The Witcher 4's tech demo featured a familiar voice from The Witcher 3, and there's an interesting extra wrinkle

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Update: CD Projekt person confirmed to RPS that it was Richard Hawley who played the merchant, whose sanction is Frewin, successful The Witcher 4's tech demo. "As for the afloat game," they added, "we don’t person thing to stock astir immoderate dependable actors beyond the ones we’ve already confirmed."

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Witcher fans person people been engaged poring implicit The Witcher 4’s tech demo successful hunt of absorbing details beyond the large evident teases. One radical connected Reddit reckon their ears picked up the dependable of Witcher 3 histrion Richard Hawley.

Hawley voiced a fewer characters successful Gerry from the Riviera’s RPG clash with the Wild Hunt, with Caleb Menge, Francis Bedlam, and Redanian schemer Sigismund Dijkstra each boasting his dulcet tones. It’s that past 1 that’ll apt person lodged the actor’s dependable into your brain.

It’s besides the sanction that immoderate Witcher fans connected Reddit person admitted they shouted astatine the surface erstwhile Ciri chats to a bearded merchant astir her existent monster declaration astatine astir the 10 infinitesimal mark, aft taking a locomotion done Valdrest. I’ve taken a perceive to some the merchant and Dijikstra, and the 2 bash dependable a spot alike to me, particularly erstwhile the merchant says definite phrases. I’ve besides reached retired to CD Projekt for confirmation.

As immoderate of the fans successful the Reddit thread person pointed out, if this is so Hawley, he’d beryllium an interestingly fitting inclusion successful this peculiar tech demo. In summation to those characters helium voiced successful The Witcher 3, Hawley besides voiced a fig successful The Witcher 2. One of these is Carduin of Lan Exeter, a Koviri mage Geralt meets during the acme astatine Loc Muinne.

As you mightiness person guessed from his name, this wizard is from the metropolis that CD Projekt ended TW4’s tech demo by teasing via a changeable of Ciri looking retired astatine it nestled successful the distance. Spoilers for The Witcher 3 and The Witcher 2 incoming, truthful skip the adjacent mates of paragraphs if you privation to miss them.

Carduin’s nonstop destiny successful the bid truthful acold is influenced by the choices you made astatine the decision of The Witcher 2, but it is imaginable to tally into him successful The Witcher 3 depending connected what you picked.

If you do, he’ll beryllium successful Oxenfurt serving alongside Radovid of Redania, arsenic a effect of needing to debar being burned astatine the stake, and to my cognition isn’t confirmed arsenic being killed alongside the ruler if you take to assistance successful Radovid’s assassination. So, it seems imaginable helium could amusement up successful The Witcher 4, particularly if the game’s communicative involves matters affecting Koviri authorities oregon involving magic successful the region, which seems a bully outcry if it's much than a little halt successful immoderate travel Ciri’s on. I'd surely beryllium up for it, adjacent if conscionable to perchance spot Esterad Thyssen successful non-Gwent paper form.

As it is, TW3 and TW2 had Hawley voicing aggregate characters - ones who were each cardinal figures successful Novigrad successful the lawsuit of the latter. If this tech demo merchant is played by him and ends up being successful the last game, I’d wager there’s a bully accidental it’ll conscionable beryllium 1 of the times you perceive his voice. For now, though, each immoderate of america extracurricular of CD Projekt tin bash is speculate.