The Great Escape - The Witcher 3
Objectives
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- Catch the runaway.
- Find the missing part of the mechanism using your Witcher Senses.
- Repair the mechanism and open the doors.
- Enter the sewers.
- Find the sorceress Margarita.
- Search the commander's body and find the key to the cell door.
- Open the cell.
- Get out of the prison.
- Get rid of the guards.
- Find another way into the prison.
- Make your way to Zoltan.
- Leave the prison through the sewers.
- Enter the prison through the well.
- Meet Yennefer at the bridge into Oxenfurt.
- (Optional) Ask Zoltan for help.
- Get the key.
- Meet Yennefer at Crippled Kate's.
- Search the ruins.
Journal
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In the mission to gather the members of the former Lodge of Sorceress, it fell to Yennefer to bring Margarita Laux-Antille to Novigrad. Yennefer's old friend had been captured by the witch hunters and was being kept in Deireadh, the best-guarded prison this side of the Yaruga.
Geralt and Yennefer thus had a hard endeavor in front of them - they would have to break into the sealed compound and sneak Margarita out. Good thing Yen had something even better than a file in a carrot cake: contact information for the one man who had managed to escape Deireadh. Escaping seemed to be in his blood, for he attempted to make another getaway at the sight of Yennefer and Geralt, but eventually they caught him and sat down for a chat. He told them how to outfox the guards and enter the prison unnoticed. With no time to waste, Geralt and Yennefer raced off to Margarita's rescue.
When Geralt reached the cell in which Margarita was held, he uncovered a shocking surprise. Rita was not alone in her cell: Síle de Tansarville lay there as well, clinging to life with the last scraps of her strength. It turned out she had been captured long before Margarita and her body had been broken by the constant torture she'd undergone since. Síle had only one last wish - she wanted to depart this world in dignity, and so asked Geralt to end her suffering.
Geralt did not kill Síle de Tansarville. What prompted this decision? I do not know and quite possibly will never find out. Perhaps his nerves failed him, or perhaps he simply did not want another sorceress' blood on his hands. As for Síle, she saw only cruelty in his actions and cursed him for leaving her to die in agony in the miserable confines of a dank Deireadh cell. Then Yennefer took matters into her own hands - and ended Síle's life.
Geralt granted Sile's last request and ended her pain with one expert blow. Though they had not always enjoyed the best of relations, he felt this had to be done, as no one deserved to die a slow and painful death in a dank Deireadh cell.
With their powers combined, Yennefer and Geralt freed Margarita from the most formidable prison in the North. Rita was in a very sorry state, but the knowledge that she was free and would not perish on a pyre fortified her strength. Yennefer showered her long-time friend with tender care, and everyone hoped for a swift recovery.