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Arnout Vester is a minor antagonist in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and serves as the main antagonist in the Ghosts of the Past sidequest. He is a professional bounty hunter from Nilfgaard (probably Metinna) who wants to kill Letho for a reward.
Biography[]
Past[]
Even before he became a famous bounty hunter, Vester was a criminal undercover in Nilfgaard. And when he started to become a bounty hunter, he climbed up the hierarchy, and even though he eventually climbed up, Vester still used the methods of Nilfgaardian criminals. During his treatments, Vester liked to extract teeth and cut faces from ear to ear, making them as trophies. These methods of his in semi-witness served as a way of punishment due to debts. Some time later, the ruler of Nilfgaard, Emhyr var Emhreis, ordered Vester to kill the witcher Letho of Guleta because he had evidence of the emperor ordering regicide. The ruler offered to pay him more if he brought Letho back alive. To which Vester agreed, although it is not known how much the sum was, but according to Arnout Vester himself, it was at the level of purchasing a residence in Kovir where he could spend his time peacefully.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt[]
After confronting Louis, Letho asked him where Arnout Vester was and Louis revealed his whereabouts where the village of Lindenvale was. When Letho and Geralt arrived at the village of Lindenvale, Letho cleverly lured Arnout and his men outside by blowing up the barn.
During the conversation between Arnout and Letho, the Crossbowman Vester shot Letho's arm to keep his word, which resulted in a fight where Letho killed 6 of Vester's men and fell unconscious to the ground because he was poisoned. After the fight with Letho, Geralt confronts Vester and his surviving henchmen to forbid them from doing something bad in Letho. Vester states that he has nothing against him and tells him that he only wants to take Letho's head as evidence for the emperor to get his reward. Depending on the player's decisions, Geralt can kill Vester himself and his henchmen or leave them alive and let them take the medallion of the Wyrm school of witchers instead of Letho's head.
After the player makes a decision, Geralt notices that the bolt with which he was hit in Letho's chest is saturated with Zangwebar venom. When Letho begins to wake up, he declares to himself that he is fed up with constantly running away from the bounty hunters recruited by the Nilfgaardians, because he recently ran into an ambush in which he was legally killed. So he came up with a plan to fake his death in this plan, he bribed a certain henchman who worked for Vester so that he could not only shoot him in his arm but also fabricate his own death in this way, everyone would believe that he was dead and he would have peace. Letho thanked Geralt for his interference, or he may resent him for killing Vester and other bounty hunters because no one will spread the news about his death.
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