isle of Mists	9	Crookback Bog	Drowners Rotfiends Water hags Fiend
Take What You Want	No	n/a	25	North of Keira Metz's hut	Bandits
The Fall of the House of Reardon	No	The Isle of Mists	6	Reardon Manor	Wraiths (dependent)
The Truth is in the Stars	No	n/a	n/a	Benek	Ghouls
The Whispering Hillock	No	n/a	6		Wolves Werewolf Endrega warriors (optional) Water hag (optional) Harpies (optional)
Thou Shalt Not Pass	No	n/a	7	Border Post Western Gate	n/a
Where the Cat and Wolf Play...	No	n/a	25	Honorton Oreton	Alghouls Wolves Gaetan (optional)
Wild at Heart	No	n/a	7	Blackbough Isolated Shack	Wolves Werewolf (optional)
Witcher Wannabe	No	n/a	10	Lindenvale	Ghoul

Novigrad

Quest Name	Unmarked	Cutoff Point	Level	Location(s)	Enemies
A Barnful of Trouble	No	n/a	11	Carsten	Ghouls
A Dangerous Game	No	The Isle of Mists	12	Rosemary and Thyme	n/a
A Deadly Plot	No	The Isle of Mists	14	Near Border Post North of Hanged Man's Tree	Wolves Wargs Rock trolls (optional)
A Feast for Crows	No	n/a	20	The Bits	Cleaver's Henchdwarves (optional)
A Final Kindness	No	n/a	26	Hierarch Square	n/a
A Matter of Life and Death	No	The Isle of Mists	12	The Bits Triss' hideout Elihal's workshop Vegelbud Residence	n/a
A Tome Entombed	No	n/a	13	Novigrad sewers	Katakan
A Walk on the Waterfront	No	The Play's the Thing	12	Harborside	Bandits
A Warm Welcome	Yes	n/a	n/a	Road southwest of Wheat Fields	Redanian Soldiers (optional)
An Eye for an Eye	No	The Isle of Mists	12	Hanged Man's Tree Temerian Partisan hideout	Nilfgaardian soldiers
Cabaret	No	The Isle of Mists	14	Rosemary and Thyme	Bandits Hubio (optional) Dandelion
Carnal Sins	No	The Isle of Mists	16	Vilmerius Hospital Crippled Kate's Vegelbud Residence Novigrad Docks	Guards Nathaniel Pastodi (optional) Katakan (dependent)
Drunken Rabble	Yes	n/a	n/a	In front of The Golden Sturgeon	Drunkard
Empty Coop	No	n/a	n/a	Hut between Honeyfill Meadworks and Dancing Windmill	n/a
Fencing Lessons	No	The Isle of Mists	12	Var Attre Villa Seven Cats Inn	Rosa var Attre Kobe (optional) Lucas (optional)
Fists of Fury: Novigrad	No	n/a	23	The Golden Sturgeon North of Portside Gate East of Southern Gate Farcorners	Georgius Georg Archibald O'Neill Iron Mortimer Durden
Gwent: Big City Players	No	n/a	n/a	Sigismund's Bathhouse Passiflora Forest outside Novigrad	n/a
Gwent: Playing Innkeeps	No	n/a	n/a	Inn at the Crossroads The Alchemy The Kingfisher Inn	n/a
Gwent: Playing Thaler	No	Reason of State	n/a	Seven Cats Inn	n/a
Haunted House	No	n/a	7	House southeast of Hierarch Square	n/a
Hey, You Wanna Look at my Stuff?	No	n/a	6	Northwest of the Silverton merchant	n/a
Hidden Messages of the Nilfgaardian Kind	No	n/a	8	West of the Crooked house Crippled Kate's Gildorf sewers	Drowners
High Stakes	No	n/a	26	Passiflora	Finneas (dependent) Bernard Tulle
Honor Among Thieves	No	n/a	9	Whoreson Junior's Casino Putrid Grove	n/a
It Takes Three to Tango	No	n/a	28	Kingfisher Inn	n/a
Karmic Justice	Yes	n/a	n/a	Between Tretogor Gate and Southern Gate	Elves (optional)
Little Red	No	n/a	15	Yantra	Little Red (optional) Bandits (optional)
Message from an Old Friend	No	n/a	n/a	Books and Scrolls	n/a
Novigrad Hospitality	No	n/a	8	Roadside between Yantra and Sarrasin Grange	n/a
Novigrad, Closed City (II)	No	n/a	n/a	Northwest of Hierarch Square	Bandits
Novigrad, Closed City	No	n/a	11	Novigrad	Bandits
Now or Never	No	The Isle of Mists	14	Novigrad	Witch hunters Temple Guard Drowners Rats Katakan
Of Dairy and Darkness	No	n/a	9	Aeramas' Abandoned Manor	Foglet
Of Swords and Dumplings	No	n/a	24	Hattori's home The Golden Sturgeon	Bandits Sukrus Ernst van Hoorn
Out On Your Arse!	No	n/a	14	Crippled Kate's	Skelliger (optional) Warriors (optional)
Race: The Great Erasmus Vegelbud Memorial Derby	No	n/a	n/a	Vegelbud Residence	n/a
Racists of Novigrad	Yes	n/a	n/a	Road north of Portside Gate Dye pits northeast of Tretogor Gate	Townsmen (optional)
Reason of State	No	On Thin Ice	30	Novigrad Docks St. Gregory's Bridge The Butcher's Yard theater	Redanian Soldiers Witch hunters Witch Hunter Officer Dijkstra (optional) Dijkstra's Henchmen (optional)
Redania's Most Wanted	No	The Isle of Mists	12	Est Tayiar	Nekkers Fire Elemental Witch hunters (optional)
Rough Neighborhood	No	n/a	10	Just north of Shani's Clinic Southeast of Western Gate	Mercenaries
Spooked Mare	No	n/a	12	Hut north-northwest of Crossroads signpost	Scoia'tael (optional) Scoia'tael Commander (optional)
Strangers in the Night	Yes	n/a	n/a	Between Eternal Fire Chapel and Vegelbud Residence	Manfred (optional) Rufus (optional)
Strumpet in Distress	Yes	n/a	n/a	South of Novigrad Docks	n/a
Suspicious Shakedown	Yes	n/a	n/a	Behind a house north of the Rosemary and Thyme	Bandits (optional)
The Dwarven Document Dilemma	No	n/a	2	Farcorners	Gerd (optional)
The Flame of Hatred	Yes	n/a	n/a	Street east of Hierarch Square	Guards (optional)
The Gangs of Novigrad	No	n/a	9	Cleaver's Headquarters Whoreson Junior's casino Whoreson Junior's arena	Thugs
The Most Truest of Basilisks	Yes	n/a	n/a	Road northeast of Novigrad Gate	Wyvern
The Nobleman Statuette	No	n/a	14	Novigrad	n/a
The Price of Passage	Yes	n/a	n/a	Oxenfurt	Soldiers (optional)
The Soldier Statuette	No	n/a	14	Caesar Bilzen's house Triss' hideout	n/a
The Volunteer	No	n/a	13	Oxenfurt White Eagle Fort	Trollololo (optional)
Warehouse of Woe	No	n/a	13	Along back wall of Harborside, almost directly north of the Loggers' Hut	Nekker
Witch Hunter Raids	Yes	n/a	n/a	Farcorners	Witch hunters

Skellige

Quest Name	Unmarked	Cutoff Point	Level	Location(s)	Enemies
A Bard's Beloved	No	n/a	15	Cave east-northeast of Palisade	Water hag
A Hallowed Horn	No	n/a	12	North of Arinbjorn Holmstein	Renegades Bandits
Abandoned Sawmill	No	n/a	24	Abandoned Sawmill	Leshen Wolves (dependent)
An Unpaid Debt	No	n/a	15	New Port Inn Hut by the lake northwest of Blandare	Simun Brambling Volund Warrior
Armed Assault	No	n/a	15	Southeast of Rannvaig	Bandits
Brave Fools Die Young	No	n/a	n/a	Grymmdjarr Monument	n/a
Call of the Wild	Yes	n/a	n/a	Just east-southeast of Arinbjorn signpost	Wolves Werewolf
Coronation	No	Battle Preparations	18	Kaer Trolde Gedyneith	n/a
Crime and Punishment	No	n/a	18	Peninsula east of Ancient Crypt Rogne	Harpies
Farting Trolls	Yes	n/a	n/a	Unmarked cave between Arinbjorn and Kaer Muire	Rock trolls
Finders Keepers	No	n/a	24	Small island north of Giants' Toes Svorlag	Bandits
Fists of Fury: Champion of Champions	No	n/a	11	Hov	Athak Akydalv
Fists of Fury: Skellige	No	n/a	30	The New Port Arinbjorn Harviken Northeast of Urialla Harbor	Valgard Grim Einar Olaf
Flesh for Sale	No	Following the Thread	12	Trottheim	Pirates (optional)
For Fame and Glory	No	n/a	15	West of Larvik	Ghouls Devourers Alghoul
Free Spirit	No	n/a	13	Snidhall Isle Novigrad Crow's Perch Lindenvale	Warrior
From a Land Far, Far Away	No	n/a	13	Island east of Redgill Ursten Widows' Grotto	Warrior (dependent)
Gwent: Skellige Style	No	n/a	n/a	Kaer Trolde Gedyneith Gremist's workshop Kaer Muire	n/a
Hard Times	No	n/a	21	Road between Miners' Camp and Blandare Kaer Trolde	Cyclops Nekkers
In Wolf's Clothing	No	n/a	15	Freya's Garden Larvik	Morkvarg Wolves Einar Warriors (optional)
Iron Maiden	No	n/a	19	Hill east of Harviken	Ekhidnae (dependent) Gundar (dependent)
King's Gambit	No	Battle Preparations	18	Kaer Trolde	Vildkaarls (optional) Berserkers Halgrim (dependent) Artis (dependent)
Master of the Arena	No	n/a	14	Hov	Ulle the Unlucky
Peace Disturbed	No	n/a	25	Cave southeast of Kaer Trolde Harbor and southwest of Rogne	Wraiths (optional) Nightwraith
Possession	No	Battle Preparations	17	Svorlag Ulula's Needle Udalryk's old family home Spikeroog	Hym (optional) Drowners (optional) Sirens Warriors
Practicum in Advanced Alchemy	No	n/a	24	Gedyneith Morskogen Forest south of the Druids' Camp Distillery Blandare	Wolves Armored arachas (dependent) Succubus (dependent) Cyclops Foglets
Shock Therapy	No	n/a	24	Gedyneith	n/a
Siren's Call	Yes	n/a	n/a	West of Sund	Sirens
Stranger in a Strange Land	No	King's Gambit	14	Inn at Arinbjorn Kaer Muire	Kori Kraki Prisoners (optional) Simun Brambling (optional)
Taken as a Lass	No	n/a	25	Eastern coast of Ard Skellig Islet southwest of Hindarsfjall Freya's Temple	Pirates Ekhidnae (dependent)
The Cave of Dreams	No	King's Gambit	14	Cave in southwestern Ard Skellig (southeast of Holmstein's Port and south of Fyresdal)	Nekkers Clan Tuirseach Warriors Sirens Water hag Madman Lugos Hound of the Wild Hunt Eredin
The Family Blade	No	n/a	15	Southwest of Miners' Camp Fort Grymmdjarr Whale Graveyard Kaer Trolde Harbor	Bandits
The Four Faces of Hemdall	Yes	n/a	n/a	Northwest of Trottheim	Pirates (optional)
The Heroes' Pursuits: Fayrlund	No	n/a	n/a	East-northeast of Fayrlund	n/a
The Heroes' Pursuits: For the Goddess' Glory	No	n/a	n/a	Larvik Freya's Garden	n/a
The Heroes Pursuits: Fyresdal	No	n/a	n/a	Near Kvalheim Isle	n/a
The Heroes' Pursuits: Kaer Trolde	No	n/a	n/a	Rannvaig Kaer Trolde	n/a
The Last Wish	No	Ugly Baby	15	Larvik on Hindarsfjall Freya's Garden Ingdalen Isle	Sirens Drowners Djinn
The Lord of Undvik	No	Battle Preparations	17	Kaer Trolde Undvik	n/a
The Nithing	No	n/a	14	Rannvaig	n/a
The Path of Warriors	No	n/a	16	Trail to Yngvar's Fang Yngvar's Fang	Sirens Harpies Gargoyles (optional) Bandits (optional)
The Price of Honor	No	n/a	14	Harviken and east of Trottheim on Faroe Isle	Sirens
The Sad Tale of the Grossbart Brothers	No	n/a	26	Blandare Grotto	Jesse Grossbart Hegel Grossbart Manfred Grossbart
The Tower Outta Nowheres	No	n/a	30	Tower north-northeast of Bay Of Winds	Golem Alghouls Gargoyle Werewolf Earth Elemental
Woe is Me	Yes	n/a	n/a	Palisade	Peasant Skelligers
Worthy of Trust	No	n/a	n/a	Kaer Trolde Harbor North of Crossroads Fyresdal	n/a
Yustianna Disturbed	Yes	n/a	n/a	Yustianna's Grotto	Bandits (optional)

Kaer Morhen

Quest Name	Unmarked	Cutoff Point	Level	Location(s)	Enemies
Berengar's Blade	No	The Isle of Mists	27	Kaer Morhen	Chort
Greenhouse Effect	No	n/a	27		Chort
Monster Slayer	No	n/a	26	Lakeside Hut	Rock troll
The Bastion	No	n/a	23	Bastion	Wraiths
The Witchers' Forge	No	n/a	30	Kaer Morhen keep Iron Mine	n/a
Trail of Echoes	Yes	n/a	n/a		Devourer Nekker warrior

Notes

• The Whispering Hillock is one of the only quests in the game that is classified as both main and secondary, depending on how it's found. If found before progressing far enough in the main story line, it'll show up as secondary. Otherwise, it'll eventually show up as a required (main) quest further along in the story.