Carnal Sins in The Witcher 3: Who Attacked Priscilla, the Autopsy Clues and Nathaniel or Hubert

Updated October 2026. Carnal Sins is the Novigrad serial-killer quest. On the opening night of Dandelion's cabaret, Priscilla is found beaten and mutilated in an alley, and Geralt follows the killer from the morgue to a brothel. It's one of the best detective quests in the game, and it has one choice that decides whether you ever catch the real murderer. Spoilers below.

Nathaniel or Hubert: The Choice That Decides the Ending

Nathaniel is a sadist and a former Eternal Fire torturer, but he isn't the killer. Only by talking to him do you learn that the coroner was the one person who knew he'd be at Crippled Kate's tonight.

Carnal Sins Walkthrough

1. The Hospital and the Sewers

It begins right after Cabaret: a messenger bursts into the Chameleon with news that Priscilla has been attacked. At Vilmerius Hospital, Joachim von Gratz says she will live, but she isn't the first victim. He takes you to the morgue through the sewers, so expect drowners and a bilge hag on the way.

2. The Autopsy at the Morgue

Joachim leads you to the wrong body. Use your Witcher Senses to find the dwarven woodcarver in the nearest room after the ladder, and examine him. The coroner, Hubert Rejk, walks in and is helpful and polite. Listen closely to his chat with von Gratz, because it holds a subtle clue. Reverend Nathaniel then arrives and orders you out, and Hubert covers for you.

3. Three Leads, in Any Order

After two of the three, a guard tells you there's a new body and the coroner wants you. You can still finish the third lead first, since nothing is lost.

• Priscilla's ambush site: three locals lock the gate and pick a fistfight; Whistling Wendy thought you were the killer. Searching the alley shows the attacker jumped a wall too high even for a witcher, and you'll find another Concerned Citizen's sermon.
• The woodcarver's workshop: his brother Gus Meyer lets you in. Look at the bloodstain carefully: there's too little blood. Geralt notes it, and it's a vampire clue.
• Eustace the corpse collector: pay him 200 crowns or use Axii (Delusion level 2). He kept a note from the dwarf's body naming Priscilla as the next victim, intending to sell it.

4. The Second Autopsy

Back at the morgue, help Hubert with the new victim. Ask him your questions here; a few of his answers don't add up if you've been paying attention. He "finds" a note naming the next victim: Patricia Vegelbud.

5. The Vegelbud Residence

Ingrid Vegelbud takes you to her mother, who has renounced the Eternal Fire. Patricia is already dead, and the killer is fleeing. Chase him, and the guards take you for the murderer. Fight until one of them is nearly down (or you are), and a cutscene clears it up. On Patricia's body is the last note: Sweet Nettie at Crippled Kate's.

6. Crippled Kate's

On the top floor, Nathaniel is about to burn Sweet Nettie with a red-hot poker. Talk first. See the table above for every option.

7. The Warehouse: Hubert Rejk

Go to the warehouse at the docks where Hubert takes his formalin deliveries. He admits everything, then turns into a katakan-like vampire. It's a hard fight: use Black Blood, Vampire oil and Yrden to stop him turning invisible. Loot Deargdeith, a katakan mutagen, and often Rubedo.

8. Back to Priscilla

At the hospital, von Gratz says Priscilla will recover and her voice should be mostly fine. Until then, Dandelion will sing and she'll play the lute.

Rewards

Clues That Point to Hubert

• He looks far too young for someone who has been coroner for decades.
• The killer clears a wall too high for a witcher.
• There's too little blood at the woodcarver's workshop, because the rest was drunk.
• Formalin keeps showing up, and Hubert is the one who orders it.
• He's the only person who knew Nathaniel would be at Crippled Kate's.

Video: Carnal Sins Best Choices

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources: in-game quest text and journal; details checked against the Witcher Wiki page for Carnal Sins. Screenshots: our own gameplay captures.