What Lies Unseen Walkthrough
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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.
| Previous Quest | Current Quest | Next Quest |
|---|---|---|
| Blood Simple | What Lies Unseen | Tesham Mutna |
List of Contents
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
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.
The Witcher 3 Related Links
Witcher 3 Expansions
| Hearts of Stone | Blood and Wine |
Blood and Wine Main Quests
| No. | Quest Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Envoys, Wineboys |
| 2 | The Beast of Toussaint |
| 3 | Blood Run |
| 4 | La Cage au Fou |
| 5 | Where Children Toil, Toys Waste Away |
| 6 | Wine is Sacred |
| 7 | The Man from Cintra |
| 8 | Capture the Castle |
| 9 | The Night of Long Fangs |
| 10 | Beyond Hill and Dale... |
| 11 | Blood Simple |
| 12 | What Lies Unseen |
| 13 | Tesham Mutna |
| 14 | Pomp and Strange Circumstance |
| 15 | Burlap is the New Stripe |
| 16 | Be It Ever So Humble... |
Blood and Wine Secondary Quests
| Fists of Fury: Toussaint | Mutual of Beauclair's Wild Kingdom | The Words of the Prophets are Written on Sarcophagi |
| Till Death Do You Part | Using Your Loaf | Vintner's Contract: Chuchote Cave |
| Vintner's Contract: Duchaton Crest | Of Sheers and a Witcher I Sing | Big Feet to Fill: The Third Group |
| Big Feet to Fill | Gwent Quest: Never Fear, Skellige’s Here! (N/A) | No Place Like Home (Blood and Wine) (N/A) |
| Big Feet to Fill: The Second Group (N/A) | Big Feet to Fill: The First Group (N/A) | Amidst the Mill's Grist (N/A) |
| A Knight’s Tales | Raging Wolf | Knight for Hire |
| Extreme Cosplay | Big Feet to Fill: The Fourth Group | The Perks of Being a Jailbird |
| Big Feet to Fill: The Fifth Group | The Warble of a Smitten Knight (35) | Turn and Face the Strange (35) |
| Paperchase (36) | Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls of Granite! (36) | Wine Wars: Vermentino (37) |
| Wine Wars: Coronata (37) | Father Knows Worst (37) | Wine Wars: Belgaard (37 and 39) |
| Vintner's Contract: Rivecalme Storehouse (37) | Gwent Quest: To Everything - Turn, Turn, Tournament! (38) | Vintner's Contract: Dun Tynne Hillside (40) |
| Wine Wars: Consorting (40) | Master Master Master Master! (40) | Wine Wars: The Deus in the Machina (42) |
| The Hunger Game (42) | Vintner's Contract: Cleaning Those Hard-to-Reach Places (43) | There Can Be Only One (43) |
| A Portrait of the Witcher as an Old Man (43) | Duck, Duck, Goosed! (47) |
Blood and Wine Treasure Hunts
| The Last Exploits of Selina's Gang (37) | Coin Doesn't Stink (37) | Don't Take Candy from a Stranger (37) |
| The Inconstant Gardener (37) | The Black Widow (37) | Around the World in... Eight Days (40) |
| Waiting for Goe and Doh (40) | Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Wolven Gear (40) | Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Ursine Gear (40) |
| Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Manticore Gear (40) | Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Griffin Gear (40) | Scavenger Hunt: Grandmaster Feline Gear (40) |
| Applied Escapology (40) | Spoontaneous Profits! (42) | But Other Than That, How Did You Enjoy the Play? (43) |
| What Was This About Again? (43) | The Curse of Carnarvon (46) | The Suffering of Young Francois (47) |
| The Toussaint Prison Experiment (47) | Filibert Always Pays His Debts (48) |
Blood and Wine Contracts
| Big Game Hunter (37) | Contract: Bovine Blues (38) | Equine Phantoms (44) |
| Feet as Cold as Ice (45) | Contract: The Tufo Monster (48) |
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