A Witcher 3 dev kept mum about a secret Blood and Wine quest epilogue for nearly a decade, until someone dug up some cut parents

"It felt similar an due time!"

There's nary mode I'm learning this for the archetypal clip aft 10 oregon truthful years of radical exploring each nook and cranny of this game. That's the thought that went done my caput erstwhile I spotted a tweet from Witcher 3 quest decorator Philipp Weber earlier this month, revealing that 1 of the Blood and Wine DLC's quests had a concealed chopped epilogue.

I've played rather frankly acold excessively overmuch of the RPG implicit the years, and I'd ne'er heard of it. Of course, I'm conscionable 1 bloke, and hardly an endless encyclopedia containing each azygous spot of trivia astir a decennary aged game. That's erstwhile I raked done the internet, and couldn't find immoderate mentions of the chopped epilogue. Surely Weber hadn't kept this nether his chapeau for astir a decade, not adjacent mentioning it erstwhile folks recovered what he'd called a "last secret" by investigating the nonstop aforesaid quest. Er, yes, helium had.

First, I'll springiness you the context. The tweet from Weber that started disconnected my chaotic goose pursuit came successful effect to a Redditor discovering chopped models for Vivienne De Tabris' parents portion digging astir successful TW3's REDkit modding tools. For a refresher, De Tabris is the cursed lady-in-waiting from the quest 'The Warble of a Smitten Knight'. It's the 1 wherever Gerry takes portion successful the knightly tourney and you're astir to work immoderate spoilers for it.

Cue Weber posting that "originally the Warble of a Smitten Knight utilized to person a flashback country wherever we would spot Vivienne's parents astatine the pond, being watched by a nymph who was envious of their love. She was the 1 who cursed their unborn baby, mounting the full communicative into motion.

"We utilized to person a concealed quest epilogue successful which you could find this nymph, but had to chopped it owed to scope," helium continued, "However, we were capable to reuse the nymph's exemplary for the Lady of the Lake and adhd her to the quest for Aerondight. Originally, she was not adjacent expected to beryllium seen."

Very cool, but not conscionable that. An reply to the debates immoderate Witcher fans person been having for years astir the individuality of the nymph that cursed Vivienne, with immoderate having speculated that Hearts of Stone baddie Gaunter O'Dimm oregon 1 of Velen's crones could beryllium down it.

And not thing that, arsenic acold arsenic Weber knows, was nationalist cognition anterior to him tweeting astir it connected a Tuesday much than 9 years connected from Blood and Wine's merchandise successful May 2016. "I ne'er revealed the secret," the existent Witcher 4 communicative manager told maine yesterday successful effect to my reaching retired to him the time the tweet appeared successful our lives, "but aft the 10th day and since radical recovered the models already, it felt similar an due time!"

It goes to amusement you, TW3 truly is simply a acquisition that conscionable keeps connected giving. I look guardant to learning for the archetypal clip erstwhile 10 much years person passed that Geralt's secretly a equine antheral portion he's redeeming the satellite from the Wild Hunt.