Brother Adalbert's bestiary is a book in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
Despite what the title might imply, reading this book doesn't add any entries to the bestiary. However, the excerpt about griffins is followed accurately during The Beast of White Orchard, and the one about forktails is literally quoted during To Bait a Forktail... There are, unfortunately, no drunk trolls seen in the game.
A copy of it can always be found in the basement of the southesternmost house in Mulbrydale, and it can appear as random loot on many bookshelves.
Journal entry[]
- Each beast herein described in two manners ye may hunt. Either seek ye tracks, follow and strike the foulness wherever in its wild ye find it, or lure it to a chosen place and engage it there in advantageous battle. The latter poses less risk, for the hunter exposes no chance for an unexpected fight. Note, however, that to lure a beast into a trap, first its tastes and behaviors ye must know. As for forktails, bait them thusly: pound a stake in the soil, bind a goat to it, then hide ye in nearto shrubbery posthaste. The beast, lured by the caprine odor, will without fail soon come. If it is a griffin ye seek to slay, take ye buckthorn from deep water. The mighty stench of this herb is to griffins like fresh-roasted meat of the primest sort, and so come they will forthwith, though faraway they might be. Turning to drowners and water hags, it is known to all and sundry that fish and rotting mollusks are their loves, and as for trolls, common hooch is their weakness.