Blood Gold

Blood Gold is a treasure hunt quest in .
== Walkthrough ==
Head to the hidden treasure marker northwest of White Eagle Fort, halfway between the other hidden treasure marker for Battlefield Loot. Here you'll find about 6 drowners guarding over a few dead bodies. Once they're dead, loot the body leaning against one of the tables for a key and bloodstained document, then read the letter.
With that, follow the nearby blood trail a short distance to the structure slightly further north, then loot the half-hidden chest here for Headhunter and to complete the quest.
== Journal entry ==
:Bodies aren't hard to come by in Velen. But to find a corpse whose hand still grasps a note mentioning treasure - that is a rare thing, indeed. Thus Geralt decided to read them carefully and investigate what strange story they might be hiding.I've stopped the bleeding. I need to collect my thought. 
:I could go for help. There's a village not far, I can hear dogs barking. But people would see what uniform I wear. They'd ask what I was doing in the swamps. They'd figure it out. They'd take everything, maybe kill me. This is Velen, after all.
:I've lost a quart of blood. Maybe more. If the wound is still clean come dawn, I should pull through. I'll leave at daylight, maybe then the drowners won't attack. I'll bury the treasure and head to Novigrad. Should be able to find a decent man there to patch me up. Someone who won't ask questions. Who doesn't care if you're a deserter. 
:All that's left to me now is to pray that no one sees the tracks I left. That they don't follow the blood trail and find the treasure. But no one will come through here. I hope. Everything will be fine.
:It seems the wounded deserter never made it to Novigrad nor decided to ask the nearby villagers for help. Instead, he died alone in the swamp, leaving behind his treasure. The witcher mourned his tragedy, but rejoiced in his own good luck.
== Objectives ==
* Read the letter you found.
* Follow the blood trail using your Witcher Senses to find the hidden treasure.
== Notes ==
* Despite it being a level 18 quest, the Drowners encountered can be as low as level 4, allowing for easy early access to the Headhunter sword.
== Bugs ==
* Prior to , the quest log incorrectly labeled this quest as a Novigrad one, despite being in Velen.
* It's possible that the quest doesn't complete when the chest is looted if the barrels aren't destroyed first. If this happens, the only possible way one can finish this quest is by reloading an previous save, restarting the quest, following the blood trail and using Aard on the barrels BEFORE looting the chest. This can be also fixed by using the addfact command in the developer console with the parameter lw_gr39_treasure_opened, like this addfact(lw_gr39_treasure_opened).
Category:The Witcher 3 treasure hunts
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