Foltest :GDZIE KURWA ZMIERZAMY?! Soldiers : NA BITWE!!! Foltest : PO CO KURWA ZMIERZAMY?!?! soldiers : PO ZWYCIĘSTWO! Foltest : No I tak Trzymać Foltest Best King
I actually replayed the first Witcher recently, and was shocked to see how complex it was despite its age. Npcs moved around the city as time of day passed, or stood under roofs when there was rain outside. Some Npcs had dialogues with one another that was completely unrelated to any story or quest, but it made the areas feel alive. And it had so many uniquely animated sequences just for specific moves in cutscenes used only once, most other games even today would simply not show. Like when Geralt throws his sword to the ground and surrenders to the city guard. Fully animated and it's like 0.2% of the entire game. Or when Eskel and Leo were sparring in Kaer Morhen. They weren't just waving their weapons around, it was fully motion captured and animated. And it's in the freaking background of the actual cutscene. I mean, I love Dragon Age Origins, but it came out 2 years after the witcher and had none of these. Not even Inquisition.
@@xLetalis no worry, in that case we just won't buy that :) I don't remember any offers in your videos, so they should look weird, but maybe in a good sense! Anyway I (as one viewer, can't say for all) don't mind at all - the result depends on your creativity with the add, I guess.
I'm not sure about the others, but the Garasham crest is somewhat relevant to the Uí Néill crest. It is the Red Hand of Ulster and was believed to have originated from a contest to claim Ulster, as first to lay his hand upon the land would own it. The winner chopped his hand off and threw it onto the land, thus winning the contest (Similarly to Dettlaff?). Interestingly, depending on the source it was the chieftain Érimón who did it. Though this similarity to Ermion could be a coincidence, Sapkowski liked to draw on Irish/Scottish names and folklore a lot.
Not to sound like a complete jackass, but instead of chopping his hand off, wouldn't just resting the hand over the land suffice? 1000 times less cool, but Ulster (or Érimón) would keep his hand. Maybe I didn't undertand the contest
Skellige is basically Ireland, even the accents are spot on . With quite a few different dialects too . You can hear Donegal , Derry and Belfast accents from alot of NPC's
A week ago, I gave myself a break from finishing my first ever witcher experience. Then this guy appears in my recommended consecutive times that week. I am now in my second gameplay of The Witcher 3, and now on Death March as well. This game has now solidified its spot in my Top 5 gaming experiences. Thank You xLetalis!
It's in my Top 5 of all-time too. Just out of curiosity, what are the other 4 for you? =) Mine are (in no particular order): The Elder Scrolls Final Fantasy Mass Effect Stardew Valley The Witcher Some honorable mentions go to: Dragon Age Ghost of Tsushima Myst Red Dead Redemption Subnautica
@@serelryk5365 Since we're playing the list game, let me join in. The Witcher 3 Deus Ex (the original) Metro Redux (the series) Half-Life 2 (with episodes) Starcraft 1
Geralt sort of breaks the fourth wall by looking to the camera when saying “whose name I choose not to divulge” when making a vow and not being in a romance
Regarding the vampire symbols, I don't know if anyone knows this, but The Unseen Elder's medallion resembles the medallion worn by Vlad "the Dragon" or Vlad "Dracul", a medieval Romanian ruler. He got his nickname and his medallion because he was a member of the chivalric Order of the Dragon. Also, he was Vlad the Impaler's father and both of them were the inspiration for Bram Stocker's Dracula.
Well no wonder you find Gary Oldman's red armour then in the lair, which you can see in Bram Stoker's Dracula....it all ties in. Boy that's a really small detail
The thought of Xletalis walking around with his hands on his hips in real life like Vlodimir is without a doubt the greatest comfort for me in any life situation at all
3 things which i discovered recently - at the start of Novigrad, when we have to visit and have a talk with Dandelion's "girls", there is change in dialogue with Molly, Vespulla and Rosa if we visited them third in order (Marabella, and Elihal are not required to finish quest) - at the begining of Vegelbud's quest when we have to meet the blue weared guy, there is different dialogue if we already met Elihal or not (with Triss, at the end of conversation) - when we meet Horst Borsody for the first time we can tell him that Olgierd told us about the Maxilimian Borsody's house or not. Horst will reffer to it at the end of heist if we killed Ewald and started negotiating with Horst also 2 things which I am not sure how to qualify - when we have to follow the thief to find Bedlam, we are sometimes getting interrupted by a beggar in madame Irina's theatre, but I don't know what is the trigger for him, because I tried it few times and he sometimes does it and sometimes not - In fist fight mission in Novigrad we have to fight captain Mortimer and Geralt sometimes says that he and captain met each other before, but I can't remember him. Visited witcher wiki for this Mortimer guy, but only mission when he appears is fist fight in Novigrad so i don't know. Maybe you will know something else no clue if there is anything new for you, but would be great to share some interesting witcher 3 things with you:D
I'm actually planning on mentioning the first one in an upcoming video! Didn't know the 2nd one... I don't think I've ever done that quest before meeting Elihal Honestly not sure if I know about the 3rd. The beggar I think is triggered based on whether you approach his location I'll have to investigate that about Mortimer
Wasn't Mortimer around some witch hunt thing on the town's square? You may talk to him if you enter an argument with the local priesthood (which provokes you if you go around their preaching). I'm not 100% sure it is Mortimer, but I remember being a very similar kind of guy patrolling Novigrad.
@engineer gaming More then one actually. But they change places... daily I think? The conversation you may have implies there is more than one priest doing this. I'm not sure if the guards that approach you are always the same regardless of the day/spot.
The Uì Nèill crest was the crest of Hugh O'Neill , who lead a 9 years long rebellion against the English forces in Northern Ireland in the 1600's. After his rebellion the north of Ireland was subjected to heavy plantation of Scottish settlers who were loyal to the British crown and is one of the reasons why the north of Ireland is still part of the UK. Also Uì Nèill is the Irish way for spelling the surname O'Neill, which was actually banned by the British crown after the rebellion. It's the 9th most common surname in Ireland. Just a little fact back at you litalis
The woman and children who speak Welsh, could well be from Wales. You know the one next to England. It is in Witcher lore people sometimes jump to our world. I believe it was in one of the books, Ciri actually lands in Europe briefly, and even brings the plague from there. I do not remember exact details, but it was there. The name of the quest, along with the man being completely sure Geralt would not know about this place, suggest they might be from a land really far away.
Very small detail: when you're going to the Gwent tournament duting the quest "A Matter of Life and Death", you will get interrupted by Moorvran Voorhis, which is looking for his friend, but later in the Game, in the Vizima, you may ask him if he found him.
Kinda makes me wonder sometimes if he wasn't meant to have a bigger role in the game, but due to time-constraints, they focused on other more important NPCs. Because i'm getting that vibe from his character, a few others, and then some in Cyberpunk as well, like Meredith Stout, if you've played the game. There's clearly a lot of effort that went into their design, they're very unique NPCs, have dedicated Concept Art, in this case a very very specific voice too... But then they're criminally underused. And as someone who studied Game Art for a few years, it just doesn't click. Doesn't make sense to "waste" such efforts on a character you're not going to use all that much.
Something else I just found that players might have missed, is that just after finishing 'The Last Wish', you can give Yennefer the raven skull you find at the start of White Orchard.
While I can see the similarities between the Gharasham and Tdet tribe symbols to those Irish and Scottish houses, I actually think Ammurun is based on Camazotz, the Mayan Bat God of Night and Death. He is often depicted holding a knife that is dripping blood, and considering ‘across the sea’ seems to hint at the New World I think it’s a more fitting reference.
Everytime I get a notification of your video, I am as impressed with the game devs as I am with your witcher senses capable of finding everything. Also, that's not a boring outro. It's my favorite type of outro!
Despite showing zebra, the coat of arms looks very Continental (i.e. quasi-European), zebra itself doesn't have to mean they are from African-like land. The fact that they choose to flee to Tussaint also shows that they were from country that either had some connections to Continent or it was even located there. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if they were from some distant Nilfgaardian vassal state - In that case, exile in another imperial vassal state, that's ruled by emperor's cousin and whose semi-independence and neutrality is well respected by everyone, would be a great choice. Escaping by sea and going around the continent would still be probably much faster and more practical option that traveling on land.
My theory too, but without the Nillfaardian vassal state status. Zebra on the crest could be due to royalty using zebra's to pull their fancy royal carriages because they are exotic, making zebra's a symbol of money and and power just like using lions on a crest shows great power and strength. Lions are as much European as zebra's are. Possibly an inland sea region of the continent on the east side of the mountains like the black sea on earth just making it to the wider oceans in the north rather than south and they are from a northern realm bordering it and has distant trade ties with Toussaint but are not exactly on friendly terms. Toussaint being a huge wine exporter it would make perfect sense for this unknown realm to have heard of it and the fairy tale stories about the land. Since they are running away it would make no sense to run from vassal state A to vassal state B, they all have very close ties and a runaway prince would be found out almost immediately and due to being vassals returned. Hearing fairy tale stories about the land and it isn't on friendly terms makes perfect sense, what better place to hide than a land that boasts about fairy tale chivalric values where you can get sworn to the death protection and not being on friendly terms you don't have a whole lot of people from home there that would recognize the prince.
"From a far far away land" quest name contradicts your argument. Couldn't they be like slaves or something to the Ofieri/Zanzibar lords (or equivalent)? The guard could very well be like a janissary, elite guard from the Ottoman empire during the modern era, initially comprised from slave children taken from subjugated european states.
@@ruffusgoodman4137 That depends on what you consider "far away", A month at sea going across the north to get to the port from Novigrad or Skellige can be considered far away, crossing snowy year around mountain passes could take even longer. To brits in the 11-14th century Bohemia was a far far away land. Dangerous northern seas and dangerous mountain passes could make it feel like it's on the other side of the world when in reality they are neighbors on a global scale with the same root culture.
@@JETWTF I don't know about that. The "far far away" name sounds like "oh, these weird short reddish colored skinned people might be from India" kind of far. The kind of people you don't know the first thing about... On an european point of view, maybe he could be Rus
Completely missed the dialogue about Neutrality in Vizima in my first playthrough. Not going to lie, mostly because i wasn't overly preoccupied about exploring the Palace, didn't really want to stick around, and i never thought i'd see any of those Nilfgaardians again, aside from Emhyr probably later. But after my first playthrough, despite him being a rather minor character, Morvran grew on me for being that odd amicable Nilfgaardian that you keep bumping into in Novigrad and Vizima, so i wanted to make sure i hadn't missed any encounter. You can also ask him (some time after the Masquerade) if he did find the friend he was looking for at the Vegelbud Estate. It's also (curiously?) the only time i can recall hearing a partial conversation fully in Nilfgaardian, as opposed to the occasional odd words being thrown here and there, or the warnings from the Soldiers.
Over 6 years on, and we're still finding the complexities in the Witcher 3. I've played over 150+ hours of the story, and I've still never seen any of these. What a fantastic accomplishment this game was, hopefully we'll all be here again, anew, when the fourth Witcher finally releases (because well, Cyberpunk couldn't do it so anyway)
What the traveling merchant says is actually very close to a Persian proverb about “Mountains not being able to reach each other, but people doing so.”
That conversation about neutrality with Morvran Voorhis, heh :) the sarcastic reply of Geralt, about "some werebubbs" hehe a funfact is, this is anglicised name of a race of creatures, beings known in Polish as "bobołaki", they were mentioned in the Witcher 1 by Julian in Murky Waters in the story of his grandpa from Kovir who apparently had "collection of bobolak scalps under his mantle", these bobolaks/werebubbs are actually mentioned as creatures in the books, in the short stories (In The Witcher, by Velerad and I think in A Little Sacrifice by Essi Daven as the victims of human persecution and slaughters, as well as by Stregobor in Lesser Evil, as the one of the cultural sources of Eltibald's famous prophecy, legends of bobolak/werebubb people, which shows they were sapient race with rich culture), but the actual appearance of a bobolak/werebubb characte is in the story The Road Without Return, about Visenna, Geralt's mother, there a bobolak named Kehl appears, a member of this dimunitive hairy humanoid race :). One almost wishes to have a bit more on the bobolaks/werebubbs in games, in any case the race of Vrans received more attention in video games :). It;s also interesting to note that the future emperor Morvran Voorhis and 'future husband potential' (over Geralt's dead body :)) is talked about in the books: ""Forgot about historical development," the sneezer’s voice said soothingly. "For the moment, at least. First, let me draw Your Excellency Chancellor aep Dahy’s attention to the person of Prince Voorhis - mainly the fact that he is a man of iron character, proud and stubborn, who will be difficult to influence." "If I can make a comment," the syllable stretcher came forward to speak. "Prince Voorhis has a son, the little Morvran. He is a far better candidate. First, he has a better claim to the throne, both on his fraternal side and maternal side. Second, he is a child, so the Regency Council will rule in his place. So, us." Witcher, The Lady of the Lake, this theoretically should mean he was somewhat younger than Ciri, who at this point was what...14/15? Though obviously the games take place some 5 to 7 years later? The far away land quest, the crest with zebra kind of reminds of the Ofir and Zangwebar, where these "white horses with black stripes" live supposedly :), though hte Ofieris we meet in Hearts of Stone and Zangwebar would be the potential source of black people (like the exotic dancer in the books Leila the dark skinned woman that was an attraction in Gors Velen in the book, Time of Contempt, Zangwebar and Ofir would be THE African-esque countries in Witcher world, while the eastern Zerrikania wiht it's steppe peoples reminds more of Scythians and that sort of thing, plus the Amazonian mythical female warriors were believed to be from somewhere near to Black Sea which was region that was frequented by the Scythian invasions and raids in real world), but these folk are rather ligh skinned, the woman, the warrior and the child seem in appearance pretty ordinary. Other lands are mentioned though like half-mythical land of Hannu and Barsa (which Dandelion mentions in A Little Sacrifice a land where women are chaste till wedding by custom :)), they cannot be Haak people, from Haakland, for these appear to be semi nomadic like many of the Zerrikanians, who are renowned riders and archers (one can imagine that Haak invasion in the future will be some sort of equivalent of Mongol invasion in witcher world).
I don't know if you have mentioned it in any episode, but I sertenly haven't seen it so...after killing the Ice Gigant with Hialmar In Skellige, when you do the quest in Novigrad, where the brothel is taken by Skelliges warriors, there is an option to say that you are a gigant slayer and they will peacefully leave.
You can really see how the devs. loved this project, the attention to detail is just amazing and in places they really didn't need to. Like the sauna scene with Ciri in Skelliga, how they gave the older mother a nice but older body with slight stretch marks because she is a mother. It's a tiny nothing that most people probably never noticed, but as a mother I did without even thinking about it until a much later date for some reason. I like care taken showing the reality of life even in this fictional Germanic/Slavic lore world. They had a pretty good balance between what was real life for the time period and the fantasy part....of course the writer of the books did much of their work in the story and world but they had to make it into a game that people loved. Sad how so many have gotten it so wrong lately and I don't think that it's because of the actual artists/devs....greed is a nasty thing.
Choosing different outfit while vowing for the respected love interests is an amazing detail itself, shows how much effort xletalis puts into his videos, awesome content as always!!
There actually used to be lions in the Mediterranean and parts of southern Europe back in ancient times. The modern range is much smaller than it used to be. They extended all over North Africa and the Middle East, right up to Anatolia and the Balkans before.
I really hope you review the next Witcher game. You're so detailed and put so much work in uncovering every mystery. Plus your voice is nice to listen to :)
8:13 I'm a bartender at the weekends and doing night shifts in my other job in the weekdays This lifestyle is basically my lifestyle, funny they included that as well
Aren't Foreigners from Ofir? At the beginning of Hearts of Stone, the guy that is locked up in cell with you talks about seeing zebras when in Ofir. Language and look of people doesn't quite add up, but maybe concept of Ofir was changed between W3 and HoS release
Don't know if this was mentioned yet but regarding the zebra crest. This is what I found on the Witcher wiki. "Dirgelech was a monarch of a far-off land, located somewhere far west of Skellige, who usurped the throne for himself. He then sent several men after Viki and the crown prince, with the idea to bring home the prince, likely for a public execution." So I guess the woman is trying to bring the little prince in the opposite direction thus Toussaint.
I don't know if someone actually wrote this in comments, but I have something to say about this quest "From a Land Far, Far Away". This woman and child are probably from Ofir or Zangvebar. You showed zebra crest and in book Sword of Destiny ther is actually a mention about zebras. In polish it was "Nie w tym rzecz. Za morzami, w Ofirze i Zangwebarze, są białe konie w paski. Też nigdy ich nie widziałem, ale wiem że istnieją." which means something like "...Overseas, in Ofir and Zagvebar, there are white striped horses...". I want also say that in the Witcher books, author mentioned four distant lands and we known them only by name: Ofir, Zerrikania, Zangvebar and Haakland. Sorry for my english but I hope you can understand what I mean. Love your work
Of course, but it's the sad "try" of an armor that Fergus produced at the end of the master armorer quest line. This shouldn't even have survived the journey to Toussaint. Btw: How low must this knight (who is it?) have fallen to have to rely on this armor? [edit: spelling error]
The crest in the last detail looks somewhat similar to the one that you get while playing with Vlodimir in the HoS dlc. Maybe it might be something to do with Ofier?
@@xLetalis Also, it might just be a coincidence, or maybe CDPR recycled the voice actors, but the Warrior's voice & accent is very similar to the Ofieri Merchant's. However, I doubt that the Warrior's origin has anything to do with that.
Don’t know if you’ve seen this ever, but in ”Wandering in the dark”, in the room with the wraiths and toxic spores, the back of the room has a pool of water you can swim and dive in. If you go into the water, Keira will make a comment on it. Haven’t seen anyone cover this yet, but it’s there
Someone on Reddit made an article about the strange language. It's called "From a Land Far far Away (and other Welch stuff in the game)" and it's translated there in some way
14:15 Bro another quest like that, mostly because I've often seen streamers not know, and the chat just leading them directly to the house, If you break the door of the extreme cosplay quest, before encountering the dead body or the traveler. You also get a different dialogue
Not sure how Kirkpatrick fits with the Vampire clans but the bloody dagger refers to our motto of "I make sure". Had to do with Kirkpatrick ensuring some Robert the Bruce believed he killed was in fact dead.
9:45 regarding this traveling merchant. I believe that some NPC peasants get to his stall at Carsten even when he is not there and just wave and look at nothing but thin air. I don't think they do the same when he is not in other two locations.
xLetalis, I'd like to add that merchants in TW3 actually SAVE your transactions and do not refresh unless (experienced just twice) they finish their travels until their home city/village. I'm not sure, but if you manage to sell your items to a merchant, you kinda lock his inventory to your previous items + what he had, money included. I used to sell trinkets and materials to them in order to raise a bit of money to repair armor and craft some. Until the end of the game, most merchants wouldn't refresh at all. Which was annoying since I wanted alchemy materials from them. Not sure if you noticed that before
Also if you romance both yen and triss and get ciri witcher ending when you talk to emperor and asks you what you will do if you answer that you have someone he will say "aah triss merigold" something like that. just found out on my 8th playthrough
I've always wondered if that traveling merchant goes elsewhere when he's not in Blackburough and I've never seen the Far far away quest...thank you so much.
Just to add onto James Ryan's comment, the coats of arms do have meaning. Also with Irish surnames, the prefixes are basically like "son of" or "wife of". O'Neill means son of Niall. Uí Néill (English: O'Neill) There's usually a few variations of a coat of arms. The full O'Neill crest you have blue for loyalty and truth, red for military fortitude, the estoile meaninging a symbol of God's goodness, a fish which apparently means Christ, and 2 lions holding up the hand meaning deathless courage. The hand itself is a symbol of justice, sincerity, and faith. Although as far as I know, the contest James talks about was to own the whole of Ireland and not just Ulster. Kirkpatrick again you have blue for loyalty and truth, gold for generosity, and they hold values like achievement in battles and wisdom. Uí Floinn (English: O'Flynn) again blue has the same meaning, you also have a bezant representing a gold coin and showing the person is worthy of trust, and the wolf symbolises the rewards of perseverance in long sieges or industry.
I'm surprised you first met the traveling merchant outside Novigrad. Most people, I assumed, meet him for the first time in Blackbough along the main story path.
I don't know if it will be new information, but I noticed that if you did a quest at the beginning of the game, specifically in White Orchard, the /Old Ladies' pan/ quest by the beach, you get to tell Thaler later. I found him in Velen inside an Inn in the back, he was part of one of the Gwent quests (you needed to win a card from him). Sadly I don't remember the name of the Inn, but it was near Novigrad outskirts, just across the river from the "paint maker" part of the city. Also, this is the place where you follow Lambert after you run into him on an Ekimara hunting quest (this is from a notice board, and the local guards paying you), but then he breaks and kills one of the quest givers and you need to run after him There Geralt told him something like "I have found an old lady at your house looking for her pan, needed to break in for it." This was after I ''saved' him from the trolls when he was a shoe-maker - I managed to make him come with me without bloodshed (part of the King assassination quest from Dijkstra, although they have just started to make the plans at this point) So altogether nothing real game-changing, but it was another nice catch from the Makers and a dialog that made the game more alive. Hope you can find it even with these informations. Amazing video btw, great job!
About the final part. While indeed the "zebra" (I put it in quotation marks since while it's a zebra by real world standards, in the Witcher universe they might call it something completely different and what they call a "zebra" in a fantasy world doesn't necessarily have to fit the real world counterpart) on the crest suggests a warm exotic land to the south or the east, since this is a fantasy game it really doesn't have to be (they can make up that those are just black and white horses, and the white color of their fur helps them to camouphlage in snowy parts or smthn like that lol). The only logical idea for me, one that I got when playing and never even doubted, is that this land they hail from is further west or south/north-west of Skellige. I mean, they are coming FROM that land and going to the Continent, to Toussant to be more precise. So it would be pretty weird if they somehow went from Zerrikania and then missed Toussant by thousands of kilometers and ended up in Ard Skellige only to then have to go back east to Toussant lol - That is unless they actually went east from the eastern end of the continent, went half circle across the planet and then ended up in the west of Skellige. But that sounds like too much of a streatch. Next thing their language, appearance and names (Dirgelech) sound absolutely nothing like Zerrikanian (Azar Javed as an example, is a Persian inspired name, his name literarily means Sacred Flame in old Iranian). Also I read somewhere on the wiki that in the Witcher universe there are two different animals (from different places) that look like each other but in contrasted color patterns, one is a black horse-like animal with white stripes and another is a white horse-like animal wth black stripes. :)
Cyberpunk 2077 has 1000x more NPCs. CDPR could NEVER do it like it The Witcher 3. Especially since on Cyberpunk worked 500 developers on a big Cyberpunk futuristic world. And on The Witcher 3 worked 250 developers.
it does not, almost every npc in cyberpunk is "randomly generated" and when you move away they just gone therfore they dont count where in witcher 3 there are probably hundreds of npcs that have routines and will stay even if we move away, and yes they could do it like in witcher 3, adding plenty of npc that live thier lives but that require time and effort and they clearly didn't had that, BUT there is one thing that cyberpunk does better than witcher 3, its randomly spawned npc (in witcher they spawn in cities) in witcher 3 they will just walk around doing nothing walking always the same path while in Cyberpunk npcs do random stuff like smoking, using phone, going to bar etc. but thats not enough cyberpunk is missing npc that actually work around city, npc's that do something, there is a chance that garbage collectors will spawn but they are just standing doing nothing
As always a great video!! Firstly, different dresses for Geralt while dedicating to yen, triss in the first detail. And, the child bumping into Geralt in the second detail was fun..
have you ever noticed that Anna Henrietta is constantly rubbing her hands? maybe it is related to a past trauma? it is a gesture that is done when you are very stressed
You can actually one-shot Gregoire de Gorgon using the special effect of the sword you get from saving Olgierd, since you are not supposed to be able to stagger him during this fight, so they didn't forsee you finishing him off after knocking him down.
I've commented on your video about geoglyphs before. I know I haven't searched all of the internet for the answer, but am I the only one who saw the glyps of Ciri's horse on the regular stones on Skellige near the Sund village? I felt chosen for a moment there.
Last time I was this early, Foltest was still king of Temeria
Why’d they have to kill Foltest 😔
Thaler: "BLOODY TEMERIA!" 🤘🧐🍷
😂😂😂😂😂
Vizimir was still king of Redania when I was this early
Foltest :GDZIE KURWA ZMIERZAMY?!
Soldiers : NA BITWE!!!
Foltest : PO CO KURWA ZMIERZAMY?!?!
soldiers : PO ZWYCIĘSTWO!
Foltest : No I tak Trzymać
Foltest Best King
I still can´t belive how this game is "complex" over the years.
me neither ;]
I actually replayed the first Witcher recently, and was shocked to see how complex it was despite its age. Npcs moved around the city as time of day passed, or stood under roofs when there was rain outside. Some Npcs had dialogues with one another that was completely unrelated to any story or quest, but it made the areas feel alive. And it had so many uniquely animated sequences just for specific moves in cutscenes used only once, most other games even today would simply not show. Like when Geralt throws his sword to the ground and surrenders to the city guard. Fully animated and it's like 0.2% of the entire game. Or when Eskel and Leo were sparring in Kaer Morhen. They weren't just waving their weapons around, it was fully motion captured and animated. And it's in the freaking background of the actual cutscene.
I mean, I love Dragon Age Origins, but it came out 2 years after the witcher and had none of these. Not even Inquisition.
@@xLetalis I can speak Welsh. I can help with some of the dialogue in "from a land far far away". I've DM'd you.
and i can't believe how xLetalis still haven't shown us the "The price of honor" quest and the golden necklace found in a chest;)
@@sammurphy5680 Please, could you post something here as well?
I almost regret rejecting the sponsorship offers I get, there were a few places I could've plugged one in this video
should just take the sponsors extra money is always nice
As long as it’s not raid shadow legends I’d be down for it 😂
I just feel weird trying to sell you stuff you don't care about (most likely)
@@xLetalis you make quality, honest content. some content creators come off as sell outs but not you..you deserve the extra money brotha !
@@xLetalis no worry, in that case we just won't buy that :) I don't remember any offers in your videos, so they should look weird, but maybe in a good sense! Anyway I (as one viewer, can't say for all) don't mind at all - the result depends on your creativity with the add, I guess.
I love the travelling merchant, perfect example of small npcs that this game makes you remember :D
And the lesbomancy at the end, perfect :GeraltGrin:
I'm not sure about the others, but the Garasham crest is somewhat relevant to the Uí Néill crest. It is the Red Hand of Ulster and was believed to have originated from a contest to claim Ulster, as first to lay his hand upon the land would own it. The winner chopped his hand off and threw it onto the land, thus winning the contest (Similarly to Dettlaff?). Interestingly, depending on the source it was the chieftain Érimón who did it. Though this similarity to Ermion could be a coincidence, Sapkowski liked to draw on Irish/Scottish names and folklore a lot.
interesting
Not to sound like a complete jackass, but instead of chopping his hand off, wouldn't just resting the hand over the land suffice?
1000 times less cool, but Ulster (or Érimón) would keep his hand.
Maybe I didn't undertand the contest
@@ruffusgoodman4137 I forgot to mention they were on boats off the coast, sorry for the confusion
Spot on mate! From County Down myself (in Ulster, Ireland) 💚
Skellige is basically Ireland, even the accents are spot on . With quite a few different dialects too . You can hear Donegal , Derry and Belfast accents from alot of NPC's
A week ago, I gave myself a break from finishing my first ever witcher experience. Then this guy appears in my recommended consecutive times that week.
I am now in my second gameplay of The Witcher 3, and now on Death March as well. This game has now solidified its spot in my Top 5 gaming experiences.
Thank You xLetalis!
Well, somewhat the same for me. Found these videos and poof, here I am, starting all over after years of not playing and on Death March as well .
It's in my Top 5 of all-time too. Just out of curiosity, what are the other 4 for you? =)
Mine are (in no particular order):
The Elder Scrolls
Final Fantasy
Mass Effect
Stardew Valley
The Witcher
Some honorable mentions go to:
Dragon Age
Ghost of Tsushima
Myst
Red Dead Redemption
Subnautica
I played witcher 3, loved it then ended up buying the 2nd game,, loved it then ended up buying the 1st game
@@serelryk5365 Since we're playing the list game, let me join in.
The Witcher 3
Deus Ex (the original)
Metro Redux (the series)
Half-Life 2 (with episodes)
Starcraft 1
my pleasure :)
Geralt sort of breaks the fourth wall by looking to the camera when saying “whose name I choose not to divulge” when making a vow and not being in a romance
7+ years since the release and xLetalis is still finding new things from the game. He is a true Legend
Regarding the vampire symbols, I don't know if anyone knows this, but The Unseen Elder's medallion resembles the medallion worn by Vlad "the Dragon" or Vlad "Dracul", a medieval Romanian ruler. He got his nickname and his medallion because he was a member of the chivalric Order of the Dragon. Also, he was Vlad the Impaler's father and both of them were the inspiration for Bram Stocker's Dracula.
Well no wonder you find Gary Oldman's red armour then in the lair, which you can see in Bram Stoker's Dracula....it all ties in. Boy that's a really small detail
Even real life Vlad was called Dracula, since it means "son of the dragon".
@@flicka25 I don't think it can be his version of the character tho, but the unseen Elder is likely Dracula.
I like how the yen-romanced Geralt at 3:32 dressed in almost all black 💀
😍
The thought of Xletalis walking around with his hands on his hips in real life like Vlodimir is without a doubt the greatest comfort for me in any life situation at all
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3 things which i discovered recently
- at the start of Novigrad, when we have to visit and have a talk with Dandelion's "girls", there is change in dialogue with Molly, Vespulla and Rosa if we visited them third in order (Marabella, and Elihal are not required to finish quest)
- at the begining of Vegelbud's quest when we have to meet the blue weared guy, there is different dialogue if we already met Elihal or not (with Triss, at the end of conversation)
- when we meet Horst Borsody for the first time we can tell him that Olgierd told us about the Maxilimian Borsody's house or not. Horst will reffer to it at the end of heist if we killed Ewald and started negotiating with Horst
also 2 things which I am not sure how to qualify
- when we have to follow the thief to find Bedlam, we are sometimes getting interrupted by a beggar in madame Irina's theatre, but I don't know what is the trigger for him, because I tried it few times and he sometimes does it and sometimes not
- In fist fight mission in Novigrad we have to fight captain Mortimer and Geralt sometimes says that he and captain met each other before, but I can't remember him. Visited witcher wiki for this Mortimer guy, but only mission when he appears is fist fight in Novigrad so i don't know. Maybe you will know something else
no clue if there is anything new for you, but would be great to share some interesting witcher 3 things with you:D
Last one may be a leftover from cut out content or simple mistranslation during English dub production.
I'm actually planning on mentioning the first one in an upcoming video!
Didn't know the 2nd one... I don't think I've ever done that quest before meeting Elihal
Honestly not sure if I know about the 3rd.
The beggar I think is triggered based on whether you approach his location
I'll have to investigate that about Mortimer
Wasn't Mortimer around some witch hunt thing on the town's square?
You may talk to him if you enter an argument with the local priesthood (which provokes you if you go around their preaching).
I'm not 100% sure it is Mortimer, but I remember being a very similar kind of guy patrolling Novigrad.
@engineer gaming More then one actually. But they change places... daily I think?
The conversation you may have implies there is more than one priest doing this.
I'm not sure if the guards that approach you are always the same regardless of the day/spot.
The Uì Nèill crest was the crest of Hugh O'Neill , who lead a 9 years long rebellion against the English forces in Northern Ireland in the 1600's. After his rebellion the north of Ireland was subjected to heavy plantation of Scottish settlers who were loyal to the British crown and is one of the reasons why the north of Ireland is still part of the UK. Also Uì Nèill is the Irish way for spelling the surname O'Neill, which was actually banned by the British crown after the rebellion. It's the 9th most common surname in Ireland. Just a little fact back at you litalis
i reckon he descends from Niall of the 9 hostages
The woman and children who speak Welsh, could well be from Wales. You know the one next to England. It is in Witcher lore people sometimes jump to our world. I believe it was in one of the books, Ciri actually lands in Europe briefly, and even brings the plague from there. I do not remember exact details, but it was there.
The name of the quest, along with the man being completely sure Geralt would not know about this place, suggest they might be from a land really far away.
Very small detail: when you're going to the Gwent tournament duting the quest "A Matter of Life and Death", you will get interrupted by Moorvran Voorhis, which is looking for his friend, but later in the Game, in the Vizima, you may ask him if he found him.
Kinda makes me wonder sometimes if he wasn't meant to have a bigger role in the game, but due to time-constraints, they focused on other more important NPCs.
Because i'm getting that vibe from his character, a few others, and then some in Cyberpunk as well, like Meredith Stout, if you've played the game.
There's clearly a lot of effort that went into their design, they're very unique NPCs, have dedicated Concept Art, in this case a very very specific voice too... But then they're criminally underused. And as someone who studied Game Art for a few years, it just doesn't click. Doesn't make sense to "waste" such efforts on a character you're not going to use all that much.
Something else I just found that players might have missed, is that just after finishing 'The Last Wish', you can give Yennefer the raven skull you find at the start of White Orchard.
indeed, I think I've mentioned that in this video ua-cam.com/video/2IRqQ-6Is2s/v-deo.html
@@xLetalis Lol, should have known you'd already found it😅
While I can see the similarities between the Gharasham and Tdet tribe symbols to those Irish and Scottish houses, I actually think Ammurun is based on Camazotz, the Mayan Bat God of Night and Death. He is often depicted holding a knife that is dripping blood, and considering ‘across the sea’ seems to hint at the New World I think it’s a more fitting reference.
I met the traveling Merchant in my third playthrough FOR THE FIRST TIME. I was so blown away :D Nice vid as always mate
My head cannon about the travelling merchant is that he was the object of the portrait that you get questioned about at the borsodis auction.
Everytime I get a notification of your video, I am as impressed with the game devs as I am with your witcher senses capable of finding everything.
Also, that's not a boring outro. It's my favorite type of outro!
Ain't no way this man is still finding details and secrets about this game. He's too powerful to be stopped at this point. Keep it up buddy!
At this point xLetalis is surpassing Avallac'h's level of knowledge of Witcher's world.
Whenever I see one of your videos in my notifications, I smile. Hard to believe you've found so much and there's still more!
That's part of why I still make them
Exactly my reaction! xLetalis is just that much of a community legend for us ♥
I agree with this statement
The moment he stops uploading these is the moment the AI uprising begins
Despite showing zebra, the coat of arms looks very Continental (i.e. quasi-European), zebra itself doesn't have to mean they are from African-like land. The fact that they choose to flee to Tussaint also shows that they were from country that either had some connections to Continent or it was even located there. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if they were from some distant Nilfgaardian vassal state - In that case, exile in another imperial vassal state, that's ruled by emperor's cousin and whose semi-independence and neutrality is well respected by everyone, would be a great choice. Escaping by sea and going around the continent would still be probably much faster and more practical option that traveling on land.
My theory too, but without the Nillfaardian vassal state status. Zebra on the crest could be due to royalty using zebra's to pull their fancy royal carriages because they are exotic, making zebra's a symbol of money and and power just like using lions on a crest shows great power and strength. Lions are as much European as zebra's are. Possibly an inland sea region of the continent on the east side of the mountains like the black sea on earth just making it to the wider oceans in the north rather than south and they are from a northern realm bordering it and has distant trade ties with Toussaint but are not exactly on friendly terms. Toussaint being a huge wine exporter it would make perfect sense for this unknown realm to have heard of it and the fairy tale stories about the land. Since they are running away it would make no sense to run from vassal state A to vassal state B, they all have very close ties and a runaway prince would be found out almost immediately and due to being vassals returned. Hearing fairy tale stories about the land and it isn't on friendly terms makes perfect sense, what better place to hide than a land that boasts about fairy tale chivalric values where you can get sworn to the death protection and not being on friendly terms you don't have a whole lot of people from home there that would recognize the prince.
"From a far far away land" quest name contradicts your argument.
Couldn't they be like slaves or something to the Ofieri/Zanzibar lords (or equivalent)?
The guard could very well be like a janissary, elite guard from the Ottoman empire during the modern era, initially comprised from slave children taken from subjugated european states.
@@ruffusgoodman4137 That depends on what you consider "far away", A month at sea going across the north to get to the port from Novigrad or Skellige can be considered far away, crossing snowy year around mountain passes could take even longer. To brits in the 11-14th century Bohemia was a far far away land.
Dangerous northern seas and dangerous mountain passes could make it feel like it's on the other side of the world when in reality they are neighbors on a global scale with the same root culture.
@@JETWTF I don't know about that. The "far far away" name sounds like "oh, these weird short reddish colored skinned people might be from India" kind of far. The kind of people you don't know the first thing about...
On an european point of view, maybe he could be Rus
@@ruffusgoodman4137 In Polish version that mission is named: "Za siedmioma morzami", whats mean: "beyond the seven seas".
Completely missed the dialogue about Neutrality in Vizima in my first playthrough. Not going to lie, mostly because i wasn't overly preoccupied about exploring the Palace, didn't really want to stick around, and i never thought i'd see any of those Nilfgaardians again, aside from Emhyr probably later.
But after my first playthrough, despite him being a rather minor character, Morvran grew on me for being that odd amicable Nilfgaardian that you keep bumping into in Novigrad and Vizima, so i wanted to make sure i hadn't missed any encounter. You can also ask him (some time after the Masquerade) if he did find the friend he was looking for at the Vegelbud Estate.
It's also (curiously?) the only time i can recall hearing a partial conversation fully in Nilfgaardian, as opposed to the occasional odd words being thrown here and there, or the warnings from the Soldiers.
Over 6 years on, and we're still finding the complexities in the Witcher 3.
I've played over 150+ hours of the story, and I've still never seen any of these. What a fantastic accomplishment this game was, hopefully we'll all be here again, anew, when the fourth Witcher finally releases (because well, Cyberpunk couldn't do it so anyway)
What the traveling merchant says is actually very close to a Persian proverb about “Mountains not being able to reach each other, but people doing so.”
I think at this moment we need a episodes you may have missed in the things you may have missed serious video
That conversation about neutrality with Morvran Voorhis, heh :) the sarcastic reply of Geralt, about "some werebubbs" hehe a funfact is, this is anglicised name of a race of creatures, beings known in Polish as "bobołaki", they were mentioned in the Witcher 1 by Julian in Murky Waters in the story of his grandpa from Kovir who apparently had "collection of bobolak scalps under his mantle", these bobolaks/werebubbs are actually mentioned as creatures in the books, in the short stories (In The Witcher, by Velerad and I think in A Little Sacrifice by Essi Daven as the victims of human persecution and slaughters, as well as by Stregobor in Lesser Evil, as the one of the cultural sources of Eltibald's famous prophecy, legends of bobolak/werebubb people, which shows they were sapient race with rich culture), but the actual appearance of a bobolak/werebubb characte is in the story The Road Without Return, about Visenna, Geralt's mother, there a bobolak named Kehl appears, a member of this dimunitive hairy humanoid race :). One almost wishes to have a bit more on the bobolaks/werebubbs in games, in any case the race of Vrans received more attention in video games :).
It;s also interesting to note that the future emperor Morvran Voorhis and 'future husband potential' (over Geralt's dead body :)) is talked about in the books:
""Forgot about historical development," the sneezer’s voice said soothingly. "For the moment, at least. First, let me draw Your Excellency Chancellor aep Dahy’s attention to the person of Prince Voorhis - mainly the fact that he is a man of iron character, proud and stubborn, who will be difficult to influence."
"If I can make a comment," the syllable stretcher came forward to speak. "Prince Voorhis has a son, the little Morvran. He is a far better candidate. First, he has a better claim to the throne, both on his fraternal side and maternal side. Second, he is a child, so the Regency Council will rule in his place. So, us." Witcher, The Lady of the Lake, this theoretically should mean he was somewhat younger than Ciri, who at this point was what...14/15? Though obviously the games take place some 5 to 7 years later?
The far away land quest, the crest with zebra kind of reminds of the Ofir and Zangwebar, where these "white horses with black stripes" live supposedly :), though hte Ofieris we meet in Hearts of Stone and Zangwebar would be the potential source of black people (like the exotic dancer in the books Leila the dark skinned woman that was an attraction in Gors Velen in the book, Time of Contempt, Zangwebar and Ofir would be THE African-esque countries in Witcher world, while the eastern Zerrikania wiht it's steppe peoples reminds more of Scythians and that sort of thing, plus the Amazonian mythical female warriors were believed to be from somewhere near to Black Sea which was region that was frequented by the Scythian invasions and raids in real world), but these folk are rather ligh skinned, the woman, the warrior and the child seem in appearance pretty ordinary. Other lands are mentioned though like half-mythical land of Hannu and Barsa (which Dandelion mentions in A Little Sacrifice a land where women are chaste till wedding by custom :)), they cannot be Haak people, from Haakland, for these appear to be semi nomadic like many of the Zerrikanians, who are renowned riders and archers (one can imagine that Haak invasion in the future will be some sort of equivalent of Mongol invasion in witcher world).
I don't know if you have mentioned it in any episode, but I sertenly haven't seen it so...after killing the Ice Gigant with Hialmar In Skellige, when you do the quest in Novigrad, where the brothel is taken by Skelliges warriors, there is an option to say that you are a gigant slayer and they will peacefully leave.
It is year 2052…. xLetalis release video “3 details the top 1% of players missed” xD
Amazing and entertaining content as always dude - keep it up!
You can really see how the devs. loved this project, the attention to detail is just amazing and in places they really didn't need to.
Like the sauna scene with Ciri in Skelliga, how they gave the older mother a nice but older body with slight stretch marks because she is a mother. It's a tiny nothing that most people probably never noticed, but as a mother I did without even thinking about it until a much later date for some reason. I like care taken showing the reality of life even in this fictional Germanic/Slavic lore world. They had a pretty good balance between what was real life for the time period and the fantasy part....of course the writer of the books did much of their work in the story and world but they had to make it into a game that people loved.
Sad how so many have gotten it so wrong lately and I don't think that it's because of the actual artists/devs....greed is a nasty thing.
I hope we discover Zarkinia in the next game and other nations that would be awesome
Choosing different outfit while vowing for the respected love interests is an amazing detail itself, shows how much effort xletalis puts into his videos, awesome content as always!!
Regarding the Zebra icon. Plenty of European crests have lions on them despite being thousands of miles away from regions with actual lions.
fair enough
There actually used to be lions in the Mediterranean and parts of southern Europe back in ancient times.
The modern range is much smaller than it used to be. They extended all over North Africa and the Middle East, right up to Anatolia and the Balkans before.
I really hope you review the next Witcher game. You're so detailed and put so much work in uncovering every mystery. Plus your voice is nice to listen to :)
Have you unlocked all in-game achievements?
no idea ;] I don't really care about them
8:13
I'm a bartender at the weekends and doing night shifts in my other job in the weekdays
This lifestyle is basically my lifestyle, funny they included that as well
Aren't Foreigners from Ofir? At the beginning of Hearts of Stone, the guy that is locked up in cell with you talks about seeing zebras when in Ofir. Language and look of people doesn't quite add up, but maybe concept of Ofir was changed between W3 and HoS release
Who knows, the language sounds quite different, and the people look different, both skin color and clothing style
Don't know if this was mentioned yet but regarding the zebra crest. This is what I found on the Witcher wiki. "Dirgelech was a monarch of a far-off land, located somewhere far west of Skellige, who usurped the throne for himself. He then sent several men after Viki and the crown prince, with the idea to bring home the prince, likely for a public execution." So I guess the woman is trying to bring the little prince in the opposite direction thus Toussaint.
Also I've been wondering if since one of the vampire clans ventured overseas, perhaps they ended up on this unnamed kingdom.
bro it's been 7 years how the you still have content for these videos 💀💀💀
I like that traveling merchant. He seems like a pretty chill dude.
I don't know if someone actually wrote this in comments, but I have something to say about this quest "From a Land Far, Far Away". This woman and child are probably from Ofir or Zangvebar. You showed zebra crest and in book Sword of Destiny ther is actually a mention about zebras. In polish it was "Nie w tym rzecz. Za morzami, w Ofirze i Zangwebarze, są białe konie w paski. Też nigdy ich nie widziałem, ale wiem że istnieją." which means something like "...Overseas, in Ofir and Zagvebar, there are white striped horses...". I want also say that in the Witcher books, author mentioned four distant lands and we known them only by name: Ofir, Zerrikania, Zangvebar and Haakland. Sorry for my english but I hope you can understand what I mean. Love your work
3:30 I loved the change of clothes between Geralt single/Triss/Yennefer with the last one wearing a black outfit, which pleases Yennefer.
10:56 reliably sets off my Siri. How funny.
at this point I am doubting if i even played witcher 3 😑
about the Zebra - in the books there is a moment when it's stated that such animals live in the land of Zangwebar and Ofir
It is crazy how well they have flushed the world out and made things in such detail. Sets a high bar for other games to try and beat
Nilfguard has an embassy in toussaint so their armor in the tourney might just make sense
Of course, but it's the sad "try" of an armor that Fergus produced at the end of the master armorer quest line. This shouldn't even have survived the journey to Toussaint. Btw: How low must this knight (who is it?) have fallen to have to rely on this armor?
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The Ui Neill crest symbol is used now as the red hand of ulster, a flag associated with unionism in northern ireland
The crest in the last detail looks somewhat similar to the one that you get while playing with Vlodimir in the HoS dlc. Maybe it might be something to do with Ofier?
the Ofieri seemed to speak a different language... but it's possible
@@xLetalis Also, it might just be a coincidence, or maybe CDPR recycled the voice actors, but the Warrior's voice & accent is very similar to the Ofieri Merchant's. However, I doubt that the Warrior's origin has anything to do with that.
Don’t know if you’ve seen this ever, but in ”Wandering in the dark”, in the room with the wraiths and toxic spores, the back of the room has a pool of water you can swim and dive in. If you go into the water, Keira will make a comment on it. Haven’t seen anyone cover this yet, but it’s there
I wish I could forget this game to play it all over again
At this point they should make a character of you in Witcher 4! Love your content.
Someone on Reddit made an article about the strange language. It's called "From a Land Far far Away (and other Welch stuff in the game)" and it's translated there in some way
The zebra doesn't have to mean they're from Zerrikania. Lots of European crests features panthers.
Don't forget Lions, unicorns,...
@@edi9892 fair enough
That From a Land far, far away quest always made me wonder where the prince and the woman came from.
Thanks for another great Witcher video!
Now we're waiting for "10 hidden boss fights you've missed in Vizima palace" video.
Hes never gunna run out of details to make vids on xD ♡
Perhaps I will some day ;]
@@xLetalis Hope not ;o;
The fact that there a so many to play the game and have different outcomes, just making this game 1 of the best rpg games ever.
If you didn’t pick “White Wolf” shame on you.
I'm so glad there's enough content for you to continue making these videos. How do you keep track of which of your game saves have which information?
14:15 Bro another quest like that, mostly because I've often seen streamers not know, and the chat just leading them directly to the house, If you break the door of the extreme cosplay quest, before encountering the dead body or the traveler. You also get a different dialogue
Not sure how Kirkpatrick fits with the Vampire clans but the bloody dagger refers to our motto of "I make sure". Had to do with Kirkpatrick ensuring some Robert the Bruce believed he killed was in fact dead.
The zebra being on the coat of arms might suggest they are either from Ofier or Zangwebar (places referenced in the books to have such animals)
Just wanted to write this too :D Curently reading a book and yep, it was there mentioned definitely.
@@romanbartl5960 Last Wish :D?
@@vladdietheladdie7345 Yes ! :D
Did you know that, the Rich Businessman, on the docks. Is, I'm pretty sure, at Triss' ball. And, if you don't help him, he won't, talk to you.
9:45 regarding this traveling merchant. I believe that some NPC peasants get to his stall at Carsten even when he is not there and just wave and look at nothing but thin air. I don't think they do the same when he is not in other two locations.
18:35 looks like Geralt is also looking for shelter with the Duchess
xLetalis, I'd like to add that merchants in TW3 actually SAVE your transactions and do not refresh unless (experienced just twice) they finish their travels until their home city/village.
I'm not sure, but if you manage to sell your items to a merchant, you kinda lock his inventory to your previous items + what he had, money included.
I used to sell trinkets and materials to them in order to raise a bit of money to repair armor and craft some.
Until the end of the game, most merchants wouldn't refresh at all. Which was annoying since I wanted alchemy materials from them.
Not sure if you noticed that before
AND xLetalis STRIKES AGAIN 😍
Also the unknown region from which the child and woman originate in detail 6, might be a faction in Kovir.
could be I suppose!
Also if you romance both yen and triss and get ciri witcher ending when you talk to emperor and asks you what you will do if you answer that you have someone he will say "aah triss merigold" something like that.
just found out on my 8th playthrough
I've always wondered if that traveling merchant goes elsewhere when he's not in Blackburough and I've never seen the Far far away quest...thank you so much.
my pleasure :)
Just to add onto James Ryan's comment, the coats of arms do have meaning. Also with Irish surnames, the prefixes are basically like "son of" or "wife of". O'Neill means son of Niall.
Uí Néill (English: O'Neill) There's usually a few variations of a coat of arms. The full O'Neill crest you have blue for loyalty and truth, red for military fortitude, the estoile meaninging a symbol of God's goodness, a fish which apparently means Christ, and 2 lions holding up the hand meaning deathless courage. The hand itself is a symbol of justice, sincerity, and faith. Although as far as I know, the contest James talks about was to own the whole of Ireland and not just Ulster.
Kirkpatrick again you have blue for loyalty and truth, gold for generosity, and they hold values like achievement in battles and wisdom.
Uí Floinn (English: O'Flynn) again blue has the same meaning, you also have a bezant representing a gold coin and showing the person is worthy of trust, and the wolf symbolises the rewards of perseverance in long sieges or industry.
thank you
You are the best. Thank you for showing us this so that I don't have to replay the Witcher 3 just for a small change.
my pleasure, but you should replay ;]
I like the time stamp titled Boring intro. Lol!
I'm surprised you first met the traveling merchant outside Novigrad. Most people, I assumed, meet him for the first time in Blackbough along the main story path.
I have to say, getting of work and seeing a good show, with all your editing is Very Enjoyable!!
Glad to hear :)
I don't know if it will be new information, but I noticed that if you did a quest at the beginning of the game, specifically in White Orchard, the /Old Ladies' pan/ quest by the beach, you get to tell Thaler later.
I found him in Velen inside an Inn in the back, he was part of one of the Gwent quests (you needed to win a card from him).
Sadly I don't remember the name of the Inn, but it was near Novigrad outskirts, just across the river from the "paint maker" part of the city.
Also, this is the place where you follow Lambert after you run into him on an Ekimara hunting quest (this is from a notice board, and the local guards paying you), but then he breaks and kills one of the quest givers and you need to run after him
There Geralt told him something like
"I have found an old lady at your house looking for her pan, needed to break in for it."
This was after I ''saved' him from the trolls when he was a shoe-maker - I managed to make him come with me without bloodshed
(part of the King assassination quest from Dijkstra, although they have just started to make the plans at this point)
So altogether nothing real game-changing, but it was another nice catch from the Makers and a dialog that made the game more alive.
Hope you can find it even with these informations.
Amazing video btw, great job!
20min missed details video, I'm blessed
7:12 It is an in-game fact that Zebras live in Zerrikania as of that spriggan contract
I knew about Blackbough and Carsten for the merchant, didn’t know about outside Novigrad!
Your dedication is amazing
8:29 that guy is really preparing the stage. :D
About the final part. While indeed the "zebra" (I put it in quotation marks since while it's a zebra by real world standards, in the Witcher universe they might call it something completely different and what they call a "zebra" in a fantasy world doesn't necessarily have to fit the real world counterpart) on the crest suggests a warm exotic land to the south or the east, since this is a fantasy game it really doesn't have to be (they can make up that those are just black and white horses, and the white color of their fur helps them to camouphlage in snowy parts or smthn like that lol).
The only logical idea for me, one that I got when playing and never even doubted, is that this land they hail from is further west or south/north-west of Skellige.
I mean, they are coming FROM that land and going to the Continent, to Toussant to be more precise. So it would be pretty weird if they somehow went from Zerrikania and then missed Toussant by thousands of kilometers and ended up in Ard Skellige only to then have to go back east to Toussant lol - That is unless they actually went east from the eastern end of the continent, went half circle across the planet and then ended up in the west of Skellige. But that sounds like too much of a streatch.
Next thing their language, appearance and names (Dirgelech) sound absolutely nothing like Zerrikanian (Azar Javed as an example, is a Persian inspired name, his name literarily means Sacred Flame in old Iranian).
Also I read somewhere on the wiki that in the Witcher universe there are two different animals (from different places) that look like each other but in contrasted color patterns, one is a black horse-like animal with white stripes and another is a white horse-like animal wth black stripes. :)
Thank you so much for the Work and for the great Videos :)
my pleasure
Why do I feel productive watching your videos
I can never hear the name Tufo Vineyard with a straight face. In my country Tufo means "bad breath"
Cyberpunk 2077 has 1000x more NPCs. CDPR could NEVER do it like it The Witcher 3.
Especially since on Cyberpunk worked 500 developers on a big Cyberpunk futuristic world.
And on The Witcher 3 worked 250 developers.
it does not, almost every npc in cyberpunk is "randomly generated" and when you move away they just gone therfore they dont count where in witcher 3 there are probably hundreds of npcs that have routines and will stay even if we move away, and yes they could do it like in witcher 3, adding plenty of npc that live thier lives but that require time and effort and they clearly didn't had that, BUT there is one thing that cyberpunk does better than witcher 3, its randomly spawned npc (in witcher they spawn in cities) in witcher 3 they will just walk around doing nothing walking always the same path while in Cyberpunk npcs do random stuff like smoking, using phone, going to bar etc. but thats not enough cyberpunk is missing npc that actually work around city, npc's that do something, there is a chance that garbage collectors will spawn but they are just standing doing nothing
Illustrious sounds like "OUR THICKEST DUCHESS"
the "man in need" works the other way around as well
I have no idea how he keeps finding these!
with love ;]
As always a great video!! Firstly, different dresses for Geralt while dedicating to yen, triss in the first detail. And, the child bumping into Geralt in the second detail was fun..
have you ever noticed that Anna Henrietta is constantly rubbing her hands? maybe it is related to a past trauma? it is a gesture that is done when you are very stressed
I have, I thought it means that she's putting a façade most of the time but is actually quite worried about what's going on
Can't believe the same studio later made Cybercrap 2069 🤦🏻♂️
"Greed changes the man"
Bings joy to my heart to see Master Letalis unwind still ,the intricate threads of our world.
Never met the traveling merchant outside Novigrad. Almost always just outside the village west of Crow's Perch.
Dude, I don't know which runs deeper, your dedication to this game or the game itself. Either way, it's impressive. Thanks man.
heh, my pleasure :)
"A wine for you teeth, a wine for your soul!"
"Arghhhhhhhhhhh"
You can actually one-shot Gregoire de Gorgon using the special effect of the sword you get from saving Olgierd, since you are not supposed to be able to stagger him during this fight, so they didn't forsee you finishing him off after knocking him down.
I've commented on your video about geoglyphs before.
I know I haven't searched all of the internet for the answer, but am I the only one who saw the glyps of Ciri's horse on the regular stones on Skellige near the Sund village? I felt chosen for a moment there.
I have a video about them, can't recall if the horse is one of the glyphs I show though... ua-cam.com/video/K4RuXjbWFL0/v-deo.html