“The wooden, colourful town of Oxenfurt with its narrow streets and pointed roofs. The town of Oxenfurt which lived off the Academy, off its students, lecturers, scholars, researchers and their guests, who lived off science and knowledge, off what accompanies the process of learning. In the town of Oxenfurt, from the by-products and chippings of theory, practice, business and profit were born.”

— pg(s). 190 – 191, Blood of Elves (UK edition)

Soon into your journey into this world of the Witcher 3, you get word of a certain place, just northeast; A place of knowledge, culture, science or maybe, Opportunity. There is one thing that is certain when arriving at Oxenfurt and its academy, You’ll have one good time.

Oxenfurt is the first major city you encounter in the game, journeying from the far south in search of the Baron of Crow’s perch’s daughter. Oxenfurt, like Crow’s perch is surrounded by water. Only two bridges connect this cities island to the rest of the land, one to the north and one to the south. The city is renowned, and because so it attracts people from all over the world; A dangerous world in this game. Bars and brothels fill the streets that students and their lecturers walk. And you can never be too sure what you have planned for the night in this town.

Cities such as this do not bring home to monsters that we have seen so far. However, monsters come in all shapes and sizes, big, small, monstrous, or not. The city shapes a perfect home for stealthy beings, ready to move without a trace; And kill as such.