The Magic Lamp quest has stumped many players early throughout their adventures in The Witcher iii. Information technology's a sidequest tied to the Keira Metz questline and involves a confounding riddle that has rewarded players with nothing only a migraine from trying to solve it.

Early on in Geralt'southward search for Ciri, he meets up with his erstwhile sorceress acquaintance, Keira Metz, and the ii briefly team up to track downwardly the unknown elven mage. Afterward wandering in the nighttime through the previous quest, Geralt may take gleaned a better sense of where Ciri has gone, but Keira came up short in collecting the magic lamp she was promised.

Keira so deduces the magic lamp must exist hidden in a dissimilar part of the cave, and as witcher senses are undoubtedly useful in situations such as this, she asks Geralt to tag forth. At this point, Geralt tin can decide to prioritize finding Ciri and leave Keira backside or lend the sorceress his aid.

How To Solve The Magic Lamp Riddle

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For starters, Geralt will have time to change his mind if he should initially deny Keira's asking for assistance and leave the cavern. Equally long as he returns before sailing to The Isles of Mist later on in the game, Keira volition still be searching the cave. Simply notation that obliging her request then leaving will auto-fail the quest upon exiting the cavern, meaning Geralt will need to be decisive about when to lend his assist. Regardless of how long that takes, here's how to solve the mage's riddle and retrieve the magic lamp once Geralt does decide to lend a hand.

If Geralt does ignore Keira'due south ask at first, he should at least stick around long plenty to lookout man what direction Keira heads, as this will tell him which door to go through upon his return. (As you tin make a quick re-entry the aforementioned fashion you leave, this volition be the entrance opposite the get out/archway.) Through the archway, it'll exist easy to meet back up with Keira in the room downwards the short passageway, where the sorceress remains in search of the lamp.

Geralt must employ his witcher senses to identify an inscription in the wall, which of course, is the riddle that reads:

"Four guardians, four flames, standing proud in a line.

The Get-go to light his fire dared non march on the end.

The 2d, beside the Outset, played a woeful lament.

The Third kept close to his faithful fauna.

The Quaternary marched not beside the First, all the same like the Second, played a tune.

And thus they stood o'er their queen, who slept beneath flickering stars."

As with any skilful riddle, it must exist cleaved down and then pieced back together to make any sense, so let the brain-twisting begin!

The Breakup

  1. It tin can be deduced from the first hint that neither the statue on the far right or the far left should be lit showtime.
  2. The second tip eludes to playing music and further indicates this statue is placed side by side to the beginning.
  3. The third clue references a 'faithful animate being.'
  4. The fourth hint indicates that the concluding burn to lite will not exist next to the get-go and volition too be tied to music.

Piecing It All Together

So taking those hints and applying them to the statues placed along the walls around the room in a 'U' shape, here's how it all pieces together.

  1. The music tip in the second hint, paired with the insight that the kickoff statue is non on the end, places the first statue to the correct of the doorway, opposite the statue playing the lute.
  2. Naturally, this means the second statue is the aforementioned lute histrion standing to the left of the doorway.
  3. The 3rd clue reveals that one of the statues with a beast at its heels volition exist the third statue lit. Though at that place are two statues with abominable companions, the fourth hint specifies that the last statue to be lit will not be next to the outset, meaning the statue in the far right of the room is the third in the sequence.
  4. That leaves the statue to the far left of the room, accompanied past a beast and holding a lute, which will exist the last target to light upwards with igni.

And but to exist articulate, it's the braziers in front end of the statues that Geralt should exist lighting, not the statues themselves. Nosotros know those sorts of misunderstandings must happen all the time in the witcher trade.

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Kim is a senior contributing writer for TheGamer and a bookish Ravenclaw eccentric with an inquisitive sense of gamble. She began writing online articles in the summer of 2019 when she was approached on Discord to contribute gaming guides for Wizards Unite World. Kim revels in fantasy lore, some of her favorite titles including The Witcher, Harry Potter, and The Lord of The Rings. She seeks to apply her writing to travel and explore, but she can be hands subdued in front of a skilful game despite her nomadic ways. Her gaming interests can include anything from the biggest open-world RPGs to bite-sized indies, and all the unique gems in-between. Kim'due south known to be a sucker for binging hours of turned-based strategies such as Civ 6 or getting lost for years in Strangerville. -- On Sim time, of course!

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