For a Higher Cause! - The Witcher Wiki

For A Higher Cause! is a quest in Chapter III of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. This quest is only available on Iorveth’s path, the corresponding quest on Roche’s path is For Temeria!.

WalkthroughEdit

You will start in the mountains of Loc Muinne together with Iorveth. While walking down the path, you will encounter several harpies. At the foot of the hills, you will have the choice to:

1. Either confront some soldiers from the Order of the Flaming Rose,


2. Or sneak into Loc Muinne through some nearby caves.

Note: If you had imported a saved game from the original game and were on good terms with the Order of the Flaming Rose in that particular game, they will be friendly towards you. If not, they will attack on sight, which is also their default behaviour if a saved game was not imported.

If you choose to follow Iorveth through the caves, you will encounter two Arachas at the enter of the cave, and another one later down the way along with some Endregas. After getting rid of the two first, don’t forget to plunder their nest at the end of the corridor, you should find some pretty neat loot. Upon exiting the cave, follow Iorveth into the city to the courtyard with the gargoyles (they explode after being killed).

Note: Ignore the chest in the room below for now – it is part of the quest An Encrypted Manuscript.

Continuing through the ruins, ignoring the doors leading to the enemy soldiers, you will get to a passage, where there are 4 soldiers on its end. Iorveth will start talking to you on how to get to Philippa Eilhart:

1. Attack the soldiers and let yourself get arrested


2. Use the sewers instead

Note: There are a few quests throughout the map.

(If you choose to get arrested by the soldiers, there might be a glitch in game that makes all your Bombs and Daggers to disappear though you will still have the weight from them, you can get em back by adding same thing to same spot or taking same thing from warehouse and they will magically appear again.)

The fastest way is to simply attack the soldiers and let your health bar drop to zero. Another way is to find the poker players about a table in the merchants area of Loc Muinne. Instead of playing dice, have Geralt insult them. After winning the fistfight, Redanian soldiers will approach and the conversation ends in Geralt being arrested. Either way, you will be stripped of your armor and weapons and brought to the dungeons, where you can talk to Philippa about her bewitching Saskia. Once the dialogue is over Radovid will approach, order Philippa blinded and after some more talk, will leave again to participate in the debates in the city. The ambassador meanwhile believes you a threat and will order you killed. Use the Igni sign (fast mouse-clicking) to free yourself of the shackles and fight the guards.

The other way is to walk to Philippa in the dungeons all the way by using the sewers. The sewers are accessed via a small building entrance next to the Mighty Numa. It should not be confused with the other locked entrance which is guarded by two soldiers.

Whichever way you choose, the executioner will blind Philippa in front of you and you will have one big decision to make:

To either help Philippa home to get an item that’ll free Saskia from her control, or to go save Triss. (500XP in either case)

If you go with Philippa, Letho will save Triss.

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