“We will definitely need to go through the directly related quest “Whispering Hill”. In this quest, it is worth paying attention to the fact that the choice we make will definitely have very significant consequences. The situation is complicated by the fact that in this case you have no idea in advance what this or that choice will lead to. Many here will ask the question “What should I do?” and this will certainly affect the completion of the quests “Mistress of the Forest” with the story of the witches from Crooked-Ear Marshes and “Family Matters” with the story of the Bloody Baron and his wife. Next, the consequences of the choice in The Witcher 3 when completing this quest will be described in detail.
In the process of completing the quest “Whispering Hill” in a cave under Whispering Hill we will meet a certain spirit imprisoned there. He will ask us to free him, then he promises to save the children living in the swamp from the witches. Here we are faced with the most difficult choice, on which the lives of many people will subsequently depend. We have to either kill the spirit or free it. Our choice will affect the future fate of the following characters:
- Children from the orphanage on Crooked Ear Marshes;
- Residents of the village of Shteiger;
- The wife of the Bloody Baron Anna, whom we are looking for in the quest “Family Matters”;
- The Bloody Baron himself, familiar to us from the already mentioned quest “Family Matters”.
If we decide to kill the spirit, we get the following picture:
- The children will suffer a sad fate, they will be eaten by witches from Crooked-Ear Marshes;
- Many residents of the village in the swamp will be hanged by hunters of sorcerers, who visited here with the daughter of the Bloody Baron in search of the Bloody Baron's wife Anna;
- The witches will be pleased with the Bloody Baron's wife Anna for fattening and looking after the children for them, she will remain alive, but will go crazy;
- The bloody baron will go with his wife to the healer, and in his absence, ordinary peasants in the area of the baron’s castle will be subjected to robbery and violence by the baron’s people who have felt the freedom.
If we decide to help the spirit and free it, then the consequences of the choice will be as follows:
- Children who live with their grandmother in an orphanage in the swamps will be saved, in confirmation of this they can later be found in Novigrad in the Marabella orphanage (we will visit this institution as part of the quest “List of Harlots”);
- The spirit will still kill the villagers from the village of Steigers and ghosts will move into the villages;
- The witches will be angry with the Bloody Baron's Wife Anna for not taking care of the children and letting the spirit take them and free them from the witches, and they will put a spell on her. She can be disenchanted, but she will still die, having managed to finally see the Bloody Baron and her daughter;
- The bloody baron will hang himself, unable to bear the grief that has happened.
For complete clarification, it is worth noting that it will not be possible to save both the children from the orphanage and the long-suffering Bloody Baron and his wife at the same time. You can try to go through the “Whispering Hill” quest first with the option of freeing the spirit before visiting the orphanage with the children as part of the “Mistresses of the Forest” quest, but even in this case, everyone will not be saved. Then the liberated spirit will not promise to save the children, since we have not yet visited the shelter in the swamp and are not aware of the situation of the children. Under this set of circumstances, the baron and his wife will remain alive, since the children will go to the witches, and these same witches will not hold a grudge against Anna. Also, in this case, the spirit will kill all the inhabitants of the village of Steigers due to the fact that they tried to get rid of it.
In the port of Kaer Trolde, on the notice board you can find a note from a certain Sven from the village of Ferlund, who needs the help of a monster master!
Head to the village, it is located in the central part of Ard Skellige!
On your way out of the village, near the old forest, you will come across a fierce dispute between the elders and the new ruling group led by Sven.
The whole trouble is due to disagreements over old customs - Testing the spirit of the forest to cajole nature. A lot of young men die because of this custom, says Sven. But the elder is on the contrary, saying that they have stopped honoring traditions, so the village will face punishment. Basically, tell them you'll sort it out.
Follow the tracks and marks, and you will find yourself in a clearing with totems and marks of the devil. In fact, there are 2 ways to solve this problem:
1) Talk to Sven and tell him that Leshy has already marked the person and won’t just leave. This person will turn out to be Helga (sort of Sven's lover). She can either be killed or banished. Then you need to go into the forest and destroy the totems of Leshy, simultaneously killing him and his wolves. Afterwards, return to the village, and by that time Sven will slaughter all the elders and a new era of the village will begin - under the leadership of Sven.
2) After searching in the forest, go to the Elder, he will tell you that you can solve the problem peacefully by passing the tests of the forest. Well, I prefer this option.
We go to the indicated place with the place of offering, kill 5 white wolves and collect their hearts.
We put it on the temple. The Spirit of the Forest will be pleased. Return to the village.
There, Sven's guys cut all the elders, except one. You have a choice to help him or let him be torn to pieces. In general, we chop Sven and his accomplices into cabbage and talk to the elder, after thanks, the quest ends.
Consequences:
- If you follow Sven's path, wolves will begin to attack the village. Since it was this custom that cajoled the Spirit of the Forest, who controlled the wolves.
- And Sven just wanted to gain power over the village, and not solve the problem with the forest.
The order can be received from the notice board in the settlement Yavornik. The customer, hunter Nellen, is located quite far from Yavornik, in the village of Bolshiye Suchya. We go to him, talk, in the dialogue we learn the details of the disappearance of Nellen’s wife and agree to look for her.
After interviewing the villagers, we find out the details and go to the place where the wolves could attack. Having arrived there, we stumble upon the flock, kill it and watch the scene. , the sister of the missing Ghana catches up with the witcher in the forest to talk privately. There are 2 options to choose from. We can agree to the woman’s proposal and finish the story, or we refuse and go to the end.
We continue to inspect the place, we find the corpse of a dog, huge footprints and a torn body of a man, perhaps this is the hunter’s wife. Putting everything together, the witcher concludes that it is not the wolves who are to blame for what is happening, but the werewolf. We are looking for the tree that he climbed, there is a tuft of wool lying nearby, then we follow the smell to the lair.
On the spot we find a hunter’s hut, inside on the floor are Nellen’s notes about his illness and futile attempts to recover. The lair itself is located under the house, we go down and wait for the night.
When the werewolf returns to the lair, the battle begins, so immediately after meditation it is worth drinking decoctions, elixirs, and lubricating the blade with oil from the damned.
When the enemy has about 10% HP left, another scene begins. The sister of the dead wife comes running and asks not to kill the werewolf. And here are several options to choose from: you can kill a werewolf or listen to the details of the whole story and give Nellen the opportunity to take revenge for the death of a loved one...
Not far from the village of Ferlund on the Skellige Islands in The Witcher 3 you can receive a task "Heart of the Forest" from the bulletin board.
Let's go to the village. A group of local residents discuss the death of one of them. The corpse, crushed by the branches, froze in an unnatural position with genuine horror in its eyes.
Headman Harald believes that one of the villagers angered the spirit of the forest and he took it out on the deceased. The villagers believe that there is some dangerous creature in the forest, and it needs to be tracked down and killed. Of course, ordinary men with pitchforks are unlikely to be able to do this, and Geralt was here just in time.
The village elder did not receive the monster killer very kindly, flatly refusing the order, but one of the villagers enthusiastically promises to come to an agreement, if only the witcher will finish off the monster.
Then you can ask people a little about the so-called spirit of the forest, or get to work right away.
The questions are not of particular significance and you won’t be able to find out anything really useful, the only thing that becomes clear right away is that the headman is being dark, perhaps he is hiding something. One way or another, he is the only one who is not eager to hire a witcher, believing that the spirit of the forest is simply taking revenge for disturbing his peace. Previously, the an Kraits hunted with a knife or a spear and were always well-fed - and the spirit of the forest approved of this...
Harald is interrupted by Sven, it was he who placed the advertisement for the order for the witcher. The guy says that they were simply slaves to their own fear - the creature from the forest had killed before, but because of the war there were fewer hunters, and the monster was more bloodthirsty. Sven wants to free the forest from the beast so that people can hunt in peace.
We've heard enough, it's time to start ordering.
First you need to look around near the place where the villager died. The Witcher will stumble upon a trail that we have to follow. First you will come across a dead dog, then there will be another poor fellow who, apparently, died the same death as the man on the outskirts of the village.
We continue moving until we reach a circle of stones, wolves will be waiting for us inside, we kill them and look around. There are many claw marks on the stones, after examining which Geralt will conclude that a goblin is operating here.
It's time to look into the bestiary. We need " Spirit of the forest", which is located on the "relics" tab. It turns out that the local goblin has become so strong that he was able to mark the “chosen one,” one of the village residents. As long as this unfortunate man was alive, the creature could calmly be reborn near its lair.
Having learned this information and imagining what we have to deal with, we return to the village to talk with either the headman Harald or our customer Sven. Harald continues to stand his ground. It is only thanks to the spirit of the forest, he says, that the area is full of living creatures, women give birth to healthy children and their hunters are considered the best on all the islands of Skellige.
But we know that this is just a seasoned goblin, incredibly strong, but still killable, and Geralt is probably tough on him.
However, the headman has another option for stopping the terrible deaths. Harald suggests the “path of the spirit” - a kind of ritual that his ancestors performed. You need to go into the forest with a knife and a spear, hunt a strong beast, fight it in a fair fight, the Spirit of the forest should like this, and then, having bestowed gifts, you can reconcile with it.
Options for completing the quest “Heart of the Forest”
The “heart of the forest” order, like most tasks in the game “The Witcher 3”, has several options for the development of events.
After talking with Harald, we have to make a choice: agree with him and go to the “Path of the Spirit” or insist on killing the old devil and go to Sven.
Killing a monster
The man will be glad to know that the spirit is an ordinary monster and can be killed. Geralt will tell him that the goblin is very ancient and he is very dangerous not only for the villagers, but also for the witcher himself. Geralt will also tell you about the mark that one of the residents wears, Sven will point to Harald without hesitation.
It seems the riddle has been solved, the mark explains the suspicious behavior of the headman, but we need to know for sure, so it’s better to look around. As it turns out, the “marked” one will be the village girl Hilda.
We return to the customer to talk. Sven is sure that the “chosen one” is one of the elders and it seems that he is ready to personally tear him to pieces, because he is helping the monster. Geralt will tell you that the “marked” one often does not know that he is helping the devil, but this will not confuse Sven at all; he is determined to get rid of the monster and his friends in the village.
Again you have to make a choice: let the villagers deal with the “chosen one” or offer to drive him out of the village.
Kill the "Chosen One"
Sven will send his thugs to kill the village elders, but the witcher will stop him, because the “chosen one” is Hilda. Having learned this information, Sven will be very upset and even think for a second, because he is in love with the girl, but he will still decide to kill, because this is important for the whole village.
We have to go into the forest and destroy the totems of the goblin, of which there are only three, and two of them are guarded by wolves. By breaking them all, we will anger the devil. Now, with the help of the witcher's instincts, we follow the sound to meet the spirit of the forest.
In battle, the goblin will actively call on wolves and crows for help. Wolves are not difficult to deal with, and crows will only be a little annoying, causing minor damage to the witcher. Against the devil, relic oil and the “igni” sign will be useful.
Not the most difficult opponent, even though he takes very little sword damage. The fact is that the goblin, although ancient, is very vulnerable to ignition and fire damage, the “igni” sign will practically do everything for us, especially if it is enhanced by glyphs and bonuses from weapons.
Having finished with the monster, we take the trophy and return to Sven. In the village, we see that Sven did what he had in mind - he killed Hilda and several other poor fellows who, apparently, tried to protect her. Despite this, our customer is happy, he gladly accepts the trophy and says that he got rid of the monster’s allies, after which he gives the money.
We are again faced with a choice. Geralt can accuse Sven of murder or simply take the money and leave.
Almost nothing depends on this choice, except for a few remarks:
- If you accuse Sven of murder, he will announce that he did it for the good, ridding the village of fear, because there are no more monsters here.
- If you just take the reward and leave, Sven will tell people to disperse, there are no more monsters here.
In his own way, of course, he is right, but why are murderers better than a devil? Everyone knows perfectly well that there are no worse monsters than people. However, this is a completely different story...
Banish the "Chosen One"
Sven will send people to drive out the elders, but the witcher will also stop them and explain that the “marked one” is Hilda. Sven will drive her away, then you can ask why he doesn’t go with her? After all, Hilda seems to be important to the guy. To which he will answer that the witcher should not poke his nose into things that aren’t his own and go kill the devil.
Then events develop according to the first option - we go to the forest for a rendezvous with the monster. Despite the fact that we offered to kick Hilda out, upon our return the same picture will await us, everything covered in blood and mountains of corpses. Sven decided to get rid of the allies of the spirit of the devil once and for all. There is no monster more terrible than a fanatic who believes that he acts for the benefit of all people, regardless of their lives...
REWARD - 60 crowns and relic killer boots.
"Path of the Spirit"
Finally, if we refuse to kill the spirit of the forest and agree with the headman, we will need to go into the forest to the altar he spoke about.
There will be a pack of wolves there, we kill them, collect hearts and put them on the altar. The crows will fly to the place of the offering, apparently they will make sure and report to their master about our intentions, it seems that we did everything right, the crows fly away, but all we have to do is return to Harald for the reward.
The headman is glad that we made the right choice and gives the witcher the reward. Before leaving, Geralt will disapprovingly tell the elder that because of these rituals, young guys who will try to become hunters will continue to die. Harald understands this very well and asks not to condemn local traditions. They survived like this for decades, and you shouldn’t meddle in someone else’s monastery with its own rules...
It seems that everything ends, but, as it quickly turns out, all this time Sven and his gang were killing the elders, considering them accomplices of the monster, and only Harald remained alive. Sven asks not to interfere - the men do not want their children to be taken by the monster and want to put an end to this.
The Witcher will have to choose again: protect the elder or give up and leave, leaving the locals to solve their problems themselves.
- Having protected the elder, we will enter into battle, and we will have to kill Sven and his three friends.
- If we decide not to interfere, the witcher will finally tell them all that they are worth each other - killing Harald, Sven will not change anything. But the guy thinks differently and there is no stopping him...
And most importantly, they are very kind and approach their work with an open heart.
Monday, December 30, 2019
While waiting for our city to finally be fully decorated, we decided to visit the capital of our homeland, Moscow.
It’s such a pity that we weren’t able to dress up the city for the opening of the project, but we really wanted to look forward to the New Year’s mood for a whole month, especially in such grey, nasty weather when nothing makes us happy. Well, okay, let’s head to Moscow to get in the New Year’s spirit.
Moscow is also still in the process of preparing for the New Year, but the main sites have already been decorated and are fully operational. The scope of New Year's celebrations in Moscow is, of course, a masterpiece. We decided to draw some kind of parallel, and friends, indeed Ryazan in some ways already resembles the capital of our homeland.
For example, the forest park is decorated with exactly the same trees as on the boulevards of Moscow. And the balls near the Kremlin are very reminiscent of Nikolskaya Street near GUM. By the way, this street attracts a lot of Instagrammers))).
New Year's installations in the shape of balls, we also have these! Let's go for holiday photo shoots!
And our Christmas trees are no less beautiful than Moscow beauties, despite the lack of excessive pathos. We even have an exhibition of original Christmas trees from leading companies in the city, like in Guma!
In some ways it’s even more interesting than the Moscow one, because in GUM we didn’t see any Christmas trees made from radio components! If you want to go to a beautiful skating rink, please, we also have one, and it is almost as beautiful as the skating rink on Red Square, it’s a pity that the entrance to it is paid! Don't forget to take your skates! But don't take the horse)))
We also have Christmas markets. Their big advantage over Moscow is that you can easily pamper yourself with wonderful New Year's souvenirs from Ryazan. After all, the price is much more affordable than in the capital! As well as cafes and restaurants, where you can treat yourself to goodies at reasonable prices. Of course, the capital shines and shimmers; it’s hard to resist and remain indifferent to this spectacle. But while we were away, the city finally turned on the illumination of the streets, it was transformed, and also became very beautiful! We invite you to Ryazan!
Friday, December 13, 2019
New Year is the most long-awaited holiday for all people, of any age.
This year, Ryazan residents were especially looking forward to the New Year, because Ryazan was declared the New Year's capital 2020.
The opening of the New Year's capital took place on December 8 with a large procession of many Santa Clauses. The beautiful, bright spectacle was overshadowed by the long wait for the start in the cold, and the tree, which the country's main Father Frost from Veliky Ustyug could not light because they simply did not have time to decorate it.
But Ryazan people are a people with an excellent sense of humor. At first they were indignant about how the tree was not lit, and then the Internet was filled with jokes on this topic.
This even aroused intense interest among tourists in our city - there are practically no empty rooms in the city’s hotels, and almost all restaurants are also booked. As they say, there would be no happiness, but misfortune helped.
There are also discounts in various shops and cafes in the city. But they are insignificant 1-5 percent, somewhere around 10.
Although not everyone had time to dress up and decorate for the opening, the city is gradually filled with lights, and the degree of festive mood rises in the air. An excellent place for family walks is the Lesopark park.
This place is especially noteworthy for children, because it is here that the residence of the main wizard of the country, Santa Claus, is located. Here you can write a letter to your grandfather, wish for a gift, ride the slides, and admire the lights. When all this is dressed up to the end, it will be very cool!
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Travel sites are full of offers to celebrate the New Year “over the hill.”
But why go somewhere far and pay huge sums, because you can perfectly meet and spend this wonderful holiday in the New Year's capital of 2019-2020 in Ryazan!
You can stay outside the city, in Solotch, just twenty minutes away, and enjoy the fresh air filled with the aromas of centuries-old pine trees. There is a bathhouse and delicious food here.
And when you want spectacles, go to the city! Take a walk around the ancient Russian city, explore its sights, immerse yourself in its history, and enjoy the festive decoration of the city.
Starting from December 7, New Year's celebrations will be held for residents and guests of the city for a whole month. Various shows, parades, fairs, and festivals will be organized for us. It definitely won't be boring!
Friday, September 6, 2019
A person living among the smog, noise and bustle of a big city often strives for peace and solitude in the clean air. Meshchera forests are excellent for these purposes. Here there is nature untouched by man, an abundance of forests, beautiful picturesque lakes.
There is a lot of game in the forests, rivers and lakes are full of fish, many mushrooms and wild berries. Isn't this a paradise for fishermen, hunters and simply nature lovers? It is in such a paradise that the Polushkino recreation center is located. You can come here as a couple for a romantic getaway, or with children. You can rent a house and come with a group to celebrate some kind of celebration. You can even organize a banquet here! And what picturesque scenery there is for organizing an on-site marriage registration! Well, just a wonderful place.
The Polushkino recreation center is located in Spas-Klepiki, just an hour’s drive from Ryazan. And for a more secluded holiday, the Polushkino VIP recreation center was built - a complex of cottages for a group, on the shores of lakes, with landscaped territory. Here you can feel like a real aristocrat in your own estate in wide open spaces.
If you don’t want to waste years of your life, then go to work! Only in the process of work will you be able to understand what you are drawn to and what you are not, you can change several professions, and only then will you understand what your calling is!
