Unlucky's Treasure

Unlucky's Treasure is a treasure hunt quest in .
Despite it being a simple treasure hunt, this is the highest-level quest and monster in the base game, making it one of the toughest opponents even if it wasn't an archgriffin.
== Walkthrough ==
Go to Snidhall Isle north of the Ancient Crypt. Find the pathway on the east side of the island and make your way up the hills. It will lead you to an archgriffin's nest with a hidden treasure marker right in the middle of it.
This archgriffin is no joke: it's strongly recommended you be around the same level or higher as, in the base game, it can be very hard to kill it before it kills you. Particularly, if it has the skull icon it will probably be able to kill you in two hits at most, so prepare for a tough fight. You can also lure it away, then quickly loot the nest and the chest or, while it is flying over water, hit the archgriffin with a well-timed crossbow shot, Aard or even Axii.Demonstration video of Axii usage during this fight As it is not a swimming creature, this results in an instant death.
Once the archgriffin is dead, loot the body in the nest for the notes and a skullhead key, then head north towards the other summit to find a few more bodies around the treasure chest. Loot it to complete the quest.
== Journal entry ==
: While traveling through Skellige Geralt found the body of a warrior who had been torn apart by some monster. The poor fellow had been carrying a particularly intriguing document when he died.Just my ploughing luck! I buy myself a horse - turns out to be lame! I take a wench for my wife - turns out she's a nasty bitch. I build a house - not a year goes by and lightning strikes, burns the whole thing down. And the one time, ONE time fortune smiles on me and I return from a raid with some prime loot... A griffin flies down and makes its nest right on the summit of the mountain, right where I hid the treasure! Guess I should be happy it's not a gold fucking dragon, for fuck's sake!
: But so be it. Not the first wind to blow in my eyes. I'll chase it off. Even if I die trying!
: It seems fortune never did smile on the poor fellow who hid his treasure in a griffin's nest. Geralt, however, had much better luck.
== Objectives ==
* Read the document you found on the body.
* Search the area using your Witcher Senses to find the treasure.
==Notes==
* Multiple things around this quest are puns, such as one being unlucky to stumble upon the unusually high-level monster, and the "skullhead key" being named so precisely because the archgriffin is likely to be seen with a skullhead icon due to its level. There's also a custom, but unused container with themed loot defined for this quest, containing a water essence and the diagram for Thyssen armor, which has 100% resistance to poisoning and would make Geralt immune to archgriffin acid.
== Bugs ==
* It is possible to loot the body in the nest infinitely, though after the first time, it will never contain both the note and key again - only one of the two, or nothing.
* It is possible that the quest doesn't complete after looting the treasure, and remain incomplete forever. There is no known fix aside from loading a previous save.
* There's a third, lootable but invisible corpse by the treasure chest. It doesn't contain anything significant though.
* The treasure is supposed to be randomized, but an RNG bug causes it to consistently pick the same items, only restricted by Geralt's level. Because of this, the loot will always include a relic sword, a Dazhbog runestone, a lesser Glyph of Axii and a few other predictable items. Once a high enough level is reached, the sword will always be Longclaw, while at lower levels it is usually going to be Carabella.
Category:The Witcher 3 treasure hunts
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