Brickmakers' Village
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The Brickmakers' Village is barely a hamlet. The handful of huts huddled together around the remains of the Old Road in the southeastern part of the Swamp, just north of the landing aren't much to look at. The brickmakers go about their daily routine, worshipping the Water Lords and making bricks in the clay pits southwest of the village. They do their best to avoid the many hazards of the swamp: the drowners, drowned dead, bloedzuigers and echinopsae. Sometimes kikimora even dare enter the village, though those usually shy away from human civilization.
Vaska's hut is the center of the village, housing a shrine to the Water Lords as well as being her place of residence.
In the area immediately adjacent to the village, there are also two mysterious, ancient obelisks, assigned to Neh'tza and Maal'kad.
[edit] Notable People
- Vaska, the village Eldress
- The Old Brickmaker, who knows a lot about the swamp. Alas, a brick fell on his head when he was six, and he was never the same.
- One of the women in village will tell Geralt about beggartick, fool's parsley and crow's eye in exchange for honey, a shawl, or 50 orens.
[edit] Notes
After the Reaping Time quest (but possibly anytime after the beginning of Act III), Geralt can find some interesting information from some of the brickmakers. One of the brickmakers praying inside Vaska's house mentions that "scouts from the Order" have been asking questions about the witcher's activities and intentions, specifically when it comes to dealing with nonhumans.
Another brickmaker tells the witcher that Salamandra have been asking about him as well, even going so far as to try to torture the information out of the villagers. These villagers may be simple folk, but they are extremely principled in their customs. Not one of them succumbs to torture or gives away information about the witcher.
