The Blood Curse is a quest in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.
Walkthrough
Visiting the site
Meeting the Visionary
If you keep running along the wooden ditches you will come across a few Rotfiends and three corpses for "The Rotfiend Contract". After you finish killing them and lighting the bodies hug the left wall until you see a path to a cottage. The harpies here should have infinite spawn, so you should just run past them and towards the house, where you will see the visionary. There you have the option of bribing him or joining his cult. The latter should be better as you have to kill an Arachas and a few Endregas for XP. To do the ritual he tells you to do, you must go to the area and meditate till it's right in the middle of midnight and dusk. Then, drink the potion and you will proceed to see a funny cutscene.
Going to Vergen
You can essentially keep running straight until you see a blue mist. Eventually there will be a fork in the road, where you will take the left and a cutscene will trigger and you will reach Vergen if you continue on that same path.
Obtaining the spearhead
Saskia will tell you that Skalen Burdon has the spearherad. To get it you only need to defeat him in a game of dice poker. You have the option of playing him again to win additional items.
After Vergen
Diagram from Dethmold's Grimoire
Ritual Order
- petrified bread
- black candles
- goat skull
- scorched tree
- raven corpse
- sour milk in stone bowl
- pixie circle
Use this if the above does not work
- sour milk in stone bowl
- raven corpse
- scorched tree
- goat skull
- black candles
- petrified bread
- pixie ring
After drawing talk to Henselt. The king has to stab Sabrina's ghost with spear, and your task is to survive attack of wraiths. It is not confirmed, that you'll have to kill some number of wraiths or just survive the battle.
Journal Entry
- At that time, King Henselt suffered from an embarrassing affliction. Namely, he had been cursed by the Sorceress Sabrina Glevessig, whom he had executed for making a grave error in her magical practice. Witcher are experts on curses and can generally figure out how to lift them, but even they need pointers sometimes. Geralt headed for the site of the stake at which Sabrina has been burned. To lift the curse, he needed to learn exactly how the execution played out. Then, he would need to recreate it using the very items that had been used during that event.
- After examining the tracks around Sabrina's execution site, the witcher had many questions and preciously few answers. Geralt decided that the soldiers keeping vigil at the circle could be a good source of information and began to question them.
- Geralt followed the trail like a hound from royal kennels, and pursued the solution. When it turned out that the inspired, a man fascinated with the sorceress who met an ill fate, lives in the hills east of the camp, the witcher felt he'll surely learn something the king couldn't tell him there.
- At Sabrina's pyre, Geralt indeed met the two soldiers Zyvik had mentioned - badly terrified, but both in one piece. More importantly, however, he examined clues and and discovered that the sorceress' remains were in high demand. According to the soldiers, a relic vendor peddling his wares by the canteen had been gathering bits from around the stake. That's right - the deceased sorceress had already become the object of worship.
- Having heard about the Visionary and the relic vendor, Geralt had to decide whom to head to first.
- Asked about saint Sabrina, the vendor grumbled something about it being the Visionary obsession. Thus, willing or not, Geralt had to head for the hermit's house.
- The witcher finally managed to fulfill all of the Visionary demands. The Hermit agreed to talk about Sabrina Glevessig, her martyrdom and the events following her execution.
- It turned out that the merciful soldier present at the sorceress' execution had prematurely ended the tortured soul's suffering. That event changed him: he deserted and started preaching Glevessig's sanctity. The spear he had uses to pierce Sabrina's side, as a powerful item, was quintessential. The witcher had to acquire it and, since he'd found a great source of information about the sorceress' cult, he decided to drink his fill from the wellspring of knowledge.
- According to the Visionary, the relic vendor now owned the spear. Geralt headed for the canteen, where the man peddled his wares.
- The relic vendor danced around the subject like a true master. As a businessman, he did not want his secret to go for free.
- And nothing. The spear was in the hands of Iorveth, thus in Vergen, the town beyond the ghastly mist. The way through the battlefield was mortally perilous, even for a witcher. However a man who had already proven his ability to protect others from the curses evil aura made camp at king's side. It was the sorcerer Dethmold.
- Henselt's advisor told Geralt how to get through the ghastly battlefield. Equipped with an amulet to repel wraiths and a white flag for playing envoy, Geralt went through the mist towards Vergen. He hoped to find Iorveth, since according to the relic vendor the Scoia'tael leader was the current owner of Yahon's spear.
- The Witcher took Zoltan along the way, and the two of them entered the wraiths' mists, the very heart of the ghosts' battle. If not for Dethmold's gift, who knows, maybe they would have stayed there forever? Surrounded by wraiths, they trudged toward Vergen, following the amulet's direction.
Bugs
Occasionally, the game crashes to desktop after speaking with Henselt in his tent. Meditating till midnight fixes it.