The Witcher 3 - Places of Power | Locations | Signs

The Witcher’s game world is really huge, beautiful and dangerous, and also has many opportunities for leveling Geralt’s skills, which some gamers mistakenly ignore.

There are many secrets and guides on the accelerated increase in the skill of the white-haired Witcher, among which a special place can be allocated to a visit to the so-called "Place of Power".

What it is? Where to find them? And how to use it?

The answers to these and other questions will be discussed in the framework of this article.

What is it and How to Activate them

So, “Places of Power” are magic stone columns located throughout the game world The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

Visiting these places offers players two main preferences:

1. This is getting 1 skill point, after «emptying» the stone;
2. This is a temporary power boost of one of the five Signs.

There are 30 such stones in total, distributed in six pieces for each of the five Signs - “Aard”, “Igni”, “Quen”, “Irden” and “Aksiy”.

Need I say, what is the significance of these characters for passing the game? And taking into account the potential 30 points of skills, a visit to the "Places of Power" should be a mandatory action for every Geralt.

It should also be noted that if you activate one stone for five Signs, the player will receive the achievement "Great Strength".

To activate (dry) the Strength Place, you need to carry out only a few simple actions that are familiar to each player:

1. It is actually to find the stone itself;
2. Get up to him in such a way that there is a suggestion to press the "E" button;
3. Press the "E" button until the corresponding animation ends.

The button must be clamped, not pressed, otherwise the skill point will not be received.

It is worth noting that a skill point can be obtained only once, but temporarily strengthening the power of the Sign can be obtained repeatedly.

Where to find places of power

Each stone has a corresponding appearance and individual color of a magical glow, and is also marked with the same Token, to strengthen which they are intended:

• The sign "Axii" is green;
• The sign "Aard" is blue;
• Igni Sign - Orange
• The sign "Irden" is purple;
• The Quen sign is yellow.

Accordingly, it is not difficult to determine which Sign represents the Place of Power, but this does not apply to the search for these stones, since not all of them can be found directly at the beginning of the game.

«Places of Power», as mentioned earlier, are scattered across all locations and can be located both in the forest and on the mountain (hill), and underground.

Some of them will become available only when completing basic and additional tasks, when the opportunity to visit the location in which they are located becomes available.

As you know, in the game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (with additions) there are five main locations - this is «White Garden», «Velen and Novigrad», «Skelling», «Kaer Morhen» и «Tussent».

Places of Power are almost always guarded, so be prepared for an attack!

White Garden

	"Aksiy" - almost in the middle between the "Sawmill" and the "Nilfgaard garrison"
	“Igni” - on the right bank of the place of power of the sign Axii, just above the “Mill”
	“Aard” - in the immediate vicinity of “Igni” to the north of it and from the Mill
	“Quen” - the first - a little south of the “Broken Bridge” and not far from the “Abandoned Village”, the second next to the “Smeshka Bridge”
	«Irden» - next to the Abandoned Village - east of it and south of the Deserted Settlement

Velen and Novigrad

«Aksiy» - southeast of «Alness Village»

«Igni» the first - west of the “Old Oak”, which is visited during the passage of the whispering hill “Whispering Hill”, the second - north-east of the “Electoral Palace”

«Aard» - South of the "New burial ground" - attention: guard the place of level 16 ghosts!

«Quen» - the first - to the north-east of the “Lonely Rock”, the second - also to the north-east, but already from the “Road to the Bald Mountain”

«Irden» - the first - to the south-east of the "Dragon Slayer Grotto" on a cliff, the second - north of the "Village of Stitches" - you will need to complete an additional task from Keira Metz, “The Magic Lamp”

Skellige

«Aksiy» - the first - southwest of the “Forks expensive” after gaining access to the location, the second - west of the center between the “Wild Coast” and the “Port of Golmstein”

«Igni» - the first - to the north of the “Village of Rogni” (south of the “Ancient Tomb”) when completing the quest “The Sun Stone”, the second - to the west of the “Village of Svarlog” at the time of completing the quest “The Chosen of the Gods”

«Aard» - Southwest of «Whale Cemetery»

«Quen» - the first - northeast of the “KaerTrold Bridge” while performing «the Royal Gambit mission» With this place, everything is much more complicated, because in order to find it at a certain point in the passage of the task it is necessary to choose the point of view of “Keris”, to initiate an investigation, during which access will be gained to the cellar and the secret passage that opened during the explosion of barrels. The second - in the immediate vicinity of the "Fang of Ingvar" during the quest "Path of Heroes"

«Yrden» - the first - next to the "Druid Camp" during the mission "Echo of the Past", the second - east of the "Harviken".

Kaer Morhen

«Igni» - “The Place of Power” is located north of the “Hut by the Lake” with a 12-level level warrior guard

There is still the opportunity to visit the hidden "Place of Strength of the Aard Sign", but only when completing the task «Through Space and Time»

Tussent

«Aksiy» - north of the "Rio Cannes Sawmills" and in a cave underground

«Igni» - is also underground north of the Ruins of Fort Ussar.

«Aard» - on the shore of the lake northwest of the "Ortenza Vineyard"

«Quen» - in a cave under a waterfall just north of «Termez Palace Ruins» - use «Aard» to destroy the wall

«Yrden» - a little north of the "Ruins of the Gallion Palace" under the protection of the Whirlwind, which is not necessary to kill.

Conclusion

It remains only to note that the order of visiting the "Places of Power" is an exclusively individual choice, since there are a lot of variations, but you should definitely visit them all!