Poison in the Roots is part of the main questline in Diablo 4 season 7, Season of Witchcraft. In order to complete it, youll need to help the witches of the Tree of Whispers by completing a special ritual. This quest includes some light puzzle elements, which can make it a little tricky.In this Diablo 4 guide, well give you a full Poison in the Roots walkthrough, including showing you how to navigate through the ritual puzzle.How to complete the ritual in Poison in the Roots in Diablo 4When you turn in enough Grim Favors (by doing Whispers out in the world), youll be able to start the Poison in the Roots quest, and will be prompted to talk to the witches at the Tree of Whispers. The scene will fade to black and when you regain control, the witches will have set up a ritual. There are four parts to the ritual:Light the braziersGather Nangari bloodTrace the ritual circleProtect the ritualWell detail each step below.Brazier puzzle solution in Poison in the RootsFor the first ritual step, the witches will ask you to invoke the trees old name in the correct order. Thats fancy Diablo talk for click on the three witches in the right order. If you listen to what they say (or look in the chat log) each witch will have a spell word that they say in a certain order, which is the order youll need to repeat back. Talk to the witches and activate their braziers in this order:Ayh (bottom left brazier, Gelena)Yew (bottom right brazier, Caidin)Oun (top brazier, Ouna)Speaking to the witches and selecting their prompt in this order will cause all three braziers to light simultaneously, which will progress the ritual.How to get Nangari bloodAll you need to do for the Nangari blood step is to kill the three snakes in the ritual circle. When each dies, itll drop some of its blood, which you just need to gather like any other item.How to trace the ritual circle with Nangari bloodThe spreading the blood around the circle step is a little confusing, because its unlike anything else you really have to do in Diablo. When the witches ask you to trace the ritual circle with Nangari blood, what the game wants you to do is just walk your character around the outer circle of the ritual, basically where the braziers are sitting.You may need to run the circle a few times before the blood starts to appear, but itll eventually show up around the area and youll finish this step.How to keep Hollows out of the ritual circleFor the final step in this quest, you just need to kill all of the Hollows enemies who are trying to disrupt the ritual. These enemies are relatively weak in terms of health, and all but the boss-type enemies should pop under the pressure of even your most basic skills. If youre struggling to keep the Hollows out of the ritual while youre leveling, consider lowering the difficulty as low as you can until you complete this quest you can always put it back up right after.Once theyre all dead and the ritual completes, youll finish the quest, be teleported back to the open world map, and earn some minor rewards (a legendary and cache of assorted salvage). More importantly, youll be able to continue progressing the seasonal questline and unlock more witch powers.Going into this season, heres the bestSpiritbornbuild, allTenets of Akaratlocations, and guides on how to unlockMercenariesand get more loot inKurast Undercity.