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The Fall of the House of Reardon:
You can start this quest a few different ways:
-meet Dolores Reardon as she's being kicked out of someone's hut in Lindenvale
-find the notice on Lindenvale's notice board
-find the manor while exploring

The rewards don't change here if you talk to Dolores first or not (as there's no way to haggle) but can save a trip of having to return to the manor if you talk to her first. She'll reveal she's returned to the area as her husband has passed away, but her family estate is infested with monsters. Agree to help and she'll give you a key to use to unlock a box at the manor as your reward.

The events that unfold at the manor are dependent entirely on whether you either spared or killed Letho during The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.

If you chose to spare Letho, Geralt arrives at the manor to find that there are no monsters in the area. What he does find are traps around the area and someone hiding in the barn, activating the quest Ghosts of the Past. Note that the initial conversation with Letho here will change slightly if you managed to evade his traps or not.
If you killed Letho, there will be no traps and the estate is instead filled with wraiths, which Geralt has to kill.
Regardless of the above, once the wraiths are dealt with (whether by you or Letho), you get the objective to return to Dolores and this is all that's required to complete the quest. However, unless you came here before you met Dolores, remember that she gave you a key for a lockbox with your reward, and there's more XP earned based on the Story and Swords! difficulty level to be earned as well. Note: if you haven't talked to her already, that's fine - you can get all rewards even after the quest completes.

To find the lockbox, you'll first need to find a sturdy barn key, so enter the most northwest house and loot the chest in the corner for it. Then make your way to the main building and unlock the door here. You should immediately see red writing on a wall with your Witcher Senses. Examining it will uncover the lockbox just below it. If you talked to Dolores first, you can then unlock it here for 50 XP earned based on the Story and Swords! difficulty level and 100 florens (otherwise you'll need to talk to her afterwards to get the key). There's also two more things you can examine in the other buildings, but aren't really needed - a painting of Dolores and her twin brother Humbert, as well as her diary.

However, if you want to earn more XP earned based on the Story and Swords! difficulty level and learn what happened to her brother, head outside to the back of the barn to find a hidden stairway that leads down into a cellar. Note that if you didn't kill all the wraiths, some will spawn here as well. Make your way to the furthest room in the cellar to find a weak wall and destroy it, then enter to find a skeleton you can examine and some paper nearby. With that, head back to Dolores at the Lindenvale tavern.

If you found and examined the skeleton, Geralt will automatically reveal this to her and, while she'll be sad knowing her husband killed her brother, she'll thank you nonetheless. Regardless of what you did so far, you get 25 XP earned based on the Story and Swords! difficulty level here and the quest completes. However, if you fully investigated, you'll also get 80 XP earned based on the Story and Swords! difficulty level and 50 XP earned based on the Story and Swords! difficulty level for finding and revealing what happened to Humbert. Also note that if you found the manor first, this is when Dolores will give you the lockbox key.

While the quest may be finished, if you return to the manor later, you'll find Dolores has moved back home and can be talked to. If you didn't open the lockbox yet, she will remind you of it, and you can still do that and/or find the skeleton in the cellar. You still get all the optional rewards and can return to her for an update if you wish.

Walkthrough Source: https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_House_of_Reardon

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