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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Hints
Guide Henselt as he draws the magic runes illustrated in Dethmold's grimoire.
1 of 14: Before you talk to Henselt, go to inventory and double-click on Dethmold's Grimoire to bring up a diagram.
2 of 14: Notice all the red dots on the diagram. You'll need to figure out what they all correspond to.
3 of 14: Run back down to the execution site and look around for examine-able items.
4 of 14: To start with, you'll find some black candles at the position that corresponds to the red dot on the bottom of the circle.
5 of 14: On the other side of the burned wheel are some sour milk and a raven's corpse that correspond to the two red dots that are inside the circle, a bit above its center.
6 of 14: Checking the area SW of the sour milk, you'll find a pixie ring (red mushrooms) and petrified bread. NE of the raven's corpse are a goat's skull and a charred tree.
7 of 14: Draw yourself a diagram on a piece of paper and note all of that down, including the lines shown on the grimoire's diagram that connect the red dots, then go talk to Henselt to get started.
8 of 14: After the dialogue, you'll get a list of choices as to where Henselt should go next to spread the magic powder around. Notice that he starts at the pixie ring.
9 of 14: You'll need to get him to trace out the lines that are shown on the diagram. If you send him to the wrong place at any point, you'll have to start over.
10 of 14: To begin with, the diagram shows a line connecting the pixie ring spot to the petrified bread spot, so send Henselt to the petrified bread first.
11 of 14: There's a line connecting that spot on the diagram to the black candles' spot, so send him there next.
12 of 14: It's kind of hard to see in the grimoire's diagram, but there's a line connecting the black candles to the goat's skull, so have him go to the skull next.
13 of 14: It should then be easy to see how to finish tracing out the diagram's lines.
14 of 14: Send him to the scorched tree next, then to the raven's corpse, then to the sour milk, and finally back to the pixie ring.
