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Solve the Magic Lamp brazier puzzle fast. Full statue order, riddle breakdown, and Keira Metz romance tips for this Velen side quest.
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The Magic Lamp side quest in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is short, but the brazier puzzle trips up a surprising number of players. The riddle is written in deliberately obscure verse, and if you light the statues in the wrong order, nothing happens and the game gives you no feedback. Here's the full solution, plus everything you need to know to keep the Keira Metz romance path open.
Magic Lamp becomes available at the very end of the Wandering in the Dark main quest. While Geralt is still inside the Elven ruins with Keira Metz, she'll ask for his help tracking down the lamp. When that dialogue prompt appears, select "Fine. I'll help." That's the only way to accept the quest.
Miss that prompt or skip past it, and the quest fails automatically. There's no way to restart it from outside the ruins, so pay attention to the conversation before wrapping up Wandering in the Dark.
Follow Keira into the adjoining chamber inside the ruins. The room contains four statues arranged in a line, each with a brazier at its base. Between them sits a riddle carved in stone. Examine it and let Keira read it aloud.
The riddle reads:
"Four guardians, four flames, standing proud in line / The First to light his fire dared not march on the end / The Second, by the First, played a woeful lament / The Third kept close to his faithful beast / The Fourth marched not beside the First, yet like the Second, played a tune. / And thus they stood o'er their queen, who slept beneath flickering stars."
The statues each hold different items that correspond to the clues in the verse. The riddle describes their positions and attributes, and the correct lighting order is determined by matching each line to the right statue.
The Witcher 3 Guide: How to Complete the Magic Lamp Quest
Light the braziers in this sequence:
Once all four braziers are lit in the correct order, the door unlocks and Keira can retrieve the lamp.
Finishing the quest earns 100 XP. That's a modest amount, but the real value here is narrative. Completing Magic Lamp while staying in Keira's good graces keeps the romance path with her active for later quests in Velen.
After Keira grabs the lamp, exit the Elven ruins together to complete the quest.
Yes. The quest itself is a relationship-building step between Geralt and Keira. Agreeing to help her and completing the puzzle without abandoning the ruins signals cooperation, which the game tracks toward the romance outcome. Players chasing the full Keira storyline in Velen should treat Magic Lamp as a required stop, not optional content.
The Remastered version of the game preserves all of this quest's structure. If you're playing the updated release and want to know exactly what changed elsewhere, the full breakdown of every visual, combat, and quality-of-life change in the Remastered update covers the skill tree revamps and path tracing additions without touching Magic Lamp's core mechanics.
Technically yes, in two ways. First, you can miss the quest trigger entirely by not selecting the right dialogue option at the end of Wandering in the Dark. Second, you can fail it mid-quest by leaving the ruins before solving the puzzle. Neither failure is recoverable without reloading a save.
Given how brief the quest is, the safest approach is to commit to it the moment Keira raises the topic. The puzzle takes under two minutes once you know the brazier order.
For players returning to the game or jumping in fresh, the The Witcher 3 Remastered release date and launch times guide has everything you need on when the updated version went live across regions. There's also a free upgrade guide if you're an existing owner and haven't claimed the Remastered version yet.
Magic Lamp is one of dozens of side quests packed into Velen. For the full collection of quest walkthroughs and strategy content, the The Witcher 3 guides hub has everything organized by region and quest type.
