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There Can Be Only One
Type	Secondary Quests
DLC	Blood and Wine
Location	Toussaint
Suggested Level	43
Prerequisite	none
Next Quest	none

There Can Be Only One is a Secondary Quest in The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt. This Secondary Quest is a part of the Blood and Wine DLC. Secondary Quests are optional Quests not required to finish the game. Some of these quests may have a bearing on certain Main Quests or may be a consequence of another Quest.

There Can Be Only One can be activated by picking it up from the notice board: "Test Yourself with the Trials of the Virtues!" or by overhearing a Bors and Percival at the Tourney Grounds 

Upon a notice board in Toussaint, Geralt found a call to all who wished to submit to a Test of Virtue. The notice's mysterious author summoned any who dared to an isle upon Lac Célavy, where they would have a chance to prove their worthiness of character. He who successfully completed the test would receive a reward. Though Geralt had never thought of himself as particularly virtuous, he found the summons intriguing and decided to go to the appointed spot to learn what the trials entailed.

The Witcher 3 There Can Be Only One Objectives

• Investigate the isle on Lac Célavy.
• Talk to the hermit.

If you haven't yet proved the five chivalric virtues:

• [Optional] Read the inscriptions on the stones. Wait for a chance to prove your valor.
• Wait for a chance to prove you are a man of honor.
• Wait for a chance to prove you are capable of compassion.
• Wait for a chance to prove your generosity.
• Wait for a chance to prove your wisdom.
• Return to the hermit and have him judge your deeds.

• Tell the hermit you're ready to fight him.
• Fight the hermit. 

Rewards for There Can Be Only One in The Witcher 3

• 300 
• Aerondight

Walkthrough for The Witcher 3 There Can Be Only One

Begin the quest by either picking it up from the notice board: "Test Yourself with the Trials of the Virtues!" or by overhearing a Bors and Percival at the Tourney Grounds. The quest is introduced in Lac Célavy. You will need to prove that you are worthy and embody the 5 virtues:

• Valor
• Honor
• Wisdom
• Sympathy
• Generosity

These virtues can be proved during other quests depending on the decisions you make. 

Quests:

Valor:

• The Night of Long Fangs
• Tesham Mutna
• The Warble of a Smitten Knight
• Feet as Cold as Ice
• Raging Wolf
• Contract: Bovine Blues
• Equine Phantoms
• Mutual of Beauclair's Wild Kingdom
• Contract: The Tufo Monster
• A Knight's Tales

Honor:

• The Warble of a Smitten Knight
• The Warble of a Smitten Knight
• Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls of Granite!
• Father Knows Worst

Compassion:

• The Beast of Toussaint
• The Hunger Game
• Capture the Castle
• Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls of Granite!
• Big Game Hunter
• Mutual of Beauclair's Wild Kingdom
• Equine Phantoms
• Contract: The Tufo Monster

Generosity:

• Turn and Face the Strange
• Where Children Toil, Toys Waste Away
• Beyond Hill and Dale
• Mutual of Beauclair's Wild Kingdom
• A Portrait of the Witcher as an Old Man
• Equine Phantoms

Proving wisdom:

• The Beast of Toussaint
• La Cage au Fou
• A Knight's Tales
• Father Knows Worst
• Gwent: To Everything - Turn, Turn, Tournament!
• But Other Than That, How Did You Enjoy the Play?

There Can Be Only One Journal

• If Geralt overhead a conversation to begin the quest instead

Geralt overheard a conversation between two knights. One of them had recently undergone a mysterious trial. This had played out on the shores of Lac Célavy.

On the lakeshore Geralt encountered a hermit who promised the witcher a wondrous blade. To receive it, Geralt had to prove he lived by the five chivalric virtues.
Many consider themselves courageous, yet when confronting true danger prove consummate cowards. Naturally, this applies in no way to Geralt, who faced mortal danger and vanquished it post haste, thus successfully passing the Trial of Valor.
Mercy is not something folk expect of witchers. As it is, they were created to hunt and kill monsters, and the mutations they undergo as children customarily strip them of all emotions. Yet Geralt had always been somewhat different, so when push came to shove he passed the Trial of Compassion, for he had always striven simply to be a decent man in spite of all.
At times it is hard to keep one's word and thus demonstrate honor when faced by temptation. Luckily, Geralt was stouthearted and successfully completed the Trial of Honor.
Among the virtues, wisdom oft proves hardest to find, let alone prove, for most consider themselves wise while the world is chock full of fools. Yet Geralt had never thought of himself too highly in this regard, just like that famed philosopher who knew well that he knew very little if not nothing. Perhaps this was why the witcher managed easily to prove he was no stranger to this virtue.
Paradoxically, it is sometimes easier to demonstrate valor or honor than it is to show generosity. For the fact is many are courageous and honorable simply to advance their own cause. Geralt, like all witchers, worked for coin, but always knew well when a situation required him to show generosity. No surprise, then, that he successfully passed the trial meant to test this virtue.
The trial of valor hardly proved easy, but Geralt emerged from it victorious, defeating quite an extraordinary foe. He thus proved he was no stranger to the chivalric virtues.
The witchers' codex does not require its adherents to demonstrate honor, but Geralt was an honorable man in and of himself. As a result, he completed the trial for this virtue with flying colors.
Not a soul expects witchers to show compassion for the simple reason that their profession offers few opportunities where they even might demonstrate mercy, let alone should. Geralt nonetheless managed to demonstrate that he could show compassion when warranted, and thus also was in possession of this virtue.
Generosity is a hard virtue to demonstrate for the simple reason that it generally requires to demonstrator to bear a cost. Many show themselves capable of being valiant or honorable when it benefits them, yet when circumstances call on them to dig deep into their coin pouches, the purse strings turn out to be knotted tight. Luckily, Geralt was not of this ilk and proved himself a generous man, thanks to which he also successfully completed the trial for this virtue.
Among the virtues, wisdom is arguably hardest to prove, for many consider themselves wise, yet the world is full of fools. Geralt never thought of himself as excessively wise, and perhaps this is why he managed to prove this virtue was no stranger to him.
Geralt proved that he live[sic] by the Five Chivalric Virtues.
In a duel that played out upon the lake's surface, Geralt defeated the mysterious hermit. To his great surprise, the hermit then proved to be no man, revealing himself to have been the Lady of the Lake in disguise. Geralt had met the Lady some time past along his Path. The Lady of the Lake bestowed upon him the legendary blade called Aerondight.

The Witcher 3 There Can Be Only One Notes & Trivia

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