Witcher 3: family affairs - this is how it's done

The "Family Matters" quest in Witcher 3 is one of the biggest quests in the game. It is important to complete this in order to continue with the story. So that you do not lose track and complete the quest safely, we have created a walkthrough for you.

Witcher 3 Family Matters Part 1: Searching for Traces

To complete the Family Affairs quest, you must locate the bloody baron in Crow Rock. Furthermore, the Ciri quest with the Wolf King must be completed. Then you find out that Ciri spent a short time with the baron. But he only wants to help you if you find his daughter.

1. Follow the baron upstairs and first go to the bedroom after the baron has opened the doors for you. Use your witchcraft senses to examine the traces in the room. First you look at the candlestick on the table, then the flowers on the desk and finally the picture of the baron and his wife. Behind you discover a hole and a candlestick. Geralt concludes that a fight has taken place here.
2. Now go to Tamara's room and use your witchcraft senses. You will find a key in the closet on the left, a letter and a doll in the next room. After you pick up the key, Geralt will discover a smell.
3. Follow the smell down the stairs and collect the amulet on the way. When you get to the basement, discover an altar.
4. Now you have to confront the baron with the new knowledge. Ask him about any traces found and the baron will tell you about a Waideler.
5. Now it is time to follow your quest marker to the wager's hut. Take care of the men in front of his hut and then enter. Talk to the Waideler and he will tell you that he created the amulet for Anna. Since he doesn't know where Anna and her mother are, you should find his goat to use them to question the ghosts.
6. Find the goat's goat and bring it back to him. The quest will then update and you can continue.

Witcher 3 family affairs part 2: commotion in Krähenfels

After completing the first part of the quest, you will need to return to Crow Rock. In the second part of the quest you make some important decisions:

1. As soon as you return to Krähenfels, watch the baron set fire to the stable. You can either rescue Oswin from the stable or challenge the baron in close combat. Since both trigger the same end, you can freely choose here.
2. After confronting the baron with the knowledge of his wife's miscarriage, he will show you where the child was buried.
3. You meet with the baron just before midnight and he leads you to the child who was born unborn. You can either kill it or try to turn it into a gannet.
4. If you want to fight the child, you face a difficult fight. But it is vulnerable to Axii. Therefore, you should use it as often as possible. When you have defeated the child, Geralt will take blood from him and you can start a ritual. To do this, you first have to go to the ritual site with the Waideler. At the ritual site, you protect the ritual and combat the apparitions. The Waideler will then reward you with important information. You learn about Voytek, the fisherman.
5. However, should you choose the peaceful solution, guard the baron on the way to the castle with his child in his arms. Now you have to wait until midnight next to the grave. A ghost will appear here that you must follow. He will take you outside the castle grounds and the first thing you will do is go to the smoking house. There you and your witchcraft will discover the clothes behind the house, the bangle on the barrel and the horseshoe tracks. The spirit will then lead you further into a swamp area. Examine the horse oak and continue to follow the ghost. He will take you to the fisherman's hut Voytek.
6. With both decisions, you end up at Voytek. This tells you that the daughter could be in Oxenfurt, but there is no trace of the mother. Return to the baron and report to him.

Witcher 3 family affairs part 3: Oxenfurt

After the fisherman has told you everything relevant, return to the baron. This will give you a letter of conduct with which you can then travel to Oxenfurt.

1. Go to Oxfurt and there to the western bridge. You can pass through both guards because you have the escort. Make your way to the marked house and speak to Voytek's brother. Tamara comes shortly afterwards and you learn her version of the story.
2. Travel back to Krähenfels to tell the baron about his daughter's whereabouts. He will ask you to find out where Anna is. There is no real quest marker, and in fact you have to complete the quest "The Mistresses of the Forest".
3. When you complete the quest, you will learn that Anna lives in the hump swamp. Return to the Baron with this information and report to him. He will ultimately tell you his story about Ciri.
4. The quest "From the Shadows" starts and you have to help the baron at the top of the tower. This is not difficult, since it is an automatic sequence, you have reached the top once. Then comes the information that Ciri is on the way to Novigrad.
5. The "Family Affairs" quest has ended here and you can follow Ciri to Novigrad. Alternatively, you can complete the quest "Return to the Humpback Swamp" to repeat his wife.