Hermit won't talk to me.

[Firelock]

I am mildly stuck. I am supposed to ask witnesses, but all I ever get from anyone is one of what feels like two standard boilerplate reactions. I have no clue what happened or what to do...so I went to the hermit, found his hut and he won't talk to me.
Went back to troskowitz and asked every woman i found. all the same repetitive answers.

[Rusty Booper]

i kill him.

[Thbran]

There is a grave nearby i found the sword there im sure you can look up a guide on exactly where

[Fat Bird]

Do you have a "fresh graves" location marked on your map? A little bit south of Troskowitz.

[Kabirbd]

Originally posted by Firelock:

I am mildly stuck. I am supposed to ask witnesses, but all I ever get from anyone is one of what feels like two standard boilerplate reactions. I have no clue what happened or what to do...so I went to the hermit, found his hut and he won't talk to me.
Went back to troskowitz and asked every woman i found. all the same repetitive answers.

Are you not tracking the quest?
You have to talk with the witnesses. Not just random people on the street.

There are two witnesses. One is woman who is I think the wife of the guy who sells herbs and potion in the city. She will give you an objective to search a grave.

The other is someone who like takes care of sheep. He is the one who saw a ghost thing in the crossroad.
Once you finish investigation based on at least one witness, you can make hermit talk to you.

[Firelock]

I recall being told to aks the women of troskowitz. And they all give the same non-answer. In the journal, there is also no further clue, who to ask.

[Firelock]

The quest tracking just leads me to the area of his hut. where zilch is happening.

[Kabirbd]

Take screenshot of the journal quest section and share it here. Don't crop the screenshot.

[dunkle0steus]

If I remember correctly i first had to talk to the right person in Troskowitz and only then cemetary was marked, where you have to talk to the old woman.

[boy]

the whole quest is pretty buggy. i've already got the sword but i decided to do his quest anyways and when i finished it and came back to the hut he's stuck in place and won't talk to me either.

[DerValle]

In the upper level of the hermits hut there are a few grain sacks. You can move them away, below lies his diary. With this, he will talk to you.

[Teao]

Talk to the innkeeper a second time so she can tell you to see the apothecary's wife. I was stuck like this until I read this somewhere else online. Nothing suggested I needed to go back to the innkeeper.

[Firelock]

I somehow managed to get hints to gerda and the herdsman from talking to betty (again) i went to the cross following gerdas story and talked to the herdsboy. still marks troskowitz as area to ask people, though.

[Firelock]

chanced to bump into one of the alehouse maids, and she had more options now...

this quest feels a little bit rough around the edges, i.e. unless talking to the very correct people in the correct order, they wont talk to you, slightly marring immersion.

[halfmonkey]

I have the opposite problem that the objective "Find out more about the devil" didn't update after talking with the shepherd, so remains highlighted-despite already dealing completely with the Hermit and getting the sword.

Guess I'm going to the wedding with the miller...

[Kabirbd]

Originally posted by Firelock:

I somehow managed to get hints to gerda and the herdsman from talking to betty (again) i went to the cross following gerdas story and talked to the herdsboy. still marks troskowitz as area to ask people, though.

Look, the reason why the quest marks Troskovitz as area to ask people is because there are multiple things happening during the quest.
So if you do all optional objectives during a quest, you get more detail about the quest. In my case, I talked with the guard commander to know stuff. But you don't need to finish every objective.

The game still lets you progress just by focusing on at least one objectives.