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This is a guide to the quest titled What Lies Unseen from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Read on to learn locations, rewards, best choices, best outcomes, where to find Hen Gaidth armor set, as well as useful tips and strategy for completing this quest.

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What Lies Unseen Location and Rewards

Basic Information

Quest Number 12
Region Toussaint
Quest Location Cave southwest from Beauclair
Previous Quest Blood Simple
Next Quest Tesham Mutna

Rewards

Gold Reward None
Exp Reward 800
Item Reward None


What Lies Unseen Walkthrough

Objectives
1 Take a boat to the marker south of the lake.
2 Open the secret entrance located in front of Regis.
3 Enter the lair and follow the passage. Take the right path at the fork.
4 A Fleder will be waiting in the next room. Kill it. Take the path with the lit candle.
5 Pick up your dropped gear from the ground. Your swords will be behind you.
6 Use either a Swallow Potion or White Raffard's Decoction after you pick them up from the ground.
7 Follow the passge into the big chamber. Go to the waterfalls to the south. You'll find a note in the bag. Read it.
8 Use your Witcher Senses and inspect the footprints near the waterfalls.
9 Follow the footprints. You will encounter 2 Protofleders. Kill them and continue following the footprints.
10 Kill the Protofeder at the end of the trail. Inspect and loot the corpse.
11 Read the crumpled letter. Face the gap you jumped over to get to the corpse. You will see a pink stone on the ground near it. Pick it up.
12 Jump over the gap again, and then jump to the ledge in the middle of the chamber.
13 Folow the ledge up to the giant stone. Use Aard on its base. Jump off the ledge into the waterfall that's flowing upward. Earn 200 XP.
14 Jump up the new ledge you just made. Continue through the passage to meet the Unseen Elder.
15 When in dialogue with the Unseen Elder, do not choose more than 2 dialogue options for the first dialogue. For the second dialogue, only choose Detlaff spells trouble for you. Receive 800 XP for successfuly convincing the Unseen Elder.

What Lies Unseen Tips and Strategies

Hen Gaidth Armor Set

Hed Gaidth Set
This quest is the only way for you to get the Hen Gaidth set.

・Steel Sword and Guanlet: Located in a chest at the end of the left passage, submerged in water.

・Mask and Trousers: Located in a chest in the passage you will pass when following the footprints. It is right before you fight the first two Protofleders. Three Protofleders will be guarding the chest.

・Armor and Boots: Located in the chest nearby, after the cutscene where Geralt flips his gravity.

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All Blood and Wine Main Quests

No. Quest Title Location Sugg. Level
1 Envoys, Wineboys Stonecutters' Settlement 34
2 The Beast of Toussaint The Cockatrice Inn, Corvo Bianco, Tourney Grounds, Palace Gardens 35
3 Blood Run Palace Gardens, Beauclair 36
4 La Cage au Fou Mère-Lachaiselongue Cemetery, Trastamara Estate, Tesham Mutna Ruins 39
5 Where Children Toil, Toys Waste Away Mère-Lachaiselongue Cemetery, Beauclair Port 42
6 Wine is Sacred Beauclair Palace, Castel Ravello, Fort Astre Ruins 42
7 The Man from Cintra Beauclair 43
8 Capture the Castle Count de la Croix's Mill 47
9 The Night of Long Fangs Beauclair 47
10 Beyond Hill and Dale... Land of a Thousand Fables 47
11 Blood Simple La Compassion Orphanage 47
12 What Lies Unseen Cave southwest from Beauclair 47
13 Tesham Mutna Tesham Mutna Ruins 49
14 Pomp and Strange Circumstance Beauclair, Mère-Lachaiselongue Cemetery 49
15 Burlap is the New Stripe Beauclair 49
16 Be It Ever So Humble... Corvo Bianco 49

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