Witcher 3 The Wild Hunt Contract Mysterious Tracks Gameplay Walkthrough

Witcher 3 The Wild Hunt Contract Mysterious Tracks Gameplay Walkthrough

Witcher 3 The Wild Hunt Contract Mysterious Tracks Gameplay Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This quest is available from Lindenvale's notice board and also by finding the tracks or cave first. If you pick this quest up from the notice board, go speak to the hunter regarding it, who can be haggled for more reward.

Then head out to the area and examine the dead wolves, after that pick up on the tracks nearby which will eventually lead to some fur on a tree to examine to pick up a scent trail. Continue following this new trail until you reach a sharp cliff where the entrance is too far up. Also note there's a dung pile here to examine that Geralt will deduce belongs to a fiend. With that, go around and up the hill. If you didn't examine the dung pile below, there's another up here you can examine. To find the other entrance into the cave, look around the northernmost tree up here and, just to the northwest, you'll find the hole. Carefully drop in (you may take some damage here).

Examine the fiend carcass, it's mouth to note the fur, then the 2 separate track prints, and finally, the blood splatters. Once everything is examined Geralt will conclude it's a chort, Howler, earning 25 XP earned based on the Story and Swords! difficulty level. You need to lure it out, however. The chort lure formula should then appear in the alchemy tab (though if you bought the formula from a merchant or alchemist, it would have already been there). Exit the cave and examine any of the three piles to acquire fiend dung. If you don't have any Crow's eye, look on the hill and right around the base, where a few of the plants should be available. Once you have everything, craft the lure and equip it like a torch and use it at the 4 indicated spots. Then, once ready, go and re-enter the cave for a short cutscene where the Howler appears.

It is vulnerable to relict oil but the cave is small, making evasion difficult, so use Quen to help against its charged attack, which can inflict bleeding. Once it's dead, loot it for the chort trophy, chort mutagen, and Azure Wrath. With that, return to the Lindenvale hunter who'll be glad to hear it's dead and will reward you with 400 XP earned based on the Story and Swords!

Alternate Method: 

The first location will be lots of dead wolves that were taken out by the monster. Use witcher senses to find and then follow the path the monster took.

When you lose the trail, examine a nearby tree to find the monster marking the tree. From this tree, there will be a scent that you can now follow.

You'll eventually come across some old and dried out fiend droppings, and the scent going up a path which you are unable to jump to. Find another way around and into the cave.

Once in the cave, examine the already dead Fiend. Examine the area further with witcher senses to determine what monster killed the Fiend. Also, examine the Fiend's mouth to find fur from the other monster.

It turns out the monster is Howler which is a Chort. You will need to use alchemy to craft "Chort Lure." The ingredients are actually all around you, including Fiend Dung. Equip the lure when you've crafted it. Once it is equipped, exit the cave, and spray the bait around the hill in designated locations.

After the bait has been spread around, head back to the cave and wait for the monster to appear.

After defeating the monster, head back to the quest giver to receive your reward.